I just curious if a 64G Micro card would be supported... SOrry if this has been discussed!
It'll support up to 128 GB from what I know. It may not show the extra space but even the SGS2 would work with it.
Yes. I had issues with mines though when it was formatted as exFAT ... seems to work better now after formatting it to FAT32
It will take a 64 GB, but yes it has to be formatted as FAT32. The easiest thing to do is put it new in the phone and format it there under System/ Storage/ Format.You can still read and write to it on a PC (I don't have a Mac so I can't speak for that), but when you have it formatted by the phone itself you know it will work with it.
I believe apple is able to write to fat32.
I am on phone so expect errors
I am on phone so expect errors
I've got a 64gb card formatted with the original exFat format it came with and it works fine in my SGS3. The only issue is that CWM doesn't see it but I have read the the current version of CWM doesn't see the extSD card no matter how it's formatted.
Cool thanks i think i will pick on of those up then.. thx for all the posts..
S3 reception is great, better than the Razr... I was skeptical but glad it has better radio in it...
S3 reception is great, better than the Razr... I was skeptical but glad it has better radio in it...
The latest versions of CWM and CWM Touch customized for the SGS 3 will see the ex-SD card no matter what the size, as long as it's formatted in FAT32. That's where I keep my nandroids and I can load .zip files from it. CWM doesn't work with exFAT for some reason that someone smarter than I has to explain. (Sorry I can't cite the reference, but I believe it is in one of the rooting forums here)
The problem is exFAT is a proprietary format owned by Microsoft and you need to pay licensing fees to use it.
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The user does not pay to use exFAT, that is paid by the manufacturer of the card. exFAT allows use of greater than 4Gb file sizes. The main disadvantage is that exFAT support must be present in the device trying to access the card. Windows 7, Vista SP1, and XP with SP2 or 3 with update KB955704 support exFAT. See Wikipedia for more detail. Apple OS's also have support for ExFAT.
ExFAT cards can be formatted to FAT32 for better compatibility with many consumer devices such as cameras, etc. If the device's manual shows support for SD cards up to 32 Gb, then assume exFAT won't work. It is also better use a dedicated Flash card formatter, rather than using your operating system's built in format capability. You don't need exFAT support to format a card back to FAT32. You will lose the ability to have 4Gb+ files (HD video?) after formatting.
Some exFAT card have very high read/write speeds above Class 10 using a new standard called "UHS Speed Class". Since this requires new hardware support (faster clock, etc.), few if any devices support it. The Galaxy S3 does not have support for UHS and will not be any faster running these cards. But a card reader with hardware support for UHS would make working with larger cards a pleasure. Transferring 15 Gb of data between two class 10 cards took me 40 minutes. Writing to a UHS card can bring this down to 15 minutes or less.
ExFAT cards can be formatted to FAT32 for better compatibility with many consumer devices such as cameras, etc. If the device's manual shows support for SD cards up to 32 Gb, then assume exFAT won't work. It is also better use a dedicated Flash card formatter, rather than using your operating system's built in format capability. You don't need exFAT support to format a card back to FAT32. You will lose the ability to have 4Gb+ files (HD video?) after formatting.
Some exFAT card have very high read/write speeds above Class 10 using a new standard called "UHS Speed Class". Since this requires new hardware support (faster clock, etc.), few if any devices support it. The Galaxy S3 does not have support for UHS and will not be any faster running these cards. But a card reader with hardware support for UHS would make working with larger cards a pleasure. Transferring 15 Gb of data between two class 10 cards took me 40 minutes. Writing to a UHS card can bring this down to 15 minutes or less.
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You must have had a defective RAZR, I have both phones sitting right here and the RAZR gets a 4g connection in numerous places the S3 definitely will not.
We have a corporate account with both RAZR's and S3's on it. I wish I could say the S3 was better in that regard (as that's what I'm using) but it is most definitely not true.
For me the RAZR is better with 3g and the GS3 is better with 4g.
Since mainly 3g still where I live, I wish it were opposite.
Since mainly 3g still where I live, I wish it were opposite.
I just got my SanDisk 64GB SDXC Class 10 card. I inserted into my phone and it wouldn't mount for some reason. I couldn't even format the card in my phone because it wasn't recognized. The card was formatted in the exFAT file system and I had to format it to FAT32 for the phone to see it. I hear other people just pop in their 64GB cards without a problem. I wonder what their current setup is. I'm running on Synergy 1.2 w/Imoseyon's lean kernel.
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