I was just wondering if anyone could shed some light on following.
I bought a 4 gb card and of course that didn't work.
Then bought a 2 gb card and that worked just fine.
Bought a second 2 gb card and that one didn't work, the wizard fails to recognize the card at all. When in the Wizard File Manager there is no reference to Storage Card at all unlike the first 2 gb SD card.
I got an app which looks at the formatting of the SD Cards
The first 2 gb SD card that works has the following formatting:
Cylinder: 242
Head: 255
Sector: 63
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The second 2 gb SD card that does not work has the following formatting:
Cylinder: 939
Head: 64
Sector: 63
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The 4 gb SD card that doesn't work
Cylinder: 482
Head: 255
Sector: 63
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Questions is - Is there any method to format the 2nd SD card that doesn't work to have the same Cylinder, Head, and Sector structure as the 1st that does work?
No matter what type of formatting I choose via my PC Card reader using Fat or Fat32 selecting different Allocation unit sizes, the C H and S item remain the same.
Is there a SD Formatting utility that would allow me to change that structure? If not, how does one know before purchasing as 2 gb SD card what the formatting format is? The 2 gb SD aren't high density so that shouldn't be a factor.
Thanks.
I canNOT answer almost any of your questions, but in terms of another formatting method, try formatting the 2G card in a digital camera, then try using it on the Wizard. I revived a card that would not even get read in two different laptops by first formatting on a camera.
Also, there is an app SD Memory Card Formatting Software which did not help me, but the camera did.
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My Kingston 512M SD (toshiba OEM) seems not compatible with XDA2.
The writing speed is slow (compare to lexar), and the machine always can't read the data on the SD. Sometimes the data on the card became read only. However the card works perfectly on my digital cam and card read.
Anyone got a Toshiba or Kingston 512M SD can test for me?
I had the same problem w/ my new 512 Mb Kinston SD card too.
My solution was to re-format the SD card this way:
FAT
16K blocks
Don't use FAT32 as that slows things down IMHO.
YMMV
-Jim
Thanks :lol: .
It seems perform a lot better with FAT16 and 16K blocks.
I think there must a bug in the OS because O2 never test SD card above 256M.
I've got a viking 512MB SD card from www.ebuyer.co.uk and it works fine.
Can I check how it is formated?
If you got a card reader, I think you can check it in the windows.
Use the command prompt , type "chkdsk X:" (x = your card reader's drive letter) and you can see the block size and the file system of the card.
As subject i have an xda 2 and the sd card comes up with 32mb used ????
could be
1 because the size it not given curret as in in bytes and not mb and gb and such and one kb is 1024 b not 100 and so forth
2 because the crypto part of sd automaticly take some size even if not used
how can i sort it out?
you cant
but you can calc if it's the reasons
So there is no way u can format an sd card?
sure there is
in a sd card reader for the pc
using storagetools
http://www.softwinter.com/storagetools.html
and using pocket mechanics
All done thx for that.
Everything on the ROM works great , however I'm having an issue getting the camera to work it keeps saying no sd card found ......
I'm not sure what the setup is suppose to be on the SD card,
I've tried fat32 primary then ext 3
then fat32 prim them fat 32 again
anyone help me out
Had a similar problem with another build which worked well but it couldn't find the SD where it(self) was installed.
I have tried 3.2.2 and the camera works fine so probably it is better to just reinstall the OS.
I don't understand why you had an ext3 partition I did use just a fat32 and it worked fine.
Paolo
it's my understanding that you should start with a nice clean format so format the whole sd card.
then get a partition program of your choice that can do what is needed.
move resize the first primary fat32 so that you have unallocated space of 1024. that space then needs to be assigned primary ext3. then format and that's what i did with my card and all seems fine.
then format and all should be good at least that's what i did with the partition program.
maybe your sd card isn't reading right i also read some cards were hit or miss on rafdroid.
I've tried different cards from different manu's still nothing tried formtaing differently same result, not sure what I'm missing
Not sure if you solved your problem. I had the same issue with SD RAFDROID 4.2 on a 16GB class4 SanDisk microSD card.
original partitions were:
FAT32 - 64K block size - primary
ext3
linuxswap
RAFDROID didn't detect an SD card when it came to camera and other operations that were SD dependant.
