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transferring files to sd card too slow

im trying to transfer a new rom(327mb) to my SD CARD to flash but its taking way toooo! long.. it receives by 500KB/S now, before it was MB/S. its taking 10minutes to transfer it. is something wrong with my SD card?

How good of a computer do you have? Try not multitasking like 10 things at a time and transferring if that doesnt help, you must have a lot on your sd card try clearing uneeded files.
If that doesnt work, the final solution, buy a better sd card...
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Welcome to Class 2 SD cards. Now you know why they're so inexpensive.

I have a transfer rate of about 5mbs...I'm fine with that...
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P00t said:
im trying to transfer a new rom(327mb) to my SD CARD to flash but its taking way toooo! long.. it receives by 500KB/S now, before it was MB/S. its taking 10minutes to transfer it. is something wrong with my SD card?
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I had that problem when I backed up my SD card before making it a gold card. Everything came off the card at 18MB/s but it went back on at 600 KB/s. The card has continued to work fine since, though.

I have the 8gb that came with the phone.
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P00t said:
I have the 8gb that came with the phone.
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Ditto and +1

SD Card Transfers

Hi I just got a 32gb SD micro sdhc card. I put it in my g2x and in SD card and memory in settings it says empty. If I go to applications and try to move a application over it says SD card is full. I think this is because my internal SD card is full. I didn't know I had an internal SD. How can I move it to an external display. App to SD card doesn't work and sdcard enabler didn't work either.
Thnx
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K starting with what rom you are on would be helpful. They all handle the internal/external stuff different.
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I have the stock 2.2 rooted
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What brand card do you have?
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First dl es file explorer, its free no ads.
Second make sure you don't have some BS cheapo generic card and that the class speed isn't over 6. From Lu own experience higher speeds are redundant and there's really no difference. I have class 4 16 gb Kingston and it works perfect way faster than any normal class2.
If you are royalty confused which is the phone external and which is the onevypu put in, set your phone storage to external take a pic and there you go easy path tobthe right storage folder. Gl
meh...

Transfer images from camera to USB stick on go without laptop?

Hello everyone.
I'm looking for a solution to solve that problem, as Im away to holiday in Austraila, for three weeks. Whooot! I'll be staying in hotel in various of places.
So I have three device
iPad 3 (not jailbreaked, and don't want jailbreaked )
iPod 2 gen ( jailbreaked) ( happy to change any settings on iPod)
HTC sensation. Happy to mod and change ANY settings to enable USB host,
CCK device.
I thought of dropbox but I was worried about costly of wifi around in Aussie and probably don't have time to wait till all photo were uploaded. My camera is Fujifilm Finepix f10 and limited to 2gb of xD card. (don't want to buy new camera)
I do have a laptop but I perfer to bring iPad and leave laptop at home as I want to travel light.

If your sensation supports usb host mode then buy a host cable and a usb card reader, the sensation will read the card then just bluetooth to the other devices
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adamo3957 said:
If your sensation supports usb host mode then buy a host cable and a usb card reader, the sensation will read the card then just bluetooth to the other devices
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I believe my sensation doesnt support USB host device.

Another option would be to get an mirco sd card to sd card adaptor plug in an xgb in to the adaptor use it in the camera and at the end of the day put the card in the phone and send it were ever
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adamo3957 said:
Another option would be to get an mirco sd card to sd card adaptor plug in an xgb in to the adaptor use it in the camera and at the end of the day put the card in the phone and send it were ever
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Can't, my camera is not compaitable with microsd card, however what is the cheapest mobile phone that have USB Host. There seems to be a solution.

CrazyComputerMan said:
I believe my sensation doesnt support USB host device.
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With the latest kernel from SebastianFM, you can have OTG, but you must have a powered cable.
USB OTG for the HTC Sensation on ICS Sense ROMs

I meant use an sd card adaptor.
The ones that convert mirco sd to sd card size that should work.
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[Q] SD card is damaged.

I am getting a message that says "SD card is damaged. Try reformatting it." Is this referring to my external SD card?
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Yes just format it but you will lose everything on it.Everything
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The way to find out is to either remove the external card or download an app to check the sd cards.
If you are going to format, try to copy the cards over to your computer first.

