Anyway Galaxy Tab S2 can read and write file more than 4GB in the SD Card ?
I have no problem with the internal storage....
thanks
Format to exFAT.
ashyx said:
Format to exFAT.
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and plug into s2 and it can read ?
Of course.
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ashyx said:
Of course.
Oh ya... thanks Ashyx... it works.. this didn't work in old phone...
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localbus said:
ashyx said:
Of course.
Oh ya... thanks Ashyx... it works.. this didn't work in old phone...
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Modern devices
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Of course.
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how can you reformat the sd card to exfat?
Phurkus said:
how can you reformat the sd card to exfat?
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Windows, twrp or app.
I've always been under the impression that it's preferable to format cards to FAT32 as long as the file size limit isn't an issue. I imagine that the benefit wouldn't be terribly significant, but I'm in the habit of reformatting new cards to FAT32 due to my impression that there's at least some benefit towards performance (I use FolderMount heavily, mostly for huge games and I've never noticed decreased performance from keeping the obb files on external storage).
I'd be curious to hear your take @ashyx in any case, but I actually just got a new 128 GB card yesterday that I was opening up to reformat it with GParted when I read this post :laugh: I've been debating setting up a MultiSystem setup on my Note 4 (I'd actually prefer to use my S2 for that... All of the listed "supported devices" happen to be the variants with Qualcomm chips. Another element that they share is that they are all supported by ROMs other than stock... So I suppose that my 817T is "less than ideal" for that purpose!) I think I'm going to include a small ext4 partition anyway in case I do end up using my phone to multiboot. It's pretty likely that I will at some point, and having the partition scheme set up already and just swapping cards sure beats adding a partition to a populated disk... Here's the MultiSystem thread in case you're not familiar. Looks like an awesome tool... http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/software-hacking/tool-multirom-recovery-replacement-t3102395
@Phurkus Most cards come already formatted as exfat, at least those on the higher end of the storage spectrum. If you need to reformat it depends which OS you're using. Windows supports exfat natively, so all you need to do is right click on the disk, select "format", then just make sure that the dialog box that pops up has exfat selected (it should, NTFS is the only other option), you can leave "quick format" checked, type in a name if you want, then just hit start. If you want to format a filesystem to FAT32 though, there are a few small free utilities that you can use. The only one I've used myself is called Rufus. This isn't really necessary for formatting an entire device to a single partition of a common filesystem type, but I almost always use a Linux system for disk partitioning. The tools available are (generally) far more powerful, but the learning curve is a bit steeper depending on how/what you're doing and there can be a greater risk of data loss if your disk isn't blank (or if you're spacing out and wipe a local partition need for your OS installation)! Anyway, the free Windows utilities are just fine for simply reformatting a disk
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how can you reformat the sd card to exfat?
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READ THIS REPLY FULLY, THEN DO YOUR FORMATTING AS POSTED IN THE MIDDLE SECTION OF THIS POST.
Windows 7,
Click Start
In the search type in "CMD" (without quotes)
In the results, top of search window, CMD will appear Don't click enter...right click CMD and "Run as administrator ". CMD window opens (black background).
Type:
diskpart (hit enter)
List disk (hit enter)
...you will now see a list of hard drives, thumb drives, and memory cards in this result of list disk . Pay attention to the size of the sd card your working with. Results may be...
Disk 0 500 GB. (PC hard drive)
Disk 1 64 GB (64 GB micro SD card)
500 might show 480 something.. same with 64 showing 58.. you got the idea.
The disk 0 will be your 500 GB hard drive for the PC. You will NOT chose disk 0.
This above is an example. The size I said is an example. It is easy to do. Dont get scared
Again,
diskpart ( hit enter )
List disk ( hit enter )
Select disc 1 ( if one is your sd card, from example above )
clean ( hit enter, time to wait you won't be able to type a letter if PC is still doing this ' work' just wait / for a deep clean you can type ' clean all ' (longer, like an hr )
create partition primary /or.. creat part prim ( hit enter )
active ( hit enter )
format quick fs=exfat ( hit enter ) (this is your type of format, exfat or you can fat32 or.. if you want a In depth format type ' format fs=exfat ' notice 'quick' was removed.
exit ( hit enter )
exit ( hit enter )
You can now remove the sd card from PC and put in your device. It is now erased and formatted to exFAT.
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ONCE AGAIN,
CMD right click run as administrator, important to be admin.
diskpart
list disk
select disk #
clean
creat prim part
active
format fs=exfat
exit
exit
EXACTLY AS I HAVE TYPED.
You can
format quick fs=exfat
Diskpart is a program to do work on disks.
list disk is listing disks connected to the PC.
select disk, is chosing a disk to only work on in this diskpart program.
clean, is erasing get the disk and cleaning it.
creat prim part ( short for create primary partition) making the disk a partition for primary use. Since no specific custom size was typed, the whole disk is being marked as a primary partition.
active, is activating the disk (personally don't know if NEEDED but I think it can be a key factor to make it work. I'm just posting what I read from a master)
format fs=exfat, is formatting get the disk to exFAT. You can chose .. format fs=fat32 if you want FAT32 format.
exit, is exiting the diskpart
exit is exiting the CMD.
