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Hello! I have been searching around the forums for this problem, and I can't seem to find it, so I'll post it here.
Anyway, my rooted Droid Incredible, with CyanogenMod 7.1, as well as my mom's Droid Incredible, stock on Android 2.3.4 recently updated by HTC, have both been having troubles with our 16 Gig micro sd cards. Randomly, after a boot, the sd card becomes unreadable and corrupted, so I had to go back to our old 2 gig ones. As far as I know none of our cards were even close to being filled, with cards at a max only being filled about 25 percent full. Any help is appreciated. Thank you!
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Copy contents of both to pc, reformat them FAT32, copy content back onto each, and put them back in the devices. Note that the device is OFF when you remove and reinstall the SD.
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Thank you, however I already have done this in the past, because our Droid Incredibles have a history of doing this. However, this time is a problem, because our SD card will not even be read by the computer. I am assuming that whatever important is on there is lost and cannot be recovered, although it would be great if we could. My main problem now is that because the phone or the computer (running Windows 7) cannot even know it's there, I cannot reformat. Any advice?
Can you use the phone to reformat it?
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Already tried, still wouldn't do anything.
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Hmm, if both run without error with the other cards, I can only speculate the 16gb ones are what's wonky.
Absent pc backups from an earlier time, I'd say the 16's get retired and the 2's put back into service.
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Ok thanks. I'm going to try just buying another card from another brand.
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What brand were you using?
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Have you checked it on Linux? Download a copy to a disk and boot it up. Then pop it into a card reader and see what's there. Windows doesn't recognize ext partitions, so if your card is formatted ext it may not show up.
Just a thought... Merry Christmas.
...Sorry...I was on the phone...
PNY was the brand I was using, however I am now successfully using an 8 gig SanDisk, and it's working now. You see, the reason I asked is because this isn't the first time this has happened in my Dinc, and I've been able to save it in the past, but this time I couldn't, and I was wondering if there's a reason our sd cards kept crashing. Anyway, we'll see if it was just a bad manufacturer. And I would install Ubuntu, however we only have one computer in the house, so I just keep Ubuntu on a flash drive just in case Windows goes kaput, and I need to access files.
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And sorry, I hope you have a great Christmas! Thank you for the help.
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Hmm.. I had a pny since I got the phone and its held up for me.
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LinkChef said:
Hello! I have been searching around the forums for this problem, and I can't seem to find it, so I'll post it here.
Anyway, my rooted Droid Incredible, with CyanogenMod 7.1, as well as my mom's Droid Incredible, stock on Android 2.3.4 recently updated by HTC, have both been having troubles with our 16 Gig micro sd cards. Randomly, after a boot, the sd card becomes unreadable and corrupted, so I had to go back to our old 2 gig ones. As far as I know none of our cards were even close to being filled, with cards at a max only being filled about 25 percent full. Any help is appreciated. Thank you!
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I had something like this happen to me on an 8GB card. It could not format inside the phone, and the laptop was not detecting it, infact there was no option to use as disk drive. Finally I fixed it. I had to go into recovery, mounts and storage, mount usb storage. And lo and behold, it showed up on my laptop when I connected it. I now did a FULL FORMAT, not quick format. After this, I put it back in the phone and it's as good as new. Hope this helps someone.
So I just got a 32GB sd card to replace my 16GB one. My 6 year old iPod doesn't hold a charge and the headphone jack doesn't work anymore. So my thought was now use my phone as my iPod (good bye Apple).
I was surprised at how easy it was to put the new one in. Plug it into the computer along with your phone and copy all of the app data (and pictures, etc. you want) onto the new one. Unmount the one in the phone, and put the new one in.
Not only do I now have double the space, but my phone is much snappier. I used the same class and brand, so I figure it must be the way the app data was written to the new one. Instead of apps randomly installing files while downloading/saving on your phone, I think the one way ticket across platforms put them in nice and neat.
Has anyone else experienced this? Is my assumption off the mark?
Shhhh! ... don't tell any Apple users about this. Its a secret. Changing the battery and adding memory, priceless!
Can't say I've noticed any speed increase, but it's a good path to take for your music. I had to go all the way to a 64GB card (yes, they do work) to hold all mine - and the various ROMs I tend to hold onto.
64gb for the win.
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I'll let ya know when I get my 32gb I ordered the other day from 1saleaday
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My 32GB class10 should be coming today. I had some gift cards to my University's tech shop and I needed to use them before I graduate
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I'll let ya know when I get my 32gb I ordered the other day from 1saleaday
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I am using my 32 from them. It's pretty sweet. On boot, takes a little longer, but worth it
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faehsemc said:
I am using my 32 from them. It's pretty sweet. On boot, takes a little longer, but worth it
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I've noticed that if you have alot of apps installed to the sd card boot time is longer than if they are stored internally. Could that be the issue?
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I install most of my apps to phone. It really don't horrible, just like I said, only during boot. Once initial boot I'd complete, there's no lag
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I just got a dinc2 and I'm planning to root, ROM, and hotrod the phone.
I have a new c10 16GB card for it and I'm wondering about the optimal setup. Any tips?
