[Q] Omnia 7 - microSD card expansion

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Has anyone taken their Omnnia 7 apart yet to see if you can replace the microSD card with a higher capacity one?

It's been done on the HD7 so we need a brave volunteer to try the same on the Omnia.

This is really intriguing to me... if anyone does it please take lots of pics!

You're on the OMNIA 7 has a MicroSD slot?

Originally Posted by zincou

You're on the OMNIA 7 has a MicroSD slot?

No, not a normal slot.


In some mobile phones with windows 7, the MicroSD is hidden inside.
You cannot access without unscrewing, and it voids the warranty.

The phone must be taken apart into pieces to find the MicroSD, it is not one you just change for different music all the time!

We need a person to volunteer to take apart their phone!

Windows Phone uses a special high–performance SD card that works differently than SD cards in other devices.-Microsoft

exFAT disk format maybe?

I have an Omnia 7 testing device and I am willing to disassemble it. But I really don't know where to start with this. Seems that the phone can be disassembled only with special tools that I don't have...

Omnia must have a slot like the HD7?

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Got this from a link (I am a new user: so can't post links yet: here's a goo.gl/Vi0e)

While the Omnia 7 has an microSD slot, it isn’t your run of the mill one. The microSD card that comes with the device is essentially locked to the device. If you remove the card, it will make the phone inoperable. I did read a tip that this may change later on, or if you swap cards and reformat then you have to suffer with losing your data, but that hasn’t been officially verified yet. Also someone will probably figure out a hack or way to copy the formatting scheme over to a new card to avoid losing your data, so don’t fret too much about this.

Just got delivery of Samsung Omnia 7.

I'm trying to open it up but I can only get access to 1 screw..the other ones are partially or fully obstructed!

@karthikraman - there is no card locking going on and upgrading memory is fully supported by MS. It just has its own special procedure and consequences. Too many tech writers have been reporting this as if it's some kind of hardware hack special to the HD7. Nonsense, as I said it's supported and designed to work that way.

Manufacturers have decided to hide the cards inside. Maybe they thought that was safer so that people didn’t swap in new cards and complain their phones had stopped working or, if they did the hard reset, that they had lost all their data.

Anyway, all we need to know is whether we can get to the SD card in the Omnia 7 or not. If we can the upgrade ought to work.

@lvoky - Can you post pictures or describe what tools you need?

Originally Posted by digime

@lvoky - Can you post pictures or describe what tools you need?

Well, I can post some pictures later, but generally, as hboos mentioned, the screwes under the battery cover are partially obstructed with the rest of the phones casing... Which means that before unscrewing these, the casing has to be somehow removed. There are no other screws on the phones body, so I guess the plastic top and bottom part of the phone has to be "unclicked" somehow. Or maybe we have to begin from the display, like with iPhone 3G for example...