Hello all,
I am currently running a 4gb sd card with apps2sd on a rooted g1 and was wondering if anyone knew how much trouble it would be to upgrade the sd card size? I was wondering if I could simply format the 16gb card to fat32 and ext2 from linux then dump the file structures over and have it work?
Some other readers had formatting issues and I was curious as to whether this would potentially cause anything of the sort.
Thank you.
It is very probable that you can put a 16GB card on the G1... as long as it's probably formatted. notice that some cards are not read properly because they're not genuine..
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has anyone had this prob with there sd card, my card was 2gb but now its only shows 980mb its happened since iv used the new build wm6 any ideas
format yourcard: /FS:FAT /V:Sd Card /A:64k /X
yeah, just format your card. It's not the ROM.
Ta
thanks guys.. back to norm now
OK, now another similar one.
My 4GB card has gotten spoiled. Now, only 2GB is available after re-format in Card Reader. I tried re-formatting, but it never gave me back 4GB.
I do understand there could be special way to do it, as 4GB is >= 2GB which is about biggest positive 32-bit binary number...
Any insights?
I had that problem.. it's a problem with the card reader. Some card readers can't identify cards beyond 2Gb. Here's what I did, I plugged the card on my Universal... used USB HDD/WM5 Storage then formatted it on Windows. Try it.
That happened to my 4GB card awhile back. I fixed it by deleting the partition and doing a full reformat using... i think it was a toshiba utility.
I can't remeber any more details then that though
Just got a class 6 16gb micro sdhc card for my AT&T Captivate (Galaxy S) and I was curious to know, what should I do with it, formatting wise? Should I just leave it as FAT32? Is it possible to format it to NTFS and use it in my phone for regular data/music/videos? Should I format it as EXT, and would it be better? I already did an EXT2 "fix" that used my internal memory, and I just basically want to use the card for additional room. Thanks in advance. I tried googling but wasn't satisfied with what I found, basically just a bunch of stuff about linux kernals and what they support and such. I have the stock rom.
Thanks again!
You can still access data/music/videos if your SDCard is formatted in FAT32.
As for which you should go with, that's upto you. If you are running an older ROM (<2.*) - you may want to think about partitioning your SD for ext2/3/4 (where your apps will be) and then FAT32.
If you are on a newer ROM (>1.6), you can format it as FAT32 and utilize the entire SD card.
(If you have any performance issues, you can always download Swapper and create swap-space for your phone to use, but you should be fine if you are running a Galaxy)
Thanks
Appreciate it. Always good to have some clarity.
I just got a new microSD, my phone formatted it as FAT32. I guess that's fine, but since everyone here is always extolling the speed of ext? I was wondering if I could format it with that. Running infused, so I was wondering if it would be ok with that on the external microSD also?
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I just got a new microSD, my phone formatted it as FAT32. I guess that's fine, but since everyone here is always extolling the speed of ext? I was wondering if I could format it with that. Running infused, so I was wondering if it would be ok with that on the external microSD also?
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Android in 2.x is really set up to treat the SD partitions as FAT.
You would be unable to use the phone for USB storage with any Windows machine if the SD (internal or external) were formatted ext4.
for htc inspire kind of phone this is useful where internal memory is just 4gb.
so one can make a portion of microsd card formatted as ext2(4?) for app2sd(storing/moving apps to sd card)
here with infuse there is plenty of memory.
just my 2cents.
Hi all,
I have been reading about an issue that I have: 'android.process.media' keeps stopping.
One of the suggestions is that there maybe a corrupted file on your external sd card.
The fix is to either delete the file; good luck trying to find which file. or to reformat the sd card.
Since I have the keyboard dock and several 32gb microSD cards. I plan on copying all my files to the other card and then formatting the card in question.
However, it seems on the Asus tablet, I am not given the format option. I had it on my Samsung phone before the upgrade to ICS.
But one thing I wanted to do after some other reading is to format the card the same file system that is used on the internal memory.
If I have my facts correct, the internal memory is formatted as 'ext' and external SD cards get formatted as 'fat' (or is that fat32).
I think it's formatted as fat, is for compatibility with your PC.
However, the article, said that 'ext' is much more secure and less prone to corruption.
So is there anyway to format the external SD card in this 'ext' file system and how would one do that process?
Thanks!
Rob
You would need to do it in linux or find a windows program that could do it, as ext is not supported in windows. Im not sure the microsd will work right in the tablet formated as ext and your windows desktop wont be able to access .
Ok, I read in another thread, they suggested to put the microsd card in the phone and format from there.
I did do that.
And I have another question, my phone is rooted and it contains CWM.
I noticed in CWM, that you can fomat from there.
There are options to format areas, like /system /cache and the one I am interested in is /sdcard.
My question is this, is this /sdcard the external micro SD card or is it simply the partition /sdcard which is Samsung's internal memory. I don't want to take a change and format the internal SD card.
I think once formatted the external SD card, but I was on a different version of CWM, I have a different one after the ICS upgrade that was recommended by someone helping me do the ICS upgrade.
Anyway, thanks in advance!
Rob
Whoops almost forgot, there is thread on xda about formatting memory in ext4. I would like to try that and see if the Asus tablet can read that if I get to format the external card in ext4 Still looking for a Windows program that will format in that mode.
/sdcard is internal. /Removable is external.
I would be surprised if you can find a Windows program that reads, let alone writes, any type of ext filesystem (and forget about anything less mainstream like JFS or ReiserFS). Microsoft only made Windows compatible with their own filesystems, FAT32 and NTFS.
I've been trying to move apps to my SD card using Links2SD, but apparently this phone doesn't support moving apps to the SD card. Is there a way to do this?
I also tried "linking" apps to the SD card (even though I'm not quite sure I understand what that means), but I'm getting an error saying I don't have a second SD partition. If this is my last hope, how do I create a new SD partition?
Running Resurrection Remix on 6.0.1.
Thanks!
Edit: found this thread on creating a second partition, but I'm wondering if it's possible to do it on the phone since I don't have a card reader.
I think you can use TWRP to partition the SD card... A ext2/3/4 partition is required to use Link2SD on any device
Note that you cannot use the card as adopted storage. Always set the first partition as FAT32 and the second as ext4, or the card cannot be read in some Windows PC's, I would recommend a minimum 32GB card and at least U1/UHS-1 speed rating for acceptable performance.