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Hi,
Can anyone recommend an SD card for the HD2 please? Possibly looking at an 8 or 16GB card. I feel its time to upgrade from my piddly little 2GB card that came with the phone.
Thx.
im with ya mate........ BUMP
Not really sure of the question!?
if you're asking which brand... ive always used sandisk, i have two 16gb (class 2) & an 8gb (class 6) card from sandisk, & have no problem with them, Kingston are also a quality brand.
i have had 2 cards die for no reason in about a 4 year period (always keep a spare now!), but this can happen.
if you are asking what size... go for the largest one you can afford.
@ RoN_HD2, i see you are in the uk, try CEX: http://www.cex.co.uk/search/index.php?stext=micro+sd&ispostback=1&mode=buy
you get a 1 year warranty, even on sd cards, if the card stops working within warranty period they will replace it.
Never knew memorette made MicroSD cards as well!
Anyone have one of these, try them, good/bad experience with their microsd cards?
Memorette 32gb Micro SD SDHC CLASS 10
I just bought 2 of them on eBay. Hope they are good, let you know in a month or so when I get them from China(worth the risk at £12 each and paid via paypal so pretty safe)
dotpro said:
Never knew memorette made MicroSD cards as well!
Anyone have one of these, try them, good/bad experience with their microsd cards?
Memorette 32gb Micro SD SDHC CLASS 10
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Interesting discussion here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=958010
Becareful buying micro sd cards on Ebay. I got scammed a few months ago. Bought a 32gb micro sd class 10 card for what I thought was a very good price. When I hooked it up to my computer with an usb adaptor it was recognized and showed 32gb in size. When I tried to move a large file (10Gig) it said "no disk space". It turned out to be an 8gb micro sd card labeled as a 32gb card. They installed a program in the micro sd card to show 32gb when you open it up in your computer. I got my money back through my credit card company and I emailed other buyers who bought them from this seller. Funny thing is everyone else thought it was fine and left good feedback for that seller until they tried adding more than 8gb into the card. I would stick with buying stuff like micro sd cards, usb flash drives, etc on Amazon, Newegg, or Frys. Its not worth trying to save $10-$20 or more on a $80 microsd card from Amazon.
Oh yeah I just read the feedback on one seller of the Memorette 32gb Micro SD SDHC CLASS 10 and I read a few "DOA", "not as advertised but refunded", "my computer can't read it". The rest who are happy probably didn't even try putting 30gb of data on the card yet. Again buyer beware.
grenademasta said:
Becareful buying micro sd cards on Ebay. I got scammed a few months ago. Bought a 32gb micro sd class 10 card for what I thought was a very good price. When I hooked it up to my computer with an usb adaptor it was recognized and showed 32gb in size. When I tried to move a large file (10Gig) it said "no disk space". It turned out to be an 8gb micro sd card labeled as a 32gb card. They installed a program in the micro sd card to show 32gb when you open it up in your computer. I got my money back through my credit card company and I emailed other buyers who bought them from this seller. Funny thing is everyone else thought it was fine and left good feedback for that seller until they tried adding more than 8gb into the card. I would stick with buying stuff like micro sd cards, usb flash drives, etc on Amazon, Newegg, or Frys. Its not worth trying to save $10-$20 or more on a $80 microsd card from Amazon.
Oh yeah I just read the feedback on one seller of the Memorette 32gb Micro SD SDHC CLASS 10 and I read a few "DOA", "not as advertised but refunded", "my computer can't read it". The rest who are happy probably didn't even try putting 30gb of data on the card yet. Again buyer beware.
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i have tried the same thing, and the problem is not many is testing the cards.. i bught 3 class 6 before i got the real class 6 card, got my money back the other to times thow, but when buying from ebay always test the card as the first, there are many cheaters out there.
and yaa again the funny thing was that many said this was good, so i pick out 2 or 3 guys and ask them to try it, and guess what, they were cheated as well they just didnt knew it..
Do we know what maximum speeds the TF is capable of? I just read that thread posted so it got me wondering if its worth buying a class 10 card or not. I tried looking online but didn't really see anything about it. Is it safe to assume then that a class 10 will perform to its maximum when used in the TF?
