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[Android General] NYLimited:
Thanks for the info, Tom. Will have to do some reading as I have not before come across FAT32 types. Work has been a bit crazy of late (am typing this from the car) so I likely won't get to it before the weekend.

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[Android General] NYLimited:
A little bit ON topic and a little bit OFF

Warning - This is a shameless plug for a commercial product - not mine. :cool:

On the topic of SD Cards, my ROM performs an automatic

e2fsck

on the card's ext4 partition each time I boot my phone. The results are redirected into a text file which I can look at if/when I remember (which is seldom).

Being a believer in automation I decided to look for a way to send myself the log file through the email system. Tasker can handle the boot process activity but I could not find the means of actually sending the email without intervention.

This is where Josh and his

Email Me Pro

came in. I got Tasker to read the log file into a variable and pass it transparently to the Email Me program, all during the boot process. By the time my email program gets to check the mail the log is already in my inbox. Pretty cool I thought.

The reason I am posting this here is that since that time I found several other uses for the app and the developer of the app has gone out of his way to help me figure out my little challenge. The app's description states:

Quickly email yourself (or anyone) notes, web pages, tasks...you name it! You can set up multiple email templates (which include the email address, subject, message, and even attachments) for tasks, work, personal, etc. Then use those templates to quickly create a pre-populated email or to share something from another app using the Share menu. You can also create shortcuts on your home screen using a template. You can also set up Email Me Pro to send you emails automatically, so you bypass the email compose screen completely! No more extra steps to send an email! The SMTP settings are configurable, enabling you to send from any email account.
​

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If you can use a little app like this one and the $1.99 price tag (well worth it in my opinion) does not put you in the poor house you may wish to take a quick look.
[Android General] mirujack41:
newbie here....duno whether im correct or wrong

the impact on speed you were pointing are like....there are multiple small/big file together in a folder that will have 100% impact on transfering speed :)

juz some extra info
[Android General] NYLimited:
With the possible exception of Google staff we're all newbies here. :D

As for the speed and files - not sure what you mean. If referring to the Class rating it is very unlikely that an Android phone would have files which are gigabytes in size unless recording videos. Class 10 cards were designed and rated for sequential videos, not the typical files an Android device has to deal with. If you look at the apps in your phone (such as .apk files) they are relatively small and their content is made up of even smaller files. Emails, texts, contacts, etc. are small, granular pieces of data, often spread all over the device.

How can I illustrate my point? Imagine having a high powered compressor connected to a spray gun.

If you need to paint a kilometer long continuous line this tool will make the job much faster. This is a Class 10 card with video.

Now imagine using the same tool to paint small circles of 10 cm but only one circle on every street. Most of your time is now used to go from one location to the next and the high powered spray gun doesn't help so much. These would be random files often found in Android.

See what I mean?

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[Android General] Demsee:
^___^

this post saved my life.. just thank you guys :good:
[Android General] NYLimited:
Which one? :-]

Glad it was of some help.

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[Android General] NYLimited:
Black Friday sale

If you're in the market for a new card Newegg offers the SanDisk 64GB Ultra UHS-I Class 10 microSDXC Memory Card with Adapter, model SDSDQUA-064G-A11A, for $39.99 with free shipping. That's $0.62/GB. Adorama has it for $38.95; however, it is currently backordered. It's UHS-I enabled and comes with a full-size SD card adapter. A close price, Amazon has it for $41.99 with free shipping.

I don't know how long the sale is supposed to last.

Don't forget this card comes formatted with eXFat - you may have to reformat for your device!
[Android General] coolfire:
Yup, I just ordered mine from Amazon yesterday. Was a tad slow & didn't manage to get it at USD38.99 though.

Oh & I always swear by SanDisk. I have 3x8GBs, 1x16GB & 1X32GB - all SanDisk only. :D
[Android General] NYLimited:
I also like the Samsung cards but, like you, tend to stay with SanDisk. They have been pretty solid performers for me.

