When I saw that the specs of the Pure XL said that it supported cards up to 64 GB, I suspected that Blu went with a file format for the MicroSD slot other than the "standard" exFat (which requires a license from Microsoft to use.)
I tried several cards, 32 GB, 64 GB, 128 GB, and 200 GB. None of them worked initially. So, I ended up leaving the 32 GB in and went about exploring the features of the phone. A while later, I got a pop-up message that the card was ready to use. Sure enough, it was added as sdcard1 in the file system. I then checked the file format (since it reformatted the card), and found that they are using Fat32 (which doesn't require a license.) After a little research, I found that Fat32 supports up to 2 TB, just like exFat, only with a little more overhead. At any rate, I thought there was hope for my 200 GB SanDisk MicroSD card. I put it in. The phone did not see it, and reported that there was no card inserted. I went about exploring the phone features and forgot about the card being inserted.
This afternoon, 16 or so hours later, I got a pop-up saying that the SD Card needed to be formatted before it could be used. I selected format, and within a minute, it was showing up as sdcard1 with 183 GB free space.
I'm a bit weary of why the phone seems to take hours to decide if it's going to work with a given MicroSD card, but here's to hoping that my 200 GB continues to work!
I tried several cards, 32 GB, 64 GB, 128 GB, and 200 GB. None of them worked initially. So, I ended up leaving the 32 GB in and went about exploring the features of the phone. A while later, I got a pop-up message that the card was ready to use. Sure enough, it was added as sdcard1 in the file system. I then checked the file format (since it reformatted the card), and found that they are using Fat32 (which doesn't require a license.) After a little research, I found that Fat32 supports up to 2 TB, just like exFat, only with a little more overhead. At any rate, I thought there was hope for my 200 GB SanDisk MicroSD card. I put it in. The phone did not see it, and reported that there was no card inserted. I went about exploring the phone features and forgot about the card being inserted.
This afternoon, 16 or so hours later, I got a pop-up saying that the SD Card needed to be formatted before it could be used. I selected format, and within a minute, it was showing up as sdcard1 with 183 GB free space.
I'm a bit weary of why the phone seems to take hours to decide if it's going to work with a given MicroSD card, but here's to hoping that my 200 GB continues to work!
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