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Confused about SD card (help)

I went to the motorola and this is what it said about the sd card
Insert your microSD card
Remove the microSD Card Slot tray located on the back of the device.
Remove dummy microSD Card and insert your microSD card in the same slot.
Insert the microSD card slot tray
Do I have to buy a sd card
Thank You

Yes. You need to supply your own card. A 32g card works well in my Xoom.

Sistema1927 said:
Yes. You need to supply your own card. A 32g card works well in my Xoom.
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Can you format the card in the Xoom?

ok thank you

stevefxp said:
Can you format the card in the Xoom?
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No, you have to format the microSD on a PC, no options are provided from the OS to do so.

megabiteg said:
No, you have to format the microSD on a PC, no options are provided from the OS to do so.
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I am not to computer saavy can you give me a description what I have to do now I got a 32sd card today.
Thanks

If you have a microSD reader, plug it into your PC and format it as FAT32...that's all there is to it. You may be able to do it through the Xoom over USB (as in plug your Xoom into your PC with the SD card in your Xoom), but I can't confirm that. You definitely don't want to format the Xoom itself though.

Once I do this, where well the sd card show up? I wish there was a file explorer built into the xoom
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TJEclipse said:
Once I do this, where well the sd card show up? I wish there was a file explorer built into the xoom
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it will show up mounted in /mnt/external1
/sdcard or /mnt/sdcard is for the internal memory.

TJEclipse said:
Once I do this, where well the sd card show up? I wish there was a file explorer built into the xoom
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download ES File Explorer. its the best of the lot

TJEclipse said:
Once I do this, where well the sd card show up? I wish there was a file explorer built into the xoom
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OK so I use Astro, and Androzip, and for some reason I can't get my Xoom to recognize the Sd card. I can access it through windows, but not at all through the Xoom. Is this just because I took the card straight from my phone and put it in the tablet without formatting it? Thanks
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Sd card issue

I recently switched to a sense rom from my usual cm7. Now, my sd card wont mount via usb, apps cant accesss sd data files, camera says no sd is present. Samba is the only way i can access sd content.
Is there a way i can attempt to repair this before im forced to reformat??
Thanks
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Take out your sd card and place in a card reader via your PC. then browse and open up the sd card and copy all the folders to your hard drive. Afterwards right click on the sd card and click format. Do a full format not a quick one. Begin copying back over the folders from before. Done.

Thank you, that's what I ended up having to do
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[Q] external sd card problem

hi guy's!
i have a Galaxy Ace GT-S5730i
and i was having some problems with the internal storage
so i saw this thread by jocala
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1757767
that i can use the external sd card as an internal storage
any how .. it didn't work!
but what happened now is that my phone can't read the sd card at all
and saying things like "no such as directory" or something like that
and i can't download the swapsd.apk again cause it needs an sd card to be downloaded to first!
if only i can download the apk from any where directly to the internal phone storage
i can get the swap back to default again!
any help please?!
and yes i am a noob!

Take out the SD card and put it into an SD card reader and put that into your computer and use a free partition program to basically repartition the entire card or delete and format a new partition.

didn't work
orangekid said:
Take out the SD card and put it into an SD card reader and put that into your computer and use a free partition program to basically repartition the entire card or delete and format a new partition.
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hey, thanks for helping
but it didn't work
did what you asked me to do, but nothing really changed!
thanks again
any other ideas?

Strange, formatting the sd card usually fixes these kind of problems :/
Have you tried it a couple times? Formatting does fail on occasions. Also make sure you do a full format, not a quick one
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jman2131 said:
Strange, formatting the sd card usually fixes these kind of problems :/
Have you tried it a couple times? Formatting does fail on occasions. Also make sure you do a full format, not a quick one
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well, the sd card is working probably on the pc with the card reader!
so i guess - just guessing - that the problem is in the device it self!
i formatted the phone it self but it didn't work, and i'm going to go with what you are saying
and i will do a full format
thanks a lot

didn't work, does the FAT,FAT32 and the rest of those stuff matter?!
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when ever i open "My Files" it says "Your phone does not have SD card inserted" although it is!

take a cloth and clean your SD card area in your phone, also use that canned air stuff and do a quick spray.

[HELP} problem with sd card

hello, i have a 4gb microsd with my android phone
suddenly one day it stopped allowing me write or delete files from sd card, only read operations are done
normal check with windows failed
i tried to format with gparted and diskpart everything failed,
it doesnt have a lock, tried from usb card reader also
what should i do know??
(did a lot of googling tried many formatters none worked)

Try these:
1. Unmount SD card in your device, and mount it again.
2. Connect it to a PC using a card reader, and run CHKDSK.
3. Format the SD Card in a digital camera or a Nokia phone.

immortalneo said:
Try these:
1. Unmount SD card in your device, and mount it again.
2. Connect it to a PC using a card reader, and run CHKDSK.
3. Format the SD Card in a digital camera or a Nokia phone.
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didnt work sir anyway thanks

also,i want to know it.

smarthavoc said:
didnt work sir anyway thanks
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Maybe its time to buy a new SD card.. Which brand was yours?

immortalneo said:
Maybe its time to buy a new SD card.. Which brand was yours?
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transcend
slready ordered a new one

Did you try other sd card in this phone? My old Android phone can't read the card, and later I found it's the phone's problem.

coolriver said:
Did you try other sd card in this phone? My old Android phone can't read the card, and later I found it's the phone's problem.
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ya it works, guess sd card has gone wild
i cant format it even in gparted by connecting using a card reader

Need help with SD card

OK so my phone is now rooted and "bumped" and its all great. But now my SD card doesn't work and can't find where to fix it or how.

Format it on your phone? Backup everything first though.
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enzosly said:
OK so my phone is now rooted and "bumped" and its all great. But now my SD card doesn't work and can't find where to fix it or how.
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Yeah your SD card has to be Fat32 so you didn't say the name for the ROM so im guessing your on a CM but anyways use this program then format to Fat32 then it should be there Or if that doesn't work then format it .
: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm

Raz12 said:
Yeah your SD card has to be Fat32 so you didn't say the name for the ROM so im guessing your on a CM but anyways use this program then format to Fat32 then it should be there Or if that doesn't work then format it .
: http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm
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Will I lose everything on my card?

enzosly said:
Will I lose everything on my card?
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either way yes sorry but once you do that you will be able to use it

enzosly said:
Will I lose everything on my card?
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Yes. You can copy the files over to another computer, format the card in the phone, and then transfer the files back however. Of course those write speeds can be pretty slow, so expect it to take a while if you have a lot of information stored on the card.

OK well I am not sure how to change my SD card Ro Fat32.. And I went to settings to format it and it does nothing. Right now I'm on stock ROM. The content of the SD card comes up like pics and all but when I go into recovery it doesn't let me change over to the card to save or restore... Any ideas?

http://m.download.cnet.com/EaseUS-Partition-Master-Home-Edition/3000-2248_4-10863346.html
I used this.
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