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[Android General] coolfire:
Never tried the Sammy ones before though. SanDisk cards also seem to be really hardy performers! :victory:
[Android General] NYLimited:
New thread

If you're interested check out my new thread (not technical):

Some Incredibly Simple Things To Protect Your Privacy!
[Android General] rsngfrce:
Well, after a few days my 'damaged SD card' issues started back up again. I am now using a different, identical SanDisk 64gb Class 10 card and having the same issues, so either the card has incompatibility with my phone (which nobody else has reported), or the card is not bad despite the Android notifications.

BUT... I just discovered that my cache size is being set to 2056... could this cause the issue? I haven't been able to find any info on what effect a non-standard cache size might have.
[Android General] NYLimited:
I did see some issues on my device once when I played with a Class 10 card - my device is older and was not designed for a card that fast. If I recall correctly you tried another (slower) card, no?

Anything in the logs that might give a hint? Maybe install Lumberjack, move it to /system (you want it accessible when the problem comes back) and get some captures when the problem occurs. Not much to lose, just some time.

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[Android General] rsngfrce:
Could a cache size of 2056 instead of 2048 cause an issue?
[Android General] NYLimited:
Which cache are you referring to? If you mean the cache partition I have not seen one quite as large. Other caches (app, dalvik, etc) can grow dynamically but I don't know about that specific number.

You can issue the command "cat /proc/meminfo" that gives a summary of the overall memory usage of the system. There is a lot of data there, only the first few numbers worth discussing (and the remaining ones understood by few people, and my questions of those few people about them often resulting in conflicting explanations):

MemTotal: 395144 kB
MemFree: 184936 kB
Buffers: 880 kB
Cached: 84104 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB

MemTotal is the total amount of memory available to the kernel and user space (often less than the actual physical RAM of the device, since some of that RAM is needed for the radio, DMA buffers, etc).

MemFree is the amount of RAM that is not being used at all. The number you see here is very high; typically on an Android system this would be only a few MB, since we try to use available memory to keep processes running

Cached is the RAM being used for filesystem caches and other such things. Typical systems will need to have 20MB or so for this to avoid getting into bad paging states; the Android out of memory killer is tuned for a particular system to make sure that background processes are killed before the cached RAM is consumed too much by them to result in such paging.

Beyonce do this I am really not certain. Did you note any specific issues in any of your logs?

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[Android General] NYLimited:
Buy.com has the SanDisk 64GB Ultra UHS-I Class 10 microSDXC Memory Card with Adapter, model no. SDSDQUA-064G-A11A, for $37.99 with free shipping ($0.59/GB). It's UHS-I enabled and comes with a full-size SD card adapter if you are looking for one of these.

http://m.buy.com/product/details/230276145

[ EDIT ]

Best Buy has the 32 GB Ultra UHS-I Class 10 card, model no. SDSDQUA-032G-A11A, on their list of specials for $17.99 and free shipping. (Amazon and Newegg have the same price for now.)

http://m.bestbuy.com/m/e/product/de...8312&cpncode=33-110854445-2&pid=1218427115873

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[Android General] NYLimited:
So, did anybody buy one of these?
[Android General] NYLimited:
I don't suppose you have seen anything further on this one, have you?

I found nothing to substantiate the claims that the older version is better for Android.. :(
[Android General] Szczepanik:
Sandisk Class 4 vs Patriot Class10

ny_limited, no I haven't seen anything further on this one. Trying to narrow down the reasons why some cards work better for Android than others. The following was a good result - I recommended to goglum that he should try his old Sandisk Class 4 instead of a new Patriot Class10. I was confident that Sandisk Class 4 would work better and he kindly confirmed my advice was good.

I stress this only applies to Android. For other devices eg video camera the Patriot Class10 might be a better choice.

Class10 cards in old mobiles may need to be re-formatted to FAT32. I think most (in particular really old) SD cards would also benefit from a re-format.

Thanks for keeping the discussion going.

