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Max card support?

Hello all, anyone know what the max card support for the universals sd/mmc reader is
Thanks

Hi there,
If I'm not wrong, the manual says clearly that universal can read/write SD cards up to 2GB (unless someone with a better expertise than me knows something different).
In any case, this is not completely right, many people uses 4GB cards (including me), but it seems that not all the applications can cope with them, photo camera is one of them, if I'm not wrong, it will not save the photos to the SD unless it has 2GB or less free space.
Somewhere else in this forum, someone else said that he even uses a sam..ung 8GB SD card (very expensive).
Hope this helps

kecido said:
Hi there,
If I'm not wrong, the manual says clearly that universal can read/write SD cards up to 2GB (unless someone with a better expertise than me knows something different).
In any case, this is not completely right, many people uses 4GB cards (including me), but it seems that not all the applications can cope with them, photo camera is one of them, if I'm not wrong, it will not save the photos to the SD unless it has 2GB or less free space.
Somewhere else in this forum, someone else said that he even uses a sam..ung 8GB SD card (very expensive).
Hope this helps
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Yup i use a 8GB Samsung SD Card to watch DVD's. I dont have the time to encode DVD's to avi xvid format so i just copy them directly to the 8GB card and watch them on the tcpmp player. Quite fun i believe. I am waiting for the 32GB SD Card release by samsung and sandisk.

im using the 4gb 150x sd card from mobymemory (£47) no probs! nice and quick too noticed tomtom load quicker.
also im using the newest qtek rom and the camera stores to card no probs (dont have to have 2gb used as per some other complaints)

Im getting the 4gb Transcend sd card soon.. im currently using 2gb transcend but I soon realized it still isnt enough...the bigger, the better of course

nuclear, I don't understand... how is an 8GB SD card possible??? 4GB should be the absolute max.
Does the Universal support SDHC in one of the newer ROMs or something?

joe_dude said:
nuclear, I don't understand... how is an 8GB SD card possible??? 4GB should be the absolute max.
Does the Universal support SDHC in one of the newer ROMs or something?
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Well the device will always show you 2000MB regardless of the ROM. But you can put more than 2000MB on your 8GB card and it will read all the files and you can use them. Its just that at this part the memory monitor will show your SD card in the negative section or full. All SD Card are compatible in the HTC Universal. Enjoy.
I am waiting for the 32GB SD Card by Samsung and SanDisk

Brain... does... not... compute.
Nuclear, I need more info. What card did you get? What brand? Is it SD or SDHC? How did you format it?
What's different about the Universal that makes it possible?!?

joe_dude said:
Brain... does... not... compute.
Nuclear, I need more info. What card did you get? What brand? Is it SD or SDHC? How did you format it?
What's different about the Universal that makes it possible?!?
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Its a SD. Samsung 150X 8GB SD Card for $200 or so. I formatted it when i insert it into the Universal. Then i hooked it up to my PC. Transfered a DVD into it. And then back into the Universal and it played the DVD!!!

Hmmm I got one of these
http://www.sandisk.com/Products/Item(1239)-SDSDPH-1024-SanDisk_Ultra_II_SD_Plus_USB_1GB.aspx
MUCH faster transfers when you put it straight in your PC. I'm thinking of getting the new 2Gb version soon

nuclear
We all want to see your super card 8GB. Please will take photographs cards on background your universal or you have no photo?
In the same way report us address where we can book the card on 32 GB or you have no internet address?
I think nuclear you fibber!!!!!

nuclear said:
Well the device will always show you 2000MB regardless of the ROM.i think u must be wrong!
look my 4gb card, and its showing:3921.69 MB total
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well im just pretty much after a reliable card , one that will store my app data etc but im worried ill get one that wont be able to do what i want

well mines fine matey, nice and quick too, compared to my 1gb puremedia one. so ill recomend my 4gb 150X one from moby memory with 5 year waranty (free usb card reader too) about £47.

Thanks, ordering one now

iv currently got every single photo we have on our laptop of the kids (thousands) on the card. all my non vital apps, i just have handy menu, journal bar and a few others staying in the phones memory
then dumped the movies, saw3, world trade centre, happy feet and jackass2 on the card, plus tomtom uk & euro maps and still got just under a gig left

daddy k said:
iv currently got every single photo we have on our laptop of the kids (thousands) on the card. all my non vital apps, i just have handy menu, journal bar and a few others staying in the phones memory
then dumped the movies, saw3, world trade centre, happy feet and jackass2 on the card, plus tomtom uk & euro maps and still got just under a gig left
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My Universal screwed up my precious 4GB SanDisk Extreme III card and my 8GB Samsung. Literally it made my 8GB to 2GB and my 4GB to 2GB. I lost 6GB of space on my 8GB card into nothing. I am contacting tech support all day and this is what they posted. THE MAX IS 2GB!!!! >>>>>.<<<<< scary ;(
http://www.sandisk.com/Compatibility/Device(8016)-i-mate-JasJar.aspx

I was going through the SD specifications, and it looks like that SD 1.1 could support up to 64GB (!!!) using 32KB clusters.
Unfortunately, this won't ever happen, since SD 2.0 flags anything above 2GB as a memory error.
8GB should be possible because FAT32 defaults to 4KB clusters, which would match. Larger capacity would need reformating to match the larger SD clusters, but technically it should be possible, IMHO.
So probably some of the Samsung OEMs do work at 8GB using SD 1.1. But I'm seeing the new auctions say SD 2.0 compatible only.
Oh well, I can live with 4GB, but I hope Windows Mobile adds support for SDHC and MMCplus.

