Hi, I am moving from WinMo to Android and would like to have an offline Wikipedia, that weights 10GB. This could be handled by EXT2.
The SD card is FAT32 formatted and I would like to continue being able to access it via USB as well. So I have reduced the FAT32 partition and added a 11GB EXT2 partition. Since this change Android does not recognize anything on my SD card.
Can't Android 4.0 manage two partitions on a SD card?
rin67630 said:
Hi, I am moving from WinMo to Android and would like to have an offline Wikipedia, that weights 10GB. This could be handled by EXT2.
The SD card is FAT32 formatted and I would like to continue being able to access it via USB as well. So I have reduced the FAT32 partition and added a 11GB EXT2 partition. Since this change Android does not recognize anything on my SD card.
Can't Android 4.0 manage two partitions on a SD card?
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Hi,
I am fairly sure that you do not need an EXT2 partition on Android.
Why not just format the whole sd card to a single FAT 32 partition.
I am sure it will work.
I gave the explanation: Try to store a 10GB file on Fat32 !
rin67630 said:
I gave the explanation: Try to store a 10GB file on Fat32 !
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Hi,
Sorry,my bad.
I was just thinking of 10GB OF information,not a 10GB file.
The only thing I can think of,is exfat.
But I do not know if that works on Sensation ,yet.
malybru said:
Hi,
Sorry,my bad.
I was just thinking of 10GB OF information,not a 10GB file.
The only thing I can think of,is exfat.
But I do not know if that works on Sensation ,yet.
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I tried exFAT as well: is not recognized on a Sensation.
I have just looked on anothe Android: It really looks like Andoird can't cope with partitioned SD cards. With partitioned cards it just don't recognize anything, not even the first one.
rin67630 said:
I tried exFAT as well: is not recognized on a Sensation.
I have just looked on anothe Android: It really looks like Andoird can't cope with partitioned SD cards. With partitioned cards it just don't recognize anything, not even the first one.
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Hi,
It seems that it is not Android that cannot cope with exfat.
Rather, it is the version.
4.2.2 is able to read it on my S4.
It may be worth your while asking devs of the 4.2.2 ROMS on the Sensation when their ROMS will be able to read exfat cards.
malybru said:
Hi,
It seems that it is not Android that cannot cope with exfat.
Rather, it is the version.
4.2.2 is able to read it on my S4.
It may be worth your while asking devs of the 4.2.2 ROMS on the Sensation when their ROMS will be able to read exfat cards.
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I have read that it depends on the device vendor, since fees need to be paid to M$.
Currently i am still with a stock ROM, maybe a cooked on could do?
rin67630 said:
I have read that it depends on the device vendor, since fees need to be paid to M$.
Currently i am still with a stock ROM, maybe a cooked on could do?
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Hi,
That is what I was suggesting.
There are quite a few ROMS for 4.2.2 on the Sensation.
Read through the first posts to see if it mentioned or not.
And maybe even post in the thread to see if it is available,or if it is being planned.
Correct me if I am wrong,but is this not implemented on the kernel level?
Maybe talking to some kernel devs as well.
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I think I messed up my sd card for my G1.
I have a 8gb memcard and it was with 2 partitions ext2 and fat32. I just wanted to enlarge the fat32 side because the ext2 was 4gb big. Useless I thought So i deceided to make it only 500mb as ext2 and 7gb as fat32.
Now the computer can't access the card, it says that the cardslot is empty.
I use Paragon Partition Manager and there I can't modifie my sdcard. Nothing helps. I can see my sdcard in Paragon, but can access it and modify it!
Is my card messed up and do I have to buy a new one? Anybody knows how to restore it as it was when I bought it (only fat32 8gb)
Try this: http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter/
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Try this: http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter/
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YES you are so great!
It works now! Just like new. 8gb no partitions.
Thx!
No problem.
Now I have an another problem!
It always says write delay failed constantly!
Cannot access it, cannot format it, even not with sd formatter.
Is it now realy broken?
nobody :'(
Otherwise I have to order a new 8gb memory card which costs me a lot
use partition magic, create 2 partitions, make the primary partition your biggest and format it fat32, the second partition format in ext2. Then you will be okay
atlmatt said:
use partition magic, create 2 partitions, make the primary partition your biggest and format it fat32, the second partition format in ext2. Then you will be okay
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The problem is that I cant access my mem.card.
