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Old 11-06-2011, 11:27 PM
 
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my phone isn't recognizing my larger 8gb sd card but it recognizes the 2gb card perfectly fine. When I removed all paritions from it on easeus it gets recognized but android can't format it. This card is recognized in windoze perfectly fine as well.
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Use your favorite disk management tool to reformat the card to FAT32 and insert it in the phone. If I recall properly from the last time I did this, after the phone formats the card to it's liking, you can then copy any directories/files over from the 2Gb card.

If you don't have a disk management tool, try [Only registered users can view links. ]. It's free and you don't even need to install it on your machine.
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Old 11-08-2011, 09:44 AM
 
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Use your favorite disk management tool to reformat the card to FAT32 and insert it in the phone. If I recall properly from the last time I did this, after the phone formats the card to it's liking, you can then copy any directories/files over from the 2Gb card.

If you don't have a disk management tool, try [Only registered users can view links. ]. It's free and you don't even need to install it on your machine.
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Old 11-08-2011, 09:45 AM
 
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That is what I have been formatting to still nothing.
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Mines Dont Work Either Like WTF
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Old 11-10-2011, 08:16 PM
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Where's My Favorite Formatt Mangement Tool Located ?
iss In My Settinggs ?
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same problem
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Old 01-12-2012, 12:32 PM
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Check the link in my previous post for a link to Gparted Live.
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Another great tool to Format SD cards is SD Formatter. It was created specifically for memory cards using the SD/SDHC/SDXC standards. Doesn't do all the stuff GParted Live does, but that's because was only designed to do one thing very well. Format SD cards in such a way that they perform optimally.

You can check it out for yourself here.
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Do you have the Gingerbread (ZVH) update? Huge flaw with it not recognizing, or recognizing and later unexpectedly removing, card. Instead of rolling back to ZVC I got a higher class 32gb and it works perfectly. I know they are pricey but there always seems to be a sale somewhere for ~ $30.

Any possibility your new 8gb is defective?
 
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