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huh? help plz

hey i have a 8gb sdcard and i just deleted everything on it from my mac but it says i only have 2.62 gb available? how do i fully erase everything on my sdcard?
i want to pretty much start from the beggining again but i want to stay rooted.

Try to empty your trash can.

trash can?

thanks that was it i had like 6gb in my trash lol

Same thing happened to me. Thats why I knew.

Deleting the sd card won't affect your root status.
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If you hook it up to your computer and format it that will wipe it clean too.
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Switching sd card..

I want to switch to a 16gb sd card and i copied everything i have in my old one to the new but it never passes the logo screen. What are the steps necessary to do this successfully?
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I do not really have an answer to your question, but I did discover something cool about stock FroYo.
I had moved a bunch of apps to the SD card (via the official way) and was somewhat concerned about installing a larger SD card as I was unsure if my apps would copy over properly or more importantly be recognized as being present on the SD card at all.
I copied all DATA from my old SD card to my new SD card and booted up the device, at first none of my moved apps appeared to be installed, but after about 3 or 4 minuets all my previous installed apps populated in the launcher.
Color me impressed,
Dan

Im using a miui rom and i copied everything to the new sd and then when i turn on the phone i can see the miui logo but then it geys stuck there...
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i think its because some of miuis stock applications are installed onto the sd card. try making an ext partiton and then reflashing the same version of miui you have without wiping and it should boot up fine again without losing all your data

That should not be an issue unless you are using official stock OS or you have previously forced moving system apps to sd...
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You keep saying you copied everything over. That's probably not true. Check to make sure all the hidden files were copied over too, and that any extra partitions have been created and copied over too.

If you're using an ext partition, your pc probably won't see or copy it...
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Ok so how do i partion. can someone explain that to me. Thanks
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You would've had to set up the ext partition yourself, so if you don't know how to do it, I'm guessing you don't have an ext partition...
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Yep i guess i dont.... well i'll find someone to do it for me
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You partition you sd card in the recovery, there's an option for that.

ronnyzilker said:
Ok so how do i partion. can someone explain that to me. Thanks
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Easiest way to partition an sd card with ext and fat flavors is via Linux... grab your favorite usb bootable linux (like ubuntu or mint) if you're not already made the switch, boot your notebook via usb, stick your sd card and partition as you like it...
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Encrypt sd card

Is there anyway that I can encrypt my sd card? On windows mobile devices there is an option to auto encrypt in case someone gets whole of your device with the card in it...Thx in advance
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TopDogg1 said:
Is there anyway that I can encrypt my sd card? On windows mobile devices there is an option to auto encrypt in case someone gets whole of your device with the card in it...Thx in advance
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Google is your friend...
Lock Files - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.droid.g.lockfile&feature=search_result
MobiSafeFile - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.trustmobi.mobisafefile
FileCrypt - https://market.android.com/details?id=com.monospacemadness.filecrypt

SD card won't format

Sup guys. I don't know if this is the right place to post this. But here I go. My 32gb San Disk micro SD card was working fine on my gs3 until I got my s4 and now it seems to be write protected. I can't delete or add anything onto the card. It worked fine on the s3 though. So I Googled a little about this and came across a piece of software, which I downloaded and made use of. But the tool I used to supposedly fix the card actually made it worse. Now the phone can't read it, nor can the PC explore its files (but can detect the device), its like a non allocated partition that just needs formatting. But I have tried windows format utility, SD card formatter, HD low level formatter, and HP USB disk utility software and all of them without success. Please help me as I don't know what else to do.
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Marcellff said:
Sup guys. I don't know if this is the right place to post this. But here I go. My 32gb San Disk micro SD card was working fine on my gs3 until I got my s4 and now it seems to be write protected. I can't delete or add anything onto the card. It worked fine on the s3 though. So I Googled a little about this and came across a piece of software, which I downloaded and made use of. But the tool I used to supposedly fix the card actually made it worse. Now the phone can't read it, nor can the PC explore its files (but can detect the device), its like a non allocated partition that just needs formatting. But I have tried windows format utility, SD card formatter, HD low level formatter, and HP USB disk utility software and all of them without success. Please help me as I don't know what else to do.
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use cwm recovery to format sdcard. u may need to root ur ph for dat

Yes the galaxy s4 does seam to have issues with sdcards, I myself had corrupt sdcard twice for no apparent reason. Your sdcard will now be in RAW file system and from experience very hard to recover, I've tried dozens of recovery windows apps to fix the partition without success (maybe just didn't try the right app) you can however recover SOME datas on the sdcard but there is no guarrentee how much or what you can successfully recover.
The moral of this story is to ALWAYS backup your data.
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Hi, pop it in a camera, if it detects it you are lucky, format it there and you're all set. Unfortunately you will lose all the data

DroidFolks said:
use cwm recovery to format sdcard. u may need to root ur ph for dat
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Damn, i was trying to keep my new s4 "clean" but i guess ill have to root it. Oh well, ill keep kit kat unrooted then. Lol
ranger4740 said:
Yes the galaxy s4 does seam to have issues with sdcards, I myself had corrupt sdcard twice for no apparent reason. Your sdcard will now be in RAW file system and from experience very hard to recover, I've tried dozens of recovery windows apps to fix the partition without success (maybe just didn't try the right app) you can however recover SOME datas on the sdcard but there is no guarrentee how much or what you can successfully recover.
The moral of this story is to ALWAYS backup your data.
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Yeah, data recovery isnt an issue, as ive backed it all up beforehand. I just want my card back
freakzone said:
Hi, pop it in a camera, if it detects it you are lucky, format it there and you're all set. Unfortunately you will lose all the data
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My camera uses SD cards I think, not micro. But I'll check
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just find an adapter from somewhere, usually one is supplied with the card

I tried clockwork mod recovery with no avail. I have little faith that a camera format tool would work, so I'm not even gonna bother to find a microsd adapter. Sigh. Any other suggestions please? I'm almost giving up
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new card?

Yes, that's unfortunately my last resort. I was hoping it didn't have to get to that point though, cause where I live, a 32gb micro SD card is expensive as ****. But oh well. Thank you guys for trying.
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Why not just get a card reader and use a PC and partition minitools?
To get your SD card back You may even need to do a LOW LEVEL format. This is very different from a standard format.
Use Google and get a freeware version of a low level format software then repartition USB/flash drive then normal fat32 format.
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I tried doing a low level format. I've tried it all, with no avail :/
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Marcellff said:
I tried doing a low level format. I've tried it all, with no avail :/
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Sorry mate, looks like its dead then
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sd card autowiped help! :(

my sd card got automatically formatted the phone was just lying idle the whole day i'm on 4.3

Which one?
Which sdcard? The internal or external one?

External
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Is your sdcard an older sandisk by any chance?
Because there are some batches that have a conflict with sg4 and go into raw file system mode and can't be read.
I have not found a reliable method that works 100% I've tried around 30 different data recovery apps for the pc and only managed to recover a small portion of data ?.
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