Just upgraded my card. It's driving my crazy, is there anyway to view the external SD on my old card from my pc?
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dafoxs said:
Just upgraded my card. It's driving my crazy, is there anyway to view the external SD on my old card from my pc?
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If you have an micro sd adapter to put your sd into then and a slot for sd's on your pc, why cant you put your old sd card back in your phone and copy all over to your pc, then take it out...then put your new card back into your phone them just copy over what you want or need....it is time consuming, I just did this a week or so ago...upgraded from a 16 to 32gb ext sd...
bigjoe2675 said:
If you have an micro sd adapter to put your sd into then and a slot for sd's on your pc, why cant you put your old sd card back in your phone and copy all over to your pc, then take it out...then put your new card back into your phone them just copy over what you want or need....it is time consuming, I just did this a week or so ago...upgraded from a 16 to 32gb ext sd...
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Tried that, for some reason when I put the old card in, it showed up as almost blank. I cleared caches and all, still nothing. The new one works fine. Problem is all the pics are on the external. No biggy, most are on dropbox.
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For some reason, sometimes a copy and paste just doesn't copy the whole card. I copied many cards up to 32GB and didn't have any issues. However last month I tried to copy a card that had about 7GB on it. For some reason it only copied 4GB and left some folders out. I tried it again, and again it only copied the same 4Gb with the same folders only. No reported errors and it said complete. But it wasn't. Possibly a computer reboot may have fixed the issue but I was impatient.
Instead, I used winrar to zip the contents of the card up and then unzipped it on the new card. This way worked perfectly. 7Zip, Winzip, or an image program like UltraIso would work well also.
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Hello all,
I just received a patriot micro sd 32gig class 10 card! Its awesome. My phone reads it and I can move files in between the internal sd card and the external but when I connect it to my computer it will not recognize the card, just the phone.
I have also tried putting in my camera with the sd card attachment and formatted it under fat32 but that didn’t work either. Got any suggestions?
I'm just going on memory here and dont have a cable to test right now but it seems like the one time I did transfer files from comp to Atrix SDcard it was called "DCIM" or something like that.? Its been a while and I cant test right now so if Im wrong then sorry.
I'm just getting the MB860 under my computer... but under the Motorola media link it find the SD, just not under my computer.
Is it inside the mb860? Cuz when I click properties on that it only shows 10 his or so, and that's the internal
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the card is probably formatted in a FAT format, which windows won't recognize if it's over 4gb. Format it for FAT32 or NTFS, and you should be fine.
It is under fat32. But I thought android can't read ntfs?
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.hey guys, i'm just wondering if there is a need for me to format a newly bought sd card before i put data on it and insert it on my phone..if yes, how do i do it??? thank you!!!
roi14 said:
.hey guys, i'm just wondering if there is a need for me to format a newly bought sd card before i put data on it and insert it on my phone..if yes, how do i do it??? thank you!!!
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Just insert it android will tell if it needs to format the card.. if it says you need to format it will give the option to format it.
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how about the files from my old sd card? do i put them on the new one before inserting it? or the other way around,.thanks for ur response man!!!
First insert new one if its unformated it should be formatted than copy.
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- copy your old SD card to PC via USB cable
- shut down, remove the old card, stick the new one in, turn on your phone
- let the phone format it (will prompt you if needed)
- copy the contents back via USB cable
Can do the above in PC as well, that way your phone will not even notice the card has changed.
will the "format prompt" automatically appear? how will i know if it needs a format?.thanks guys
Yes it will if needed otherwise no.
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thanks guys!!
Ok but do reply after have switched.
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It's better to format the new card from the phone before using it, this lets you maintain the native file system and prevents any anomalies that can arise from a pre (pc) formatted card. This might also help preventing the auto unmount issue that some users have reported.
Upon inserting the new card and on powering up the phone, go to Settings -> SD Card & Storage, select the Unmount Card option, then select the Format Card. When done Mount the card if not automatically done. Ensure that you have taken a backup (if you have some data on the card) before you format the card.
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It is not necesasry to format a newly bought sd card as all sd cards come pre formatted with the file system that suits it best(FAT32). SD Card manufacturers will never ship an unformatted card.
