Hi everyone.
I've got a problem with the permissions of my brand new Micro SD Card. When I plug it in my desktop computer, I can obviously write on it, but as soon as I put it in my tablet, I can only read the files I put on it, not modify/delete them or write new ones. I tried to change the permissions with Root Explorer, but I fails.
My tablet is rooted and I flashed the official CM10. As I read that exFAT is not supported by CM10 on this tablet I formated the SD card in NTFS.
So, can someone help me with this ?
The vanilla Linux kernel can only read NTFS, but not write to it. For write support you need either a proprietary kernel module (which the stock ROM includes, along with one for exFAT), or FUSE with ntfs-3g (which might not yet be included in CM).
Workaround: format with FAT32.
Thanks for your answer. I could reformat my card in FAT32, but then I wouldn't be able to put files larger than 4 GB on my card.
I guess I'll stay in NTFS for now, and hope that exFAT will be supported by CM10 someday.
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Im trying to transfer a blue ray to my sd card but the file system is FAT32 not NTFS. FAT32 wont let you transfer such a big file like NTFS will. Anyone know how I can get that file on my SD so I can stream the blue ray to my tv via HDMI???
No way to fix it without formatting the SD card, and since you seem to be on Windows, odds are that you're going to loose the read/write access one way or another as the kernel doesn't support NTFS, and Windows doesn't support ext2/3/4
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No way to fix it without formatting the SD card, and since you seem to be on Windows, odds are that you're going to loose the read/write access one way or another as the kernel doesn't support NTFS, and Windows doesn't support ext2/3/4
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Yeah I have tried formatting the sd card and and changing to NTFS but it always went back to FAT32. I tried using WiFi file Exploer to let me upload that way but even that wouldnt let me upload..sucks too cause I know someone that just got a 6o inch samsung LED tv...the tv lets u plug in a usb so ill have to invest in one of those..thanks for your help tho
Hi. I Used gparted to format my sdcard to ext3. I booted from a usb stick and my 8gb sdcard was connected via a PSP with a MSDUO to Microsd adapter. When i inserted it into my Tmobile G2X the phone didnt recognize the sdcard. Does anyone have any ideas whats wrong?
You cant use your sd for mass storage with it formated in ext. The only time ext is used on your sd card is if you are using apps2sd and even then just a small portion of the card is ext and the rest is fat32.
Crap. Thank you. I looked around, but didnt find aything about THIS.Thank you.
is there anyway to add support for ntfs to the OS or kernel. As i have heard the kernel doesnt support ntfs, but Linux can read the file system. So my question is what has to be done to accomplish this.
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is there anyway to add support for ntfs to the OS or kernel. As i have heard the kernel doesnt support ntfs, but Linux can read the file system. So my question is what has to be done to accomplish this.
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I'm not saying it's impossible, but it might not be worth it. I'm sure others have thought about this before, but it still hasn't been done, so I'm guessing there's a good reason for that.
Fat32 is native to android and it's probably going to stay that way. You should be good unless you have files bigger than 4gb each that you want on your sd card
well i actually wanna be able to download huge files, 8GB, at my work place. And we can only have phones at work, and they dont even know that were using their wifi or that we have cell phones.
So my micro sd card just fried. It was a cheap $30 Wintec 16gb Class 10 that I picked up from Fry's Electronics during the summer of 2012. Over the last 6 months that I had it, I used it as ntfs file format so that I could play .mkv movies >4gb.
I plan on ordering http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Mobil...166&sr=8-4&keywords=sandisk+mobile+ultra+32gb in the 32gb version.
1) Can anyone recommend a better micro sd card?
I will be using my micro sd card to be recording a lot of 1080p sports videos, storing .mkv movies bigger than 4gb, and hold hundreds of mp3's, pictures, and movie clips. Based on my preliminary research on the forums, I would need something with higher random read/write speeds instead of sequential for the thousands of small files to load faster on my phone. Can anyone confirm this?
2) What file format should i be using? Is there a way to combine fat32 and ntfs?
With my old micro sd card, I was using ntfs file format to store my .mkv movies to watch at work, but the card would become corrupt at least once a month, so I would have to plug the card into my desktop and run a chkdsk /f /r command. I assume that over time this killed my micro sd card... the drawback to this was that I had to create my nandroid backups to the internal memory.... I would much rather have it on the external sd card
I would love to format the card in fat32 so that I could put the nandroid backup on the external sd card, but then i would not be able to put movies >4gb on the card.
