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Swelldisk 300% - Any Comments?

Has anyone bought and used Swelldisk 300%?
I understand it uses a compression technique, so it will slow down the device, but it would be really nice to have 768MB SD / Wifi rather than 256 MB. That would let me put almost 200 songs on the SD.
I have searched about the software online, but were not able to find any reviews on it. If it runs as promised, I think $40 would be worth it.
some pda related sites, as well as handango, etc. advertises it.
here is the link: www.swelldisk.com

Didn't use is.. But I don't think you can store more mp3/wma files on a swelldisk preparated SD than on a standard formatted SD..
MP3/WMA's cannot be compressed more that they already are...
I would buy a new SD card for that amount of money.

Hello ..
Im using this software .
gotit from pocketgear.
Im using a 2GB SD card and now using SwellDisk300% have 5.8GB of space indicated by rescoexplorer and tools.
sad to say there is no demo to test it.
I took the risk.
up to now im satisfied
I think this is something similar...http://www.pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=22364

I used this software and everything went well for some time. Suddenly the data on de drive could not be read anaymore. I had to reinstall a lot of software and restore data. So i will never use this software again.

how about de performance?
rastaman said:
I used this software and everything went well for some time. Suddenly the data on de drive could not be read anaymore. I had to reinstall a lot of software and restore data. So i will never use this software again.
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hi,
so how about the performance affected? i am interested in it but afraid of large degrade of performance on my prophet with such a low CPU speed...

Windows Mobile 5 upgrade for MPx series phones

This might be a bit long winded, but I'll get there eventually. I have had all the MPx series phones, I had the MPx200 and hated it. The MPx220 was buggy until I just recently put the latest firmware on it, but really there are much better clamshell style smartphones out there. Now I'm playing around with the MPx (or MPx 300) and running headlong into the RAM limitations.
I've tried many many memory freeing programs, and systematically went through startup folders and file folders deleting stuff, locking the phone up, resetting, loading from backup, or reflashing and reloading from backup. Basically I've got as much out of it as I can. And, to be honest with respect to RAM, I am ok within the confines of the on board memory.
Then I see an ebay ad for a MPx200 with WM05:
http://cgi.ebay.com/MPX200-UNLOCKED...ryZ64355QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
And apparently someone has figured out how to use the SD card for a portion of the OS's RAM or ROM files in addition to getting WM 05 to run on the MPx200. So, I got to thinking, well why not do that with the -300 as well. I contacted that seller and a couple others on ebay, with no responses. So, I went searching other forums and was eventually led here.
If you made it this far, congrats. Now for the questions:
1) Do any of you know the background to that WM 05 upgrade to the MPx200? Was it someone here who figured it out? I searched but turned up nothing.
2) I'm a newbie when it comes to coding cell phone stuff, no idea on apps or whatever... I learned programming with Fortran77 for god's sake... lol. Anyway, I see all the apps and ROMS for the HTC phones and was wondering if the tools would work for the Moto phone as well, or am I barking up the wrong tree? Basically I'm toying with the idea of cooking up a WM05 or 06 for my MPx300. Yes, I understand I might brick the thing. I've come to terms with that.
Thanks all. I appreciate any input you all might have.

"and running headlong into the RAM limitations."
sorry cant help you but if you manage
you may be the first person in history who
fixed ram limitations by getting a newer microsoft operating system

LOL. I hear that. (but isn't crossbow actually better on RAM/ROM allocation than 05 was?)
But did you look at the link? On edit: that auction no longer explains that the phone will shut down if you remove the card while it is on because the new OS requires more memory and it was taken from the card. From the description it looks like the newer OS is using the SD card for a portion of its RAM... I realize that isn't a built in kind of thing, but was fishing here hoping someone knew enough to help me do this, or point me in the direction of someone who could... if not actually finding the person who figured it out.
Anyway, I realize this is primarily a HTC kind of site, I've been looking around on PPC addicts for a while, and it seems to me that the level of coding modification and experiance here is much greater than there, hence my asking over here.
Anyway, appreciate any or all help. Heck, even just thoughts about this at this point would be useful.

