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Need advice for for storage card...

I just bought Xda II a few months ago and i love it ! The problem is, i just realize that i have problems with my storage card. I'm using kingston 256 mb sd card, and it sucks. The processing is very slow from and to it. My question is, what brand is the best brand for storage card ? How about the capacity, is there any limitation ? As i heard from someone, the storage card capacity for Xda II can't be more than 256 mb, is this true ? And the last, are there any differences between mmc and sd card ? Which one should i use ? Thanx in advance...

storage card
Hi, testimo.
i have and used sandisk 512 mb (blue color), is worked fine to me, my friend in Surabaya have sandisk 1 gb, not complain untill now.
my opinion, pda, no need fast storage card, except digital camera, but if you want to fast speed, you can try sandisk ultra II. (the best brand depent on you)
better using sdcard than mmc.
hope this help.
thanks

im using kingmax 1GB SD,brought from singapore last month,work perfect,much better than my old 256 MB scandisk SD.

is it ok to run programs and software from the storage card or will it run slow? because i might be getting a 1gig mmc card but if its not worth using it to run applications on i wont bother getting it.
Thanks

i install about 25 games + 5 software in my 1GB SD,no problem at all.
i think kingmax is the best...fastest speed,water proof,life time waranty.

SD Card capacity

I've read 2 different things about how much memory the Captivate will see. Does anyone know for sure if it's 48 or 32 gigs?

I put my 32Gb Sandisk in my Captivate today...and it mounted ok, all 21Gb of installed music and movies on that card seemed to work fine, based on my random sampling.
Keep in mind that it makes a "fake" /sd directory in the root of the internal /sdcard, and that points to the external storage when using an Android file explorer like Astro. And also keep in mind that there's a lot of apps that just don't know about this directory, so they can't "see" the external storage.
Windows sees two distinct storage devices, however, as it should be.

It has build in internal 16GB (2GB of that is reserved for apps) rest 14GB is data for whatever, Plus whatever Micro SDHC card you will add.
16+16 SD = 32GB
16+32 SD = 48GB
I have put 16GB micro SDHC to it (32GB cards are to expensive) connected to windows i get two drive letters one for Internal 14GB Data partition and one for my own 16GB card.
Hope that helped you.

ghost77 said:
It has build in internal 16GB (2GB of that is reserved for apps) rest 14GB is data for whatever, Plus whatever Micro SDHC card you will add.
16+16 SD = 32GB
16+32 SD = 48GB
I have put 16GB micro SDHC to it (32GB cards are to expensive) connected to windows i get two drive letters one for Internal 14GB Data partition and one for my own 16GB card.
Hope that helped you.
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Yep the ATT site spec sheet says 32gb is supported by the phone. And from all appearances it does indeed seem to work with the phone just fine.

Now the real question. Who is going to tear apart the phone and replace the internal SD card (since I assume it's literally an internal microSD card as seen in other devices) with a 32 GB card and see if it can handle 32+32 GB.

AJerman said:
Now the real question. Who is going to tear apart the phone and replace the internal SD card (since I assume it's literally an internal microSD card as seen in other devices) with a 32 GB card and see if it can handle 32+32 GB.
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you seem like a willing volunteer

hmm if only i had two 32gb sd cards i would but they expensive

The real reason for replacing the internal SD card would be because it's so damn slow.

I agree with the slow part hence the mods to change the cache onto the external which speed up the phones.... any word on if the internal SD card is replaceable or not? If it is, that would be great news as its definately not as fast as a class 6 card and replacing it with one would definately speed things up.

tbae2 said:
you seem like a willing volunteer
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labbu63 said:
hmm if only i had two 32gb sd cards i would but they expensive
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Haha, exactly that. If I had the money for two 32 GB cards I'd try.
Edit Hmm... I saw a tear down of the Galaxy S and I didn't see an internal microSD card, so maybe it doesn't use a card like the Streak. Might be built in and unable to swap. Oh well!

