Hi all,
I have just flashed the latest cm release to my n2 (I was previously on a stock based ROM).
But cm won't recognise my SD card.
My SD card is a 64gb sandisk class 10.
I have tried formatting it to exfat, but the SD won't Mount, and I get a message saying the file system isn't supported.
I have also tried NTFS but I could only get it to mount with a third party app.
I would rather not use fat32, as I have files that are larger then 4gb.
Can anyone tell me which SD card file system types Cm 10.1 supports?.
And which do you guys think is the best format?.
Thanks in advance
Cheers
Corey
Well... Fat32, that's all as far as I remember . ExFat is for touchwiz only
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One more time: no exFAT on AOSP based ROM.
The only solution atm is the following: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2155363
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I have had my GS3 for a little over a month, rooted and had no issues, I installed another rom with no issue. Unfortunately when I tried to install a CM10 or AOKP rom, each say my ext sd card is damaged and needs to be formatted. I try to format, but it hangs and then just quits without completing the task.
I have tried formatting to fat32 on my PC, downloaded EaseUS Disk utility to format, but none seem to work. When I restore back into the previous rom, it still says damaged and then I can format and start over only in that non AOSP/AOKP rom.
I boot into recovery when the AOSP/AOKP roms are loaded and it wont even mount or format in recovery either.
Any ideas?
stretch0r said:
I have had my GS3 for a little over a month, rooted and had no issues, I installed another rom with no issue. Unfortunately when I tried to install a CM10 or AOKP rom, each say my ext sd card is damaged and needs to be formatted. I try to format, but it hangs and then just quits without completing the task.
I have tried formatting to fat32 on my PC, downloaded EaseUS Disk utility to format, but none seem to work. When I restore back into the previous rom, it still says damaged and then I can format and start over only in that non AOSP/AOKP rom.
I boot into recovery when the AOSP/AOKP roms are loaded and it wont even mount or format in recovery either.
Any ideas?
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I think I read somewhere that in CM10/AOKP that it won't read/understand exFat very well.
So, formatting to Fat32 is definitely the way to go.
When I used some other programs it would say the same thing... that my card was damaged and had to be fixed.
I had a heck of a time finding a program that would do it for me on my 64gb sdxc SanDisk card!
But I found a free one called GUI Fat 32 Format that actually worked.
Click this link and it will start to download:
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/guiformat.exe
It didn't work immediately, for me at first, but after a few tries it actually worked very well.
I think that once you get it into Fat32 all of your problems will go away. Hope so anyway.:cyclops:
Let us know if it works!
This seems to have corrected the issue, finally
stretch0r said:
This seems to have corrected the issue, finally
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Glad it worked for you!
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I had a similar issue... I flashed an AOSP ROM on my phone n it corrupted my sd card and wouldn't format. before formatting I went back to a touchwiz ROM and it still said it was a bad sd card and needed to format I ended up formatting my card in my phone and lost all my data. I put music on my sd card and removed the sd card from my phone before flashing another AOSP ROM. After I installed another AOSP ROM I re-inserted the sd card and it again said it was bad and needed to be reformatted...
So my question is...How can you use a 64gb sd card on an AOSP ROM...I'm back on touchwiz for now. Sd card works fine.
Does formatting the sd card in your phone format it to exfat and not fat32?
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iomega311 said:
I think I read somewhere that in CM10/AOKP that it won't read/understand exFat very well.
So, formatting to Fat32 is definitely the way to go.
When I used some other programs it would say the same thing... that my card was damaged and had to be fixed.
I had a heck of a time finding a program that would do it for me on my 64gb sdxc SanDisk card!
But I found a free one called GUI Fat 32 Format that actually worked.
Click this link and it will start to download:
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/guiformat.exe
It didn't work immediately, for me at first, but after a few tries it actually worked very well.
I think that once you get it into Fat32 all of your problems will go away. Hope so anyway.:cyclops:
Let us know if it works!
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Wait, so you're saying that AOKP/CM10 don't have the necessary drivers to handle exFAT formatted sd cards?
Do you remember where/how you came upon this information? Was this issue particular to 64gb SDXC cards vs smaller SDHC cards or maybe to certain classes of cards?
I find this shocking, but I can't say it isn't unfounded.
I have a 64gb uhs-1 sandisk card coming from newegg in a few days, so I'm obviously concerned.
Any insight you could provide is greatly appreciated!
