I have noticed that after inserting a 64GB class 10 SD card when I press the on key it nas a very slow response. The problem is not present when removing the card.
Any suggestions please? Is there a way to bypass this initial delay with the card in place?
Do you have lots of media type files on the card? Android will spend some minutes rebuilding the media storage cache. You need to let it finish. Also do you need to remove the card?
Mine's the same and there's hardly anything on the card. It must be a feature
Steve
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same to me too, but it happen sometime not alway. my card only half use. any secific reason why
You should format the card first with a free Windows program called easus partion formatter
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Hello,
When I load mp3 files on a microsd, the native music app doesn't see them. It only plays files loaded on the internal memory. The only app I've found that will see and play files on the external microsd is Rockplayer. Is this normal? I have tried different cards and the results are the same. I haven't found any apps, except Rockplayer, that see the removable drive. Am I missing something?
Thanks
i just put all the music on a micro SD and the native music app found them. It took a few minutes for it all to load but I didn't have to do anything special.
I am having the same issues. I posted in another thread as well. This might be a bug? Let me know,what you find out
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Same problem, but once all the music was on the sd it found it all no problem!
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what is format on external SD. If not FAT32 try that
Same here but I format my MicroSD card and problem solved. I didn't use the quick format not sure if that made a difference, set it at FAT32.
I have another problem with microsd but didn´t want to open up a new thread.
Most of the apps like Polaris Office, Documents to go, Quickoffice don´t let me access the microsd. The standard path is /mnt/sdcard an there is no way to go back to lower levels.
Anyone has the same problem or am I just blind?
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Hachdach
Hell i cant even get my computer to read my brand new msdcard! And i dont think u can format on the tf can u?
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Riddleric said:
Same here but I format my MicroSD card and problem solved. I didn't use the quick format not sure if that made a difference, set it at FAT32.
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Carp..just opened a thread on this..I need to improve searching skills....
Can you tell how to format the SD card?
put it in a caed reader and into a pc.
If its not formatted windows will pop up and offer to do it for you.
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Shout out to Joey at the South Parkersburg Radio Shack- ya he fixed it.
My problem- wouldn't download and install apps from Market, wouldn't uninstall apps, couldn't unmount SD & long boot time. And it work better without the microSD card in. Everything was stock, factor reset, formatted & vigin-ish.
Short of it: quick format microSD card- FAT32 with 4096(?) allocation. Used Win7. The allocation size is key.
It worked perfect as stock after and still.
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anoncan said:
Shout out to Joey at the South Parkersburg Radio Shack- ya he fixed it.
My problem- wouldn't download and install apps from Market, wouldn't uninstall apps, couldn't unmount SD & long boot time. And it work better without the microSD card in. Everything was stock, factor reset, formatted & vigin-ish.
Short of it: quick format microSD card- FAT32 with 4096(?) allocation. Used Win7. The allocation size is key.
It worked perfect as stock after and still.
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Welcome to XDA.
Definitely a reasonable solution to fixing SD card problems, but I'm not quite sure how this would affect market download issues, as I've had them occassionally, regardless of SD card condition, they always managed to resolve themselves on their own.
Not saying it couldn't, I just have a natural tendency to introduce a little healthy skepticism, for the sake of discussion.
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Short of it: quick format microSD card- FAT32 with 4096(?) allocation. Used Win7. The allocation size is key.
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I quick formatted mine as FAT32 with 2048, and its been working pretty good.
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I quick formatted mine as FAT32 with 2048, and its been working pretty good.
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In other words, the op formatted his SD card and it fixed his SD card problems.
The thing is, if you're going to format it in an attempt to fix problems, might as well be extra sure and do a full format.
It doesn't take that long.
(not necessarily directed at you diablo, just in general).
Hi y'all,
I just replaced the stock SD card with a sandisk 32gigger. I did a backup of the disk on my PC, and the just copied that info to the new card via my card reader. When I put it in the phone, as well as saying something about read-only (couldn't see the whole notification) and not loading straightaway, it also didn't read the data that I'd just copied. So i tried copying the stuff again, this time doing it with the card in the phone, and I have the same issue. According to my pc, I copied about 5 gigs worth of data, but can see none of it with my phone.
