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Well I finally broke down and ordered a Nexus One last night. I got the order confirmation at 9:38PM CST Sunday. I got the email stating it shipped along with the FedEx tracking code at 9:46AM CST on Monday.
I wouldn't think too much of it but I had the custom etching done and it said it would delay shipping 72hrs. They must have gotten through the initial backlog and they are shipping pretty fast now.
The only problem is that I ordered the new 8GB Class 6 Micro SD card and Zagg last night as well and I went slow shipping on those thinking they would all get here at the same time. Now I should have my phone tomorrow but not the other stuff until Friday or so.
Oh well. I can start using it with the included 4GB card and start over when the other card comes in. I would pull the 8GB card out of my G1 but I don't want to set it up again for when I pass my G1 on to my wife.

your system info is not stored on the card. you can just copy over everything from the 8GB to the 4GB (assuming theres enough space) and thats that.

melterx12 said:
your system info is not stored on the card. you can just copy over everything from the 8GB to the 4GB (assuming theres enough space) and thats that.
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True, but I use Touchdown and some other apps that will install stuff to the SD Card. It isn't that big of a deal to redo it when it comes in. I had the same issue with my G1 when I first got it and went from the 1GB card to my 8GB card. I have to get Touchdown up and running right away as I need that for work. While I could uninstall it and the other apps, install the new card and reinstall the programs, I will probably just load up the apps that I have to have, play with some others then do a wipe when the new card is here. Not a big deal and probably faster.
To do the copy would take more work because I would have to set it up to move. Like get a machine running Linux to play it safe. Not a big deal but still takes some time. Besides if the Nexus is as fast as everyone keeps saying I should be able to be back up and running pretty fast.

SD Cards

Who here is still using the original SD Card that came with their Hero? I am and I'm finding that its absolutely horrible whenever I attempt to do anything with roms because there's practically no space left.
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well get another card....it's not that hard or expencive .....just saying....

I tried rolling with the built in card for the first few months, and then it was a wrap.
They have some good deals on 16gb cards now. Check them out.

Agreed SD cards are cheap ass hell just get a new one
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go where someone has a galaxy tab that you can play with (ie office max, sprint, tmobile) and wait til nobody is looking and take out the 16gb class 2 micro sd. its not fast but its free
****i dont condone stealing.... i just do it from time to time.****

youdug said:
go where someone has a galaxy tab that you can play with (ie office max, sprint, tmobile) and wait til nobody is looking and take out the 16gb class 2 micro sd. its not fast but its free
****i dont condone stealing.... i just do it from time to time.****
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WOW! Imagine that!

uhh lol ok.

Just spend the money once. Buy a 16 or 32. It will last all the way through your hero. When your done format and use on your next phone. (unless the new phone already has a better sd card)
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if you're gonna load apps and videos....
GET a class 6, (whatever GB you want) The little number inside an almost circle, that tells you the class. This will let your phone process more info quickly, with out over heating. Target has'm

This is the best deal around and I've read nothing but good stuff about this brand Wintec 16GB Class 10 29.49

Too many dumbasses on amazon

I've been keeping track of fake 32gb micro sdhc from china. Months ago, they came as no name cards. Then a couple months ago they started arriving with brand names like kingston and sandisk.
These are actually 4 or 8 gb cards that they had modified to be read as 32gb.
If you do a search on amazon, you will find many of these cheap cards being sold as sandisk, kingston, etc. And guess what, dumbasses have been putting lots of 5 star reviews because all they did was put the card in their phone and the phone read it as 32 gb. These dumbasses never even bothered to test out their cards first before doing a review.
The easiest way to test out if you got a genuine 32 gb card or not is try to fill it all the way up with large media files and then try to play the files from the card.
As you can tell, I am very disturbed by the fake products that China is producing and flooding our damn economy with.

I guess this is the 21st century version of "me chinese, me play joke, me put pee pee in your coke".
I only buy from Amazon, none of the third party vendors. Not 100% safe, but easier to deal with for returns. I suppose always using a credit card with a good "buyer protection" policy would help too.

