They reports 64GB size, you can write to them about that much, but then you can't read it back. Microsd testing software reports them as fake.
Just to be sure I tested them on a computer as well and the same behavior appeared.
So, to questions.
1. is there anything useful i can do with them?
2. Where to buy real 64gb card at a bargain?
I used to manually partition sdcards (works with USB thumbdrives too) when I got fake ones. You just need to determine the real size of the flash memory then create a partition smaller or equal to that size and leave the rest (fake free space) unpartitioned.
Usually the flash is OK to use it as long as you don't try to write beyond the real capacity. What usable size u'll end up with depends on your luck, just don't expect anything more than 1/4th of advertised capacity (can be as low as 1GB though).
Ordering from well known online shops like amazon should be pretty safe.
i bought my real one from Amazon.com last year during their Cyber Monday sale. not from some 3rd party listing on Amazon, but an actual "ships from and sold by Amazon.com" listing and it works really well. if you aren't buying from a known and reputable retailer, you are risking it when it comes to sd cards...
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They reports 64GB size, you can write to them about that much, but then you can't read it back. Microsd testing software reports them as fake.
Just to be sure I tested them on a computer as well and the same behavior appeared.
So, to questions.
1. is there anything useful i can do with them?
2. Where to buy real 64gb card at a bargain?
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you can buy original samsung card from here and follow this links to verify, test, repair SD cards
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I used to manually partition sdcards (works with USB thumbdrives too) when I got fake ones. You just need to determine the real size of the flash memory then create a partition smaller or equal to that size and leave the rest (fake free space) unpartitioned.
Usually the flash is OK to use it as long as you don't try to write beyond the real capacity. What usable size u'll end up with depends on your luck, just don't expect anything more than 1/4th of advertised capacity (can be as low as 1GB though).
Ordering from well known online shops like amazon should be pretty safe.
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what do you use for manual repartition and how do you guess the real size?
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what do you use for manual repartition and how do you guess the real size?
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U can use fake flash test: http://www.rmprepusb.com/tutorials/-fake-usb-flash-memory-drives
It will tell you where the fake memory starts.
As for partitioning, about any tool will let you define partitions size. The one included with windows, parted in linux can do that.
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Does anyone have any information on the release date of the new SDXC memory cards? And maybe a possible pricing structure? They are supposedly being produced in capacities from 32gb up to 2tb in the same size format as the sd and microsd cards we all know and use regularly in our devices.
I've searched these forums using the keyword "SDXC" and I was amazed that there was 0 results.
At the las vegas CES it was announced that they were to be available at the end of 2009/start of 2010.
Along with my question on a more accurate release date, I was also wondering if these newer devices can be put into a raid configuration, or even be used as large capacity long term storage solutions? Because if they are mass produced for consumers then surely using 3.5" hard drives will be ridiculous when you can perhaps string several together in a raid making the combined size no larger than a stick of chewing gum. And with the right adapter make them excellent portable storage drives.
Is there a reason they couldn't be put in some form of raid?
Link here to the SD association website:
http://www.sdcard.org/developers/tech/sdxc
Probably so, but there is a big chance that you will only see that coming out of someone;s garage than from a PC manufacturer. Think of it as lobbying... You have monster sized companies such as Seagate and Maxtor, which make these 3.5, 2.5, 1.8 in hard drives. They will do everything in their power to keep this new technology out of this possible solution. Potentially, you can save on:
*size of the PC unit as you already mentioned
*Power supply capability (since SD cards do not consume nearly as much power since they do not have moving parts).
*ease of repair.
*possibly price too, but that is somewhat far down the road at this point. Look at SSD
For our devices, you may not see it as it is likely not backwards compatible (think about when the SDHC came out)
Forget about using SD or any other non-classic SSD's in a RAID as a technology for data holding for three reasons:
1) Price. Look at current prices of 32GB SDHC cards
2) Quality. When you keep overwritting SDHC card all the time, it dies really quick
3) RAID and quality. With ^ only 1 card is enough to die and you lost all your data.
I still prefer classic 3.5" WD GreenPower for data and Black for system.
Yes i realise they will be extremely expensive. Thats the same with anything until the demand increases and it becomes cheaper to make them.
When they come out, they are mainly going to be packaged with HD video camcorders apparently. I guess that makes sense.
I'm still hoping someone can quote some rough figures and give an estimate on when they may be available to consumers.
