Anyone using a 4GB (or larger?) miniSD successfully?

[gof]

I was doing a search and didn't find a lot. A couple of posts in March about people using some 4GB miniSD cards in their 6700, but all from very low post count users. Not that I doubt them, but shills are not unheard of around here.

Is there anyone (especially with a higher post count) using a 4GB or larger miniSD card ion their 6700 willing to speak up, give some details (or a mini-review) and where they were able to purchase it?

[angel12]

i think (correct me if i am wrong) that wideawake uses a 4gb card, i think i read it in a thread similar to this. Ebay is the place to get them afik, but there are only a few that work right, some are just 2gb cards.

[gof]

I know eBay has them, as well as the fact that many (at least) are bogus cards. But there have been just a few claims of working cards that I had some hopes. The fact that none of the major makers seems to sell them is worrysome...

[Petiedawgs]

I have used a 4gb card sucessfully only for a short time. I think my OEM 4gb minisd card was causing some problems with playback. I reformatted a few times and had the same experience. Sometimes the whole damn phone froze. Anyway I went back to a 2gb card and had no problems.

Dont know if my phone is playing tricks on me or it actually was the 4gb card.

[mdphoenix]

I have a 4gb mini sd I purchased on Ebay. One of those generic black ones with silver writing.

Works fine - so far. I've had it for about four months.

[peacock93]

This is where I purchased mine and it has worked fine for over 2 months. I do think that it has a little more access time than my 2G Kingston card though, but the extra 2G is worth it to me.

http://www.flash-memory-store.com/qm...-digital1.html

[UTSAFTW]

Originally Posted by peacock93

This is where I purchased mine and it has worked fine for over 2 months. I do think that it has a little more access time than my 2G Kingston card though, but the extra 2G is worth it to me.

http://www.flash-memory-store.com/qm...-digital1.html

$39.95... Not a bad price for 4G of flash memory... now if I only had money!

I just ordered one from them today. They also called me back shortly after placing my order online to verify my address. I'll let you know how the rest of the transaction goes and hwo the card works.

Ray

Stressed is just desserts spelled backwards!!

Toshiba 2032SP / Treo 600 / Treo 650 / PPC6700 / Treo 700wx / PPC6700 / ? ?

[xholmezx78]

try and partition it into 2. 2GB drives, and it will work flawlessly! Ive been running a 4GB MiniSD partitioned, and has been working for months with no hitches!

1 partition stores my data and install files., the other is my ROMS and Backup files

[BeuwolfAgate]

Maybe this would help...

I have a 4gb miniSD (Q Memory) card. I will list the things I have tried and had problems with... Hope it helps somebody. I have a SD card reader built into my laptop...

1. Formatted the card in the PPC itself, it won't read on the PC. The PC just kept saying it is not formatted.

2. Formatted the card in the PC using the regular right-click-drive-format functionality. It worked in the PPC for an hour or so. And when the PPC woke up it said the card is not formatted. Lost a lot of programs.

3. Used WM5Storage, connected the PPC to USB. It won't initially show up in the list of drives (My Computer). So, you have to go into disk management and the do partitions and formats. Right click on My Computer and click on Manage. Then on the left section of the manage window, click on disk management. After it reads, you should see a disk on the right bottom panel, which would say non partitioned. Also, the SD card should show up as a USB mass storage device. (WM5Stor.. something).
---Rest of the methods I tried only through this...
(a) Do a quick format FAT32 with default allocation. Same as 2, worked for sometime and then when device woke up, it said not formatted.

(b) Do a full format FAT32/def. alloc. same results as (a)

(c) Partition the disk into two "Primary Partitions", one with 1.85 GB and the next with 2 GB. To do this, right click on the disk (we are still the management console, remember!), and click New Partition, and select primary and mentioned size as roughly 1.85 gb and then format with FAT32/def. alloc. (quick or not doesnt matter), and did the same with second partition. Worked for a couple of hours, and after that the SD card got erased. The programs didn't show up after the device woke up. This time it didn't say SD not formatted. Instead programs stopped working. Went to the card and it had many of the files missing. After that programs refused to install. (Mind You, once you partition, the SD card is not readable by the built in SD reader on the PC. Now, I don't have a USB SD reader, and so I can't test it that way.)

(d) Did same as (c), except did FAT16/def. alloc. and still same errors as (c).

(e) THIS HAS BEEN WORKING FOR A DAY NOW. Did the whole partition routine, BUT did FAT16 with 32K clusters allocation, AND the size of the partitions is 1.95 GB each (I didn't want to get too close to 2 GB size as that craps out). Now, the device read the card properly and is able to use it properly. So far, I haven't lost files in it, nor did it ask me to reformat.

So, try (e) and see if that helps. NOW, the only way to read the card is through WM5Storage, so if you have programs that are installed in the card that run in the background, WM5Storage will refuse to lock it, so do a soft reset before you use the storage card or use a safe mode restart utility.

-AR

PS: I will keep posted on how the card is behaving with this method.