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What filesystem should I format my 32GB microsd card to?

So I got a great deal on a class 10 32GB Samsung card, it came pre-formatted to fat32, however I had the wild idea that android supported NTFS based on something I read in the past so I formatted it to NTFS on a windows system and copied some files over (some being over 5GB each)...plugged in my card and turned on my phone and I get a message saying my card is blank or the wrong file format...guess it doesn't support NTFS
I know if I use the phones built in format utility it will format to fat32 which I don't really want because of the filesize limitation, I'd like to be able to copy 8-10GB files every so often so I can use my phone as a little shuttle drive in between places...
But I also want the ability for windows to be able to read my sd card if I change my phone into USB mode so I think that excludes the ext3, ext4 format which I think android will read...
Any ideas?

Won't happen search and you will find threads on this before
You will also find a Q&A section that this belongs in
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There's an app in the market that will mount any file formatted sdcard in the device I but I haven't used it out remember the name but you can check it and yes this belongs in Q&A but The way you format is fat 32
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Got that Newegg deal as well! Can't wait for it to arrive. Interested in the answer as well as I hope to put some high quality movies there.
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So I found an ntfs app in the market that'll mount ntfs at startup but I gotta root for it work. Guess I now have a reason to root
Oh but it says it was made for the galaxy tab...but it opens fine on my s ii
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btw where is the Q&A section i should be looking for? xda has gotten so huge i'm lost at least i can find the e4gt forum
maybe i should change the title of my thread to what filesystems can i format my sd card to that my phone will read?

if you use windows, fat32 is the way to go so then you can connect the phone to computer and still can access the files

t0mmyr said:
btw where is the Q&A section i should be looking for? xda has gotten so huge i'm lost at least i can find the e4gt forum
maybe i should change the title of my thread to what filesystems can i format my sd card to that my phone will read?
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There is a Q&A section right under general in the epic touch
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charles98 said:
if you use windows, fat32 is the way to go so then you can connect the phone to computer and still can access the files
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The reason the op doesn't want fat32 is because he has single files that exceeds 4 GB that he wants to transfer, so fat32 would not work for him.

im0rtalz said:
The reason the op doesn't want fat32 is because he has single files that exceeds 4 GB that he wants to transfer, so fat32 would not work for him.
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maybe drive mount in market but lots of bad reviews....May work don't know
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Windows also recognized NTFS by the way.

out of curiosity, does anyone know if any custom roms support ntfs sd cards nativey?

t0mmyr said:
out of curiosity, does anyone know if any custom roms support ntfs sd cards nativey?
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None because Android does not.....
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format it ext3/4 and then install an ftp server app on your phone.

There is an app that works fine
I have exactly the same problem. I want to have the sdcard in NTFS so then I do not have the 4GB limitation of FAT32. The is possible to have .mkv files on your phone or tablet.
In the case of my table the N8010, I have formatted the sd card on Windows with NTFS. Then installed the "paragon" app from market which works very good. It recognized the sd card in NTFS and mount perfectly. But it seems that when your card is overloaded with thounsands of files and some big 6GB file, then comes the problem. Android JB everytime that comes out of sleep, it will check for errors the sd card. Everytime! Then, I get the message "sd card checking for errors" and never gets back. The sd card is not recognized anymore until I reboot the device.
I think that the paragon app is not perfect and might have bugs, but
Is there any way to disable the "sd card check for error" functionality? Have read some threads about it, to delete some file from system, but that method produces inconsistencies with other apps.
By the way, I have tried to format on ExFat, and had the same problem. When the card is almost full it will never end up checking for errors. I finally broke the sd card when I formated it with ExFat and 64k allocation size. It was not regoznized neither by windows and android afterwards
thanks

cla20000 said:
By the way, I have tried to format on ExFat, and had the same problem. When the card is almost full it will never end up checking for errors. I finally broke the sd card when I formated it with ExFat and 64k allocation size. It was not regoznized neither by windows and android afterwards
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I don't think you broke it unless you fried the flash chips. You can try using the disk manager in windows and try to see if it sees it. Or just learn how to use Linux command line tools and fix it that way. I recovered 80% of my pictures off of a dead SD card using dd and a file recovery utility. I don't recall which one. That 16GB SD card now works just fine as a 12GB card. I don't trust it for any more than shuttling between systems though.
Also, I've never had good luck with exFAT. I much prefer the EXT filesystems, but they aren't natively supported in windows or most cameras. Maybe try NTFS without journaling (If that's even possible)

