This is a picture from the original Nook's insides:
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As can be seen, in this particular instance, there were two micro-SD cards inside, and therefore one could swap it with a larger one and effectively increase the internal memory of the device.
A similar scenario has occured in several Windows Phone devices.
Any ideas if the Nook's internal 8GB is merely a micro-SD card waiting to be replaced?
Nope, it's a SANDISK 8 GB SSD. The Nook Color likely required much faster Flash memory than an SD card is capable of.
See here:
http://www.zdnet.com/photos/nookcolor-teardown/487636?seq=56&tag=photo-frame;get-photo-roto
So, I suppose it is impractical to replace it, right? The size of this SSD does not seem 'stock'.
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So, I suppose it is impractical to replace it, right? The size of this SSD does not seem 'stock'.
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You mean the physical size (in millimieters) or the logical size (in bytes)?
And out of curiosity: given that you can drop a 32GB microSD card into the NC without opening anything up, why are you so concerned with increasing the size of the onboard SSD?
I've downloaded a ton of apps from the Android market onto my NC and they've barely made a dent in the onboard memory. Meanwhile, I keep 14 GB of movies on my $25.00 16GB SD card and they play great, without so much as a hiccup.
Just that you could theoretically bump it up to 64GB is all. I am happy with 48GB obviously -- but the future of Android tablets will probably hold many exclusive games with quite large installs. I believe it won't be more than a year or two before we see 1-2GB games.
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Nope, it's a SANDISK 8 GB SSD. The Nook Color likely required much faster Flash memory than an SD card is capable of.
See here:
http://www.zdnet.com/photos/nookcolor-teardown/487636?seq=56&tag=photo-frame;get-photo-roto
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Thanks for this link! It actually answered my next question about being able to replace the battery yourself if needed. I've opened up my share of laptops and other devices, and it looks pretty simple (more so than most other devices).
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Hi all
Sure we know that htc advantage have MiniSD slot (Up to 4GB; supports SDHC)
So for using memories under 2GB you can use normal one , I have seen a lot of 4GB cards on the net but I do believe they are not approved by Secure Digital as SDHC and here is the pic from http://www.sdcard.org/
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The different between them is the price and the most important is the SPEED.
miniSDHC is available in three performance classes, Class 2, 4 and 6, created and defined by the SD Association to help consumers identify speed and performance capabilities/minimum requirements of miniSDHC cards and the host device. Class is dependent on the write-speed of the card, the higher the “Class”, the faster the memory card.
The SD Speed Class Ratings specify a minimum sustained write speed for miniSDHC Cards (Class 2: 2 MB/s; Class 4: 4 MB/s; Class 6: 6MB/s*)
On the net I found two 4gb miniSDHC that is in REASONABLE price
One is class 2 and the other is calss 4
Good luck
and these reasonable prices are ???????????
34$~ 45$
http://cgi.ebay.com/4GB-MINISD-HC-M...ryZ98876QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820208089
your right that is a good price !! I nearly bought it and then I realised I have no other SDHC devices, not even my fairly newish laptop !! so I have no means of quickly transfering data to or from the card to then place it in my phone, unless I connect my phone Via USB !! if I do that I might aswell put it on the internal drive.
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your right that is a good price !! I nearly bought it and then I realised I have no other SDHC devices, not even my fairly newish laptop !! so I have no means of quickly transfering data to or from the card to then place it in my phone, unless I connect my phone Via USB !! if I do that I might aswell put it on the internal drive.
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WM5torage!
Just found one in the UK on ebay.co.uk - Class 4 for £18.99 - I'm having one!
Does anyone know what speed the Athena can write at? If it's less than 2 MB/s then it doesn't matter what class it is but if it's more than 4 MB/s then a Class 6 would be better than Class 4.
My card has just turned up and despite it having a pic of a Class 4 card and it specifically saying it was a class 4 device, the card that has been sent is the Transcend class 2 card.
I have emailed them and await their response.
