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How much storage have u used?

I purchased the blue 16gb and added a 32gb card to mine. Only have 3gb left on the internal and 22gb left on the external. How much storage do u guys have left?
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redman479 said:
I purchased the blue 16gb and added a 32gb card to mine. Only have 3gb left on the internal and 22gb left on the external. How much storage do u guys have left?
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I have 32/64 with 21/37 remaining. You are gonna have to force some data to external such as TIBU and nandroids at least. Both take up the most space outside media.

I have 16gb internal and 32gb sd card, with 5gb/11gb free respectively. A majority of my sd card space is taken up by music and videos along with one CWM backup. I think the biggest issue over time will be with games cuz the good ones often take a gb or more.
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I have 16gb internal and 32gb sd card, with 5gb/11gb free respectively. A majority of my sd card space is taken up by music and videos along with one CWM backup. I think the biggest issue over time will be with games cuz the good ones often take a gb or more.
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I keep all 25 gb of music on external as well as videos and keep internal for stuff that is not movable. lol

prdog1 said:
I keep all 25 gb of music on external as well as videos and keep internal for stuff that is not movable. lol
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Ha same here, storage just disappears without you realizing on this phone
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prdog1 said:
I have 32/64 with 21/37 remaining. You are gonna have to force some data to external such as TIBU and nandroids at least. Both take up the most space outside media.
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Same here.
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Just a quick question for those of you with 32gb cards. Are they San disk? And if they are did you have to format it or change it to fat32 (I'm not sure what this is)? Because I just popped mine in and it seemed to work.. (running aokp jb rom)
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Peterpark said:
Just a quick question for those of you with 32gb cards. Are they San disk? And if they are did you have to format it or change it to fat32 (I'm not sure what this is)? Because I just popped mine in and it seemed to work.. (running aokp jb rom)
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I also had a question about this (sorta similar). When I use TWPR recovery, it never picks up my roms to flash. But when I use CWM 6.0.1.0, it sees my zip perfectly. What gives?

Peterpark said:
Just a quick question for those of you with 32gb cards. Are they San disk? And if they are did you have to format it or change it to fat32 (I'm not sure what this is)? Because I just popped mine in and it seemed to work.. (running aokp jb rom)
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Mine is a PNY brand 32 gb sd card. Mine came fresh out of the box already formatted to Fat32 but I did a reformat for peace of mind. The long version: Fat32 and exFat are two types of filesystems. Microsoft has a patent on exFat therefore any company that uses it must pay them for its use. As such, android relies on Fat32. For 64 gb sd cards, I believe once formatted to Fat32 lose the ability to transfer files >4gb.
The short version: If you intend to root/flash roms/etc. recovery will not see (or will have issues with) your sd card unless it's formatted to Fat32.
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crankshot89 said:
I also had a question about this (sorta similar). When I use TWPR recovery, it never picks up my roms to flash. But when I use CWM 6.0.1.0, it sees my zip perfectly. What gives?
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Idk bud, I use CWM. I haven't tried TWRP so maybe someone else can chime in. My guess (completely unfounded btw) would be because it may be looking in the wrong sd card, ie: internal vs external at default.

SlimSnoopOS said:
Mine is a PNY brand 32 gb sd card. Mine came fresh out of the box already formatted to Fat32 but I did a reformat for peace of mind. The long version: Fat32 and exFat are two types of filesystems. Microsoft has a patent on exFat therefore any company that uses it must pay them for its use. As such, android relies on Fat32. For 64 gb sd cards, I believe once formatted to Fat32 lose the ability to transfer files >4gb.
The short version: If you intend to root/flash roms/etc. recovery will not see (or will have issues with) your sd card unless it's formatted to Fat32.
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How much was your card? I'm trying to find one semi cheap b/c I don't want to have to shell out a ton! But I only have a 16 gb card and it's basically full :/

crankshot89 said:
How much was your card? I'm trying to find one semi cheap b/c I don't want to have to shell out a ton! But I only have a 16 gb card and it's basically full :/
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Mine was roughly $20 courtesy of a Best Buy sale of the day a couple months ago. I'm not much help as far as prices.

