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Hi,
Please note that I know there is a thread at the top about SD card issues, but this post is not about locking up, this post is about 2i killing SD cards, thanks.
I have had my XDA 2i for about 3 months. When I first bought it, I bought a Viking 1GB SD card to use with it. After a month or so, the SD card died. At that time I thought I had a faulty SD card, so I bought another Viking 512MB SD card.
To my horror, it died as well today.
Can't read the cards in any of my readers.
So question is - do I have a faulty 2i? Is it a common problem at all? Or is there a design problem with 2i? Or is the 2i not compatible with Viking SD cards?
It seems like people have great success with the Transcent cards regarding the lock-up issue. So does anyone know whether it is going to solve this "murdering" problem?
Many thanks,
Wayne
I'm sure i have seen this type of post before...but to be honnest i think it might be an isolated case, perhpas its only that brand of card the XDAIIi will "Kill"
Its more than likely that what causes your XDA to kill the Viking SD cards is the same thing that only causes other SD cards to freeze.
So perhaps Viking cards are more sensative to the XDAIIi (pain in the ass) problem.
Hmm... i've had 3 SD cards die on me recently too (a PQI 1GB, a Sandisk 256MB and a Pretec 128MB)... i thought it was just a bizaare coincidence or something but now you come to mention it... :?
I've also had two viking 1gb cards die on me each within a few days of receiving them!!!! I now use a Sandisk Ultra II 2gb card which works great apart from TomTom locking up if I don't turn of the phone radio stack.
I bought a 1gb Viking Card from Ebuyer and after about 2/3 months it dided Just got my replacement so finges crossed
I've had a similar problem with my IIi I went through 2 512Mb unbranded cards from mymemory.co.uk in the space of 3 weeks. The first when screwy and reconfigured itself to be a 30Mb card. The second was completly unreadable. I put it down to me being a cheap-scate and buying unbranded products. :wink:
For the past six months I have been running without an SD related hitch (touch wood) using a Sandisk 1Gb Ultra II.
Same here.
The thing is that my 1Gb Viking card only lasted 4 days!!!!
:? :? :?
I want to get another kind of card but i´m no sure what´s the best one out there.
I think I am gonna give Transcend a go...
Viking is definitely a no-no.
Really shouldn't have just gone for the cheapest
Most SD cards have long warranty periods. Get on to either the manufacturer or the retailer and get them replaced. I once had a Sandisk card die on me and it was replaced straight away. Its replacement is still working in my digital camera now.
i too had a kingston totally die on me ,and at the same time i dropped my pda and it went skidding along the foor and was bust ,so i went back to o2 and told a small lie and so got a new 1 as it was only a week old at the time so i never found out if it was the pda or sd card ,i have now had the same sd card for a few months now no problem ...it's a transend
Those SD Card from Viking and Kingston are known faulty with XDA...
I never buy these brands of SD Card..
Try KingMax If U like, it works perfect with mine xda2 and xda2i
I had my 512 Mb Kingston SD card killed with my Alpine too
This is not a city-myth for me anymore..
Hmm... Did not heard something about broking A-Data's card. Now using one 150x 2Gb. No problems at all.
Killing SD cards
Hi
Yep same here 4 cards have been murdered by my XDA11i, a sandisk 256 and a couple of lesser sizes, all worked in my inbuilt laptop card reader till they went in the XDA. Now all i get is this card is write protected and its NOT!..Worse of all it also kills RS MMC out of my nokia 6680 so beware. These cards came brand new and played perfectly in the laptop then a couple of sessions in the XDA and bang This disk is write protected, they will be written to when in the nokia and synced by usb cable but the laptop will not write to them at all..
Getting dissapointed with the XDA11i doing this and constantly freezing looking like time to offload on ebay
Dave
OK MY Replacement Viking from Ebuyer has just died so, The Vkiings are not good for the XDA then.
hi,i popped in here after a freind pointed this out to me.
I have spent the last 3 mths checking out suppliers of sd memory for resale thru my business and most of the brands mentioned here are the ones ive come accross.
however whats not on the packet when you buy these wonders of technology is that they are modified from Rejects off the lines.
they are also modified from 128/256/512 low quality chips.
this means that compression routines have been applied to them to produce a fake formating size.
i found,purely by accident,that if you stick your sd card in a palm pda,it will read off the original manufacturers code which looks like this 0128********,0256*********,0512********* and tru 1 gig are 0000********.i personally have only just(after 3 mths)managed to secure a shipment that has been tested to be true 1 gig.thank god.
just thought this mite help you.
my sandisk died too
Bought a 1G sandisk card and ive only had it for 3months and all im getting with the 2i is a freezing screen.I soft reset at least 10 -20 times a day.Im begining to wonder if something is wrong with the 2i.Sometime the only way to start up normally is removing the card .Can someone please advice me which 1G card works best with 2i.I ve heard the transend work ok..Thanks
3 Solutions for SD cards that don't work anymore in a PDA !
1/ Try to format with your pc or other card reader (like in pc or printer).
