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Sandisk HC 16 gig Micro SD:

Recently bought one off of eBay for $40 (+ $9 3-day USPS shipping) and it works as good as gold in my HTC Touch Pro. It was listed as "bulk" and did not come in the official Sandisk blister pack; therefore, this could possibly be gray-market hardware, but it works as listed none the less.
Perfect amount of space for my GPS software and my music/talk-radio.
I have had it for about 5 days now and have had zero compatibility or usage issues.
Cheers!

O rly?
poodiddy said:
Recently bought one off of eBay for $40 (+ $9 3-day USPS shipping) and it works as good as gold in my HTC Touch Pro. It was listed as "bulk" and did not come in the official Sandisk blister pack; therefore, this could possibly be gray-market hardware, but it works as listed none the less.
Perfect amount of space for my GPS software and my music/talk-radio.
I have had it for about 5 days now and have had zero compatibility or usage issues.
Cheers!
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Haha, he said possibly... I'm pretty sure that MicroSD card you just bought was not manufactured by Sandisk. Good to hear that it's working okay though.

Ya, well I bought a 16GB MicroSD card and it has been working FLAWLESSLY...until tonight. I was re-installing a ROM and re-installing TT7...when the install hung...told me it couldn't install...then the card just died. Hopefully SanDisk will RMA it...

DeniaL said:
Ya, well I bought a 16GB MicroSD card and it has been working FLAWLESSLY...until tonight. I was re-installing a ROM and re-installing TT7...when the install hung...told me it couldn't install...then the card just died. Hopefully SanDisk will RMA it...
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Well, most suggest that you remove the SD card prior to installation of a new ROM. I am using my card with Elite RC2 Rom, but have not tried leaving it in while installing a new ROM.
At this point, I have purchased 3 Sandisk Micro SD cards (2 4 gig HC's, and 1 8 gig HC) over the past 1.5-2 years off of eBay and haven't had a single one of them fail... none of them came in Sandisk blister packs.
Time will tell...

poodiddy said:
Well, most suggest that you remove the SD card prior to installation of a new ROM. I am using my card with Elite RC2 Rom, but have not tried leaving it in while installing a new ROM.
At this point, I have purchased 3 Sandisk Micro SD cards (2 4 gig HC's, and 1 8 gig HC) over the past 1.5-2 years off of eBay and haven't had a single one of them fail... none of them came in Sandisk blister packs.
Time will tell...
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I know, I did. The card died after I flashed the rom and was re-installing programs...

@DeniaL
Did you try and reformat it? It might just be a bad sector.

can someone find me a good deal on a 16 gb they are all like around 55.00

Daddy43205 said:
can someone find me a good deal on a 16 gb they are all like around 55.00
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Im sure you could find one cheaper, but I am willing to bet is bootleg. Anyway the 55.00 ballpark is not that bad. Or you can wait till the 32gb releases. That will drop the price of the 16 big time.

Gotta link?????

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...ion=&Ntk=&SpeTabStoreType=&srchInDesc=class+6
Pretty cheap now. However, I have heard that class 6 speed with 16GB+ size cards can be unreliable....anyone know if there's any truth in this?

Kraize said:
@DeniaL
Did you try and reformat it? It might just be a bad sector.
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I can't even ACCESS it to format it. But the guy I bought it from off eBay says he will replace it! So we shall see how that goes!

Roland Deschain said:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...ion=&Ntk=&SpeTabStoreType=&srchInDesc=class+6
Pretty cheap now. However, I have heard that class 6 speed with 16GB+ size cards can be unreliable....anyone know if there's any truth in this?
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Those are SD cards, not MicroSD cards!

Ack, sorry; you're right. I was in a hurry at the time and not paying attention, retard mistake.

anyone know when the 32gb memory will be released for public ?
tvos

So is the SanDisk 16GB Class 2 card good? Mainly the class 2 part. Will it be much slower than my current class 4 8GB card?

I just got my Sandisk 16gb card. It was Sandisk branded in a Sandisk blister pack. It works, but so far I'm having intermittent problems with my MP3 files pausing and starting again. Sometimes worse than others. It happens with Kinoma, Coreplayer, Windows Media Player and the Sprint Music player. Are there any ways of minimizing this?

