Hi guys
I just installed Cyanogen OS CM12.1 nightly 20160203 to my Xperia Z2 tablet SGP521 (the one with LTE)
after i thinkering with it for a while, i just realized that there isn't any microSD installed
so i pulled out the card and try to figure out what is wrong
I googled and find some answers but none of them is working for me
I tried to change the filesystem format to FAT32 with 3 different programs (acronis disk director, ease us partition magic, and dos version formater) and none of them is working.
my card is a exFAT file system
I'm very sure that my card is not a fake one (it is a sandisk ultra 64 gb microsdxc class 1)
I can read it from the card reader and it shows all the files inside but i cannot write to it and it is not showing in my tablet
Any idea what else to do to fix this?
Thanks guys
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Kind of a newbie here so I apologize if this should go somewhere else.
I have searched and looked through other areas on the forums for anyone else having the same issue or a solution. I don't find much on microSD issues for the X10.
I'm wondering if anyone more experienced might know why after updating my X10a to X10i_3.0.1.G.0.75_GLOBAL-GGL GENERIC 1232-9897, the 16GB SanDisk Class 2 MicroSDHC is no longer recognized.
It worked fine previously.
I've tried formatting it FAT32 with default allocation size.
A 2GB card works fine.
Any ideas?
Get a free partition manager, than, format in FAT.
Thanks for the suggestion
I was able to make a 4gig FAT partition work but didn't want to loose the other 12GB.
I downloaded MiniTool Partition Wizard and created a 14.83 GB linux swap file partition. When I put it back in the phone it recognized the whole partition as unreadable and formatted it automatically.
It works now. thanks for the reply.
want to buy a sdhc card for my sony tablet s have got class 10 32 gb one
just wondering whats the max size memory card it will take
and any recommendations on working sdhc card and the brands which have been tested on the tablet s and work
thanks
boxer29 said:
want to buy a sdhc card for my sony tablet s have got class 10 32 gb one
just wondering whats the max size memory card it will take
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From Sony's support site:
"The tablet can recognize SD and SDHC memory cards (Class 4 or higher) up to 32GB in size. External USB Hard Disk up to 2TB (Terabytes) have been tested and will be recognized, as long as the drive is formatted in the FAT32 file system. Similarly, flash drives of any size will be recognized as long as they are formatted in the FAT32 file system."
Cat McGowan said:
From Sony's support site:
"The tablet can recognize SD and SDHC memory cards (Class 4 or higher) up to 32GB in size. External USB Hard Disk up to 2TB (Terabytes) have been tested and will be recognized, as long as the drive is formatted in the FAT32 file system. Similarly, flash drives of any size will be recognized as long as they are formatted in the FAT32 file system."
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ive read here some one has tried 64GB SDXC card on it
is that right can some one confirm before i buy it
thanks
there is this... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20273764&postcount=4
I use 64 sdxc. bought the cheapest and format it to fat32 with third party tool. works excellent.
I use a 128GB SDXC card with mine. works like a charm.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/756124-REG/Lexar_LSD128CRBNA133_128GB_Professional_SDXC_Card.html
here is the link to the card I'm using.
I know this is an older thread and well not trying to be a noob. I see it does work with ICS update as well but my question is do you have direct access to it or do you have to transfer to the internal storage to use it?
I use MixZing for music MX player for movies and Astro for everything else. All these work with the specially formatted SDXC?
does the gallery app with the upgrade work as well to get access to photos on the card. I have heard that some programs will not find the card at all.
I don't have ICS installed, so many of these things will have changed.
In Honeycomb, the Sony stock apps required copying data to internal storage, but third-party apps could access it just fine. The only problem (which caused the occasional app to not find the SD Card), is that most devices mount their SD Cards as either /mnt/sdcard/external_sd or /mnt/external_sd but Sony instead (at least in Honeycomb) mounted it at /mnt/sdcard2 so some apps might not see it, but most still should find it.
Hi all, i'd like to share my experiment with this new-tech thing.
