Format 64gb. Sandisk micro SD to fat32 - T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note II

First and for most I am not responsible for anything that might happen to your phone, computer, or sd card. I am simply posting to help anyone ot there who might have an error with there new cards.
So along with alot of others who jumped on the 64gb micro sd sales I purchased from best buy. When I tried to get my phone to register the card which was originally extfat by default it wasnt recognized. So then I tried formating to ntsc to yet again fail. I finally tried to convert to fat32. What follows is a guide to get uou 64gb sd card to fat32.
First make sure you backup any info you might have on you 64gb. Card because formatting will erase EVERYTHING.
Second, connect your micro sd to a computer. I personally used the micro sd to full sd adapter that came with my card.
Third go to the following website
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?fat32format.htm
And download the gui app by clicking the picture.
Fourth run it. Make sure you select the right location to were your sdcard is.
Fifth click the allocation to your preference (im not sure what this is suppose to do but I set it to max roughly about 64-65) then make sure you select the right destination if not you can format your hdd on the computer. Then press the quick format and start button.
Sixth the script should take less then a min. To be done and have a formatted fat32 64gb microsd card..
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How common is this issue? I've got a 64GB Sandisk with exformat in my T889 with no apparent problems (so far).

Im not to sure how common it is but I ran into trouble. I tried the default for the card then ntsc and it wasnt registering with my phone althought I must say I was running perseus kerenel with the memory swap script. Then after I formatted to fat32 it work. Not sure were I read on some other people running in to trouble with the same sandisk card until they formatted.
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illest_one_7777 said:
Im not to sure how common it is but I ran into trouble. I tried the default for the card then ntsc and it wasnt registering with my phone althought I must say I was running perseus kerenel with the memory swap script. Then after I formatted to fat32 it work. Not sure were I read on some other people running in to trouble with the same sandisk card until they formatted.
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Hmm...well, I think I've also read similar around the net. Good of you to share your solution!

Yup hopefully they hold up. I had a 32gd. Sandisk sd with fat32 and this 64 gb card doubles that so now I have about 74 gbs. Of usable memory. I play alot of gameloft games those things are memory whores
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distortedloop said:
How common is this issue? I've got a 64GB Sandisk with exformat in my T889 with no apparent problems (so far).
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I bought Sandisk 64gb card from best buy..my phone reads the exfat card fine..but when I use mtp transfer my computer recognizes the card as generic hierarchical and limits my file size..is there a way to Mount the actually card as exfat without removing it from my phone?
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Here is the link for MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition (It's FREE). I have been using this Great Tool for years to format my sdcards without any issues at all.
http://download.cnet.com/MiniTool-Partition-Wizard-Home-Edition/3000-2094_4-10962200.html

Jerry D said:
Here is the link for MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition (It's FREE). I have been using this Great Tool for years to format my sdcards without any issues at all.
http://download.cnet.com/MiniTool-Partition-Wizard-Home-Edition/3000-2094_4-10962200.html
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Good program..
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I would loke to know how many ppl have ran into this problem. Wonder if its rom/kernel related or if its the card
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Jerry D said:
Here is the link for MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition (It's FREE). I have been using this Great Tool for years to format my sdcards without any issues at all.
http://download.cnet.com/MiniTool-Partition-Wizard-Home-Edition/3000-2094_4-10962200.html
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It'll format it but it says 27GB not 59GB so it's only seeing half of it.

Hmm. I dont even know there's an issue like this. I bought my card online 64GB Sandisk Class 10 during the Thanksgiving sales and its like plug and play since then. No problem at all.

I've gone through 2 64GB sd cards. They work for a while and then something odd happens. I write to the card but the file is gone if my phone reboots. Permissions issue maybe?
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This worked!
Jerry D said:
Here is the link for MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition (It's FREE). I have been using this Great Tool for years to format my sdcards without any issues at all.
http://download.cnet.com/MiniTool-Partition-Wizard-Home-Edition/3000-2094_4-10962200.html
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Wow! The OP was a bit long to go through and I didn't quite understand it, so I tried the above program.
One click to format it and I got from 32GB to my 64GB back!
Thanks!

This is weird i had just installed my new sd card and 5mins later it unmounted and was unable to read or write to it. Im running stock by the way. Im getting a new one next week any tips.
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I was told that the ROM I have doesn't read a 64 gig card..the last time I tried to download a torrent I was told I didn't have enough storage space..I have 36 gig left on it..I downloaded the music, and I saw it was all there..right after I did a restart the music was gone...Do I need to reformat the card to exfat or fat 32? It is a Sandisk, I never formatted the card..I was told we don't have to format a Sandisk card, they come that way...I have a Note 2 from T-Mobile...

kcs_135 said:
I've gone through 2 64GB sd cards. They work for a while and then something odd happens. I write to the card but the file is gone if my phone reboots. Permissions issue maybe?
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I just had the same thing happen to me..I downloaded a bunch of albums..they were there..then I rebooted and they were gone...but when uTorrent was downloading it told me I didn't have enough space..I told it to go ahead anyway...they made it but then disappeared..