Hey guys... after doing some fooling around I've found out some (useful) information for people with 64 gb sd cards...
1. When you format an sd card while its inside your phone it will format it to exFat.... which is fine if you plan on only staying on TW ROMs. This format is not compatible with TWRP Recovery and has given me issues (causing me to loose all my data on my card) just by flashing an AOSP ROM
2. If you use the program posted in the second post(thanks iomega311) you can format your sd card to Fat32 and it will now work on TW ROMs, TWRP, and AOSP ROMs.
Hope this helps for anyone with SD Card Questions/issues.
In my opinion... Never program sd cards on phone... Always use a computer. Especially if you want it done right!!!!
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Wait, so you're saying that AOKP/CM10 don't have the necessary drivers to handle exFAT formatted sd cards?
Do you remember where/how you came upon this information? Was this issue particular to 64gb SDXC cards vs smaller SDHC cards or maybe to certain classes of cards?
I find this shocking, but I can't say it isn't unfounded.
I have a 64gb uhs-1 sandisk card coming from newegg in a few days, so I'm obviously concerned.
Any insight you could provide is greatly appreciated!
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CM 10 which all the AOSP roms are based off does not support exFAT since it is a proprietary format and they don't want any legal trouble. The best way to format a 64GB gard is with GUI formatter
What allocation size did you guys use? Just got my 64GB SDXC and need to format it so that I can use it on CM10.
I got a sandisk 64GB card for my spring galaxy s3 but whenever I plug it into my phone it immediately says "SD card is safe to remove" and does not mount it. I've mounted it manually but it immediately unmounts and give the message again. I tried reformatting the card as exfat with my laptop and it recognizes the SD card fine and formatted fine, but I still had the same problem when I plugged it back in to my phone. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this?
I'm running FreeGS3 3.0 with ktoonsez' kernel, in case that matters.
...You can't use exfat / extremely rare usage. Format the sdcard as fat32 and you'll be fine.
I had the same issue with my tab 2 10.1 and he is correct....format to fat32 in your pc and you should be good to go
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Got this same error, said SD card was damaged ... format to FAT32 using GUI format, here is the link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=36273669&postcount=18. FAT32 will work with both TW and AOSP ROMs (just with a 4GB file size limit)
Have you ever found a way to get past the 4GB file limit yet?
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Got this same error, said SD card was damaged ... format to FAT32 using GUI format, here is the link: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=36273669&postcount=18. FAT32 will work with both TW and AOSP ROMs (just with a 4GB file size limit)
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mycall0 said:
Have you ever found a way to get past the 4GB file limit yet?
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Format to NTFS
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
N7100
PA 4.0 beta
Android 4.4.1
My phone's apps such as quickoffice can't detect files on ext SD card ( 16gb micro SD)
mnt/media_rw is empty
storage/sdcard1 has ext SD files.
Any clue what's going on?
Sent from my Galaxy Note II
Is your card formatted ExFAT? I don't think aosp roms support ExFAT. You need to format fat32
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Philz touch recovery and cyanogenmod supports exfat file system.. But I do recommend to use FAT32 for your external SD card..
as long as android 4.4.1 is still in the beta stages of custom rom development i would suggest to copy all you files from the card to your computer and then simply format it as fat32
you could ofcourse always try a different kernel and see if that helps, i believe i saw someone post a flashable file in the derteufel devilkernel thread a few days ago that would make your rom support exfat, but just to be safe for now and in the future, simply stick with fat32
My microSD is formatted FAT32.
Also, philz touch won't mount it while twrp does.
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I can navigate to files on the ext card using es. They are in storage/sdcard1.
I'm contacting the developer he should be able to help out.
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I purchased a 64gb Samsung evo microsd card for my tab S 10.5 16GB.
I am currently on the bliss ROM lollipop and cannot move any apps to the microsd card , I just get the error 'cannot move app'.
I am rooted and have tried all the apps like app2sd, etc. But none work for me, is it even possible?
Currently the format is ext4 unsure if this is the problem, when I received the card I got the same error although unsure if the card was ntfs or fat32.
Any help would be appreciated .
Thanks
James
go to the playstore and download SDfix Kitkat. I had the same issue on my stock kitkat rom (rooted) and this fixed the permissions so that all apps can read/write the ext sd. There have also been reports that this app works on Lollipop based rom such as CM12. make sure the card is formatted for exFat, not NTFS
Magic, worked a treat cheers!