I have bought a SanDisk Ultra 64 GB microSDXC (Class 10, UHS-I) and put it into my new S3 (16 GB, black):
In "Settings" the Card gets detected and shows its correct size (59GB)
When plugging the SD Card into my Notebook, it's shown as 64 GB device, also
When pluggin the Phone with inserted SD card to the PC via USB, two new drives are shown for the internal and the external space of my phone. They contain different files, but have both the same size (11GB)
Therefore, i am unable to use the 64GB of my external card. I guess it does not get mounted properly. Instead the extSdCard folder seems to be located at the internal space.
Do you need more detailed information for helping me to solve this issue?
(Link to SD card: cyberport.de/notebook-und-tablet/zubehoer-notebooks/speichermedien/microsd/4H02-02V/sandisk-ultra-64-gb-microsdxc-class-10-uhs-i-speicherkarte-inkl-sd-adapter.html)
/edit: I forgot to mention that after not being able to solve this, i rooted my phone. But nothing changed.
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Hey everyone,
I have an HTC Rezound that I just bought coming from the Samsung Charge. I took the 32g card out of the Charge after erasing everything on it and stuck it in the Rezound replacing the 16g. After adding apps music and such, my phone now tells me that I don't have any more room on the SD card. My Internal storage says available space is 1.3gb and phone storage says I have 0.00gb available. When I try and move some apps from the Phone or Internal storage it keeps telling my SD card is full when it shows Total space 30gb and 18gb available. I've pulled the card and rebooted the phone with no luck. Was I supposed to reformat the card in the phone? Not sure what to do or how to do it. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Yes you can try to format your microsd card in any pc.
Remove it from your device and put it in a microsd adapter or in a a card reader and thru a pc format it in fat32 file system with 32 Kilobyte allocation unit dimension.
Keep in mind that not all brands/capacity memory card are suitable in any device... sometimes you can find one of them not compatible at all or partially compatible in some devices.
Thanks, I'll give it a shot.
jwalker007
Just wondering if I should pick up a card beforehand or does the Evo 4G LTE come with one?
My phone did not come with an SD card. You'll have to buy one separately.
no sd card but that new 64gb card I put in sure is nice.
Short answer: NO. You will need to get yourself one. You can get a 64 GB microSD card that will fit perfectly and work.
Long answer: You don't really need one. Yes, it comes with 16GB of storage, which is partitioned into: about 2 GB for the system, about 2 GB for apps storage, and the rest (about 10 GB) is put into the "/sdcard" partition. It's not really an sdcard, but a fake sdcard. It looks like an SD card to Android. This is where you would put the regular stuff that you would put on a normal SD card. IF you put in your own microSD card, then it will be accessible via both paths "/sdcard2" or "/sdcard/ext_sd", as they both point to the same location. I have both my camera (and video) and music storage pointing to my "external" memory (all 64 GB). IF you do not put in your own memory card, then you can still access the internal storage over USB, but you will have to do so via MTP. Google that. Most modern PCs should have support in the OS.
So, in summary... relax. You don't need to get your own memory card right away. See first if you really need it.
no. no and no.
I recently owned a HTC Desire with a 16GB MicroSD installed. After I bought my Galaxy S3 I didn't had another 16GB MicroSD card so I decided to keep it as a backup and use a 8GB MicroSD. After few weeks of usage I decided to put the 16GB card to use. I shut down my S3, popped out the 8GB card, copied it's contents to my WindowsPC, formatted the 16GB card to fat32 and copied the contents over. Started my S3 and now several tools (Android Assistent, Quick System Info) indicates that this is a 11,25 GB card with 3,3 GB left ! I shut down the S3, put the MicroSD card in my PC and it tells my is't a 14,3 GB card with 10,2 GB left. Am I missing something or did I do something wrong ?
Edit: doh, just found out that both tools are reporting the internal memory as SD-card, when I use the generic option (settings > storage) it shows the real SD card capacity..
Thread can be closed !
I have searched high and low for an answer to this but cannot seem to find one. I have recently rooted my NT to use CM 10 and everything appears to be working fine save one exception. I have an external SanDisk 32 GB class 4 card that I am using and it only shows 1GB available when it is installed in my NT. Here are the things I have tried without any luck.
