Hi guys, I just purchased a 2 gig Sandisk for Jasjar. For some odd reason my device only reads it as 1 gig? But when I insert the card into my laptop, it's read as 2 gigs? So I reformatted the card and now it still reads as 1 gig on Jasjar with about 85% used up and my laptop reads it as 2 gigs with 85% used up as well?? This is without anything on it?! Please help.
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You need a new card reader m8. I had same problem.....
So, do I just reformat via a new card reader? Does that solve the 1-gig read issue?
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@evo8, I had the same problem on my Toshiba laptop because I used the Toshiba format utility instead of the XP one to format my 2GB SD card. If you can't get it to work return it to Sandisk for a replacement.
I have a Sandisk Ultra II 2GB SD card (actually 2 of them) and they work perfectly.
Do you by chance know of anyone with another HTC Universal device and/or someone with another 2GB SD that you can use to do some cross testing?
Have you soft-reset the device before inserting it?
Hard-reset? (I know . . . last resort)
How about installing Pocket Mechanic on your HTC Universal and let Pocket Mechanic reformat your SD card through your Universal.
I think the prob lies with the card reader. When I first bought my Kingston 2GB SD, I plugged it into my Exec and it read well. So I put it into the built-in SD card reader on my HP laptop and for some reason, it only read as 1GB, looking at the properties.......it showed up as partitioned with 0.9GB used!! And the card had only 1 MP3 song on it transferred from my Exec.
So i tried reformatting it and it became worse! It was totally unreadable by my Exec, while it still showed as 1GB on my laptop. So I tried a new card reader and it worked! Read as 2GB on my laptop. Reformatted the SD using the card reader, and thereafter, it can be used on both my Exec and laptop (with the new card reader)
i've got a 2GB "RIDATA" card - works perfectly in Jasjar.
8) Mikey Mike
i've got a 2GB "RIDATA" card - works perfectly in Jasjar.
8) Mikey Mike
evo8 said:
Hi guys, I just purchased a 2 gig Sandisk for Jasjar. For some odd reason my device only reads it as 1 gig? But when I insert the card into my laptop, it's read as 2 gigs? So I reformatted the card and now it still reads as 1 gig on Jasjar with about 85% used up and my laptop reads it as 2 gigs with 85% used up as well?? This is without anything on it?! Please help.
Thanks
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Try using the SDFormatter.zip that I've posted here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=30900&highlight=
You'll need a card reader to use it.
evo8 said:
Hi guys, I just purchased a 2 gig Sandisk for Jasjar. For some odd reason my device only reads it as 1 gig? But when I insert the card into my laptop, it's read as 2 gigs? So I reformatted the card and now it still reads as 1 gig on Jasjar with about 85% used up and my laptop reads it as 2 gigs with 85% used up as well?? This is without anything on it?! Please help.
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Having had the same problem with my 2 gig SanDisk card, I contacted SanDisk, they told me they suspect the card had been corrupted, this after it initially worked in my Jasjar, they gave me an address and contact details for a firm in the UK that handle their problems and they checked the card, found it had become corrupted and sent me a new one within three days or so. My tosh read the new card properly straight away and I have not had any problems since. Suggest you might want to do the same if the other suggestions don't work for you.
Thanks for all the feedback, but I gave up on the Sandisk 2 gig card and sent it back for a full refund. Does anyone know what brand would work though?
SanDisk ok
evo8 said:
Thanks for all the feedback, but I gave up on the Sandisk 2 gig card and sent it back for a full refund. Does anyone know what brand would work though?
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You probably have your money back by now and perhaps have bought another card already. However, as I said SanDisk sent me another 2gig card and it works fine in both the Universal and in my laptops card reader.
Good luck.
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Hi,
I have a problem in recognizing my Transcend 2 GB SD-Card.
During operation the MDA Pro "looses" my storage card. I do not need to move the MDA. It also happens when it is on the table.
When I eject the card and put it in again it is recognized again.
Do you have a suggestion what this can be?
Mike
****, I just ordered the same card two days ago. Should arrive today or tomorrow. I let you know what happens.
Unless your card is faulty, try reformatting the card (I know you don't usually have to do this staight out of the box). I have had this problem before, but on the i-mate jam and it would read the card in my PC, but not my LapTop, which has a dedicated SD slot. Go figure. Tried formatting to FAT and FAT32, but I think it doesn't make too much of a difference. For me it came down to the type of SD card being used!
