HI
I took the 32gb memory card out of my old HTC Desire HD and put it into my new S3.
Very strange because although the directory structure appears, the file explorer reports that every directory is empty - which they aren't.
The storage statistics correctly tells me that the memory card is almost full - so why won't it read the files?
I think that's the same thing as what happened to me today. No idea why it happened, but the SD contents showed up correctly after rebooting my phone.
Thanks.
Comforting to know that it isn't only me. However I rebooted the phone but no change.
Sounds like a formatting problem. You might have to copy the data off to a computer using a card reader or the old phone then reformat the card using the gs3 before putting your data back on the card.
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Yes, I think that must be the explanation. What a nuisance.
I'll try it and report back. Ta
Well it is very wierd.
I formatted the sdcard both on the PC and also in the phone.
Despite this, the file explorer still reports the file structure - which now no longer exists.
I've rebooted the phone. Makes no difference.
Phantom file structure reported on the phones file explorer - even though the available storage size is correct in the storage stats.
Does the computer also report the phantom file system?
This seems really strange indeed.
Have you tried writing new files to the card on the gs3 then see if they show up in the computer?
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No. The computer shows correctly.
But now - even more wierd, I downloaded a lot of files to the phone's internal memory.
Although the SDcard is empty, the phone's file explorere now shows the SDcard as containing the files.
My head is spinning.
I wonder if this is at all related to my issue (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1698672). I also experienced a phantom file structure, but it only affected a few hundred picture and music files (out of several thousand).
Thanks for this suggestion.
I don't think that the issue is the same. It was never formated exFAT and also there is no trace of the files at all.
When the car is inserted back into the HTC there is no problem. When it is in the PC - no problem.
I have now tried with another card - 16gb. Same thing.
These are good quality cards which have been used for more than a year on other phones.
I'm starting from scratch today. I'm going to reformat the 16gb using a full format - FAT32 and see what happens.
It shouldn't neeed to be this hard
Just to reiterate:-
The really puzzling things are:-
The phone's faliure to see the files - but it sees the directory structure.
The phone sees a "virtual/phantom" directory structure after an in-phone formatting
The phone sees files on the card if they have been copied there from the internal memory.
have you tried another card with the same capacity? what about reformatting the card from the phone after backing up the contents?
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have you tried another card with the same capacity? what about reformatting the card from the phone after backing up the contents?
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Yup - done all of that. No difference
what ROM are you using? are you using a custom ROM?
No. Brand new received yesterday t-mobile s3
Is it possible that the internal memory and the sdcard are being spanned in some way so that to the file explorer they all appear as one?
In fact even my Profimail email application reports that the directories and files are on the sdcard when in fact they are now on the internal memory and the sdcard is newly formatted and empty
Are you sure that you try to access your sdcard via /mnt/extSdCard/ ?
Samsung points the folder /sdcard/ to the internal memory and not to your sd card, so please make sure this isn't the problem.
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Ah - that sounds like a likely possibility.
Where can I find out more about this pelase.
Is there a way that I can point it at the physical card.
I really just want my phone to work in a way that I am used to and not in some wierd Samsung-controlled way
Yes, I can confirm that is what is happening.
It is really very ambiguous. ESfile explorer reports the directory structure on the external card but doesn't report the files. This is definitley a glitch which needs to be sorted out.
It also means that if you use windows file explorer to upload data directly on to the external card, it doesn't seem to be accessible to the phone.
Surely this can't be right
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hey guys i just got my external sd card and i put files (such as music) into it.
however i CANNOT see anything when using Astro File Manager except two folders:
.android_secure and LOST.DIR.
whats wrong? please help guys!
help guys :S
Copy files to external SD card via USB Mass storage mode .
Do you see the files in Windows Explorer .
Probably you are that impatient you have copied the files to a wrong place .
jje
YES i do see them in my Windows PC...just cant see them in my device.
using I9100
Do they play .
Are they visible via My Files or in the Music Player .
jje
JJEgan said:
Do they play .
