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Transferring to new miniSD

I have a 512MB card installed with TomTom map, music, some apps installed, etc.
If I buy a new, bigger card, can I just use the card reader in my PC to cut/paste everything onto my new card, re-insert it into my XDA Mini and it'll all work?
Cheers
PS - can someone recommend me a good reliable place to buy miniSD cards? I'm wary of sites offering very cheap brand name cards (SanDisk, etc) in case they're fakes.
Cheers

Yes you are correct you can just transfer the data from your old card to a folder on the PC then to the new card with a card reader.
While I was in the UK I bought cards from http://www.photo-scotland.co.uk/ and in the US from Amazon.com.
Hope that helps.

markmcrobie said:
PS - can someone recommend me a good reliable place to buy miniSD cards? I'm wary of sites offering very cheap brand name cards (SanDisk, etc) in case they're fakes.
Cheers
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Why? Okay maybe if they are pushing brand name cards, but why pay more than you have to? I got a 4gb Mini-SD card from the same Chinese shops that makes brand named cards for under $30! Try that at Best Buy. Heck you can not even BUY a 4gb Mini-SD or a 2gb Micro-SD from a big box store. At least none that I have seen. If it is all made in China, why pay the middle man???

www.newegg.com usually has good prices.

Purely because I've heard horror stories of people losing data from fake cards (mostly on PSP forums)

markmcrobie said:
If I buy a new, bigger card, can I just use the card reader in my PC to cut/paste everything onto my new card, re-insert it into my XDA Mini and it'll all work?
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Yes. I've even written a full tutorial on this; see http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/index.php?blog=3&p=516&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

I had a fault with a 2gb peak card that it would randomly not be read or corrupt all the data. I swapped it for another and that works fine, ive used cheap brands in the past and this is the only one that ive had thats faulty.

mjl3781 said:
Why? Okay maybe if they are pushing brand name cards, but why pay more than you have to? I got a 4gb Mini-SD card from the same Chinese shops that makes brand named cards for under $30! Try that at Best Buy. Heck you can not even BUY a 4gb Mini-SD or a 2gb Micro-SD from a big box store. At least none that I have seen. If it is all made in China, why pay the middle man???
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I have heard stories of minsd's in particular that have been "hacked" to display as 4gb cards but only be 2gb while in use. Those of course comes from ebay.

Yes, stick with Newegg.com
I've have actually seen them, a guy tried to sell my the load of mini and micro sd cards. I can tell the firmware were hack, there was no way he had more than a hundred 4gb cards. And if your buying from ebay, buy from someone with alot of postive comments, and stay away from generics.

32GB Class 4 Micro SDHC card problem

i bought a 32gb class 4 for my hd2 so i can run android off it, but when i insert the card into the phone. the phone freezez, wtf. i left it in there for half an hour and still nothing, the phone is still frozen. after i took the card out the phone unfroz and was working. i put it in my brothers HD2 and same problem, it freezez. i put the card in to a htc desire z and the phone picked it up, it looked through the files on the memory card. why the hell dont it work on my HD2. Now i bought this card from ebuyer. i hope it works man:
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/218439
any ideas why it wont work and makes my fone freeze. looks like i will have to save the 32gb for a dual core nvidia tegra 2 phone.

does it freeze when you launch android or just freezes in winmo 6.5?
if it only freezes when you are launching android, backup the card then format it in winmo (you'll find under settings) and restore all files to it and give it a try

10076757 said:
i bought a 32gb class 4 for my hd2
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/218439
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I'm tempted to call BS...
That link takes you to a 16gb class6 SDHC card made by Lexar.
It also happens to be the highest capacity card they sell on that site. Trust me.. I looked.

Download h2testw, run a full test of you micro sdhc card and make sure it's functioning properly.
http://sosfakeflash.wordpress.com/2...standard-in-detecting-usb-counterfeit-drives/

dharvey4651 said:
I'm tempted to call BS...
That link takes you to a 16gb class6 SDHC card made by Lexar.
It also happens to be the highest capacity card they sell on that site. Trust me.. I looked.
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dont you read anything. i said now i bought this one with the eprovided link from ebuyer

it freezez in winmo.

Just in case someone is still having issues, this is what I experienced.
I bought a Sandisk 32gb micro card, formatted (quick) with windows, put it in the HD2, and had nothing but problems (many hours of trying different things) trying to watch AVI's, or even install larger CAB's.
I read here about the SD assoc. having a free format program (SDFormatterv3.0.zip), I downloaded it, installed it on my WIN7 machine, did a quick format, not much change, did a full format (took over 3 hours!) card now works perfectly. Amazing.
I sure this is not the case with all Micro cards, but it sure helped me. Oh, I did the formatting while the card was in the phone, the card was set as "Disk Drive". (settings, other, USB)

I can vouch for the official format program fixing problem cards.
Sent from my Atari 600XL using cassette tape and a stamp.

