How to find out what micro-SD card is installed in my phone

Hi,
Is there a way to find out the details of the card in my FP3 without dismantling it?
Regards,
John

You only have to take the battery out ?? Are you sure you have an SD card ~ check Settings > Storage and look for the SD card with an eject symbol to the right.

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Btw:
I have no idea, if that works, but maybe some details are listed, when you connect the phone to a computer (though tbh I am really doubtful, that it works).

I tried to find it out myself the other day but havenā€™t really found something useful.

Android does have the usual Linux /proc and /sys virtual filesystems, but the relevant entries can only be read as root (and my FP3 isnā€™t rooted).

Iā€™ve read about the SD Insight app, but on the FP3 it isnā€™t found in the Play Store, because it only is supported up to Android 6.
I guess it has the same permission problems in higher versions of Android as with directly reading from /sys.

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Sorry BertG,

And thanks for your efforts.

John

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Hi Ingo,

My computer runs Linux Mint 20.

I accessed the FP3 via Cx File Explorer, opened the SD card in Terminal via sudo and explored the directory structure, but I couldnā€™t see anything useful.

I tried netting across to root, user, admin and my_Fairphone_3 (which I got from arp) using ssh and sudo ssh but got a ā€˜Connection refusedā€™ every time.

Once all else had failed I tried the simple option.

I connected the FP3 to my computer using a USB-C to USB 3.0 cable.

I set the FP3 ā€˜USE USB FORā€™ to 'File transfer.

On the computer Nemo 4.6.5 listed ā€˜FP3ā€™ in ā€˜Devicesā€™.

Opening ā€˜FP3ā€™ showed ā€˜Internal shared storageā€™ and ā€˜SanDisk SD Cardā€™.

Right-click then Properties on ā€˜SanDisk SD Cardā€™ showed
Name: SanDisk SD card
Contents: 133 items, totalling 631.9 MB
Location: mtp://Fairphone_FP3_A209F8Y80202/
Free space: 15.3 GB

(I then tried ssh to Fairphone_FP3_A209F8Y80202 but that bounced too, as did mtp://Fairphone_FP3_A209F8Y80202 .)

So it looks like I have a 16GB SanDisk SD card but Iā€™ll have to open my FP3 up to find out the details.

Regards,

John

Well, with SanDisk itā€™s rather easy:
If itā€™s red / grey - itā€™s an Ultra
If itā€™s red / gold - itā€™s an Extreme
If itā€™s red / black - itā€™s a Pro

And the color can even be seen without opening up the FP3, as it has an translucent back cover.
With the FP3+ you have to open up the back-cover though.

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Itā€™s red / grey - and you were right.

Itā€™s a SanDisk Ultra 16 GB microSD HC ā…  (10) A1

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