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exfat is proprietary windows and needs licenses. android won't support it.
ntfs is a journaling file system and will impact performance if you can get android to read it.
ext2/3 is the best solution. there are utilities you can install so windows can read it.

calisro said:
exfat is proprietary windows and needs licenses. android won't support it.
ntfs is a journaling file system and will impact performance if you can get android to read it.
ext2/3 is the best solution. there are utilities you can install so windows can read it.
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Ext2Fsd is excellent for Windows 7, I don't know what I'd do without it.
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[Q] I just bought a 64GB MicroSD Card but it the S4 won't recognize it?

I just installed:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2305214
Does MicroSD mounting not work? I format it as NTFS. When I go to storage > mount SD card it just says preparing to mount ...

re: 64gb card
ragingazn628 said:
I just installed:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2305214
Does MicroSD mounting not work? I format it as NTFS. When I go to storage > mount SD card it just says preparing to mount ...
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Remove the card and plug it into the converter and plug that into your computer or card
reader then re-format using FAT32 ONLY then put it back in your phone and then your 64gb
sdcard shall work!

Misterjunky said:
Remove the card and plug it into the converter and plug that into your computer or card
reader then re-format using FAT32 ONLY then put it back in your phone and then your 64gb
sdcard shall work!
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it only gives me exFAT and NTFS

ragingazn628 said:
it only gives me exFAT and NTFS
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Use the Windows drive manager to delete the partition on the MicroSD, do not reformat it with windows, plug it into the phone, and attempt to mount, it should do so but with 0 space now. Format it with the phone. Or look for the tool "fat32format" on the internet (Google is your friend) in order to force a format in FAT32.

ragingazn628 said:
it only gives me exFAT and NTFS
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exFAT

Maybe this will help: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2041679

ragingazn628 said:
it only gives me exFAT and NTFS
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Then try exFAT but if you have a windows computer, the default is FAT32.
If that don't work you will need to find a friend or relative who has
a windows computer which you can use to format the card using FAT32.

thanks for the help guys, got it to work now. Can I install apps on the microsd?

re: install to external sd
ragingazn628 said:
thanks for the help guys, got it to work now. Can I install apps on the microsd?
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nope, you cannot install apps on external sd on the s4 yet.
even the apps2sd is not compatible with the S4.

Misterjunky said:
nope, you cannot install apps on external sd on the s4 yet.
even the apps2sd is not compatible with the S4.
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Can I put MP3s on external SD?

ragingazn628 said:
Can I put MP3s on external SD?
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Anything but the applications installed themselves. You can store whatever you want on your SD, no limits, just no APPS2SD yet.

re: external sd
ragingazn628 said:
Can I put MP3s on external SD?
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You can have all your mp3's, videos, movies, pictures and documents plus backups of the rom and new roms or other
stuff but you just cannot use it to install apps until one of the devs finds a way to create a compatible app which will allow
for app installation on external sd.
Something similar to the apps2sd app which is not compatible with the S4.
Perhaps the developer of that app will upgrade it making it compatible with our phones.

Misterjunky said:
Then try exFAT but if you have a windows computer, the default is FAT32.
If that don't work you will need to find a friend or relative who has
a windows computer which you can use to format the card using FAT32.
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This isn't actually true after a certain version of windows i think since vista(May be wrong) exFat is the only option you get.

re: exFAT
mike105217 said:
This isn't actually true after a certain version of windows i think since vista(May be wrong) exFat is the only option you get.
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Google it and look it up,
Ever since windows xp fat32 was always the default when formatting usb flash drives(memory sticks) and sdcards.
Right now I am running windows 8 but I ran all the other prior versions of windows including windows xp.
When formatting hard drives, even external usb hard drives then windows (all versions) default to NTFS.
I never seen any versions of windows operating systems defaulting to exFAT.

