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Question

MicroSD Card Transfer

Mar 14, 2015 3:00AM PDT

I have an S5. I am currently using as 64gb MicroSD Card which is now full. I purchased a 128gb card. The 64gm has a read/write speed of 80 and the 128 has a speed of 48. I used the SD card adapter to copy the entire contents of the old 64gb card to my windows 8.1 pc. I inserted the new 128gb sd card into the S5 and formatted it.

It is having significant problems copying the 64gb image on my pc to the 128gb card in the phone. The first time I ran the copy and it ran for over 20 hours and only copied about 5gb and stopped. So I removed the sd card from the phone and inserted into the pc adapter that came with it. I then tried to copy from the pc to the card in the adapter in the pc... same results. It ran forever and then stopped.

I decided to restart the process and inserted the 128gb card into the phone and formatted it. I ran the copy process using copy/paste to the card in the phone using file explorer and restarted the copy process. I told it to not to recopy existing files on the 128gb card hoping that it would pick up where it left off.

I noticed something strange. I saw that in the dialog box that opened listing the files being copied and the precentage completed, that it would zip through 10 or 20 files and then pause for about a minute. It would continue to copy the next 20 or so files and then pause again. It's been doing this since I restarted the copy process.

Am I doing anything wrong? I did this same exact process when I upgraded from an old 16gb card to my current 64gb card. Copy/Paste the entire contents of the 16gb card to the pc, then copy/paste the contents back to the 64gb card using the sd card adapter that came with the 64gb card. Is there a more reliable way to copy the contents to my new 128gb card?

Sorry this is so long but I wanted to relate all details hoping that someone will see what I'm doing wrong and can help me. I really need your help. Please, reply to this if you have an idea how I can get the contents of my 64gb card to my new 128gb card.

P.S. All cards that I have talked about are SanDisk cards.

Thanks in advance for your help!

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Me too. Took a while to figure it out.
Mar 14, 2015 3:05AM PDT

For me it turned out the USB cable wasn't so good. I work with others developing apps so we had other cables to try but no, this happened on other than your model device.

Anyhow I'm just sharing this plus I prefer the copy using two card reader/writers.
Bob

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PS. The bad news.
Mar 14, 2015 3:08AM PDT
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what file system
Mar 14, 2015 7:29AM PDT

what file system did you format it as?

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Mar 14, 2015 1:12PM PDT

I formatted it in the phone.

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format in computer
Mar 14, 2015 1:56PM PDT

try formating it in the computer using ntfs file system. if it is still slow, try exfat. I had to format my 128 microsd card for the note 3 as ntfs.

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Tried This
Mar 16, 2015 8:11AM PDT

I did try your suggestion and it didn't work. I think it's just a bad card. I did buy it on eBay and when I went back to request a refund, the seller had been shut down and eBay had begun to process a refund.

Thanks to all for your suggestions. I ordered a Samsung card from Amazon.

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classic fake flash action
Mar 14, 2015 2:38PM PDT

Just keeps looping and discarding as it goes.