Short Question:
The Korean Version seems to have an internal SD card with 16 GB, our phones have only 8 GB. Is it possible to upgrade it to 16 or 32 GB? Perhaps we can extend our storage for apps...
euhm i think its baked on the board somewhere. On the other hand. Why on earth do you need to enlarge it? The external SD card can hold 32G? Do you really need so much space on your phone?
Its an emmc chip and they are a ***** to solder and hard to get a hold of. Read the service manual to find out the exact part. They have the manual over at optimus2x.net
Oh one more thing, its a bga connection which means reflow work. There better not be any components on the other side of the board.
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Ohh I've seen it in the manual. Soldering a new chip on the phone isn't an option for me.
Thank you!
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Is there any way in which we can add a MicroSD card slot to the diamond?
HTCDiamond22 said:
Is there any way in which we can add a MicroSD card slot to the diamond?
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I'm only specululating, but by desoldering the internal memory chip on the mainboard and resoldering to a micro-sd cardslot, it could be possible perhaps. I would bet, the interface is the same and the chip on the motherboard is nothing else, but an unhoused, normal micro-sd card - don't know it for sure of course.
But if possible at all, handling the tiny contacts of smd-chips is only possible with special equipement, a lot of experience and the risk of destroying the mainboard.
What about attaching microSD reader through extUSB?
sivko said:
What about attaching microSD reader through extUSB?
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That is possible. Discussed in another thread here.
So far, can only be used for flashing ROM, using an external card reader.
Diamond is missing drivers for accessing the card in WM6.1.
just bin the diamond
go buy a pro....
did you not know this before you brought it
Micro-SD
I saw a cable which is basically like the computer's usb extension cable but only shorter. It was under the phones category and my guess is that it should work and not just for flashing the rom!
So I'm looking in ebay now to get one of those little suckers and try it to confirm if my theory is right or wrong!
Laters guys
Hi Guys
Let´s face it. HTC could have build this device with a Micro-SD.
They are just learning from Apple. upgrade it slowly. next year, they surrely release a "upgraded" version, with a 5M camera and a MicroSD card, more Ram...
Regards,
Joao
Joao Sacramento said:
Hi Guys
Let´s face it. HTC could have build this device with a Micro-SD.
They are just learning from Apple. upgrade it slowly. next year, they surrely release a "upgraded" version, with a 5M camera and a MicroSD card, more Ram...
Regards,
Joao
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First of all, they could not have build this device with a micro-sd slot without getting thicker. And as the most of us want a thin and small device they made all right IMHO.
And why the hell should they learn from Apple??? How many PPC's did Apple build???
Like I said, I think they made a very good job with the Diamond.
So far....
I want a diamond with microsd
The touch pro is too fat for me (size and money).
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First of all, they could not have build this device with a micro-sd slot without getting thicker. And as the most of us want a thin and small device they made all right IMHO.
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Adding an SD slot would have added about 1mm to the thickness. Hardly a great amount in the grand scheme of things. However, it might have drained the battery even further, so maybe that's why it was left out.
So it seems that the Kingmax 64gb microsdxc card doesn't work with the Tab. Hardly unexpected but hey you never know until you try. It just keeps asking me to format it over and over again.
Oh well, it works fine on my gs2
As far as i know, the tab only support 32GB sdcard.
More specifically, the microsdhc spec supports up to 32gb. Usually when they say a device only supports 32gb it's because it uses this spec so it implies this limit. But some newer devices specifiy microsdhc however they can use more than the 32gb limit. So that was my hope here.
Got it, so is a limitation about the sdcard tec, not a limit of tab hardware...
Well maybe both. Who knows. Maybe it's a good excuse for me to start cooking roms and writing kernels.
Back in the day...
Back in the old days, my old HTC XDA Exec, was not compatible with the new fangled technology of SDHC, and was only able to read SD until some enterprizing folks here at XDA created some updated drivers for it.
Remember the form factor is identical, only the file system (I believe, I may be wrong) of the SD/SDHC/SDXC system changes.