2/ Try to format it with PocketMechanic (dowload the free trial)
There are many options : format logical, ntfs, fat, for digital
camera,pda,...
With this tool I could reformat the card and use it again
3/ Buy a Kingston Elite Pro card in future or other with LIFETIME WARANTY
I once had a card that couldn't be fixed from Kingston, it had LIFETIME
waranty! Yess KINGSTON ELITE PRO series offer that. I just posted it
internationally to London's office with RMA nr, and received a NEW SD
Card in plastic! Speaking of service!
Bought this card from an Ebay shop. I don't know how the service is
with other brands, but some have 5y waranty, you can try to return it.
Hope helping ya all!
XDAIIi still is the best, now an XDAIIi with build in GPS Antenna and we have a real all in solution
My XDAIIi might have killed Kingston 512 SD card
hi
I have a XDAIIi purchased about 4months ago.
My XDA IIi is having a lot of problems and it also may have killed my 2 months old kingston 512 MB SD card...
I tried some data recovery softwares but they did not help.
So I brought the damaged SD card to data resucue service but they could not fix data structure of SD card.... saying as below.
I have tested your SD Memory card. The card is certainly faulty. It’s a hardware fault with the memory unit. As s solid state memory ship there is no way to repair this. After further investigation, it appears this problem is very common and reports of the same brand sd card have also been reported on the internet.
I’m sorry but we have no way to extract the data off a faulty SD card like this. The size of the car is defaulting to the factory setting of 2 TB (which is HUGE!!) and other software reports it as a RAW card at 0mb.
Normally if for example the card has been accidentally formatted or the file system has been corrupted we could have easily recover the data but in this case of a hardware fault we have no method to help you. We have tried everything for you. As I told you, it was worth trying. There is no charge to you.
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And they suggested me to use less MB Sd card with the pda,
i have two other 256 sundisk SD cards but they seem to be OK.
regards
Tom
SD
Hi
Mine froze up repeatable until I found this site and removed my 128 ULTIMA. I then removed my PANASONIC 256 “Hi Speed” (supposedly but does not say what speed on the card) from my camera and all is good so far.:shock:
just wondering if it will, as there are some for £55 and all my mp3s on here will be ace!
read that it only takes 8GB?
thanks
in theory it should work since it handles any microsdhc card up to 32gb.it hasn't been tested for any cards over 8gb since none are buyable yet.
And those new 16GB micro sd cards should have been for sale somewhere in June or July.
But of course its August now and still no sign of them...
usually waiting longer is better so the products are perfected more and tested thoroughly.i don't think any of us want a card that goes totally corrupted within the first 6 months of usage
Well the second somebody purchases a 16G7 micro sd card plz do tel how it feels and of course..DOES IT WORK.
We are able to, most likely able to use up to 32gb...so 16 should work like a charm...for me the 8 gig doesn't seem like enough and I don't wanna ever buy another card again for my kaiser and future devices...I got my 2gig micro sd card for $10 on craigslist brand new..and it came with a very sick tool...a micro sd usb adapter..one of the best accessories for the kaiser or any micro sd ppc device. I use it all the time and every comp has a usb slot so its compatable with everything, its great for swapping cabs and documents quick.
l...So anyway plz whoever gets over an 8 gig sdhc card like a 16g plz tell us if it works and how fast it transfers files and all that.
where do you get them ?
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where do you get them ?
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More like when do you get them? They're not on the market yet.
Hi Guys
I'm thinking of getting this phone as my personal phone, I've spent a couple of hours asking LG some questions but the person I talked to didn't seem to know very much in detail about the phone. They did give me a manual however and on it it said that it takes a 64 GB SD card, the guy I talked to said it was micro SDHC, if I'm not mistaken micro SDHC stops at 32 GB and SDXC continues. I was told the maximum speed is class 4 but i wanted to ask you guys can this phone take a class 10 SDXC?. I'm also hoping there might be good development for the phone too, it should be able to handle most things you throw at it right? I'd love to have root for my Cerberus app and maybe unlock the bootloader.
While i talked to the guy i found out that they do something they call VOC (voice of customer) in the support chat, you have to ask for it but they take feedback from you about the phone. Maybe if there is enough of us giving them tips and telling them what we want they might make it happen.