Dont add or miss spaces in the commands.
When choosing a mistake disk like the windows 7 main disk, it won't work. Your using Windows and running CMD from the Windows folder , since the PC is not going to erase itself you will probably get an error . IF you chose another none Windows Disk, it will work and erase and format that chosen disk. Chose carefully.
If all fails ( hard to mess up if you simply follow my directions ) just type exit to exit diskpart, and exit again out of CMD.
It is real simple and it is the way to erase, activate and format a sd card / micro SD card. I just did this on mine yesterday.
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MICRO SD CARD SPEEDS ON SAMSUNG GALAXY TAB S2......
As far as speeds go, my Samsung PRO+ 32 GB micro SD card class 10, U3, UHS-I is showing get speeds of:
Read 60
Write 30
Read 63
Write 35
Tests done on an empty card at home.
With the card used, 15 GB left, I'm showing, my results were
Read 61
Write 26.
Keep in mind my WiFi is cable, @ 60 down 7 up.
In BestBuy
I got
Read 60
Write 47
When I was in best buy complaining to Samsung, using there WiFi.
I bought a 64 GB micro SD card SanDisk ULTRA Plus, class 10, U1, UHS-I
The format out the box was, ( exFAT with a 16mb unallocated partition on the 64GB micro SD card.)
16mb of the space was not formatted and separate from the rest of the size. I'm not sure why? For self device cache? For ' alignment '?
I formatted using the above method. The entire space is now exFAT.
The card SanDisk ULTRA PLUS, came with exFAT format being 64gb.. the Samsung PRO+ 32GB was FAT32.
Results of the SanDisk ULTRA PLUS is,
Read 55
Write 15-18
The Samsung PRO+ is a Read 95, Write 90 card...4k video card.
The SanDisk ULTRA PLUS card is supposed to be 80/80 on bestbuy.com but on SanDisk website 80/40-50 (?) I forgot.
Either way, This testing get was done with the app suggested in the earlier posts in this thread and used the (full test) where you reboot the device. As mentioned.
I see a discrepancy in the test results differing from different WiFi. BestBuy's WiFi showed more Write in the public Store WiFi then my house.
I don't believe this app is fully correct, also, adds are running using the app, one can turn off the adds for "3 hrs". The fact the different Write speeds from location to location concerns me about this way of testing. No disrespect to the poster. I appreciate your input.
It is too bad I don't see a better app?
If anyone else would test, please use this app and the full test results. You have to change the settings of the app to show advanced test options or there is just one 'normal' test.
In my conclusion sofar, if you use the 'best', or 'most expensive ' card, your test scores ( Write speed ) will be more. A difference from SanDisk ULTRA PLUS Write 15, to Samsung PRO+ Write 30, is a difference for me to make a decision.
Currently prices (on sale at BestBuy )
SanDisk ULTRA PLUS 64GB= 24.99
Samsung PRO+ 64GB= 49.99
Double the price. FYI the SanDisk EXTREME PLUS 64GB is 49.99.
Why is it necessary to go through all that when all that is required is to right click, select format then choose exFAT?
Or let TWRP format it.
ashyx said:
Why is it necessary to go through all that when all that is required is to right click, select format then choose exFAT?
Or let TWRP format it.
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Wondered the same after posting exactly that directly above... partitioning via command line introduces too much potential for error when simply reformatting an entire disk to a single partition IMO.
Related
Windows couldn't format our delete the partition of my SD Cart after flashing with WP7. So I put the SD Card into my Camera (Canon EOS 450D) and formatting the SD Card. It wipe out the the partitions and format it as one partition
Please kan u give me link where to download wp7
jegze said:
Please kan u give me link where to download wp7
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Sorry but do you even read this forum? How do you get here and not see the 1000 threads on it. It takes a minute to look, man.
This solution worked for me.
Insert SD into USB reader
Insert USB reader into Windows Vista/7 PC
Select command prompt
Type DISKPART and press enter
Type List disks and press enter
Identify USB disk ID (usually the last in the list)
Type SELECT DISK x (replacing x with device id from above step). Press Enter
**** WARNING THE NEXT STEP WILL ERASE PARTITION INFORMATION FROM THE SELECTED DEVICE. CHOOSE THE DISK ID CAREFULLY****
Type CLEAN. Press Enter
Create new volume:
type CREATE VOL SIM, and press enter.
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But Creating a new Volume was only possible with "Create Partion Primary", not with "Create Volume Simple".
mokkami said:
This solution worked for me.
But Creating a new Volume was only possible with "Create Partion Primary", not with "Create Volume Simple".
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i guess I am complete newb. I entered diskpart into command but it didn't recognize. What am i doing wrong
i use this:
SD Formatter 2.0 for SD/SDHC
sorry no url. it's from sdcard dot org.
thanks for the website man great help
Using a camera worked fine for me.
