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[Q] Corrupt SD Card during Gold Card process

After my "kefuffle" with http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=8484070#post8484070
I had to play around with making multiple gold cards. Unfortunately one of the cards I had to use was my 32gb SanDisk microSD. After editing the hex code during the gold card process my computer failed to read the card. I then proceeded to format the card.
Windows explorer can't format the card in quick or full format mode. I downloaded a third party SD formatter (Philips or something) and ran both a quick format, and a full format on it. After running the SD formatter windows explorer was able to recognise the SD card as having 31gb of spare space. I was able to copy files to the SD card.
As soon as I put it in my Desire, it said random errors like "SD card ready to dismount" and "SD card damaged please format". After formatting the card with the Desire's format tool, the card is recognised and it says there is 31gb free space. I am then able to plug the Desire into the computer and enable "HTC Sync" or "Disk Drive" mode. HTC sync doesn't recognise the SD card, but windows explorer does when it is in disk mode. I am able to copy files to the SD card, although as soon as I eject the phone, the Desire attempts to check the SD card for errors and says the card is damaged.
Surely there is a tool out there I can use? It has the functionality to store files some of the time, surely not all hope is lost? 32GB microSD cards are freakin expensive and I don't want to throw it out...

Get a linux live cd, start GParted and delete every partition on the SD Card. Create a new FAT32 partition and try it again.

Sorry I'm nub, what the hell does that mean?

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
Grab that and burn it to CD/USB/whatever, and use that to delete all of the partitions on your card (plenty of guides online for GParted)

I got that problem too but my 16gb microsd read only 8mb. Can't format. Gparted can read as well.. :'(
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I had the same problems with my SD card on my HTC hero... don't panic I solved it with this software...
http://download.cnet.com/Partition-Wizard-Home-Edition/3000-2094_4-10962200.html
This is the instruction video that I used to understand what to do and create an ext2 as well...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyO6DOS1leQ
For me worked like like a charm!

yukinok25 said:
I had the same problems with my SD card on my HTC hero... don't panic I solved it with this software...
http://download.cnet.com/Partition-Wizard-Home-Edition/3000-2094_4-10962200.html
This is the instruction video that I used to understand what to do and create an ext2 as well...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyO6DOS1leQ
For me worked like like a charm!
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I tried that but it didn't work. I was able to partition it, however once the software had applied the partitions, it showed up as "Unformatted", "Other" and "other". Whereas in the video it showed up as "Fat32", "ext2" and "linux swap".
I tried it in my Desire anyway, and it recognised it, but if you took a picture then connected the SD to the computer as a disk drive, the image taken becomes jumbled (literally). Once ejected from the computer the Desire is unable to mount the SD card properly and says it is in "Read-only" mode. In that state I am unable to eject/format the card.
I haven't tried Gparted yet. Wouldn't that be the same as deleting and creating the partitions?

lordmitchell14 said:
I tried that but it didn't work. I was able to partition it, however once the software had applied the partitions, it showed up as "Unformatted", "Other" and "other". Whereas in the video it showed up as "Fat32", "ext2" and "linux swap".
I tried it in my Desire anyway, and it recognised it, but if you took a picture then connected the SD to the computer as a disk drive, the image taken becomes jumbled (literally). Once ejected from the computer the Desire is unable to mount the SD card properly and says it is in "Read-only" mode. In that state I am unable to eject/format the card.
I haven't tried Gparted yet. Wouldn't that be the same as deleting and creating the partitions?
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I see.... I don't know about Gparted, but now that u remind me, also for me it didn't work immediately..
I don't remember what I did exactly but I formatted the sd card 3 or 4 times, after I use the video's method, and I also formatted once with win7 and at the end I formatted it again with the phone..
I did it and suddenly the SD started to work properly..
Now is working perfectly since I've done it and that was 3 weeks ago..

it doesnt work with my MicroSD.. it still shows as 8mb when it should be 16GB!! guess its corrupted like hell..
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Tried Gparted...I was able to create a fat32 and ext2 partition (wasn't able to do ext3 or ext4 or linux swap - kept saying "sd possibly corrupt") However still had issues with phone reading it.
I'm just going to take the card back. I've had it a month, but worth a try.

