SDXC card not working in GS3 - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

My friend got a 64gb micro SDXC card, and it won't work in his phone. It says:
"Blank SD card
SD card is blank or has unsupported filesystem."
He is running CM10.1 23/3 nightly. I put the SD card in my stock 4.1.1 note 2 and it recognised and formatted it fine. Put it back in his and nothing.
Ideas?
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Just put my 32gb sdhc card in his and it worked fine.
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Unfortunately cm 10.1 doesn`t support exfat .You can use 4.1.2 roms and leak 4.2.1 rom.

Hello, i'm the 'friend' mentioned in OP.
Can i use my friends phone to format it to another filesystem?
Cheers

Format it to FAT32.
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Format it to FAT32.
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Well yes, that was my intention. Can i do that from my friends phone? Is there an app that can do it? I don't have a card reader.

Stangahh said:
Well yes, that was my intention. Can i do that from my friends phone? Is there an app that can do it? I don't have a card reader.
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I think you have to do it via card reader/Windows as its licensed file system

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I think you have to do it via card reader/Windows as its licensed file system
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Aaaaaaaaand I've got a card reader, tried formatting it to FAT32 via two methods.
guiformat.exe (admin)
fat32format (command line)
The error im getting is GetLastError()=32. This error means that my SD card is being used by some other process but i cant for the life of me find where it's being used...

If you have access to a Windows system, you'd be better using that. I've got a 64Gb card and I had to format it with Win7. It was exfat.
If you don't, you could always take it with you to a local pc store and try to format when no clerks are watching :angel:
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Put card in the reader connect to PC open Windows Explorer right click the card reader and format .
jje

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Put card in the reader connect to PC open Windows Explorer right click the card reader and format .
jje
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Holy moly i know all this
Thank you forum but the information I'm trying to obtain is a way to locate and stop the process that is using my card and preventing me from formatting to FAT32 (which btw isnt an option in Windows >right click 'format', hence guiformat.exe)

Use GParted!
For a FAT32 format on a >32GB MicroSD, may I suggest that you run the GParted (Gnome Partition Editor) Live CD? It's free and it's usually the best way to fomat a microsd card (that's how I did it).
I know it's a rather simple operation, but at least with GParted you're formatting it the right way: no size limitations, proper partition table and initial sector layout, etc... Moreover, no pesky processes using your drive.
You don't have to install anything, just make a bootable USB disk, boot it from Startup, and launch GParted. Right-click and format to FAT32 (or whatever you want). It might sound complicated but it's dead simple. You only need:
The GParted LiveCD ISO
Tuxboot, to make the bootable USB
Both available at Sourceforge, quick and easy, and never run into formatting problems again with the crappy windows disk management gui and their useless limitations.
If you absolutely want to use Windows for this, there's one way you can check which process is using your card:
Download Process Explorer from Microsoft's website or Sysinternals
Click the Find menu, and choose Find Handle or DLL...
Type the file name (name of the file which is locked by some process.)
After typing the search phrase, click the Search button

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What next my good man.
Run into some kind of problem. :/
read-only file system, also its flagged as boot?

Oh...
Okay, obvious questions first: are you using a USB card reader or a microsS -> SD adapter? If using the latter, careful with that little physical lock on the side of the adapter.
Also, is the card usable on your Note after having showed the error in CM?
But otherwise... well I remember the last time I had this issue, but you're not gonna like it. Usually an SD card reverts to read-only mode when something is really wrong with it, usually so you can pull out your data before it dies completely. But it's weird that a card would die so quickly.
For me it was a 64GB Sandisk SDXC, bought it when it was still pretty expensive, and, well, that read-only crap was kinda the end of it... The same night I got that error message I bought a new one :S
Usually those big 64GB ones have lifetime warranties on them if they're Sandisk, or this other huge brand (Lexar I think?). So even if it's messed up you can get a new one!
Anyways I hope I'm wrong, please do tell if you have found a solution, or if you try anything new !

Eh...
I am using both at the same time. SDXC > SD adapter (not locked on the side) > USB card reader.
The card is perfectly functional in non Cyanogen ROM's.
In Windows Explorer the card reads as 64GB.
In stock ROM's the card reads as 64GB.
There is nothing wrong with the card. So i guess ill be googling and learning about read-only filesystems now.
If its fixed i will report how i got it to work. If i cannot fix it i will be abandoning Cyanogen.
Thanks for all your help, i appreciate it.
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*stares intently at my card reader*
*raises eyebrow*
*removes MicroSD from SD adapter*
*inserts MicroSD into conveniently provided port*
Well, i got it to work by taking it out of the adapter. It still claimed it was being used by a process so i did it through Gparted.
Put the card in my phone and its reading properly.
I guess thats the end of that chapter.