Make sure you test the capacity of your micro sd card. Too many scams on memory cards from China. They will use a smaller capacity memory card and install a program in it to make it look bigger than it is. They use 8gb cards to make it look like it is 32gb. When you get your memory cards test it by adding large files to capacity.
Read the feedback left by a buyer. Many leave feedback before testing out their fake 32gb microsd cards LOL.
By my test it's a class 5, but the buyer is really good and fast!!! NICE EBAYER Member id davidegatto ( Feedback Score Of 62) Apr-22-11 02:50
Follow-up by davidegatto (Apr-24-11 06:44):
Attention, the subject received after several test is a fake! Wait to shop until
For stuff like that, it's better to buy from a reputable vendor.
I got a 16GB class 6 card off of Amazon a little while ago to use in my Nook Color. I'll be using it in the TF. 16GB will be plenty of storage for me. Maybe when 32GB cards are a bit cheaper...
Sucks that tablets didn't go with full size SD card slots. I'd have much preferred that. 32GB SDHC cards aren't that expensive.
FrayAdjacent said:
For stuff like that, it's better to buy from a reputable vendor.
I got a 16GB class 6 card off of Amazon a little while ago to use in my Nook Color. I'll be using it in the TF. 16GB will be plenty of storage for me. Maybe when 32GB cards are a bit cheaper...
Sucks that tablets didn't go with full size SD card slots. I'd have much preferred that. 32GB SDHC cards aren't that expensive.
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I hear you! a SDHC slot doesn't take up THAT much room. It's a shame they only included it in the keyboard dock I don't always want to carry around my dock with me
Also as a photographer, it's kind of a shame to not be able to plug in my camera's SDHC card directly into the tablet to view the pictures
Seen a fair bit about fake cards. Just as well I have paid through paypal using my credit card just in case.
r34p3rex said:
I hear you! a SDHC slot doesn't take up THAT much room. It's a shame they only included it in the keyboard dock I don't always want to carry around my dock with me
Also as a photographer, it's kind of a shame to not be able to plug in my camera's SDHC card directly into the tablet to view the pictures
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fair do.. but its not a massive expense to switch to a micro sdhc and adaptors/tiny USB card reader.. see my post here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13461758&postcount=44
jms_uk said:
fair do.. but its not a massive expense to switch to a micro sdhc and adaptors/tiny USB card reader.. see my post here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13461758&postcount=44
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MicroSD's aren't fast enough Slow SD cards really limit how many shots you can take in a row. I tend to do a lot of burst RAW shots and if the SD card isn't fast enough, the buffer will fill up too quickly
what class of SD are you using? People are purchasing class 10 microSDs to use with the transformers at reasonable prices.. still not fast enough?
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what class of SD are you using? People are purchasing class 10 microSDs to use with the transformers at reasonable prices.. still not fast enough?
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Sandisk Extreme.. they're rated at around 30MB/s
sorry, being thick here.. but in class terms.. what is that?
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sorry, being thick here.. but in class terms.. what is that?
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30MB/s corresponds with a "Class 30" The class rating is just the guaranteed minimum speed in MB/s
No no no no never use memorette. I did, got a 32g card for 50 bucks. Put it in my mac to transfer 25g of stuff. Stopped unexpectedly after 20, after that it won't be recognized by either my imac or my phone, won't even allow me to format using terminal in the mac. Beware! U can get sandisk class 4 for 75 on amazon, it works pretty fast. I used it.
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Just don't want to sound thick here, but my sandisk class 4 gave me speeds comparable to other cards class 6... Juz saying... Microsd classes are not as distinct as sdcard classes. Just my opinion, please no flaming!
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I bought a SanDisk microSDHC 32GB class 4 for $63 and arrived today.
I did the test and the constant writing speed for 16+gb was 5.15mb/sec and the reading at 14mb/sec. More tests will follow.
Anyone have experience to use Patriot?
It comes with 5 years warranty.
