i finally have a bluray drive so now i can actually rip my blurays to watch on android, but every rip i've acquired has usually been 6-8GB, with one exception. one was only 2.5GB, and it was still over 2 hours.
so i know it's possible to get 720p mkvs below 4GB to be able to work on the GNEX, but i'm just curious if anyone knows how.
i'd much rather get a straight answer then spend the next week trying to guess and having my laptop do nothing but that.
so does anyone know of a program and/or settings that will do a 720p bluray rip at under 4Gb, and preferably around 2.5-3GB. i'd prefer a free program, but i'll gladly pay for one if it can do this.
also, if it could convert my existing ones, that would be a plus, but not required.
Well, first of all, mkv is just the wrapper. I tells me nothing about what you're doing to encode the video, and what codec you're using. H.264 or VP8 are codecs. Both are very feature rich and allow you to encode at whatever bitrate you want to. Whatever program you're using the rip the blu-rays should have an option to re-encode at a defined bitrate, unless it literally strips the disc bit-for-bit and dumps it on your C: drive. However, that type of program creates a disc image, which doesn't come in the form of a mkv, so you're using something more complicated, which again, should have bitrate controls.
Keep in mind that bit-rate is related to picture quality. A high bit rate will be an almost pixel-perfect copy of the source material. A low bit-rate will look like a video cassette tape (i.e. crap). The key is to test a bit to find the lowest bit-rate which you find acceptable, and use that.
This explanation is vastly simplified. This is a complex field that cannot be explained properly in 3 paragraphs. However, a good starter app, once you strip the DRM, is Handbrake.
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i finally have a bluray drive so now i can actually rip my blurays to watch on android, but every rip i've acquired has usually been 6-8GB, with one exception. one was only 2.5GB, and it was still over 2 hours.
so i know it's possible to get 720p mkvs below 4GB to be able to work on the GNEX, but i'm just curious if anyone knows how.
i'd much rather get a straight answer then spend the next week trying to guess and having my laptop do nothing but that.
so does anyone know of a program and/or settings that will do a 720p bluray rip at under 4Gb, and preferably around 2.5-3GB. i'd prefer a free program, but i'll gladly pay for one if it can do this.
also, if it could convert my existing ones, that would be a plus, but not required.
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Why not split them up?
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Have you tested any files larger that 4GB? I know with my Xoom that I could copy files over that were larger than 4GB as long as it was to the internal storage. I'm testing an 8GB file now, will post results when I'm finished.
EDIT: Successfullycopied over and played an 8.2GB MKV file.
@atntdude: i haven't done anything yet. thats why i wanted to ask, i wanted to know what to do before wasting my time guessing.
@herman76: and idea, but since i've seen full movie mkvs in perfect 720p quality at 2.5Gb, i'd rather do that.
@dawnynkoop: since i only have a 16GB nexus (13.3GB available) i can't store any mkv that big, so i've had to resort to using an OTG cable, and my nexus is unable tor read NTFS formatted drives, and without NTFS, no files over 4GB. I find it strange that somehow you were able to get it to work on your Gnex since it dosn't use NTFS.
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@atntdude: i haven't done anything yet. thats why i wanted to ask, i wanted to know what to do before wasting my time guessing.
@herman76: and idea, but since i've seen full movie mkvs in perfect 720p quality at 2.5Gb, i'd rather do that.
@dawnynkoop: since i only have a 16GB nexus (13.3GB available) i can't store any mkv that big, so i've had to resort to using an OTG cable, and my nexus is unable tor read NTFS formatted drives, and without NTFS, no files over 4GB. I find it strange that somehow you were able to get it to work on your Gnex since it dosn't use NTFS.
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Do you have the "Drive Mount" app by Dwayne Hoy available in the Market? If so that will allow you to access NTFS formatted drives. NTFS isn't the only filesystem that will allow files larger than 4GB, it's just one of the only Windows filesystems that will, along with EXFAT. In Linux I believe the EXT4 filesystem allows files larger than 4GB which I'm guessing is what the Nexus is formatted in.
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In Linux I believe the EXT4 filesystem allows files larger than 4GB which I'm guessing is what the Nexus is formatted in.
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This^
The Galaxy Nexus uses EXT4 for its internal "SD CARD" pseudo-partition. Hence you CAN copy files over that are larger than 4GB.
