64gb Micro SD and CWM

[Uncle Louie]

Is anyone who has a 64gb card (and rooted, of course), having any luck getting Clockwork recovery to actually read it? I've tried everything I can think of, including formatting the card, with no luck.

The SIII reads it just fine...

I should add that CWM can see any other size card that I put in it. Just not the 64.

 

[Paul627g]

Is anyone who has a 64gb card (and rooted, of course), having any luck getting Clockwork recovery to actually read it? I've tried everything I can think of, including formatting the card, with no luck.

The SIII reads it just fine...

I should add that CWM can see any other size card that I put in it. Just not the 64.

Sounds like they need to do a little tweaking to CWM

 

[Skunkape60]

Is anyone who has a 64gb card (and rooted, of course), having any luck getting Clockwork recovery to actually read it? I've tried everything I can think of, including formatting the card, with no luck.

The SIII reads it just fine...

I should add that CWM can see any other size card that I put in it. Just not the 64.

Not an issue with the size but most likely an issue with your format. I am guessing that you formatted your 64 gb card with exFAT file system. No CWM will ever support exFAT. I am guessing the cards that work were formatted with FAT32.

Find out why here.

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[Uncle Louie]

Problem is, I formatted the card using the phone...which formats to FAT32, I'm assuming.

I wonder is I partition the card...?

 

[Skunkape60]

Problem is, I formatted the card using the phone...which formats to FAT32, I'm assuming.

I wonder is I partition the card...?

You are probably correct but not sure. The phone itself (from what I've been told) supports xfat. CWM doesn't. So it could be that the phone defaults to xfat.

Didn't quite understand if you partitioned it or not. If so, I would try removing it.

On a side note, why do people take a brand new sdcard and format them! I've never done this. And have never had an issue. I just took it out of the package and stuck it in the phone. No problem.

Also try version 3 of cwm. Some bugs fixes were added. The link is in the same thread as the version 2.
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[Uncle Louie]

You are probably correct but not sure. The phone itself (from what I've been told) supports xfat. CWM doesn't. So it could be that the phone defaults to xfat.

Didn't quite understand if you partitioned it or not. If so, I would try removing it.

On a side note, why do people take a brand new sdcard and format them! I've never done this. And have never had an issue. I just took it out of the package and stuck it in the phone. No problem.

Also try version 3 of cwm. Some bugs fixes were added. The link is in the same thread as the version 2.
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Cool, thanks! I'll give version 3 a shot. I'm trying to format the card via command line to FAT32, so we'll see what happens when it's done. (I haven't partitioned the card, not sure it's worth trying).

As far as the reason that I formatted, the phone didn't give me a choice. I put it in and it told me that it was blank and needed to be formatted; I think it has to do with the size of the card. I've never had to do that before.

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[Skunkape60]

Cool, thanks! I'll give version 3 a shot. I'm trying to format the card via command line to FAT32, so we'll see what happens when it's done. (I haven't partitioned the card, not sure it's worth trying).

As far as the reason that I formatted, the phone didn't give me a choice. I put it in and it told me that it was blank and needed to be formatted; I think it has to do with the size of the card. I've never had to do that before.

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Let us know how version 3 works for you.

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[Uncle Louie]

Let us know how version 3 works for you.

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It wouldn't read it either... I ended up going back to my 32gb card, worked like a champ. Version 3 seems to run well, though; no issues so far.

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[Skunkape60]

It wouldn't read it either... I ended up going back to my 32gb card, worked like a champ. Version 3 seems to run well, though; no issues so far.

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Well try version 4. See my op in the CWM thead. Changed the thread title to show the current version....

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[smooches680]

Well on the Samsung galaxy s3 on Sprint you can only use a 32gb card not a 64gb. It states right on the website.

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[slaveonepunx]

Only reason they say 32GB is that the standard formatting of a sdxc card is exFat. exFat only works partially on the SGS3, it will corrupt some files. Format the card in another phone and the 64 gig card will work fine. The Galaxy 3 formats the 64 to exFat.

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[Uncle Louie]

Well on the Samsung galaxy s3 on Sprint you can only use a 32gb card not a 64gb. It states right on the website.

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64gb works fine on the SIII...it's Clockworkmod Recovery that won't read it. It's the same with my Asus Transformer TF101 and my wife's Epic touch too; reads fine on the devices, but not Clockwork.

 

[Uncle Louie]

Only reason they say 32GB is that the standard formatting of a sdxc card is exFat. exFat only works partially on the SGS3, it will corrupt some files. Format the card in another phone and the 64 gig card will work fine. The Galaxy 3 formats the 64 to exFat.

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Afraid not. I've formatted it on several different devices, including my PC. No go for Clockwork some reason. SIII itself reads every file that I have put on it so far (which is quite a lot).

 

[Uncle Louie]

Got it!

I figured out how to use 64GB + Cards with CWM

Works perfectly!

 

[Skunkape60]

I searched for the Easeus Partition Master at the play store and it comes up not found...

Edit: Never mind... It's not an app for the phone but an app to use on your computer to partition drives. It will work if you have a card reader. Here is the link: EaseUs Partition Master

 

[pvinodnayak]

its working. but the CWM does not detect it on Galaxy S3 SPH L710 CDMA.
i have data on it and works fine.

Im on CM10 AUG 10 release

 

[Uncle Louie]

its working. but the CWM does not detect it on Galaxy S3 SPH L710 CDMA.
i have data on it and works fine.

Im on CM10 AUG 10 release

You used the partition tool to format the card? That tool was the only way that I've found to get CWM to see the card.

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[Skunkape60]

You used the partition tool to format the card? That tool was the only way that I've found to get CWM to see the card.

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This is all correct. While the phone can see exfat file system, cwm and twrp will not. Sdcards over 32gb are all preformatted to exfat and must be changed to fat32 before any custom recovery can see them.

 

[iorecki]

The PC program worked for me too...
Cwm and twrp both read and write to 64gb card now. Thanx!!!!

Card needs to be fat32 everyone! !!!

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[Uncle Louie]

The PC program worked for me too...
Cwm and twrp both read and write to 64gb card now. Thanx!!!!

Card needs to be fat32 everyone! !!!

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Glad to hear it!