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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] giftedgiggsy11:
Can i ask what you used to format your card to FAT32? Windows wont let me
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aerobotix:
i formatted a 64gb sandisk ultra SDXC class10 /UHS-1. it was not fat32, and wasnt recognized in the SGS2. Then I reformatted it using:

"HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool, V2.1.8". It has both NTFS and FAT32 for file system options. and quick format option. I haven't tried it in the SGS3.

Looks like there's a newer version (2.2.3) out:

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/HP-USB-Disk-Storage-Format-Tool.shtml

Well, after reading this thread, I think I'll just leave the 64GB card with the FAT32 and skip that exFat..
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shinichi_c00l:
Because our SGS3 cant be mounted as mass storage device if connected via usb cable, so you need to use your card reader to do that job.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] afoongwl215:
This problem is happening to me too.. I have to mount my microsd card into my pc through a card reader, delete the folder with the corrupted file and recopy the folder in to fix the problem.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SlimJ87D:
There is a new app that requires you to be rooted. You can now mount your SD Card as a Mass Storage Device. Yeppy!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1711009
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SlimJ87D:
Man it's hard to choose between exFat's faster transfer speeds to Fat32's wider selection of support.

Fat32 is supported by my HDTV, Xbox 360, PS3, Girlfriends Blu Ray player, etc. While exFat is not. Blah. Why can't we have the best of both worlds.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] timberwolf60:
I put the new Sandisk 64GB cl10 into my S2

and it prompted error in status bar. Drop down the status bar and touched the SD card icon. It prompted me wrong format and offer an option to format? I answer y, fellow erasing...done. my card was formatted with FAT32. Writing speed by SD tools was 10 MB/s. Used as mass storage mode with USB cable, the writing speed was 4mb/s. If I put into the SD adaptor and pushed into my notebook SD card reader, the writing speed was 10mb/s.

Very surprised that mass storage mode not supported in S3 and need a 3rd party utility to do it. My very old SE P910 already supported this function. Something wrong on Samsung or because exFAT.

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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NeoCream:
I used the free tool called MiniTool Partition Wizard. You can get it here:

http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html

You should be able to connect your phone via USB to your computer and the partition tool should recognize your exFat card. Formatting via USB connection should work.

I did it via a Cardreader on my notebook. But give it a try via USB connection.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shinichi_c00l:
No, USB connection via the SGS3 Can't format the SdCard, because its connected with MTP protocol, there's no formatting option available.

Everybody need a card reader to do this.

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BTW about the exFAT, is there someone who actually can use that format without problems ?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d4fseeker:
This will work too:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=27282116&postcount=58
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SlimJ87D:
This is better, if not the best option, you need root though.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1711009

Will let you format your SD card too.

I'm going to run some benchmarks on the SD cards as exFat and Fat32 to see if there is really any speed advantages. If not, then I'm sticking to Fat32 as most components support it's formatting.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aerobotix:
perhaps, but i used windows vista and it wouldnt let me anyhow. with a 1 dollar microsd-usb reader it worked, with the HP format tool. But ok note, that this was on the SGS2 phone. I do however think that the 64gb fat32 micro sd will work fine in SGS3 (eventually will see what happens)

IMO best option would be to format the micro sd using the phone. Maybe this means formatting fat32 using the HP tool first, cannot remember. FAT32 is 'good enuf' i'd say. FAT32 also works in the TV right ? so by using FAT32, the 64gb micro sd can also be put in the TV usb port to playback movies, or record TV onto it.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SwiftSmoke:
Im pretty sure theres a prob with the way the sgs3 access the micro sd in exfat. I dumped around 1900 songs onto my 64GB card when i got my phone a few days ago but realised the music players werent listing all songs.

So i converted all the songs to mp3 and put them back on and still some songs werent being seen so I spent most of today checking the songs listed on the phone thru a music player against a list of all the songs using Kies to list the folder Id used to put on the phone. So as I found missing songs I created a seperate folder for all of them and put them on my sd card next to my music folder. Most of the missing songs were actually on the sdcard but not being sen for some reason.

