[Q] P601 64GB sdcard unwritable - Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Q&A, Help & Troubl

Hi folks,
I recently got a 64 GB microsd card ( class 4) for my galaxy note 10.1 SM-P601 ( build:JSS15J.P601XXUBMJ9,Baseband601DDUBMJ1).
This card works fine when I use it on my laptop but I am unable to write it on the tablet.I am able to read the data though.
Below is the list of what I have already tried and failed.
1)I have tried rebooting,remounting reinserting
2) As the default format was exFAT I reformatted it into fat32 using fat32 formatter.
3) I tried partitioning the card on laptop into 2 32gb partitions and then using it on the tablet.
4) I have tried SD card accelerators from Play store.
Once I mount the sdcard it shows TOTAL SPACE: 62.5 GB in Settings->General->Storage.When ever I try to write the card it somewhat gets unmounted and shows TOTAL SPACE :0.0 bytes.
Please suggest a solution to make it work

maainux said:
Hi folks,
I recently got a 64 GB microsd card ( class 4) for my galaxy note 10.1 SM-P601 ( build:JSS15J.P601XXUBMJ9,Baseband601DDUBMJ1).
This card works fine when I use it on my laptop but I am unable to write it on the tablet.I am able to read the data though.
Below is the list of what I have already tried and failed.
1)I have tried rebooting,remounting reinserting
2) As the default format was exFAT I reformatted it into fat32 using fat32 formatter.
3) I tried partitioning the card on laptop into 2 32gb partitions and then using it on the tablet.
4) I have tried SD card accelerators from Play store.
Once I mount the sdcard it shows TOTAL SPACE: 62.5 GB in Settings->General->Storage.When ever I try to write the card it somewhat gets unmounted and shows TOTAL SPACE :0.0 bytes.
Please suggest a solution to make it work
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Have you formated it in the GN 2014?
Also, I wouldn't use a Class 4.. Just my opinion.
Also, they have some bad 64gb cards out there.. I would get a name brand 64gb class 10 from BestBuy, Staples, etc.. Format it GN 2014. If everything works, then the problem was the sd card.
I have a Sandisk Ultra 64gb Class 10 in my GN 2014 and my Note 3.. both work perfectly.

Hi gurus,
The Idea is to make the the 64 gb card (that working fine on my laptop) work on my note 10.1.
Please help .
What could be the possible reason.

maainux said:
Hi gurus,
The Idea is to make the the 64 gb card (that working fine on my laptop) work on my note 10.1.
Please help .
What could be the possible reason.
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As you have tried several things, can you please tell us exactly what your situation is now so we can help you.

If the card is a used one, it may have been formatted as FAT32, to work in a non-Sdxc compatible device. The Sdxc capable note may boycott the card because of violation of the specs, so reformat it to exFat.
It was similar with 4GB SD cards, which shall not exist by spec, but worked fine in Sd devices, not in Sdhc ones.

