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Keep ext sd card clean if unwanted files

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I want my extra sd card to only have my media...no and secure or data or any other app crap placed on it
I try and keep everything on the internal 16 GB storage. This way my 64 GB sd card only has my games and movies.
What I have noticed is I can delete them off my sd card...remove it...and restore the app data with titanium back up and I am all good. But after a few days they sneak onto my SD card and take up about 1 GB of space. In effect the files are duplicated on my internal memory and my sd card.
This is inefficient...does anyone know how to prevent this ?
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If I understand you correctly and I believe I do, you want to maintain all of your External SD cards space for your media, and if its a 64gig card you want ALL 64gigs free for the media of your choice.
The simple fact that your phone formats that card so it can use it sould tell you that your phone placed data on your SD so not all 64gigs are free. Formatting in general takes some space away from the media for the format to reside. So on a 64gig card, you may end up with like, 62.3gigs or a bit less after format.
I use a 32gig but only 29.8gigs are useable due to format. just saying...hope I'm correct and that I helped you.

rdisanza said:
If I understand you correctly and I believe I do, you want to maintain all of your External SD cards space for your media, and if its a 64gig card you want ALL 64gigs free for the media of your choice.
The simple fact that your phone formats that card so it can use it sould tell you that your phone placed data on your SD so not all 64gigs are free. Formatting in general takes some space away from the media for the format to reside. So on a 64gig card, you may end up with like, 62.3gigs or a bit less after format.
I use a 32gig but only 29.8gigs are useable due to format. just saying...hope I'm correct and that I helped you.
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Not what I meat.
What bothers me is my phone sees two sd cards ...one is the 16 GB internal memory and the other is the ext sd card.
When downloading an app that installs to sd by default the phone will randomly throw it on my ext sd card if It is plugged in...but if I take the card out it will put it on the 16 GB memory
What bothers me most is all the extra folders and the fact that somethings are in one place and not the other or both.
There needs t be a way for the phone to leave my sd card alone
It gets confusing because the so called 16 GB internal memory on the phone is treated like a sd card by the system and is not part of the system rom....the system rom where most apps is installed is seperate
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Trev186 said:
I try and keep everything on the internal 16 GB storage. This way my 64 GB sd card only has my games and movies.
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WTF, I thought these phones were only 32GB capable..........?

AVAH0LIC said:
WTF, I thought these phones were only 32GB capable..........?
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SanDisk and KingMax have new 64GB MicroSD cards out that the Galaxy and others work on. The problem for me is the price......like ~$150.
To the OP .....Maybe it is the card as I have a couple of Samsung 32gb class 10 and don't have that problem. Whatever I put on my ext. SD card stays there.

7harper said:
SanDisk and KingMax have new 64GB MicroSD cards out that the Galaxy and others work on. The problem for me is the price......like ~$150.
To the OP .....Maybe it is the card as I have a couple of Samsung 32gb class 10 and don't have that problem. Whatever I put on my ext. SD card stays there.
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I have no problem with what I put staying on my card..it is the app folders and android secure data that my phone seems to duplicate onto my sd card as well as the included internal card.
Check you app directory you will see an android secure folder on your internal and ext sd card...chances are you have duplicate data in each...
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AVAH0LIC said:
WTF, I thought these phones were only 32GB capable..........?
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There is nothing limiting phones to 32 GBs ...that is just sales material.
I put this sd card in an og droid and n1 and it worked.
Fat 32 can read large drives on a pc so nothing stops iron android either. I have a 2 TB hardrive formatted as fat 32 at home.
Fyi SDXC will allow for up to 2 TBs on your cell phone within 5 years. Prototypes of the micro sdxc @ 2 tb have already been developed.
Hence why the whole nexus internal memory only is bs
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Trev186 said:
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I want my extra sd card to only have my media...no and secure or data or any other app crap placed on it
I try and keep everything on the internal 16 GB storage. This way my 64 GB sd card only has my games and movies.
What I have noticed is I can delete them off my sd card...remove it...and restore the app data with titanium back up and I am all good. But after a few days they sneak onto my SD card and take up about 1 GB of space. In effect the files are duplicated on my internal memory and my sd card.
This is inefficient...does anyone know how to prevent this ?
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Did you ever figure out a way to keep data on the phone only? I have a BIG problem with Evernote (free). I love the program as it holds small bits of data that I cannot remember (e.g. license plate numbers, birthdays, drivers license numbers, etc) but are too personal to not worry about. I only use 1/2 MB (yes, that is right, 1/2 MB) so paying for the premium version is much too expensive for what I store.
What I recently found however, has me ready to stop using it. The program stores all the 'cards' on the SD card of my Samsung S3 phone. And if you pull out the card, pop it into a computer and go to the Evernote folder, they store the data IN PLAIN ENGLISH! So even if I lock my phone anyone who can get the card out can read all this information. I even told the program not to store the data for offline access and cleared the cache/history but it still remains on the SD card if the program is running. I need a way to prevent the program from storing the data on the SD card. I thought I had it fixed - completely remove the program, delete all stored data and folders, pull out the SD Card, reinstall and download my 1/2 MB of data from the cloud (forcing it to phone storage), then rebooting with the SD back in. IT PUT THE DATA BACK ON THE SD CARD! This is a BIG security risk and now I am looking for a way to prevent it.
So, back to your original thread, any luck?
Frank