Always a fault: write delay failed. It makes even my computer freeze.
well if you have to get a new one get one of these:
http://www.androidaccess.com/sdcard/store.html
read about it here:
http://androidcommunity.com/forums/...allow-you-to-run-apps-from-the-sd-card-15502/
M3 SMGII said:
I think I messed up my sd card for my G1.
I have a 8gb memcard and it was with 2 partitions ext2 and fat32. I just wanted to enlarge the fat32 side because the ext2 was 4gb big. Useless I thought So i deceided to make it only 500mb as ext2 and 7gb as fat32.
Now the computer can't access the card, it says that the cardslot is empty.
I use Paragon Partition Manager and there I can't modifie my sdcard. Nothing helps. I can see my sdcard in Paragon, but can access it and modify it!
Is my card messed up and do I have to buy a new one? Anybody knows how to restore it as it was when I bought it (only fat32 8gb)
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Had the same problem after i used Paragon, would not read micro sd anymore. I did a system restore to before i installed Paragon. Problem solved. I am able to read my cards again. I noticed that in that "finish formatting after reboot" Paragon had an error. Figured thats what caused the problem.
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well if you have to get a new one get one of these:
http://www.androidaccess.com/sdcard/store.html
read about it here:
http://androidcommunity.com/forums/...allow-you-to-run-apps-from-the-sd-card-15502/
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hmm that's nice!
I will buy a new one then.
Did You try sdsplit ??
It worked good for me, when there was no PC / laptop available.
(ps. Happy with the white version?? )
karloe said:
Did You try sdsplit ??
It worked good for me, when there was no PC / laptop available.
(ps. Happy with the white version?? )
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Hi Karloe
Yes very happy with my white G1.
How is it with the black one running ADP 1.5?
I will try SDSPLIT, but i think it will not help
If it doesn't work, try a linux live CD (Ubuntu, OpenSuse, Knoppix (I like Knoppix because of the extensive toolset for testing))
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The black one is doing fine, engineering bootloader, ADP1.5 with appstosd
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wow thanks!!!! i tried and it worked awesome!!!
pr0cl1v1ty said:
wow thanks!!!! i tried and it worked awesome!!!
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It would be nice to tell us what You tried, so other users can learn from your reply
What are the chances someone will write a rom that has a different format for the file system on the internal storage of the Transformer? The reason I ask is because I have a lot of blue ray rips that I can not watch on my Transformer due to the file system limitations. Nothing over 2GB can be transferred to the device and I can not seem to get ah external SD card formatted to a different spec that will allow the full file sizes.
I know on my phone the dev reformatted the file system to something else for his from to allow the full file sizes. What are the chances of that happening with the Transformer? I have this big pretty screen I would love to take full advantage of. Watching my DVD rips is only so great
NTFS should be your friend, right? That's how I got my external hd to accept files larger than 4 gb. For the SD card ofc, dunno how to get the pad's file system there.
Or use the Linux ext2/3/4 systems!
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How about formatting the external SD card with the Linux ext3 file system, maybe with a Ubuntu Live CD, if someone only has a Windows PC.
That should work, shouldn't it?
Aymara said:
How about formatting the external SD card with the Linux ext3 file system, maybe with a Ubuntu Live CD, if someone only has a Windows PC.
That should work, shouldn't it?
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That will work. ext2/3/4 depending on what you want. I'd go ext2 as it lacks journalling, theoretically extending the life of your SD (correct me if I'm wrong).
The best option to do this would be to download the gparted live CD, booting into it, inserting your sd into your pc and then formatting it (it's fairly simple).
Only thing is, I don't think Honeycomb will automatically mount the ext SD card when inserted. You would have to do it via mount command in a terminal emulator on your TF. Maybe a custom ROM automatically mounts ext.
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Only thing is, I don't think Honeycomb will automatically mount the ext SD card when inserted.
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Why? Doesn't Android itself use ext4?
Aymara said:
Why? Doesn't Android itself use ext4?
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Yeah pretty sure it uses some kind of ext, but by default I'm pretty sure it only automatically mounts FAT formatted microSD. I tried this myself with Prime!1.5 a few days ago, with an ext4 Class 2 microSD and it wouldn't mount automatically, although it did recognise the device. Simple mount command in terminal should do the trick.