Misterjunky said:
Google it and look it up,
Ever since windows xp fat32 was always the default when formatting usb flash drives(memory sticks) and sdcards.
Right now I am running windows 8 but I ran all the other prior versions of windows including windows xp.
When formatting hard drives, even external usb hard drives then windows (all versions) default to NTFS.
I never seen any versions of windows operating systems defaulting to exFAT.
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Your right actually I got confused its actually partition space anything over 32Gb is out of a normal fat range for windows.

1) Make a LiveUSB stick of Ubuntu.
2) Boot into the USB stick.
3) Use GParted to format to Fat32.

blackknightavalon said:
1) Make a LiveUSB stick of Ubuntu.
2) Boot into the USB stick.
3) Use GParted to format to Fat32.
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Or you could search for 1 of the thousand formatting utilities that will do it and not have to download a 2gb file.

Do you know if due to the size of the memory card the phone takes a lot more time to load stuff??? I do not want to buy a 64gb if it will slow my phone a lot. If that's the case i may have to buy a 32gb card. Please tell me your input on this.

tones160 said:
Do you know if due to the size of the memory card the phone takes a lot more time to load stuff??? I do not want to buy a 64gb if it will slow my phone a lot. If that's the case i may have to buy a 32gb card. Please tell me your input on this.
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What slowdown? My phone boots and loads VERY fast.

blackknightavalon said:
What slowdown? My phone boots and loads VERY fast.
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Well not in that sense but let's say if you would like to play a video or a song you have saved in your 64GB card. Does it still play it right away or have you experienced any slow downs? Someone who i know that works closely with phones informed me that it slows down the phone when loading files such as mp3 files or video files. Thanks dude.

Question about External SD card visability

I also posted this in the Tmobile specific thread, so I apologize if you are seeing this twice. Not sure where stuff like this should go when there are "multiple" sections for the same phone.
I am total stock, not rooted yet, waiting for the 2.22 firmware update from TMO.
I have a 64 gig sd card in the phone, and, in apps like root explorer, I can see the card, and all the files I put on it.
I also have been able to move a few programs to the external card, at least partially.
but, in some programs, when I try to save a file to the external sd, or, sometimes when I try to open a file on the external sd, the card does not show up in the path. I have some movies on the card, and when I open BS Player, it doesn't show the external sd card at all.
I think I read that rooting the phone will fix this, but I am not sure if just rooting fixes this, or if you have to do something else to make it show up all the time.
I know there have been issues trying to write and save files directly to the external sd, but I think this is something different.
Thanks in advance!

wase4711 said:
but, in some programs, when I try to save a file to the external sd, or, sometimes when I try to open a file on the external sd, the card does not show up in the path. I have some movies on the card, and when I open BS Player, it doesn't show the external sd card at all.
I know there have been issues trying to write and save files directly to the external sd, but I think this is something different.
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You are correct, in that the new Google policies under KitKat only affect write permissions. This shouldn't affect the ability of apps to read the card. I think there is something else going on. How is the card formatted? Is it new, where did you buy it?
I've seen other folks have random issue with the M8 not reading the card (even when it works with other devices) and re-formatting on computer fixed it up.

redpoint73 said:
You are correct, in that the new Google policies under KitKat only affect write permissions. This shouldn't affect the ability of apps to read the card. I think there is something else going on. How is the card formatted? Is it new, where did you buy it?
I've seen other folks have random issue with the M8 not reading the card (even when it works with other devices) and re-formatting on computer fixed it up.
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its one I have used for at least a year, with no prob..I assume reformatting, to fat 32 would be best for use on this phone?
I dont remember if I re formatted before inserting yesterday; best to do it on a pc and not the phone itself?
thanks for your input!

wase4711 said:
its one I have used for at least a year, with no prob..I assume reformatting, to fat 32 would be best for use on this phone?
I dont remember if I re formatted before inserting yesterday; best to do it on a pc and not the phone itself?
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FAT32 is probably the most universal (was probably formatted that way out of the box). exFAT is supported, and some folks like it since it supports large file sizes (>4GB). But I never use files of that size, so it doesn't matter to me. Just my feeling, FAT32 is the simplest and probably safest (most compatibility) way to go.
You an try to format on the phone. But the other guy I saw that had issues, formatted the card on the phone, still didn't work (but other devices still could read it) then he formatted on PC and it worked perfectly.

unfortunately, I had to just do exfat as well, since my win 8.1 computer, and my wifes win 7 only offered ex fat or ntfs; didn't want to try fat 32 on my sons Imac, just to avoid any mac to pc issues..