Nuclear, the 4GB Sandisk I believe is SDHC, so it will probably screw things up. The 8GB Samsung you could probably reformat on your PC.
If you have an SDHC and an SD USB reader, use the SD one, as the SDHC one might force you down to 2 GB.
Hey, it's just my guess from reading the specs.

joe_dude said:
Nuclear, the 4GB Sandisk I believe is SDHC, so it will probably screw things up. The 8GB Samsung you could probably reformat on your PC.
If you have an SDHC and an SD USB reader, use the SD one, as the SDHC one might force you down to 2 GB.
Hey, it's just my guess from reading the specs.
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My SanDisk 4GB Extreme III is a SDHC? I was sure i bought a SD only. It says SD on it....
As for my 8GB my PC detects it as only 2GB. Reformatted and again only 2GB. I know another way to fix it. Partition MagiC!!! I lost 6GB in partition space. And same with the other 4GB card. Once i partition it every 2GB it will make 3 cards in 1 . Well stay tuned and i will let you know how paritioning the space helped.

S200 SDHC 8Gb

Hi , I need help my S200 Can't find my 8gb memory stick.

for what i've read in some site the s200 doesn't support the sdhc card.

That's right, the Prophet doesn't have any SDHC-capable hardware and can't be upgraded to SDHC with a driver-package! Forget it, 4 GB Non-SDHC is the highest possible space!

So SDHC will not work at all even if i buy 4 gb SDHC?

It won't work you must buy non-sdhc card.

the highest it can support is 2gb

Odivelas_H21 said:
the highest it can support is 2gb
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I think it can handle 4GB SD Cards... The only limitation is that it must be regular SD and not SD HC...

I had used a 4 GB SD-Card (Non-SDHC!!!) from Transcend with no problems!

MicroSD cards support

Hello people,
I was wondering which is the maximum microsd capacity that HTC Hero supports. As far as I know the maximum capacity for micro sd cards is 16GB. Does Hero support them?
By the way does anybody know when the 32GB micro sd card are going to be released and if they will be supported by Hero?
I am running the latest official firmware and my Hero is unlocked.
Thank you in advance!

theodore80 said:
Hello people,
I was wondering which is the maximum microsd capacity that HTC Hero supports. As far as I know the maximum capacity for micro sd cards is 16GB. Does Hero support them?
By the way does anybody know when the 32GB micro sd card are going to be released and if they will be supported by Hero?
I am running the latest official firmware and my Hero is unlocked.
Thank you in advance!
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I have a Kingston 16Gb and it works fine on Hero. Not sure when 32Gb will be released or whether they will work. Hope it is soon and yes ;-)

I emailed HTC about this very issue a month or so ago. While 32GB cards aren't out yet, I was told there's no reason why they shouldn't work in the Hero.

SD Micro Class
Hey, does anyone know whether a class 6 sd card would make the apps run quicker from the sd card or would the class 4 card (that was supplied) be sufficient. Just wondering should i buy a class 6 Micro SD card.

The 16gb class 2 card seems just as fast as the 2gb one in the box, and a 8gb class 6 card i had.

64gig microsd card

will the htc see a 64 gig micro sd card ?

32GB is the largest Microsdhc card that is *technically* possible. That's the end of the Microsdhc development. To get higher capacities you need to go to SDXC ... see ... http://www.sdcard.org/developers/tech/sdxc ...
No way will HTC upgrade "existing" phones to allow you to use the nes format. It'll be new phone time.
Dave

128gig microSD card is coming out this year 2011 physorg.com/news143893844.html
BUT will the HTC DHD see 128gig?

I don't see that happening,, if anything my guess is 64GB will be supported

vxnice said:
128gig microSD card is coming out this year 2011 physorg.com/news143893844.html
BUT will the HTC DHD see 128gig?
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no only 32gb

32gb should be more than enough for most people anyway.

vxnice said:
128gig microSD card is coming out this year 2011 physorg.com/news143893844.html
BUT will the HTC DHD see 128gig?
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NO! That is a press article from 2008! And it's complete bull, though the author may well have believed it at the time. A microsdhc card CANNOT be more than 32GB. See ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroSD ...
"... microSD cards are currently available in capacities from 64 MB to 2 GB, while microSDHC cards are currently available in capacities from 256MB to 32 GB. This is the largest microSD card yet, and the limit of the microSDHC technology as well. microSD cards with larger capacities will be in microSDXC format.
[My emphasis].
As I said, existing phones will NOT be able to take the new cards (that is purely my opinion. Though why would a manufacturer make an existing phone work with new technology when a) the phone is obsolete anyway and b) he wants to sell you a new phone!).
As for 32GB being enough. Well I have about 6GB left on mine and I still have plans .......
Dave

note 4 could support 200gb sdcard ?

i wonder if note 4 could support this new kind of sdcard ??

