Not sure if anyone else is aware of this?
I just got a Moto G & upgraded to Lollipoop & have put a 128gb micro sd card in & it works a treat. No problems so far.
Has anyone else tried a card above 32gb?
Yep, I wonder why they claim such limitations, I've been using a 64Gb micro SD for almost a year and no problem, no crazy formatting was needed or anything
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great to know it works on 128GB Sd cards, I was wondering, I might just try now
I received a 128gb SD Card as a gift in a store, i didn't even put it in my phone because i through it won't work, but in a day i was bored so i just put it in for the matters of testing and it worked. I don't know either why they say that "only 32 or 64gb are supported".
All sd sard bigger then 33 gb comes with Microsoft exfat file system as default and Microsoft have copyright of this file system to add support of this file system manufacturer need to buy licence for Microsoft so it wouldn't added to our phone but if you format it in fat32 it work without any issues.
Fat32 64bg sandisk works perfect
vikasb32 said:
All sd sard bigger then 33 gb comes with Microsoft exfat file system as default and Microsoft have copyright of this file system to add support of this file system manufacturer need to buy licence for Microsoft so it wouldn't added to our phone but if you format it in fat32 it work without any issues.
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Yes. You're right. I read somewhere that, OEMs do that to avoid royalty fee. If they claim their device supports 128GB they have to pay dome fee to Microsoft.
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10 days ago i bought a new micro SDHC 8 gb card, and i started copying music to it immediately. My phone did not recognise the card after that, giving me a "damaged sd card" error. Eventually i somehow made it work, and it was good for a couple of days. After that, it would copy files on the card without problems, but once the media scanning is completed, the files are not on the card So i went to the shop where i bough it and got it replaced, only to get the same results: after 2-3 days, the copied files arent showing on the phone, or the pc. It's like i didn't copy them at all. Can anyone help me with this?
i think you just need to format your sd to fat32 again... you can do that with mini tool partition wizard
Yes, formating worked on the first card, but then the problem appeared again I can't format it every time i need something new.
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I can't format it every time i need something new.
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true.
i also got the sd card damaged when i first inserted sd card but when i formatted it again it worked...
What bugs me the most is that it's working with no problem for just a couple of days, then it's from the start again. I noticed a LOST.DIR or something named folder on the card whenever it acts like this, and the files and the size in the lost folder fits the size of the folders i'm copying...
yep, the lost files definitely go into the lost.dir folder. Anyone knows something about this folder, other than that it collects all the lost data? Any way to recover the lost files? Why does this happen in the first place?
I had teh same problem ...
There's actually 2 options to get it working ...
1) Buy a class 4 or a class 6 sdcard. (Teh one which u get for free with u're G3 phone is class 2 sdcard and it sucks )
2) Remove teh stock applications and install some cool applications which's got teh option "manual folder scan" (You can select this option for force u're application to scan u're sdcard) Like power amp for music player and quick pic for viewing photos or wall papers or what eva ..!
OP already says "new micro SDHC 8 gb card"
so there certainly some problem with how card is handled in his Handheld.
Can you mention which version of ROM is this ?
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OP already says "new micro SDHC 8 gb card"
so there certainly some problem with how card is handled in his Handheld.
Can you mention which version of ROM is this ?
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I kno
But he did not say whether he bought a new class-2 8gb sdcard or calss-4 ..!
sdcard class makes a difference
Or may be he can use teh second option
The card might be bad or a fake with less memory than physically present, which would explain the corruptions and files in the lost files dir - the filesystem checker puts lost file blocks there.
Maybe test your card with something like this:
http://fightflashfraud.wordpress.co...ld-standard-in-detecting-fake-capacity-flash/
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Hey guys thanks for the new reply's, but i already took the card to service, and it is a fake. I'm waiting for a new card to arrive at the store and take it.
I too should have taken it to the store and got it replaced
Too bad i didn't think of it
You should have! I used an application which determined that the card is fake by reporting it's true capacity, told the store about it, and they scanned their products, eventually learning that all of the cards are fake (the Kingston ones). Now, i'm waiting for a new shipment to arrive and get my new card. Hopefully it will not be a fake.
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You should have! I used an application which determined that the card is fake by reporting it's true capacity, told the store about it, and they scanned their products, eventually learning that all of the cards are fake (the Kingston ones). Now, i'm waiting for a new shipment to arrive and get my new card. Hopefully it will not be a fake.
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What application did u use? Can u pls post teh link here ..
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The card might be bad or a fake with less memory than physically present, which would explain the corruptions and files in the lost files dir - the filesystem checker puts lost file blocks there.
Maybe test your card with something like this:
http://fightflashfraud.wordpress.co...ld-standard-in-detecting-fake-capacity-flash/
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It's this one. The test takes time, but it helps.
Hey there guys.
