On latest CMR. This has never been a problem. Bought a new sd card. Card works perfectly. Went to flash an update and have error saying can't read external sd card. Reformat. Remounted. Still no luck.
It's a 64gb.
Any one have a solution or had a similar problem?
Try TWRP... ****ty solution, but worth a try.
Lol yeah, thanks for the response though.
I would try it, but since I already moved all my files off and on after reformat I feel like I wasted too much time with this already.
I can still flash from internal card, and my external sd card works perfectly otherwise so it really doesn't make a difference.
I guess we can all just make note that a reformat doesn't work in this situation so it can save some people trouble and time.
ac29593 said:
Lol yeah, thanks for the response though.
I would try it, but since I already moved all my files off and on after reformat I feel like I wasted too much time with this already.
I can still flash from internal card, and my external sd card works perfectly otherwise so it really doesn't make a difference.
I guess we can all just make note that a reformat doesn't work in this situation so it can save some people trouble and time.
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Must be formated to Fat32 for any recovery to see it. It comes formatted ExtFat.
prdog1 said:
Must be formated to Fat32 for any recovery to see it. It comes formatted ExtFat.
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Nice, thanks!
How can I tell what the card is formatted to? Any reason not to leave it the way it is?
ac29593 said:
Nice, thanks!
How can I tell what the card is formatted to? Any reason not to leave it the way it is?
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Haha the above scenario is why you likely don't want to leave it as is. No recovery will see your external sd card if it's formatted to exfat. So, you'll have to use your internal storage to flash roms if you don't have it formatted to Fat32.
You can check the format by plugging your external sd card into a computer right clicking the drive and pressing "Format" (don't worry a second window opens) or I think you can also see it by selecting "Properties."
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would it have a lock on the card its self not in the memory?
willy221387 said:
would it have a lock on the card its self not in the memory?
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What does this mean?
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i just my 64gb sandisk micro sd card and is having a hard time formatting it.. Whats weird popped it in the phone it recognized it but when i put it in my pic(vista) it doesnt and tells me i have to format it.. So, I put the card in my rezound popped it back out and then put it on a pc running windows 7 it recognizes it..What the hell is going on? I really need some help. I tried EaseUs program but it doesnt recognize the card..
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antawnm26 said:
i just my 64gb sandisk micro sd card and is having a hard time formatting it.. Whats weird popped it in the phone it recognized it but when i put it in my pic(vista) it doesnt and tells me i have to format it.. So, I put the card in my rezound popped it back out and then put it on a pc running windows 7 it recognizes it..What the hell is going on? I really need some help. I tried EaseUs program but it doesnt recognize the card..
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The file format in order for the Samsung to read it must be Fat32, it's not the most efficient file partition setup, however Samsung does not read anything other than that right now, the card is probably formatted in some other type of format like NTFS. Search on the Samsung S3, using "Format SD Card", or something with SD Format in the search and you will find there are a bunch of apps for formatting the card for the Samsung.
Hope this helps
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The file format in order for the Samsung to read it must be Fat32, it's not the most efficient file partition setup, however Samsung does not read anything other than that right now,
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Completely untrue (it has to be FAT32 for CWM to read it, but not for the phone).
I porposefully DO NOT format my 64 gig cards to FAT32 as I have movie rips that are over 4 gigs & FAT32 will not allow over a 4 gig file size.
I have two 64 gig cards & both work fine just as they came out of the box.
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Completely untrue (it has to be FAT32 for CWM to read it, but not for the phone).
I porposefully DO NOT format my 64 gig cards to FAT32 as I have movie rips that are over 4 gigs & FAT32 will not allow over a 4 gig file size.
I have two 64 gig cards & both work fine just as they came out of the box.
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so, why isnt vista recognizing my card? I also just noticed something as well..vista has started seeing the card but under computer settings it says ricoh sd device, but my other micro sd cards says secure digital storage device. I may have messed this card up popping it in and out of every device i could find..lol
update: I put it in my rezound and wiped the micro sdcard and i think thats why its saying ricoh storage device instead of secured digital storage device..If so will it harm or diminish the performance of the card?
here is how your format the ultra 64gb sdxc to fat32
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm
droidstyle said:
here is how your format the ultra 64gb sdxc to fat32
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm
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how much of my space will i keep? Thanks for the help
antawnm26 said:
so, why isnt vista recognizing my card? I also just noticed something as well..vista has started seeing the card but under computer settings it says ricoh sd device, but my other micro sd cards says secure digital storage device. I may have messed this card up popping it in and out of every device i could find..lol
update: I put it in my rezound and wiped the micro sdcard and i think thats why its saying ricoh storage device instead of secured digital storage device..If so will it harm or diminish the performance of the card?