I bought a Sandisk 64GB micro SDXC class 10 the other day to be used in my new LGOG
I formated the card using my win 7 laptop as exFAT then put it in the phone. At fist it mounted fined and has no problem. Then I copied several GB of data to the card within my OG and the problem happens: the card unmount itself continuously after 1~2GB copied. It keeps unmounting and remounting for a few times before it mounts normally as the message appears "SD card unmounted unexpectedly".
That started making me worry so much. When it mounted normally I try listening to music in the card, after 30~60 mins of playback the unmounting problem came back.
This became so annoying that I tried to find a solution. Below are what I've tried which the problem still happens afterward:
- Formatted as exFAT in Windows 7 laptop. Not work.
- Formatted as NTFS in Windows 7 laptop. Not work.
- Formatted as FAT32 in Windows 7 laptop. Not work.
- Formatted as DOS-FAT in Macbook Pro 2012. Not work.
- Formatted as exFAT in Macbook Pro 2012. Not work.
- FULL formatted using SD Card formatter 3.1 (sdcars dot org). Took me more than 2 hours, still unmounting/remounting.
I did some researches too and found out a lot of interesting things
According to sdcard.org:
- Must use the card with SDXC compatible devices/adapter.
- Do not format SDXC card using incompatible devices/adapter <-- OMG i did it with my outdated laptop
And from Amazon reviews:
- Do not format from the SDXC card or it may cause instability. <-- this is the strongest reason I believe
- This Sandisk model is not compatible with Android 4.0 or above. <-- What the hell do they make it for? If you are curious enough to read the review then look for: Designed incompatibility/Don't support SanDisk By Tom Henriksen "Doggy Diner"
From all the evidences I could gather around I am stuck and the beautiful combos LGOG + 64GB class 10 is broken.
Ended up returning the card. Looking for a more stable one to dig in.
Thanks for reading and please share your experiences. Any comment is welcomed.
If you had googled a bit before trying this you would have known to just format it to FAT32 out of the box instead of all those other formats. You probably fried the card.
macabong said:
Hi all, i'd like to share my experiment with this new-tech thing.
I bought a Sandisk 64GB micro SDXC class 10 the other day to be used in my new LGOG
I formated the card using my win 7 laptop as exFAT then put it in the phone. At fist it mounted fined and has no problem. Then I copied several GB of data to the card within my OG and the problem happens: the card unmount itself continuously after 1~2GB copied. It keeps unmounting and remounting for a few times before it mounts normally as the message appears "SD card unmounted unexpectedly".
That started making me worry so much. When it mounted normally I try listening to music in the card, after 30~60 mins of playback the unmounting problem came back.
This became so annoying that I tried to find a solution. Below are what I've tried which the problem still happens afterward:
- Formatted as exFAT in Windows 7 laptop. Not work.
- Formatted as NTFS in Windows 7 laptop. Not work.
- Formatted as FAT32 in Windows 7 laptop. Not work.
- Formatted as DOS-FAT in Macbook Pro 2012. Not work.
- Formatted as exFAT in Macbook Pro 2012. Not work.
- FULL formatted using SD Card formatter 3.1 (sdcars dot org). Took me more than 2 hours, still unmounting/remounting.
I did some researches too and found out a lot of interesting things
According to sdcard.org:
- Must use the card with SDXC compatible devices/adapter.
- Do not format SDXC card using incompatible devices/adapter <-- OMG i did it with my outdated laptop
And from Amazon reviews:
- Do not format from the SDXC card or it may cause instability. <-- this is the strongest reason I believe
- This Sandisk model is not compatible with Android 4.0 or above. <-- What the hell do they make it for? If you are curious enough to read the review then look for: Designed incompatibility/Don't support SanDisk By Tom Henriksen "Doggy Diner"
From all the evidences I could gather around I am stuck and the beautiful combos LGOG + 64GB class 10 is broken.
Ended up returning the card. Looking for a more stable one to dig in.
Thanks for reading and please share your experiences. Any comment is welcomed.