Still music player didnt see em so i moved the folder to the phones memory music folder and voila my music list is now fully populated.

For now im happy enough but I might format to fat32 if theres anymore problems and am I right in saying using fat32 you have a max file size of 4GB?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SlimJ87D:
Is your phone rooted?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shinichi_c00l:
Yes, using FAT32 have limitation, max file size 4gb per file.

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Have further tested the exFAT format on SGS3, it didn't have problem if files is below 3000 files, if more, the exFAT in SGS3 will showing some anomalies (some files cant be read), and if pushed further (put more than 10k of files in sdcard), the SGS3 wont even read the exFAT and will show that the card is damaged.

But it didn't have problem with FAT32 format with more than 12k of files.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maxbg996:
Fic ingstIC

I have just tested and found out that the latest SGS3 bought a week ago does not recognize and rejected the 64G microSD even when formatted to FAT32.... totally gutted!

Update: Formatting to FAT32(HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool - v2.1.8) on windows machine failed but formatting using my old HTC desire works.

version: XXALEF
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SwiftSmoke:
Can someone confirm if this is exfat/sdcard or mtp problem. I noticed when hooking up phone to usb my main music folder on my sdcard would only show folders up to the letter (J) but the data is ok when viewed with root explorer or using sdcard adapter.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SlimJ87D:
So far, got mass storage working perfectly with exFat. Also performed some benchmarks while it was connected to the SGS3 in mass storage mode.

Trying to figure out how to get Fat32 to work so I can perform some benchmarks with it as well. No luck so far, it doesn't want to be recognized as Fat32 in mass storage mode. I want to perform benchmarks on this.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d4fseeker:
I strongly recommend not to use it as long as it is not updated to reflect my "discoveries" since you might (and probably will) corrupt your filesystem and experience data loss and -corruption.

In the meantime please use the raw script (the app is only a GUI wrapper around it) as it cleanly umounts the SDcard in the phone before allowing the computer to mount it.

Here's the link: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=27282116&postcount=58
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SlimJ87D:
Is there any chance you can write an app to perform all this for us? I'd gladly donate to you. Lastly, will this work for a Fat32 64gb sd card? It's not working with the "risky" method I had posted. Only exFat.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] da.trute:
i got a 32 gig class 10 card the other day as I wanted to be able to play large video files at a friends house. Without checking the format dumped an 8 gig movie on there using mtp, this took forver but it got there and played fine in 1080p smoothly. I then decided to format as exfat to see if copying was faster, indeed it was but i only got around 6mb / sec, this time however I mounted it as a mass sotage device UMS. The file shows on the disk fine on the pc and even plays fine plugged into my PC but when I view the files on the SGS it picks up the file that were on there before which had been formatted / deleted before I copied accross the large video file. No sign of video file either. Clearly and issue with sgs3 format, althoug it may be ok with smaller music files.

However... I rebooted, the files disapeared and I was left with the video file, seems that the phone is caching the old file structure on the SD card. Video files plays beautifully, tried a 12 file full hd 1080p file too, no problems now.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] d4fseeker:
Sorry, I am totally illiterate in Java. I managed to pass the Java 101 some time back and that's it ;) I'm sure the current app will be updated by it's author soon.

However I won't let you completely out in the rain =)

Steps:

- Get the app 'Gscript lite' from Play Store. (It's free)

- [Optionally] delete the predefined scripts by long-pressing on them

- Press hardware menu button and choose 'Add script' on-screen'

* Name: 'MS on'

* Make sure 'Needs SU?' is ticked

* Content (careful about line breaks!)

setprop persist.sys.usb.config mass_storage,adb
umount /mnt/extSdCard && echo /dev/block/vold/179:17 > /sys/devices/platform/s3c-usbgadget/gadget/lun0/file
/code]
- Press save

- Press hardware menu button and choose 'Add script' on-screen'
* Name: 'MS off'
* Make sure 'Needs SU?' is ticked
* Content (careful about line breaks!)
[code]
echo "" > /sys/devices/platform/s3c-usbgadget/gadget/lun0/file
setprop persist.sys.usb.config mass_storage,adb
vold
/code]
- Press save

- Go to your launcher desktop/menu (depending on the launcher) and add a shortcut. Select 'Gscript' and choose the 'MS on' script.
- Repeat above step with the 'MS off' script.