Hopefully someone can get the drivers from a device that does support SDXC to work with the Tabs SDHC reader.
I think your hardware actually has to support the new format, not just the software. My guess is that your old HTC actually supported SDHC at the hardware level, just not at the software level yet. I have a card reader in my desktop as well as one in my laptop that will only read SD, not SDHC, regardless of the size. I am pretty sure SDHC slots will never be able to read SDXC unless the hardware was actually built to support it, but we'll see.
What are you filling your Tab with?
I have been using my tab for over 6 months now and still have not used over 4GB, so the 16GB it has internally was always more than enough. I wonder what all of you are using the space for? Are you loading it with movies & Music or what else?
Any way you can always get the connector to attach a USB storage to your tablet and plugin an extra storage when needed. I mean you can archive your old movies & music to an external USB Drive!
digg1980 said:
I have been using my tab for over 6 months now and still have not used over 4GB, so the 16GB it has internally was always more than enough. I wonder what all of you are using the space for? Are you loading it with movies & Music or what else?
Any way you can always get the connector to attach a USB storage to your tablet and plugin an extra storage when needed. I mean you can archive your old movies & music to an external USB Drive!
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Yeah, but who the $*%& want's to carry around an external when it could all be internal
Another idea, and I read through the thread and didn't see this mentioned. Would it matter if the card was broken up into two 32GB partitions?
This just made me think of this, does anyone know a partition type for android that would allow file transfer to SD Card over 4 GB? I've always thought that was a FAT limitation (which it is) but hadn't considered other supported format types that might allow for the bigger transfers but also be recognized by Android.
Now that's a burning question!
Most roms are ext4. Try using that. Downside, your windows boxes won't support these out of box
Thanks for the advice about the custom rom. I might give that a shot.
As for why I use this much, this tab is my car stereo so that means lots of music and movies for long trips. It's easy to eat up a lot of space that way.
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Most roms are ext4. Try using that. Downside, your windows boxes won't support these out of box
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Tried it, didn't work because I think Android is expecting it to be FAT32 when it's inserted. I wonder if there is a ROM out that would allow for EXT4 SD cards instead of having to use FAT32? Anyone heard of anything like that?
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Tried it, didn't work because I think Android is expecting it to be FAT32 when it's inserted. I wonder if there is a ROM out that would allow for EXT4 SD cards instead of having to use FAT32? Anyone heard of anything like that?
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My understanding of this might not be correct but I think fat32 shouldn't be an issue. The 64gb card I got is fat32 and my gs2 seems to use it fine.
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Tried it, didn't work because I think Android is expecting it to be FAT32 when it's inserted. I wonder if there is a ROM out that would allow for EXT4 SD cards instead of having to use FAT32? Anyone heard of anything like that?
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Also, which custom rom did you use?
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My understanding of this might not be correct but I think fat32 shouldn't be an issue. The 64gb card I got is fat32 and my gs2 seems to use it fine.
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Sorry, I kinda hijacked your thread. I was just thinking if you created two 32 GB partitions to see if it was a capacity limitation. I'm not using a custom rom right now, I was just wondering if there was a rom that would allow you to use ext4 on an as card for large file transfer. 64 GB would do me little good without alleviating the limitations of fat 32.
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I think TAB support maximum SD card is 32G... or u can try different format, it might be work....
Well after much wrestling with Odin I managed to flash Roderick's ef17 kernel and now the 64gb card works, Sky Wizard be praised!!
I don't know if it was the kernel or if my Tab was messed up. And video seems choppy, I'm not sure if it's a slow card or something else yet.
There are conflicting reports on whether the Samsung Focus s SGH i937 has an internal micrsd card slot or not, I'm thinking about buying one but I need more storage then 16 gigs and I would like to upgrade to 32 gigs.
No. There is no card slot in Samsung Focus S.
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_focus_s-review-690p2.php
Check out the line below the first pic on the page.
I Called Samsung today and they informed me that it has a internal micro sd slot that is not user accessible.
mcsc said:
I Called Samsung today and they informed me that it has a internal micro sd slot that is not user accessible.
