I've tested two sandisk class 4 SD cards.
If I format it to fat32 and partition the space(to use link2SD), my phone refuses to use the SD card and says it's not there. I use minitools for partition and the official SD card maker software for formating. I did everything by the book and tried multiple options(different labels, ntfs, ext2, etc.)
A fresh, unallocated space card works perfectly fine however.
My phone is rooted and unlocked bootloader running softMIUI rom with a modfied power saving blend kernel.
Please help! This is confusing the hell out of me.
Was looking at your post and I decided to grab a few of my MicroSD card 1gb, 2gb, 4gb, 8gb and 16gb....
I formated all of them on windows .... right click format, all default settings... Fat32. These are MicroSD cards that have had information on them... they all run fin on my arc. All different brands.
This leads me to believe that there's possibly either something wrong with the MsD card or the reader on the phone.
fluxgfx said:
Was looking at your post and I decided to grab a few of my MicroSD card 1gb, 2gb, 4gb, 8gb and 16gb....
I formated all of them on windows .... right click format, all default settings... Fat32. These are MicroSD cards that have had information on them... they all run fin on my arc. All different brands.
This leads me to believe that there's possibly either something wrong with the MsD card or the reader on the phone.
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Solved it
Did this:
Changed the partition id to this:
"0*06 fat16,greater than 32 mb"
and made the second partition fat32 as well.
Removed the 100mb linux swap file partition I created....not sure if that was necessary.
I just received this in the mail and I was wondering where do I start in terms of formating format and allocation size? Also, how would I check its true capacity and transfer rates?
put it in the phone & let it format for you, it formats exFAT but I was using a 64GB card. Not sure if it does FAT32 if using a 32gb or smaller sd card. If you need FAT32 then use linux or Windoze to format it & I always "default" for allocation size.
that is my question too. thanks
I can't do that unless i format my sd but then the phone wouldn't accept it. any work around?
The phone will accept a SD card formatted to exfat..
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JupiterdroidXDA said:
The phone will accept a SD card formatted to exfat..
Sent from my Galaxy Note II
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Doesn't work. I formated it to exFat like you said but then my 64GB microSD san disk card reads less than 1KB. I then tried to drag and drop teh 12gb file and it says file is too big for its destination.
format it to NTFS and mount it by some apps or format it to ext4
JoJo2211 said:
Doesn't work. I formated it to exFat like you said but then my 64GB microSD san disk card reads less than 1KB. I then tried to drag and drop teh 12gb file and it says file is too big for its destination.
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My 64 gb formats to exfat just fine. If your phone wont do it then format from windows. If your trying to copy file over using Kies it wont work regardless if its exfat. You can try FTP or UMS
ciscostud said:
My 64 gb formats to exfat just fine. If your phone wont do it then format from windows. If your trying to copy file over using Kies it wont work regardless if its exfat. You can try FTP or UMS
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i formatted from windows too and it shows exfat but after i put it into my phone it shows less then 1MB of space. I then have to format it within the phone to get th 59gb of space to show. even then it shows exfat but doesn't take files larger than 4gb. i'm not using kies. just simple drag and drop using a card reader.
Like said, just use a pc memory card reader to transfer it.
Isn't a 12gb video file a little wasted on a small 720p screen?
munkiii said:
Like said, just use a pc memory card reader to transfer it.
Isn't a 12gb video file a little wasted on a small 720p screen?
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If you don't want to remove the micro sd card, download the Samba filesharing app from Google Play......you can then directly access your media from your Windows PC and just copy/paste the files/folders you want.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.funkyfresh.samba&hl=en
I have a SanDisk 64gb card which is formatted Fat32.
I've been running it without issue for a few months.
45gb is being used.
I wanted to transfer the files to my pc, and have a few questions/comments:
- after transferring my files I want to format to exFAT
- will my files that were on my Fat32 card be able to be transferred to my exFAT card, as there are a couple of Nandroid, ROM downloads, pics, etc. that I want to transfer back.
- after transferring files to my pc, I was going to place the card back into my S4 and format card from the device. From what I've read, the device will format the card to exFAT. Would this be correct?
There are a couple of reasons I'd like to format the card:
- I want to transfer files to pc, and have some more space on the card, and figured I'd format to exFAT so as not to have file size limitations, although I've yet to dl any 4gb files.
- I'm taking a preemptive strike to avoid possible card issues which may arise in the future. I thought transferring many of the 45gb of files on the card, and re-formatting the card may assist with this, or is this not necessarily true?
