I was wondering since I got the bestbuy protection plan if I could go to the ATT store and get the 32gb card since they say its compatible. Will they even put the card in?
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I would say you can try. But the microSD card isn't supposed to be upgradeable; at least not by us, the users.
Your protection plan won't cover that. Once AT&T starts tinkering with it (or anyone else for that matter), it technically voids your Best Buy warranty.
Backup first!!!!!!
Happily voided my warranty 3 days ago
I can confirm the 32GB Micro SD from AT&T works in the Surround! Just a word of caution and should be common sense anyway. Backup everything, photos, music, etc before you change the card out. Make a list of your apps too. I know better but in my haste I forgot. I'm only missing a few pics so no biggie. Once I realized I forgot I figured I'd just swap the cards back later and backup pics again then swap the SD out again. DIDN'T WORK.
On reboot with the new 32GB card the phone will not see the new size of memory until you hard reset to format the memory. Once you enter your MS Live info again it will quickly recover your contacts then sync with Zune and restore all your media. Some apps will restore themselves (several I had deleted somehow auto-restored) but for the most part you need to search for them all over again and re-install. I miss the "auto-install" folder for WM6.5.
What didn't work was trying to go back to the original 16GB card. It seems the phone cannot reboot with a smaller card. That's the only conclusion I have. I hadn't tried to reformat the old card yet or anything. Putting the old card back just causes the phon eto keep cycling on and off to the HTC screen. Nothing else. Put back the 32GB card and everything is fine.
you could use any 32 gb card .. BUT 1 exeption card must be brand . sundinsk label does not mean anything .. you must confirm that card does not chineese fake .
succesfully used 32 gb card
SUNDISK 32 GB 2 class
before insert i confirm SN on sundisk site ..
A class 2??? I was thinking atleast a class 4 and preferably 10 if they make msd cards that fast. So how long does it take for you to sync with your class 2?
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ryan00793 said:
A class 2??? I was thinking atleast a class 4 and preferably 10 if they make msd cards that fast. So how long does it take for you to sync with your class 2?
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According to MS the class of the card is not the only factor.
"Determining whether an SD card is Windows Phone 7 compliant is not a simple matter of judging its speed class. Several other factors, such as the number of random read/write operations per second, play a role in determining how well an SD card performs with Windows Phone 7 devices."
More info here, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2450831
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Going from a 2 gig SD to an 8 gig SD..
Is it as simple enough that i just make a copy of ALL the stuff on the original SD and copy it to the new one?
/EDIT- is anyone running an 8 gig SD with no problems, i heard its gotta be a class 6 or ill get unmounting problems?
If you don't use an ext partition just copy and paste your files.
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dont buy class 4 sd card of any size. class 4 cards dont work with optimus one. they will keep unmounting. any other class or size card will work. aka class 2,6,10
the class of the card is determined by the clad number depicted on the card itself. a class 2 card will have the digit 2 written inside a small circle. same way with all other classes.
higher class means faster operation and probably more cost.
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dont buy class 4 sd card of any size. class 4 cards dont work with optimus one. they will keep unmounting. any other class or size card will work. aka class 2,6,10
the class of the card is determined by the clad number depicted on the card itself. a class 2 card will have the digit 2 written inside a small circle. same way with all other classes.
higher class means faster operation and probably more cost.
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hello I bought an optimus one p500h yesterday and it comes with a 8gb class4, and it works ok.
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dont buy class 4 sd card of any size. class 4 cards dont work with optimus one. they will keep unmounting. any other class or size card will work. aka class 2,6,10
the class of the card is determined by the clad number depicted on the card itself. a class 2 card will have the digit 2 written inside a small circle. same way with all other classes.
higher class means faster operation and probably more cost.
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Since I keep seeing vagueness wrt exactly what the class rating of an SDHC card means, I'll spell it out:
Class X: guarantees MINIMUM write through put of X MB/s period nothing more nothing less.
i.e. read speeds can be anything as they're not mentioned by spec, latency can be anything again as not mentioned by spec, etc.
In the pre-SDHC days the VERY best uSD cards were those made in Japan by Toshiba(only manufacturer of uSD cards in Japan, might be re-badged but made in Japan is the giveaway). They maintained good read/write throughput and relatively low latency even when full. (All of those numbers tended to decrease as a uSD card became more filled.)
