(Tried posting this in the S3 Development forum but did not have permission)
I just installed the stable CM10 for my Verizon Wireless Galaxy SIII and am loving it. Only one major problem I have run into: the external microSD card refuses to work! I am using a 64GB Sandisk microSDXC Class-10 UHS-1 card that worked perfectly on the stock Touchwiz ICS 4.0.4.
CM10 says that the SD card is damaged, and suggests I try reformatting it. When I try to reformat it in the phone, it gets stuck on "Unmounting SD card..." and does not successfully format the card. When I insert it in my computer, it works perfectly fine. I have tried reformatting it exFAT on my PC, but still get the same error in the phone.
Is anyone else having this problem or does anyone know of a solution to this? Many thanks.
I don't have a 64gd card for my sgs3, but I have a coworker that has the ATT sgs3. He has a 64gb card and is having the same issue as you. It only works on the stock ROM. He has tried aosp and aokp ROMs and reverted back to stock because he couldn't live without the storage space.
ebennnett44 said:
I don't have a 64gd card for my sgs3, but I have a coworker that has the ATT sgs3. He has a 64gb card and is having the same issue as you. It only works on the stock ROM. He has tried aosp and aokp ROMs and reverted back to stock because he couldn't live without the storage space.
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Thanks for the reply. I just tested it with another 64GB microSD card and it had the same problem. However, I inserted an old 2GB microSD card I had lying around and it worked perfectly fine. Any ideas on what the GB limit is for CM10? I wouldn't mind buying a 32gb card if that would work.
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I formatted my SD card to Fat32. was having SD card damaged issues a couple weeks ago, but havent since I formatted form PC and then again on phone. The issue I'm having now is everytime i reboot my pictures/files get erased. I can take 10 pictures, reboot...gone. phone boots up and I can take 10 more picts, reboot...GONE!
ANY IDEAS HERE!?????
Do you get the same results with another SD card?
I donhave another micro sd card. is this something that could be ROM related or does this sound like a bad sd card?
Since you have had issues with the card previously, i would lean more to the card being bad.
What ROM are you running?
Bean R2. I ran 3.1 and V5 then V6 and had issues and worse battery life than R2. so I went back to R2.
My guess is it was the SD card. I found my spare 32 class 10 lexar, formatted and haven't had an issue since.
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I'm facing this same issue on the galaxy note. Suddenly it started to be a pain every reboot the data is gone although its in the card via file manager .. I don't think its the SD card eithhrr in my case
After quite a bit of researching + trial and errors, I'm kind of stumped on this one...
Basically what I'm trying to do is get a 128GB SDXC card recognized in a Verizon Galaxy S3 [(via SD to Micro SD cable (NOT OTG)].
However it comes up as Blank SD card or unsupported format.
It reads perfectly fine on my HTC Thunderbolt running ROM version "liquid.mecha.20111118.145810" with "imoseyon-6.2.1AOSP" kernel.
Also reads perfectly on HTC Sensation running PARANOIDANDROID
Steps I've tried:
- Format Card: fat32, ntfs, exfat, ext3, ext4 (via EaseUS Partition Master) - Comes up as Blank SD card or unsupported format.
- Also tried all available allocation unit size for fat32 - Still the same thing
- Tried formatting on the S3 itself - Still the same thing
- Tried formatting on the Thunderbolt and transferring the card over - Still the same thing
ROM's Tried:
- Stock VRALG1
- Stock VRALF2
- Stock Root VRALHD DE-ODEX
- Stock Root VRALHD ODEX
- Incubus26jc_JellyWiz_VZW_10_10_12_RLS9_Note2_Edition
- Liquid-JB-v2.0-RC4-d2vzw
- Bean's Custom Stock Rom Build 14
- CleanROM 2.5
- CleanROM Ultra Lite Edition
- cm-10-20121005-NIGHTLY-d2vzw.zip
- PARANOIDANDROID 2.18
- Slim Bean 2.6.0
- Synergy Oct-03 0416_r73
All comes up as Blank SD card or unsupported format.
Here's a picture of the thunderbolt and the cable. It runs into the MicroSD card slot in the back of the phone.
(Since I can't add pictures yet due to post count, just add http in the beginning)
://imgur.com/LG2vA
://imgur.com/tG4yt
I sure hope it's not a limitation just on the S3 itself.
