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[Q] Upgrade SDCard on CM 7.1

Hi,
I have CM7.1 installed on a 2GB sdcard, but now i want to upgrade it to an 8GB sdcard but without losing everything that i have installed right now. How can i do this in order to keep everything working with the new card?
Thanks!!

You could use the WinImage (or whatever you originally used) to clone it to another card.

patruns said:
You could use the WinImage (or whatever you originally used) to clone it to another card.
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Thanks for your answer but what about the extra space? i think that if i use WinImage it will still leave the partitions using only 2GB instead of 8GB.

I used minitool partition wizard home edition which is free. Copy the card from the old card to the new card and move the partition to occupy all of the new card.

zires said:
I used minitool partition wizard home edition which is free. Copy the card from the old card to the new card and move the partition to occupy all of the new card.
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It worked great!! thanks a lot!

I downloaded that program but am not seeing my SD card listed. My SD card is drive G: but I'm not seeing it. I'm looking at moving from a 2gb to a 16gb SD card

zires said:
I used minitool partition wizard home edition which is free. Copy the card from the old card to the new card and move the partition to occupy all of the new card.
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Many CM7 players will love this post.

WitheredHand said:
I downloaded that program but am not seeing my SD card listed. My SD card is drive G: but I'm not seeing it. I'm looking at moving from a 2gb to a 16gb SD card
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You could try using Easeus, which is also free.

Thanks, I figured it out!

[Q] 64GB MIcro SD Card problems with Xperia Z

OK so I checked with my local O2 store and they confirmed my Xperia Z will accept a 64GB Micro SD Card, so I bought one - transferred all the dats off the 32GB Micro SD Card onto the 64GB card with no problems, I insert the 64GB card into the Xperia Z - I check under the storage tab and it shows 24.5GB of the new SD Card has been usd but, the inbuilt walkman and PowerAmp refuse to play any of the files - they all play perfectly from the 32GB card but nothing plays off the 64GB card ........... is there something I'm doing wrong?

You might need to format your sdcard with exfat.
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That made things worse! Most of the files have vanished from the card - it just shows 4GB have been used and not the 25GB loaded onto the card.

Ok it's now sorted, had to format exFAT to FAT32, maybe that's what I was told to do? If yes then I apologise! I used this tool to foomat exFAT to FAT 32 : Hmmmm seems I can't post links yet, so the tool is titles "HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool 2.2.3", it's completely free, run as Admin.
Maybe it'll help somebody else out.

only new version support exFAT, otherwise use FAT32 format.

In the usermanual is written "Sd Card usable up to 32GB" --> sdhc is supportet and NOT sdxc.

Problems with 32GB SD Card (SanDisk)

Hi all,
I have a 32GB SD Card (SanDisk) in my Z1. I am using Media Go to transfer my music from my PC to my SD Card on my Z1.
The problem is that only 'some' of my music is transferred across correctly and other albums/tracks play as if they have been encrypted in some sort of way. The music I am transferring is playing correctly on my PC, it is only when I transfer it that it becomes a problem.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
*Just to add, I have no problem transferring the same music across to my 8GB card. I have two brand new 32GB cards and have the same problem of only being able to transfer about half the music, the rest is unrecognisable.*

Have you tried not using media go?

akusokuzan said:
Have you tried not using media go?
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I am using Media Go and straight transferring across to the SD card

Maybe you can try formatting the 32GB SD card and copying all the music onto there again to see if it helps

akusokuzan said:
Maybe you can try formatting the 32GB SD card and copying all the music onto there again to see if it helps
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Re formatted (exFAT) both the 32GB cards I have and still the problem remains that some data/music is not getting transferred. I have just tested a 16GB card (same make and specs as one of the 32GB cards) from my tablet and this works and a 32GB card that didn't work in my Z1 works in my Xperia tablet Z so it seems my Z1 is having a problem with SD cards over 16GB for some reason I don't know

Try Fat32? I find it gives me the least amount of problems. I have a sandisk 64gb in my Z1 and it works just fine. Windows won't format in fat32 natively for such a large size so maybe try the format sd option in android. I believe it does fat32 automatically.