For anyone who cares here's a bit of an update on the release timetable for certain size cards:
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http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/panasonic-sdxc-cards-roadmap-and-lumix-camera-lineup-at-ces-2010/
Hi, I wan't to develop a new thing..
according to :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsd#Compatibility_issues_with_4.C2.A0GB_and_larger_cards
SDHC hosts which have drivers which recognize the newly used capability bits, and have operating system software which understands the exFAT filesystem, are compatible with SDXC cards.
currently (as Feb 2011), the Android doesn't have drivers to recognize exFAT (or FAT64), .... (or tell me if I'm wrong about this)
it's possible for us to insert SDXC card (more than 32GB) to the current SDHC host and recognize it.
but because my phone is Milestone (locked bootloader & signed kernel)
I can't test my own kernel directly to my phone. I need help other developers (who interested about this) to develop this thing ..if you wan't to contribute, then any previous work about propietary FAT64 file system is appreciated (sorry, must be open source)
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please join the development page @ http://code.google.com/p/android-sdxc-fat64/
P.S: sorry my english is bad, english isn't my native language
hello, anyone interested ?
I'd say try the question in this section: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=613
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I don't know if this helps you but in older systems for phones you could fool the phones into thinking there where extra partitions to the cards, for example my palm centro capped out at 4 gig but i ran a 16 gig card inside it. I had to reformat the card from fat32 to fat16 or SDHC to Regularly SD and then was able to partition 4 gig spots, i had to partition becuase anything over the 4 gig limit would not be read. So i am curious to try a SDXC card in my fascinate and see where it gets me, but i have to wait till i get one of the cards. Otherwise it was a simple file mod and the card worked marvelously so if you have to partition 32gig sections that still a pretty large cap. Hope this helps you a little.
update: Apple has shipped new Mac with SDXC card slot
I estimate only take 4 - 7 month until HTC/Motorola will ship their new android phones with SDXC card slot
These cards are confirmed working in several Android's now:
http://www.androidnz.net/2011/09/sandisk-64gb-micro-sdxc-cards-confirmed.html
wow thanks, but it's new device
old devices still can't access newer microSD
Yeah if you want more then 4GB file size "exFat" currently not supported.
But you can still use SandDisk SDXC 64GB micro cards , just need to reformat them to fat32 , phone does it for you actually , talking from experience we had a long thread over at SGS2 forum section.
I have SGS2 and using Sandisc 64GB SDXC , upon insertion phone offered to format it as it did not recognize exFAT , after format it works just like any other SDCARD, max file size is <4GB under fat32.
See here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1711310
Why do you think Google removed SD card slot in Nexus devices?
I have seen some articles which quoted several Google's explanations (might be merely a rumor) which were basically "we did it for security", "we have been tired of OEMs who rely on the SD card slot and sell their devices with small internal storage." (this one makes no sense...) "we did it for stabilization and performance issue" "we think integrating all contents in one storage is more intuitive since many users cannot determine which files should go where"
I believe they are just a series of lame excuses. I personally think Google mainly did for profit since they are charging $40 for Nexus 7 and $100 for Nexus 10 for storage upgrade which I estimate to cost less than $15 for the company. (this is my estimation based on the fat that 8GB -> 16GB only costs $8.50)
What is your opinion?
Because they want you to use the cloud. Google Music, Google Drive, Gmail, etc. They don't feel they need more space when you have crazy space out in cyberspace.
YEP. The more accounts they can migrate to the web the more they see... the more they see the more data they can sell to advertisers.
Graze the cash cow, baby.
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YEP. The more accounts they can migrate to the web the more they see... the more they see the more data they can sell to advertisers.
Graze the cash cow, baby.
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I Think Its For Speed. As Sd card is Slower then internal.
Anyway,Planning to Buy A Nexus 4.
Should I Get It??
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Because they want you to use the cloud. Google Music, Google Drive, Gmail, etc. They don't feel they need more space when you have crazy space out in cyberspace.
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Yes! Agreed
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I think clouding is a stupid idea personally. Not everyone has internet connections everywhere they go. Even though they do, most people do not have enough mobile data to waste on constantly downloading and uploading to the cloud. I have used Google drive several times in my GS3 and it was a horrible experience. The downloading freezed frequently for no reason and I had to download the stuff over again. Also downloading uploading are super slow, slowr than reading stuff off sd cards of course.
