Hello,
I'm using egress to download podcasts over wifi or usb connection to computer. In either case it is take a very long time to download. 10-15 minutes per 25mb file. I have them download directly to storage card. The card is not bottle neck as I frequently whip large files to it through my card reader on the pc.
Are there any suggestions as to how I might speed up these downloads? On my axim the same podcast from the same server downloads in a minute or two.
Thank you!
Josh
slowjett said:
Hello,
I'm using egress to download podcasts over wifi or usb connection to computer. In either case it is take a very long time to download. 10-15 minutes per 25mb file. I have them download directly to storage card. The card is not bottle neck as I frequently whip large files to it through my card reader on the pc.
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Sounds like you just answered your own question. AFAIK, nobody has been able to speed the USB connection to a storage card. It's hell. Period. WiFi should be better, but not dramatically so. Your best bet remains ejecting the card and loading it up that way. It's so much faster, I don't know why anyone would bother with another method. (Of course, it helps that I have an SD chip slot built into my lappy.)
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WHen i attempt to transfer files to my Wizard it freezes. The file size is 300mb to my 1GB SD card. It is a movie and whenever I try to copy it from my PC to the phone via USB it freezes.
I have only been able to transfer small .cab files and .mp3s....
What can I do to fix this besides buying a separate reader?
Do you have a SD card slot on your PC? Or a Card reader device? Try to take out the MINI SD, plug it in to its SD card adapter (if you have it) and copy it directly on to the card. Then place back the MINI SD card in the device.
It is quite difficult to say if it is your USB connection or active sync, your PC or something else ...
In case you do not have a card reader:
Maybe you have WLAN? Try to copy it via wifi then ...
Yep,
lots of choices, lots of possibilities - and lots of things which can go wrong!
how would i go about copying it via wifi?
Quite hard to explain if I do not know what hardware you have (such as wireless home network, router, accesspoint) and if you have experiences in setting up wireless connections (infrastructure if router / ap exists - ad-hook if not).
In case you do not have any experiences it would be too difficult to explain anyway. You might want to check your USB? What ActiveSync version are you using? What Windows version ...
You see: there are a lot of components and information needed in order to help you one way or another! Never forget: people who are trying to help on here know only as much about your problem as you post ...
Junner2003 said:
Quite hard to explain if I do not know what hardware you have (such as wireless home network, router, accesspoint) and if you have experiences in setting up wireless connections (infrastructure if router / ap exists - ad-hook if not).
In case you do not have any experiences it would be too difficult to explain anyway. You might want to check your USB? What ActiveSync version are you using? What Windows version ...
You see: there are a lot of components and information needed in order to help you one way or another! Never forget: people who are trying to help on here know only as much about your problem as you post ...
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Heh i have wifi all setup I have verizon fios. I can connect via my phone to the network thought maybe i had to do a certain procedure. What i did though was upload it to my ftp then connect from my phone and transfer it like that. While it was time consuming ti worked at least.
Activesync version 4.5, windows xp. I'm probably just going to give in and go buy a sd card reader tomorrow.
Hi all ,
My work computer do not permit install Activesync, so I use a bluetooth adapter to transfer data to PDA .
My question it is possible to change the destination directory to storage SD card?
Every time the data goes to "my documents" in the the main memory.
Anyone can help me?
Thanks
have a nice day
Ramboia
Yow! we have related problem here. Why developers ignore this? I think this is somehow a major problem. It's a good thing that you can transfer your data to your PDA via bluetooth without a problem. Nweiz, I have a problem right here, for example, you have to download a data using bluetooth which is above 10mb but your storage (which is the buffer zone of the data) is below 10mb, the data now is unable to complete the download. I suggest that the buffer zone can be the RAM disk which is unremovable (unlike the SD Card) so you can download higher quantity data and then you can transfer it in your SD Card later. but i don't know how to do it or what 3rd party software i must install?
Please help! Tnx!
Today, while tethered to my laptop, I unplugged the micro USB cable from my Imagio before actually pressing the "Disconnect" button in Internet Sharing.
Normally I press the "Disconnect" button and then "safely remove"/eject the drive that subsequently pops up in Windows, but that take a few seconds, and, like, I have stuff to do! I suppose I just wanted to see what would happen.
Well, it apparently corrupted the file structure on my storage card, a 16GB Sandisk. Now, the phone won't even recognize it, and when I tether the phone, the laptop asks to reformat, which I haven't done in case the data can be recovered.
Besides some pictures, the data isn't irreplacable, but I'm wondering if this has happened to anyone else. Any recommendations for a free data recovery utility for flash media?
Thanks.
Hello all,
today I found out something strange. If I copy some files via WLAN to the mobile storage the speed is at 1500 kb/s. But if I copy the files to the storage card the speed is between 200 and 700 kb/s.
How can that be?
What class is your SD card?
I have a SanDisk 16 GB card. If I copy files via USB to the card I am at 3 MB/s. So that cant be the reason, I think.
copying over usb when in active sync mode Is lots slower than having the phone connected in hard disk mode.it isn't just doing a simple transfer in active sync mode. I get roughly 5 times faster speeds in hard disk mode than in active sync.
I've noticed this as well. My polaris was the same, i think i have a class 4 or class 6 card. It might just be wifi signal strength?
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copying over usb when in active sync mode Is lots slower than having the phone connected in hard disk mode.it isn't just doing a simple transfer in active sync mode. I get roughly 5 times faster speeds in hard disk mode than in active sync.
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Thats right, but. In this thread I am talking about WLAN.
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I've noticed this as well. My polaris was the same, i think i have a class 4 or class 6 card. It might just be wifi signal strength?
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No, that cant be. If you copy the files via WLAN in your mobile memory, the speed will be at 1500 kb/s. But if you copy the files to the memory card it will be between 200 and 700 kb/s. But the signal strength is the same.
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Thats right, but. In this thread I am talking about WLAN.
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yea i know, sorry, i was referring more to this part
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But if I copy the files to the storage card the speed is between 200 and 700 kb/s.
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You should find that in disk mode the speed jumps up to a few mb/s.
it is caused because when you active sync files it won't run the USB bus at full speed.
However, you are talking about the internal memory vs the sorarge card, right? In which case it is because the internal flash memory is way faster than the sd card. thats why programs installed to internal memory start faster than those installed to mem card.
I plug in my phone to my computer and ut charges but it wont connect to computer through DISK DRIVE WTF... I RESET IT TWICE AND NOTHING... ITS NOT CORD OR PHONE CUZ IT CHARGES...
when you plug it in to your PC in a mass storage mode the memory card is locked
the phone acts as a thumbdrive so you can drag and drop files onto your sd card.
theres a prompt that AKSs?(asks) you what mode would you like to connect.
either sync or mass storage.
every phone does it same btw.
Two possibilities-
1. Your card may have gotten corrupted. It's a fairly common occurrence and it will cause your phone to not be able to read it. Plug it into the PC via a card reader & see if you can see any files on it. If it takes an unusually long time for your comp to see it, or if all you see are wierd files with numbers as names, then its corrupted. Even if it loads fine, it wouldn't hurt to reformat it anyway just for the sake of maintenance. I suggest formatting it as fat32 with 64k allocation unit size for the best read speed.
2. Your settings on the phone are incorrect. Go to settings>system>connections>USB to PC and make sure the disk drive option is enabled, and that the "ask me first about USB connection type" option is checked.
If neither of those fixes it, back up your data & try a hard reset. If that STILL doesn't fix it, then your card is dead.