Experiencing the same
maainux said:
Hi folks,
I recently got a 64 GB microsd card ( class 4) for my galaxy note 10.1 SM-P601 ( build:JSS15J.P601XXUBMJ9,Baseband601DDUBMJ1).
This card works fine when I use it on my laptop but I am unable to write it on the tablet.I am able to read the data though.
Below is the list of what I have already tried and failed.
1)I have tried rebooting,remounting reinserting
2) As the default format was exFAT I reformatted it into fat32 using fat32 formatter.
3) I tried partitioning the card on laptop into 2 32gb partitions and then using it on the tablet.
4) I have tried SD card accelerators from Play store.
Once I mount the sdcard it shows TOTAL SPACE: 62.5 GB in Settings->General->Storage.When ever I try to write the card it somewhat gets unmounted and shows TOTAL SPACE :0.0 bytes.
Please suggest a solution to make it work
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Hi maainux, I'm experiencing the same problem here, have you found any solution?
Mine is a SM-P601 / Android 4.3 / Build: JSS15J.P601UBUBMJ4 / Baseband: P601UBUBMJ1 (Fully Stock)
I tried 3 64gb micro sd card: SanDisk Ultra, Samsung, and a generic one. For both 3 the same results, as following:
1 - If I let the tablet format the card (exFAT), it can be mounted but gets suddenly unmounted when I try to write on it and shows TOTAL SPACE :0.0 bytes just like yours. I installed BTSync, when I tried to configure the sync on the tabled by selecting the sd card as the destination folder for the files, the app give a message saying it don't have permission to access that folder and gets unmounted. Tried rebooting, remounting, reinserting, and nothing change.
2 - If I format to fat32 as a logical partition using Minitool Partition Wizard, I get the same behavior as above description.
3 - If I format to fat32 as a primary partition using Minitool Partition Wizard, I can create folders but can't delete them, when I try to delete via "My Files" it says "deletion failed". I tried ES File Explorer, get the same. I was able to configure BTSync, it can copy the files from my PC folder, but when I delete some file in the PC it can't be deleted on the tablet and the BTSync app shows a message stating it can't identify the destination folder on the tablet.
I have some micro sd cards laying around, tried SanDisk 32gb, 16gb and 8gb, both 3 worked flawlessly on the tablet. I noticed the tablet format any <32gb card as fat32, and the 64gb as exFat, this make me think that was related to file system format, but it's not. Seems something related to permissions, like the KitKat 4.4 guys are experiencing. The point is I'm completely newbie on Android and have ZERO knowledge on Linux/Unix, so I have no Idea on how to solve this.
Can you guys help me?
Thanks in advance.

Hi guys
have you found any solution?
Thanks

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Sandisk Ultra SDXC Card Problem - Confirmed

