Hello Dell streakers.. I am planing to buy a used streak and was going thru various threads for streak development and stumbled upon a theard about upgrading streaks inner-SD from 2gb to 4gb. And then i searched youtube for any video regarding the same and found this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w4AbtIGp8A&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Is it realy safe to install inner sd like its done in the above video? Also i have two 16gb sd cards so is it possible to install both in this this device? Or maybe one 64gb card?Just curious...
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That's one of the common ways to do it, if the video does what I think it does (only watched a couple seconds)
Method 1: Cut away the plastic covering the innersd, as there isnt that much
Method 2: Completely disassemble/reassemble the device, which is a huge amount of work.
Method 2 also must be repeated every swap, method 1 doesnt, but is a permenent change.
I know the S5 will accept a 4/8gb one without much issue.
16/32gb I dont recall, they may have issues.
A 64 one would be an SDXC, can you see the entire card in SDHC compability mode?
the answer is YES, is safe to install another card. I use the same method like in the video and i replace the card with 8gb class 10 from Kingstone.
Did in half an hour or so with the disassembly method upgraded to 8 Gb with 6Gb remaining internal memory. Get a 8Gb class 10. Mine is a trancend ultimate. Tried a kingston 16Gb class10 but the phone didn't recognize it. Perhaps the transcend 16 will work as well as 8Gb version. Mind you the phone does a fscheck on startup so the larger the card is the longer it takes to start up. It took about 30% more time for the 8Gb to start up as it did with the 4Gb class4 stock card from sony.
Grts.
Z.
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You need to do something to the card to get it to accept more than 8 gigs, though I don't remember what. It is perfectly safe. A hell of a lot safer than taking the entire phone apart, risking ESD, etc. Though, my cut wasn't as clean as that. Lol.
Allright!!
Seems like this method actually feels less risky then opening the whole phone apart.. I remember how i messed up my sony vaio ux while upgrading the internal 32gb HDD with 128gb HDD..
Allright then.. btw i found information about how to enable innersd more then 8gb. Theres some sort of script and editing in boot file.
Thanks for the responses guys..
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Did in half an hour or so with the disassembly method upgraded to 8 Gb with 6Gb remaining internal memory. Get a 8Gb class 10. Mine is a trancend ultimate. Tried a kingston 16Gb class10 but the phone didn't recognize it. Perhaps the transcend 16 will work as well as 8Gb version. Mind you the phone does a fscheck on startup so the larger the card is the longer it takes to start up. It took about 30% more time for the 8Gb to start up as it did with the 4Gb class4 stock card from sony.
Grts.
Z.
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Me too. I was actually more worried that I'd slip with the knife and ruin the phone. It was dead simple to disassemble the Streak - I went slowly and carefully the first time, but in the end, it was simple.
the question is : does it makes you're streak faster to or is it just more storage?
kasperke said:
the question is : does it makes you're streak faster to or is it just more storage?
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It gave me more storage, and actually slowed down my Streak. Trying both a 4gb and 8gb card, I ended up with a lot of pauses and slowdowns just doing basic operations with my Streak. It was nice to have the extra space, but it made the phone way less usable.
I went back to the stock card.
I put in a Sandisk 8gig class 4 sd card and the streak feels snappier than before. The stock sd card is a 2gig class 4 card.
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its much easier to open and replace the inner sd, i have just put an 4g kingston hc4 card and everything is ok i will try an 8g tomorrow
using that step...i broken my innersd :crying:
now im waiting for new innersd
zane19775 said:
using that step...i broken my innersd :crying:
now im waiting for new innersd
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Opening the Streak up? I did that a couple times, I'm not sure how you'd break the inner SD card doing that.
I got fed up with it though and finally just cut the plastic. It was a little nerveracking, but I managed not to damage anything (just some scratches on the outside of the original inner SD card). 8gig CL10 and I'm laughing now, everything seems to work fine.
im using assembling /disassembling ( tear down the streak ) to replace my innerSD.
using 4GB class 6 now. it can use more than 8GB (like 16 or 32 or higher)
but you need to copy your old inner to the new one and resize the partition.
after that, it would work like a charm. you no need to re-install your ROM
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Opening the Streak up? I did that a couple times, I'm not sure how you'd break the inner SD card doing that.