Hello, it is a mystery why in Total Commander can not see the normal view external SD card. Does anyone know what the problem is?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/j81gu6s5got5y8h/Screenshot_2014-08-14-09-26-27.png

wase4711 said:
unfortunately, I had to just do exfat as well, since my win 8.1 computer, and my wifes win 7 only offered ex fat or ntfs; didn't want to try fat 32 on my sons Imac, just to avoid any mac to pc issues..
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So did formatting exFAT help?
There are some good 3rd party Windows applications what will format to FAT32, if you still want to try. Thge other guy with a similar SD read issue used one such program to fix it, but I can't remember the name of the program. CNET and other websites have some reliable ratings, recommendations for such free software.
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Lynx12 said:
Hello, it is a mystery why in Total Commander can not see the normal view external SD card. Does anyone know what the problem is?
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Try to format the card as being discussed on this thread.

redpoint73 said:
So did formatting exFAT help?
There are some good 3rd party Windows applications what will format to FAT32, if you still want to try. Thge other guy with a similar SD read issue used one such program to fix it, but I can't remember the name of the program. CNET and other websites have some reliable ratings, recommendations for such free software.
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Try to format the card as being discussed on this thread.
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I think it did: i can see the external sd in more programs now, but not in all of them.
Possibly because not every program is coded to use an external sd card for storage or access to files.
Once the new firmware gets released by tmobile,(supposedly by the 18th) I will root, s-off, and unlock and see if that changes anything.
Thanks for your follow up:good:

redpoint73 said:
Try to format the card as being discussed on this thread.
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The format I do first after you insert the card into the phone ....

Lynx12 said:
The format I do first after you insert the card into the phone ....
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MicroSD cards almost always come pre-formatted (usually FAT32) and I never use the formatting offered on the phone. I've seen reports of cards formatted on the phone not working right.
Use a computer and card reader to format the card.

did not help...

wase4711 said:
since my win 8.1 computer, and my wifes win 7 only offered ex fat or ntfs; didn't want to try fat 32 on my sons Imac, just to avoid any mac to pc issues..
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I had kind of the same issue on KitKat the card came new but for some reason it was not working fine.
On Win 7 or 8.1
Insert card and note the letter assigned
Start "RUN" with keys [Win-Logo]+[R] and type in »(Edit-Box) "diskmgmt.msc" and press [ENTER]
Select the drive letter for the card and do a right click > Delete Volume, accept the prompt
Then select again the drive and select New Simple Volume
Follow the wizard. Assign a letter. Sometimes you may not get the option of selecting FAT32 from here in some cards. If you don't get the option, select no format. Finish.
Remove card and insert it again, Windows will prompt to format the drive. Select FAT32
You should be done

Question Issue with Micro SD card with Pixel 6

Okay, I might need some input here on how to enable the phone to give permissions to write to the SD card. It goes into a loop after following the steps below in red. I've tried to go into the phones settings and app permissions to give it access and to no avail there. Am I at loss here or is there some way to give it permission?
I have tried installing File Manager apps with no avail. Is there any steps that I may have missed? Thanks!

I don't know if you're the same user who posted about this issue the other day in another thread, but:
I know I had that exact same issue at some point, but that was likely at least two months ago.
What firmware are you on? The early November, later November, or December firmware? Not sure if it's a factor but it might be.
What definitely solved it for me (but I'm not sure if a newer firmware was a factor) was ironically the fact that I have my MicroSD card formatted ExFAT, which the Pixels have never been able to read natively (Google would have to pay Microsoft royalties for including ExFAT support).
I finally paid for the full exFAT/NTFS for USB by Paragon Software app, and I use it through my preferred file manager X-plore File Manager. At least if you're using one of the filesystems that Paragon supports, the app mounts it and you can find a Paragon listing in the file manager with which you can access the contents.
If your MicroSD card is already formatted a way that the Pixel natively supports (FAT32, not sure what else), then this might not help you.
If you're on one of the November firmware versions, I would either manually update to the December firmware (third link in my signature below to get the files), if you're preferred area's December firmware is available there, or wait a couple of weeks for the late January update.
I don't recall if the Paragon app might have a trial, then you could try it anyway.

