whats up guys?
So i just bought a 128GB USB C thumb drive. when i insert it into my pixel, it gives me the option to format it as internal storage or as portable storage. if i format it as portable storage, i can not download movies and shows from google play movies and netflix to it. the only way i can do that is to format it as internal. once formatted as internal, i can not insert it into any other device including my PC without having it have to reformat. is there a way to edit the partition it creates to half the size once its formatted on my phone as internal? this way i can plug it into a PC and still use it as a thumb drive? ive been playing around with EaseUS and have not gotten windows to recognize it once modified. anyone got anything?
ok so no matter how i edit partitions after android creates them, they get corrupt and i have to reformat it. now the other thing i tried it to partition the usb drive into 2 64GB partitions. android sees this as 2 partitions and allows me to select which partition i want to format as internal storage or portable storage. if i select the first partition, or the second, it does not matter, android will format the entire drive and use the full 128GB for the phone rather than the 64GB partition. so now my question is, is there a way to "trick" android into thinking its only a 64GB thumb drive so i can later format the second partition and have windows recognize it as a separate 64GB drive?
Quadrider10 said:
ok so no matter how i edit partitions after android creates them, they get corrupt and i have to reformat it. now the other thing i tried it to partition the usb drive into 2 64GB partitions. android sees this as 2 partitions and allows me to select which partition i want to format as internal storage or portable storage. if i select the first partition, or the second, it does not matter, android will format the entire drive and use the full 128GB for the phone rather than the 64GB partition. so now my question is, is there a way to "trick" android into thinking its only a 64GB thumb drive so i can later format the second partition and have windows recognize it as a separate 64GB drive?
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What file format are you formatting the drive to? Have you tried formatting it in Windows exFAT and then using a decent file manager with OTG support like Solid Explorer? Are you using the stock kernel or custom? Sorry, I don't have a USB-C thumb drive.
I was formatting it to exfat I'm windows. Both partitions. When inserted into my phone andoid says that it is unusable and needs to be formatted. So I click on the first partition and format it as internal. Android reformats the entire drive. Not just the first partition.
If I format it as fat32, Android just reconizes it as a portable thumb drive. I can't change anything about it or format it as internal
This is on pure stock Android and kernel. I'm not rooted.
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hi,
i might have screwed up idk.
i have a rooted htc desire uscc. CDMA.
i attempted to install latest nightly build of cm_vision_full-23.zip. installation aborted. i attempted wiping, and it still said installation aborted. i attempted a sd card partition of 1024mb and swap size of 128mb. now i cant see any of my restore points. i have a 8gb card now it only reads 6.32gb. is there a hidden partition now? how do i read it? can i get to the restore files and restore (i did do a backup before doing anything, but i dont see those files now, they would be on the "missing" partition i think)
how do i get there? or am i just screwed? how do i get my full 8gb space back?
clockworkmod installed.
Partitioning will format the sd so all your files are probably gone. Also the reason you see only 6.XGb of space is because you have two other partitions using that space. In Windows you can't see the ext partition (i believe) but in linux you will see the card is still 8Gb. Depending on how important your data is you can try to recover it or just boot in to recovery, mount the sd and copy a rom to it.
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ok. i can live with losing some of the data on the phone that i had on there. i need to restore it back to 8gb and just do a factory reset. what are the steps in doing that? do i just format the card in linux or something? i would like to remove the partition i created, and get it back to 8gb one partition.
Isn't all your data on the sd card gone as well?
If yes and you still don't really mind best thing is to find a card reader and connect it to a Linux machine (can be live cd or vm), then use whatever disk manage program is available and format the hole card as fat(32).
You might be also able to do this from the memory settings if your phone will boot, but i'm not sure if that only formats the fat partition or the hole card.
yeah its probably gone. im just curious what software would i be using to try and recover the data? if thats possible id like to give that a shot. if not, its not a big deal. i attempted to use "get data back for fat 32" but it doesn't see the other partition.
hm i have the phone connected to vm linux and its showing the mass storage as 6.8gb. i dont see any options to format it or change it to 8gb. what am i missing?
You need to run (or install) GParted
installed and ran gpart. i still only see 6.34gb as a single contiguous partition. theres nothing else i can change, or allocate. its as if i shrunk 8gb sd card to 6.34gb. whered the missing space go? gpart says 6.34gb is unallocated. it doesnt see any more space. all options are greyed out. cant resize, move, unmount, etc.
update: i went to a local target and bought a 8gb sd card with a generic usb card reader. i put the new card in my phone and formatted it via OS. it shows 7.60gb aval space. and 128mb internal space. when i put the old card into the reader i was then able to see all the partitions via windows 7. so, fwiw, you have to use a card reader to see the partitions on a sd card in windows 7.
