Samsung 32GB class10 only 5MB/s - HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera

i bought this new card and was happy that i have a fast card now and that the transferring data with usb connection would be faster, but it is not.
The writing speed is between 3-5 MB/s, not better then my old Sandisk 16gb class2 card.
I have aMAGLDR v1.13 with CWM v.5.0.2.7.
I use the usb mount from CWM and transfer data through it, but it is really a disappointment. I format the card through different ways, all without any success.
On the my computer the card is not faster with FAT32 (with the micro sd adapter), when i format the card to NTFS it is really fast, but i can not use it on my phone with NTFS. Is Fat32 the problem here?
Does someone have the same card and could approve this problems or am i the only one?
thanks in advance /masteroe

try this..
get into android and see if this app works...it will increase the cache...you should see difference..

thanks, i tried this already without any success.
it seems that the problem is not this value. In the CWM this value is not interesting at all.
As i told you on Windows i have same performance issues with FAT32....

If you bought your SD card from Ebay you probably bought a fake Class 10

domimatik said:
If you bought your SD card from Ebay you probably bought a fake Class 10
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it is not from the bay it is a original card (i hope) from amazon.

Class 10 only assures you of 10MB/S on sequential write, so if the card has been written to a few times there could be some drop due to fragmentation. Also, there are various overheads to consider, moving the data about, issuing the write command to each block, wait for a confirmed write response, blahblah.
Here
http://www.smxrtos.com/articles/whiteppr/flashperformance.htm
Is a (very) technical explanation, which rather happily (or not) examines a 10MB/S raw write speed SD as an example (scroll way down) and calculates an actual write speed at 5MB/S.

samsamuel said:
Class 10 only assures you of 10MB/S on sequential write, so if the card has been written to a few times there could be some drop due to fragmentation. Also, there are various overheads to consider, moving the data about, issuing the write command to each block, wait for a confirmed write response, blahblah.
Here
http://www.smxrtos.com/articles/whiteppr/flashperformance.htm
Is a (very) technical explanation, which rather happily (or not) examines a 10MB/S raw write speed SD as an example (scroll way down) and calculates an actual write speed at 5MB/S.
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thanks for your information, but i think there is an other problem, my class 2 card is faster as it seems . I'm copying 700 MB with 1,5MB at the moment, that is really frustrating....

hehe yea i know what you mean, mine always runs far slower than it probably should too, one point some meg/s, for both my class 2 and a class 6, never any faster, either through cwm, android usb mass storage, or my card reader. (Lots of built in card readers are just usb readers mounted to internal usb headers, and are often only usb1, which doesn't help, , usb has a lot of overhead, lots of info regarding usb overhead here http://www.smxrtos.com/articles/usb_art/usbperf.htm (if a little old))

i will give back the card. This card does not make sense with HTC HD2..
Thread can be closed ! Thanks anyway ..

Related

What speed SD for the Universal?

