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The weirdest thing happened to me today and I was wondering if anyone can help me identify the culprit.
I was listening to some music when all of a sudden the player (Nitrogen) freezed.
I opened the player again and the songs wouldnt play,
so I looked in the library only to find that there was one song left in my /Storage Device/Music folder.
I have roughly 1.5 GB of music on my 2 GB sd-card.
When I got home I put the sd-card in my cardreader and it says that there's 100 MB of free space left
but when I select all files on the card it shows up as only 300 MB.
When I open the folder it only shows one mp3 file.
When I select all files on the card it shows that it's only 300 MB.
- I tried searching for it by file names
- I've got "see hidden folders" enabled
Mind you, I do have a backup,
just wanted to see to it that it doesn't happen again.
Update: It happened for a second time now
I formatted my sd-card and while I was copying 2 mp3 files from my computer to my sd-card, (all the files were still there) a message popped up stating that it failed and I should check if the file wasn't protected
After the message popped up all of the files inside the folder were gone (including album art)
Again, there is little free space but all the folders combined equals no more than a few hundred MB.
It would be appreciated it if someone could help me out
Thanks,
Hi mo.ammi
I work for a company who sell a lot of memory cards and the returns dept see this a lot, you should get acronis disk director and reformat the card as NTFS (most come as FAT32) When the write to the card fails it is usually because FAT32 will not take as large a file for transfer due to size restrictions, NTFS does not have these restrictions.
I have seen this work in some cases, however if it does not solve the issue then i suggest you send the card back.
Hope this helps,
Creamy-Goodness
My bet would be it's a fake (not genuine) card. Such issues are pretty common with them.
creamy said:
Hi mo.ammi
I work for a company who sell a lot of memory cards and the returns dept see this a lot, you should get acronis disk director and reformat the card as NTFS (most come as FAT32) When the write to the card fails it is usually because FAT32 will not take as large a file for transfer due to size restrictions, NTFS does not have these restrictions.
I have seen this work in some cases, however if it does not solve the issue then i suggest you send the card back.
Hope this helps,
Creamy-Goodness
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Do mind that if you do this, the card can no longer be used to flash your device, as that requires FAT32. Also, I'm not completely sure about the normal compatibility with the X1, but I guess you can give it a try.
creamy said:
Hi mo.ammi
I work for a company who sell a lot of memory cards and the returns dept see this a lot, you should get acronis disk director and reformat the card as NTFS (most come as FAT32) When the write to the card fails it is usually because FAT32 will not take as large a file for transfer due to size restrictions, NTFS does not have these restrictions.
I have seen this work in some cases, however if it does not solve the issue then i suggest you send the card back.
Hope this helps,
Creamy-Goodness
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I tried your method and at the moment it seems stable.
You say it's usually because FAT32 won't accept large files (larger than 4GB if I remember).
But my largest file is an episode of American Dad (100MB)
Anyway, thanks for your help. Luckily it's just a 2GB card
Angelusz said:
Do mind that if you do this, the card can no longer be used to flash your device, as that requires FAT32. Also, I'm not completely sure about the normal compatibility with the X1, but I guess you can give it a try.
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I usually flash my device using the RomUpdateUtility.
Are there any pro's or con's using the card flash method?
submarine said:
My bet would be it's a fake (not genuine) card. Such issues are pretty common with them.
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It's a genuine Nokia MicroSD card.
It came with my device so I presume it's real.
Thanks for your help!
I had a similar problem with my sandisk 8gb card but it just stopped working altogether while i was using tomtom, i tried to format with windows and a panasonic sd-card formatting tool but it would not work.
I had to phone sandisk for a replacement yesterday but im still awaiting there reply
you should get acronis disk director and reformat the card as NTFS (most come as FAT32) When the write to the card fails it is usually because FAT32 will not take as large a file for transfer due to size restrictions, NTFS does not have these restrictions.
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i tried using acronis but it only shows my hard drives and not flash drives, would not mind a last ditch attempt to save it if you tell me how??
i had the same problem with a 8 GB card.
installed some tool to format the card under windows mobile took ages and i ran out of battery ... now the card is totaly unreadable. not even windows recoknizes it anymore.
guess its borked now
Hi Flext,
I am unsure as to why your card is not visible by the Acronis suite, have you tried looking in disk management on the OS to check if the PC can see it as attached?