Jiggs1337 said:
So is the SanDisk 16GB Class 2 card good? Mainly the class 2 part. Will it be much slower than my current class 4 8GB card?
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It will not be much slower (could even be faster). Check this thread, where someone posted his c4 8GB card benchmark, which was lower than my numbers posted at the end.
sndtubes said:
I just got my Sandisk 16gb card. It was Sandisk branded in a Sandisk blister pack. It works, but so far I'm having intermittent problems with my MP3 files pausing and starting again. Sometimes worse than others. It happens with Kinoma, Coreplayer, Windows Media Player and the Sprint Music player. Are there any ways of minimizing this?
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Try reformatting, and apply this patch as well. I got a bulk package from ebay, and I haven't had a single problem so far (more than 2 weeks).

Thanks so much! It seems to be performing much better. I will have to test it more over the next few days........

I just ordered and received this one:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001L1H0SC
It seems quite fine

What is the largest capacity the HTC Touch Pro can handle? I thought it was only a 8GB?

[Q] 32GB Cards...possible or possible soon?

Hi Everyone,
I have read the extensive thread on compatible SD cards, but just wanted to open another thread asking if there are any known 32GB cards working with this phone or if you guys have heard of any officially certified 32GB cards coming soon. I am DESPERATE to have more storage on my phone, but will not buy a card unless I know it is working for sure and want to go for the 32 as soon as possible. Thanks!

Well I can only speak on my personal experience but I've been using a Kingston Class4 32GB card since November 8th and have never had any issues. And I'm sitting at around 12GB of usage (music, videos, etc).
I'm not saying this is gauranteed to work - just relaying what my personal experience has been.
Use at your own risk...

My Kingston 32GB C4 card lagged really bad once I got over 10GB. There are so many conflicting reports like this. Using any card is a bit of a gamble at this stage.
tsuabing said:
Well I can only speak on my personal experience but I've been using a Kingston Class4 32GB card since November 8th and have never had any issues. And I'm sitting at around 12GB of usage (music, videos, etc).
I'm not saying this is gauranteed to work - just relaying what my personal experience has been.
Use at your own risk...
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Kingston Class 4 - Working Great Here
I also have had a 32GB Kingston Class 4 card in my Focus and have been using it since November 8th. I have had no problems at all.
Total Storage 37.07 GB
Available Storage 22.20 GB
So I am using 15GB of my storage for music and such and have had no problems whatsoever.

MardiG said:
I also have had a 32GB Kingston Class 4 card in my Focus and have been using it since November 8th. I have had no problems at all.
Total Storage 37.07 GB
Available Storage 22.20 GB
So I am using 15GB of my storage for music and such and have had no problems whatsoever.
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I'd be curious to see what happens when you get over 16GB. It seems like 8GB cards are okay; maybe there's something that freaks out when you use more external storage than internal.

I also would be interested in what happens once you fill it past 16GB. Would one of you be willing to give it a shot for us? Thanks for the replies everyone!

I have a 16GB Scandisc card of clas 2, I put that in and reastarted the phone. Nothing happened.....is that how you know if it is working or not???
Thanks

i would like to try this one but the price is a little too steep right now and it wouldn't be good if it didn't work.... paid less for the focus itself. http://lexar.com/products/lexar-high-speed-microsdhc-card-performance-kit?category=90

Bikram said:
I have a 16GB Scandisc card of clas 2, I put that in and reastarted the phone. Nothing happened.....is that how you know if it is working or not???
Thanks
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Go to Settings -> About and it will tell you how much storage you have. If it still says 8GB, then you still need to format the phone.

Lexar 32GB Class 10
Bloodgod said:
i would like to try this one but the price is a little too steep right now and it wouldn't be good if it didn't work.... paid less for the focus itself. http://lexar.com/products/lexar-high-speed-microsdhc-card-performance-kit?category=90
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I recieved that card from Amazon early this week but so far all I've done is benchmark it. The card is pretty impressive with sequential and random read-rates but its write speeds are about the same as the Sandisk Class 2 I currently have in my Focus. Right now I'm waffling on wether to go through the process of swapping the cards and reinstalling everything or waiting until the NoDo update comes out. If I do make the swap I'll probably post on the working sd cards thread

samsung is dropping their 32gb card this month...