My 1GB Scandisk card works flawlessly and quickly wherever I put it, but my 2GB Scandisk SD Ultra II only works in my PC and transfer rate seems noticeably slower. :?
I already formatted the SD-Card. I also tried Low Level Format with
Pocket Mechanic.
I haven´t found failures with a r/w test. On the PC there are no problems.
Mike
Send it back! :evil:
Send it back! :evil:
Having 2GB MMC works fine with me... Thank God.. was worried
I have the same problem with the Transcend 2GB card. When syncing Avantgo to the card I get a "write teimeout" error. The card is still there when I look at it with the explorer.
2GB SD card
I have no problems with a 2GB Sandisk SD card.
I bought an Integral 2GB High Speed SD card. Initially, my JASJAR refused to recognise the card as anything more than 128 MB. I tried formatting it with Pocket Mechanic (Low level and normal format) - still 128MB. My notebook (with a built-in SD card reader) also saw it a 128 MB. My EPSON card reader did not recognise it at all.
After finding a post on a forum through Google, I found out that the iMate JAM apparently creates a new partition on the 2GB card, and that it was a known problem (for the JAM).
Using Partition Magic, we saw that it in fact created three partitions (128 MB, 1GB and the remainder, but we could not format or use the other).
My husband got the brilliant idea to put the card in my Nikon CoolPix, which told us that the card was not formatted. He told the camera to format it, which worked -- I can now use the card as 2GB in both my JASJAR and my laptop.
I hope this helps somebody ...
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I have no problems with a 2GB Sandisk SD card.
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Which type?
THX!
Got no probs on my scandisc ultraII card on jasjar either, but my laptop won't recognise it! :?
Good thing I have a PC too! :lol:
No problems with my UltraII card either...
I always format my cards with my PC or Laptop before using them, and it's always been fine in PPC, PC, and Laptop.
I've ordered an O2 XDA Mini S, due tomorrow, & was wondering if there was a limit on the size of mini-SD cards it can use?
Cheers
Don't know of an official maximum, but I have a 2GB miniSD in my TMobile USA MDA with no problems.
Cheers.
So you can use at least as high as 2GB...A lot higher than the 128MB limit my old SE P900 has on card size!
I use a 2gb, without problems. When they are released a 4GB card should work, as there are many reports of successful usage in prophets and magicians
Cool. Ordered a 2GB card, should be here in a couple of days
Where did you order your 2gig from, MyMemory.co.uk have decent prices on SanDisk 2gigs.
i also have a 2gig card, bought for around 60 euro and working fine!
Are there already bigger cards than 2gb Mini-SD?
CowboyNinjaPirate said:
Where did you order your 2gig from, MyMemory.co.uk have decent prices on SanDisk 2gigs.
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Emartbuy.co.uk, found them via Kelkoo.co.uk
http://www.emartbuy.co.uk/products.php?prodid=161
I got it for like $50 with S&H on ebay for 2gigs
oem tho doesnt come with the adapter and box.. but its working great
2 Gig storage card not recognized by my Wizard
Hi,
I'm using MDA Vario. I bought 2 Gig storage card. At the first time, my MDA was able to recognize my 2 Gig mini SD. Then I put the card on the card reader on my Laptop in order to copy some file. There was a comment on the dialog box in my laptop that my 2 Gig mini SD has not been formated and the dialog box offered me to format it. Then I clicked yes to proceed the formatting process.
Unfortunatelly, after I format my 2 Gig mini SD using my laptop; My 2 Gig mini SD could not be recognized by my MDA, but my laptop is still able to recognize my 2 Gig mini SD card.
Up to the present I have not been able to use my 2 Gig mini SD on my Wizard since I format it using my Laptop.
I also has formated my 128MB and 256MB mini SD cards using the same laptop and it works on my MDA.
Could you please help me to fix the problem?
regards,
Stones
@ stones : try http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=47484
Thank you very much for your advice. I've tried using pocket mechanic to format my mini SD, as recommended in the forum you gave to me; but, I still have not been able to use it. Pocket mechanic didn't recognise my mini SD.
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Thank you very much for your advice. I've tried using pocket mechanic to format my mini SD, as recommended in the forum you gave to me; but, I still have not been able to use it. Pocket mechanic didn't recognise my mini SD.
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try this prog ....
Thanks mate, i'll try it.
Anyone used a 4gb mini SD card with the Wizard yet. Please?
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Anyone used a 4gb mini SD card with the Wizard yet. Please?
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Read thread here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=284229
I am sure it will work. I have one that i will receive on friday, will post my results on the forum.
