Put it in the phone and BOOM, I can store files over 4GB on the SD card. I then converted the memory card with my files on it to exFAT (copied all the files off it, reformatted, then returned the files). For all this I used KDE Partition Manager. It refused ext4, but color me shocked when it started accepting exFAT. I grabbed an old failing memory card to use as a guinea pig, booted into Linux and began testing what file systems this cheapo phone can take.
Fast forward a couple of months and last night I got really fed up for good with this whole mess. No matter what I tried it refused exFAT cards, although at the time I only tested with formatting it under Windows.
I immediately noticed it wouldn't take exFAT formatted SD cards, which quickly became a massive problem because I had to waste space on the puny 32GB internal storage for a couple of files that were bigger than 4GB due to limitations of the FAT32 filesystem that this phone does by default when you put in a card that isn't formatted in a supported file system. For reference, it's a Straight Talk TCL A3X (A600DL) I picked up for the disposably cheap price of $40.
#SDCARD FORMATTER FOR ANDROID DRIVER#
So a few months ago I purchased a cheap secondary phone to play around with for some specific use cases I didn't wanna clutter my already filled-to-the-brim daily driver S10 Lite with.
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