Seems like most old devices will format it, tried one of my old Samsung phones, like the BT8190 or something lol. Did the job, and also tried my old nokia, but we all knew those worked.
U can use a camera or a old Nokia or ubuntu (gparted)
I try all those metods, and all works fine for me.
Card is CMMemory 8GB class 4
How to Format SD Card after the use of WP7 DFT(revised)
Im not a dev and not regular here.. but i do visit once in a day read download run.. once i posted here and my experience was bad .. may be im too dump among all u xda guys anyways i flashed my HTC HD2 with my very angry bros 2gb card in it..
then i read the post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=911369 ur sd card is RIP
i use to have an n-gage in late 2004.i encountered the same problem(NOT SD) i still have the card
so after that i found a way to fix my corrupted cards using google http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3/ so far its worked for me!!! oh one more thing i got a Chinese sd card NICE i got it when i brought a a china phone
on its front end it says : NICE 2GB micro SD . Back end SUT2GB08175
i flashed using this same card.. ..hard reset!! ON 1234 SCREEEN PLUS BOTH VOLUME BUTTOM.. now using 8GB HTC stock sdHc..
i am sorry if its doesnt work for u.. just trying to help may be i am wrong
My procedure
Memory Card Reader :1
SD card adapter : 1
Vista ultimate with service pack and all the xda drivers
SDFormatter V2.9.0.5: Installed
in SDFormatter: as to me Drive F:with ¥(a yen sign) /Then size lable volume lable/option/ format type:full erase on Format size Adjustment ON Then ok and format!!!!
Honestly its worked for me if its aint working for u dont eat me alive I AM SSSSSORRY
GOD HELP ME FROM EATEN ALIVE AND SORRY FOR MY BAD ENGLISH
You can also format it within wm 6.5... it takes just 1 or 1.5 min...
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Here works with a format with my Nikon camera.
All works.
rind9 said:
You can also format it within wm 6.5... it takes just 1 or 1.5 min...
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Thanks dude
ZyMet said:
Windows couldn't format our delete the partition of my SD Cart after flashing with WP7. So I put the SD Card into my Camera (Canon EOS 450D) and formatting the SD Card. It wipe out the the partitions and format it as one partition
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I'm confused....if you format it, does that mean you can't use WP7?
http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/sd/download/index.html
excellent formatting tool I used to reformat after some Wp7 exploration, also it optimises the sdhc card, great tool.
u can formatted using android
nganto said:
i use this:
SD Formatter 2.0 for SD/SDHC
sorry no url. it's from sdcard dot org.
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+1, this tool is the original sd format tool（free software） ， better than windows to format.
And U can use other partition tools.
the better way to format sd is using cardreader instead of using usb cable
Insert MicroSD into USB reader
Insert USB reader into Windows Vista/7 PC
Run Command prompt
1. Start and Run DiskPart
Type DISKPART and press enter
2. List all disks on system in DiskPart
Type List disks and press enter
3. Select and set target disk to use in Disk Part
select disk <number>
4. Create a partition with DiskPart
create partition primary
5. List all partitions in DiskPart
list partition
6. Select a partition to manage in DiskPart
select partiton <number>
7. Format a volume or partition in DiskPart
type Format.
symbian is the answer
just format it in any nokia symbian phone
Hi there, new to this forum so can't post to development forum although I searched there. I'm running Swiftdroid 1.8 / CM7 by Mur4ik on my GT540 and all works fine. The stock 2Gb SDcard that came with the phone is a bit small for my liking so I got myself a Kingston 8Gb class 4 SDHC. Unfortunately this card does not seem to be recognized by the phone, the following are the symptoms:
1. When inserting card and booting phone, mostly it gets stuck at LG boot screen.
2. Sometimes it does boot but then doesn't mount the SDcard. After boot I get a notification like "unknown filesystem on SDcard" (or similar), and do you want to format the SDcard? Yet if I try to format it using the phone, it doesn't work.
3. Checking with adb shell and "mount" I see that the SDcard is not actually mounted.
4. The card is recognized fine on a computer via USB under both Windows and linux, and I can transfer files.
5. When manually partitioning the SDcard (gparted under Ubuntu) to only contain a 4Gb partition formatted with FAT16, then it works fine and is recognized (remaining 4Gb unused). Unfortunately FAT16 is 4Gb max, so I can't format the whole card in a single FAT16 partition. Also at that size FAT16 is very space wasteful (65k cluster size) so that even a tiny file takes minimum 65k space.
6. However, when formatting this SAME partition (i.e. 4Gb) as FAT32 it is not recognized and I get the same errors as above with the single 8Gb FAT32 partition.
7. I tried reformatting the card with SD Formatter 3.0 from ---www dot sdcard dot org--- but it did not make a difference.
So it does not seem to be the card that's faulty. Has anyone else experience with using FAT32 formatted SDcards on Swiftdroid? From reading the forums this should be no problem and certainly the Linux kernel can recognize FAT32. Also there was a report of someone using a 32Gb SDHC with the GT540 although I'm not sure which firmware (stock or mod).
