Originally Posted by
Loren Pechtel
Since you say the phone doesn't recognize the card I think there's another factor here and reformatting probably won't do you any good, the phone will probably never speak to the card.
You say the phone accepts 32gb "SD" cards. 32gb is a special value here--it's the maximum possible SDHC card. Any card above this must be SDXC--and devices from the SDHC era won't recognize them. (I used quotes around "SD" because there is no such thing as a 32gb SD card--I forget the breakpoint between SD and SDHC but it's far below 32gb.)
Given that capacity limit I think it's very likely the phone does not recognize SDXC cards and there is no question your card is a SDXC card.
I had an S2 which could take only 32GB and I was able to format my SD card to FAT32 and use it. I had the same initial problem in that the phone wouldn't even recognize the card. After formatting everything worked well.
I can't remember where I got the tool to format the card which is why I posted this thread. Since my personal laptop is down at the moment, I was also hoping there is another way to do this without having to download anything i.e. directly through the computer.