I am new and have searched and found out how to flash a ROM, BUT I am not clear on some things. How can I tell if my SD card is fat32, and how do I flash a new ROM using vista, I need detailed instructions step by step because I cant afford to screw up my phone but I definately want to get everything out of it possible. Pease dont bash me I am willing to speak to someone over the phone to make it easier if willing. Thanks in advance!
MSkip's Flashing Guide for Noobs
I highly recommend using MSkip's Flashing Guide for Noobs
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=448008
It should tell you everything you need to know about flashing. It got me through my first flash without any problems! Good luck and happy flashing!
This thread is a good one also; http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=477235
I already looked at this but still dont understand if my card is fat32 or not?
supermerkin said:
I already looked at this but still dont understand if my card is fat32 or not?
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Put your card in a card reader and connect it to a PC. Once Windows sees the drive. right-click on it in "My Computer" and choose "Properties" (I believe that this is similar in Vista). It should tell you what type of partition your card has under "File system:" (FAT or FAT32). If its FAT32, you're golden. If its not, you can right-click and choose "Format", and make sure you choose FAT32 as the partition type.
You have to plug your card into your PC. When it shows up as an external drive... simply right click and select properties. Vista should tell you how the card is formatted. If it's FAT16, then copy yer data off and format the card FAT32. Then copy data back and yer ready to start.
supermerkin said:
I already looked at this but still dont understand if my card is fat32 or not?
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Honestly, if you don't know how to check the format of your card (or re-format it), you might not want to start flashing your phone yet.
eras2r said:
You have to plug your card into your PC. When it shows up as an external drive... simply right click and select properties. Vista should tell you how the card is formatted. If it's FAT16, then copy yer data off and format the card FAT32. Then copy data back and yer ready to start.
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ok so i ran the hardspl and am checking the SD and it only says FAT? what the hell? lol
supermerkin said:
ok so i ran the hardspl and am checking the SD and it only says FAT? what the hell? lol
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If you are able to connect to you PC via USB connection, you will see you phone show up when you click My Computer or Computer (eg as HTC_P4600). Click the phone and you'll see 2 drives: "\" and Storage Card.
Right click the Storage Card and choose properties. I will show you under File System whether it is FAT32 or not.
Alright if I use activesync to flash does the SD card still need to be fat32 beacuse I tried formatting it and it is stating it is "write protected" and wont let me.
supermerkin said:
ok so i ran the hardspl and am checking the SD and it only says FAT? what the hell? lol
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**Warning** I suggest you read the post above yours. Be very careful on what you are doing to your device if you don't know what to do.....
when I explore the card while in the phone it states it is fat32 so I guess I am ok with that. NOw I will flash a ROM using activesync
supermerkin said:
when I explore the card while in the phone it states it is fat32 so I guess I am ok with that. NOw I will flash a ROM using activesync
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Note that HardSPL may not be enough if you are trying to flash to a ROM from a different device like Diamond, Touch HD.
You may need Security Unlock.
I highly suggest you read this thread about flashing, CID and Security Unlock.
microSD format
How big is your microSD card? If it's greater than 2 GB then it's fat32.
You really need to do a lot of reading before you even consider flashing your phone! Start with the sticky posts at the top of this forum. You don't want to end up with a $400 paperweight!
Well whn on the tricolor screen it is running 1.90 OliNex after the hardspl, and I downloaded the ROM I want to flash, took out my SD and sim, next I was going to sync with USB wait till activesync is running and follow the rest of the directions. sounds simple enough, I am computer friendly but I am a facilitator,trainer, and instructor so I like to know every little step possible to make sure everything is covered like I do for my classes, thats all.
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I believe this has been covered in different ways, just wondering if this sounds like a device fault.
Took the 1gb microSD out of my work blackberry (was working fine) and put it in my atrix....not recognized. Pressed the clip down a little, still not recongized. Rebooted, not recognized, not option to mount or format in settings.
Any thoughts? I know the card is good.
Norcalz71 said:
I believe this has been covered in different ways, just wondering if this sounds like a device fault.
Took the 1gb microSD out of my work blackberry (was working fine) and put it in my atrix....not recognized. Pressed the clip down a little, still not recongized. Rebooted, not recognized, not option to mount or format in settings.
Any thoughts? I know the card is good.
