I teardown my htc mazaa received from MS with WP-APP-It-Up ('n ' )
It's Very similar with hTC Trophy.
Look 4th Pic ('_ ' )
This is Micro SD Slot. There is Empty from the first.
This is Additional micro SD Slot like SAMSUNG FOCUS [1st Gen WP]
I Think hTC Mazaa Can add Additional MicroSD.
anyone add micro sd card to htc Mazaa with Teardown?
I see what you got going on there. That slot in your 4th image does look like a microSD slot but there's nothing there to hold a card in place (unless it just slides in?) and additional software editing would probably be required to read from it if it is indeed a microSD slot.
Does look almost like the Trophy, exp the SD slot. To the poster above, the card just slides in but, it uses a type of tape to hold it in (see what's ripped on the 4th pic)
Manufacturers have done the same thing with other WP7 devices. You only have to produce one SKU, but can customise capacity by adding an 8GB or 16GB card at the factory, thus giving you different models a-la Dell Venue Pro or Omnia 7.
There's been many successful attempts at creating 32GB Dell Venue Pro's. I had a go at installing a 64GB microSDXC, with no luck (and no surprises either )
Nice find!
I've got a mozart and a dev mazaa.
I upgraded the mozart to 32gb, but the card slot on the mazaa doesn't function because the driver for it is missing from the ROM. so unless we get a driver update (other things will be missing too: capacitive buttons lighting, internet sharing, connection setup) we're out of luck.
But it's great to see other enthusiastic minds opening up their phones.
Btw, the Mazaa has the same model number as the Spark W. So with the new HSPL releases, there might be a chance for a custom rom.
Reminds me of the useless flap on the Xoom 2
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Looking at the Anandtech review, I saw them mention that the Optimus has a Micro SD slot, in addition to the 16GB on board.
Is this correct?
No ti doesn't. It is a rule from Microsoft that all new Windows Phone 7 MUST have a built in memory.
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piottone said:
No ti doesn't. It is a rule from Microsoft that all new Windows Phone 7 MUST have a built in memory.
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Yes, but a SD card is a built in memory! All HTC WinPhone 7 devices have "just" SD cards as additional internal memory, it's cheaper thand NANDs!
On engadget.com or pocketnow.com you can watch some videos about this. One user plugged a 32gb sd card in his HD7!!!
But I don't know if the Optimus 7 has a sd card or a NAND...
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No ti doesn't. It is a rule from Microsoft that all new Windows Phone 7 MUST have a built in memory.
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As the other guy said, false, look at the focus!
Seeing as the focus isn't being released outside the USA, the optimus is the best bet.
Anyway, the device is out, somebody must be able to confirm.
Actually the Focus is now available on Rogers in Canada as well...
And Samsung is quite generous when you describe your needs to them on their Direct phone line, and they provided me with an unlock code...
Has anyone discovered if LG Optimus 7 have a microsd slot?
Im sure it does however its not accessable without dismantiling the phone.
I wish someone would tear this badboy down and let us have a look inside.
Yeah me too! Most other devices have been ripped apart but i haven't heard anything about the Optimus 7
Yeah, this would be pretty important to me too, since its the only device with internal memory + microSD. If its easy to access this would be a very interesting phone since I need at least my 32GB of storage, better would be more.
LG Optimus 7 SD slot
Sebo1985 said:
Yeah, this would be pretty important to me too, since its the only device with internal memory + microSD. If its easy to access this would be a very interesting phone since I need at least my 32GB of storage, better would be more.
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I have this phone, the SD slot isn't presente becuase it's a Microsoft dictat for ALL Windows Phone 7 cellphones!!!!!
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Oh come on buddy, nearly every WP7 device has a SD slot, of course not swapable, but it is in there.
The Optimus 7 has 4GB NAND and 4GB SDRAM, therefore 8GB left over for a SDcard somewhere in there, but: where?
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Oh come on buddy, nearly every WP7 device has a SD slot, of course not swapable, but it is in there.
The Optimus 7 has 4GB NAND and 4GB SDRAM, therefore 8GB left over for a SDcard somewhere in there, but: where?
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Where did you hear it had 4GB NAND and 8GB in the SDcard slot? I believe you, I'm just curious. I am pretty sure all WP7 "have" to have an SDcard slot because the SD Card Association said WP7s support SD cards across the board (just not necessarily consumer accessible). Like I said, someone needs to tear this guy down.