Special format?
Special partitions?
I'm coming from an OG Droid, so card usage was important. I know the dinc2 won't have nearly the issues the OG has, but I thought I'd ask...
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I am not doing anything special with my card except for storage and the phone runs great. I've just got it O.C.'d with the V6 supercharger script. Maybe someone else cam chime in who has played with partitions and whatnot.
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Nothing special here either. I just recently got my 32gb sd card and that was only because I needed more storage. Music and rom backups were filling up my card. Performance wise it runs great with nothing special done with the card.
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Thanks, guys.
Any file system favored over another for card formatting?
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phonetool said:
Thanks, guys.
Any file system favored over another for card formatting?
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I left it as fat 32.
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Hi all, just noticed my 16GB Note 2 has only 10.36gb available. Should it be more than that ?
normal i believe. after system files and things like that i have like 9 and change free
This is quite annoying really. What makes it worse is that you can't move programs/apps to external SD Card ATM.
its not so much a bummer for me bc i dont install much. i love the phone so much i over look this :good:
True. We need to get the App 2 SD implemented. There are so many games i would like to install and haven't because of this reason.
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Blows my mind that some people don't understand that 16gb will NEVER mean 16gb of usable space for users. And with microSD cards being so cheap I don't get why it would ever even be an issue. Best Buy had 64gb Sandisks on sale last week for $39...
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Blows my mind that some people don't understand that 16gb will NEVER mean 16gb of usable space for users. And with microSD cards being so cheap I don't get why it would ever even be an issue. Best Buy had 64gb Sandisks on sale last week for $39...
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Try installing 1 GB games on the SD card without rooting and without having the App 2 SD option.
App 2 SD option is needed urgently.
it doesnt mean I dont undersrand, it just isnt acceptable to loose nearly 6gb of storage space. Loosing 2gb is acceprable but nearly 6gb is apalling. Can you point me in a working workaround to install apps to external sd card then as the only one I can find a lot of people are saying it doesnt work or function very well.
Maybe you can use Directorybind? Works for me, doesnt work if you are not rooted tho
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Sammath said:
Maybe you can use Directorybind? Works for me, doesnt work if you are not rooted tho
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thats the one Im talking about, and the last few poata people are saying it doesnt work properly.
nm8 said:
thats the one Im talking about, and the last few poata people are saying it doesnt work properly.
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Works fantastic for me.
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ChodTheWacko said:
Works fantastic for me.
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are you using the free version ?
Do anyone know how to make a 64Gb micro SD card read correctly on this ROM, I tried formatting n it seem like the phone won't read it
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Yella23 said:
Do anyone know how to make a 64Gb micro SD card read correctly on this ROM, I tried formatting n it seem like the phone won't read it
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Sorry forgot to say what ROM, the ROM is aokp 10/24/12
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Yes. Put in the 64GB SD card, go to settings (storage), unmount, format SD. Your microSD should now be partitioned the right way to use it.
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I tried it but it won't read as it is a 64 GB card for some reason or its not reading it at all , I don't know if I had to go back to ICS ROMs or what
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You have to format it in FAT32 with your PC.
If you Google it, you will find a little program that will do that.
I know there is a thread on XDA about this, but I'm at work and don't
have time to search for it.
EDIT: I did the searching for you:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1794514&highlight=64gb
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I tried it but it won't read as it is a 64 GB card for some reason or its not reading it at all , I don't know if I had to go back to ICS ROMs or what
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Do you have a Blackberry around? That happened to my microSD when NOTHING at all would read it. I just stuck the card into a Blackberry to see if the card was broken. On the screen, there was a pop-up that said that I had a new memory card inserted and it asked if I wanted to format it. I hit yes, and all of a sudden, my microSD card started working again.
Can I ask where you got your 64gig card from and how much it cost? I would really like to get one. Thanks
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Can I ask where you got your 64gig card from and how much it cost? I would really like to get one. Thanks
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Amazon it was on sale
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premiatul said:
You have to format it in FAT32 with your PC.
If you Google it, you will find a little program that will do that.
I know there is a thread on XDA about this, but I'm at work and don't
have time to search for it.
EDIT: I did the searching for you:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1794514&highlight=64gb
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I ended up going back to my ics ROM and the micro sd card formatted with no problem but it wouldn't read on,my jellybean rom
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I believe it only supports up to 64gb.
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I can't see any technical limitations on the Micro SD size.
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I believe it only supports up to 64gb.
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However, until you try it (or someone else) it's just an assumption (both ways - yes or not).
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However, until you try it (or someone else) it's just an assumption (both ways - yes or not).
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I actually think there is a way to partition it using a tool in windows or Linux that splits it into two 64gb "sd" cards. So it's one card but in the phone it comes up as two. I think.. I'm not sure if this still works.. I remember seeing this "trick" in the s2 forums years ago when I had that.
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This works on the note2, I don't see why a similar setup wouldn't work for the s4.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2239413
It will work but after partitioning it. Get the card and post back if you need help on how to proceed.
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NO T-Mobile said themselves 64 GB is max, however if you partition into 2x 64 might work... Have not tried tho