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Got my Note II. Everything is fine except the screen is too small. I seriously wish was 6 inch.
Anyways, the media player allows me to directly play .mkv movies. But I can not copy movie files onto the microSD that are largerthan 4 GB. Is there a way to overcome it?
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Got my Note II. Everything is fine except the screen is too small. I seriously wish was 6 inch.
Anyways, the media player allows me to directly play .mkv movies. But I can not copy movie files onto the microSD that are largerthan 4 GB. Is there a way to overcome it?
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Split them in half and add this in between!
Could you tell me more pls? What program? Does it split the movies without having to re-encode it? Thanks!
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Format your card with exFAT & you should be good to go. If you go that route, make sure you are using CWM since TWRP doesn't support exFAT SDCards.
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Format your card with exFAT & you should be good to go. If you go that route, make sure you are using CWM since TWRP doesn't support exFAT SDCards.
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What he said. If you format your card in the phone it will use exfat.
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fat32 formatted sd cards which is what most sd cards under 64GB come with can only accept files 4GB and smaller. xsplit works well to split videos its free open source
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Format your card with exFAT & you should be good to go. If you go that route, make sure you are using CWM since TWRP doesn't support exFAT SDCards.
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What does CWM and TWRP stand for?
How do you install CWM on the Galaxy Note 2? Is there a link for this?
cwm is clock work mod. it is a replacement bootloader like the bios on your computer. it requires you to root. i cant remember what twrp stands for but its a competing bootloader.
TWRP= Team Win Recovery Project
Anyone knows a good, reliable software that formats to exFAT? Or does windows offer the option on it's own when trying to format? Still haven't received my micro sd, but I want to be ready for when it arrives.
Also, are there any cons to using exFAT, besides TWRP not supporting it?
the phone itself should do exfat samsung licenses the patent for it from microsoft. the stock format is fat32.
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Got my Note II. Everything is fine except the screen is too small. I seriously wish was 6 inch.
Anyways, the media player allows me to directly play .mkv movies. But I can not copy movie files onto the microSD that are largerthan 4 GB. Is there a way to overcome it?
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Did you just really complain that the screen is too small!!!???
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Did you just really complain that the screen is too small!!!???
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Yes I did. Isn't that clear to you?
... how in the remotest frozen tundra is this phones screen to small? less than 2 diagonal inches. 1.5 to be exact and u are using a tablet. if you want that just get a 7" tab with a 3g connection
Hey I think I made it clear in my original post that I wish it's 6 inches. Now show me a tablet with that size pls...
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there are none
You didn't say good tablet....
http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/6-inch-android-tablet-pc.html
FAT32 is the limitation that will not allow >4GB file size. That is not a problem on exFAT or NTFS, but I'm not sure SGN2 reads either standard.
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the phone itself should do exfat samsung licenses the patent for it from microsoft. the stock format is fat32.
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Can you confirm that SGN2 can read exFAT? It will not present an option to format it that standard. I get FAT32 on my 32GB microSD when formatting on the phone.
<EDIT> I really don't need movie files that large on my phone, I handbrake then down to acceptable sizes <4GB.
My microSD card is formatted with exFAT but I still can't copy larger than 4 GB files...
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You didn't say good tablet....
http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/6-inch-android-tablet-pc.html
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good tablet
Partially my fault for not researching jellybean...just read about how smooth it was & didnt expect them to take features away. I recall reading the article about the bs reason saying people confuse the internal & external memory. U would think they wouldve learned from wp7 when they took away sd support & started being like apple. I figured it was bs article. I wasnt even planning on buying a phone but my 4g slide tapped out after a few case less drops. I was just gonna buy another mytouch since theres not much of high end qwerty selection but gn2 note caught my eye.
I was sort of mad too, but around 10gb for apps has been plenty for me when I put everything else on external memory.
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I was sort of mad too, but around 10gb for apps has been plenty for me when I put everything else on external memory.
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Im deleting apps all the time to be able to get new one.
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There has to be a way around this...
