I'm using a 16 gig micro sd card on my Samsung Galaxy tab 7.0 plus. I want to transfer large files such as mkvs and other stuff. It is currently formatted as fat32 right now. I have read up on other types such as ntfs, ex2, etc...
What is the best option to format my card?
I have also read you can do convert formatting using windows command prompt... is this only for drives or can I hook up my card with the reader and do it this way as well... this would enable me to not have to erase the contents.
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Hello
Just got my new Lexar 32gb micro-sdhc class 10 card. This comes formatted as fat32. This is unpractical because when movies and such surpass the 4gb limit.
How do i go about formatting this to something else? ext4?
There's no options for this in honeycomb.
Looked trough clockwork recovery and i only find /sdcard witch i suppose is the internal storage.
Anoyne have a clue?
if your movies and such surpass the 4Gig limit, then you're not going to be fitting very much on that 32gig card.
I'd also question if they are encoded in a format that will actually work/play back well on the Xoom?
That's not the point. I want to be able to transport large files if i have to.
MiRaCL said:
That's not the point. I want to be able to transport large files if i have to.
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Well, I use my 750GB Passpost HDD for really big files. Works fine with the OTG cable.
The point is. The card formatted as FAT/FAT32 doesn't support files over 4GB.
On my Nexus one i just formatted the card as ext4 trough CW. Can't find an option i CW for formatting the SDHC card / external1.
MiRaCL said:
The point is. The card formatted as FAT/FAT32 doesn't support files over 4GB.
On my Nexus one i just formatted the card as ext4 trough CW. Can't find an option i CW for formatting the SDHC card / external1.
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Sorry to give you answers you didn't ask for. I'm assuming you no longer have your phone to use for formating. There is an application from a third party (I want to say Panasonic?) that you can use on your pc to format the microsd. Don't use Rom Manager to format the sdcard or you will be in a world of hurt, as you so astutely realized...it will format your internal storage.
Still have my phone I'll use that. Thanks for the idea
I have bought a 32gb SanDisk ultra class10 for my galaxy tab 2 10.1. The card will not format in the device (errors) so I formatted in windows. The sd card is then recognised in the tab. I then try copy files from the tabs main memory to the micro sd card but then it errors. (I'm usually left with a partially copied file) I then try to delete the file from the sd card using the Samsung default file manager (also tried astro, es file manager etc). It then get the pop up to say the file is deleted ...but it's still on the sd card. I then have to reformat using a pc.
I've tried the micro sd card in windows to copy files to it and it works fine. I've also tried a slower 2gb micro sd card in the galaxy tab 2 to receive files copied from the main memory and it works fine... it also formats fine in the tab.
Any suggestions before i send this back? Is this card incompatible with the tab?
Thanks
beatts said:
I have bought a 32gb SanDisk ultra class10 for my galaxy tab 2 10.1. The card will not format in the device (errors) so I formatted in windows. The sd card is then recognised in the tab. I then try copy files from the tabs main memory to the micro sd card but then it errors. (I'm usually left with a partially copied file) I then try to delete the file from the sd card using the Samsung default file manager (also tried astro, es file manager etc). It then get the pop up to say the file is deleted ...but it's still on the sd card. I then have to reformat using a pc.
I've tried the micro sd card in windows to copy files to it and it works fine. I've also tried a slower 2gb micro sd card in the galaxy tab 2 to receive files copied from the main memory and it works fine... it also formats fine in the tab.
Any suggestions before i send this back? Is this card incompatible with the tab?
Thanks
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Card is purchased from reputable company, I just get an I/o error in solid explorer after about 10mb of copying
I have the same card and nothing but headache from it in my atrix hd. Seems to be working fine in this tab. Try this in windows (will erase evrrything)
Open cmd
Type diskpart
List disk
Select disk (whichever disk number for sdcard)
Clean
Create partition primary
Select partition 1
Format fs=fat32
Assign letter=h
Eject and pop into tab
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Could also try EASEUS Partition Manager. I have the 64GB card and had to use the afformentioned program.
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I've just posted a FAT32 command prompt formatter in this thread.
You could try that also, no guarantees it'll work but I see no particular reason why it would not.
I got a Sandisk 32GB class 10 ultra, probably the same item from OP. Used it out of the box without any issue, been using it for a couple of weeks now. Its on FAT32 format.
Try a different 32GB Card? I never had an issue with any of my 32GB Cards.
Hi. I have a 64gb sdxc sandisk sd card. I want to format it to fat32. I've read on the net that you can do it only if you have an sd card reader. Unfortunately I don't own and sd card reader. Is there any way I can format the sd card directly while connecting the tab to the computer without the help of any sd card reader?
Thanks.
jdgreat4 said:
Hi. I have a 64gb sdxc sandisk sd card. I want to format it to fat32. I've read on the net that you can do it only if you have an sd card reader. Unfortunately I don't own and sd card reader. Is there any way I can format the sd card directly while connecting the tab to the computer without the help of any sd card reader?
Thanks.
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Yes I did it this way.
You'll need the app SGS3 Easy UMS (available here at xda)
and the PC program guiformat.
The first one is needed so that the PC can see the external SD Card as a mass storage unit (and not as a Media Transfer Protocol). In this way you can format the external SD Card through your PC.
The PC Program did the formatting of the external SdCard to fat32 ok for me. Probably there are other PC programs that can do fine the same.
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Yes I did it this way.
You'll need the app SGS3 Easy UMS (available here at xda)
and the PC program guiformat.
The first one is needed so that the PC can see the external SD Card as a mass storage unit (and not as a Media Transfer Protocol). In this way you can format the external SD Card through your PC.
The PC Program did the formatting of the external SdCard to fat32 ok for me. Probably there are other PC programs that can do fine the same.
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Thank you man!!!!!!!!!! YOU ROCK!! :good::good::laugh::laugh:
The memory card format is generic format in G pro 2 and its not allowing the user to copy the file more than 4Gb.I have formatted the memory card to NTFS but when i insert the memory card in phone its asking to format again and getting changed to the Generic file format. Is there any solution for this issue any one has come across?
Why not to use exFAT? G pro 2 can use cards formatted with exFAT file system. I'm using 64gb exFAT memory card without a problem. Just format a card to exFAT on a computer.
Hi,
I use axon 7 and i have a 200gb card i wanna write larger than 4gb files. I read that i have to use ext4 format for the sd card, i did that now Android says it doesn't recognize the card, and that it should be reformatted using fat32 i assume.
Is there a way to do what i want without rooting?
Thanks a lot in advance
Try NTFS
you can use the "CONVERT" command on your command prompt.