Cheers

Tom
[Android General] jaminutz:
This is great info. Thanks for posting it!
[Android General] bojanbl:
I didn't buy since there was no shipping to my country, although I was really interested :(
[Android General] Act7:
Thx for this Info
[Android General] NYLimited:
Gee, I would have never guessed that! ;) Although I do wonder at times how some of the newer devices do with the "fast"cards since their bus is of a more recent design than, say the HD2. Not ready to get another phone so...

You're welcome! Glad it was of some interest!
[Android General] NYLimited:
Yeah, I thought about that but didn't know if they would ship or not.

The cost of shipping might have been too much anyway. :(
[Android General] MarkAtHome:
Ok, I'll bite...

You have been here since March 2011 and you have one post, and I am replying to it.

Why in heaven's name, would anyone donate to you? Get real. :rolleyes:
[Android General] yasasbandara:
Thanks:)

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good thread..!
[Android General] Szczepanik:
Random Read Write is more important than SD Class

ny_limited - careful with the sarcasm as people who do not speak English (and there are a lot of them on this site) will loose in the translation ;)

Just wanted to note this post that was referenced on the new thread that is mirror of Cotulla's twitter feed in HTC Leo: HD2 > HD2 General > OK, What? [Cotulla Twitter]

Just wanted to emphasis that Random Read Write is more important than SD Class

Cheers

Tom
[Android General] NYLimited:
Yeah, I tend to overlook those things at times.. My bad!

Yet people will still trade their perfectly good Class 4 Sandisk cards for a Class 10 and be excited about it. Oh well, we need to let them experiment on their own, I suppose.

Thanks for the follow-up! Appreciate it.
[Android General] NYLimited:
Backing up (only) the SD Card

This post has been replaced.

Please go to post # 139 (three below this one) for full details!
[Android General] doctorasgr:
Problem with "unfortunately" popups

Hi, I have EU HTC HD2 with a 16gb class 10 transcend microsd. After flash this NexusHD2 JB 4.1.2. rom I get always this message "Unfortunately, the process android.process.acore has stopped" and many other unfortunately precesses have stopped, as I connect to the internet using my wifi.Why is happening this to me? :(
[Android General] NYLimited:
Let me see..

Did you use install option 2 - dataonext? If yes, how big is your ext4 partition and does the e2fsck log show any issues?

Are the apps that give you a problem part of the rom or apps you installed (or both)?

Does you device have bad blocks? How many?

Was this a new, clean install or update?

How much free memory does your device have when this problem is present?

Have you set a very aggressive memory management which could be killing processes? If yes, try a milder setting.

Some of the answers to the above may suggest a problem - we shall see.

Are your contacts backed up someplace? You can try to clear data and cache through apps for contacts but you should be aware that this will delete all your contacts!!

You can try clearing the cache for all apps (system also) with rom toolbox and clear them all.

Or, have you tried re-installing the rom (as in update without any wiping) just to refresh the system files?

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[Android General] dpcdpc11:
nice post... valuable info!
[Android General] eda80:
Thankyo

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[Android General] WizkidN:
Thanks for this. Helps a lot for figuring out which SD Card to get:highfive:
[Android General] NYLimited:
Thanks, hope it helped a little. :)
[Android General] stevuna:
I've a kingston class 4 and it goes so smoothly on my tablet..
[Android General] NYLimited:
You must have done something right when setting up that tablet! :)
[Android General] doug.passerini:
Really nice guide! Thanks a lot!
[Android General] Szczepanik:
Cotulla on SD Cards and file size

Cotulla on SD Cards and file size

Cheers

Tom
[Android General] Mizo_elgabry:
This thread is epic thanks a milion
[Android General] Chandcut:
nice
[Android General] Scappz:
Thanks, very useful thread. My SD's are Class 6 and they work pretty well, but I'll change them soon.
[Android General] nagas88:
Nice post

thanks budddy
[Android General] NYLimited:
About those UHS-1 cards

There has been a fair amount of interest and discussion about these high speed cards recently. Although they have been described here before I thought I would add a few sentences from the various manufacturers.

It should be noted that I do not have any of these devices to test nor do I have the latest mobile device to test with. As a result I can only speak of theoretical and claimed information.