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If someone did a teardown of this device we could know for sure.
mcsc said:
I Called Samsung today and they informed me that it has a internal micro sd slot that is not user accessible.
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That would be totally insane. I was thinking about getting one as well, but after hearing that, I'm not so sure anymore as I to would want to increase available storage space. Why would they do that?
I believe there is a 32 GB version available. Mine has no expansion slot accessible.
Only available in 16GB. No SD slot. The lack of. Sd are support was brought on by the way WP7 interacts with external memory. Which can hinder the user experience. Bing it for more info
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DukeNukem said:
That would be totally insane. I was thinking about getting one as well, but after hearing that, I'm not so sure anymore as I to would want to increase available storage space. Why would they do that?
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its not insane, its irritating.
the inability of WM7 devices to support external micro sd cards has been known for well over a year now. it has to do with WM7 os reading/writing faster than the cards can handle.
...and considering all the cloud based services available now, why would you need more thatn 16 gigs in your device anyway? really, the only things that need to live on the device would be apps. music, pics, and video can all be accesssed from the cloud. imo.
additional storage space
There are success stories of those who replaced their 16gb card with a 32 gb card and probably only a matter of time before somebody explores the same on this device, but again, why would you with all the cloud services. Success stories, specifically, on the Arrive. There are those that replaced their 16gb internal card with a 32gb card and it's working at least as well. Good luck!
matt
mcsc said:
I Called Samsung today and they informed me that it has a internal micro sd slot that is not user accessible.
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There's alot of evidence out there suggesting NAND is used - not micro sd - that I would personally deem more compelling than a Samsung phone rep's response.
Just Search for "focus s" and "nand"...
hey guys.i was just wondering abut note internal memory?! im sure is it sd card or is it not?what do you guys think?
maybe somebody knows how to replace that with a big card like 32gb or 64 gb.then all our memory problems would disapear?
is it possible?cheers!
its probably an internal memory chip that cant be replaced
Think it'll be quite risking to perform surgery on this awesome phone.
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Think it'll be quite risking to perform surgery on this awesome phone.
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It would be quite risky, yeah. Why not just replace your external card for a bigger one?
I have a Pi model B(ver 1), but its a little frustrating to use because just the absolute slightest touch to the sd card seems to make the filesystem unreadable?
Are the SD slots on the Pi all so frustratingly sensitive and unreliable?
Is there a way to maybe make it less likely to cause crashes? A shim in the slot? A different(fatter) kind of SD card maybe? Or do I need to maybe resolder the socket or something?
Any ideas?
nixfu said:
I have a Pi model B(ver 1), but its a little frustrating to use because just the absolute slightest touch to the sd card seems to make the filesystem unreadable?
Are the SD slots on the Pi all so frustratingly sensitive and unreliable?
Is there a way to maybe make it less likely to cause crashes? A shim in the slot? A different(fatter) kind of SD card maybe? Or do I need to maybe resolder the socket or something?
Any ideas?
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I do not personally own one but I have a buddy that has one and he is having the same issue, so if anyone knows it would be a great help.
Sorry I can't personally help, but my thoughts on it would be to take a close look at it and see if anything seems loose to the touch, then find a way to fix it accordingly.
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I'd say switch power supply, don't overclock and switch SD card.
I've got 2 Pis, 2 rev2, one is 256mb RAM and the other is 512mb RAM, non have the problem you're experiencing.
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Any ideas?
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My sd card slot was broken, possible you have the same problem.
This is a fix for this problem:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=7751&docid=
Yes! I have had that issue a few times, but I got it to work, by doing "sudo poweroff" and then unplugging it completely.
Im seconding three posts up about no overclocking and swapping sd card and psu
You can also check the voltage on board to if you have a voltmeter but i dont remember if its possible on rev1
and rev 1 was funky to begin with.
My pi with raspbmc and its rev2 with 512 mb ram doesnt have the problem either
It depends on the building you are in. I'm guessing it is quite old? ESD is a *****.
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It could be a case your using if you are using one that puts pressure on the card.