I have had my 64gb. San disk for about a year and a half without any issues. I formatted the way I outlined in the first post and it has been smooth sailing ever since. I know that the first post could be a bit tedious but it is the RIGHT way. No short cuts. I did have an issue with some kerrnels. For example saber kernel from Jedi Roms says that it can swap your memory partition from external to internal and it does for about a week and then for some odd reason it just locks your SD so you can't download or delete any thing. The combination I have been using is an old school pegasus kernel with a memory swap script. I have been using that for a long time and not only is it the most stable memory swap, but the kernel has never messed up my SD either. P.S. just my 2 cents
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illest_one_7777 said:
Yup hopefully they hold up. I had a 32gd. Sandisk sd with fat32 and this 64 gb card doubles that so now I have about 74 gbs. Of usable memory. I play alot of gameloft games those things are memory whores
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You mean usable STORAGE.

ungraph said:
You mean usable STORAGE.
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Excuse me yes use able storage. 74 GB usable memory won't be possible till like 2016 maybe the nexus 8
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Please don't quote me on the above it does have a hint of sarcasm
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Format phone for 64gb sd

How do you format our phones for a 64gb micro card?
Holy crap, how much did that run you?
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About 140. I just got a bonus at work.
i thought our phones only supported 32gb cards.
dbenney said:
i thought our phones only supported 32gb cards.
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Officially only 32, but I read somewhere a few weeks ago the 64 works.
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I think that you should just format it as a fat32 and the evo will be able to read it.
I think....
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with that size you might as well partition it for use with dt's a2sd
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I think that you should just format it as a fat32 and the evo will be able to read it.
I think....
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Its either fat32 or xfat for the evo to read all of it i think fat32 it will read 64gb but only write to 32gb and xfat it will read and write the entire 64gb
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64 swap 1024 for ext.3 the rest for fat.being that you have a huge sd you can triple these values I have given you, but they are the standard Evo setup.
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Thanks. Ill post the results.
Wasn't the trick formatting it through the phone? :screwy:
Makes my 32 look like nothing, LOL.
I copied everything from my card to my computer. Then I formatted the card through my computer, then created a 2gb partition through the recovery menu. Then updated the partition to ext3. Then I copied everything back to my card. Now I am moving all my apps back to the ext3 partition. Right now I have 33gb left
Still going strong. I've flashed, formatted, installed, and reinstalled Roms, files and apps with no problem.
The only thing is I should have gotten a class 10 instead of the 6. I have about 10 movies, 14gb of music and apps galore.