I havent looked too deeply into this, preferring to ask like .. So please don't eat me.
Its late and all ..
I'm wondering what speed the SD card reader in the Universal is?
Is it worth spending a little extra on some 60x Corsair SD cards or should I just get the bargain bin stuff since the Universal maybe doesnt have a particularly quick card reader?
Any advice welcome. I plan to use this is a system disk with seperate 512 card for my MP3's and pod casts/documents. THAT will be cheap stuff.
But for the main I need a 1gb system disk for storing apps and system stuff.
Compared to a dedicated USB card reader for the PC, the Universal is extremely slow - I have tested this with my 150X 2GB SD card. So unless you plan on using it with a PC card reader, it doesn't really matter
Accessing the SD card through activesync was at least 10 times slower than the card reader...
I did a small test with Pocket Mechanic.
1. My "normal" 2 GB sandisk gives 0.84MB/sec
2. My super duper Extreme III Sandisk 1 GB gives me a whopping 0.88MB sec.
Nr . 2 card, in my portable, writes files much, much faster than nr.1.
You can see however that in my Jasjar the difference is nearly zero.
I would say: go for the cheapest, but I am not a great technician.
Huib
Thanks guys ..
Very informative and will help me get the right card. ie. the cheapest!
-Gubbs
Hi
I have not noticed any difference between a basic Sandisk card and a so called 66x KingMax card when used in the exec.
I do notice a difference between these two cards when using them with my digicam - the multishot mode (2 frames/sec) actually works cause the camera is able to write to the card quickly enough. With the slow card, cam kept pausing to write its cache onto the card.
I am not sure that pocket mechanic tells the truth! Likewise, timing a copy from the internal flash to an SD card is not gonna give accurate results (speed of internal flash may be bottleneck). On Wm2003 devices this was possible cause RAM is loads faster than flash still.
You cant test the speed of the SD reader in the exec over activesync tho!! Its a USB 1.1 device (max 11Mbit) and on top of that activesync treats it as a 10Mbit network card. Max you'll see after overheads is thus around 1MByte/sec
Nigel
veletron said:
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You cant test the speed of the SD reader in the exec over activesync tho!! Its a USB 1.1 device (max 11Mbit) and on top of that activesync treats it as a 10Mbit network card. Max you'll see after overheads is thus around 1MByte/sec
Nigel
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Certainly much better to do it that way.
Huib
ok i m having problem to decide as well...
anyone has a more concrete data about this ?
i m thinking whether to choose a normal 66x or 133x ...
getting 2gb sd card.. either transcend or pretec...
by the way exec sd slot is 1.01 or 1.1 specification?
hope someone has a benchmark to share.. thanks
1gb Scandisk does the job for me.
Watched a movie on it the other night, perfect. Plenty fast enough.
Its HTC so you can be assured it will be genius design with cheap crap chipset.
Bit like an Italian sportscar.
get one of those sd-usb card combo's....if u can find one going at a decent price.
saves the hassle of card readers. the LAST thing anyone needs is yet another wire lol

Very slow writing speed on microSDHC card

Happy new year guys. I bought two microsd cards. One is a PQI 2GB microSD card for flashing. Another one is a Ridata 4GB microSDHC card for everyday stuff, with a speed class of 6. I don't know the class of the PQI.
