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hey guys, this may have already been answered but can someone please tell me what is the maximum size sd card i can have in this phone ? and what file system it has to be formatted in ?
64 GB, formatted as FAT32.
I have 32GB microsd and it works fine.
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thanks guys! , just need more space then the 8gb in there, mainly because i watch tv shows on my phone when im in the car or in a waiting room or something. might go for 32
naathaanb96 said:
thanks guys! , just need more space then the 8gb in there, mainly because i watch tv shows on my phone when im in the car or in a waiting room or something. might go for 32
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Do it, its the only money I've put into this phone since purchasing it. I run 16 gb and have 2000 songs and 4 full length movies at all times. Well worth the $$$$$
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itsbeertimenow said:
Do it, its the only money I've put into this phone since purchasing it. I run 16 gb and have 2000 songs and 4 full length movies at all times. Well worth the $$$$$
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thanks mate, i think ill go buy it, should be enough, what do you use to convert your movies ?
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thanks mate, i think ill go buy it, should be enough, what do you use to convert your movies ?
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Why convert?
Use a proper media player that can play *.avi files
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Use "qqplayer" it kicks ass at media playing.
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itsbeertimenow said:
Use "qqplayer" it kicks ass at media playing.
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im using mx at the moment, is qq better ?
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im using mx at the moment, is qq better ?
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Not sure but it only takes a few minutes to find out
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Tried both, as well as mobo player and rock player. Went back to mx player.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.homeysoft.nexususb.importer
It may be read only, but its a place to store your media to use, and keep your internal memory for other stuff!
This app isn't mine, and I did not make t or have any input in development, I simpliky just found n Google play, just thought I'd say
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Looks interesting, but IMO cloud storage is more useful and easier.
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just lou said:
Looks interesting, but IMO cloud storage is more useful and easier.
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And IMO offline storage is more useful, especially on a Wifi-only device, but also for anyone else with a limited data plan on their phone or data connection capable tablet. Also, pretty sure a $9 16GB USB stick is more cost effective than pretty much any 16GB cloud storage option.
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There is actually a thread over in the Themes and Apps section that the developer made. He is really open to input. I like the app, as I don't have to root to use a flash drive with videos saved on it.
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Well, isn't that a kick in the teeth, because I just rooted last night simply to use USB OTG. At first I kind of felt "meh" over the read only factor, but then I got to thinking, am I really going to need to transfer from tablet to external media? I'd much rather transfer from external media to tablet, do what I need to do with watching whatever content I may have, then simply delete it off the tablet... no reason to transfer it back when it's the same darn file. Some people may have uses for having a 2 way setup, but I'm sure this will fit the bill for a lot of people. I do find it a considerable bummer that ext* file systems aren't supported, but meh.
Thank you thank you thank you!
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4z01235;30499855. said:
Also, pretty sure a $9 16GB USB stick is more cost effective than pretty much any 16GB cloud storage option.
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How is $9 for $16GB more cost effective than the almost 50GB's I have online for free?
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just lou said:
How is $9 for $16GB more cost effective than the almost 50GB's I have online for free?
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Dropbox? 50gb...for 2 years...
Nice find! I travel with my Nexus and having the videos accessible from a USB drive on the airplane is great. Wifi on a plane is good for Facebook and email,nothing else.
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I grabbed this app. I am new to Android so seeing how people can just make apps to actually add more hardware features is amazing to me.
Not showing up when clicking the link??!!
Willie_Heckerslyke said:
Not showing up when clicking the link??!!
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It not available any longer grrrrr I missed out ..
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It will return soon, the dev is just flooded with emails and wanted to put a stop to new users until he gets caught up.
can we directly read data in the usb? for example pdf files and media files?
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can we directly read data in the usb? for example pdf files and media files?
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It will return soon, the dev is just flooded with emails and wanted to put a stop to new users until he gets caught up.
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Thanks for the info
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i dont understand the bickering of cloud data. it is nice but i have 20 hours of plane flights coming up. cloud data will not be a very good solution for me compared to plugging a hard drive into my tablet.
Being a non-root user, this is great news for me. I always used splashtop to watch my videos directly from my computer, though it gave me no trouble, I would much rather have the movie with me.
Can't wait till the developer puts it back up.
What is the name of the app? Can anyone share the APK?
Downloaded Nexus Media Importer yesterday. It works as needed on my GNex, Nexus 7 and Xoom. No root necessary. Amazing! I'd pay for this app in a heartbeat! Sorry have no place to upload it.
Looks like the developer is now charging for it:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.homeysoft.nexususb.importer&hl=en
When I had my GNex I could always look at what was taking up space from storage in settings. Now that I have my One I cannot do this. I've got 2gigs available overall and "other" is using 10gigs. But I don't know how I can see what is taking up so much space. I am rooted, btw. Any suggestions? I've got 18gigs of music so far and I'm not done so I'd really like to free up this storage.