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How to upgrade/replace the Micro SD card

Hi,
I am planning to buy a 16GB Micro SD Card for X10 Mini, need help on following
1. Can I buy any 16GB micro sd card (class 6 and above) will it work, or it has to be specifically from SE?
2. Once I have 16GB micro sd card, what are the steps to replace the existing card and its contents. Do i need to copy all the folders from existing micro sd to new sd card? What should be the format of SD card, fat, fat32, ext2/3/4 ? Kindly suggest.
Any other technicalities to take care off ?
Furthermore I would like to use APPtoSD either on 2.1 if its easy or else when 2.2 gets on, so do i need to prepare the new sd card specifically for this?
Thanks
1) don't know, I bought a 16GB online from sandisk and it works well, i can help if you can tell how to get the "class"
2) my sd is in fat32 as the old one so no problems here. I suppose that if you move from fat32 to ext* you need to handle permissions somehow. I use a linux distro and when I do this moves I use the command "cp -a" that preserves permission (doesn't matter for fat) and modification date so if some software relies on modification dates of files it doesn't screw up
Thanks,
Class is written on top of the card. See the attached image the 6 witten inside the circle shows the class.
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Does putting in a 16Gb card reduced the performance or increased the lags?
CM 7
I've looked around at a lot of places and haven't found a clear answer to this one yet.
I’ve read a lot of different posts about what the best way to do this is. Some say just copy and paste, some say you need to go into recovery mode and Format the SD to Fat32+ext2+swap first and then convert ext2 to ext3, and some say to use Titanium Backup, and there are other opinions too.
I’m really quite happy with the way the phone is set up at the moment and don’t want to mess things up. My X10 mini, has cyanogen mod 7, and clockwork mod. Some of the apps have been moved to the SD card.
Can anyone tell me the current best method?
Thank you ....
Does anyone have any suggestions?
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I'm also very interested in how to do this.
Basically use whatever format worked for you with your previous SD card. Oh, another forum member from the x10 forums was told by a Sony Ericsson rep that SD cards above class 4 would not give any further speed boost, but that's for the X10. I think that the same should apply for the x10 mini. Higher classes makes for faster loading of media and games moved to SD card, but actual playing(i.e after it has fully loaded) will be no faster. It will make SWAP faster, though.
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I have tried a 32gb card but it dosn't recognise it
Anyone knows if the new Custom Roms / Kernel make the Mini Pro recognise a 32gb SD card?
Well I checked the original card that came with the phone and it was FAT. The new card was preformatted to FAT32.
I left the new card at FAT32 and plugged them both into a Windows PC and copied the whole lot over. This worked fine.
I suspect that the whole ext2 ext3 thing is to allow the phone to treat that partition as if it were internal memory. Useful if the phone memory is already full.
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I recently upgraded my sd card from 2G to 4G, I just copied and pasted files. This seemed to work but since the upgrade I am having trouble flashing roms in cwm recovery. I get an error saying zip (bad) installation aborted.
Not sure if it is related but one to think about.