I got fed up with it though and finally just cut the plastic. It was a little nerveracking, but I managed not to damage anything (just some scratches on the outside of the original inner SD card). 8gig CL10 and I'm laughing now, everything seems to work fine.
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it's because I cut it a little overwhelming...and my old innersd is broken
but at least I've got new innersd : 4gb class4 (lol) :silly:
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im using assembling /disassembling ( tear down the streak ) to replace my innerSD.
using 4GB class 6 now. it can use more than 8GB (like 16 or 32 or higher)
but you need to copy your old inner to the new one and resize the partition.
after that, it would work like a charm. you no need to re-install your ROM
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because I have damaged my old innersd...i re-install my ROM and everything is find
Ide like more info on getting a 16gb or bigger to work. . . . . And what is that script to run on copied to new sd.
Also. . . . I wonder if a 64gb would work if it was formated first in fat32,instead of exfat. . . . . I read somewhere on a sammy forum for the note 2,that there was a special process some used to get their 64gb cards to work
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mokokawi said:
Ide like more info on getting a 16gb or bigger to work. . . . . And what is that script to run on copied to new sd.
Also. . . . I wonder if a 64gb would work if it was formated first in fat32,instead of exfat. . . . . I read somewhere on a sammy forum for the note 2,that there was a special process some used to get their 64gb cards to work
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copy your old inner partition to the new one using free software that you can find with googling. i use minitoolpartitionwizard for this things.
after that you must enlarge the partition on your new inner (the copied data/partition that you must enlarge) using partition tools hirenbootCD (i use ver10)
then insert your new inner sd and try..
for DSC ROM if i am not wrong it only support max 16GB. but theoretically it can be no limit.
try my method... check the signature (no need googling )... 64gb is possible but sorry.. no fat32 supports right now...
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I ordered a 32Gb SD Card for my HD2. But, I finally got a quality Android build going on my little 2 gigger. Everything works 99.9%. . . I did not think it was possible but after 2 days of tweaking and scowering threads I have one(I can share it if you like).
If I copy all files from my 2Gb card I can drop then straight on the 32Gb card after formatting.
Is there any issues with this at all?
I really hope not, since I have been working on this for pretty much two days straight.
You should be able to copy it over with out any issues. Just be sure to format your new card beforehand
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hmm, didnt knew hd2 supported 32gb,, just orderd 16gb class 6
what class is ur 32gb btw?
pokerfreakje said:
hmm, didnt knew hd2 supported 32gb,, just orderd 16gb class 6
what class is ur 32gb btw?
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I just got a class 4 Kingston 32gb microsd... I think that's the highest class 32gb available so far that's legitimate.
Anything that can read a 16gb card will be able to read a 32gb card... they're all sdhc. I don't think cards bigger than 32gb will be able to be made, though.
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I just got a class 4 Kingston 32gb microsd... I think that's the highest class 32gb available so far that's legitimate.
Anything that can read a 16gb card will be able to read a 32gb card... they're all sdhc. I don't think cards bigger than 32gb will be able to be made, though.
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If you think logically, yeah ofc 32gb shouldnt be a problem O.O
well there is 64gb on his way to micro SD HC (2gb+ = HC -->High Capacity)
they're also making 2TB micro XC ( eXtended Capacity),, O.O
2TB!!! xD
my pc got 2TB, imagine 2tb in that micro sd,, WTF O.O!!!!
A lot of pron on the 4,3 inch big ass htc screen!! LMAO
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If you think logically, yeah ofc 32gb shouldnt be a problem O.O
well there is 64gb on his way to micro SD HC (2gb+ = HC -->High Capacity)
they're also making 2TB micro XC ( eXtended Capacity),, O.O
2TB!!! xD
my pc got 2TB, imagine 2tb in that micro sd,, WTF O.O!!!!
A lot of pron on the 4,3 inch big ass htc screen!! LMAO
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Are they making a 64gb sdhc? I thought I read somewhere that 32gb was the limit for sdhc. I know sdxc will be able to hold huge amounts, but unfortunately our hd2s can't use sdxc. That would be great if 64gb sdhc is made, because eventually a micro-sdhc version will be made. 64gb storage for my hd2 would be awesome... I could keep my entire music collection in that, along with my ebook and comic book collection!