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put it in the micro sd adapter and format it make sure to use fat or fat 32 as a file system
deziguy420 said:
put it in the micro sd adapter and format it make sure to use fat or fat 32 as a file system
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ill give that a try as soon as I get home, don't think I have an adapter here at work. thanks
Norcalz71 said:
ill give that a try as soon as I get home, don't think I have an adapter here at work. thanks
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let me ask you this...does it recognizes on ur pc/laptop?
deziguy420 said:
let me ask you this...does it recognizes on ur pc/laptop?
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doesnt seem to, although i have never used an android device prior to this one to see how it should recognize.
if i plug the usb cable in, i can see the phones internal memory as basically an external HD just like a flash drive, but I dont see the SD card
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doesnt seem to, although i have never used an android device prior to this one to see how it should recognize.
if i plug the usb cable in, i can see the phones internal memory as basically an external HD just like a flash drive, but I dont see the SD card
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in your setting>>storage>>sd card (what you see under that is there an option available to unmount sd..if yes then unmount sd then choose format..)
deziguy420 said:
in your setting>>storage>>sd card (what you see under that is there an option available to unmount sd..if yes then unmount sd then choose format..)
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under that menu, mount sd card and format sd card are greyed out, and total and available space are white but do not do anything when clicked and say "unavailable" below in smaller font
popped the microSD card into my card reader, plugged it into the laptop, and reformatted as FAT32.....atrix still doesnt see it and the options are still greyed out. doesnt seen it when plugged into the computer either. i see the internal storage but not the SD
Norcalz71 said:
popped the microSD card into my card reader, plugged it into the laptop, and reformatted as FAT32.....atrix still doesnt see it and the options are still greyed out. doesnt seen it when plugged into the computer either. i see the internal storage but not the SD
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what rom are you using?..have you tired other microSD?
deziguy420 said:
what rom are you using?..have you tired other microSD?
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only have the one microSD on me right now so no. currently on stock 1.8.3 but rooted (IIRC it still is). I am doing a fresh flash to wipe everything back to 1.2.6 though and get ready for unlocking and gingerbread.
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only have the one microSD on me right now so no. currently on stock 1.8.3 but rooted (IIRC it still is). I am doing a fresh flash to wipe everything back to 1.2.6 though and get ready for unlocking and gingerbread.
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well I was gonna tell you to wipe via CWM...but that approach was my next option..
flashed back to 4.1.2.6 and then 1.5.7....still no SD card getting recognized.
Time to think about seeing if they will replace the phone? the card works fine in the card reader and in my other phone.
yeh it's time to replace the phone...seems like sd slot is messed up..
deziguy420 said:
yeh it's time to replace the phone...seems like sd slot is messed up..
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phone was purchased just after release, end of February. is this something I should expect to be replaced under warranty from ATT?
I recently got a 32 gb micro sd for my view, I just finished formatting it on my pc. I used a fat32 format, not sure if thats totally the right file system, but found a few people that used it. Anyway, the tablet recognizes the card but the camera can't save to the sd card and when i goto gallery it just says insert sd card.
thelonerangers said:
I recently got a 32 gb micro sd for my view, I just finished formatting it on my pc. I used a fat32 format, not sure if thats totally the right file system, but found a few people that used it. Anyway, the tablet recognizes the card but the camera can't save to the sd card and when i goto gallery it just says insert sd card.
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Use SD Formatter and reformat
Here you go ,,, http://db.tt/ZiKvQviN
I used ur program, seems like it just kept it at fat32 is that right?
thelonerangers said:
I used ur program, seems like it just kept it at fat32 is that right?
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Is it working now?
Wife is playing with the tablet right now. Ill let ya know in about an hour or so. Thank you.
thelonerangers said:
Wife is playing with the tablet right now. Ill let ya know in about an hour or so. Thank you.
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lol ok ... BTY take the card out of the Flyer and format it in your computer
I did, I got the card plugged into my pc right now. Just gotta wait on her so i can slip it back in and see what happens
Nope, when i goto gallery it say insert sd card. So something didnt work.
thelonerangers said:
Nope, when i goto gallery it say insert sd card. So something didnt work.
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what rom are you on?
I had this error and had to reboot and wait about 15 min.
Sorry, tablet is stock, didnt even get a chance to upgrade it to honeycomb yet.