I read it here:
http://pocketnow.com/windows-phone/...&utm_campaign=Feed:+pocketnow+(pocketnow.com)
Is that correct? Don't know.
But there's surely NAND in there, that's why it loads heavy duty apps way faster than other phones.
I'm buying this phone tomorrow, and will take it apart/provide pictures if there is enough interest. Let me know what you guys think!
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I'm buying this phone tomorrow, and will take it apart/provide pictures if there is enough interest. Let me know what you guys think!
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GREAT! I have 200% interest on this!
I would say you get famous within the various blogs and mobile sites
Absolutely interested here!
Sorry to disappoint guys, I do not possess screwdrivers small enough to open this thing up. I have a set of electronics screwdrivers going all the way down to Phillips Head PH000 but it would need to be at least a PH0000 to open those small little screws. Love the device though! I will pick up a proper screwdriver, but I don't even know where to go about looking for one in Canada.
Oh, what a pity. But shouldn't every DIY store have those?
I have bad news...I took the phone apart completely, all the way down to its component elements and there is no SD slot or card. The 16 GB is NAND and soldered to the board. I will post pictures I took in a different thread for teardown purposes.
Is WP7 OS stored in the onboard 1 GB ROM?
Is the 8 GB internal memory on a microSD card?
The 8GB is internal. There is an empty MicroSD slot in the back to upgrade the phone by an additional maximum of 32GB. However, you may want to check this out:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=834144
When the people on the gadget blogs open WP7 devices up, they have generally been finding SanDisk class 4 cards hidden inside. I think only the Optimus 7 was found to be using flash nand so far. Haven't seen a teardown for the Focus yet, but if I had to bet $5 on it, I'd say there's a microsd card in there for the 8gb included storage.
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When the people on the gadget blogs open WP7 devices up, they have generally been finding SanDisk class 4 cards hidden inside. I think only the Optimus 7 was found to be using flash nand so far. Haven't seen a teardown for the Focus yet, but if I had to bet $5 on it, I'd say there's a microsd card in there for the 8gb included storage.
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Actually no, I don't where you get your conclusion from. So far, only HTC phones appear to have internal SD cards. Samsungs are NAND chips only. There is a tear down thread for Focus's international cusin, Omnia 7 in Omnia 7 section of this forum.
Oh, wow, that both makes me happier about my purchase and disappointed in HTC at the same time. You shoulda taken me up on that bet; you'd have $5!
You can see the focus in detail here: http://pocketnow.com/windows-phone/samsung-focus-review. Mine didn't come with a card, so the MicroSD I added was additional memory.
Samsung supplies NAND flash chips for majority of flash cards out there. It makes no sense for Samsung to use someone else's microSD cards (with its NAND chips inside) instead of its own NAND chip directly.
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You can see the focus in detail here: http://pocketnow.com/windows-phone/samsung-focus-review. Mine didn't come with a card, so the MicroSD I added was additional memory.
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No one has tear down a Focus yet. That review, alone with others, just shows the back side of the phone. A tear down needs to disassemble everything and show photos of the circuit board.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/02/working-samsung-galaxy-tab-8-9-spotted-handled-in-germany-vide/
Where is the SD Card slot?
That is the true thin version of 8.9".
I read that it's hidden behind the black cover. So it won't be easy to shuffle many cards.
What? The black cover is removable? Ain't that a bad design decision? I mean how hard was to fit the SD slot on one side? Do we have a confirmation somehow that the 10.1 and the 8.9 will indeed have the SD slot after all and which models?
As thin as the tablet is, I can't imagine they could have possibly made it removable. Pretty sure if you don't see a slot on the outside, then it doesn't have one.
It is possible the SD slot is inside the SIM card slot, like the Xoom did. But back at CTIA the 10.1 was shown with separate SIM and SD slots. So I don't think anyone really knows what the final product is going to have.
Sadly I was hoping the details were going to come out tomorrow, but Samsung mysteriously cancelled the scheduled event. So... guess we'll find out someday.
As I posted on other thread, I think we should this SD card let go ...