You now have 2 icons on your homescreen; one enables Mass-Storage mode and one disables it.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tillithz:
I have been following this thread off and on so excuse me if I mention something already posted.

I received a 64gb exFat micro sd card and windows didnt like seeing it from the start. I use ext2fsd program for other things and installed it on the windows computer and it now sees the card. You can also use ext2fsd to format it.

When transferring music I have seen 13MB/s and when transferring larger files it was even more.

I havent filled the card but only to 1/2 full and will verify files once I receive my phone.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Quozl:
I am having the same issue as the OP with a SanDISK 64GB micro SD card although my issue is with 5 of my album folders out of 196 albums not showing up on the phone in the Music app or file viewer apps.

In the My Files app they show as white entries (not yellow, like the working folders) with what looks like a corrupted folder name.

If I look at the card on my PC using a microSD card adapter those 5 folders are fine and their contents play perfectly.

While I agree with some of the information in this thread regarding the S3's implementation of the exFAT flile system, I also found info on the Stack Overflow site that I think may be just as relevant. Basically it says that there is a limit to the number of entries a FAT32 directory can have (assuming this applies to exFAT as well) and that this could be why the files show up and work fine on the PC viewing on a NTFS system and then do not show up or work when the card is put back in the phone.

I can't post links in the thread as I am new so if anyone wants them just ask and I will Pm them but I have pasted the relevant answer below.

I have just formatted the card in FAT32 instead and I'm re copying all the folders to the card now to see if they all show up in the phone. If not I may try using the above info to limit the number of folders on the Sd card under Music and see if that helps.

Interestingly when I initially used Kies to Sync my music from the PC to the phone when I first got it, Kies disregarded all of my album folders when copying the files over and just put all the individual music files inside the Music folder on the SD card, so maybe whoever wrote the app knew of the folder limit and to get around the issue programmed Kies to only copy the files and disregard all the folder info.

Hope we can find an elegant solution to this issue so we can use exFAT and have all the Directories/Folders or Files on the card we want without any hassle.

Cheers Q
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aerobotix:
Yes the sgs2 and now sgs3 rooted. The 64gb sandisk sdxc class10 (fat32) works fine in the sgs3 for me.

I doubt root matters. Except for things like accessing certain folders? The card may gain some app-created folders with time..

Internal memory: 11gb . 3gb free. Wow. Ok tintin hd take up close to 2gb! Playing tintin hd on sgs2 made it so hot it could boil teawater. On sgs3 there is no heat :D

Good sign.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aerobotix:
Windows machine version ?

Run tool as admin maybe?

Sendt fra min GT-I9300 med Tapatalk
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adrianpang:
I got a SanDisk Mobile Ultra 64GB Class 10 UHS Class 1 MicroSDXC card recently, and used the phone to format it. The resulting format is exFAT using DXLE9 firmware. After I copied about 10GB of MP3 files into the card, I tried to use the built-in music player application as well as Winamp to browse the albums and songs.

I realised that some of the MP3 files are not listed, as well as many of the albums were missing too.

I checked and found out that those files were also not listed in the File Explorer application on the phone. Those files can be found in the card when I placed the MicroSDXC card into a SD card adapter and read it using a card reader.

I tried to format the card to FAT32 using HP's USB Stick Format Tool but the phone does not recognise the card and said it was Damaged and required a format.