ShiDi said:
it doesnt work with my MicroSD.. it still shows as 8mb when it should be 16GB!! guess its corrupted like hell..
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Could be... did you try to format the SD with windows first?

HELP! Problems with new Sandisk 64GB Micro SD

Hi all, this may have been asked a thousand times but I cannot find a definitive answer to this. I bought a 64GB Sandisk Micro SD Class 6 card to use for all my games and stuff. I received it today and tried putting it in my phone. It always shows as damaged card, so I tried the proper steps of pulling down the notification bar, selecting the card and the phone told me it would need formatting, so I clicked format.
But to my dismay the bloody phone formatted the internal USB storage so I lost all my pictures and personal stuff!!!
To add insult to injury, I cannot get this bloody card to format and work no matter what I try. I haven't formatted or partitioned it in my PC, only tried through the phone.
Please, please can anyone help???

Got it sorted. Mods can delete this thread if need be

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Got it sorted. Mods can delete this thread if need be
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Maybe you should tell how you did it for other people with the same problem. I was also thinking of buying this 64 GB SD-Card and who knows maybe I stumble upon the same problem

Scarface1991 said:
Maybe you should tell how you did it for other people with the same problem. I was also thinking of buying this 64 GB SD-Card and who knows maybe I stumble upon the same problem
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Sorry, I would have posted it up as soon as I sorted it but I was in a flap trying to get my phone back up and running properly.
What it seems to boil down to is that custom ROMs generally don't format the external SD cards correctly, or so I read somewhere on a thread on XDA (I think it was in the T989 thread or something like that). I used the free EaseUS Partition Manager tool to first remove the partition on the card (64GB formatted to exFAT), then create a new 64GB Fat32 partition. I don't know whether it was necessary but I flashed Samsung standard LP7 Rom to my phone and fully factory reset the phone.
After that was done, I inserted the 64GB card, booted up and went through settings-> storage and erased the SD card to make sure it was formatted correctly for the S2
...and voila
Hope that helps someone out

Get the app undelete to restore your deleted stuff

My SD card was working out of the box with Galaxy S2. I just formatted it and that was it
Just got a Galaxy S3 last week and the same SD was driving me insane with message
SD damaged after copying 59 GB of music to the phone
It was playing music without problem but as soon I restart the phone it would through error SD damaged
After so many tests I just found out that KIES is the one was corrupting my SD card
I tried copying my music with Sandisk data manager, mediamonkey, adding music folders manually and it works flawlessly, restart and not problem
All this app recognize Galaxy S3 quicker than SAmsung KIES, KIES takes a while sometimes to connect to the phone
Hope Samsung update KIES because it doesn't work with GALAXY S3 for uploading 59 gb of music
I was about to send my SD to amazon and get a refund, thanks I didn't do it
Happy days after so many days of testing

Hi guys
I also had the same issue with sandisk 64 gb card but couldnt find any solution n had to get two cards returned.... i dont use kies or any other thing. It also got damaged on first restart after copying 30+gb data on it. Couldnt find a damn solution. Now i have ordered a kingston 64 gb one to c if it makes any difference. Any idea by anyone to check it in a proper manner n maje it properly usable?
Thanks in advance
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Tnx
bigdyl69 said:
Sorry, I would have posted it up as soon as I sorted it but I was in a flap trying to get my phone back up and running properly.
What it seems to boil down to is that custom ROMs generally don't format the external SD cards correctly, or so I read somewhere on a thread on XDA (I think it was in the T989 thread or something like that). I used the free EaseUS Partition Manager tool to first remove the partition on the card (64GB formatted to exFAT), then create a new 64GB Fat32 partition. I don't know whether it was necessary but I flashed Samsung standard LP7 Rom to my phone and fully factory reset the phone.
After that was done, I inserted the 64GB card, booted up and went through settings-> storage and erased the SD card to make sure it was formatted correctly for the S2
...and voila
Hope that helps someone out
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A million thanks, I wanted to throw away my 64Gb card and I've payed 70$ for it, but after formatting with EaseUS Partition Manager to Fat32 it works just fine I've tried with Windows a 100 times with no results.

