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Hey guys I just wanted to ask u all a question bout upgrading sd cards on the Evo. I just purchased a Lexar 32gb class 10 sd card from Amazon. I still hav the stock 8gb card that has all my data....music,movies,music videos,custom roms,kernals amd so on. I hav heard that some people are having problems with changing their cards. So my question is what is the proper procedure to getting this transfer to be successful. Is it better to format new card thru windows or phone? Do I need to partition the new card? What is the easiest procedure to transfer my 8GB card stuff to my new 32gb card. The reason Im asking is I dont want to corrupt the new card in anyway...as u all kno they are NOT CHEAP!!! I just want the transition to workout smoothly with NO problems. Any advice wud b much appreciated. Thanks Yall!!! Evo runnin MikFroyo v4.61 w/ netarchy-toastmod-4.3.4-cfs-havs-more-nososbc...overclocked to 1152mhz.
Copy the contents of your current card onto your computer or an external drive. Shutdown your device. Remove your current card and replace it with your new card. Make sure your device supports the 32 GB size. Reboot your device. Many cards already come formatted, however, it wont hurt to reformat it to be sure. When your phone finish booting up, go to the SD card and phone storage setting within the menu. Select unmount SD card. After it unmounts, the option to format it will appear. Select format. When finished, select mount. Back out of that menu back to your homescreen. Connect your device via USB to your computer or external drive and transfer the items you copied to your newly formatted card. Reboot your device when you're finished. You can also format from your computer and from within recovery. Take your pick.
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If am not wrong EVO supports max 16 GB and EVO Shift is 32 GB
^You're mistaken, the EVO does support the 32gb.
Says so on the HTC support page for EVO
Whew, you had me scared for a moment... I just ordered the same 32 gb microSD this morning. :]
I've been through 2 lexar 32gb cards. Within a matter of weeks to days, I was getting data corruption. Not sure if it's limited to the lexar class 10 cards, or any class 10. It would appear to function fine at first. At some point during the day i'd go to check my email and get a sd card mounted in read only mode message on the status bar. Rebooting would usually not help. Had to hook up the phone to the pc, mount the sd in recovery, then run a chkdsk. I'd typically get many many corrupted files.
Now mind you, i'm always careful to shutdown properly, only mount the sd when recovery. I've come to the conclusion that there is some incompatibility issue either due to the size, or perhaps lexar's ability to be downward compatible with the slower speed devices (I think the evo can only take advantage of up to class 6 devices).
Lets hope you have better luck than I did, but after multiple corrupted files, I'm back with the stock card, which has caused no issues at all (besides being low on space).
i have 32g patriot class 10 card and it works great for me. i just transfered my old sd card stuff onto my computer via the card adapter it came with. i inserted and formatted my new card into my phone. and transfered everything from my computer tomy phone via usb.
Ditto on the formatting with the phone. Since i am using ext, it had to be via the phone as I don't have the right tools to do it in windows.
FWIW, with the initial lexar card, there were no problems for nearly 3 weeks. With the replacement card they sent me, issues started showing up 2 days later. Could be my phone is less tolerant of media quality than others..
one thing you need to remember when copying the files, is to hit the option to see the the hidden files on your sd card, if you dont your phone will have glitches because it will be missing those files, because when they are hidden they dont get copied
Hate to hijack here but it's along the same lines.
If I don't listen to music or take a bunch of pictures what if any difference will I notice upgrading my class? Sorry I am coming from a Vibrant that had 14gigs internal and the sc card was purely optional.
I was thinking about just getting an 8 gig class 10 if it would make a difference.
pc to dupe sd card?
Could you just copy the sd card using an adaptor to your pc hard drive, then copy the files onto the larger sd card, again using the adapter in the pc. then install the new sd card into the phone? I am new, to this, i'm just askin.
blairan...I think you wud b safe to do that but u must format the new sd card first via phone(itself) or thru windows before any transfer of data is made. My question was simply that I hav read that many people hav had complaints bout corrupted files being present thru their new cards. Or problems with "read only" errors and not being able to access things on the card. If u are rooted and are running a custom ROM that allows Apps2sd to help free up internal memory on ur phone then u wud also need to partition the card as well to allow that. I just dont understand why their have been so many people having these problems with the 32g class 10 cards.
blairan...Im pretty sure u wud be safe to do that but if it is a new card u must make sure it is formatted first via phone itself or windows before u transfer anything to it. My question was simply I dont understand why so many people have complained bout corrupted files and or read-only errors on the 32g class 10 cards. Problems that seem to arise days or weeks later after installing new cards. I wud really like to get to the bottom of it and find out why.
blizzard1017 said:
Hate to hijack here but it's along the same lines.