raginginferno said:
Try Fat32? I find it gives me the least amount of problems. I have a sandisk 64gb in my Z1 and it works just fine. Windows won't format in fat32 natively for such a large size so maybe try the format sd option in android. I believe it does fat32 automatically.
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Seconded. Absolutely zero problems with my 64GB Sandisk card formatted as FAT32. Always format SD cards on your phone.

raginginferno said:
Try Fat32?
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Agree, I will suggest to try format in FAT32 because all the SDHC 32GB microSD are meant to use FAT32 natively so I don't know why you formatted a 32GB card in exFAT.
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I find it gives me the least amount of problems. I have a sandisk 64gb in my Z1 and it works just fine. Windows won't format in fat32 natively for such a large size so maybe try the format sd option in android. I believe it does fat32 automatically.
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Windows will not because you have to use a specified application to format 64GB SDXC natively in exFAT to FAT32.
Z1 support exFAT and will not format in FAT32.
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xasbo said:
Always format SD cards on your phone.
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Absolutely not true. All the High-End devices not support all the formats like exFAT so is recommended to format them via specific application on PC and then insert the card to device. BTW, the phone will format even fake cards without problems, PC will not and you can check them as well.

eclyptos said:
Absolutely not true. All the High-End devices not support all the formats like extFAT so is recommended to format them via specific application on PC and then insert the card to device. BTW, the phone will format even fake cards without problems, PC will not and you can check them as well.
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If you want an SD card to work on a specific phone, why wouldn't you format it on that phone?

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If you want an SD card to work on a specific phone, why wouldn't you format it on that phone?
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Is that specific phone using a special unknown partition system for the card? I don't think so. The phones are this days build with market standards including SDHC and SDXC compatibility. SDHC natively use FAT32, SDXC natively use exFAT. Not all phones support SDXC so the card have to be formatted in FAT32 to make it functional and the only way is to use specific application on PC. Formatting the SD on PC also is more efficient than OS of the phones and the main reason is that OS of any phone can't verified a faulty or fake SD card so you can losing data without even know why.

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Is that specific phone using a special unknown partition system for the card? I don't think so. The phones are this days build with market standards including SDHC and SDXC compatibility. SDHC natively use FAT32, SDXC natively use exFAT. Not all phones support SDXC so the card have to be formatted in FAT32 to make it functional and the only way is to use specific application on PC. Formatting the SD on PC also is more efficient than OS of the phones and the main reason is that OS of any phone can't verified a faulty or fake SD card so you can losing data without even know why.
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Sorry man, you are usually on point, but with this you are talking nonsense.
I have never seen or heard of an Android phone which didn't use FAT32 or exFAT, nor one that made arbitrary partions. Further, if the phone doesn't support exFAT, obviously it won't format the card to use the exFAT file system. The bit about a PC being more efficient is just total nonsense. I have formatted several different size/brand SD cards on this phone and others without having issues using them in the phone or a PC or other Android device, even. If you can satisfactorily back up anything you've said, I'll change my mind.

xasbo said:
Sorry man, you are usually on point, but with this you are talking nonsense.
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Happen sometimes, no body is perfect.
xasbo said:
I have never seen or heard of an Android phone which didn't use FAT32 or exFAT, nor one that made arbitrary partions.
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I make you and example, I got HTC HD2 with latest Android ICS ported from NEXUS, it not support and it not recognize a 64GB SDXC in exFAT, the only way to make working that card on HD2 is to format it in FAT32 on PC.
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Further, if the phone doesn't support exFAT, obviously it won't format the card to use the exFAT file system.
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Right, but a phone which support exFAT and FAT32 as well will not format the exFAT card to FAT32 end even if he dose the card have huge risk to be compromise. Speaking from experience.
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The bit about a PC being more efficient is just total nonsense. I have formatted several different size/brand SD cards on this phone and others without having issues using them in the phone or a PC or other Android device, even. If you can satisfactorily back up anything you've said, I'll change my mind.
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I never said you CAN'T format the card on the phone. It will work anyway but on PC the formatting will be more deeply efficient because you using specified application to do so. On High-End phones the formatting can be good too but you can't say is well done like on PC.
All the Sl..ts making Blo..bs, but there is always someone who do it much better! Am I wrong? :laugh:

let's go back to the topic.I have the same problem on my Z1 as well.
will this related to a slow (class 4) speed sd card?