Thank you I look fwd to your results
meschle said:
Read thread here - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=284229
I am sure it will work. I have one that i will receive on friday, will post my results on the forum.
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slarty01 said:
Thank you I look fwd to your results
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See the main thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1072702#post1072702
Hello
do you guys know if a 4 GB SD Card will work with the Universal. I saw in one of the signatures that people are using 2GB SD Cards, was wondering what is the upper limit?
I have an AData 4GB card purchased from some dodgy geezer in Hong Kong via eBay - it works perfectly. So go ahead and get yourself one
I've got transcend 4GB SD 150x works good
I've got a MyFlash 4GB card,
works perfectly
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I have an AData 4GB card purchased from some dodgy geezer in Hong Kong via eBay - it works perfectly. So go ahead and get yourself one
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Me too
noname 'My Flash' 4GB 200x turbo MMCplus works too.
phsnake said:
I've got transcend 4GB SD 150x works good
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same here.
not good
I will works fine but after you rich the maximum data with combination of software, you can encounter slow moving of any application hanging more often than usual and it will eat your battery 4x faster than normal consumption. :?
The speed of the card doesnt make much of a difference when using the it in the PPC. But you will notice the 150x SD card in a card reader for on the computer. Speeds of read and and write will be really fast, but it has no effect on PPC speeds, the PPC can only go so fast.
iv got a 150x transcend in mine working fine, well iv used it for about 4 months now, it does however have some slight issues with the camera...
before you can save images direct to the card you must have less than 2GB of space left on the card as the camera prog does not recognise anything more than 2gig, so if you try an take a pic with an empty 4gig card it will fail (unless you set images to save direct onto phone)
1 other problem i have encountered, i dont know whethere this was down to the camera, the phone or the card but, when i was away on holiday, i had around 2.5gb of audio and was using the camera a fair bit on my travells, then 1 day when i took a pic it overwrote (is that a word?) :lol: everything on my card!!! when i went into my storage space it said that the card still had 3gb taken up on card but when i went onto file explorer there would be nothing left showing on the card other than images i had taken since :roll: bit of a pain in the ass but it hasnt done me any wrong since then, still filling it with lots of audio/txt/images and no more problems (touch wood)
i had this experience with a 1GB sandisk card. I think it happens when a read or write to the SD card fails or doesn't finish [not sure here], happened twice the 1st instance I was able to use the SD card again [reformatted it with a camera, then again using Resco Explorer on the PPC] the 2nd time it happened the card was dead. Right now I am using a 1GB miniSD [in the adapter of course] which I bought for my ex-PPC [a Wizard] I plan to get a 4Gb SD card as well. If the speed of the card is only really noticeable with card readers then I'm ok with that [as I transfer songs and such via my notebook's in built card reader]. Hmm time to go SD card hunting over the weekend!!! Wonder what I'll do with the miniSD though... I have a 1Gb card in my digicam as well, maybe I can pass that off to my lil sis or something... :roll:
Ive just bought "Platinum" 4GB. It cost me 82$, here in Poland.
Universal report it have just 3,56GB but it is working as expected. Ive benchhmarked it in pocket mechanic - index:122
best reg,
Piotr
I got a Transcend 4Gb 150x SD Card [Part No.: TS4GSD150]. For around 88USD. It is reported as 3.86Gb under Resco Explorer.
I bought a MobyMemory 4Gb card from, suprise suprise, www.mobymemory.co.uk. Almost certainly rebadged from somewhere else but I though it was a good price at under £50 and works fine on my XDA Exec. They also throw in a free SD reader as some readers have trouble with 4Gb SD cards. I had to reformat the SD card under Windows XP for it to be seen by both the Exec and Win XP (as shipped, only the Exec could read the card).
Have the wiki and tomeraider on there - great for being a smartarse down the pub.
sl9 said:
I have an AData 4GB card purchased from some dodgy geezer in Hong Kong via eBay - it works perfectly. So go ahead and get yourself one
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I've just ordered one for a total of 37 quid
Hi guys,I am new here .
I am wondering if anyone has tried the new 8GB SD card on the Universal? dose it works?
BTW,My hx4700 which is 2004's unit and it works perfectly with the 8GB CF card. so...the new HCSD card will be working too?
I am using the ADATA 4GB 150X card too,it will take at least 12seconds :shock: to boot the phone pad once I press the CALL button in device shut down mode,is that normal?
thanks,
best.
