The guide here in the forums about rooting tells us to format the sd card from the computer to fat32. Well just how do I do that with my mac? There's no fat32 option...
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Please help, I tried searching the forums and couldn't find a solution.
I formatted my SD-Card (1GB) on WinMo using the dedicated app, however when I go to boot Android but now it no longer reads my card and am unable to use SD-card dependant apps such as Spotify or Gallery.
What should I do?
I deleted the image file to see if that would work but still the same problem.
ilabstudios said:
Please help, I tried searching the forums and couldn't find a solution.
I formatted my SD-Card (1GB) on WinMo using the dedicated app, however when I go to boot Android but now it no longer reads my card and am unable to use SD-card dependant apps such as Spotify or Gallery.
What should I do?
I deleted the image file to see if that would work but still the same problem.
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Try formatting then card with you pc.
lordstrife said:
Try formatting the card with you pc.
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Yes, and preferably don't use the built-in Windows way either. There's the HP format tool, and a lot of people have had success using gparted...
i thought that must be the way to be?
since u booted android from microsd. so android thinks that the whole microsd is the system boot. hence its not detected as SD to android.
to fix, nid to create 2 partition on the microsd itself. 1 is ext2 and another is fat32. in this, android should be able to detect the fat32 as SD mount.
Just wondering if there is a guide out there for the proper way to upgrade your MicroSD card without losing settings and programs? My card is currently partitioned and I am running MidNight ROM 5.5. I have the latest Bonsai as my recovery tool.
As I recall, there is more to it than just copying the data from one card to another because of the hidden partitions or whatnot. Maybe I'm wrong though. TIA for your help.
no? You don't need to do anything special...copying the data over should be good enough. If your really that paranoid you could dd the old card to the new one.
Format the new one on your pc. The phone doesn't always do a great job.
Don't forget to show hidden files on your windows machine. I think the mount points your partition will be hidden. Not sure if you will have to repartition or not. Best advice I can think of is to ask the dev of your kernel. I could wrong.
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So I got a great deal on a class 10 32GB Samsung card, it came pre-formatted to fat32, however I had the wild idea that android supported NTFS based on something I read in the past so I formatted it to NTFS on a windows system and copied some files over (some being over 5GB each)...plugged in my card and turned on my phone and I get a message saying my card is blank or the wrong file format...guess it doesn't support NTFS
I know if I use the phones built in format utility it will format to fat32 which I don't really want because of the filesize limitation, I'd like to be able to copy 8-10GB files every so often so I can use my phone as a little shuttle drive in between places...
But I also want the ability for windows to be able to read my sd card if I change my phone into USB mode so I think that excludes the ext3, ext4 format which I think android will read...
Any ideas?
Won't happen search and you will find threads on this before
You will also find a Q&A section that this belongs in
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There's an app in the market that will mount any file formatted sdcard in the device I but I haven't used it out remember the name but you can check it and yes this belongs in Q&A but The way you format is fat 32
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So I found an ntfs app in the market that'll mount ntfs at startup but I gotta root for it work. Guess I now have a reason to root
Oh but it says it was made for the galaxy tab...but it opens fine on my s ii
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btw where is the Q&A section i should be looking for? xda has gotten so huge i'm lost at least i can find the e4gt forum
maybe i should change the title of my thread to what filesystems can i format my sd card to that my phone will read?
if you use windows, fat32 is the way to go so then you can connect the phone to computer and still can access the files
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btw where is the Q&A section i should be looking for? xda has gotten so huge i'm lost at least i can find the e4gt forum
maybe i should change the title of my thread to what filesystems can i format my sd card to that my phone will read?
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There is a Q&A section right under general in the epic touch
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charles98 said:
if you use windows, fat32 is the way to go so then you can connect the phone to computer and still can access the files
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The reason the op doesn't want fat32 is because he has single files that exceeds 4 GB that he wants to transfer, so fat32 would not work for him.
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The reason the op doesn't want fat32 is because he has single files that exceeds 4 GB that he wants to transfer, so fat32 would not work for him.
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maybe drive mount in market but lots of bad reviews....May work don't know
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Windows also recognized NTFS by the way.
out of curiosity, does anyone know if any custom roms support ntfs sd cards nativey?
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out of curiosity, does anyone know if any custom roms support ntfs sd cards nativey?
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None because Android does not.....
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format it ext3/4 and then install an ftp server app on your phone.
There is an app that works fine
I have exactly the same problem. I want to have the sdcard in NTFS so then I do not have the 4GB limitation of FAT32. The is possible to have .mkv files on your phone or tablet.