As you likely know, UHS stands for “Ultra High Speed” and refers to the relatively new technology that enables higher bus interface speeds on Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) and Secure Digital Extended Capacity (SDXC) cards. All the specifications offered by the manufacturers state sequential access speeds - not random.

The three major manufacturer I am aware of currently selling these devices are Lexar, Samsung and SanDisk (in alphabetical order). They all claim essentially the same things though there are slight differences in in performance.

Some of the new UHS memory cards may have a U1 marking, which refers to the U1 Speed Class designed for UHS-I card. The U1 Speed Class designates a minimum capture (write) performance of 10Mbytes per second for recording streaming video content. Note that although U1 is technically the same speed as Speed Class 10, they are tested differently, and meeting one does not imply that the other is met by the card.

According to all three manufacturers all SD UHS-I cards can be used with all existing SDXC and SDHC devices (backwards compatible) however they will not achieve their UHS rated speeds (since they do not supply the proper voltage to activate the card's UHS feature.

Some of the older devices may also have problems with these cards due their processor or bus limitations while newer devices will likely operate just fine.

Will a UHS card be significantly faster in an Android (random access) environment? Much of that has already been covered in this thread. :)
[Android General] Kuroemon485:
Thank you, buddy. I have wondered about this for a long time.
[Android General] Erick.ecd:
Good Topic
[Android General] Wesley32:
Thanks, I gave thanks to a post that I thought helped me the most!!!
[Android General] aan.iroel:
Nice information....

Has been bookmarked.

Thanks
[Android General] crashlen0:
Thanks for the info! Never knew there were different types of SD cards.
[Android General] JG:
BTW OP thanks for this ..:good: you rock!
[Android General] NYLimited:
Happy New Year, everyone!

Enjoy the festivities!

Will see you all next year!
[Android General] ankur850:
well I have Samsung SD card 8 GB of class 6 :)

I upgrade this from my old 8 GB class 2 SD card :p
[Android General] pguasta:
Thanks for all the info!

I have an OCZ 32 GB Class 10 SdCard in a Motorola RAZR i. I want to know if there is a way to scan or re scan the files in the SD Card without restart the phone. This is because when I make changes in the phone with a File Manager, they only happend when I restart the phone. For example if I delete a photo, it's keeps appearing in the Android Gallery until I restart the phone.

I've been trying all the apps in Google Play store, but they only re scan the folder mnt/sdcard, that in my phone is the internal memory. The SD Card is in the folder mnt/external1, so I want to scan/re scan that folder too.

I hope this question is in the right topic.

Thanks in advance
[Android General] NYLimited:
Samsung is supposed to be a very good card from I understand although I have not had one myself.
[Android General] NYLimited:
Have you tried

this one

or

this one

? They both claim to do just what you are looking for.

If they don't help you might want to try something like

QuickPic

which is a Gallery replacement and works quite well in my experience.
[Android General] pguasta:
I tried both, but they only scan mnt/sdcard, but in my phone the SDCard folder is mnt/external1. None of the apps that I downloaded from the google play scans that folder :( Because of that I want another app or some way to modify that ones to scan also mnt/external1.

I will try that gallery, thanks!!
[Android General] juandemarco:
thanks for the info! i use a Sammie 32 GB class 10 card. in a sensation xe. I will be using it soon enough in the sgs2. :D Just love that phone better then the XE.
[Android General] pguasta:
Thanks! QuickPic works :victory:

Anyway, if there's some app that can do that with every file (.apk, .mp3, etc...), not only with photos, it would be great!:fingers-crossed:
[Android General] NYLimited:
Okay, progress! :)

The only other one that comes to mind is an app I used some time ago but have not tried recently. Check out "

Rescan Media

" and "

Rescan Media ROOT

". It doesn't scan - just triggers Android's media scanner to do what it should. Maybe it will work.

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[Android General] pguasta:
Sadly not working =\ every app scans mnt/sdcard, none of them the folder mnt/external1 =\
[Android General] NYLimited:
Hmm.. Limited choices. Do you have root access and init.d support? You could try adding another mount or a symlink...