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There should be NO issues with using this card I think this is purely user error.
macabong said:
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- This Sandisk model is not compatible with Android 4.0 or above.
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Not true.
macabong said:
Hi all, i'd like to share my experiment with this new-tech thing.
I bought a Sandisk 64GB micro SDXC class 10 the other day to be used in my new LGOG
I formated the card using my win 7 laptop as exFAT then put it in the phone. At fist it mounted fined and has no problem. Then I copied several GB of data to the card within my OG and the problem happens: the card unmount itself continuously after 1~2GB copied. It keeps unmounting and remounting for a few times before it mounts normally as the message appears "SD card unmounted unexpectedly".
That started making me worry so much. When it mounted normally I try listening to music in the card, after 30~60 mins of playback the unmounting problem came back.
This became so annoying that I tried to find a solution. Below are what I've tried which the problem still happens afterward:
- Formatted as exFAT in Windows 7 laptop. Not work.
- Formatted as NTFS in Windows 7 laptop. Not work.
- Formatted as FAT32 in Windows 7 laptop. Not work.
- Formatted as DOS-FAT in Macbook Pro 2012. Not work.
- Formatted as exFAT in Macbook Pro 2012. Not work.
- FULL formatted using SD Card formatter 3.1 (sdcars dot org). Took me more than 2 hours, still unmounting/remounting.
I did some researches too and found out a lot of interesting things
According to sdcard.org:
- Must use the card with SDXC compatible devices/adapter.
- Do not format SDXC card using incompatible devices/adapter <-- OMG i did it with my outdated laptop
And from Amazon reviews:
- Do not format from the SDXC card or it may cause instability. <-- this is the strongest reason I believe
- This Sandisk model is not compatible with Android 4.0 or above. <-- What the hell do they make it for? If you are curious enough to read the review then look for: Designed incompatibility/Don't support SanDisk By Tom Henriksen "Doggy Diner"
From all the evidences I could gather around I am stuck and the beautiful combos LGOG + 64GB class 10 is broken.
Ended up returning the card. Looking for a more stable one to dig in.
Thanks for reading and please share your experiences. Any comment is welcomed.
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I had this exact problem. Same issues on my lgog but worked fine plugged into my laptop using supplied adapter. As it turns out the card was defective. I contacted support and they agreed it needs to be replaced. Now the same SanDisk 64GB model new card is working perfectly so its not you, its the card.
I originally formatted my 64GB MicroSD card for my SGS3 and, after some research, I downloaded the free version of EaseUS Partition Master and formatted the card using FAT32. It's not the most efficient use of space on the card, but it works with both ICS and Jelly Bean quite well. And, it's now serving me quite well in my OG. :highfive:
Can one of you guys with that 64GB sandisk card see if you can make an EXT 4 partition on it in addition to a FAT32 partition and see if it works? Like SD-ext partition? It would be really nifty for using it as a flash drive/keep a couple 1080p bluray rips for miracastin' on there.
First.
Sorry for my Bad Englisch.
Question
Support a Sony Tablet S - SGPT 112 DE/S 32Gig an SDXC 64gig SDCard
I have Purchased a Sandisk Ultra SDXC 1 64Gig Class 10 30Mbs
It not Work. The Tablet say. Please Insert a Storage Card. Format with FAT32 not help. With the SDXC Card inside, after boot the SDCARD Internal Memory is not Show Anymore.
Is the Card incomatible or generally SDXC
what version of android do you have now? You need ICS release 6 for sdxc support!
I may be mistaken, but I recall support for SDXC memory cards formatted exFAT was first provided with the 4.0.3 release 6b firmware update. However, SDXC memory cards formatted FAT32 can be used with earlier versions of firmware.
My Tab have
Android 4.0.3 realeae 1a
Kernel 2.6.39.4
Rooted.
Format as FAT32 not help. The Tablet Say Insert a SDCard. SDCARD Memory is gone.