I have a Sandisk Ultra SDXC 64GB Class 10 UHS-1 Micro SD card in my T999 T-Mobile Galaxy S III phone.
The card has become "damaged" (Samsung's term). 4 times now. Please note that the card works fine on my Window 7 PC. This last time I formatted the card in the phone, put the card in the PC, copied a bunch of files to it (about 3GB) and then put the card back into the phone. And the phone said that the card might be damaged. I was sure to unmount the card before removing it.
I called T-Mobile tech support and they know nothing about it.
I called Sandisk and they said "There are known problems with Samsung Phones and Tablets and Sandisk Class 10 cards. Samsung is aware of this and working on it. Would you like us to replace your Class 10 UHS-1 card with a Class 6 card?"
I called Samsung tech support and they know nothing about it and are not setup to tell their engineers about issues. The only way to report an issue to engineering is via email.
Let's make a loud stink about this so Samsung/T-Mobile will fix it.
Follow up on original post:
I went out and purchased the recommended Sandisk 64 GB SDXC Class 6 memory card and the problems are exactly the same as with the Class 10 card.
The problem seems to appear when there is more that 4GB (I'm not sure if it is exactly the 4GB barrier or not) on the card the Galaxy S III has a problem mounting the card. Note that once the card has gone greater than 4 GB even deleting files to reduce it below 4 GB does not allow the card to be mounted.
On the class ten card I was able to successfully run the fsck -t exfat command on the card that Android would not mount. fsck returned no errors or problems found.
My testing is rather limited but I can say: The T-Mobile Galaxy S III (T999) does not work correctly with SanDisk Ultra 64 GB SDXC memory cards (class 6 or Class 10)
Please, let's spread this around so that maybe Samsung, T-Mobile and SanDisk will learn how to work together and solve the problem for the sake of their customers.
I put the new card in the phone and formatted it in the phone.
I don't quite understand how you got 2 crap microsd card, I'm using a Samsung ultra 32gb class 10 just fine, never had one problem mounting it never seen one error message. Sorry
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achmedclaus said:
I don't quite understand how you got 2 crap microsd card, I'm using a Samsung ultra 32gb class 10 just fine, never had one problem mounting it never seen one error message. Sorry
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I think it is a software problem with the 64 GB Micro SDXC Card.
I have a Sandisk Ultra SDXC 64GB Class 10 UHS-1 in my Galaxy SIII and have never had an issue. I had problems formatting the card in my PC, So i just threw it in the phone and formatted it there. It was formatted and I have loaded about 25gb of music, 5gb of pictures through Cheetah Sync without issue.
picachux said:
I have a Sandisk Ultra SDXC 64GB Class 10 UHS-1 in my Galaxy SIII and have never had an issue. I had problems formatting the card in my PC, So i just threw it in the phone and formatted it there. It was formatted and I have loaded about 25gb of music, 5gb of pictures through Cheetah Sync without issue.
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Have you rebooted your phone or unmounted and remounted the card? That is when the problems occur.
I believe that there is a bug in the code the Samsung uses to check the card prior to mounting. They are doing more than just a simple
fsck -t exfat.
I tried a 32 GB SDHC Samsung Class 10 card with the exact same data that was on the 64GB SDXC card without any problems. It is my belief that there is a bug in exFAT code in the Galaxy S III.
Thanks for your comments.
I have only unmounted the card twice to kickstart the media scan after loading some music and I reboot my phone every 2 days or so.
ChitownWingMan said:
Have you rebooted your phone or unmounted and remounted the card? That is when the problems occur.
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I've reboot my phone all the time—I don't have any problems. I don't mount/unmount very often, but just tried it now and everything appears to be fine.
My card is a 64 GB class 5 SanDisk, formatted FAT32 (done on a Linux machine).
tamasrepus said:
I've reboot my phone all the time—I don't have any problems. I don't mount/unmount very often, but just tried it now and everything appears to be fine.
My card is a 64 GB class 5 SanDisk, formatted FAT32 (done on a Linux machine).
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I believe the bug is in the exFAT drivers in the S III.
I formatted the card in the S III under the mistaken assumption that the phone would know best.
The theoretical maximum size of FAT32 is 2TB. However, since Microsoft in their infinite wisdom decided only to support FAT32 up to 32GB (most likely to force people to use NTFS) support for FAT32 above 32GB is spotty and unreliable.
This being said if you format a 32GB card or smaller in the Galaxy S III, it will be formatted FAT32. If you format a 64GB (or greater I presume) in the Galaxy S III, it will be formatted exFAT.
I will try formatting the card as a 64GB FAT32 partition. However, this will mess up my using a USB 3.0 card reader (at 5Gb/S transfer rate) to write to the card. Writing to the card via WiFi is interminably slow by comparison.
Sounds like windows is damaging the exFAT partition when you plug it in to your computer to transfer stuff. I've never done that because I just use Cheetah Sync to sync my iTunes(25gb) folder to my sdxc card and to sync my pictures/videos from the sdxc to my pc.
ChitownWingMan said:
I believe the bug is in the exFAT drivers in the S III.
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Seems that way to me too. exFAT is not in Linux upstream, so I imagine Samsung just bought a binary driver from someone. Who knows the quality.
I will try formatting the card as a 64GB FAT32 partition. However, this will mess up my using a USB 3.0 card reader (at 5Gb/S transfer rate) to write to the card. Writing to the card via WiFi is interminably slow by comparison.
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What does the card reader have to do with it? I've a USB 3.0 card reader, and my 64 GB FAT32-formatted fine.
As I recommended in the other thread, use a Linux Live CD to format your SD card.
tamasrepus said:
Seems that way to me too. exFAT is not in Linux upstream, so I imagine Samsung just bought a binary driver from someone. Who knows the quality.
What does the card reader have to do with it? I've a USB 3.0 card reader, and my 64 GB FAT32-formatted fine.
As I recommended in the other thread, use a Linux Live CD to format your SD card.
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or use Partition Wizard Home Edition (free)(windows) for large fat32 format jobs works perfectly and the price is right http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html
picachux said:
Sounds like windows is damaging the exFAT partition when you plug it in to your computer to transfer stuff. I've never done that because I just use Cheetah Sync to sync my iTunes(25gb) folder to my sdxc card and to sync my pictures/videos from the sdxc to my pc.
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Because I thought the same thing one of the tests that I performed was to never remove the card from the phone. I did all of my copying to and from the card via File Expert Web Sharing. One day I ran the phone battery down and the phone rebooted. When it came back up it was unable to verify the card. However, fsck -t exfat found no problems with the card.
One interesting point, I was using Cheetah Sync (a great program) last night to copy a TitaniumBackup directory to the phone and it failed. Here is a copy of the email I sent to the developer:
The destination directory contains 11,841 files totaling 2.93GB and Cheetah needs to download 1917 files and is failing on the 1st file with the error "Sync Error - I/O error downloading files.".
Note: Cheetah Sync had already copied almost 7,000 files. It originally failed during a copy of almost 9,000 files. I restarted
the sync and that is why it failed on 1 of 1,917 files.
I am using a T-Mobile Galaxy S III (Model SGH-T999) with 32 GB internal memory and a 32 GB external SD Card (Samsung Class 10).
The source directory is c:\phone\card_backup\TitaniumBackup and the destination directory is /mnt/extSdCard/TitaniumBackup.
I am able to manually create a file in that directory using a file explorer.
tamasrepus said:
Seems that way to me too. exFAT is not in Linux upstream, so I imagine Samsung just bought a binary driver from someone. Who knows the quality.
What does the card reader have to do with it? I've a USB 3.0 card reader, and my 64 GB FAT32-formatted fine.
As I recommended in the other thread, use a Linux Live CD to format your SD card.
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The card reader is not the issue just the mechanism to allow me to copy files quickly from/to the card.
How Windows will handle a FAT32 partition greater than 32GB is my concern. In the past I have always used NTFS for drives/cards greater than 32GB because FAT32 has a 4GB - 1 file size limit and I have many video files that are larger then that.
MiniTool Partition Wizard and Easeus Partition Master can both also make a 64GB FAT32 partition.
Thanks...
Update
There is an update to this thread here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=29904990&postcount=10