It's not that people confuse the memory. The problem is that when an app is put onto your SD card, it cannot sync correctly with the operating system. Therefore, Google is doing what they can to keep users from putting apps onto their SD cards. Hence the lack of the SD slot in Nexus devices.
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It's not that people confuse the memory. The problem is that when an app is put onto your SD card, it cannot sync correctly with the operating system. Therefore, Google is doing what they can to keep users from putting apps onto their SD cards. Hence the lack of the SD slot in Nexus devices.
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u sound like a pr rep lol...im still a android newbie but Ive never have ne problems with apps relating to my sd. If a app/game works best or only on the phones memory most developers ive came have stated up front it even back to my wm days.
I'm pissed at this too. This app2sd and the "no more free tethering" thing is pushing me over the edge to go rooted.
I'll never buy a Nexus because of their flawed philosophy that Google has adopted:
1. Non removable battery.
2. No removable storage. "Everything belongs in the Cloud" I call BS!
I've got a 64 Gb SD card that's somewhat useless if I can't install apps on it. And since only the 16 Gb versions of the Note 2 are in circulation it's very disappointing.
The ship has sailed. Google hates external storage. Don't expect to ever see official OS support for it going forward. It's irritating but reality.
I agree this is total bs. I will not buy another phone that doesnt have external sd. Had an Htc one S and I hated it for that reason. (sense is terrible also)
Hope there's an easy fix soon since I use the GN2 as my table and smartphone now. Didn't have any issues before since I had most games on my N7 but now I'm out of room
There are work arounds. But real fix as of this date.
This is Samsung following Google wishes. I just hope the GN3 will have at least 64gb of internal storage. Then we can use the SD the way Google wants SD cards used. The worst part is that many apps that download media content into your device doesn't allow to save the media content within the extSdCard. That is really annoying. Without being able to use the extSdCard as a media content storage then what does Google expect we use SD cards for?
Samsung is part in fault too. Samsung is well known to put too little storage and main memory into PPC devices. I remember my Samsung Omnia i910. I had to move so many files from the main memory into the storage memory and even into SD card. Then I had to work on other files, like the registry, ini files, etc.. to point to the files I moved. All just to get more space within the main memory for more apps. Windows OS, even Windows Mobile, added major files within the Windows directory every time you install another app that took so much room within the smallest main memory. Samsung is doing similar with GN2. 10gb is barely any room now days with Android.
Samsung needs to lead the pack all the way. SD card, large screen and large capacity of removable battery, 1.6 quad-core, 2gb RAM is not enough to lead the pack all the way. They also need to lead the pack with 1080+ res screen and 64gb+ internal storage memory. I feel that Samsung miss the "leader of the pack" mark with GN2. Samsung needs to realize they are competing against other Androids as well as iPhone.
But the blame starts at Google on app2sd issue.
Switch internal to external(sdcard)
want to have more app storage space for your HD games and what not, here’s a simple App2SD script you can use to store all of your apps on your microSD card. *This will essentially swap your internal storage with your microSD card and allow you to use up to 64GB of space (if you use 64GB microSD card).This should work on all the Galaxy Note 2, test on international GT-N7100, T-Mobile SGH-T889, and Sprint SPH-L900.
Step 1. First, you will need a rooted Galaxy Note 2. *This will work on any custom ROMs except CM10 or AOKP.
Step 2. Second, I highly recommend you to format your microSD card before using this. *Also, after formatting you can copy the contents of your internal storage to your microSD card
Step 3. Download the script on your phone: downloadandroidrom.com/file/GalaxyNote2/app2sdNote2
Step 4. Install and open Script Manager app on Play Store.
Step 5. Using Script Manager app, find the app2sd script on your microSD card and enable “SU” and “Boot”. Step 6. Reboot. *You should now see your microSD card used as internal storage and internal storage as microSD card.
Will this work with a rooted phone but with stock rom? How effective is this method?