I think that did it, just wanna connect tab to pc and see what comes up
thelonerangers said:
I think that did it, just wanna connect tab to pc and see what comes up
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Glad you got it
I skimmed through the general thread and FAQ and couldn't find anything on this, so I figured I'd post this!
I didn't have a smaller SD card and figured nothing bad could happen, so just used my 32GB SD card and it boinked out. Thought it was done for...until today! Here's how I got it to work.
1. Make sure you have your SD card in your phone.
2. Boot into your recovery (I used TWRP and haven't tested this on Amon Ra.)
3. Mount your USB storage and go to "My Computer" to view your storage drives.
4. Your SD card should pop up as a Removable Disk that has no info. Simply format the drive, reboot into your ROM, and bam! Fully working SD card
If anyone can test this in Amon Ra and let me know if it worked, be much appreciated, thanks!
easiest way is this:
do your s-off. boot into amon ra. goto the options and format the SD card right then and there.
you're supposed to always format the card right after S-oFF, or else the slot tends to not work right or something. this is pretty much why they said to try to use an extra backup card instead of using your own personal one, so ya don't have to lose everythin
Whoops, just realized I posted this to development lol. Sorry to any mod, if you could please move it.
jayochs said:
easiest way is this:
do your s-off. boot into amon ra. goto the options and format the SD card right then and there.
you're supposed to always format the card right after S-oFF, or else the slot tends to not work right or something. this is pretty much why they said to try to use an extra backup card instead of using your own personal one, so ya don't have to lose everythin
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I couldn't even get S-Off to work, lol. I tried for about 30 minutes and ended up with a "dead" SD card. My recovery didn't even see my SD card, I just mounted my USB storage for S&Gs to see what would happen.
Something I find that really helps as well is to make sure you don't flash the Gingerbread hboot when using the S-OFF program. I didn't think it would, but it did manage to give me SD card issues until I flashed a proper ICS hboot.
I'm only mentioning this because after I S-OFFed and got the SD card issues, formatting it did nothing at all to fix the problem. Only after I got the right hboot did everything finally start working again.
SirSigma said:
Something I find that really helps as well is to make sure you don't flash the Gingerbread hboot when using the S-OFF program. I didn't think it would, but it did manage to give me SD card issues until I flashed a proper ICS hboot.
I'm only mentioning this because after I S-OFFed and got the SD card issues, formatting it did nothing at all to fix the problem. Only after I got the right hboot did everything finally start working again.
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I didn't even get that far lol. S-Off didn't work and my SD card was a dud afterwards. my computer would see the drive, but wouldn't do anything with it. My phone just said "blank SD card" and couldn't format.
Chyrux said:
I didn't even get that far lol. S-Off didn't work and my SD card was a dud afterwards. my computer would see the drive, but wouldn't do anything with it. My phone just said "blank SD card" and couldn't format.
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Same here.
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Same here.
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It was strange. I just figured that it would have erased the contents of my card and that was it. thought I had lost it entirely lol. Glad I didn't just throw it away.
Chyrux said:
It was strange. I just figured that it would have erased the contents of my card and that was it. thought I had lost it entirely lol. Glad I didn't just throw it away.
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What did u do to fix it?
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Doddzilla said:
What did u do to fix it?
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The method I posted. Just went into recovery, mounted USB storage and formatted my card from Windows. The only downside is that formatting can ruin an SD card...but it's not much to worry about if the card isn't working, anyway =p
Chyrux said:
The method I posted. Just went into recovery, mounted USB storage and formatted my card from Windows. The only downside is that formatting can ruin an SD card...but it's not much to worry about if the card isn't working, anyway =p
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formatting can ruin an SD Card? please elaborate. i format SD cards all the time.
I've had a few where the format went "bad" due to some reason and rendered the SD card completely useless. Same has happened to a few people I know and have read of the issue before. I didn't mean that to say "Formatting your SD card enough will ruin it" lol.
*EDIT* I wish I knew about that insurance you talk about in your sig when I bought my phone
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Same here.
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same here.....
I just unmounted mine in Android and formatted it with Windoze. Then I formatted it again in Android. I've corrupted SD Cards all kinds of ways. It's real easy to do if you get stupid with the overclocking/undervolting. I've formatted the 32 gig I first got for my BlackBerry 9630 a few dozen times. It's still as reliable as any other SD Card I have. Better than some, in fact. The only real good way to format a solid state memory device is to write zeros to it. If not, NAND (which your SD Card is) device write cycles can take twice as long.
guys i tried all the format methods listed above still no luck, windows states its a raw format with 0 mb available
madjokeer said:
guys i tried all the format methods listed above still no luck, windows states its a raw format with 0 mb available
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I had to download a program that was made just for formatting SD cards. Once I used that it formatted the card fine but windows and my phone would not.