EaseUS Partition Manager def did the job!
here comes the weird bit:
connecting the 64gb micro sd with this
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to my pc shows 29 gb in easeUS.
while inserting it in my phone it shows 59.4 gb
using this type of adapter
and connected to the pc with a sd - to - usb adapter:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf-JAVA/Doc/images/550/c01650840.jpg
it will show 59.4 gb in easeUS as well
does that make any sense at all?

I bought this to put into my Samsung Galaxy S3 and opted for the Sandisk name due to previous purchases and reputation. Many people have said to format the card via the phone before use so I did this, or tried to, but it just kept saying that it was in an incompatible format and the process could not be carried out! Ok, a little frustrating but I thought I'd just use the supplied adapter and format it via my laptop. Similar message from Windows - not able to complete the format, the disc may be corrupted!!! I tried this several times on both the pc and the phone and nothing. Very poor in my opinion and it has been returned for a refund.

Thanks! This really saved my day

I ended up getting a 64gig Sandisk super duper card (or whatever it is called). I plugged it into my computer via a USB adapter, and it worked fine. Then I formatted it in FAT32 with the tool suggested in previous posts, and that worked fine. Then as I was copying stuff over (it was still plugged into the computer, my phone was in USB mode transferring data), the transfer froze. I unplugged it, and it was warm. So I tried again, it worked for a bit, and then would freeze. Not sure what the issue was. So I returned it to Best Buy, and they are sending me a new one. Hopefully this one works.
Any tips or suggestions other than formatting it with that utility? Could it really just have been the card itself?

Got one last night, formatted it using the program suggested, no dice. Getting a "damaged card" notification, nothing I can think of is working.
Formatted on my PC, formatted using a Mac, formatted using a linux terminal, nothing seems to work.
Anyone have any ideas on what else I can do to rectify this issue? :/
Or is it safe to assume that it's a defective card?

Vaesar said:
Got one last night, formatted it using the program suggested, no dice. Getting a "damaged card" notification, nothing I can think of is working.
Formatted on my PC, formatted using a Mac, formatted using a linux terminal, nothing seems to work.
Anyone have any ideas on what else I can do to rectify this issue? :/
Or is it safe to assume that it's a defective card?
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Hi, know what you're going through. See my post at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1698672&page=9
The guiformat tool under the link luigig posted worked great. (I'm too new a member to repost the link here.)
If it doesn't work I suspect you really have a damaged card. There are some known bad batches.

Had an a media scanning issue on my new SGIII (At&T), from my sandisk 64 card. which was previously formated at 32. I used OP's method and so far so good. I also transfered my files to pc and ran defragler on them as i had a media scan issue. I transfrered all pictures with no intent on putting them back since they were from my old atrix. No problems as yet. I will try to transfer from phone to pc to see if i get the freezing. If i do, you will hear back from me. If not THanks OP:good:

try to format it using your pc. (as a FAT32)