Loving XDA since HTC Hermes :highfive:
SDXC is electrically compatible to SDHC, but they use another partion/storage-system (exFAT) that a SDHC device not knows,
a simple format to FAT32 does the trick
if you have windows you have to use a tool like Fat32format, since windows cannot format this size to fat32
One thing you might want to know is that you can't install apps or move app data to your external micro sd with this phone. So, a 64gb card (or any other card for that matter) will only let you store music, videos, pics, etc., but not apps, at least while there is no root access.
will the 4X be able to read exFat? i'd like to use a 64GB card without formatting it just yet and i don't like the 4GB limit on fat32 i might carry an iso on the sd card or a large movie.
So what's the fastest speed all you guys have with optimus 4x on their sd card? can it read at class 10?
EDIT: Stupid me, i just realised there was a Q & A section. Is there a way for me to move the thread myself? or ask a Mod to do it for me?
Hi,
In a week or two, I would like to upgrade my SD card. 2GB card that came with the phone is way too small to hold a larger amount of media, namely MP3s, videos, pictures, backups, and the like.
What I was thinking was to buy a card with at least 8GB of storage, and the highest class possible for the X8 to handle. Several questions arise from this.
Are there any compatibility issues regarding the class, size and type of SD card with our phone? Can I just buy a 32GB class 10 card and be happy with it, or is it better to buy a card with more conservative characteristics?
There is this Kingston card here on the market that's quite cheap, yet it claims to be class 10. What are your experiences with Kingston cards and are they any good?
Lastly, can someone point me to the best and safest way to move all data to a new card from the current one, while preserving all references and data in the process? Keep in mind I have a number of apps on my SD card.
First nackup all your apps via titanium backup.
Now copy the old sd cards content into the newer one.
Now restore the apps via titanium backup...
Sent from my iXperiA 8s using xda premium
xWhiskey said:
Hi,
In a week or two, I would like to upgrade my SD card. 2GB card that came with the phone is way too small to hold a larger amount of media, namely MP3s, videos, pictures, backups, and the like.
What I was thinking was to buy a card with at least 8GB of storage, and the highest class possible for the X8 to handle. Several questions arise from this.
Are there any compatibility issues regarding the class, size and type of SD card with our phone? Can I just buy a 32GB class 10 card and be happy with it, or is it better to buy a card with more conservative characteristics?
There is this Kingston card here on the market that's quite cheap, yet it claims to be class 10. What are your experiences with Kingston cards and are they any good?
Lastly, can someone point me to the best and safest way to move all data to a new card from the current one, while preserving all references and data in the process? Keep in mind I have a number of apps on my SD card.
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1.THERE'S NO LIMITS FOR SDCARD CLASS.
HIGHER SD CLASS MEANS HIGHER WRITE/READ SPEED. NO OTHER DIFFERENCE!
2. A 32GB MEMORY CARD ON OUR PHONE IS POSSIBLE ****BUT****
U CAN'T RUN MEMORY CARD IF U PUT MORE THAN 16 GIGABYTES DATA(MUSIC,APP,...) PHONE SAYS DAMAGED SDCARD, FORMAT !
BUY 32 GB AT UR OWN RISK!
*KINGSTON IS NOT PERFECT ,IT'S JUST GOOD, ALL SDCARDS MANUFACTURED IN CHINA HAVE THE SAME PERFORMANCE.(in my opinion Kingston is the best in Chinese market)
3.move via pc with data cable (or a card reader ,not recommended. )
Format new card with phone.
#my sd: PNY ©10 -16GB
read speed :max 36mbs
Write speed: max 8mbs
Owned about 3 months+using 200mb swap partition -no problems at all
Sorry for my terrible English!
Sent From My Black DRAGON
dagger said:
First nackup all your apps via titanium backup.
Now copy the old sd cards content into the newer one.
Now restore the apps via titanium backup...
Sent from my iXperiA 8s using xda premium
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Thanks for the tip. I ran the batch for "Backup all user apps". Suppose "Restore all apps with data" is the last step?
EDIT: Also, there's really a lot of junk on the card, now that I think of it. Is it just possible to move the Titanium backup onto the newer card, along with some other things (pictures, ROM backups, etc.), perform the restore, and forget about the rest? Will there be any side-effects?
No there wont be any side effect.
Android creasts the necessary folders itself..
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Hey XDA developer dudes, I have just bought a 200gb SD card and I want to transfer some apps and games to it to reserve device space ... How do I do that? I don't recall it being so hard on my Note 3 years ago (except that SD cards were slow and burnt out after a short time back then - hopefully not the case today!)
Thanks!