-LB
SDHC will not work on old and current devices IIRC it needs a special SDHC capable SD slot for it to work with the newer cards. Dunno when SDHC will come to mobile devices though as I fear that the trend is that manufacturer's are moving towards transflash [aka microSD] and miniSD.
my 4GB main SD card worked so well, i bought 4 more to encode movies on
now i need a better DVD ripper Wondershare pocket DVD stupid is too quirky. can't rip some DVDs, sometime frame seqences willl repeat dejavu...
bnycastro said:
SDHC will not work on old and current devices IIRC it needs a special SDHC capable SD slot for it to work with the newer cards. Dunno when SDHC will come to mobile devices though as I fear that the trend is that manufacturer's are moving towards transflash [aka microSD] and miniSD.
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Thanks for the info bny,
that's a good news for my wallet ....
I've got a Goodram 4GB (x150) card, from Wilk S.A -Poland
works perfectly
http://www.unityelectronics.com/product-product_id/3912
Success with this one out of the box!
No need to re-partition. Full size recognized by the MDA.
Currently running the following from the card, no issues:
1. TomTom Nav 6
2. Windows Live Search
3. Movies in avi format useing TCPMP
4. MP3s using Win Media Player and TCPMP
5. PIE cache on the card.
Currently have it loaded up to 3805.5MB, 179.5MB free, total 3985 MB as reported by settings/memory.
WM5 file explorer see all the files I have on the card.
Total commander also works fine with the card.
Now it is just a matter of seeing how long the card will KEEP working.
4Gb miniSD card is still working. No hiccups today!
Just wanted you to know that *someone* is watching! :lol:
Please keep updating on whether it continues to work.
rpodos said:
Just wanted you to know that *someone* is watching! :lol:
Please keep updating on whether it continues to work.
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I just look at the number of times the thread has been read!
I know some are watching.
Yes. Still working just fine today!
I have a 4GB card too. Got it off ebay. No problems with it to speak of. Had it for a few weeks. Have 2161.88 MB filled. 1711.53 Free. No problems with running stuff off it and playing music too.
When I want to buy a 4GB card, the saler told me that it better to use 2GB miniSD instead of 4GB miniSD in T-Mobile MDA. Because 4GB need more electric power. Do you find any problem on the battery life?
When I want to buy a 4GB card, the saler told me that it better to use 2GB miniSD instead of 4GB miniSD in T-Mobile MDA. Because 4GB need more electric power. Do you find any problem on the battery life?
biolover said:
When I want to buy a 4GB card, the saler told me that it better to use 2GB miniSD instead of 4GB miniSD in T-Mobile MDA. Because 4GB need more electric power. Do you find any problem on the battery life?
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I have not noticed a differnece.
4g
Wow!
I have found that on a 1gig chip I could pack 6 movies created with Pocket DVD.
12 on a 2 gig.
So a 4 gig would hold 24!
Or, you could fit 45 CDs and STILL fit a dozen movies and all your files.
I am VERY interested!....
What brand of 4 GB are you guys using? Thanks.
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What brand of 4 GB are you guys using? Thanks.
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See 1st post in this thread.
Warning! If your serial number starts with "HT604", it will probably NOT work. I have one of these cards (same place Mark got his) and it fails in my unit.
His works - his serial number starts with "HT606".
So there appears to be a HARDWARE difference - we are both running the same ROM!
Problem with 4GB miniSD
I have 2 TopRam 2 GB cards that work great - have never given me any problem.
So I got a 4 GB TopRam card. First day it worked fine - copied all files from my 2 GB card onto the 4 GB card with the card reader, it read fine in my 8125, showed almost 4 GB total capacity and over 2 GB free.
Then it suddenly quit being recognized. I thought I had a corrupt music file that caused the problem. I tried to reformat the card but it is now not recognized in my 8125, nor is it recognized in the card reader on my laptop, or in my digital camera. So I have no way to reformat it and try again. I tried the WM5torage trick posted elsewhere - it doesn't recognize the card either.
Any ideas? I know that 4 GB cards work in Wizards! But are they extremely finicky?
This is the second 4 GB card I've tried - the first was a Transcend SDHC and it was a bust from the get-go. But the TopRam seems like it should work, if I could just get it reformatted!
problem!
i just got my 4gb mini sd off ebay.
it is san disk brand.
i tried to format it with windows but windows wouldnt do FAT16.
so i formatted on my ppc and both my ppc and windows read only 1.89gb.
HELP!
My UnityElectronics 4GB is still working fine. I had some issues with PIE using the card for Cache, Temp Internet Files and Cookies. The MDA would keep reverting to phone memory for PIE instead of the 4 GB card. I went back to using Opera and have not had any other new issues.