FAT_C said:
let's go back to the topic.I have the same problem on my Z1 as well.
will this related to a slow (class 4) speed sd card?
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Absolutely not, the class of the card is not an issue at all. If you have a SDHC have to be in FAT32, check it, just in case. The partition can be corrupted then will be recommended to format the card how you like.
But if your problem is the same as OP mentioned with the same application, to me the app is the main problem. Try to move the files with different application or use different media player to see if the issue still there.

I have put the 32GB cardin my Tablet Z and it's working without error but I can still not get anything over 16GB running on my Z1
Seems a bit strange to me unless it's a random 4.3 problem though I haven't heard any wide spread issues
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N345H said:
I have put the 32GB cardin my Tablet Z and it's working without error but I can still not get anything over 16GB running on my Z1
Seems a bit strange to me unless it's a random 4.3 problem though I haven't heard any wide spread issues
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Yes, seems a bit strange and I will suggest to check the card on PC with h2testw, just in case. If everything is ok with the card then is your phone and probably Android it self, in this scenario I will consider to flash different .290 FW.

eclyptos said:
Yes, seems a bit strange and I will suggest to check the card on PC with h2testw, just in case. If everything is ok with the card then is your phone and probably Android it self, in this scenario I will consider to flash different .290 FW.
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Thanks, I will run a few tests when I can get back to my PC
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I'm using 32GB SanDisk extreme uhs1 and never had a single issue. (well, once cos it was from a faulty batch, but your card doesn't seem to have any of my issues before replacement)
Don't use media go. I think that that's what ruins your music by encoding it like iTunes which z1 doesn't like.
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MicroSD support

According to the official information for the Lenovo K3 Note it only supports MicroSD cards upto 32 GB. I tried my Kingston 64 GB card and it doesn't work but I am hearing that people have gotten 64 GB cards to function in their phones.
Can anyone confirm one way or another whether 64GB cards can work in this phone? If so are they specific makes / models?
Many thanks in advance.

Try formatting the SDcard in FAT32, 64GB/128GB uses the ExFat format, that's why your K3 note won't see it, this SoC don't support exFat. When you put your Sd in the phone it won't offer a formatation to work?

It didn't appear to offer any formatting options but I will give it another go.

maxgreece said:
It didn't appear to offer any formatting options but I will give it another go.
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I had to format mine on a laptop before the phone recognised it

Well it seems like good news. I put the card into an SD card adapter and then into the PC. It loaded some drivers and recognised the thing. I then formatted it using NTFS and reinstalled it on the phone. This time the phone recognised it as either an empty card or a card that needed formatting so I re-formatted it once more and it registers as a card with 58 Gb free. Yippee!!!
Currently copying the 32 Gb card onto the new one using my PC. Hopefully it will go well and then I'll copy some more stuff over just to see that it will genuinely go over the 32 Gb limit.
So far....so good

Hi,
Can you please post the further testing of 64GB Card. I am planning to buy 64GB card Class 10 SDHC please help me with your review
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maxgreece said:
Well it seems like good news. I put the card into an SD card adapter and then into the PC. It loaded some drivers and recognised the thing. I then formatted it using NTFS and reinstalled it on the phone. This time the phone recognised it as either an empty card or a card that needed formatting so I re-formatted it once more and it registers as a card with 58 Gb free. Yippee!!!
Currently copying the 32 Gb card onto the new one using my PC. Hopefully it will go well and then I'll copy some more stuff over just to see that it will genuinely go over the 32 Gb limit.
So far....so good
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Hi,
Can you please post the further testing of 64GB Card. I am planning to buy 64GB card Class 10 SDHC please help me with your review

Well I have been using the card for the last month and all fine. I switched to limoncelo this morning and the card is still recognised with no problems. For reference this is a Kingston 10X 64 GB card. I don't know if other cards might be problematic or not. All I can say is that this is a safe option.
Limoncello nice too....