Any ideas?
PS right now I have a notification icon of an SD card with a question mark on it, and when I look at it, it says "Mounted ReadOnly - The SD card has an unexpected problem. Tapping to recover it"
PS n00b alert, so be gentle!
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Just realised I probably should've formatted the card first.
I aplogise for wasting the time of any of you who may have read this and I'll now go hang my head in shame....
I'll post again if formatting doesn't help.
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So I formatted it, copied all the stuff across, stuck it in the phone, and yet again, I can only see a small handful of the folders that should be on there.
I'm now plugged into my PC and have copied the stuff over again. I've done an error check on the disk which has completed with no issue. I have completely closed down all explorer windows and then opened up the disk and all the folders are still there.
I am now going to safely remove the disk.
Now when I look at the sd card content on my phone, it shows hardly anything.
WHAT'S GOING ON!?!?! This is driving me nuts!
Any help here would be very much appreciated.
If you're rooted, look at the SD card contents through your recovery (Ext4, CWM, etc.) by going to "Install from zip" and just browsing around.
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If you're rooted, look at the SD card contents through your recovery (Ext4, CWM, etc.) by going to "Install from zip" and just browsing around.
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Thanks for the tip. No not rooted just yet.
I've had a look around tho, and found a little program (forgotten what it's cslled now!) that tests removable media and it turns out that my 32gig card is actually more like a 2gig card. That'll learn me for getting unbranded gear from China!
New one on its way, from uk distributor with 100% ebay feedback score. Hopefully this one will work!
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Ok so I moved a lot of apps to my sd card but have noticed if I try to do ANYTHING – even make a phone call after my phone boots but before the media scanner finishes – some of my apps aren’t available till I reboot again and let it run and complete...
In fact, I think it even doesn’t complete correctly if I open my home screen (but don’t open any programs) while the media scanner is running…
I get the generic dark/black sd icon and when I click on it says not installed…
If I reboot my phone and let the media scanner/sd scanner thing run before I do ANYTHING – everything is perfect.
Is this normal?
thanks!
that is normal
If you have used an app to push your apps to SD you have essentially made it worse (depending on size of ext SD and content)
Class/speed of SD card will make a difference to
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00mred00 said:
that is normal
If you have used an app to push your apps to SD you have essentially made it worse (depending on size of ext SD and content)
Class/speed of SD card will make a difference to
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So if I purchased a 32 gb Class 10 card would things improve or degrade it is pretty bad now with jst a 4 gb. sd card. I use nitrality and that seems to help a lot but man sd card scanning is just horrendous on this phone and my Infuse as well. And I have not moved any apps to sd.
Class 10 should be better
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So if I purchased a 32 gb Class 10 card would things improve or degrade it is pretty bad now with jst a 4 gb. sd card. I use nitrality and that seems to help a lot but man sd card scanning is just horrendous on this phone and my Infuse as well. And I have not moved any apps to sd.
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Resume: Use FAT32 when formatting External Micro SD Card and, preferentially, format using the device storage options.
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Hi there, guys! After trying hard to discover why and solve some random reboots I found out, after reading about SD Cards causing issues on other devices, something that may help anyone facing this.
When I bought for my Note 3 I also bought a Kingston 32 GB Micro SD Card and formatted it using Windows 7 to exFAT System File, since it was the default option. After facing some hangs, force closes and random reboots for some days, yesterday I decided to make a complete backup and format it using Note 3 itself.
After this what I noticed, when restoring files on Windows, is that the device formatted it to FAT32 System File. And, since then, everything is working nice, without force closes, random reboots or hangs. I know maybe it's early to confirm anything, but I'm confident that running my SD Card on exFAT was giving me trouble!
By the way, I decided to create a poll asking which System File we, Galaxy Note 3 owners, use. We may create a balance and find out if any format is creating any trouble in general.
Cheers!
When you're recording 4K video, maybe you will need NTFS format for files over 4gb..
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MILJANN said:
When you're recording 4K video, maybe you will need NTFS format for files over 4gb..
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But there is a limit of 5 minutes, if I'm not wrong. Maybe it is because of the file size limitation, for people using FAT32, since it's the default File System the device chooses when formatting Micro SD.