[Q] unable to move/install applications to sd

Hey guys i have been unable to move/install apps to my sd card ever since changing to MIUI I'm not sure whether this is a problem with the ROM or not (i think i may have insalled applications to SD on a previous GB version of MIUI)
I am using a rooted Samsung Galaxy S2 I9100 with the latest MIUI based on 4.0.4. before MIUI i was on CM7 stable and i remember messing around with some settings there to try and get my phone to read music off the sd card as well as internal memory-(where all my downloaded music was going). I also may have done a dodgy partition on my old 32gb micro sd or some how partitioned my internal storage of my phone...
I have recently successfully partitioned my Sandisk 64gb micro SDXC to this tutorial...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1343187
when i go to move a 'moveable' app eg. Paypal through 'Link2Sd' it comes up with an error saying "pkg:/data/app/com.paypal.android.p2pmobile-1.apk Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_CONTAINER_ERROR]
when i go to move a 'moveable' app through 'App 2 SD Pro' it says 'couldn't move app'
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the following are my phones storage details...please point out if you think there is anything strange about them
this last picture was taken before i partitioned my SD
if you guys have an suggestions please let me know
try to format ur sd and repartition ur sd ext. and flash ur script again.
u may try amarullz "ad2sdx" or dk_zerocool "mount2sd" script...
did you try Titanium Backup to move those apps?
also u can do in adb shell "pm setinstalllocation 2"
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when you partition the sd card doesn't it format it then? I repartitioned my SD card still the same problem.
I also went to back up my current rom today through 'ROM manager' and it said something along the lines of...
SD card mounted...
SD card space free: 30437MB
............(can't remember)
...No SD_EXT found
something something...checking MD5 sums
It then waited a little bit and rebooted without creating a backup. I then booted into CWM and tried doing a back up again. It came up with the same relative message as above but it decided to make a back up. The back up folder had 7 files in it (this seems normal to me) and also backed up to my micro SD which is new
Today i also tried moving apps with titanium backup. It moved them effortlessly or so i thought and then later i checked the SD card on the computer the apps files were no where to be seen so i double checked through Apps 2 SD, Link2sd and the system app info on my phone and they all show that the apps have not been moved to my micro sd card.
i havent tried the adb shell or script methods you have sugested but i will soon and let you know how i go.
thanks heaps in advanced!
i hv seen many ppl complaining abt cwm creating bad partitions. so i would suggest it via pc.
for formatting use "sdformatter"
for partitioning use "minitool partition wizard".
ur issues seem to be wid bad partition.
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try to use some apps google in marketmilitia i found there few apps that move everything from phone to sd
some apps is made so that u can move normal way but this apps do it
app2sd
cheers
n1newbie said:
i hv seen many ppl complaining abt cwm creating bad partitions. so i would suggest it via pc.
for formatting use "sdformatter"
for partitioning use "minitool partition wizard".
ur issues seem to be wid bad partition.
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I have done all my recent partitions on a PC using Gparted. before MIUI i was on CM7 and could have possibly done a partition there using cwm. if i wipe my phones inernal storage/sd will it still boot up? the internal storage in my case being labled as 'usb storage'
thanks again in advanced havent had time to try these things out yet but hopefully will soon
internal storage labelled as usb storage? wat model? as long as u hv nothing related to /system in sd ext. ur phone should boot fine
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n1newbie said:
internal storage labelled as usb storage? wat model? as long as u hv nothing related to /system in sd ext. ur phone should boot fine
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Precisely...the pictures in my first post show that storage sections labled 'internal storage' and 'usb storage' are both on my phones memory. I am able to take the micro sd out of the phone and these storage locations are still mounted and installed apps still work. Also when i open my native file explorer to see where my apps are and select 'SD card' it goes to the directory of 'usb storage'. This problem occurs with apps such as Astro and other file managing apps.
sry, am totally lost. may be someone else will help you out. gud luck
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i know this is an old topic, but i just want to share in case anyone stumbles upon this error again.
I had this problem, i fixed it by changing the default install location to auto in link2sd. or ifg you dont have link2sd in settings set it to let system decide. hope this helps someone out there

Tmobile Galaxy Note sdcard issue

Just got my Tmo Note home, I think I got the last one as there were only 2 Denver retail stores that had them . Is there going to be a new forum here at xda for this phone?
I'm having an issue with the external sdcard, I am using ES File Explorer. I put the external sdcard from my old sensation into the new note, I browse to /sdcard/external_sd/ and I get an empty folder. Something reported to me that the ext sdcard was not mounted but I forget what I was doing when I saw that. What do I need to do to access the external sdcard taken from my Sensation?
I imagine this is an easy situation, I just haven't experienced a setup where there is an internal and external sdcard on a phone.
Thanks
Peter
That's interesting because I have a i717 and I flashed a nandroid backup courtesy of Rotohammer if I am not mistaken, when the device booted and I went to look for sd card it didn't show anything. But a reboot solved it for me. Worst case is you backup anything you need from the sd to a PC and fully format card.
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shouldn't you be looking for
/mnt/external_sd
not
/mnt/sdcard/external_sd
?
I use Linda File Manager and it is under sdcard/external sd
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I rebooted and still got an empty /external_sd folder. Once I backup the sd to pc, how do I mount/format the ext. sdcard?
Also, when I plugged the phone into pc with usb it shows phone as 9.85GB - I thought this came with 16GB of internal memory?
Under /mnt i have asec, obb, sdcard, secure and usb - no /mnt/ext_sdcard
Make sure the card if formated as FAT32 - if plugged into a computer, right click and select properties). I recently purchased a 64gb card and when I turned on the Note, I got the error the SD card was not mounted. I couldn't mount it or format it. Did some searching and others had that problem. The solution was to delete all partitions (searched cnet downloads for a partition manager) on the microSD card then insert into the Note & turn it on. The Note reported there was a damaged SD card - then I was given a prompt to format the microSD card.
So make sure your data is backed up 1st.
Not sure why your internal space shows that. That number seems low. May have to format internal storage and factory reset as it comes fresh out of the box.
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There it is on my i717r.
As for the storage on the phone, mine has 1.97 internal[apps, etc], 10.85 usb storage[the other part of internal formatting], and of course my 29.81 under sdcard[actually the external card]
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I just got the T-Mobil Galaxy Note as well. I had not problem moving my SD card from My Touch 4g. At first I didn't understand the file structure, but now I see that the external cards shows under the directory of the SD card which really is internal memory. That memory shows only a total of 9.85 GB (should be 16 according to specs) and the other internal is 1.97 GB. I would also be curious if anyone know why the internal memory numbers are so far off.
My best guess is this.
11gb is parted off for user.
2gb is parted off for apps.
that's 13gb for user storage.
The rest is for /system, /cache, dalvic and future ROM updates. Naturally a new os will take more space so they make a best guess for future upgrades, features, etc.
You never really get what the advertised storage is. Plus its better to have more space remaining for the rom than what it actually needs to help future proof a bit and so you don't run into storage restrictions when upgrading or flashing custom stuff.
Take the xoom for example, it leaves 28gb for user, and only about 1gb to 1.3gb for the rest of the system. Because of that we have to use symbolic links to have some of the gapps load up when flashing as to avoid errors and such.
Sometimes having some missing storage is a good thing as its almost certainly belonging to the back end.
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As someone who is having trouble with a 64 class 10 this topic really helped. Thanks!