I'm going to go back and try different ROMs on my thunderbolt to see if it's related to a specific ROM or kernel, then probably proceed to testing different phones.
However any type of feedback is greatly appreciated :fingers-crossed:
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Great effort! I hope you'll keep us posted on your progress.
Perhaps Samsung is intentionally blocking cards larger than 64GB on these phones. Have you tried apps such as NTFS mounter and tried mounting the card with other file systems such as NTFS/EXT3/4 etc? Maybe this will get around any space restrictions that Samsung may have imposed on the Android file system. But it seems like you already have.
Perhaps this thread may help out as well:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1797499
It would be interesting to see what SDXC controller the S3 uses. If it is the same as on a phone where the 128GB card works perhaps it may be possible to patch the S3 with the driver in the other phone.
You should try different kernels, not ROMs
g00ey said:
Perhaps Samsung is intentionally blocking cards larger than 64GB on these phones. Have you tried apps such as NTFS mounter and tried mounting the card with other file systems such as NTFS/EXT3/4 etc? Maybe this will get around any space restrictions that Samsung may have imposed on the Android file system. But it seems like you already have.
Perhaps this thread may help out as well:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1797499
It would be interesting to see what SDXC controller the S3 uses. If it is the same as on a phone where the 128GB card works perhaps it may be possible to patch the S3 with the driver in the other phone.
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You should try different kernels, not ROMs
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Thanks for the suggestions.
Yes I already tried using NTFS mounter with all the other file systems, nothing was being detected or coming up at all. Maybe NTFS mounter is targeted more towards OTG connection, not too positive on that one.
I forgot to mention I did try different kernels. Whichever came with the ROMs and including KT747, Lean, and Trinity (also the variants with touchwiz and AOSP).
I've also gotten around to testing the Samsung S3 variants on T-Mobile, AT&T, and Sprint... None of them detected the card.
However a friend of mines lent me his Korean variant S3 (SHV- E210S with Exynos) and that phone detected the card perfectly fine.
Phones that also were tried were: LG Spectrum, Galaxy S2 (International), myTouch 4G. All of them detected the card even in recovery.
*I don't believe it's kernel related, if all the other phones were able to detect it in recovery...
I also contacted Samsung via e-mail but they weren't much supportive on the whole topic. Just a simple answer of the Galaxy S3 was never meant to support anything above 64GB (in which I find that untrue with the Korean variants at least).
I'm about out of ideas on what left there is to try... hopefully someone can come up with something.
I really liked the S3 but having a 128GB memory card sitting around would be a waste.
Going to test on my friends Note II since Verizon is going to be getting their own also, then will probably just ships.
Hopefully my information has helped someone.
Have you tried a small capasity SD card to see if it has to do with the connection or if it has to do with the size?
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Have you tried a small capasity SD card to see if it has to do with the connection or if it has to do with the size?
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I believe it would just be the size issue on the S3. 64GB SDXC works fine. 128GB does not.
Shouldn't have anything to do with card or connection if it worked on 5+ other phones.
BattousaiJimmy said:
After quite a bit of researching + trial and errors, I'm kind of stumped on this one...
Steps I've tried:
- Format Card: fat32, ntfs, exfat, ext3, ext4 (via EaseUS Partition Master) - Comes up as Blank SD card or unsupported format.
- Also tried all available allocation unit size for fat32 - Still the same thing
- Tried formatting on the S3 itself - Still the same thing
- Tried formatting on the Thunderbolt and transferring the card over - Still the same thing
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I am very interested in the outcome of this
Getting a 128Gb SD card working in the S3 would be awesome!
Have you tried 2 64Gb FAT32 partitions? or maybe several smaller partitions.
Maybe even just a single 64Gb partition
My 2c
Ben
Has anyone figured this out? I just bought the converter and a 128GB SDXC card. At first I was on the TW Jellybean K3 11B ROM I hooked it up without formating and the ROM recognized it as 120GB. So I plugged it into my PC to throw some files on it some ROMs and back ups etc, then I put it back in my phone went into recovery to flash a ROM that I put on the card and it was taking forever? As if the converter cable was slowing down the speed? So anyways I ended up flashing a aosp ROM of of my micro SD card (Carbon 4.2.2) then I plugged my converter with the 128gb card back in but the ROM wouldn't recognize it? So I tried formatting it in recovery and on the ROM but I'm still having no luck?? Any Suggestions or ideas how to get it to work? Thanks!