Here we go...
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=785800&highlight=MPx200
Post number 14.

Kingston 4gb minisd...

It is really freaking slow AND is never recognized by my 8125. I cant partition it either through windows or wm5storage. It transfers at about 30k/sec.... rediculously slowl. Im running XDA Mobile 6 Release 5 FINAL full!. Is there any patch or update or trick I can pull to get my 8125 to recognize my 4gb kingston minisd? Or atleast increse its speed?
Thanks,
Rico

iamrico00 said:
It is really freaking slow AND is never recognized by my 8125. I cant partition it either through windows or wm5storage. It transfers at about 30k/sec.... rediculously slowl. Im running XDA Mobile 6 Release 5 FINAL full!. Is there any patch or update or trick I can pull to get my 8125 to recognize my 4gb kingston minisd? Or atleast increse its speed?
Thanks,
Rico
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I am sorry but Wizard is not suporting 4GB miniSD card very well. Some people reported, that some cards are working, but almost all are not working specialy because new cards are SDHC which need more specific hardware. So if it is your case and your card is SDHC there is no chance to get it work. If not make sure your card is formated to FAT16, try it in some memory card reader, if it works. And at the end this is not a good thread for memory cards. And 4GB miniSD cards have been already discused in Wizard accessories or Wizard upgrading thread, so search there your answers...

Try this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=293556
I was just about to, but I got side-tracked, and now it's unreasonably late. I'll try it tomorrow if you will....

Scuse me lady...
Are you xtremely sure that this works...? it works for you?
Does you know that if you instal a hardware patch it never recognize the SD slot none SD card till you upgrade again or hardreset and it will cost many info?
so...
A men On hermes thread told me the newer versions of porting ROMS Builds has an entrie that allow read SDHC I think since 20273 but....
Does your wizard has it? seee on my Shipped ROM from Hermes WM6.0 already comes with this Reg entrie and so...
Is not the Software... cause if it would... the old .1933 that builds the rom I have it never comes ok? so...
You can see if the wizard has it and try this... I cant recomend it but make a high research and try it before post try this
its not recomended to do that...
first make it on your then recomend...
This is the REG
HKLM/drivers/sdcard/clientdrivers/class/SDmemoryclass
"inside... High_Capacity and many inside too...
Block transfer
dll
iclass
prefix
profile
So...
if wanna try it...
search for it on hermes threads.

So I tried it today (Sat, 11/8)
It didn't work, and nothing blew up, either. I guess I appreciate the recommendation, though.
Yes, I know there's a lot out there to try to solve this, but this looked easy, and I thought I'd offer it since you seemed to be looking for things to try.
I think I was very clear about not having tried it yet, so why did you ask me if I was sure it worked?
I back up everything daily, so it's pretty easy for me to reflash, or hard reset. No "data cost" ever. I'd recommend it. I guess being prepared makes me look pretty reckless when it comes to trying new things.
The fix also includes dlls, I didn't bother analyzing it, checking to see what the reg entry was in the fix, checking my own registry, or reading any Hemes threads. I don't have time. Again, if it blows up, I can handle it. If I weren't fully backed up I'd spend more time doing research on the dozens of fixes I try than I do backing up and recovering (I haven't had to for over a year, now). I don't generally care about the code details and what happens on other gadgets I will never own.
Good luck with this.
P.S. Please check my signature.

i am using amp v3 rom wm6.1
ust want to know how much capacity does wizard can supoort.
i have 1gb working well,can i upgrade to 2/3 gb & works well...

have you tried the SanDisk microSD with adapter?
I have it working on mine. faster than the old 1gb Kingston I used to have. It maybe the problem with the card it self.
try a different brand, or try the "ultra" series as well. they may have a better transfer rate as they were made for video games.
there is also an issue with formating the card:
if you decide to format using xp to fat32 it will run slower. unfortunately, the only way to recover it propperly was to put it into my camera and have it format back to fat16. xp would not do it.
again, i think your problem is kingston. they are good for ram on PC/MAC; but i do not think they have gotten the sd memory dow yet. next time get the origional "SD/SanDisk II"
good luck.