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Completely untrue (it has to be FAT32 for CWM to read it, but not for the phone).
I porposefully DO NOT format my 64 gig cards to FAT32 as I have movie rips that are over 4 gigs & FAT32 will not allow over a 4 gig file size.
I have two 64 gig cards & both work fine just as they came out of the box.
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My apologies, I thought that what the file format needed to by, but you are correct CWM can't read the Fat32 format in recover.
Sorry for the misinformaion.
antawnm26 said:
how much of my space will i keep? Thanks for the help
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59.45gb free
sending card back to best buy and getting a new one and will start over.. My phone kept saying blank sd card....i had two partitions on it and was trying to rid of it and messed up somewhere down the line...Everyone makes its sound simple as putting it in your phone and letting it format it to fat32, but im sure the galaxy is putting it to extfat.. I will do some more studying on it...
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here is how your format the ultra 64gb sdxc to fat32
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm
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when i put the card in the program read E:29gb..does that mean it will only give me 29gb of the 59.495gb ?
antawnm26 said:
sending card back to best buy and getting a new one and will start over.. My phone kept saying blank sd card....i had two partitions on it and was trying to rid of it and messed up somewhere down the line...Everyone makes its sound simple as putting it in your phone and letting it format it to fat32, but im sure the galaxy is putting it to extfat.. I will do some more studying on it...
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Don't worry dude. I got a bad one myself. Got halfway through transferring all my data and then the card stopped transferring and hasn't worked since. Tried to nuke and boot it, HP format tool, fedora Linux, two different phones and nothing.
I just called and they are shipping me a new one. Since it will be a couple days I might mess with this one just hoping.
Edit: Something that shouldn't have changed anything. I put it in my htc rezound with amon ra, did usb toggle mode, and formatted, and it worked fine....stupid!
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Alright, my new card is in and ready to give it another shot. I'm running windows vista. I was told to try:http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm....When i insert my card it says 29, does that mean that it will only do 29gb? I hear people saying that they just pop the card in their phones and it formats it that way. Is that format exfat?
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when i put the card in the program read E:29gb..does that mean it will only give me 29gb of the 59.495gb ?
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No its 59.45gb free after format.
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antawnm26 said:
Alright, my new card is in and ready to give it another shot. I'm running windows vista. I was told to try:http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm....When i insert my card it says 29, does that mean that it will only do 29gb? I hear people saying that they just pop the card in their phones and it formats it that way. Is that format exfat?
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exfat is not compatible with cwm recovery...if you plan on running any rom other than stock, you will need to format as fat32.
Cool, thanks... I just want to make sure as to what im seeing when i pop the card in and hit format. the program is showing E:29, what exactly does that mean? It doesnt give me an option to go any higher
The phone formats the card as "basic hierarchical." not sure if it can be used with cwm
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Vorfidus said:
The phone formats the card as "basic hierarchical." not sure if it can be used with cwm
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I was told to use this program to get it to fat32::http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/ind...at.htm, but then question that hasnt been answered is when i pop the card in the program says: E:29, does that mean it will only convert 29gb of my 64gb.It doesnt give me an option to go any higher
Yes, that's what it means. Download EaseUS partition manager. Format the card with that. The guiformat program didn't work for me, kept coming up as sd card damaged.
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antawnm26 said:
I was told to use this program to get it to fat32::http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/ind...at.htm, but then question that hasnt been answered is when i pop the card in the program says: E:29, does that mean it will only convert 29gb of my 64gb.It doesnt give me an option to go any higher
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try formatting it in windows, then open ridgecrop program and see if you still get the e29?
droidstyle said:
try formatting it in windows, then open ridgecrop program and see if you still get the e29?
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I think It may be PC related..
