I remember reading when I first got my S3 that custom roms will more than likely never support exfat due to the licensing cost
Is this still the case? Just noticed that TWRP...
http://www.teamw.in/project/twrp2
supports exfat now.
Anyone?
I don't know the answer to your question.
Just wanted to suggest that while the TWRP recovery may support EXfat, it does not mean that the GS3's version of Android OS supports the file system.
It just means you can stick an EXfat MicroSD into the phone and TWRP will be able to read/write to it.
let's get this straight, no CM/AOKP based roms support exfat
only touchwiz custom roms do
Is this the reason why CM/AOSP/AOKP Roms fail to rexognize my ezternal SD card? Every ROM and or Kernel I flash these days leads to the same problem. They all fail to recognize the ezt SD card!
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Yeah that's exactly the reason. Apparently the developers would have to pay Microsoft licensing fees. I don't get why it's any different for twrp though
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Safe to assume that all custom Roms will not read a 64gb card if formatted in ex fat?
And Roms based on stock should be ok?
I believe that statement is true. If you replace rom with kernel..
To be safe.. Exfat for stock, fat32 for everything else.
Not saying Exfat won't work with custom kernel.. But the few I have tried didn't..
Also.. Maybe cwm also has problems with Exfat.. Not sure..
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Ok thanks.
Yeah cwm doesn't see the card at all. The issue I have with fat 32 is the file size limit. I would prefer not having to re convert videos so that I can put them on my phone. Then again I could probably learn to live with it
Hi,
I was previously using XquiziT xD v34 and somehow got the exFAT format to be recognized by the phone. I upgraded to v37 and now the phone rejects the format and forces it to unmount. Is this suppose to happen or did I do something wrong regarding the flashing process? I use Windows 7's formatting tool and I use a 32gb micro SD by Team. Any info regarding this matter would be great Thanks!!
Did you flash a custom kernel. I dont think any of them support exFat so you'd be stuck with stock kernels if im right on that.
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The kernal provide by the rom is stock according to the Aroma selection. I'm not sure if superwipe changed anything but the rom would try to read the SD card then a message prompting for safe removal appears. I had to format the card back to FAT32 for it to recognize. I am using Nova Launcher which was the same launcher in v34. I am considering downgrading to v34 to see if it's the fault of the new version.
I have CWM 6.0.3.1 installed and im rooted. When I go into recovery the SD card does not mount. So I can't flash a new ROM. I tried to format the SD card in the phone but that did'nt help either. I have the stock ROM with 4.1.2. Can i use the stock recovery to flash a ROM or do I need CWM? When im in stock recovery the card is mounted and I can read it. Its just in CWM it will not mount,
btw-im trying to flash cm10 dont know if that matters.
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I have CWM 6.0.3.1 installed and im rooted. When I go into recovery the SD card does not mount. So I can't flash a new ROM. I tried to format the SD card in the phone but that did'nt help either. I have the stock ROM with 4.1.2. Can i use the stock recovery to flash a ROM or do I need CWM? When im in stock recovery the card is mounted and I can read it. Its just in CWM it will not mount,
btw-im trying to flash cm10 dont know if that matters.
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Have you tried TWRP? What type of card? What's the size?
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dpshptl said:
I have CWM 6.0.3.1 installed and im rooted. When I go into recovery the SD card does not mount. So I can't flash a new ROM. I tried to format the SD card in the phone but that did'nt help either. I have the stock ROM with 4.1.2. Can i use the stock recovery to flash a ROM or do I need CWM? When im in stock recovery the card is mounted and I can read it. Its just in CWM it will not mount,
btw-im trying to flash cm10 dont know if that matters.
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Why not Odin flash the stock-rooted rom and then you can flash cwm/twrp custom roms or just stay stock rooted.
Either way it will fix your mounting issue for sure.
Big mistake if you're going to flash cm10, you are just asking for problems unless you like experimentation.
Good luck!
LuigiBull23 said:
Have you tried TWRP? What type of card? What's the size?
