4mb, 6mb SD / SDHC Cards on PPC6700/WM6??

[dsteinschneider]

Can these SHDC drivers be used with WM5?

I just paged through the lengthy wm6 bug/patch threads to help me make up my mind about going to wm6. I have 3.5 tweaked nicely with PI, TomTom6, Opera, phoneAlarm, claunch, big button dialer and many other apps I use regularly. I use phoneAlarm heavily but it appears that app is causing WM6 issues such as phone rings delay etc.

My phone is very stable and usually responsive. I'm worried about battery life with WM6. Does WM6 increase responsiveness once again as much as the 3.X ROMs did over 2.X?

I use my 6700 as a music player - having 6-8MB on it would lessen my desire to purchase an ipod

----- UPDATE ------------
Decided to move to WM6 right after this post - have been running all my software for 2 days - the WM6 works great - I have a lot of apps and they all appear to run fine. Didn't see any difference in battery use. Just ordered 6GB microSDHC

[iansinger]

Originally Posted by pierocksmysocks

Yep just use the SDHC drivers found in the forum and it should work.

Well I put a Topram 4GIG in and the phone recognizes it but the camera does not.
Then upgraded to WM6 with the SDHC drivers and same problem.
Card is going back to be replaced but has to go to Taiwan when it was shipped to me out of US.

So when people say it works does it work with the camera?? My camera is Version 3.00 (Build 22844)

[TMB_XV6700]

Originally Posted by iansinger

Well I put a Topram 4GIG in and the phone recognizes it but the camera does not.
Then upgraded to WM6 with the SDHC drivers and same problem.
Card is going back to be replaced but has to go to Taiwan when it was shipped to me out of US.

So when people say it works does it work with the camera?? My camera is Version 3.00 (Build 22844)

Ian,
Perhaps some people know why (something to do with the basic SD spec), the native camera has never been able to save to storage cards with more than 2GB of available space. Thus, an empty 4GB card won't be seen by the camera. If you half-fill that card with other files and bring the free space below 2 gigs, then the camera will write to it fine. The behavior you describe seems normal for functioning 4GB non-HC cards.

[iansinger]

Originally Posted by nemanracing

Not sure if anyone else has confirmed yet...

8GB MicroSDHC w/mini adapter works with the sdhc.777...

BUT can the camera write to it?

[iansinger]

Originally Posted by TMB_XV6700

Ian,
Perhaps some people know why (something to do with the basic SD spec), the native camera has never been able to save to storage cards with more than 2GB of available space. Thus, an empty 4GB card won't be seen by the camera. If you half-fill that card with other files and bring the free space below 2 gigs, then the camera will write to it fine. The behavior you describe seems normal for functioning 4GB non-HC cards.

But the Topram 4GB is supposed to be an HC card as it is the old style, not the SDHC style, even though there are no markings on the card. As mine is going back are you saying if I swap it for an SDHC, with the drivers and WM6, the camera can save to it if there is no other data on the card??

Just tried and put MP3s on card to take down to less than 2GIG free and camera did work. At one point though it would not save until I cleared running programs. I think I am running the non SDHC drivers.

[TMB_XV6700]

Originally Posted by iansinger

But the Topram 4GB is supposed to be an HC card as it is the old style, not the SDHC style, even though there are no markings on the card.

To avoid confusion, I don't think anyone would call the 4GB Topram an "HC card". It's a simple 4GB card that seems to have been made to the non-HC SD spec, except it has a larger capacity than the 2GB maximum in the spec. It's been shown to work on a lot of Apaches, with the only problems I know of being data corruption under conditions of rapid repeated overwriting.

Originally Posted by iansinger

As mine is going back are you saying if I swap it for an SDHC, with the drivers and WM6, the camera can save to it if there is no other data on the card??....

No. Yours is a good question, but I've never had an SDHC card to test. If someone else cares to confirm - will the stock camera app write to an empty card >2GB if the card and drivers are both SDHC?

[nemanracing]

Originally Posted by iansinger

BUT can the camera write to it?

Yes it can. Well with all my stuff on there at least... not sure about writing to a blank card...

Originally Posted by Jimberly

Where'd you find an 8GB? I was looking around online and didn't find bigger than 6GB.

Thanks

Most Verizon Wireless retail stores should have them in stock... If not they can order them for sure.

[iansinger]

If using a 4GB card, and saving pictures to it, it wasn't apparent, without reading online, that active sync only backs up from main memory so you have to manually copy pictures or use 3d party backup software.

[bobonit]

Originally Posted by TMB_XV6700

To avoid confusion, I don't think anyone would call the 4GB Topram an "HC card". It's a simple 4GB card that seems to have been made to the non-HC SD spec, except it has a larger capacity than the 2GB maximum in the spec. It's been shown to work on a lot of Apaches, with the only problems I know of being data corruption under conditions of rapid repeated overwriting.

No. Yours is a good question, but I've never had an SDHC card to test. If someone else cares to confirm - will the stock camera app write to an empty card >2GB if the card and drivers are both SDHC?

I can confirm that No, the camera will NOT write to a BLANK 6gb SDHC Card. Once I filled it up to 4gb (2gb free) it started writing to it fine.

[12gage]

Originally Posted by dsteinschneider

Can these SHDC drivers be used with WM5?

I'm also curious about this, I'm running on the original sprint rom with wm5 and didn't really want to upgrade but definitely want as much space as I can get