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I thought this might be useful to anyone else in my situation. I had apps2sd installed on the stock 4GB card but purchased a larger class 6 card and wanted to seamlessly switch over without reinstalling all my apps and have my application data work correctly etc. I couldn't find a straightforward guide online so I gave it my best educated shot and it worked for me. If you got apps2sd working then you should be familiar with the partitioning etc.
I got it to work upgrading using the following steps:
1. Nandroid +ext backup!
2. Copied all files/folders from old (stock) card onto folder in computer using a card reader (apps2sd and linux swap partitions aren't visible but are included in the nandroid ext backup) (Put aside old/stock card with all original data and partitions just in case the rest doesn't work)
3. Inserted new card into phone and booted into 1.6.2 recovery (go Carebear!)
4. Partioned new card. (I actually changed the partition size from previous setup so it shouldn't matter as it worked fine for me. Made 32MB linux swap and 512MB ext2 and the remainder FAT32)
5. Upgraded ext2 partition to ext3. Shut down.
6. Removed new card from phone, insert into card reader and copy all files from folder backup of old card onto the FAT32 partition of the new card.
7. Insert new card back into phone. Boot to recovery again and do a Nandroid restore of your +ext backup and VOILA!! It boot looped once but after second boot it has been running flawlessly with all apps installed on ext3 partition and all original data in place etc.
Hope this helps anyone confused, as I sure was. It really was much simpler than I thought it would be.
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I thought this might be useful to anyone else in my situation. I had apps2sd installed on the stock 4GB card but purchased a larger class 6 card and wanted to seamlessly switch over without reinstalling all my apps and have my application data work correctly etc. I couldn't find a straightforward guide online so I gave it my best educated shot and it worked for me. If you got apps2sd working then you should be familiar with the partitioning etc.
I got it to work upgrading using the following steps:
1. Nandroid +ext backup!
2. Copied all files/folders from old (stock) card onto folder in computer using a card reader (apps2sd and linux swap partitions aren't visible but are included in the nandroid ext backup) (Put aside old/stock card with all original data and partitions just in case the rest doesn't work)
3. Inserted new card into phone and booted into 1.6.2 recovery (go Carebear!)
4. Partioned new card. (I actually changed the partition size from previous setup so it shouldn't matter as it worked fine for me. Made 32MB linux swap and 512MB ext2 and the remainder FAT32)
5. Upgraded ext2 partition to ext3. Shut down.
6. Removed new card from phone, insert into card reader and copy all files from folder backup of old card onto the FAT32 partition of the new card.
7. Insert new card back into phone. Boot to recovery again and do a Nandroid restore of your +ext backup and VOILA!! It boot looped once but after second boot it has been running flawlessly with all apps installed on ext3 partition and all original data in place etc.
Hope this helps anyone confused, as I sure was. It really was much simpler than I thought it would be.
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Thanks for the procedure, that will be very useful!
I'll also take this chance to ask you how were apps2sd performing with the stock 4Gb SD? this is the one thing that's keeping me from going the apps2sd way, not knowing if the stock card is too slow for it to work correctly.
danimar1 said:
Thanks for the procedure, that will be very useful!
I'll also take this chance to ask you how were apps2sd performing with the stock 4Gb SD? this is the one thing that's keeping me from going the apps2sd way, not knowing if the stock card is too slow for it to work correctly.
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Honestly, I didn't notice ANY difference in performance once I got it set up correctly. I have a class 6 card now but really, they seemed to run perfect on the stock class 2.
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Honestly, I didn't notice ANY difference in performance once I got it set up correctly. I have a class 6 card now but really, they seemed to run perfect on the stock class 2.
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The real difference between a class2 and a class6 has to do with the swap, not so much a2sd, although the apps may load a little faster(nominal difference)... it really is all about the swap, and being able to write and read it faster.
On a G1, with 96MBs of swap, and most of a Hero ROMs RAM being on the swap partition, it was a huge difference, very noticeable, with the N1, very little will ever end up on the swap, and mostly is there to make it so that you can open a few more apps.
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The real difference between a class2 and a class6 has to do with the swap, not so much a2sd, although the apps may load a little faster(nominal difference)... it really is all about the swap, and being able to write and read it faster.