Another
Format as NTFS with the Paragon NTFS & HFS+ APP not Work. Same issue.
Koto99 said:
My Tab have
Android 4.0.3 realeae 1a
Kernel 2.6.39.4
Rooted.
Format as FAT32 not help. The Tablet Say Insert a SDCard. SDCARD Memory is gone.
Another
Format as NTFS with the Paragon NTFS & HFS+ APP not Work. Same issue.
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Sdxc only works with release 6b. But remember, release 6 is not rooteable .
Sent from my SGPT12 using xda app-developers app
Is it possible to Add Support to Android 4.0.3 realeae 1a? :
Koto99 said:
Is it possible to Add Support to Android 4.0.3 realeae 1a? :
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We are talking about 2 different tabs here. R6b is newer Xperia tab s... R1a is original tab...
All you have right about sdxc ExFat format. Look at your sony site there is an info/statement about sdxc. Check, its there where are news about update . These sdxc formated are incompatible with sgpt 111/112/ 113 NOW . Maybe in future will be comp - who knows . I didnt check xts statement.
...but koto u can change sdcard format to Fat32 and you will have working with tab card.
I personally have same card as you but microsdxc 64GB with sd adapter. I resolved this problem by formatting it with my android phone (lt18i .4.0.3) .Exfat changed to Fat32. You can format it also via PC tool ( my case : I formatted my card first on PC win xp and after I have 32Gb card instead of 64. After that read somewhere that some OS ( windows generally) have restriction of reading Fat format to 32gb - but it doesnt mean that it cant read it. ) . Linux should read and be able to format to fat32 >32gb sd . Search 3 rd party app for pc to formatt.
Btw i have 4.0.3r5a,I can confirmed this card working also on ( 4.0.3.r5 ,4.0.3r1)
koto99 why you want to have ExFat formatted one ? transfer >5gb?You can also plug external hdd with ntfs and drive mount app with rooted tablet. Drive must have external dc to give own power supply.
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https://www.dropbox.com/sh/jicfvqdu2mfd6iu/Mx_4IoJZj0
@biablo
Please Read the Thread.
The Tablet say. Please Insert a Storage Card.
Format with FAT32 not help. With the SDXC Card inside, after boot, the SDCARD Internal Memory is not Show Anymore. Is empty.
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I have Format the Card to FAT32. Not work.
You have not the Same card. You have a MicroSD, i have a SD.
Koto99 said:
@biablo
Please Read the Thread.
I have Format the Card to FAT32. Not work.
You have not the Same card. You have a MicroSD, i have a SD.
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Can your PC read and write the FAT32-formatted card?
With right click on it, what do you see in Properties (Eigenschaften)?
Yes Windows 7 64 Bit can Read an Write FAT32 SDCard. Card work on PC Perfect.
See
Strange...
Under Windows it looks good. Then only people who have personally experienced the case can help you. Sorry!
I pushed question about it to sandisk support. I ' ll post what they answered after I receive it.
Btw. read in support about sony nex-7 and sdxc. When formatted in camera windows 7 (which is compatible with exFat) sees as unsupported. When card is windows 7 formatted nex-7 sees as unsupported.
Btw1 about screen at #11 I see used space at 64.0KB. I experimented sth.After I formatted card the used space were same as I set in format tool in cluster size option. I tested this with easeus. Set to 8.0KB cluster size- after format used space was 8.0KB. If this screen is shortly after format you may set in format opt 64.0KB cluster.Did you try 32KB cluster? My Lt18i formatted my microSDXC as 32 KB cluster size and have active/ primary in easeus option.
BR
Formatter is
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm
Quick Format
Cluster 512, 8192, 32768 nothing work
Tablet not See the Card.
EaseUS Partition Master 9.2.1 Home Edition not See any SDCard. Format impossibel. (Windows)
As I promised here is an answer from sandisk technical support. Maybe some info there is obvious. I want to post state of manufacturer. In my mail I asked if sdcard can be damaged permanently by formatting it to fat32 and consequences about that (in my sgpt111). Also asked about tool app to format inside tablet( most tablets don't have that option). Check the tech repply esp "the only consequence".
