My Galaxy A54 5G boasts that you can use up to 1TB microSD card. I can’t make this work. It took a while to figure out that (1) It can’t be a XC model (microSDXC). Galaxy not wired for it. And (2) you have to format SD cards using a special program from SD.org – or format it on the phone itself (preferred).
I did all that. I am trying two different MicroSD 1TB cards – one from Alisinsen, one from Nuilaks. Neither one works right, and they fail in the same way. The Galaxy requires that the SD cards be formatted as exFAT, rather than NTFS, which is already one strike in my book.
What happens is this as follows: I am trying to load up 700 GB of PDF files – my entire research library. It doesn’t matter whether I plug the phone into my computer USB port and copy from the computer HD to the SD card or use a USB adapter for the MicroSD card and copy the files from the computer that way. The effect is the same.
When the MicroSD card is plugged into the phone, some of the folders loaded onto the MicroSD card will no longer be present, or will show 0 entries, or will have all the entries, but Acrobat will complain that the file is corrupt. In the latter case, a bit of poking showed that the files are reading back as all zeros. It seems to have the length correct, but just no data.
WHAT I’VE TRIED:
Every time I try it (change disk, reformat, reload some number of folders), different folders will disappear in different order.
As far as I can tell, the MicroSD facility is essentially useless. When I get over maybe 300GB on the chip, it starts losing information.
Any thoughts? Anyone else experiencing this? Has anybody else been able to load up a 1TB MicroSD card using a Galaxy and have it work?
Thanks in advance.