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Help Remove 4GB File limitation?

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shavermcspud

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As per above, on older phones not really an issue to use 480p content but most commercial content in 720p exceeds the 4GB barrier and the screen after all is 720 native resolution.

Im guessing no NTFS support only fat32
 
You can use an MKV splitter.

Otherwise I don't think you have a way around this except if your device have kernel modules to support NTFS and an app to mount NTFS drive for you, unless you know how to do it in the command line.

Or you can use linux and format your drive as EXT2.
 
In other forums I have seen 64GB microSD running successfully on GalaxyNote. Anything above 32GB has to be NTFS.

@rodrigorajao
So yes, technically formatting your microSD to NTFS should work. This should solve 4GB file limit too.
 
darthvedor said:
In other forums I have seen 64GB microSD running successfully on GalaxyNote. Anything above 32GB has to be NTFS.

@rodrigorajao
So yes, technically formatting your microSD to NTFS should work. This should solve 4GB file limit too.
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Nope, that's incorrect. I use a SanDisk 64gb Micro SDXC card in my Note. The only way it would work was by formatting it in the phone. It simply refused to recognise it any other way. And the phone formatted it as Fat32.
 
AVForums Galaxy Tab 7.7 users/opinion threa post 916 covered this for a Galaxy Tab 7.7 so may work on the Galaxy Note but not tried it on mine yet (Have both).

"I just want to share my experience using tab 7.7.

I have used an ntfs formatted 32GB SD card in my tab yesterday. Intalled NTFSSD from the market. First time I had to start the app and mount the card. Then after every reboot it mounts the card so it can be seen by file managers but the system still reports it as unknown. To fix this I used Storage->Mount SD card from the Settings again after a couple of minutes after the boot is completed (maybe related to media scan? I don't really know). After this manual step ntfs formatted card functions exactly as fat32 and visible by the system and all apps and you can use files larger than 4GB.

I also tried to mount 8Gb ntfs USB Stick using USB OTG cable. It worked with DRIVE MOUNT from the market. The drive was mounted as /mnt/SD1 and I was able to watch a video from it.

I use DICE PLAYER to watch videos. Works great, btw it took me a while to realize that the player actually has built-in smb support, so I can watch videos from my local network wirelessly without any additional tools and it works better than using upnp or cifs shares.

So far this tab has been a lot better than any other mobile device for playing HD videos. And I had a few Tegra 2 based devices, Archos players, etc.

All apps I mentioned here are free."
 
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