I have the 16gb gs3 with a 16gb card. I have a little more then 5 gb left on both. I have 3 backed up roms on my ext card.
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How do u check if my sd card is formatted to fat32?because I never formatted it with my 8gb one and I flashed perfectly fine.. And u easily transferred all of my stuff there to my 32gb one..
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SlimSnoopOS said:
Mine is a PNY brand 32 gb sd card. Mine came fresh out of the box already formatted to Fat32 but I did a reformat for peace of mind. The long version: Fat32 and exFat are two types of filesystems. Microsoft has a patent on exFat therefore any company that uses it must pay them for its use. As such, android relies on Fat32. For 64 gb sd cards, I believe once formatted to Fat32 lose the ability to transfer files >4gb.
The short version: If you intend to root/flash roms/etc. recovery will not see (or will have issues with) your sd card unless it's formatted to Fat32.
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Idk bud, I use CWM. I haven't tried TWRP so maybe someone else can chime in. My guess (completely unfounded btw) would be because it may be looking in the wrong sd card, ie: internal vs external at default.
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TWRP is same as CWM. Android/Phone will see extFat but no recoveries will due to legal liability due to Microsofts API. Samsung licenses the API that is internal is extFat and it will read extFat on internal. Also the rom has to support extFat and some do not.

Peterpark said:
How do u check if my sd card is formatted to fat32?because I never formatted it with my 8gb one and I flashed perfectly fine.. And u easily transferred all of my stuff there to my 32gb one..
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I have a micro sd card adapter so I place my micro sd card into that adapter then check it on my computer. For windows, right click on the sd card then click on "Format" and it should be listed there. There's a second window that pops up and it has the format options and what it's currently formatted to.

Peterpark said:
Just a quick question for those of you with 32gb cards. Are they San disk? And if they are did you have to format it or change it to fat32 (I'm not sure what this is)? Because I just popped mine in and it seemed to work.. (running aokp jb rom)
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If you can see it in recovery it is Fat32. Can also put in pc and right click computer and it should tell you. Most 32/64 come in extFat stock out of the box and takes special app to format.
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crankshot89 said:
How much was your card? I'm trying to find one semi cheap b/c I don't want to have to shell out a ton! But I only have a 16 gb card and it's basically full :/
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San Disc 32gb class 10 20-30 on sale. 64gb class 10 50-60 on sale. not on sale 80-90. List price around $220. lol

Thanks guys. It's so weird I didn't even format it or touch it it automatically says it's already fat32 format..
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[QUOTEPeterpark;32479131]Thanks guys. It's so weird I didn't even format it or touch it it automatically says it's already fat32 format..
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Not weird at all, they come formatted. Its the 64g cards that you have to reformat.....i
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crankshot89 said:
I also had a question about this (sorta similar). When I use TWPR recovery, it never picks up my roms to flash. But when I use CWM 6.0.1.0, it sees my zip perfectly. What gives?
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It should see them just fine if you have it pointed at where they are located.

i have a blue 16gb with a 64gb sd card. i have 11 left interally and 43 left on card. Mostly roms and music and such

I've used nearly all of my 32GB internal and 64GB external! Several GBs are movies though, which would be easily deleted. Do you guys know of anything along the lines of Google Music but for movies and such? I want to be able to stream movies.
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Trouble with 64gb SD card

Anyone have this card http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B007W...-5410429?ref_=pe_175190_21431760_M3T1_SC_dp_1 or any 64gb SD card? I'm having a problem getting cwm to recognize it. I already reformatted it and still it does not work in cwm. Anyone know anything about this? My 32gb card works just fine
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Try formatting on a Mac. I have that card, tried three PCs with no luck but works perfectly after formatting on Mac using FAT.
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I guess cwm does not support exfat which the gs3 defaults to when formatting 64gb cards. I found out here http://forums.androidcentral.com/sp...ting-roms-hacks/184708-64gb-micro-sd-cwm.html I need to partition the card with a program. I'll do that tomorrow I'm going to bed lol
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cell128 said:
Anyone have this card http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B007W...-5410429?ref_=pe_175190_21431760_M3T1_SC_dp_1 or any 64gb SD card? I'm having a problem getting cwm to recognize it. I already reformatted it and still it does not work in cwm. Anyone know anything about this? My 32gb card works just fine
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Format to fat32 and it should work
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cell128 said:
Anyone have this card http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B007W...-5410429?ref_=pe_175190_21431760_M3T1_SC_dp_1 or any 64gb SD card? I'm having a problem getting cwm to recognize it. I already reformatted it and still it does not work in cwm. Anyone know anything about this? My 32gb card works just fine
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One of those "believe it or not" things: the SDXC (SD eXtended Capacity = 64GB or more) specification says that the default (factory) format is exFAT. The GS3 recognizes both exFAT and FAT32, but some ROMS do not support exFAT due to Microsoft's funky licensing.