I am using Sandisk 64GB class10 UHS-1 card directly on the phone, from the day I got the phone, without any issues...

if you go to mediatek "engineer mode"> 3d tab "hardware testing> "IO" >"MSDC" >"MSDC SD3.0 TEST
There are various options such as "sd3 mode: sdhc highspeed, uhs sd12 etc etc.
Does anyone have more information on what these options mean and if they can bring any change in sd card recognition?

just wanted to share i had a sandisk transcend class 10 32 gb, 2 weeks ago i got my chinese 512 gb class10 sdhc as for test purpose for 9$ of ebay. in benchmarks it scores better.
however all works, currently i am on the phoenix rom with exfat file system support.

i just installed my 64gb sd card, and let the phone format it as portable sd card. now i have 59G ! this is under 1606 Cuoco92 custom rom.

Anyone else get any errors when formatting their SD Card? I have a Samsung 64GB

SD card file system doesn't support exfat

I used Moto X Force before, and sandisk 64gb sd card with exfat. The sd card work fine in X Force and PC.
But when I plug it into nokia 8 , system said it doesn't support this card.
So I have to backup sd card, format it via nokia 8, and restore all the thing in the sd card.....
I plug sd card which format via nokia 8 into PC, the file system is fat 32.

Yep! That's one of the downsides of pure Android..
It is all about royalties, Google doesn't want to pay them to Microsoft so they don't support sdcards, at least in any other format than old old fat32... Exfat and ntfs are somehow owned by Microsoft...
And with fat32 we are able to use one single file no more than 4gb, that's the limit on fat32... So old so old!

one the other hand what kind of file will you move to a smartphone that is gonna be more than 4GB"s?

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one the other hand what kind of file will you move to a smartphone that is gonna be more than 4GB"s?
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I stumbled upon this issue when I was transferring movies for a long flight..
And those 4k videos you film with the phone, they get really large quickly.

So is there any other possible file format that both supports +4gb files and works with Nokia 8?
Seems stupid to format 256gb SD-Card with ancient fat32, which will render the 4k video camera feature obsolete.
unless you only record in smaller chunks or get by using the internal storage space for 4k videos.
Luckily I got the 128gb model so I can at least get by without the extra storage, but it also annoyingly limits the individual files less than 4gb on the 256gb card. What a waste...
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hinuk said:
So is there any other possible file format that both supports +4gb files and works with Nokia 8?
Seems stupid to format 256gb SD-Card with ancient fat32, which will render the 4k video camera feature obsolete.
unless you only record in smaller chunks or get by using the internal storage space for 4k videos.
Luckily I got the 128gb model so I can at least get by without the extra storage, but it also annoyingly limits the individual files less than 4gb on the 256gb card. What a waste...
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Yep! You really said it! It is stupid.
Nokia could add support for other filesystems, but it would require them to pay royalties to Microsoft.
Only format that I have been able to use is ANCIENT fat32... :Mad: ERKELE:

What about EXT4??

shubham412302 said:
What about EXT4??
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You need root to mount ext4 drives, and since we don't have root on the Nokia 8 yet, it's useless.

Instigare said:
You need root to mount ext4 drives, and since we don't have root on the Nokia 8 yet, it's useless.
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Thats too bad. My 3 year old phone mounts all filesystems including ext4, ntfs and exfat. I may have to reconsider buying this phone due to bootloader, root and filesystem problems.
Shouldn't a linux device support ext4 by default?

barery24 said:
I used Moto X Force before, and sandisk 64gb sd card with exfat. The sd card work fine in X Force and PC.
But when I plug it into nokia 8 , system said it doesn't support this card.
So I have to backup sd card, format it via nokia 8, and restore all the thing in the sd card.....
I plug sd card which format via nokia 8 into PC, the file system is fat 32.
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I have this exact same issue. My phone is Nokia 7 Plus. But I did not format it in from the phone & rather i tried doing things through PC & now my SD card is write protected. I am not able to remove that write protected and format the card. Can someone help here.

hansel_mendonca said:
I have this exact same issue. My phone is Nokia 7 Plus. But I did not format it in from the phone & rather i tried doing things through PC & now my SD card is write protected. I am not able to remove that write protected and format the card. Can someone help here.
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you can try remove partition., if not work in pc (a think you use Windows), then try in GNU/Linux in GParted or only via GParted LiveCD/USB
https://gparted.org/livecd.php
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0czAJwEbtFs