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Hi,
Could everyone post their experiences of using different SD cards, please include any problems experienced and anythingelse that might be useful for a buyer, e.g. what you use the card for, as certain cards work fine but cause problems with some applications e.g. Tom Tom 5 and the fone dialer. Also please include the make, model, price, the where you bought the card and what you use the card for.
The reason for this topic is that, I read in the forums people have had problems with different cards and applications. All this information is spread across the forum. It would be really handy for a buyer (like me) to have a thread like this...
Many Thanks!
At the moment I use an "ADTEC" 256mb card, it works fine with TT3 and does not seem to crash my xda2i, But it is a couple of years old and i am about to get a 512mb card, So it will be interesting for me to see how this thread develops.
Transcend 80x 512MB.
Works perfectly with everything including TomTom.
yeah transend 80x ,but i do think any 80x will work ,but 1 person found the transend 80x worked so i think we all bought them as we were just glad we finally found a working sd card ,well i know i was
but it would be interesting to see what other can be used succesfully
I recently bought an Ebuyer own brand 1GB SD card for £32
When it arrived it was actually a Kingston branded card!
I'm not the only person this has happened to...check out the reviews on Ebuyer.
Anyway, I've only had it for about a week but I've had no problems with it so far.
Not really used it exstensively but I've currently got about 300MB worth of music on it.
Good price, Good product I think.
Cheers
Wayne
I have a Corsair 1GB 40x card. I haven't used it much, and I know virtually nothing about these things... But it works. ~£40 from dabs.com.
i dont have money to buy a new SD Card, so I take my brother camera SD Card. mine one just 256mb and the brand is NCP.
work fine for me.....lagging for 2 seconds when incoming call...after that its ok.....but i dont recommended to others!
Have A-Data 150x SD 2Gb card. Works fine. No delays or such, even on moves, even on incoming calls.
Transcend 80x 1GB........... No problem whatsoever... even when running TomTom Navigator 5
Take back what I previously said. I can't access the card on my PDA now - it simply doesn't show up
Not sure if it's the PDA or the card because I've only just realised and I don't have a card reader at work...will have to try when I get home and update then.
Cheers
Wayne
I'm sending the card back under warranty.
Also, it wasn't a Kingston...it was Viking branded card (not sure where I got the Kingston from )
Cheers
Wayne
what about pretec 133x 1gb? anyone tried it b4? Do we just judge the speed? if it is above 80x it would work fine?
thanks everyone for youre input. ive ordered a ridata 1GB SD card. its a 66x speed card. i read somewhere cant remember where now that tomtom needs a 10mbs card which is 66x speed which my main reason for buying the card will let you know how it goes when i receive the card.
Negative experience
Hi,
I bought a 1GB 66x BRAVO SD Card at Ebay.
Since then, my Alpine crashes over and over again.
I Soft reset it 5-10 times a day!
I guess it's the SD Card's fault as the device never crashes without the card.
Hi!
I have my XDA IIi for about 2 weeks now. So far I didn't have any problems with my SD-Cards.
I have a 256MB SD Card extrememory (no fancy speed...) that works quite well. I used it several days without problems and now have placed my rom backup on it.
The other SD Card I now use mainly for my XDA IIi is a 2GB Card from Transcent (150x). Until now I didn't had any strange problems with it (used it for about one and a half week).
I've finally found an SD card that works with Tomtom5 without crashing - it the Transcend 80x SD Card.
I've tried loads of others some better than others, but all crashed within minutes of starting TT5 except the Transcend.
Some other SD Cards were fine running Tomtom 3, but would not run Tomtom5 as all.
I've had the following cards that cause TT5 to crash:-
Kingston Ultimate 133x 512Mb
Kingston Elite 80x 512Mb
Scandisk 512Mb
The only other card that I've had that didn't cause TT5 to crash was :-
Compaq 128Mb (speed unknown as it came with an iPaq) but not big enough.
alinoorrahman said:
thanks everyone for youre input. ive ordered a ridata 1GB SD card. its a 66x speed card. i read somewhere cant remember where now that tomtom needs a 10mbs card which is 66x speed which my main reason for buying the card will let you know how it goes when i receive the card.