cell128 said:
I guess cwm does not support exfat which the gs3 defaults to when formatting 64gb cards. I found out here http://forums.androidcentral.com/sp...ting-roms-hacks/184708-64gb-micro-sd-cwm.html I need to partition the card with a program. I'll do that tomorrow I'm going to bed lol
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You don't need to partition it. You need to format it to Fat32 as was mentioned.

I am now on my 3rd 64GB MicroSD, the same one in OP.
It works when I get it, but it preformatted as exFat, which wont work with ROM.
The first 2 SDs I used EaseUS Partition to format as Fat32. Format went fine, but when I went to place files on card, card unmounted. This last one I used Ridgecorp’s Fat32Format, but same problem.
When I insert card, Win7 sees it, but if I go to format/write it disconnects.
Before I send this third one back to amazon, any ideas how to format it?
FYI, I took the last one to a frien with a mac to see if he could fix it, after i tried to format Fat32, but no luck.

nathan951 said:
I am now on my 3rd 64GB MicroSD, the same one in OP.
It works when I get it, but it preformatted as exFat, which wont work with ROM.
The first 2 SDs I used EaseUS Partition to format as Fat32. Format went fine, but when I went to place files on card, card unmounted. This last one I used Ridgecorp’s Fat32Format, but same problem.
When I insert card, Win7 sees it, but if I go to format/write it disconnects.
Before I send this third one back to amazon, any ideas how to format it?
FYI, I took the last one to a frien with a mac to see if he could fix it, after i tried to format Fat32, but no luck.
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Yea, I believe that's the same card I have(had for working on 3 1/2 months now) and I used the Ridgecorp GUI utility in this thread, http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1773735 to format it as soon as I got it.
I've loaded it with music and continue to play said music all the time, use my ext for all my ROM downloading and storage. I access it all the time thru the phone and computer with no problems attributed to the card. (Some ROMs screw with my computer seeing my phone period)

Surprise! TW UI Did the trick!
S'up Crew
I don't know if this would apply to anyone on this thread but I bought a SanDisk 64GB MicroSDXC and my SGS3 Wouldn't recognize the card and all.
At the time I was running CM10 Stable.
After trying several different methods found around the forums (both here and external) nothing worked.
W7 would only recognize it as a 32GB because of OS limitations and with every single third party software I tried it was always the same thing (32GB only).
So on a whim I decided to try a slightly different approach.
I flashed a backup I had of the Original Touch Whiz UI I had laying around back onto the device. Shoved the SD card into it and LO and BEHOLD.. It recognized the card.. Erased the Contents and Formated it properly!
I went into Titanium Backup to see if it actually worked and there it was..
63.xGB.. Woohoo!
So apparently CM has problems seeing a 64GB MircoSDXC correctly and the Stock Touch Whiz UI OS works nicely to see it and format it.
Hope this helps the next person who reads this!

I formatted my 64GB class 10 card in my Mac to fat32 and it has worked fine since.
CWM sees it as that size, TWRP does, both my Mac and PC do.
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So I formatted my 64gb micro to Fat32. PC recognizes it at 64gb, but I can't get it to transfer any files to it. Says there's no space available. What gives?
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What type card is it? Also when trying to transfer files is the card in the phone or straight to the computer via micro SD adapter ect....
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MicroSD problems

Hi I have searched the forums but no fix has been posted or it is quite possible that I have missed it. If that is the case I apologise for the double post.
I have a Sandisk 64gb class 10 microsdXC, and after it has been formatted to NTFS it registers on my device as 59gb. I can transfer files from my PC to the card and it writes perfectly fine and I can read it on both the PC and transformer, however I cannot copy, paste, make nee folder out ant changes on the card from my tablet.
I have tried numerous file managers, including root explorer. I have changed the permissions and made sure it is not read only when mounted. I have read that others have had similar problems, hoping for a workaround without using the PC for all file transfers.
Any help would be appreciated
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Write I must be drunk, second paragraph should read: I cannot make new folders, or make any changes on the add card from the tablet
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Android does not support the NTFS format properly. Try formatting card to exFAT or FAT32.