Is it useful or bad to format the internal storage with NTFS?
or better which file system is recommended?
I don't think android will read NTFS but I maybe wrong.
The recommended is FAT32 with 32 kb (Alocation unit size)
You are correct. However android will not read the partition if you format it ntfs. One of 2 things will happen
1. It will tell you it needs to be formatted and won't let you use it otherwise
2. It will just format it back to fat32 on its own
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bagofcrap24 said:
You are correct. However android will not read the partition if you format it ntfs. One of 2 things will happen
1. It will tell you it needs to be formatted and won't let you use it otherwise
2. It will just format it back to fat32 on its own
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I formatted my internal storage drive on my htc droid incredible to ntfs (comes with 8gb internal flash and 2gb external microsd)
I did this with windows However once you un-mount you will not be able to get into it in windows or your android os afterwards leaving you with minimal storage space left on your internal flash. SO DO NOT FORMAT ANYTHING INTERNAL TO NTFS I still have not been able to recover the space to use it. if anyone knows how shoot me a pm. this is more of a waring do not do than a request for help.
You should be able to reformat it back to default using recovery on phone
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I also want to format my internal storage but I don't know how to do it.Any help please.
Hi,
just installed ics last night and one by one the errors are showing themselves. I didnt post this in the FAQ because it might not be related to there. Now, my phone wont recognize my ex_SD!! It says the SD is damaged, you might have to format it. I formatted it, turned out it formatted my internal SD leaving my external SD untouched.
The external SD works perfectly fine when i connect it to windows, but my phone wont mount it.
Can it be because of the format method? First i formatted with NTFS, now im formatting with FAT32 and allocation Unit Size of 16 KB. If formatting isnt the problem then perhaps its a bug or smth from ics.
Try you SD on a different phone.
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i dont have a different phone...
sevenmad said:
Can it be because of the format method? First i formatted with NTFS, now im formatting with FAT32 and allocation Unit Size of 16 KB. If formatting isnt the problem then perhaps its a bug or smth from ics.
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You should never format your External SD as NTFS; Linux does not support NTFS. At least not natively. Android *definitely* doesn't.
Format it as FAT32 with *Default* allocation unit size (Windows will determine what the correct size is by reading from the SD card controller).
You might also need to partition it before you format it. Use the freely available MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition, and create one primary partition (of type FAT32).
pepoluan said:
You should never format your External SD as NTFS; Linux does not support NTFS. At least not natively. Android *definitely* doesn't.
Format it as FAT32 with *Default* allocation unit size (Windows will determine what the correct size is by reading from the SD card controller).
You might also need to partition it before you format it. Use the freely available MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition, and create one primary partition (of type FAT32).
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Thankyou. I now have my SD card back. and now it is displayed on my phone as well. Seems that i have very low experience on ics which caused the prblm.
Thankyou very much
pepoluan said:
You should never format your External SD as NTFS; Linux does not support NTFS. At least not natively. Android *definitely* doesn't.
Format it as FAT32 with *Default* allocation unit size (Windows will determine what the correct size is by reading from the SD card controller).
You might also need to partition it before you format it. Use the freely available MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition, and create one primary partition (of type FAT32).
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thx helped alot
I've bought a 64 gb usb c flash drive how to move apps to it
I can't seem to mount ext3 second partition I've created
Good question. I'm curious about the answer as well.. Because our device doesn't have an external memory option
N-Gage4ever said:
Good question. I'm curious about the answer as well.. Because our device doesn't have an external memory option
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I've never seen that you could use a USB stick like an SD card in Android.
But I've certainly used USB storage on the LeMax2 to copy files to and fro. USB storage is accessible from file managers and usable e.g. for Titanium backup. I've even used a 250GB SSD on that port. That was NTFS and strangely enough I believe I have had issues with ext3 formatted storage on Android, but I believe it was only when I tried using that as file system for an SD card on Samsung Note 1 and 3 devices with stock ROMs.
Maminejomaa said:
I've bought a 64 gb usb c flash drive how to move apps to it
I can't seem to mount ext3 second partition I've created
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I cannot uderstand what is idea to put apps to pendrive. Put some moves, mp3 etc not the apps thta need fast memory.
Hi,
As stated my firestick formatted my external hard drive and now I cannot get windows to recognize it when I plug it in my laptop. It is seen in the disk format section but has no drive letter ( I gave it a drive letter using AOMEI partition assistant) but this fails. Any help would be appreciated.
If you used the FireTV format for internal storage option, I think it gets formatted to ext4 (Linux file system) which can't be natively read by windows.
Thanks, that actually worked utilizing that software