Can I only put a 4gb file on the prime? Because I cant copy A 8gb file on there?
No file size limit. Please search before posting or stick with the thread you started for some minutes ago.
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its the limits of fat32 format on the sdcard, format it to ntfs...see:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1427587
fuzzer said:
its the limits of fat32 format on the sdcard, format it to ntfs...see:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1427587
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Im triing to copy it to the internal storage can you change that also? wouldn't android be corrupted
no, do not attempt to change internal storage format...
just answered your other post....
MACBLACK91 said:
Im triing to copy it to the internal storage can you change that also? wouldn't android be corrupted
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The internal storage is a linux partition and can handle the size. The SD CARD is FAT32 by default because that is what is mounted via USB and is the most compatible among devices. Kinda like a USB Thumbdrive.
To save it to internal memory you would need to save it somewhere outside of the SDCARD mount. You might need root access to save there though. I haven't tried yet myself and most user files are saved to the SDCARD by default.
BTW, its better to keep your questions to one post. Asking the same question in different threads will lead to confusion.
Okay sorry don't wonna confuse someone. I'll keep it in mind for the future but thanks to all
it has to do with MTP, you can copy something bigger than 4gs to the sd card via a reader and then internally transfer it to main memory, or use something like wifi explorer to wirelessly move it over.
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So I recently Romed my Viewsonic G Tablet.
I followed this guide.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=865245
Everything is fine..except when I put a SD card into the SD slot the Tablet doesn't recognize it. It just tells the the internal Space not the SD card space.
I used ZPad Clean v3.0 for the ROM and I used cwmod_internal.zip instead of cwmod_microsd.zip
I then used my friend's G Tablet and put the SD card in it..It read it just fine.
So I wanted to test it out while it was rooted. (to double check)
I then Rooted my friends GTablet also. I rooted it the same way but the only change I did was have a SD card in the tablet the whole time. Still the same problem.
Is there any way to fix it? DO i need to use cwmod_microsd.zip....instead of cwmod_internal.zip??
I'm really confused if someone can help me that would be amazing!
Is there an APP that tells you the storage of your installed SD Cards?
Thank you
You mean flashed the rom when you say romed. Have you checked to make sure the sdcard is getting mounted? If there is no data on it you might try reformatting it in either of the g tabs. If you can get to a shell you might reboot, and look at the last 20 lines or so of dmesg. Insert the card and take another look at dmesg and see if the kernel is picking up the insert at all. If so it is likely just a mounting issue.
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You mean flashed the rom when you say romed. Have you checked to make sure the sdcard is getting mounted? If there is no data on it you might try reformatting it in either of the g tabs. If you can get to a shell you might reboot, and look at the last 20 lines or so of dmesg. Insert the card and take another look at dmesg and see if the kernel is picking up the insert at all. If so it is likely just a mounting issue.
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Well I reformatted it and I mounted it. Still nothing..How can I check if the kernel is picking up the SD card at all?
Would changing Kernel's fix the problem? I'm just using the Stock Kernel that the ROM came with.
Thanks
You were able to reformat and mount it via the g tablet with the zpad software on it? And even having done that it doesn't list it as having any free space?
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You were able to reformat and mount it via the g tablet with the zpad software on it? And even having done that it doesn't list it as having any free space?
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Not yet. So should I go to Storage and devices and unmount and format the SD card via the tab?
Try it on the tablet.
If I reformat the SD card wouldn't I loose the root? or no right because I did external
My understanding of root is that it modifies files on your tab/phone, not an external sd card. Worst case you lose root and reroot the device.
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Try it on the tablet.
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Not yet. So should I go to Storage and devices and unmount and format the SD card via the tab?
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When I tap click mount it says 11.3 gigs available.
when i unmount it says unavailable.
The card is only 8GB.
It should be internal storage 16GB.
SD card like 8gb.
Not sure what's going on.
If I format I think I'll wipe it all.
Ok, there is an internal 16GB, yes. Of which you have 11GB free. The SD card you're having the issue with is a separate uSD 8GB, right?