Does anyone know what speed the Athena can read? Will it make a diffrerence?
Thanks
I order 1 and also transcend class 2, not sure if they have it higher...
Transcend don't - my supplier was misled, offered me a £3 rebate or full refund If I wanted. He has changed his listing and appologised, it was a genuine mistake. I have accepted the rebate and am happy with the outcome, he seamed a genuine guy and resolved it quickly and to my satisfaction.
Pity you can't get class 4/6 but not sure what speed the Athena can work at anyway!
Hi
I found this video of a Diamond assembly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ6XTjWD1i8
I not sure, but it look like a micro SD card ?
what does?
look at 25 seconds, I think it's a microSD Card !
it looks like that
hummm
does to me too
and it looks like it is located very next to MiniUSB port
It's the sim slot...
Hmm .. would be nice if it is a micoSD...
but i think it is the Microphone rubber ... or?
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It's the sim slot...
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yeah really a tiny sim slot i am looking for technician do dissassembly my phone I want to change sim card
NisseDILLIGAF : such high resoultion foto shows that is probably that rubber ...but still I have doubt ... that rubber is placed vertically while looking on phone while that part the technician puts in is placed horizontally.
EDIT : but after looking really close I am almost convinced it`s that rubber what a pitty
Ok... here you can see both pictures ...
I think one of them has but it the wrong way
The only port or slot i see is the sim card one, and I imagine that the man knows what he is doing and would notice something like that in a phone sold with no memory card support.And yes...the rubber looks like it is in its correct possition
Is way too thick for MicroSD.
Would be great though! But I doubt the Diamond would support MicroSD bigger than 4GB if you would like to replace it, very little devices support those sizes yet
So, I wait for a pcb replacement part with 8 or 16 Gb !...
It's a Vibrator
I have seen this video... It's the phone Vibrator.. and not the Micro SD card. I think the memory will be a flash memory, which will be in the form of a Micro Chip..
I've just been thru the 109 page HTC Service manual and it isn't mentioned there......
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I had bought a white 16gb galaxy note and it finally arrived today.
well i couldn't help but notice that out of the 16 gigs, only 11 of it is accessible.
obviously when you buy a 4gb usb, it really only has like 3.8 gb or something, but this is missing a hefty 5 gb.
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is this normal?
what size phones have you guys got and how much of it is actually usable?
thanks.
The os of your pc takes up a huge chunk
Similarly 5 GB is reserved for OS or other personal ****..lol
My point is...ITS NORMAL
1 gb is for android itself, 3 gb is for the application to be stored on phone and remaining 12 gb(11.07 gb) is for your personal stuff
the thing is i realised my phone was shipped from hong kong so the first thing that i think of is, oh crap! must be a fake or a dud or has crap stuff in it.
glad to hear its normal.
but how much memory varies between the devices?
does everyone have 5 gigs missing or do some have like 3 or 4?
also, does it depend on what rom you're running too?
like if you're running a really light rom, naturally there should be more free space right?
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abhinav quietly brilliant said:
1 gb is for android itself, 3 gb is for the application to be stored on phone and remaining 12 gb(11.07 gb) is for your personal stuff
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oh! thanks for the info.
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the thing is i realised my phone was shipped from hong kong so the first thing that i think of is, oh crap! must be a fake or a dud or has crap stuff in it.
glad to hear its normal.
but how much memory varies between the devices?
does everyone have 5 gigs missing or do some have like 3 or 4?
also, does it depend on what rom you're running too?
like if you're running a really light rom, naturally there should be more free space right?
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Its the same for everyone....
Not only this...i remember my Nokia X6 having the same...
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Its the same for everyone....
Not only this...i remember my Nokia X6 having the same...
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awesome, thanks for the info.
I'm not really sure how much was available when I got my Note but this doesn't seem odd to me.
Also this model has 3 storage areas. There's what's labeled as the "phone", then the "SD" (so that's the 16 gigs of primary storage) which are presumably a micro SD card inside the phone. And then there's the secondary SD which is what you can insert next to the battery (up to 32 GB from what I gathered).