If formatting the card and emptying files doesn't reduce the possibility of borking the card in the future, I want to transfer files anyway, in addition to having the card in exFAT unless there is a downside to this format.
Tia......
I recommend keeping it at Fat32. The phone won't read ExFat.
Sent from Spaceball One.
Biker1 said:
I have a SanDisk 64gb card which is formatted Fat32.
I've been running it without issue for a few months.
45gb is being used.
I wanted to transfer the files to my pc, and have a few questions/comments:
- after transferring my files I want to format to exFAT
- will my files that were on my Fat32 card be able to be transferred to my exFAT card, as there are a couple of Nandroid, ROM downloads, pics, etc. that I want to transfer back.
- after transferring files to my pc, I was going to place the card back into my S4 and format card from the device. From what I've read, the device will format the card to exFAT. Would this be correct?
There are a couple of reasons I'd like to format the card:
- I want to transfer files to pc, and have some more space on the card, and figured I'd format to exFAT so as not to have file size limitations, although I've yet to dl any 4gb files.
- I'm taking a preemptive strike to avoid possible card issues which may arise in the future. I thought transferring many of the 45gb of files on the card, and re-formatting the card may assist with this, or is this not necessarily true?
If formatting the card and emptying files doesn't reduce the possibility of borking the card in the future, I want to transfer files anyway, in addition to having the card in exFAT unless there is a downside to this format.
Tia......
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Shouldn't be a problems with what you're wanting to do.
-Copy sd card contents to PC
-Reformat and copy content back
-Make sure the recovery you're using can read exFAT (both TWRP and Philz CWM can read exFAT)
-Also be sure the kernel support exFAT or your phone might not boot up.
-There's pros and cons to each format but for regular user like myself it's not something I really worry about
blackknightavalon said:
I recommend keeping it at Fat32. The phone won't read ExFat.
Sent from Spaceball One.
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The phone out of the box should read exFAT. It's when using different kernels that does not support exFAT it will not read.
baseballfanz said:
Should be a problems with what you're wanting to do.
-Copy sd card contents to PC
-Reformat and copy content back
-Make sure the recovery you're using can read exFAT (both TWRP and Philz CWM can read exFAT)
-Also be sure the kernel support exFAT or your phone might not boot up.
-There's pros and cons to each format but for regular user like myself it's not something I really worry about
The phone out of the box should read exFAT. It's when using different kernels that does not support exFAT it will not read.
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Last night, I:
- copied 45gb data from card to pc - 50 minutes
- I've read about the kernels and the format to be used
- decided to keep card @ Fat32 : "If it Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It" applies here
- I haven't deleted files yet, or formatted
I formatted the card once before using my pc and www.easeus.com
I found this also:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1773735&page=2
But most likely will use the easeus method, which is also in that thread.
I'll take another look, but does formatting the card using the S4 format to exFAT or Fat32?
I thought it was exFAT, buy info or mis info is all over the place.
I've not used the on phone format feature yet.
To go from exFat to FAT32 I use Minitool partition
http://download.cnet.com/MiniTool-Partition-Wizard-Home-Edition/3000-2094_4-10962200.html
To go from FAT32 to exFat I just used the Windows PC formatting feature.
baseballfanz said:
I've not used the on phone format feature yet.
To go from exFat to FAT32 I use Minitool partition
http://download.cnet.com/MiniTool-Partition-Wizard-Home-Edition/3000-2094_4-10962200.html
To go from FAT32 to exFat I just used the Windows PC formatting feature.
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I'm on Fat32 already.
Is re-formatting an exercise in futility?
I was thinking to re-format because:
- after months of making Nandroids without issue, I had trouble recently Booting after backing up to extSdCard. I'd freeze on Samsung splash after multiple backup attempts.
I backed up to internal and booted fine. I dont know if this was coincidence, but figured I'd format for good measure. Otherwise, the extSdCard is running without issue.
Not sure there even is an issue.
I actually had a successful Nandroid to extSdCard card afterwards.
Just thinking out loud.
I'll probably just empty the card of some gb, and not format.
Biker1 said:
I'm on Fat32 already.
Is re-formatting an exercise in futility?
I was thinking to re-format because:
- after months of making Nandroids without issue, I had trouble recently Booting after backing up to extSdCard. I'd freeze on Samsung splash after multiple backup attempts.
I backed up to internal and booted fine. I dont know if this was coincidence, but figured I'd format for good measure. Otherwise, the extSdCard is running without issue.
Not sure there even is an issue.
I actually had a successful Nandroid to extSdCard card afterwards.
Just thinking out loud.
I'll probably just empty the card of some gb, and not format.