1. formatted it in phone which gave me 59.4gb
2. put in my gf laptop which has windows 7, then downloaded easeus and formatted the 59.4gb it gave me to fat32
3. put the card in my laptop which has vista and it asked me to format it before use(but i didnt)
4. put it in my galaxy s3 rebooted to recovery twrp and it recognize the card...
So would you say its pc related?
antawnm26 said:
I think It may be PC related..
1. formatted it in phone which gave me 59.4gb
2. put in my gf laptop which has windows 7, then downloaded easeus and formatted the 59.4gb it gave me to fat32
3. put the card in my laptop which has vista and it asked me to format it before use(but i didnt)
4. put it in my galaxy s3 rebooted to recovery twrp and it recognize the card...
So would you say its pc related?
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Yep sounds like another reason why i hate vista lol.
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.
It seems that my SD card is not writable when inserted. Is this true? I tried to create a new folder on it with root explorer (I am not rooted though) and it said that my device needs to be rooted in order to accomplish that task.
Any ideas?
Jonn
Did you try something like es file explorer? I would try that.
That didn't work either. It says "operation failed".
I actually noticed that it wasn't working playing act raiser and it wasn't saving my position. Moving the ROM to internal storage worked. I then tried to create a folder.
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Huh. Just tried a different SD card and that one worked. Weird.
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I spoke too soon. After removing the sdcard that worked and putting it back in, it no longer is writeable.
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It works again if I pull the card out, restart the shield and put the card back in. Perhaps something up with the mounting process?
It appears that once a card is mounted, if it is removed and re-inserted, it remounts as read only.
Jonn
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It looks like sdcard mounting is messed up. I can't get any of the sdcards i have tried to mount.
Did you go into settings and actually click unmount before removing the SD Card? Many linux systems (android is linux) will mount devices which werent safely removed in read only mode for some bizarre reason.
I tried that as well. It still doesn't work.
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jonnberg said:
It seems that my SD card is not writable when inserted. Is this true? I tried to create a new folder on it with root explorer (I am not rooted though) and it said that my device needs to be rooted in order to accomplish that task.
Any ideas?
Jonn
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when you go to storage under settings, under sd card does it show total space for card. if not maybe you have to format it to NTFS first. thats what I had to do with my new card. also said to do so on shield guide
evobunny said:
when you go to storage under settings, under sd card does it show total space for card. if not maybe you have to format it to NTFS first. thats what I had to do with my new card. also said to do so on shield guide
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I did not read the destructions. The destructions have useful information? Where may i find these destructions? I assumed fat32 so that is what my sd is formatted to.
chevyowner said:
I did not read the destructions. The destructions have useful information? Where may i find these destructions? I assumed fat32 so that is what my sd is formatted to.
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sorry i cant post link yet cause im new to forum. but go there, (shield.nvidia.com/user-guide/sd-card) user guide said to format it to NTFS
Would has added this sooner, but I lost my sdcard reader.
Formatting it NTFS worked.
Still wont mount, but now i at least get the option to mount.
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when you go to storage under settings, under sd card does it show total space for card. if not maybe you have to format it to NTFS first. thats what I had to do with my new card. also said to do so on shield guide
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Yes, I formatted it to NTFS before I inserted it. It shows the total space and space available, it just doesn't allow anything to be written to it. I can take it out and put it in a PC and it works correctly. I also have another SD card that I tried and it worked for a few minutes, but I haven't been able to get it to keep working.
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jonnberg said:
Yes, I formatted it to NTFS before I inserted it. It shows the total space and space available, it just doesn't allow anything to be written to it. I can take it out and put it in a PC and it works correctly. I also have another SD card that I tried and it worked for a few minutes, but I haven't been able to get it to keep working.
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sorry I dont know what else to tell you, i first had the same problem like yall when I stuck in a brand new card. nothing I downloaded would go on to card. and it didnt show the amount of space left under the storage menu. Then i found out it need to be formated to NTFS. Once i did that everything started downloaded and showing up on card.
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Yes, I formatted it to NTFS before I inserted it. It shows the total space and space available, it just doesn't allow anything to be written to it. I can take it out and put it in a PC and it works correctly. I also have another SD card that I tried and it worked for a few minutes, but I haven't been able to get it to keep working.