Made in Taiwan were next up. Passable, but no where near as good as Japanese.
Made in China bottom of the heap. I'd really only recommend using them if you had no other choice. Or could get by with R/W throughputs and latencies that were relatively poor and got much worse as the card became filled.
Also note there DOES exist a fairly rare pre-SDHC 4GB uSD card. I've never seen one personally but I know that they exist. Most were 128MB - 2GB.
Not sure if this still applies with SDHC as the controller electronics were changed and the min. write throughput spec added (mostly for video recording!).
All of this said I've got a PNY class 4 4GB uSD card that I'll have to try. The card is badged as PNY so I'm not certain who the mfg actually is. I'll see if I can't dig it up later IF it actually works correctly. (Only bought some of these since a b&m store actually had them at a close to decent price of $10 and they were suitable for my other devices.)
OK :|
Mass confusion now, i dont use a custom rom, so i dont need a partion, sweet will just copy across, im using a class 4 card now and its working fine so not sure what class to get, i thought it was just a problem with this fone that happened to ALL classes.
Vivasanti said:
OK :|
Mass confusion now, i dont use a custom rom, so i dont need a partion, sweet will just copy across, im using a class 4 card now and its working fine so not sure what class to get, i thought it was just a problem with this fone that happened to ALL classes.
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I have a class 10 sd card, but its made in china and its very low quality.. The read and write speeds are totally unpredictable. Sometimes i get read speeds of 20Mbps, but other times, i get 2-3Mbps. It is these kind of low quality cards that you must avoid. Good quality Class 4s will not cause an unmount.
Eg: Sandisk Ultra (Class 4) are way faster than Transcend (class 4)
(From what i have seen personally)
One more thing, it was reported that Android 2.2.2 fixed the unmount problem. So, incase you experience unmounts, you can even try using a 2.2.2 ROM.
I have class 6 transcenfld and it's super fast. Around 11 mb write and 20 read.
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Thanks guys, im still running 2.2, ill make sure to grab a class 4 card (i currently have a class 4 with no problems)
i have sandisk class 4, 8gig card. took from nokia 5800. working without problems
If u experience unmount prob jst flash ur ph wid mik's kernel
It has solved my unmount n restarting problems
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I think if u can find a 8GB class 4 Patriot microSD card... just get it... i'm using it and no problem at all... stay away from A-Data or Kingston cards... most of people that having unmounting problems using these cards.
PS. this problem exists just in Froyo when u partition your card to install programs on SD. if u don't wanna use this feature... or if u wanna use Mik's Gingerbread... take any microSD you want. but if u wanna use this feature i think Patriot Card would be better.
I use a Sandisk 4 GB class 4 card and still have unmount problems.
simple copy past is not working if you are using app2sd.
if u copy and paste u will have to reinstall all the apps but the data will be ok try titanium backup (did not tested titanium, but fkd up everything when i tried with copy and paste )
Hey there fellow XDA members.
I caught wind of the deal that is going on at "1saleaday" early this morning and wanted to hop on it right away, but i decided to ask here first for some more knowledgeable advice. I currently have the stock 8GB which if I'm not mistaken is a class 4. Would it be wise to switch to the 32GB class 4? I did my research on how Class 2 and 4 cards have better random access speed and random read/write than class 6 or 10 cards in general. Source
I'm mainly using it for flashing rom's and themes, photos, music, etc. So what class would you guys suggest? Also if anyone has jumped on the deal, is it legit? What are your experiences as far as shipping time?
Thanks for any info on this matter.
Finally, as far as making the switch from one memory card to another, is it just transferring the data "drag & drop" style? or is it more complex?
Link if interested
SanDisk 32GB Class 4 -$29.99 + $5 Shipping
I don't think you'll see a performance change going from 1 class 4 to another regardless of size, but I could be wrong.
as far as transferring data - yes. Drag and drop. I've copied whole sd card to the pc, put new card in, then copied data from pc to new card. But, you may have to do it in small parts at a time - I kept getting freezes and such but my card at the time was bad too (why I was switching) and my computer also wasnt at 100%
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I don't think you'll see a performance change going from 1 class 4 to another regardless of size, but I could be wrong.
as far as transferring data - yes. Drag and drop. I've copied whole sd card to the pc, put new card in, then copied data from pc to new card. But, you may have to do it in small parts at a time - I kept getting freezes and such but my card at the time was bad too (why I was switching) and my computer also wasnt at 100%
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Speed wise i don't mind, as long as it works exactly like my current one but with more storage space I'm a happy camper.