On a G1, with 96MBs of swap, and most of a Hero ROMs RAM being on the swap partition, it was a huge difference, very noticeable, with the N1, very little will ever end up on the swap, and mostly is there to make it so that you can open a few more apps.
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What do you recommend for size with the swap partition on an N1? I just went with the default 32MBs. Will I see any increase in performance by increasing that?
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What do you recommend for size with the swap partition on an N1? I just went with the default 32MBs. Will I see any increase in performance by increasing that?
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It is all about preference... with the N1 there really is little to no need for a swap. If you use it, yes the developer recommended 32 is probably best.
But this phone has so much RAM, that swap isn't really needed at all. The whole idea behind the swap partitions was so we could boot a larger ROM than the stock phone could handle, ie a Hero ROM on a G1.
None the less, there are some small benefits gained with swap used with one of the Desire ROMs... for me, I don't use enough different apps to really see those benefits, but others that use tons of apps will see the added RAM.
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It is all about preference... with the N1 there really is little to no need for a swap. If you use it, yes the developer recommended 32 is probably best.
But this phone has so much RAM, that swap isn't really needed at all. The whole idea behind the swap partitions was so we could boot a larger ROM than the stock phone could handle, ie a Hero ROM on a G1.
None the less, there are some small benefits gained with swap used with one of the Desire ROMs... for me, I don't use enough different apps to really see those benefits, but others that use tons of apps will see the added RAM.
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Thanks! I have a lot of apps installed but I'm rarely using a lot of them simultaneously so I guess no need to worry about it. I mean, this thing frickin' FLIES as I have it set up now!!
Th weirdest thing happening on my Vibrant with Eugene R2 rom.
When I put a microSD in the slot, it can not use it past 2.19 gb (like if it was a corrupted card), but when I use the same card in my TP2 or in the SD card reader of my laptop, everything is fine. I first noticed this when I was copying over all my files and I kept getting the same errors I have had with fake cards in the past, so I tried my old faithful 8gb and sure enough, when I plug my vibrant as a USB drive, I can not navigate most folders and runing the checkdisk gives me hundreds of corruption errors. When I try to format, it tells me the max is 2.19 gb. When I take the same card (which had always been fine) and put it in the sd card reader, everything is back to normal, including attempting to format (it gives the proper size). My vibrant is doing this with all cards I have tried up till now.
Any clues?
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Did you ever run an older ULF kernel at some point? Are you running one now?
I had similar issues with both my SD card *and* the internal SD, which was causing all sorts of random system glitchiness. In my case, I suspected that this was due to the problems in early ULF kernels that caused filesystem corruption. I ended up using Heimdall (you'd use Odin if you're on Windows) to restore an official Samsung firmware, then I reformatted both SD cards, and from then on everything was fine.
There's probably a less drastic approach to be taken, but restoring to stock from Odin/Heimdall is a pretty surefire way to get rid of all the gremlins.
Incidentally, it was at that point that I decided to stop flashing anything except official or leaked Samsung ROMs until CM gets released. The price for being an early adopter is just too high
I am not sure what ULF kernels are, but all I have had is stock, then Eugene, then I did a restore to my stock backup (that screwed thigns up) so I reflashed eugene. I don't know how to use odin\can't figure out what files i should use.
julienrl said:
Th weirdest thing happening on my Vibrant with Eugene R2 rom.
When I put a microSD in the slot, it can not use it past 2.19 gb (like if it was a corrupted card), but when I use the same card in my TP2 or in the SD card reader of my laptop, everything is fine. I first noticed this when I was copying over all my files and I kept getting the same errors I have had with fake cards in the past, so I tried my old faithful 8gb and sure enough, when I plug my vibrant as a USB drive, I can not navigate most folders and runing the checkdisk gives me hundreds of corruption errors. When I try to format, it tells me the max is 2.19 gb. When I take the same card (which had always been fine) and put it in the sd card reader, everything is back to normal, including attempting to format (it gives the proper size). My vibrant is doing this with all cards I have tried up till now.
Any clues?
Thanks
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Julie, I had this same problem with both this ROM, and my proceeding one, ASOPish; as have many, many others!
I too have been wanting a fix, but have not come across one. Because I am able install data onto my micro sd card via the adapter this is what I have resigned to doing. There was a mounting fix posted last month some time, but it didn't work for me, though others state that it did for them.
