I'm debating on whether to get a 1GB SD card or a smaller size. Besides the obvious such as watching movies and storing MP3s.
What eslse do you guys do with your 1GB SD card?
dumping maps on it for tomtom for instance
Install my games, MP3, movies to it.
I have favourite cab files, mp3, movies and audiobooks on mine.
Sooner or later you will fill the 1GB card.
You can never have enough memory!
gps gps gps
maps + maps + maps + maps
or something widh is not larger than 1gb
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Besides the fact that you're off topic, I think it's important to keep this forum free from political statements.
Loads of stuff goes on the card. Believe me if you buy smaller, you'll regret it. Go for the 1GB.
TomeRaider and Wikipedia, which takes up over 500 Kb. I love being able to carry the entire wikipedia with me wherever I go!
Even 1GB is tight.
You have to watch which pictures/which maps/which MP3s/which books you install.
It's no Free-For-All!
With 1GB, you have manage your memory carefully.
It's not like the old days!
Depending on what you're storing. I have my MP3s, movies, data files (pocket word, Excel, PDFs, pictures).
I'd agree xda-rocks -> you can never have enough memory.
If you can wait .. when the prices drop, pick up a 2GB.. or 1GB x2. Either way, i only had my 1GB card for 3 weeks, running out of space already
movies... songs... all sort of stuff...
storage and memory are never enuff
ebooks.... thousands of ebooks
and music, and pictures. i have the camera save all the pictures and video to the gig card
Well hell, IF I had a 1gig storage card, I would use it to store 3 days of backups, that would round to about 180mb. then use the rest for movies, music, and file sharing when I have my webserver running on my BA at the hot spot.
PS. if you get a card that large, invest in a usb card reader on your main computer. Makes life that much easier.
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how do you organize it all? is there a program you use to organize the program installations?
i use it first to store 3 backup files (3 weeks' worth), a whole bunch of movies, games, data files, and programs. have to agree, you can't have enough memory =)
the backup files really are essential. and i usually make sure i have at least 2 of them on hand, in case the latest one is unstable.
somynex =)
I have a 1GB 66x SD card, with the i-mate ROM update and WMP10. I now sync to "Napster To Go" and have a great little media center.
Also store TomTom maps, all additional software is installed to the SDcard too.
As soon as I find a 2GB 66x card, i'll get one of those.
I have recently got a 2G card with my Navigon 5 Update
So I store normally a 250Mb Card of Germany, now for Holidays I stored a 1Gig card of Europe on it, removed some MP3s and of course have 3 or 4 Weeks of Weekly Fullbackups (sprite backup) on it.
So I have normally over 1Gig of MP3s on it , one map for navigon and some games and my backups...
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I've got a HTC TyTN and a 6GB MicroSD memory card.
I was taking photos with the internal cam, I’ve set the camera to stores the photos on the MicroSD card. The card was filled with 2GB of music files. This is the problem I’ve experienced.
The camera indicates its possible to store 0 photo’s on the MicroSD card. When i delete a few music files, I had around 1700MB stored in use on the card. Now its possible to store more than 300 photos (in 3MPX format) on the card.
Is this a bug, because I had more than 4GB free space left. Could someone test this?
Believe it or not this might be a directory limitation. I had the same problem before with my O2 xda IIs. I put every single thing in the root directory.
I forget what the limit was, but as soon as I sorted my content and added them to subdirectories that I created - the problem was solved. Try that.
Thanks will test this out. I have some tomtom maps in de root, maybe thats the issue.
same problem here...4110MB free and only 27 pics to go!
I added a 700MB xvid movie on my storage card and now i've got 2000 pictures to go again. I think there is some kind of limitation. The card is filled for 2500MB now.. so there is enough room voor the photos
Will try that tonight
hmmm, i think i know what the problem is: if the camera reads the free disk space the old way (32bits) the maximum free space correctly reported is 2 or 4G depending on the signed / unsigned type (remember the old problem windows had with files > 2G ?).
