10:01 No, what's happening is that those phones are able to format a drive using an out of (strict) spec FAT32, not exFAT (also called FAT64). FAT32 is limited to 32GB by MS for practicality reasons (and also to push NTFS), but it can actually access a drive up to 2TB using 512KB (yes, kilobyte) sectors or 16TB using 4MB (yes, megabyte) sectors, which is fine for large files, but then any file smaller than the sector size will always take up an entire sector EACH (until you defrag the partition). Also, any file which takes up a full sector, plus 1 byte, will take up 2 full sectors. so, if you have a 4MB (4,194,304 bytes) sector size, and you have a file which is 4,194,305 bytes, it will physically take up 8MB of space. MS is limited to 4096byte sectors to limit that fragmentation. Any device which correctly supports FAT32 will read the out of spec format just fine, including Windows XP machines (not older, though), you just need a formatter which will create an out of spec partition.
Very informative. I searched all over the net and couldn't find the answers I was looking for in regards to how much expandable memory my phone could expand to until I watched this video .
Really informative video, but a simple illustration or table or graph that says what format works and what doesn't work will be much easier for people to grasp, instead of pure listening. I watched twice to fully understand this video.
Jason K I agree with you.A table would be much better, although I understood what he said the first time. Maybe because of my previous knowledge of this subject.
No Name In short: All cards work, though in some phones/devices you’ll have to format them as FAT32 and consequently won’t be able to store files larger than 4GB.
Finally a guy who's capable of explain such an important issue in an understandable way, congratulations Gary, and looking forward to see the logical lecture: How FAT, FAT32, NTFS and ex-FAT handle the file sizes in the same pedagogical way you made this one.
What I don't understand is why the Android phone manufacturers simply didn't go with an open format such as ext4 for the larger SD cards; it would have been *free* for them to do so. Ditto for other equipment manufacturers, such as TV, photocopiers, etc. The only roadblock would have been Windows' current inability to recognize this filesystem, but AFAIK, with the right driver added, Windows should be able to recognize it as well as exFAT.
i study computer science and what i can tell you is that FAT32 will and should work well with sd cards up to 500gb max as what my teacher told me. just because it's called FAT32 doesnt mean it can only handle 32Gb that's a load of bull. 32 was meant for 32bit if im not mistaken and it will very well support drives higher than 32gb. limitation: -file size creation (like videos and so on that's why it's only 2 hours max in some devices for videos and so on) -the amount of sub folders that you can create within them. (i forgot how many but its not that much) -get's fragmentation problems and becomes inefficient with bigger drives (if its more than 500gb or more than 320gb stick with NTFS or extendedFAT) -security: if you have lots of data on a drive that is bigger than the said drives then you might run into some problems like lost or corrupt data. that's why microsoft made the NTFS because it's safer more efficient and is quicker.-less fragmentation on hard disks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- advantages: -compatability -simpler ---(i think)--- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -FAT32 is ideal for small drives as they need less tables to operate them from what my teacher said its great for small memory devices like sd cards and flash drives. -note: i formatted one of my extra drives with FAT32 that's a 320gb drive and it works FINE. no problems just defragment it when things start to slow down. i did it for funziez -extra note: playstation3's uses FAT32 from factory and works fine and you see those sporting 500gb these days. well this is a long comment.. *drops virtual potato* :D
To enable exFAT support on Linux for distribution that use apt as package manager like Ubuntu you can just open a Terminal and give this command: sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse exfat-utils Reboot the system and you're done, you now have full exFAT support on your Linux system and you're able to mount, read and write removable drives. You're welcome
Yep, the Linux foundation can't quite include exFAT and NTFS support built in for legal reasons, but of course people have reverse engineered drivers for those filesystems
Bought the same for my z5, sadly with the marshmallows update they stripped the function to adopt the SD as internal. thankfully there I was able to adopt it but it is a little complicated and officially not supported
, as of a few days ago, for less than $20 & in a non-open market country (meaning, different from america), i was still able to get a 128gb micro sd sanDisk. for $60 i'm now seeing deals for a half terabyte..