By the way, I didn't record anything in 4K yet, so I don't know which is the maximum file size we can get. Will test here...
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When you're recording 4K video, maybe you will need NTFS format for files over 4gb..
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exFAT supports up to 16EB files in size. That's Exabyte.
You could record a whole month non-stop in 4K and not exceed the filesize limit.
Not all android devices support NTFS by default.
I use Fat32 on my MicroSD, which is rather annoying as I want to have blurays on it, but I can't bebothered to reformat all 64GB and copy it all back. So I just keep all 4GB+ files internally, seems to work fine. (Everything possible is on my MicroSD so I have 22GB free internally.)
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exFAT supports up to 16EB files in size. That's Exabyte.
You could record a whole month non-stop in 4K and not exceed the filesize limit.
Not all android devices support NTFS by default.
I use Fat32 on my MicroSD, which is rather annoying as I want to have blurays on it, but I can't bebothered to reformat all 64GB and copy it all back. So I just keep all 4GB+ files internally, seems to work fine. (Everything possible is on my MicroSD so I have 22GB free internally.)
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By the way, I almost forgot the huge internal space and I previously formatted Micro SD using exFAT imagining the day I would put a bigger than 4 GB video file, like once I needed in the past.
Great tip you gave!
Edit: Further, we need to remember that with Note 3, different from Note II, we can again put apps on external storage!
Tried it in the pool. My sd card and my phone are now broken
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Tried it in the pool. My sd card and my phone are now broken
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When you record 4k its sent to the internal memory which is ext4.
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zanzee said:
When you record 4k its sent to the internal memory which is ext4.
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Are there problems by formatting the external card to ext4 too? Don't. Have. A. microSD. Card. Yet. To. Try. It. NOW! arghhhhhh!
EDIT: no need to try, it doesn't work on stock roms.. Nice Google! Really nice!
I used the following command to convert a fat32 external drive to ntfs without losing data: Convert H: /FS:NTFS in command prompt, where H: would be your microsd card's drive letter when used in a Vista+ windows environment and a card reader. Can't guarantee data loss ofcourse so a backup would be wise.
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I have a Samsung 64 GB micro SD. It came already formatted with ExFat and fortunately so far so good.
A few years ago I had a faulty card reader for pc. My camera could not recognise the SD card and my phone had random reboots with a micro SD after formatting. It is a possibility.
I don't understand much about this topic and I have not formatted with windows in a while, but I remember I could choose among several parameters (something like block size?). My point is that maybe the note 3 requires a different set of Exfat parameters than windows default ones to work well
It is just an idea.
iiSo say we all!! From my Note 3 (N9005)
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Tried it in the pool. My sd card and my phone are now broken
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Don't blame me about this. Blame SwiftKey keyboard auto correction! hahahahaha
cyriacus said:
I used the following command to convert a fat32 external drive to ntfs without losing data: Convert H: /FS:NTFS in command prompt, where H: would be your microsd card's drive letter when used in a Vista+ windows environment and a card reader. Can't guarantee data loss ofcourse so a backup would be wise.
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That's great! Didn't know that this was possible without needing to format the whole card.
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I have a Samsung 64 GB micro SD. It came already formatted with ExFat and fortunately so far so good.
A few years ago I had a faulty card reader for pc. My camera could not recognise the SD card and my phone had random reboots with a micro SD after formatting. It is a possibility.
I don't understand much about this topic and I have not formatted with windows in a while, but I remember I could choose among several parameters (something like block size?). My point is that maybe the note 3 requires a different set of Exfat parameters than windows default ones to work well
It is just an idea.
iiSo say we all!! From my Note 3 (N9005)
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Well, the point is that I was experiencing a lot of random reboots here and didn't get no one since I used the device itself to format micro SD again.
I don't remember in which file system my Kingston 32 GB Micro SD came by default, but I used Windows 7 to format it on exFAT.
Probably the device itself formats the card the way more compatible possible, bringing stability.
By the way, since a lot of people already voted for exFAT and didn't tell anything about random reboots or issues, maybe this is not a real issue related to all exFAT, but maybe it is for people who used Windows (like myself) to format micro SD.