Sorry I couldn't give you a more workable solution, but at least, for me, this way does work.
FYI I had this problem until nero V3
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Having micro sd issues also. I tried moving some music and pics from the internal sd. It put the names but 0 data. I erase them and they come back. I reformatted the 8gb card it said 8gb free. I go back to the gallery or music player and they are all back. Check the sd with a file manager and thete they are.
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FYI I had this problem until nero V3
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hum... anyone else with this problem fix it by using nero v3?
This is happening on all 2.2 roms.
One issue was fixed, where the internal and external cards were being read opposite to what there were ..., but the issue of reading external sd above 2gigs is still there ...
If I remember correctly, this was the issue when 2.2 was released for the N1 .... they forgot to re-add support for sdhc cards... that's why they pushed 2.2.1.......
My SD card access has gotten EXTREMELY slow. I'm running CM7 nightlies, with DT A2SD 2.7.5.2. For some reason lately, writing files to my SD has slowed to a crawl, and it seems to be getting slower and slower. Copying an ~80MB ROM to my SD can take 5-10 minutes.
Is there anything I can do short of re-formatting the card? That would be a big PITA.
There is an issue with .37 kernels that cause this.
Sure enough, I'm running redstar's kernal which is a .37 version.
I get around by just mounting from recovery.
That's fine for flashing, but it doesn't help with moving large media on and off the SD card.
Sure it does. You get full SD access in recovery, no different from mounting via the notification bar.
And recovery uses a different kernel i believe. (.35.7 ?)
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Yeah, that's why it works.
Hi.
I've got the 37.2 kernel for cyanogenmod 7 RC2 and got the same problem. Is there any other kernel that is supported and will increase the speeds?
Got that same issue in recovery :S
Regards
Kevin.
hello, i have my s4 snapdragon version from a month now,i tried lots of differents rom to get rid of lag, but even in the smoothest or lightest rom, there is always a low framerate or microlag in the animation of closing and opening apps, i come from nexus 4 and xiaomi m2s, but i dont know really what is the cause of this,anyone got any idea? disabling hardware overlay helps a bit, but battery goes down very quickly,i hate this animation low framerate
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hello, i have my s4 snapdragon version from a month now,i tried lots of differents rom to get rid of lag, but even in the smoothest or lightest rom, there is always a low framerate or microlag in the animation of closing and opening apps, i come from nexus 4 and xiaomi m2s, but i dont know really what is the cause of this,anyone got any idea? disabling hardware overlay helps a bit, but battery goes down very quickly,i hate this animation low framerate
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Did you try changing the animation/window/transition speeds in the developer settings? Usually makes a good difference for me. I removed a lot of bloat in /system or you could disable any apps that you don't use to stop extra things running in the background. I also installed greenify to hiberate apps after they are used to stop them using resources.
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Did you try changing the animation/window/transition speeds in the developer settings? Usually makes a good difference for me. I removed a lot of bloat in /system or you could disable any apps that you don't use to stop extra things running in the background. I also installed greenify to hiberate apps after they are used to stop them using resources.
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yes, i tried, but i dont like fast animation, i like the normale animations, usually low framerate appears when i unlock the device, now im on crdroid aosp, and im going to try slim rom to see if changes something.... but i dont know what is this microlag, because with nexus and xiaomi all was smooth and fluid, with s4 is fast the same as nexus and xiaomi but no more smooth on animations
edit: i found the proble: it is the micro sd, when i put off micro sd and i use phone without it it's really fast and smooth, so what am i suppose to do now? change baseband?
fedef12evo said:
yes, i tried, but i dont like fast animation, i like the normale animations, usually low framerate appears when i unlock the device, now im on crdroid aosp, and im going to try slim rom to see if changes something.... but i dont know what is this microlag, because with nexus and xiaomi all was smooth and fluid, with s4 is fast the same as nexus and xiaomi but no more smooth on animations
edit: i found the proble: it is the micro sd, when i put off micro sd and i use phone without it it's really fast and smooth, so what am i suppose to do now? change baseband?
