Usage of other file systems than FAT32 for the sd card

[mifritscher]

One (little) feature request: As the system already uses ext4 for internal partition, please allow the usage of ext4 partitions in the "shared medium" variant of the sd-card as well. exfat would be even better ;-) Currently, only fat32 is permitted, which can't handle files bigger than 4 GB, which is a problem for e.g. offline wikipedias. Android wants to format sdcard with any other file system.

I know that there are unofficial ways for rooted Android, but this would be a nice (and probably easy) feature for the "normal" Android.

[Dickon Hood]

Yes, it's utterly insane that we have to use a toy filesystem (which can't even cope with my mp3 collection, due to 'invalid' characters in some of the filenames -- WTF?) on the uSD card.  But it's a batshit decision by Google, and I doubt it's something Planet can fix.

[ianisthewalrus]

my galaxy xtratosphere 2 from 2013 had exfat support.... that gets you leger file sizes and windows compatible sd card.