Are they visible via My Files or in the Music Player .
jje
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no... cant see nothing! (except on PC)
Copy the files back to your PC (if you need to) and reformat it, making sure you do it as FAT32. Then copy the files back.
use your SGS2 to format the sdcard, this should settle problems with filesystem, cluster size, ... then try again. make a backup of your files before you format!
same happend to my 32gb class 4 sdhc card abd after 2 days it become dead, now it is not working any more. May be your card has the same problem that mine had. I bought it from ebay and it was local china made card. I claimed my money and got it back.
may be this would help you, do not consider that your card is also going to die, i just told you what happened to mine.
actually i got my microSD from my previous device-Nokia E72
it is a SDHC so it should fit the FAT32 system..no?
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actually i got my microSD from my previous device-Nokia E72
it is a SDHC so it should fit the FAT32 system..no?
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It's best to format it if you're having issues, especially with something like files appearing/not appearing on different devices.
As suggested by d3l1 above, use the phone to format it. If you still have problems then there are better formatting apps for your PC.
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It's best to format it if you're having issues, especially with something like files appearing/not appearing on different devices.
As suggested by d3l1 above, use the phone to format it. If you still have problems then there are better formatting apps for your PC.
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if there are still problems he should test the card and see if it's dying, happens from time to time.
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if there are still problems he should test the card and see if it's dying, happens from time to time.
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i have reformatted and still i cant see nothing with my device is my sd card dead?
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i have reformatted and still i cant see nothing with my device is my sd card dead?
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if you can open it in your pc then its not dead yet.. may sure you are opening the correct folder for external card. The folder is in sdcard\ externalSd or something like that
did you try another card? there are so many possibilities as to what may be the problem.
i can see the folder SDCARD/external_SD
but inside i can only see LOST.dir and .android_secure, nothing else! but i did put some music in it!
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same here formated the sdcard in my pc put in my phone then transfered music.phone couldnt see any files so formated sdcard in phone this time but when hooked it up to the pc the files were still there even though they had been formated.lol not sure what to do next.
Tired of that small 5gb usb storage? Here is my hack to swap your external SD card with the USB storage!
This is usefull especially if you use GPS apps that download maps or games that download big data files! I got the idea and studied several hacks for the galaxy 1900 so partial credit goes to whoever made those hacks.
DISCLAIMER : I have only tested this on the 4.0 U.S version running 2.3.5 and am not responsible for a brick (although it seems impossible to brick your phone while messing with this file).
So basically start by going to /system/etc using root explorer or similar (yes, you need root). Once there backup the vold.fstab file to somewhere ON ROOT (I put it in /data/app/)! This is important so you can access it if you need to restore it (also make sure root explorer is installed on device memory, not SD card). Now take my modified vold.fstab and replace the original in /system/etc, then change the permissions to rw-r--r-- (long click the file, then select permissions) . If all goes right after you reboot your device, USB storage should now be your SD card and vise versa! Be aware any apps on your USB storage will now have to be transfered using a PC, move the .android_secure folder to your SD card. Hope it works!
EDIT: here is a modified version for the yp-g70, all credit goes to rjsmith2007 for making and testing this!
Won't Maps pull data from the Ext SD anyway? All my music is on ext SD and players have no problem finding it; I would think maps would be the same. It's really like a 5gb and 16 gb (in my case) partition (isn't it?).
I'm looking for a reason to root, SD card/space is not one of them. My battery only charging to 90% is though, need to recalibrate (since it's never hit 100%)
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Won't Maps pull data from the Ext SD anyway? All my music is on ext SD and players have no problem finding it; I would think maps would be the same. It's really like a 5gb and 16 gb (in my case) partition (isn't it?).
I'm looking for a reason to root, SD card/space is not one of them. My battery only charging to 90% is though, need to recalibrate (since it's never hit 100%)
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I am referring to when you download maps with an app like sygic;
it saves it to the /sdcard/ directory instead of the /sdcard/external_ed/. Also gameloft games do the same and can use up your room pretty fast. I find this pretty useful myself, since I have a 32gb sd card, but just wanted to post it so if anyone does ever need it, it's here for them.
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DISCLAIMER : I have only tested this on the 4.0 U.S version running 2.3.5 and am not responsible for a brick (although it seems impossible to brick your phone while messing with this file).
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I just tried it with my Galaxy S Wifi 5.0. The mapping of the internal sd to the external_sd folder fails, but it works for mapping my external sd to the sdcard folder.