I'm meaning for you to try to mount/unmount or possibly format the 8GB SD card. If it isn't showing at all then the issue is something beyond it simply not being mounted.
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Ok, there is an internal 16GB, yes. Of which you have 11GB free. The SD card you're having the issue with is a separate uSD 8GB, right?
I'm meaning for you to try to mount/unmount or possibly format the 8GB SD card. If it isn't showing at all then the issue is something beyond it simply not being mounted.
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Yeah. It's a separate card that I plugged into it.
Was there ever a fix/resolution for this? I am having the same issue.
Everyone,
I've written this a bunch of times -- but here's one more:
/sdcard -- internal memory of the tablet
/sdcard2 -- miniSD card in the external slot
/usbdisk -- USB key slot
Put your recovery folder and update.zip on /sdcard, turn off the tablet, the press power
and volume + to initiate standard recovery.
Second, put your recovery folder and update.zip on a miniSD card. Edit the command file
in the recovery folder with Notepad to change the location from /sdcard to /sdcard2 and
save it with the name "command" (NO .txt or other file extension). Then boot
recovery with power/volume + and the OS will use the sdcard (assuming you don't
have a live recovery/update.zip file in /sdcard).
Third, if you can boot recovery to CWM but can get your ROM to work, go in recovery to
the mount menu and go down to the mount USB memory option and choose it.
Then plug your connector cable from the miniSB port to your PC. When you plug into
your PC an Explorer window should open and you should have a drive letter representing
the G-Tablet (it's G: on mine) on you menu. You now can select that
letter and you have access to your tablet memory (/sdcard). I've even had a time or two
when not a single file showed!!! I added update.zip and recovery and loaded
a ROM!
The tablet boot process apparently checks /SDCARD. If it doesn't find a recovery files there
it does the same check if you have a miniSD external card installed. The large USB slot is not
useable for booting or recovery so far as I have determined or read.
I hope this helps you.
Rev
I own a visio tablet which I rooted with vegan and clockwork. I have a 32GB SD card but when I check the storage is says 12GB on SD and 2GB on internal. The tablet should have 16GB + my 32GB. Anyone have an idea why it wont come up?
Is the fix above the best way to take care of this issue?
Can anyone kindly help? I've read through a lot of the links and can't find anything. I have rooted my device with clockworm v8, Vegan, got the market place to work and now I just need to figure out what is going on with my 32GB SD card. Should I format it with FAT32? How can I get it to be recognized?
Thanks in advance!
Formatting to Fat32 would be a good start ;-)
SD Card Dilemma
I have the VEGAn-TAB-v1.0.0B5.1 installed in my G-Tab and, with the exception of the SD card issue, things are just peachy! I've read the entire thread but, even with butchconners description, I seem to still be missing something. Let me try to structure this a bit differently...
1. The sdcard2 DOES show up in ifilemanager (with only one file, LOST.DIR) but NOT in SETTINGS. Since it does not appear in SETTINGS, there is no way to mount or dismount it (although if it shows up in the file manager and I can see the file on it, one might infer that it is already mounted.)
2. Even though I can see it in ifilemanager, I'm not so sure how I can actually USE it. It seems to me that the system would need to know (via SETTINGS) that it is there and I would have to tell the system where to put my files (i.e., sdcard or sdcard2).
3. When I connect my G-Tab to my Win7 PC, I only have access to sdcard AND NOT sdcard2. This seems a bit unusual since I have always had access to the removable sd card AND NOT the system memory on all my other devices (EVO, Blackberry, etc.)
My goal is to be able to set applications (some or all) to use the sdcard2 (at least for data) and be able to access it via the usb connection to my PC. Does anyone know how to accomplish this?...Has a solution for this already been posted somewhere?
Many thanks.
I am not an expert but the pc sees(?) only sdcard(internal) but no sdcard2(microsd).
Right, Guys?
I am now able to see both sdcard1 and sdcard2 using pershoots latest oc kernal released 4/25 when hooking up gtab via usb to computer. I am using Vegan tab gingeredition.
where does one find that kernel and how do i install it? Im running vegan ginger right nowand have the same sd card issue.
thanks!