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I have not tried TWRP, im used to cwm so stuck with that. The card is a Sandisk 64gb class 10.
LuigiBull23 said:
Have you tried TWRP? What type of card? What's the size?
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Misterjunky said:
Why not Odin flash the stock-rooted rom and then you can flash cwm/twrp custom roms or just stay stock rooted.
Either way it will fix your mounting issue for sure.
Big mistake if you're going to flash cm10, you are just asking for problems unless you like experimentation.
Good luck!
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I did Odin flash like you told me in another post. It got the phone back up but I cant get the card to mount in CWM. I guess Ill try TWRP. Thanks for the heads up on cm10. I could stay stock but I wanted to increase the CPU speed and get some features stock does'nt have. I don't want to turn this into "whats the best ROM" but can you tell me a good one without problems.
I guess it has to do witht the SD card. I used a 1gb and it works fine. But i still need to figure out how to make the 64gb card work.
Not sure that the 64GB cards work on AOSP. Pretty sure you need TouchWiz ROM for that.
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I guess it has to do witht the SD card. I used a 1gb and it works fine. But i still need to figure out how to make the 64gb card work.
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The 64GB are in EXFAT format and I don't believe CWM can identify the card in that format. You will need to format the card to FAT32 on your pc and then the recovery should read your card.
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dpshptl said:
I guess it has to do witht the SD card. I used a 1gb and it works fine. But i still need to figure out how to make the 64gb card work.
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That's only one of many reasons why I always try to advise people to stay away from AOKP/AOSP/CM roms.
All of them have inferior cameras and none have wifi calling.
Those roms were meant for developers or for those who like to do a lot of experimentation.
I just got a 64gb sdcard yesterday and it works perfectly, I had a 16gb card which worked perfectly too.
The rom I am using now is jovy's Stockorama v1 which is not exactly stock, it is deoxidized and debloated
and has many mods and lot's of improvements when compared to stock rom.
LuigiBull23 said:
The 64GB are in EXFAT format and I don't believe CWM can identify the card in that format. You will need to format the card to FAT32 on your pc and then the recovery should read your card.
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Weird, when I go to format my card I can only do FAT32 or NTFS. No other options are there, its win 7.
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Weird, when I go to format my card I can only do FAT32 or NTFS. No other options are there, its win 7.
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As I said, FAT32 is the one you wanna format it to lol
I formatted mine way back in September of last year. Never had a single issue with my card on stock or AOSP based Roms.
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Weird, when I go to format my card I can only do FAT32 or NTFS. No other options are there, its win 7.
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All sdcards come pre-formatted with FAT32 as default because they perform better and
faster than other formats when used in cell phones and other small devices.
The only advantage of formatting sdcards with other than the default format is when you are
dealing with files larger than 4GB in size. Most people will never have to deal with files of that
size unless they want to use their phones to record video for more than 8 hours continuously.
There are many 3rd party windows 7 utilities which have other format options like MiniTool partition wizard it's a free
(for home use) partition manager that can format a partition as EXT2/3/4 from windows - http://www.partitionwizard.com
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LuigiBull23 said:
As I said, FAT32 is the one you wanna format it to lol
I formatted mine way back in September of last year. Never had a single issue with my card on stock or AOSP based Roms.
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I know the aosp/aokp/cm based roms do recognize most sdcards but we are talking about 64gb sdcards
and that's where many of those roms have a problem recognizing and formatting the 64gb sdcard.
Misterjunky said:
All sdcards come pre-formatted with FAT32 as default because they perform better and
faster than other formats when used in cell phones and other small devices.
The only advantage of formatting sdcards with other than the default format is when you are
dealing with files larger than 4GB in size. Most people will never have to deal with files of that
size unless they want to use their phones to record video for more than 8 hours continuously.
There are many 3rd party windows 7 utilities which have other format options like MiniTool partition wizard it's a free
(for home use) partition manager that can format a partition as EXT2/3/4 from windows - http://www.partitionwizard.com
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I know the aosp based roms do recognize sdcards but we are talking about 64gb
sdcards and that's where the problem is when using aosp/aokp/cm based roms.