Im a huge fan of Grid Size File Manager. It gives you a visual representation of whats eating your storage. Most likely downloaded roms or videos.
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Thank you, its a great app. Its all twrp. My backups are taking up the space but I never had this problem with my GNex and I had several backups.
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If GNex = Galaxy Nexus, then your backups may have been on an SD card?
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If GNex = Galaxy Nexus, then your backups may have been on an SD card?
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GNex didn't have a physical SD card slot. I've moved my backups to my pc and now I've got an extra 4gb but there's still 6gb being used and I haven't a clue as to what's using it. I even deleted all of my music to make sure there weren't any misplaced files in my music folder. This is driving me crazy.
A ton of space is used by the system.
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A ton of space is used by the system.
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I really didn't want to come to that conclusion but I probably should have just stopped there from the beginning. Of course they're system files, duh. *slaps forehead*
Yup. Out of the 32gb when i took this baby out of the box I had just under 27. Still not bad, as I rely on the cloud for everything but roms, booby pics, and the like
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I have a 64gb sandisk sdxc now, but normally have 24 to 32gb free on it. I typically like to store entire seasons of TV shows on the card and watch them in their entirety on the phone because it's easier than lugging around a laptop to watch shows. If the technology came out, and say it was $150 to $200 or less, and it was a very reputable manufacturer, would you drop that much money on a card? Personally, I would give it some serious thought if it did. If you have any experience in dealing with storage of shows that are over 32gb in size, you know the limitations of the available hardware these days. I'll find myself copying maybe half the season to the card, watching what I have on the phone, then copying the rest over once enough free space has opened up. Another thing to consider, the average ROM size due this phone is 1.5 to 2gb. I typically store roms on my external card too in case I ever need them.
If money was no object, yes. In the real world, no.
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I would, especially with ubuntu touch coming to are device(hopefully) sometime in the near future.
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Asop roms are only 185-200mb in size. Just another reason I prefer them over tw roms.
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I wouldn't until it became mainstream and the price came down. If I needed it bad enough I would just get another 64 card for less than $50 and be set.
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crawrj said:
I wouldn't until it became mainstream and the price came down. If I needed it bad enough I would just get another 64 card for less than $50 and be set.
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Exactly, I don't see how people could use over 64 gbs on a sd card. I keep everything of mine in the cloud and I never use over a gb of my phone's internal storage. Personally, for me, I would not get a 128 gb card. I would never use close to that much data on my phone.
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You would be surprised at how fast you run out of space if u put full hd tv on this thing.
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As someone who loves music and only listens to lossless(flac)which a large portion of that is 24bit vinyl rips, a 64gb card hardly holds a single playlist for me. In fairness that playlist is almost 1400 songs.
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You would be surprised at how fast you run out of space if u put full hd tv on this thing.
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That's true, one season of lost 720p is 55gb
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klgd said:
As someone who loves music and only listens to lossless(flac)which a large portion of that is 24bit vinyl rips, a 64gb card hardly holds a single playlist for me. In fairness that playlist is almost 1400 songs.
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That's true, one season of lost 720p is 55gb
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That sounds like a lot. But then again, some of the stuff I've seen could be considered compressed too much for HD.
It's h264 mkv. None of that mp4 garbage.
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Exactly, I don't see how people could use over 64 gbs on a sd card. I keep everything of mine in the cloud and I never use over a gb of my phone's internal storage. Personally, for me, I would not get a 128 gb card. I would never use close to that much data on my phone.
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Sprint's network is going to have to get waaaay faster and waaaay more reliable before I even THINK about keeping everything in the cloud. I'm not in a 4g market, so there's just no way that could be a practical solution for me. I have about 25gb free on my 64gb card right now, but it fills up really quickly with nandroids and 1080p videos of my kids.
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Sprint's network is going to have to get waaaay faster and waaaay more reliable before I even THINK about keeping everything in the cloud. I'm not in a 4g market, so there's just no way that could be a practical solution for me. I have about 25gb free on my 64gb card right now, but it fills up really quickly with nandroids and 1080p videos of my kids.
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Ah, I got spoiled on T-Mobile. I have everything on either my Dropbox, Box or OwnCloud account. If I didn't have HSPA+ every moment of the day, I would want to have a large SD card.
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I'd pick one up in a heartbeat. And for reference, I'm a college student with a part time job as a phone tech and a car payment. I have too many game emulators and roms on here. I've had to clear things out a lot recently. I also torrent extensively on my phone.
TLDR: yes I'd buy one.