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Sorry alinoorahman - I fear I got to disappoint you :? I got a ridata card as well (256 MB, 66x). I also encounter the problem that it`s only available randomly.
Btw: 1GB extrememory won`t work neither :evil: big ****e
4gb sd card
wil a 4gb sd card work with an xda 11i or an exec??????
RE: SD Card with Alpine
Hi All,
I use a Zynet 1Gb 68x and my TomTom only has a problem with incoming calls. freezing to solve it, I turn my BT GPS on and off and this fixes it.
My friend is using a Qtek 2020i with Tomtom and a Transcend 1Gb 80x,
he has the same problem as me.
I don't know if the new 1.04 Radio version would help or not, when I get the energy I will upgrade my XDA IIi to this and test.
My opinion is that the Alpine has an internal power problem, as it only occurs with Bluetooth on, causing a power drain when a call is received thus your SD card briefly loses power. Its only a theory, the weight is towards some sort of design fault with the Alpine, otherwise one of the Carries etc would have sourced an answer by now, as the Alpine has been out long enough now. We cannot blame SD cards which work perfectly well with the majority of other electrical devices on the market.
hello..i got a 1 gb sandisk sd card which works fine in my qtek 2020i and i also use tom tom 5 with this and a 1gb pny sd card as well.
i never new there was all these problems with sd cards :shock:, saying that i always bought sandisk and they have not let me down before with this ppc phone or my past ppc phone like the spv m1000.
Hi
Since i got my new xda2i i have problems using sd/mmc cards in this ppc. Sometimes it seems that the card controller in the ppc locks up for example while hearin mp3s wich are stored on the card. I have two 1gb sd cards a "ExtreMEmory" and a "TakeMS" furthermore i tried a 64MB "Sandisk" mmc. All cards work fine in my old yakumo delta. Even a reset (soft) does not help.
After 1 or 2 hours the cards are suddenly reappears in the file explorer. Meanwhile i can use the pda normal except for the sd-card. :wink:
Does anybody got a similar behavior of its xda2i. I tried also the english update but no luck (now i using german orginal angain).
Thanks in advance . . .
Groovie
here you go and download it
i have the same problem with my sd kingstone 1gb and later format with this utility my alpine never freeze (too at 620 mhz xcpu scalar!!!)
i have tested it with movie for 30 days
you must hace a usb card reader
http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/hpcpqdt/us/download/20306.html
Hi
Thankyou i'll try it. But i have formated the sd card once direct on the pda. Do i need a hp cardreader?
cu
Groovie
no no a generic usb card reader i have a trust for example ;my impression is that this utility format best the sd card but i don't know why...only first i formatted with alpine and xp pro utility and space free is 966 mb plus minus...after i formatted with hp utility and space free is 948 ... and the frze of alpine playing movie and music are missed
HI,
I tried that tool, but no luck.
I have send the device back to o2. This can only be a defect.
Bye
mmm i dont knot ...howewer when it go back please give me a feedback about o2's response thanks
bye
hm.... does it means that the MMC / SD-Card over 512 MB is prone to error in XDA IIi ?
that's so annoying :-(
now I'm in doubt to buy Kingston Elite Pro 1 GB SD-Card. Should I take Kingston or Transcend ?
any response would be very helpful.
Hi,
I have got another device back from O2. This one works fine for about three weeks now . . .
cu
I've used Transcend 80x 1 GB SD-Card SLC till now and it works smoothly no problem at all.
hi there i was wondering if anyone has had issues with the htc camera and an 8 gb card. i put my brand new 8 gig micro sdhc card into my tytn 2 and it showed 21.24.16 when using the video with cif resolution then i put some mp3s on the card and had 4.16 gig left and it showed i had 01.16.05 left now ive checked further and when i put some other files on the card so theoretically should have showed no time left but it came up with 18.34.17 so what im thinking is my camera is reading my card in 4 gb sections
any others had this issue is there a fix.
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i do not have the 8 GB card. i have only 2 GB card with 1256 MB free and the camera is giving me 07:18:27 for video.
