Im trying to find a way to put files bigger then 4gb on my 32gb micro sd card. Ive checked the forums, and haven't found a way for the phone to recognize the card as NTFS format, or to beat the 4gb file size limit. Does anyone know of a way to beat this. Thanks
ext4 is more likely to work than NTFS... but it'll require some initramfs or manual shell hackery to mount.
are there any roms that have what is needed included, or is this something more complicated
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today i got my Transcend 32GB SD card but i fail to copy videos bigger than 4Gb to it.
anyone managed to circumvent the FAT32 file size limit or knows whether or not the HD2 can cope with an NTFS formatted card?
thanks!
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today i got my Transcend 32GB SD card but i fail to copy videos bigger than 4Gb to it.
anyone managed to circumvent the FAT32 file size limit or knows whether or not the HD2 can cope with an NTFS formatted card?
thanks!
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It's not possible to put files of over 4GB on FAT32 - end of. There's no way round it and no, you can't use NTFS formatted cards.
The only thing I can suggest is a video splitter. If they're MKV files then use mkv2vob which converts them to MPEG files. There's an option specifically for use with FAT32 drives that splits the video into 4GB chunks. If they're not MKV then (what the hell are they at over 4GB????) google to find a suitable alternative app. There's plenty out there.
Good luck
thanks for the quick reply mate!
i just read that it's maybe possible to use an alternative Linux file systems on the SD card, but there's no confirmation so far if and how this works.
so, anyone got info on whether or not FAT32 is the only format the HD2 is compatible with?
No worries mate. I had all this when I used to have a "media drive" that I shared between my PC and PS3, so I know it can be a pain.
Hope you get something sorted.
Hey guys I have been trying to get some info if it is possible to put on and play larger files then 4gb on my galaxy s2.
I havebought a micro usb to HDMI adapter and I want to stream blurry rips to my projector using my phone.
I know the file system is good only to 4gb but why is there no custom rom that Will let me formated and read/write to say ntfs in my sd card in my phone. Isn't android Linux based? I know my ubuntu has no problems reading and writing ntfs. Why can the inserted sd card not be treated like a hard drive I plug into my laptop?
Thanks for your time.
I'm not 100% sure, but if the system is set to FAT32, then it won't be able to read NTFS anyways... and microSD card is set to Fat32, so there is a problem. But there is a possible workaround I will tell you to try AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Remember, this may or may not work... so this is what you should do to be safe:
1) Do not format the card with your phone. Take it out and plug it into your PC via
a usb card reader. Make sure your system is set to see ALL files (hidden)... and copy the whole microSD card contents to a backup folder on your PC (preserving everything as is).
2) Now select your card drive and format by selecting NTFS format.
***many MicroSD cards can't be formatted like that .. but you can give it a try and see.
OH, and you might need to use Drive Mount by Dwayne Hoy. HERE
If it doesn't work - then format it back to Fat32 and put back all your content.
PS
There are different ways you can backup your Card, but I take no responsibility if this screws things up
Good luck!
Ok so far Ive found the mod to swap the internal and external sd,
The ideal mod for me is to merge all the 16gb internal into one partition and mount my sd card as a normal sd instead of external sd.
If anyone knows of the mod to do it the way ideal for me please link me. If you are a dev and like this idea would you take the challenge to make this happen? I will gladly beta test as long as a fastboot is available.
You want volume management on a phone?
Just get a big honking SD card. I have a SanDisk 64GB sdxc.
The 128GB cards will probably be available by October.
That said, you can probably get LVM working under Android, but you'll only be able to work with it from the phone itself (no browsing from a PC or putting stuff on the microSD directly w/o totally breaking the logical volume).
You can also format the SD space as ext3, then set up /etc/fstab to mount the external SD on a folder on the internal SD eg, /mnt/sdcard/Music Library. You won't be able to read/write that space from Microsoft (no, e2fsd won't do it), but any other OS can browse it like any other disk drive. Also, the drives will still appear separate from outside the phone.
the ext3 sounds nice but I like my idea better, my idea is pretty much the way samsung/htc/lg formats their storage, one is phone storage, other is sd, not the phone, sd (other internal) and extended sd(actual sd card)
and sorry for some confusion for anyone I meant Extended sd not external, kinda a noob in here coming from a sammy prepaid android.
Iirc in ICS the internal memory is counted as one part. So the 4gb and 8gb will be 12gb or whatever. Android 2.3 and below use the partitioned method.
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Edit; therefore wait till ICS comes out
Okay i hope someone can help me fast with this
I cant use FAT32 which works okay as long as i don`t have larger files than 4GB!
But the truth is that i have lots of files i want to move over to my SD card that is over that limit. I have tried EXfat and its not even readable in CM 10.1. Fine, Lets try NTFS. Now i can move the files over to the SD card from my computer. But i have only READ access in my Galaxy TAB P5110???
I cant change that in any way it seams! So What can CM10.1 handle? Not much i think? Or am i wrong?
I need to have a filesystem that can handle small files around 40.000 in the same folder. I also want a filesystem that can handle larger files then 4GB. I also want CM 10.1 to work with that filesystem, I mean so i can move files from my internal memory to the external. That only works in FAT32 for me . Any suggestions please :/
How to mount an USB stick formatted ext2/3/4?
When I connect a FAT formatted stick, it works, NTFS too using the Paragon_NTFS TC plugin.
I thought ext2/3/4 is supported, when the system and internal storage is on an ext4 partition.
Has the tablet to be rooted?
Tried also an ext3 formatted SDCard in the tablet, the result is the same - it says the card is empty or an unsupported filesystem..
The format it is told to read the sd card is different from the format it's told to read the system as. I'd say you'd have to be rooted if making any changes to what's readable versus what's not. The only thing is I'm not too sure on how exactly you'd do that other than using a cwm recovery and adding an extension partition on your card.
I'm afraid I need to do something like this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/dell-venue/general/guide-ext4-microsd-card-dell-venue-8-t3042906
The main problem is, I can't root my Venue because I've encrypted the filesystem.
I'm afraid I have to reformat my USB sticks to FAT32/NTFS ...
Decrypt then? Root and recrypt?
Edit: did you buy a large as card?
My 32 is in but have only had issues with higher cards like 64 and 128. There's an application I once used to format the card on board but when I plugged it into PC whether Linux or win, they'd get corrupted. So now the 128 lives in my laptop and the 64 in phone. 32 for the tablet for me is plenty. Onboard formatted to exFat I believe. Backup your goods. [emoji12]
Edit 2: I'm sure there's an app for that. No? Sorry, I was talking micro SD like a MF, lol! Stuff like that is not cool but I throw everything on my biggest USB 128 and it's formatted to NTFS but my others are just fat and don't read either.
According the instructions when encrypting, there is no decrypting, only factory reset.
I have a 64GB card, formatted to FAT32, no issues so far.
The idea was to use an EXT3 formatted USB thumb drive for big files (movies), so far I'm bypassing the problem with a NTFS formatted USB thumb drive and the Paragon_NTFS TC plugin but I have to copy the big file to the internal storage because the plugin doesn't make the NTFS drive visible for other apps than TC (Total Commander).
Edit: There are apps for mounting USB EXT2/3/4 (USB OTG Helper, USB Mount All, StickMount) but they all require root.
Then follow the crowd and. ..
Root it, root it, root it.... lol
Those were the apps I've used before and I root every device I own before I even get comfy with it.