I guess I have the same issue after all. Anyone found a fix for this issue?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shinichi_c00l:
Try format the card using fat32formatter : http://tokiwa.qee.jp/EN/Fat32Formatter/
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adrianpang:
I tried using the GUI version of fat32format from Ridgecrop Consultants Ltd to format the card and the phone can now recognized it. I'm copying all of the files back and will report back on whether the previous "missing" files can now be seen by the phone.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] timberwolf60:
Used s2 to format to fat32 was the most easy way. I was successfully used Sandisk ultra 64GB cl 10 SDXC card in my S2.

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[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adrianpang:
Yes. All the files can now be seen using File Explorer as well as in Winamp and the Music application. I now suspect there is some issue with exFAT (e.g. reading of such a filesystem at device level).
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maxbg996:
The tool can run fine..... Just that the device is unable to accept the formatted card (eg: Bad or damaged card detected) . Once I used another android phone to format, it was accepted.

It is strange that SGS3 formatted the card as exFAT but decided not to accept the filesystem. What a waste!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Speedstra:
I have the same experience as Adrianpang, about 300 of 9000 mp3 tracks and about 20 folders not showing on the music player (poweramp) and ES File Explorer, although when hooked up to my PC the all appeared to be there (hooked up via UMS). No error messages shown. The SDcard was formatted exFAT by the SIII. I reformatted the SDcard to FAT32 using my old SGS1 (64Gb card showed up fine) and then re-inserted it in my SIII, copied all my files again and now all is well. So this appears to be a bug in the SIII exFAT file system. I'm using the ALF2 ROM.

Speedstra
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zhix:
geez .. i thought I was having faulty card .. i have tons of folder and files that shows up fine when accessing via the S3 itself .. but when I try to look for the folders in Windows XP (MTP Mode), tons of folders went missing !!

damn this is real serious ..Who should be the one who should fix this ? Samsung ? Google or Microsoft ? it's a problem on Samsung S3 (it's flagship product), it's a problem with Google not wanting wanting to support UMS and it's a problem with Microsoft (who developed exFAT).

Now transferring all the data out of the card and reformating it into FAT32.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GSMGuy:
I'm having the same issues, again with a 64gb Sandisk - Missing mp3 albums & folders, that are visible when card is connected to PC via a reader.

Interestingly, I tried copying the "missing" files into the internal storage of the phone, and then moving them to where they should be, on the 64gb - I then got the message "file already exists - overwrite?" So the phone can physically "see" the files, just not display them?? They also don't appear in explorer on the phone, or Astro file manager...

Also, trying to access the mp3 folder when connected to PC via MTP, the folder only shows even less files/folders, and will not allow me to copy/paste into the mp3 folder, telling me the card is write protected!

Have just reformatted card to fat32 using an SGS2, and am currently copying files to it...

Very strange..

Mike
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NorthernNoel:
I've got a workaround for the missing files/folder in the music apps. Rename the file and take off the last word. As soon as I do that they appear in poweramp for me. Not a great solution as I have nearly 60gb of music to work through!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GSMGuy:
OK, so after reformatting card to FAT32 in wifey's SGS2 (she has her uses)

ALL of the files are now visible, and the problem appears to be sorted...

I just hope that when (eventually) the SGS3 fully supports exFAT, that the card will simply need reformatting in the phone/PC..

Mike
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NorthernNoel:
Ok I've given in and reformatted the card as fat32. Annoyingly I had it as fat32 before in my HTC Desire but reformatted to get the benefits of exfat :mad:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NorthernNoel:
If that's the case then it seems rather silly that they decided to format the card as exFAT in the S3. FAT32 works fine on it so why not just leave it at that?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] funb0b:
Slightly different but the same, put mine straight in, transferred around 10gigs to it no problem, in fact it worked fine for two days.

The problem only occurred when I rebooted the phone, then the "damaged card" message appeared after the phone went through the boot up "preparing card procedure"

Reformatted the card in the phone which resulted in exfat again, put the data back on the card, again all was fine until rebooting and the boot up checking procedure.