Well an update. The program does a very good job on formatting the micro card, but it does not detect a fake card! H2testw.exe does, excellent little program. Turns out my 32gb card was 2Gb! Windows and the SD format program both reported it Ok, but If I wrote over 2Gb, files disappeared or didn't work. (doah) just couldn't believe I got ripped. Anyway, buyer beware, and check those cards before you loose important data.

32 gig card
As far as I know the hd2 does not support any higher then a 16 gig micro sd.

It supports sdhc so up to 32GB.
Sent from my Atari 600XL using cassette tape and a stamp.

Shows what you know. Almost all the HTC phones produced in the last two years have the abilty to use 32gig cards.

That's what I said... Unless you're replying to another post, in which case - quote, if it's not directly above yours.
Sent from my Atari 600XL using cassette tape and a stamp.

Well I finally locked onto a 32gb card. Got it from Buy<DOT>com, quite a few for under $50 now. Ebay... <sigh> 99% of them are fake, defective or scams.
My Tmobile HD2 runs great with a class 4 32gb card.
All I can say is avoid Ebay for your cards.
For those running on Tmobile firmware (I do still) there is a new ROM release that radically improves battery life, I am getting 100% more op time. I am not a heavy user. (5 days now, vs 2 before)

[Q] Right SD Card for WP7 ?

Hey Buddies from all over the world....
Flashed WP7 on HD2 with the original SD-Card, which came along with HTC's HD2,
so far, so fine....
Tried the same with my Kingston 8GB SDHC, but WP7 won't be flashed....everything is soooooooooo slow and I have the feeling that the flash process gets stucked...
So, how can i formate this SDHC to be compatible with WP7 ?

Mordanius said:
Hey Buddies from all over the world....
Flashed WP7 on HD2 with the original SD-Card, which came along with HTC's HD2,
so far, so fine....
Tried the same with my Kingston 8GB SDHC, but WP7 won't be flashed....everything is soooooooooo slow and I have the feeling that the flash process gets stucked...
So, how can i formate this SDHC to be compatible with WP7 ?
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Try sdformatter. Then inserted into the phone and do a full reset.

its worth pointing out that there is no "right" SD card that will work, well there is but not using a method other than buy and try.
Even within brands the cards may be different, just because one bloke gets it working doesnt mean you will with yours. I have 2 2GB Sandisk class4 bought on the same day at the same store, identical, one works one doesnt, i hve a 4GB Kingston that wont but the 8GB does.
Its a bit of a lottery im affraid, im sure folk will disagree but from my point of view i wouldnt go spend a fortune on a card that maybe useless, if you dont mind burning money or have another use for it then get whatever but just edge on the side of caution!

try re-formatting your sd card, if problem still happens then it's your sd card and you need a new one.

dazza9075 said:
its worth pointing out that there is no "right" SD card that will work, well there is but not using a method other than buy and try.
Even within brands the cards may be different, just because one bloke gets it working doesnt mean you will with yours. I have 2 2GB Sandisk class4 bought on the same day at the same store, identical, one works one doesnt, i hve a 4GB Kingston that wont but the 8GB does.
Its a bit of a lottery im affraid, im sure folk will disagree but from my point of view i wouldnt go spend a fortune on a card that maybe useless, if you dont mind burning money or have another use for it then get whatever but just edge on the side of caution!
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You're completely right... there's no guarantee that any particular sd card will work. Manufacturers don't rate the random access speed and they don't keep it consistent. One batch of the same may work while another batch made the next day may not work. Sandisk class 2 and 4 seem to most consistently work... no kingston has worked well for me yet, but 7/8 of the sandisk class 2 and 4 cards I've tried has... the one sandisk card that didn't work well was a 16gb class 2, but I have another 16gb class 2 sandisk with same model number that works great.

i cant find it just now, but there is a list somwhere of all the different types of cards over several brands that some chap managed to get, stacks of data for each card, and its shocking what the companies get up to, it "appears" in somecases, main stream branded cards may infact be cheap rip offs, im not talking dodgy Ebay sales here im talking propper branded cards may infact be rebranded tat. for that reason im happy with the card i have, its slightly smaller than i would like but i dont have another use for a large card so im buggered if im going to folk out for a tiny wee paper weight if it doesnt work.