As Angelusz has stated you will not be able to flash firmware with the Card after changing the format, however the Acronis suite will allow you to create a small partition of FAT32 on the same card that could be used for this purpose. I do not know if the Xperia will recognise both partitions and display that you have two seperate cards, if anyone has tested this can they please post their findings.
Regards,
Creamy-Goodness
windows recognises the card in my computer but when i try to explore or format it my computer hangs, forever, then normally displays an error message an hour later....
i originally installed acronis a while ago to create partions for backtrack 3, when i did this i dont remember any other drive except my HD's being displayed maybe its the version of acronis im using???
also my X1 does not see the card at all though, "there is no storage card installed", however when i plug the card into the phone when it is sleeping the phone wakes up???
Hi Flext,
Sorry to say this but i think you card is indeed knackered. Just buy another, they are really cheap these days (even the non faked ones) It would be easier on your own sanity to bin it and move on.
Oh and i'm using the latest version of acronis, just checked but i dont think it makes much difference as it seems to be more or less the same UI and functionality.
Kind Regards,
Creamy
got weird problem too with my sd card i have seen the number of mp3 count on media panel decrease to zero after an update to r2a
Hey there guys.
I have the latest european stock firmware on my SGS2. The issue persists since I bought the thing: I am using a 32GB card and I cannot get the phone to see media files that are on it. I copied 2 or 3 movies on the card, which was of course formatted before use, and it says that the space is taken but I cannot see the files either in file explorer , or in Gallery. Any idea why? Maybe it doesnt fully support a 32GB card?
Are you using fat32? If not... use it
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Hey there guys.
I have the latest european stock firmware on my SGS2. The issue persists since I bought the thing: I am using a 32GB card and I cannot get the phone to see media files that are on it. I copied 2 or 3 movies on the card, which was of course formatted before use, and it says that the space is taken but I cannot see the files either in file explorer , or in Gallery. Any idea why? Maybe it doesnt fully support a 32GB card?
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did you format it with windows? if yes which format did you choose? it is always better to format it from your device directly. i also have a 32mb external sd card and it works fine
I formatted in on the device. I imagined this would be the best way. And my computer is alos set to format as FAT32. So maybe it is just a faulty card??!!
leoking3 said:
Hey there guys.
I have the latest european stock firmware on my SGS2. The issue persists since I bought the thing: I am using a 32GB card and I cannot get the phone to see media files that are on it. I copied 2 or 3 movies on the card, which was of course formatted before use, and it says that the space is taken but I cannot see the files either in file explorer , or in Gallery. Any idea why? Maybe it doesnt fully support a 32GB card?
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Maybe the movie is too big for the file system. Every file system can handle only files up to a special size... Try to reformat and check if the video is converted the right way... Take aybe 10 minutes of the movie, convert it and transfer it to your phone to be sure about the file size thing... Officialy the phone is compatible up to 64gb.
Unfortunately is none of the suggestions. Although I can use the card perfectly well on the laptop, it doesnt work properly with the phone. Must be some incompatibility. Which sucks, since it s a 32GB card... Thank anyway
Are you sure it's really a 32GB card? Many cheap cards that one can buy on places like eBay are fakes -- low-capacity cards hacked to look like high-capacity.
There are some test programs that will tell you if the card is really the capacity it's supposed to be. On the phone itself, you can run SDCardTester (free from Android Market), and on the PC you can run h2testw.
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Are you sure it's really a 32GB card? Many cheap cards that one can buy on places like eBay are fakes -- low-capacity cards hacked to look like high-capacity.
There are some test programs that will tell you if the card is really the capacity it's supposed to be. On the phone itself, you can run SDCardTester (free from Android Market), and on the PC you can run h2testw.[/QU
Yes this might be an idea. It is unbranded , but on laptop it shows 32GB. Hmm.. I have it from a sony ericsson xperia from a trusted person, but on the other hand...who can you trust? I will try my 4GB card and see if it shows my movies.
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Hi guys.
I'm going to be buying the note in the next couple of days. I'm aiming for the 16gb version. Just reading through quickly about the micro sd cards and the fats problems, I'm wondering if that's an issue when viewing movies stored in the sd card instead of the main memory.
