Can someone let me know what they are using to check partitions on their removable sd cards. I have partitioned in the past using the 4ext recovery on my old G2 but now want to get rid of the ext,.....
also what format is best to use for the whole card? 4EXT / fatext or what?
Thanx all!!!!
Please help guys,.....
I thought this would have been can easy one for ppl to give suggestions on?
Also I don't have a separate card reader so need to be able to do it from the phone itself or by having it connected via usb.
Pleeeeeeaaaassssseeee help.
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You will need to format the card on the phone itself..it will partition in FAT32 format..this is the format S3 used..you can try NTFS but only Siyah kernel will work with it AFAIK..
FAT32 is the format to use here,,
Thank Z.
So if I format through Cwm recovery it will also get rid of all partitions right?....... Data / swap / extdata?...... I don't actually remember how many partitions are on it.
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wileykat said:
Thank Z.
So if I format through Cwm recovery it will also get rid of all partitions right?....... Data / swap / extdata?...... I don't actually remember how many partitions are on it.
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Format it using the Format option present in Storage under settings..or connect it to a PC and format is as FAT32 ..all the partitions will be deleted and you will have a brand new FAT32 partitioned ExtSdcard.
Thanks again pal. Appreciated.
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Well i was trying to add a new rom to my internal storage via twrp recovery mount. but when plugged in to my laptop i can only see the files if the ROM is booted up. Am i doing anything wrong ? i got all the latest drivers installed and sync.
Well apparently i answered my own question. I was reading up stuff on the TWRP site and found the answer lying at : http://teamw.in/DataMedia .
Basically you don't get the option to mount because the internal storage is formated in ext4 which windows can't read.
Wow. After much googling on why i can't mount sdcard on my LG G2 and i found this thread. Clears a lot of things after reading that link. Much thanks LOL.
U can mouth ur sdcard twrp
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Hi. After reading hundreds of pages and dozens of threads, being unable to find the answer, I decided to register and post.
I'm running liquidsmooth 2.9 and had to format my 64GB card to fat32. It now shows up with 26.5GB available. I couldn't format it to 64 due to my USB dongle doesn't support SDXC cards (Hama microsdhc 2in1 reader, did not find any firmware upgrades for it either)
My question is, is there any way to format the card back to the full capacity without having to purchase another card reader? I've already bought 2 and would prefer to format it using USB mass storage through windows, but no software I've tried thus far gives me the option to format it larger than 27gb.
Help would be greatly appreciated!!
You need root for usb mass storage, then download any of the usb mass storage apps from play. Card readers are £2.
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rootSU said:
You need root for usb mass storage, then download any of the usb mass storage apps from play. Card readers are £2.
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I am running Liquidsmooth, so I am rooted. I'm currently on a small island where all computer peripherals are outdated and shipping is ridiculously expensive and takes many weeks. So if there is a way to recognize more than 27gb using Mass storage it would be great.
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Question [Q] Formatting a 64GB card using mass storage?
Try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34592799 may help
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Try this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34592799 may help
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You seem to have misunderstood the problem
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perpetuus said:
Hi. After reading hundreds of pages and dozens of threads, being unable to find the answer, I decided to register and post.
I'm running liquidsmooth 2.9 and had to format my 64GB card to fat32. It now shows up with 26.5GB available. I couldn't format it to 64 due to my USB dongle doesn't support SDXC cards (Hama microsdhc 2in1 reader, did not find any firmware upgrades for it either)
My question is, is there any way to format the card back to the full capacity without having to purchase another card reader? I've already bought 2 and would prefer to format it using USB mass storage through windows, but no software I've tried thus far gives me the option to format it larger than 27gb.
Help would be greatly appreciated!!
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Use EasyUMS on the i9300 and then format from your PC? Or format exFAT in a i9300 running a decent Sammy ROM?
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Use EasyUMS on the i9300 and then format from your PC? Or format exFAT in a i9300 running a decent Sammy ROM?
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I am using EasyUMS, it still only shows up as 26.5GB and when it was exfat, it would just say "Insert disk in drive" when I was using USB mass storage. Right now the card is formatted as FAT32 for it to be able to be recognized at all, I'm just wondering if anyone knows of a way to reformat it to get the full capacity in Liquidsmooth through usb. I have tried SD formatter 4.0, Easus partition master, Guiformat as well as a bunch of others. Any ideas?
Thanks for the replies so far!
1) take nandroid to internal memory
2) flash touchwiz rom (aosp doesn't support exfat)
3) format sd to exfat (standard touchwiz format, use storage menu)
4) using easy ums / sg usb mass storage enabler - mount exfat card in windows pc
5) using easeus, format fat32
Should work
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rootSU said:
1) take nandroid to internal memory
2) flash touchwiz rom (aosp doesn't support exfat)
3) format sd to exfat (standard touchwiz format, use storage menu)
4) using easy ums / sg usb mass storage enabler - mount exfat card in windows pc
5) using easeus, format fat32
Should work
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Thanks, I'll try this. I should have done this when I flashed back to stock rom, but for some reason I thought I could do it through usb with Liquidsmooth.
Let me know how you get on...
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Let me know how you get on...
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It worked beautifully. I had already flashed to stock earlier, and I guess from the relief from getting my full storage back (I was a little worried after reading about people having 64gb cards ruined in the phone) , I forgot to format it before reverting to Liquidsmooth.
Wish I didn't waste so much time trying to get the non-SDXC usb dongle to work It's just odd that this tiny stick should differentiate between SDHC/XC.
Thanks for the help. For those wanting to use a 64gb card with a non-touch wiz ROM, remember to format it before you flash and save yourself a lot of trouble.
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It worked beautifully. I had already flashed to stock earlier, and I guess from the relief from getting my full storage back (I was a little worried after reading about people having 64gb cards ruined in the phone) , I forgot to format it before reverting to Liquidsmooth.
Wish I didn't waste so much time trying to get the non-SDXC usb dongle to work It's just odd that this tiny stick should differentiate between SDHC/XC.
Thanks for the help. For those wanting to use a 64gb card with a non-touch wiz ROM, remember to format it before you flash and save yourself a lot of trouble.
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Cool. I thought it would work. Thanks for taking the time to update the thread.
I've used the Minitool and followed as much of the walkthrough as possible,,,, what am I missing here?
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Has anyone tried to swap the internal memory for the external sdcard? I'm sure this is easy for people that know what they're doing!lol,,,,I want to be able to run my books from the sdcard where they're stored also I'd like to be able to run apps from there also but I can't get the card to partition correctly so the phone will mount the 2nd partition from boot...lol had one almost catastrophe!
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Hi all, installed release_Remix_OS_for_PC_64_B2016030106 on my 64GB usb pen, in resident mode. Now I was in need to uninstall it, so I rebooted my pc in windows and formatted the usb drive.
But now I have only 1 partition with a 23,9 Size and looking in disk management, this is what I have (image attached). What is driving me mad is that if I click on the non-allocated partition, I can't do nothing, just property is not greyed out.
Need some help on this...
I had to use minitools partition wizard free to delete all the usbs partitions and then create a new partition and format again. Beta version seems to work different than alpha for storage. Not sure why 3 partitions this time.
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ryancell said:
I had to use minitools partition wizard free to delete all the usbs partitions and then create a new partition and format again. Beta versions send to work different than alpha for storage. Not sure why 3 partitions this time.
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minitools did the trick, thanks ryancell!