Trev186 said:
Not what I meat.
What bothers me is my phone sees two sd cards ...one is the 16 GB internal memory and the other is the ext sd card.
When downloading an app that installs to sd by default the phone will randomly throw it on my ext sd card if It is plugged in...but if I take the card out it will put it on the 16 GB memory
What bothers me most is all the extra folders and the fact that somethings are in one place and not the other or both.
There needs t be a way for the phone to leave my sd card alone
It gets confusing because the so called 16 GB internal memory on the phone is treated like a sd card by the system and is not part of the system rom....the system rom where most apps is installed is seperate
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I am having this issue too, I think it had something to do with going from Blazer ROM (GB) to Paranoid Android (JB), and the difference in the way they handle partitioning the ext SD card
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Just got a SanDisk Ultra 64 GB microSDXC. Need advice on how to format/treat it.

Hello all, as the title states, i just got a SanDisk Ultra 64 GB microSDXC Class 10 UHS-1 Memory Card 30MB/s with Adapter SDSDQUA-064G-U46A from amazon.com for their black Friday special for $42.
My question is, since I know it's 62gb, it needs to be specially formatted so I can use all of it the right way. Can someone tell me what's the best way in going about this? (Aside from having a note 2, I have a Mac, and little access to a PC, but I can get to one of needed.)
Also, does anyone here have this card? And what are your experiences with it if you do? Many thanks!
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AirBruce said:
Hello all, as the title states, i just got a SanDisk Ultra 64 GB microSDXC Class 10 UHS-1 Memory Card 30MB/s with Adapter SDSDQUA-064G-U46A from amazon.com for their black Friday special for $42.
My question is, since I know it's 62gb, it needs to be specially formatted so I can use all of it the right way. Can someone tell me what's the best way in going about this? (Aside from having a note 2, I have a Mac, and little access to a PC, but I can get to one of needed.)
Also, does anyone here have this card? And what are your experiences with it if you do? Many thanks!
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I've got one of those. You need a UHS-1 compatible card reader to use it with your computer, otherwise it'll just stop working when you try to access it.
Format it using your phone, and keep in mind that if you go from a stock rom to cyanogenmod or from jb to ics, it will present "SD card may be damaged. You may need to reformat it".
If that happens, boot a linux distro and use fdisk to change the partition type to 0x07, save and quit.
Then reboot into windows, connect the card reader with the card inserted, cancel windows' prompt to format. Open a command prompt and run chkdsk /r x: where x: it the drive letter assigned to it. Allow it to finish and your card will be usable again.
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here is what you need for PC(if you can get to one)...this is a simple formatting program that will format the card to fat32 from NTFS...there is a limit of 4gb file size with this format..but it will make the card work with TWRP recovery...
http://code.google.com/p/nusad/downloads/detail?name=FAT32_GUI_Formatter.exe&can=2&q=
on edit...i think you are looking for something other than what i posted...what i have posted will format the card to fat32 making it usable with TWRP...if thats not what you want..ignore this... sorry

I inserted mine to my note 2 as soon as I got it. Never had a single issue with it.
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42 bucks????? Dammit how did i miss that deal
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I purchased the same one from amazon. Popped it in my GN II and copied my music from PC. No issues so far
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afgomar said:
42 bucks????? Dammit how did i miss that deal
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Buy.com had one recently for 37.99. They are trending down in price, so you should have another chance soon
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Got that same card from amazon when it was down to $38. Once I got it, I just formatted it with a card reader to exFAT using my pc. Works just fine. Even did the directory bind on it already to move all my games to it plus put a few movies and tv shows on it. Yes its almost full...
But still no errors or problems. And its quick... enough.
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I just put it in the phone and had the phone format it.
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Hey guys, just got my gnote 2 a few hours ago, I had an HTC Evo 4g, the sd card in that never gave me any issues, it still has stuff on it, can I just stick that in my new phone?
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If you install TWRP version 2.3.1.4 and up, no need to do anything to the card since it comes pre-formated to exFAT and works AWESOME!!!! Just install it through gooManager

that was indeed a nice deal hope u get it all fixed

eurominican said:
If you install TWRP version 2.3.1.4 and up, no need to do anything to the card since it comes pre-formated to exFAT and works AWESOME!!!! Just install it through gooManager
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im confused. no need to do anything special. what this guy said is truth!