I lost 3 hours of footage because I didn't know my old camera didn't recognize exFAT from my 64Gb card and kept writing over older files. Very sad, but now I am improving my knowledge about that. Going back to my 32Gb card. It should be noted that sometimes it appears to be working, but it is in fact doing something strange, like overwriting it's own data over and over, so from now on I always follow the manufacturer's advice.
No, it's not just not to confuse customers. Samsung actually restricts the size of the cards you can put into their phones for some reason. My last phone could read a 256 GB card but not a 400 GB card. Which is incidentally the limit of my current phone, even though 512 GB cards were already a thing when I bought it.
This video was really informative! Been a while since the last time i saw such a straightforward, simple and valuable video in just under 15 minutes! Great work!
Nice video. I thought I'd share my experience. Now I have no idea if this works for exfat but I had a usb drive formated in ntfs. While android didn't show it as recognized, I was able to read and write to it using es file explorer.
Off topic slightly here but isn't it amazing how much flash memory fits on something as small as a microSD card the literal size of my fingernail and how cheap it is (256gb for ~$22 in 2022).
You've only done half the job here Read off and Write to these SDXC cards that have been reformatted and tell many if you get any failures. Also, do you get full storage as shown on card?
formatting my external 8tb hdd to exfat, made my 2015 Samsung JS8500 4k tv to fully recognize it. I thought my tv can't recognize anything past 2TB or less. I'm so happy I don't have to shop for another tv for a very long time.
Great Video and information, I agree with Jason K about how a graph would certainly expedite the knowledge crystallization. I have never had any issues with swapping in higher capacity cards in my Motorola Droid2,, Droid4 and Wifeys SG5. Until I upgrade my phone again I have been granted a temporary reprieve with the Droid Turbo (64GB and sans MicroSD slot).
It is best to format micro sd card in FAT32 format before using. I current having problem when I transferred videos/pictures from internal storage in my phone to the external micro sd card.Some of the videos/pictures are corrupted. Do you know why? It is because I dont format the SD card correctly?
That's the most useful video I've seen in years. I couldn't read my 128gb card from my phone in my win XP PC. This explains everything. I hate the fact that everyone has to pay Microsoft though.
Actually The original SD could support up to 4GB as well As there being SDHC 4GB cards. The SDHC format phased out the SD format while the 4GB SD theoretical maximum was reached. Also SDHC has a naturally higher transfer speed VS SD so that was another factor why you almost only saw 4GB SDHC cards.
this is highly relatable with me encountering problems a 128GB micro SD card working on my new nintendo 3ds portable. had to do some research on this and look for a workaround to format the sd card with fat32 :I
Sometimes, for new sdcard can be format type is FAT32 because old or new phone can read for FAT32 only. For old phone only said up to 32GB and new phone said up to 64/128/256/512GB or more. For old smartphone user, you can use more than 32GB with format to FAT32. Example for my phone is HUAWEI Y3II, manufacture sdcard up to 32GB. But i put my 128GB sdcard to my phone, and suprising it read it.
That trick worked in a SDHC camcorder I had formatting a 64gb SDXC as FAT32. I also had another SDXC camcorder that wouldn't work with cards bigger than 256GB so no all SDXC Devices support up to 2TB.
OK Gary, you're good. And most of it checks out. But you missed a small detail. I read most of the comments and I see everyone did. My xperia z c6603 came with KitKat and then there was no exFat support. But when I rooted it and installed a custom Lollypop ROM/kernel, I was surprised to see exFat support in the change-log list. My conclusion is that developers could add lines of code that would include support at the kernel level, which in this case would be Linux 3.4 kernel. Just saying... There is more to it than just Linux/OSX/MSoft. Thanks anyway for a well spoken/structured explanation.
Many of the newer Android devices will accept SD cards up 256 GB. They are probably using ex-FAT. Android 8 gives a card a drive name that looks like an MS-DOS volume label so I take it they are named by volume labels. My Android 9 tablet has a long name for it's SD card so I suspect it's using ex-FAT. This video is five years old so there could be a ton and a half of changes.
