I have an unlocked and rooted Verizon Note II. I've been using it since the 4.1.1 days upgrading through all the Android iterations and I'm now on 5.1.1. I would like to upgrade to a 64 GB class 10 micro SD card and wipe all the old trash and orphaned items from my old card (32GB) and transfer some of the files to the new card. I have lots of files, mostly pictures, videos, back-ups etc that would need to be moved to the new card. What is the easiest or most elegant way to accomplish this without transferring stuff I don't need or want?
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I am stil on stock ROM 3588 with no mods. I have a few apps installed mainly games. I installed a 32 GB micro SD card. I have used the adapter to add music, video, DOC and PDF files. All files were added to new separate folders. I put card in with tablet off an then turn on. Nearly all folders and files end up in "lost.dir". I do get few music folders and files but 98% are gone. Am I doing this the wrong way or a way to correct this?
Does any ROM allow you to choose where to store downloads, internal vs exernal or installed apps to internal vs external memory?
I think the device only accepts up to 16GB MicroSD cards.
Thanks for responding Yarsis. I have read that several are successfully using the 32 GB cards.
Does anyone know if there is a difference between PC vs tablet formatting?
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I'm pretty sure the cards needs to be formated as FAT32 and at 2048 bytes. The issue you mention has been reported but as far as I recall proper formating should fix this.
I have an 8 gig sd card on my Nook Tablet on which I have side-loaded apps. I was wondering how I can upgrade to a larger sd card. Do I have to transfer the apps to the new card? And how would I do that? Or do I have to reinstall all of the apps that have been saved to the card?
You should be able to just copy the contents of the old card to your new card. You could also copy the contents to a folder on your PC, and then copy the folder contents to a new card.
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Singingdrum said:
I have an 8 gig sd card on my Nook Tablet on which I have side-loaded apps. I was wondering how I can upgrade to a larger sd card. Do I have to transfer the apps to the new card? And how would I do that? Or do I have to reinstall all of the apps that have been saved to the card?
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Do you have the apps actually INSTALLED on the SDcard (this requires some tweaking of settings), or did you download the .APK files onto your SDcard and install them from there?
In the latter case, your apps were installed to the 12GB partition on the internal memory, that is reserved for the installation of apps. In this case you do not need to keep the .APK files on the SDcard.
Simply copying it over (plug nook in -> copy sd card to pc -> switch out card -> recopy OR remove card -> copy to new card (I'd recommend this)) will work fine. I've done it on several cards (I use several cards - large comic and video library etc, travel, and important apps and folders are replicated on each cards). I also have a cute microsd card holder (from sdcardholder.com I think) that holds a bunch of cards I'd normally be misplacing, so handy!
I prefer to keep apps installed on the nook's internal memory (because why not?), so using something like Titanium backup (I think? or maybe another app manager) to move any that automatically install to an sd card is handy.
Thanks for the replies. I thought that I would be able to copy as you guys suggested. I just wanted to be sure. As for where the apps are installed to, I believe the Amazon apps that are side-loaded need to go on the sd card for some reason, so that's why I was concerned.
It sounds like connecting by the cable to the pc and then transfering the sd card files there and then to the new card would be the best bet. Less of a chance for mistakes or corruption.
Hey guys, i have owned my SGS i9300 for about a month and recently bought the 64GB MicroSDXC card, it was all great until I threw on all my music onto it, now when I throw in the same folders into itunes, it gives me 1400 songs, but when I put the same folders onto the memory card, I only get 13xx songs, now I know it's not a big deal, but it's still frustrating. Now i located one of the songs and copied it to the phone's memory, and it worked ... so i really don't know what to do :|
It's to do with the exfat system that the card is formatted with. If you can reformat the card as fat32 (preferably in another android device) and copy your files back it should work. Currently in the process of doing it myself.
There's a post about it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1698672
I Just received my 32g class 10 sd card and want to get direction before I use it from the members here because I have seen several variations on how to use these cards.
What should I do with it? In the past I just placed it in the phone and copied my music, pictures and documents to the phone via the USB .
On the forum I have heard people formatting the card differently or partitioning the card so they can install apps etc.
What is the best strategy?
You don't need special formatting to transparently move apps or their data to the external card.
All you need is root and the 'Directory Mount' APK.
I recently purchased a 64GB Samsung evo sdxc card to use with my Galaxy s4 zoom as an upgrade from my 32GB sd card i had been using. I put all my files onto my laptop and proceed to copy the entire folder to the sd card (24GB or so) everything went fine and I put the sd card into the phone and it seemed as if there was nothing on the card music pictures etc. I put the card back into my computer to find that the folders that i copied were still there but the contents of the folders were no longer there. trying this a few more times I copied the files again after formatting the SD card , but instead of putting it in the phone i just removed it from the laptop and put it back in . I received the same results each time i did this. i even tried to format it to Fat 32 to see if that would fix it and still just as before the same result. I have used many sd cards and have never had this problem before, this is the first time ive owned an sdxc card but it should be compatible with my s4 zoom, so the results i am getting have baffled me. any help with my situation would be very appreciated.