Got the phone on launch and enjoying it so far but 1 major problem is the external memory card file-system: FAT32.
Now the phone can handle MKV file extensions but a good majority of files are larger than 4GB and FAT32 cannot handle anything of that size. Does anyone know how this can be remedied without hacking the phone? I really dont want to mess around with the kernel as I did with HTC Desire & Samsung Galaxy S and long term suffered from no updates.
So far I have formatted the memory card via Ubuntu to ext4 but the phone will always prompt to format when I go into the card. If I ignore this I can see my files BUT again I cant for some bizarre reason transfer large files into the phone. Remember the applications to connect to the phone are New Pc Studio & Keis are Windows based so they will not recognize the external card due to the linux filesystem.
The only way I can get files into the phone is via Keis Air but transferring files via WIFI larger than 4GB always breaks.
Its madness for Samsung to be able to play MKV files but not be able to format the external memory card to a filesystem that can handle the damn filesize!
Have you tried pushing the files via adb?
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sorry
but i don't think android can play videos sized more than 4gb!
i think it is because of the system
I think Kies chops the video up automatically when you use it to transfer anything over 4GB to the SD card/External SD card (Fat32). Give it a try?
Use handbrake for movies. I had a ton of 1080p movies I shrunk and file size was cut in half with no loss of quality.
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ANy one got this problem ?? i am not able to play files more than 32 gb.i have transcend 32 gb drive. rest all are looking fine,but big files are not working
That is an 4 GIG limitation of filesystem FAT16 or FAT32
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format your SD card with your PC to NTFS!
formatted with NTFS
its ntfs only. once i copy files, they will be playing..bug i cant drag n put in middle f the film..i have to start from beginning.. and if i restart phone, these files are showing 0 kb size ((
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its ntfs only. once i copy files, they will be playing..bug i cant drag n put in middle f the film..i have to start from beginning.. and if i restart phone, these files are showing 0 kb size ((
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Normally that means the video stream index is screwed. Down to how u or some1 else encoded it.
Play on computer using VLC and if prompted by VLC "rebuild index".
Or encode it again in a nice format with keyframes and/or indexes.
Well the phone doesn't natively recognize ntfs, so that's not really a solution unless you want to run script files to mount and unmount the card. A more practical solution would be to re encode the movies. I'm assuming these 4gb files are 720p or similar resolution. As the s2 has a resolution of 800x480 anything larger is pointless.
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Well the phone doesn't natively recognize ntfs, so that's not really a solution unless you want to run script files to mount and unmount the card. A more practical solution would be to re encode the movies. I'm assuming these 4gb files are 720p or similar resolution. As the s2 has a resolution of 800x480 anything larger is pointless.
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good point, there is really no need for 720p or higher resolutions! best way is to reencode to a mp4 with a resolution of 480p/i and if that file is really bigger than 4Gb, why not split it in half? It's not like your phone can handle a 6h (or more? not sure ) movie with one charge. Or the bitrate is ridiculously high, bloating the file unneccessariely.
Hi,
Has anybody managed to transfer a large MKV or any large file over 4gb to the Internal (USB storage) via USB?
Im trying to transfer a HD movie around 4.3gb and it will start to transfer, but a few minutes from finishing the transfer I get an error message pop up saying the device has stopped responding. I have transferred a 2gb film no problem this way so I'm wondering if the internal storage is formatted to FAT32 which is causing the issue? But if that was the case then i would have thought I would have got a warning saying the file was to large before transferring it.
Any ideas?
you can only transfer up to 2gb on a fat32-drive. need ntfs for more.
oh, and yes you most likely have fat32 preformatted.
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I was having this issue too. I thought it had something to do with the tablet going into "sleep" mode cause it was taking so dang long!
looks like Fat format size per file limit
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Fat32 supports only files up to 4gb.
Wikipedia:
The maximum possible size for a file on a FAT32 volume is 4 GB minus 1 byte or 4 294 967 295 (2 32 −1) bytes. This limit is a consequence of the file length entry in the directory table and would also affect huge FAT16 partitions with a sufficient sector size. [1] Video applications, large databases, and some other software easily exceed this limit. Larger files require another filesystem.
I know this dosent help, but why not just play it off of the external media? There is no reason to transfer it.
i cant even get my tablet s to read my 1TB external HD... i think cause is on NTFS... but is this mean i have to find another ext HD format it to FAT32 and copy over 500gig of stuff their in order to watch my mkv movies on my tablet S??
