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Help Micro SD card Capacity
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To answer your question, I have no desire to store apps on my microSD card. I couldn't care less: they are stored in my Google account. I'm more concerned with my personal files: pictures, videos, documents, etc. If the phone gets dropped and no longer turns on, how do you get anything from internal storage? You DON'T. But if I have everything on the card, I can replace the phone, pop the card in, and keep going.
And it will take awhile for a 400GB card to fill up with anything.
ive got about 21 gb of data on the 400gb card at the moment.
FWIW this is what I'm currently using in my Oppo. In fact I just upgraded the micro-SD from 128GB to 256GB.
There's still plenty of room in internal(Phone), and I do have all the apps and games I use stored there. All photos, videos and most music are on the micro-SD.
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That's what I do. All apps are are internal and pics and video on hard. Thing is I must have 50 SD cards filled with pics and videos. 1000s and 1000s of them. it's all backed up to an external hard drive and Dropbox which is a rip off.
NeoGrandizer
Android Expert
If the card ever fills up, most will just transfer non-essential data off and onto the PC, network drive, cloud, etc. thus freeing up space on the card again. Rinse and repeat. I use it mainly for media (movies, music, games) and documents. So I'm constantly moving things back and forth.
8-month update: I now have 78GB free on my 400 GB card. Time for SanDisk to sell a 750GB card... LOL
red66charger
Android Expert
Hi Chief...long time! Hope all is well in the Chiefdom.
I recently purchased a paltry 200GB SanDisk Ultra Micro SD card for my Note 8. Soon after installing it I started having issues with new photos and videos I record being displayed in my photo reader apps on the device (Google Photos, Samsung stock app and QuickPic). I'm thinking I did something wrong with the installation or I might possibly have a bad card. I wanted to keep the photos I had on the 32GB card I had in the device since I received it so I copied all the the folder contents from the 32GB card to an external hard drive and then copied those over to the new 200GB micro SD card. I did all of the copying of files on an iMac. Was I supposed to format the Micro SD card in my Note 8 first?
I'm thinking I need to reformat the Micro SD card and try copying the files again. What would be the optimal workflow?
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Any advice is appreciated.
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Without getting too lost in the weeds,
Where did you purchase the card from ? Have you used ant card testers to determine of the card was a fake card or real? If not, this is something you should do.
Copy the contents to another storage solution whilst you do these tests.
Format the card inside the phone after you do a card integrity test.
Once you can determine the card is legit (meaning the capacity not her card is reflected in the test results) , then retry with your files and folders.
I dont know what you mean by “i did something wrong with the installation”...
Where did you purchase the card from ? Have you used ant card testers to determine of the card was a fake card or real? If not, this is something you should do.
Copy the contents to another storage solution whilst you do these tests.
Format the card inside the phone after you do a card integrity test.
Once you can determine the card is legit (meaning the capacity not her card is reflected in the test results) , then retry with your files and folders.
I dont know what you mean by “i did something wrong with the installation”...
red66charger
Android Expert
Thank you for the reply and troubleshooting instructions. I bought the card (SanDisk SDSDQUAN-200G-G4A) from Amazon. The purchase order says it was sold by and shipped by Amazon.
What I meant by installed incorrectly is...I put the new card in my device and booted the phone while I was copying the contents if my old card to my iMac (through the card slot on the Mac.using the Micro to SD adapter). I probably shouldn't have booted the phone with the new card until I had copied all my files back to it. When I was ready to copy my old files to the new card there was data other than photos and videos that I copied. Some of this data was already on the new card from when I did the the first boot. I thought maybe I corrupted files copy over some of that 'other' data. Also, I never formatted the new card in the Note 8.
Obviously I'm a little behind the smartphone knowledge base curve.
I'll try reformatting the card. I'm.a little unsure what all should be copied back to the reformatted card. I suppose I'm not entirely sure what all is being stored on it. I'm a dummy.
What I meant by installed incorrectly is...I put the new card in my device and booted the phone while I was copying the contents if my old card to my iMac (through the card slot on the Mac.using the Micro to SD adapter). I probably shouldn't have booted the phone with the new card until I had copied all my files back to it. When I was ready to copy my old files to the new card there was data other than photos and videos that I copied. Some of this data was already on the new card from when I did the the first boot. I thought maybe I corrupted files copy over some of that 'other' data. Also, I never formatted the new card in the Note 8.
Obviously I'm a little behind the smartphone knowledge base curve.
I'll try reformatting the card. I'm.a little unsure what all should be copied back to the reformatted card. I suppose I'm not entirely sure what all is being stored on it. I'm a dummy.
No one should have to format a card before using it - they come pre-formatted. You might want to use an app called SD Insight to verify that the card is legitimate.
BTW great to see you, too!
BTW great to see you, too!
I recommend that you format the card in the phone. Then transfer your files to the card if you have end that need to be transferred.
Who knows what happened during the reboot process.
