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Hi!
a few weeks ago I bought myself a nice 16GB sd card on e-bay. The seller had 100% positive feedback on similar items, so I thought, this must be a nice guy. However, whenever I try to copy files to the desire after 2GB or so the transfer freezes and the file system of the card gets damaged, so I have to format it. Any suggestions as to how this could be explained/fixed? Otherwise I'm asking my money back (thank you paypal!)
i've a 16gb sandisk sdhc class 2 but never had such problems, maybe is something software related?
Ok heres the deal...
There is a chance the sandisk you purchased is not real, its fake, a 2GB reprogrammed to appear as 16GB. The packaging will appear perfectly real etc, due to the nature of memory carads returning them to sellers is near impossible as they will direct you to manufacturer.
The card might be damaged, have you tried a reformat, delete partition and recreate?
have you tested this in another machine?
+1 fake SD card. It's really hard to find legit SD cards on ebay
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16GB san disk play.com 34.99 free postage
Job Done
Get your money back mate, take the guy to the cleaners....
Then walk this way------------http://www.play.com/Mobiles/Mobile/4-/6738120/SanDisk-16GB-Micro-SD-HC-Memory-Card/Product.html
JD
JupiterDroid said:
16GB san disk play.com 34.99 free postage
Job Done
Get your money back mate, take the guy to the cleaners....
Then walk this way------------http://www.play.com/Mobiles/Mobile/4-/6738120/SanDisk-16GB-Micro-SD-HC-Memory-Card/Product.html
JD
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haha.
is there any reason why i shouldn't get the pny 16gb card from play.com? its £7 cheaper than the sandisk
It's your choice mate. I've had bad experiences with Sandisk cards in the past and only buy Kingston ones now.
i had the same issue with a 16gb kingston...package and all was 16gb, but it was a very slow 8gb...thrown it away.
Its seems more and more of the 16Gb cards from ebay are fake.
Have heard more and more reports of this recently.
I've had the same issue with large cards coming from eBay, so I'd decided not to be a cheapskate again and plumped for the best 16GB I could find.
Scan dot co dot uk
LN32905 - Kingston 16GB Class10
I also picked up an 8GB card for my Hero (Legendroid):
LN32725 - Transcent 8GB Class6
Haven't regretted it at all, however the price of the 16GB is a LOT.
Yeah i'd be looking to get a refund on that, sometimes the seller isn't at fault though, it could be that his/her supplier has a fake batch of cards. This is getting more and more frequent and a quick google search will show many horror stories as well as ways of checking to see if your card is actually a fake.
My advice would be to stay clear of ebay for memory and buy from a reputable distributor like play.com or mymemory.com
I purchased a sandisk 16GB ultra mobile (class4) from mymemory.com, think it was around the £45 mark at the time. Currently using around 9GB of it with no issues. Also transfers files much faster than the 4GB class2 that my desire was bundled with.
I am also having this kind of trouble with a Sandisk 16GB card.
The possibility that it is fake is very small for 3 reasons:
1. It works perfectly as a 16GB at my computer
2. It works perfectly as a 16GB at my camera
3. It was bought at the Sandisk master distributor here in Israel.
I tried to format it in the following way:
1. In recovery mode I partitioned the card.
2. I upgraded ext2 -> ext3 and then again ext3 -> ext4
3. took the card to the computer and formatted it FAT32.
4. copied the material from the old card to the new one.
And still, when I try to turn the Desire on with this card on it, it stays booting forever.
I am using REDUX Gingerbread rom.... is there something I am missing?
Thanks in advance,
Helio
heliod said:
I am also having this kind of trouble with a Sandisk 16GB card.
The possibility that it is fake is very small for 3 reasons:
1. It works perfectly as a 16GB at my computer
2. It works perfectly as a 16GB at my camera
3. It was bought at the Sandisk master distributor here in Israel.
I tried to format it in the following way:
1. In recovery mode I partitioned the card.
2. I upgraded ext2 -> ext3 and then again ext3 -> ext4
3. took the card to the computer and formatted it FAT32.
4. copied the material from the old card to the new one.
And still, when I try to turn the Desire on with this card on it, it stays booting forever.
I am using REDUX Gingerbread rom.... is there something I am missing?