What really pisses me even more is the fact that the chinese government almost never do anything to stop these activities until the international community at large say something. Look at the plastic rice fiasco, for example. The damn chinese gov didn't do poop until the taiwanese news reported on the finding. Plastic eggs, foods made from cardboards, etc. Fake apple stores.
Please understand I'm not dissing everything that is made in china. I am dissing the chinese gov for not stopping these downright immoral practices.

My 32gb card from a data has been great. Got for a nice price off newegg
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BrianDigital said:
My 32gb card from a data has been great. Got for a nice price off newegg
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And?
I'm not saying all 32gb cards out there are fake. But because the online market is currently being flooded with these fake cards, people need to test out their cards first before they do a review. My complaint in the OP is that if you go through and read people's reviews, they gave 5 stars simply because they put it in their phone and the phone says 32 gb. If you then look at the 1 star reviews, there are a bunch of people reporting they couldn't put more than 4gig or so of data. And the transfer rate is extremely slow.
The point is test out your cards first before you do a review.

I've never bought anything bad from Amazon or any of their vendors. Also, Prime is the best!
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What really pisses me even more is the fact that the chinese government almost never do anything to stop these activities
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Not to point out the obvious, but there is a reason goods are cheaper from China.
No offense meant, but you want cheap goods with industrialized quality control.
When China reaches the level of regulation of the industrialized nations with their products, they will no longer be cheap.
The solution is pretty simple, quit buying from a country known for their low quality, if quality is truly a concern.
people need to test out their cards first before they do a review
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I think you mean, people who try and save a couple bucks buying from China should test them to make sure they aren't getting ripped off.

Alot of the reviews are pulled together from just being a micro sd, Hopefully anyone on the fence will checkout newegg I'm not advertising but like you reading those amazon reviews it felt like a gamble hitting that buy button.
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I've reported to amazon several instances where sellers were trying to sell fake products with no brand name. Amazon actually took those down, so kudos to them. That was months ago. Nowadays, they have gotten smarter and actually put reputable brand names on their microsd cards.

goodintentions said:
I've reported to amazon several instances where sellers were trying to sell fake products with no brand name. Amazon actually took those down, so kudos to them. That was months ago. Nowadays, they have gotten smarter and actually put reputable brand names on their microsd cards.
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Yea, the most anyone can do is test their cards and report the seller if they're bad. Unfortunately, as an earlier poster mentioned, China won't do anything to them unless a major corporation(Apple) or a government threatens them. Not to mention they rack in god knows how much, fifty thousand or so maybe, in sales, shut down and make a new business. I live in Mexico for the time being and it's interesting how easy it is to drop off the governments radar here, I imagine China is worse.

A few months ago I bought a 32Gb SDHC card from this Finnish eBay-like site. The seller had good reputation and the cards weren't noname-brand ones so I had no reason to suspect anything. But when I received the package something on the package seemed off, it wasn't how the real manufacturer packages their cards. I obviously checked the card out and turns out it was actually a 1Gb one, the firmware on it had just been modified to report 32Gb instead and to silently drop all data written past 1Gb, just reporting success to the OS.
I got my money back as the rules on the site state, and when as it turns out, the seller didn't either know that these cards were fakes. He had bought them from some Chinese entity and had apparently been lied to. The sad thing is that he had sold already a few hundred of them and now had to get back in touch with all those customers, re-pay them, and well, who knows how many customers actually lost their data because of these fakes?
Humans are greedy and willing to screw over anyone just to gain something themselves :/

Could this be happening to those lost files
This is just a thought. Several threads in both this "General" and the "Themes" forums have over the past weeks been complaining about losing files from their sd cards. Various explanations have been put forward and some no doubt have been valid but is it not possible that people are unknowingly buying these chinese fake sd cards and like poster "WereCatf" were having data apparently written to the card but this in fact was not happening after say 1Gb, but were silently dropping files and data but falsely reporting "good" transfers to the card?
I appreciate this doesn't solve the problem but it may give some understanding to those who are losing files?

best practices.
"If it looks like it's too good to be true, then usually it is" That's how I go about my purchases online. I can understand finding a good deal. I always find them, but if it is an unheard of deal, then BUYER BEWARE. The reason it would be an unheard of deal because it likely still will be after you discover you have been scammed. Common sense is what you really need to use when purchasing online.

