Phone SD card upgrade

[jhansman]

I was going to post this on the mobile device forum, but wasn't sure which place was appropriate, so....

I am upgrading my Android's microSD card from an 8GB to 16GB. What's the best way to make sure that everything makes it over to the new card intact? Or, am I just going to have to start over? Mounted it shows 57 folders in about 3.5GB of data. Will a straight copy do it, or will that miss hidden files/folders? Thanks for the help.

 

[Hardlin]

I don't know if it will be the same in your case, but all I had to do was copy my files/directories from one to the other. I didn't have anything more than music, movies and pics on mine though.

 

[jhansman]

Thanks. That's what I'll try first and see if the phone chokes on it upon reboot.

 

[KingFatty]

Is there a way to check if the bigger card uses more or less power? Nobody advertises the power requirements, and I wonder if it depends on what class the card is or something else? Even so, it seems that with a faster/higher class card, even if it used more power during a read/write, wouldn't that read/write finish up sooner and so you break even?

When you do the switch, can you comment on whether power usage changed noticeably at all?

 

[Coup27]

unhide hidden files before you copy and then you will see if there are any hidden files?

 

[jhansman]

When you do the switch, can you comment on whether power usage changed noticeably at all?

Not sure how to do this; be glad to if you can point me to an app or setting that will show this.

unhide hidden files before you copy and then you will see if there are any hidden files?

I have Explorer set to show hidden/system files, but I'll check the card's folder before the copy. Thanks for the reminder.

EDIT: Found these steps on another forum, so I'll give them a try:

"I formatted the new SD card in computer. I then unmounted the old SD card, copied the contents to temp folder on the computer. Shutdown the phone. Copied the contents of the temp folder to the new SD card. Inserted the new card into the phone and then restart. Checked the storage (Settings/Storage) and the right amount of storage was correct for the SD card. "