So guys, the basic lifehack is: if you have any card larger than 32GB and you want it work EVERYWHERE - format it as FAT32 within seconds using fat32format tool which I did on my brand new Sandisk Extreme PRO 1TB microsd. And yes, now I can have 1TB of storage EVERYWHERE I want - on my TV, on any phone or any camera or any other device with USB port no matter which year this device is from. You can't format it in FAT32 in Windows just because it is a limit of Windows formatter itself (or because Bill Gates doesn't want you to format your drives in fat32). The only drawback is you can't have a file size larger than 4GB on your drive which is no problem for me.
In October 2018 I put a 256GB micro-SD card in my Huawei Y7 and it worked perfectly. Two weeks ago I transferred it to my new Huawei Nova 3e ("P20Lite") -- perfect results again.
My biggest problem with micro sd cards is that they don't really seem to stick to a standard. Some brands work quite well in certain devices and others don't. There is nothing wrong with the card really. I can take a card that performs poorly in one device and have it work quite well in something else. I just wish that they would stick to a standard. It's a pain to purchase a large card and find that it doesn't work. Manufacturers don't always publish that information either. It is generally easy to find a compatibility list for RAM and a motherboard. I would like to see compatibility lists for the SD cards.
Great video, SD card is one of the best invention of computer technology or the information age. SD card allow me to carry my files, book library, music collection, video library and photo albums everywhere with me. It is amazing how much files i can store in a 32 GB SD card.
thank you for the nice explanation but we need to show a text of use ,,, I don't thing it will work properly after that specially after you use a high resolution video record.
but did you test if those phones with 32GB limit will write any data when the that limit is reached despite the card being formatted has more capacity. i remember vaguely an mp3 player, back when mp3 players were a thing, when i bought a higher capacity storage it just never read the songs beyond that or when it did get to a song that just passed the threshold, the player just crashed. it was a phillips or sandisk player.
Samsung i9100 with sandisk 64 GB works like a charm. When i was using canyogenmod (android 5.1.1) and recovery witch came with it. I could use the card in OS but not in recovery mode if it was formatted as exFAT. But with FAT32 or different recovery mod everything worked just fine.
Interesting video. Although just to throw a spanner in the works with android version 6 (Marshmallow) if you wish to use the SD card as internal storage it has to be of the faster memory type, otherwise it doesn't work!!
just to add my experience to this excellent video, my sandisk usb flash disk don't work on my tv no matter what filesystem and partition type, also it cant be made bootable using yumi, but if i use Rufus it boots the OS. i think it's more than just the filesystem.
I'd like to see an informative video about sd speeds too. How important it actually is on a smartphone if i am going to use it only for photos and music or if its going to be used for apps too. do the apps run slower in a slower sd etc .
you seems like a teacher and I wish all teachers were like you..... great video man
Same🙈
+ziad ahmed I wish my teacher will never be like him, He should get a real job, that old hag
Majsner _ what does that have to do with anything at all??? you must be a democrat...........
Amazing professor, rare indeed
Hearing this guy talk about FAT made my night lol
Your intelligence is really shining here
Tuco Salamanca LoL.
Wow, this is the best.. incredible......Jarryd Hayne, Bill Gates.. Batman....Breaking Bad. Goku
You're still a child.
10:01 No, what's happening is that those phones are able to format a drive using an out of (strict) spec FAT32, not exFAT (also called FAT64). FAT32 is limited to 32GB by MS for practicality reasons (and also to push NTFS), but it can actually access a drive up to 2TB using 512KB (yes, kilobyte) sectors or 16TB using 4MB (yes, megabyte) sectors, which is fine for large files, but then any file smaller than the sector size will always take up an entire sector EACH (until you defrag the partition). Also, any file which takes up a full sector, plus 1 byte, will take up 2 full sectors. so, if you have a 4MB (4,194,304 bytes) sector size, and you have a file which is 4,194,305 bytes, it will physically take up 8MB of space. MS is limited to 4096byte sectors to limit that fragmentation.
Any device which correctly supports FAT32 will read the out of spec format just fine, including Windows XP machines (not older, though), you just need a formatter which will create an out of spec partition.