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I just got a class 4 Kingston 32gb microsd... I think that's the highest class 32gb available so far that's legitimate.
Anything that can read a 16gb card will be able to read a 32gb card... they're all sdhc. I don't think cards bigger than 32gb will be able to be made, though.
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Dude as far as I know Kingston do not make a 32GB sd card yet so you have likely bought one of those cheap fake ones of somewhere like ebay from a Chinese seller that is actually only 4/8/16GB and will just corrupt most of data as soon as you get to the "real" size limit.
A lot of people have been fooled by these fake cheap cards (myself included in past)
Kingston does make a 32GB microSDHC card.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...9&IsNodeId=1&Description=sdhc&name=Micro SDHC
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Dude as far as I know Kingston do not make a 32GB sd card yet so you have likely bought one of those cheap fake ones of somewhere like ebay from a Chinese seller that is actually only 4/8/16GB and will just corrupt most of data as soon as you get to the "real" size limit.
A lot of people have been fooled by these fake cheap cards (myself included in past)
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I wouldn't buy a memory card from eBay... especially not for a 32gb card. I bought it from newegg. And you should maybe do a quick Google search before claiming to know something, because Kingston made announcements about these class 4 32gb cards a couple months ago.
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To expand on this (since I am still new to HD2 and Android), if I wanted to change SD Cards, or try out a new ROM, all I have to do is make sure the Android folder is copied over?
Example 1: New SD Card - Format new card, copy all files, will boot into current Android ROM.
Example 2: Same SD Card, want to try a new Android build, backup the Android folder, replace with new ROM and boot up, if I don't like it, delete new Android folder and replace with backed up one and will boot back into old Android build without issues?
Thanks,
Yes!
And same for kernel ( zImage if is compress, and ussualy it is ) inside Android folder
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huggy_72 said:
Yes!
And same for kernel ( zImage if is compress, and ussualy it is ) inside Android folder
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Was this yes to my post?
Talderon said:
To expand on this (since I am still new to HD2 and Android), if I wanted to change SD Cards, or try out a new ROM, all I have to do is make sure the Android folder is copied over?
Example 1: New SD Card - Format new card, copy all files, will boot into current Android ROM.
Example 2: Same SD Card, want to try a new Android build, backup the Android folder, replace with new ROM and boot up, if I don't like it, delete new Android folder and replace with backed up one and will boot back into old Android build without issues?
Thanks,
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Yes.
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Yes.
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I did learn one thing the hard way. Doing this while booted into Android is not really a safe way to do it. When I backed up my Android folder and put a new one on, it would not boot back into Android (said no Android Build was found). Looked at my SD card on the device and in a PC and the space was used up (for both builds) but could not find them.
I ended up backing up my SD Card contents I COULDD see (pics and whatnot) and formatting the card.
I copied it on the SD Card via Adapter in PC and everything is fine now.
I would suggest (for safety), that you do it this way or from WMo.
Thanks,
Well, this is wonderfull. First SD card I ordered was from eGay. 13 Bucks for a 32Gb. Right after I bought it, the seller cancelled their eGay account and dissapered.
I bought another card now a 16 Gigger for 26 Bucks.
Seems to be fake. I copy over the info and then I can not read anything. . . .
Crap, should have spent the extra 10 Bucks. Now, I have to get my money back from GayPal.
eGay really does suck now. . . . .
I recently upgraded my phone to 2.3.3 from 2.1.
After upgrading, my phone no longer detected my 32GB SD.
I spent a lot of time researching the issue and found that most people just went to a smaller card like I did.
I went out and bought a 4GB card.
After loading my phone up with apps and audio and images, 4GB was not enough.
So, here is how I resolved this...
I downloaded HPUSBDisk.exe which is an HP USB format tool.
Copied the content of my 4gb micro to my PC/Laptop.
I inserted my 32GB micro SD into a "micro sd USB adapter"...
Format the SD using the HP USB format tool (FAT).
Copy the contents from the 4GB to the 32GB.
When I placed the 32GB into the phone and powered it up it was now recognized.
weird, I own a 16GB card and never had problems with 2.3.3
actually never heard about this problem until today
a.monteiro said:
weird, I own a 16GB card and never had problems with 2.3.3
actually never heard about this problem until today
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16 GB are not really a issue.