Thats what i thought in the first place.. thats why i posted it on the forums ;p.. maybe somebody had a fix for this issue.
just did put 309MB of MP3 on it and i got now 7363 pics to take...so thanks very much
hi guys,
i have searched forum, and realized that this is asked, but there is no clear results yet.
some people say get higher speed even with comparison to lower classes. and some people share their writing speed with adaptor, not on hd2.
i have sandisk 8gb class 2 sd card. and planning to replace with transcend 16 gb class 6. and if i will replace i will do this only for music tab. because its slowness drives me crazy.
anyway, what do you say guys? do you recommend me to buy new one? and can class 6 sd card owners share their opinions? but please, in terms of hd2, not adaptor speed.
thanks
I have a class 2, and to play graphic intensive games they have to be installed on the phone since the class 2 is too slow. I don't have a class 6, but I would think it would be more than enough for what the phone does.
My music was loading up slowly too till I put them in the correct file structure: Music/Artist/Album/XX.mp3
Also, I've noticed the phone performs better with .mp3 files rather than .wma or something else.
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I have a class 2, and to play graphic intensive games they have to be installed on the phone since the class 2 is too slow. I don't have a class 6, but I would think it would be more than enough for what the phone does.
My music was loading up slowly too till I put them in the correct file structure: Music/Artist/Album/XX.mp3
Also, I've noticed the phone performs better with .mp3 files rather than .wma or something else.
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are you saying to put all music files in that directory.
celestial123 said:
hi guys,
i have searched forum, and realized that this is asked, but there is no clear results yet.
some people say get higher speed even with comparison to lower classes. and some people share their writing speed with adaptor, not on hd2.
i have sandisk 8gb class 2 sd card. and planning to replace with transcend 16 gb class 6. and if i will replace i will do this only for music tab. because its slowness drives me crazy.
anyway, what do you say guys? do you recommend me to buy new one? and can class 6 sd card owners share their opinions? but please, in terms of hd2, not adaptor speed.
thanks
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have u tried formatting ur class 2 sd card to fat32 format with 16kb cluster ? Do a full format if u haven been using 16kb cluster. works for me. dont have lagging over at music tab.
im using 8gb class 2 card given stock.
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are you saying to put all music files in that directory.
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Create a folder on the SD card called Music Then a folder in there for the Artist (Madonna, Jay-Z etc.) and another folder in artist for their Albums and put the mp3 for that album in there. So you'll end up creating a bunch of folders for each artist and each of their albums.
So your file structure on your SD card would be: Music/Artist(name)/Album(name)/MP3
This sped up my music tab considerably. BTW, if you use Windows Media Player or DoubleTwist to sync music, they will do the same thing and put them in the file structure I mentioned. Make sure they are mp3 files, I had problems with wma.
Hope this speeds things up for you guy's, like it did for me.
pool7979 said:
have u tried formatting ur class 2 sd card to fat32 format with 16kb cluster ? Do a full format if u haven been using 16kb cluster. works for me. dont have lagging over at music tab.
im using 8gb class 2 card given stock.
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first of all i want to thank you for your replies guys.
@pool7979
what is 16 kb cluster and how can i find out whether i am using 16kb cluster or not. secondly what is full format?
thank you
For me, going from the stock 16gb class 2 that came with the phone to an 8gb class 6 made a huge difference. I have garmin mobile xt loading from the SD card, and program start up, address and POI search, map display and redraw is tremendously faster. Picture and album browsing is also much faster. I'm thinking about getting a 16gb class 10 to see if it'll make even more difference.
Take a look at this thread as well.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=664933
Your 8Gb may be formatted differently to how your 16gb was.
ok so basically, the higher the class, the faster the card ?.
celestial123 said:
first of all i want to thank you for your replies guys.
@pool7979
what is 16 kb cluster and how can i find out whether i am using 16kb cluster or not. secondly what is full format?
thank you
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hi sorry for late reply. what i did was insert sd card into pc. thrn right click format. from there i can set what cluster size it is . i think its something to do with.how data can be arranged/store in terms of size setting. i once read using 16kb seems to be the most optimum setting for winmo. seems to work for me.
to me class dun really matter for mobile phones as reading and writing on card are not that intensive. i would rather use a class 6 on a camera or act as usb thumbdrive instead with portable reader.
class speed
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ok so basically, the higher the class, the faster the card ?.
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Basically the class rating means the minimum speed of the card. Class 2 must have a minimum speed of 2Mb per second, class 4 -4Mb, class 6-6Mb class 10-10Mb.
With a good quality card, the actual speed can be many times this, so with some makes, you will see an advertised speed ofup to 32Mb per second for a class 6, but in normal use the maximum is usually just under 20Mb per second.