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I recall seeing something about a Note 2 that had been modified to use a normal size SD card (and a very large battery) the SD card was 256gb and seemed to work fine from what I remember.
Here it is... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2239413
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It's h264 mkv. None of that mp4 garbage.
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You mean AVI garbage? H264 and mp4... Ever used handbrake?
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You mean AVI garbage? H264 and mp4... Ever used handbrake?
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No havent used it, all I know is the tracker I use doesn't allow mp4 def not avi, everything is x264, vc-1 in an mkv container. I notice that mp4 blu ray ripps are about half the size of the mkv rips.
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It's all about much they compress it and how many sound channels they encode. I don't have the hardware to rip br. I've seen 30 to 50 GB straight m2ts rips from br that I converted to something more reasonable in size. Say a two to two and a half hour 1080p movie encoded down to around 5k video bitrate. The movie will come in around four gigs tops down from 50gb from the br disc with only stereo audio. Good enough for the hardware I have to watch it on.
Not possible because they dont exist
I have 51 gigs unused on my 64 gig sd card .Over 2500 photos and 23 hd videos and 4 roms and alot of games hd games. 128 gigs is crazy but for the right price
I would buy. You can never have to much memory, im sure I could find some use for that extra space.
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The hardware will support 128 and beyond. Software will as well. Just have to wait for them to go on sale. But yes the hardware will definitely support 128 no problem.
I'd probably get one if it was true class 10 speed. I know I would use the space. I don't put too much music on my phone anymore with Google play music allowing 20,000 songs uploaded. Plus with Google play music service you can listen to any album in full at anytime even if you don't own it. Love this service, blows everything else away.
But movies and torrents take up space fast. With 40mb+ LTE speeds everywhere now it's hard not to want to use it.
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On my 64Gb card currently:
2,273 songs (all MP3s at 320kbps) - that's roughly half my entire collection, but it's all the ones I care to have with me
88 ePub/PDF eBooks
1,384 photos (family photo album, not pictures from camera)
3,615 ROMs for various emulators (mostly 8-bits, but a couple of Playstation ISOs too)
25 HD videos (like the photos, not videos from camera)
1,867 high-quality wallpapers (which, ironically, I don't use anymore!)
8 ISOs for DriveDroid including Ubuntu, Windows XP, HawkPE, Hiren's and some others
34 podcasts I've yet to listen to (which reminds me... LOL)
187 Flash files
223 pictures and videos taken with the camera
249 documents (Office docs, text files, etc)
Some app data, but not a lot
With all of that, I still have 14Gb free on the thing!
TL;DR 64Gb does me just fine If the 128Gb was < $50 I probably would, but it'd be overkill.
Hoping for one soon.
Not soon mostly! :/
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Maybe not for a while
Google does NOT want you to be able to store lots of things on your device. They want you to use there Cloud services. This way they see more about you . See more about your Habits and so on. As well as get most of your stuff on there cloud.Having you attached to them this way helps keep you for a long term customer. Not to mention they sell Data collected about what you do and store to other companies . OF course they say they do this without exposing who you are.
SO the answer is.
Unless they change there way of thinking . Or consumers start switching to products with much more storage . They will likely keep ON Device storage as it is . Give you just enough for you to keep it almost full. And Require some type of Networked Storage.
BUY A HOME SERVER.. there are many out there from companies likes Netgear western digital..Synology buffalo and so on.
I have Synology Disk station and love it My data on MY server ..
Good Luck .. :fingers-crossed:
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Google does NOT want you to be able to store lots of things on your device. They want you to use there Cloud services. This way they see more about you .:
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I never thought about it this way, but it makes perfect sense!
I have the 32GB one and I rarely use more then 16GB. I do watch series on, but I delete it once I watch it. I wouldn't upgrade to 64 one if it came out, I don't need it.
If however, there will be a N7 with 64 GB, it's probably going to be the 2014 or 2015, not the current 2013.
What about the *possible* nexus 8 that was up on Google's android.com site earlier this week? Will that have 64gb?
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Since nexus 8 is just a rumor with no ground I'm gonna go ahead and say Sure, why not
Otg + USB drive
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This ^^^^^
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Otg + USB drive
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But that is only good for videos & music not apps. Or do you know something I don't (she asks hopefully...)?
Rock-&-Roll-Hedgehog said:
But that is only good for videos & music not apps. Or do you know something I don't (she asks hopefully...)?
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There is a way. Don't have the link but when I get home I'll send it to you. Nice name by the way
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ChemicalSymphony said:
There is a way. Don't have the link but when I get home I'll send it to you. Nice name by the way
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Thank you Sir.
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Mrs Hedgehog
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Thank you Sir.
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Here you go. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1410262
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Sorry I didn't get to it yesterday.
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