I noticed that when copying files from the pc, or when just copy pasting files within the Hermes, the writing speed is very slow. For both cards, the PQI and Ritek, they're around 400 kB/s to 600 kB/s. I used both WM5torage and activesync and they're both this slow. Even for a class 2 card, such speeds are slow. I RMAed the PQI one due to CRC errors when copying. The Ridata has no errors but is still very slow.
I searched the forums and installed the SD tuneup.cab file, restarted the Hermes and its still the same writing speed, around 400kB/s. I used the microsdhc in a card reader in a pc and it writes at 6 MB/s. What could be wrong, why such a writing speed difference? I have red about posters with writing speeds as much as 9MB/s with their phones in the Hermes accessories forum.
The specs of my phone are:
Cingular 8525 Hermes 100
PDACornerPro.V27
Radio 1.56
HardSPL v7
Ridata 4GB microsdhc class 6
Any suggestions, comments? Thanks.
Mate, join the club... I don't really believe that when connected through activesync you will get very fast speed copying. Its ALWAYS been slow as a stoned snail when copying through the phone. sd card readers move like lightening in comparison.
Don't believe you're gonna find an answer to the slow speed problem.
Cheers...
You mean from the very start till now, the Hermes really writes slowly? But some people on the Hermes accessories forum have write speeds up to 9MB/s. Maybe there is a fix/tweak somewhere I don't know about and still not able to find through searching? Any ideas? Thanks.
I've never found it. Most threads I've read about this issue are lamenting the fact it has such a slow read/write speed when connected through activesync.
I generally backup and transfer files through an sd card reader.
Cheers...
Thanks for the reply. Maybe I'll just use a card reader to save time. But those folks at "What brand SDHC card is everyone using?" thread have speeds up to 9MB/s when writing. Aren't they using the Hermes? Or they're using a card reader?
Probably a card reader. They may also be talking about when transfering files to/from sd card when using the Hermes's own file manager as that is fairly fast. I use a class 6 8Gb card for reading Tomtom maps and there is no lag, had a bit previously with a 2Gb card.
I believe the hangup is in microsoft's active sync program. No0t sure about those using vista's own transfer app.
Cheers...
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Mate, join the club... I don't really believe that when connected through activesync you will get very fast speed copying. ...
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Actually, Activesync can be fast.
Activesync on an XP machine copying to my Herm100 is quite slow, a card reader is much better, but the same Activesync copied to the latest HTC (don't know the model) slidey keyboard phone's internal memory in comparatively lightening speed.
So is there different configurations or drivers for the USB connections on our phones and/or ROMS ?
G.
As you said
Ogier said:
Activesync copied to the latest HTC (don't know the model) slidey keyboard phone's internal memory in comparatively lightening speed.
G.
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Maybe something in the hardware of the newer phones because if it was software, since the chefs use the ported os of the later devices, we should also be getting better speeds if we had updated the OS. I'm currently using build 21109 and I haven't noticed a speed increases...
Thanks for the replies guys. I think its really the hardware of the Hermes that is slow. I bought a cheap $1 card reader and its very fast compared to the Hermes' own card reader. I used Sisoftware sandra to bench my cards. My RMAed 2GB PQI card writes at around 6.5 MB/s while my Ridata 4GB card writes at around 5.4 MB/s. What a difference a dollar makes