I have the latest european stock firmware on my SGS2. The issue persists since I bought the thing: I am using a 32GB card and I cannot get the phone to see media files that are on it. I copied 2 or 3 movies on the card, which was of course formatted before use, and it says that the space is taken but I cannot see the files either in file explorer , or in Gallery. Any idea why? Maybe it doesnt fully support a 32GB card?
Are you using fat32? If not... use it
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Hey there guys.
I have the latest european stock firmware on my SGS2. The issue persists since I bought the thing: I am using a 32GB card and I cannot get the phone to see media files that are on it. I copied 2 or 3 movies on the card, which was of course formatted before use, and it says that the space is taken but I cannot see the files either in file explorer , or in Gallery. Any idea why? Maybe it doesnt fully support a 32GB card?
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did you format it with windows? if yes which format did you choose? it is always better to format it from your device directly. i also have a 32mb external sd card and it works fine
I formatted in on the device. I imagined this would be the best way. And my computer is alos set to format as FAT32. So maybe it is just a faulty card??!!
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Hey there guys.
I have the latest european stock firmware on my SGS2. The issue persists since I bought the thing: I am using a 32GB card and I cannot get the phone to see media files that are on it. I copied 2 or 3 movies on the card, which was of course formatted before use, and it says that the space is taken but I cannot see the files either in file explorer , or in Gallery. Any idea why? Maybe it doesnt fully support a 32GB card?
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Maybe the movie is too big for the file system. Every file system can handle only files up to a special size... Try to reformat and check if the video is converted the right way... Take aybe 10 minutes of the movie, convert it and transfer it to your phone to be sure about the file size thing... Officialy the phone is compatible up to 64gb.
Unfortunately is none of the suggestions. Although I can use the card perfectly well on the laptop, it doesnt work properly with the phone. Must be some incompatibility. Which sucks, since it s a 32GB card... Thank anyway
Are you sure it's really a 32GB card? Many cheap cards that one can buy on places like eBay are fakes -- low-capacity cards hacked to look like high-capacity.
There are some test programs that will tell you if the card is really the capacity it's supposed to be. On the phone itself, you can run SDCardTester (free from Android Market), and on the PC you can run h2testw.
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Are you sure it's really a 32GB card? Many cheap cards that one can buy on places like eBay are fakes -- low-capacity cards hacked to look like high-capacity.
There are some test programs that will tell you if the card is really the capacity it's supposed to be. On the phone itself, you can run SDCardTester (free from Android Market), and on the PC you can run h2testw.[/QU
Yes this might be an idea. It is unbranded , but on laptop it shows 32GB. Hmm.. I have it from a sony ericsson xperia from a trusted person, but on the other hand...who can you trust? I will try my 4GB card and see if it shows my movies.
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Hi guys.
I'm going to be buying the note in the next couple of days. I'm aiming for the 16gb version. Just reading through quickly about the micro sd cards and the fats problems, I'm wondering if that's an issue when viewing movies stored in the sd card instead of the main memory.
I know that the notr wont allow the sd card to store applications similarly to the galaxy s3 but that's not a big problem as the use of the note will be mostly for travelling, internet etc.
Many thanks
Vas
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I am not sure what you asking. Can you explain what exact problem you found in Note?
As of right now the Note 10.1 doesn't support exfat for the microsd card so you are limited to fat32. Thus you cannot have a file over 4gb in size. Other than that there is no problem. Movies and such play just fine off the sd card. I'm assuming that it will get exfat support as it is supposed to support 64gb sd cards which normally ship as exfat and are a PITA to get formatted as fat32.
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You can you format the card as NTFS and give this app a shot. (ROOT REQUIRED! )
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paragon.mounter
NTFS supports files over 4GB, so 720p or 1080p mkvs woun't be a problem!
Also this solution is better because ntfs has support on all OSes (pc, *nix). Exfat has limited support on linux (exists as paid or free alfa driver).
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I'm assuming that it will get exfat support as it is supposed to support 64gb sd cards which normally ship as exfat and are a PITA to get formatted as fat32.
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It's a total PITA. If you have another Android device with a MicroSD slot you can try formatting the card in that device first. A lot of people have had luck that way. I tried reformatting a 64GB SanDisk card to FAT using multiple different programs and the Note still wouldn't mount the card or give me the formattng option. Here's the solution, I know it's stupid.
1) Download EaseUS Partition Manager (it's free) - http://www.partition-tool.com/landing/home-download.htm
2) Take a blank FAT MicroSD card and mount it to your PC
3) Have the 64GB mounted at the same time so it too shows up on your PC
4) Using the clone wizard, clone the FAT card to the 64GB card. Make sure to expand the size of the 64GB card before cloning so it doesn't pick up the size of the smaller card.
It's half-ass but works. I'm really hoping exFAT support comes in an update. The SGS3 handles it and the Note’s guts are pretty much the same. It may not though because the user manual specifically says "your device supports FAT."