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Thanks Chyrux. Your method worked for me . was about to throw away the card but you saved it.
Thanks 1m+ times
Well How many times should I thank you
Thanks Thanks this was the only working method thx very much
Wanted to see if anyone else is experiencing the same issue I am.
Was using my phone and my Samsung 64GB class 10 Micro Sdcard "ejected" although it was still in the phone. It had been working fine for a week. I manually ejected and placed it back in but it will not read. I get the "Scanning/Preparing SD card" Message but it always says unavailable. Thinking that my card crapped out on my, I put a brand new Kingston class 10 64 GB sd card but experiencing the same results. Oddly enough, I have an old Class 10 Transcend 8GB card that will read. I am running the stock OS-Unlocked Boot/Rooted/S-off. Only mods I have done are flashing the released HTC kernel that is R/W. (Dont know if I need to reflash the one that came with the phone), and flashed the SD card write fix posted in this thread :http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2700310
Anyone know where I can get the stock ATT kernel that may have the correct drivers for ext sd? Any suggestions?
Copy what you have on the sdcard to computer and format fat32 then retry card in phone
Wonders_Never_Cease said:
Copy what you have on the sdcard to computer and format fat32 then retry card in phone
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Hey, thanks for the reply.
I have a SD card reader on my laptop and it recognized the card just fine but if I put the card in the phone and plug in the phone to computer via USB, it will NOT recognize/see the card.
Im pretty sure it is a software issue. Does anyone have access or a link to the stock ATT kernel/boot.img?? I'd like to troubleshoot but forgot to make a back up before I flashed the R/W kernel released here. Thanks.
Doesnt matter if the sdcard reader sees it fine in windows, your more than likely going from windows to android, try what I suggested. If the card is not formatted @fat32 it will not be read in phone...
Blueoval24 said:
Hey, thanks for the reply.
I have a SD card reader on my laptop and it recognized the card just fine but if I put the card in the phone and plug in the phone to computer via USB, it will NOT recognize/see the card.
Im pretty sure it is a software issue. Does anyone have access or a link to the stock ATT kernel/boot.img?? I'd like to troubleshoot but forgot to make a back up before I flashed the R/W kernel released here. Thanks.
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Doesnt matter if the sdcard reader sees it fine in windows, your more than likely going from windows to android, try what I suggested. If the card is not formatted @fat32 it will not be read in phone...
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Maybe I forgot to mention it but both cards are FAT32 formatted. Also, the samsung card was working just fine for a week before these issues started happening.
Im still searching for the stock att kernel.
Ok did you reformat and try them again?
Blueoval24 said:
Maybe I forgot to mention it but both cards are FAT32 formatted. Also, the samsung card was working just fine for a week before these issues started happening.
Im still searching for the stock att kernel.
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Ok did you reformat and try them again?
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Went to try and reformat them again and am getting some weird results.
If i plug them directly into the computer with an adapter and use SDFormat to format them, then the M8 will read the cards? However, it only reads half the amount of memory (30gb) and I do not have an option within SDFormat to change the size. Since M8 now reads the card, I went to format it within the storage settings and once that completes, it no longer recognizes the card...?? Not sure how that is possible unless the phone is reformatting the card to a format it does not recognize..?
Use sdcard reader on laptop format fat32,set it to default size...it varies on different cards, 4 kb 8kb 16kb etc...
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Went to try and reformat them again and am getting some weird results.
If i plug them directly into the computer with an adapter and use SDFormat to format them, then the M8 will read the cards? However, it only reads half the amount of memory (30gb) and I do not have an option within SDFormat to change the size. Since M8 now reads the card, I went to format it within the storage settings and once that completes, it no longer recognizes the card...?? Not sure how that is possible unless the phone is reformatting the card to a format it does not recognize..?
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Thanks for the continued assistance. I have done this but still only have Half of the advertised memory. When I first installed it out of the box, it worked and showed full memory (62gb). Also, the default windows formatting tool will render the card unreadable by the M8 so im using the program called SDFormatter. Seems like I'm running in circles so I guess I'll just deal with half the memory for now. At least it works.