Bloody brilliant explanation! Made it easier to understand for non-techies.
my favourite youtube lecturer
same
+martinus krisma My 2nd fav
+Dhruv Agarwal Who is 1st?
He's an Indian youtuber living in Dubai.
Gets around 300 subs perday
Channel Name - Technical Guruji
Dhruv Agarwal Ahh hes pretty good
Very informative. I searched all over the net and couldn't find the answers I was looking for in regards to how much expandable memory my phone could expand to until I watched this video .
Really informative video, but a simple illustration or table or graph that says what format works and what doesn't work will be much easier for people to grasp, instead of pure listening.
I watched twice to fully understand this video.
Jason K I agree with you.A table would be much better, although I understood what he said the first time. Maybe because of my previous knowledge of this subject.
This is all so confusing, fat that works and fat that doesn't work. Instructions unclear, going on fasting diet to lose all fat.
No Name In short:
All cards work, though in some phones/devices you’ll have to format them as FAT32 and consequently won’t be able to store files larger than 4GB.
I got it the first time through and found the details interesting.
I thought it was fine, but maybe I'm too well versed in formatting and filesystems.
Finally a guy who's capable of explain such an important issue in an understandable way, congratulations Gary, and looking forward to see the logical lecture: How FAT, FAT32, NTFS and ex-FAT handle the file sizes in the same pedagogical way you made this one.
I really like Gary's clear, concise teaching style. I hope he keeps adding content.
I use exFAT on all my internal and external hard drive, simply because NTFS Security/Permission screwing up when standard user vs admin user profile.
watching this 10 months later and it made me learn new info, thats when you know how good the video is.
What I don't understand is why the Android phone manufacturers simply didn't go with an open format such as ext4 for the larger SD cards; it would have been *free* for them to do so. Ditto for other equipment manufacturers, such as TV, photocopiers, etc. The only roadblock would have been Windows' current inability to recognize this filesystem, but AFAIK, with the right driver added, Windows should be able to recognize it as well as exFAT.
i study computer science and what i can tell you is that FAT32 will and should work well with sd cards up to 500gb max as what my teacher told me. just because it's called FAT32 doesnt mean it can only handle 32Gb that's a load of bull. 32 was meant for 32bit if im not mistaken and it will very well support drives higher than 32gb.
limitation:
-file size creation (like videos and so on that's why it's only 2 hours max in some devices for videos and so on)
-the amount of sub folders that you can create within them. (i forgot how many but its not that much)
-get's fragmentation problems and becomes inefficient with bigger drives (if its more than 500gb or more than 320gb stick with NTFS or extendedFAT)
-security: if you have lots of data on a drive that is bigger than the said drives then you might run into some problems like lost or corrupt data. that's why microsoft made the NTFS because it's safer more efficient and is quicker.-less fragmentation on hard disks.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
advantages:
-compatability
-simpler ---(i think)---
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-FAT32 is ideal for small drives as they need less tables to operate them from what my teacher said its great for small memory devices like sd cards and flash drives.
-note: i formatted one of my extra drives with FAT32 that's a 320gb drive and it works FINE. no problems just defragment it when things start to slow down. i did it for funziez
-extra note: playstation3's uses FAT32 from factory and works fine and you see those sporting 500gb these days.
well this is a long comment.. *drops virtual potato* :D
he didnt say that . dont waste potatoes real or virtual.
gary and juan (from pocketnow) are the 2 best techies imo
Agreed.
Very hard to argue with that.
Agree :)
Agree!
Yes they are, but you missed Captain2Phones ;-)
It's good to see you again, Sir. I always learn something useful from your videos. Thank you.
update from the future! march 2019 the 1TB sdxc card has come out :P
To enable exFAT support on Linux for distribution that use apt as package manager like Ubuntu you can just open a Terminal and give this command:
sudo apt-get install exfat-fuse exfat-utils
Reboot the system and you're done, you now have full exFAT support on your Linux system and you're able to mount, read and write removable drives.