Although now I'm not sure if OP is talking about SD (via dock) or microSD (via tablet)... as the terms are used rather ambiguously on these forums...
poltak11 said:
... it wouldn't mount automatically, ...
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Unbelievable, but true ... I found this problem confirmed in a german Android forum.
Aymara said:
Unbelievable, but true ... I found this problem confirmed in a german Android forum.
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Unbelievable indeed. It really doesn't make sense why non-FAT formatted microSDs aren't liked by Android.
i dont understand it either! Im glad i dont have that issue !
[HTC One SV] SD Card
I found it nowhere else.
The HTC ONE SV works also with microSDXC Card. In the specs it says microSDHC cards but I operate mine since I bought it with a 64GB microSDXC card without any problems.
I have to post this here because we still have no dedicated Forum for the HTC One SV
This are good news!
Also thinking about buying a bigger one.
Which one do you use, have you a link?
old.splatterhand said:
This are good news!
Also thinking about buying a bigger one.
Which one do you use, have you a link?
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SanDisk Ultra microSDXC Card 64GB Class 10
Wow, this seems like a beast
internal storage
hi everybody!i'm gonna buy this phone...do you know if theres is a version with 4 GB internal storage?or exist only the 8 GB version?
scorpy5987 said:
hi everybody!i'm gonna buy this phone...do you know if theres is a version with 4 GB internal storage?or exist only the 8 GB version?
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There is only a 8 GB version, but you get at least around 4 GB left.
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There is only a 8 GB version, but you get at least around 4 GB left.
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I was almost sure..but i had seen somewhere the tech specs that indicated a 4 GB version...i think there was a mistake !
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There is only a 8 GB version, but you get at least around 4 GB left.
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Is there a way to increase the 1.1GB space for the application (EX join with the 4GB internal space). I don't need internal space for data, i usually store them in the SD.
mimmori said:
Is there a way to increase the 1.1GB space for the application (EX join with the 4GB internal space). I don't need internal space for data, i usually store them in the SD.
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If you are rooted you can Swap your internal and external memory
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If you are rooted you can Swap your internal and external memory
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Fantastic! but with this i have a lot of space only for SD movable app. Do the internal 1.1 GB partition stay the same?
mimmori said:
Fantastic! but with this i have a lot of space only for SD movable app. Do the internal 1.1 GB partition stay the same?
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After this mod your sd card will be recognized as internal memory and the internal around 4 GB will be recognized as sd card.
Ok... Is possible to change partition table for join application space with intrrnal space (1.1+4 GB) and use for applicazioni? So the sd could be used as external space...
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I think for the moment this mod is all and the best you can do.
As i did not create it, i can't say, if there will be other variants in the future.
Samsung Micro SD XC 64 GB
hi, someone has this sd card and can tell me if it works with htc one sv?
thanks.
have a nice day
Works Great!!!
fulrosa said:
hi, someone has this sd card and can tell me if it works with htc one sv?
thanks.
have a nice day
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ok i finally buy it... and it works very good.. :victory: must have...
have a nie day.
got ADATA class 10 , 32 gigs . Is enought for me i got actualy a lot free space on it ... No problems at all .
Zamek said:
SanDisk Ultra microSDXC Card 64GB Class 10
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Did you have to do anything in particular to get the card to work? Because I just got the exact same card as this one from Amazon and it doesn't work at all. D=
xandroid5.1 said:
Did you have to do anything in particular to get the card to work? Because I just got the exact same card as this one from Amazon and it doesn't work at all. D=
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Nope, as far as I can remember it was detected by the phone worked.. It still works like a charm. I am using the phone now for over a year with that card and never had problems. I think I tested nearly all available ROMS for that phone and never had problems with the card. At present I am using ViperSV 1.1.1.on the phone.
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Nope, as far as I can remember it was detected by the phone worked.. It still works like a charm. I am using the phone now for over a year with that card and never had problems. I think I tested nearly all available ROMS for that phone and never had problems with the card. At present I am using ViperSV 1.1.1.on the phone.
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See, I'm also running ViperSV 1.1.1 and when I put the card in initially it said it was unsupported or damaged. Tried reformatting it in Windows, now shows up as 59GB exFAT in Windows but still not working on the phone. Is yours formatted differently or something?