I noticed the same issue a few months ago. Mine was reading in 2GB sections. Since it could record over 24 hours at a time however, I didn't really care, as I don't often record a full day. XD
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hi there i was wondering if anyone has had issues with the htc camera and an 8 gb card. i put my brand new 8 gig micro sdhc card into my tytn 2 and it showed 21.24.16 when using the video with cif resolution then i put some mp3s on the card and had 4.16 gig left and it showed i had 01.16.05 left now ive checked further and when i put some other files on the card so theoretically should have showed no time left but it came up with 18.34.17 so what im thinking is my camera is reading my card in 4 gb sections
any others had this issue is there a fix.
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You could have a Cheap Knock off Card. Watch for data corruption then you'd be certain.
I have an 8GB card, bought from a trusted reseller. And my Kaiser reads it as one big 8GB section.
its deff not a knock off as it fully sandisk registered. there has been no data corruption is there a chance the cam software could need updating.
I'm running a 4Gb Micro SDHC with free space of 2278.31Mb. Below are the video time left from the 4 resolution settings.
CIF: 13:15:13
S:36:45:11
M:36:45:11
L:13:15:13
Think the camera software needs an update.
jayjay8585 said:
hi there i was wondering if anyone has had issues with the htc camera and an 8 gb card. i put my brand new 8 gig micro sdhc card into my tytn 2 and it showed 21.24.16 when using the video with cif resolution then i put some mp3s on the card and had 4.16 gig left and it showed i had 01.16.05 left now ive checked further and when i put some other files on the card so theoretically should have showed no time left but it came up with 18.34.17 so what im thinking is my camera is reading my card in 4 gb sections
any others had this issue is there a fix.
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did u format ur sdhc on ur pc b4 using ? if not i think u might wanna format it on ur pc 1st .
i formatted with the special formatter from panasonic it shows a capacity of 7.60gb ive got 5151.94 mb left and my cam is showing 06.08.22 left thats not rite but if i put more stuff on the card the cam shows 18 hours again as if its gone to 00.00.00 and then its gone back to another 4 gb slot
do i need this HTC camera for tytn 2 v5.04
Who has it
i use an Xperia TL with generic JB Rom, since past few days I get a message "SD Card Removed unexpectedly" and then says scanning SD Card.
Though I never touched anything!
It happens when i try to update senseme feature in walkman, its pretty annoying coz I have 820 tracks and its pain in @SS to resume it every few minutes.
Am I alone or is anyone else in the same boat?
Its a 32GB Sandisk Class 4 card.
The card is not corrupt, as nothing is lot, just that it says SD Card Removed
Try to reformat your sd-card, maybe some strange glitch
Mad Marty said:
Try to reformat your sd-card, maybe some strange glitch
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I think the sd card is a screw up as I formatted it multiple times on the laptop (Quick format) and even on the phone.
I'm asking the shop to replace it with a class 10 32 gig card.
I did a search and seems am not the only 1, even Samsung Galaxy S3 users are crying in the toilet with this issue.
I am also experiencing this issue with my class 4 san disk micro sd card. Just bought a class 10 will let you know if problem still occurs after sd card is replaced.
I changed to a 32 GB class 10 card yesterday evening, facing absolutely 0 issues.
Previously while downloading music info in sense me (700+ tracks), it used to throw an error that mem card removed after 29 tracks or so and I had to start all over again (was absolutely pissed!), and my favorite marked tracks were also gone once that error showed up.
Not anymore
Btw am using a Samsung Class 10 card (for anyone who is interested)
Interesting. Thanks for posting this. Not to further switch the topic to a different device, but this happened to me on my S3 also. I am using a Sandisk Class 10 64gb MicroSDXC. After it happened, I thought "weird..." Later on, I noticed 3 folders' names had been corrupted (for example, GAME_ROMS changed to ûAMERO~1 or something like that) and the contents of the all 3 folders was gone (deleted - I could tell because the GAME_ROMS folder had 6 gigs or so of games, and aside from it being empty, I had 6 more gigs of free space than usual.)
Thankfully I haven't seen that happen on my Xperia T (yet)... though I've only had it for a couple of weeks... knock wood.