I use a 32gb from Kingston and have no issues. ??? Think maybe it's not the memory size that is the problem. Maybe it got corrupted? I had that problem on a smaller card on a round of back to stock while playing around with ROMs and such. Formatted it on PC and all was fine... think it was 8? Was a while a go. But I've heard of it happening while updating, read about it after I had the issue with the card that came with my x10.
Deviantelf said:
I use a 32gb from Kingston and have no issues. ??? Think maybe it's not the memory size that is the problem. Maybe it got corrupted? I had that problem on a smaller card on a round of back to stock while playing around with ROMs and such. Formatted it on PC and all was fine... think it was 8? Was a while a go. But I've heard of it happening while updating, read about it after I had the issue with the card that came with my x10.
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Stock or Custom kernel?
BuLLitz said:
I recently upgraded my phone to 2.3.3 from 2.1.
After upgrading, my phone no longer detected my 32GB SD.
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1. X10i officially supports cards by a capacity no more than 16 Gb. However, most cards 32 Gb work normally too.
2. A card can be formatted by standard facilities of Windows, it is important only, that a clustersize was 32 Kb
+1 to OP
thank you
verdazil said:
1. X10i officially supports cards by a capacity no more than 16 Gb. However, most cards 32 Gb work normally too.
2. A card can be formatted by standard facilities of Windows, it is important only, that a clustersize was 32 Kb
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I have an X10a... but whatever.
When I flashed my 32gb SD using Win7, regardless of the cluster size, it would not work in my phone. Period.
I am NOT the only one who has had this problem nor am I the only one who found success in my method.
The 32gb I have in my phone right now, was formatted using the HP Tool at 16kb...
Screw this place... you bunch of pompus jack-wads.
BuLLitz said:
I have an X10a... but whatever.
When I flashed my 32gb SD using Win7, regardless of the cluster size, it would not work in my phone. Period.
I am NOT the only one who has had this problem nor am I the only one who found success in my method.
The 32gb I have in my phone right now, was formatted using the HP Tool at 16kb...
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I can see some merit to your argument, i use HP Tool myself.
It's way more elegant for this kind of stuff.
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Screw this place... you bunch of pompus jack-wads.
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Was it required?
BuLLitz said:
I have an X10a... but whatever.
When I flashed my 32gb SD using Win7, regardless of the cluster size, it would not work in my phone. Period.
I am NOT the only one who has had this problem nor am I the only one who found success in my method.
The 32gb I have in my phone right now, was formatted using the HP Tool at 16kb...
Screw this place... you bunch of pompus jack-wads.
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you made him cry, you guys are just so mean
Jedidiah55 said:
you made him cry, you guys are just so mean
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I quoted the wrong post LOL.
I didn't have any 'thanks' on me at the time.
No one should have to feel threatened or treated badly enough to leave xda.
it's not right.
verdazil said:
1. X10i officially supports cards by a capacity no more than 16 Gb. However, most cards 32 Gb work normally too.
2. A card can be formatted by standard facilities of Windows, it is important only, that a clustersize was 32 Kb
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FYI:
"Memory Phone memory up to 1GB
microSD™ up to 32GB, 2GB included"
(obviously the original specs, mine came with 8GB)
From Sony's specification page for the phone found here:
http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/pro...10us?cc=us&lc=en#view=features_specifications
Then in the bottom right click on View the Xperia x10 specifications.
Deviantelf said:
FYI:
"Memory Phone memory up to 1GB
microSD™ up to 32GB, 2GB included"
(obviously the original specs, mine came with 8GB)
From Sony's specification page for the phone found here:
http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/pro...10us?cc=us&lc=en#view=features_specifications
Then in the bottom right click on View the Xperia x10 specifications.
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Yes but quite a few cards seem to have bad compatibility.
I'm curious if it's a certain class of cards that cause issues, or if it's certain vendors or brands? Do certain brands format them different and that causes the issue?
I researched what class was supported and bought a brand name (Kingston) that isn't high end but from a reputable business so I knew it wasn't fake. Bought a 32gb class 4 Kingston from Tiger Direct, popped it in and it worked fine. I put it in and tried it before transferring data to it.
