Hi,
I am planning to buy a 16GB Micro SD Card for X10 Mini, need help on following
1. Can I buy any 16GB micro sd card (class 6 and above) will it work, or it has to be specifically from SE?
2. Once I have 16GB micro sd card, what are the steps to replace the existing card and its contents. Do i need to copy all the folders from existing micro sd to new sd card? What should be the format of SD card, fat, fat32, ext2/3/4 ? Kindly suggest.
Any other technicalities to take care off ?
Furthermore I would like to use APPtoSD either on 2.1 if its easy or else when 2.2 gets on, so do i need to prepare the new sd card specifically for this?
Thanks
1) don't know, I bought a 16GB online from sandisk and it works well, i can help if you can tell how to get the "class"
2) my sd is in fat32 as the old one so no problems here. I suppose that if you move from fat32 to ext* you need to handle permissions somehow. I use a linux distro and when I do this moves I use the command "cp -a" that preserves permission (doesn't matter for fat) and modification date so if some software relies on modification dates of files it doesn't screw up
Thanks,
Class is written on top of the card. See the attached image the 6 witten inside the circle shows the class.
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Does putting in a 16Gb card reduced the performance or increased the lags?
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I've looked around at a lot of places and haven't found a clear answer to this one yet.
I’ve read a lot of different posts about what the best way to do this is. Some say just copy and paste, some say you need to go into recovery mode and Format the SD to Fat32+ext2+swap first and then convert ext2 to ext3, and some say to use Titanium Backup, and there are other opinions too.
I’m really quite happy with the way the phone is set up at the moment and don’t want to mess things up. My X10 mini, has cyanogen mod 7, and clockwork mod. Some of the apps have been moved to the SD card.
Can anyone tell me the current best method?
Thank you ....
Does anyone have any suggestions?
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I'm also very interested in how to do this.
Basically use whatever format worked for you with your previous SD card. Oh, another forum member from the x10 forums was told by a Sony Ericsson rep that SD cards above class 4 would not give any further speed boost, but that's for the X10. I think that the same should apply for the x10 mini. Higher classes makes for faster loading of media and games moved to SD card, but actual playing(i.e after it has fully loaded) will be no faster. It will make SWAP faster, though.
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I have tried a 32gb card but it dosn't recognise it
Anyone knows if the new Custom Roms / Kernel make the Mini Pro recognise a 32gb SD card?
Well I checked the original card that came with the phone and it was FAT. The new card was preformatted to FAT32.
I left the new card at FAT32 and plugged them both into a Windows PC and copied the whole lot over. This worked fine.
I suspect that the whole ext2 ext3 thing is to allow the phone to treat that partition as if it were internal memory. Useful if the phone memory is already full.
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I recently upgraded my sd card from 2G to 4G, I just copied and pasted files. This seemed to work but since the upgrade I am having trouble flashing roms in cwm recovery. I get an error saying zip (bad) installation aborted.
Not sure if it is related but one to think about.
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Just got my Tmo Note home, I think I got the last one as there were only 2 Denver retail stores that had them . Is there going to be a new forum here at xda for this phone?
I'm having an issue with the external sdcard, I am using ES File Explorer. I put the external sdcard from my old sensation into the new note, I browse to /sdcard/external_sd/ and I get an empty folder. Something reported to me that the ext sdcard was not mounted but I forget what I was doing when I saw that. What do I need to do to access the external sdcard taken from my Sensation?
I imagine this is an easy situation, I just haven't experienced a setup where there is an internal and external sdcard on a phone.
Thanks
Peter
That's interesting because I have a i717 and I flashed a nandroid backup courtesy of Rotohammer if I am not mistaken, when the device booted and I went to look for sd card it didn't show anything. But a reboot solved it for me. Worst case is you backup anything you need from the sd to a PC and fully format card.
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shouldn't you be looking for
/mnt/external_sd
not
/mnt/sdcard/external_sd
?
I use Linda File Manager and it is under sdcard/external sd
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I rebooted and still got an empty /external_sd folder. Once I backup the sd to pc, how do I mount/format the ext. sdcard?
Also, when I plugged the phone into pc with usb it shows phone as 9.85GB - I thought this came with 16GB of internal memory?
Under /mnt i have asec, obb, sdcard, secure and usb - no /mnt/ext_sdcard
Make sure the card if formated as FAT32 - if plugged into a computer, right click and select properties). I recently purchased a 64gb card and when I turned on the Note, I got the error the SD card was not mounted. I couldn't mount it or format it. Did some searching and others had that problem. The solution was to delete all partitions (searched cnet downloads for a partition manager) on the microSD card then insert into the Note & turn it on. The Note reported there was a damaged SD card - then I was given a prompt to format the microSD card.