format 64GB
What you should do is download a free partitioner program like Easeus Parttition manager. You should make two partitions on your sd card with a max of 32 GB. Format both of them as Fat 32. Once done, put it back in your phone, it is now recognized and you can reformat the card in your phone. It pops up as a 64 GB card now.
Good luck.
bigdyl69 said:
Hi all, this may have been asked a thousand times but I cannot find a definitive answer to this. I bought a 64GB Sandisk Micro SD Class 6 card to use for all my games and stuff. I received it today and tried putting it in my phone. It always shows as damaged card, so I tried the proper steps of pulling down the notification bar, selecting the card and the phone told me it would need formatting, so I clicked format.
But to my dismay the bloody phone formatted the internal USB storage so I lost all my pictures and personal stuff!!!
To add insult to injury, I cannot get this bloody card to format and work no matter what I try. I haven't formatted or partitioned it in my PC, only tried through the phone.
Please, please can anyone help???
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The ultimate solution !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
First u have to use an external card reader coz 99% of the problem is that i mean do not use ur laptop card reader but use a multicards reader coz laptops card reader r not designed for micro sd 64Go once u plug in ur micro Sd u should run a small software BOOTICE ( it's been attached to this post ) , u will see the real size right after in th picture 1
Fist u should update ur exFAT ( look to the attached files)
after that follow the steps on pic 2 , 3 , 4 ...the idea is to reformat ur card with single partition with exFAT and not FAT32 the exFat is an update given with microsoft it's been attached also.
Remember the prob comes from ur card reader and always use an external cards reader like the one used to format ur sdcard ....if u have any other question am here
warm regards

Nice! thx

moad27 said:
First u have to use an external card reader coz 99% of the problem is that i mean do not use ur laptop card reader but use a multicards reader coz laptops card reader r not designed for micro sd 64Go once u plug in ur micro Sd u should run a small software BOOTICE ( it's been attached to this post ) , u will see the real size right after in th picture 1
Fist u should update ur exFAT ( look to the attached files)
after that follow the steps on pic 2 , 3 , 4 ...the idea is to reformat ur card with single partition with exFAT and not FAT32 the exFat is an update given with microsoft it's been attached also.
Remember the prob comes from ur card reader and always use an external cards reader like the one used to format ur sdcard ....if u have any other question am here
warm regards
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Hi,
Thanks for your idea, but i'm trying to get my SD as FAT32, but i'm having trouble seeing the full card. Is there anything you can suggest? My card is showing up as 27GB when formatted as exfat, it's 59GB (64GB)
My aim is to use an AOSP rom and i am unable to use the exfat file system.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

[Q] 64GB SDXC card not working

I have an AT&T SGH-i747, I ordered a class 10 64GB SDXC card, when I put it in my phone it says "preparing sd card", then immediately says "it is now safe to remove your sd card". After several attempts to format the card (FAT, FAT32, exFAT and NTFS, which my computer does recognize) it started to tell me that my card was removed and to please insert another one once I insert it. There has never been an option to format the card in the storage section of settings, only to mount it, which yilded this result "prepating sd card" then immediately said "it is now safe to remove your sd card". I have serched through posts on this site and others, they all work under the premise that the card is no good and to exchange it, but my computer reads it just fine, so the card an't be bad, or they say that it comes formatted with exFAT which certain ROMs can't read, but I formatted it to FAT32 with no results. I am running Ariel ROM 2.07 with Ktoonzes Kernel. Any assistance you could provide would be GREATLY appreciated