I'm definitely not discounting the issue, but finding out WHY the issue is there is what I'm curious about.
i heard SDHC work the best but i'm idk the difference really, all i care about is the memory on the card
Deviantelf said:
I'm curious if it's a certain class of cards that cause issues, or if it's certain vendors or brands? Do certain brands format them different and that causes the issue?
I researched what class was supported and bought a brand name (Kingston) that isn't high end but from a reputable business so I knew it wasn't fake. Bought a 32gb class 4 Kingston from Tiger Direct, popped it in and it worked fine. I put it in and tried it before transferring data to it.
I'm definitely not discounting the issue, but finding out WHY the issue is there is what I'm curious about.
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MY 16GB class 4 & 32GB class 6 KINGSTON both worked very well with no issue's.
Having the same problem!
I just upgraded my X10a to 2.3.3 and it's not detecting my 8gb SD card, I re-intalled the 2.1 android and the card worked fine, then I upgraded it again to 2.3.3 and formated the card, didn't work... I don't know what to do now!
Having a similar problem!
Hi, I've been having a problem with mi 8GB SD card, the thing is that I just Upgraded my X10 to 2.3.3, but it's not detecting the micro SD, it was working fine till I did the upgrade, so I took the card and plug it into the PC, it is working, then I tried changing the fortmat, didn't work either, so I changed it back to Android 2.1 and It got it working again, I tried one more time to upgrade to Android 2.3.3 and the problem persists, all the apps and features are working just fine, but the phone it's kinda useless without the microSD...
Anyone that knows what the problem might be, please reply, cuase it's very frustrating!!
khuzuco said:
Hi, I've been having a problem with mi 8GB SD card, the thing is that I just Upgraded my X10 to 2.3.3, but it's not detecting the micro SD, it was working fine till I did the upgrade, so I took the card and plug it into the PC, it is working, then I tried changing the fortmat, didn't work either, so I changed it back to Android 2.1 and It got it working again, I tried one more time to upgrade to Android 2.3.3 and the problem persists, all the apps and features are working just fine, but the phone it's kinda useless without the microSD...
Anyone that knows what the problem might be, please reply, cuase it's very frustrating!!
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The stock 8GB card in my x10 died quite fast.
They get scratched underneath easily.
Hate to bump up an old-ish thread. But I came across the following article and the pertinent quote from it is "We tested this card on some phones including Motorola Razr and Samsung Galaxy S2 and even on a year old Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 and it works fine"
So it looks like this old dog was still able to use a 64GB micro sdxc card.
But at 110$ USD (cheapest I've found so far)... might not be worth it yet.
Hello!
I just got my new SD HC (32Gb) card for my htc HD2 device, but im getting weird crashes when i just put some Gb of for example music. It deletes some of it, or changes it to thousands of 0byte weird files..
Can someone help?
/card wasnt expensive and its not Kingston or so./
ZathuraPL said:
Hello!
I just got my new SD HC (32Gb) card for my htc HD2 device, but im getting weird crashes when i just put some Gb of for example music. It deletes some of it, or changes it to thousands of 0byte weird files..
Can someone help?
/card wasnt expensive and its not Kingston or so./
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I'm really not certain about this, but their a limit on the size SD card our hd2's can support. (Either 16 or 32gb which is what I'm uncertain of) try formatting your new SD card into two 16 gb partitions and then see what happens.
Hopefully either that helps or someone with more knowledge than I will comment and give you a better answer
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I'm really not certain about this, but their a limit on the size SD card our hd2's can support. (Either 16 or 32gb which is what I'm uncertain of) try formatting your new SD card into two 16 gb partitions and then see what happens.
Hopefully either that helps or someone with more knowledge than I will comment and give you a better answer
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Well the limit is definitely not 16gb because I have one of those and it works fine in Android but it for some reason cannot boot SD Android. Also, if I'm not mistaken MarkAtHome (I've seen him in many of the NAND threads, especially NexusHD2) has a 64GB SDXC card as he was posting something about that a while ago. He'd have to confirm though.
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ZathuraPL said:
Hello!
I just got my new SD HC (32Gb) card for my htc HD2 device, but im getting weird crashes when i just put some Gb of for example music. It deletes some of it, or changes it to thousands of 0byte weird files..