I had recently opened a thread here asking the possible cause for the heating up of my phone. After getting it diagnosed at the local service center, I discovered that my 32 GB Sandisk class 10 microsd card is the culprit that is causing the heat-up. Unseating my microsd card from my phone does the following things/improvements:
1. Phone doesn't heatup (isn't prominent with back cover) while playing hd videos & while browsing data
2. Battery lasts longer
After I insert the microsd card, I would notice that my phone would normally heat up below the rear camera & below the ear-piece, as it would previously. I have witnessed my phone getting hot upto 47 °C (under mild to moderate usage) ! That's unbearable.
Possible causes
1. Is the SD card defective ? Please note that... I have noticed this exact issue on two different 32 GB Sandisk Class-10 cards which I own. The local service center told me that your sd card might have short-circuited & would be causing the heat-up. They couldn't test it since I hadn't take it there.
2. Is the android indexing service running constantly & triggering the heat up?
Some Additional Info:
1. Most of the data in my sd card are multimedia files/ android apks
2. while taking out the concerned card from it's original adapter/reader(inserted in my pc) , after copying,say 6-7GB of data, I had also witnessed it getting really warm. Is this normal ?
3. A similar concern here can also give you a better idea
Can anybody please confirm & tell if this is a known issue with large capacity sandisk high capacity cards (16GB>) so that I can switch to a sd card of a different make that most of you use & recommend or should i purchased a lower capacity sdcard?
Any other workaround that will likely work (formatting the card on the phone instead of PC/ using custom rom)
sujitmohanty2012 said:
I had recently opened a thread here asking the possible cause for the heating up of my phone. After getting it diagnosed at the local service center, I discovered that my 32 GB Sandisk class 10 microsd card is the culprit that is causing the heat-up. Unseating my microsd card from my phone does the following things/improvements:
1. Phone doesn't heatup (isn't prominent with back cover) while playing hd videos & while browsing data
2. Battery lasts longer
After I insert the microsd card, I would notice that my phone would normally heat up below the rear camera & below the ear-piece, as it would previously. I have witnessed my phone getting hot upto 47 °C (under mild to moderate usage) ! That's unbearable.
Possible causes
1. Is the SD card defective ? Please note that... I have noticed this exact issue on two different 32 GB Sandisk Class-10 cards which I own. The local service center told me that your sd card might have short-circuited & would be causing the heat-up. They couldn't test it since I hadn't take it there.
2. Is the android indexing service running constantly & triggering the heat up?
Some Additional Info:
1. Most of the data in my sd card are multimedia files/ android apks
2. while taking out the concerned card from it's original adapter/reader(inserted in my pc) , after copying,say 6-7GB of data, I had also witnessed it getting really warm. Is this normal ?
3. A similar concern here can also give you a better idea
Can anybody please confirm & tell if this is a known issue with large capacity sandisk high capacity cards (16GB>) so that I can switch to a sd card of a different make that most of you use & recommend or should i purchased a lower capacity sdcard?
Any other workaround that will likely work (formatting the card on the phone instead of PC/ using custom rom)
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Some more info please.
1. What if SD card is freshly formated. (not quick format). An empty SD card still causes it?
2. Did you install any software like Xposed module or SD mount? Or have you swapped internal mem for SD card? (Some do it)
3. Does stock ROM also cause it?
4. Use move to phone option in the app. Move media to internal memory. Play it. Still heat?
I own 16 GB Trascend. No issue.
fear2433 said:
Some more info please.
1. What if SD card is freshly formated. (not quick format). An empty SD card still causes it?
2. Did you install any software like Xposed module or SD mount? Or have you swapped internal mem for SD card? (Some do it)
3. Does stock ROM also cause it?
4. Use move to phone option in the app. Move media to internal memory. Play it. Still heat?
I own 16 GB Trascend. No issue.
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thank u for taking the time to write back Coming to your questions, I will answer them in the order they are numbered
1. I haven't tried inserting an empty SD card & check if this issue comes up
2. No I don't have any xposed module installed but I do have an app installed called "folder mount" but I have disabled it from starting up automatically (on boot/ when network connectivity changes)
3. Ya..all this I have witnessed on stock v10d ROM & I haven't installed any custom rom on my current phone yet.
4. I will try doing that but that won't be a fix because my video library won't fit in there
I would like to also add here that a day before I took my phone to the service centre, I was at a friend's house where he had deliberately put his 16 GB microsd card (Transcend Class 10, in this case) so that we could check if the phone heated up & surprisingly IT DIDN'T !