I feel so damn stupid. I'll be honest, that never crossed my mind. I'll be a heck of a lot more wary now. Thank you for putting this post up.

Heya guys,
Have a check here, i know this isnt for micro sd cards, but im sure it still applies...
http://reviews.ebay.co.uk/FAKE-SanDisk-Ultra-Secure-Digital-Cards-Exposed_W0QQugidZ10000000001254881
It has some really good info.

My Sandisk 32 gig that I got at a great price is a fake.
The paint on it rubbed off with my finger.
It does not work.
I put in a complaint and won the complaint but got no refund.

Take it back and wait for the 32GB?

Before you start... yes.. i know it's a personal decision.. which is why i'm asking YOU. What's would YOU do in my shoes?... let's begin
I bought a 16gb a week ago. I have a ton of accessories coming in tomorrow for it. BGR dropped a screenshot of a 32GB model (along with a Galaxy Nexus II).
http://www.bgr.com/2012/10/03/google-nexus-7-32gb-galaxy-nexus-ii-rumor/
My only complaint about this tablet is the 16GB of storage... so here are the options.
A) Take it back and wait - I still have my xoom wifi with 32gb... which is why i'm spoiled on that storage amount
B) keep it and either sell it or give it away once the new one comes out and buy it outright - My mother or my sister would likely be getting this one while the other got my xoom. I hesitate on this one becuase I'm probably not going to get anything close to what I paid for it.
What would XDA do? chime in.

C) I wouldn't have bought it in the first place if 16GB wasn't enough for me.
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If you really think you need the extra memory send it back.
With USB working on the nexus now storage is really no problem any more.With stick drives to hold video the 16gig n7 holds lots of apps.jmo

Wait for the next best one.
Then
Wait for something better than that.
Then
Wait for something better than that.
Then
Wait for something better than that.
Then
Wait for something better than that.

Nothing will happen if you keep on waiting for the next big thing.
Just enjoy and don't look back.
There are alternatives to address the storage issue.
Cheers
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Root / OTG Cable / Thumbdrive
Storage isn't a problem for my device.

If you already have a tablet I'd say return the Nexus and wait for the 32 GB to drop, the thing is we have no idea when it could be. It may be next week, it may be black Friday or it may be Christmas.
I have the 8 GB that I bought a little over a month ago and when I'm sure the 32 GB is readily available (like I can go into staples and buy it) I'm going to sell my 8 GB for it and be happy with it for a while until e next big thing comes out next year.

Let me go ahead and quote some Sheryl Crow lyrics here.
It's not having what you want
It's wanting what you've got
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Just enjoy the hell out of it.

mattjhsn, best response yet and I think that's what I'm going to do. Learn some contentment. LOL. thanks folks.

btate0121 said:
mattjhsn, best response yet and I think that's what I'm going to do. Learn some contentment. LOL. thanks folks.
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You're welcome
Sent with two cans and a string.

Keep the 16, with all the cloud space u can get and your Xoom, the extra 32 is less significant.
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No, return it and pick up the 32gb one. You've only had it a week and you just found out there is one with larger internal storage coming next week. Office Depot already has it listed on its website, though it's not available for purchase just yet. Staples has it in its warehouse right now waiting for the streetdate. This isn't a case of "Well, the Nexus 10 is coming soon, and there's a new Asus coming next spring", this is a case where you know it's coming in a week or two. Yes, otg storage fixes the issue nicely and cloud storage works great, but if you can do it and not have to go through any amount of serious trouble to do so, why not? It doubles the space you have internally right now in addition to the cloud and otg storage. There literally is no downside to returning it and picking up the newer model aside from having to run setup again. At the very least pay close attention on Monday when Google has their announcement, find out how long a wait it will be to get it. I'm fairly confident it'll be available within a week or two of the announcement.

