New 32g Samsung SD Card

[MartiniLover]

I have been using a 16g card since my first Android phone 4 years ago.

My music on my computer is now much larger than that. I would like to transfer all the stuff from my present card to the new card.

I am new to the Note2, coming from the Moto Bionic but have a generally good knowledge of moving stuff from the phone to the computer and back.

So far I have had no luck. I have tried to transfer the data on my 16g, to the computer and then unmounting the card, installing the new 32g card. formatting, and copying the info from the computer back to the phone.

So far no luck. Am I missing something?

I drop music, have screwed up file names, and lose album covers. It also changes default ringtones, and notifications, and I lose my photos.

It seems like it should be easy.

I have also noticed that I no longer get a window to open files on the phone when I plug it in, and I have to use the file manager on my computer.

I have also tried using the card adaptor and putting it in the computer. Some of these attempts take 3-4 hours, so I am getting burned out in trying to change cards.

So far I have a least a dozen failed attempts.

There has to be something I am missing.

Any help/guidence, or directions would be great on how to do it. PLEASE help this old man.

TIA,

 

[girolez]

Hi

Could you be confusing the folder names and copying to the wrong place on your phone?

On a note2 the removeable sd card is /storage/ExtSdCard snd the internal is /storage/sdcard0
Roger

 

[nsa_sailor]

I went from an 8Gb card to a 16Gb card. I didn't unmount the card, but powered off the phone, took the 8Gb card out of the phone, inserted it into a SD card reader/adaptor, copied it to the hard drive on my desktop machine, then put the 16Gb card into the reader and copied the desktop data back to the 16Gb card and everything came across fine.

 

[MartiniLover]

Post 1, yes I know the difference. My phone has 7g of free space on the phone.

Post 2, I have tried that and the files end up with crazy looking letters, and music changed, dropped and different.

I'll try a different laptop.

 

[AshtonDurkhun]

Post 1, yes I know the difference. My phone has 7g of free space on the phone.

Post 2, I have tried that and the files end up with crazy looking letters, and music changed, dropped and different.

I'll try a different laptop.

Your card is bad, or fake. I have one of those too. Format it and copy just a few files, make sure not to exceed 2gb, then put it in the phone and test. If you want to the thourough, keep copying a few at a time, when you see everything go to hell, then you've passed the true size of the card.

There are a lot of scammers out there who get 2gb or so MicroSD cards and stamp them with a 32gb mark (or even more!) then corrupt the card so it *thinks* it has that much space, when in realty everything over the natural limit (usually 2gb) is just lost.