Help moving stuff to SD card

Firstly, do you really mean 1TB microSD? Because AFAIK such things don't exist, and I can't find any evidence to the contrary (the odd dodgy seller offering fakes doesn't count). Have you tested the card, e.g. with the SD Insight app or h2testw on a PC (with a card reader)? I would do this, because moving stuff to a fake card (one that claims to have more space than it really has) will often result in data corruption (when you exceed the real capacity of the card), and "1TB microSD" sounds very suspicious.

Secondly, I don't understand what you are doing: it sounds like you are trying to use a PC to move stuff between storage and sd on the phone. Why not use a file manager on the phone? Surely a PC is only needed to copy stuff to/from the PC?

Anyway, what other stuff are you trying to move? The key question is whether the app that needs the files will find them if you move them? If it's stuff where the app or OS has to put it in a particular place then moving it will break things. But it's hard to say much without knowing what files you are trying to move.

There's no such thing as a 1TB micro SD card.

That link is to a 2GB card, not a 2TB card.

The way the "fake card" scam works is that the card is reprogrammed to tell the device it has a much larger capacity than it really has. ES file explorer will just report what the card is programmed to say - the fact that ES tells you it's a 1TB card means nothing. That's why I suggested using some specific utilities to test the card.

Your problem with the file manager is probably write permissions to the SD card. Google tightened this somewhere around 4.4. In 5.0 a file manager should be able to request write access, but if it doesn't make the request then it won't be able to write to the card. However, the pre-installed file manager should be able to do it, as that's a system app. If not, try X-Plore file manager, which I've used successfully on an unrooted device running 5.1.

But seriously, test that card first. 256GB cards are the largest microSD available. You can get larger cards in the full-sized SD format, but not in microSD. I know you don't want to hear that you've been conned, but I am 100% sure that is a fake, and you risk losing your data if you keep moving stuff to it. I hope you haven't already, but I'm worried about the phone saying you've used 11 GB and the computer saying you've used 3 GB. I would try to copy the data that are already on that card to the computer for safety and not move anything else to it until you have tested the card.

If you still have doubts, read the reviews for the "1TB microSD card" on Amazon. One idiot gave a 5* without buying it (why give a rating to something you haven't bought? The review says "if this is real I'd love it"). The rest all describe it as fake, including customers who bought it and tested it.

Shutting the phone down will unmount the card. You should be able to do it through Settings > Storage, but if you are turning the phone off anyway there's no need. Just power down normally rather than pulling the battery while still running and it will unmount cleanly.

SanDisk actually just recently released a prototype of a 1tb SD card and was shipped off to stores for use is yea.

SD or microSD? There is a big difference if you want to put it in a phone.

Hadron said:

SD or microSD? There is a big difference if you want to put it in a phone.

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I believe a microSD, I read the article a couple weeks ago

Hadron said:

SD or microSD? There is a big difference if you want to put it in a phone.

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Even so I seriously doubt such a thing is available to buy. The largest-capacity SDXC card in the SanDisk range is an Extreme Pro 512GB, Their microSDXC range tops out at 256GB.

xXElit3snipesXx said:

SanDisk actually just recently released a prototype of a 1tb SD card and was shipped off to stores for use is yea.

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Yup, but they won't sell a prototype.

Does the G4 itself still see the card?

I'm sorry mate, you must have bought a fake. 1tb/2tb cards don't really exist as of yet and i they do I certainly haven't heard of one. The max I've seen and heard of is 256gb. No more.

Do you possibly have an adapter for the SD and does your computer support media cards ? If so you can do that and if not you can buy a media card USB adapter that can be used with any computer. Unless your device can detect it somehow but taking it out and trying to put it back in again... if not then I would say that's the only way I can think of doing it.

Also, check what size card your phone supports. That is a hard limit.

It's very possible that your phone doesn't fully support an SDCard of that size.

Well it looks like the real size may be 32GB, in which case you haven't hit the hard limit yet and hence the data are probably intact - which is better than I feared, as these things are often smaller than that.

Unfortunately I don't have any suggestions beyond "keep trying" - reboot the phone, for example - and hope that it manages to mount as it did originally.

Last resort would be to try some low level file recovery software: some recovery software can recover data from cards that are not normally readable (e.g. MBR damaged), so there's a chance that way.

Frankly if you've been storing data on a counterfeit micro-SD, you are not going to recover it, because it's just not there. One thing, fake micro-SDs deceive the the OS that they're storing the data with a fake reported capacity, when in fact they're not. Unfortunately Android does not do read and verify, after storing data, to actually ensure the data is stored correctly. And I'm sure the counterfeiters take advantage of that, the ones selling "1TB" cheap online via Ebay, etc, that are usually shipped from China.

AFAIK the largest currently available real micro-SD is a 256GB Sandisk, bought from reputable sources, like Best Buy, etc.


Does this look familiar?





"1024GB", "1TB" micro-SD with adapter sold cheap on Ebay.


There's no such thing of course.
This is a counterfeit.