[Q] sd card formats - Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III

can someone please let me know if the samsung galaxy 3 micro sd card can be formatted to something other than fat32 and if so what are the formats that are available and other question is if its dependent on the rom currently flashed to the device? thank u sorry if this has been answered before

I believe android requires fat32, but you can repartition the card to have an ext4 partition along with the normal fat32 partition. I've only seen that used for apps2sd use though.

I have a 64GB card in my phone that is formatted exFAT. It works fine except that it can not be seen be recovery. I also had to download an update for my old win xp machine to read the card.
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[Q] Help! SD Card read only,can't format

I have an 8gb sandisk class 2 micro SD card.I had previously partitioned as fat32 and 1gb ext3 using Ubuntu 10.04 Live CD.Stupidly mounted in windows and now i can not format the card.The desire says damaged card.Win7 reports as read only and Ubuntu as /dev/mmcblk0 has been opened read only.
I also tried using HDDGuru Low level Format tool after reading some threads relating to this problem.Seemed to run fine but still shows up as read only.
Any suggestions of what i should try next?
Is the little switch on the sd card in lock position
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yeah when i put the micro sd into adpter to mount in laptop cardreader i did engage lock.Should i not?
If u put the lock on it will show up as read only
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thnx
That did the trick.I just presumed the lock kept it in place.Partitioned with gparted and rooted.
thnx for your help,much appreciated
your welcome
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dkline said:
I have an 8gb sandisk class 2 micro SD card.I had previously partitioned as fat32 and 1gb ext3 using Ubuntu 10.04 Live CD.Stupidly mounted in windows and now i can not format the card.The desire says damaged card.Win7 reports as read only and Ubuntu as /dev/mmcblk0 has been opened read only.
I also tried using HDDGuru Low level Format tool after reading some threads relating to this problem.Seemed to run fine but still shows up as read only.
Any suggestions of what i should try next?
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Hi,you should try to delete the 2 partitions on your SD card and re-partition it by using either GParted in linux or Minitool Partition Wizard in Windows.Good luck

Formatting sd

Hi guys a have a problem I have 64 gb sd card everythings fine apart from when I am in cwm and try to access sd card says path not found .tried to reformat it to fat32 but only gives me option for fat or exfat .any sugestions of getting cwm to recognise it or how to reformatt it to fat32
Hope someone can help cheers guys its doing my head in
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stesteste said:
Hi guys a have a problem I have 64 gb sd card everythings fine apart from when I am in cwm and try to access sd card says path not found .tried to reformat it to fat32 but only gives me option for fat or exfat .any sugestions of getting cwm to recognise it or how to reformatt it to fat32
Hope someone can help cheers guys its doing my head in
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From what I can recall cwm only recognizes fat 32. You can format your sd card to fat 32 using a specific windows app. It's called guiformat.
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You can also use Easus Partition Manager.
I've been using it for years. It's what I used to format my own 64GB MicroSD in Windows to Fat32.
It's free btw
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SD card damaged after install pacman rom

Ive installed pacman rom on my note 2 but the sd status appeared as damaged and required a format .
I didn't format and went to recovery and restored the stock rooted rom 4.1.2 that I have backed up and it backed up successfully.
But the sd card appeard as damaged also in the stick rom .
I have backed up the backup files that were in the card , I can add photos and videos later .
Is there a way to fix the card without formating it?
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Try a card reader.
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Connected it to pc and it asked for formating the card .
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I believe your sd card is 64gb and formatted in exFAT.
Pacman ROM is based on AOSP/CM (CMIIMW) therefore exFAT is not supported. Try to reformat you sdcard in FAT32 format (you will loss capability to store >4gb file in your sdcard) but it works.
same problem
I had just the same situation with Paranoid Android and 64Gb exFAT formatted card several days ago. I knew that PA (like any AOSP ROM) can't see exFAT filesystem. But I only wanted to test PA for a few days so I decided not to format card or remove it from the phone. I did nothing with the card in the PA ROM. Nevertheless I found my card damaged after returning to stock 4.1.2 ROM (just like ahmedss79 did). Neither Android nor windows could read my card.
But AROMA Filemanager saw the card and could read and write it. I used PhilZ Touch CWM with Aroma Filemanager and copied all important files from sd card to internal storage.
And when I opened my "damaged" sd card in partition manager (in Windows, using a card reader) I noticed that it has two partitions: small 12Mb FAT before big 59 Gb unknown partition. I guess this FAT partition was automatically created by PA after its fist boot and exactly this FAT partition made the card damaged as it wiped all file tables, located in the first couple of Mb of the original exFAT partition.
Is there any way to format to FAT32 using any application on an Android device?
I'm running PACMan at the moment, which seems to have the most features.
I have no hardware that can read my SD card on a PC at the moment.
I'm currently at work and don't feel like waiting 8 hours to do it at home, plus, there some compatibility issues formatting FAT32 on Windows 8