So make sure your data is backed up 1st.
Not sure why your internal space shows that. That number seems low. May have to format internal storage and factory reset as it comes fresh out of the box.
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There it is on my i717r.
As for the storage on the phone, mine has 1.97 internal[apps, etc], 10.85 usb storage[the other part of internal formatting], and of course my 29.81 under sdcard[actually the external card]
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I just got the T-Mobil Galaxy Note as well. I had not problem moving my SD card from My Touch 4g. At first I didn't understand the file structure, but now I see that the external cards shows under the directory of the SD card which really is internal memory. That memory shows only a total of 9.85 GB (should be 16 according to specs) and the other internal is 1.97 GB. I would also be curious if anyone know why the internal memory numbers are so far off.
My best guess is this.
11gb is parted off for user.
2gb is parted off for apps.
that's 13gb for user storage.
The rest is for /system, /cache, dalvic and future ROM updates. Naturally a new os will take more space so they make a best guess for future upgrades, features, etc.
You never really get what the advertised storage is. Plus its better to have more space remaining for the rom than what it actually needs to help future proof a bit and so you don't run into storage restrictions when upgrading or flashing custom stuff.
Take the xoom for example, it leaves 28gb for user, and only about 1gb to 1.3gb for the rest of the system. Because of that we have to use symbolic links to have some of the gapps load up when flashing as to avoid errors and such.
Sometimes having some missing storage is a good thing as its almost certainly belonging to the back end.
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As someone who is having trouble with a 64 class 10 this topic really helped. Thanks!
Hello,
I have a galaxy player 4.2 and i wanted to know if i can expand the memory of it.
Because i have a 16 Go SD card and the internal memory have 1,81Go free and the external 600Mo ( of 4.6Go).
So it don't use my SD card.
do you know if i can do something for the player recognize the SD as external memory or something like that?
Thank you so much in advance for your answer
bump!
you need a MicroSD card and not a SD card
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i have a micro SD... i know what i can put in my device lol, but my external memory don't go up... my micro sd work only for music and movies...nothing more like games etc...
so i want my micro sd reconized like external or internal memory...
i have it for the Ace with darktremor script but nothing for my player...
thanks!
you're trying to swap internal and external memory?
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hum not really... will try to explain better.
I have 3 memory on my player 4.2:
- Internal with 2Go
- External with 4,6 Go
- Micro SD card 16 Go.
When i'm on setting > storage , i can see internal memory and external. so i've only 6.6Go.
My micro SD is not reconized as internal or external.
So i want to know if i can get it reconize as internal or external,because for installing big games ( most wanted etc...) i need a lot of space,and don't have enought space in the player...only in the card
hope you will understand me,i'm french and do my best for you ^^
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hum not really... will try to explain better.
I have 3 memory on my player 4.2:
- Internal with 2Go
- External with 4,6 Go
- Micro SD card 16 Go.
When i'm on setting > storage , i can see internal memory and external. so i've only 6.6Go.
My micro SD is not reconized as internal or external.
So i want to know if i can get it reconize as internal or external,because for installing big games ( most wanted etc...) i need a lot of space,and don't have enought space in the player...only in the card
hope you will understand me,i'm french and do my best for you ^^
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I know that internal/external swaps exist, either via hack or via app (google search). I'm not sure though how well it'll work for your device since I'm not too familiar with the 4.2. One program I know that lets you put apps on the actual SD card for use is Gemini App Manager. This is assuming your SD card is mounted.
Your SD card wouldn't be recognized as external or internal, but only as SD card (or something like that)
on my ace,when i put a sd card, it's recognize as external memory but not on my player because when you have those player,it have external memory without sd...
so i will try to find something if i can...
i want to do that: Expand memory but for my player ^^
No one have a solution?
I'm also looking for a similar solution. I've SMP 5.0 and i want to install games, problem is that they are using internal memory which is quite low. How do I install it on sd-card and not use internal memory???
i've maybe find something.
i test it and will report asap if it works for me
don't work,so i always search for that :/
well, good luck! i'm also searching for the same....
ok,if someone find something,post here
Hi,
Just this night I've been using my sdcard in a normal way, browsing internet, downloading files when suddenly my phone couldn't boot after flashing bootanimation (zip made by trusted developer so that's not the problem). Now when I connect my SD Card to the phone it will either say "preparing sdcard" forever or just simply freeze phone after few seconds. I tryed to connect it via working adapter with my PC to back it up... After copying few files sdcards unmounts from the reader... I've tryed on XP and it shows some command errors while trying to copy files in a regular way. I was ONCE able to flash few zips via recovery in order to make my phone boot up again it worked. Now I'm scanning my SD Card using Norton Internet security 2013 - Paid version - not cracked, and the sdcard seems to stay mounted to the PC. Unfortunately after trying to copy files from SD Card to PC it just freezes explorer.exe and unmounts itself...