Thanks in advance,
Helio
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use gparted / any partition manager to check whether you have duplicate ext partitions, it causes freeze, and make sure both fat and ext are "primary" drives and not "logical" drives
heliod said:
I am also having this kind of trouble with a Sandisk 16GB card.
The possibility that it is fake is very small for 3 reasons:
1. It works perfectly as a 16GB at my computer
2. It works perfectly as a 16GB at my camera
3. It was bought at the Sandisk master distributor here in Israel.
I tried to format it in the following way:
1. In recovery mode I partitioned the card.
2. I upgraded ext2 -> ext3 and then again ext3 -> ext4
3. took the card to the computer and formatted it FAT32.
4. copied the material from the old card to the new one.
And still, when I try to turn the Desire on with this card on it, it stays booting forever.
I am using REDUX Gingerbread rom.... is there something I am missing?
Thanks in advance,
Helio
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When you've copied the material from the old card to the new one... did you copied all partitions with a nandroid restore (and not just fat32 partition) ?
I just bought a 16GB card on ebay for £20 delivered, class 6. He specifically said it would meet the class 6 spec so I will Paypal him if it doesn't. I'll also test it in linux by dd'ing all the way to the 16GB to ensure it works.
Will report back.
Its seems more and more of the 16Gb cards from ebay are fake.
My £20 delivered turned up. It's a Lexar (apparently) and testing shows;
write speed: 8.4mb/s
reading: 8.1mb/s
So I'm not sure, read speed should be higher!
Second time got 7.9mb/s and 15.2mb/s. I think it's legit.
Same happens to me!
Yeah I've been stung with a knock off SD card as have two of my friends. I was 'lucky' mine was just poor quality so it had really bad read/write speeds and was able to send it back. My friends cards just didn't work and they couldn't get refunds.
The cards on eBay are cheap for a reason, pay the extra and get it from a reputable retailer is my advice.
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Not sure if this is the right forum, but looked like accessories was the best bet.
Im looking at 32G cards, but open to 16 as well. Just switched to Android, so would be good to know others experiences, and whether there is something I cannot do with a Class 4, for example or whether you see any lags with other cards you have used etc, or if a specific class is needed for using some specific feature?. I did do a search, and didnt find anything, maybe I missed it. Might be useful to have a thread regarding people's experiences..
Any suggestions/recommendations for what I should be looking at?
I have read that the Partiot/Adata/Wintec cards are not too reliable, though their prices for a class 10 are much lower..But I dont want to go through the hassle of returning/copying data, so I am thinking Class 4 is enough.
Here is one option, Sandisk 32g, doesnt say class 4, but some reviewers mention it is actually class 4. At the same time, some mention they got Class 2. Cannot post a link since I don't have 8 posts yet
Search for SDSDQ-032G-A11M, US Retail Package on Amazon, maybe someone else can add the link! Its for ~62, shipped from Amazon.
Thanks for your help!
This is what I bought.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220546
The nice 32gb ones were to expensive for me. This is a good price for it. i have been using for about a month and half. No issues at all.
Thanks cableguychad!
Anyone else have suggestions?
Thanks in advance!
I'm rocking the Patriot LX series 16gb as well. Class 10 and with transfers(usually 3-5 gigs) I'm hovering around 8-9mb/s.
EDIT: If you live by a Frys Electronics, I picked mine up there for $32.
I have the Patriot 8 GB Class 10 from FRYS. I'm getting speeds of ~11 Mbps.
I think it would be better to go with a 16 GB class 10 (~30 for Patriot class 10), than a 32 GB that's close to three times the cost of a 16 GB.
I just got this one, so far it seems to perform well enough. It's only a class 6 and it was writing at about 8-9 megs. Not too bad IMO.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...11378&cm_re=16gb_adata-_-20-211-378-_-Product
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I just got this one, so far it seems to perform well enough. It's only a class 6 and it was writing at about 8-9 megs. Not too bad IMO.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...11378&cm_re=16gb_adata-_-20-211-378-_-Product
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You can't go wrong with this one. Great deal.
Many of my buddies have had 32GB MicroSD cards and a lot have malfunctioned. Never really had issues with 2-16GB MicroSD
Dont get HP brand, I had a hell of a time making a gold card because it kept getting corrupted. Format took forever to do as well.
Thanks for all your suggestions!
