Highest capacity miniSD card for Apache?

cspannos · #1 (**permalink**) 08-26-2007, 11:33 PM

Are there any 6gb or 8gb miniSD cards out there, or even bigger? I found this http://www.sandisk.com/Products/Prod...o.aspx?ID=2447, but it's a microSDHC. I'm sure there's an adapter for microSD to miniSD, but I wasn't sure if the Apache is SDHC compatible...

Any info or suggestions would be greatly appreciated

unitypunk · #2 (**permalink**) 08-26-2007, 11:42 PM

apache is NOT compatible with SDHC cards.

there is almost no way to get it to work.. but i have heard storys

the largest card that works out of the package is a 2 gig mini sd

in theroy you could use the micro 2 gig. but whats the point?

lol

saqer · #3 (**permalink**) 08-27-2007, 12:11 AM

i've heard of people buying unofficial 4 gig minisd and partitioning/formatting them in ways to allow for use on the 6700, but several complained of missing sectors, speed issues amongst other things. Isn't it theoretically possible for a firmware update that allows the 6700 to use sdhc cards?

nemanracing · #4 (**permalink**) 08-27-2007, 12:15 AM

Firmware update possible yes... If it is officially released or not, who knows? There was a group trying to pull SDHC from the Treo 750 WM6 update to work on the 700W/WX, but it seems the drivers are tied to the processor type if I remember right...

KidGixxer · #5 (**permalink**) 08-27-2007, 12:42 AM

I have been running a 4gig card in my phone since April, and have not had any problems. I didn't partition it either.

unitypunk · #6 (**permalink**) 08-27-2007, 01:51 AM

hmm i remeber reading somwhere that you had to trick the ppc into thinking it had 2 cards instead of one to get full 4 gigs

KidGixxer · #7 (**permalink**) 08-27-2007, 02:09 AM

Maybe with the stock carrier roms. I have been using custom roms since i got the phone. Maybe thats why i havent had that problem.

unitypunk · #8 (**permalink**) 08-27-2007, 03:09 AM

definatly could be it..

lol

but what do i know?

Karmashock · #9 (**permalink**) 08-27-2007, 05:43 AM

4GB cards work. You do need to partition them into two 2GB partitions.

I have noticed a speed hit after doing this... it's about half the speed it used to be for "writing"... you only notice when you're copying things from the PC.

As to it working with SDHC, I haven't tried that. If anyone knows how to make that work, i'd really appreciate it. I don't mind if I have to partition it into 10 drives or whatever so long as I can put all my data on it.

Is the mogul SDHC compatible?

PolloLoco · #10 (**permalink**) 08-27-2007, 07:18 AM

You do NOT have to trick the 6700 into thinking there are 2 cards to get a 4gb mini-sd to work. I've tried both ways. However, both are unstable if you read/write a lot to them consistently. When I just had 1 4gb partition - I had to reformat and reload everything about once a month. So . . . I thought I'd gain stability by formatting the card to two 2 gb partitions. Less than 2 weeks later, I'm already seeing one file get corrupted in an emulator program I use. It sets the games' configuration so it's constantly getting written to.

So. . . I'm going to go back to a 4gb partition. I have more RAM available and a faster transfer speed.

Overall - I wouldn't recommend a 4gb mini-SD if you plan to write/rewrite regularly. If you're just going to be constantly reading from it - (IE - music, movies) then it'll probably work great indefinitely.

Also - the generic no-names you see everywhere got corrupted as soon as I went over 2gb. Fortunately, the vendor allowed me to return it. I then got a TOPRAM card which at least allows me to reformat and start over regularly.