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Ive never had a card unreadable after a format in windows...lol...something new to me...usually what Ill do is format in windows then reformat on phone....Justa as an after thought have your done a Backup & Reset,then hit reset all data on the phone with the sdcard in it?...may be worth a try...
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Thanks for the continued assistance. I have done this but still only have Half of the advertised memory. When I first installed it out of the box, it worked and showed full memory (62gb). Also, the default windows formatting tool will render the card unreadable by the M8 so im using the program called SDFormatter. Seems like I'm running in circles so I guess I'll just deal with half the memory for now. At least it works.
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http://www.ducky-pond.com/posts/2013/Sep/partition-an-sd-card-or-flash-drive-on-windows/
Use above instructions to remove all partitions from sd card. Insert into phone it will prompt you about it being damaged and ask if you want to format it. Answer yes.
If you still continue to have issues, it is most likely a hardware issue.
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http://www.ducky-pond.com/posts/2013/Sep/partition-an-sd-card-or-flash-drive-on-windows/
Use above instructions to remove all partitions from sd card. Insert into phone it will prompt you about it being damaged and ask if you want to format it. Answer yes.
If you still continue to have issues, it is most likely a hardware issue.
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Thank you guys for the help!
I tried using the above fix (disk part) but it didnt even recognize the device. L0ng story short. I was able to use BOOTICE to reformat my KINGSTON Sd card to 60 GB but my samsung only reads 30 (even though it is advertised as 64) I read that when you reformat some Samsung cards, there is a protected area that most generic formatting utilities can overwrite and render the card to half capacity. Not sure if that's the case but oh well. Got it the other card to work. Thanks so much guys! Now if I can figure out why the phone isn't turning on now.....
Gidday
I was real tired today when I got home and found a package containing a Samsung 256 Gig SD Card had arrived so I promptly put it in the phone and formatted it and then I must have done something wrong as the phone wouldn't read it...I was able to remove the card and find that Windows would read it no problems...
I know that this phone accepts 256 Gig cards so that isn't a problem so what else could it be??? Anyone have any tips to allow me to get back the use of the card?? What format should the card be formatted as and can it be formatted in Windows and then placed in the phone??
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Spacs gives SD Card support : up to 256 Go.
What SD tech is yours?
Didi you tried to format it via the computer and re insert it in the phone ?
Kéno40 said:
Spacs gives SD Card support : up to 256 Go.
What SD tech is yours?
Didi you tried to format it via the computer and re insert it in the phone ?
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I have formatted the card Ex-Fat on the computer and when I insert it into the phone it doesn't find it...I go to settings and when I click on storage the settings app crashes...
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brokey said:
I have formatted the card Ex-Fat on the computer and when I insert it into the phone it doesn't find it...I go to settings and when I click on storage the settings app crashes...
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Not all roms/kernels support ex-fat. What rom are you using?
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Not all roms/kernels support ex-fat. What rom are you using?
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Pixel Experience
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Gidday
Just an update, I have been trying everything to get the card working in the phone but nothing so far...I am able to see it in Windows and I can format it and reformat it to different file systems...ex-fat being the format of choice for Android phones...
One interesting thing I have noticed is that there is a 16mb partition on the card that I can't get rid of...this I think may be the problem...does anyone have any idea as to how to get rid of this partition and merge it with the rest of the card? I have tried using MiniTool Partition Wizard Professional Edition but feel it might be something to do with Linux...am I close?
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brokey said:
Gidday
Just an update, I have been trying everything to get the card working in the phone but nothing so far...I am able to see it in Windows and I can format it and reformat it to different file systems...ex-fat being the format of choice for Android phones...
One interesting thing I have noticed is that there is a 16mb partition on the card that I can't get rid of...this I think may be the problem...does anyone have any idea as to how to get rid of this partition and merge it with the rest of the card? I have tried using MiniTool Partition Wizard Professional Edition but feel it might be something to do with Linux...am I close?
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Did you partition the sdcard in twrp? If so it would be an ext3 or ext4 file system which windows normally doesnt read. Although a decent partition tool should be able to see and delete the partitions. I also double checked and your rom should support exfat.