Every device that uses a storage medium has a database and a certain way to allocate the card to its use. Simply reformatting the card in the phone ensures the phone will be able to catalog and retrieve files/data that you read to/from it going forward. You dont have to do this if you dont want to, buts its a sound/solid practice and takes a few seconds.
Sounds like you may have just had a one time glitch and probably wont see any issues again. Also very good that you chose “ships and sold by” when using amazon. There’s so many fake sandisk cards out in the wild these days.
Who knows what happened during the reboot process.
Every device that uses a storage medium has a database and a certain way to allocate the card to its use. Simply reformatting the card in the phone ensures the phone will be able to catalog and retrieve files/data that you read to/from it going forward. You dont have to do this if you dont want to, buts its a sound/solid practice and takes a few seconds.
Sounds like you may have just had a one time glitch and probably wont see any issues again. Also very good that you chose “ships and sold by” when using amazon. There’s so many fake sandisk cards out in the wild these days.
Hello,
I am new on this forum and I have a question about the dual sim version of the note 8. I called samsung and they gave me a website www.gsmarena.com. That site says that the dual sim version of the note 8 can handle only 256 GB microsd max and the non dual sim version can handle 512GB max microsd memory. The helpdesk of Samsung itself says that only 256GB can be used. Everywhere I see that people can use 400GB and 512GB but is that on the dual sim version of the note 8? Already bought and opened microsd cards cannot be sent back that's the reason why I ask it first.
Thanks Coen
I am new on this forum and I have a question about the dual sim version of the note 8. I called samsung and they gave me a website www.gsmarena.com. That site says that the dual sim version of the note 8 can handle only 256 GB microsd max and the non dual sim version can handle 512GB max microsd memory. The helpdesk of Samsung itself says that only 256GB can be used. Everywhere I see that people can use 400GB and 512GB but is that on the dual sim version of the note 8? Already bought and opened microsd cards cannot be sent back that's the reason why I ask it first.
Thanks Coen
I would say, yes it can no problem. There's absolutely no reason why either the dual-SIM and single-SIM variant Note8 can't use the larger capacity cards
I suspect the GSM Arena info was written a couple of years ago, when only 256GB was available and Note8 was new. The particular Samsung support may have old info as well.
Note8 is SD-XC compatible, which means it can use 512GB cards. That spec is apparently upto 2TB, but of course no micro-SD of that capacity exists yet..
I suspect the GSM Arena info was written a couple of years ago, when only 256GB was available and Note8 was new. The particular Samsung support may have old info as well.
Note8 is SD-XC compatible, which means it can use 512GB cards. That spec is apparently upto 2TB, but of course no micro-SD of that capacity exists yet..
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Eric Note 8
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If you go onto the official Samsung galaxy note 8 specs page, it now says that additional external memory cards can be sized up to 512GB now!!! Here's link to note 8 spec on official Samsung page & a screen shot of the spec sheet - https://www.samsung.com/global/galaxy/galaxy-note8/specs/
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Eric Note 8
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Greater then 1tb already exists for awhile now, prior they were in Asian international markets just swap over to China or India eBay and aliviaba etc. Takes awhile but they're official brands and non name brand versions too at UT own risk
My Notes 9 & 10+ had no problem with a 1TB card.
I haven't heard anything about microSD cards larger than 1TB and would be very surprised if any card above that capacity was legit as there are only so many memory positions that can be squeezed into a microSD card.
I always recommend an app called Fake Device Test by Appsolutely Unique.
It will verify the actual capacity of a card, despite what the card may indicate by markings or even in a file explorer. It is rather easy to take a 16GB card and rewrite the boot sector to reflect a 2TB capacity. I can write "50 liters" on a 5-liter bucket in large letters, but I will never be able to get more than 5 liters of water in it. Once the physical capacity of a card is reached, precious photos and other user files will simply disappear forever as they are overwritten.
I haven't heard anything about microSD cards larger than 1TB and would be very surprised if any card above that capacity was legit as there are only so many memory positions that can be squeezed into a microSD card.
I always recommend an app called Fake Device Test by Appsolutely Unique.
It will verify the actual capacity of a card, despite what the card may indicate by markings or even in a file explorer. It is rather easy to take a 16GB card and rewrite the boot sector to reflect a 2TB capacity. I can write "50 liters" on a 5-liter bucket in large letters, but I will never be able to get more than 5 liters of water in it. Once the physical capacity of a card is reached, precious photos and other user files will simply disappear forever as they are overwritten.
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The largest legitimate SD card for sale right now is 1TB.
If you go on ebay or some other sites they have 2TB cards for $30, but those are cheap fakes as @The_Chief mentioned. When you analyze them they turn out to only be 8, 16, or 32GB.
Yeh, fakes.
FYI I'm in China, and when I required a new large capacity micro-SD, I bought it directly form Samsung, and NOT Alibaba(and the 40,000 thieves), to be sure I was getting the real mccoy.