The speed is fine after I formated back to fat 16, thanks to my handy camera. But I cant seem to partition the damn thing into two 2gb cards... any thoughts? Ive done the wm5storage, card reader, xp/vista, partition magic, fdisk thing and none have worked thus far. Thoughts?
Rico

krishan2207 said:
Hi
Its a registry hack just go to hklm/drivers/sdcard/clientdrivers/class/sdmemory_class and here modify the value of "Blocktransfersize" from 128 to 64 it fix the media player sound cracking but also slightly decrease the data writing speed on ur card. this will not harm ur card and ur card will work perfectly with ur card reader and if u dont use the card reader than when u want to transfer large amount of data(above 256 mb) u can increase this value upto 512.
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to help with transfer rate... maybe that can be a solution??
just backup the reg key's nessesary.
as far as partitioning the mbr on a flash card...
I have no idea.
BUT
search for NUE TOOLS (could be "neu tools" ..
this dude has been doing some sick stuff. Some of his software may be able to help.

32GB SDHC Card

Hi I've searched the forum about this but cant really find any definitive answers.
Is it possible to run a 32GB SDHC card on the Uni or not?
Has anybody done this and currently using it and if so is there any drawbacks or restrictions etc?
What driver/Software is needed for it to be recognised is it the normal SDHC prog that comes with some cooked 6.1 roms or is it another?
This is the same card as the one i have ordered is it compatible?
Thnx for any help/Advice you can give

I have heard of 32GB cards running on a Uni. (I've only got 8GB, though)... but now you've ordered it, you'll be able to enlighten us whether it works I'm sure many people would be interested, and this is what xda-devs is all about, all chipping in a bit of info

Will be happy to post results, was just hoping somebody had already tested and had some info already, Searched forums but seems nobody has actually tried it out yet.
Will try it first oob then try the sdhc driver and see what happens.

I can confirm that you can use 32GB SD Card with Uni. I am using one from Silicon Power and you need to select appropriate Card type using 'SD Settings' program after inserting it. The program will ask you to reboot the device and once done, its business as usual.
Almost all 6.1 Roms recognised and I have not experienced any issues in using 16GB Card.
Hope this helps.

This is very usefull info!
Thanks,

Perfect
it would be an excelente notice, I already own one 16 gb running wm 6.1, and let me tell you that i have not room on it.
Pls let us know your comments
Saludos

rbalu72 said:
I can confirm that you can use 32GB SD Card with Uni. I am using one from Silicon Power and you need to select appropriate Card type using 'SD Settings' program after inserting it. The program will ask you to reboot the device and once done, its business as usual.
Almost all 6.1 Roms recognised and I have not experienced any issues in using 16GB Card.
Hope this helps.
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Are you talking about a 16GB card or a 32Gb card, ??

I received my16Gb card today and spent some time getting stuff on it - movies, music, setup .CABs etc, seems to be performing fine, the only difficulty I experienced is the card not being recognised by my computer in USB mode, not sure why, had no problems accessing it through AS. Therefore it is taking me longer to transfer large files or folders over. Othere than that there seems to be no problems performance-wise. Would be interesting to know how the 32Gb performs.

Waiting for the result .... hope it works great..... please let us know.....

The card has now arrived and it was recognised straight away on setting 2 with the SD-Settings app. Im gunna transfer everything across and install some apps and test everything out etc and post back soon
Can anybody recommend any tests i can do to make sure everything is working normally etc, Im gunna do the benchmark test with pocket mechanic but is there any other progs that can test it?

SPB Benchmark http://www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/benchmark/
VSBenchmark http://vsbenchmark.en.softonic.com/windowsmobile

ATHiEST said:
The card has now arrived and it was recognised straight away on setting 2 with the SD-Settings app. Im gunna transfer everything across and install some apps and test everything out etc and post back soon
Can anybody recommend any tests i can do to make sure everything is working normally etc, Im gunna do the benchmark test with pocket mechanic but is there any other progs that can test it?
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Try SD Setting type-1.
It is faster than type-2.