Mordanius said:
Hey Buddies from all over the world....
Flashed WP7 on HD2 with the original SD-Card, which came along with HTC's HD2,
so far, so fine....
Tried the same with my Kingston 8GB SDHC, but WP7 won't be flashed....everything is soooooooooo slow and I have the feeling that the flash process gets stucked...
So, how can i formate this SDHC to be compatible with WP7 ?
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I bought TEAM SD CARD (CLASS 6) 16 GB ... EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE ... PHONE ABSOLUTELY FLIES ... and I experience 0% restarts 100% compatibility.....
Regards
Al

Guys,
Maybe it will be helpfull for smbd as well. I have a Sandisk 2GB card (which was included when I buy the phone) and it was incompatible several times I flashed Windows Phone 7. But when I formatted it with FAT system (not FAT32), looks like this helped - using now several days without any restarts

Micro SD cards weird issue

I've just experienced a weird issue with the SD cards.
So whats happen.
After I started to use Android on my HD2 my 8GB Kingston Class4 SD card just get a bit small. So I decided to buy some bigger one. First I bought a 32GB unbranded micro SD but soon I found that HD won't take that much so I sold it straight away.
Than I've looked around here on XDA and I found that so many guys using 16GB without probs.
So I bought another SD this time 16GB unbranded ( to keep the cost low) Class10 what's probably fastest at the moment.
I backup my old 8GB card ( just copy all content into my comp ). Than copied all content onto new 16GB card and sticked it into HD2. I thought all should work without any probs but it wasn't.
Phone was really slow, unresponsive, many fc.
OK I set its just need to flash the ROM again so I deleted content of .data folder and did a fresh clean flash with all caches wiped. I thought after this it have to be OK but again it wasn't.
So I started to be a bit worried by that time than I decide to buy another 16GB card but this time I spend more and I bought a Kingston 16GB Class4 ( same brand and class like my old 8GB ). That was for sure it will work 100% if my old works fine. And many people using 16GB, also one of my friends got 16GB SanDisk with Jaws MIUI ( I flashed it for him ).
So today I received that new 16GB Kingston Class4.
I did the same again - backup/restore all content and surprise *** NOT GOOD again; slow, unresponsive, fc's
So reinstall again and surprise *** NOT GOOD again; slow, unresponsive, fc's
I've almost rip of all mine hair (I mean the few bits whats still there )
So after all of this I came out with the last chance idea....
To do total wipe - thats included
- delete all data from the card
- flash stock Winmo ROM
- flash latest MAGLDR
- flash latest CWM Rec.
- flash latest Jaws MIUI
.......
.......and surprise *** All is OK, the SD is working just fine, finaly
So weird and I don't understand this.
I know this was probably long reading post but maybe someone have an explanation for this or some one have a same issue like me and can use this like a last help.

Where did you buy the card from? The market is flooded with low quality counterfeits, so always buy good brand from reputable source. I always buy sandisk, and never had a problem.

well normally I buy a Kingston or Sandisk. This was a first time I get unbranded cards but anyway at the and it wasnt caused by card quality cos this Kingston didn't work, only after I've done all that steps all is OK.
zarathustrax said:
Where did you buy the card from? The market is flooded with low quality counterfeits, so always buy good brand from reputable source. I always buy sandisk, and never had a problem.
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I have the same issue with Kingston 8GB Class 4 SD card, it is very slow, unresponsive and sometimes it doesn't come back from lock screen... i have to restart it... right now i am using Scandisk 4GB Class 2 card, it is OK but my phone heats up pretty quickly...
How can i resolve the heating issue... any idea?

Well, Kingston re-brands their SD Cards, so you never know what you're getting. I have a few and you can just pull the "Kingston" labels off to see what the original manufacturer is, and often thats just another rebrand anyway. I'll assume they do the same with their Micro SD cards.

maybe its a fake card
If u want to verify your card genuine or not, go to fake-memory.com,
u can download some tools over there.
your card might be ok today, but once its near full, you will see weird thing happening again, I also bought OEM card. (unbranded)
lucky my "32GB" is really a 1GB, so I spot it early.
Just get refund from seller through ebay.