I know that the notr wont allow the sd card to store applications similarly to the galaxy s3 but that's not a big problem as the use of the note will be mostly for travelling, internet etc.
Many thanks
Vas
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I am not sure what you asking. Can you explain what exact problem you found in Note?
As of right now the Note 10.1 doesn't support exfat for the microsd card so you are limited to fat32. Thus you cannot have a file over 4gb in size. Other than that there is no problem. Movies and such play just fine off the sd card. I'm assuming that it will get exfat support as it is supposed to support 64gb sd cards which normally ship as exfat and are a PITA to get formatted as fat32.
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You can you format the card as NTFS and give this app a shot. (ROOT REQUIRED! )
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paragon.mounter
NTFS supports files over 4GB, so 720p or 1080p mkvs woun't be a problem!
Also this solution is better because ntfs has support on all OSes (pc, *nix). Exfat has limited support on linux (exists as paid or free alfa driver).
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I'm assuming that it will get exfat support as it is supposed to support 64gb sd cards which normally ship as exfat and are a PITA to get formatted as fat32.
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It's a total PITA. If you have another Android device with a MicroSD slot you can try formatting the card in that device first. A lot of people have had luck that way. I tried reformatting a 64GB SanDisk card to FAT using multiple different programs and the Note still wouldn't mount the card or give me the formattng option. Here's the solution, I know it's stupid.
1) Download EaseUS Partition Manager (it's free) - http://www.partition-tool.com/landing/home-download.htm
2) Take a blank FAT MicroSD card and mount it to your PC
3) Have the 64GB mounted at the same time so it too shows up on your PC
4) Using the clone wizard, clone the FAT card to the 64GB card. Make sure to expand the size of the 64GB card before cloning so it doesn't pick up the size of the smaller card.
It's half-ass but works. I'm really hoping exFAT support comes in an update. The SGS3 handles it and the Note’s guts are pretty much the same. It may not though because the user manual specifically says "your device supports FAT."
Good luck.
So up to what size on fat32sd cards will they work?
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So up to what size on fat32sd cards will they work?
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32GB. Also, they changed the specs on the U.S., UK, and HK sites to a maximum SD card size of 32GB. So unless you do the gymnastic approach I posted to get a 64GB card from exFAT to FAT, 32GB is the limit for storage expansion.
Many thanks. I think a 32GB will be more than enough for me.
Thanks for all your answers chaps. Looking forward to ordering a white one!
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4) Using the clone wizard, clone the FAT card to the 64GB card. Make sure to expand the size of the 64GB card before cloning so it doesn't pick up the size of the smaller card.
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How to expand the 64GB? I have 32 and 64 but whatever I do I cannot expand the 64gb.
Did you mean I should format it in Fat32 to 64GB?
I actually used EaseUS to format the 64GB SD in Fat32 and it seem to work. Did not use clone just copied thze files afterwards.
fscherz said:
How to expand the 64GB? I have 32 and 64 but whatever I do I cannot expand the 64gb.
Did you mean I should format it in Fat32 to 64GB?
I actually used EaseUS to format the 64GB SD in Fat32 and it seem to work. Did not use clone just copied thze files afterwards.
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Was it a SanDisk SDXC 64GB card? I tried everything including EaseUS to format it in to FAT but the Note still wouldn't mount it or provide the option to format it itself.
If anyone does have to use the clone process like I did, here's how to get the full 64GB on the exFAT card being formatted. In the last step of the process EaseUS shows bar graphs of the FAT card and exFAT card stacked over each other. The 64GB exFAT card will show the protected partition and 32GB of space allocated. Grab the end of tbe box showing 32GB and slide it to the right to expand it to the full 64GB available on the disk.
BarryH_GEG said:
Was it a SanDisk SDXC 64GB card?
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Yes, it's a SanDisk Ultra 64GB class 10 microSDXC.
The main point was for me not to format it in exFAT or NTFS as my Win7 offered but with EaseUS to normal FAT32 and set cluster size to 32 or 64KB (I 4got).
32kb cluster size is the sd card association recommendation.