Please help me, I really have some important pictures on this sd card
PS. 32 GB SanDisk Class 10 UHS-I (grey and red one)
PS. 2 I was using swap partition, maybe my sdcard went dead from constant reads and writes?
PS. 3 Using linux I managed to copy 81 MB... then any copying froze but ubuntu didn't... Damn, thats weird
It appears to randomly stop reading from SD Card as now it stopped at 153,1MB out of 422MB, all thumbnails of photos were shown properly though.
well first connect ur sdcard to an old mobile you have then connect mobile to computer
backup your data then use a partition tool to delete partition of sdcard then recreate it as FAT32 partition and try to put sdcard to your mobile again
if still, then wipe data/factory reseyt your rom
if doesn't work then let me know
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Well, connecting to an old mobile isnt an option as the SDCARD does the same thing even on xperia T which isnt that bad and that Xperia T never had this sdcard connected before.
I'd love to backup my data, but I can't
Full rom wipe and reflash fresh was done straight after getting problems with this sdcard.
Unfortunately it still doesn't work
I got the error I was talking about!
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EDIT: I'm trying to recover photos and movies (most important files) via BadCopy Pro, any other recommendations if it wouldn't work?
EDIT2: It seems that when I'm slowly copying data (scanning sectors) sdcard doesn't seem to unmount or do other crazy stuff, any other suggestions so I'll keep file names and structure? I don't care much about copying time, I can run copying going all night.
I've recovered like 90% of data. Afterwards I've tried to perform Low Level Format... But this goddamn sdcard had to eject just at the start, therefore partitions got deleted, I'm trying to rebuild bootsector with testdisk but it takes ages, even after looking at tutorials online it takes so long to rebuild bootsector, no idea why...
I just realised that im one of the "lucky" guys which have got faulty sdcard. It happens to small amount (they say) of sandisk ultra 32&64GB owners...
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hmm, tomorrow my summer vacation starts
add me skype : mohanad_ayman
and we'll talk about it and get a fix , cuz now i need to study
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The SD Card has faulty hardware, there's nothing you or I can do anymore just google "faulty sdcards sandisk"
olokos said:
The SD Card has faulty hardware, there's nothing you or I can do anymore just google "faulty sdcards sandisk"
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then use the warranty to change your card, when you buy something, you're supposed to get it fully working
Yeah, Ive already written to sandisk but their 2 final and most important messages were one in german abd second in english. Im glad that i have a private teacher which helps me in german and is getting me ready for FCE exam so he can translate german to normal language
Another problem is that this card was a gift on my name day and im not sure when it has been bought although i know where. Thats my problem now but you definitely cant help me with it.
Thanks anyway
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I have note 4 (so supports exfat) and atm I have a sd kingstone 32 gb with fat32. just copy/past all the folders from the old microsd to the new one (I have windows 7) but after I put the new 128 microsd in the note 4 was nearly everything perfet.I was able to see the fotos/video olso the gb of the sd was correct but...a fews games and a few app I just lost the shortcut and they dosent work anymore.ATN I put back my 32 gb sd thinking how to sort out the problem.I think the problem ist the different fat of the two sd card.At this point I will ask u help.Exfat is bettar (I meane battar saves future problems ) rispect the fat 32 or there is not so many differents?Another question I have two options...witch will be the best one? 1) I can convert my 32 gb sd (with alla data and foto) from fat32 gb to exfat and then copy the 32 gb exfat on the 128 gn exfat 3) convert the 128 gb exfat to fat 32 with application as fat32format and then copy the 32 gb fat32 in to the 128 gb fat 32.What u think will be the best way?And...I have win 7 on ntfs if I just copy all the 32 gb sd (fat32) in a folder on my coputer that will be a good way to save then as backup?