Micro SD cards weird issue

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

cheers.
I've already tried and its same. Its definitely a card issue.
Damn, I have to buy another one, 4th card in week or twoo
will see, hope die last...
truc007 said:
Maybe you have tried before...
Why don't you try another build before buying another SD? This at least will cost nothing. Just to be sure.
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[Q] Should I give WP7 a go? For the second time.

Goodnight/Good morning my fellow XDA-ers!
Okay so I have a USA T-Mobile HD2 I installed WP7 the day after it was released by DFT but the day after I was forced back to WM6.5 due to the SD card issue, my device was constantly restarting every 15-ish minutes. I was wondering if anyone has any experience running WP7 successfully on their HD2's for a decent amount of time with a specific card. I'm willing to purchase one of these cards as I want to get away from WM6 as soon as possible, but I really want to know if the card will work!
What I'm looking for is a 16Gb card that works. So if you have purchased a 16GB micro SD card that has been working flawlessly with your HD2 for some time now, please chime in, and please include a serial number as I want to get the exact thing!
Thanks for your time.

WoodbineG said:
Goodnight/Good morning my fellow XDA-ers!
Okay so I have a USA T-Mobile HD2 I installed WP7 the day after it was released by DFT but the day after I was forced back to WM6.5 due to the SD card issue, my device was constantly restarting every 15-ish minutes. I was wondering if anyone has any experience running WP7 successfully on their HD2's for a decent amount of time with a specific card. I'm willing to purchase one of these cards as I want to get away from WM6 as soon as possible, but I really want to know if the card will work!
What I'm looking for is a 16Gb card that works. So if you have purchased a 16GB micro SD card that has been working flawlessly with your HD2 for some time now, please chime in, and please include a serial number as I want to get the exact thing!
Thanks for your time.
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Just recently purchased a Sandisk 16gb card. Works flawlessly. No crashes, hangs, resets or whatsoever.

AAARRRGGHHH!!!!
how many times do a few others and myself have to tell people this!!!
no two cards are alike, you could buy two identical cards and one might not work, there is no "working card list"
Statistically you will have better luck with a class 2 or a class 4, ive personally had better luck with sandisk class 4
but that is it, its just luck

I've been running mine flawlessly since the first rom (now on my second) on my HD2. I'm using the stock 16gb SanDisk that came with the phone. Indeed it is "luck of the draw" but most people I've talked with and/or flashed for others have had no problems with the stock sd cards.

dazza9075 said:
AAARRRGGHHH!!!!
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Alright my man no need to freak out. I guess this isn't the thing for me since I don't believe in luck and I don't feel like wasting my money.
Thanks to the others for your replies.

I like you had the same problems with a few SD cards. I remembered seeing a post going back about Sandisk selling SD cards as being HD compatible. So I did a search and found the cards and their model numbers, bought one and have had no problems at all, no lag and WP7 runs perfectly!
http://www.mobiletechworld.com/2010...mpatible-micro-sd-cards-certified-by-sandisk/

mickfarr said:
I like you had the same problems with a few SD cards. I remembered seeing a post going back about Sandisk selling SD cards as being HD compatible. So I did a search and found the cards and their model numbers, bought one and have had no problems at all, no lag and WP7 runs perfectly!
http://www.mobiletechworld.com/2010...mpatible-micro-sd-cards-certified-by-sandisk/
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Yeah, the class 2 sandisk with serial ending in A11M were called wp7 certified by sandisk for about a day before they pulled that certification. What dazza said is true... at the moment, card makers don't test their random access speeds and don't keep them consistent enough batch to batch to guarantee any specific card will work. Sandisk makes very high quality cards and I think you're best chance of getting a card that works is to go with class 2 or 4 sandisk. I have few Sandisk class 2 cards ending in A11M... 1 8gb, 2 16gb, and 1 32gb. All work... All work flawlessly except for 1 of the 16gb cards, which give a little lag, but no resets or anything like that. After testing, the access speeds are very different on the 2 cards, even though they are the same brand,class, and model number. Were even bought from same store, but 6-9 months apart.
So yeah, if you want to try wp7, go for a class 2 or 4 sandisk. It will most likely work... but there's no 100% guarantee. But sandisk has good warrantee... if in the rare case it doesn't work, tell sandisk it's brok or something and try to get them to send a different one.