I would have think about the SD also. But due to the solution you apply, I think now about a corrupted file somewhere. Maybe at a low level of your NAND.
That's just a thought (so maybe not so helpfull).
We play sorcerers with our phone... so I'm not surprized this happens.
I also have a corrupted SD few times. The validation processes are important and I don't think we can do the same as manufacturer on this point.
As the first level loader is never touch we can't brick our phones but this is the price to pay. DO NOT PUT VITAL DATA WITHOUT BACKUP IN YOUR PHONE !

rikardo1979 said:
well normally I buy a Kingston or Sandisk. This was a first time I get unbranded cards but anyway at the and it wasnt caused by card quality cos this Kingston didn't work, only after I've done all that steps all is OK.
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What I meant was where did you buy your kingston from? Kingston cards counterfeited alot. Kingston is also known to sell many low quality or defective cards. Kingston doesn't do any of their own manufacturing... they just rebrand cards, so many times they get bottom of the barrel cards. I won't buy kingston anymore after I did some research. Sandisk actually owns their own factories and create the chips they sell... they probably keep all the good ones for themselves and sell the bad quality or defective ones to kingston. I really don't understand how kingston is known as a good brand-name, because they shouldn't be. Buy sandisk cards from a reputable seller.

I got 3 micro cards
1. adata 16gb class 10
2. pqi 8gb class 6
3. sandisk 8gb class 2
All cards are without any errors and works with WM6 well. Unfortunatelu on Android with ext partition isnt so good.
There is no single rom using ext partition and working well on my class 10 card!!!
On PQI some works ok, some not
And on Sandisk every rum is running without errors.
What's going on? Ported android to HD2 probably is not 100% compatible with HD2 card reader ;-((((

I thought all is OK.well it was a day and now im back to sh*t.phone its slowing down,sometime cant wake up from lock screen or have to wait 30 or more seconds. i dont know whats the problem. looks like i have to sell my card and buy another one.this time i go for Sandisk but 100% genuine. its gona be expensive but what else i can do :-(
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA App

rikardo1979 said:
I thought all is OK.well it was a day and now im back to sh*t.phone its slowing down,sometime cant wake up from lock screen or have to wait 30 or more seconds. i dont know whats the problem. looks like i have to sell my card and buy another one.this time i go for Sandisk but 100% genuine. its gona be expensive but what else i can do :-(
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA App
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Maybe you have tried before...
Why don't you try another build before buying another SD? This at least will cost nothing. Just to be sure.

it seems we're all agree to say that Kingston sucks...

cheers.
I've already tried and its same. Its definitely a card issue.
Damn, I have to buy another one, 4th card in week or twoo
will see, hope die last...
truc007 said:
Maybe you have tried before...
Why don't you try another build before buying another SD? This at least will cost nothing. Just to be sure.
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Swapping out the MicroSD card of HTC Surround

Ok... I'm not so sure If i was supposed to make a new thread or reply to an old one... but If you replaced your MicroSD card, then what kind did you replace the 16gb card with? I put in an older 8GB C4 card and my phone is not working as well as before. It is not responding during sync and it opens applications a bit slower. Every time, after about 5 minutes into the sync operation, it stops responding and I have to reconnect it to my computer, and I fear that it is overcharging the battery.
So just curious, what brand, model (if you have it), size, and class, are you using currently?

SD Cards
Hi Kuree,
The first time I replaced my SD i used a Lexar 16GB Micro SDHC (it has a 4 in a cirlce on it as well). This one worked perfectly, syncing and there were no slow downs what so ever.
The card i have in my surround now is Also a 16GB MicroSDHC (with a 2 circled on it) this card also works perfectly. i'm not sure on the brand name as this one doesn't say it but I'm pretty sure it was a Lexar Mobile version.
I've only used 16GB cards so i can't exactly tell you if the 8GB card is the root of your issues.
Hopefully this helps you out!
If you have any more questions let me know and I'll see if i can answer them.
Take care,
Coockoo

problems....
I guys, sorry to resurrect an old thread. I'm having issues with upgrading to 32g... after hard resetting the phone and setting up time, the phone just gets stucked in "installing apps". It just seats there.
Any suggestions or things I should try??...
Any help will be highly appreciated...
thanks

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Hi,
Is "ADATA" micro SDHC 4
They told me (were I bought this) that this card should work.
Now I can't even read or format the SD card....
Thanks!!

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I didn't even know the surround had a memory card slot, where is it?

Any chance to revive the "adata" card?. I would really hate to trash 26 bucks...
To LKMR, search youtube, there is a nice tutorial on how to expand the memory of the phone.

LKMR.PREZ said:
I didn't even know the surround had a memory card slot, where is it?
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In this video how to disassemble, locate, and swap out the microSD card in an HTC Surround Windows Phone 7 on AT&T. Please note that undertaking this project will most certainly void your handset's warranty.
http://youtu.be/6BiZzfdWDR4

I used a Sandisk Class 4 32GB. No problems at all... WELL worth the price and effort. They are also VERY cheap if you keep an eye on Deal a Day. I've bought 4 from there so far, the last was like $20.
-Mc