I took the 16g card out of my Epic and it works great its a class 2 I formatted it 1st and no problems. So it seems Samsung cards are good.
i bought a Wintech 16GB class 10 off newegg for $28. Out of curiosity, will the format SD card function in clockwork recovery work to just format it so I can use it? Or should I do a full format on a pc, why do you need to format before use? Why cant you just pop it in and go? Does HTC format the sd card before they ship all these phones to the carriers/customers? Just curious, thanks for input.
I've recently been having a great experience using Kingston 8 gig class 4 cards to record hd video.
To check the card speeds on pc I use CrystalDiskMark 3.
There is also an android app called SDTools that will show card information.
I also use SD Formatter 3 from sdcard.org to format my cards.
Another tool to find out if your cards are what they claim to be is H2testw. It checks capacities, corruption and read/write speeds.
Just an update, got the card in the mail, so far so good, dont know any way to test the speeds but i tryed two apps, one said it maxed out at 20mbs and the other 14mbs, so i dunno how acurate thise numbers are but all seems well!
BAleR said:
i bought a Wintech 16GB class 10 off newegg for $28. Out of curiosity, will the format SD card function in clockwork recovery work to just format it so I can use it? Or should I do a full format on a pc, why do you need to format before use? Why cant you just pop it in and go? Does HTC format the sd card before they ship all these phones to the carriers/customers? Just curious, thanks for input.
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Just pop it into computer, and format it as FAT 32, and use it. Generally all cards are pre-formatted when manufacturer sends u out. But I reformat it before first use to make sure its in the FS as per my preferences .
I bought a cheap 16gb card on ebay
I'm sure it's a counterfeit Sandisk. I've had it at least a year. I only paid twenty bucks for it back when 16gb cards were 50 bucks. It's only class 2. I used it for a long time with my Tilt 2 without any problems, even though I store 10gb of music on it. Now I'm using it in my Inspire. I tested it using the SD tools app. The write speed is 11.6 and the read speed is 20.4. Sometimes those numbers fluctuate slightly, but that's what it tested just now. It does fine with HD video. About once a week I was getting a disk error on my phone in which the card was becoming unmounted, particularly when I would use google navigation. I used SDFormatter 3, the one mentioned in the post above, and I turned on "format size adjustment", and the error hasn't happened in a while. I appeciate the poster who mentioned the software. It seems to work better than the native Windows 7 formatter on my pc.
Here's a link to a 32gb class 4 for sell right now on ebay. http://cgi.ebay.com/32-GB-Micro-SD-...906?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2564d3c83a
Cards with the exact same generic blue and white packaging are abundant on ebay today from 17 to 30 bucks. Most are receiving good reviews. I may take a gamble. You never know.
Update: Ha ha. I asked the above seller if the card had been tested for capacity and speed. The reply was "Card no is fake. It real." lol
i wanna 32
hi, i looking for a 32 gb, i saw a wintec 32 class 10 but heard alot of bad reviews. i bought a trancend 32gb online for $45, turned out it was a bad card. thank god for paypal, told them my problem, got a refund. now for father's day, i wanna 32gb any suggestions? thanks. btw, does the diff class speeds make a big diff? i mainly put music in it. thanks again.
Hi.. is it worth it to buy 64gb version of Surface? Isnt 32 sufficient? post your experience, please
I bought 32 GB and then 64 GB microSDXC from eBay for $17. The 32 GB version is quite soon down to less than 10 GB free, but for me it might have been enough so the SD is just to be safe (and as it was so really cheap).
jpalo said:
I bought 32 GB and then 64 GB microSDXC from eBay for $17. The 32 GB version is quite soon down to less than 10 GB free, but for me it might have been enough so the SD is just to be safe (and as it was so really cheap).
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i might sound like a retard but what about room for apps, win swap and such.. if its only 18 gigs.. and like 5 gigs are needed for windows to run smooth.. not actually a lot of space im asking because somebody complained about IE 10 being laggy because of that (possibly)
I bought the 64GB version and put in a 64GB MicroSD card for an extra $50 just in case. Oh and I also bought the Type keyboard instead of the Touch, Now I am in love with this setup!
Yes it is that much of a difference. After a while of typing on the touch your fingers start to hurt because you end up hitting the keys harder for some reason.