I know the OG Transformer can use NTFS formatted SD cards now since 3.2 came out. That allows larger files as well. If you still want to shrink them a good free program is Handbrake. It is a CPU hog though.
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@atntdude: i haven't done anything yet. thats why i wanted to ask, i wanted to know what to do before wasting my time guessing.
@herman76: and idea, but since i've seen full movie mkvs in perfect 720p quality at 2.5Gb, i'd rather do that.
@dawnynkoop: since i only have a 16GB nexus (13.3GB available) i can't store any mkv that big, so i've had to resort to using an OTG cable, and my nexus is unable tor read NTFS formatted drives, and without NTFS, no files over 4GB. I find it strange that somehow you were able to get it to work on your Gnex since it dosn't use NTFS.
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There is no "perfect 720p quality", unless you are referring to uncompressed 720p video, in which case there is no hope to fit a full length movie onto the Nexus. Yes, movies are compressed even on Bluray. 720p is 720p, it's just the resolution, bit-rate is really what matter for size and quality. Lower bit-rate is more acceptable on a 4.65" screen than a 46" screen. If you have a 720p movie in less than 2.5GB, take a look at what compression standard that file uses (H.264?) and at what bit-rate, and use that to encode your HD movies.
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@atntdude: i haven't done anything yet. thats why i wanted to ask, i wanted to know what to do before wasting my time guessing.
@herman76: and idea, but since i've seen full movie mkvs in perfect 720p quality at 2.5Gb, i'd rather do that.
@dawnynkoop: since i only have a 16GB nexus (13.3GB available) i can't store any mkv that big, so i've had to resort to using an OTG cable, and my nexus is unable tor read NTFS formatted drives, and without NTFS, no files over 4GB. I find it strange that somehow you were able to get it to work on your Gnex since it dosn't use NTFS.
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you could also try to format your usb flash drive to ext4 format and find a ext4 driver for windows. ext4 has no 4gb file limitation.
https://www.google.com/webhp?&q=ext4+windows
A couple hrs ago I watched a very Harold and Kumar Christmas mkv file it was only 577mb. Picture was crisp, and the audio was loud. When I get around my mhl I will see if the quality holds up when streaming from my phone to tv.
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Do you have the "Drive Mount" app by Dwayne Hoy available in the Market? If so that will allow you to access NTFS formatted drives. NTFS isn't the only filesystem that will allow files larger than 4GB, it's just one of the only Windows filesystems that will, along with EXFAT. In Linux I believe the EXT4 filesystem allows files larger than 4GB which I'm guessing is what the Nexus is formatted in.
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i'll give this app a shot. i was under the impression from the stick mount app that unless the phone/rom had built in NTFS support it wouldn't work. still, doubt it'll work with my hard drive though. phone doesn't seem to have enough power to run that but i'll give it a shot.
and you are right about the phones file system, did not realize that. But even then, i only have 8GB free. and most of the movie mkvs i have are 6-7. but if this app works with ntfs, i can use one of my 32gb flash drives. and i'll never need more than a couple movies at a time, if i need more than that i'll have my hard drive and transformer.
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There is no "perfect 720p quality", unless you are referring to uncompressed 720p video, in which case there is no hope to fit a full length movie onto the Nexus. Yes, movies are compressed even on Bluray. 720p is 720p, it's just the resolution, bit-rate is really what matter for size and quality. Lower bit-rate is more acceptable on a 4.65" screen than a 46" screen. If you have a 720p movie in less than 2.5GB, take a look at what compression standard that file uses (H.264?) and at what bit-rate, and use that to encode your HD movies.
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bad choice of words. i know it can't be perfect, but good enough to watch without being able to really see a difference, and the one that i have seems that good. watched it a couple times now. do you know what program i can use to see what the statistics of the video is? nothing i have seems to show me that.
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you could also try to format your usb flash drive to ext4 format and find a ext4 driver for windows. ext4 has no 4gb file limitation.
https://www.google.com/webhp?&q=ext4+windows
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thanks for this, i'll give this a shot if the drive mount app doesn't work.