roirraW edor ehT said:
I don't know if you're the same user who posted about this issue the other day in another thread, but:
I know I had that exact same issue at some point, but that was likely at least two months ago.
What firmware are you on? The early November, later November, or December firmware? Not sure if it's a factor but it might be.
What definitely solved it for me (but I'm not sure if a newer firmware was a factor) was ironically the fact that I have my MicroSD card formatted ExFAT, which the Pixels have never been able to read natively (Google would have to pay Microsoft royalties for including ExFAT support).
I finally paid for the full exFAT/NTFS for USB by Paragon Software app, and I use it through my preferred file manager X-plore File Manager. At least if you're using one of the filesystems that Paragon supports, the app mounts it and you can find a Paragon listing in the file manager with which you can access the contents.
If your MicroSD card is already formatted a way that the Pixel natively supports (FAT32, not sure what else), then this might not help you.
If you're on one of the November firmware versions, I would either manually update to the December firmware (third link in my signature below to get the files), if you're preferred area's December firmware is available there, or wait a couple of weeks for the late January update.
I don't recall if the Paragon app might have a trial, then you could try it anyway.
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Thank you for the suggestion. I have the latest November update and the SD card was exfat formatted but upon inserting it via the adapter, the phone wanted to format it to FAT32 for it to recognize as portable storage. I was able to copy/move items to the SD card but not able to watch any videos with VLC; the phone doesn't recognize it while the exfat/ntfs app is installed. I had to uninstall for the phone to recognize it to play videos in the card. It seems I have to reinstall the app to move items from or into the card, using the app. Seems like a nuisance, but I am able to do the things that I wanted to do in the first place. Thanks!

Maxninja said:
Thank you for the suggestion. I have the latest November update and the SD card was exfat formatted but upon inserting it via the adapter, the phone wanted to format it to FAT32 for it to recognize as portable storage. I was able to copy/move items to the SD card but not able to watch any videos with VLC; the phone doesn't recognize it while the exfat/ntfs app is installed. I had to uninstall for the phone to recognize it to play videos in the card. It seems I have to reinstall the app to move items from or into the card, using the app. Seems like a nuisance, but I am able to do the things that I wanted to do in the first place. Thanks!
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You're welcome! Since you have it mostly working although in an inconvenient way, I'm glad, and hopefully the January update fixes things for you if you don't want to or can't manually flash the December update in the meantime. It's optional if you want to go any further, but I am curious if you don't mind...
Which of the following two is accurate?
Did you reformat the card to FAT32?
or
Did you keep it in ExFAT?
Since you mentioned using the Paragon app, it makes it sound like you did keep the card in ExFAT format, since you shouldn't need the app if it's in FAT32 format.
To make sure I understand the rest correctly, you're saying:
Using the Paragon app I mentioned, you were able to copy or move files from the phone to the MicroSD card
You weren't able to watch videos from the MicroSD card
No matter which format you chose, it's confusing since you said, "The phone doesn't recognize it while the exfat/ntfs app is installed" but you also said, "It seems I have to reinstall the app to move items from or into the card". Those seem to be contradictory, but I'm guessing you just mean one of those in one circumstance and the second in the other circumstance.
I could potentially do similar tests with mine (in ExFAT), and with videos and VLC - I just want to make sure I understand exactly what the situation is.