I haven't tried it with Stock LG 2.1 ROM but am very happy with Swiftdroid so don't want to go back to 2.1 just to get the SDcard working.
Have you formatted it as primary
Faulty SD card? ,I'm using a 8gb on swiftdroid
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I had a problem with mine too and did tons of research but mine is really death lol is other story. But tell you what first try with the best and leave small alternative fixes for later PS. I have many . Download disk parted is freeware and is a portable program no need to install. Is intuitive to use. It has a wiki if you don't know what to do with the app.
Last post, bed time!
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gizmo001i said:
Have you formatted it as primary
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Yeah sure, formatted as first primary partition.
aaa801 said:
Faulty SD card? ,I'm using a 8gb on swiftdroid
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Don't think the SD card is faulty as I can mount, format and read/write to it via usb on a computer running both Windows and Linux.
lavero.burgos said:
I had a problem with mine too and did tons of research but mine is really death lol is other story. But tell you what first try with the best and leave small alternative fixes for later PS. I have many . Download disk parted is freeware and is a portable program no need to install. Is intuitive to use. It has a wiki if you don't know what to do with the app.
Last post, bed time!
Sent from my GT540 using XDA App
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What is the "disk parted" software you are referring to? Can't seem to find it. Can you post a link? I've tried gparted, fdisk and cfdisk under Linux, as well as SD formatter 3.0 under Windows.
I have had similar problems after changing card, that I managed to resolved after rebuliding MBR of the card and reformating the card
Use Mini Partition Wizzard (Home Edition), delete existing partitions ,select disk and rebuild MBR, than do the format.
I hope that helps, I worked for me.
jrohwer said:
What is the "disk parted" software you are referring to? Can't seem to find it. Can you post a link? I've tried gparted, fdisk and cfdisk under Linux, as well as SD formatter 3.0 under Windows.
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Soooooooooooooooo soooooooooooooooo sorry my fault see i was sleepy and did not remember well the name the program is called TestDisk, here is the link:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download
ktmt said:
I have had similar problems after changing card, that I managed to resolved after rebuliding MBR of the card and reformating the card
Use Mini Partition Wizzard (Home Edition), delete existing partitions ,select disk and rebuild MBR, than do the format.
I hope that helps, I worked for me.
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Tried this, but it did not make a difference After trying to boot phone with newly formatted SD card, it just gets stuck at LG logo. When re-inserting the original 2Gb SD card it boots up just fine.
lavero.burgos said:
Soooooooooooooooo soooooooooooooooo sorry my fault see i was sleepy and did not remember well the name the program is called TestDisk, here is the link:
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OK, so I tried formatting the card with TestDisk (under Ubuntu linux) but again it did not help. Place freshly formatted FAT32 8Gb SDcard into phone, switch on, and it gets stuck at LG boot logo Insert original 2Gb card (FAT16) and it boots just fine....
The 8Gb card seems just fine as I can mount it under Windows and Linux, copy files, read files, etc. all normal.
So I'd be interested to hear about your many "small alternative fixes"
P.S. Also tried Mini Partition Wizard (following ktmt suggestion) under Windows, but did not work either.
SAME thing happened to me what i did is flashes some kdz files in hope to freshen up the phone and it worked for me
I think you will find that for a larger card, you really need at least a class 6 card so that the card doesn't cause a bottle neck. A class 4 card may be too slow for that size card. I have heard of a few people getting rid of any card problems they had by using a faster card.
Hi folks,
I`ve had the same problems with my sd-card on my GT540 ! (SanDisk 8GB SDHC)
So, try to solve it - the same way, I`ve solved it before !
No warranty ! And, please, do not blame me, if it will not work on your phone !
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Put the SD-CARD out of your PHONE and into an SD-CARD ADAPTER !
Plug it into your PC, make a BACKUP of all of your files !
Use GEDIT to erase all Partitions on your SD-CARD !
Create a new EXT2 Partion + Format it to EXT2 again !
Use GEDIT to erase all Partitions on your SD-CARD !
Create a new FAT32 Partition + Format it to FAT32 again !
Put the SD-CARD out of the ADAPTER and into your PHONE !
Start your PHONE, let it boot up + recognize + load your SD-CARD !
Try to make a PHOTO + to store it on your SD-CARD !
NO ERROR MESSAGES OCCURED UNTIL NOW ??? THEN EVERYTHING IS O.K: !!!
BE SURE, THAT YOU`VE INSTALLED THE LATEST CLOCKWORKMOD RECOVERY -
3.0.2.4 OR ABOVE + THE SWIFTDROID 2.3.3 V2.0 - BEFORE !!!
AND DO NOT USE WINDOWS7 TO TRY TO FORMAT YOUR SD-CARD - IT DOES NOT
WORK !!!