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just a heads up... did a search on this forum for "32GB" and didnt find anything. didnt bother searching "microsdhc" since so many people would have a different way of typing it out that it would be near impossible to find on a search.
anyways, Verizon Wireless seems to have the SanDisk 32GB microSDHC cards IN STOCK and is selling them for $99 online with free overnight shipping. most places havent had stock EVER since it was released a couple of months ago. original retail price on them began at $240 or something.
unfortunately, these are Class 2 only, but generally it's not the card that's the bottleneck when it comes to speed on your device. i popped mine in this morning when it arrived and have had no problems with reading at all; 350mb XviD avi rips of TV shows like Rescue Me and 550mb XviD avi rips of Top Gear all play back flawlessly on my Samsung Vibrant.
write speeds have a bit to be desired, but i cant complain due to faster cards being unavailable. compared to my Class 6 16GB card, it has no ill effects from what i have so far observed while in the device.
cliffs: $99 for a SanDisk 32GB microSDHC from verizonwireless.com with free overnight shipping. normal price from them is $150, but is on special for now... the original deal was $50 off with the purchase of a Droid X, but that seems to have changed for a limited time. cheapest i can find it anywhere else using Google Shopping is $140 before tax+shipping.
Thanks for the heads up. Do a search on Engadget for an article on it (I can't post the link). Apparently it just hit the store 8 days ago.
Still, I dunno. I'm kind of on the fence about getting it due to the price (just dropped $550 on the phone itself).
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it has no ill effects from what i have so far observed while in the device.
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So no lag skipping/playing music files or video?
lol 16GB + 32GB = 48GB why? why you need 50GB of space on a cellphone
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lol 16GB + 32GB = 48GB why? why you need 50GB of space on a cellphone
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real users only need 640k.
anyway, is $100 for it even a good deal? I see 16GB micro sdhc for like $40 (newegg link).
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lol 16GB + 32GB = 48GB why? why you need 50GB of space on a cellphone
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Because I want to be able to ditch my MP3 player (which currently has 30+ gigs of music) and use my phone exclusively. One less thing to carry around.
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real users only need 640k.
anyway, is $100 for it even a good deal? I see 16GB micro sdhc for like $40 (newegg link).
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How many slots does your phone have?
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How many slots does your phone have?
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What does this have to do with my vibrant? I would hope most people know it's only got one place to put a micro sdhc
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What does this have to do with my vibrant? I would hope most people know it's only got one place to put a micro sdhc
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I think they meant to point out that unless you want to carry around a tiny breakable easy to lose 16gb card in ur pocket or bag and switch out when you need to, having 32gb in one card is more convenient which combined with how newly available the card is, it is quite cheap for the price. You only pay a bit more per GB in this case, normally you'd pay 2-3x more in the beginning for the new highest capacity in flash memory.
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I think they meant to point out that unless you want to carry around a tiny breakable easy to lose 16gb card in ur pocket or bag and switch out when you need to, having 32gb in one card is more convenient which combined with how newly available the card is, it is quite cheap for the price. You only pay a bit more per GB in this case, normally you'd pay 2-3x more in the beginning for the new highest capacity in flash memory.
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Ding ding ding - winnar!
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I think they meant to point out that unless you want to carry around a tiny breakable easy to lose 16gb card in ur pocket or bag and switch out when you need to, having 32gb in one card is more convenient which combined with how newly available the card is, it is quite cheap for the price. You only pay a bit more per GB in this case, normally you'd pay 2-3x more in the beginning for the new highest capacity in flash memory.
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What would someone possibly need on a 32 gb that cant fit on a16 plus having access to any pc you plug your phone into plus another 15 approx gigs internal?
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What would someone possibly need on a 32 gb that cant fit on a16 plus having access to any pc you plug your phone into plus another 15 approx gigs internal?
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I know at least for me, there's never enough space. Unless they somehow manage to offer Terabyte microSD cards. Even the, I'm sure I'd find a sure for it.
Music, movies, games, ebooks, audiobooks, work files, space for pictures and videos, etc.
Do you NEED to have that much stuff on you? No, but it's nice to have access to everthing and worry less about space.
I know I have 14gb of music on my card and that's mostly just ONE genre of music. I have over 150gb of music. And yes, I do listen to all 14gb that I do have on there. It's good to have access to lots of music for parties and get togethers. Remote access is not always a perfect solution.
Again, I don't NEED all the space, but I sure as heck will use it when I have it.