64 GB SD card isn't compatible with a 16gb GS3.
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Kofmasterkof said:
64 GB SD card isn't compatible with a 16gb GS3.
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Total bull****.. where did you come up with that. Most likely he got s bad or fake card. Where did you buy it. I am on stock leaked lh1 firmware and my card I got from tigerdirect worked right out of the box. No reformat.. put in computer and copied old 32gb card contents and then.put in phone.
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Have you tried verifying the card's indicated space and speed? If you received a faulty or fake one, files would rewrite over and over again on something like 1gb of data (causing some files to not be readable). As asked above, where did you get the card from?
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If you have e a custom kernel I.e faux, chances are it doesn't support exFAT.. In fact.. Most winxp computers don't either...
Assuming ur card is legit you need to get an adaptor and put it in a computer and format it to FAT.
I had the same problem with my sandisk 64 gb class 10.
I'd you look at my posts you will find step by step instructions on software I used etc.. Can't find it now on my phone.
Once you format it to FAT, it will work just fine. Assuming of course the card isn't defective
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I got the card from some Amazon vendor, the first one didn't work at all, returned it and bought from a different Amazon vendor. Poped it in the phone and it says "preparing sd card" then immediately "it is now safe to remove your sd card". In storage settings I have the option to mount the card, but I just get those two messages again. Formatted to FAT32 because I saw exFAT was propriety from MS with the same results, I used minitools partition manager I believe it's called. My computer was able to read and write to the disk until I allowed Windows to reformat it to ntfs, which took hours to reach 25 percent so I force canceled the format and pulled the card. From that point forward minitools said it was a bad disk and Windows froze when it would try to read it. I am using a Windows Vista computer which does not give me the option to format the disk to FAT32, only exFAT and NTFS. I am running Ariel 2.07 ICS with KToonzes kernel. I have a rooted stock nand backup or am willing to change ROM's if it has something to do with that, can't test that though as I've already returned the card. I also would rather not spend $100+, I'd rather just get a 32GB for $20. Thanks for all your help so far, I hope this helps you help me.

Fat?
waiters said:
If you have e a custom kernel I.e faux, chances are it doesn't support exFAT.. In fact.. Most winxp computers don't either...
Assuming ur card is legit you need to get an adaptor and put it in a computer and format it to FAT.
I had the same problem with my sandisk 64 gb class 10.
I'd you look at my posts you will find step by step instructions on software I used etc.. Can't find it now on my phone.
Once you format it to FAT, it will work just fine. Assuming of course the card isn't defective
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You suggest using FAT, not FAT32?

rjvecchio said:
You suggest using FAT, not FAT32?
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sorry, i think it was FAT32
and this is how i did it

rjvecchio said:
I got the card from some Amazon vendor, the first one didn't work at all, returned it and bought from a different Amazon vendor. Poped it in the phone and it says "preparing sd card" then immediately "it is now safe to remove your sd card". In storage settings I have the option to mount the card, but I just get those two messages again. Formatted to FAT32 because I saw exFAT was propriety from MS with the same results, I used minitools partition manager I believe it's called. My computer was able to read and write to the disk until I allowed Windows to reformat it to ntfs, which took hours to reach 25 percent so I force canceled the format and pulled the card. From that point forward minitools said it was a bad disk and Windows froze when it would try to read it. I am using a Windows Vista computer which does not give me the option to format the disk to FAT32, only exFAT and NTFS. I am running Ariel 2.07 ICS with KToonzes kernel. I have a rooted stock nand backup or am willing to change ROM's if it has something to do with that, can't test that though as I've already returned the card. I also would rather not spend $100+, I'd rather just get a 32GB for $20. Thanks for all your help so far, I hope this helps you help me.
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It appears to me that when you forced cancel, your 64GB micro usb got corrupted (which should not have happened, but did) that's why your Windows cannot read it. May be some one with a Win7 machine can reformat it for you. It could be something real simple like the MBR string on your card.

If it is taking hours to format NTFS then there is still something wrong with your new card as well
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Kofmasterkof said:
64 GB SD card isn't compatible with a 16gb GS3.
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My S3 clearly allowed up to 64 GB micro USB SD add on.

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sorry, i think it was FAT32
and this is how i did it
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I guess I just got two bad cards then, or maybe the mini tools is to blame... guess I'll try it one more time. Thanks everyone.

