Changing memory cards - Xperia Play General

Hey guys im getting a 16 gb mem card since 8 is to less...which class and brand do u think is the best and which is the fastest another thing I wanted to confirm was if I transfer all data without moving my apps back to phone memory and then copy everything as it is will I have probs because I belive some memcard data is stored in the system and it wont recognise it if I change the mem card and ill have to install everything again ny solution fir this guys
Im not rooted bootloader locked 2.3.3
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I am doing just fine with a 32 class 4. The one our phones comes with is a 8 class 2.
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Tidbits said:
I am doing just fine with a 32 class 4. The one our phones comes with is a 8 class 2.
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hmm did everything work fine when u copy pasted all ur apps and suff?

i will say this do not get a cheap memento card off ebay
as i bought 2 different ones of two seperate supliers and they both were fake
im using a 32gb class 10
it works very well but comes with a higher price tag
its all about what u are prepared to spend to have the best card u can get
but when it comes to transfering data etc a class ten speeds along
as i had to copy over 22gb of data etc when i got my new card

ammarcool12 said:
hmm did everything work fine when u copy pasted all ur apps and suff?
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Yeah they all work fine. I just made sure u copied everything INCLUDING the hidden files. Wasn't sure if those were important or not but assumed they were to be safe.
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Will a good SD card help prrformance

I was using a scan disk 2 n worked fine but now using a cheap 4gd SD card n the performance is crap
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daddyspud said:
I was using a scan disk 2 n worked fine but now using a cheap 4gd SD card n the performance is crap
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A class 8 card will deliver much better performance than the stock 2gb samsung or a (possibly class 1) cheap card in apps such as music and gallery. It will not make the overall phone performance better
A better memory card would mean better read and write speed. Anything other than that would be the same
And you'll notice a faster speed in transfering files via usb from ur comp to phone.
Go with Class 4-8.

Help! Restarting after insertting a micro sd card.

Hey any time I insert my micro sd that has more then about 300mg of stuff on it my TF will keep restarting and not read whats on the disk. It works fine on the computer and I've ran a virus check / reformatted the card and I still can't figure out the problem.. any advice? It's a Class 4 Duracell micro SD.
milligrams or did u mean mb as in megabytes
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Wait... Duracell makes microSD's?
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milligrams or did u mean mb as in megabytes
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Yeah pushed the wrong key. And yes apparently they do. I'm wondering if it's the quality of the card?
Also what file system does the TF accept? I've been formatting the card to FAT32 (the one my computer automatically chooses)..?
what class? just for for a test try another micro SD card and see if u have the same issue
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what class? just for for a test try another micro SD card and see if u have the same issue
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Yup just did that, swapped it with the one out of my phone. Formatted both, loaded them up and the duracell works fine in the phone and the the other which has been perfect in my phone for months is doing the same thing to the TF. It seems that if there's too much stuff on the the TF goes holy **** **** too much! and crashes / restarts.
EDIT: it's a class 4
I'm going to try putting movies on instead of music... maybe it's the mp3 files...
Ok so now my TF is barely even recognizing the sd card... it'll say preparing sd card when i insert it but if i click on the file viewer there's nothing in it.. then 30 seconds later the little icon disappears and no more sd card found... **** this is getting annoying.. and im far away from civilization for work..
i was going to downgrade to 3.01 from the leaked 3.1 now i can't even do that.
Quick question. Can I format SD and microSD using the Transformer? I'm guessing this would be the most compatible alternative. I'm not yet rooted.
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I can't find an option to do that no.
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all sd_card files are gone

turned on my tablet today and I can't find anything on my sd card. I don't know if the card slot is broken are if it was deleted some how. im not rooted and I haven't changed any of the Software does anyone have any ideas?
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temekio2000 said:
turned on my tablet today and I can't find anything on my sd card. I don't know if the card slot is broken are if it was deleted some how. im not rooted and I haven't changed any of the Software does anyone have any ideas?
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Stick it in a card reader in your pc and see what happens.
temekio2000 said:
turned on my tablet today and I can't find anything on my sd card. I don't know if the card slot is broken are if it was deleted some how. im not rooted and I haven't changed any of the Software does anyone have any ideas?
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Bad SD card or power interrupted during file transfer. Format the card (FAT, full format vs. Quick format) would be my recommendation - if it fails during a full format you should consider a new Micro SD card.
I'm formatting now it shows 0 storage in lost everything it really sucks
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same thing happened to me during file transfer.... it just stopped and BAM, everything was gone.
using some recovery software to recover it, but it sucks with long filenames, so i now have to rename whatever it finds
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I'm formatting now it shows 0 storage in lost everything it really sucks
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Should have put it in your pc. Probably could have saved your data.
Hi
I have been having this exact problem with my external SD card, I started a thread long ago about it.
The biggest danger so to speak is that the card may be a counterfeit.
There is a software to test this, its freeware so no worries people and you dont need to install it you just run it and it will tell you if the card is pretty much fake or heavily defective or even if its a low class card in a high class casing.
Read the instructions while you run the test and you will understand how it works, the test takes some time and depending on the size of the card of course just have patience. I have had very bad problems lately with memory cards that i bought so now I use this every time when i buy a new card.
God I hate fake things but worst I hate those who sell them.
Attached is the freeware.
Cheers.
I. tried to save it but windows didn't see it and the format didn't finish it fails
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temekio2000 said:
I. tried to save it but windows didn't see it and the format didn't finish it fails
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Sounds like a bad SD card

[Q] 16GB Owners, What are you doing with the low space storage problem?