If I don't listen to music or take a bunch of pictures what if any difference will I notice upgrading my class? Sorry I am coming from a Vibrant that had 14gigs internal and the sc card was purely optional.
I was thinking about just getting an 8 gig class 10 if it would make a difference.
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If anything, you'd probably notice quicker loading from apps that you've moved to the SD card. But admittedly, video, music, and photos are the places you'd see the most tangible improvement.
Doug,
I've tried this several times (I think I'm up to double digits, now) on my rooted Evo running the stock ROM. After I transfer all the files and reboot, several apps are not installed and the phone says it has a low amount of space. I've tried restoring a Clockwork Mod backup as well and I get the same thing. I have everything backed up in Astro, but when I try to install the missing apps, the low memory issue prevents them from being installed. Should I remove all my apps and start over? Should I un-root my phone and do a factory reset? I'm so frustrated I'm about to do the latter.
I'm upgrading to a 32GB class 10 card and I just can't figure it out. Any thoughts?
jmattix said:
Doug,
I've tried this several times (I think I'm up to double digits, now) on my rooted Evo running the stock ROM. After I transfer all the files and reboot, several apps are not installed and the phone says it has a low amount of space. I've tried restoring a Clockwork Mod backup as well and I get the same thing. I have everything backed up in Astro, but when I try to install the missing apps, the low memory issue prevents them from being installed. Should I remove all my apps and start over? Should I un-root my phone and do a factory reset? I'm so frustrated I'm about to do the latter.
I'm upgrading to a 32GB class 10 card and I just can't figure it out. Any thoughts?
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No, you do not need to unroot, but I do recommend you start from scratch. Since you already have the contents of your card backed up to your computer, go into recovery and re-partition and re-format your card. In amon_RA select "partition SD card" from the main menu. You will be prompted to set a size for 3 different things. Insert a zero each time. Doing so will allow you access to your entire card. Afterwards, copy the rom you want to use to the card via the MS-USB or the Mount USB option, if using ClockworkMod and flash it. Your paid apps will be listed in the Market after you've logged in with your credentials. Your unpaid apps will have to be redownloaded and reinstalled unless you have them backed up to Google's servers or backed up with Titanium Backup. Anyway, you will have a clean install of your rom, a clean install of your apps and a freshly formatted and partitioned SD card. If you still get the low memory error afterwards then I am assuming you have too many apps on your internal memory and thus, you will need to move many of them to your SD card to free up your internal memory. There are tutorials available to learn apps2sd. Anyway, I hope this helps you.
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Thanks so much. I'll give it a try.
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Thanks so much. I'll give it a try.
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You're very welcome. Enjoy the rest of your holiday...
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I picked up my phone looking to download a new ROM to it but then found that my ES File Explorer (given root permissions) was not able to view my external SD card via the mnt folder. At the same time, I was trying to back up my apps and such via Titanium Backup but it said that it couldn't backup anything because my card was full (it's default save location is my external card). It just said "Empty". I went to check my Settings to see if my card was somehow unmounted, but nope, it said it was still there. Even said that I had 11.27 GBs left out of 29 GB or whatever and gave me the usual options to Unmount and such. I pulled off my battery cover and the card was still there, so I assumed that the Android system might just need to sit for a while and cool off while off. Then I turned it back on to find that ES was still not able to view the contents of externalSDcard. So I went to my Root Browser and it too said that no files were there. I then went into my Settings and now it just says "Insert SD card".
I've had this happen before on other Android phones so I did what I normally do and hook it to my PC and reformat it. Windows found the device when I attached it via a SD card reader (the big fat kind like in your standard camera), it didn't want to format it. Windows brought up the prompt and said that it only could format 1GB so I knew Windows wouldn't be able to recognize it. I even tried formatting it via Command Prompt and typing "Format G:" and it too said there was only 1024MB to be formatted then went through trying to format and then said it failed.
I then tried pulling up Ubuntu's Disk Utility to format it. At first, Ubuntu wouldn't even correctly identify the device! Then I got the Disk Utility to recognize it and it couldn't even recognize how many GB/MB were originally on the card! Trying to format just brought up a message telling me that it couldn't do anything.
I had this happen a few times with my HTC Evo 4G OG but was able to format the card and put it back into my phone and have it work. Of course, the last time with my old 16GB card ended with it being destroyed much like this.
Please tell me that I can do something to fix this. Anything?!?!
This card is a 32GB Class 10 Patriot. This has happened before in my old HTC Evo 4G OG with a 16GB Class 4 SanDisk card. That card became unusable after a few times of this happening except I was able to fix it those times using the methods I tried above and allowing my phone to recognize the card again.
