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

[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 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?

[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.

[spatel3]

Originally Posted by bobonit

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.

I just got my 8G card from SanDisk. It came with a USB adapter which I used to format it (FAT32) even though my computer already thought it was formatted. I installed the SDHC.777.cab from earlier in this thread. I then put the card in my XV6800. I opened the camera app, it recognized I had a storage card inserted and asked if I wanted to use it. i took a couple pics and they saved without problems. Haven't played with it much beyond that, but I wanted to stress that the card was blank and the phone did see it as a 7771.30 MB card.

[spetrillo]

Originally Posted by spatel3

I just got my 8G card from SanDisk. It came with a USB adapter which I used to format it (FAT32) even though my computer already thought it was formatted. I installed the SDHC.777.cab from earlier in this thread. I then put the card in my XV6800. I opened the camera app, it recognized I had a storage card inserted and asked if I wanted to use it. i took a couple pics and they saved without problems. Haven't played with it much beyond that, but I wanted to stress that the card was blank and the phone did see it as a 7771.30 MB card.

You are indeed correct. The phone will recognize the 8 gig card properly with the SDHC777 drivers installed. That is not the issue. The issue is when you want to playback music from the 8 gig card. Since the drivers you installed were developed before wider testing of these cards was out there the transfer rates were too high, which caused music to skip upon playback. This was identified when VerizonGuy had his kitchen out. Subsequently the lower transfer rates were incorporated into the latest WM6 kitchen by Helmi_C, which is available in the forum.

I would build a new ROM from this kitchen, and select SDHC drivers. You are then assured you have the SDHC driver set with the proper transfer rates. I have a Sandisk 6 gig card and its flawless!

Steve