[Q] Having trouble with my Sandisk 32gb sdcard

Like the title says, When I bought my microSDcard and inserted it in my N7105, it worked fine for a couple of weeks. But all of a sudden it appears" Blank sd card or has unsupported file system". Yes, I thought it was my phone's problem, I tried to format the card in my N7105, but it did not work( tried to unmount and mount but also failed). So i put the card in a card reader and plugged into computer trying to format it in my computer. But as u can see, Failed. I've tried different applications to see if i can solve it, like Guiformat, SDformatter(v3.1, v4.0), Formatting it through Disk Management and H2testw(v1.4), All of them are failed.
Please, i just want my 32gb sdcard come back
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is there no one have the same problem like mine
some of us are having a problem with sandisk ultra sd cards 32gb/64 gb...they are working good for 2-3months and suddenly you get these problems...dont know if it is due to custom kernel or due to manufacturing problems on san disk ....
some say on touchwiz roms, you need exfat formatting and on aokp and CM roms you need fat32 because the custom kernels dont recognise exfat formats
all i can say is try to format the card inside phone or use stock kernel and see
Fill no more than 16 gb on your SanDisk ultra sdhc 32gb card. ..solved the issue for me. ..( I also formatted the sd card in phone)
The phone also formats the sd in fat32 format
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[Q] Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 Microsd issues