Sorry if this has been answered before.
I try to move a 6 gb file to either internal or external SD card and keep getting the message that the file is too large for the destination folder.
Are there limitations for the file size? If so what are they?
Thanks!
poliziano said:
I try to move a 6 gb file to either internal or external SD card and keep getting the message that the file is too large for the destination folder.
Are there limitations for the file size? If so what are they?
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I'm guessing that both the internal and external SD cards are formatted as FAT32? If so, FAT32 filesystems have a file size limitation of 2^32−1 (4,294,967,295) bytes.
That makes sense. Thank you for the help.
rajeevvp said:
I'm guessing that both the internal and external SD cards are formatted as FAT32? If so, FAT32 filesystems have a file size limitation of 2^32−1 (4,294,967,295) bytes.
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Now that is exact! Definitely handy info to know. At least to stump your friends with. thanks!
Hi iv connected my phone to my pc via usb I wanted to transfer 10GB file size over on to my sd card but it says file destination too small when there is enough space as my card is 16gb, any help please?
Your sd may be 16gb but you can use only 11.50 gb as the rest are used by the phone.. So I guess you have used over 1.50 gb already and there is not enough space... Try through an external sd or free some space...
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Your sd may be 16gb but you can use only 11.50 gb as the rest are used by the phone.. So I guess you have used over 1.50 gb already and there is not enough space... Try through an external sd or free some space...
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But it says I have 11.5gb free?
The file size is only 9.75gb
I see that there is a usb storage in 11.50gb and a system storage in 1.97 gb. Maybe the second is for the applications and is taken from the usb storage...
Why does the phone use 4.5GB of the SD cards space? I thought there was internal storage too.
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Yeah I thought so too but somehow it does...
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I see that there is a usb storage in 11.50gb and a system storage in 1.97 gb. Maybe the second is for the applications and is taken from the usb storage...
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But my external sd card is 16gb and 11.5gb is free on that
It's not only one file, is it? The file system (fat32) can't handle such big files.
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Tubgirl said:
It's not only one file, is it? The file system (fat32) can't handle such big files.
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Yeah it is fat32, and yeah it is one file. Is there a way around this?
Fat32 can only handle file sizes of around 4GB each time. So each file you want to transfer can only be around 4GB in size. I believe the SGS2 works with an NTFS formatted card, and with NTFS you can transfer any file size.
Can the file you are trying to transfer be broken up into small segments or must it remain as a 10GB file?
Chris.
themadba said:
Fat32 can only handle file sizes of around 4GB each time. So each file you want to transfer can only be around 4GB in size. I believe the SGS2 works with an NTFS formatted card, and with NTFS you can transfer any file size.
Can the file you are trying to transfer be broken up into small segments or must it remain as a 10GB file?
Chris.
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It's a video file. So must stay as one. I'll try to convert sd card as ntfs
S2 can't recognise ntfs
Are you sure? Pretty sure I read somewhere that it does. Oh well, is fat32 the only format it reads?
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Are you sure? Pretty sure I read somewhere that it does. Oh well, is fat32 the only format it reads?
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Seems to be, because when formatted to NTFS it says unrecognised format please reformat
Anybody else got ideas?
Try encode with smaller bit rate and smaller resolution?
Hope not too dumb a question but I cannot seem to find the location best suited to copy text, Word, Excel, etc. files to from my laptop to NT. I have CM10 running and a 16GB card, plus a repartitioned area with an additional 10GB although I don't see it.
Where is the best place to copy/access files such as these?
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Hope not too dumb a question but I cannot seem to find the location best suited to copy text, Word, Excel, etc. files to from my laptop to NT. I have CM10 running and a 16GB card, plus a repartitioned area with an additional 10GB although I don't see it.
Where is the best place to copy/access files such as these?
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Why not just make a "documents" folder on your SD card and stuff the files from your laptop there?
wedmiston said:
Hope not too dumb a question but I cannot seem to find the location best suited to copy text, Word, Excel, etc. files to from my laptop to NT. I have CM10 running and a 16GB card, plus a repartitioned area with an additional 10GB although I don't see it.