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Interesting, what about reformatting the sd card on a PC to see if that helps in case its corrupted or clogged with older data? Just copy the files you want to keep to PC and copy back again once formatted.
i just reboot phone and put in sd again, now the micro lag it's very little than before, but when i open gallery, it happens, i read somewhere that some kernels have problem with mga baseband about micro sd lag, so i dont know if it's bettere to flash a new modem or format sd
fedef12evo said:
i just reboot phone and put in sd again, now the micro lag it's very little than before, but when i open gallery, it happens, i read somewhere that some kernels have problem with mga baseband about micro sd lag, so i dont know if it's bettere to flash a new modem or format sd
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What size is your sd card? I'm currently on MGA after updating using a stock rooted ROM via Odin, Ive got a 32Gb sd card and to be honest everything runs very smoothly. I've got plenty of widgets on my homescreen as well but swiping and app transitions remain smooth. I notice there is a small delay when opening the gallery app, nothing serious but just slightly more than other apps, though when it opens its responsive enough. I would try formatting the sd card first to see if that helps.
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What size is your sd card? I'm currently on MGA after updating using a stock rooted ROM via Odin, Ive got a 32Gb sd card and to be honest everything runs very smoothly. I've got plenty of widgets on my homescreen as well but swiping and app transitions remain smooth. I notice there is a small delay when opening the gallery app, nothing serious but just slightly more than other apps, though when it opens its responsive enough. I would try formatting the sd card first to see if that helps.
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my sd card is 16 gb, i saw that it is formatted in fat32, yes with stock rom the problem doesnt exist (is what i read) but with aosp roms the problem is here, because they dont have support for exfat, but if my sd is formatted in fat32, what type i should format? ntfs? or it's better to change modem with odin?
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my sd card is 16 gb, i saw that it is formatted in fat32, yes with stock rom the problem doesnt exist (is what i read) but with aosp roms the problem is here, because they dont have support for exfat, but if my sd is formatted in fat32, what type i should format? ntfs? or it's better to change modem with odin?
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Have you tried the ROM below?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2348272
One of the changes on 08/08 was 'New Google Stock kernel with ExFat support'
gsmyth said:
Have you tried the ROM below?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2348272
One of the changes on 08/08 was 'New Google Stock kernel with ExFat support'
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i dont like google edition rom, i think is not problem of sd card, but something that creates problem with sd card, im trying to find again where i read the problem of the baseband mga with some kernel
i just formatted my micro sd and again it slows down all phone, then i put it out reboot and phone flies... what can i do?
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i just formatted my micro sd and again it slows down all phone, then i put it out reboot and phone flies... what can i do?
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I'm not sure sorry, other than testing with a different sd card to see how that goes? I had a look but can't find anything mentioning baseband and sd issues.
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I'm not sure sorry, other than testing with a different sd card to see how that goes? I had a look but can't find anything mentioning baseband and sd issues.
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yes, im gonna try another sd card to try
i tried different sd card, and i observed that if without sd card, it is doing microlag it's not the micro sd, i dont know what can be
fedef12evo said:
i tried different sd card, and i observed that if without sd card, it is doing microlag it's not the micro sd, i dont know what can be
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Afraid I'm out of ideas my friend, unless anyone else wants to chip in here? How making a video to demo it with and without sd card?
What about returning under warranty? Could be just faulty hardware?
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hello , yesterday i flashed a touchwiz based rom, and now all is really really smooth and fast.. so i think that the problem are aosp based roms that are slower than touchwiz based.... hard to believe for me, but it's right
fedef12evo said:
hello , yesterday i flashed a touchwiz based rom, and now all is really really smooth and fast.. so i think that the problem are aosp based roms that are slower than touchwiz based.... hard to believe for me, but it's right
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Very strange, I always seem to read people commenting how fast the aosp ROMs are! My own ROM is a rooted stock touchwiz and the speed is generally fine. Which ROM did you go for then?
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Very strange, I always seem to read people commenting how fast the aosp ROMs are! My own ROM is a rooted stock touchwiz and the speed is generally fine. Which ROM did you go for then?
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i flashed blackbox and all was fast,i dont know why but a lot of aosp roms are not smooth on animations, now i m using 4.3 google edition and it's very fast and smooth
Hi, I recently stumbled upon an unpleasant issue. I got xt1562 (stock 6.0.1 EU, no root, no cwm) and sandisk ultra 64gb. Sometimes (I fail to identify the source of issue) the memory card just disappears and the phone doesn't see it. Since the card is formatted as internal, i cannot take even pictures or download anything via browser. SolidExplorer doesn't see it in the list of storage as well. Restarting the phone or replugging the tray helps for an uncertain amount of time, the card becomes visible and then disappears again. I looked for obvious answers, but it is something special (not mentioned here or in google to my best knowledge).