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ONLY TO YOUR INFORMATION : I`M USING SWIFTDROID 2.3.3 V2.0
– SINCE 21.04.2011 – WITHOUT ANY PROBLEMS
- AT A MINIMUM SPEED-RATE OF 122 MHZ
- AT A MAXIMUM SPEED-RATE OF 852 MHZ
PLEASE DO NOT TRY HIGHER SPEED-RATES - BECAUSE YOUR PHONE WILL GET
HOT AND UNSTABLE !
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AND YOU`LL BE ABLE TO DECREASE THE POWER CONSUMPTION OF YOUR PHONE
- BY SETTING :
- THE MINIMUM SPEED-RATE TO 122 MHZ
- THE MAXIMUM SPEED-RATE TO 600 MHZ ( THE LOWER = THE BETTER )
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A PERSONAL TIP : IF YOU`RE NORMALLY USING THE PHONE- FUNCTIONS - ONLY :
- SET THE MINIMUM SPEED-RATE TO 122 MHZ
- SET THE MAXIMUM SPEED-RATE TO 300 MHZ OR 400 MHZ
- AND IMPROVE THE MAXIMUM SPEED-RATE ON DEMAND - IF YOU NEED IT !
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AND : LEAVE A MESSAGE ON THIS BOARD
- IF MY TIP WAS HELPFUL TO SOLVE YOUR PROBLEM - OR NOT !
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maybe, it can also be a "pressure-error", because there are some people reporting, that they had to use a little piece of paper to get more pressure to the sd-card-retention.
gizmo001i said:
I think you will find that for a larger card, you really need at least a class 6 card so that the card doesn't cause a bottle neck. A class 4 card may be too slow for that size card. I have heard of a few people getting rid of any card problems they had by using a faster card.
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OK I'll try this, just need to get around to buying a class 6 card. I got similar advice on the Android Forums i.e. class 4 cards for large sizes (8Gb and up) being too slow for this phone.
I.me.myself said:
Hi folks,
I`ve had the same problems with my sd-card on my GT540 ! (SanDisk 8GB SDHC)
So, try to solve it - the same way, I`ve solved it before !
No warranty ! And, please, do not blame me, if it will not work on your phone !
........................................................................................................................................
Put the SD-CARD out of your PHONE and into an SD-CARD ADAPTER !
Plug it into your PC, make a BACKUP of all of your files !
Use GEDIT to erase all Partitions on your SD-CARD !
Create a new EXT2 Partion + Format it to EXT2 again !
Use GEDIT to erase all Partitions on your SD-CARD !
Create a new FAT32 Partition + Format it to FAT32 again !
Put the SD-CARD out of the ADAPTER and into your PHONE !
Start your PHONE, let it boot up + recognize + load your SD-CARD !
Try to make a PHOTO + to store it on your SD-CARD !
NO ERROR MESSAGES OCCURED UNTIL NOW ??? THEN EVERYTHING IS O.K: !!!
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This did not solve the problem, I think it's just the class 4 card being too slow.
I've similar problem. My brother and i have LG GT540. I've 16GB SD-Card and my brother has a 8 GB SD-Card.
In his phone 8 GB SD-Card doesn't work correctly but in my phone works fine. I didn't know what is damaged, his phone or SD-Card
In brother phone, SD-Card doesn't format correctly and after this process, phone won't mount SD-Card and i get notification that SD-card is empty or damaged ;/
I will trying my 16 GB SD-Card into brother phone.
Just pass by to remind you all guys the always unmount card properly b4 take it out cause it can get so corrupted and change to raw file system as me, then r.i.p to your sdcard
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lavero.burgos said:
Just pass by to remind you all guys the always unmount card properly b4 take it out cause it can get so corrupted and change to raw file system as me, then r.i.p to your sdcard
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When my SD card change to raw file system, i'm repairing her by EASEUS Partition Master
I am currently running CM7 on a 16gb microSD card and recently bought a 32gb card.
What is the best way to move the install to the new card without doing everything from scratch?
I assume it is possible to write an image of the 16gb card, write that image file to the 32gb card and then extend the last partition to use up the remaining free space but how would I do that exactly?
I tried to create the image using Win32DiskImager but the app froze (maybe because I was using Windows7 64bit OS?).
hramosnook said:
I am currently running CM7 on a 16gb microSD card and recently bought a 32gb card.
What is the best way to move the install to the new card without doing everything from scratch?
I assume it is possible to write an image of the 16gb card, write that image file to the 32gb card and then extend the last partition to use up the remaining free space but how would I do that exactly?
I tried to create the image using Win32DiskImager but the app froze (maybe because I was using Windows7 64bit OS?).
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Its not just windows, cuz i have the same setup. You might try a different version of win32DiskImager, and make sure every windows explorer window is closed.
Also ive heard that it becomes less stable (is that the right word???) What happens is that the random read/write speeds become kinda wonky... but its worth a try
I hope this helps
I have been using USB Image Tool to clone my microSD cards.
http://www.alexpage.de/usb-image-tool/
It seems to be more stable than Win32DiskImager.
In order to grow the 16GB partition to fill the new 32GB card I would use Gparted or Parted Magic.