If I had more space, I'd also partition space on my phone for portable apps. Having access to FireFox, GIMP, Openoffice, 7zip, etc wherever I go is a huge plus.
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I know at least for me, there's never enough space. Unless they somehow manage to offer Terabyte microSD cards. Even the, I'm sure I'd find a sure for it.
Music, movies, games, ebooks, audiobooks, work files, space for pictures and videos, etc.
Do you NEED to have that much stuff on you? No, but it's nice to have access to everthing and worry less about space.
I know I have 14gb of music on my card and that's mostly just ONE genre of music. I have over 150gb of music. And yes, I do listen to all 14gb that I do have on there. It's good to have access to lots of music for parties and get togethers. Remote access is not always a perfect solution.
Again, I don't NEED all the space, but I sure as heck will use it when I have it.
If I had more space, I'd also partition space on my phone for portable apps. Having access to FireFox, GIMP, Openoffice, 7zip, etc wherever I go is a huge plus.
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well yes, I agree, there are things to use the space. I'm just saying given the phone limitations wouldn't it be easier to dropbox and/or grab crap off the pc? The thing does have allshare/server capabilities to make that easier.
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well yes, I agree, there are things to use the space. I'm just saying given the phone limitations wouldn't it be easier to dropbox and/or grab crap off the pc? The thing does have allshare/server capabilities to make that easier.
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Do you need to be plugged into the PC to get the files off of it? I assume you do, but even if you didn't, think of all the battery power wasted to get the files when you want them. e.g. let's say I am on a bus or stuck waiting for something and want to watch a show or movie on my pc on my phone. I'd need to get on 3g, hope it can all stream fast enough, and the battery would run out super fast using 3g and playing a video all at once.
Also as for the 32gb 16gb argument. I might be able to work with limited storage, but I personally could fill about 5tb or more with anime and movies and tv shows that I'd like, and if I could carry all of that on my phone, and be able to select anything I want immediately and have it right there, that would be amazingly convenient. Therefore as far as I am concerned 16gb, 32gb, it's never really enough, people can always fill more space. However I will deal with having only a 16gb card on my Epic 4G when it comes out.
I thought the max microSD card the phone accepts is 16 gigs as per specs supplied in the manual. Guess those are wrong then? Good to know! Thanks for posting this topic!!
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SuperMiguel said:
lol 16GB + 32GB = 48GB why? why you need 50GB of space on a cellphone
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Duh, for all the porn you gotta shove on the ***** for on-the-go wanking!!! lmao
Wonder if you could rig it up to work with a WHS box streaming from home? Just a thought. That's what I'll do at work tomorrow I think.
bobofosho123 said:
Duh, for all the porn you gotta shove on the ***** for on-the-go wanking!!! lmao
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What else are you going to do with that beautiful AMOLED screen? Duh
designerfx said:
What would someone possibly need on a 32 gb that cant fit on a16 plus having access to any pc you plug your phone into plus another 15 approx gigs internal?
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i can fit 20GB of movies, TV shows, and music on a single card without having to connect my phone to a computer to add more.
THAT wont fit on a 16GB card. i dont carry my laptop wherever i go, therefore i dont really have access to any data beyond the 16GB card. maybe you are always near your computer, but i'm not.
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So no lag skipping/playing music files or video?
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none.
i set the removable card slot as the save point for the camcorder app and recorded nearly 7 minutes of video with lots of movement. no issues when recording.
i then played it back using both the built-in video player and eStrong File Explorer's built-in video player and experienced no dropped frames, freezing, or slowdowns, nor did the audio and video go out of sync.
i'm a hobbyist photographer so reliable, fast memory cards are something i'm always on the lookout for. because of this, i've sampled a lot of different brands in the past (i'm always testing different brands to try and find cheaper alternatives for my camera) and have found that SanDisk flash memory cards are consistently much faster than their rated spec. this result with the 32GB microSD is probably no different nor that unusual, based on my previous experience.
if i have some free time this morning and will do some read/write tests of the SanDisk 32GB Class 2 card alongside the original Samsung 2GB card that the Vibrant came with, a SanDisk 2GB Class 2 card, and a SanDisk 16GB Class 6 card i used in my HD2.
SuperMiguel said:
lol 16GB + 32GB = 48GB why? why you need 50GB of space on a cellphone
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What would someone possibly need on a 32 gb that cant fit on a16 plus having access to any pc you plug your phone into plus another 15 approx gigs internal?