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Formatting is a breeze. I've gone from exFAT to FAT32 and vice versa without a problems. Both was achieved in minutes, only time consuming is copying contents to and from sd card.
I was also having troubles with TWRP not booting past Samsung splash screen and I was on exFAT at the time.
Like you have mentioned I only got that problems since flashing with Aroma and never before that.
I've since switch over to Philz CWM and everything is OK (except nandroid backup take ages:laugh
blackknightavalon said:
I recommend keeping it at Fat32. The phone won't read ExFat.
Sent from Spaceball One.
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I'm sorry but this is an incorrect statement. Samsung has supported exFat on 64GB cards only on both the Galaxy S3 and S4. Their initial implementation was buggy but they did work the kinks out.
Here are the disadvantages to using FAT32 on 64GB cards:
Fat32 only supports files up to 4GB - 1 (technically 4,294,967,295 bytes) in length. A high definition video today takes up to 4GB per hour of video (even more sometimes). This limits the size of movies you can store.
The maximum size of a directory (actual number of bytes of the directory itself, not number of files) is limited to 65,5355 bytes. Considering that each directory entry takes up 32 bytes that limits the number of files in a single directory to 2047 entries if long file names are not used. With files names longer than 8 characters that number gets reduced significantly. That is a problem for apps like Titanium backup that use lots of files or if you have a lot of MP3s.
I have been using exFat on my 64GTB SDXC memory cards on both my S3 and my s4 without any problems after Samsung fixed the initial bugs.
You should not encounter any problems copying files from your FAT32 card to your PC and then copying them back to an exFat card. I have done that several times.
@ChitownWingMan
Some good info there re capacities and such.
Earlier I decided to keep the format at Fat32, and didn't re format
If it ain't broke, don't fix it, as they say.
I also understand that exFat is Kernel sensitive, so I'd be limited to wha I can flash
Owe ya a Thanks. My daily 8 limit ran out
Biker1 said:
@ChitownWingMan
Some good info there re capacities and such.
Earlier I decided to keep the format at Fat32, and didn't re format
If it ain't broke, don't fix it, as they say.
I also understand that exFat is Kernel sensitive, so I'd be limited to wha I can flash
Owe ya a Thanks. My daily 8 limit ran out
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Your welcome. I was one of the first people to report the exFat bug in the original release of the S3 and I worked with Sandisk and Samsung to identify it as a bug.
I actually tried to run NTFS for a while but I couldn't find a decent implementation for Android and EXT2, EXT3 or EXT4 have little or no support on Windows.
ChitownWingMan said:
I'm sorry but this is an incorrect statement. Samsung has supported exFat on 64GB cards only on both the Galaxy S3 and S4. Their initial implementation was buggy but they did work the kinks out.
Here are the disadvantages to using FAT32 on 64GB cards:
Fat32 only supports files up to 4GB - 1 (technically 4,294,967,295 bytes) in length. A high definition video today takes up to 4GB per hour of video (even more sometimes). This limits the size of movies you can store.
The maximum size of a directory (actual number of bytes of the directory itself, not number of files) is limited to 65,5355 bytes. Considering that each directory entry takes up 32 bytes that limits the number of files in a single directory to 2047 entries if long file names are not used. With files names longer than 8 characters that number gets reduced significantly. That is a problem for apps like Titanium backup that use lots of files or if you have a lot of MP3s.
I have been using exFat on my 64GTB SDXC memory cards on both my S3 and my s4 without any problems after Samsung fixed the initial bugs.
You should not encounter any problems copying files from your FAT32 card to your PC and then copying them back to an exFat card. I have done that several times.
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Ahh, this again. Since Ubuntu doesn't read exFat, you'll understand my reluctance to reformat.
blackknightavalon said:
Ahh, this again. Since Ubuntu doesn't read exFat, you'll understand my reluctance to reformat.
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I just googled "ubuntu exfat" and came up with more than a dozen websites with instructions on how to install and use exfat on Ubuntu.
Good luck...
I have done exactly what the OP mentioned - with 32 GB SD card. I copied all files to my computer, formatted the SD card from its original FAT-32 to exFAT, using an SD-card adapter. With quick format that only takes 2 seconds. Then copied all files back to the card, stuck it in my Galaxy S4 (Build VRUEMJ7, if that's important). And it works fine - all the files are readable on the phone - music, video, .doc, .xls, .ppt. , mp3 , No problems.
TWRP recovery has support for ExFAT since v2.4.0.0.
Do you anybody have problem with exFat SD card like that?
