TLDR version: did I get the wrong kind of card? was I in error in not getting it Fat32 formatted, before inserting it in the phone? how worried should I be about overheating?
I've been using a 32 gb San Disk Ultra MicroSD HC I card initially with my Note 3, and it was working well, with no complaints. Amazon had their price drop pretty low for their SanDisk Ultra 64 GB microSDXC Class 10 UHS-1 Memory Card 30MB/s with Adapter SDSDQU-064G-AFFP-A, so I picked one up (in the comments for the item, people specifically said it should work for the Note3).
Reading various threads, people were saying I should format the card with Fat32 before putting it in my phone, then format it again using the phone itself. I have Win7, and when I put the card (with adapter) in my PC, it only gave the options for NTFS or ExFAT. A mac didn't give an option for Fat32 either. So I put it in my Note3, and just used the phone's stock option to format it. Then I swapped a few apps, from the internal memory to the external card.
Starting up the Note3, it started to feel warm on the back, and it appears it got up to 34 or 35 Celcius. I shut the Note3 down, removed and reseated the battery and the external card, and started it back up. It started out at 34 or 35 again, but is slowly going down. I haven't tried running any apps, and just have a battery temperature monitoring app going. I do have it plugged into a USB cable, because if the temp stabilizes, I'd like to bring back photos, movies and music back onto my external card.
In various threads, I've read where people say that their Samsung phone overheats when using this large of a SD card, or that the phone keeps trying to reference the external card and overheats. Should I be wary of it overheating? Is that initial spike in temperature ok? Should I try to see if it gets hotter, by running a movie or a graphically intense game? Should the formatting by the phone be the correct kind of format for that card, and I didn't need to format it prior to insertion?
I've been using a 32 gb San Disk Ultra MicroSD HC I card initially with my Note 3, and it was working well, with no complaints. Amazon had their price drop pretty low for their SanDisk Ultra 64 GB microSDXC Class 10 UHS-1 Memory Card 30MB/s with Adapter SDSDQU-064G-AFFP-A, so I picked one up (in the comments for the item, people specifically said it should work for the Note3).
Reading various threads, people were saying I should format the card with Fat32 before putting it in my phone, then format it again using the phone itself. I have Win7, and when I put the card (with adapter) in my PC, it only gave the options for NTFS or ExFAT. A mac didn't give an option for Fat32 either. So I put it in my Note3, and just used the phone's stock option to format it. Then I swapped a few apps, from the internal memory to the external card.
Starting up the Note3, it started to feel warm on the back, and it appears it got up to 34 or 35 Celcius. I shut the Note3 down, removed and reseated the battery and the external card, and started it back up. It started out at 34 or 35 again, but is slowly going down. I haven't tried running any apps, and just have a battery temperature monitoring app going. I do have it plugged into a USB cable, because if the temp stabilizes, I'd like to bring back photos, movies and music back onto my external card.
In various threads, I've read where people say that their Samsung phone overheats when using this large of a SD card, or that the phone keeps trying to reference the external card and overheats. Should I be wary of it overheating? Is that initial spike in temperature ok? Should I try to see if it gets hotter, by running a movie or a graphically intense game? Should the formatting by the phone be the correct kind of format for that card, and I didn't need to format it prior to insertion?
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