Dudes, bit of a dilemma, if I format my 16Gb micro sd to NTFS and put it in my desire, the desire doesnt like it and it formats it as FAT32 .. which is ok, but I would very much like to tranfer files as big as 4Gb to the "removable drive" when using the desire as a USB drive.
Only trouble is you cant do that when using a FAT32 drive.
Is there a way of formatting the SD to NTFS but stil the handset will work with it.. Ie if its NTFS the desire will want to reformat it but if its FAT 32 the USB storage options only good for the odd small file.
Anyway around this so that the 16Gb SD card can be used on the desire (ie for apps and the like) but can also be used in the usb storage option to transfer large files of upto say 4Gb ?
bit of a catch 22
Why can't you copy 4GB files to the SD card? My External USB hard drive on my laptop is FAT32 and I copied the contents of my old external HD to it without issue (about 200GB). File system isn't the problem here
And no, you can't use NTFS on the Desire. Which is why it reformats the SD card once you boot Android
No!
You can copy more than 4GB to a fat32 filesystem because FAT32 partition can be larger than that.
But if one file is larger than 4GB then you can't copy it on FAT32, this is a limitation of FAT32 filesystem:
FAT 32 max file size= 4GB
this reason :
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080529220411AADT6Ut
you can move 200Gb worth of stuff but not a single file over 4Gb on a FAT32 file system (apparently)
you see my dilemma ? hehe most annoying
Biggest single file ive ever seen was about 3 GB. Never knew about the 4 GB limitation to Fat32 before. What files larger than 4 GB are there? 1080p files maybe?
.ISO Image files in this case
(work related not smut or pirated material before any suspicions are raised hehe)
I think u like to share Games with your Phone.
Why u do not extract the image files and install from the folder later?
After extracting u can copy the folder to sdcard ;-)
because once i extract the .ISO
the "Beach Hussys" .AVI file is still too large
... but seriously, there has been a few files ive had that are larger, I liked you idea tho x thanks. But there has got to be a way
Wasn't aware of the 4GB limit in FAT32, never had a file large enough to transport around!!
you can use gsplit or h-split!!! to split files on pc!!..
cheers dude that is good to know
but I really want the USB storage facility on the Desire to match having a USB key .. ie tranfer a 4Gb file the same as I would to my USB key (which is optimised and formatted to NTFS) Then I only have to take one around with me.
I have done this and it works (providing you have it plugged into USB as soon as you switch on with NTFS formatted SD in the phone) but then the sd cannot be used in that state to save apps to etc - so its one or the other it seems
ive used the sd formatted to ntfs and put it in my desire and plugged it into a usb straight away and it works - but if u dont do it straight away the handset says "SD card not formatted do you want to format it now" in which case it will format it to FAT32 or not let you use it as USB storage device at all.
hmmph !
i guess it shouldnt be hard as long as you compile the kernl with ntfs support or modprobe.
you can also split your files easily with winrar
What about exFAT? Can Desire read that format?
u can also use programs like winrar to split em in parts as well.. if its a movie u want to playback though, ;p its pretty impossible unless u split it urself with a movie editor..which aint a hard task..
Just use winrar archive the file to multiple archives, copy them over and unpack it
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if you have a big sdcard and you transfer a lot of movies or files bigger than 4gb why don't you make 2 partitions on your sdcard....on FAT32 with the size you want on the desire and one NTFS for your data!!! i don't think it would cause any trouble. i might be mistaken though i never tried it. but for usbs works wonders
What about use partitions? Let's say 4GB FAT32 and 12GB NTFS... will it work?
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I think it should work, but the Desire wouldn't read the NTFS partition, you could only use it for USB file transfer.
I can't do that unless i format my sd but then the phone wouldn't accept it. any work around?
The phone will accept a SD card formatted to exfat..
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JupiterdroidXDA said:
The phone will accept a SD card formatted to exfat..
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Doesn't work. I formated it to exFat like you said but then my 64GB microSD san disk card reads less than 1KB. I then tried to drag and drop teh 12gb file and it says file is too big for its destination.
format it to NTFS and mount it by some apps or format it to ext4
JoJo2211 said:
Doesn't work. I formated it to exFat like you said but then my 64GB microSD san disk card reads less than 1KB. I then tried to drag and drop teh 12gb file and it says file is too big for its destination.
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My 64 gb formats to exfat just fine. If your phone wont do it then format from windows. If your trying to copy file over using Kies it wont work regardless if its exfat. You can try FTP or UMS
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My 64 gb formats to exfat just fine. If your phone wont do it then format from windows. If your trying to copy file over using Kies it wont work regardless if its exfat. You can try FTP or UMS
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i formatted from windows too and it shows exfat but after i put it into my phone it shows less then 1MB of space. I then have to format it within the phone to get th 59gb of space to show. even then it shows exfat but doesn't take files larger than 4gb. i'm not using kies. just simple drag and drop using a card reader.
Like said, just use a pc memory card reader to transfer it.
Isn't a 12gb video file a little wasted on a small 720p screen?
munkiii said:
Like said, just use a pc memory card reader to transfer it.
Isn't a 12gb video file a little wasted on a small 720p screen?
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If you don't want to remove the micro sd card, download the Samba filesharing app from Google Play......you can then directly access your media from your Windows PC and just copy/paste the files/folders you want.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.funkyfresh.samba&hl=en
I just received my SanDisk Ultra 64 GB microSDXC Class 10 UHS-1.
What's the best way to prepare it for my Note 2 (fat32, exfat, etc)?
Is there a particular way it needs to be formatted to be accessible via TWRP?
Thanks!
I did exfat on my card so I can put files larger then 4gb on it. Best way to format it is if you have some way to plug the card into your computer. Ib myself mounted my card through the recovery and formatted on my computer that way.
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format the card in the phone. You do it within Android in the settings area. I'm not sure what format, but I think it's NTFS. It's what I did, and I have put files larger than 4GBs.
On a side note, the file size issues doesn't come up except with media such as movies.
I like to know which ROM allows me to read and copy large video files (larger than 4 GB) to and from my microsd card that is formatted in exfat ?
Are you sure it's exfat? I think it should work. I'd try reformatting it with Windows.
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I was wondering what format can the note 3 use. Can it use exfat or fat32. I am using a 64gb SD card right now and forgot what it is formatted to but I think it's fat32. Can it use exfat because one of the tormenting apps gave me trouble when I tried to download a 15gb file. I emailed the developer and he said it might be because my SD card is formatted and doesn't allow big files.
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The 64gb card should be exFAT