SD Card freezes phone/stuck when trying to back it up

Hi,
Just this night I've been using my sdcard in a normal way, browsing internet, downloading files when suddenly my phone couldn't boot after flashing bootanimation (zip made by trusted developer so that's not the problem). Now when I connect my SD Card to the phone it will either say "preparing sdcard" forever or just simply freeze phone after few seconds. I tryed to connect it via working adapter with my PC to back it up... After copying few files sdcards unmounts from the reader... I've tryed on XP and it shows some command errors while trying to copy files in a regular way. I was ONCE able to flash few zips via recovery in order to make my phone boot up again it worked. Now I'm scanning my SD Card using Norton Internet security 2013 - Paid version - not cracked, and the sdcard seems to stay mounted to the PC. Unfortunately after trying to copy files from SD Card to PC it just freezes explorer.exe and unmounts itself...
Please help me, I really have some important pictures on this sd card
PS. 32 GB SanDisk Class 10 UHS-I (grey and red one)
PS. 2 I was using swap partition, maybe my sdcard went dead from constant reads and writes?
PS. 3 Using linux I managed to copy 81 MB... then any copying froze but ubuntu didn't... Damn, thats weird
It appears to randomly stop reading from SD Card as now it stopped at 153,1MB out of 422MB, all thumbnails of photos were shown properly though.
well first connect ur sdcard to an old mobile you have then connect mobile to computer
backup your data then use a partition tool to delete partition of sdcard then recreate it as FAT32 partition and try to put sdcard to your mobile again
if still, then wipe data/factory reseyt your rom
if doesn't work then let me know
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Well, connecting to an old mobile isnt an option as the SDCARD does the same thing even on xperia T which isnt that bad and that Xperia T never had this sdcard connected before.
I'd love to backup my data, but I can't
Full rom wipe and reflash fresh was done straight after getting problems with this sdcard.
Unfortunately it still doesn't work
I got the error I was talking about!
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EDIT: I'm trying to recover photos and movies (most important files) via BadCopy Pro, any other recommendations if it wouldn't work?
EDIT2: It seems that when I'm slowly copying data (scanning sectors) sdcard doesn't seem to unmount or do other crazy stuff, any other suggestions so I'll keep file names and structure? I don't care much about copying time, I can run copying going all night.
I've recovered like 90% of data. Afterwards I've tried to perform Low Level Format... But this goddamn sdcard had to eject just at the start, therefore partitions got deleted, I'm trying to rebuild bootsector with testdisk but it takes ages, even after looking at tutorials online it takes so long to rebuild bootsector, no idea why...
I just realised that im one of the "lucky" guys which have got faulty sdcard. It happens to small amount (they say) of sandisk ultra 32&64GB owners...
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hmm, tomorrow my summer vacation starts
add me skype : mohanad_ayman
and we'll talk about it and get a fix , cuz now i need to study
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The SD Card has faulty hardware, there's nothing you or I can do anymore just google "faulty sdcards sandisk"
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The SD Card has faulty hardware, there's nothing you or I can do anymore just google "faulty sdcards sandisk"
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then use the warranty to change your card, when you buy something, you're supposed to get it fully working
Yeah, Ive already written to sandisk but their 2 final and most important messages were one in german abd second in english. Im glad that i have a private teacher which helps me in german and is getting me ready for FCE exam so he can translate german to normal language
Another problem is that this card was a gift on my name day and im not sure when it has been bought although i know where. Thats my problem now but you definitely cant help me with it.
Thanks anyway
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nandroid external sd card.