You're welcome
Yep, the Linux foundation can't quite include exFAT and NTFS support built in for legal reasons, but of course people have reverse engineered drivers for those filesystems
Your videos are brilliant Gary, you teach me with patronising me or me losing interested.
interest *
and he makes me feel emotionally secure
i love this man ! he is awesome, the best in android authority team 👍
You know it's a good video when the opening line is... It's simple, but it's not... Love it
your explanation is more clear and easy to understand than my computer science professors.. And it was actually interesting :)
Or just format as ext4, most Android phones use that as their filesystems by default.
Thank You! I'm new at this, I didn't even know what format to my camera meant and I now know how easy it is to format thanks to you.
I can't get enough of these videos. Keep it up Gary!
Congratulations, this is the best explanation I've seen on the subject. Great video!
I've got a SanDisk 200gb in my Galaxy s4. Works like a charm. Picked it up a few months ago on Amazon for sale price of $60.
Bought the same for my z5, sadly with the marshmallows update they stripped the function to adopt the SD as internal. thankfully there I was able to adopt it but it is a little complicated and officially not supported
, as of a few days ago, for less than $20 & in a non-open market country (meaning, different from america), i was still able to get a 128gb micro sd sanDisk.
for $60 i'm now seeing deals for a half terabyte..
Excellent presentation. I like this guy's explanations of things. He keeps things simple.
I'm an electrical engineering student and I find your video really informative.. :D
You just clearly answered several questions I have been asking for 10+ years. I thank you sir it means alot
I lost 3 hours of footage because I didn't know my old camera didn't recognize exFAT from my 64Gb card and kept writing over older files. Very sad, but now I am improving my knowledge about that. Going back to my 32Gb card. It should be noted that sometimes it appears to be working, but it is in fact doing something strange, like overwriting it's own data over and over, so from now on I always follow the manufacturer's advice.
No, it's not just not to confuse customers. Samsung actually restricts the size of the cards you can put into their phones for some reason. My last phone could read a 256 GB card but not a 400 GB card. Which is incidentally the limit of my current phone, even though 512 GB cards were already a thing when I bought it.
This video was really informative! Been a while since the last time i saw such a straightforward, simple and valuable video in just under 15 minutes! Great work!
Very nicely explained. Easy to understand. Now those formatting formats make some sense. Thanks Gary
This guy Gary, does some of the best android rewies. Awesome!
Nice video. I thought I'd share my experience. Now I have no idea if this works for exfat but I had a usb drive formated in ntfs. While android didn't show it as recognized, I was able to read and write to it using es file explorer.
Off topic slightly here but isn't it amazing how much flash memory fits on something as small as a microSD card the literal size of my fingernail and how cheap it is (256gb for ~$22 in 2022).
You lost me like 20 secs into the video, but I like how you summed it up in dummy terms at the end. Thanks man!
You've only done half the job here
Read off and Write to these SDXC cards that have been reformatted and tell many if you get any failures.
Also, do you get full storage as shown on card?
You're simply the best Gary.. I'm watching all your videos as if I'm in a lecture.. (y)
I seriously stayed through the whole video and now, i am a wise learned man. Peace.
Great info. *Thx* !!!!
I wonder what if the card formated as ext4, as all new Android device have ext4 support.
Is this an option formatting within Android OS?
Must have Extreme to 4K ultra not read 4K sizev
I love you Gary. Not only you are excelent at explaning how technology works. You also make this very entertaining.
+NinjaAlbertoSan no homo tho
F*** patents ... I wish all systems had native ext3/4 FS support at bare minimum, opensource and free, not mentioning that it is faster than exFAT.
I wish systems actually supported GUID partition maps, but legacy software is everywhere. :/
formatting my external 8tb hdd to exfat, made my 2015 Samsung JS8500 4k tv to fully recognize it. I thought my tv can't recognize anything past 2TB or less. I'm so happy I don't have to shop for another tv for a very long time.
Great Video and information, I agree with Jason K about how a graph would certainly expedite the knowledge crystallization.
I have never had any issues with swapping in higher capacity cards in my Motorola Droid2,, Droid4 and Wifeys SG5.