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I have 2 kingston 32gb micro SD card i purchased in advance for my EVO 3D and my Xoom. I put it in my 3D and it detected and mounted the card. i then plugged the 3D into my computer as a drive and copied over photos, music, and a couple of movies. I unplug the phone from the computer, and EVERYTHING disappeared. I formatted the card, did it again, and ran scan disk and defrag before i unmounted from my computer. same effect. Anyone else experiencing this?
No problems with my PNY 32 gb. I have never formatted the card either, but maybe try formatting the card from within the phone's menu, or you got bum cards.
How much ya pay for them because they might be fakes
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How much ya pay for them because they might be fakes
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good point I didn't think about that. Also if he got them on ebay good chance they're fakes. I remember reading that the fakes spoofed having 32 gigabytes but just wrote over the same 4gb of space over and over.
Hmm, my Kingston 32 GB class 10 that I paid an exorbitant amount from Newegg has not failed. But it has failed to give me class 10 speed. More like a fictional class 8.
Kingston memory is considered pretty high quality in the desktop memory market.
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good point I didn't think about that. Also if he got them on ebay good chance they're fakes. I remember reading that the fakes spoofed having 32 gigabytes but just wrote over the same 4gb of space over and over.
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Yeah i saw a video that a guy who literally scraped off the paint of supposedly 16gb micro sd card and it turned out to be only 1gb
test it with H2testw 1.4 to see if its fake might take a while but it will tell you if the sd card is corrupted and that it is fake
http://sosfakeflash.wordpress.com/2...standard-in-detecting-usb-counterfeit-drives/
I bought them online for $36 each. They read and write fine in the card reader. And the phone shows the capacity at 29.96GB. I formatted with phone menu and it stored what i saved with the phone (pics and stuff). But when i transferred from the computer to the card while it was in the phone, I got a mounting error and everything i copied was gone...
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I bought them online for $36 each. They read and write fine in the card reader. And the phone shows the capacity at 29.96GB. I formatted with phone menu and it stored what i saved with the phone (pics and stuff). But when i transferred from the computer to the card while it was in the phone, I got a mounting error and everything i copied was gone...
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I hate to be the one to tell you this but that sounds like a fake. That is excacly what would happen. Use the link above and get the program to verify. If its a 32 gig for less than about 60 on some kind if sale odds are its fake :-(
dynamicadv said:
I bought them online for $36 each. They read and write fine in the card reader. And the phone shows the capacity at 29.96GB. I formatted with phone menu and it stored what i saved with the phone (pics and stuff). But when i transferred from the computer to the card while it was in the phone, I got a mounting error and everything i copied was gone...
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36 seems fako to me. cheapest i've seen in the pny one that just came in stock on newegg for 56bucks (class 10). Luckily, I got a discount so it was 50bucks. But yeah, try a namebrand card maybe?
edit, here is a good card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820178381&Tpk=PNY 32gb class 10 micro
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36 seems fako to me. cheapest i've seen in the pny one that just came in stock on newegg for 56bucks (class 10). Luckily, I got a discount so it was 50bucks. But yeah, try a namebrand card maybe?
edit, here is a good card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820178381&Tpk=PNY 32gb class 10 micro
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That's the card I've been using, been great so far. I know PNY, seen plenty of their products and trust NewEgg.
liverstealerJobs said:
Hmm, my Kingston 32 GB class 10 that I paid an exorbitant amount from Newegg has not failed. But it has failed to give me class 10 speed. More like a fictional class 8.
Kingston memory is considered pretty high quality in the desktop memory market.
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I have a Class 4 8GB that is faster than Class 6s
NoSoMo said:
I have a Class 4 8GB that is faster than Class 6s
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Yes, this Kingston class 10 was going to replace my Sandisk 32 class 2 (which did class 6 speed). Now, I just might return it.
Lots of disparity between claimed and actual performance with these cards in either direction. My guess is it isn't worth the cost to test on the production line, they just write off the occasional RMA.