I did not paid attention when people started to complain about the low memory matter and ended up buying a 16GB i9500, now that I know what's the problem is there an alternative for this? what do you recommend ?
Get a micro sd card and u r good to go
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Like what Saad2687 said. My advise dont get scandisk though. I have samsung 32 gig class 10 and its amazing.
Yes I got a 32GB Samsung, but the thing is with the installations and all the bloat, is there something I can do? With my S3 I used aroma debloater it was awesome it left my phone free of non useful stuff.
Brother i am infact using sandisk 32gb class 10 micro sd from past 20 days and its great no problems at all.
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Use onboard storage only for apps and move media (photos, songs, videos) and documents onto SD card. But dont cheap out to buy any no name or cheap class 4 card. Class 10 is a must.
Root ya phone and grab titanium backup. You can uninstall about 900mb of crap such as eye scrolling etc...
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This is the one i bought.
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Micro...0224244&sr=8-1&keywords=samsung+32gb+micro+sd
munkyboy said:
I did not paid attention when people started to complain about the low memory matter and ended up buying a 16GB i9500, now that I know what's the problem is there an alternative for this? what do you recommend ?
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As the others said, get a SD card. Also VERY helpful is Folder Mount as it lets you remap the /sdcard/Android folder from the internal memory to the external SD card which gets around the problem that most apps want to store everything inside those folders or directly in /sdcard.
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Root ya phone and grab titanium backup. You can uninstall about 900mb of crap such as eye scrolling etc...
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ewok666 said:
As the others said, get a SD card. Also VERY helpful is Folder Mount as it lets you remap the /sdcard/Android folder from the internal memory to the external SD card which gets around the problem that most apps want to store everything inside those folders or directly in /sdcard.
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Thanks I'll give it a try. that's what I was looking for.
Got myself a 64gb Samsung pro microsd and moved all my images/videos/music.
I only use my internal storage for apps.
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Thanks I'll give it a try. that's what I was looking for.
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By the way, be sure to read the guide on what is safe to uninstall before you go ahead.
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munkyboy said:
I did not paid attention when people started to complain about the low memory matter and ended up buying a 16GB i9500, now that I know what's the problem is there an alternative for this? what do you recommend ?
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32 GB external SD Card
Move anything that isn't apps (music, movies, any extra files) onto the external SD card. Get at least a 32gb and you should be golden.
Save to the SD instead internal memory
munkyboy said:
Thanks I'll give it a try. that's what I was looking for.
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How do I redirect just the pictures and videos to my SD without rooting????? any ideas????
munkyboy said:
I did not paid attention when people started to complain about the low memory matter and ended up buying a 16GB i9500, now that I know what's the problem is there an alternative for this? what do you recommend ?
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get another 16/32 Gig card, that should suffice.
i am suing sandisk 16 gig for the past 1 year and no issues till now, and most of the times its a life saver as i keep everything in my sd card (music pic etc)...
My setup which 16gb users might like.
My phone is 16gb
My sdcard is 32gb
But thays not enough space so i added an extra 64gb via usb
The method to mount usb is OTG in a modified case.
(*please note just use the usb when you need it as it obviously drains battery faster)
Here is a image of modified case
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Use foldermount to switch game data to my 64 gb class 10 sd card.
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Use foldermount to switch game data to my 64 gb class 10 sd card.
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This didn't work for me.
/sdcard is a link to /storage/emulated/0
that's internal mounted fuse
/storage/extSdCard is real sdcard mounted normally.
It's 4.2s storage problem
in previous versions it was as.simple.as editing fstab.
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I don't really put a lot of stuff on my phone as I have a separate mp3 player on me at all times, so the space taken up by bloat wasn't really a problem. I already had a 32GB card on me though so I slapped that in.