I was trying to backup the stock rom to the external sd card but does not work. Its like the card has 0 space.i had to do it to the internal sd card.
android-incredible said:
I was trying to backup the stock rom to the external sd card but does not work. Its like the card has 0 space.i had to do it to the internal sd card.
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I had the same issue. I tried otg and that was recognized fine....Not sure why.
I am assuming that your sd card is exFat. It needs to be formatted to Fat32 for twrp to recognize it.
BladeRunner said:
I am assuming that your sd card is exFat. It needs to be formatted to Fat32 for twrp to recognize it.
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thanks, My desktop don't have that option fat32. has exfat and ntfs.
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thanks, My desktop don't have that option fat32. has exfat and ntfs.
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Right, Windows doesn't format to Fat32 natively. There's a free program you can download that will do it though but I don't remember the name of it atm.
I have a 64gb SD card. I used Aparted from the app store to format it to fat32. Rebooted into TWRP and it allowed me to backup to external SD. The app is free and was very quick on the format
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...arted&pcampaignid=APPU_72c5VMa-JMX2yQT_jYD4CQ
Format with TWRP and to ext3 or 4. But only prob is windows doesn't read those formats. I use *nix so I am fine but Fat32 via another option works just as well. Only now you will have file size limits. Ext doesn't.
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Format with TWRP and to ext3 or 4. But only prob is windows doesn't read those formats. I use *nix so I am fine but Fat32 via another option works just as well. Only now you will have file size limits. Ext doesn't.
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I have a 64gb as card. Could you tell me which settings should I choose?
Thanks.
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That's partition. Dont use that. Wipe the SD card and select ext3 or ext4. I use 4. Just know you will not be able to read that SD card on a windows box.
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That's partition. Dont use that. Wipe the SD card and select ext3 or ext4. I use 4. Just know you will not be able to read that SD card on a windows box.
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Thanks. Yea, someone pointed that out to me in a different topic. I mixed myself up I guess.
Can u backup to internal memory than manually transfer to sd with an explorer?
Quick Boot, from Sirius, on the Play Store is very handy. (A random mention, but I vastly prefer it to access TWRP compared to futzing with the power button)
You can use TWRP to reformat to fat, which is then usable by both TWRP and the system, though you will have a 4GB size limit on a single file.
Back up your external sd card.
Start TWRP
Wipe
Advanced wipe
Check the external_sd box
Repair or change file system
Change file system
Select fat
TWRP will reformat the external sd to fat. Reboot and restore whatever files you had copied off the external sd.
If you use FAT you will not be able to backup a stock image. There is a file size limit. Use Ext.
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If you use FAT you will not be able to backup a stock image. There is a file size limit. Use Ext.
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I was able to create a backup on my Fat32 formatted SD card. The file size limit is 4gb and the size of my backup was 3.8.
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I was able to create a backup on my Fat32 formatted SD card. The file size limit is 4gb and the size of my backup was 3.8.
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I will rephrase... Not all backups will be the same size. Case in point mine is 6g. So if the backups will be under 4... FAT is an option.
Have you confirmed that option works with both TWRP and when running the system (sd accessible for read/write)?
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Have you confirmed that option works with both TWRP and when running the system (sd accessible for read/write)?
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Which option are you talking about? I can create and restore tibu back ups from my SD card plus my music is stored on my external as well. Note that I have the KK SD card full access exposed module installed.
I'll try ext, too. In the original thread people had tried several options.
Ok I reformatted to fat 32 with a mac computer and now I can back up my stock rom to the external SD card..
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I will rephrase... Not all backups will be the same size. Case in point mine is 6g. So if the backups will be under 4... FAT is an option.
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The TWRP backup functionality chops things into chunks that do work with a fat format. It looks like it divides at about 1.5GB boundaries.
When I did a TWRP backup, onto my TWRP-fat-formatted SD, I see two different system files in the backup folder, system.ext4.win000 (1.49GB) and system.ext4.win001 (618 MB). Similarly I have several data.ext4 files, the largest showing 1.51 GB.
As long as a single file isn't over 4 GB size, TWRP appears to be entirely happy with a fat external SD.
For kicks I might try shoveling a single > 4 GB file into my internal storage, to see if TWRP chops that single file up, though in my own use case that isn`t an issue.
It`s all good, having TWRP is a big relief to me

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