Edit: I took a look at the original and made a modification to yours to work with the YP-G70 model (the 5 inch one). Just copy the file from within the zip folder to your /system/etc folder.
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I just tried it with my Galaxy S Wifi 5.0. The mapping of the internal sd to the external_sd folder fails, but it works for mapping my external sd to the sdcard folder.
Edit: I took a look at the original and made a modification to yours to work with the YP-G70 model (the 5 inch one). Just copy the file from within the zip folder to your /system/etc folder.
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Thank you! I appreciate it! I post it on the original post and give you the credit.
Thanks man. I appreciate it. I was trying to do this myself before, but ended up having to format my SDcard and gave up. Thanks for the help!
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Thanks man. I appreciate it. I was trying to do this myself before, but ended up having to format my SDcard and gave up. Thanks for the help!
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glad I could help!
Can't I just copy all of the data from my internal sd card onto my computer, remove the internal sd card, copy those files onto a larger sd card and put the larger sd card back into the galaxy player? Im sorry if this Queston has been asked before, or if it sounds stupid, but I can't find the answer to this Queston anywhere! Thanks in advance!
(P.S) This post was made with a Samsung Galaxy Player 5.0! No joke!
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Can't I just copy all of the data from my internal sd card onto my computer, remove the internal sd card, copy those files onto a larger sd card and put the larger sd card back into the galaxy player? Im sorry if this Queston has been asked before, or if it sounds stupid, but I can't find the answer to this Queston anywhere! Thanks in advance!
(P.S) This post was made with a Samsung Galaxy Player 5.0! No joke!
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Hi,
There's still a bit of confusion with respect to terminology, I think (including myself).
I *think* that when the SGP5 displays "internal sd card", it's only part of the "internal 8GB memory". That "internal 8GB memory" is probably, I guess, something like an SDCARD or flash memory module that's soldered to the mainboard, and with Android, I think that it's split into a couple of areas.
Here's my "guess" of how things are arranged, using the terminology from Settings==>SD card and device storage:
"System storage": Part of the 8gb internal memory, e.g., includes /system, etc.
[1.65GB, in my SGP5]
"USB Storage" = "internal sd card" = /sdcard: The rest of the 8gb internal memory.
[5.01GB, in my SGP5]
"SD Card": The external microSD card, if you have one plugged in. Appears at /sdcard/external_sd.
[29.81GB, in my SGP5, where I have a 32GB microSD card plugged in.]
That System storage + USB Storage totals 1.65+5.01 GB, or 6.66GB. I guess the remainder of the 8GB is for bootloader, etc.?
Jim
Looks about right. Task Manger has them labeled like you list them, except there is a "Personal data" partition. It's 133mb on my 5.0. Maybe email and contacts?
I'm guess apps get installed on "System Storage", plenty of room there without having to move stuff to USB or Ext. I pretty much just use my ext card for media and pictures.
For some reason this caused issues with my Market connecting to the internet, any idea why? Anyone else experience issues with this modification?
Hmm, no no one has mentioned that problem, and I have been using this for months - no problem. Sorry if it did that, have you tried restoring the original? Also, an update to the instructions is to change the permissions to rw-r-r. I didn't notice anything wrong without changing the permissions, but you never know.
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Hi,
There's still a bit of confusion with respect to terminology, I think (including myself).
I *think* that when the SGP5 displays "internal sd card", it's only part of the "internal 8GB memory". That "internal 8GB memory" is probably, I guess, something like an SDCARD or flash memory module that's soldered to the mainboard, and with Android, I think that it's split into a couple of areas.
Here's my "guess" of how things are arranged, using the terminology from Settings==>SD card and device storage:
"System storage": Part of the 8gb internal memory, e.g., includes /system, etc.
[1.65GB, in my SGP5]
"USB Storage" = "internal sd card" = /sdcard: The rest of the 8gb internal memory.
[5.01GB, in my SGP5]
"SD Card": The external microSD card, if you have one plugged in. Appears at /sdcard/external_sd.
[29.81GB, in my SGP5, where I have a 32GB microSD card plugged in.]
That System storage + USB Storage totals 1.65+5.01 GB, or 6.66GB. I guess the remainder of the 8GB is for bootloader, etc.?