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i really dont understand how anyone can manage to COMPLAIN about more data space, or that someone bothered to share a good deal they had found. either you people lead unhappy lives or you're lashing out because you're unable to afford one... because there's no logical explanation you can create to support an argument against a 32GB card except price.
Texag2010 said:
I thought the max microSD card the phone accepts is 16 gigs as per specs supplied in the manual. Guess those are wrong then? Good to know! Thanks for posting this topic!!
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the microSDHC spec allows for up to 32GB. it's just taken this long (released in the beginning of this year, or so) for a company to create a chip dense enough to reliably manufacture a 32GB microSD card.
the new spec, microSDXC, will cover sizes ranging from 32GB up to 2TB in the Secure Digital format. 64GB SDXC cards are already available from Panasonic and SanDisk.
cause 32GB is ridunkulous! w/the ability to play h.264 you can now just throw some 10GB or 20GB .mkv Blu-Ray 720p encodes and let it play. that's how i intend to roll. 32GB is very limiting.
i just want my phone to have this capability so i can plug the HDMI from my phone to my friend's HDTV and show him this or that.
I'm not sure the QSD8250 is capable of playing 720p video at all.
So, you need a phone with an SDXC slot, a chip capable of playing back HD content and a video-out enabled HDMI port? Try 2012.
No phones at all will support that format yet. Not even any for the phones that are to be released this year, and probably the first half of next year if not the whole year.
NO WP7 Phone will support SDXC because MS doesn't allow SD-Cards or exchangeable memory at all! So until MS changes it's mind this will not get real!
Greetings!
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So, you need a phone with an SDXC slot, a chip capable of playing back HD content and a video-out enabled HDMI port? Try 2012.
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2012? I have hd playback on my phone and the evo has hdmi out... I still have yet to see a sdxc slot in a phone tho
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I don't think any phones will support that format until next year when the really powerful phones get released.
i read that Tegra2 was supposed to support 1080p playback! whatever happened to that?
i think dell device support it
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=816162
I just picked one of these up. So far so good. I was wondering if anyone else had and what there experience has been with this card. Speeds and so forth.
http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Mobile-MicroSDXC-Memory-Adapter/dp/B005V7WIA2
lopies said:
I just picked one of these up. So far so good. I was wondering if anyone else had and what there experience has been with this card. Speeds and so forth.
http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Mobile-MicroSDXC-Memory-Adapter/dp/B005V7WIA2
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64gb? For what, full length movies? 150$ ? I have seen class 10 (isn't that the fastest) 32gb for as low as $35.99 on Amazon. I'm interested to see if anyone is using these as well....
I bought it for the space. Movies and music. I know I could have picked up a class 10 cheap but I was more interested in the space.
Many people need 32gb or 64gb because they have lots of music. 2 years ago it was alot harder to fill up a phone's sd card. Today how ever if you take a couple hundred pictures a couples 20minute videos and you have used several GB of data. Throw in your entire music collection and a 32gb sd cards maxxed already
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So far so good with mine, had it for about 3 or 4 weeks now. I'm using it for all of my Spotify/local music needs as well as the massive amount of pictures I take. Speeds always seem to hover around 6 mb/s write and 8 mb/s read (measured every once in awhile with SD Tools).
The first time I loaded this card into my phone it wasn't recognized right off the bat (never happened with any of my other microsd cards), but a quick format fixed that.
I didn't know that are phones would take a 64GB card. I thought it would max out at 32?
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i didn't know that are phones would take a 64gb card. I thought it would max out at 32?
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officially no it cant
unofficially you bet your donkeys rear end it can!!!
That is awesome!!! Can't wait to get one
I have one, but can only seem to get it recognized with a FAT32 partition which kind of sucks because FAT32 is limited to max 4GB per file (which means no 720p/1080p movies loaded on this thing). My Asus Transformer Prime also has one of these, but the Prime supports NTFS so I can go hog wild on file sizes.
no offense, but do you REALLY care about watching a 1080p movie on a 4 inch screen?
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no offense, but do you REALLY care about watching a 1080p movie on a 4 inch screen?
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No, but I do REALLY care not having to wait several hours while the movie re-encodes to a smaller resolution and/or split file that can fit on my phone. And you do realize the Epic 4G touch has HDMI out which outputs to TV quite well, right?