Someone in another forum suggested that I partition my sd card, one partition in fat32 for nandroid backups, and one in exfat or ntfs for my movies... My question is,
3) how does clockworkmod know which partition to select? Will it be automatic or will I need to point it there?
That's all I have for now. I hope I gave enough details for good answer.
You need to format exFat. That format supports >4gb files and is natively supported on this device.
Some custom roms however do not support exFat, if you install a Rom that doesn't it will just tell you that your storage is removed in the drop down when you boot.
Some recoveries don't support exFat but it's not a huge deal because you can use your internal storage to flash roms and mods
If you want your recovery to use your external as exFat just search these forums for the proper one. I believe the newer twrp recoveries support it
Via my Google Galaxy S3 running magic beans
Slightly off topic.... But it would be great if android media players could play 4Gb+ movies stored in multi-part RAR archives. I do that on Windows all the time using VLC and it's very convenient.
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You need to format exFat. That format supports >4gb files and is natively supported on this device.
Some custom roms however do not support exFat, if you install a Rom that doesn't it will just tell you that your storage is removed in the drop down when you boot.
Some recoveries don't support exFat but it's not a huge deal because you can use your internal storage to flash roms and mods
If you want your recovery to use your external as exFat just search these forums for the proper one. I believe the newer twrp recoveries support it
Via my Google Galaxy S3 running magic beans
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So I ended up buying the 64gb Sandisk Ultra Micro SDXC Class 10 UHS-I card, but the ROM and CWM Recovery I am using does not recognize exFat. I put the sd card in my friends stock s3 and her phone recognized the exFat format.
Does anyone know which touchwiz roms will support exFat? I need to have a touchwiz ROM because I convinced all my friends and co workers to get the s3 together and we use S-Beam to bump pictures daily.
I will try to flash TWRP and see how that goes.
Current Rom that does not support exFAT: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...3b0BEdAvvRN9lxKYjeAM7nw&bvm=bv.41524429,d.cGE
I think you are going to be out of luck trying to find a custom rom that supports it and very doubtful that it ever will.
It is not ROM it is ur kernel find one that supports ur filesystem and install it!
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Probably you can try paragon's hfs ntfs and exfat system drivers app...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paragon.mounter
But they mentioned it is not compatible with 4.2
I would use Hyperdrive. It's a the best TW Custom ROM and is 4.1.2. So it would work with the driver posted above. Also update your TWRP (GooManager is perfect for this) and you will be all set!
Edit just realized how old this thread is. Why did you guys bump this thread????
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Hi,
I've just installed CM10.1 and am loving it!
Everything's working great but my external SD card content is not visible, so I can't access any of my files etc.
System shows SD card is mounted, I've tried the SD in another device and everything is still on it but file explorer just shows internal folders.
I've searched the forum and can't find an answer - but apologies if it's been solved before - any suggestions please? I'm new to custom ROMs so the simpler the better please
Thanks
Cant give you an exact answer to it but its something to do with 4.2 itself..
After flashing daniels 4.2 rom or CM 10.1 rom (Both 4.2)
paragon would mount my Ntfs SD card...but then if you go into "settings/storage" and you can see its not actually mounted?.
Been asking for a fix for a while as i use NTFS for all my storage and arnt going back to fat32...
If you get a solution can you please post it here..
My NTFS and paragon both worked on 4.1 ,4.04, 3.2 so i didnt do anything wrong that i know of.
Somebody sugested to remount it to different location but i had trouble making a folder outside of the mount directory..then gave up trying.
They told me call the folder NTFS for example should be located in MNT/NTFS
I used ES file explorer and wouldnt let me make a folder called NTFS in that same directory.
maybe somebody can clarify where to make the folder.Also the Nexus guys are having issues with 4.2 and SD cards aswell.
Thanks - does that mean the SD would work if I reformatted it as fat 32? Sorry if it's an obvious question, but I'm definitely in the noob category...
You will have to give it a go....
Im not going back to fat32 again...
For now im giving skyhigh rom a go...
Paragon is working on the problem with 4.2 so hopefully its not long...
Do some googling on NTFS SD And 4.2 you will see plenty of devices are affected...
Hey guys,
I was hoping someone with some experience with Android M could help. After installing the OTA update and upgrading to Marshmallow, it seems that the OS makes you format microSD cards as either portable or internal storage. The issue that I'm running into is that after formatting the memory card as portable storage, the system formats it as Fat32 so I can no longer transfer large MKV files to play in Kodi. Prior to installing the 6.0 OTA, I had no issues transferring the files to my microSD card.