HD2 USB transfer speeds?

I've looked everywhere. No one seems to have posted them. What are they?
Right now I'm a bit confused. Since this is an awesome device you'd think it would be fast in every aspect. It is, except for USB file transfers.
I'm running on Windows 7 Ultimate. I backed up everything from my phone to the computer with a data transfer rate from the SD card, in the phone, of 4.5MB/s. I then formatted the card (read earlier that this would help with the HD2 lock-ups) and copied everything back onto the SD card in the same fashion, through the phone. The data transfer back is right around 2.5 MB/s.... ???
I've tested all the ports around the computer, each are about the same. Anyone have any idea on how to fix this?
First thing would be to tell what kind and class of microSD card you have...
That would really depend on your SD card "class".
The higher the class, the faster it is capable of performing reading and writing operations.
But it's better to avoid the 16GB cards... the larger capacity cards take much longer to read... regardless of classifications or brand.
Something like a 4GB - Class 6 card is excellent.
I've read that it's only a class 2 MicroSD. Do you guys know where I can get class 4, or even a class 6 MicroSD? Whichever I get however depends on the max speed of the HD2. For example, I don't want to buy a class 6 and find out that the HD2 can only handle speeds up to the class 4. There is a $30-$40 USD difference.
Thanks for the SD info, it definitely helps. But now we're brought back to my original question. What are the max transfer speeds through the phone onto/from the MicroSD card? Has anyone found out?
personally i wouldn't do large data backups through activesync/MDC with the card still in the phone.
its simple to remove the card and put it in the supplied adapter card for use with sd_readers.
i bought a usb1.1 reader from a 'pound' shop, copying large files takes alot less time (average 10-11mb/sec) with my more expensive usb2.0 reader its even faster (average 50-60mb/sec)
card class does make a difference, but then so does sending large amounts of data through a 'middle man' like activesync or device center.
budget SD reader FTW
That is a good point, and I agree is faster than through the phone. For me though I have a few accessories on the phone which make taking the SD card out quite a pain.
I have an invisishield on the screen, and a poly-something or other high density plastic cover to replace the cover that came with the phone,-- It grips around the HD2 tightly. The cover is wonderful, but it tends to interfere with the invisishield. So if I am continually taking the cover on and off to get the SD card out I will eventually bend up the edges of the invisishield and will need to get that replaced.
In my best attempts to keep the phone nice I'm going to have to stick with whatever input/output the HD2-to/from-SD can give me.
choosing disk drive mode rather than active sync is the easiest way to speed up file transfers.
re: the figures you gave in post 1, write is always slower than read.
Forgot to mention, it was in 'disk drive mode'.
Btw, I found that the HTC HD2 is USB 2.0 Hi-Speed capable out-of-box. (I'd post a link, but forums wont let me, being new), and Hi-Speed USB can transfer 480Mbits/s, or ~57MB/s (Wikipedia, Universal Serial Bus, Signaling).
The Class 6 MicroSD card can write 48Mbits/s, or 6MB/s (Wikipedia, Secure Digital, Speeds). Easily obtained for the HD2.
Assuming this is everything that needs to be dealt with, this should work out wonderfully. I'll be writing files 300% faster with a class 6, and reading a whole lot faster (thanks Samsamuel, forgot about that read/write differences). Question is though, is this all? Or do I need to install some hi-speed usb driver on the computer? Or are there other things I'm not seeing that need to be dealt with?
its also worth remembering when you are doing the maths that USB loses around 25/35% to networking overhead. (the data that makes up the packet that holds the data you are transferring)
So, 480 Mbit = 60MBytes total = around 35Mbytes actual data transferred per second. (Results vary depending on the system, the cable, all kinds of things, but 30-35 is average, a little more in a testbed situation.
So I guess I'll just have to suffer with 219% faster instead of 300%... Well, looks like I'm returning the HD2!