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Hmm.. That's odd. I'm currently running Liquidsmooth 2.4 with my FAT32 formatted 64 GB SanDisk Class 10 card with no issues. It's been almost a year now since moving from EXFAT.
It has worked on both CWM and TWRP recovery for me.
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I used TWRP and all is good. thanks everyone for the help
dpshptl said:
I used TWRP and all is good. thanks everyone for the help
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See like I said above, TWRP is the best way to go. It was updated not to long ago to be able to identify EXFAT format. Glad you got it working dude.
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I can't mount the ext SD card after installled Wicked ...Plz help
format the SD card to fat32
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i did but same thing
I am having the same issue. I have a 64gb Samsung SD Card
There's a patch you need to flash to get the SD card to work. Something about rooting needing to flash a new kernel. The new kernel breaks the SD card mounting. There's a fat32 patch you can flash to get it to work. Lemme find the link, its here on the forums. I had the same issue. Flashed the patch and its miraculously working. I'm sure its the same issue when you flashed the new ROM. Stand by.
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Grab the ktoonsez kernel (link in my signature). Has support for exFAT.
Toleraen said:
Grab the ktoonsez kernel (link in my signature). Has support for exFAT.
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So i am guessing onl certain kernals support exFAT right now? Can I just flash the Kernal or should i be careful about just flashing it
Spud37 said:
So i am guessing onl certain kernals support exFAT right now? Can I just flash the Kernal or should i be careful about just flashing it
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Correct. Ktoonsez's is one of them. Grab a stock kernel for backup, but I haven't had any issues with flashing it. Totally plug and play.
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Hi.! Just wanted to know I bought sandisk 64gb ultra class 10 . Exfat seem slow n take more boot time n low speed too ..then I formatted it using Ubuntu last night n restored my data kaboom ...its snappy like my other Sandisk 32gb ultra class 10 ...and 2nd it works with any custom recovery like Philz or TWRP without a glitch....though TWRP claims it support exfat SD but ...some how It seem not sure.
2nd currect me if im wrong about ...does philz recovery support exfat .?..for NOTE 2 ? And philz does not though if currect...it do for other phones ..though
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Always use fat32 with 64 gb class 10 and use anything else windows tools to format sd (seems windows got some flaws with mico sd) eg use only mac or lunix (Ubuntu) you never bump in any problems ...like others on blog . :thumbup:
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exFAT. You'll need to flash a recovery that states it's compatible with exFAT. I was using a CWM Recovery that worked just fine with exFAT and was on Cyanogenmod 10.1
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Narada2XK said:
exFAT. You'll need to flash a recovery that states it's compatible with exFAT. I was using a CWM Recovery that worked just fine with exFAT and was on Cyanogenmod 10.1
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Thats what I said ....read up ...TWRP say it support but ....it really can not detect exfat Sd at all...and other CWM is not safe sds bug ...many people landed up with sds or dead 64gb sd cards ....
And I do not thin CM 10 support exfat on note 2 either I was on it too but now on Waman v 3.7 with adam kernel...
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Fat32 is limited to 4GB per file so I use exFAT. It works like a charm even with recovery (philz).
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Oh .! Comeon 4gb on on windows may be ...after format ...I copy my data which was over 32 gb ....on lunix ....lol ...and are u sure ...philz recovery ...??? Support exfat .
Stop misleading. ..!!! Sir
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he means you can't transfer files larger than 4gb. Eg, A 4gb Image.
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he means you can't transfer files larger than 4gb. Eg, A 4gb Image.
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Yup.!!! Like I said on only windows ...pc ...but kindly confirm philz recovery supports exfat ...haha!
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djmax81 said:
Oh .! Comeon 4gb on on windows may be ...after format ...I copy my data which was over 32 gb ....on lunix ....lol ...and are u sure ...philz recovery ...??? Support exfat .
