SD Cards Which Do & Dont Work With The Defy

[MrBelter]

Lets post what cards we do know work and the ones that don't because this is starting to cost people money just trying to find out. It is becoming apparent the faster the class the less likely the card will work. All class 2 and 4 cards seems to work, the majority of class 6 cards work but class 10 cards that work are few and far between.

The problems seem to be with the official moto release of 2.2, many had no problems with 2.1 so the issues are with the software not the hardware.

Known to work with 2.2

Samsung Plus 8GB class 6 (MB-MP8G) http://tinyurl.com/42fks93

Known not to work with 2.2

PNY 16GB class 10 http://tinyurl.com/4xywwue

Below is the speeds of the known working Samsung class 6 card.

 

[zakoo2]

Kingston 8GB SDHC Class 4 works fine for me

 

[truva55]

2 Memory cards work fine:

Samsung 8GB Class 4, HC.

Samsung 1GB.

 

[superfastmonkey]

Kingston 16gb class 4 works for me.

 

[MrBelter]

Known to work

Icidu 32GB (class unknown)

SanDisk 32GB class 2

 

[MrBelter]

Known to Work

Trancend 16GB class 6

 

[om4gus]

Transcend 16gb class 6.
Sometimes become read-only. I have to re-mount it. I never have this problem in Samsung Spica or htc legend

 

[Hocevar]

Useful thread, someone should sticky this.

 

[bether]

Known to Work
SanDisk 8GB class 4 -> works very well and records smooth 720p videos

 

[viper.]

Known to Work
Memorette class 10 32GB card

Very insteresting, I haven't had any of those issues with my Memorette class 10 32GB card. Tested with a good average speeds of 14MBps. I wanted a class 10 card in order to be future proof (HD recording etc).

Currently running the beta stock Orange Ginger (2.3) rom at 1GHz.

//Dave

 

[goateye]

Is there any cards that not work???

Sent from my MB526 using XDA App

 

[MrBelter]

Lots and lots, hence the thread. I posted one that didn't work in the very first post.

 

[Hugo32]

KNOWN NOT TO WORK

Transcenc 8gb Class 6


I had constant freezes and crashes with that card.

KNOWN TO WORK

Kingston 4gb Class 4


works perfectly

 

[gommers1978]

This one works for me:

Trancend 16GB class 6 formatted with 64Kb clusters

Works with:

10 MB/s Write speed
22 MB/s Read speed

Running 2.3.4 для Defy - 134

 

[gommers1978]

KNOWN NOT TO WORK

Transcenc 8gb Class 6


I had constant freezes and crashes with that card.

Have you allready tried that card when formatted FAT32 with 64kb Clusters??

 

[Hugo32]

Have you allready tried that card when formatted FAT32 with 64kb Clusters??

how do I do that ? btw. I already thought my defy was broken as it froze every 5-10 minutes, than changed to the kingston card and installed the exact same apps/ settings and now it runs without errors for a week already...

 

[MrBelter]

Do it in Windows mate To be honest though a working card should do just that, work, if you are having ot mess around with cluster sizes to get it working rather than just doing it to improve speed then i would be weary.

 

[viper.]

You should edit your 1st post ..make a list of working and non working SD cards!

 

[MrBelter]

Just for you then LOL.

 

[viper.]

Aint that the point of this thread?
Simple and clean info about SD cards.. Its not for me its for community FFS!

Take CM7 thread for a example ,its pretty much mess(1k posts?) there but hey you have another thread which is simple FAQ where it clearly says what you should do to install that rom.
Its similar as this and bunch other threads out there;more organisation would be better for all.