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transferring files to sd card too slow

im trying to transfer a new rom(327mb) to my SD CARD to flash but its taking way toooo! long.. it receives by 500KB/S now, before it was MB/S. its taking 10minutes to transfer it. is something wrong with my SD card?

How good of a computer do you have? Try not multitasking like 10 things at a time and transferring if that doesnt help, you must have a lot on your sd card try clearing uneeded files.
If that doesnt work, the final solution, buy a better sd card...
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Welcome to Class 2 SD cards. Now you know why they're so inexpensive.

I have a transfer rate of about 5mbs...I'm fine with that...
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P00t said:
im trying to transfer a new rom(327mb) to my SD CARD to flash but its taking way toooo! long.. it receives by 500KB/S now, before it was MB/S. its taking 10minutes to transfer it. is something wrong with my SD card?
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I had that problem when I backed up my SD card before making it a gold card. Everything came off the card at 18MB/s but it went back on at 600 KB/s. The card has continued to work fine since, though.

I have the 8gb that came with the phone.
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P00t said:
I have the 8gb that came with the phone.
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Ditto and +1

[Q] External Storage HDD

can you plug an external hdd into the asus transformer or asus transformer prime keyboard dock and use it as extra storage.

Yes
I have used both a 300gb NTFS external hard drive and a 4gb FAT32 flash drive. Both work perfectly.
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yes I have a terabyte drive on mine.
But please don't post questions in the general section in the future

ANDROID_NOOB_0101 said:
can you plug an external hdd into the asus transformer or asus transformer prime keyboard dock and use it as extra storage.
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Yes,
I started using my 2T drive a few month ago.

Anybody benchmarked speed compared to a fast MicroSD card, out of curiosity?

infazzdar said:
Yes
I have used both a 300gb NTFS external hard drive and a 4gb FAT32 flash drive. Both work perfectly.
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But how is done? I have no clue

You simply plug the device in to one of the keyboard dock's two USB ports. Then a notification should appear in the notification area telling you that the volume mounted successfully. Select the notification and press the icon that looks like a folder.
Or, attach your device then open the File Manager application and navigate to /removable/. Your storage device should be shown here.
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SD Card

Is there a way to set the sd card to read only mode when connecting to a pc. i got a 32gb class 10 micro sd but whe copying files from pc it does not go past 4.5mb/s

defcomg said:
Is there a way to set the sd card to read only mode when connecting to a pc. i got a 32gb class 10 micro sd but whe copying files from pc it does not go past 4.5mb/s
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Turnoff antivirus bet that's the problem and also what OS you using,64bit,your hard drive is SSD?
Many thing can be happening, Hdd smart errors giver it a try with speedfan it'll tell you the hdd smart state so you can discard problems and achive best performance.
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did you using a cable or a wifi router? me find it much faster when using wireless download. i download tv show to my phone every week. believe me,its much faster. i am using a
16gb class10 sd.
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Depends what I'm transferring to my phone but I have an SSD hdd so it's really fast
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check if usb debugging is on and disable it

Torrent

uTorrent has been released for Android (beta). Unfortunately, at least for me, ANY torrent app completely lags the tablet to the point where I consider it unusable. I don't have an sd card. Has anyone tried any torrent app and downloaded files on to an external sd card? I want to know if it lags like that as well?
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i use Adownloader, and it is capable of downloading to the memory card. While downloading 4 files at one time, i was able to do other things on the tablet without issues.

try ttorrent. Also, when you want to search within the app you will need to dl a plugin, but I've never had problems. It doesn't do a great job of correcting spelling, etc. but more or less solid all around.

timrock said:
i use Adownloader, and it is capable of downloading to the memory card. While downloading 4 files at one time, i was able to do other things on the tablet without issues.
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What speeds were you getting? My tablet was already unusable when I was downloading at my max speed (6mbit/s). However, when I'm transfering files between my laptop and my tablet (at 20mbit/s) the tablet is not unusable, but not fast either... Is this all because of the IO issues?

Yep, just got the same problem with torrent and internal storage, it's the same with ttorrent btw.
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You should try using aTorrent - i have downloaded stuff onto the tablet without any problems + it's free.
My formula: aTorrent + isohunt.com = works
I haven't downloaded several files at the same time but it worked fine with one file downloading + using a couple of other apps.