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[Android General] moqua:
interesting
[Android General] pguasta:
Nop, I don't have root access. I have the stock phone, not rooted.
[Android General] NYLimited:
Sorry, without root access I am out of ideas. Running a small script as root would be relatively simple but without it I think you may have to rely on third-party apps.
[Android General] Ir0nsh007er:
I love your devotion

Respect for all your work !

:good:
[Android General] pguasta:
Ok, Dont worry.

Thanks anyway. The app for the photos was great.

I hope someday appears an app thar could help me :p
[Android General] NYLimited:
I use a custom ROM and remove several system apps before installing a new one. One of the apps I always remove is Gallery - I like others, like QuickPic, better. So, all is not bad I suppose. ;)

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[Android General] darblack:
So good
[Android General] droidfanzz:
Cheers!:good: good and interesting info :o
[Android General] marcoant:
Great tutorial!!! Thanks!
[Android General] terlikk:
Thanks for tutorial!
[Android General] NYLimited:
Hey, cool avatar! :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shonkin:
Bear with me, a noob in the woods....

Installed older version of CWM (5.2.8 maybe?) and it worked fine except no access to external sdcard. It did, however, let me browse around the tablet's internal folders and so I could install from there. But... because I wanted to do restores onto an external 8meg sdcard I have (and one I have proven the Asus can write to happily with OS loaded)... I decided to update CWM to ver 6.0.1.2. I did the update via the old version in a recovery session. But now, I get no options at all for directories I can access. Or am I being dense here? the sdcard will not mount and is not accessible. (Even tried reformatting it.)

I would like to install either a version of TWRP or a version of CWM that will let me access both internal directories and external sdcard.

The good news? I can still boot to my EOS (ver 79) customized ver of Jelly Bean. So I have the working OS... just no way to change my Recovery system into something useable. To replace it, it has to work to let me replace it! (Catch 22 big-time.)

Thanks for any help.
[General Questions and Answers] VTEC_DOHC:
Hello guys i'm using the very last release of JellyBam rom http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1903162 and i've figured that the voice search and actions are missing... since i'm a newbie and can't post on the full thread does anyone knows if can i flash the gapps over this rom or any solution for this ?
[General Questions and Answers] t0lik:
Just find and install "Voice search" application in Google Play Store on your phone or in a browser.
[HTC Inspire 4G] marsdta:
First youll have to re add the extention .nb at the end of the file. For example splash.img is kade to splash.img.nb then you Just reverse the command you used to convert to to a splash image

So instead of nbimg -F splash.bmp etc

You'll use nbimg -f splash.img.nb etc
[HTC Inspire 4G] zswielder:
Thanks! I tried that before, but I didn't know I had to add .nb extension to it first. I appreciate your help.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] andysom25:
Just won mine off ebay very excited!

Going to root it ASAP , now I have seen a lot of methods what seems to be the simplest and easiest to set up for Rom flashing from custom to stock, I want to try a lot of different things here
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chris9983:
How did you win it on eBay if you don't mind me asking?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jingleberry:
He probably won an auction.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] rice923:
Can't tell if this is a serious questions...

You win an item on eBay by... winning an auction or buying it at a fixed price....:eek:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Spider_Pig27:
Keep in mind some people don't use eBay

& congrats
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] chris9983:
My bad little brother couldn't keep my nexui on need for speed shift. Guess he drifted off to xda.

Congrats though. just got a HTC g1 for 30$ last night (used of course) gonna try to put it in monitor mode package tracker says it will be here by tomorrow, but I say Tues.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mach3.2:
Be sure to follow Jubakuba's thread in the sticky if this section.

Beamed from my Grouper.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] andysom25:
Thank you everyone, and yea I just won it by auction :)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zephiK:
easiest way is to not use a toolkit.

install nexus drivers

adb environment -> bootloader -> fastboot oem unlock
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] andysom25:
What's the toolkit name ?