I got mines last week
but the write speed is soo slow
I get about 2mb write speeds on my stock rooted ET4G Ek02
I formatted the card directly thru the phone
could the slowdown be because I rooted?
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no offense, but do you REALLY care about watching a 1080p movie on a 4 inch screen?
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...I do hdmi out..................to a 100" screen
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No, but I do REALLY care not having to wait several hours while the movie re-encodes to a smaller resolution and/or split file that can fit on my phone. And you do realize the Epic 4G touch has HDMI out which outputs to TV quite well, right?
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With an MHL adapter. I might get one for my transformer prime as it has a micro hdmi port on the side. I use google music on my phone so I don't have any use. And even if I do cache with Google music, the damn app defaults to the built in memory.
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After 10+ years with Sprint, I'm thinking about jumping ship to Straight Talk and dumping my Epic 4G Touch (Galaxy SII) for a Galaxy Nexus when my contract expires. I have a 32GB Class 10 card almost filled up with tunes, pictures, and a few ROMs and backups. The 64GB cards are coming down in price and I was thinking about getting one.
However, I see that the Nexus doesn't have a card slot. How are you guys coping with the lack of extra storage? Obviously you are, but it seems like a big step down for me to lose that capability. There must be enough positives about this phone to overcome the lack of a card slot. I'd like to hear what they are.
My Sprint contract doesn't run out for a few months, so I have time to explore other options. Maybe there will even be a new Nexus with a card slot by then.
I, personally, have the TORO.
32 gig.
But only have half of it filled anyway.
I stream my music...
And have multiple nandroids on my phone (that I really don't need more than one of).
It hasn't bugged me at all.
i dont mind it at all. i dont have to worry about moving apps to the SD card to get space on the phone partition. it works out better i think
It is probably a bigger deal to someone looking to get a 64GB card to go down to 16GB but it isn't the worst. I stream videos from my computer using apps and stream my music with Spotify and after those two large space takers are out of the way 16 GB is pretty big haha
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It was a big deal to me at first. I have found other ways to cope. Putting important photo albums on Picasa helped a lot, as does Google Music.
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The only reason is for flashing new roms, but I think that doesn't flash certain directories, like the sdcard directory, so would that be the same, to store stuff there?
I do sort of miss it. I miss that fact that i could just pop in my sd card into my laptop and drag a ROM to flash if i couldnt get my epic to boot. It definetly came usefull when i had to test my themes... when one wouldnt work i could find the fix just load it on the sd card and try that. However i think with the nexus.. booting into the bootloader you can just adb push things right? Anyways, i put all the music i had in my music folder which is about 2.3gigs on Google Music.. stream that when i want to. Use cloud storage for most my other things such as .apk's ive themed and tools for apk themeing . But for the most part ive only filled about 2 gigs so far... on the sprint 32gb. I guess it all depends on preference and circumstances. But im sure you could find an alternative for storage.
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It is probably a bigger deal to someone looking to get a 64GB card to go down to 16GB but it isn't the worst. I stream videos from my computer using apps and stream my music with Spotify and after those two large space takers are out of the way 16 GB is pretty big haha
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What he said.
Streaming music/video + having google drive/picasa makes me only use the storage for some photos anyway.
My old phone, Defy+, had about 8GB so the Nexus is an improvement.
However I select my music I carry with me and I don't even watch videos. If I had 64GB or more I would put alot more music onto it, but I don't miss it. Just nice to have, but there is no point of "oh gawd, what should I delete...".
OTG + USB-Stick is also an option, if you want to watch a movie at a friends house or something.
I do miss it a little...
I do think it's interesting that The phone manufacturers seems to be pushing us to use the cloud more, resulting in more bandwidth being used, and the carriers are pushing people off of unlimited data plans unto tiered plans... Something has to give...
I miss it because I like having all manner of videos, music, etc on tap for entertainment. I've learned to deal with it by streaming music and uploading videos and pictures rather than storing them all on the card.
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OTG + USB-Stick is also an option, if you want to watch a movie at a friends house or something.
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Thanks for that! USB OTG doesn't work on my E4GT, but I see that there are Nexus kernels with it working. Guess I can carry a cable and a card reader for whenever I need to access the extra storage.