Hi all. Have a quick question about sd cards. I have an M8 now and a pure on order my question is can I swap cards back and forth between the two phones? Or is the card formatted for that specific phone? TIA
elevatorguy said:
Hi all. Have a quick question about sd cards. I have an M8 now and a pure on order my question is can I swap cards back and forth between the two phones? Or is the card formatted for that specific phone? TIA
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You should be able to swap back and forth, particularly if the SD card formatted as FAT32.
maigre said:
You should be able to swap back and forth, particularly if the SD card formatted as FAT32.
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That begs the question how do I tell how it's formatted? I just let my M8 do it
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That begs the question how do I tell how it's formatted? I just let my M8 do it
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If you have a Mac, mount the card on it and check Disk Utility. It'll tell you. I can't remember what you have to do on Windows. There's probably some app for Android that'll tell you, too, though I don't know what it would be. I was looking for one awhile back. ES File Explorer and Solid Explorer don't, afaik. It's possible that whatever you used for the M8 to format it will tell you. Ultimately, it won't matter one way or the other if the card works on the Moto X. No harm is likely in swapping it in and giving it a try, though a backup (of the sd card) is always in order if there's even the remotest concern. If it doesn't get recognized by the Moto X, and it turns out that it's ExFAT, you could copy the data off of it to a safe place, format it as FAT32, then copy the data back again. Formatting in with Disk Utility on a Mac is quick and easy. Again, I don't remember for sure what you have to do on recent versions of Windows. I formatted one recently on Win 10 and I think I had to use the command line. Formatting used to be available from Windows Explorer. Maybe it still is.
Wouldn't NTSF be a 1000x better though fat goes by box layers. One block goes corrupt and the whole file falls to pieces. Sometimes the entire SD card.
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nikeman513 said:
Wouldn't NTSF be a 1000x better though fat goes by box layers. One block goes corrupt and the whole file falls to pieces. Sometimes the entire SD card.
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NTSF is not natively supported by Android. There is an app or two on the Play Store that'll allow the device to read NTFS and a couple of other formats. I think some people have formatted external sd cards to ext4 (that's what the internal storage is usually formatted to) with some success. I haven't tried that.
I pulled the SD card out of my M9 and put it in my MXP and it worked fine... All my pics and movies were there and accessible.
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I pulled the SD card out of my M9 and put it in my MXP and it worked fine... All my pics and movies were there and accessible.
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Thank you sir you are a gentleman and a scholar
Does anyone have any problem with there head unit not taking 64gb cards. Whats the most it will take? SanDisk Ultra Plus 64gb won't work.
32gb maximum. (I noticed In the specs listed on Amazon.c om)
Format it to FAT32. I'm using 128gb Samsung MicroSD.
Yes you MUST format it to FAT32. These boxes (and many android devices) can not read ExFAT Formatted SD Cards. New versions of Windows can't format FAT32 from the regular disk format gui. You have to do this:
cmd (Win+R and type cmd)
diskpartlist disk
select disk 1 (1 must be a number of your flash card)
clean (this command erase all data on selected disk!!!!)
create partition primary
select partition 1
format fs=fat32
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ALSO, make sure its not fake. The market is totally saturated with people selling fake SD Cards as "64" when they are only 16 or 8, and you only find out when you "fill it up".
http://oeding.com/tutorial-how-to-spot-a-fake-memory-card/
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Yes you MUST format it to FAT32. These boxes (and many android devices) can not read ExFAT Formatted SD Cards. New versions of Windows can't format FAT32 from the regular disk format gui. You have to do this:
ALSO, make sure its not fake. The market is totally saturated with people selling fake SD Cards as "64" when they are only 16 or 8, and you only find out when you "fill it up".
http://oeding.com/tutorial-how-to-spot-a-fake-memory-card/
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has anyone tried anything bigger in FAT32? 200 or 256?
I'm using 200gb fat 32 for flac. no issues.
I am using a 1tb Extreme SSD sandisk fat32 no issues... I thought for sure there would be the 328gb limit but nope I have 1tb of music(FLAC and SACD). It does take about 1 minute after I start head unit for it to load external storage but vanilla music loads and organizes the tracks instantly. MAKE SURE to eject the external storage in settings>storage before removing if you have it set for high write speeds. You have to do this on Android and windows.
Fubar 2000 skips but vanilla music works flawlessly.
gottahavit said:
I'm using 200gb fat 32 for flac. no issues.
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great thanks
Spiff198 said:
great thanks
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BTW it's a U1 card not U3, nothing expensive