If you get unmounting issues with a new card its prolly not the cards fault but the phone's firmware.
hey guys, it seems that the sd card that i have brought does not need formatting,.i just copied everything to it and it works just fine! thanks again for all your help!!! shalom!^^
Yeah. It doesn't need formatting. Recently I bought a 16gb card, switched off phone, took out my old card, inserted new one phone, went into recovery, partitioned it with recovery, inserted old one in laptop card reader, USB toggle in phone, copy and paste all old SD contents to new one, then disabled USB toggle, restore a nandroid backup with ext4 and finally reboot. Phone was as it was before. But now 16gb from 8gb.
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i didn't do any partitioning on mine,.just fed the new card with all my files,and poof,.it works,haha
I went and picked up my Photon from Sprint yesterday. Today I decided to back up everything on my SD card before I go ahead and "customize" the Photon. I took the SD card out of my Moto Droid X and put it in the Photon before I decided to back it up. When I go to copy the SD card over to the PC the process keeps freezing (getting not responding in task manager). I'm running Win7 ultimate x64 on the pc. Is there a solution?
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If u can open sd and view files its not.your card its a pc issue make sure the lock switch on sd reader is off ir just copy your sd card from the photon to its internal memory then take ur sd out then put a new sd in the photon and copy back to new sd
then take out new sd put old sd in and copy all data again this may be lengthy but would allow you to mirror all files to two sd using internal storage
Or try a diff pc
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Thanks for the reply. I finally took the card out of the Photon and put it back in the DX and everything transfered perfectly. When I put it back in the Photon I formatted and then factory restored and all is good.
So I had a 16 gb external sd card in my rezound, realized that I would like more space so I bought a 32 gb card. The new card worked for about a week and no longer works. I have an sd card exploring app and it sees the files on the card but my phone does not even recognize the card is inserted.
Another thing to mention is that with the old card, my phone would not display the available space on it or give me the options to unmount and mount. Now when I put both of these cards in an sd card reader and insert them into my desktop the computer does not see that a card has been inserted. I have checked it with other mini SDs that I have and the computer sees them, so I don't know what gives! Any ideas??
P.S. I am running on the ICS 3.14.605.10 RUU
Sounds like you have a bad card, can you format it?
mjones73 said:
Sounds like you have a bad card, can you format it?
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Well the weird thing is that both the stock and the card I bought are doing the same thing. And I tried formatting, but since I can't view the cards on my computer or phone I have no way of formatting.
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I have the same almost problem, I have to manually mount the SD card after every reboot, but it does recognize it after mounting.
couchmonkey said:
I have the same almost problem, I have to manually mount the SD card after every reboot, but it does recognize it after mounting.
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Well that would be ok with me! My phone won't even allow me to mount it!!
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If you have TWRP or Amon, mount USB storage and format from your computer.
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couchmonkey said:
I have the same almost problem, I have to manually mount the SD card after every reboot, but it does recognize it after mounting.
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I have the exact same problem. I tried switching cards and formatted the new one before I put everything on it. It still is missing after every reboot...Annoying, but at least it's still there....
Not sure if this is the issue but it may help to try:
If you are on GB firmware and running an ICS rom, download and flash this in recovery. It is a GB firmware patch and after you flash it, sd card mounting problems are fixed.
So lately i changed my SD card in my device to a Samsung 32GB and when I transfered all my song, later I noticed on the music player that many of the artist are missing.
when I went to check what's going on, I found out many of the folders were been replaced by empty folders that their name starts with the letter "µ".
like for example, the folder "ACDC" became "µCDC".
I tried transferring everything back again facing the same problems with different folders.
I tried doing a factory reset and tried moving the song to the SD card through a card reader, and checked the files were OK before inserting the SD card back into the device and they seemed fined, but after I inserted the SD card I noticed the folders got curropted again.
also before I inserted the SD card there was like 500 MB of free space on the SD card, while after I inserted it suddenly the was like 15 GB of free space, caused by so many data that got deleted.
I don't believe the SD card is damaged, but that my device is messing my things up....
I also remember that I couldn't transfer any video files to the SD Card when it was in the device and could only transfer them into the device's internal memory.
what can I do?
Use the sd formatting tool on your pc to format the card, if still the same then throw it away. It sounds like a fake card, did all the files work while it was in the pc?
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boomboomer said:
Use the sd formatting tool on your pc to format the card, if still the same then throw it away. It sounds like a fake card, did all the files work while it was in the pc?
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All the files have worked while it was on the PC.
I even tried transfering everything via a card reader and everything check allright.
only when I insert it in my device some of the folders get screwd.