UPDATE: I'm hearing elsewhere that it needs to be formatted as FAT32 in order to work, and Windows doesn't want to format it to anything other than exFAT or NTFS (while SD Formatter only uses exFAT). Apparently there's some sort of issue with the fact that the Class 10 cards have exFAT and a mysterious 16MB hidden offset partition at the start of the drive, so I'm now gonna try getting rid of that to see if it works.
UPDATE: Yep, looks like both: 1. The phone (Android?) doesn't support exFAT without a mounting mod, and 2. That weird 16MB offset at the start of the drive seems to cause compatibility issues as well. Have wiped the offset and reformatted to FAT32, and the card now works.
Thanks for the recommendation and the quick reply!
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See, I'm also running ViperSV 1.1.1 and when I put the card in initially it said it was unsupported or damaged. Tried reformatting it in Windows, now shows up as 59GB exFAT in Windows but still not working on the phone. Is yours formatted differently or something?
UPDATE: I'm hearing elsewhere that it needs to be formatted as FAT32 in order to work, and Windows doesn't want to format it to anything other than exFAT or NTFS (while SD Formatter only uses exFAT). Apparently there's some sort of issue with the fact that the Class 10 cards have exFAT and a mysterious 16MB hidden offset partition at the start of the drive, so I'm now gonna try getting rid of that to see if it works.
UPDATE: Yep, looks like both: 1. The phone (Android?) doesn't support exFAT without a mounting mod, and 2. That weird 16MB offset at the start of the drive seems to cause compatibility issues as well. Have wiped the offset and reformatted to FAT32, and the card now works.
Thanks for the recommendation and the quick reply!
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Happy for you!! This can help me too.
I've tried formatting the sdxc-card in so many ways now. Using both diskpart. minitool partition wizard, sdformatter and easeus partition manager.
Tried using FAT32, exFat and NTFS. None of them works. When using exFat the card is recognized and the phone asks if I want to format, but nothing happens after it says it's erasing the sd card.
The card works perfectly fine in Windows formatted as exFat.
I'm running stock ICS 4.0.4 if it helps to know.
I also have a friend who is using a 64gb sdxc card on the same type of phone.
Which version he's using I do not know.
Does anyone know how to solve this?
knerlington said:
I've tried formatting the sdxc-card in so many ways now. Using both diskpart. minitool partition wizard, sdformatter and easeus partition manager.
Tried using FAT32, exFat and NTFS. None of them works. When using exFat the card is recognized and the phone asks if I want to format, but nothing happens after it says it's erasing the sd card.
The card works perfectly fine in Windows formatted as exFat.
I'm running stock ICS 4.0.4 if it helps to know.
I also have a friend who is using a 64gb sdxc card on the same type of phone.
Which version he's using I do not know.
Does anyone know how to solve this?
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I thought, the Desire S can work with up to 32GB sd-cards. I've read it many times on different web-sites.
NVardan said:
I thought, the Desire S can work with up to 32GB sd-cards. I've read it many times on different web-sites.
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So I've read also, but since my friend is using a 64GB without a hitch it should work. Unless it's only possible when using a custom rom? For a short period I managed to get the phone to see the card and report all 64GB, but then it was unmounted. Managed to do this using a certain cluster size as exFat if I remember right.
knerlington said:
So I've read also, but since my friend is using a 64GB without a hitch it should work. Unless it's only possible when using a custom rom? For a short period I managed to get the phone to see the card and report all 64GB, but then it was unmounted. Managed to do this using a certain cluster size as exFat if I remember right.
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You could ask your friend, the correct model of the SD-Card, and buy the one he also has, or test his one and see, if it's related with your hardware or not. I'm still a bit noob, so, you'll better also hear opinions by other XDA members.
Might have found the issue
I downgraded from ice cream sandwich to gingerbread(?) 2.3.3 while I at the same time rooted the phone and set the bootloader to s-off.
Now the phone itself has managed to format the card and recognize ~62GB/64GB. I successfully formatted it using cwm too and the phone still recognizes it. At the moment I'm partitioning the sdxc-card with a higher cluster size since it was really really slow when I tried to copy a file from windows. Note that it's a class 10 card.
Appears to be a problem with ICS. If anyone else can confirm this we're set here I think.
knerlington said:
I downgraded from ice cream sandwich to gingerbread(?) 2.3.3 while I at the same time rooted the phone and set the bootloader to s-off.