Where is the best place to copy/access files such as these?
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Well first of all you don't need to add an additional partition on your SD card. You should have 4 made: /boot, /system, /data, and /sdcard. You would place all files onto your /sdcard partition from your computer.
Here's a guide for bootable SD cards, it shows the partitions you should have:
http://iamafanof.wordpress.com/2012/11/11/how-to-guide-bootable-cm7cm9cm10-sdcard-for-nook-tablet/
wedmiston said:
Hope not too dumb a question but I cannot seem to find the location best suited to copy text, Word, Excel, etc. files to from my laptop to NT. I have CM10 running and a 16GB card, plus a repartitioned area with an additional 10GB although I don't see it.
Where is the best place to copy/access files such as these?
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If you're running CM10.x internally on emmc and with an SD card in the slot, you should be able to access both the NT internal storage partition for user-content and the SD card storage. If you use a File Manager app such as ES File Manager to browse the NT's root file-system (you need to go into the FM app's Settings to enable "Root explorer" option) the internal user-content storage is mounted as /emmc and also as /mnt/emmc, whereas the SDcard storage is mounted as /sdcard and also as /mnt/sdcard. You should also be able to see these storage areas when you connect your NT to your PC via USB.
Think the issue is when i use any of the three file manager apps I have installed, and then open /sdcard, I don't see anything. I know for a fact there are apps installed and some test files I copied over, so whats the deal? have given all three root privileges...I'm either looking in the wrong folders, or, something isn't configured correctly far as I can tell...makes no sense
BTW - That is my setup Digixmax - so then these are the locations to copy my files?
I've been trying to download some some files larger than 4GB. I downloaded them from MEGA but when it finishes the download, the downloaded file is just 4GB when the actual file is like 5.1GB.
I now this happens when trying to copy these kind fo files to the SD card. But why does it happens with the internal storage?
I have more that 14GB of storage free, so that shouldn't be a problem. The file system the data partition is formatted to is ext4.
Is there a way to fix this?
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I've been trying to download some some files larger than 4GB. I downloaded them from MEGA but when it finishes the download, the downloaded file is just 4GB when the actual file is like 5.1GB ...
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4GB is a fat32 limit. I doubt whether it is a mere coincidence that your files just happen to be limited to that size. Check carefully the format of your internal storage very carefully - it may well be fat32, even though you think it is ext4. If it is ext4, only linux-based OSes will be able to read/write to it (without special drivers).
DarthJabba9 said:
4GB is a fat32 limit. I doubt whether it is a mere coincidence that your files just happen to be limited to that size. Check carefully the format of your internal storage very carefully - it may well be fat32, even though you think it is ext4. If it is ext4, only linux-based OSes will be able to read/write to it (without special drivers).
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This app says its ext4. Then what should I do to be able to have files greater than 4GB?
Or is it better to format my SD card?
I just tried formating my SD card to exFAT but my phone doesn't recognize it. It says it's corrupt. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't. How do I fix this?
@Isley_ I don't think you should be trying to format your internal storage with external tools. Let the phone format it, and it should recognise it. In fact, I think the internal storage should be left well alone.
DarthJabba9 said:
@Isley_ I don't think you should be trying to format your internal storage with external tools. Let the phone format it, and it should recognise it. In fact, I think the internal storage should be left well alone.
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The problem is that the phone formats the SD to either FAT32 or VFAT which have a file size limit of 4GB.
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The problem is that the phone formats the SD to either FAT32 or VFAT which have a file size limit of 4GB.
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Yes, it is a problem. However, not all ROMs support exFAT (probably the problem that you have now run into). You first need to ascertain that your ROM (or kernel) actually supports exFAT. If it does, then you should not have had any problem reading the internal SD.
Perhaps F2FS may be more widely supported, and perhaps this may be a solution to your problem. However, changing your data partition to F2FS will involved losing all your data (including data on the internal SD). I don't have any direct experience with F2FS, so I can't say how helpful it would be in your case. It may come with its own problems. You can experiment with an external microSD card.