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There is a lot of debate about how swap degrades or lessens your sd card life. Some say that sd card with speed over 6mbps will not be affected if you have swap.
This is not true. Swap always degrades the life of your memory card. But dont worry! If you have above a class 6 sd card, it will take long time for you to notice and problems. You can check if u have a class 6 or above card by looking at it. It should be written within a circle.
Anyway, there are a lot of ways to enable swap. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.azasoft.free.swapper is a good app. If it doesnt work, you can try other apps. Just type swap android in google. I prefer roehsoft ram expander, though. This app lets you adjust many things like swappiness etc easily. You have to pay for it though.
If you want to check if swap is enabled, you can type "free" in android terminal, or more easily download the "memoryinfo and swapfile check" app for free. It will show you everything you need to know.
I suggest to change the swappiness to 100. :victory:
Now that you have swap, big games should play smoothly.
Remember to clear your ram once in a while! And you need to set swap after every boot or u can just click on the option in the app.
Easy as 123. HoPe it helped! :silly: :cyclops:
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There is a lot of debate about how swap degrades or lessens your sd card life. Some say that sd card with speed over 6mbps will not be affected if you have swap.
This is not true. Swap always degrades the life of your memory card. But dont worry! If you have above a class 6 sd card, it will take long time for you to notice and problems. You can check if u have a class 6 or above card by looking at it. It should be written within a circle.
Anyway, there are a lot of ways to enable swap. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.azasoft.free.swapper is a good app. If it doesnt work, you can try other apps. Just type swap android in google. I prefer roehsoft ram expander, though. This app lets you adjust many things like swappiness etc easily. You have to pay for it though.
If you want to check if swap is enabled, you can type "free" in android terminal, or more easily download the "memoryinfo and swapfile check" app for free. It will show you everything you need to know.
I suggest to change the swappiness to 100. :victory:
Now that you have swap, big games should play smoothly.
Remember to clear your ram once in a while! And you need to set swap after every boot or u can just click on the option in the app.
Easy as 123. HoPe it helped! :silly: :cyclops:
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Bro how to check class of my sdcard
Dark Nexus
Dark Nexus said:
Bro how to check class of my sdcard
Dark Nexus
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The most common method to check which I have mentioned in the guide is to check on the front of the card. It will be written within a small circle.
Sometimes it is not written.
If u want to check if swap will work or not then simply download "memoryinfo and swapfile check" app from market and do the test.
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hi all,
i recently purchased infinix zero turbo 2023 , which has a micro sd card, the phone’s spec says it supports micro sd card upto 256 gb , i want to use 1tb micro sd card would that work, has anyone tried adding memory card higher than what the phone’s spec says , what has been your experience
thank you
Doesn't work: 256 GB is maximum.
I doubt you will find member that has tried, so just try yourself. check /proc/filesystems if exFAT is listed. as long as the phone supports the SDXC standard it may work up to 1 TB, as the address is within range.
0x3FFFFFFFFF = 256 GiB
0xFFFFFFFFFF = 1 TiB
the limitation is maybe just at time of writing the specs there wasn't simply such large SD cards on the market.
so it's tial & error.
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hi all,
i recently purchased infinix zero turbo 2023 , which has a micro sd card, the phone’s spec says it supports micro sd card upto 256 gb , i want to use 1tb micro sd card would that work, has anyone tried adding memory card higher than what the phone’s spec says , what has been your experience
thank you
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No you cant, you can just use sd cards which is 256gb or less in size also if you want more storage try cloud storage
I'm sure it would work fine! Might need to format it first in Android settings, I used to have a ps3 with a 2tb HDD (supposedly not supported at the time)
Never use cloud BTW store your data locally so its literally in your hands not some stranger.
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hi all,
i recently purchased infinix zero turbo 2023 , which has a micro sd card, the phone’s spec says it supports micro sd card upto 256 gb , i want to use 1tb micro sd card would that work, has anyone tried adding memory card higher than what the phone’s spec says , what has been your experience
thank you
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Incorrect: Phone supports microSDXC cards
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what basically allows you to format them as exFAT - a filesystem developed by Microsoft - and what can hold data up 2 TB.
Take note that it's up to OEM's discretion if they include exFAT driver in their kernel (and executables in userspace) after having an agreement with Microsoft or their partners. So check whether phone's Android can handle exFAT or not. AFAIK only some Samsung phones can.