In the case of my table the N8010, I have formatted the sd card on Windows with NTFS. Then installed the "paragon" app from market which works very good. It recognized the sd card in NTFS and mount perfectly. But it seems that when your card is overloaded with thounsands of files and some big 6GB file, then comes the problem. Android JB everytime that comes out of sleep, it will check for errors the sd card. Everytime! Then, I get the message "sd card checking for errors" and never gets back. The sd card is not recognized anymore until I reboot the device.
I think that the paragon app is not perfect and might have bugs, but
Is there any way to disable the "sd card check for error" functionality? Have read some threads about it, to delete some file from system, but that method produces inconsistencies with other apps.
By the way, I have tried to format on ExFat, and had the same problem. When the card is almost full it will never end up checking for errors. I finally broke the sd card when I formated it with ExFat and 64k allocation size. It was not regoznized neither by windows and android afterwards
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By the way, I have tried to format on ExFat, and had the same problem. When the card is almost full it will never end up checking for errors. I finally broke the sd card when I formated it with ExFat and 64k allocation size. It was not regoznized neither by windows and android afterwards
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I don't think you broke it unless you fried the flash chips. You can try using the disk manager in windows and try to see if it sees it. Or just learn how to use Linux command line tools and fix it that way. I recovered 80% of my pictures off of a dead SD card using dd and a file recovery utility. I don't recall which one. That 16GB SD card now works just fine as a 12GB card. I don't trust it for any more than shuttling between systems though.
Also, I've never had good luck with exFAT. I much prefer the EXT filesystems, but they aren't natively supported in windows or most cameras. Maybe try NTFS without journaling (If that's even possible)
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exfat is proprietary windows and needs licenses. android won't support it.
ntfs is a journaling file system and will impact performance if you can get android to read it.
ext2/3 is the best solution. there are utilities you can install so windows can read it.
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exfat is proprietary windows and needs licenses. android won't support it.
ntfs is a journaling file system and will impact performance if you can get android to read it.
ext2/3 is the best solution. there are utilities you can install so windows can read it.
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Ext2Fsd is excellent for Windows 7, I don't know what I'd do without it.
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Hey all, does anybody know how to fix micro sd card if it stuck at write protected mode? micro sd adapter wont help :/ phone and pc read's it, but i cant move any files in the micro sd or cant format it..
Thanks
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Try formatting it.
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as i said before, phone and pc wont let me format, it says write protection on sd card
Try using a partition manager to actually remove the partition on the card, create and format a new one.
If that doesn't work its likely a problem with the write circuitry on the card and time to get a new one.
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Try using a partition manager to actually remove the partition on the card, create and format a new one.
If that doesn't work its likely a problem with the write circuitry on the card and time to get a new one.
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Thanks, for reply, but how can i do that with windows xp?
Look for a free partition manager tool.
Alternatively and better, download and burn an Ubuntu disk. It can be used to boot your pc into Linux, very user friendly and harmless to your Windows installation. That has a built in partition manager which is very powerful
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Having the same problem here
started after I formated my sd card
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Or download the live linux distro parted magic
partedmagic[dot]com
burn the iso on CD or use unetbootin (just google it) to create a bootable flash drive.
After starting it, open gparted on the desktop
Beware: Don't manipulate partitions starting with sda (this might be your internal hard drive containing windows)
on PC (XP) you can use free tools from:
- Easus (http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm)
- Minitool (http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html)
If you encounter "write protected" card, it may simply be broken.
I had the same issue with my first 64GB SanDisk micro SD and returned it.
Replacement works fine now.
Same solution here:
- burn Knoppix or Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD) on a cd/dvd and boot on restart - format through numerous tools available
- delete partition or try changing drive letter in widows from Device->Manager->Disk Manager
- if write protection continues, try trashing or replacing from vendor
Hi. Anyone managed to mount a sdcard formatted ext3 or 4?
I've got a 64GB card and don't want to use exFAT as I run Linux everywhere..
Thanks.
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U mean swapped SDs ?
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Yes. The removable microsd slot card.
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This must be possible. The system partition is mounted ext4 (being a Linux based system, the kernel naturally has native support for it!)
Is the microsd slot always the /dev/block/vold device (in which case mounting will be easy), or is the Linux device mapper framework being used to control this? The mounting mechanism seems way more complicated than on my Asus Transformer. I just mount /dev/sdc1 on that.
This really annoys me. Android is built on Linux, but doesn't support mounting of Linux formatted sd cards out of the box. Up until recently this hasn't been a problem as you can just use FAT32, but now we are doing things like storing big HD videos on our phones, the 4GB file limit is becoming a serious issue. This is exacerbated for me by the other pain of MTP only file transfers which simply don't work under Linux.
Hint Google, don't grab a huge chunk of OS code for commercial purposes and then ignore the users of the very system you're basing your product on! Everything required is present and this all should just work for us Linux users.