Hi,
yes. The Note 4 supports 200GB MicroSD cards. I have a SanDisk 200GB card in my phone. No issues so far.
Regards
Stephan

I have the same one as well. 10gb partitioned for link2sd and the rest for storage. zero problems

This may sound stupid, but i will go for it and ask. Can you make ext sd + phone sd to work in RAID ?

Hi Sectoras,
no, RAID is not possible. And what RAID should it be? Mirroring, Striping, Raid 5, Raid 6?
You are thinking about a joined memory of internal and external SD card, right? This will be possible with Android 6 / Marshmallow.

cyvr1 said:
Hi Sectoras,
no, RAID is not possible. And what RAID should it be? Mirroring, Striping, Raid 5, Raid 6?
You are thinking about a joined memory of internal and external SD card, right? This will be possible with Android 6 / Marshmallow.
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I was thinking about RAID0 (Striping i think) to improve performance. If MM support such thing it could be awesome

Sectoras said:
I was thinking about RAID0 (Striping i think) to improve performance. If MM support such thing it could be awesome
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No, it does not support striping. What it does support is called "Just a bunch of disks" (JBOD) but that's no RAID. JBOD is a storage volume created by joinig disks (here SD cards) of different sizes. JBOD does not improve performance, it just supplies you a single storage using all memory cards (Phone 32GB + ext. SDcard 200GB). There is also no data security (redundancy of data). Therefore RAID 0 (striping) is, technically spoken, not a RAID as well because of the missing data redundancy.
I also expect several issues with the JBOD solution of Android 6. The externa SD card is much slower than the internal memory which might have and according to some reports on the net does have adverse effects on the loading speed of apps and data. Also when the SD card breaks you will probably have to re-install the complete phone as you have no influence on where the apps and data are stored.

I saw a 256GB micro sd card. I'm assuming that will work too?

Yes, should work if the 256GB is an SDXC card.
If a phone supports SDXC cards based on the SDA 3.0 specifications (like the Sandisk 200GB card) it will support every SDXC card following that standard.
SDXC supports 64GB up to 2TB.
If some day there will be for example a 512GB or 1TB SDCX card available it should also work with the Note 4.

cyvr1 said:
Yes, should work if the 256GB is an SDXC card.
If a phone supports SDXC cards based on the SDA 3.0 specifications (like the Sandisk 200GB card) it will support every SDXC card following that standard.
SDXC supports 64GB up to 2TB.
If some day there will be for example a 512GB or 1TB SDCX card available it should also work with the Note 4.
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Very interesting. This phone is storage future proof ! lol Thanks for the response.

jcip17 said:
I saw a 256GB micro sd card. I'm assuming that will work too?
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256GB Micro SD cards don't exist only 200GB
You either saw a regular 256 GB SD card or a fake 256GB micro SD card which has been reviewed as BS.

wizkid37 said:
256GB Micro SD cards don't exist only 200GB
You either saw a regular 256 GB SD card or a fake 256GB micro SD card which has been reviewed as BS.
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You're right ppl are saying its fake. Really odd Amazon is selling it.

jcip17 said:
I saw a 256GB micro sd card. I'm assuming that will work too?
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There is no such thing as a 256GB microSD card at this time. Biggest one you can find is the 200GB one mentioned.

256gb
TechnoHippie said:
There is no such thing as a 256GB microSD card at this time. Biggest one you can find is the 200GB one mentioned.
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my wife tried to surprise me with one and found out it was fake.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2239413
See this. All working. Note2-3-4 have 200GB+ card support.

ben.anter said:
i wonder if note 4 could support this new kind of sdcard ??
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Yes it does support 200 gb microsd card I am using one now

TechnoHippie said:
There is no such thing as a 256GB microSD card at this time. Biggest one you can find is the 200GB one mentioned.
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ur wrong.. 200gb is not the last high capacity micro sd.. their is one micro sd with 512 gb capacity.. company name is Microdia.. just google about it..

The 512GB card from Microdia doesn't exist yet. At one point they were claiming it would be out 8 months ago (and was going to cost $1000) - but again it does not exist yet (and might never be as it's been almost a year since they maid these claims). I've seen plenty of people scammed and ripped of on these cards - again - THERE IS NOTHING BIGGER THAN THE 200GB for sale at this time.

Interesting I didn't know the Note 4 could support a microSDCard of that size, I thought the largest card that can be used is a 128GB card.

Sterist said:
I have the same one as well. 10gb partitioned for link2sd and the rest for storage. zero problems
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Hey, can you briefly describe how it's partitioned? I didn't know Android phones can take microsd cards that have 2 partitions? Are both exFat?
Thx