** reformat SD card using SDFormatter.
** double check the partitioning using mini tool and verified that there is only one partition 32GB, FAT 32.
** put the SD card in my laptops SD card reader and I see that all 32 GB are available.
** put the SD card back in my NT and uses AppMgrIII to move the app to external SD, then ejected the SD and saw that the app was no longer available so I know what my NT is calling the SD is in fact my external SD card.
The only thing I have not tried is a new SD. Any clues?
EDIT:
One note, when I go into Settings --> Storage I see two sections marked internal storage and one SD card section.
Internal Storage 1
Total Space 3.97GB
Internal Storage 2
Total Space 29.71 GB (This is my external SD card)
SD Card
Total Space 1.00GB
Rhino1272 said:
I have searched high and low for an answer to this but cannot seem to find one. I have recently rooted my NT to use CM 10 and everything appears to be working fine save one exception. I have an external SanDisk 32 GB class 4 card that I am using and it only shows 1GB available when it is installed in my NT. Here are the things I have tried without any luck.
** reformat SD card using SDFormatter.
** double check the partitioning using mini tool and verified that there is only one partition 32GB, FAT 32.
** put the SD card in my laptops SD card reader and I see that all 32 GB are available.
** put the SD card back in my NT and uses AppMgrIII to move the app to external SD, then ejected the SD and saw that the app was no longer available so I know what my NT is calling the SD is in fact my external SD card.
The only thing I have not tried is a new SD. Any clues?
EDIT:
One note, when I go into Settings --> Storage I see two sections marked internal storage and one SD card section.
Internal Storage 1
Total Space 3.97GB
Internal Storage 2
Total Space 29.71 GB (This is my external SD card)
SD Card
Total Space 1.00GB
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The 1 GB you see listed is actually internal emmc. Your 32 GB sd is actually 29.71 GB formatted. Your internal user media is 3.97 GB.
This is how internal memory is allocated-
1 GB RAM+1 GB emmc+4GB media+2GB (split between OS and /data)=8GB model.
1 GB RAM+1 GB emmc+4GB media+10GB (split between OS and /data)=16GB model
You did not mention if you have the 8 or 16 GB model. Either way there is nothing wrong with your memory allocation.
I have the 16 GB model. When I try to move apps to SD does it shows it moving to the 1GB sd card which you said was the internal emmc. I will play around some more to see if I can get some more evidence. Thank you for answering!
Rhino1272 said:
I have the 16 GB model. When I try to move apps to SD does it shows it moving to the 1GB sd card which you said was the internal emmc. I will play around some more to see if I can get some more evidence. Thank you for answering!
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Are you running an app that mounts/swaps emmc as SD?
No
If you're using paranoid android it swaps the internal storage and SD card. Nothing to be worried about, but if you want it swapped use the succulant build.
did you figure this out? My nook color running 4.0.2 does the same thing (shows 2 external sd cards), and installs all the "sd apps" to the smaller sdcard1 partition instead of my actual external sdcard2. How do I tell it to treat my actual sd as the external sd so I can put all my apps on it?
many thanks
SelArom said:
did you figure this out? My nook color running 4.0.2 does the same thing (shows 2 external sd cards), and installs all the "sd apps" to the smaller sdcard1 partition instead of my actual external sdcard2. How do I tell it to treat my actual sd as the external sd so I can put all my apps on it?
many thanks
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It is "figured out" for OP in the replies. To switch on your build, try asking in the Color forum section. There may be a zip to flash or maybe a change to be made in the build prop. But you need to check it for your device and ROM.
oops sorry, I had so many tabs open researching this I didn't realize this wasn't the NC forum. I have asked in there on a few threads, hopefully something will turn up.
thanks!
A long time ago I had edited a file that is read on boot, in that file is written which one of the two 'partition' has to be mounted as what.
Basically, my 32GB microsd is seen as the internal memory of the device (which would be 12 GB), and the other one as micro sd. The result is that most application would go to the microsd by default, using thus 32GB for apps instead of 12GB.
Well, I would like to go back and have no clue what file I had edited, and cannot find the old thread on XDA....
can someone help me?
This is because my microsd is failing. Changed with a new one, and now it is failing again. I suppose my phone has become a 'micro sd destroyer'. Cannot do anything about it, so better to use the internal memory instead of the card for main use....until I can fix it. So how do I switch back to normal mounting (micro sd as micro sd and internal memory as internal memory and not switched up) ?
up ?
fixed. closed.