I bought a new sd card...what is the best way to format it and what program to use? Tia
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Use your phone to do it from the storage menu .
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Do this,
Settings
General
Storage
Scroll to Sd card
Format sd card
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pvchip3 said:
I bought a new sd card...what is the best way to format it and what program to use? Tia
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To format the microSD card on your mobile device, from the Home screen, touch Menu key > Settings > General Settings > Storage Storage Icon .
Your microSD card information is shown on this screen, along with your device memory. Touch Format SD card. Review the message about data, and touch Format SD card again. Touch Delete all to complete the formatting process.
Warning! Formatting your microSD card will remove all personal information from the card. This information cannot be recovered.
I hope it will helps you. Good Luck
Is it okay if I will use a pc when formatting a sd card?
Usually SDcard come preformatted. If is a large SDcard and you are storing extremely large files like videos you may want to use the exFat rather than Fat32.
You can get free software like SD formatter to format your SDcard card on your PC.
Here is a link about exfat:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT
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smaisonville said:
Usually SDcard come preformatted. If is a large SDcard and you are storing extremely large files like videos you may want to use the exFat rather than Fat32.
You can get free software like SD formatter to format your SDcard card on your PC.
Here is a link about exfat:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT
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Thank you.
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Hello all, I have a 16 GB sd card (actual 14.83GB) and under Settings - SD card and Phone Storage it says that i have 7.04 GB available...basically half...
The problem is that I have nothing THAT BIG!! I copied the SD card over to my computer and it's only 852 MB...What the hell is going on?
Has anyone had this problem? or does anyone have any ideas as to how to figure out what is taking up so much space?
Help is appreciated, thank you.
Do you apps2sd or apps2ext? Also, by chance is there a folder called: LOST.DIR? Lastly, if you take the card OUT of the evo, put it into an adapter, and check free spaces on your PC what does it say? << Perhaps there's some hidden folders your PC cannot see when you just directly copy the files to your PC.
if you have downloaded a rom or somthing to it, plus music eats memory up badly, i suggest reformatting sd card.
go to settings>sd card & phone storage> unmount sd card> format
make sure you get the files you need off of it. akaics, videos, contacts, apps;etc.
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oblivior72 said:
Hello all, I have a 16 GB sd card (actual 14.83GB) and under Settings - SD card and Phone Storage it says that i have 7.04 GB available...basically half...
The problem is that I have nothing THAT BIG!! I copied the SD card over to my computer and it's only 852 MB...What the hell is going on?
Has anyone had this problem? or does anyone have any ideas as to how to figure out what is taking up so much space?
Help is appreciated, thank you.
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Sounds like your card is partitioned.. move your cards over to the computer
Go into recovery
Run partition SD card
Set swap to 0mb
Partition 1 (or whatever its called: main partition ) to full amount of SD card and nothing for ext partition
Hope this was helpful!
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Great ill go ahead give this a try. Thank you very much.
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craigbailey1986 said:
Sounds like your card is partitioned.. move your cards over to the computer
Go into recovery
Run partition SD card
Set swap to 0mb
Partition 1 (or whatever its called: main partition ) to full amount of SD card and nothing for ext partition
Hope this was helpful!
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Thanks man it worked!
Did you get the card from eBay?
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Is there anyway to format external sdcard without formatin internal one?
Im on miui rom and when i try to format external sdcard from settings menu it formats external and internal cards,anyway just to format external?
Thanx in advance.
Im on mac so no i cant use pc to do it.
If you switch to a touchwiz rom you can go to settings>storage, then unmount your sd and format from the phone
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chrisbass said:
If you switch to a touchwiz rom you can go to settings>storage, then unmount your sd and format from the phone
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Twiz and miui both unmount internal sdcard and format it but not external,sht is rediculous.I cant even mount external sd in cwm to reformat it.
Find a friend with an android...older one preferably ...use theirs to format....that's what I did
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lviv73 said:
Twiz and miui both unmount internal sdcard and format it but not external,sht is rediculous.I cant even mount external sd in cwm to reformat it.
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you can do it with touchwiz. Settings>storage. First listing will be external (sd card) which will have the option to unmount and format. Second listed will be usb storage which is your internal memory and will also have it's own option to format. Just press unmount SD card under external then it will highlight the option to format
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thatdudepoops said:
Find a friend with an android...older one preferably ...use theirs to format....that's what I did
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Dude........best name ever!!!
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My SD card is 2GB. I have one big partition (about 1.7GB) and another ext4 partition for INT2EXT scripts...
So, how can I make to have 2 partitions: one about 1.5GB and the other one 0.5GB?
I have to shrink bigger partition and extend the smaller one somehow...
And I don't have card reader.
With minitool partition you can resize partitions while saving their data (if all goes right-so do a backup anyway)
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Ok, but I heard that I need card reader or it'll brick the SD card... Is that true?
here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=SD_card_partitioning
requirements: USB SD Card reader.
RonninDAMN said:
Ok, but I heard that I need card reader or it'll brick the SD card... Is that true?
here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=SD_card_partitioning
requirements: USB SD Card reader.
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you can do a sd card partition in cwm recovery. it's in advanced options. just be sure to save all of your data first
lukas12153 said:
you can do a sd card partition in cwm recovery. it's in advanced options. just be sure to save all of your data first
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It will create another partition, so I'll have 3 partitions. That's not what i want.
R: [Q] How to do a repartition?
You can use a USB card reader or a MicroSD reader; for sure you can't use your phone as bridge for mounting sd card.
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OK, I think I'll buy it tomorrow... The cheaper one.
ItachiSama said:
You can use a USB card reader or a MicroSD reader; for sure you can't use your phone as bridge for mounting sd card.
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I use minitool partition while the card is in my phone. But now with my new pc I have a build in card reader.
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Can I pre-format the external SD card for EXT2/3/4 filesystem and use it in stock Note 2?
To format I can use a card reader and Linux desktop computer say...
Also what would happen with accessing such a card from PC (Windows, Linux?)
I think you can format sd card with phone itself if that's what you are asking.
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UtkarshGupta said:
I think you can format sd card with phone itself if that's what you are asking.
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Seems like the phone formats it with exFAT or FAT32 only depending on the ROM.
And the formatting is not a problem, I can always format from Linux.
The Q is how would the phone react? And what about accessing the SD from PC?
Well testing it yourself wouldn't hurt.
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Hi everybody,
I am having some issues with my sd card and I want to format it. I am asking what is the best format to do. my sd card is class 10 samsung , my device is SGN II .
Thanx in Advance
I always try to format on computer and then reformat in the device you will be using and had best results this way. Nope this helps!
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Always format any SD card in the device in which it will be used. This will always work and ensures that the SD card has the correct format for the device.
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jeffrey10000 said:
Always format any SD card in the device in which it will be used. This will always work and ensures that the SD card has the correct format for the device.
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Works best for me when I have troubles with my SD card.
I always format from the pc in fat 32, the only problem is that you won't be able to write files bigger than 4GB into the sd