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[Guide]How to increase your SD card's reading speed

Here is the most simple way of increacing your SD card's reading speed.
To getting started,there are three different ways of doing it,first manually,second with cwm, and third with a single app. I will show you the third and easiest way,as there is a thread about the first two.
If you want to check out the first two look this: forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1010807
Requirements : a rooted device.
The only thing you have to do is to download two apps.
First download the "SD tools" to see the scores of your SD card's speed. Well,now run it and do the test.(if you know any other apps to do the same thing tell me and I may add them all).
Play store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ales.veluscek.sdtools
Now download the "SD speed increase" or "SD-Booster" and open it and set the SD cache at a value.
THE RECOMMENTED VALUE IS 2048.
After rebooting your device this setting will be lost,if you don't want this to happen hit the set on boot button.
Play store Link: SD speed increase, SD-Booster
Now run the "SD tools" again, run the test one more time and see the improvement.
I have a 6 class 8gb sd card and the reading speed increased from 12.6mb/s to 17.1mb/s (see attachments)
Use at your own risk.
P.s please tell me if it worked for you and if you have any suggestion for this guide.
Thanks for reading
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great! bro,any chance u could attach those 2 apps.some ppl just can't access Google play.

zmuhammx said:
great! bro,any chance u could attach those 2 apps.some ppl just can't access Google play.
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As I haven't develop any of this apps and i am just refering to them, I don't think is a good idea to upload them here.if someone can't access Google play, I guess if he search in Google he will find a mirror.
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stamatis16 said:
As I haven't develop any of this apps and i am just refering to them, I don't think is a good idea to upload them here.if someone can't access Google play, I guess if he search in Google he will find a mirror.
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okay,I thought there won't be any problem since its a free apps.sorry!

zmuhammx said:
okay,I thought there won't be any problem since its a free apps.sorry!
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It is not against the rules its just respecting the developers who put them in playstore.
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Great app. Just tried it. Didn't try benchmarking it as sd tools doesn't seem thae consistent. Any other app that you know of that I can use alongside sd tools to check how much of a diff it made?
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cascabel said:
Great app. Just tried it. Didn't try benchmarking it as sd tools doesn't seem thae consistent. Any other app that you know of that I can use alongside sd tools to check how much of a diff it made?
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Sorry I don't know,maybe someone else.....
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stamatis16 said:
Sorry I don't know,maybe someone else.....
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Thanks. I'll look for one.
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cascabel said:
Great app. Just tried it. Didn't try benchmarking it as sd tools doesn't seem thae consistent. Any other app that you know of that I can use alongside sd tools to check how much of a diff it made?
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iam using antutu, free in google play

SD booster is also good I guess. ? It gives about 2~3 mb/s increased speed on my class 4

androidnerd2 said:
SD booster is also good I guess. ? It gives about 2~3 mb/s increased speed on my class 4
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Added it
Yes, i guess any similar app would do.:good:

EXFat is now supported on the SGS3!!! Tip for fast sdcard inside!

So I just seen that the SGS3 supports EXFat and files over 4gb's now. So if you want a really fast SD card, consider formatting from Fat32 over to exfat, and set block size to 16mb or 32mb. I know most if not all my files are 5mb or way over that, so not much space is wasted! I hope that helps someone
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Can you format ex fat in the phone itself or has to be pc? I purchased a 64gb sdxc card and will need to do this.
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Why on earth would you want a 32 MB block size? Seems like you would end up with a ton of wasted space.

smark72 said:
Can you format ex fat in the phone itself or has to be pc? I purchased a 64gb sdxc card and will need to do this.
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Well for me I have a lot of movies, huge pictures, music over 7mb. I myself use 16mb. But for people that want full speed from exfat will select 32mb.
smark72 said:
Can you format ex fat in the phone itself or has to be pc? I purchased a 64gb sdxc card and will need to do this.
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I don't have the phone or Id let you know. I do have my 32gb c10 ready to go when it gets here though
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So would that mean that any files I have under 16mb will in fact take up 16mb of space? Even files that are only a few kb?