We had tried playing a full hd vid in mx player at full volume & brightness for 4-7 mins & there was no sign of heating.
Did this happen because the card was of 16 GB & had considerably less videos/ because card was of different make?
I don't have own a 16GB card personally since my previous phone was a moto g & before that I owned a P500 (optimus one) in which I put a Transcend 8GB class IV card.
sujitmohanty2012 said:
thank u for taking the time to write back Coming to your questions, I will answer them in the order they are numbered
1. I haven't tried inserting an empty SD card & check if this issue comes up
2. No I don't have any xposed module installed but I do have an app installed called "folder mount" but I have disabled it from starting up automatically (on boot/ when network connectivity changes)
3. Ya..all this I have witnessed on stock v10d ROM & I haven't installed any custom rom on my current phone yet.
4. I will try doing that but that won't be a fix because my video library won't fit in there
I would like to also add here that a day before I took my phone to the service centre, I was at a friend's house where he had deliberately put his 16 GB microsd card (Transcend Class 10, in this case) so that we could check if the phone heated up & surprisingly IT DIDN'T !
We had tried playing a full hd vid in mx player at full volume & brightness for 4-7 mins & there was no sign of heating.
Did this happen because the card was of 16 GB & had considerably less videos/ because card was of different make?
I don't have own a 16GB card personally since my previous phone was a moto g & before that I owned a P500 (optimus one) in which I put a Transcend 8GB class IV card.
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Still cant know if its a software problem or a hardware problem until you test all of the above.
Does folder mount make your SDcard the internal memory?
Internal memory is heavily accessed by all Apps.
A 32 gb sd card will have twice the address length compared to a 16GB. At high speeds and at a high access rate, it may lead to a problem.
If you did swap SD an internal storage functions, you should consider switching back.
SD fix in Xposed module gives you full access to SD card. I think it is better than folder mount.
I do not own any 32 GB card of any company and hence cannot comment on hardware.
fear2433 said:
Still cant know if its a software problem or a hardware problem until you test all of the above.
Does folder mount make your SDcard the internal memory?
Internal memory is heavily accessed by all Apps.
A 32 gb sd card will have twice the address length compared to a 16GB. At high speeds and at a high access rate, it may lead to a problem.
If you did swap SD an internal storage functions, you should consider switching back.
SD fix in Xposed module gives you full access to SD card. I think it is better than folder mount.
I do not own any 32 GB card of any company and hence cannot comment on hardware.
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no it doesn't! it just makes mounts the app data so that the respective app understands it's in the internal memory. I haven't installed that xposed module for swapping external sd as internal memory yet but yes..I do have full write access to my sd card by installing SDfix app from playstore.
I think, I should insert a freshly formatted sd card (as u recommended), move current data to internal memory, test & then report here. Let me see how it goes.
I also have the same issue, mine is 16 gb sandisk sdhc card. Please let me know any work around.
Thanks
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sorabh.v6 said:
I also have the same issue, mine is 16 gb sandisk sdhc card. Please let me know any work around.
Thanks
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does it get as warm as that of mine? pls monitor the temp using a coolify and share ur details. is the principal content of your sd card : video? have you tried testing it with a sd card of a different make (transcend/strontium/kingston/sony/samsung etc)?
Yes while playing video on YouTube, playing games, it heats up and drain battery very quickly. Right now i m traveling so cannot do any sort of testing. But during travel, within 2 hrs of music listening using ear phones, it drained 10% battery.
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sorabh.v6 said:
Yes while playing video on YouTube, playing games, it heats up and drain battery very quickly. Right now i m traveling so cannot do any sort of testing. But during travel, within 2 hrs of music listening using ear phones, it drained 10% battery.
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My apologies for the delayed reply! you should consider removing the SD card fully and check if the isssue persists. Also try decreasing your SD card content or use a blank SD card/one that contains other data than that of yours. monitor the temp & then report
Sure, i'll
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Sorry for replying too late, i tried to run this phone without memory card but condition is still same. Battery backup not improved,
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i also have a 32gb class 10 memory card and a 16gb class 10, and it seems my battery life has reduced ever since (i got the cards about a week ago)