Can we format our sd cards as something other than fat so that I can store larger than 4gb files on there? Does a custom kernel have to be written to recognize it and make it work as it usually does?
Thanks in advance to whoever can answer this question for me.
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i am trying to flash thyrough my memory card....i have a 1gb sandisk sd card.....i hear something about partition but have no idea what to do please help
PC Partitioning.
The first to do is understand what it is. Then we can actually do it. Other than that, this is NOT a development post. It needs to be moved to the proper sub forum.
Your SD card needs to be FAT32. (Right click on the card while using a card reason and choose partition (if you're in windows.)
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..
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.
Hey guys. I am totally new to the whole Android thing so if I come off sounding stupid with my questions please forgive me in advance. I just bought a Samsung Transform last week and the internal memory is already full. I deleted some apps to make room but that sucks. I wanted to move the apps from the internal memory to my SD card. The sd card that came with the phone is a 2GB Sandisk Micro. I'm assuming you guys are going to tell me to buy a bigger card. I've spent hours researching this and this is what I have done so far. I read that you are supposed to "root" the phone. I have done so with a program called "z4root". I have also downloaded "app2sd" but when I went to run it it wanted to partion the sd card. I'm assuming this also is going to format the card so I should back up the pics and music I have on the card to my PC. The partion part of this thing is where I'm getting confused. I've read to create a swap. The I've read to not create a swap. Whatever the hell a swap is anyway. Then there is the ext2, ext3, ext4, discussions. I'm lost!! All I want to do is put my apps on the SD card so I can free up my internal memory. When I create these partions what size should they be and on what partion do I put the apps? And if I put all my apps on one partion then what is the other partion used for? Please help as I'm not sure how to proceed. Thanks alot.
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.