Troll on 12!
i went with 32GB and the black touch cover. because i am not planning to store
a ton of Music/Video on my surface. but if i ever get the Need to, i will just use a 64gb sdxc Card which i will order next week. hopefully my surface is arriving then too
p.s. i hate This german autocorrect, wtf
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I just got a groupon email for the PQI Air Drive... This might be a good solution for people needing more storage! I am going to pick one up for myself for sure.
Features
32GB capacity flash drive
Wirelessly transfer photos, music, videos, or documents
Simultaneously shares files with up to five computers, devices, or Terminators
Memory slot supports SD or SDHC cards up to 32GB capacity
With S+ app, flash drive is compatible with most mobile devices, including iPhone, iPad, iPad Mini, Kindle Fire, Samsung Galaxy Tab 2, Samsung Galaxy II and III
Download S+ Flash app from iTunes, Google Play, or the Kindle Fire App Store for wireless transfers to/from iOS and Android devices
Battery capable of supporting up to five hours of continuous playback
Built-in USB2.0 cable for charging the battery and wired connections
One-year manufacturer’s warranty
Dimensions: 3.35″x2.13″x0.31″; 1.92 ounces
50 bucks more you can get the seagate goflex sattelite.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004Z0S7K6/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00
Just went on sale for 50% off.
biggiestuff said:
50 bucks more you can get the seagate goflex sattelite.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004Z0S7K6/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00
Just went on sale for 50% off.
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I don't need anything that big.. this PQI is perfect for what i need since you can swap out the SD card in it. I will be able to take the 32gb micro card in my Vivid and with the adapter throw it right in the PQI.
shogunmark said:
I don't need anything that big.. this PQI is perfect for what i need since you can swap out the SD card in it. I will be able to take the 32gb micro card in my Vivid and with the adapter throw it right in the PQI.
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I wish it supported up to 64 gb, would order one in a heartbeat if it did.
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I wish it supported up to 64 gb, would order one in a heartbeat if it did.
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IF i had a 64gb card i would try it
FYI, link in the OP is a referral link...
In for 3, thanks OP!
bradwi said:
FYI, link in the OP is a referral link...
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your right, ill fix that! I was in a hurry when i saw it, so i just clicked and grabbed the email link straight from Groupon, completely forgot it was a referral link.. I removed the referral part. Thanks for bringing that to my attention.
djkinetic said:
I wish it supported up to 64 gb, would order one in a heartbeat if it did.
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Pretty sure it supports 64gb, even if it doesn't say it. 64gb sd cards are usually sold as SDXC preformatted with ex-fat filesystem. While this drive may not be SDXC ex-fat compatible, you can reformat it as fat32 and still be able to use it. I did it in my galaxy s2. 64gb sdxc wouldn't read till i reformatted it as fat32, then it worked beautifully! Galaxy s2 said it would only support up to 32gb cards, but that wasn't completely true...
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Pretty sure it supports 64gb, even if it doesn't say it. 64gb sd cards are usually sold as SDXC preformatted with ex-fat filesystem. While this drive may not be SDXC ex-fat compatible, you can reformat it as fat32 and still be able to use it. I did it in my galaxy s2. 64gb sdxc wouldn't read till i reformatted it as fat32, then it worked beautifully! Galaxy s2 said it would only support up to 32gb cards, but that wasn't completely true...
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If thats true I may still order one.
Just got mine today and i can confirm that it DOES support my sandisk 64gb micro sdxc card. It will probably even support higher capacities, but 64 is the biggest i have. I dud have to reformat the sdxc's ex-fat partition though. In order for it to be seen, it needs to be formatted as a fat or fat32 file system.
I'm happy.
One suggestion though, don't use the app from the play store the manufacturer says to use - it sucks. Use any file manager that supports lan sharing. I tried both es explorer and total commander and both work by connecting anonymously to 192.168.2.1.
The air drive uses 2.4ghz WiFi and supports 8 channels.
Highly recommended as an external storage solution because its portable and extremely versatile.
Nuff said.
dankoman said:
Just got mine today and i can confirm that it DOES support my sandisk 64gb micro sdxc card. It will probably even support higher capacities, but 64 is the biggest i have. I dud have to reformat the sdxc's ex-fat partition though. In order for it to be seen, it needs to be formatted as a fat or fat32 file system.
I'm happy.
One suggestion though, don't use the app from the play store the manufacturer says to use - it sucks. Use any file manager that supports lan sharing. I tried both es explorer and total commander and both work by connecting anonymously to 192.168.2.1.