When I mounted to my Mac, only 1 card mounted ( the internal) instead of 2. I copied everything off and formatted it just for my own peace of mind. I then copied only what I absolutely needed back. After a reboot, i had the same error. I then shut down and removed the external card, and no more error messages. No great loss, nothing on there that I don't have a backup of already. I guess I need a new external SD. This one was only a class 4 anyway. Do I need to move up in class?
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lunarlandr said:
I guess I need a new external SD. This one was only a class 4 anyway. Do I need to move up in class?
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Upgrading classes isn't required. You can go out and buy another Class 4 or even a Class 2 if you so choose. The only difference is the write speed (4MB/s vs 2MB/s respectively). If you use an APPs2SD type app than a Class 6 card will be a good recommendation for you to get as it offers 6MB/s write speed which in turn cuts down on loading and saving times of any apps you use off the card.
But in terms of upgrading classes because it's required, it's not. Buy whatever class card you need or want to buy.

Gs3 wont recognize 32gb sdcard?

Hey guys, I just recently saw when I turned my phone on, it says sd unexpectedly removed, when in fact it is in there. If I take it out and re insert it, it doesn't say anything? I would try to use this on my laptop but I know the reader on my laptop is busted (plus I'm at work). Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Not sure, I had a 32gb card myself and it started acting weird on me. Doing th e are thing, acting like it wasn't there, needed formating or some such. I switched to my old 16gb card from my droid X and it worked perfectly. I think not was just a bad card. It's possible as the prices came down and these cards got cheaper the quality control has dropped. . I might add that that was my second 32gb card The first one wouldn't even work in my laptop when i tried to format it and got so hot that it burned my fingers when took it out!
Short Story is you may have a duff card. Try an old sd card just to make sure it's not your phone.
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paul.michael.glass said:
Not sure, I had a 32gb card myself and it started acting weird on me. Doing th e are thing, acting like it wasn't there, needed formating or some such. I switched to my old 16gb card from my droid X and it worked perfectly. I think not was just a bad card. It's possible as the prices came down and these cards got cheaper the quality control has dropped. . I might add that that was my second 32gb card The first one wouldn't even work in my laptop when i tried to format it and got so hot that it burned my fingers when took it out!
Short Story is you may have a duff card. Try an old sd card just to make sure it's not your phone.
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I know it's not my phone, tried my friends card and it worked. If I insert my card in his phone it says blank sd card and when I try to format it, it says in know media state....
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Sounds like a duff card. What brand of card is it?
I'd say as a last ditch attempt when you can try using a laptop and make sure it's not formated to exFAT. When mine went bad my laptop wouldn't even let me format it
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paul.michael.glass said:
Sounds like a duff card. What brand of card is it?
I'd say as a last ditch attempt when you can try using a laptop and make sure it's not formated to exFAT. When mine went bad my laptop wouldn't even let me format it
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I needed one ASAP for work, I just ended up getting a free replacement from Verizon. Tha ks for all your help guys! Mods can go ahead and lock this thread=)
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I had a generic 32GB card workinf for me perfectly from day one, but recently I bought a SanDisk 64GB and I can't get my phone to recognize it (my computer does), I'm thinking it has to be in the right format, which formats will the phone recognize and which won't it?

Try it in cwm. There is a page that does give info on partition and speed somewhere on the net.
Afterward, fix permissions.
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levilib said:
I had a generic 32GB card workinf for me perfectly from day one, but recently I bought a SanDisk 64GB and I can't get my phone to recognize it (my computer does), I'm thinking it has to be in the right format, which formats will the phone recognize and which won't it?
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Fat32 if you intend to be a rooted user

Fat32 is the stock format OOB and will work well with all devices.
Ext4 is androids partition for apps.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1633915
Great question answered.
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If you can, transfer all info to computer and format card in phone if possible.
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loonie01 said:
If you can, transfer all info to computer and format card in phone if possible.
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How do you format on the phone?

Settings >> Storage >> Format

tried that to, still won't work.
when i try mount it says damaged sd card reformat.
i've tried formatting it on the computer in exFAT and NTFS, the only 2 options windows offers

levilib said:
tried that to, still won't work.
when i try mount it says damaged sd card reformat.
i've tried formatting it on the computer in exFAT and NTFS, the only 2 options windows offers
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did a bit of googling, found a program that will format into fat32 format since windows 7 and 8 wont. finally works!