REPRODUCIBILITY: always
OS VERSION: 5.2.0.15
HARDWARE: Jolla 2026
UI LANGUAGE: En
REGRESSION: -
I store pictures and videos on the external SDCard. Pictures works as it should, but not videos. An error is shown “Storage space full” when switching to video.
The card is formatted with FAT32 and there is +4GB free space
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Video is recorderd to the SDCard
An error “Storage space full” is shown
Is your SD card encrypted?
No it is not encrypted
Okay, but is the video file larger than 4GB? FAT32 cannot store files larger than that.
It is not possible to start recording so the video file is not created so takes no space either.
Jolla added the ‘tracked’ tag to this bug report, so looks like they’re aware of it and will hopefully quickly find a solution.
Yep, was able to reproduce this, and filed a internal bug.
Weird thing is that this seems to only happen with FAT formatted sd-card, which is a bit problematic as that is currently only format option available in Sailfish settings. Did not test others, but at least EXT4 seems to be ok.
Ok, good to hear you were able to replicate. I will probably switch to internal storage since there is so much free space, but I thought it was worth reporting as others may also hit the bug.
Definitely worth and very good bug report! This is the way for smoother SFOS experience 
Based on what was written the camera is probably trying to set properties on the file that don’t exist on FAT32.
That being said there is also the issue of the performance of the SD card, unless the card is some high performance card it probably won’t be able to keep up with the amount of data you need to write while capturing video so it may not be wise to even allow this (write to internal memory first and copy to card when done).
The bitrate of the video (which is recorded at 2560x1440 at 30fps) is a mere 11,86 Mbit/s. It’s a bit compressed and doesn’t have much overhead in terms of colorspace (recorded at BT.709). Even U1 cards can handle it and most high-capacity cards are U3 / V30 (writes per spec don’t fall under 240Mbit/s).
Here is a ffprobe from a recording if you’re curious: https://pastebin.com/raw/TAZM9Wjc
Reason for the issue was already found and fix created [camera] Fix VFAT recording space calculation. Fixes JB#64808 by abranson · Pull Request #13 · sailfishos/jolla-camera · GitHub
I also wanted to report this bug and saw that you’ve allready done it. Thanks. For me it’s C2 with 5.1.0.11 and Fat32.
I can confirm that this issue was solved for me in the latest update to the Jolla 2026 phone