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Got this new samsung infuse still trying to understand it. According to the specs, the phone is built in 16gb storage? If I download apps to it, it will automatically put that in the phone storage instead of external MircoSim, Somethings I am not sure if really need the external sim for it. Like Rom Manager, if I put the MicroSim, would it install in the External instead of the internal storage. I am confused.
Cause my other HTC inspire has 1 gb memory then the external. This one is little different. Not sure what is store internal and external, should I move things around?

Slightly confused on your post. First off you mean the micro sdcard, not sim. The sim card is what makes your phone work on carrier network. The phone has built in storage and a slot to insert a micro sdcard, it comes with a 2gb which isn't much so I upgraded to a 16gb which gives me a total of 32gb's of storage. As far as where apps and such are placed, I don't worry too much about that, I just leave it where it defaults to.
As far as your inspire with 1gb of memory, that's not actual storage memory, its ram.
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By default, the phone splits the 16GB of "internal" memory into 2 partitions: a 2GB partition for system usage (apps, ROM, data) and 14GB that you can mount and use as a regular SD card for storing music, videos, etc. With an external SD card installed, most apps should still drop themselves in the 2GB internal partition. The rest you can just manually move to phone storage or use TiBu to batch move.

nash2000 said:
Slightly confused on your post. First off you mean the micro sdcard, not sim. The sim card is what makes your phone work on carrier network. The phone has built in storage and a slot to insert a micro sdcard, it comes with a 2gb which isn't much so I upgraded to a 16gb which gives me a total of 32gb's of storage. As far as where apps and such are placed, I don't worry too much about that, I just leave it where it defaults to.
As far as your inspire with 1gb of memory, that's not actual storage memory, its ram.
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Sorry my bad, it should be MicroSD.

[Q] HTC Sensation 4G SD Card Question

My HTC Sensation 4G came with an 8 GB SD card pre-installed. According to the phone, the card has a Total Space available of 7.38 BG, and only 2.87 GB of available space. Does anyone know where the other 4.51 GB of space went? I haven't put anything on the card, and no new apps have been moved on to the card.

inspiredmac said:
My HTC Sensation 4G came with an 8 GB SD card pre-installed. According to the phone, the card has a Total Space available of 7.38 BG, and only 2.87 GB of available space. Does anyone know where the other 4.51 GB of space went? I haven't put anything on the card, and no new apps have been moved on to the card.
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You could try formatting it.

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I've had the HTC Sensation for about one week, so I'm not too familiar with all of its functions. I have noticed that the SD card erase function is disabled, which led me to wonder if there a some items bundled on the SD card that HTC doesn't want removed. For example, the DCIM folder.

inspiredmac said:
I've had the HTC Sensation for about one week, so I'm not too familiar with all of its functions. I have noticed that the SD card erase function is disabled, which led me to wonder if there a some items bundled on the SD card that HTC doesn't want removed. For example, the DCIM folder.
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Format it to FAT32 with your PC (folders which are needed by apps will be recreated automatically when needed).

On mine i boot into recovery and format 512mb for 4ext and 256mb for the swap and the rest fat 32.

Throw it away. Its a class 4 pile. Spend 15 buck for a class 10. 8 gb SDhc card. And enjoy a faster and more responsive phone over all
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[Q] SD card swap...

I bought a new PNY 32GB Class 10 SDHC card and currently have the memory card in my HTC Sensation 4G that came with it. I'm sure I'll have to copy over all my pictures and music to the new card, but how will it effect things if I just pull out the old card and swap in the new one? Will the apps still run correctly or all be present, or will it cause conflicts with the phone for me to just swap it out? If so, whats the correct procedure? Thanks so much and I really appreciate any help!