[Q] Slow Android USB-Masstorage connection

I searched similar threads, but i found no proper answer to my question.
Is this a general android-build problem on the HD2?
I tried it with different PC's (XP/W7) and Roms (SD and NAND) and everytime
i get a only a transfer rate between 300 to 500 kbyte/s
(this is really slow! WM 6.5 connection was up to 10 Mbyte/sec)
It's a C10 sdcard and i already installed the SD read forward patch with 2048kb.
So internal reading/writing speed is not the problem.
What can i do to speed up the USB - Connection ??
(...please don't tell me to use a cardreader - this was not questioned!)
thanks!
there is a solution i believe... check out
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1010767
hellraiser-rh said:
I searched similar threads, but i found no proper answer to my question.
Is this a general android-build problem on the HD2?
I tried it with different PC's (XP/W7) and Roms (SD and NAND) and everytime
i get a only a transfer rate between 300 to 500 kbyte/s
(this is really slow! WM 6.5 connection was up to 10 Mbyte/sec)
It's a C10 sdcard and i already installed the SD read forward patch with 2048kb.
So internal reading/writing speed is not the problem.
What can i do to speed up the USB - Connection ??
(...please don't tell me to use a cardreader - this was not questioned!)
thanks!
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I hate you man i was opening Q&A to post exactly about the same issue!
However i had a very satisfying SDcard read and write speeds, that is when i formatted it with SD formatter tool and WITHOUT any partitioning of it!
Today i wanted to try a sence build with EXT partition so i formatted the SDcard with the internal Partitioning tool of CWR to 1GB EXT. Then i formatted the SDcard (both FAT32 and EXT) with CWR.
I flashed a ROM and went to USB storage mode, and i was shocked!
The SDcard is now muuuuuuccccchhhh slower!!! Why is that?! And what can we do about it?!
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there is a solution i believe... check out
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1010767
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Man he said that he applied that, besides that only affects internal speeds!
So can I just format my 32gb class 10 stick and run 1 fat32 partition and enjoy better performance or do we need the ext3 partition? Mines only like 200MB or so.
If using windows do you have some sort of Virus Scan going on. Is the USB hub on the computer really at USB 2.0 or more?
yep. It's a external powered 7 port usb 2.0 hub. When I plug the micro sdhc card into my usb card reader which plugs into the hub I get write speeds of 15MB/s+! Then I plug it in the phone and It pulls off 2MB/s barely. This is a CLASS 10 32GB Micro SDHC card. I changed the read_ahead_kb to 2048. No change. I'll test out 3072 and 4096. I think there's some driver issue with windows and the android usb driver or something. It's slow on several machines all operating at usb 2.0 specifications. Do we need to install software for the device? If so let me know! I get an unknown device when i plug the phone in and not usb mass storage, it tries to install the Android internal memory driver with no success. Supposedely google has a special driver for windows where u need the java developtmental sdk and the google java sdk. I'll update later. Any suggestions would be killer awesome!
any idea?
I've got a USB 2.0 connetction and the sdcard is not the Problem.
With my SDHC-reader in the same USB-port i get the normal speeds!
And i don't had this problem with WM6.5!!
With WM6.5 my spped was similar to the USB-reader!
But now ... with Android in NAND.....
The Speed problem occurs at all my PC's (XP,Vista and W7) and
with all the old SD-Build's (i thought that was an SD-Build problem)
and now with the NAND-Build (rafpigna Sense HD 4.02 ext) nothing changed !
So it is a general problem I think, not only me
Well, I was using dual mount SD for mounting the SDCard to the PC and the writing speed on the SD (class 6) was about 900KB ! But after I tried the native android mounting it was risen up to 3.4MB -which is also much slower than the card reader (~7MB)-
Same problem here ...
from the boot loader i get better write speeds ...
i tried ftp transfer too , no diferince in speed (still around 800 kbs).
i tried over wifi , still no difference.
iam using:
Pyramid HTC Europe 1.35.401.1 - Real 3D V2.3
I found out how to fix the problem. It lies within windows disk checker. Automatically fix file system errors, and Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors. This will take a long time depending on your speed and size of your memory stick. I do this when my speeds slow down. For my 32GB Class 10 card, it could take 2-4 Hours. However I'm getting 12-16MB/s write using windows and CWR. Make sure your device is being detected at USB 2.0 Speeds. Trust me! Doing it once ever couple days your speeds will be faster and faster. Even exceed the class specification of your card. This fixes the slow read/ write speeds!!!!
CYA
1chris89 said:
I found out how to fix the problem. It lies within windows disk checker. Automatically fix file system errors, and Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors. This will take a long time depending on your speed and size of your memory stick. I do this when my speeds slow down. For my 32GB Class 10 card, it could take 2-4 Hours. However I'm getting 12-16MB/s write using windows and CWR. Make sure your device is being detected at USB 2.0 Speeds. Trust me! Doing it once ever couple days your speeds will be faster and faster. Even exceed the class specification of your card. This fixes the slow read/ write speeds!!!!
CYA
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ill try it ... reporting back after trying...
ok not working on the phone... ill set the sd card into a reader and try it out there
dint work at all ... some one else should feel free to confirm this
here is a bug report for this problem:
http://code.google.com/p/cyanogenmo...etwork Owner Summary Stars Priority&start=100