Jim
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Pretty close.
https://github.com/Entropy512/initramfs_yp-g70/blob/master/misc/recovery.fstab is the Player 5.0 partition table.
As you can see, nearly everything is on partitions of mmcblk0 - on the Player 5.0, this is eMMC (embedded MMC) storage. The total size of mmcblk0 is 8GB
The partitions here include (but are not limited to):
p10 - EFS - this contains device-specific config data, on phones that includes IMEI, on our device it's probably Bluetooth and WiFi MAC addresses
p11 - Kernel
p12 - Recovery (on some devices, recovery is a separate kernel partition - Samsungs have this partition set aside even though most of their devices don't actually use it. You can put anything you want on p12 and it won't do anything usually. For us, recovery is part of the kernel initramfs on p11)
p13 - /system - This is where the system firmware, often called the "ROM" sits. A number of people are trying to fight the "ROM" terminology, since it's not really true - flash isn't read-only, thus it isn't the "ROM" any more
p14 - In the linked file it's /datadata, but the device actually mounts it as /dbdata - various SQL databases for apps live here
p15 - /cache - a cache partition separate from data. Files stored here are intended to be safely wipable/deletable
p16 - /data - Various user data. Your apps live here unless you've moved them to SD. Most system settings are here too. ICS merges this partition with the internal SD so they are one and the same
p17 - /emmc in recovery and, if someone ever has the time to port it, CM7, /sdcard in Samsung factory firmwares. This is the "internal SD card".
There are a few other partitions that are not touched by recovery that exist, such as the LFS partition and the bootloader partitions. These are all small.
mmcblk1 is the external SD. Usually only one partition, which is /sdcard in recovery/CM7 and /sdcard/external_sd in Samsung factory firmwares
On the 4.0, I believe it uses Samsung's older NAND flash technology and not eMMC, so the partitions on internal storage appear as stlN/bmlN
i think i did something disaster...
i am using Samsung Galaxy W. I did follow your above instruction. The problem is after restarting my phone, I go to setting>storage and it shows total space and available space for SD card and USB storage is UNAVAILABLE. What is available is only Device Memorry which is 1.03GB.
Thinking that your vold.fstab is not compatible with my Samsung Galaxy W, I replace it with the original vold.fstab that I backed up earlier. However this does not solve the problem.
Then what I did is I tried to reset the phone to its original factory setting (Setting>Privacy>Factory Data Reset..),. Unfortunately the same problem still persist. And i think this is silly and catastrophic step since i loss my original vold.fstab which is stored in the internal memory.
Any of you can help me?
Many thanks to all of you
Well, did you change the permissions on your backup back to rw-r--r--? And yes, this mod should only be used for the device intended for. Are you sure that you replaced the modified vold.fstab with the original one? Did it give you an warning about overriding (it should have)? Are you sure you used your backup and not accidentally mine? What program did you use to copy?
Hmm stupid question, but how do you replace the existing file? I am using root explorer an it says it is read-only when I try to paste it in there.
Edit... Never mind... I didn't have it mounted correctly.
I have tried this multiple times, but every time I reboot it says "USB storage damaged, may need reformatting." So I press reformat, and it's done in like 1 sec and the problem still persists.
Any ideas?
Hmm, odd. I know you have the same version player as me, are you running 2.3.5 or 2.3.6, maybe that could affect it? Did you try before you did a lot of modifications to your device? What type of SD card you got, I use a 32gb class sandisk. I don't think that would matter, but you never know. I recall getting that error when I was working on the mod, but I got it fixed before I released it. Weird.
Oh yeah, what do you have your sd card formatted as? I use FAT32, not sure if that could affect it. May want to try reformatting the card on a PC, then try.
I have a 8gb kingston micro sd card, and I'm running 2.3.5. I had this problem a long time ago too when I was still on stock. Maybe it's my sd card. I will reformat it and try again, and if it doesn't work I will try a different sd card.
Hi,
Yesterday I was backuping files from sdcard to pc. I accidentally interrupted it in the middle of the process and then I got warnings on phone about sddcard being corrupted.