Now the phone itself has managed to format the card and recognize ~62GB/64GB. I successfully formatted it using cwm too and the phone still recognizes it. At the moment I'm partitioning the sdxc-card with a higher cluster size since it was really really slow when I tried to copy a file from windows. Note that it's a class 10 card.
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Ok, the good news is, you made the phone to recognize it! That's really good, taking into account that reviews said it's only capable of having up to 32GB standard SD-card.
NVardan said:
Ok, the good news is, you made the phone to recognize it! That's really good, taking into account that reviews said it's only capable of having up to 32GB standard SD-card.
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Formatting the card as FAT32 with a primary and active partition is the only way I can get the card to be recognized.
But as soon as I try to copy something to the card it gets removed and unusable again.
Could there be a need for several partitions? One primary and one logical perhaps?
I've changed to flinnys version of CM10.1 build 22 called andromadus (jelly bean) which at a couple of times reported the card as damaged.
Tips on software for checking and possibly fixing a damaged one?
knerlington said:
Formatting the card as FAT32 with a primary and active partition is the only way I can get the card to be recognized.
But as soon as I try to copy something to the card it gets removed and unusable again.
Could there be a need for several partitions? One primary and one logical perhaps?
I've changed to flinnys version of CM10.1 build 22 called andromadus (jelly bean) which at a couple of times reported the card as damaged.
Tips on software for checking and possibly fixing a damaged one?
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Haven't had any such experience, so can't help with that one, sorry
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Hey all, quick question regarding m8's handling of sd cards.
I have a 32gb external ssd in my vzw one m8 running LolliGPE, and I'm just wondering what the best way is to format it. I believe that if I were to format it on the phone itself it will use FAT which causes issues with my TWRP backups due to the size.
So with that being said, I think NTFS or exfat is the way to go...
do you connect the SD directly to your computer and format it there before inserting into the phone or what? i want a versatile format that i won't run into file size limitations with...
thanks for your help!
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Hey all, quick question regarding m8's handling of sd cards.
I have a 32gb external ssd in my vzw one m8 running LolliGPE, and I'm just wondering what the best way is to format it. I believe that if I were to format it on the phone itself it will use FAT which causes issues with my TWRP backups due to the size.
So with that being said, I think NTFS or exfat is the way to go...
do you connect the SD directly to your computer and format it there before inserting into the phone or what? i want a versatile format that i won't run into file size limitations with...
thanks for your help!
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Insert it in the phone and it will automatically format it to exfat.
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Insert it in the phone and it will automatically format it to exfat.
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i had a spare 2gb card so i popped it in and erased it thru settings. looks like it defaults to fat32. am i doing something wrong?
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i had a spare 2gb card so i popped it in and erased it thru settings. looks like it defaults to fat32. am i doing something wrong?
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I just picked up a SanDisk Ultra 128GB UHI-I/Class 10 Micro SDXC Memory Card, formatted it directly from my phone with no issues.
edit: it formatted exfat
was it formatted to anything prior?
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i had a spare 2gb card so i popped it in and erased it thru settings. looks like it defaults to fat32. am i doing something wrong?
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For 2 GB Fat 32 is fine. It may b that it just wasn't large enough for exfat.
I'd put it in the phone, format it, and forget about it. You'll b fine.
If u insist on changing it you can use Aparted from the play store.
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For 2 GB Fat 32 is fine. It may b that it just wasn't large enough for exfat.
I'd put it in the phone, format it, and forget about it. You'll b fine.
If u insist on changing it you can use Aparted from the play store.
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my primary SD is 32gb, i just used the spare one to try it out. Interesting, you're probably right though it probably just defaulted to fat32 because the drive is so small.
jtommyj said:
I'd put it in the phone, format it, and forget about it. You'll b fine.
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until the exFat formatted drive experiences data corruption. Make sure to keep it backed up regularly.
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until the exFat formatted drive experiences data corruption. Make sure to keep it backed up regularly.
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This is my third phone since 2009 along with my wife's and we've never once had data corruption. I do always back up to my PC.
Sorry for your bad experience.
My current card in this M8 is 128 gig since July.with no trouble and the others are 2x64 and 2x32 also with no trouble.