I formatted my Sandisk 64GB MicroSDXC card to FAT32 (64k cluster size) with GUIFormat ( http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm). Even after that, it took some finagling to get it to work. I think I had to clear dalvik and also clear cache and data for the media related system apps... after that and a couple reboots (to force a media scan), it worked fine since. Make sure to allow enough time between reboots to allow media scan to complete (around 15 mins should be plenty), otherwise the media data may get out of whack again. Keep in mind that if you format your card correct BEFORE flashing your ROM, you probably won't have to jump through hoops to get your media data corrected.
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[GUIDE] Configure SD card as internal storage in Marshmallow on LG Spirit [H440n]

Hello,
Yesterday I've upgraded software on my LG Spirit to Marshmallow (PL/PLAY). Unfortunately it's not possible to root it yet, so after few hours I started to miss Link2SD functionallity. :crying:
I found that Marshmallow shall offer formating SD Card as Internal storage. Unfortunately, it seems that LG disabled this feature. But... it's still possible to enable it via ADB SHELL! :victory:
Here is how you can do that:
Backup your data - for sure, you don't want to lose all your data stored on SD. If you want to lose it, feel free to skip this step
Enable USB debugging mode in developer settings - to enable developer settings you have to tap 5 Times on the build numer.
Open ADB Shell - just open command prompt (Win+R => Type "cmd" => Click "OK") and navigate to your ADB directory (ex.: "cd c:\adb\"), then use "adb shell" command to start shell.
List avaliable disks to get disk ID. It can be done with following command:
Code:
sm list-disks
You will get your SD Card ID (ex.: disk:179,64, which will be used in next step.
Format your SD card by typing below command. Remember to put correct Disk ID obtained in previous step.
Code:
sm partition disk:179,64 private
This command will cause that whole card will be formated as Internal Storage. If you want to use only part of SD as Internal Storage and rest as standard Removable Disk, for example 50:50, you can use command:
Code:
sm partition disk:179,64 mixed 50
Check your storage settings and enjoy additional internal storage!
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Cool! Gonna try it soon!

Thanks for sharing,it works

I've been doing this since I installed marshmallow but I'm not sure if it works properly. Every app or app data remains in the internal storage unless I manually move the app to sd. Is that normal?

SteSko said:
Hello,
Yesterday I've upgraded software on my LG Spirit to Marshmallow (PL/PLAY). Unfortunately it's not possible to root it yet, so after few hours I started to miss Link2SD functionallity. :crying:
I found that Marshmallow shall offer formating SD Card as Internal storage. Unfortunately, it seems that LG disabled this feature. But... it's still possible to enable it via ADB SHELL! :victory:
Here is how you can do that:
Backup your data - for sure, you don't want to lose all your data stored on SD. If you want to lose it, feel free to skip this step
Enable USB debugging mode in developer settings - to enable developer settings you have to tap 5 Times on the build numer.
Open ADB Shell - just open command prompt (Win+R => Type "cmd" => Click "OK") and navigate to your ADB directory (ex.: "cd c:\adb\"), then use "adb shell" command to start shell.
List avaliable disks to get disk ID. It can be done with following command:
Code:
sm list-disks
You will get your SD Card ID (ex.: disk:179,64, which will be used in next step.
Format your SD card by typing below command. Remember to put correct Disk ID obtained in previous step.
Code:
sm partition disk:179,64 private
This command will cause that whole card will be formated as Internal Storage. If you want to use only part of SD as Internal Storage and rest as standard Removable Disk, for example 50:50, you can use command:
Code:
sm partition disk:179,64 mixed 50
Check your storage settings and enjoy additional internal storage!
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Can this work with any Android device having the marshmallow SW version.
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Applications will move to sd card with all their files?
Będzie przenosić całe aplikację? I czym się to różni od przenoszenia na nie sformatowaną kartę?

What is the difference between formatting the SD card as internal storage and transfering the app from internal to SD?

@SteSko: What class card did you use? I've read people over the internet complaining that the write and read are much slower than internal even with Class 10 cards, and that you need a UHS-I card for storage adoption to make sense.
I would appreciate some info on your performance so far. Cheers!