The air drive uses 2.4ghz WiFi and supports 8 channels.
Highly recommended as an external storage solution because its portable and extremely versatile.
Nuff said.
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Perfect!! I am glad i took the jump on that. I had seen bad reviews for their app, but i was not real worried because i knew that Astro and ES both would support it. I know i got the shipping email the other day, so hopefully i will have mine today when i get home.
shogunmark said:
Perfect!! I am glad i took the jump on that. I had seen bad reviews for their app, but i was not real worried because i knew that Astro and ES both would support it. I know i got the shipping email the other day, so hopefully i will have mine today when i get home.
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I was surprised at how small it is. Literally is the size of a stack of about 4 or 5 credit cards.
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I was surprised at how small it is. Literally is the size of a stack of about 4 or 5 credit cards.
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nice hopefully mine comes in today!!
Just got mine and I didnt realize it comes with a 32gb card already lol...guess I don't really need to pop my 64 in there, and its super small, for 50 bux was a great deal, thanks OP =)
djkinetic said:
Just got mine and I didnt realize it comes with a 32gb card already lol...guess I don't really need to pop my 64 in there, and its super small, for 50 bux was a great deal, thanks OP =)
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you are welcome.. but [email protected] it, you all are making me jealous! I hope i have mine waiting for me when i get home.
I kinda want to open mine up... I want to see if its somehow possible to hack this up and make use of the battery when you dont need it for storage... I would also like to see if the firmware can be hacked, i would like to be able to change the private ip it uses (according to their site its not changeable).
The similar device without Groupon tricks for the same $49.99:
Kingston Wi-Drive 32 GB USB 2.0 Pocket-sized Portable Storage WID/32GBZ
joedoe said:
The similar device without Groupon tricks for the same $49.99:
Kingston Wi-Drive 32 GB USB 2.0 Pocket-sized Portable Storage WID/32GBZ
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not similar as the kingston is a fixed 32gb where as the pqi house a 32gb sdcard included, but can be swapped out for a larger sd card, as long as the card is formatted fat32 a 64gb and possibly 128gb card can be used.
Whenever I check my tracking with DHL it doesn't show up as anything, and when I cross reference it with USPS it says it was transferred to another carrier.
Did anyone get tracking updates or know which carrier is handling it? Or did it just appear in your mailbox?
So I just bought a new 16gb Note 10.1 last Friday, but after reading several threads here, I've come to the conclusion I should return it and get a 32 from Amazon. Price difference is $50. When I bought it, my thinking was with the ability to use an external card that the difference in memory wasn't a big deal. But it seems there is no way to move some things, like data from S-Note or other apps to the card.
So, supposing I do that...how can I get stuff like the files from S-Note and other internal apps moved? Is it a one at a time thing? Or is the whole thing being backed up to my Samsung account?
So far I am loving this thing. I had an HP Touchpad with CM9 installed. But it died last week. Total loss. So having been eyeing the Note for awhile, off I went to buy one. But guess I got too rambuncious. No one locally had the 32.
Am I thinking right here? I plan on doing as much as possible either on cloud or the external card so maybe the extra memory isn't important. But its nagging at me a bit.
Only option is to root ur device then get this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1857391
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Mate, this is the problem with all the new phones and tablets... 16Gb is just not enough now...
Back at the beginning I had a HD2 and the android roms were around 80 - 90 Mb. As I got newer phones/tablets the rom size kept increasing. Now with the Note 10.1, 1Gb is normal for a rom. The trouble is that I find apps are getting as memory hungry too... A 50Mb game install can then download an additional 1Gb of data which runs through my 16Gb internal memory pretty fast. I need at least 32Gb now where 16Gb used to be fine....
I wish the manufacturers took note of this as the new SGS4 has 16Gb internal memory but after system has used what it needs, you have a whopping 9Gb left...
My SGS2 had 11Gb left. This bites...
Personally I now have 2 32Gb Note 10.1's with a 64gb sd card in each and I'm still running out of space... Where are the 64Gb versions?
Great feedback so far. The external card will help as music, documents and photos will go there. But apps need to offer location options.
I like the first solution but really don't want to root and risk voiding warranty or screwing up OTA updates.
My HP had two OSs on it and I had no issues with memory. So maybe its ok. Still thinking of doing the update.
Thanks
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