What is the largest SD card that can be used in an XDAIIi?

[eisley]

Hi,

A simple question but I couldn't find it categorically written down anywhere: What is the largest SD card that can be used in an XDAIIi?

Thanks a lot,

James.

[Danny-B-]

Im not sure i know of any limit, but its worth noting that only a Transcend 80x SD card works properly and as far as i know they go up to 1gig.

Any other card (non 80x) causes problems with the XDA IIi and causes it to hang.

[eisley]

Thanks for the info. I've been using San Disk 256Mb cards for a while which seem to work fine (although one did get confused once and thought it contained stuff when it didn't so had to be reflashed).

I'll stick to Transcend when buying a new bigger one.

Thanks,

James.

[SteveD]

Im not sure i know of any limit, but its worth noting that only a Transcend 80x SD card works properly and as far as i know they go up to 1gig.

Any other card (non 80x) causes problems with the XDA IIi and causes it to hang.

That is not universally true. I have been using a SanDisk 1.0 GB Ultra II SD card in my XDA IIi for a number of months with no problems whatsoever.

[PC_Arcade]

Yeah, in fact i'd go sa far as to say it's not true, I'm using an Integral 60x 1Gb card and have not had any problems whatsoever.

[princegary]

The only problem I have found is that with 1gb cards the XDA2i seems to have a problem when accessing the card and accepting incoming communication at the same time e.g, reading the memory card whilst accepting a call or accessing GPRS. The phone seems to cut power/access to the memory card (disconnects it)and therefore makes the phone hang/freeze. This does not seem to be an issue with 512mb or lower sized cards only 1gb and above. I have tried many different brands and this seems to hold true. For SATNAV applications people advise 512mb cards or lower work best. Again this I have found to be with card accessing issues and 1gb+ cards seem to lose connection, admittedly some cut off slightly faster than others. I use a gb card for most of my apps, but if running TomTom I swap in a 256mb.

[Danny-B-]

ok perhaps i shouldnt have said ONLY transcend cards but i was just trying to highlight that i know that they work fine in the XDAIIi.

Yes there are going to be more brands that work fine too, as far as i know its a voltage issue, anyway im not a htc technician so thats as far as my knowledge goes :)

[GReaper]

I'm using a SanDisk Ultra II 2.0GB card with no problem at all in my Qtek 2020i with O2 rom

[MaskedMarauder]

I have been doing some reserch into SD Cards because of this problem.

It seems to do with the layers in the card. If the card is of good quality and is a single layer they seem to work OK, if it is dual layer you could have problems.

It has everything to do with current to the card and little to do with card speed.

Single layer cards of high storage capacity are more expensive to produce, because of this even the big brands use dual layer cards.

[eisley]

Interesting stuff about the layers. Thanks for the info.

Has anyone tried the San Disk Ultra II Plus which is the one that can be folded so it can be plugged directly into a USB port too? They look really useful (although are hard to find at the moment at a decent price) as it means you have both USB flash memory and SD combined which I'd find useful when travelling.

[easydevices]

Does anyone know the brands other than Trancsend who use the Single layer card build? :D

Thx

[masma13]

i'm using a 2GO Maxell SDcard X150 and it works fine.
no pb at all
http://www.maxell.fr/Maxedhd/Sd%20Card/SDcard%202%20go%20(300%20dpi).jpg

[Server]

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[Seahorse]

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