So you may think a faster card is better, but this is not always the case. Just because a card can read at 20Mb per second, this does not mean a mobile phone can transfer data to or from the card at this speed. These sort of read/write speeds are designed for high end digital cameras.
A mobile phone does not need speeds this high, even to watch HD video. So anything above a Class 4 is a waste.
It is much better to purchase a good quality branded class 2 or 4 card.
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Create a folder on the SD card called Music Then a folder in there for the Artist (Madonna, Jay-Z etc.) and another folder in artist for their Albums and put the mp3 for that album in there. So you'll end up creating a bunch of folders for each artist and each of their albums.
So your file structure on your SD card would be: Music/Artist(name)/Album(name)/MP3
This sped up my music tab considerably. BTW, if you use Windows Media Player or DoubleTwist to sync music, they will do the same thing and put them in the file structure I mentioned. Make sure they are mp3 files, I had problems with wma.
Hope this speeds things up for you guy's, like it did for me.
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or you use a software like the free/donation ware mp3tag. it will handle all aspects of working with mp3 tag's. i change the file structure of my 500+ mp3 files, from 'all in one folder' to the folder sorted format xeebot mentoined, with only a few mouse clicks.
and i can confirm that this speedup mp3 handling alot, music player is ready in 2-5 seconds after selecting the tab (before it taks up to 30 sec. and more).
another good program to prevent freezing and hanging of music tab is mp3val (also free/donation ware). it check your mp3 files for errors in the filestructure itself, and fix them if possible.
the definiton of the class/speed of sd cards can be found at the sd association website. the problem is to know what speed the controller of your device can do!. its useless to have a class 6(mb/s) card when your controller in the hd2 only do 4mb/s speed. and as far as i know htc makes always a big secret of facts like that .
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To those of you who have the 16 gb version and are dual booting webos and android, is the 16 gb of built in memory enough for you? Are you running out of space with apps, pics, music, etc? Might buy one so kinda curious. Then again I do have dropbox and the 50 gb box.net app so I'll probably be good anyways. Thanks in advance.
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Should be plenty for dual booting android. Not sure what kind of resources Linux uses
Google Music will be your best friend if you have a large chunk of music. I never was a fan of any of the cloud services only because of the upload limit size, however I did just find this workaround for box.net
http://www.webosbuzz.com/webos-info...ound-100mb-upload-limit-box-net-accounts.html
Still not sure how much I'll use it since I don't do anything with books/novels and my music is taken care of through google music, and I'm sure that work around mentioned above won't work unless it's multiple files, not one large one, such as a movie.
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Google Music will be your best friend if you have a large chunk of music. I never was a fan of any of the cloud services only because of the upload limit size, however I did just find this workaround for box.net
http://www.webosbuzz.com/webos-info...ound-100mb-upload-limit-box-net-accounts.html
Still not sure how much I'll use it since I don't do anything with books/novels and my music is taken care of through google music, and I'm sure that work around mentioned above won't work unless it's multiple files, not one large one, such as a movie.
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They will get rid of that work-around at some point.... just saying.
I have the 16gb Touchpad and most of the memory is filled of files from Gameloft and EA games and my titanium backup (don't like dropbox).
The rest is all on google music or Box
I've always felt 16 was plenty. I have all the apps I want in both webOS and ICS, and still have about 8GB free on the storage. I think I have about 1GB free on the system partition (that's where the apps install). But, I don't put on any music or videos. I have Netflix, Pandora, and Google Music, so I stream any content I want.
To me the device is basically a paperweight without a network connection. Like 90% of my use is either YouTube, Netflix, or web browsing. So I dont worry about space.
If you plan on loading it up with music I would think 16 us still plenty. Even though I have over 100 GB of music files, I only really listen to about 2GB consistently on my phone. If you plan on loading movies on it, 16 may be an issue.
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Although I'm subscribed to services such as google music and box.net, I store my media files locally as opposed to streaming, so 16gb didn't suffice for me. My thinking is that streaming media files via box.net or google music is a good option if you: 1) stream only over wifi or 2) have an unlimited data plan. Basically unless you're utilizing your phone for wireless tether (on a limited data plan) for the majority of your network consumption, you could conceivably survive with 16gb.