SD cards

Does anyone know that maximum size card we can use on the SD card slot?
EDIT: Fuuuu. Just found the answer. Now if only I knew how to delete posts...
Does the 64gb work then?
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Ummm. I will get back to you on that. I've got a 64 GB card on order.
Verfassergeist said:
Ummm. I will get back to you on that. I've got a 64 GB card on order.
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OK. I'm pretty sure it does. We will see
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Nope. It may have something to do with the fact that it's one of the newer ones, that is, the class 10/ U-1 ones. My captivate told me it was damaged, and my Note didn't even see it, perhaps because both can only take up to 32 GB.
Verfassergeist said:
Nope. It may have something to do with the fact that it's one of the newer ones, that is, the class 10/ U-1 ones. My captivate told me it was damaged, and my Note didn't even see it, perhaps because both can only take up to 32 GB.
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Hmmm. It might be that because I was almost certain they could. I read more devices may have problems with those new ones
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Darkangels6sic6 said:
Hmmm. It might be that because I was almost certain they could. I read more devices may have problems with those new ones
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I'm pretty sure the biggest the cappy can read is 32gb.
BWolf56 said:
I'm pretty sure the biggest the cappy can read is 32gb.
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Well I hope not, but that is better than nothing.
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I can't wait for Sammy to release their newer memory chips
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Verfassergeist said:
Nope. It may have something to do with the fact that it's one of the newer ones, that is, the class 10/ U-1 ones. My captivate told me it was damaged, and my Note didn't even see it, perhaps because both can only take up to 32 GB.
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What rom where you using when you tried the 64GB sd card.? I'm on the verge of ordering a 64 to try it out. I'm using CM10 nightlies, maybe this would make a difference in reading the card?
ijjoseph said:
What rom where you using when you tried the 64GB sd card.? I'm on the verge of ordering a 64 to try it out. I'm using CM10 nightlies, maybe this would make a difference in reading the card?
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I replied to your thread already. it's a hardware problem, it's not something you'll fix with a software. It simply doesn't have the technology to read 64gb SD cards.
When I bought mine they told me the max SD card was 16 GB, that was from someone at rogers that probably doesn't know what they are talking about though
64g NTFS micro sd card for the Captivate.
I have a Sandisk 64g class 10 manually mounted on the Captivate and have never
had any problems so far. The Paragon NTFS app was installed and auto mount
options were disabled. A new folder was created inside the sdcard0 for easy
access. Manually mount the card and go to advanced mode to specify the empty
folder in which to mount the card. I named mine NTFS-64g, once mounted the
card will be readable and writeable as well. Hope it works for you too.
tedr44 said:
I have a Sandisk 64g class 10 manually mounted on the Captivate and have never
had any problems so far. The Paragon NTFS app was installed and auto mount
options were disabled. A new folder was created inside the sdcard0 for easy
access. Manually mount the card and go to advanced mode to specify the empty
folder in which to mount the card. I named mine NTFS-64g, once mounted the
card will be readable and writeable as well. Hope it works for you too.
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I figured something might be possible depending on how it's formatted.
Captivate SGH-i897 External SD Card
Captivate is only allowed to accept 16 GB External MicroSD Card
With Internal and External thats total of 32 GB which the phone will allow
I suggest getting:
Sandisk 16GB Class 10 MicroSD for External Card
Captivate comes with 16GB internal storage, along with a microSD slot which supports up to 32GB
dobi3 said:
Captivate is only allowed to accept 16 GB External MicroSD Card
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Captivate supports up to 32GB MicroSD
http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/cell-phones/SGH-I897ZKAATT-features

SD Card broken?

Dear all,
A few days ago I got my micro sd card from my Samsung s3 taken without disabling them. Since it is no longer recognized by the phone and not the PC. If I plug in the PC takes a long time until I can read the properties. This shows 0Byte. Formatting is not possible => no medium available!
If the card is defective? Or I can somehow bring to life?
Having same issue here. My second card just did it again after a month. Using a sandisk 32gb. I couldn't find a way to fix it.
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newbi4711 said:
Dear all,
A few days ago I got my micro sd card from my Samsung s3 taken without disabling them. Since it is no longer recognized by the phone and not the PC. If I plug in the PC takes a long time until I can read the properties. This shows 0Byte. Formatting is not possible => no medium available!
If the card is defective? Or I can somehow bring to life?
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flashing4fun said:
Having same issue here. My second card just did it again after a month. Using a sandisk 32gb. I couldn't find a way to fix it.
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If you can't format it, and if your computer can't read it there's no way your phone is going to be able to. You took it out without disabling it in your phone first? Bad mistake that feature is there for a reason
Sounds like you may need a new SD card. I have a 32gb sandisk and mine works perfectly :angel::victory::silly:
I didn't remove mine. Mine was in phone when it just stopped working both times.
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flashing4fun said:
I didn't remove mine. Mine was in phone when it just stopped working both times.
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me too!
back to a 16 gb card, no problems!
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I hAve a 32gb sandisk and had to reformat it. Because I turned the phone of. Will the card was mounting
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I am having a similar problem I never removed SD after initial install and starting a few days ago it constantly says SD has unexpectedly been removed and then it mounts and unmounts on its own I tried reformatting it and sometimes it works for a while but eventually goes back to do that. Rooted running jelly bomb 10.2
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My SanDisk 32gb card also did this. I've had bad luck with the 32gb card's. I've had great luck with my SanDisk 64gb ultra card, and 16gb card's.
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Is everyone had this issue?? Because I had this issue too with my 32 gb card!!
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Had the same issue with my S3.
Turned out that the SD card was dying (the card brand is Team Group), this caused it to be unmounted by itself and then mounted again (sometimes showing notification “sd card removed unexpectedly”), hence triggering the media scanning process.
I created an application to monitor how many times the SD card was removed, and turned out to be unmounted every ~3 mins!!!
I then bought a new Transcend 32GB Class 10 card (made in Korea), and until now, this never happens, no reports from the application whatsoever, and no media process eating my battery.
I just published this app in the play store now, this is the link:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sdcardmonitor
My mom's OG Epic just crapped out.. 16GB Lexar (i think it was) worked fine.... all of a sudden "Damaged SD Card" on top of screen, Put in computer, no dice... Finally got PC to format it, Worked fine in there, Phone still wouldn't read (Formatted different file types each time) tossed in an old 2Gb.. Worked like a true pilsner.. So looks like my computer has 16GB of extra storage now. LOL