Alanon said:
@SteSko: What class card did you use? I've read people over the internet complaining that the write and read are much slower than internal even with Class 10 cards, and that you need a UHS-I card for storage adoption to make sense.
I would appreciate some info on your performance so far. Cheers!
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To be fair, class 10 means nothing these days. To qualify as class 10, the card has to have a minimum of 10mb/s transfer speed, while internal memory is uncomparably faster.

jonixas said:
To be fair, class 10 means nothing these days. To qualify as class 10, the card has to have a minimum of 10mb/s transfer speed, while internal memory is uncomparably faster.
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As far as I know, UHS-I guarantees the same measly 10mb/s, just like Class 10. So even if the technology is better overall - which it is - it's not an actual promise, since it only maximizes the speed potential. People have been experiencing wildly differing transfer speeds on various devices even on those cards, because things just didn't stack up properly. That's why I'm so curious how folks are faring with our device.

To return back to normal use this
sm partition disk:179,64 public 100

Just a heads up - my card died as I was trying this. Probably because it was old, and not because of this, but I just wanted to let you guys know. ( The card died right after the command, but I can still see the single partition on my computer , but I can't manipulate the files in any way, and it's really intermittent. )

Hi guys, i have a problem. I adopted my sd card as mixed storage, used 20gb for internal and 10gb for external...today i factory reset the phone and now i cant see the adopted storage only this 10gb external. the problem is that i cannot format the card to be 32gb of external. i basically have 32gb sd card with only 10gb usable because the other part was encrypted by phone and now i cant see it anymore cuz probably the encryption key was lost after reset. i tried using adb shell to list volumes but it says 'private disk mounted null' and 'public disk 179,65'. Also, when i list disks in adb shell it shows me 179,64 and i cant partition it to private with 'sm partition disk:179,64 private'...anyone has a solution to formatting the card to be just normal card used as external memory? Also, i tried using minitool to manually partition the card, there i can see there are 2 partitions, this 10gb partition that is formatted as FAT32 and the 20gb that says 'other format', i believe it is Ext4 but i tried to manually format that partition to Ext4 hoping my phone would recognize it but no use...any thoughts?
i tried sm partition disk:179,64 public but it didnt help...it seems like the phone sees that 179.64 disk as potential adopting disk but on the other hand disk is alredy protected by that lost encryption key and since i factory reset the phone i cant go and dig it up

Hmm, guys, I did this in the past and if I recall correctly you should click on the SD card in the storage menu, go to the options and select "Migrate data". I may be wrong, though.

SteSko said:
Hello,
Yesterday I've upgraded software on my LG Spirit to Marshmallow (PL/PLAY). Unfortunately it's not possible to root it yet, so after few hours I started to miss Link2SD functionallity. :crying:
I found that Marshmallow shall offer formating SD Card as Internal storage. Unfortunately, it seems that LG disabled this feature. But... it's still possible to enable it via ADB SHELL! :victory:
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Hello, I followed the directions, and partitioned the sd.
Now how does the thing? I have the memory almost full, the bar is red and there is the danger signal, once the internal filled automatically fills the sd partition?
Thanks

carraretto33 said:
Hello, I followed the directions, and partitioned the sd.
Now how does the thing? I have the memory almost full, the bar is red and there is the danger signal, once the internal filled automatically fills the sd partition?
Thanks
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once you partitioned sd it became your primary storage. this is not expanding but replacing storage..if you have 8gb internal and use 32gb external you wont have 40gb, you will have 32 because once you adopt the external sd as storage it will replace the internal..what you can do is go to settings->storage->internal storage->migrate data to transfer your apps from phone memory to sd card and all future apps will be installed directly to sd

ikova617 said:
once you partitioned sd it became your primary storage. this is not expanding but replacing storage..if you have 8gb internal and use 32gb external you wont have 40gb, you will have 32 because once you adopt the external sd as storage it will replace the internal..what you can do is go to settings->storage->internal storage->migrate data to transfer your apps from phone memory to sd card and all future apps will be installed directly to sd
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Great! Now work perfectly, I have 1,6 gb free in internal and all app (exclude g-app) on sd :good:

ikova617 said:
once you partitioned sd it became your primary storage. this is not expanding but replacing storage..if you have 8gb internal and use 32gb external you wont have 40gb, you will have 32 because once you adopt the external sd as storage it will replace the internal..what you can do is go to settings->storage->internal storage->migrate data to transfer your apps from phone memory to sd card and all future apps will be installed directly to sd
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Amazing, I was missing this. @SteSko it would be nice if you can add this to the first post for future references

@Korelev @carraretto33 guys hit thanks if i was of any help

Thanks @SteSko and @ikova617!