Not really. I have about 5GB of music, and then I stream from YouTube and Netflix for all my video needs. I have about a 1GB of various game ROMs, and I still have about 7GB free.
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my photos--on picasa
my music--on google music
my videos--on phone
my personal data--on clouds
the only problem is that i play a lot with phone,and after installing 3\4 hd games,my storage is always full..apart that,i don't need extra space,but the lack of not have a microsd i miss a bit.not for only storage,but for the of change the sd from my phone,and put it on my tablet.with gnex i can't.i usually use airdroid to transfer from pc,but i miss a wireless method to do that from tablet to phone (fon't know if there are others methods...)and with an microsd it'll become more friendly to do..
miss a bit an scard slot (i have the 16gb version,in my country gnex 32gb it doesn't exist.if i have a 32 gb version,i don't think i've miss the microsd.
I'd just gotten mine and the lack of micro sd isn't a deal breaker, plus like some said you could get an otg cable and flash drive. Personally i got this as my keychain, it's gotten expendable memory and has both a regular and micro usb side to it a bit pricey though.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Micro-USB-b...s_Adapters&hash=item2570b1850e#ht_2522wt_1035
I thought I would miss it, but I've gotten over it.
Its taught me to be a bit more selective on the crap I hoard. Can't be a bad thing really. Has made me realize, after being selective, all my HTC desire had on it was junk and I can easily cope with 16GB
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I would love a case, which connects with the USB-port and has a microSD-slot inside.
However I think that the case won't be that slim then
Do you miss having a microSD card?
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not really, for larger data (video or other) a take a usb stick and my otg-Adapter
I actually like the fact that there's no SD card. Coming from an EVO, it was a pain to move apps to SD. Here, everything is in one place and it just works. With Picasa a, Google Music and Google Drive, I have plenty!
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When I get my Note2 I am immediately going to buy SanDisk 64GB MicroSDXC Mobile Ultra.
But the salesman told me that 64GB don't work very well with smartphones. I did quick search and saw some SIII user having issues with their 64GB card (Showing files on computer).
Is it true? I highly doubt the salesman knowledge of smartphones but I don't want to waste money on expensive card.
It must work with note2 as it perfectly works with s2...
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When I get my Note2 I am immediately going to buy SanDisk 64GB MicroSDXC Mobile Ultra.
But the salesman told me that 64GB don't work very well with smartphones. I did quick search and saw some SIII user having issues with their 64GB card (Showing files on computer).
Is it true? I highly doubt the salesman knowledge of smartphones but I don't want to waste money on expensive card.
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Everything is a guess at this point. Just make sure you buy a retail SanDisk card, not a knockoff...hard to tell these days. And that it's formatted in a specified file format.
I've been using a 64GB on the Galaxy S and SII Skyrocket without problems for some time now. It's just a little slow.
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No dice on two separate 64GB SDXC cards in my GSIII, both real deals from Amazon, a solution I read was to format it with a PC to FAT32 but my intention was HD content (i.e. 4GB+) so that was a no go. Now I have two 32GB SDHC cards which work perfectly. YMMV
It is quiet simple. That may be work or not...... I also saw few cases where 64 gb card not work perfectly.
Specs for the Note 2 on Samsung site say it will officially support 64gb sd card where I think most other phones only support 32gb but can still work with 64gb, someone correct me if I'm wrong. Also 128gb would be a really nice match to that quad core and 2gb ram.
Samsung claims the S3 supports 64GB cards formatted as exFAT, but it, in fact, does not. Unless they corrected the issue with the Note 2, you have to format your 64GB card as FAT32. It will still work, but you lose some significant advantages by doing so. As far as I know, Samsung has not acknowledged the issue.
I am using a 64gb SanDisk micro SDXC in my Galaxy Note I as a type. I did have to use a special program to format it into Fat32 though, because my windows 7 PC didn't allow me to format it as Fat32. The name of the program eludes me at the moment, but I will post it again once I remember.
Why woold you ever listen to a sales rep?
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This tool is helpful because the quick format is disabled in Windows for anything over 32GB (GUI shows nothing and command prompt only allows complete format, which is really slow).
This tool will save you time, as it allows for quick formatting of 32GB+ MicroSD cards in Windows.