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I've been running the storage swap script for a couple months now with no issues. I've used it on stock based roms kernel s along with custom ones as well. I'm using a 32GB fat 32 and am not sure if it supports exfat on 64 cards. Go look for it via search. It's in the sgs3 section somewhere. It's truly a lifesaver for us app/game hoarders
Ill look into that i have a 64gb card i would really like to put to use i only have 2gb available after only 4 games, do you have a link don where to get instructions and files?
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This really is more of an issue with app developers not allowing data to be stored on extsdcard. They would only need to pop up a box with options of were to store the large data files. It could look like this:
search device for sdcard implementation (/sdcard, /extsdcard, /sdacard/ext/, etc.)
pop-up box displays radio button with each storage location, really cool deb's would add option for custom location.
Set location to variable, use variable throughout program.
Just my 2 cents, I think that either this needs to occur or google require a set way of implementing internal/external SD cards.
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Root and install Directory Bind
I was disappointed too and only got 1gb left on my internal and have 64 gb almost unused mSD. So I finally decided to root my phone and install Directory Bind.
Working as intended now.
I have a post in the themes & apps forum with an app I found on the market that let's you store your game data onto an sd card.
It's called gl2sd, you can check in that forum (there's a direct link to it), or just search the market.
Not sure it supports exfat, but it's worth a quick look.
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This really is more of an issue with app developers not allowing data to be stored on extsdcard. They would only need to pop up a box with options of were to store the large data files. It could look like this:
search device for sdcard implementation (/sdcard, /extsdcard, /sdacard/ext/, etc.)
pop-up box displays radio button with each storage location, really cool deb's would add option for custom location.
Set location to variable, use variable throughout program.
Just my 2 cents, I think that either this needs to occur or google require a set way of implementing internal/external SD cards.
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Excellent point, friend! You always make good/useful comments and could always use more users like you.:highfive: A few minor points, I do miss move to sd option so the lack of kinda falls in line with this forced move to dropbox, cloud, lack of sd card etc. Oh sh!t don't get me started on the Nextel line these days. I have to say the manufacturers and Google are just as responsible as developers. They're all guilty really lol Besides those poor moves though, Android is doing great. I am so glad I preordered that G1 many moons ago. I guess its all who you ask I guess and sometimes we are stuck in our old ways... even us techies. Fo example, I was really stubborn about qwertys and surprisingly don't miss it. So who knows? It's either we're too stubborn to change or we don't like being told what to do.... maybe both Either way, the storage swap script works flawlessly once you set it up properly. As I mentioned earlier, not sure about 64 exfat but I'm sure you can switch it to fat 32 plus all you cm10 fans will have done this already. Hope that helps some...
I use this app to move big data files to the external sd https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.slf.ListglApp&hl=en
I also use this app to get around the "insufficient storage" error that sometimes occurs https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.buak.Link2SD
I saw a very lengthy and complicated way to use an sdcard as the primary storage (involving scripts, etc). So here's my quick question. I have rooted my device and want t know, is there an app or something very simple I can follow so I can start installing apps onto my 64GB sdcard? Right now it's just a piece of plastic with nothing on it.
Any help would be appreciated!
I am using this app it works perfect with Samsung 64gb uhs1 sd just change dev access 179:17 https://play.google.com/store/apps/...251bGwsMSwxLDIxMiwiZXUuY29kbGFiLmludDJleHQiXQ..
Quick questions
Thank you for the reply, I have figured it out now
Interesting - let us know if it's got any gotchas, but it looks like it may do a lot of what the scripts I put together did.
Only gotcha is...
roustabout said:
Interesting - let us know if it's got any gotchas, but it looks like it may do a lot of what the scripts I put together did.
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The only "gotcha" that this program has is as follows: If you reboot your device or power it off, you have to reapply the "fix". It doesn't know how to modify the boot rom or whatever it's called to reapply the patch. No big deal since it's literally just two clicks. One to open the app, the other click to "Apply fix".
Hope this helps someone
For me, that'd be a big gotcha - I reboot mine all the time
I took a run at setting it up and I actually found it harder to be sure of what I was doing than when I wrote the scripts but that's really just down to taste.