SD card solution will not come from Google on Honeycomb:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1075363&highlight=sd+card
It will most probably come on Ice Cream Sandwich where both phone and tablet OS merged into one. That ICS must support current phone feature which has SD Card.
But manufacturers can add SD card support by them self. Hope this kind of "own-solution" does not delay upgrade to ICS when it is available!
So, I can imagine Samsung does not want to add SD Card port, not it's own solution. Like Xoom, until now it has non-functioning slot!
Most probably, the scenario will be like this:
- ICS is released
- Nexus tablet is announced
- Samsung "SUPER" Galaxy Tab 10.1 with ICS, Super Amoled Plus, SD-card ... bla bla
I had a SanDisk 64GB Mobile Ultra MicroSDXC Class 6 card and I wondered if my Mango-tized HD2 would even recognize it.
It certainly appears to. I dunno, but that seems like news.
www passagestudio.com/images/64gbMangoHD2.jpg
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I had a SanDisk 64GB Mobile Ultra MicroSDXC Class 6 card and I wondered if my Mango-tized HD2 would even recognize it.
It certainly appears to. I dunno, but that seems like news.
www passagestudio.com/images/64gbMangoHD2.jpg
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Id say thats news given that 64GB Micro SDs didnt exist when our HD2 was born.
To be honest, i dunno what id use that much space for, i dont think id ever fill a 32GB SD let alone that monster!
There was a time when id have dual booted android, but i cant be bothered with all that now WP is pretty much perfect on the HD2,
Hi.... Just wondering... Did you experience any change in battery drain and smooth running of the rom after installing 64gig sd card ,
And which rom unr using currently...
This is epic for someone like me! I'm one of those people that fills up 16 gigs in no time flat! 32 sounds nice, but 64 gigs!!!! I'm in heaven, I need to get one. How much did the 64gb card cost you?
Any updates on whether this works yet? I would like to upgrade from 32Gb soon.
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Seems he has 64gb working, what's your battery life like with that card? I think SD card the main reason we all experience such different levels of life...
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I am on HTC hd2 I put a post somewhere saying that I am now on a dual boot with 64Gb Tf card in HTC hd2, works a treat
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I also saw a bid on YouTube for the Hd7 folks of someone stripping down phone and fitting a 64gb SD in.
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wow. amazing. does it mean that hd2 supports part of SDXC? can you use all of the storage volume;about 59GB?
I have mine split, but yes if you so choose, you can use all of the storage on the sd card, currently i have Everything working on the phone, running really smooth, only thing is that my carrier signal/reception is good, but for some reason the radio on this rom seems weaker than normal, Question for anyone that knows, is there a better one ready yet, I am on Orange.
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I have mine split, but yes if you so choose, you can use all of the storage on the sd card, currently i have Everything working on the phone, running really smooth, only thing is that my carrier signal/reception is good, but for some reason the radio on this rom seems weaker than normal, Question for anyone that knows, is there a better one ready yet, I am on Orange.
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THing with Radios is that firstly we have 2 different radios to deal with, and secondly different networks and signal strength areas will do better with different radios, so you may find that the latest and greatest radio is actually worse than the first radio available because its been stripped from a phone on say, the O2 network.
Trial and error appears to be the best, or ask folk on your network what they use, ideally in your own country and even better near you,
On Amazon,
SanDisk 64GB Mobile Ultra MicroSDXC Class 6 Memory Card with SD Adapter - Retail Packaging by SanDisk
Buy new: $160.00
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According to the SETTINGS|about page, I have 59.25GB Total Storage.
Battery life is not stellar, though I haven't really done any work to optimize that.
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Basically... All SDXC cards will work...
The thing is, this is how the cards are supposed to be shipped:
SD => FAT
SDHC => FAT32
SDXC => exFAT
Any SDXC card can be formatted as FAT32 to work with SDHC compatible devices. The OS "decides" how much of the storage capacity can actually be allocated.
Since microsoft probably took note of SDXC during development, windows phone uses a file format that either supports exFAT (which is a MS file format) or formats the cards in a file system that supports over 64gigs. Windows phone supports SD cards under 32 gig, so it supports FAT32 and FAT anyways (to be reformatted in the device)
Long story short, as soon as a device supports exFAT it is SDXC compatible. if a device supports FAT32, any SD card formatted in FAT32 works.
Will the 64GB SDXC card work with the original Windows Mobile 6.5 ?