roirraW edor ehT said:
You're welcome! Since you have it mostly working although in an inconvenient way, I'm glad, and hopefully the January update fixes things for you if you don't want to or can't manually flash the December update in the meantime. It's optional if you want to go any further, but I am curious if you don't mind...
Which of the following two is accurate?
Did you reformat the card to FAT32?
or
Did you keep it in ExFAT?
Since you mentioned using the Paragon app, it makes it sound like you did keep the card in ExFAT format, since you shouldn't need the app if it's in FAT32 format.
To make sure I understand the rest correctly, you're saying:
Using the Paragon app I mentioned, you were able to copy or move files from the phone to the MicroSD card
You weren't able to watch videos from the MicroSD card
No matter which format you chose, it's confusing since you said, "The phone doesn't recognize it while the exfat/ntfs app is installed" but you also said, "It seems I have to reinstall the app to move items from or into the card". Those seem to be contradictory, but I'm guessing you just mean one of those in one circumstance and the second in the other circumstance.
I could potentially do similar tests with mine (in ExFAT), and with videos and VLC - I just want to make sure I understand exactly what the situation is.
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Replying to which I've read in order:
1) The phone reformatted the card to FAT32 from it's previous state.
2) Yes and yes; the Paragon app allowed me to copy and move files to and from the SD card, where as the normal Files app doesn't allow me to.
3) I understand that it sounds contradictory but it is true, with the Paragon app installed, it overwrites the privileges to the Files app and also, VLC doesn't recognize the videos with the Paragon app installed. Hence why I said "reinstall the app to move items from or into (meant 'onto') the card."

Maxninja said:
Replying to which I've read in order:
1) The phone reformatted the card to FAT32 from it's previous state.
2) Yes and yes; the Paragon app allowed me to copy and move files to and from the SD card, where as the normal Files app doesn't allow me to.
3) I understand that it sounds contradictory but it is true, with the Paragon app installed, it overwrites the privileges to the Files app and also, VLC doesn't recognize the videos with the Paragon app installed. Hence why I said "reinstall the app to move items from or into (meant 'onto') the card."
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Understood perfectly, and I absolutely believe you - I just wanted to make sure I didn't misunderstand anything.
Have you thought about trying X-Plore File Manager that I suggested, to see if you get any different experience (in combination with the Paragon app)?

roirraW edor ehT said:
Understood perfectly, and I absolutely believe you - I just wanted to make sure I didn't misunderstand anything.
Have you thought about trying X-Plore File Manager that I suggested, to see if you get any different experience (in combination with the Paragon app)?
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Before I download that app, upon installing the Paragon app, it told me with the card being a FAT32, I needed to use the Total Commander file manager app for it to work

Maxninja said:
Before I download that app, upon installing the Paragon app, it told me with the card being a FAT32, I needed to use the Total Commander file manager app for it to work
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Hmmmmm. I thought I remembered it only suggesting you use Total Commander - not saying you needed to (but I wouldn't take their word for that anyway). You should be able to use any file explorer, reasonably speaking. If the next update fixes it for you (as mine has been fixed and working fine at least through X-Plore File Manager), then you won't even need the app except for using with the unsupported filesystems (ExFAT, I think maybe NTFS...).

Where the h3ll are you guys putting this microSD card in?????

mkhcb said:
Where the h3ll are you guys putting this microSD card in?????
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Reread my second post.

Hello,
I've gt the same question.
I've reread Maxninja's second mail but this does not clear things up for me.
As far as I know the pixel (all of them) never supported external microsd cards, they do not have a slot for them..
So how come you are talking about a MicroSD card?

deboopi2 said:
Hello,
I've gt the same question.
I've reread Maxninja's second mail but this does not clear things up for me.
As far as I know the pixel (all of them) never supported external microsd cards, they do not have a slot for them..
So how come you are talking about a MicroSD card?
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My second post states thusly:
".. upon inserting it via the adapter .."

I was going to say oh sh#t and I just gave away my 512gb SanDisk cruzer to my auntie and I could've use it in my p6p !!!
Thanks for clarifying

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As far as I know the pixel (all of them) never supported external microsd cards, they do not have a slot for them..
So how come you are talking about a MicroSD card?
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Almost any storage is supported externally (through the USB-C port) on any phone including the Pixel phones, although as I noted earlier in the thread, not all phones support all filesystem formats. For the Pixel as far as I know it has to be formatted in FAT32, Ext4, or you have to use the Paragon app I linked to. I'm not sure if there are other formats the Pixel supports natively. Prior to the Pixel 1, I would expect that all the Nexus phones supported through the Micro-USB port. There are all sorts of adapters and hubs, big and small, expensive and cheap, that would work for these purposes.