I agree your card should work fine from the Evo 4G.
Assuming you have a PC, I would suggest copying all the content of your SDHC card to the PC. Put the card in the GN2, format the card. Then transfer the contents back to the card.
I don't know what you have on the card, but most likely you won't need everything. Some stuff will be specific to the Evo 4G.
I just came form the Evo 4g too, and this is what I did. The only difference is that I had this card in my Evo 4G instead of that 8GB that came with the Evo.

Thanks to everyone for their reply, but I found a great answer for others on using their 64GB MicroSD card with this problem in the future. I actually found the answer on another thread, but unfortnetly I lost the location.
So this is what you do. You can:
A) when you open the package to the Micro SD card, you can pop it into the phone and it will automatically format it for you.
The problem with this, is that it's going to format it into fat32 file system, but when you try to mount this in your Mac (using the included Micro SD card to SD card adapter), you will not be able to move files to the MicroSD card after mounting the card to the Mac. You'll be able to mount it and read files off the card, but will be unable to move files onto it.
B) You can format the card itself on a Mac or PC using Fat32, but you'll also run into the problem of moving files to the card from the Mac to the card afterwards. (You'll probably be able to do it on a PC, or Mac using a USB cable connected to the phone) but this may prove to be impractical to you.
The option I found works best ESPECIALLY FOR MAC USERS is option C)
C) Pop the Micro SD card into the adaptor, pop the Adapter into your SD Card slot (if using a newer Macbook pro). Wait for it to mount, and then open Disk Utilities and Cick on the Top root of your Newly inserted SD card.
Then click on the Partion tab.-> then Select Partion 1. -> Then enter a name to the right that you would like to Name your card. -> Then select ExFat from the drop down menu right below the Name Card field. Then select format. Viola. All done.
Your Mac will now move files to and from the card using your Mac (or a PC) without compatibility issues, and your phone will also recognize your card and write to it without problems. Any other method may cause compatibility issues when using your MicroSD card.
Hope this helps others out there.
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that's wierd. OSX and read and write to FAT32. It's one of the more universal file systems in the PC world. FatEx is getting there, but it's not that well support in Windows, yet.
Thanks for the info nonetheless.

External SD Card suddenly removed

I have a 32gb Sandisk sd Card class 10 installed on my Phone. I use it for keep my musics & videos.
Recently, I try to move my apps to the sd Card, but suddenly the Day After I move the apps, the sd Card is force removed by itself.
Therefore, my apps, musics & video, & other files cannot be opened. But After restart the Phone, the files Can be opened again.
How it could be?
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Mine does this a lot too... Same SD card. This SD card works fine in any PC. When transferring over USB, does yours go VERY slow, like 700kbit as opposed to 10mbit?

I have the same sd card, same problem.
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Perhaps we have a pattern here...

I have switched to an 8gb samsung class 6 card and over the last 3 days have only had one out of the ordinary "scanning sd card" after waking phone. I don't know if this is related to a solution or not. But all 3 of my previous cards that I was rotating in and out of my phone were class 2 Sandisk. Each of these had intermittent "sd card has been removed" and "sd card is damaged" errors. Whether or not the problems are directly related to lower class Sandisk cards, I have no idea. Maybe someone else can comment on either the brand or the class of the card giving them trouble to compare and/or contrast.

Now I upgrade my android to GA10 JB, and the sd card is readable again. The problem also didn't occur again..
Maybe it's an system error..
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Yeah CM10.1 has been good for this issue lately, though file copy is slow as hell over USB still.

Any fix for this issue?