One thing I saw in the writeup: if you do enable init.d (scripts that run at boot time) this app can create a script which does its magic at startup.
I have a sneaking suspicion that boot scripts are going to be available to everyone pretty soon.
Use SD Card as internal memory or RAM
You can use your SD Card as an internal memory storage space by using "Link2SD" app. There is another app known as "Swapper" (Swapper2 is the latest version), by using which you can use a segment of your SD Card as your RAM.
In both the cases you actually dedicate a portion of your SD Card to use as internal memory or RAM (whatever you desire).
NOTE: In both the cases, i.e for RAM and internal memory, you first have to repartition your SD Card and for that i must recommend you to use "MiniTool Partition Wizard" app.
For more info simply ask me
Thanks for the information. MPW needs the card out of the Note I found out. Makes sense.
Minitool Partition Wizard doesn't see my Note. What am I missing?
Windows 7 64bit, GT-N5110
Thanks everyone for your contributions,
using the external microSD as RAM and/or internal storage sounds great, but.... how does it perform in real life?
I mean we all know that swapping RAM and HDD in a desktop PC isn't gonna speed up things, right?
And although it's an sd card and not an HDD it is none the less a lot slower than the built in memory I would guess.
Does somebody have solid knowledge about it? Is there an impact on app loading speeds and background OS operations?
Thank you very much in advance,
Yoko
hi! i am currently using a 64gb sandisk micro sd as my external memory. can i ask if this app works with the note 8: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.codlab.int2ext#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDIxMiwiZXUuY29kbGFiLmludDJleHQiXQ
if it works, do i just follow the instructions on the description? if not, can someone give me a step by step guide? sorry, i'm new to android, it's my first time having a tablet actually, thanks!
Good sir.... that ist the app we are discussing since post #2
Regards,
Yoko
thanks! i'll try..i'll post again if i have any more questions!
Having been told by samsung customer services not to expect a larger memory device for a while, I'm jumping on this thread to explore my other options as I really had my heart set on the 32GB model. I had limited success when trying this with my ASUS Transformer but I didnt try very hard to make it work to be fair...
Once you have an app like link2sd up and running is there any limitation to what apps you can use it for? My plan is to use it with large games that would otherwise fill up the internal memory.
Are there any performance issues with doing this with large apps due to lower read and write times on a micro SD card vs the internal SD?
Are there any issues if you remove the external SD card when not running those apps (id like to review photos from my camera on my tablet while I am out and about)?
If the answer to these questions are all no, I'll likely order the 16GB tablet ASAP.
Just found this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2285221
Think I will go for FolderMount if I can confirm there are no issues using it with a rooted Note 8.0. Im not fussed about moving the APK files. I'm sure there will be enough room on the internal SD for those. I'll just move the data files.
I dont think there would be any benifit of using a partition of the SD card as SWAP (unless someone can correct me on this). It already has 2 GB and the SWAP will be slow due to the max read write speed of the microSD.
If all goes well I will be picking my tablet up on Sunday ready to start playing
You may want to check out this thread as well:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2276193
Worked wonders for me. Easy as pie.
I currently have a SanDisk 64gig micro sd card in my Asus vivotab rt- ive read that only up to 32gig is supported. Is there any possible issues that can arise from doing this? Or should I just be glad that things have been good so far?
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Should probably use exfat, SDXC has some issues in fat32 like loss of data.
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Ok thanks, how would I go about making that happen? Or would it be easier for me to research it myself and go from there?
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Just put it in any Windows machine, right-click -> Format in Explorer, and choose exFAT instead of FAT32 or whatever.
With that said, I've had absolutely no problem using 64GB microSD cards with FAT32. There's one in my phone right now, and another in my tablet. FAT32 is an old (~1995) and simple format, and it's got limitations (no single file can be bigger than 4GB, for example), but it works and the support for it is extremely broad. ExFAT is a new version, and while all SDXC devices are supposed to support it, in practice I'm not sure how true that is. It shouldn't really matter either way, though.