Does exFAT work on WM6.5?
Wohooooo 64 Gb for what?
Yep got a dual booting 64gb SanDisk class 6 over here.
30.8 in windows
30.5 in android
(couldn't find a way to put more in android than windows b/c ad sd and wp7 nand.)
Battery drain seems the same. Check everytime I boot constantly to see if the current is -400 or -4.
Such a pain in the anus.
Go hd2!!!!!!!
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Yep got a dual booting 64gb SanDisk class 6 over here.
30.8 in windows
30.5 in android
(couldn't find a way to put more in android than windows b/c ad sd and wp7 nand.)
Battery drain seems the same. Check everytime I boot constantly to see if the current is -400 or -4.
Such a pain in the anus.
Go hd2!!!!!!!
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Doing the samething here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1711310
Seeing as how Windows Phones uses the partition type exFAT, it'd be no problem picking up the 64Gb card since that is what it is formatted as.
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Doing the samething here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1711310
Seeing as how Windows Phones uses the partition type exFAT, it'd be no problem picking up the 64Gb card since that is what it is formatted as.
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In regards to the SanDisk Ultra 64GB SDXC...over the last couple of days I installed the NexusHD2 v2.3 and set the card up with 8GB EXT4 and 52GB FAT32. It ran slightly slower than NAND but I adjusted the CPU speed to compensate and overall a darn good experience. My next adventure was to dual boot both NexusHD2 and Pdaimatejam's WP7.8 and I split the card pretty much right down the middle taken into account the 200MB FAT32 WP7.8 creates upon it being deleted and for one brief moment you have only 2 partitions before continuing to create the EXT4 partition. WP7.8 will works up to a point and then begins the reboot loop. I understand there's a way to image a smaller memory card onto the 64 gig card and that's what I will be doing next. In the meanwhile I did successfully load Pdaimatejam's ROM into NAND but the key here is that card must be formatted as exFAT; otherwise it too will reboot endlessly. My only use for Android are CoPilot Navigation and Google Navigation and Skype; otherwise I prefer Windows Phone for one reason and one only; it runs as smooth as silk but WP7.8 lacks what WP8.x now haves...good GPS Navs, what my Titans and HD2 have is customization and that is a sticking point for me in regards to upgrading to the Lumia 92x series.
Has anyone managed to work out how to open the case on an ATIV. I would really like to upgrade the SSD from 64Gb to something that's actually usable for this machine. Any hints gratefully received. And yes I realise my warranty will be voided.
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I haven't seen it done but as an interim solution: large SD card? external hard disk?
And doesnt the smart PC pro have 256gb not 64. Its the ativ tab that had 64gb I thought.
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I haven't seen it done but as an interim solution: large SD card? external hard disk?
And doesnt the smart PC pro have 256gb not 64. Its the ativ tab that had 64gb I thought.
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Mine has a 128gb with the pro.XE700T1C-A01US. just updated the OS to Win8 Pro via my technet key. I was surprised that it had standard win8 installed. also installed the Media center aid on.
Loving this Unit so Much.... Ebay has my Asus infinity now.. ... I could go on and on about it.. but I won't. To answer your question I did see a link from someone that opened it up. I will try and locate it. I was wondering the same thing and would like to put a 256 micro ssd.. think that is what you will need. Don't forget to remove all the bloatware from Samsung.. runs very fast now.
Cheers
It's the ATIV Smart PC Pro (which is a tablet) and it came with a 64Gb SSD. Long term, SD card or external HD are not the answer as I need a bigger system drive. I've found the link on opening the unit now:
http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/samsung/54457-ativ-700t-question-anyone-open-unit-yet.html
I've ordered a new 256Gb mSATA SSD from Crucial and will be upgrading shortly. Happy days as from my perspective this was the only short coming of this device.
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It's the ATIV Smart PC Pro (which is a tablet) and it came with a 64Gb SSD. Long term, SD card or external HD are not the answer as I need a bigger system drive. I've found the link on opening the unit now:
http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/samsung/54457-ativ-700t-question-anyone-open-unit-yet.html
I've ordered a new 256Gb mSATA SSD from Crucial and will be upgrading shortly. Happy days as from my perspective this was the only short coming of this device.
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How have you gotten on with the upgrade?