Your a little late to the party. I started this thread at 2am this morning in the accessories sub forum.
so I just bought this card cause I use lots of storage space pretty quickly, My question is wtf is going on here? it just sticks on "checking for errors" and never gets past it, it mounted up once and while I was dumping files on it over USB from my computer (in usb mass storage mode) both it and my internal storage just disappeared, the copy operation failed, so I restarted the phone and I have yet to get the phone to mount it since then.
I'm running eclipse 1.3rc2, is this because of the sd flip-flop, the size of the card or the fact that it's class 10?
the card works perfectly fine in my camera, and in multiple PCs, but as soon as I stick it in my X2, it just doesn't want to work.
I noticed the stock SD card has a "bootable" partition flag, whereas this one doesn't. maybe this is my problem?
also what filesystem should I use, I run linux on my PCs so I can do whatever I want with it.
what if I just delete its partition table, put it in the phone and then let the phone format it? I've reformatted it with my PC and no dice.
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so I just bought this card cause I use lots of storage space pretty quickly, My question is wtf is going on here? it just sticks on "checking for errors" and never gets past it, it mounted up once and while I was dumping files on it over USB from my computer (in usb mass storage mode) both it and my internal storage just disappeared, the copy operation failed, so I restarted the phone and I have yet to get the phone to mount it since then.
I'm running eclipse 1.3rc2, is this because of the sd flip-flop, the size of the card or the fact that it's class 10?
the card works perfectly fine in my camera, and in multiple PCs, but as soon as I stick it in my X2, it just doesn't want to work.
I noticed the stock SD card has a "bootable" partition flag, whereas this one doesn't. maybe this is my problem?
also what filesystem should I use, I run linux on my PCs so I can do whatever I want with it.
what if I just delete its partition table, put it in the phone and then let the phone format it? I've reformatted it with my PC and no dice.
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When I got the 8gb card and using now it was acting weird ...would copy files when in the phone. I formatted it using the phone and it has worked fine since.
Good luck.
I can't say it will work for u but it cured the problems I had at the time.
just make sure u format the right card since in eclipse its switched around and recognized as internal in menu.
well, It took exchanging it for a class 4, and now it seems perfectly fine.
so note to self (and others)
NO CLASS 10 CARDS IN DROID X2, IT DOESN'T FN WORK!
Cheapxj said:
well, It took exchanging it for a class 4, and now it seems perfectly fine.
so note to self (and others)
NO CLASS 10 CARDS IN DROID X2, IT DOESN'T FN WORK!
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I don't think that is true...I thought I saw plenty of users say they use them.
Mine is class 6 and works just fine
Did u try formatting from in the phone while stock? Don't know if that would make a difference at all
I didn't read one single thread from someone successfully using a class 10 card without having issues, sometimes it took a few days/weeks, it only took me one mount/dismount cycle.
besides, the class 10 cards, while having a higher sustained transfer rate, their seek times and random access times are overall slower. basically these class 10 cards are ONLY good for digital video cameras and things that don't actually utilize a filesystem.
that or they're getting cheap chinese cards that are just remarked class 6 cards, the X2 can't read and write to a class 10 fast enough resulting in data corruption, period.
Yeah im not arguing
I understand what ur saying now
I can confirm class 6 being completely fine tho
I think the "issues" I had was the file size I was trying to transfer(4gb)
I don't think it's the class rating but the capacity. In my experience 32 gb cards just aren't as reliable as smaller-capacity ones. Perhaps it's a consequence of packing too many memory cells into such a small form factor, I don't know, but I've had three 32 gb micro-SD cards fail on me since the beginning of the year, whereas not a single 16 gb card has failed me yet.
I just dumped 4.8gb of crap on it, over usb and it took it like a champ, it's also significantly faster than the stock 8gb card in terms of mounting, remounting, scanning my media and even opening up fileexpert is faster.
class 6 i'm sure is fine, probably the best balance, but I can even take HD video straight to this card with no frame dropping or glitching. it's currently playing hd video on my hotel room TV right off the SD card w/ no issues (the stock 8gb couldn't do that)
Ha. Mine came wit a 2gb class 2 sdcard ...