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Thanks a lot my man.

I got a Sandisk Class 4 at radio shack (good sale at the time) and it works perfect. Not a single hicup.

I am using the original class 2 16GB card that came with my HD2 and it works flawlessly.

Sandisk 16gb Class 4 card problems

Hi, I just for the 16gb sandisk card that was on sale at newegg and my G2 is having problems dectecting it.
I know android has problems with class10 cards so I bought the class 4 one.
when i plug in the card and start up the phone sometimes it say the SD card is blank.
also while im using the phone the sd card will say it unmounted or the android files in the card will turn into weird icons.
does anyone have this problem too?
I formatted it to Fat 32 many times.

i bought the same card on newegg. Although i haven't had the chance to use it yet, i was just gonna format it and copy the whole of my previous SD to it. Does your card work on any other device? if not might need to RMA

No i haven't had time to try it on my other phones yet.
I had to Clone the old card to the new card and so far no problems.

so problem solved?

I think so.
I couldn't just drag the files over.

Do class 10 cards not work on Desire Z ?
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I had a Class 10 patriot and it kept corrupting on me. I RMA'd it several times.

Hmm, I ordered a Transcend 16gb class 10. Hope it'll work.
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The Transcend class 10 8gb worked for me.

Stoerner said:
Do class 10 cards not work on Desire Z ?
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They may or may not work okay. But Class 10 cards seem to cause more problems than lower class cards, based on user posts here. Plus, the extra expense doesn't seem justified, as you will not see much if any performance gain.

Since I'm in school, I got a lot of problems with sandisk product. (stop working without a sing, corrupt, takes days to boot).
For my usb flash drives I use patriot now. Never got problems, especially with the little 8gb usb key. Excellent reviews on newegg.
I bought class 10 16 gb micro usb patriot. Run some bench marks, average 11 mb/s writing. Since 5 months, lot of testing roms and watching videos, no problem yet.
Be careful with bad reviews because some people runs day long benchmarks. It kills flash memory.

oVeRdOsE. said:
Since I'm in school, I got a lot of problems with sandisk product. (stop working without a sing, corrupt, takes days to boot).
For my usb flash drives I use patriot now. Never got problems, especially with the little 8gb usb key. Excellent reviews on newegg.
I bought class 10 16 gb micro usb patriot. Run some bench marks, average 11 mb/s writing. Since 5 months, lot of testing roms and watching videos, no problem yet.
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Does Sandisk work better if you're not in school
Odd. Was it a genuine Sandisk product, purchased from a reliable source (like Newegg). Because there are a heck of a lot of Sandisk counterfeits on places like eBay. Sandisk and Kingston are probably the most counterfeited brands of flash memory. On the other hand, its just possible you had a defective unit. Its impossible for even the most reliable electronics manufacturer to be 100% free of defective units.
I've used 3 different Sandisk Micro-SD cards in my smartphones and tablet, one of them is almost 4 years old. Only had a problem once, and a format fixed it right up. Also used Sandisk SD and CF cards in my cameras for years, without issue.

Today my Transcend 16gb class 10 arrived and I installed in my DZ.
Not any problems until now ...
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My 16gb Sandisk just crapped out on me while i was downloading apps. I just suddenly said the card unmounted? I had to reboot to get the hard back. anyone else having problems?

Ray_jai said:
My 16gb Sandisk just crapped out on me while i was downloading apps. I just suddenly said the card unmounted? I had to reboot to get the hard back. anyone else having problems?
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Happens to me about every other week. My Sandisk 16gb class 4 card is from my local Radio Shack, so I doubt it's fake. Perhaps some G2's don't like class 4 cards? When it happens to me, I see that message when I get up in the morning.
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Oh good, so it's not just me. But damn that sucks. it does get annoying.
I'm using the pre-root Stock 2.3.4 rom. you?

Ray_jai said:
Oh good, so it's not just me. But damn that sucks. it does get annoying.
I'm using the pre-root Stock 2.3.4 rom. you?
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That ROM, and cm7 nighty 204.
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