Best 64GB Micro SD format for Music on Jolla Phone? / Issues with Memory Card

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I have read a few post and I have tried many suggestions, yet I keep having problems with My SD card and Jolla detecting music I have transferred onto my phone. it's either the music is not detected, which I have solved through the tedious task of concerting each song to MP3 (20gb of music, so going through files to find the non mp3's and converting them was not the most interesting task lol.) I also made sure my Samsung 64GB micro SD card had been formatted in NTFS format, which has so far worked the best, but now I am faced with the problem, that My Memory card is only accessible when plugged in through a separate USB device. When I plug in my phone, its shows in My computer, I am able to view the contents of my phone memory but when I click on my memory card (which shows X amount of data is used) I am not able to see any files or add/delete any files.

(I have been struggling with this for nearly a month now, buying alternative brands of memory card thinking that may have been the issue, money wasted :( ) )

-What is the the ideal format for a 64GB micro sd card on the Jolla Phone? -Why am I unable to view the files on my memory card?

Can Someone please who had similar issues or just knows what may be the problem please help. Any suggestions are very much appreciated

Many thanks

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I formatted mine (64GB) in ext4, and put all my music, pics and videos there, (I had to do it manually), works fine without problems. BTRFS might be more integrated with mobile phone but I prefer to keep it separate, and actually not to load the main 16gb fs. So far it survived all OS updates without problems.

pmelas ( 2015-01-04 13:32:58 +0200 )edit

I have the same setup - 64 GB micro SD card formatted with EXT4 - and everything also works fine. :)

MartinK ( 2015-01-04 15:22:46 +0200 )edit

Any idea if 128GB card will work?

poulwiel ( 2015-01-04 22:23:50 +0200 )edit

Yes, got a 128GB card formatted with FAT32 via Ridgecrop's Fat32Format tool, almost completely filled with music. Was recognized without problems in my Jolla.

jschwarz ( 2015-12-22 08:55:32 +0200 )edit

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answered 2015-01-04 13:01:19 +0200

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updated 2015-01-04 13:31:25 +0200

You should format your external 64 GB card to BTRFS or ext4 to use it in Jolla. Also VFAT or FAT32 would work but only makes uptill 32 GB of card available. There are several guides in Together on how to do this in such a manner that even Android apps can use the SD-card alongside with native #SailfishOS apps. NTFS is a proprietary filesystem format by M$ that is officially supported only in Windows OS:es (even if there exists ntfs-drivers for Linux there won't be one for Jolla).

Guide to format card to BTRFS: https://together.jolla.com/question/40802/how-to-format-your-usd-card-to-btrfs-and-share-space-with-android/

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For me EXT4 works great on 64GB microSD card with Jolla. I have 20GB of flac music on it and its all detected by albums and artists by the media app. I used to format it in FAT32 but the music was not detected properly and its kind of tricky to format a bigger card as a 32GB card with FAT32.

Derriell ( 2015-01-04 13:24:21 +0200 )edit

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I have a 64GB microSD formatted in FAT32, works just fine. I don't recommend any other file system for SD cards because FAT really just works, is compatible with everything and I doubt anyone's going to save files larger than 4GB on an SD card anyway.

nthn ( 2015-01-04 18:29:54 +0200 )edit

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FAT32 is old, unreliable and proprietary filesystem format and not good for large media files or big media libraries with many small files and many folders. Also the privilege and security of FAT is poor, btrfs and ext4 are modern open filesystems, natively supported in any Linux based OS (including Jolla). Only reason to revert to FAT-filesystems is the compatibility with M$ (typical vendor-lock build by them to force all SD-card manufactuters to support (ex)FAT for especially big cards).

foss4ever ( 2015-01-04 21:22:50 +0200 )edit

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answered 2015-01-04 13:04:55 +0200

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I remember you that Jolla Support ( officially) at least 32GB SDcard. Be careful using a 64 GB.

Talking about format: I use fat32 and work well ( some problems of speed with update 10 but they will be fix in the next upgrade )

NTFS is not suggest for linux SW, they will work very slow. Supported format are : fat/fat32 , Ext4

I suggest Fat32, in case you want to insert the sd in a computer with Windows it will work well.

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I have 64 GB and it works.

Roma ( 2015-05-26 15:49:25 +0200 )edit

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