Hi there, I'm thinking about picking up a Diamond when they come out in Canada in the next couple weeks. Was originally looking at an iPhone but in Canada that means a 3 year contract and there is no way I'm signing up for that. The one big sticking point for me on the Diamond is the 4GB memory and lack of expandable storage.
Now, the Diamond does have a USB port on the bottom. Yes I know it's not a standard USB, but there are a million adapters out there.
If I plug a standard USB memory card reader or USB drive into it, will the Diamond/Windows Mobile know what to do with it? Are there drivers available or built in? And assuming that Windows Mobile recognizes the device will music and video apps be able to play directly off the card?
Now, assuming all this works, what sort of battery life would I be looking at?
No, I'm not expecting to haul my media collection with me and most of the time the 4GB would be mroe than enough for day to day needs, but I do occasional travel and longer trips. It would be nice to take a couple 8 or 16 GB cards loaded with music and movies when I do.
Any tips you can give would be appreciated.
no, but you can use the Diamond as a USB drive
I am about ready to buy a 16 GB class 10 micro sdhc for my Nexus One. Any ideas if this is a good card. Will it be totally compatible? And will I be able to transfer at the advertised speed? Does anyone have one of these?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820139121&Tpk=SDC10/16GB
I think a class 6 is enough. Don't see a need for a class 10.
If HD recording ever gets adapted....or divx playback I'm sure the extra speed wouldn't hurt. The question is whether or not to nexus 1 will utilize it.
My class 6 micro sdhc card is only transferring at 2 MB/s through the data cable from phone to computer and vice versa. Either my card is taking a **** or something is wrong, it's definitely not 6 MB's.
So if I can pick up a class 10 micro sdhc and actually being able to copy music onto my sd card mounted in my phone at 10 MB/s I would be really pleased.
I just pulled the my micro sd card out of the phone and plugged it into a micro sdhc to usb adapter, and I transferred music onto the card through the adapter and it transferred at 6 MB/s no problem. So there is nothing wrong with my micro sd card. WTF Has it always been this way.
What I mean is: while the card is in the nexus and when you transfer music to the phone through the data cable, is the nexus only able to transfer at 2 MB/s? Through the Data Cable?
tommyarmour said:
I just pulled the my micro sd card out of the phone and plugged it into a micro sdhc to usb adapter, and I transferred music onto the card through the adapter and it transferred at 6 MB/s no problem. So there is nothing wrong with my micro sd card. WTF Has it always been this way.
What I mean is: while the card is in the nexus and when you transfer music to the phone through the data cable, is the nexus only able to transfer at 2 MB/s? Through the Data Cable?
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Yup... I've noticed this too. It was the same on my G1. The card is capable of 6mb/s but the phone can only do 2mb/s through the usb...
uansari1 said:
Yup... I've noticed this too. It was the same on my G1. The card is capable of 6mb/s but the phone can only do 2mb/s through the usb...
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That really is a bummer, I don't know why in the hell I haven't noticed this before. It really doesnt matter to me how fast my sdcard card is then. Because I never ever remove it from my phone. So a class 2 is pretty much all you need because that is the only speed the phone will ever transfer at.
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That really is a bummer, I don't know why in the hell I haven't noticed this before. It really doesnt matter to me how fast my sdcard card is then. Because I never ever remove it from my phone. So a class 2 is pretty much all you need because that is the only speed the phone will ever transfer at.
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Unless you're rooted and run Apps2SD... but yeah, I'm unrooted on my N1 and plan on staying that way and I don't understand it either. Maybe there's a way to speed it up with a software update?
i get a steady 5.6...
piggie916 said:
i get a steady 5.6...
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Let me get this right. You have your micro sdhc card in your phone. Then you plug the the usb data cable into your phone, then you mount the phone to your computer by the pull down menu on your phone, then you can transfer music to your sdcard at 5.6 MB/s? Are you sure about that? And you have to be able to transfer music off of your phone onto your computer at the same speed I assume.
The reason I am mentioning all this is I partition my sdcard to 3 partions fat32, ext3, and swap. So another words I had to transfer everything off of my sdcard, and transfer it back on after you created the partitions. And if you have 6 gigs of music this can take a very long time. Then I formatted my sdcard again for 1 partition and had to do everything again. At 2 MB/s that is a very long wait.
I guess I could of just pulled the sdcard from the phone and plugged it into my adapter and transferred at 6.0 MB/s. This sucks you would imagine the nexus could do this np.
It's amazing you can do it at 5.6 MB/s to your phone. Maybe you got a better version of the Nexus than I did?
Don't forget, there are two sides to the issue, the phone side and the computer side. Perhaps you could try another computer? I average 5.5MB/s from my Linux workstation.
Are you going through an old USB hub or direct to the computers ports?
rotohammer said:
Don't forget, there are two sides to the issue, the phone side and the computer side. Perhaps you could try another computer? I average 5.5MB/s from my Linux workstation.
Are you going through an old USB hub or direct to the computers ports?
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Direct to the computer ports, and I am running windows 7, maybe I should try my ubuntu pc.