Well, if you have applications on your SD Card, just move all of them to the phone memory temporarily (so that you can move them back again to the SD card after swapping)..Afterwards, you can safely remove your SD card by going to Storage--> Unmount Shared Storage..Finally swap the cards and move the apps back to the SD card again ..I don't think you will face any problem if you follow this method..
Hope this helps

If you just stick the other one in some apps will go. Especially all of the larger apps, all of them.
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[Q] SanDisk 64GB microSDXC

I thought the Galaxy S3 supported the 64GB sdxc card. I have been having the usual issues with it (losing communication with it in the phone but it is operational in a PC) so I wrote Samsung support and got this reply;
Thank you for your inquiry. We understand that you are having issues using the 64GB SDXC card on the Samsung Galaxy S III phone You have tried inserting the SD card on the computer without any issues, Also you mentioned that you h ave already tried formatting the Card using the phone. We do apologize for the inconvenience that these issues might have caused you.
Pleae be advise that your device lets you use a microSD™ (SD) or microSDHC card to expand available memory space. The 64GB SDXC is not comptible to be use with the Galaxy S III.
I thought they stated at one time it did support the 64GB memory.

swantzilla said:
I thought the Galaxy S3 supported the 64GB sdxc card. I have been having the usual issues with it (losing communication with it in the phone but it is operational in a PC) so I wrote Samsung support and got this reply;
Thank you for your inquiry. We understand that you are having issues using the 64GB SDXC card on the Samsung Galaxy S III phone You have tried inserting the SD card on the computer without any issues, Also you mentioned that you h ave already tried formatting the Card using the phone. We do apologize for the inconvenience that these issues might have caused you.
Pleae be advise that your device lets you use a microSD™ (SD) or microSDHC card to expand available memory space. The 64GB SDXC is not comptible to be use with the Galaxy S III.
I thought they stated at one time it did support the 64GB memory.
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I believe the 64GB capacity is supported but it may be that the SDXC type card is not accepted. Have you tried a standard or SDHC card instead?

Kal3idosc0pe said:
I believe the 64GB capacity is supported but it may be that the SDXC type card is not accepted. Have you tried a standard or SDHC card instead?
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I thought 64GB was only available in SDXC
From the phone manual;
Memory Card
Your device supports removable microSD™ or microSDHC™
memory cards of up to 64GB capacity, for storage of music,
pictures, videos, and other files.

swantzilla said:
I thought 64GB was only available in SDXC
From the phone manual;
Memory Card
Your device supports removable microSD™ or microSDHC™
memory cards of up to 64GB capacity, for storage of music,
pictures, videos, and other files.
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I did a quick Google on it and found some SDHC cards. I did see a ton of SDXC cards but I think there are others available as well. I would post a link but XDA won't allow me to since I'm relatively new.

Kal3idosc0pe said:
I did a quick Google on it and found some SDHC cards. I did see a ton of SDXC cards but I think there are others available as well. I would post a link but XDA won't allow me to since I'm relatively new.
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SDHC only supports up to 32GB I am going to answer Samaung support and ask them how they support 64GB when SDHC only supports 32GB.
The Secure Digital eXtended Capacity (SDXC) format supports cards up to 2 TB (2048 GB), compared to a limit of 32 GB for SDHC cards in the SD 2.0 specification

I assure you my 64 gig sandisk sdxc card works just fine in the S3.
I kinda missed all the issues with read problems, because when I got it was before I had an S3.
When I got it, I opened the package, put the card right into my T-Mobile MyTouch 4G Slide phone, formatted the card in settings, and have been able to use it in that and the S3 fine since.
Maybe try formatting the card in another/older phone and see what happens? I was running gingerbread on it at the time.

i really depends on which file system is compatible with yer kernel. SDXC by default uses exFAT which won't read with a stock kernel. reformatting the card in your phone will format using the FAT32 File system. FAT32 is a lot more compatible but it has it's limitations like cant copy files bigger than 4 gigs.

jucytec said:
i really depends on which file system is compatible with yer kernel. SDXC by default uses exFAT which won't read with a stock kernel. reformatting the card in your phone will format using the FAT32 File system. FAT32 is a lot more compatible but it has it's limitations like cant copy files bigger than 4 gigs.
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FAT32 works and it doesn't. When I play videos it will randomly cause the phone to hang, then reboot. Not at any consistant time into the video either. But the data stays intact.

swantzilla said:
FAT32 works and it doesn't. When I play videos it will randomly cause the phone to hang, then reboot. Not at any consistant time into the video either. But the data stays intact.
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I actually came to this forum to ask about close to the same question. I'm using the first card that pops up when searching "64 gb micro sd" on amazon, and frequently (while watching videos) the phone will crash, followed by 2 vibrations, and then it boots up again.
Do you also have problems with music saved on the card? On occasion, my phone will skip tracks and will only play a few of the songs. This only happens over bluetooth (so far), and manually clicking one of the songs on my phone causes the rest to work again.
I've also been having issues with the card in general. Sometimes mine will say it's corrupt at the top, but a simple reboot or dismount fixes it.
Please let me know if you find out anything.

