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Maps on external SD-Card

Philippe Aubert shared this question ago

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Hello,

I want to add a big map of Switzerland (8Gbyte) on an external SD Card

I have the Map on the external SD-Card but Locus does not find the external SD Card !

Is it possible ?

Hoe to proceed ?

Thanks for your help and regards

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Michael Bechtold ●

Device vendors have a big influence on how external SDs are handled, and the Android version plays another huge role.

Hence there is no answer to such generic question, I fear.

Cheers

Michael

PS: I have dozens of maps on external SD, vector and ratser - works like a charm.

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Michal Stupka ●

Hi Philippe,

does Locus have system permission to access the external SD card? Could you please send a screenshot of what Locus "sees" in your phone storage structure?

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Philippe Aubert ●

I have found a solution to connect the the External SD-Card but I still have a problem due to the size of the file for the Swiss Maps !

how rto copy a file >than 8Gb ?

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Neoaliphant ●

What format is your external card

Fat32 only supports up to 4gb, and older phones that only support up to 32gb sd cards can only use this format

If the sd card is exfat, then it should be fine.

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/format-a-drive-in-exfat-windows-and-mac

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Michal Stupka ●

Philippe, and now Locus sees the SD card and the 8GB mapo on it? Where exactly is the problem? Too long initialization? Any error message?

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Philippe Aubert ●

I still have a problem with the big file : the formatting of the SD Card done by my Sony Xperia phone does not accept 8GBytes files; I have try to format the SD Card outside of the phone with my PC but the formatting accepting the big files is not recognised from the phone !

Have you a solution ?

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Michal Stupka ●

If the SDcard uses an obsolete FAT file system then it will not acces such a big file even after formatting it in your PC.

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Philippe Aubert ●

I have found the size limitation of 4G on a forum for the FAT32

NTFS is not recognized by my phone !

Last try with exFAT formating !

Do you think that Sony Experia can recognize exFAT format ?

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Michal Stupka ●

I'm sorry Philippe, I can give you an advice about Locus but I'm not an expert in Sony products :)

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Philippe Aubert ●

exFAT is not recognized from my Sony Experia..also no solution, I have to store the 8G file in internal memory :-(

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Neoaliphant ●

exfat support is up to the discretion of the oem, ie sony

you dont mention which model experia you have

internal memory is linux flesystem format, which will support large files.

There is a good chance if you phone is old ( ie AndroidOS version 5 or earlier) that it wont support the cards as you have found.

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Philippe Aubert ●

exFAT is now reckognized and I have been able to copy the 8Gbyte file...all is OK Thanks for your help

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