Wait...now that I think about it.. I had bought a droid pro initially. It had a screen issue...I took it back and paid extra to get the x2. Then I told em I didn't wanna lose my pics/video I had taken and he switched the cards. So I guess he basically just kept the one I wax supposed to get instead of moving my data to the new one....prick...
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I don't think it's the class rating but the capacity. In my experience 32 gb cards just aren't as reliable as smaller-capacity ones. Perhaps it's a consequence of packing too many memory cells into such a small form factor, I don't know, but I've had three 32 gb micro-SD cards fail on me since the beginning of the year, whereas not a single 16 gb card has failed me yet.
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what brand(s)?
I'm using a Patriot LX 32GB Class 10 MicroSDHC now. I came from a Lexar 32GB class 10 which failed within a month. I haven't had any problems with the Patriot.
i am using a class 4 32gb card and transfer 16g of music on and off at one time constantly with no problems. i have had it since july
ninjasailas said:
i am using a class 4 32gb card and transfer 16g of music on and off at one time constantly with no problems. i have had it since july
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post the brand too.... this info is not useful.
in my case the 32gb class 10 pny card worked fine in everything but this damn phone.
L2_n19h7m4r3 said:
I'm using a Patriot LX 32GB Class 10 MicroSDHC now. I came from a Lexar 32GB class 10 which failed within a month. I haven't had any problems with the Patriot.
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I use the 16gb of this and it works great. I did hear more than once that even a good 32 gb can be a problem.
My pny class 10 32gb is still rockin with not a single error
from my X2 roaming the north
is it ok to buy 16 gb sd card for my mini not pro
i mean that the won't be slow ....etc ?
it is ok, i have an x10mini too, and i'm using a 16gb sdcard in it, and it's working very fine and fast, so just go buy it and enjoy
Here another 16GB SD card user.
For me its perfect, I have no feeling that it slow down or something
i got a new 16GB SDHC card couple of weeks ago, but since then my phone sometimes restarted itself, and some apps is running very bad, particularly Waze (it's a GPS programm). I tried to format the card with the PC and phone also, but still same results. I had a 2GB card, and had no any problem it all...
Any ideas what may be the problem?
Thank you in advance
I'm using 16 GB card, and my phone is speed. It's no slowest xD
Can you tell me please what card exactly do you use?
Thank you
i use 16gb sdhc class 6.. work very well!
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i use 16gb sdhc class 6.. work very well!
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10x, but what is the brand of the card?
dima_vy said:
10x, but what is the brand of the card?
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Buy this..
Sandisk..
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B001F7AJKI/ref=mp_s_a_1?qid=1323809459&sr=8-1
Thanx!
This one i already had, and sucessfully returned to ebay top-seller. I ordered kingstone, i hope it will be better
I have A-data 16GB sdhc 10 class and it is working perfectly, even with apps on sd.
In case someone need a check about SD working
I have a SD 16GB Kodak class 4 and it works perfectly on my Mini
Problem with SanDisk 16GB microSDHC
I also already had a 16 GB SanDisk, I bought it on amazon. I'm still trying to return it, my phone restarts every time I try to format it.
i tryed a sandisk 16gb too but restarts alwasy
after buying a new one from kingston class 4 it works perfectly
sry for bad english
I have A-data 16GB sdhc 10 class and when i copy my files and i extract from the pc my phone don't recognize my memory and when i insert one more time and say my pc that the memory don't have format and i have to format one more time. Someone can i help me?
try formatting the block size to 32KB
An sd card does not need to be formated only hdd do... What couldve hapend is that your boot sector got screwed up. Try putting your sd card in an card reader and connect it to the pc. On windows 7 go to start type cmd and hit enter. Then type: chkdsk /X /F /A:, where A: is your card reader. Hit enter and wait. I revived a couple SD Card by this method. Without losing any data!
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I have a Class4 16 gb card. Worked well so far.
Guys - Can we lose the personal criticism here - this thread is bang on the money with a problem I'm really struggling with and I'd hate for the thread just to become a shouting match.
My daughters x10 Mini Pro (running latest paul-xxx version of CM7) is just refusing to play nicely with a Sandisk 8Gig Class 4 SDHC which has prviously worked perfectly in a Samsung Genio.