Can someone help?
/card wasnt expensive and its not Kingston or so./
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Where did you get your memory card?? You son are a victim of false advertisement. I purposely purchased a "cheap" 16GB sd card from ebay and it wasnt even bigger than like 300MB. There are ways to fake the memory size, and thats why when you try to put the music on your card is says its not there because there truly isnt any physical memory available. And also why it gives those weird readouts. Sorry to bust the news :/
kylew1212 said:
I'm really not certain about this, but their a limit on the size SD card our hd2's can support. (Either 16 or 32gb which is what I'm uncertain of) try formatting your new SD card into two 16 gb partitions and then see what happens.
Hopefully either that helps or someone with more knowledge than I will comment and give you a better answer
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According to HTC's website, the HD2 can support up to a 32GB SDHC (class 10 i believe)
elesbb said:
According to HTC's website, the HD2 can support up to a 32GB SDHC (class 10 i believe)
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People have used 64gb that also works
hengsheng120 said:
People have used 64gb that also works
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Yes. You set up two partitions 32 gb each.
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There have been threads discussing how certain sd cards do not perform well in android devices, including the HD2. It has to do with some of the access times the cards are rated at.
I have tested a 32gb patriot class 10 card in the HD2 and samsung vibrant that made both phones freeze and run terribly slow until the card was removed.
Sandisk cards run flawlessly in the HD2 and I have only been using them for the past year, including a 32gb and a 64gb SDXC. The 64gb must be formatted as fat32 inside the phone before it can be used, but the full 64gb is available.
ZathuraPL said:
Hello!
I just got my new SD HC (32Gb) card for my htc HD2 device, but im getting weird crashes when i just put some Gb of for example music. It deletes some of it, or changes it to thousands of 0byte weird files..
Can someone help?
/card wasnt expensive and its not Kingston or so./
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I agree with elesbb. Infact the same thing had happened to me about 4 years ago. What they do it put a memory hack in the SD card fooling it to think there is more memory. I would say if you bought it from ebay contact the seller first and
tell them you think it might be fake and you wish to get a real card asap. If they don't send you one or sound like they may be un-willing to then you should report them. Here's some information found on ebay's site about fake memory cards.
If you bought it from a different online seller you should still contact them about it and say you did some research and believe you recieved a counterfit item. In the link i shared above there are a few examples of how to spot fake cards including some pictures if you go through the links. I've read somewhere that if you have a sandisk and the class rating is in the corner then you more then likly have a counterfit one. Sandisk's class ratings should be centered in the middle of the SD card.
Okay, i've just sent email to him, hopefully he will just re-send me new, (working..?) or give money back!
So I have a few questions. I recently just got a Samsung Galaxy S4 Active and I have a Sandisk Ultra 32gb class 10 UHC-1 MicroSDHC card that was previously in a rooted Motorola Photon running CM10. I already wiped all the data and it is almost ready to put in the S4, I just wanted to reformat it just for the piece of mind and to restore it to out of the box condition. While I was googling how to reformat it to make sure I did it exactly right, I came across a bunch of forums on how Sandisk microSD's malfuntion and don't seem to work right in Samsung smart phones. Specifically the Galaxy line and the Note's. Has anyone experienced this problem? And is there anyone out there that has one of these cards in an S4 that actually works properly? I was so excited to gain 32 more gb of storage space on my phone, and now I'm scared =[ looks like I may have bigger problems now than just reformatting the card.
But speaking of reformatting. How do I reformat this card properly? And I also read that you should format it as exFAT? is that right? And I also read that formatting it through Windows can mess it up as Windows reformats it to work best with their system, not for phones. So is there a program anyone can recommend to use to reformat it? And could you also please give step by step instructions on how to reformat on said program. Like down to every option I should select, or shouldn't select. I want to make sure I do this exactly right and don't mess up my card. Especially with all of these horror stories I've been hearing.
Thanks =]
I haven't seen a specific thread/posts on doing this. Google didn't help much.