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So yeah, this is a fake. What happens is the fake SD Card maker runs dd on a very small SD Card so that it gets up to the size. If you configure dd you can make it loop over the drive so you can set the drive's size pretty easily. You end up with a card that will basically only hold a small amount of data but looks like it can handle much more.
liverstealerJobs said:
Yes, this Kingston class 10 was going to replace my Sandisk 32 class 2 (which did class 6 speed). Now, I just might return it.
Lots of disparity between claimed and actual performance with these cards in either direction. My guess is it isn't worth the cost to test on the production line, they just write off the occasional RMA.
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Yeah, I use my Micro SD 8GB in the SLR at times to shoot 1080p/24 which is supposed to need class 8 due to 30MB/s writes, and I've never had an issue with it.
A.Priori said:
36 seems fako to me. cheapest i've seen in the pny one that just came in stock on newegg for 56bucks (class 10). Luckily, I got a discount so it was 50bucks. But yeah, try a namebrand card maybe?
edit, here is a good card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820178381&Tpk=PNY 32gb class 10 micro
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That's the one I ordered, which should come today. Not really going to help this guy out since the card is out of stock.
It was back in stock on Monday, on Tuesday I looked and it was sold out.
On a lot of these 32GB Class 10 microsdhc cards - I read a lot of mixed reviews citing general Android incompatibility? I've read a lot of comments calling it an "industry wide" compatibility issue with Android. Has anyone had problems with a class 10 card - knowing that it came from a reputable source?
That's honestly the one thing that's kept me from pulling the trigger on a 32GB class 10 card. I wanted to hear that people were successfully using these types of cards in an EVO 3D with speed critical applications like recording and viewing HD video.
Good to know that certain cards are having issues.
No problems with the SanDisk 32gb card I bought from amazon 3 months ago other than the price dropped $30 immediately after I bought it.
Swyped from my Atari 2600 3D
I was thinking about getting the Patriot Memor LX microSD 32GB Class 10.
Reviews are mixed but it has their, what seems to be covered by their horrible Customer Service for 5 years. Patriot does make good computer memory so I can only hope it will be good.
I just bought a 32gb class 10 PNY card today from Best Buy and its not recognized by my 3D or my wives G2.
Okay,
So I had a PNY class 10 for less than a year in my evo 4g, worked flawlessly. Bought a Sprint Siii, formatted my PNY and used it fine for a few months then all of a sudden one day my phone said I had a blank or unsupported SD card and that I had to format it. Of course I lost all my pictures and such. I tried all the programs to recover, tried adapters on the computer, I followed all the suggestions. Then gave up and tried to format it, that didn't even work, seeing that I could not format it... Hey I just thought according to all the smart people (sarcasm) online it must be dead, even though I never had an SD card die on me in any of my other 50 devices that used various SD cards.
So I just felt horrible for buying a budget SD card PNY, I didn't think was that bad, but now knew it was trash since it just died on me less than a year, and back when the EVO was out class 10 16 gig was expensive that was almost 4 years ago.
This time I thought I was not going to skimp on the card, I went straight for SanDisk Ultra 32 GB MicroSDHC Class 10 UHS-1 from Amazon even made sure according to those wonderful lemmings online on posts about this, it was an official SanDisk SD card that I had to cut open.
So Got my new card everything was peachy keen for about a month, and please get the wonderful irony in this, last Friday I bought my mom an Siii from Sprint because they were having a sale for them for $50. I thought to myself I had to upgrade her crappy SD card and I ordered her the same card...It comes I install it in her new Siii and less than an hour later the SD card in my phone says either SD card removed. Insert a new one. or SD card is blank or has unsupported files. So it appears my Siii struck again... I immediately took the SD card out of my mom's phone and told her its better to use the internal storage. Of course all my pictures and things are gone. Over 400 pictures! back up back up you say... okay I have after my last lesson most of them are on my dropbox but still not all of them. YET THIS SHOULD NOT HAPPEN TWICE IN A ROW. I refuse to just believe that "SD cards just die" I call BS maybe once in a while but not like this.