I wondering if there is a glitch in the checking procedure maybe, which is then then flagging the card from then on as damaged, as the card & the phone work perfectly before a reboot?

Any thoughts?
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SwiftSmoke:
Finally took the plunge and formatted my 64GB sdcard to fat32 and put all my music and video back on the card and have had not 1 problem so far. All my music and videos was seen 1st time and all my music folders are listed when accessing thru mtp whereas under exfat only some folders were shown even though the other folders were physically on the card.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] funb0b:
just to add I also reformatted to fat 32, no problems at all from then on.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maxbg996:
Anyone tried exFAT with build version XXALF6? :confused:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] viskey:
i reformatted mine in fat32 @ 64gb and no issues. every song and file is accounted for.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shinichi_c00l:
Looks like the newest firmware / kernel fixed this problems, now exfat format running normally, my 64gb card also have reformatted to exfat again and loaded about 20k of files, and all are accounted for. no error anymore.

XXBLFB fixed it !

*edit : Still having some glitches when file is pushed more than 30k, but i do see an improvement over the former firmware.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maxbg996:
Thanks for the update! :good:
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MattBooth:
Teracopy for copying any files is always handy ;)
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] strtgng:
Thanks, and if you have a Zune...

This thread solved 4 days of frustration and aggravation. I registered here just now simply to say thank you! Fat32 and all issues are gone.

All I can contribute is my experiences and solutions in syncing my Zune music on my Galaxy S3 after the Fat32 solution fixed my initial issues. See my post in the main Samsung Galaxy S3 subforum on Android Central. Sorry - without 10 posts I apparently can't directly hyperlink.

Hope this helps somebody.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] manaox2:
Thanks for the thread, looks like I will be formatting now to Fat32. This should be much more commonly known.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eunique:
I have been having headaches with this and have returned to Frys Electronics twice thinking and trying to trouble shoot the problems

with my 64GB microSDXC class 6 SanDisk.

tried solutions from other threads, used SDformatter, tried EaseUS to format to Fat32...

kept having problems sometimes would load fine initially on GS3, then when I used microSD in card reader and back on Windows XP or MAC,

card needs to be reformatted..and would not allow me to reformat.

then, when reinserted in my GS3, errors kept popping up...

For some reason, the card was being corrupted...after going into GS3.

I tried formatting on both GS3, in Windows XP and MAC, and all had problems.

Going by what some have done and formatted in other phones, I tried it on my Motorola Atrix, which formatted the card in FAT32.

I then loaded by files back into card...TiBu backups, music, pics videos...

MUSIC inside folder...I had to divide and move an audio file (about 3.44GB) out of that main folder trying to be careful to not exceed the 4GB which is supposedly a limitation on FAT32.

Right now, storage indicates Total space 59.36GB and Availabe space 51.45GB. So, I have almost 9 GB of files in the extSdCard now and just rebooted the GS3, unmounted and mounted card...and YEEEESSSSSSSSS!!!!

so far, no problems...

I was about to give up and return the 64 SanDisk and go back to 32GB cheapie...which worked fine before I upgraded to the 64GB.

I have to idea why I had problems with the 64 and the 32 seemed to have worked fine. Maybe I didn't have the 32 that long...maybe 1 day.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kab343:
Has anyone managed to get a class 6 64GB SD Card working with CM9 yet?

I managed to get my card formatted to Fat32 using Minitool Partition Wizard Home. When I tried to get into settings/storage on my Galaxy S3 it Force Closes. Comes up with a media error when trying to connect by USB with 64GB card installed.

Would love to get my 64GB card working with CM9 so I can copy my music over!
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BTKdragoon:
I'm unable to format the SD card (class 10, 64gb)

tried almost everything (windows, mac, couple of different applications) and still can't format it.

SGS3 won't read or format it.

I can open it on windows but cant format

Can't open on mac or format
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jokeeman:
I have used program like partition magic and it was done in a couple of seconds.