Heck, if you want to, you could format the card with NTFS. You lose a bit of space due to the extra metadata, but you can the ability to encrypt individual files on the card, set access controls (the "Security" tab of file/folder properties), create symbolic links and junctions, store really huge files, and (possibly most important) you also gain journaling so that if the card is disconnected or loses power during a write, the file system doesn't get corrupted. Not saying you *should* use NTFS, just that you could...
Hi,
I recently bought a Lexar 633x 128GB SD Card that is rated at 95Mbps. Formatted with Android exFAT, the card shows only 20Mbps in Android but in Windows, the same partitioned card shows 96Mbps. I therefore suspect that the problem lies in the cellphone' software or its compatibility with exFAT extension. I have no option to format other than exFAT with Android. I have tried ext4 with TWRP but Android will not detect or mount it even with the mount command.
Any ideas on how I can get the right speed out of the card?
p.s: I am running the latest 2.19.40.22 firmware for ZE551ML
Have you tried formatting to fat32? You'll need to download a program separately to do that on windows
Hello,
FAT32 does not support filesystems larger than 32GB from what I have read. Windows only gives me the exFAT option. Is there a modded tool to bypass this limit?
Is ext4 faster for large files sequetial read?
thanks
EDIT: I found the utility and it works ok under windows but it freezes the cellphone after I insert the card.
@aziz07 hmm, what software did you use to format it? I used this. http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm I always felt fat32 was more stable on my Android device. It doesn't freeze my phone though my sd is 64gb
EDIT: actually, I just did some benchmarks and it looks like it does only read around 20mbps, regardless of the SD I use.
What are you using to test speed? I have a 64gb Evi and sometimes music stutters a but over Bluetooth. Not sure if it's a slow card, a problem with power amp, or just something that happens with Bluetooth audio occasionally
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What are you using to test speed? I have a 64gb Evi and sometimes music stutters a but over Bluetooth. Not sure if it's a slow card, a problem with power amp, or just something that happens with Bluetooth audio occasionally
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Just a random SD card benchmark app lol (a1 SD card), I would say that is more likely to be a problem with Bluetooth because you don't need high speeds for audio playback.
Yes, I used the same format utility but my card is 128gb. I will try again. May I ask what allocation unit size did you use and what is the fastest one?
thanks
Edit: I used the default allocation size and it worked. Its because I changed it to highest value before. I don't know if A1 app ratings are real for read but it shows 201mbps read and 47mbps write. I manually copied a 800mb file and speed was 48-62mbps write. For sure, its caching in RAM somehow to achieve 201mbps read. I guess the 20mbps was surpassed as I was getting ~12mbps write before. Worked A+
Try reformating the card. Whats the make of the sd card?
I had kernel mods applied long time ago though. ZRAM at 1Gb, noop scheduler with 2048Kb read ahead.
I like FAT32 because its the most compatible and the fastest for flash memory from benchmarks.
You guys using the 128gb card show all ur space on phone? Asus was telling me it will only show 64gb.
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You guys using the 128gb card show all ur space on phone? Asus was telling me it will only show 64gb.
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here you go.
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here you go.
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Awesome. Ordering tomorrow
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Same here. Yes, eventhough its advertised as 64gb sd card limit, 128gb cards work perfectly. The thing with FAT32 is the 4Gb file limit, many HD movies or high bandwith video shootings will require >4Gb files. I am still not able to mount ext4 formatted sdcards though. TWRP would recognize but not Android ...
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Yes, I used the same format utility but my card is 128gb. I will try again. May I ask what allocation unit size did you use and what is the fastest one?
thanks
Edit: I used the default allocation size and it worked. Its because I changed it to highest value before. I don't know if A1 app ratings are real for read but it shows 201mbps read and 47mbps write. I manually copied a 800mb file and speed was 48-62mbps write. For sure, its caching in RAM somehow to achieve 201mbps read. I guess the 20mbps was surpassed as I was getting ~12mbps write before. Worked A+
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Sorry I completely forgot to check back on this thread. I'm glad to hear its working better with the default allocation size, I think I probably changed it to the highest as well because after formating with the default size as well its working great .