The phone's USB interface might be the limiting factor; when the phone is communicating directly with the SD card, it may be able to use its full potential. This would matter when you're recording video or using Apps2SD. Meaning that class 6 cards aren't necessarily pointless.
Also note that class 6 means 6 MB/s write speed, not read speed (as has been kind of said above - just waned to make it clear) - if you're reading it at 6 MB/s, that doesn't necessarily mean it's working right.
I don't have one to test with, sadly.
What I wanna know is where are the 32Gb Micro SDHC cards??
I have a 16GB a-data micro SDHC transferring via usb at speeds between 2-3MB/s
when i put the card in a card reader instead of the phone, xfer speeds are between 5 and 8MB/s
I'll try copying files to SD via wifi and bluetooth. if either of those are faster than 2-3MB/s, then the usb may be the bottleneck.
Are you guys benchmarking , or just going by screen stats ?
dang i didn't know they even made class 10.... I bought a class 2 16gb when they first came out, it just died actually so i'm waiting for sandisk to replace it. I've considered a class 6 but i don't see the point with 32gb cards coming out soon.
I've seen pre orders for late april on the 32gb's. other then that you can get one now if you import it from asia.
I am just wondering exactly what speed the Nexus One is capable of transferring at? Cause I can see alot of people are having the same problem as I am having with higher class sd cards. I know for a fact my class 6 sd can transfer at 6 MB/s and it does when its not in my Nexus One, so it's either the Nexus or the Data Cable that is eating the other 4 MB/s, cause I am only cable of transferring at 2 MB/s and no more.
Now when I talk about transferring I am solely talking about transferring music or data off of my Nexus to my computer and vice versa. I want to think it's just my Data Cable. But I wish I had this answer, I will today for sure.
Now is there a low speed Data Cable, maybe that is what Google sent me a low speed one, and maybe this 1 penny high speed data cable might solve me some problems.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...11189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=B0018A6W94
I just got an Epic 4G and while the 16GB microsd card is plenty of space for most stuff, once I start putting alot of converted movies on there, it will disappear fast. Now, I had another 16GB microsd card, along with a class 6 8GB card and a 4GB card, all micro-sd. Is there any way at all to plug something into the micro-usb port on the top of the Epic and have a micro-sd reader at the other end and then have the phone be able to mount the extra/2nd micro-sd card so I can then play movies/etc from there rather than having to constantly pull off the back cover and swap cards?
~Z
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I just got an Epic 4G and while the 16GB microsd card is plenty of space for most stuff, once I start putting alot of converted movies on there, it will disappear fast. Now, I had another 16GB microsd card, along with a class 6 8GB card and a 4GB card, all micro-sd. Is there any way at all to plug something into the micro-usb port on the top of the Epic and have a micro-sd reader at the other end and then have the phone be able to mount the extra/2nd micro-sd card so I can then play movies/etc from there rather than having to constantly pull off the back cover and swap cards?
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This seems pretty impossible, i looked up some info on the subject and
well... all results were negative
how hard is it really to swap out that little card on the back though! i mean come on, years ago we had to swap out vcr tapes for ONE movie!
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This seems pretty impossible, i looked up some info on the subject and
well... all results were negative
how hard is it really to swap out that little card on the back though! i mean come on, years ago we had to swap out vcr tapes for ONE movie!
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+1
Also I have two 32 gb cards on me. One for movies and music. The other for everything else
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I've got a 10" SuperPad running 2.2. (Flytouch2) It has 2 regular usb ports and will read thumb drives just fine. (Ud0 and ud1)
Leads me to believe it would be kernal based. If you has a female usb to microusb male and a usb micro reader, as long as the kernal had support I don't see why it couldn't be done.. but the devs would need to confirm or deny.
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it could simply be a driver issue. i may try to splice a few cables tomite.
Ok so i just ordered the 8gb moto g(i couldnt stand a dumb phone for a second longer and thats the money i had stupid i know.) But i was wondering if i were to buy a OTG MicroSD adapter(The Meenova MicroSD OTG Adapter ) would i be able to mount Spotify to it even if it was a hack or workaround?? I know you have to be rooted to write to it through the Moto g but if i were to do that could i put my offline playlist on a microSD card mounted through OTG??? If not thats ok i have an ipod lol...but android > ipod. :good:
Thanks!!
-Boxedin123
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Noone? lol
the added storage is visible from file browsers on the phone, but it won't be recognized as an external SD card. I'm not aware of Spotify's capabilities, but I hope this information helps you
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Anyone else?
Hi all first thread.
So the removable storage issue is still causing some problems for folk or causing grumbles about the cost of larger storage options but I bought myself a Dash Micro for £15, I believe they cost less in the States, this little investment solves all the storage problems and tbh makes changing micro sd cards or swapping with someone much much easier.
I'm sure there are other options or manufacturers of micro sd card holders that use otg but I picked Dash Micro because it has a very low profile and doesn't stick out making it far less likely to get caught on things or break the micro usb socket.
My key ring will never be without a Dash Micro ever again.