File management Fairphone 4 is problematic. Creating a new folder on sd has not been created at all when you try. You cannot see the real volume of the folders. When you try to replace files to sd you can only copy it. When you do and destinate it to a new folder, the system place it elsewhere. Y…

Hello could you please specify whether you are using the SD card as the internal or external memory?

Internal, thus the card has been locked in my phone.

I don’t have any specific advice for you apart from the forum guide which strongly suggests never to format a SD card this way [image] pencil2 A little guide to... using SD cards Guides Android 6 introduced new options for using an SD card in your phone. When …

Thank you for your response! Do you know the reason my data on sd (as extrernal storage) is nor erased after the formatting process is completed? Even after the phone is restarted, the data remains on the SD card..(?)

All right, i have found several possible solutions via ai. I will let know here which works for me..

[image] Steve69: Do you know the reason my data on sd (as extrernal storage) is nor erased after the formatting process is completed? Even after the phone is restarted, the data remains on the SD card..(?) For me these symptoms in the past meant the SD card was about to break and no longer ac…

Today I managed to connect the Fairphone 4 to my Windows 10 PC. It displayed the contents and folders, which hadn’t happened before (due to a bad cable or incorrect settings?) >File transmission for usb was managed by Fairphone by default and usb has been used for file-transmission, also by default…

File management Fairphone 4 problematic

Help Fairphone 4

Meaghan January 12, 2026, 5:55pm 4

I don’t have any specific advice for you apart from the forum guide which strongly suggests never to format a SD card this way