[Q] SD card problems

Hello everyone.
I have this strange things going on with my microSD card.
Recentely i bought 32 GB card for my nexus one (using cyanogen mod 7)
When i use that card on my pc i can write all the files at 5 MB/s speed. Then i put it inside my phone and it doesn't mount. After few tries like 4 or 5 it mounts but after that some files are gone from sd card. Allways leaving like 30 GB of empty space. So if i write more it will delete some so it would be 30 GB. Then it mounts normally.
Ok now more then half of you will say that this is fake card or smth. But i downloaded H2testw program and checked my card. Everything is fine with it. The program wrote 32 GB of data and verified everything. Its just problems with phone reading SD card. Anyone can help me ?

Hmm........

So noone has any ideas ?

Check your phone for firmware updates that might raise it to the 32 gb ceiling. Maybe there is a Cyanogen 7 update that will take care of this for you. Also does your phone support SDHC cards?

SD Card Not reading correctly
If you haven't done so, you might want to check the specs of your device to ensure that it will accept 32GB. Some devices top out at 8 and 16GB respectively.

brownrob73 said:
If you haven't done so, you might want to check the specs of your device to ensure that it will accept 32GB. Some devices top out at 8 and 16GB respectively.
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That, and I would upgrade to the latest nightly of CM7.

It is probably not "32gb" "Genuine" memory card.
I've purchased the memory card couple months back and
It says "16gb" when I put musics/videos in the memory card, it was unreadable and unplayable. I think it had actual memory of "2gb", so yes, I've been scammed by Chinese people =P.
I recommend you to check your actual memory by using this program
"H2testw"

[Q]Nexus S Storage Capacity

Hi guys,
sorry for my noob question but im really "NEW" to android and my nexus s, i was wondering if there is a way to increase the internal storage capacity of my nexus s. I learned that everytime that i would install an app it would install in the internal storage, but the nexus s only has 1GB internal storage right? and the USB storage is 13gb+ i think, i can transfer some apps to the USB storage. my problem is when the time comes that im already out of internal storage capacity. I believe not all apps can be moved to USB storage.

It will take hundreds of apps to fill that 1 GB internal memory.

64 gb Memory card

I'm planning to buy a 64GB memory card for HTC A9 and bind it as its internal memory. Could you guys suggest on this?
1. If anyone is using 64GB card, can you advise what are the specs I need to look it? I have read couple of reviews and seems "SAMAUNG -EVO + and SAMSUNG -EVO-" to be good. Any further suggestions?
2. Is it ok to bind the 64 memory as internal memory and does it work without any problems?

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I'm planning to buy a 64GB memory card for HTC A9 and bind it as its internal memory. Could you guys suggest on this?
1. If anyone is using 64GB card, can you advise what are the specs I need to look it? I have read couple of reviews and seems "SAMAUNG -EVO + and SAMSUNG -EVO-" to be good. Any further suggestions?
2. Is it ok to bind the 64 memory as internal memory and does it work without any problems?
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FYI, using a PNY U3 Pro Elite card without any issues. It's one of the fastest out there for the money. I did not bind it as internal memory though, and just use it as a secondary storage just in case (that way I can always remove it and still access thru a card reader on computer).

if you are looking to format as Internal Memory; UHS II, Speed Class 10
otherwise; UHS I, Speed Class 10

ARitualSacrifice said:
if you are looking to format as Internal Memory; UHS II, Speed Class 10
otherwise; UHS I, Speed Class 10
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Thanks for the info !!

I had loads of problems with this (gone through 3 super fast SD cards... with each install the software would say it was not fast enough. Just ignore it ... the software lies). For almost a year it worked fine and then I ran out of memory space for apps, and I had to constantly delete apps to make room for updates. Finally I was forced to do a factory reset. Setting the SD memory card up after a factory reset means that you can create extended memory from scratch and allows you to put all the apps where the developer has given permission to run from the SD card onto the extended memory. After factory reset and going through and moving apps to extended memory everything has worked great.

I'm using "SanDisk Extreme PLUS 64 GB microSDXC" formated as internal Storage.
No Problems so far