I think there is a problem with this phone and Samsung will never admit it since they sold over 30 million phones and are the envy of Apple, but I was hoping that someone on here could prove it, figure out how to fix the SD cards to recover the information or prevent this, and or take some kind of poll to see how common this is with the Siii I have a feeling this is a known issue to someone/I will not be buying another sd card to use with a phone again. This experience is abhorrent.
I've found this youtube video youtube.com/watch?v=1fjNkQkQZ2U
More specifically, don't use the generic no-name 64GB SD cards with your XZT.
I've been using a generic 8GB SD card with my XTZ since I got it, in fact I've been using the same card for like 2 years now in many different devices and it's never had a hiccup, even after formatting to different file system types.
Recently decided to get a generic 64GB because they're only $10! I bought 2 in case I got a bad one. Popped the cards in the XTZ and it formatted them without problems. I added some comics and music, they played fine, images displayed quick and snappy.
Fast forward to a few days later and there are all sorts of bull**** problems:
•Sometimes the XTZ will stop recognizing the SD card and display the "ready to remove SD card" message. It won't recognize it again until it's reformatted on the PC.
•Music won't play, some files won't display sometimes, and flipping through images is agonizingly slow.
•Available storage will show as very low even if the card is empty or has few things on it. Sometimes the card will show as having 67GB of storage.
•Even if you erase the SD card, if you plug it into a computer it'll show that it still has old files on it.
•Formatting the card to FAT32 or exFAT on the PC fixes the problems, BUT, the problems start happening again whenever you turn off your tablet and turn it back on. Or if you sneeze, it'll get messed up again. Or even when you look at it funny it'll get messed up again.
•At one point an SD card turned into RAW format. How the hell?
•Running Check Disk on the SD cards shows 0 errors, but sometimes it will show hundreds of errors. What the ****?
I'm done with these cards, trying to get a refund now.
Will a 32GB generic card work? Should I just stop being cheap and get a name brand name 32GB? lol
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Should I just stop being cheap and get a name brand name 32GB? lol
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My vote is YES, stop being cheap and by a brand-name SD card; e.g., SanDisk.
I'm using a San Disk class 10 64 gb card on my Tab and XZ2 and it's insanely fast and so far (3 weeks and counting) very reliable.
I once got a cheap 64gb card and it ended up corrupting files every time I exceeded 16gb so yeah, buy a more expensive one and you'll be happy.
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My vote is YES, stop being cheap and by a brand-name SD card; e.g., SanDisk.
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Completely agree.
Got a SanDisk Class 10 64gb myself and couldn't be happier. It pays off to buy from a reliable brand.
That's funny, because I originally bought a Sandisk 64G card for my XTZ and had exactly the same problems as described (turned out to be a fairly widespread manufacturing defect). Replaced it with a Samsung 64G card (which was cheaper) and it's been perfect.
I have had no problems at all with both a 64gb and a 128gb card in mine.
Never buy a no-brand ad card. The way these are made is one of the two:
1- When a chip maker builds an sdcard it is subjected to various tests before it is sold. For example if a large number of the memory cells fail the read/write test at hot temperature the part is unusable. Some people somehow get their hands on these rejected parts and repackage (sometimes in packaging that looks very closely like samsung or sandisk) and sell them as good parts. It is then a matter of time before the sdcard fails in your system.
2- This one is even more common. They take a let's say 4GB card and change its firmware and electronically label it as 64GB or whatever they want. You buy it and put it in your device. For the first 4GB your files are saved fine but once you exceed that (which may happen months after the purchase of the card) it will fail.
Conclusion: never buy a no-name sdcard if you want your data to be safe.
As an update, I got a refund from ebay automatically for the card because the seller didn't respond to the dispute. So, yay lol
More importantly, I used this program to format the no-name sd cards and they work fine... for now. Speeds are snappy, I can view comics and music and stuff with no lag, etc.
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/index.htm?guiformat.htm
Of course, this formats them to the FAT32 file system, so you can't win them all lol. The card still shows up as the proper size in the settings though.
The other card seems to be a fake capacity, I try to put more than 2gb of stuff on it and it just gets erased.
I'm buying a 64GB Samsung Evo card since they're pretty good at $30.