If you have the capability to load 2 sd cards (since my bult in only accepts one card at a time, I use a USB card reader for the second card) I recommend using easus todo bacup software (free) and just copy from one card to the other.
The advantage to this is that you never run into image sizeing problems and you can extend the extra space to full size right in this application.
Hope this helps.
thanks for that...
martian21 said:
I have been using USB Image Tool to clone my microSD cards.
http://www.alexpage.de/usb-image-tool/
It seems to be more stable than Win32DiskImager.
In order to grow the 16GB partition to fill the new 32GB card I would use Gparted or Parted Magic.
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I've just been searching for a good way to clone for backup, and had found that tool (tab to that page open as I write). So thanks for the confirmation that that tool works. I'll give it a shot.
Win32DiskImager doesn't want to work at all - it reads and writes the image up to a max of 4gb. It says it is still reading and writing, but the image file never goes beyond 4gb. (and no, my file system is not fat32 - it is NTFS).
For backup purposes, it would be nice to have a way of making an img file that is compacted, instead of the full size of the card.
Any ideas?
martian21 said:
I have been using USB Image Tool to clone my microSD cards.
http://www.alexpage.de/usb-image-tool/
It seems to be more stable than Win32DiskImager.
In order to grow the 16GB partition to fill the new 32GB card I would use Gparted or Parted Magic.
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That utility is only seeing the fat32 boot partition
how do I backup/restore all partitions?
note: I can only see the boot partition in Windows but I can see all partitions using Ubuntu
legoverse said:
I've just been searching for a good way to clone for backup, and had found that tool (tab to that page open as I write). So thanks for the confirmation that that tool works. I'll give it a shot.
Win32DiskImager doesn't want to work at all - it reads and writes the image up to a max of 4gb. It says it is still reading and writing, but the image file never goes beyond 4gb. (and no, my file system is not fat32 - it is NTFS).
For backup purposes, it would be nice to have a way of making an img file that is compacted, instead of the full size of the card.
Any ideas?
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you need version 0.1 of win32diskmanager..its only version that i could get to work to restore images. I also used it to make a image of my data partition. Hooked up nook to system used nook color tools USB connection wizard. had both boot partition and data partition visible in win7. Then I made an image o the data partition. Not sure if this is best way to do it but it worked.
martian21 said:
I have been using USB Image Tool to clone my microSD cards.
http://www.alexpage.de/usb-image-tool/
It seems to be more stable than Win32DiskImager.
In order to grow the 16GB partition to fill the new 32GB card I would use Gparted or Parted Magic.
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That was a bit of work...
I did use the USB image tool to clone the drive...
...I did have to close windows explorer to write the data to the new drive (unable to access errors)
Once I wrote the image, I attempted to resize it.
Windows wouldn't do it with native apps or a free partition editor...
Gparted wouldn't do it because the file name "CM7 SDCARD" has a space that gives linux a headache.
So I had to load it up on the windows machine to remove the space from the label...it still wouldn't resize the partition, so back to Ubuntu and Gparted.
That time it worked, and then still in Gparted I made the name CM7 SDCARD again.
Nook is happy, I am happy.
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So I had to load it up on the windows machine to remove the space from the label...it still wouldn't resize the partition, so back to Ubuntu and Gparted.
That time it worked, and then still in Gparted I made the name CM7 SDCARD again.
Nook is happy, I am happy.
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Linux rocks...I wish Windows would just go away.
Hi,
if you have the Huawei U8800 Pro (alias Ideos X5 Pro or U8800+) please try if your smartphone is affected by the sdcard mount bug.
Be sure that you have disabled the "Fast boot" on Settings->Applications->Fast boot (needs to be unchecked).
Then shutdown your U8800Pro and powen on.
Question: Is your sdcard (the external one microsd) correctly mounted? Can you see its content?
If you want your smartphone reads again your sdcard, you need to Reboot and magically Android mounts correctly your external microsd.
Please vote the poll upon this thread!
Regards,
kalo86
While it's unlikely I'll be able to help (the kernel patches I've written in the past have been basic), you should run "dmesg" right after it happens and paste the log here
Thanks qwerty12,
I'm going to post the result.
Be right back,
regards
This is the output of "dmesg": http://pastebin.com/GBWnecwJ
Please try more than one time because the bug is not "regular", it is a sort of random.
But in most cases, about 90%, every power on (after a full shutdown) the external sdcard is not correctly mounted and sometimes Android adverts me in the status bar that the file system is unknown.
Regards
I have 3 different microsd cards:
- Transcend 1GB (no class on the sdcard but > 4);
- Sandisk 4GB class 2;
- Sandisk 16GB class 4.
I have this bug with Sandisk sdcards and NOT with the Transcend one.
I am understanding that our Huawei U8800 Pro wants fast sdcards and my theory is confirmed by several tests.
The Transcend sdcard is the most fast among my sdcards (anyway I don't know the class because it's now written on the sdcard) and I proved its performance with a benchmark software. Its performance are better than Sandisk class 4, then its class is maybe 6.