Have you tried copying multiple large files to sdcard? Could be a format issue. I normally format my sdcards on my pc although I use linux (windows only for special uses). Could try creating a live boot copy of linux on a cd or usb drive and see if that helps. Just use Ubuntu which is one of the easiest. Gparted is the tool you will use. It will already be included with the OS.
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Did you partition the sdcard in twrp? If so it would be an ext3 or ext4 file system which windows normally doesnt read. Although a decent partition tool should be able to see and delete the partitions. I also double checked and your rom should support exfat.
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No, I initially formatted the card in the phone as per normal...for some reason I then took it out and musta done something to it for it to be unreadable in the phone....
Have you tried copying multiple large files to sdcard? Could be a format issue. I normally format my sdcards on my pc although I use linux (windows only for special uses). Could try creating a live boot copy of linux on a cd or usb drive and see if that helps. Just use Ubuntu which is one of the easiest. Gparted is the tool you will use. It will already be included with the OS.
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I downloaded Gparted for Windows and was able to boot into it and read the SDCard but couldn't do anything with it except format the area that were partitioned...
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col
brokey said:
No, I initially formatted the card in the phone as per normal...for some reason I then took it out and musta done something to it for it to be unreadable in the phone....
I downloaded Gparted for Windows and was able to boot into it and read the SDCard but couldn't do anything with it except format the area that were partitioned...
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col
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Did the card ever work? Where did the card come from? Could it be a fake? They take this small card partition it and run a compression tool to make it appear larger than it actually is. Which is part of why I mentioned coping a few large files (2-3 gig vids). Video cant be compressed much more than it already is so the card would look almost full with only a few gigs being used.
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Did the card ever work? Where did the card come from? Could it be a fake?
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Yeah, it worked...and it was bought from Amazon...don't think it's a fake...
They take this small card partition it and run a compression tool to make it appear larger than it actually is. Which is part of why I mentioned coping a few large files (2-3 gig vids). Video cant be compressed much more than it already is so the card would look almost full with only a few gigs being used.
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I did transfer a small file (5mb mp3) to the first small partition (15mb) and my phone recognised it so if only I could get rid of that partition or merge it somehow with the remaining partition I think it would clear up this problem...
I transferred a file to the other partition but it wasn't recognised by the phone...
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brokey said:
Yeah, it worked...and it was bought from Amazon...don't think it's a fake...
I did transfer a small file (5mb mp3) to the first small partition (15mb) and my phone recognised it so if only I could get rid of that partition or merge it somehow with the remaining partition I think it would clear up this problem...
I transferred a file to the other partition but it wasn't recognised by the phone...
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col
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Have you tried using custom recover and doing a repartition? Read the question carefully. I have not repartitioned in recovery in a long time. I believe there are 3 options as you go through the process. If the first is like a cache partition set to zero. If second is an ext partition also set to zero. The third should be external storage I believe it will automatically set to max size but if not then set to max. Again it has been years so things might have changed but willing to bet they have not.
cidxtc said:
Have you tried using custom recover and doing a repartition? Read the question carefully. I have not repartitioned in recovery in a long time. I believe there are 3 options as you go through the process. If the first is like a cache partition set to zero. If second is an ext partition also set to zero. The third should be external storage I believe it will automatically set to max size but if not then set to max. Again it has been years so things might have changed but willing to bet they have not.
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Just to let you know, I have been able to solve the problem in WIndows, using a more up to date version of Minitool Partition wizard...I was able to format both partitions and then resize and the merge them...Windows wouldnt recognise it but when I put it into the phone it was there so am happy again...
Thanks for your help and suggestions...
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col
brokey said:
Just to let you know, I have been able to solve the problem in WIndows, using a more up to date version of Minitool Partition wizard...I was able to format both partitions and then resize and the merge them...Windows wouldnt recognise it but when I put it into the phone it was there so am happy again...
Thanks for your help and suggestions...
cheers
col
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Awesome! Now I have one more suggestion. Edit the title to state solved.
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cidxtc said:
Awesome! Now I have one more suggestion. Edit the title to state solved.
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How do I edit the title?
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col
brokey said:
How do I edit the title?
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col
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Open in a browser and edit. Then there is and advanced edit option.
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Open in a browser and edit. Then there is and advanced edit option.
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I know how to edit a post and add a title but I thought you meant the title of the thread...I don't know how to do that and I supposed it was up to an admin...
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col