I watch movies defining share on my desktop, installing TVMobili server there and then using UPnP and MoboPlayer on tablet to stream movie or music.
Well as long as other people are seeing it too. I wouldn't say it was due to the tablet going to sleep at a crucial moment as I made sure it was awake the whole time.
The fat 32 file limit like restriction seems to be a plausible explanation, but I would have expected to have seen a warning or error before the transfer began.
Streaming isn't a problem, but if I'm on a long train journey then a film is a good way to spank the time (providing it fits on your tablet!).
I guess we may just have to split >4GB movies
Is there any other format I can use on my 32 GB Sd Card, a side from FAT 32?
I bought this card so I could take movies out of my home library and put them on the SD card with the intention of watching them on the tab using dice player.
All my movies are 4+ GB in size, so FAT 32 is out. I tried MAC OS journaled with no luck.
Is there an app, or some other method I can use to accomplish my goal?
I know I can transfer wirelessly to the tab without issue, and that's great for 2-3 movies but I'd like to travel with more than 2-3 movies AND without having to re-size, download a smaller size, etc...
I download movies from http://mobiletheatre.info/mobile/ and they come as MP4s. You could probably use a conversion program to pack them up a bit. Mine are like 600MB-1.2GB each
Has anyone been able to transfer large .mkv movies over to the Galaxy S3 external (or internal) memory using Windows? Every time I try to copy a video over it crashes my windows explorer.
Anyone had the same problem/found a solution?
Thanks
The max file size for FAT32 partitions is 4.0Gb - 1 byte. Anything above that may cause crashes and/or curruption.
If the file you`re trying to copy exceeds that limit, either use exFAT on your external SD card or split the file.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Limits
Simonetti2011 said:
The max file size for FAT32 partitions is 4.0Gb - 1 byte. Anything above that may cause crashes and/or curruption.
If the file you`re trying to copy exceeds that limit, either use exFAT on your external SD card or split the file.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems#Limits
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Forgot to mention. My memory card is already formatted as exFAT.
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Forgot to mention. My memory card is already formatted as exFAT.
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Try using other computer. Maybe the bug is in your current computer.
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Re name your mkv file extension to avi and then it should work
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I am running a 4.7ghz pc with 8 gb ram and when I copy files from my phone to computer, two things happen:
1)It is dog @ss slow, takes like 3 hours (my Evo took like 10 minutes)
2)It freezes up the computer constantly (unusable), and then when it is
finished copying, the computer remains out of memory or 98% used of 8 GB!
So there definately is a bug in the Galaxy SIII copying from Windows 7.
I know they made a retarded move to not let you mount it like a USB drive,
so it takes FOREVER, and transfering files as if they were media or camera is
just so slow and stupid. I hope they come out with a fix for this, I know there
is an app from you guys in beta Easy UMS, but I have beta 2, installed busybox, etc., and my computer still can't see the drive with UMS mode.
About playing the video, I would say that the stock video player doesn't play it, but if u use qqplayer u will be able to play it.
Can u check the transfer of the same filer in another pc and report back?
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The problem it's not the size of the video(i tried to move a mkv of 2gb).I'm also affected from this problem and the only way i found is to use a card reader.
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This is happening to me too, whatever size the mkv file is. What i do is, rename the mkv extension to mo or any ma, then copy paste to sd card, rename it in root explorer back to mkv. Works for me
Well,i'll do it the next time thx far the tip:thumbup:
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I think the issue is that you are using MTP (Media Transfer Protocol) to transfer data from pc to GS3 which is the default way in Android 4.0.
Use 'SGS3 EASY UMS' app to mount your SD card as USB mass storage.
This will resolve the problem.
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just take the .mkv file extension of the movie, tanner it over, use es file explorer to add the extension back back on.
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Uninstall DIVX if you have it or turn off thumbnails in windows. Yes MTP sucks.
Hey guys! So, I would like to use our OG to play movies when I go over to friends' places. I have the MHL adapter and I have the movies (1080P) but I can't get my movies to copy over to the SD card. My movies are around 8-10GB and I know that FAT32 has a max file size of 4GB, so I'm trying to figure out how I should format the card so that I can transfer files larger then 4GB to the SD card!! Any Ideas? I tried ext4, but this was just reformatted to FAT32 when I put it in the OG.
Did some searching and found this . . .
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1724078
NTFS3g driver that could be compiled into our kernal!!!
Anyone know how to get thsi to work with our phones?