However, getting apps to use one or the other is fairly tricky. Sometimes you have to move stuff by hand.
Note that finding cheap 32gig cards is easy online (for 48gigs - more or less- of storage).
-- Sent from my phone using technological wizardry with the help of some kind of app
I was very disappointed to find out the Moto X does not have a MicroSD slot.
Is there a way to convert the SIM slot to take and read a MicroSD instead ????
Can we add a physical MicroSD slot to the Moto X? P
If so, can someone post the source, parts,prices, method, and software and modifications required ???
I'm aware of the new SECOND GENERATION external Meenova microSD reader, but having it hanging off the microUSB port makes me uncomfortable.
http://www.meenova.com/
Just use a USB OTG
Even if converting the SIM slot was an option, it would require removing the SIM card, making the phone inoperable.
Not happening I'm afraid.
See post 2. ?
tt c6 said:
I was very disappointed to find out the Moto X does not have a MicroSD slot.
Is there a way to convert the SIM slot to take and read a MicroSD instead ????
Can we add a physical MicroSD slot to the Moto X? P
If so, can someone post the source, parts,prices, method, and software and modifications required ???
I'm aware of the new SECOND GENERATION external Meenova microSD reader, but having it hanging off the microUSB port makes me uncomfortable.
http://www.meenova.com/
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The meenova is a hard, all in one style, might damage the port. But the dongle, soft OTG, short adaptor is ok
What about the dual-USB-OTG sticks? My 64gb Sandisk works great, only issue is that I can't charge while using it.
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What about the dual-USB-OTG sticks? My 64gb Sandisk works great, only issue is that I can't charge while using it.
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Crazy, no way.
There is a battery case for the moto x that also adds an sdcard slot. Look it up
Sent from my XT1060 using Tapatalk
holy crap that thing makes the phone like 4x thicker!!! lol!
http://mugen.co/mugen-power-2800mah...se-with-sd-card-slot-for-motorola-moto-x.html
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640k said:
holy crap that thing makes the phone like 4x thicker!!! lol!
http://mugen.co/mugen-power-2800mah...se-with-sd-card-slot-for-motorola-moto-x.html
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Nice. Lol
640k said:
holy crap that thing makes the phone like 4x thicker!!! lol!
http://mugen.co/mugen-power-2800mah...se-with-sd-card-slot-for-motorola-moto-x.html
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Nice find. Thanks for posting.
Probably makes the phone too big.
200 GB Micro sd card on sprout 4 gen one and it works out of the box
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Device : spice dream uno
ROM : Cyanogen 12.1 Beta 5
Bought the card from amazon U.S for $100.
* so guys it is compatible with sprout devices, go ahead if you wanna have one
thank you and will appreciate your civilized comments and questions (if any) below
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Realy realy crazy ????
Crazy but in a good way
Nice but I don't see any use for 200gb card. My 32gb card has nearly 5-6 gb free. I don't think anyone can use anything above 64gb card.
And our Android One 1St Gen Costs around $100
I would prefer getting another phone with this price.
But still, thanks for experimenting.
Now adopt it into your phone's internal storage. For the lulz
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Nice but I don't see any use for 200gb card. My 32gb card has nearly 5-6 gb free. I don't think anyone can use anything above 64gb card.
And our Android One 1St Gen Costs around $100
I would prefer getting another phone with this price.
But still, thanks for experimenting.
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"640 k ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates, 1981. Never estimate the greed of human beings...it is infinite in all respects. We are like a virus- the Matrix.
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"640 k ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates, 1981. Never estimate the greed of human beings...it is infinite in all respects. We are like a virus- the Matrix.
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Till the time comes when we need 100-200gb for mobile storage, our sprout will not last, maybe more powerful devices with 12gb ram and 250gb internal
But currently no need for a memory card which costs more than the mobile, atleast for me