ExSDCARD

I have a32gb exsdcard... has never worked great. .. lately been saving pics to there from cam and often the card just changed the images, they get corrupt and now it doesn't store backups from twrp correctly and us getting really annoying. Can someone tell me a good sdcard they haven't had any problems with?
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What filesystem is it formatted as? And what version android are you running?
If you are running a cm based Rom and have your card formatted as ntsf or exfat, you will be having compatibility issues... I've never had much luck getting either of those file systems working with cm, even with the patches/fixes.
Try backing up your data from the sd and format in fat32 and see how it performs. You need a secondary program to format fat32, I use eas partition master, there is a free home version that you can get from their website.
Edit* here's a link to their site http://www.easeus.com
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Using tw, intergalactic. Formatted to exfat. Always had problems with the big SD cards. So if I formatted it to exfat on my computer when I first got it, ran into problems and formatted it on my phone what file format does that do? Cause last night I formatted it on my phone because I'm in Ireland for a few weeks and don't have my computer.
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I have (3) 64gb micro sd cards and (2) 32gb micro sd cards all formatted in fat32 and I don't have issues with any of them. The only time I've ever had issue is with my 64gb cards when I had them in exfat and then switched my tablets to aokp... that's when I found out that cm doesn't like exfat and ntfs. Since then, I've stuck with fat32 without issue.
I'm not sure what format android defaults to... though I believe it's exfat, whatever it is, it should be the most compatible considering it chooses that format. All my cards 32gb cards are Kingston and I believe my 64gb cards are SanDisk... it's possible that you have a bad card... a tw room shouldn't have any issue with exfat, only cm because they don't have the licensing for the format for official support.
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[Q] New 64GB micro SDXC card not working in Galaxy S4

I just purchased a new 64GB SanDisk SDSDQX-064G-A46A micro SDXC card from Newegg:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820171773
The card works fine in my S3 and in my PC, but it will not mount in my S4, not even from Clockwork Recovery. Both my S3 and S4 are running the stock ROM, but the S4 is rooted where the S3 isn't. I went to the local T-Mobile store and while they didn't have an S4 to test my new card in, they did have a Note 3 which mounted my new card just fine. Additionally the 32GB card that was in the Note 3 mounted just fine in my S4.
What is going on here?
Format the card to Fat32 on your PC and see if that works.
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Format the card to Fat32 on your PC and see if that works.
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There is no option to format to FAT32, only exFAT. Additionally, from what I read here Windows cannot format FAT32 volumes lager than 32GB.
http://www.ntfs.com/exfat-comparison.htm
A bit more reading and it seems the kernel that removes the SetUID restriction causes issues with exFAT formatted cards. Thankfully the fix is easy, just needed to install this exFAT module from recovery. The entire process is described here.
re: fat32 formatter
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There is no option to format to FAT32, only exFAT. Additionally, from what I read here Windows cannot format FAT32 volumes lager than 32GB.
http://www.ntfs.com/exfat-comparison.htm
A bit more reading and it seems the kernel that removes the SetUID restriction causes issues with exFAT formatted cards. Thankfully the fix is easy, just needed to install this exFAT module from recovery. The entire process is described here.
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Here is a free windows utility which will format any size sdcards using FAT32.
Give it a try. Here is the direct download link: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/download/fat32format.zip
Good luck!
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There is no option to format to FAT32, only exFAT. Additionally, from what I read here Windows cannot format FAT32 volumes lager than 32GB.
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There's plenty of software to format the 64gb card to Fat32. I'm running a 64gb card in Fat32 format right now.
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shouldnt need to format to fat32 i have 2 diff sandisc 64g cards in tmobile s4's and they are exfat and work fine.. are you sure you are on stock kernel.. if you change it lots of kernels do not work for exfat.
I found guiformat made mine work. Same card and I was having issues, too.

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