On the 8 Gig card music jumps between tracks as you are listening , apps moved to SD Card refuse to run, photos save OK and will open once in Gallery but then the jpgs get corrupted and cannot be reopened on the phone or when transfered to a PC.... and to crown it all I get random reboots/freezes.
If I drop back to an old Kingston 2 Gig Micro-SD (ie non-SDHC) everything on the phone works fine and yet when I format the 8Gig card on my PC, there are never any errors and I can then copy files on and off the card (via the card reader in the PC) multiple times with no issues.
Is this just a somewhat more extreme example of other peoples experiences or would you suspect my micro SD is b*ggered?
I suspect that this "quality" Sony phone is just so sensitive to SDHC cards that I need to get one which others can confirm works reliably and stick to it.
For now my daughter is content to run with the 2 Gig card and have a stable, working phone but obviously she'd like to carry more than a dozen Albums and Apps at any time.
Any advice?
I have seen one mention of someone having problems with their 64gb microSD card. Something about only being able to put on 3 games.
Now I asked them if perhaps they got a fake card, the card or their phone might be faulty? And if they have tried to get replacements.
As I have seen many on here talking about and buying various 64gb ranging from class 6 to class 10 / uhs 1..
I see people running speed tests and all around touting their happiness with it's performance in the SGS3.
So my question is how many, if any, have a problem with their SD on their SGS3?
Provide, if you would be so kind, any details that would help, such as brand, size, model.
I really hope it's an isolated issue.
Thanks,
-CC
had no problems with mine, just put it in and it worked straight away, using a
Sandisk 64gb microsdxc class 10 uhs 1
With only a few votes, so far with 6 Sandisk 64gb microSDXC class 10 uhs 1 owners..
Looking good in hopes for my delivery from Amazon in 5 weeks
We've got 8 votes for 64gb class 10 and no posted complaints from those 8 on this thread at least. Sounds promising still so far
I'm using a Sandisk 64gb microsdxc class 10, however sync seem to fail with Mediamonkey and Media player.
Initial sync works fine writing 40GB of mp3 however subsequent sync reports error/hang.
Card works fine in a PC and I tested it with 50GB of 1080P movies, it copied there well and played back flawlessly, so I think my card is good..
However there is something up with MTP sync....
Found 3 others people with the same issue here: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=66514
I'm gonna try syncing with kies tonight...
Everyone posting success with their 64GB sdxc, can you specific how you sync your media to the card?
Just straight drag and drop, Windows Media Player, Media Monkey, Songbird etc ?
I have a 64GB but I don't get my phone until (hopefully) later today. I did vote, I'll let you know how it goes until I get the S3.
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I have a 64GB but I don't get my phone until (hopefully) later today. I did vote, I'll let you know how it goes until I get the S3.
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Thanks you, you can also report issue here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28671275#post28671275
The only problem is that you can cannot install programs in the Extsdcard because the galaxy s3 says the internal memory card IS NOT REAL, BUT IT IS EMULATED,
it doesn't mention at all that you have a 64gb in The Extsdcard...... AND I have a GENUINE 64 GB SanDisk ExtSd installed...
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In the phone specifications you only have a 32gb external memori but if you format the 64gb sd inside sgs3 sometimes it recognizes it well. Try everything. :good:
Im using the 64GB class 10 and I did find I had to reformat it to fat32 as I was getting problems with exfat, like unseen folders in mtp mode and missed songs in my music folder even though all files were there.
Since then no probs at all and I use a drag drop system with syncing media although the 1st time I transfered my itunes songs(1922 tunes) I converted them all to mp3 and put the sdcard into an adaptor to speed up the transfer.
My 64gb ExtSd is working fine the problem is when trying to move apps to it with programs like Move2sd and the like. Then it says that the my Internal memory. Is NOT REAL BUT EMULATED
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I am having great problems with a 64gb Class 10 card. If the data is copied to the disk before being inserted in the phone it registers as a damaged card.
However if you clear all the data via the PC then insert the blank disk it is recognised normally. You can then transfer the same data via a USB link from the PC via the MTP application. You may well have to load the Samsung USB drivers.
Sadly if you restart the phone it immediately reverts to the damaged card error message and you have to go all through the same procedure again. No ideal.