I would recommend, however, getting a 64gb Samsung card from Amazon. Already exFat and works perfectly. Very fast--
Samsung Electronics 64GB Pro microSDXC Extreme Speed (UHS-1) Class 10 Memory Card (MB-MGCGB/AM)
The Sandisks, some anyway, have had problems--
Ehh.. I dont really need a 64gb card and don't really want to pay extra for space I dont need. Also I'm confused about exFAT. Ive seen a lot of posts on that as well and have read thst exFAT doesn't play nice in smartphones and that the only time it's really recommended is if you're rooted and on a custom ROM, which I'm not. I just gave up on reformatting and just put it in my phone last night as-is. It was completely wiped, so good enough. I don't want to take the chance messing with any of that. So far its been fine. But from what I've read it usually doesn't strike until a few months later. For right now I will keep my photos set to save on the internal just in case and the only thing im really going to put on the card is music, which I can easily get back off the computer if the card fails. Worst comes to worst sandisk has a lifetime warrenty and I have a reciept of the purchase so if anything happens I will just buy a 32gb Samsung or go with sandisk again. Apparrently the issue was with the ultra cards manufactured before or in December 2012 (which mine was). I also can't confirm this as I only saw one person say it in one forum, and it was neither confirmed nor denied by anyone else, but I saw someone say recently, I think last month, that the most recent huge update At&t pushed fixed the problem with Sandisk cards. So hopefully thats true. I guess I will just wait and see. Lol
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Eh. Maybe I will get a 64gb. Can't hurt to have more space. Especially with me. Lol. I'll have to look into it when/if the time comes. Thanks for the advice =] sorry, I have a bad habit of answering my own questions sometimes. Lol
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ok, just keep a backup on pc
the exfat handles +4gb files
Galaxy_S_ said:
So I have a few questions. I recently just got a Samsung Galaxy S4 Active and I have a Sandisk Ultra 32gb class 10 UHC-1 MicroSDHC card that was previously in a rooted Motorola Photon running CM10. I already wiped all the data and it is almost ready to put in the S4, I just wanted to reformat it just for the piece of mind and to restore it to out of the box condition. While I was googling how to reformat it to make sure I did it exactly right, I came across a bunch of forums on how Sandisk microSD's malfuntion and don't seem to work right in Samsung smart phones. Specifically the Galaxy line and the Note's. Has anyone experienced this problem? And is there anyone out there that has one of these cards in an S4 that actually works properly? I was so excited to gain 32 more gb of storage space on my phone, and now I'm scared =[ looks like I may have bigger problems now than just reformatting the card.
But speaking of reformatting. How do I reformat this card properly? And I also read that you should format it as exFAT? is that right? And I also read that formatting it through Windows can mess it up as Windows reformats it to work best with their system, not for phones. So is there a program anyone can recommend to use to reformat it? And could you also please give step by step instructions on how to reformat on said program. Like down to every option I should select, or shouldn't select. I want to make sure I do this exactly right and don't mess up my card. Especially with all of these horror stories I've been hearing.
Thanks =]
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As an update I have seen it mentioned to take card out of phone and put in card reader. Then plug into pc, right click and your will have your format choices. Also, there are Formatter programs to dl from web too. Been so long since I did that--kinda forgot--lol
I have recently reformatted my 32 gig card to exfat. Only been a week but no problems so far. Why did I? Because I down load movies that are over 4 gig on accasion. Plain fat doesn't let you store more than 4 gig. Hope that helps. Took me a while to figure out why my file transfers kept falling.
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Hi.
I recently bought myself a 64GB class 10 Sandisk card from Amazon which I was going to use with my Note 3. When I first put it in I formatted the card in the phone. And then I took a few pictures and videos and all seemed to work fine.
The next day when I was taking some photos it suddenly switched over to the internal memory and I got the message that it was unable to save to SD card. I checked the gallery and the last picture i took was corrupted. So after this I tried taking the card out with the phone turned off, put it back in and started the phone. I was able to take some photos but when I was going to record a video it corrupted the file again.
After this I put the card in my PC and did a full format to exFAT and tried filling all ~59GB with pictures, videos and other files and from what I could see no files were corrupted.
Then I formatted it once again in my PC to exFAT and put it in the phone. After a few pictures it once again corrupted the files, even the camera app (default one) crashed at one point. Formatted the card in my phone again but same problem.