Next thing I did, was to change my firmeware (ICS). (Thats why I was backuping). In new firmaware I still got info about sd card being corrupted so I tried to format it on phone with no results. I formatted it on PC to fat system.
NOW here is a problem:
When I put a sdcard which is full (transferred files from PC) - in settings - storage I can seee that it is full (gives info about how many mbs are free). However when I try to enter external_sd with ES File Explorer or normal android explorer it shows that there are NO files on sdcard. When I try to connect phone with sdcard in it to PC I can only see main phone storage not SD card.
It happens with every sdcard I put into my phone.
Anyone knows what to do?
EDIT: Now I am on Hydrogen ICS
Did you check to see if the SD card was mounted?
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Yes it is. In settings I can see how much space is on it left.
*Is there a format option in ICS?*
*Maybe I should try formatting from recovery? How to?*
But still other sd cards doesn't work either.
My fault - Hydrogen ICS has new path to sdcard /emmc.
*panic mode off*
LOL........
since you sort it out yoursself, and cant thank yourself I made it for you....
I'm using a GS3 w/ a Sandisk 64GB microSDXC card formatted as exFAT. I'm hoping someone here with knowledge of exFAT can help me troubleshoot an issue I've seen. This is probably going to end up fairly detailed, so bear with me.
I recently copied ~40GB of data to my new 64GB card in Windows using the card reader in my laptop. It appeared to go off without a hitch. Today, however, I noticed an issue with my music files (mostly .mp3 and .wma). I had transferred a new song to the card and it seemed to go through. However, on the device, the file didn't appear. So I did it again, transferred the file, and it seemed to go through. It didn't tell me there was a duplicate file on the device either, so I played it on the card through Windows to test it. No issues. Unplug my device and the file disappeared again.
So I go into ES File Explorer (and later I used the My Files application that Samsung loads, with the same results) and go into my music folder to see what's going on. It appeared that at some point, the file name got corrupted and concatenated with part of another file name; instead of being "artist - song.wma", it was "artist - song.wmas Track).wma". So I think that the OS doesn't like the .wma in there, and try to rename it to what it should've been. The system says that that the file system already exists. I tried to delete the file, and it won't let me. The file explorer is also reporting that the file is 0kb in size. At this point, I open up a terminal emulator and try to delete the offending file through the command line, but I cannot delete/rename the here either, despite being listed (I'm told the file does not exist). Finally, I plugged in back into my Windows box but the bad files will not even show. The file on my computer is good and plays fine.
So I scratched my head for a little while. Then tonight at the gym I wasn't able to find the song I wanted. Sure enough, it was tied to this issue. I went back into the file explorer and found ~50 files (of ~4200) that had corrupted file extensions. These differed from the original in that only the file extension had been altered (ie .mp3p3 or .wmaa). However, I am unable to delete/rename any of the files. Also worth nothing is that some of these files had sizes. It's possible that other files exist like the original where the file extension is valid, but the original file extension is within the file name.
I have not confirmed this yet, but it is also possible that the issue is not limited to music files. I was looking through my pictures the other day and noticed that some images weren't loading; I deleted these files at the time and didn't think anything of it because a few weeks back my epic 4g corrupted my microSD and I had used some file carving tools to recover some images (obviously, not a perfect fix).
So the problem is beyond my expertise at this point. I'm not sure how to handle these damaged file remnants. I'd like to get rid of them because they prevent the existence of the good file in that particular folder in addition to taking up space. As a short-term solution I re-copied the files I wanted to a temporary folder on the card and they are working without issue.
Right now I'm leaning towards wiping the card, reformatting it, and transferring again. However, before I do that, does anyone have any ideas? Is there any chance this could be an issue with the card itself? Or a GS3 issue? The files on the computer are still good and the problem seems to manifest itself regardless of the method used to transfer to the card as the original files were transferred using an SD adapter and card reader, and the file that triggered this issue was transferred using the usb cable.
I appreciate any insight or opinions.
Tim
it's caused by long/speciafic filename of the file.
just put the sdcard into your cardreader and then connect to your pc, delete/rename the file which caused the issue.
The files don't appear for me to be able to delete them. The file explorers won't allow me to delete them. A terminal lists the file but tells me it doesn't exist when I try to delete it.