I have my TomTomV6 1.4GB file on the 4 GB storage card and it worked flawlessly on my trip to PA last week.
I have also ordered the TOPRAM 4GB card and am waiting for it to arrive. Will be interesting to see if I run into the same problems others have had with the TOPRAM card.
Unfortunate that the SDHC card did not work. Over at HF there is a post that there is a dll and reg entries for SDHC. Wonder if it was just a bum card.
As for the TOPRAM card, have you contacted the ebay seller to inquire if he has heard of other similar issues? Sounds like it is no really populated with the full set of memory chips for 4GB. I ran into something similar last year with a card supposedly manufactured by NCP. Turned out to be a fraud. I contacted NCP in Singapore and they indicated that they did not make a 4GB card.
Have you tried TOPRAM directly to see if they have any suggestions?
http://www.topram.com/contact.htm
Interesting that their website shows the 4GB card but it is not on the miniSD page.??????
Will le you know how I make out the TOPRAM.
http://stores.ebay.com/MOBILEMEM_W0QQsspagenameZL2QQtZkm
My MDA serial is HT621 and all works fine.
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http://stores.ebay.com/MOBILEMEM_W0QQsspagenameZL2QQtZkm
My MDA serial is HT621 and all works fine.
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The TOMRAM 4GB card?
Genesis3 said:
Warning! If your serial number starts with "HT604", it will probably NOT work. I have one of these cards (same place Mark got his) and it fails in my unit.
His works - his serial number starts with "HT606".
So there appears to be a HARDWARE difference - we are both running the same ROM!
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Where would I find this information...in the phone information or under the battery?
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Where would I find this information...in the phone information or under the battery?
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The only place I could find it was on the outside of the box the MDA was shipped in. You DID keep yours, didn't you?
Seriously, I have not found it on the phone anywhere.
Of course I kept mine. I have never thrown away any cell phone boxes.
Mine is HT 618...hopefully it will work.
so im excited to get a 8gb card for my kaiser,so i pop it in and reset...goto memory>storage card NOTHING!pop it out put it in my pc and invalid process!!!WTF?!?!?!help please
Have you tried to format the card from your PC. If that doesn't work you might have a bad card. Sucks but it does happen sometimes.
Also, please remember that these portable handsets are usually not NTFS file format compatible. Be sure when you are formatting that the card is in FAT or FAT32 mode, with default block sizes and allocation.
Also, it does sound to me that your card is defective. I have never had to "format" any flash cards I have ever bought before using them, except a couple old CF cards for my SLR camera.
I got a sandisk 8gb microsdhc myself - and it works great...
(except when one morning I wake up and find out that all the data's gone, and had to recover it with GetDataBack)
I'm no SDHC expert (I've only had 1 for 2 weeks) but I ran into some problems myself...
1) If you're running Win XP on your desktop, you'll need to download the hotfix for SDHC support here (I don't use Vista so I'm not sure if it supports SDHC natively)
2) The card reader I have connected to my PC wouldn't read SDHC cards but the USB reader that came with my SanDisk 8GB MicroSDHC card does work. Make sure the adapter you're using to connect to the PC supports SDHC.
3) Sounds stupid but make sure you're pushing the card all the way into your phone. You should feel some spring pressure and then hear a 'click' as it locks into place. You push it in and it springs out to remove it. I have pretty big fingers and I didn't insert mine all the way the first time. I still have to use something small (the back end of the stylus) to fully insert my SDHC card.
---OR---
You may have a faulty card
mine work!!
s0undw4v3 said:
I got a sandisk 8gb microsdhc myself - and it works great...
(except when one morning I wake up and find out that all the data's gone, and had to recover it with GetDataBack)
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well..... i got the same MC sandick an dno problems witing...
Here is the WinXP SDHC Update if you don't want to d/l it from the MS Site.
I have a 8GB SDHC Sandisk. I formated as FAT32 winXP SP2 updated and it works perfect on my tytn II and as a pendrive (with the usb adapter included)
thanx for the help guys but i think i have a bad card...
sorry if you've got a bad card . i scored mine (8gb - sandisk microsdhc) off ebay for $45.00. works flawlessly!
I have just copied all of the contents of my 4gb card onto a new 8gb card, no problems so far, but when I put it back into my Kaiser, the volume only shows as a 4 gb, with 1 gb free, which are he details of the old card, any help greatly appreciated
thanks
Trev