Dear Customer,
Thank you for emailing SanDisk Technical Support. It is our goal to make sure you have all the resources you need to get the most from your product.
I understand that in exFAT, the 64GB microSDXC card is not detected by your Sony tablet. This is because the tablet doesn't support exFAT. After formatting the card in FAT32, the card seems to be working fine in the tablet and shows the full capacity.
The only consequence you may experience by doing this is that you won't be able to add any files larger than 4GB, due to the FAT32 limitation.
Transferring a 4GB or larger file to a USB flash drive or memory card http://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/289/kw/4GB
You will be able to format the card back to exFAT, if your operating system also supports exFAT: Operating Systems that Support the exFAT File System http://kb.sandisk.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3389/kw/exfat
If I understand correctly, you would like to know also if there is a difference between the microSDXC card and the SDXC card. There is indeed a physical difference between both cards:
- microSDXC: SanDisk Ultra microSDXC UHS-I card for mobile devices www.sandisk.com/products/memory-cards/microsd/ultra-class10-for-android/?capacity=64GB
- SDXC: SanDisk Ultra SDXC UHS-I Card www.sandisk.com/products/memory-cards/sd/ultra-uhs-1-class10-30mbs/?capacity=64GB
Regarding your question about the format option tool for the tablet, there currently are no development plans on this. You may keep an eye on the SanDisk webpage to see if there would be any plans on this.
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BR biablo
The EaseUS Partition Master 9.2.1 Home Edition not Show SDCards.
I can click refresh to the next Christmas.
Is not Show my 32Gig, it Show only HDDs. (SSD, HDD and USB)
I use now Acronis Disk Director 11 Home
See Picture
Cluster are 32
And Now!!!!
Come here i give your a Kiss.
My Hero NOW the Tablet see the Card.
Really im have lost my hope, that the Card work anytime.
I have it Formatted 40-50 times.
Really big THANX to you. GREAT USERs and FORUM.:laugh:
I accept a kiss but only from your older sister ( if you have a sister) Thanks goes to all people hands-on this topic and psxpetey who re: my pm msg that his sandisc sdxc 64gb (not micro) is working well with tablet ..yhm ..sth also about exFat, if I were s.ony oem dev I would implement exFat support to jelly bean update in sgpt. If not next thought is about porting exFat resources from xperia s tab. Easy 2 say but not 2 do with limitations we've got.have a nice weekend guys.
Recently purchased some 64GB mSD cards and found my original (unmodified) Nook Tablet would not recognize them.
Am still considering what version of CM to install but am favoring CM11.0 KitKat (Android 4.4.4) for my Nook Tablet (esp if can use exFAT mSD cards).
Background: I am still using a WinXP Desktop PC (standalone No Internet) for basic Word Processing and Photo Editing and found WinXP would not recognize the 64GB mSD cards. Googled and found WinXP needs an exFAT driver. "Description of the exFAT file system driver update package" https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/955704 Have the same problem with some of my Android devices so Googled using "Android exFAT driver" but did not find a Google driver like found for WinXP. This was originally posted "Android exFAT Driver?" http://androidforums.com/threads/android-exfat-driver.1005003/
Received answer from svim "Android already includes support for exFAT to a limited extent....if your phone doesn't already support USB OTG (a lot of newer phones do but not all), it's not a trivial task to add OTG support as it requires rooting your phone and a change to its Linux kernel."
This whole problem shows how little I know about Android!
Since this posting I was told by a friend that it is possible to Format a 64GB exFAT mSD card with FAT32 and should be recognized by Android device.
Before doing this, thought I would ask if any Nook Tablet owners are using 64GB (or larger) mSD cards?
If yes please tell what you did to successfully use these larger mSD Cards?
Thanks
Ken
The Nook Tablet specs indicate that 32 GB is the maximum SD card size. I doubt it will be able to deal with a 64 GB card.