SanDisk 128Gb sdcard - Xperia Z2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hey guys, Is anyone using SanDisk 128gb micro sd card and can we use exfat on it or we have to use fat32?

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chesterr said:
Hey guys, Is anyone using SanDisk 128gb micro sd card and can we use exfat on it or we have to use fat32?
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Exfat or fat32 both work fine

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Yea I figured, it's just when I formated it on the computer it didn't work, then I formated it back to far32 and reformatted it using the phone, and now it's working fine. But what's weird is that it shows 125gb cause I've seen online that you can access 119gb,

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chesterr said:
Yea I figured, it's just when I formated it on the computer it didn't work, then I formated it back to far32 and reformatted it using the phone, and now it's working fine. But what's weird is that it shows 125gb cause I've seen online that you can access 119gb,
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It varies
On a sd card lets say 128gb for example
The amount you can use will always be around 110gb to about 126gb
As for the micro sd filesystem type i think that it has to be exfat if its above 64gb

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Same here got 32GB ends up being 29.something. Its with all SD cards
Sent from my Xperia Z2

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The difference between the stated capacity and usable capacity is because of the different way memory card and hard drive manufacturers calculate capacity vs OS vendors.
When Sandisk says 128 GB, what they mean is 128,000,000,000, or 128*10^9
Windows, Android and all other OS's calculate it differently, they talk in binary, so instead of 10^9, it's (2^10)*(2^10)*(2^10)
so, 128,000,000,000 / (1024*1024*1024) = 119.2GB, which is what android should be displaying.

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Yea that's the weirdest part.on mine it shows 125gb.
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But I checked by copying files and it got no issues. At least at the moment

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strange

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se1000 said:
strange
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I think it can vary depending on how the individual unit handles some info so this could be brand/version spesific

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se1000 said:
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I know right? that's what I thought to myself for the first time but there's no any issues in copying files or viewing them.
But like @Envious_Data mentioned it can be vary. Still I checked that they used the same type of sd card on z1 and it shows 119GB.
It's damn confusing.
Here's the link where xperiablog details about 128gb card on ZU, Z1, Z2 yet my Z2 and Z2 tablet shows 125GB :silly:

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Hey guys, I think my sd cards are fake. cause I just checked it with esfiles explorer and it just shows only 9gb.
and the stuff I copied there are gone and only new stuff are there. I knew there was some weird thing was going on..