I am having problem with my SanDisk 32GB Ultra. If I format it in phone it gets formatted as FAT32, which I won't use, for it's 4GB file size limitation. And if I format the card via my PC to exFAT the card is not being recognised on phone! So what can I do? How can I format it to exFAT and that it will be recognised on my phone, without any problems?
Advises are very welcome.
PS: Never mind, it's the custom kernel I was using. Flashing back Stock kernel solves it.
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I am trying to convert my 64gb micro SDHC card to FAT32 but i really dont wanna mess it up. when i go to format it, it asks for a cluster size, what is that??
Mine came formatted as exFAT and I decided to use it that way. It works in the phone but the recoveries will not read it.
You might try SD Formatter. It is specifically designed to format SD cards and others have reported using it to format 64GB cards.
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.
dynospectrum said:
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.
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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!
typoknig said:
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.
Something I've been meaning to ask, simply because it's a wierd occurrence. A few days ago, I got a new 64gb Samsung micro SD card. Naturally, I had to format it into FAT32. I went to format the card using my S III (because it has helped put both my 32gb cards into FAT32). Format successful, and I moved a bunch of backup files from my other card onto it, and hooked it up to my Galaxy Nexus using my Meenova reader. The storage mounted, but it couldn't be accessed. The format of the SD card, I found out, was exFAT, not FAT32. My question is this: why when you use the device to format it does the 64gb card get put to exFAT instead of FAT32? I had to use my laptop to format it I to FAT32, just like the last time I got a 64gb card.
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I've always had to use my pc, I think the phone is only set up to format it in exfat because you can transfer larger files than fat32. I may be wrong though.
I took a new Samsung 128GB microSD card, using "mini tool partition wizard", and wiped the stock partition. Then I changed the format from NTFS to FAT32. However, my AFTV2 doesn't recognize the SD card. Any expert advise would be helpful Thank you
Okay, I pulled out the microSD card while the AFTV2 was still running, and the re-installed it. It then asked me if I wanted to format it? After it formatted the 128 GB SDcard, it had 119+ GBs free
!Problem solved!
Hi to all members and senior developers,
I have purchased a 64 GB Micro SD Card (Kingston - Class 10). It came pre-formatted in exFat format. I formatted it in NTFS. Now the issue is that my Samsung S4 recognizes card but TWRP (latest - 3.0.2.0) does not recognize it. It shows 0 MB when i try to mount the card. Also i am unable to mount the card. I know this thread have been answered with a solution that format it in FAT32 format but i don't want to do this because i have some movies and data larger than 4GB. I don't want to format it again so i have to move all my data again to my pc then to sd card.. it is a headache. Any solution will be appreciated. I wont go for FAT32 ! Never how is exFat ... i mean the read write speed is fine on this partition table or not ? Answer soon. Thanks to all