SD card corruption issue on Lineage OS 14.1 on Harpia Moto G4 Play XT1602

It's been a while since I had been using Lineage OS on my Moto G4 Play and apart from losing VoLTE, everything seemed to work fine EXCEPT my external SD card. On my stock ROM, i had my Sandisk 32 GB Class 10 card formatted as internal storage and it worked flawlessly.
I did the same in Lineage OS but everytime, after a month or even few weeks, the SD card gets permanently corrupted. First time it happened, I thought it was the SD card issue, got a brand new one on RMA. Happened the second time, again got a new one and this is the third time it has happened. I find it really hard to believe that cards which were brand new got totally fried up 3 times as a coincidence or fate.
I think, there is either some problem with the OS itself or the phone. XDA folks, help me out. I feel ashamed sending the card for a third RMA.

sng_shivang said:
It's been a while since I had been using Lineage OS on my Moto G4 Play and apart from losing VoLTE, everything seemed to work fine EXCEPT my external SD card. On my stock ROM, i had my Sandisk 32 GB Class 10 card formatted as internal storage and it worked flawlessly.
I did the same in Lineage OS but everytime, after a month or even few weeks, the SD card gets permanently corrupted. First time it happened, I thought it was the SD card issue, got a brand new one on RMA. Happened the second time, again got a new one and this is the third time it has happened. I find it really hard to believe that cards which were brand new got totally fried up 3 times as a coincidence or fate.
I think, there is either some problem with the OS itself or the phone. XDA folks, help me out. I feel ashamed sending the card for a third RMA.
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To my experience we have better stability when using SD as portable storage. And it's easier to repair using a PC.

The solution I found is.
1- have rooted phone 2- enable usb debugging 3- format sd card from Android options as portable . 4- format sdcard as fat32 or ext4. (Fat32 preferably- most recommended) 5) Check sdcard current format with app called disk info . Avoid NTFS format ( this could be the reason it's not formatting as internal storage, Android doesn't support NTFS as internal , and works bad with it as portable) Inside the app check the path of your sdcard.
Download app2sd from somewhere.
use the Partition tool ( as adoptable) inside to create 2nd partitions as vext4
Choose adoptable option and create 2nd Partition as ext4 ( it will actually create a virtual ext4 partition)
choose how much size in each Partition Partition 1 will be internal . Partiion 2 will be external.
So give more than 50% size to 1st Partition this way you might avoid more problems
Press create, you're done.
This method persists for me after reboots.
Thank me from your prayers if it helps.
Details --> go check storage & usb or use disk info to see your new expanded storage size with your new unmounted virtual disk and smile. This new Partition can only use installed apps, but you can't browse it's contents through your Android usb & storage options ( since it's virtual and we're tricking the fuse encryption config) If you actually want to browse this new virtual internal Partition and access it's contents you will have to see the path through disk info APK and access it with root file manager like Total Commander.
Also Do a chkdsk /f from Windows on the sdcard or chkdsk /r to see if the problem is the sdcard or try it in another Android Phone as internal. If it doesn't work in other phones then you know it's the card malfunctioning and not the phone.
This is the dumb error preventing you/us from having persistent storage.
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This is how it looks after applying solution.
That phone came with 16gb storage. Now I added 16gb more with this method , for 32gb total
- Partition 1 with 13gb as virtual internal and Partition 2 as portable with 3 gb remaining. (The virtual Partition cannot be seen, it says 3gb/16gb when actually it should say 0gb/13gb) It's cause I managed to bypassed this encryption