soooooo forgot about the sdcard issue

Its been so long aince my N3 was rooted I totally forgot about the sdcard write issue with KitKrap.
So frustraring
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Its been so long aince my N3 was rooted I totally forgot about the sdcard write issue with KitKrap.
So frustraring
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I'm giving you Thanks because I found your thread of utmost quality, also please go hashtag #KitKrap , Google needs to feel our hate.
I literally just moved all my files to internal, and threw my new 128 sd in the drawer since apparently I'm not allowed to have an sdcard anymore.. KitKrap
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For now (till we get root) use the "My Files" built in app if you need to write to the SD card. It's about the only app that seems to work consistently.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=56381787
Tmobile sd write fix works…
Here's link to zip
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=55989825
BUT, must be a dev rooted note4 to flash, sorry if you're not…
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Considering this is VZW thread, I think you probably already know the answer to that
.........
sudermatt said:
Its been so long aince my N3 was rooted I totally forgot about the sdcard write issue with KitKrap.
So frustraring
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Whats the issue? Haven't had an issue with my 128GB sd card. Please advise
mjlewis0102 said:
Whats the issue? Haven't had an issue with my 128GB sd card. Please advise
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have you tried DOING anything with your 128 card? some of the stock apps will play nice, but even deleting a picture will give you a "sorry KitKrap doesn't allow sd card access". when I finish a video and go to delete it "sorry KitKrap doesn't allow it", when I use Google Drive and move a doc over to another folder or file "sorry KitKrap; nope!".. I've always been extremely well organized, and I've put a lot of time into organizing my SD card with any files or folders I'll need or use for work, and KitKrap won't allow any of it.. it's actually the exact same thing as when the "LOCK" switch is switched when you plug a standard SD card into a computer, except you can never turn it off.
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no problem deleting anything from my SD card
I don't have any issues deleting pictures or videos from my SD card via the phone.
use the stock samsung file browser and you can delete and modify stuff. other apps don't work.
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jayochs said:
use the stock samsung file browser and you can delete and modify stuff. other apps don't work.
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Actually i discovered that the stock photo browser app only hides images, doesn't delete them. It may just be me, but after taking a string of shots of my daughter and trying to delete all but one, the gallery app said they were deleted, but when i plugged my phone into my computer they were all on the sdcard. Curious if others have the same issue?
Gonna be fixed in Lollipop. Long live sdcards!
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have you tried DOING anything with your 128 card? some of the stock apps will play nice, but even deleting a picture will give you a "sorry KitKrap doesn't allow sd card access". when I finish a video and go to delete it "sorry KitKrap doesn't allow it", when I use Google Drive and move a doc over to another folder or file "sorry KitKrap; nope!".. I've always been extremely well organized, and I've put a lot of time into organizing my SD card with any files or folders I'll need or use for work, and KitKrap won't allow any of it.. it's actually the exact same thing as when the "LOCK" switch is switched when you plug a standard SD card into a computer, except you can never turn it off.
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Mostly I have all my pictures saved to it. I also transfer movies and tv shows to it on a daily basis. (Download a tv show to my laptop and transfer it to sd card via usb) On average, I have about 5GBs of free space left on my card.
Only ran into an issue once. I tried to delete a folder (season 5 of the show"24") and it claims that the card was "Write Protected" So I went into the folder and deleted the episodes . Folder still remains but its empty. Other than that its been working fine.
BTW I'm using the SanDisk Ultra 128 GB micro SD
snagg641 said:
Actually i discovered that the stock photo browser app only hides images, doesn't delete them. It may just be me, but after taking a string of shots of my daughter and trying to delete all but one, the gallery app said they were deleted, but when i plugged my phone into my computer they were all on the sdcard. Curious if others have the same issue?
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I noticed the stock apps dont refresh and also keep a massive cache. I moved a pic folder and it remained in the stock pic app as cache, including full sized images. when I moved my music folder it did the exact same thing.. there's no refresh option. I cleared data and cache from the app, but it must be using some other means to cache, because nothing is actually better afterwards.
mjs2011 said:
Gonna be fixed in Lollipop. Long live sdcards!
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Only problem for Verizon users anyways is having to wait until June/July 2015. . . Really wish Verizon didn't drag their butt on this stuff.
mjs2011 said:
Gonna be fixed in Lollipop. Long live sdcards!
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Assuming Android team leaves the option intact for the public release. Notice still no sd slot on the Nexus devices in spite of card writes "apparently" being part of the framework now Never doubt Android's hatred for sd cards. Were it not for Apple buyers scarfing up almost all the flash supply allocations for the iPhone launch, the G1 would have had 2GB of flash and no sd slot.
We can truly thank Apple for why Android devices have sd slots in the first place. :victory:
I have no issues with my 32gb SD card...perhaps its "operator error?" Idk..good luck solving it tho
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shpotik said:
I have no issues with my 32gb SD card...perhaps its "operator error?" Idk..good luck solving it tho
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The issue is non stock apps can't write to the card. Of course you will have no issues if use no apps that need to.
More an issue here of "information error".
rushless said:
The issue is non stock apps can't write to the card. Of course you will have no issues if use no apps that need to.
More an issue here of "information error".
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Oh... I never cared about writing apps to SD card, 22gb+ of free storage is plenty for my apps, everything else is on my SD card..
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shpotik said:
I have no issues with my 32gb SD card...perhaps its "operator error?" Idk..good luck solving it tho
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You don't understand the issue. Kitkat took away the app's ability to write/delete any where on the SD card, it only allows full access to the app's own folder on the SD card. I.E. sandboxing it. Apps are still able to read the whole SD card though.
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The issue is non stock apps can't write to the card. Of course you will have no issues if use no apps that need to.
More an issue here of "information error".
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You mean like this?
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