Regards
Maybe a solution?
Hello dear Forum users,
I finally tried a new way for fixing the sdcard mounting problem.
I am used to format sdcard or any king of external drive with the built in format-tool of Windows 7 x64.
Anyway today I tried a new format tool (of course a new format tool for me ), developed by Panasonic, this is the download link:
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/sdfmt3_1.zip
I formatted my sdcard with this software and magically the external sdcard is always correctly mounted!
Hoping to help other user,
best regards,
kalo86
Too good to be true i tried this method, has no effect at all..i have tried 2 different cards, class 4 and 6, i guess this bug lives in base huawei 2.3 code.. lets wait for new release from Huawei next week and hope this issue to be fixed.
kalo86 said:
Hello dear Forum users,
I finally tried a new way for fixing the sdcard mounting problem.
I am used to format sdcard or any king of external drive with the built in format-tool of Windows 7 x64.
Anyway today I tried a new format tool (of course a new format tool for me ), developed by Panasonic, this is the download link:
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/sdfmt3_1.zip
I formatted my sdcard with this software and magically the external sdcard is always correctly mounted!
Hoping to help other user,
best regards,
kalo86
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Oh, I'm very sorry to hear this
Anyway I changed something on the init.rc file (on the ramdisk of the kernel), so I don't know if the solution is a combination of the init.rc and sd-format tool. What I know is that my combination solved my drastic problem. Watching the status of the poll I have to say that there is for sure a problem on the huawei 2.3.5 base, yes, you're right.
If you want you can try my boot.img, based on genokolar kernel but I deleted lots of script, it's very "light" and like the stock one, except for the root rights.
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Download any Linux distribution and open a virtual terminal or terminal. Then do next things on bash:
1. Log in as root with su program by typing "su" and give root password (check distributor help page what is root in Live mode if using such).
2. Use dmesg and tail programs to get device information by typing
"dmesg | tail"
3. Physically connect your MicroSD card to reader
4. Re-use dmesg and tail programs to get device information of connected MicroSD by typing
"dmesg | tail"
5. Read what device was connected (Example /dev/sdb (! Not /dev/sdb1 or anything else number, just /dev/sdX)) from the output what dmesg program gave you when connected the MicroSD card
6. Overwrite whole card with full of zeroes with dd program and zero generator by typing
"dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX"
!!! IT WILL DESTROY ALL DATA ON CARD AND PARTITION TABLE !!!
and just wait that dd program write the whole card full of zeroes. of= means "Output File" and if= means "Input File". Be very careful that you have correct MicroSD card targeted (of=).
7. After you have cleared the whole card, eject it from card reader and re-insert it.
8. Re-use dmesg and tail programs to confirm the same device file is used
9. use fdisk program to create a new partitions and partition table to the card by typing
"fdisk /dev/sdX"
and press m for help. You need to create a new primary partition (n) and then write it to disk and quit (w). You can print already existing partitions with p as Print.
10. Eject the card and re-insert it
11. Use again dmesg and tail program to confirm new device files and partitions (Example, now there should be /dev/sdb, /dev/sdb1 if created one partition)
12. Generate a filesystem on created partitions and write them to partition table with filesystem tools (fat32 filesystem usually is wanted) by using mkfs.vfat program.
Type "mkfs.vfat /dev/sdX1"
13. Eject and re-insert the card
It should now be working again, with FAT32 partition on it.
P.S You can skip 7-13 parts if you want to do partitions on Windows, I always do it on Unix because Windows might get things still wrong but after the partition table is re-created on Unix, it works on Windows as well.
I have fixed dozens of "broken" cards and sticks by this way.
If you can not get your card listed with dmesg program then that card is physically broken, NAND chip is gone gaga or your card reader is broken as computer does not even recognize the card at all.
Hi Fri13,
Thank you for your post but I have to say that my sdcard (the latest one) was a new one and I bought a new sdcard because I thought that my previous sdcard was broken.
A new sdcard cannot get the same problem.
This is a bug!
Hi
I was gonne try formatting the SD card with the program you recommended and changing the boot.img. But if i use youre boot.img does that mean i cant use a custom ROM? Just before i got the problem i was thinking about using one.... Now to the formatting program xD it is 3 options i can choose between in the program which one is the one that im supposed to use? i can choose between: Quick, Full (Erase) and Full (Overwrite). Which one is it?
theminikiller said:
Hi
I was gonne try formatting the SD card with the program you recommended and changing the boot.img. But if i use youre boot.img does that mean i cant use a custom ROM? Just before i got the problem i was thinking about using one.... Now to the formatting program xD it is 3 options i can choose between in the program which one is the one that im supposed to use? i can choose between: Quick, Full (Erase) and Full (Overwrite). Which one is it?
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Hi theminikiller,
If I'm not wrong you have the U8800 which has a different boot.img (kernel of U8800 pro version).
Then you can only try formatting the external sdcard.
Open SDFormatter;
Click on Option;
Format type ---> Quick
Format Size Adjustment ---> ON
I used these settings.