I used minitool and changed the partitions to a single FAT32 partition, with 32K bloxk size and set to primary and it worked like a charm ... this build is really good!
You may wanna backup the folders on your SD to your pc.
The other day I had put my SD card, (A-Data 16GB Class 10) into my windows 7 64 bit machine mainly because I could not fine my usb cable. Everything seemed to be fine, I had just upgraded from the stock 8GB card that cam with my Evo. After I placed the card back into my Evo I noticed that my nandroid folder was gone. I was luckily as I always try to keep backups on my computer so I was not that worried, note to anyone always keep nandroid back somewhere other than you SD card. Fast forward about two weeks, I downloaded a great little app DiskUsage https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.diskusage&feature=search_result that I think I saw here on this forum a while back, to see where all of my SD space was going. Just going to the Storage space in CM7 was showing that there was 8 GB free when there was only 4 GB on the card. 8 + 4 = 12 and the card is 16 GB even with formatting I should not have lost 4 GB.
Quick note 16 GB card is not really 16 GB. I get tried of hearing people complain that their X GB card only shows 15.2 GB in this case. Do the math. 1 megabyte = 1024 Kilobytes and 1 gigabyte = 1024 megabytes roughly. So if you say 16,000 megabytes (what you think the sd card has) / 1024 (because computer space is built on 8 bits = 1 byte) = 15.625 GB of actual storage space.
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Back to where I was, so I found this folder called Found.000 and had no clue what it was. This folder was taken up roughly 3.5 GB of space, and it was a hidden system folder as I later realized, not Andorid system, Windows system. You may ask where did it come from, well after a cup, or 4 of coffee I found that when dealing with Windows and you plug a SD card, for this case, into the computer and it says SD card not properly ejected do you want to look for errors, and you say yes and allow it to fix any error that it finds. Well this is the result, a folder name Found.000 with the files/folders that the Windows system attempted to restore but they are unreadable. I then put 2 and 2 together and found out that is was my nandroid folder that I was missing. So now what to do with it. Well this is where I got impatient. After reading that you should not remove this folder, and then reading that it did not matter, I decided to reformat the SD card. SD cards should be formatted with SD Formatter http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3/ for better results with speed. I did reformat after backing up and then copy my files/folder back to the SD card and now have been running with no problems and all of my unused space free. Just thought that this might help other people in what seems to be a fight to keep your SD card cleaner.
Hi,
I wonder if someone can help me, I've got WP7.5 install as a NAND installation, with Android 4.0.4 as a SD installation. Both work brilliantly, although I do have some slight problems.
Android won't detect an SD card installed, so I can't use some apps, that require an SD card to be present.
Does anyone know if there is a fix for this, surely I'm not the only person in this position.
Cheers
I'm guessing it's because your SD has been formatted specially by WP, and Android can't read this. Your FAT32 partition is probably too small for anything to be stored in it.
The Fat32 partition is 1.6Gb.
Is it worth making that bigger, or creating another FAT32 partition?
Cheers
Hmm, I'd guess that you wouldn't have any more than 200-300MB free on your SD as read by SD Android then. I don't know how much an SD Android build takes up but the data.img is at least 1GB of that. As for increasing the partiton/creating a new one, I don't actually think that's possible without losing your data is it?
Hi,
Thanks for your help.
I'm not too fussed about losing anything...
Here is what I have just tried without any success.
I have a 8Gb card partitioned like this.
1.*Gb
Primary, FAT32, (Android SD install)
2Gb
Primary, FAT32, (My hope would be that Android would see this as the SD card)
4Gb Other (WP 7 partition)
No luck unfortunately, any ideas?
Cheers
Are you sure you're using an 'unlockable' WP7.x ROM? If so, try formatting the storage card to normal and flash a Android build, see if it utilises the memory card like normal, if it does, then I would say that you're doing something wrong when setting it up.
Just double check each step of a tutorial (example: this one) twice and hopefully you'll only have to flash one more time.
Why do you have 2 fat 32 partitions ?...just use one fat 32 partition..in regular sd android....data image is used as internal memory and fat 32 part as sd card
I believe your second partition is not being recognised...make only one fat 32 partition you don't need two
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