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If you will scroll down or search, there is already a thread on this and the OP got it to work. The name of the thread is "Will this give me more memory?"
HHF2 said:
If you will scroll down or search, there is already a thread on this and the OP got it to work. The name of the thread is "Will this give me more memory?"
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Yea that's my thread. I found this thread trying to get my phone to recognize my SD card?
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My bad, I didn't pay attention to the usernames since I thought yours was working.
BattousaiJimmy said:
After quite a bit of researching + trial and errors, I'm kind of stumped on this one...
Basically what I'm trying to do is get a 128GB SDXC card recognized in a Verizon Galaxy S3 [(via SD to Micro SD cable (NOT OTG)].
However it comes up as Blank SD card or unsupported format.
It reads perfectly fine on my HTC Thunderbolt running ROM version "liquid.mecha.20111118.145810" with "imoseyon-6.2.1AOSP" kernel.
Also reads perfectly on HTC Sensation running PARANOIDANDROID
Steps I've tried:
- Format Card: fat32, ntfs, exfat, ext3, ext4 (via EaseUS Partition Master) - Comes up as Blank SD card or unsupported format.
- Also tried all available allocation unit size for fat32 - Still the same thing
- Tried formatting on the S3 itself - Still the same thing
- Tried formatting on the Thunderbolt and transferring the card over - Still the same thing
ROM's Tried:
- Stock VRALG1
- Stock VRALF2
- Stock Root VRALHD DE-ODEX
- Stock Root VRALHD ODEX
- Incubus26jc_JellyWiz_VZW_10_10_12_RLS9_Note2_Edition
- Liquid-JB-v2.0-RC4-d2vzw
- Bean's Custom Stock Rom Build 14
- CleanROM 2.5
- CleanROM Ultra Lite Edition
- cm-10-20121005-NIGHTLY-d2vzw.zip
- PARANOIDANDROID 2.18
- Slim Bean 2.6.0
- Synergy Oct-03 0416_r73
All comes up as Blank SD card or unsupported format.
Here's a picture of the thunderbolt and the cable. It runs into the MicroSD card slot in the back of the phone.
(Since I can't add pictures yet due to post count, just add http in the beginning)
://imgur.com/LG2vA
://imgur.com/tG4yt
I sure hope it's not a limitation just on the S3 itself.
I'm going to go back and try different ROMs on my thunderbolt to see if it's related to a specific ROM or kernel, then probably proceed to testing different phones.
However any type of feedback is greatly appreciated :fingers-crossed:
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I believe it may specifically be a limitation of the Verizon s3 version. I have a 256gb card working fine on an att Note 2, and att and tmobile s3s have been proven to work as well.
I'm a regular user of XDA roms for flashing, but I ran into a problem that I think should be included in every rom listing, which is the type of micro SD card supported by that particular rom. I flashed a rom a few months back that, I thought at the time, had made my Sandisk 64gb microsdhc card unuseable. The Samsung Galaxy S3 has native support for these cards and the exFat file system. I ended up recovering my data on a PC, but I sent 2 cards back to Sandisk thinking they were somehow corrupt. I eventually switched to Scott's Roms which recognized the cards just fine. My humble advice is for developers to please state which types of microsd cards are supported so that others avoid this problem thinking that their sdcards are bad. Thanks .
Why not just format it to fat32? That's what I did to mine. Also cwm does not support exfat (I found out the hard way)
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cabalja said:
I'm a regular user of XDA roms for flashing, but I ran into a problem that I think should be included in every rom listing, which is the type of micro SD card supported by that particular rom. I flashed a rom a few months back that, I thought at the time,had made my Sandisk 64gb microsdhc card unuseable. The Samsung Galaxy S3 has native support for these cards and the exFat file system. I ended up recovering my data on a PC, but I sent 2 cards back to Sandisk thing they were somehow corrupt. I eventually switched to Scott's Roms which recognized the cards just fine. My humble advice is for developers to please stay which types if microsd cards are supported so that others avoid this problem thinking that their sdcards are bad. Thanks .