Regards,
kalo86
I tryed to format my sd-card but after i formatted it, copyed back everything i had on it and put it back in my phone it tells me up in the notification bar that the SD-card is damaged. Shouldnt i have copyed back the things i had on it before? or was it something else that went wrong?
I am having a lot of trouble trying to partition my SD card so my HTC HD2 has more internal storage for this rom. I succeeded in partitioning it. My Sd card has 'lost' 1 GB.
I used this guide:
Guide On How To Create EXT Partition:
Power on your HD2 and don’t let go of the power button.
DFT MAGLDR Bootloader will then be loaded.
Use volume down button to scroll down to 8th option (8. AD Recovery). And press call button to select it.
ClockworkMod Recovery will then be loaded.
Use volume down button to scroll down to “advanced” and press call button to select it.
Scroll to “Partition SD Card” and press call button to select it.
Then, choose EXT Size = 1024M, then Swap Size = 0M (This ext partition will be used by App2SD to extend your phone internal memory.)
After the process is completed, press back button to return to ClockworkMod main menu.
Select “reboot system now“.
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I tried it a second time, but now my 16GB SD card is down to 13GB and the partitions are invisible on my PC and on my phone. My SD card has now lost '2GB'.
I think I am missing some information to get this to work.
Normally I understand everything I read on XDA, but now I am stumped.
Please help me, this is the first time I really don't understand what I have done and what has gone wrong
Setup of choice = EU HTC HD2, Maldr1.13, CWM150, HyperDroid-CM7-Observant-Opossum -v5.9.0-cLK-magldr-signed.zip
Use Easus Partition manager on order to see all of your partitions then just resize as necesaary
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The partitions are as they are supposed too. One 15GB, one 1 GB.
And now? How does my phone recognize the App2SD Partition?
You want to know how your phone recognizes the ext partitions? well, no offense but that is none of your business. (jk )
If you want to know how it actually works, that is another long story.
As mentioned earlier by Nigel, Use EaseUs Partition Manager to see/edit the partitions.
And your sd card didn't lose 1GB, that 1GB simply became a partition in a format that is not visible to Windows. But it is there !
Edit:
As an elaboration to my previous post:
You don't need to know how to make it work, Hyperdroid uses an a2sd script (by default) so as soon as it detects one during installation it will be used.
All what you have to do is make the partition, and let the ROM do its job.
So in short; It's already working, but I am to stupid to see it?
I have reflashed, so it should be working. Awesome!
Those cookers keep blowin' my mind with their techie-godlike-powers!
I'm using App2SD now with this rom and the rom is not as stable as it used to be. Did I do something wrong or should I reflash?
"not as stable as it used to be" ?
I've been with HyperDroid since the sd versions. Never had any problems with a2sd, the ROM is always stable, fast & smooth.
Oh I think I might know why, did you actually check the size of your SD card before partitioning? A 16GB SD card has an actual capacity of 14.8GB which would explain why it looks like 13GB is left. Either that, or the one I was sold is a ripoff
EDIT: just saw marvlesz's post and he uses bigger words so he's probably right
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA
Nigeldg said:
Oh I think I might know why, did you actually check the size of your SD card before partitioning? A 16GB SD card has an actual capacity of 14.8GB which would explain why it looks like 13GB is left. Either that, or the one I was sold is a ripoff
EDIT: just saw marvlesz's post and he uses bigger words so he's probably right
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA
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bigger words? lolwut? you mean Like this?
No, you are correct. Most storage devices show less than the advertised capacity, you weren't sold a ripoff.
Usually it's like this :
4GB will show 3.73
8GB will show 7.45
16GB will show 14.9
32GB will show 29.8
even my 500GB HDD shows only 465
And so on ...
And I wasn't talking about the lost 1GB from 16 to 15, but from 15 to 14 (13.8) .
Because I thought he had already knew about the actual size of his sd.
Be lit, here : http://compreviews.about.com/od/storage/a/ActualHDSizes.htm
Lol I realise now that I knew pretty much all of that already, but I'm on holiday and my brain is taking a while to kick in The Vatican is mindblowing
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA
I forgot to mention that everything is al right. I am very pleased with Hyperdriod App2SD implementation.
It was the first time I tried this, so of course there would be some start-up issues. After trying a few times, I am happy as ever!
Problem with SD Card Capacity
Maybe it has been mentioned before.
But if you feel uncomfortable with the Formatted capacity of your SD card,
download SDFormatter 3.1 (free)
(I cannot insert a link (yet) so you have to google it)
BACKUP YOUR DATA FIRST, YOUR SDCARD WILL BE WIPED CLEAN!
Then insert your SDCard in your PC using a sleeve (comes free with most micro SD cards)
And choose in SDFormatter: QUICK FORMAT, SIZE ADJUSTMENT ON
This should restore your SD Card to its full capacity (and format)
Then re-insert the Card in your phone and try the Partion SD Card again.
Worked fine for my 2 HD2's