Does anyone know how to solve the issue? I would appreciate any comments as well.
Thanks.
I had this same problem, but it solved by itself.
for this particular reason I stopped using the memory card as internal storage.
pijes said:
for this particular reason I stopped using the memory card as internal storage.
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Seems your solutions is the easiest. Thanks
pijes said:
for this particular reason I stopped using the memory card as internal storage.
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I'm already using sdCard as a portable storage & this issue still persists.
I have upgraded my sdcard as well from 16GB Sandisk Ultra Class-10 to 32GB Ultra UHS-1
but in couple of days sdcard disappears & after that i have to restart my phone to make my card accessible to gallery
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I'm already using sdCard as a portable storage & this issue still persists.
I have upgraded my sdcard as well from 16GB Sandisk Ultra Class-10 to 32GB Ultra UHS-1
but in couple of days sdcard disappears & after that i have to restart my phone to make my card accessible to gallery
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I had the same disappearing issues before but since I did a slow format in Windows, the problem seems to go away. Never had any disconnect or disappearing issues again until now.
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I'm getting exactly the same issue. I'm using a 128gb card formatted as portable storage (exFAT ). I know when the issue starts because taking a picture with the stock camera app causes it to crash, and spotify complains about there being no access to storage. The card is being detected by other apps and Androids built in file explorer. I have to restart the device to cure the issue.
I have the same issue since updating from 6.0 stock to 6.0.1 stock.
What changed? There must be a reason for this behaviour.
Same issue here too after updating to 6.0.1 ota. Have to restart for it to fix itself. I'm beginning to think it might be linked with charging but not certain yet.
Searching the net it seems that Samsung users are on 6.0.1 are having the same issues. Google must be aware by now.
I fixed it with a different kernel.
Phoenix --> permanent dismounts
Optimus --> works
apokolok said:
I fixed it with a different kernel.
Phoenix --> permanent dismounts
Optimus --> works
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What is the stock Kernel for 6.0.1??
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What is the stock Kernel for 6.0.1??
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Well, stock ist stock.
After updating to 6.0.1 I had no dismounts with stock kernel, but I didn't use it very long.
I flashed Phoenix kernel which resulted in lots of dismounts, this was fixed by Optimus Kernel for me.
I used to be have the same problem with a Sandisk Ultra 128GB.
I need to backup all files in windows and format it to back to normal.
This problem appears every 30-40 days after formatted.
The problem was finally solved by buying a new sd card (samsung pro).
Well, I was too fast reporting it fixed.
I still get unmounts. Not that often but it ain't fixed.
Never had a single unmount with 6.0.
Actually thinking of going back as this sucks balls.
apokolok said:
Well, I was too fast reporting it fixed.
I still get unmounts. Not that often but it ain't fixed.
Never had a single unmount with 6.0.
Actually thinking of going back as this sucks balls.
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I tried formatting my card back to exFAT. The dismounts were as much as every 10 minutes. I have now formatted the card back to FAT32, of which i had more stability, but this time I have started fresh with a completely empty card. Formatted in gparted then straight into the Moto. See how this goes.!!
Me too had similar issue after the latest ota update.
Everytime When I connect phn to PC via cable SD card disappears. SD card will not show in PC and phn. I need to restart phn to get it back. I'm using SD card as portable.
1st I formated the phn. But still the problem occurs
2nd I formated SD through PC. Result was successful. Now the card is OK not disappears while connecting to pc
This is the exact same issue I had since stock lollipop. I updated it to 6.0 since I though that this was the reason, It worked for half a day before it stopped and even on 6.1 it doesn't work.
For the record I also have Sandisk 128 gbs class 10. The only message I get is "Corrupted SanDisk SD Card”.
Some solved this problem with slow format option on PC.
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Still no progress in resolving the issue
SInce my last post, I have formatted the card as external. It worked fine until i filled it up to 10gb (out of 64gb). Now I have exactly the same issue. Does anyone know how to let Google, Morotola know about it? Is it covered by any guarantee? I start thinking that I am back to 2007 with first android versions