Hello I'm quite new to andriods and the process of rooting and flashing, but I've done alot of research. I have quite a lot of issues with my 64gb microsd. Essentially what i wanted to do was to put apps and files such as movies/shows into it. I tried using app2sd, link2sd etc... it doesn't work. Now putting aside that I don't want to put apps on my sd card anymore, I tried just putting the movies/shows into my microsd. The micro sd card tends to get corrupted or some files don't show that I've moved from my computer to my microsd. It sometimes even gets corrupted that both the tablet and the computer will not be able to read it. I have tried to partition it using all of the types (ex4, 3, 2, FAT32 etc..) Now does anyone have a clue on how to make it so I can solve my issue? ( I just want to put movies, videos into it)
P.S. I've also tried two different brands of micro sd cards. (both 64gb)
sxcdennis said:
Hello I'm quite new to andriods and the process of rooting and flashing, but I've done alot of research. I have quite a lot of issues with my 64gb microsd. Essentially what i wanted to do was to put apps and files such as movies/shows into it. I tried using app2sd, link2sd etc... it doesn't work. Now putting aside that I don't want to put apps on my sd card anymore, I tried just putting the movies/shows into my microsd. The micro sd card tends to get corrupted or some files don't show that I've moved from my computer to my microsd. It sometimes even gets corrupted that both the tablet and the computer will not be able to read it. I have tried to partition it using all of the types (ex4, 3, 2, FAT32 etc..) Now does anyone have a clue on how to make it so I can solve my issue? ( I just want to put movies, videos into it)
P.S. I've also tried two different brands of micro sd cards. (both 64gb)
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Try a 32G one or even smaller and I bet it will work
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Have you tried to format the card directly from the tablet storage settings? Also, have you tried to format it as exFat or vFat? (Theriugh linux or gparted live disk). The last option would be finding a person that has a tab/phone that supports 64gb cards and have them try to format it, unmount, and stuff it in your tab and try it...
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bl2128 said:
Have you tried to format the card directly from the tablet storage settings? Also, have you tried to format it as exFat or vFat? (Theriugh linux or gparted live disk). The last option would be finding a person that has a tab/phone that supports 64gb cards and have them try to format it, unmount, and stuff it in your tab and try it...
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I've tried to format using the tablet directly, and using my phone (note II) to do that. After it formats and i put the stuff in, the files either get corrupted or the sd card. I am unmounting the sd card correctly so it's not that issue. My other try that I'm going to do is try to format it with an apple computer or linux.
i also have problem with my 32gb microsd, if i insert it on my tab 3 7.0 i can't put any files to it. tried formatting it on my tab but still problem exist. also i've inserted the card on my microsd card reader and on my other devices and it's working fine. when i insert it back on my tab the filenames on the sdcard are change with some weird symbols. now i'm using a 2gb and working on my tab. don't know which of the two (32gb card or my tab) has the problem..

System reboots when installing application with external SDXC

I am running CIVZ v3.5 ROM (4.2.2) with an external Toshiba 64GB SDXC card (exFAT format).
Every time I tried to update an app with Play Store, the system will reboot. If I install the apk instead, it will say insufficient memory. However, once I remove the external SDXC card, everything installs normally.
Is there anybody with a similar problem? Any suggestions to use the external SDXC card normally with Note 8.0? I tried formatting the card to FAT32, but it always say the card is corrupt and asks me to format (back to exFAT).
Thanks.
what if you unmount the card instead of removing it, before installing.
I am running a 64 Gig sdxc in exfat and do not have such issues.
however, Do you have a lot of apps moved: app > sd card ?
On One of my Older samsung devices similar used to happen when you moved more than a certain number of apps to sd card.
Solution was to slowly move few apps back to local memory until the problem went away. May or may not work for you though.
I don't have any apps moved to the external sd card. Sometimes the SD card would show up as 0GB under "storage."
I have checked for errors, but can't find any. Used h2testw and the card is indeed 64GB.
Hello, fellows! Please be so kind to inform whether there is an option for note 8 to switch the data between internal memory & sd-ext. Similar to this issue, but for note 8: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1857391
Found some manuals, but they all ask to flash the device with new rom. I would prefer to create sd-ext card via PC. Is it possible?
Any ways to use sd card as the apps storage place are of great demand!
Thank you all in advance! ,)
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[Q] Ext4 Memory Card 64 GB cannot be formatted

Dear Brainaics
I've got an issue,
My sd card is 64 gb sandisk class 10
I was using Pro Bam android 4.4.1 on my n7100
So I formatted my memory card within the rom.. It was fat 32 or ntfs
Later I got some issues with the rom, So I installed the stock rooted rom.
Ever since that I've been getting an unsupported file system.
Format Card - It shows formatting - then unsupported file system error - This goes on and on.
So i tried mounting it in Linux Ubuntu & try to format using gparted & terminal.
My data is there.. The card reads & all.
But I can't format it.
These are all the steps i've taken, I even tried sd formatter I got somewhere from xda!
Any useful info would be greatly appreciated by me offcourse mentally.
I mean i crave for knowing the reason behind this anomaly!
Have a good day...
Cheers
Can you delete any files on the card? I had a 64gb SanDisk card that had all my data but I couldn't format it, copy files or delete files from it, either on my phone or laptop.
SanDisk replaced it for me as it had developed a fault.
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