Question Connecting SSD drive

I have a SSD I format it in NTFS and plug it into the phone, it tells me that there is an issue with the drive.
So I format it with phone. Then plug it back into PC and it says it formatted it to Fat32, this makes it impossible to move any video to it.
My main idea was to use it for backup of pictures and video.

eracet said:
I have a SSD I format it in NTFS and plug it into the phone, it tells me that there is an issue with the drive.
So I format it with phone. Then plug it back into PC and it says it formatted it to Fat32, this makes it impossible to move any video to it.
My main idea was to use it for backup of pictures and video.
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You done it in a wrong way. Sadly, Android devices don’t support NTFS format by default, you have to do it manually. Depends on whether your phone is rooted or not, it has different ways. Without root, use Total Commander to do it, with root, you get more choices. I didn't do it for a long time so can't tell just by memory. You can Google it and there should have a lot information you can get from the web for how to enable NTFS format in Android.

I am rooted, but have not seen a way to do it. Most say Total Commander or Paragon. Searched around web. Some of the threads are super old. And having issues finding ways to do it with Rooted device.
There is no Magisk modules anymore. Will keep looking.

format your ssd as exfat. works for both the computer and phone, and supports files over 4gb

mercenaryhmster said:
format your ssd as exfat. works for both the computer and phone, and supports files over 4gb
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That doesn't work.
From what I read , it seems Pixel 6 Pro does not support those formats. and you have to do work arounds to get it done.
Still working on those

Correct, Pixels never support ExFAT natively. There "may" be others way to use it on Pixels now, but I'm satisfied now that after all these years of having Pixel phones I bought the full Paragon deal: exFAT/NTFS for USB by Paragon Software. It's not ideal, but it works, and paying for the full deal gets me both ExFAT and NTFS (among other things that I probably don't care about).
I still use X-Plore File Manager to access the external storage through Paragon's app.

exFAT is natively supported on Android 13, at least for Pixel devices. I have a USB NVME drive that's formatted as exFAT and my Pixel 6 Pro running the latest Android 13 beta recognises it natively with full read/write access.
Some more details: https://blog.esper.io/android-dessert-bites-27-exfat-on-pixel-532176849/

craigacgomez said:
exFAT is natively supported on Android 13, at least for Pixel devices. I have a USB NVME drive that's formatted as exFAT and my Pixel 6 Pro running the latest Android 13 beta recognises it natively with full read/write access.
Some more details: https://blog.esper.io/android-dessert-bites-27-exfat-on-pixel-532176849/
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Oh yeah! Thanks for that reminder. I'm so looking forward to that native capability.

roirraW edor ehT said:
Correct, Pixels never support ExFAT natively. There "may" be others way to use it on Pixels now, but I'm satisfied now that after all these years of having Pixel phones I bought the full Paragon deal: exFAT/NTFS for USB by Paragon Software. It's not ideal, but it works, and paying for the full deal gets me both ExFAT and NTFS (among other things that I probably don't care about).
I still use X-Plore File Manager to access the external storage through Paragon's app.
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Did that program and it mounted it, but accessing is an issue. Not sure if I am doing it right,
For some reason it keeps asking to use total commander

eracet said:
Did that program and it mounted it, but accessing is an issue. Not sure if I am doing it right,
For some reason it keeps asking to use total commander
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I know it suggests Total Commander, but there's an option somewhere in there where I could get Paragon's access listed in X-Plore File Manager, which I prefer.
It's possible I didn't have to do anything special in the Paragon app - it's not too often I have to use it. It might have been just using X-Plore File Manager's ability to customize what mounted "drives" it listed, and adding Paragon from the list of available drives - after I already mounted the actual drive through the Paragon app.

I've partitioned my external SSD to 3, and only 1 is exFAT. The rest are NTFS.
In stock android 13 it is only able to read the exFAT partition.
To my surprise I noticed that in AncientOS (12L), it can read all in file manager. Don't know why though! didn't bother to read the features.

use exFAT supposed now with android 13 .