Good luck.
So up to what size on fat32sd cards will they work?
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So up to what size on fat32sd cards will they work?
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32GB. Also, they changed the specs on the U.S., UK, and HK sites to a maximum SD card size of 32GB. So unless you do the gymnastic approach I posted to get a 64GB card from exFAT to FAT, 32GB is the limit for storage expansion.
Many thanks. I think a 32GB will be more than enough for me.
Thanks for all your answers chaps. Looking forward to ordering a white one!
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4) Using the clone wizard, clone the FAT card to the 64GB card. Make sure to expand the size of the 64GB card before cloning so it doesn't pick up the size of the smaller card.
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How to expand the 64GB? I have 32 and 64 but whatever I do I cannot expand the 64gb.
Did you mean I should format it in Fat32 to 64GB?
I actually used EaseUS to format the 64GB SD in Fat32 and it seem to work. Did not use clone just copied thze files afterwards.
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How to expand the 64GB? I have 32 and 64 but whatever I do I cannot expand the 64gb.
Did you mean I should format it in Fat32 to 64GB?
I actually used EaseUS to format the 64GB SD in Fat32 and it seem to work. Did not use clone just copied thze files afterwards.
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Was it a SanDisk SDXC 64GB card? I tried everything including EaseUS to format it in to FAT but the Note still wouldn't mount it or provide the option to format it itself.
If anyone does have to use the clone process like I did, here's how to get the full 64GB on the exFAT card being formatted. In the last step of the process EaseUS shows bar graphs of the FAT card and exFAT card stacked over each other. The 64GB exFAT card will show the protected partition and 32GB of space allocated. Grab the end of tbe box showing 32GB and slide it to the right to expand it to the full 64GB available on the disk.
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Was it a SanDisk SDXC 64GB card?
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Yes, it's a SanDisk Ultra 64GB class 10 microSDXC.
The main point was for me not to format it in exFAT or NTFS as my Win7 offered but with EaseUS to normal FAT32 and set cluster size to 32 or 64KB (I 4got).
32kb cluster size is the sd card association recommendation.
Does anyone have any problem with there head unit not taking 64gb cards. Whats the most it will take? SanDisk Ultra Plus 64gb won't work.
32gb maximum. (I noticed In the specs listed on Amazon.c om)
Format it to FAT32. I'm using 128gb Samsung MicroSD.
Yes you MUST format it to FAT32. These boxes (and many android devices) can not read ExFAT Formatted SD Cards. New versions of Windows can't format FAT32 from the regular disk format gui. You have to do this:
cmd (Win+R and type cmd)
diskpartlist disk
select disk 1 (1 must be a number of your flash card)
clean (this command erase all data on selected disk!!!!)
create partition primary
select partition 1
format fs=fat32
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ALSO, make sure its not fake. The market is totally saturated with people selling fake SD Cards as "64" when they are only 16 or 8, and you only find out when you "fill it up".
http://oeding.com/tutorial-how-to-spot-a-fake-memory-card/
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Yes you MUST format it to FAT32. These boxes (and many android devices) can not read ExFAT Formatted SD Cards. New versions of Windows can't format FAT32 from the regular disk format gui. You have to do this:
ALSO, make sure its not fake. The market is totally saturated with people selling fake SD Cards as "64" when they are only 16 or 8, and you only find out when you "fill it up".
http://oeding.com/tutorial-how-to-spot-a-fake-memory-card/
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has anyone tried anything bigger in FAT32? 200 or 256?
I'm using 200gb fat 32 for flac. no issues.
I am using a 1tb Extreme SSD sandisk fat32 no issues... I thought for sure there would be the 328gb limit but nope I have 1tb of music(FLAC and SACD). It does take about 1 minute after I start head unit for it to load external storage but vanilla music loads and organizes the tracks instantly. MAKE SURE to eject the external storage in settings>storage before removing if you have it set for high write speeds. You have to do this on Android and windows.
Fubar 2000 skips but vanilla music works flawlessly.
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I'm using 200gb fat 32 for flac. no issues.
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great thanks
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great thanks
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BTW it's a U1 card not U3, nothing expensive
Is it possible to use a microSD formatted to ext4 in our phones? It's come to the point where I could store all my music on a single 256GB card instead of streaming it all the time, but many of my filenames are not FAT compatible and I don't want to rename if I don't have to.
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Is it possible to use a microSD formatted to ext4 in our phones? It's come to the point where I could store all my music on a single 256GB card instead of streaming it all the time, but many of my filenames are not FAT compatible and I don't want to rename if I don't have to.
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I was struggling with 256GB microSDXC too. The only way seems to be custom, not stock-like ROM which wasn't a good choice in my case because I'm not good with high handheld temperatures. Finally i went with exFAT because I need large file support.