Storage Card [Archive] - xda-developers

adeywatkins

18th April 2006, 06:05 PM

I have just purchased a Sanddisk ultra ll 1.0gb storage card.
It works fine in my digital camera but when inserted into my spv m600 the device wont recognise it.
Is there a storage card limitation with the prophet and if so is there a way round it ?

bombomtr

19th April 2006, 10:13 PM

I have similar problem with SD card Transcend 2 Gb x150. When I got 2 Gb TwinMOS x66 problem disappeared. I think the problem is the too high speed of card. Probably they can’t work at speed which is sufficient for Prophet.

krale

19th April 2006, 11:15 PM

Anybody else had sucess with the Transcend 2gb card x150? I was thinking of purchasing the 4gb version, at same speed, but now I'm not sure I want to waste my money.

Anybody else have a 4gig, can you name brand and speed pls?

eagle 1

20th April 2006, 01:42 AM

I have used both the sandisk 1gb ultra II card and the sandisk 2 gb. Both work fine in my I-mate jamin. The ultra II is much faster, but i mostly use the 2gb card, cause I need more space. If they had a 2gb or 4 gb ultra II i would buy it also...I have also used the PNY 2 gb cards. They all work in my jasjar as well. But like i said, the ultra II works best.

You might need to re-format the card and then try it (not with the camera format option, but from the Jamin)

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krale

20th April 2006, 11:13 AM

That's good news Eagle. What are the speeds of your two SD cards?

Anybody use a 4 gig non-sandisk card?

Khuanchai

20th April 2006, 01:30 PM

I'm using a Trandcend 150xSD 4 GB and it works great.

vtsakiris

20th April 2006, 01:35 PM

i am using an sandisk extreme III (150x) 1 GB and works great

adeywatkins

20th April 2006, 08:35 PM

Thanks people for your posts and advice i have tried a few things including pocket mechanic but still have not managed to get my prophet to accept the Sandisk Ultra ll 1.0gb sd card.
If anyone comes up with a soloution or indeed has a SPV M600 with a working Sandisk Ultra ll 1.0gb please let me know.
Just off to e-mail Sandisk to see if they can help.
Thanks again for your posts.

bombomtr

20th April 2006, 10:50 PM

It seems that high speed SD cards workability balanced on the edge with Prophet PDA’s. So best approach would be Try – Before – Buy. “Minor” problem would be to find store where this approach works for SD cards :) .

krale

22nd April 2006, 10:00 AM

Has anyone tried A-Data 4gb 150x? I think this is the cheapest 4GB card out there, so I'm wondering if anyone has tried it on the prophet?

pbeaco

22nd April 2006, 04:15 PM

I have just started using a 4GB 'Topram 150x'. Seems to work OK, except can't directly save photos to the SD card. According to other posts, something to do with having more than 2GB of empty memory. However, can transfer photos from main memory to the SD card without any problems. Music and videos appear to store and play back without any problems

adeywatkins

22nd April 2006, 06:03 PM

Still no joy with my new sd card so decided to put it on ebay

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7612649443&ssPageName=ADME:L:LCA:UK:11

Had a word with the staff in the local pc world to let me try before i buy but no go, they said they would not give me my money back either unless the card was faulty. Not that i would buy one from there with the price they charge.

Will keep you all posted on what card i get to work with my SPV M600.

krale

22nd April 2006, 06:22 PM

I'm really confused. How can it be that a particular Sandisk 150x speed works, and another one doesn't? Or one 4gb high-speed works, the other doesn't? I can't seem to find a pattern here. Its just random.

bombomtr

22nd April 2006, 11:46 PM

... I can't seem to find a pattern here. Its just random.
My guess is the low speed threshold for high speed SD card actually randomly higher than the normal operation for Prophet hardware. In this case two high speed SD cards which are same type of same manufacture may have randomly different low speed threshold, what is out of concerns of manufacturer. Who would cares about low speed access ability? And now we have to go through risk of buying perfectly good SD card which may not work on our Prophet devices. I hate this.

andilein

23rd April 2006, 12:32 AM

Hi,

I'm using an Extrememory 2 GB and 4 GB SD-Card. No problems with my Jam aka Magician or XDA Neo aka Prophet.

andilein

23rd April 2006, 01:06 AM

can't directly save photos to the SD card. According to other posts, something to do with having more than 2GB of empty memory. However, can transfer photos from main memory to the SD card without any problems. Music and videos appear to store and play back without any problems

I think the new ROMs have fixed that.