I have 2 64gb class 10 from SanDisk. They have to be fat32 I formatted mine in my tablet and phone. Both work fine to paste.
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Gorgeous!! Fat32 works, can't get exFAT to work though. Good enough for now. Thanks
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128gb micosd card?

So it looks like Amazon has these back in stock. I take lot's of photos/videos of my baby and filling up my 64gb card quick..
Anyone have any issues on the S5? I had one of the original Sandisk 64gb ones since the NoteII with no issues, but I know lot's of folks have problems. I don't want to be worried about losing my photos/videos.

skyline23 said:
So it looks like Amazon has these back in stock. I take lot's of photos/videos of my baby and filling up my 64gb card quick..
Anyone have any issues on the S5? I had one of the original Sandisk 64gb ones since the NoteII with no issues, but I know lot's of folks have problems. I don't want to be worried about losing my photos/videos.
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My 128GB SDcard works flawlessly, but that's because it's formatted to fat32 and not exfat (exfat is the format that causes all the "bad Sandisk cards on Samsung phones" stories).

blackknightavalon said:
My 128GB SDcard works flawlessly, but that's because it's formatted to fat32 and not exfat (exfat is the format that causes all the "bad Sandisk cards on Samsung phones" stories).
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I just put a lot of stuff on the card, and non of them show up, apparently i did not copy the stuff from PC, but I actually moved it, so all the stuff is gone.
Just doing recovery to see if I can get the stuff back.

blackknightavalon said:
My 128GB SDcard works flawlessly, but that's because it's formatted to fat32 and not exfat (exfat is the format that causes all the "bad Sandisk cards on Samsung phones" stories).
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How did you format it to fat32?
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How did you format it to fat32?
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My computer is set up to dual-boot Win7 and Ubuntu Trusty. I booted into Ubuntu, loaded Gparted, and formatted the card that way.

fat32
here's a link for format exfat to fat32
link:
http://www.portableapps.nl/software/155/fat32_format
hope this helps you out.

I guess i'm the minority here, but I formatted using exFAT on OSX. Works perfectly with no issues.

CiDev said:
here's a link for format exfat to fat32
link:
http://www.portableapps.nl/software/155/fat32_format
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Thank you
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Anyone have experience with Samsung brand SD cards?

My card is messed up, gonna get it changed today.

So this card works amazingly. Just need to reformat it? Can I do it on a Mac? Or should I look for a Windows to reformat it?
Zero S5
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Because now it's on amazon for 120. I really want it now before it is jacked up in price of 240!
Zero S5

Biomusic said:
So this card works amazingly. Just need to reformat it? Can I do it on a Mac? Or should I look for a Windows to reformat it?
Zero S5
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Because now it's on amazon for 120. I really want it now before it is jacked up in price of 240!
Zero S5
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I just popped it into my mac and formatted to exFAT.

Nooooooooooooo! I was couples hours late. Now it jacked up to 200..
Zero S5

Rooted and now can't write to external SD card - help!

I rooted successfully and got directory bind. Everything is lined up perfectly and I press add and nothing happens. I then go into the sd card via my pc and I try to create a folder and the PC won't allow me. I suspect the card can't be written to which is why directory bind won't copy. Any suggestions? Before I rooted, I had no issue creating a folder on the SD card....

I should mention I also d/l the sdfix kitkat program from google play and it says no action necessary.....I also can take the sd card out of the shield and plug it directly into my pc and it works fine so it;'s def shield related
The current format is NTFS. I've been reading FAT32 could be an option but I'm using a 32 gb card so am I going to lose half my card? Don't understand why I had no writing issue prior to root and now I do? both were NTFS
FIGURED IT OUT - FAT32 was the answer. works now formatted that way. not sure why ntfs all of a sudden stopped working after root.

so shield can't write on NTFS either.. ?
I knew it can't handle exfat, that's just meh..

look this
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.sdfix
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dragxdk said:
look this
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.sdfix
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that actually wasn't the problem, he ran the app but it was already modified.
NTFS was the problem as the shield only supports it as read only.