Thank's
Helen
Yes backup all files from the 32gb onto the comouter, then format the 128gb card to fat32 and transfer all the files to it, its pretty simple
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Yes backup all files from the 32gb onto the comouter, then format the 128gb card to fat32 and transfer all the files to it, its pretty simple
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Do u think so?I just did that but I dident sort out the problem I begin to think that Is not the fat32/ exfat problem still having only shotcuts without icons ok this is with old sd
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and this is with new sd
So is not the different fat I supose at this point taht is not enuf a copy/paste but I neade maybe to use a sort of program that can backup and then let me restore everything ob the new micro sd )I noticed that exFat ist faster so as I begin to suspect the problem is the way I make "backup" i will put back exFat the 129 gb sd.
What di u think?
Thank's
Helen
helen2 said:
do u think so?i just did that but i dident sort out the problem i begin to think that is not the fat32/ exfat problem still having only shotcuts without icons ok this is with old sd
and this is with new sd
so is not the different fat i supose at this point taht is not enuf a copy/paste but i neade maybe to use a sort of program that can backup and then let me restore everything ob the new micro sd )i noticed that exfat ist faster so as i begin to suspect the problem is the way i make "backup" i will put back exfat the 129 gb sd.
What di u think?
Thank's
helen
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i sort it out admin u can olso close post !
I have an Android 9 phone with a "SanDisk Ultra 200 GB microSDXC" card. When this SD card was installed it was formatted as "internal storage".
This SD card recently appears to have put itself into read-only mode.
I have copied all of the data from the SD card with the Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) via the USB port on the phone.
What is the best way to replace the bad SD card with a new one?
@davidmbesonen
Plug the SD-card into phone in question used and change it from "Internal" to "Portable" storage again.
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Plug the SD-card into phone in question used and change it from "Internal" to "Portable" storage again.
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It's my understanding that performing this operation will not change the data on the SD card (assuming it is in read-only mode). If the SD card is not in read-only mode then this operation will format the SD card thereby erasing all of the encrypted data. Is my understanding correct?
Also, after the SD card stopped functioning correctly, Android 9 Storage information changed. When the SD card was working the Storage information showed a single device listed as Internal storage with the capacity of the SD card. It was as if Android 9 hid the onboard internal storage (32 GB) after the SD card was added (as Internal storage). After the SD card stopped functioning correctly, Android 9 Storage now lists two storage devices, the onboard 32 GB as one device and the 200 GB SD card as a second device. Why does Android 9 seemingly stop showing both storage devices after the SD card is added as Internal storage? And why does it now display both devices again?
Thanks
@davidmbesonen
Just do what you were told to do, even if you don't understand the reason why. Afterwards you can pull out the SD-card and format it in order to make it useable again.
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@davidmbesonen
Just do what you were told to do, even if you don't understand the reason why. Afterwards you can pull out the SD-card and format it in order to make it useable again.
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I'm only asking additional questions because I want to make sure I'm making the best possible choices to increase the likelihood of returning the Android 9 phone to as close to the pre-SD-card-failure state as possible.
I'm sorry I'm currently asking uneducated storage questions.
Prior to posting here, I did search for up-to-date Android storage documentation in order to educate myself on the basics, however, I largely came up empty-handed.
Could you refer me to some documentation that **specifically** details the functionality of Android 9 storage and SD cards in both Portable and Internal modes? I'd be happy to increase my level of understanding, which would likely lead to a more efficient conversation here.
@davidmbesonen
Look inside here.
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@davidmbesonen
Look inside here.
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[Sorry for the delayed reply. I had a bigger project I needed to focus on.]
Thanks for that link. I read the information there. It's a helpful overview, and it doesn't provide me with the level of detail I'm looking for.
I have an Android 9 phone with an SD card formatted as "internal storage". This SD card switched to read-only mode. And I have yet to find a document that says something like "here's how to recover from an internal storage SD card that has become read-only **without** losing data".
An example of specific information that I don't yet possess; while I copied all the data from the phone via MTP, it's not clear to me that this is in fact a complete copy of everything the SD card contains. IOW, if I follow the procedure in msg #2 of this thread, end up with a functional SD card, and then copy everything back to it via MTP, will this result in a complete recovery without data loss?
I don't yet understand what Android 9 is doing when it presents a merged view of storage with an SD card set as internal storage. Is Android 9 storing only certain directories on the encrypted SD card? Where can I find a document that describes what happens when an SD card is formatted as internal storage?
Sincerely,
David
Here's some official documentation about SD cards: https://source.android.com/devices/storage/adoptable
[ That link seemed unreliable, so here's a backup: https://web.archive.org/web/20200823170742if_/https://source.android.com/devices/storage/adoptable ]
While the documentation at the above link is useful, it does not answer my questions. If you are aware of the existence of more detailed information about SD cards, please post it.
Thanks