Ok, sorry. I'll start at the beginning and explain every detail on how to get amazingly excellent performance from you sd card. Your going to be required to format it to fat32 64kb cluster for optimum performance. That's #1 and required. If you need your ext3,4 etc partition. I'm sorry. You will have to continue to bare the poor performance. You need a raw fresh sd card. Then I would run a disk check to correct any internal errors that windows uses, with all options checked this should take a while to complete. On my 16gb class 2 it takes atleast 45 minues and 2 hours on my 32gb class 10. Windows disk checker perfects the clusters and the file system integrity. Run it once on a fresh sd card. Then transfer a file 100MB or larger to get good speeds. Transferring a ton of smaller files will always be 50-75% of your class specification. There is no way around this. The card will transfer at it's class when transferring large files. If the card was able to transfer at it's specified class with small files, would require more energy to perform the task and cause the card to overheat since it's performing more operations a second with a lot of small files compared to a few large files. One thing you will always need to keep in mind is the performance is very delicate and will not be maintained for long if you don't take extra special care of safely removing the device from the computer. I've been lucky to just turn off usb mass storage when the transfer is complete and have maintained my speeds this way. However before I dialed in to how to keep it performing excellent I would constantly cause the card to perform way worse after only a day or 2 after the optimization. To keep it running optimum make sure to run windows disk checker once a month or when it slows down. Make sure you format using either Windows format function from my computer or Disk Management. I have found that the windows methods are far superior to maintaining excellent performance since Windows writes the format data to the card in the manner it prefers to use on a daily basis. Third party applications perform the same simple "similar" task in a different manner technically speaking. I have noticed performance loss from tests I have ran comparing 3rd party format compared to windows format. Also the 64Kilobyte cluster size performs the best on all files sizes. Do not use anything smaller than that. Also a 3072KB read ahead in android on average performs better than a 2048kb read ahead. If you have any additional questions. Don't hesitate to ask.
Thanks cya!
Same phone on Mac & Windows
I have tried the same phone Samsung Galaxy S2 doing a 1 GB write to SD on a Windows machine vs a Mac. The Mac transfers in about 5 min the Windows machine takes about 20 min. Both machines are with the External SD mounted and copy and paste a folder with 10,000 files in it.
I then tried it with Motorola Atrix and get the same results.
I need a way to rapidly write 8GB of data every night to 46 phones... No I am not going to take the SD cards out of the phone and use a card reader.
Anyone have any idea what could be causing the slow down on Windows?
Read the above post and it will fix your problem.
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Ok, sorry. I'll start at the beginning and explain every detail on how to get amazingly excellent performance from you sd card. Your going to be required to format it to fat32 64kb cluster for optimum performance. That's #1 and required. If you need your ext3,4 etc partition. I'm sorry. You will have to continue to bare the poor performance. You need a raw fresh sd card. Then I would run a disk check to correct any internal errors that windows uses, with all options checked this should take a while to complete. On my 16gb class 2 it takes atleast 45 minues and 2 hours on my 32gb class 10. Windows disk checker perfects the clusters and the file system integrity. Run it once on a fresh sd card. Then transfer a file 100MB or larger to get good speeds. Transferring a ton of smaller files will always be 50-75% of your class specification. There is no way around this. The card will transfer at it's class when transferring large files. If the card was able to transfer at it's specified class with small files, would require more energy to perform the task and cause the card to overheat since it's performing more operations a second with a lot of small files compared to a few large files. One thing you will always need to keep in mind is the performance is very delicate and will not be maintained for long if you don't take extra special care of safely removing the device from the computer. I've been lucky to just turn off usb mass storage when the transfer is complete and have maintained my speeds this way. However before I dialed in to how to keep it performing excellent I would constantly cause the card to perform way worse after only a day or 2 after the optimization. To keep it running optimum make sure to run windows disk checker once a month or when it slows down. Make sure you format using either Windows format function from my computer or Disk Management. I have found that the windows methods are far superior to maintaining excellent performance since Windows writes the format data to the card in the manner it prefers to use on a daily basis. Third party applications perform the same simple "similar" task in a different manner technically speaking. I have noticed performance loss from tests I have ran comparing 3rd party format compared to windows format. Also the 64Kilobyte cluster size performs the best on all files sizes. Do not use anything smaller than that. Also a 3072KB read ahead in android on average performs better than a 2048kb read ahead. If you have any additional questions. Don't hesitate to ask.
Thanks cya!
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Hi!
Thank you for this thorough and correct advice. It solved my problem with my SDHC class 4 card used in a Samsung Galaxy Gio. My computer (Win7) could write on the card with only 150 kb/s, now it is around 2200-3000 kb/s.