Stop misleading. ..!!! Sir
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You cannot copy file larger then 4 GB to Fat32 file system. Doesn't matter what tool you are using. This is Fat32 limitation.
In case of philz and exFAT I'm sure that this combination works fine. I have used philz and exFAT on s3 and now I'm using it on n2.
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Ntfs, way better than exfat.
re_mo said:
You cannot copy file larger then 4 GB to Fat32 file system. Doesn't matter what tool you are using. This is Fat32 limitation.
In case of philz and exFAT I'm sure that this combination works fine. I have used philz and exFAT on s3 and now I'm using it on n2.
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Exfat oly work on philz recovery ...for other phones like s3 but they do not have exfat support ...for note 2 yut no clue why its not even mentioned on official thred ..but
TWRP say it supports but never detected my card exfat ....not sure ...been packed with right modules. ..
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FinancialWar said:
Ntfs, way better than exfat.
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But not supported by n2 kernel.
djmax81 said:
Exfat oly work on philz recovery ...for other phones like s3 but they do not have exfat support ...for note 2 yut no clue why its not even mentioned on official thred ..but
TWRP say it supports but never detected my card exfat ....not sure ...been packed with right modules. ..
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I don't fully understand what you are trying to say
For sure both s3 and n2 are supporting exfat and for sure philz recovery is working with it. On n2 I'm using it every day. On S3 i have tried few months ago.
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FinancialWar said:
Ntfs, way better than exfat.
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I wish...ntfs support was there but on mac users its problem they can read only not write ...and windows ignore any fat 32 partion which is greater then limit ...so sandisk choosen exfat for flash media storage.
And on Android its sucks with exfat with low speed +boot time mount with 64gb class 10...not good enough....nor Ntfs support. ..only on custom kernels n recoverys ...
So best option is to format it with fat32 with non windows os...... for better mount time n speeds ..
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I wish...ntfs support was there but on mac users its problem they can read only not write ...and windows ignore any fat 32 partion which is greater then limit ...so sandisk choosen exfat for flash media storage.
And on Android its sucks with exfat with low speed +boot time mount with 64gb class 10...not good enough....nor Ntfs support. ..only on custom kernels n recoverys ...
So best option is to format it with fat32 with non windows os...... for better mount time n speeds ..
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For me Fat32 is unusable because of its limitations.
I don't have any issues with exfat. Boot time is the same for card formatted with exfat (64gb SanDisk) and for fat32 (32gb adata), just tried it. For every day use like watching and recording movies, installing roms, copying files it's speed is just fine but I admit that I have never compared speeds between different file systems.
If you have root you can try paragon ntfs mounter. It can mount ntfs in rw but it won't be supported by recovery.
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re_mo said:
But not supported by n2 kernel.
I don't fully understand what you are trying to say
For sure both s3 and n2 are supporting exfat and for sure philz recovery is working with it. On n2 I'm using it every day. On S3 i have tried few months ago.
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Point is are you sure ...that you using exfat with philz recovery and which version u using? Lol n im okie with 4 gb per file ....even we all were using 32 gb card or less with fat32.no matter whatever class.. lol end of da day its just smart phone not pc ...I never used data file ...4gb or over ...never faced issues though
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I'm sure that Note2 with Philz recovery is working fine with exfat. Now I'm using latest version from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2028103 but i have used it with older versions too.
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Maybe your file system was damaged. If you have time try to reformat your card using exfat and try again.
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Even if recoveries don't support exFAT, I'll use it. FAT32 and it's decade old size limitation is beyond me!
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re_mo said:
I'm sure that Note2 with Philz recovery is working fine with exfat. Now I'm using latest version from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2028103 but i have used it with older versions too.
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Maybe your file system was damaged. If you have time try to reformat your card using exfat and try again.
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Yup.! My bad ...think I was using one of older version. ..then
But im happy with good old fat32 ... :thumbup: so I can hop on Any custom roms including CM 10.1 or Aosp builds...
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