As a workaround, I tried using my USB OTG drive to play the videos but I can't get Kodi to recognize the drive as a source for my video files. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get around these new memory card complications that Android 6.0 has introduced?
I would greatly appreciate some help on this as this was one of the main reasons I purchased this tablet so that I could use it as a temporary HTPC when I'm traveling. Thanks in advance!
Have you tried removing the SD CARD and formatting on a PC?
Seems that Marshmallow's not all it's cracked up to be.
Don't have marshmallow, but have you tried reformatting the SD card on your PC using exFat or NTFS instead?
I don't know if marshmallow will prompt you to reformat again when you put the card back in the Shield though...
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You didn't mention what size of card, but if it is larger than 32gigs you will need to put the sd card in a computer and format as NTFS. Android doesn't support exfat, only fat32 and NTFS. Try that and let us know what happens!
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You didn't mention what size of card, but if it is larger than 32gigs you will need to put the sd card in a computer and format as NTFS. Android doesn't support exfat, only fat32 and NTFS. Try that and let us know what happens!
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Funny...running a 64GB SDCard formatted exFat right now on my original ST8 (Lollipop)...and also a 16GB SDCard formatted exFat on my old Samsung S4 (also Lollipop).
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Try to restart tablet? The best is using es Explorer to transfer files. Fat32 do not accepted file over 4gb. Try format back exfat
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An Droid said:
Funny...running a 64GB SDCard formatted exFat right now on my original ST8 (Lollipop)...and also a 16GB SDCard formatted exFat on my old Samsung S4 (also Lollipop).
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Oh, wow! Your personal experience with two different phones made by two different manufacturers running an old system that was never designed for what Marshmallow does obviously contradicts and demolishes what I said.
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ExFat support can be added to android kernels, if the manufacturer decides to do so. Samsung, a maker of sd cards ranging from 4gigs to 200+gigs, has an interest in making sure that their devices work with their cards that also work in a variety of consumer computers. ExFat support can also be added in customer kernels, should the maintainer decided to do so (in fact, many kernels that I see for modern devices that also support an external sd cards proudly show that they support ExFat).
Android AOSP, without any mods or other built in support, does not support ExFat well, if at all. It may or may not work. The fact that nVidia has written that any cards over 32gig must be formatted to NTFS tells me that they have not chosen to build in ExFat support into their devices. Should someone desire to flash a different rom or custom kernel that support ExFat, that is their business. But since the OP didn't list what size of card they used, or if they were using any mods or a different kernel, I had to go with the most basic support.
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Oh, wow! Your personal experience with two different phones made by two different manufacturers running an old system that was never designed for what Marshmallow does obviously contradicts and demolishes what I said.
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Android AOSP, without any mods or other built in support, does not support ExFat well, if at all. It may or may not work. The fact that nVidia has written that any cards over 32gig must be formatted to NTFS tells me that they have not chosen to build in ExFat support into their devices. Should someone desire to flash a different rom or custom kernel that support ExFat, that is their business. But since the OP didn't list what size of card they used, or if they were using any mods or a different kernel, I had to go with the most basic support.
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ST8 = Shield Tablet 8" (original vs. K1 model).
Point is, this goes against your open ended and incorrect "Android doesn't support exfat, only fat32 and NTFS" statement.
Supporting exFAT in Android makes sense as it's the recommended file system by the SDCard association for SDCards larger than 32GB.
NTFS is in the same boat - it's also not officially supported by all Android implementations.
Marshmallow formats SDCards to Ext4 (and encrypts) when configured as internal storage. When configured as portable both exFAT and NTFS (and Fat16/32) may all be an option - OP can try both if using the portable option.
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Similar problem with lg g2 on marshmallow
Hi,
Having a related problem with kodi on my phone.
On lollipop, kodi found my 16gb Fat32 otg USB drive as a source, but won't show up now I'm on marshmallow. I can still play video through mx player, fx explorer media viewer, and os video player. I searched around storage and mount folders, but can find no access to the external drive browsing the file system unless I'm using the native file browser.
Marshmallow detects partition very different with Lollipop. on Marshmallow your device can use sdcard with 128 GB like internal
its mean sdcard needed change partition format to another type (not FAT, NTFS or exFAT) the matter here then you plug that sdcard to windows, windows wont detect your sdcard but you can see it through another program like MiniTool Partition Wizard.
The problem with marshmallow and this partition used to drop out connect with your sdcard. only one way to fix it reboot your device. also, sometime they cant turn wifi on then you just needed to reboot again to let your device working normally.
We needed to wait for a new patch.