What trick do you have to copy files larger than 2 Gb from PC to SDCard

[3d1l]

Hi,

As I already posted on another thread I'm using the T-mobile verison of the LG L90 with KitKat, so instead of having 8 Gb ROM I only have 4 Gb. Since Kitkat have heavy restriction on the direct use of the SD Card, must of the APPS that I had used can not save files directly to the SD Card (Superbeam, Wi-Fi Transfer, AndFTP). The USB connection is the other slower alternative (bad for very large files), but for some reason LG doesn't allow you to get your SD Card as a "Windows" drive, instead it use its own driver and my phone shows up in Windows explorer more like a Camera or MP3 device. I had tried both MTP and "LG software" mode and in some instances I'm getting errors transferring files larger than 4Gb.

How do you do it?

 

[hallux]

How is the SD Card formatted? Some file systems have restrictions on the size of a single file and there's no way around it. FAT32 file system has a 4 GB per file size limit, FAT (or FAT16) has a 2 GB per file size limit.

 

[3d1l]

Hallux excellent clarification and very helpfull. I'm using FAT32 and the large files that I have are mostly movies so for now on I will re-code the movies so they get smaller than 4Gb.

So conclusion is that there is no other way but the USB cable, right?

 

[hallux]

That's probably the FASTEST way.

 

[3d1l]

Even with FTP I have twice the download speed the only problem is that I'm forced to use the ROM

 

[Viktir]

Try USB Cable
Make the ROM a WinRAR archive divided by 4 parts (each with 1 gb of space)