Hello,
I recentply purchased a Galaxy Note 2, it's the GT-N7100 model. I got a 32GB SD card for it, and ever since I inserted that memory card for the frist time, it would always download game data in the card, not in the phone memory. Examples: Modern Combat 3, N.O.V.A. 3, NFS Most Wanted. I had about 10 gigs of "data" and "obb" folders in my memory card. This was all fine, as it kept the phone memory almoust empty.
However, since this morning, when I lauched any of those games they would ask me to download data again, and this time it all goes to the phone memory! I tried formatting the SD Card, Rebooted the phone, deleted app data for those games, reinstalled them, but this didn't fix it. I did a factory setting reset (completely wiping the phone) - still no luck. What might have happened to my phone?
For me I was never able to dl game data to sdcard some day one using gn2..
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I was never able to download any app data to sd card since day one. I've been manually transferring downloads (sadly) ) to my sd card. And I ended up only transferring media files and left app files alone
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Fleonar said:
Hello,
I recentply purchased a Galaxy Note 2, it's the GT-N7100 model. I got a 32GB SD card for it, and ever since I inserted that memory card for the frist time, it would always download game data in the card, not in the phone memory. Examples: Modern Combat 3, N.O.V.A. 3, NFS Most Wanted. I had about 10 gigs of "data" and "obb" folders in my memory card. This was all fine, as it kept the phone memory almoust empty.
However, since this morning, when I lauched any of those games they would ask me to download data again, and this time it all goes to the phone memory! I tried formatting the SD Card, Rebooted the phone, deleted app data for those games, reinstalled them, but this didn't fix it. I did a factory setting reset (completely wiping the phone) - still no luck. What might have happened to my phone?
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This is so strange, never heard of someone reporting games data dowloading directly onto an external memory. Did you initially install a mod to make your phone see the SD card as an internal memory?
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Never heard of such a thing. Data is always saved inside the internal SD, not to the external SD, not unless you rooted and performed the apps2sd mod.
I do not remember what I did... I was playing around with apps that were supposed to transfer apps to the sd card, but with no success. Then it just started doing it on it's own. I am rooted and using stock ROM, if this matters. If I had installed a mod, I must have done so without even knowing about it (lol). It's just really weird, as all over the internet people say that you can't do this, and I have seen my phone doing it.
Anyway, since I can't figure out how to make that work, can you suggest a good app for transferring games to the SD card. I tries GL 2 SD, which works(!) but I can only play the games if I start them from within this app. And since I am kind of OCD, this doesn't work for me, I need to be able to start them from the normal icon on the home screen.
Thank you all for replying.
Not planning on a root yet.
Will the next Android OS update be able to support app transfer to SD card?
I've been spending waaay to much time trying to get this phone to work as I had expected with previous phones (even my LG G2x) giving me less problems. I recently bought a Sandisk 32gb, class 10 micro sd card and after transferring old music, pictures and videos from my old LG G2x with a 16gb card, placing files from my computer back onto my S4 with the 32gb card is a nightmare! Photos are transferred but too out of order to try and deal with although it's more the music problem that has me bugging. I have some success after putting about 3gb or so onto the new*32gb sd card but after that, the sd card flips out and starts using special characters for file names. Below I attached a screenshot of what I'm going through with another app called V1 Golf for Android. I'm stuck and any help is much appreciated. I can't delete anything on my sd card nor can I add. I've reformatted this card about 4 times now without success. Some say that a Sandisk have been nothing but problems for them, you think a Samsung card could be the fix?
I'm also running windows 7 on my computer as some people have said that could interfere with the transfer but it seems like that's not the problem being that downloading apps from google play shows corrupted files depicted below.
jakesteed808 said:
I've been spending waaay to much time trying to get this phone to work as I had expected with previous phones (even my LG G2x) giving me less problems. I recently bought a Sandisk 32gb, class 10 micro sd card and after transferring old music, pictures and videos from my old LG G2x with a 16gb card, placing files from my computer back onto my S4 with the 32gb card is a nightmare! Photos are transferred but too out of order to try and deal with although it's more the music problem that has me bugging. I have some success after putting about 3gb or so onto the new*32gb sd card but after that, the sd card flips out and starts using special characters for file names. Below I attached a screenshot of what I'm going through with another app called V1 Golf for Android. I'm stuck and any help is much appreciated. I can't delete anything on my sd card nor can I add. I've reformatted this card about 4 times now without success. Some say that a Sandisk have been nothing but problems for them, you think a Samsung card could be the fix?
I'm also running windows 7 on my computer as some people have said that could interfere with the transfer but it seems like that's not the problem being that downloading apps from google play shows corrupted files depicted below.
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First, did you format this 32gb sdcard using fat32, exFAT or NTFS or ?
If you did not format it with fat32 then that could have caused the problem.