Defy - What's the Fastest SD card speed?

Hi fellow Defyers,
Didn't get any answers to my last post, so I obviously asked the wrong question.
I'm wanting to know what's the correct, fastest speed Class microSD card for my Defy. Nobody really seems to know.
There should be a spec, but I can't find it. I've searched all over this forum, but haven't found a answer. There are lots threads about which brands and classes work and which don't, but nothing much about real world speeds. I know that speeds vary. It depends on the Hardware, ROM and other Software running, but there must be a "best" answer.
I suspect my Defy SDHC card slot is really Class 6 speed, but lots of people report using Class 10 SD cards. What I want to know is are they actually faster?
I've installed the free "SD Tools" SD card Speed Tester app from the Market - Google Play. It's a very simple app, but gave me no problems. Except, speeds vary. I suggest a Reboot, don't open anything else and wait 3 minutes before running, to get the best result.
I get 9.3MB/s Write and 14.4MB/s Read from an ADATA 4GB Class 6 card.
I'm running Android 2.2.2. Can't really root it 'cos it's the Company-supplied phone.
Anyone getting much better than that out of Class 10?
Please post your results [Defy Model, Android ver, Card Make, Size, Class, Test App, Write MB/s, Read MB/s] here!
Mine:
MB525, 2.2.2, ADATA, 4GB, Class 6, SD Tools, Wr: 9.3MB/s, Rd: 14.4MB/s
Cheers,
D
DefiAnt2 said:
It depends on the Hardware, ROM and other Software running, but there must be a "best" answer.
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There's apparently another factor that I haven't tested myself and forgot to mention, but that's SD Card format. Seems the cluster size also makes a difference, though that will (should, may?) depend on the type of test. Sustained, large reads and writes (as done by SD Tools) should be faster with a larger cluster size, and I think sustained speeds are what matters for shooting video, or playing HD movies.
To determine your card Format and Cluster size (one way - are there better ways?) is to connect to USB, go to a Command prompt and run CHKDSK X: where X is the Windows Drive letter for your SD Card. The first line gives the Format type. Further down, the Cluster size is the number of "bytes in each allocation unit."
BTW, if CHKDSK says you have errors on your SD Card, well, be careful! You may have errors. Or, you may have a Card Compatibility issue. But I wouldn't go Fixing them with CHKDSK. I'd investigate carefully as to the cause before going further. Like, take the card out of your phone and connect it to a PC using an SD Card Reader, and check it again. If there errors aren't still showing, you definitely have compatibility problems. And, if there are still errors, it very likely means your SD Card data IS corrupted, and was probably caused by a compatibility issue or some other problem like a phone lock up while writing data, or maybe a Battery Pull (VERY BAD IDEA) also while the card was being written.
I'm not exactly sure about how to determine the Sector size for SD Cards (which is why I'm talking Cluster size), but for Hard Disks it's normally 512 bytes / sector. SD Cards could, I suppose be different as they are not rotating media, but I haven't yet figured out how to get that data out of them. Anyway, assuming 512 bytes / sector, 32k sectors (32,768 bytes) per cluster is obviously 32,768 / 512 = 64 sectors per cluster.
Please feel free to post your results [Defy Model, Android ver, Card Make, Size, Class, Format, Cluster size, Test App, Write MB/s, Read MB/s] here!
Mine:
MB525, 2.2.2, ADATA, 4GB, Class 6, FAT32, 32k clusters, SD Tools, Wr: 9.3MB/s, Rd: 14.4MB/s
Cheers,
D
P.S. I found a cheap 8GB Class 10 card... Interesting!
just tested my configuration:
bayer mb525, cm7.2 (2.3.7), kingston class 10 16gb sdhc, formatted fat32 with 64k cluster size, and my results are 10.7w/25.2r.
sent from my cm7 defy...
Please ask all questions in Q&A. Thread moved there.
I get 4.5mb/s write -14.3mb/s read on an class 2 sd I think, not sure, MB526 2.3.6 stock Android
Hi Feche, zakoo2
Thanks for that.
Turns out, nothing is simple. I have now found that it depends a lot on what "services" are also running when you run the test.
For example, if I have Data enabled, Bluetooth enabled and Satellite enabled (but none active), I get significantly lower readings, especially for Read.
On top of that, SD Tools seems to give more consistent results if you ignore the first test and run it a second and third time.
However, I have also found that my MB525 DOES get faster Read results with a Class 10 card. Only slightly faster for Write though.
I guess this means the MB525 Hardware is (more-or-less?) Class 10 capable. At least, for Read. Or, it may also depend on the individual card Manufacturer. A-Pacer not being a Top of the Line brand.
My best results, with all the services turned off:
MB525, 2.2.2, A-Pacer, 8GB, Class 10, FAT32, ??k clusters, SD Tools, Wr: 9.7MB/s, Rd: 20.7MB/s
(Forgot to check cluster size, sorry.)
I'll post other results later.
Cheers,
D2

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