[matthewjoseph255]

I have two 64gb sd cards one is formatted to fat32 the other has not been formatted at all what should I format it to for my galaxy s3
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[sparksd]

I used exFAT with mine but ran into the issues described here:



I changed it to FAT32 and haven't had any problems since.

Dave

[jimbo1mcm]

Fat 32 works without any problems. It is the format that Samsung puts on their Micro SD cards when you buy them. I think Fat 32 has a 4GB file limit. Do a search for more info.

[sparksd]

Fat 32 works without any problems. It is the format that Samsung puts on their Micro SD cards when you buy them. I think Fat 32 has a 4GB file limit. Do a search for more info.

The SanDisk 64GB cards come formatted as exFAT.

Dave

[20blks]

I'm using xFat and have no issues.

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[bdmridgback]

My 64gb Sandisk works great formatted in exFAT. I have about 3000+ photoes and 200+songs that I loaded on the card via my pc and no issues.

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[matthewjoseph255]

what the difference tho is xfat faster than fat32

[20blks]

what the difference tho is xfat faster than fat32

Larger max file transfer size

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[sparksd]

As with the posters over at xdadevelopers, what I ran into with exFAT was that of the 1500 or so music files I put on, a number of them (I don;'t recall how many) were not showing up in any music apps. When I looked at the folders using a phone-based file explorer, these missing files were there but showing up in some oddball format. But when I looked at the card using a PC-based explorer, the files looked fine. Took me quite a while to figure out that I even had a problem though as it was isolated to a relatively small number of files; from a macro level, it seemed to be working fine.

[jaimes0812]

2 GB is the limitation. Although you may be able to copy a file larger than 2 GB, like a move, but it wont play.