Sorry for confusion, I do have it on type-1.
What i meant is that i have it on the second setting which is type-1, type-2 been third setting.
Havent got round to trying any software out on card yet as I'm trying to get my PC to recognise the card it just seems to not accept SDHC cards or 32gb ones anyway.
Ive copied all my data installers/docs etc from old card to PC and im trying to transfer using the "Disk Drive" setting in "USB to PC" but sometimes the uni reboots , will get there eventually.
Do you know of a fix for Vista/Win7 to be able to read 32GB SDHC cards?

ATHiEST said:
The card has now arrived and it was recognised straight away on setting 2 with the SD-Settings app. Im gunna transfer everything across and install some apps and test everything out etc and post back soon
Can anybody recommend any tests i can do to make sure everything is working normally etc, Im gunna do the benchmark test with pocket mechanic but is there any other progs that can test it?
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Thanx a lot for the confirmation i'm on my way to get one for myself.....

rajivshahi said:
Thanx a lot for the confirmation i'm on my way to get one for myself.....
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Be careful if you get one from Hong Kong via ebay as mine had a autorun.inf on the card infected with a worm, My AV (ESET NOD32) got rid though.
Im also having alot of problems transferring data to the card, I get so much on then something will go wrong like the phone will reboot or lose connection and then the card inst accessible it just says it needs formatting.
I cant get XP or Win7 to see the card when its in my inbuilt reader, Ive order a cheap card reader that accepts various cards including 32Gb sdhc so hopefully i can get all my data on and properly test it out.

XP and High capacity SD cards
I have a 16G card, have no problems on the Uni it works great but I did have problems on XP on the inbuilt SD reader on my laptop. The following microsoft patch fixed the XP issues.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/934428

Tried that but that hotfix is already installed into SP3, so fook knows whats up. Should have my reader by monday anyway.

ATHiEST said:
Be careful if you get one from Hong Kong via ebay as mine had a autorun.inf on the card infected with a worm, My AV (ESET NOD32) got rid though.
I cant get XP or Win7 to see the card when its in my inbuilt reader, Ive order a cheap card reader that accepts various cards including 32Gb sdhc so hopefully i can get all my data on and properly test it out.
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Thanx for the comment i'll better wait till your next comment on the card reader comes......

rajivshahi said:
Thanx for the comment i'll better wait till your next comment on the card reader comes......
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Had major probs with the card, data just kept getting corrupted/lost etc and its basically ****ed. Also the seller has dissapeared his account has been suspended also. Ive put a paypal claim in and they have agreed to do refund.
Ordered another from another seller, this guy has a decent rating the cars seems alot higher quality aswell.
will post back when i have news and test results.

ATHiEST said:
Had major probs with the card, data just kept getting corrupted/lost etc and its basically ****ed. Also the seller has dissapeared his account has been suspended also. Ive put a paypal claim in and they have agreed to do refund.
Ordered another from another seller, this guy has a decent rating the cars seems alot higher quality aswell.
will post back when i have news and test results.
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I was having exactly the same problem last year with a 4gb card. Whatever I copied he was simply digesting without any notice.

posh phone with no keyboard/S3 questions

I have reloaded my S3 rom 3 times because of dumb mistakes. The biggest mistake i ever made was on my posh titan m500 -i think- however where can i get the software to redo it. Its a beautiful phone and i don't know how to manually load A KEYBOARD and also it didn't have google talk like my s3 did. its a hard lesson removing a keyboard. I'm getting very very good at this now. id also like to try a custom rom if there are any good suggestions. i don't know though my s3 is running fantastic however, i keep getting an "insufficient space to download security update for spider or something. how could there be no space ? there is nothing left on the phone app wise and i have a 64 GB SD card. i just cant get a handle on the file system that Samsung uses. you'd think they were some kind of CIA offshoot or something, I'm great with dos based file systems i mean i learned on the original PC and have set up hundreds working in computers but this secrecy crap is out of this world.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Pgellen Anderson