I've used every torrent app out there, and they all lag my device when I'm downloading.... Are you downloading to an external sd card?
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I've used tTorrent to save to a microSD card and it worked great for me
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I'm using ttorrent to microSD card and it works great. Before I was using the internal storage but it was making the tablet unusable. I bought the microSD card just for that.
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Alright I am convinced to buy a microSD card just for this reason. Kind of stupid I have to do this, the IO problems really shouldn't be there, but alas. Thanks... Now if only someone could tell me if my Samsung Captivate supported 64gb cards...
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The new version of atorrent allows downloading to the card. And I did not experience any lag.
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Every torrent application will lag your phone/table it you're downloading to your primary SD Card. This is becase Androids needs to preallocate the full size of the downloaded files. So when Android zero filles 2Gb of files, then the read/write speed for other applications on the internal storage will drop, thus you'll get a lot of lag. Once the preallocation is over the phone comes back to live again (that is if you're not downloading with +10Mb/s speed of more).
Only way to avoid the lag is to have an external SD Card and download to it. BTW you can try my new torrent application TDM. Maybe it'll suit your needs better? (it has no problems with downloading to extarnal cards and it has a file manager to allowes you to manage the file on multiple cards with ease).

Does anyone else hate this device's usb transfer?

You connect it to the computer and open it, has to load the root, open a folder, has to load the folder, if you copy to a folder and then open a different folder while copying, errors occur... I'm surprised I don't see a lot of complaining about it. What made me want to write this is errors I am having with media transfer.... I haven't had many other Android devices but my last one was much better. Going through the device on my computer was like going through my computer's hard drive.

I prefer to use Airdroid to transfer files. Never was a fan of connecting by usb and now I don't have to. I generally transfer <700 MB so I'm good there. Anything much larger and I'll pull my sdcard in. Only plug in via usb when fiddling with Odin.
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I use a Mac 10.6.8 and Android file transfer and its easy as anything. Lol. Exactly like going through my phone.
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nope. ive only sent a few files to my phone but i just right click, send to device and it has been fine. they always just magicaly appeared where i want the files somehow....lol. never really messed around with it

any time i have connected my phone to my computer, it loads and transfers files just as easily as any other phone i have owned. music, video, ROMs , etc... all transfer easy. not super fast, but easy.

SlimSnoopOS said:
I prefer to use Airdroid to transfer files. Never was a fan of connecting by usb and now I don't have to. I generally transfer <700 MB so I'm good there. Anything much larger and I'll pull my sdcard in. Only plug in via usb when fiddling with Odin.
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Cool I'm gonna check out airdroid. I used to occasionally use kies air but some files wouldn't transfer correctly (they'd be corrupted) and it took a long time to copy
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joshua5683 said:
Cool I'm gonna check out airdroid. I used to occasionally use kies air but some files wouldn't transfer correctly (they'd be corrupted) and it took a long time to copy
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I've actually never tried my hand with Kies or Android File Transfer. I figured Airdroid would be a better alternative to AFT since it actually receives updates. I know how Google is, they don't really seem to care for us Mac users too much.
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joshua5683 said:
You connect it to the computer and open it, has to load the root, open a folder, has to load the folder, if you copy to a folder and then open a different folder while copying, errors occur... I'm surprised I don't see a lot of complaining about it. What made me want to write this is errors I am having with media transfer.... I haven't had many other Android devices but my last one was much better. Going through the device on my computer was like going through my computer's hard drive.
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Now that you mention it, having to do all that searching is very irritating. I've been trying to save my pictures off of my devices without the use of dropbox and the entire process is messy.

Terrible. I have gotten to the point that I take out my SD card, put it into my computer, transfer data to SD card, put SD card back in phone, and suffer terrible speeds transferring to internal storage using Astro or ES File Browser just to avoid the terrible MTP USB software!
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XdrummerXboy said:
Terrible. I have gotten to the point that I take out my SD card, put it into my computer, transfer data to SD card, put SD card back in phone, and suffer terrible speeds transferring to internal storage using Astro or ES File Browser just to avoid the terrible MTP USB software!
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I'm going to try this!

XdrummerXboy said:
Terrible. I have gotten to the point that I take out my SD card, put it into my computer, transfer data to SD card, put SD card back in phone, and suffer terrible speeds transferring to internal storage using Astro or ES File Browser just to avoid the terrible MTP USB software!
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It gets the job done, but its pretty slow. Good for small files, terrible for high def movies and such!
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