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This is not a ROM issue this is a Samsung issue. If you search for microsd error or microsd no longer working you will find people having this issue. The consensus I got from researching is that it has to do with how Samsung handles exFAT and that you should go with FAT32 over exFAT. I had a microSD UHS-1 Class 10 card just stop working and didn't work anywhere and I was using CleanROM.
Cards using the exFAT file system cannot be read by open-source ROMs like Cyanogenmod because Microsoft owns the exFAT file system and in order to support it, Microsoft would have to be paid a licensing fee. Touchwiz-based ROMs can read them because the support is baked into Samsung's software.
If you want your card to work with all ROMs, you have to format it with the FAT32 file system. Additionally, not all formatting utilities seem to do it right for SDXC cards. I used the GUIFORMAT program detailed in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1773735. Unfortunately this means that you won't be able to store files larger than 4GB on your SD card.
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Cards using the exFAT file system cannot be read by open-source ROMs like Cyanogenmod because Microsoft owns the exFAT file system and in order to support it, Microsoft would have to be paid a licensing fee. Touchwiz-based ROMs can read them because the support is baked into Samsung's software.
If you want your card to work with all ROMs, you have to format it with the FAT32 file system. Additionally, not all formatting utilities seem to do it right for SDXC cards. I used the GUIFORMAT program detailed in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1773735. Unfortunately this means that you won't be able to store files larger than 4GB on your SD card.
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That was my understanding of the Touchwiz roms, but I just installed Galaxy MOD RLS11 and it is giving me that error "SD card safe to remove". I know there are some utilities that will format cards above the 32gb limit, but the 4gb file size is a pain for some of the movies,etc. I get with Adownloader. I have the 32gb S3 and the 64gb Ashcroft which makes me want to never own a Nexus device . No issues on Scott's rom, but it isn't as fast and it doesn't have the 4.2 camera or gallery, which I really like.
cabalja said:
That was my understanding of the Touchwiz roms, but I just installed Galaxy MOD RLS11 and it is giving me that error "SD card safe to remove". I know there are some utilities that will format cards above the 32gb limit, but the 4gb file size is a pain for some of the movies,etc. I get with Adownloader. I have the 32gb S3 and the 64gb Ashcroft which makes me want to never own a Nexus device . No issues on Scott's rom, but it isn't as fast and it doesn't have the 4.2 camera or gallery, which I really like.
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Kernel has to support ExFat also so if using stock kernel and modules are still in rom should work.
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Hello, thank you for reading this, in advance i am sorry if i have posted this in the wrong area, i am new to the forums.
My problem is that i have bought myself an 64 GB sd card for My Galaxy s2 I9100. This is the SanDisk SDSDQU-064G-FFP Ultra 64 GB Class 10 Micro SD Card.
Although 32gb is the officail limit for the gs2 i have formatted my 64GB sd card to FAT32, so it SHOULD work.
It works fine with my on average 45gb of music on stock rooted rom, but as soon as i try to use it in cyanogenmod i will encounter problems such as:
Freezes in the cyaogenmod file manager when trying to get into the Sd card
Apollo will either recognise some of my music or not any of it
As you can see these problems have made me have to go back to the 4.1.2 officail rooted galaxy s2 ROM, which i am very upset about.
The strange thing is it works perfectly on the stock ROM, the other strange thing is that in the cyanogenmod ROM the sd card comes up in storage options in the settings.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this please?
Many Thanks, Brendan
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Hi,
I've recently migrated on a S7 because of this sudden great development of Lineage OS, and this as been awesome ! But I had on my previous phone a 128GB 633x Lexar sd card which worked perfectly but as I put it in the Samsung, LOS says it's corrupted. If I try to fix this by formatting as internal, I end up with a timeout and nothing else. For a external sd card there's directly an error 400 with sm formatting it to PUBLIC. I also tried with a shell and sm, and with my TWRP in every kind of way without any good result. Strange thing is TWRP recognize the card when I format it but that's all, I then cannot access it in recovery.
The card had been naturally tested on computers, on another S7 with Stock ROM and I tested other sd card on my phone which worked fine.
Help would be greatly appreciated !
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I've also found that mounting the sd card with a adaptor on the USB port is working perfectly.