[HELP]Dead SD card!¡

So long story short: my 32gb sandisk micro sd ended up getting split in two partitions so I have two seperate 14gb partitions, one is fat32 and the other is ntfs I believe..
I have used every tool / program / fix that I can find and am now at the point of giving up on this SD card..
Can anyone suggest ANYTHING at all, so far nothing has worked for me..
Oh and its dead in the sense that neither my GT 10.1 nor my s3 will read the sd card.
If you have access to a PC, I recommend MiniTool Partition Wizard. If you're trying to get information off the card, I recommend MiniTool Power Data Recovery.
Also, you may be able to get the card replaced for free under warranty. Many SD cards have, like, 5 year or lifetime warranty.
I tried using MiniTool Partition Wizard, but it wouldn't allow me to recover both partitions im assuming because one is fat32 and the other is ntfs. Ill try the other tool tomorrow. Thanks for the reply and suggestion!
Hey try this fix, it's worked for me in the past for a corrupted SD card but I never partitioned mine. Good luck!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4112485
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Boxy52 said:
Hey try this fix, it's worked for me in the past for a corrupted SD card but I never partitioned mine. Good luck!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4112485
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Thanks very much sadly I couldn't recover the SD card it's now unreadable by every computer in my house I'm taking it back to the store hopefully I can get a refund or an exchange thank you guys so much for your help though!
Adizzzle said:
So long story short: my 32gb sandisk micro sd ended up getting split in two partitions so I have two seperate 14gb partitions, one is fat32 and the other is ntfs I believe..
I have used every tool / program / fix that I can find and am now at the point of giving up on this SD card..
Can anyone suggest ANYTHING at all, so far nothing has worked for me..
Oh and its dead in the sense that neither my GT 10.1 nor my s3 will read the sd card.
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I bought my Sandisk 32gb card less than a year ago and it pooped out. Ended up throwing it out because I couldn't reformat it. Thought the cause might be my phone heating up.
Adizzzle said:
Thanks very much sadly I couldn't recover the SD card it's now unreadable by every computer in my house I'm taking it back to the store hopefully I can get a refund or an exchange thank you guys so much for your help though!
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Aw damn. Sorry about that! Good luck with the store.
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Aw damn. Sorry about that! Good luck with the store.
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Thanks dude I ended up getting a free 32 GB Micro SD for free so that was pretty awesome
Adizzzle said:
Thanks dude I ended up getting a free 32 GB Micro SD for free so that was pretty awesome
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That's awesome! Glad to hear it all worked out

(Q) 32gb Sd card

how do you think. This sd card http://dx.com/p/sandisk-32gb-mobile...sh-memory-cards-30mb-s-852290198#.UvuOqrQvmWo would work on my r800i?
EdvinuxxxS said:
how do you think. This sd card http://dx.com/p/sandisk-32gb-mobile...sh-memory-cards-30mb-s-852290198#.UvuOqrQvmWo would work on my r800i?
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why not? I'm using it now.
In fact, I'm thinking of trying the new 64GB MicroSD, any ideas or feedback?
Get a 64gb way better
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psxpetey said:
Get a 64gb way better
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i know 64gb is better but its too expensive for me
psxpetey said:
Get a 64gb way better
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Get it on sale dude got mine for 60 bucks at futureshop or ask for it for you bday lol
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Before moving on to a Nexus 5 I was running a 64GB Sandisc for the last 2 years. Works great.
If you keep an eye on adorama.com
http://www.adorama.com/IDSIUMS64GB.html
I paid $39 for this on sale back in 2012. Every so often it comes down again in price. Currently sitting at $46
Edit - I have read some bad experiences from Dealextreme... I would be careful.
today i got my 32gb sd card but i have a problem. i cant fash roms and play ppsspp games. why?
EdvinuxxxS said:
today i got my 32gb sd card but i have a problem. i cant fash roms and play ppsspp games. why?
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Format sd card in FAT32. Maybe it's in NTFS now, or even unformated. You can do it from recovery, from windows (when mounted) or from phone itself
Bakisha said:
Format sd card in FAT32. Maybe it's in NTFS now, or even unformated. You can do it from recovery, from windows (when mounted) or from phone itself
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okey i formated but when i tray to trasfer files through usb but then my files are damage and when i insert iso file to play dbz it is black screen. help!!!
EdvinuxxxS said:
okey i formated but when i tray to trasfer files through usb but then my files are damage and when i insert iso file to play dbz it is black screen. help!!!
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Claim your warranty. Maybe sd card is damaged (it can happen, mine 32GB card got damaged too after 3 month of use)

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