Until I upgrade my phone again I have been granted a temporary reprieve with the Droid Turbo (64GB and sans MicroSD slot).
It is best to format micro sd card in FAT32 format before using. I current having problem when I transferred videos/pictures from internal storage in my phone to the external micro sd card.Some of the videos/pictures are corrupted. Do you know why? It is because I dont format the SD card correctly?
right
Fantastic video for the SD cards and File Systems.
great video, very informative.
does formatting the 128gb sd card to fat32 reduce the 128gb usage capacity of the card?
That's the most useful video I've seen in years. I couldn't read my 128gb card from my phone in my win XP PC. This explains everything. I hate the fact that everyone has to pay Microsoft though.
When you insert a fast (class 10 U1) micro SDHC card into an old device (it accepts SDHC) can it complain about the card being too fast ?
One thing that I've noticed on my LG G3, is that the phone will recognise exFAT when it's booted up(Cloudy G3), but TWRP will only recognise FAT32.
Dang Gary, I practically have a man crush on you. Great video.
dafuq
No more joking on this thread.😇
Whoa!!
You can use diskpart to format SDXC as FAT32. The filesystem is the only difference between SDHC & SDXC.
Actually The original SD could support up to 4GB as well As there being SDHC 4GB cards. The SDHC format phased out the SD format while the 4GB SD theoretical maximum was reached. Also SDHC has a naturally higher transfer speed VS SD so that was another factor why you almost only saw 4GB SDHC cards.
this is highly relatable with me encountering problems a 128GB micro SD card working on my new nintendo 3ds portable. had to do some research on this and look for a workaround to format the sd card with fat32 :I
Gary Sims + Josh Vergara + Jaime Rivera from Pocketnow = Ultimate CZcams team
Micheal Fisher (MobileNation) + Lisa (MobileTechReview) = dream team
Sometimes, for new sdcard can be format type is FAT32 because old or new phone can read for FAT32 only. For old phone only said up to 32GB and new phone said up to 64/128/256/512GB or more.
For old smartphone user, you can use more than 32GB with format to FAT32. Example for my phone is HUAWEI Y3II, manufacture sdcard up to 32GB. But i put my 128GB sdcard to my phone, and suprising it read it.
very useful
Thanks Gary! Well Done! It is one thing to know this stuff, and quite another to present it in a meaningful way in a video. Awesome!
That trick worked in a SDHC camcorder I had formatting a 64gb SDXC as FAT32.
I also had another SDXC camcorder that wouldn't work with cards bigger than 256GB so no all SDXC Devices support up to 2TB.
OK Gary, you're good. And most of it checks out.
But you missed a small detail. I read most of the comments and I see everyone did.
My xperia z c6603 came with KitKat and then there was no exFat support. But when I
rooted it and installed a custom Lollypop ROM/kernel, I was surprised to see exFat support in the change-log list. My conclusion is that developers could add lines of code that would include support at the kernel level, which in this case would be Linux 3.4 kernel. Just saying...
There is more to it than just Linux/OSX/MSoft.
Thanks anyway for a well spoken/structured explanation.
Many of the newer Android devices will accept SD cards up 256 GB. They are probably using ex-FAT. Android 8 gives a card a drive name that looks like an MS-DOS volume label so I take it they are named by volume labels. My Android 9 tablet has a long name for it's SD card so I suspect it's using ex-FAT. This video is five years old so there could be a ton and a half of changes.
The Gary that was a super helpful video, "the more you know".... (I just put remix OS on an exFAT Samsung 128GB usb3 (dongle) thumb drive.)
I've read a lot on microSD card but listening to your history lessons on it was way better... Thanks... Now we know why Microsoft is so rich. Cheers!
Gary explain's everything
Gary you are a smart guy. Good for you
Many buts and ifs which became somewhat cumbersome to take in. A matrix would've been useful to summarise and help comparison.
You can format any size sd card to FAT32 with 3rd party software.
Wow. Very detailed breakdown - thanks.