Im using exFat for my 32gb SD, my gallery not refreshing for new downloaded videos or images. So i cant see them. Even sometimes not helping restarting phone.
But when i take photo to SD i can see that image in my gallery instantly.
Was Fat32 everytings works great.
Using H815 6.0 Stock v20g eur xx.
FAT32 is the recommended file system for SD and SDHC cards ...
mythbrk said:
Do you anybody have problem with exFat SD card like that?
Im using exFat for my 32gb SD, my gallery not refreshing for new downloaded videos or images. So i cant see them. Even sometimes not helping restarting phone.
But when i take photo to SD i can see that image in my gallery instantly.
Was Fat32 everytings works great.
Using H815 6.0 Stock v20g eur xx.
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FAT32 is the recommended file system for SD and SDHC cards ... a 32gb SD card is an SDHC card.
exFAT is primarily for SDXC cards ... (i.e., greater than 32 GB).
Both FAT32 and exFAT are Microsoft designs.
I suspect your issue is directly related to LINUX and the inherent formatting of your internal storage where I presume you are downloading your videos/images to before moving them to your SD card.
If your videos/images individually are not exceeding 4 GB there is no need to go to exFAT on an SDHC card but because the LG G4 supports cards greater than 32gb, i.e., supports exFAT, you will be able to see them when moved to your card.
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sdembiske said:
FAT32 is the recommended file system for SD and SDHC cards ... a 32gb SD card is an SDHC card.
exFAT is primarily for SDXC cards ... (i.e., greater than 32 GB).
Both FAT32 and exFAT are Microsoft designs.
I suspect your issue is directly related to LINUX and the inherent formatting of your internal storage where I presume you are downloading your videos/images to before moving them to your SD card.
If your videos/images individually are not exceeding 4 GB there is no need to go to exFAT on an SDHC card but because the LG G4 supports cards greater than 32gb, i.e., supports exFAT, you will be able to see them when moved to your card.
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Yes i know. thats why i formatted to exFat, sometimes i need 4gb+ files.
I just directly download to SD card with phone.
Im thinking its about LG's software. deleting files is so slow (2gb files 10sec+) and not refreshing in gallery.
I was readed somewhere fat32 have (log daily feature) or something like that for changed files and accuracy files idk properly but exFat not have this maybe its about that.
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mythbrk said:
Yes i know. thats why i formatted to exFat, sometimes i need 4gb+ files.
I just directly download to SD card with phone.
Im thinking its about LG's software. deleting files is so slow (2gb files 10sec+) and not refreshing in gallery.
I was readed somewhere fat32 have (log daily feature) or something like that for changed files and accuracy files idk properly but exFat not have this maybe its about that.
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Before coming to that conclusion ... i.e., thinking it's about LG's software, you would have to test out an SDXC card and see if you're having the same issue. Then you might be able to make a case to LG if everything else is set-up properly.
When you state you are downloading to your SD card directly with your phone, how exactly did you set it up ... ?
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sdembiske said:
Before coming to that conclusion ... i.e., thinking it's about LG's software, you would have to test out an SDXC card and see if you're having the same issue. Then you might be able to make a case to LG if everything else is set-up properly.
When you state you are downloading to your SD card directly with your phone, how exactly did you set it up ... ?
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Im using opera and i can set download location many apps can do this.
Oh. You right i thought SDHC can handle exFat but have problem with compatibility. But you can use anyway if you need.
You're not using adaptable storage ...
mythbrk said:
Im using opera and i can set download location many apps can do this.
Oh. You right i thought SDHC can handle exFat but have problem with compatibility. But you can use anyway if you need.
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You're not using adoptable storage ... for the set-up of your sd card are you with android 6.0, Marshmallow? Needs to be set to portable I believe ... irrespective of what you've set in Opera.
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sdembiske said:
You're not using adoptable storage ... for the set-up of your sd card are you with android 6.0, Marshmallow? Needs to be set to portable I believe ... irrespective of what you've set in Opera.
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I dont understand what you exactly mean.
I just download directly to SD card external storage. Not internal phone's own
im not using sd card as adaptable storage.
And yes 6.0 Marshmallow.
Borrow or purchase an ...
mythbrk said:
I dont understand what you exactly mean.
I just download directly to SD card external storage. Not internal phone's own
im not using sd card as adaptable storage.
And yes 6.0 Marshmallow.
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Then borrow or purchase an ... SDXC card and see if the issue recurs when formatted as exFAT.
You could try re-formatting your card with a different program and see if it helps but It may be your phone is having trouble reconciling a 32gb card to exFAT.
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