Yes. I know it sounds scary, but most small items are stored on the phone sdcard.
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WARNING: Samsung's exFAT driver implementation is buggy!
exFAT is not an open standard. It is MS proprietary. Do not expect it to fully work.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27415975&postcount=18
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1698672&page=2

jnadke said:
WARNING: Samsung's exFAT driver implementation is buggy!
exFAT is not an open standard. It is MS proprietary. Do not expect it to fully work.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27415975&postcount=18
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1698672&page=2
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I didn't read the whole thread. But from what I saw, only 3 people had a problem. And at first he said he copied 1900 files and had corruption, then he states its a problem over 3000. I don't know if this is user error, or what. But thanks for the warning, Ill keep an eye out....... And if that guy was checking file by file for 1900 songs, that's some serious time, I call BS.
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TeamERA said:
I didn't read the whole thread.... , I call BS.
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A bunch of other people were having the same problem too.

jnadke said:
A bunch of other people were having the same problem too.
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It may well be correct, and now I can't wait to find out, damn 32gb PB pre order
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I unloaded my 64gb sd card, put it in the phone and it formatted it to exfat, I copied all my data back to the card and did a restore from mybackup pro, after the restore and reboot I then received a damaged sd card, i'm not sure what's going on, The only 2 options on windows is NTFS and exFat

Performance gain will be nominal. You're talking a phone here, not a database server dealing with heavy iOPS. I have a 64GB Class 10 in mine and performance could not be better. I also had a ***** of a time getting the card to register after I let my PC format it, had to, absolutely had to, let the device format it.
Note: I'm a heavy performance user who goes for maximum battery without overly sacrificing performance. Professionally, I build and configure SAN's for Exchange, SQL and vSphere. I make no claims to being a phone development god (thought about refreshing my skills there but frankly, don't have the time), BUT I'm also VERY good at what I do.
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ILA970JOSH said:
I unloaded my 64gb sd card, put it in the phone and it formatted it to exfat, I copied all my data back to the card and did a restore from mybackup pro, after the restore and reboot I then received a damaged sd card, i'm not sure what's going on, The only 2 options on windows is NTFS and exFat
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Had the same problem. I had no option but to let the phone format it. Delete the partition in windows and then you can format it. If you find another way though, let me know!
Sorry misread your post, I had the same error and had to let it reformat. Did you unplug it and put it into your PC? Were any corrective scans or anything done?

I removed everything back off the card, formatted it to fat32 and copied everything back to it, put it back in the phone and it's still saying it's damaged. Sucks, it's been in my EVO3D for a week now with no problems.

is the extra juice really worth the possibility of data corruption? Im not trying to be a wise guy, just really been wondering myself.

s3xda said:
is the extra juice really worth the possibility of data corruption? Im not trying to be a wise guy, just really been wondering myself.
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Well I must say now I'm worried. But I'm still going to test, I copy huge files to and from on a regular basis, if it saves me 3% in time each time, that is still worth it to me in the long run. I have very little patience, and all that time adds up.
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seems to be working now, I had 8,000 temp files in a MyBackup Pro Directory, Deleted them and now it's working

So if I were to format my 64gb card to exfat and download movies to my phone using adownloader or atorrent, I wouldn't be able to transfer them to my ps3?
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smark72 said:
So if I were to format my 64gb card to exfat and download movies to my phone using adownloader or atorrent, I wouldn't be able to transfer them to my ps3?
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I use xbox lol, I don't know if it would work on ps3.
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TeamERA said:
I use xbox lol, I don't know if it would work on ps3.
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Does it work and show up on the Xbox?
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smark72 said:
Does it work and show up on the Xbox?
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I don't have the phone yet, Ill let you know in here though.
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[Q] Micro SD and Class (and stuffs)?

Sorry but i didnt find a topic about this on NEXUS 7 forum.
A few questions:
1 - Anyone knows if N7 can support all sizes of microSD? (2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128..so on)
2 - What the lowest CLASS do i need to play videos without problem?
3 - What the lowest CLASS do i need to play GAMES without problem? (using life02 thread
4 - What about battery consume when using the MicroSD/OTG?
5 - I will post some links and you guys tell me which one should be better or trustble
Option 1 Samsung 32GB Class10
Option 2 Sandisk 32GB Class10
Option 3 Patriot 32GB Class 10
I dont have much money so the first option will always be the best one (Unless some1 tell to forget about)
Thanks You all (Sry bad spelling and gramatic)

The Nexus 7 does NOT have a microSD slot. No expandable memory at all.
EDIT- Oops you mean for OTG? In my experience anything Class 6 or above is fine, Amazon has a class 10 16GB for a good price.

I personally would not use a class 10 for anything other than movies, music, and pictures. They are awful at small random IO.
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rmm200 said:
I personally would not use a class 10 for anything other than movies, music, and pictures. They are awful at small random IO.
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Why? Not disputing you; just trying to learn.

rmm200 said:
I personally would not use a class 10 for anything other than movies, music, and pictures. They are awful at small random IO.
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But would work with a CLASS 4?
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maztahbr said:
But would work with a CLASS 4?
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No, it will not work with ANY SD card.
There is no Micro SD slot.
There is no expandable memory.