Main page:
http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm
CNet Download page:
http://download.cnet.com/EaseUS-Partition-Master-Home-Edition/3000-2248_4-10863346.html
Hit "Thanks" if this helped, or will help you in the future
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64 gb card works great.
Good lord, so much poor information in this thread.
Firstly, the S3 DOES work with exFAT formatted 64GB micro SDXC cards, Samsung explicitly added support for exFAT with specific drivers for it (check Supercurios Voodoo Report breakdown for further confirmation). That's why Samsung said that it works with cards up to 64GB in their official announcement, where they have not said that before (even though all their phones work with the 64GB cards when formatted to Fat32).
I have used one in my International S3 for a couple of months since release, and now in my AT&T S3 for something like a month without any issues whatsoever. There are some people who had issues, but it's not clear what the cause is as far as I'm aware.
Even if exFAT support is not offered the Note 2 will work with Fat32-formatted 64GB cards. I have no doubt whatsoever about that - they have worked in every device I've ever tried them in when formatted to Fat32. That's more than a dozen devices now including Symbian handsets, and Android devices running on Froyo and every version of the OS since then: http://www.androidnz.net/2011/09/sandisk-64gb-micro-sdxc-cards-confirmed.html. They have been confirmed working in various feature phones even.
If anyone is still in doubt I will post confirmation with my Note II when it comes early October (or earlier if Samsung have their release event here in NZ before then).
Size doesn't matters
In fact size doesn't matters (that's what she said... wait, no... )
I have a 128 GB SDcard perfectly working on my note 1 with an microSD<>SDcard adapter, because FAT32 formatted (I never tried exFAT filesystem, I don't know how classical linux OS handle it)
So I'd say as long as you stick with the old Fat32, it will be alright !
(the system seems to be quite ok with it, except that it takes a while when rebuilding the database for music... Because of the 95+ GB of it.
I know that there is a size limitation in windows when formating in FAT32 system, but this limitation doesn't exist in linux, and I have used Hardrives of 1 TB fat32 formatted under linux and windows without any problems, except this 4GB file size limitation...
Boujou bien!:laugh:
Couple of questions for 64gb card users:
1. How much time does it it take to fill up the card with music files?
2. How much time does it take for the Note 2 to scan the database?
Thanks in advance
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Couple of questions for 64gb card users:
1. How much time does it it take to fill up the card with music files?
2. How much time does it take for the Note 2 to scan the database?
Thanks in advance
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In relation to your second question:
Media scanning (after the initial one) doesn't take too long - much better to use something like PowerAMP that has its own separate library though. For one thing PowerAMP can read tags properly, and secondly you can exclude your music folder from the stock app so the system doesn't index it.
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In relation to your second question:
Media scanning (after the initial one) doesn't take too long - much better to use something like PowerAMP that has its own separate library though. For one thing PowerAMP can read tags properly, and secondly you can exclude your music folder from the stock app so the system doesn't index it.
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Thanks again man!.
Actually i was settling for Player Pro since it's my idea to keep on using my iTunes generated smart playlists which are based on the last played criteria and rating. Hence Player Pro / iSynchr looked well suited for that task.
Do some research on Power Amp but it's my intention to stay away from any digital sound processing which seems to be Power Amp strongest suit. I'd want it keep the signal path as simple as headphone out + UM3x.
I bought that exact card, hopefully I will get it later today. EXCITED.
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Thanks again man!.
Actually i was settling for Player Pro since it's my idea to keep on using my iTunes generated smart playlists which are based on the last played criteria and rating. Hence Player Pro / iSynchr looked well suited for that task.
Do some research on Power Amp but it's my intention to stay away from any digital sound processing which seems to be Power Amp strongest suit. I'd want it keep the signal path as simple as headphone out + UM3x.
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Fair point, I'm almost always listening through a DAC so sound processing doesn't bother me, I like a lot of the other features from PowerAMP. Sounds like you're all set though!
I'm looking to buy a Sandisk Ultra either 32gb or 64gb (was looking for 64 but now I'm having second thoughts).
Since 64gb exFAT seems a no-go and FAT32 is very inefficient for such a "large" drive... can I format a 32gb microSD in exFAT and so take advantage of that file system in my Note2? Thans in advance for the answer, I'm buying on Monday and need to make a choice =)
i got just that 64gb card and it works flawless.