First you need to remove the card from the phone and plug it into your
computer using the adaptor which came with the microsd card so it can be
tested and repaired in windows.
Once the card is plugged into the computer and it's recognized by windows make note of the drive letter.
Then open a cmd prompt in windows by going to the start menu clicking on RUN then type "CMD" and click OK to open the DOS prompt.
Then in the black DOS window type: chkdsk E: /F then press "enter" to scan and fix errors on your microsd card.
NOTE: The E: is just an example, check the actual drive letter of the sdcard which is plugged into the computer.
Please note, doing the above will not delete any files or folders unless they are deemed unusable and cannot be fixed.
The chkdsk will NOT not format your microsd card.
Good luck!
jakesteed808 said:
I've been spending waaay to much time trying to get this phone to work as I had expected with previous phones (even my LG G2x) giving me less problems. I recently bought a Sandisk 32gb, class 10 micro sd card and after transferring old music, pictures and videos from my old LG G2x with a 16gb card, placing files from my computer back onto my S4 with the 32gb card is a nightmare! Photos are transferred but too out of order to try and deal with although it's more the music problem that has me bugging. I have some success after putting about 3gb or so onto the new*32gb sd card but after that, the sd card flips out and starts using special characters for file names. Below I attached a screenshot of what I'm going through with another app called V1 Golf for Android. I'm stuck and any help is much appreciated. I can't delete anything on my sd card nor can I add. I've reformatted this card about 4 times now without success. Some say that a Sandisk have been nothing but problems for them, you think a Samsung card could be the fix?
I'm also running windows 7 on my computer as some people have said that could interfere with the transfer but it seems like that's not the problem being that downloading apps from google play shows corrupted files depicted below.
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Unfortunately I ran into a very similar situation with a 64gb SanDisk card. After several months of using it successfully without issue, out of nowhere some 20 gigs of data were stuck. It seems that 1 file in a nandroid was corrupt. After formatting, re-partitioning, deleting etc, etc. with Windows 7 as well as MiniTool Partition Wizard I was unable to ever get the corrupt file to delete. Thus leaving the $60+ card useless and a prime candidate for the trash. I chalked it up too a "bizarre" instance. I have since purchased 2 64gb cards, one to replace and one for my new S4. Haven't had the issue since (knock on wood). Not sure what the exact culprit was, the recovery? (TWRP), a freak occurrance? or Just a defective card? If you have any luck saving your card please post how you did. Although I realize this probably isn't helpful except to know your not the only one.
My sd card seems to be stuck.
About 20 of 64 gb being used.
Now I can't delete anything. Or add anything.
It appears to delete and then it just comes back.
Does that mean my sd card is dead.
scandisk 64gb
Had the same thing just happen to me. Transferred a few kernel files yesterday and today couldn't delete, add or format anything. I was able to copy all files to computer but that's it.
same thing happen to my sandisk 64gb class 10 microsdcard as well
is it a virus?
I had the exact same issue with a San-disk 64gb micro sdcard, I contacted San-disk, they offered me a replacement card.I suggest you do the same, hopefully they will exchange it for you.
MSK1 said:
My sd card seems to be stuck.
About 20 of 64 gb being used.
Now I can't delete anything. Or add anything.
It appears to delete and then it just comes back.
Does that mean my sd card is dead.
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You can use another SD card to try whether this sd card is dead.
If anothe SD card can delete files, it proves that this sd card is dead, vice versa.
Did your problem solve? I'm experiencing now like with your problem. And I'm looking for an answer.
I've been exploiting my mobile at it max since I got the Marshmallow update. Adopted a UHS-1 Samsung EVO 32GB card and used it to its limits.
It has been working fine until today, I woke up to a app screen where all my SD card apps were disconnected and said "App not installed", immediately I went to Storage settings and there I saw that around 100mb was left in my SD card and the bar was red. When I opened it, all the subheading, that is, music, images, videos, all of them show 0.00bytes whereas downloads folder could be accessed.
Tried deleting some files from SD card, managed to get some space from that downloads folder but it didnt work, now the strangest thing started to happen. I tried uninstalling the apps that were on SD card which showed "app not found" and I managed to uninstall them and this also freed up space on my card. Restarted my phone, still no luck.
Next up, I tried migrating data onto my ORIGINAL internal storage (8gb), and it did transfer some data, after maxing out, it said "data left at original location".
All in all, my problem is, that I'm not able to properly mount my SD card, the data is there, but no app is able to access any of it except the internal functions of HTC, like 'migrate' and all.
Need help, please let me know what should I do.
Another question is, if I root my mobile without the SD card and then re-insert the 'adopted sd card' after the root, will it read it? If that would be the case, I'd root my mobile any second. Thank you, eagerly waiting for your replies.