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The only memory card I have gotten working (about 1 minute ago) is 512MB and formatted fat32
The card i want to us is a 16gb microsdhc formatted fat32 when this memory card is in my shield it knows it has a memory card but says it has no partitions on it.
I am running testdisk on the sd card and it found 9 partitoins. I will try and clean that up.
To be honest, I've never tried SD card support on the device. So I can't say one way or another. But I'll be looking at it soon enough since I got my first build of CWM for SHIELD waiting for me to debug in the other room once the kids go to bed.
I just tried two different 8GB class 10 transcend cards, an 8GB class 2 generic card and a 256mb sandisk card. I put each card in and copied a file from internal storage to it. Then I removed each of the cards without unmounting and put them back in and proceeded to copy a file to the card again. Every time it worked successfully. I do not even know what format they are in and didn't format them before testing. And, maybe the issue didn't show up because I didn't give it enough time. I am not sure.
Also, I know this is probably a really dumb question but the micro sd slot is spring loaded. You are pushing it in until you hear a good solid click right?
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Having issues of my own.
Bought a 64gb sandisk SDXC card for shield. It worked 100% fine in my SGS3 formated for exFat. But not in the shield...
It seems to work somewhat when formated for NTFS. But the file path is really messed up and 1/2 my apps cant see the SD card because of this. It something like (root/storage/sdcard1/....)
2 apps that are basically usless right now due to this are Power amp & FPse.
Android doesn't normally support either exFat or NTFS. The shield may include support for them but if I had a shield I would steer clear anyway and go with what android definitely trusts in FAT32.
Hopefully NVidia will do a firmware update to sort these problems though
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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First time I tried to use sd card on my phone today. It doesn't read the card. Card is working fine. I tested it on pc and on another phone. I formatted it on pc and nothing changed. Phone is us unlocked and running stock oreo. Anyone has the same problem? Or solution?
Edit: problem solved when I format the card through my old phone but not from my pc.
I've had the issue before.. Back up everything on it and format it through your phone, not from a PC... I know it's a well known fact, but in case you don't know, if you ever format a card from your PC, don't use the format tool that comes with Windows, it doesn't format correctly and could damage the card... Also, before you put the card back in the phone, try wiping the terminals on it before re-inserting it
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I've had the issue before.. Back up everything on it and format it through your phone, not from a PC... I know it's a well known fact, but in case you don't know, if you ever format a card from your PC, don't use the format tool that comes with Windows, it doesn't format correctly and could damage the card... Also, before you put the card back in the phone, try wiping the terminals on it before re-inserting it
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Well, the problem is, phone doesn't read as I said. So I can't format it from the phone
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eminc said:
Well, the problem is, phone doesn't read as I said. So I can't format it from the phone
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What file system are you using on the card? Try formatting with a different file system to see if you can get it to read.. I had an Android set top box that wouldn't read exFAT but if read NTFS without any issues
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What file system are you using on the card?
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Now it is exfat. I also tried ntfs
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eminc said:
Now it is exfat. I also tried ntfs
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For the heck of it, try FAT32.. If you can get it to read in the phone then, reformat it again from the phone.. If it still doesn't read, try another card in the phone to make sure it isn't the phone itself or the rom you have installed.. If the other card works, maybe contact the manufacturer of the card to see if you can get a replacement.. I've done that for a few SanDisk cards already and their customer service is pretty good from my experience
*Edit* I also have had luck with the format tool on SD card.org
TNPaparazzi said:
For the heck of it, try FAT32.. If you can get it to read in the phone then, reformat it again from the phone.. If it still doesn't read, try another card in the phone to make sure it isn't the phone itself or the rom you have installed.. If the other card works, maybe contact the manufacturer of the card to see if you can get a replacement.. I've done that for a few SanDisk cards already and their customer service is pretty good from my experience
*Edit* I also have had luck with the format tool on SD card.org
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Windows doesn't format it to fat32. So I couldn't try. Ok I will try to format it through something else
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eminc said:
Windows doesn't format it to fat32. So I couldn't try. Ok I will try to format it through something else
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Probably your best bet at the moment... The Windows format tool does not play nice with SD cards
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Probably your best bet at the moment... The Windows format tool does not play nice with SD cards
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I formatted the card through my old galaxy note 3 and now it works. Thanks for the help
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