Clarkster said:
No, it will not work with ANY SD card.
There is no Micro SD slot.
There is no expandable memory.
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I believe the OP knows that, I think they are looking for a microSD to use with a card reader.

Nospin said:
I believe the OP knows that, I think they are looking for a microSD to use with a card reader.
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Ah, way to make myself look stupid. I wanted to make sure he didn't glance over the posts, since it seemed he only focussed on the speed issue.
And it turns out, I glanced over the OP's post too quickly myself.

Can somebody confirm Nexus 7 can handle a 64GB MicroSD card? Much obliged.

Clarkster said:
No, it will not work with ANY SD card.
There is no Micro SD slot.
There is no expandable memory.
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Realy?
I think its implicity talking about micro sd on N7 FORUM means that the otg adapter is include
For those who knows what im talking about any help will be apreciated
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maztahbr said:
Realy?
I think its implicity talking about micro sd on N7 FORUM means that the otg adapter is include
For those who knows what im talking about any help will be apreciated
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Yes, as you can see just above, I already admitted to being an idiot.

Clarkster said:
Yes, as you can see just above, I already admitted to being an idiot.
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Lol, its ok
I just want to know if a class 4 will work nice for movies and games?
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maztahbr said:
Lol, its ok
I just want to know if a class 4 will work nice for movies and games?
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For movies you shouldn't have a problem. Probably okay for games too if it is just the extra asset data. Now getting a game to install on an external SD card is a whole other story, you might need to manually copy it over and create symlinks. Could be a bit of trouble.
When the Nexus was first out I heard there were problems getting apps to see movies on an OTG storage, I think there was a root solution to that, but I am not sure. There might even be a simpler solution since then.
Note: I've not done any of this myself, just basing it on my general knowledge on how Android and Linux works.

Using a cheap OTG cable and a generic SD Card (full size; not micro) Reader, I can play movies just fine. Since full size SD are cheaper per gb than micro, I'm not sure why anyone would want to use micro cards, but whatever floats your boat. My N7 is rooted, but stock. I installed StickMount. All my cards are Class 10 or UHS 1
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(help needded) can't find my 8gb space

Hello everyone
Sorry for my last post. I didn't attach pic in that. Here it is. My model has 8gb space. Apps and files take only 4gb. And alloted space is 4.7gb for this. As a result I get storage space minimum notification constantly. So can anyone tell me where the remaining space is and is it possible to shift some space to storage
Thank you
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kaskoraja said:
Hello everyone
Sorry for my last post. I didn't attach pic in that. Here it is. My model has 8gb space. Apps and files take only 4gb. And alloted space is 4.7gb for this. As a result I get storage space minimum notification constantly. So can anyone tell me where the remaining space is and is it possible to shift some space to storage
Thank you
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There is 8gb there, but it's partitioned into about 4gb each. One for the OS and the other for media. So, you'll only be able to utilize 4gb for app storage.

Thanks for the reply. Is there any way to reduce the space alloted to OS?
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kaskoraja said:
Thanks for the reply. Is there any way to reduce the space alloted to OS?
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wipe stock rom and install one that specializes in space saving? or get an sd card
Also besides the point but are you running softkeyZ? i notice your back button is a tad bigger than home and task i had the same issue when ii had it...

Even after update
Cyko.Tech67 said:
wipe stock rom and install one that specializes in space saving? or get an sd card
Also besides the point but are you running softkeyZ? i notice your back button is a tad bigger than home and task i had the same issue when ii had it...
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Even after update the new rom will be alloted in the same space right?

Have you looked into this...http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2229848 I haven't tried it as I've never had and issue with storage space....
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Have you cleaned your app cache? I was getting low and was amazed how much space I gained. You can do it app by app or download something like this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gannicus.android.cacheclearer

kaskoraja said:
Even after update the new rom will be alloted in the same space right?
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no it shouldnt...

game files on physical sd card??

well I'm loving my Tab 2 7"
But hating the fact I have to have the game data on the interanl memory when I have a nice 32gig card in the tab..
Am on a rooted Stock 4.2.2 rom and wondering is it possible to move the data to the SDcard thus releasing space on the internal memory..
thanks in advance for advice..
regards
Lohtse
tried foldermount pro and is useless as wants to download game data
arrr ok foldermount pro does work.... didn't release you had to click on pins and if they turned green it had worked( you must click the pins to work)

GL TO SD
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jack54782 said:
GL TO SD
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GL to Sd???? whats GL????

lohtse said:
GL to Sd???? whats GL????
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"Game... something..." It's the name of the app. Look it up in Play Store.

Did seems foldermount does same thing