I then tried the card in my Gopro camera, first formatted it in the camera then recorded several videos in both 4K, 1440P, 1080P and took several pictures and everything was fine.
I'm not sure but the card seems to be working in other devices. Do you think the problem is the card or my phone? Before this I've used a 16GB class 4 Sandisk card with no problems at all.
Any tips on what I can do?
Thank you in advance!
Are you have a custom rom or just rooted as I think you need to flash sdfix
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sehooo said:
Are you have a custom rom or just rooted as I think you need to flash sdfix
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It's stock and not rooted.
Could be a bad card, try unmounting and mounting the card again and see if that fixes it.
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Could be a bad card, try unmounting and mounting the card again and see if that fixes it.
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Yeah I've tried that a few times as well and it didn't help. But as I mentioned the card seems to work just fine it other devices. But in my note 3 files get corrupted.
Do you know of any program or any other way to test/confirm that it is the card that's bad?
crewol said:
Yeah I've tried that a few times as well and it didn't help. But as I mentioned the card seems to work just fine it other devices. But in my note 3 files get corrupted.
Do you know of any program or any other way to test/confirm that it is the card that's bad?
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Actually I do. I have used the HP SD Card Format Tool to fix cards in the past and it has worked pretty well. I also found this thread here on XDA that references it as well.
http://download.cnet.com/HP-USB-Disk-Storage-Format-Tool/3000-2094_4-10974082.html
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1900259
Good luck.
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I'm not sure but the card seems to be working in other devices. Do you think the problem is the card or my phone? Before this I've used a 16GB class 4 Sandisk card with no problems at all.
Any tips on what I can do?
Thank you in advance!
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What write and read speeds were you getting in the PC? The Sandisk models are among the most faked models and that is by far the most frequent problem that I have seen. There have been also certain batches with problems, but Sandisk is always replacing those almost no questions asked if it is a genuine card.
I also have a 64GB Sandisk Ultra which was used about 1 year in my i9300 and now almost 4 months in the N9005 and so far I have never had any problems (but I am keeping an eye on the 128 GB models if those seriously go down in price).
RaptorMD said:
Actually I do. I have used the HP SD Card Format Tool to fix cards in the past and it has worked pretty well. I also found this thread here on XDA that references it as well.
http://download.cnet.com/HP-USB-Disk-Storage-Format-Tool/3000-2094_4-10974082.html
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1900259
Good luck.
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Thanks I might try that later!
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What write and read speeds were you getting in the PC? The Sandisk models are among the most faked models and that is by far the most frequent problem that I have seen. There have been also certain batches with problems, but Sandisk is always replacing those almost no questions asked if it is a genuine card.
I also have a 64GB Sandisk Ultra which was used about 1 year in my i9300 and now almost 4 months in the N9005 and so far I have never had any problems (but I am keeping an eye on the 128 GB models if those seriously go down in price).
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I just ran a test in the program H2testw 1.4 and got these results:
Warning: only 60872 of 60874 MByte tested.
Test finished without errors.
You can now delete the past files *.h2w or verify them again.
Writing speed: 8.49 MByte/s
Reading speed: 17.5 MByte/s
H2testw v1.4
So the reading speeds seems fine I guess, it also filled the card with files and verified it.
I would assume that if it was a fake it would have slower speeds and maybe only 2-4GB of space?
I am using the SD card adapter that came with the SD card, and then I put it in a USB SD card adapter in a USB 2.0 port.
Is anyone else having problems with 64GB SD cards? It's as if my Note 3 wasn't compatible with the card since it is working fine in other devices and isn't a bad card according to the test I did.
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Sounds like a hardware fault on the Note 3... I've been using both a sandisk and a samsung 64gb class 10 card on both my note 3's with no problems from the start...
Never had a problem with file corruption....
sdhc and sdxc are 2 different formats - sounds like you could use a 32gb sd card fine but it has issues with the 64gb sd card.... 64gb sd card is the newer format sdxc....
Unfortunately here you hit a snag... Unless the samsung sites list 64gb as ok to use on the Note 3 then they may just say to to warranty repairs.... If 64gb is the listed size (generally "up to ") you should have no problem. It does sound like your card reader doesn't like sdxc... Unless you can get your hands on another 64gb sd card to find out you not be able to use your 64gb sd card...