So guys, the basic lifehack is: if you have any card larger than 32GB and you want it work EVERYWHERE - format it as FAT32 within seconds using fat32format tool which I did on my brand new Sandisk Extreme PRO 1TB microsd. And yes, now I can have 1TB of storage EVERYWHERE I want - on my TV, on any phone or any camera or any other device with USB port no matter which year this device is from. You can't format it in FAT32 in Windows just because it is a limit of Windows formatter itself (or because Bill Gates doesn't want you to format your drives in fat32). The only drawback is you can't have a file size larger than 4GB on your drive which is no problem for me.
In October 2018 I put a 256GB micro-SD card in my Huawei Y7 and it worked perfectly. Two weeks ago I transferred it to my new Huawei Nova 3e ("P20Lite") -- perfect results again.
so now i know that my old sd card is not broken, i just need to format it. Thanks Gary!
My biggest problem with micro sd cards is that they don't really seem to stick to a standard. Some brands work quite well in certain devices and others don't. There is nothing wrong with the card really. I can take a card that performs poorly in one device and have it work quite well in something else. I just wish that they would stick to a standard. It's a pain to purchase a large card and find that it doesn't work. Manufacturers don't always publish that information either. It is generally easy to find a compatibility list for RAM and a motherboard. I would like to see compatibility lists for the SD cards.
If a 128GB thumbdrive were to be formatted as exFAT, will I be able to use just 32GB or the entire 128GB of it?
Guru Gary does it again! Amazing video as usual.
Great video, SD card is one of the best invention of computer technology or the information age. SD card allow me to carry my files, book library, music collection, video library and photo albums everywhere with me. It is amazing how much files i can store in a 32 GB SD card.
this guy is my new best teacher in tech :))
thank you for the nice explanation but we need to show a text of use ,,, I don't thing it will work properly after that specially after you use a high resolution video record.
Can confirm, been using a reformatted 64GB micro SD in an "only 32GB micro SD card" tablet with no worries for years
Very interesting, we learn all the time---THANKS
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Excellent presentation, thanks.
Really good and interesting info.. Thank you Gary
Anyway we cant move apps to SD card...
If you install "Synaptic" on a Linux PC (Ubuntu-style) and search for exfat it will install support for exfat.
but did you test if those phones with 32GB limit will write any data when the that limit is reached despite the card being formatted has more capacity. i remember vaguely an mp3 player, back when mp3 players were a thing, when i bought a higher capacity storage it just never read the songs beyond that or when it did get to a song that just passed the threshold, the player just crashed. it was a phillips or sandisk player.
Didn't know about it. I'll give it a try after getting a bigger SD card.
That rollercoaster footage was random as.
Interesting video Gary, as Android is a Linux distro surely it could use some of linux's File Systems - such as BTRFS/ZFS - instead of the FATs.
I learned something new. Thank you Gary!
Samsung i9100 with sandisk 64 GB works like a charm. When i was using canyogenmod (android 5.1.1) and recovery witch came with it. I could use the card in OS but not in recovery mode if it was formatted as exFAT. But with FAT32 or different recovery mod everything worked just fine.
Interesting video. Although just to throw a spanner in the works with android version 6 (Marshmallow) if you wish to use the SD card as internal storage it has to be of the faster memory type, otherwise it doesn't work!!
Love these kinds of videos. More please!
Thank you sir for this informative video
just to add my experience to this excellent video, my sandisk usb flash disk don't work on my tv no matter what filesystem and partition type, also it cant be made bootable using yumi, but if i use Rufus it boots the OS. i think it's more than just the filesystem.
+john doe no idea this is 16GB, my kingston 16GB works fine. both usb 3.0.
+john doe yes, and that drive also can't be used as bootable media using yumi to have multiple OS, while kingston can have much.
+john doe same tool, believe me I've tried many just to fix this, but no matter it don't work in tv.
I'd like to see an informative video about sd speeds too. How important it actually is on a smartphone if i am going to use it only for photos and music or if its going to be used for apps too. do the apps run slower in a slower sd etc .
I like the color of this video. Very nice.
Didn't hear about the command prompt format when things go really wrong with the card or usb stick by not been recognised by any os.
very well said . . . thanks . . .
You can actually format larger drives fat32 through command