64G micro SD card for Galaxy Player?

mymo82 · Jun 4, 2013

I too have installed a 64 gb micro sd card on my SGP 4.2, which I bought for around 43 € during a sale from a famous website.
The card isn't immediately recognized by the device, but after displaying an error message, I was asked to format the card by the player. Once formatted, the card is fully recognized (around 59 gb are available) and it works great, although a little slower than I expected: the trasfer rate from the internal memory to the card is about 6,5 mb/sec.

TrojanDad · Jun 25, 2013

I purchased a Transcend 64GB MicroSDXC Class10 UHS-1 for my SGP 4.0 one month ago and it works like a champ. The Transcend card formatted quickly in my player and it's been really nice having a boat load of movies along with my music library all on one device. I previously trashed a Sandisk class 10 card due to the extra partition that Sandisk installs. No more Sandisk for my player.

yashwantsingh · Jul 8, 2013

Guys check this strontium 32gb UHS-1 card http://youtu.be/PuHfmuJ8pf0... should I go for it.
says to be faster than sandisk ultra and samsung pro series microsd cards, with life time warranty....
please suggest....

TheKryptonite · Jul 10, 2013

Not sure what's the problem with SanDisk cards, but I'm using a Kingston SD card; it hasn't become corrupted/damaged yet. I can't say the same for my SanDisk SD card though. Hell, it got corrupted on the first day I got it, lol.

inked11 · Aug 13, 2013

SanDisk 64gb sorta works... once

WT Ho said:
Looks like there is a 64G micro SD by Sandisk. Will be good for my collections of lossless music.

Many claim that it works even on old Android devices. Just wonder if any Galaxy Player owners tried this yet?

Update:

Finally got one. Similar to the experience of other users, the player will think that the SD card is corrupted when mounted for the first time. Once you format it as instructed, it will work fine.

I have attached a couple of screenshots below for those who are interested. Two of the screenshots are benchmark of 64G Sandisk (Class 6) vs 32G Lexar (Class 10).

I put a SanDisk 64gb card in my YP-G1 and another in my Tab 2 7.0 tablet, and both worked. However, according to SanDisk, the newest 64gb cards are intended to be used in ext4 format. That's why the card shows up as "corrupted" the first time you insert it in your device. You can reformat it, as has been noted... but apparently you only get one shot at that. Trying to format it a second time corrupts it for real; voice of experience here, who didn't know about this until after the fact.

After trying to reformat the tablet's card a second time, the card is now unformattable with the tablet, with Win8, or with OS X 10.8. The 64gb card in my YP-G1 is still working fine, though not as fast as it's rated; takes forever for Android's media scanner to run through it after power-up, and takes Rocket Player a lo-o-o-ng time to locate all the tracks first time the app is launched after power-up. If anything happens to this card, I won't buy another 64gb card for any of my current devices.

striked0wn · Aug 16, 2013

Sandisk 64 gb works fine for me (Impulse kernel on jb 4.2.2).

PytSkee · Aug 27, 2013

What Samsung says

While the GP 5 and 4 were released quite a while ago, Samsung says that external memory can be added up to 32GB. Maybe there were no bigger cards then, but I wouldn't see any problem in trying a big one if you need it.

I've had no problem with my 16GB card on a REMICS ROM.

carpler · Nov 10, 2013

After reading all this thread I still don't understand if the compatibility of this larger memory card depend on the file system or the kernel or both. Someone can explain me?
Many thanks!

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TheKryptonite · Nov 11, 2013

carpler said:
After reading all this thread I still don't understand if the compatibility of this larger memory card depend on the file system or the kernel or both. Someone can explain me?
Many thanks!

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It should work regardless of the system or kernel. And yes, you can use a 64GB SD Card.

mymo82 · Nov 28, 2013

inked11 said:
I put a SanDisk 64gb card in my YP-G1 and another in my Tab 2 7.0 tablet, and both worked. However, according to SanDisk, the newest 64gb cards are intended to be used in ext4 format. That's why the card shows up as "corrupted" the first time you insert it in your device. You can reformat it, as has been noted... but apparently you only get one shot at that. Trying to format it a second time corrupts it for real; voice of experience here, who didn't know about this until after the fact.

After trying to reformat the tablet's card a second time, the card is now unformattable with the tablet, with Win8, or with OS X 10.8. The 64gb card in my YP-G1 is still working fine, though not as fast as it's rated; takes forever for Android's media scanner to run through it after power-up, and takes Rocket Player a lo-o-o-ng time to locate all the tracks first time the app is launched after power-up. If anything happens to this card, I won't buy another 64gb card for any of my current devices.

I beg to differ. I formatted my Sandisk Sdxc 64 gb card at least 3 times on my GI1 and it works.

On the other hand, I feel to give the prospective purchasers a heads-up: when removing the card from the device to plug it in a card reader and viceversa, some data might get lost. These data can be found in the 'lost.dir' folder of the root directory, and they're usually your original files in disguise - that is under a different name and extention - so they can be easily restored.

As for the large amount of time required to load the media file in the library after booting, I worked around that by creating a .Nomedia file in my music folder and by letting Poweramp, which has a musch faster engine, manage my music files.

TrojanDad · Jan 23, 2014

carpler said:
After reading all this thread I still don't understand if the compatibility of this larger memory card depend on the file system or the kernel or both. Someone can explain me?
Many thanks!

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The problem was with the Sandisk 64 GB micro SDXC class 10 cards. Sandisk placed an additional partition onto the card for their security software, and this partition is not removed by the formatting process inside the device. No other card manufacturer does this on the 64 GB micro SDXC card.

I sacrificed two of the 64 microSDXC (class 10) cards between my SGP 4.0 and SGT 7.0+. I was able to buy a Sandisk class 6 64 microSDXC card for my SGT 7.0+ and that card has been working for the past 18 months. I have been using Transcend 64 microSDXC class 10 cards in my SGP 4.0 and my SGP 5.0 since last May.

TrojanDad · Feb 27, 2014

128 GB micro SDXC card

I saw that Sandisk will be releasing a 128 GB micro SDXC card soon.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IIJ6W4S...UTF8&colid=2ZC6G5GSKBYBK&coliid=IMRF9DHLQQRZZ

For me, the $120 price is a little too high. That is more that the cost of two 64 GB cards. I may wait until the price gets below $100 to think about pulling the trigger on one.

Rasa11 · Mar 16, 2014

me to, But I'm definitely getting a 64 GB for my SGP 4.0 now that I've seen it work! lol

groovychap · Jul 10, 2014

Can anyone confirm whether this Sandisk 64GB card will work with a Samsung Galaxy Player 4.2 (YP-GI1CW/EU)?

chris1892006 · Apr 12, 2020

Im using a pny 256gb on my 5.0 and on 2.3.5 it works fine.

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