Return it. 16 is too small. USB OTG is OK but still a pain in the butt.
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blitzkriegh said:
Nothing will happen if you keep on waiting for the next big thing.
Just enjoy and don't look back.
There are alternatives to address the storage issue.
Cheers
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+1

panSpermia said:
+1
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Again, we're not talking about a theoretical tablet that may be coming someday soon, we're talking about an upgraded Nexus 7 that some lucky people have already been able to buy. I really don't understand some of the posts in this thread talking this guy out of swapping it out, it almost sounds like sour grapes here. "I'm stuck with a 16gb tablet, why should this guy luck out?" You're telling me that, given the chance, you wouldn't wait a couple of days and drive down to wherever you bought your tablet from and exchange it for one with twice the storage at zero cost to you? This may possibly get pushed back just a bit because of the Google announcement being cancelled, but you know it's coming within the next week or so, so go ahead and make the exchange.

Return it and get 32GB, even if you dont use all the storage at least you have it. I pre-ordered my 16GB from play, im now miffed theres a 32GB one as im always short on space. I use OTG but its messy compared to on-board storage, cloud space is all well and good when you have WiFi but frustrating when out and about. Gonna buy a 32GB when they come out then give 16GB to Mrs

More memory = greater power drain? Might be negligible though.
Also, storing tons of apps/media on the device may slow it down.
FWIW, I have had a 32GB SDcard in my Android Smartphone for about a year now, and 20GB is still free.
If both were the same price, I'd get the 32GB version.
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UPDATE:
So after calling a local Staples they confirmed they had a 32gb nexus 7 in stock, but no amount of sweet talk would convince the sales lady to let me buy one. She is going to hold one for me until tomorrow morning though. Luckily I found the 32gb Nexus 7 listed at office depots website last night.. mysteriously that listing has disappeared today ... hmmmmm. I will swear to you on my life.. that the listing did in fact exist on the office depot website. Anyway.. it prompted me to list my N7 on which I just returned from selling.
So.. the current state of affairs is the 16gb Nexus is sold (got $220 for it), and staples is currently holding one for me to pick up tomorrow barring any disastrous acts of God or nature.
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New LG promo for the US

I just found the article to this promo. I'm going to try for it as soon as the portal is live.
http://www.androidcentral.com/lg-offers-free-battery-charging-cradle-and-leather-back-g4-during-july
If your on T-Mobile like me, this is a ton of free stuff from LG. I'm hoping I can get this one so I can get a 2nd leather back, 2nd battery and charger. Just cant wait for my 128gb sd card.
Darn, just saw that it needs to be purchased in July, Might try for it anyways, you never know.

It ways you need to buy it between July 1st and the 31st, so in theory a person can't do both. I bought mine on the Tmobile launch day and already received the first care package and waiting on the 128GB card to ship,s so I doubt I can double dip. If we can can that would be awesome though!

NicoC72 said:
It ways you need to buy it between July 1st and the 31st, so in theory a person can't do both. I bought mine on the Tmobile launch day and already received the first care package and waiting on the 128GB card to ship,s so I doubt I can double dip. If we can can that would be awesome though!
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I just re-read that. I'm going to submit it anyways. Worse that can happen is they decline it. Its still alot of stuff thats been given away for this phone.

Yeah, lots of good stuff. It is great to post this though, for anyone that just bought the phone. I've got a hand full of 32GB cards, I'd rather have gotten a leather back for when I don't want to use a case!

Yup posted it about a week ago in the main thread. You have have bought it starting today.
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I'm happy to give up the 32gb micro sd card and have a leather back

I am happy with the promo I got for last month, so no biggie (plus as neat as the leather back is, it is far from needed.....for me a larger SD card and an extra battery are things I actually need on a daily basis).
Honestly though, I just find it super cool that LG is being so generous to their customers......you really do not see it too much anymore.