Help Transfering Music to SD Card on SF

[Joeeeyg]

So I bought a 32gb Kingston SD card so I could get rid of my iPod and use my phone for everything. I transfered all my music files onto the SD card, 3 hours later it's done, but when I go to unmount my phone, it says it wasn't mounted in the first place... So I right click on the drive and click "Remove Safely", I unplug the micro usb cable and the card corrupts and I have to reformat. I tried it three times and every time it was the same story. I'm running the newest firmware. What am I doing wrong?

I thought maybe if I use the SD adapter and transfer the music files that way, but when I plug in the adapter, my laptop won't recognize the card. I'm running windows 7.

Any help? Thanks

 

[f@scin8]

On your Windoze 7 system format the card as FAT32. If the format on the card is corrupt, Windoze won't mount it as a drive, but you can still access the "raw" block device. You'll have to go into admin tools and format the card.

By default Windoze doesn't have write caching on by default so you should be able to remove the media without issue once any I/O stops to it, but "removing safely" is always prudent. Unmount the current SD card in the phone and put in your new one. Mount the card (can't remember if it mounts automatically or not). Meda scan will run, wait till it stops running.

Now the phone should have created the directories it wants to see and you should be able to mount the phone via USB on your system as a mass storage device - don't use media sync. When you mount the phone on the PC the phone unmounts the SD card from the phone file system so only one "system" can access it. Once done copying files, "remove safely" on Windoze and unmount on phone. Media scan should run again and when it's done you should be able to access music on phone - as long as you put it in the correct directory and used a "standard" format for songs/albums.

larry

 

[Joeeeyg]

On your Windoze 7 system format the card as FAT32. If the format on the card is corrupt, Windoze won't mount it as a drive, but you can still access the "raw" block device. You'll have to go into admin tools and format the card.

By default Windoze doesn't have write caching on by default so you should be able to remove the media without issue once any I/O stops to it, but "removing safely" is always prudent. Unmount the current SD card in the phone and put in your new one. Mount the card (can't remember if it mounts automatically or not). Meda scan will run, wait till it stops running.

Now the phone should have created the directories it wants to see and you should be able to mount the phone via USB on your system as a mass storage device - don't use media sync. When you mount the phone on the PC the phone unmounts the SD card from the phone file system so only one "system" can access it. Once done copying files, "remove safely" on Windoze and unmount on phone. Media scan should run again and when it's done you should be able to access music on phone - as long as you put it in the correct directory and used a "standard" format for songs/albums.

larry

Thanks for the suggestions Larry, but I can't put the sd card in my laptop, it doesn't recognize it when I insert it. Is this a known kingston issue? I never use the new media sync either. When I connect the phone, I'm allowed to mount it and sync files back and forth, it's just for some reason after a couple of hours when I go back to unmount the device, it asks if I want to mount it again, no option for Unmount. Could this be an issue with the new update they pushed last week? Are you telling me I should first format the sd card as FAT 32? How can I mount it as FAT 32 if the computer won't recognize the card when I insert it? Thanks again for your help

 

[f@scin8]

In order for Windoze to mount the SD card as a "drive" so you can read/write data to/from files, it has to be formatted with a file system structure that it recognizes - FAT, FAT32, NTFS, etc. This is true of any device that's mounted as a "drive" and for just about every O/S. Even though it may complain that it can't mount the device (making it a "drive"), the "raw" SD card should still be accessible in the admin tools where you can format volumes and such. That's where you format it to FAT32.

I can't say that I've done this with a SD card, but I've done it many times with other types of "raw" block devices and formatted them with a file system type.

Putting the SD card by itself into the laptop and not being able to mount it should have nothing to do with the recent dog crap that VZW pulled with the DL09 upgrade.

On of the first things I did was replace the 16GB card with a 32GB card. No problems. However, I didn't blow away the files system on the card...

The only thing I can think of that may be an issue, but shouldn't be, is the speed (type) of the SD card. Maybe if it's too slow, bad things happen. It shouldn't be an issue, but you never know.

larry