UPDATE: I formatted my memory card using the device itself and transferred the files again. This did not resolve the issue. Interestingly, the SAME files that were corrupted last time were corrupted this time. I can still transfer the same files from my computer to a separate folder and they work. The file remnants cannot be deleted or altered. What could be causing this issue?
Is this a genuine card? I once bought a 16 GB memory card that was actually just 2 GB but reported the full 16 GB to Windows. I found out I had been scammed when I started getting errors similar to yours when I copied more than 2 GB of data.
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Yeah, it's a genuine SanDisk 64GB SDXC card.
H2test
http://mympx.org/Downloads/p13_sectionid/2/p13_fileid/13
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I'll give it a shot when I have more time, but I'm leaning towards a software issue. It's either an issue with the file system itself, or with the SGS3 software. The same files are corrupted in the same way each time (in the same folder). However, in the new folder where I moved the copies of the problem files, there were also some corruption, but different from the original folder. Moved new copies to a third folder, some files were good, a few more remained corrupted. By the time I moved copies into a fourth folder, there were no more issues. The problem is now I probably have an extra 500MB+ worth of garbage that I can't do anything with. The search for the underlying issue continues...
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I'll give it a shot when I have more time, but I'm leaning towards a software issue. It's either an issue with the file system itself, or with the SGS3 software. The same files are corrupted in the same way each time (in the same folder). However, in the new folder where I moved the copies of the problem files, there were also some corruption, but different from the original folder. Moved new copies to a third folder, some files were good, a few more remained corrupted. By the time I moved copies into a fourth folder, there were no more issues. The problem is now I probably have an extra 500MB+ worth of garbage that I can't do anything with. The search for the underlying issue continues...
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try formatting in the device, then transfer over one of the files and see if it has a problem....I would guess the file name of the problem file is too long. if the file transfers and is still a problem try renaming it to like test.mp3 and see if it transfers ok.
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try formatting in the device, then transfer over one of the files and see if it has a problem....I would guess the file name of the problem file is too long. if the file transfers and is still a problem try renaming it to like test.mp3 and see if it transfers ok.
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I thought exFat had really large limits on filenames? That, along with the greater than 2gb file limit removal, are some of the pluses of this over regular Fat. I could be way outta line here, but that's what I remember about it. ExFat should rock! FWIW, I've had a Kingston hyperX flash drive formatted with ExFat and have never had a filename issue copying 10's of thousands of .mp3's, .jpg's, etc...
The files in question don't have particularly long names though. I'm guessing that there's a small handful of files elsewhere on the folder with a name that's causing the file system to freak out. I'm curious if tag info or metadata could cause an issue as well. This last time I transferred via sub directly to the device instead of taking the card out and using a card reader. My next move might be to transfer via the reader and see if there are any issues BEFORE putting the card in the device; it might still be a sgs3 issue...
Not sure if you have tried this yet but since it seems to be repeatable by way of the same files, have you tried copying the offending files to internal storage to see if the same problem occurs?
This would definitely rule out the MicroSD card and lend itself towards being a software issue.
SOLUTION: Format the microSDXC card as FAT32. All my files transfer, show up, and work just fine. Either the exFAT file system is broken, or (more likely) Samsung broke the exFAT support somehow. I might experiment with exFAT on an 32GB card to see if I can find the root of the issue, but for now I've lost my patience.
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SOLUTION: Format the microSDXC card as FAT32. All my files transfer, show up, and work just fine. Either the exFAT file system is broken, or (more likely) Samsung broke the exFAT support somehow. I might experiment with exFAT on an 32GB card to see if I can find the root of the issue, but for now I've lost my patience.
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My Sandisk MicroSDXC 64GB card should be arriving today. I was hoping to use exFAT so will try it out tonight and report back. I have lots of HD TV shows to transfer so it will be full straight away.
Hi there
I also got the SanDisk 64GB SDXC card in my SGS3 and it is formatted as exFat. I think this exFat does not run correctly on the Galaxy.
I also encountered some corrupt file names on the SDcard and even some of my music folders do not show up as folders but as an unknown file that cannot be accessed.
Furthermore I copied some .flac files to my phone. The files work without a problem when being put on the internal storage. As soon as I put them on the SDCard the stock-music player does not recognize the .flac format anymore and thus the music cannot be played.