[Q] Eating/Erasing Data Off SD Card

I have a SanDisk 32GB microSD card. I originally had one at launch but after a few months, I had a terrible case of Media Server constantly running in the background sucking up all of my battery. I got the card replaced by SanDisk as per a lot of discussions on the forum.
Its bee fine with this new card for over 5 months. Now, out of nowhere, I'm noticing that my Galaxy is EATING my data. Slowly over time more pictures and music files on my SD card are being wiped out. The files stay on the card, but read as 0 bytes and I can't open them.
Last week I lost an entire folder of pictures. No big deal, thats backed up.
This week I noticed half my music library is now a bunch of 0 byte files. What on earth?
I'm going to go home and copy my backup over SD card after reformatting and will report back. But what gives? What is this nonsense and why would it be doing this? I haven't dropped my phone or installed any crazy stuff on it as of late either.
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I'm on stock ROM with AutoChainFire root. 4.1.2

OmegaNemesis28 said:
I have a SanDisk 32GB microSD card. I originally had one at launch but after a few months, I had a terrible case of Media Server constantly running in the background sucking up all of my battery. I got the card replaced by SanDisk as per a lot of discussions on the forum.
Its bee fine with this new card for over 5 months. Now, out of nowhere, I'm noticing that my Galaxy is EATING my data. Slowly over time more pictures and music files on my SD card are being wiped out. The files stay on the card, but read as 0 bytes and I can't open them.
Last week I lost an entire folder of pictures. No big deal, thats backed up.
This week I noticed half my music library is now a bunch of 0 byte files. What on earth?
I'm going to go home and copy my backup over SD card after reformatting and will report back. But what gives? What is this nonsense and why would it be doing this? I haven't dropped my phone or installed any crazy stuff on it as of late either.
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What rom you are running? What format you have in your sd card, ie exFAT, FAT32 or NTFS? Highly recommend to format you sd card to FAT32.

xxxSuperserieSxxx said:
What rom you are running? What format you have in your sd card, ie exFAT, FAT32 or NTFS? Highly recommend to format you sd card to FAT32.
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4.1.2 - stock with autochainfire root
FAT32

The card may be damaged or corrupted..
Not uncommon for SanDisk...
Try a clean format to FAT32 and test again...
If the same conditions exist...a replacement may be in order...g
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gregsarg said:
The card may be damaged or corrupted..
Not uncommon for SanDisk...
Try a clean format to FAT32 and test again...
If the same conditions exist...a replacement may be in order...g
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How should I properly clean format?
Because I tried to format straight from the phone. But after 3 tries, it wasn't actually formatting the damn card even though it said it was. I removed the card and connected it to a hub on a PC to do it through Windows.
I know that it technically shouldn't matter. A format is a format. But is there any reason why I ~should~ do it through the phone at all? Or why it would even act funky like that?
I think I need to do a clean install on my phone too. Just to be sure.

[Q] Spotify - No SD Card Found?

So just recently, when I go to Spotify, sometims it says:
No SD Card Found
We found no place to store our data, please check that you have a working SD card and free space.
So first of all I do have an SD Card... 64gb. Second of all, a reboot always fixes this. Third of all, I thought Spotify doesn't save music to the SD card anyway without installing an old version before they got rid of the ability to store music on the sd card (something that's annoyed me about the app for a while but it is what it is and I'd rather keep my apps up to date than toy around with old versions of apps).
So, any thoughts?
I really would hate to think that the SD card is the problem for 2 reasons... 1) a 64gb sd card isn't exactly cheap. and 2) I've had roughly the same problem or a similar problem with EVERY SINGLE SD CARD IVE EVER HAD IN AN ANDROID PHONE. I don't drop my phone. i don't do weird stuff with it. I just put the card in the day i get the phone and leave it there and every single time for the last 4 years of being an Android user, I've had various sd card issues after some amount of time... Never this particular issue... But some kind of problem associated with the sd card. Used to be that installing apps to sd caused problems (i don't do that anymore). then it was data on the sd card not being accessible. Then it was some other stuff. Now it's this.
So anyway... any thoughts?
thanks!

Are you running a custom Rom? With the 64GB cards, the S3 can be a bit finicky. It's usually a formatting issue, especially if it's on a non touchwiz Rom. But most likely it's formatted as exFat. Try reformatting to fat32 and see if that helps.
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DocHoliday77 said:
Are you running a custom Rom? With the 64GB cards, the S3 can be a bit finicky. It's usually a formatting issue, especially if it's on a non touchwiz Rom. But most likely it's formatted as exFat. Try reformatting to fat32 and see if that helps.
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no, i'm not rooted... but thank you i'll look into that to see if it's formatted exFat.

Well.....If your running stock, it should read the exFat format just fine. Still can have odd behaviour though so I'd still try fat32. Just saying that exFat should work for you. Could be an app issue with it I guess. Let us know either way if that helps though.
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