23rd April 2006, 01:07 AM

adeywatkins

23rd April 2006, 11:34 AM

Hi again here is my SPV M600 AKA Prophet Device info

ROM VERSION 2.10.1.22 WWE

ROM DATE 2/16/06

RADIO 02.07.20

PROTCOL 413.1.03

EXT 2.10.1.107

OPERATOR VERSION 13.10.1.107

uniqueboy

23rd April 2006, 11:42 AM

Just found this on ebay http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7611242138 works out just under £60 for adata 4gb 200x MMC card which apparently has better compatibility.

pbeaco

24th April 2006, 01:42 PM

I upgraded the ROM and I can now save my photos directly to the SD card as long as the picture resolution is 640 x 480 or less. For the higher resoltion photos I have to save to main memory. Can anyone make any sense of this?
Otherwise I am having no problems with the SD card. I am not about to go and buy another one, so I will just use my workaround of saving no main memory and copying to rthe SD card when memory is low.

krale

27th April 2006, 11:17 PM

Has anyone tried A-Data 4gb 150x? I think this is the cheapest 4GB card out there, so I'm wondering if anyone has tried it on the prophet?

quote myself again ;-)

pen25

3rd May 2006, 09:47 AM

Has anyone tried A-Data 4gb 150x? I think this is the cheapest 4GB card out there, so I'm wondering if anyone has tried it on the prophet?

quote myself again ;-)

i have the a-data 150x 4gb card i just got from zipzoomfly for 100 bucks. im testing it now. just like others have problems with saving pics directly to it. tells me i dont have enough memory. so far no reboots. though it is running a tad slow. will soft reset in a bit and see if it is still running slow.. BTW im stil running old rom.

krale

3rd May 2006, 12:25 PM

That's great news pen25. Can you detail the issues you have with the card? I mean you mentioned something about being slow? You think its an issue with the card?

THanks.

Craic Dub

3rd May 2006, 08:16 PM

i have the a-data 150x 4gb card i just got from zipzoomfly for 100 bucks. im testing it now. just like others have problems with saving pics directly to it. tells me i dont have enough memory. so far no reboots. though it is running a tad slow. will soft reset in a bit and see if it is still running slow.. BTW im stil running old rom.

I am also thinking about purchasing this card - if you could let us know what your experiences are that would be really cool.

Thanks in advance!

duncan888

3rd May 2006, 08:34 PM

FFVIII

3rd May 2006, 10:40 PM

Same here. I Use a-data 4GB SD card with my S200 (using the last dopod rom) never had any problems with it :)

pen25

7th May 2006, 03:43 PM

not really sure what everyone is talking about when they say they are having problems saving photos onto the memory card. I've never had this problem from day one, I have my settings on max 1600x1200 and superfine.

it gave me this error 2 times before which took a soft reset to fix before the 4gb card. tried several times with the 4gb card and wasnt able to get it to save until i flashed to the latest and greatest rom. like with everyting else its electronics. what works for you wont always work for everyone else. and visa versa

cidriver

7th May 2006, 09:56 PM

I have been used the 4GB 150 X Transcend on my Dopod for the last two weeks without a problem.

krale

8th May 2006, 11:51 PM

I came across this forum http://www.aximsite.com/boards/showthread.php?t=122299

and it stated that the A-data card can be used solely as a FAT32 system which was significantly slower than FAT16. But if you format at FAT16, the A-data has only 2GB of space.

Anyone come across this problem? Did your Fat32 sd card slow down your prophet?

krale

9th May 2006, 06:37 PM