kdog679 said:
I actually came to this forum to ask about close to the same question. I'm using the first card that pops up when searching "64 gb micro sd" on amazon, and frequently (while watching videos) the phone will crash, followed by 2 vibrations, and then it boots up again.
Do you also have problems with music saved on the card? On occasion, my phone will skip tracks and will only play a few of the songs. This only happens over bluetooth (so far), and manually clicking one of the songs on my phone causes the rest to work again.
I've also been having issues with the card in general. Sometimes mine will say it's corrupt at the top, but a simple reboot or dismount fixes it.
Please let me know if you find out anything.
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The only official thing that I have from Samsung is that they support 64GB micro SD cards but they do not support the microSDXC, only the SDHC. 64GB is only available in SDXC. So I think the safest way is to go 32GB SDHC. Although from reading some prople have the 64GB SDXC working but many have problems with them, including myself. Another confusion point, San Disk says it will work. I have some older flavor of 16GB card in mine now and it has been very stable.
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Thinking;
Is it possible to format the 64GB SDXC with multiple partitions? Create (2) 32GB partitions formatted FAT32 each.

I used a 64 gb micro sd sdxc out of the box on CleanRom. I formatted it on accident when trying to wipe everything preparing for a different rom. Now the sd card only reads 27.4 gb. I have seen countless threads on here and google but i am not seeing a solution. Any ideas?

does the de-odexed and odexed type of rom have anything to do with if the phone recognizes exfat or fat32 sd cards?

natsnation87 said:
does the de-odexed and odexed type of rom have anything to do with if the phone recognizes exfat or fat32 sd cards?
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Uhh, not necessarily. It's primarily a kernel related issue. If you're using a TW rom that comes with the official OTA kernel then you'll have "no" problems with exFat. Synergy is one TW rom that I'm aware of which comes with exFat support courtesy of a custom kernel by a dev named Ziggy. Most custom kernels don't have exFat support. You'll have better results if your TW rom includes the stock OTA kernel, the same can't be said if it comes with a custom kernel. But exFat support is not based on whether the rom is deodexed or odexed.
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SlimSnoopOS said:
Uhh, not necessarily. It's primarily a kernel related issue. If you're using a TW rom that comes with the official OTA kernel then you'll have "no" problems with exFat. Synergy is one TW rom that I'm aware of which comes with exFat support courtesy of a custom kernel by a dev named Ziggy. Most custom kernels don't have exFat support. You'll have better results if your TW rom includes the stock OTA kernel, the same can't be said if it comes with a custom kernel. But exFat support is not based on whether the rom is deodexed or odexed.
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That makes things a lot clearer. Thanks for the response.

I use a sandisk 64 sdxc every day with no issues. I used a windows program called EaseUS partition master to format it and its all good. Pictures, music, movies, flawless. On touchwiz and aokp ROMs. Primarily stick with leankernel.
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Having issues with 64 gig sd card

I recently got this new SD card from ebay, it works great when im not using it no problems but when i try to move a file over to it it will constantly unmount itself how can i stop this?

Anyone?

What phone do you have? What is the size of file you are trying to move? Ebay is a dodgy place to buy SD cards as there are a lot of fakes ones out there! Usually hacked to give a false capacity and very low quality components used in manufacture with to-good-to-be-true prices. This could be what is causing the issue. I would recommend paying the extra for an SD card from a reputable retailer or a bit of hunting on Amazon.
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Galaxy Note 3 it only unmount when transferring files I can not reformat card to anything but exfat

Alexialwolf said:
Galaxy Note 3 it only unmount when transferring files I can not reformat card to anything but exfat
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Apparently after contacting the sepler the card is base dos-fat every time I try reformating to nfts it freezes the only other option is exfat which it finishs quickly but dosent change the random unmounting when transfering files.
The movies I have been able to get on there play without issue so only problem is when transferring files

Exfat is still a bit of an 'iffy' format when it comes to Android devices, I would suggest formatting the card to fat32. Windows cannot natively format anything over 32gb to fat32 so I would recommend following the tutorial here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2041679 I have used the software in the tutorial before and it's very good. If that doesn't work then I would say more than likely it's a problem with the card.
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