I own the 16GB version, and the space is sufficient for my needs, although in hindsight I would have preferred the 32GB version because I often find myself playing the game of "Do I keep these files, or those files?".
Hey guys, got my N7 yesterday and I absolutely love it! I'm currently running Glazed JellyBean (but you don't care about that). I bought the 8gb version, knowing full and well what I would be getting into, so I synced all of my music and pictures with Google, and am looking into Google Drive for other storage options. What are some other ways that you guys have found that save you some storage? You never really know what you got till it's gone (a pun, I'm referring to a sd card lol)
If it comes to it you can squeeze a bit more by moving user apps to system. Think stock has about 200mb free in the system partition.
I've got a 32gb sd card on my phone I can access with wifi file explorer while tethered
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Although not ideal for most people I have Samba Filesharing installed on my Galaxy S3 (requires root) that turns my S3's 32GB SD card in to a Samba share, and I use ES File Explorer on my tablet to access it, so with large games (like Gameloft games) I move the assets folder over to my S3's memory card when I am not going to play them, and just keep the assets for the game I want to play on my tab. Takes a minute to transfer but faster by far than downloading the assets every time I play the game. Rarely do I find myself in a situation where I don't have my phone close by, especially since I tether to my phone when Wifi is not available.
I also have a share on my Windows PC. AndSMB will allow to access your shares over 3G\4G but obviously this is only useful for small files.
For music I use Amazons MP3 cloud service. You can store 250 songs for free, or 250,000 songs for $25 a year, and songs you buy from Amazon don't count toward your limit.
For pics, docs, and other things like that I use Google Drive.
I use Google Music to store all of my music on the cloud and Plex to serve up movies from my PC at home. Pictures are all stored on Google+.
I have pretty much everything I need on my 8gb and I still have around 4gb (of the 6gb available) free
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Got a terabyte drive connected to my router, although have not used ,y n7 with it yet (I have the 16gb)
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For storage, I'm using Google drive for all my ebooks and Google Music for all my music. As for movies, I leave everything on my PC. I bought Splash top HD to stream everything directly to my tablet. I haven't encountered any problems so far.
Yeah my pics are synced with Picasa and my music w/ Google Music, I just want to play some games and unfortunately, most of the graphic intensive ones require around a gig of data
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Yeah my pics are synced with Picasa and my music w/ Google Music, I just want to play some games and unfortunately, most of the graphic intensive ones require around a gig of data
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Force yourself to beat a game then uninstall. I have a hard time with that myself
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I'm an iPhone user, considering buying a capable Android phone with a small screen size. Xperia Z3 Compact is a serious candidate, it comes with 16GB flash (built in) with possibility to expand up to 128GB microSD. Is microSD extension (from the user point of view) fully equivalent to internal flash, or are there restrictions?
I know if I buy 128GB iPhone6, all that space is instantly available for anything that I want to put there (software, multimedia, in-app data). Moreover, I do not care or use any multimedia files, such as photos, videos, music. The extended memory will be used purely for app's software and in-app data. For example: offline navigation maps, Dropbox offline files, epub books, etc.
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I'm an iPhone user, considering buying a capable Android phone with a small screen size. Xperia Z3 Compact is a serious candidate, it comes with 16GB flash (built in) with possibility to expand up to 128GB microSD. Is microSD extension (from the user point of view) fully equivalent to internal flash, or are there restrictions?
I know if I buy 128GB iPhone6, all that space is instantly available for anything that I want to put there (software, multimedia, in-app data). Moreover, I do not care or use any multimedia files, such as photos, videos, music. The extended memory will be used purely for app's software and in-app data. For example: offline navigation maps, Dropbox offline files, epub books, etc.
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I know you're an iPhone user, but I assume those people can also read?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/z3-compact/general/questions-belong-t2868300
LOL, sarcasm from previous post aside, and to answer the question, currently you can only save photos/videos/music and that depends mostly if the apps you are using allow writing to the sdcard. Sony has added a nice feature in Storage to monitor and manually move the three types above. My Nexus 5 did not have this, so it is nice that Sony stepped up. However, as you stated, you basically want full reign over the sdcard, and that is not going to happen with ICS, unless you root the device. I have read that Google is lightening up its restrictions with the new Lollipop OS re sdcards, so you may want to wait.
Best to check the biggest apps if they support using sd. Sygic offline maps for example can be used from the sd.