I guess I will re-format the SDcard to FAT and hope that Samsung (or maybe even a DEV) will come up with a solution to this problem. Another positiv aspect of having the card formatted as FAT is that I probably can apply some custom kernels and they will mount my FAT-64GB card (currently the custom kernels cannot mount or detect exFat formatted drives).
Hope this info helps a bit.
Working perfectly for a couple of week now in my S3, formatted exFAT.
I tried my Sandisk 64GB exFAT card last night and all seems to be working perfectly, I have filled it and can see all the files on the S3. Very happy with it.
Not Stable exFAT
Looks like exFAT is not yet fully finished in SGS3, thats why Samsung didn't include information about exFAT on their manual / user info.
When i use exFAT format, the problem is almost non existent in few file, but when i filled the SD card with many data and lot of small files (ex. HD Game data), the card says corrupted in my SGS3.
Screenshot is in here : LINK
The problem is only exist when the sdcard is start to filled with many files.
But when i filled it with few file but large size (ex. 4 files of *.mkv, that totals to 42GB), the card runs fine.
So the problem is only exist if the sdcard is filled with many data.
Please all of you try this, if my problem can be repeated in every SGS3, then it is definetely bug from the exFAT support on SGS3.
*also has tried it with siyahkernel that listed have exFAT support, but the problem is still the same in that kernel, maybe the support/patch/mod of exFAT that gokhanmoral use is the same that come with our stock SGS3.
Mine if near full, lots of app and game installs and small files and no problems here.
NZtechfreak said:
Mine if near full, lots of app and game installs and small files and no problems here.
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hmm.. maybe its different firmware that causes it ?, mine on XXALE8-DXLE8
My SDcard is filled with Tintin HD game data, and that makes my exFAT SD card to show corrupted on SGS3, but normal on everything else (computer, laptop).
I need some help.
I had a 16 gig sd card in my phone with several nandroid backups on it. I copied the contents to my computer so I could then transfer the files to a new 32gig card. I connected the phone via usb and every time I tried to copy the files it would give me an error that the files could not be copied. It would start the transfer and then stop and give me the error.
I understand that I could use a card reader but I don't have one and I haven't needed one before. I usually just use the usb cable for transfers and I have never had an issue until now. It almost seems that it won't let it transfer large files and just times out.
Any help would be appreciated. I need to get the files transferred to the new card. Oh, I also tried to copy to the internal first so I could then transfer on the phone but I got the same error.
Thanks!
Slaakker
Airdroid or MyFiles
Try using the program airdroid. It is an awsome program. path to your sd card should be /mnt/extSdCard
if not push the files to your internal storage then use the My files app to move them to your sd card.
slaakker said:
I need some help.
I had a 16 gig sd card in my phone with several nandroid backups on it. I copied the contents to my computer so I could then transfer the files to a new 32gig card. I connected the phone via usb and every time I tried to copy the files it would give me an error that the files could not be copied. It would start the transfer and then stop and give me the error.
I understand that I could use a card reader but I don't have one and I haven't needed one before. I usually just use the usb cable for transfers and I have never had an issue until now. It almost seems that it won't let it transfer large files and just times out.
Any help would be appreciated. I need to get the files transferred to the new card. Oh, I also tried to copy to the internal first so I could then transfer on the phone but I got the same error.
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Are you copying the whole folder or contents of the whole folder and trying to do the copy all in one shot? If so, try breaking up the copying process into half or even 4 parts and see if that works. I have done exactly what you're trying to do with no problem.
I tried both ways and I think it has something to do with the file size. Small files transfer fine but larger ones time out. I actually used the Kies Air program that comes with the phone. Interesting program/concept. I ended up transferring the files separately to the internal and then moved to the extsdcard. It sucks we can't just transfer there like a normal disk drive.
Thanks for the responses!
Slaakker
Tried AirDroid and it doesn't recognize the extsdcard. Just the internal. Thanks though.
I read about someone using adb to do this. If someone wants to doublecheck this first try adb pull /mnt/extsdcard PLEASE double check before you do this, I just started experimenting with adb and I'm not by my computer to try it first.
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