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Hi, just got my new Hero and wanted to purchase the cheapest and best micro SD card for it..
I read somewhere that the 'Class 6' cards were the way to go..!!
Can someone advise me if this one will work in my Hero before I click buy.!!
http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=777_6&products_id=104986
If not any suggestions..???
Thanks
Wish I'd seen this sooner! I got ripped off on eBay for an inferior product.
Go for it!
Do you have one of the 'Transcend' then?? I've not seen them before..!! I had assumed it was the same but thought i'd check.!!!
Thanks for your help.. What do you think of the Hero BTW??
The 2GB card that my Hero came with is made by Transcend. And with the Album app its way faster than the SanDisk 8GB Class 4 card I was going to use until I realised it was so slow in comparison.
Some SD card tests in the Hero would be great if someone has a few to try out
bazz71 said:
http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=777_6&products_id=104986
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This is the exact same one I got from 7dayshop.com. It works fine. I have taken out the 2GB card and put it away.
bazz71 said:
Do you have one of the 'Transcend' then?? I've not seen them before..!! I had assumed it was the same but thought i'd check.!!!
Thanks for your help.. What do you think of the Hero BTW??
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No - the eBay seller sent me un unbranded un classified (Class 2?) card when their ad clearly stated class 6.
As for the Hero - it's awesome!
Edit: I used a utility to test the speed of the card I was sent and it performs at around 8MB per sec - above the class 6 spec. I tested the card that came with the Hero and it came out at just over 1MB per sec - below even class 2. Guess which card I'm using now?
Cheers
Just ordered one of these because of this thread
long live xda-crew!
Me too!! cheers guys
Ordered..... thanks for that find.
Terran
TheBrit said:
I used a utility to test the speed of the card I was sent and it performs at around 8MB per sec - above the class 6 spec. I tested the card that came with the Hero and it came out at just over 1MB per sec - below even class 2. Guess which card I'm using now?
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What utility did you use ?
I have a class 4 card that I wanted to use and its slower in Album than the stock 2GB card the Hero came with.
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What utility did you use ?
I have a class 4 card that I wanted to use and its slower in Album than the stock 2GB card the Hero came with.
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It's called Drive Speed Checker.
Is that an Android app or PC app ? Can't find it on the Market.
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Is that an Android app or PC app ? Can't find it on the Market.
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It's a PC App. You get it here.
Grrr, literally just bought a lexar class 4 from my memory for slightly more money, wish I had checked this.
Do all apps have to be reinstalled when insert a new card or can I just simply copy the contents of old memory card to new one?
ta
stripey_tiger said:
Grrr, literally just bought a lexar class 4 from my memory for slightly more money, wish I had checked this.
Do all apps have to be reinstalled when insert a new card or can I just simply copy the contents of old memory card to new one?
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I copied one card to the other using my PC. Had to restore some album art using Album Art Grabber but that was it.
Great stuff, thanks - gonna order one of these this week
With SD Cards in the Hero using A2SD, what is more important - the read speed or the write speed?
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With SD Cards in the Hero using A2SD, what is more important - the read speed or the write speed?
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depends what you're doing, doesn't it? if you're gonna be writing lots of data to the card, then obviously the write speed (i'm thinking, for example, if you're taking lots of pictures with the camera, installing lots of applications maybe, etc etc). if you're just interested in reading from the card - e.g. listening to your music collection - then you'd want that to be pretty fast. my guess is that the bottleneck, in general, is going to be the write speed on any card - but i don't know much about these cards, still learning ;-)
Excellent find thanks
Got one on order so all looking good for my newly rooted G2
Have fun Devchef1
joemax said:
The 2GB card that my Hero came with is made by Transcend. And with the Album app its way faster than the SanDisk 8GB Class 4 card I was going to use until I realised it was so slow in comparison.
Some SD card tests in the Hero would be great if someone has a few to try out
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The speed in album app is more related to if your thumbnails are created correctly on your sdcard. There is an increasing number of persons that realizing that they have this problem.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=558168
just a question i have N1 and i will sell it but i need to know if the atrix come with microSD just to know if start ordering one and let the nexus one go with microSD or something i have 16 gb class 6
o would like to know if its posible or if its included what class and capacity are the microSD
thanks a lot
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just a question i have N1 and i will sell it but i need to know if the atrix come with microSD just to know if start ordering one and let the nexus one go with microSD or something i have 16 gb class 6
o would like to know if its posible or if its included what class and capacity are the microSD
thanks a lot
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Unfortunately, it does not include it's own SD card.
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Unfortunately, it does not include it's own SD card.
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thanks a lot
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thanks a lot
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The Atrix has 16gb of internal storage (around 10gb avalaible). You don't need to buy an external sd.
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The Atrix has 16gb of internal storage (around 10gb avalaible). You don't need to buy an external sd.
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oh
but what about videos?when you record?all are in storage???so all my music will be there?(well i guess yes since i doubt you cant recrod with the camera w/o scard)
thanks
I've been using the built-in storage for videos and pictures taken with the camera.
I used my external SD for music and other videos before it died on me.
But if you have your own SD card with music in it, the Atrix should be able to recognize them. It did for me, using the built-in music player.
Just wondering as id like to cram as much as possible on my Tablet!
Thanks
No, I don't think the Sony Tablet will accept SDXC cards.
I believe the SDHC cards only go up to 32GB.
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No, I don't think the Sony Tablet will accept SDXC cards.
I believe the SDHC cards only go up to 32GB.
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hmm, im hoping a case is designed that will fit 3-4 32gb sd cards in so i can take my movie collection with me then.
There is a sony memory stick adapter not sdcard one which takes 2 microsds and makes them appear as one big one but i believe it is limited to 32gb. Does not help us but shows many things are possible. I noticed file expert app lists sdcard2 which is empty for me presumably because i don't have a physical one in yet, however it also lists usbdisk1 to usbdisk8 so maybe there will be some way of having sdcard3 etc or utilize usbdisks with sd adaptors. Hope it helps
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Wait,so you can store stuff on the SD card without transferring them? I thought it was just for file transfer? :S I read it on the official Sony site.
Can anyone confirm?
You can store and play media off the SD-Card using the File Transfer app, it will only play one item at a time. The problem is that the native music/video apps will NOT scan the SD-Card slot for media, I believe this maybe just an error in coding, but I'm not knowledgeable enough in this area to more than speculate. I downloaded a 3rd party Music App and it showed that the tablet had 2 SD-Cards, the first was my actual storage (16gb), and the 2nd was the actual SD-Card (8gb). This is where maybe the coding is wrong and only looks at the first SD-Card, even though its technically not.
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You can store and play media off the SD-Card using the File Transfer app, it will only play one item at a time. The problem is that the native music/video apps will NOT scan the SD-Card slot for media, I believe this maybe just an error in coding, but I'm not knowledgeable enough in this area to more than speculate. I downloaded a 3rd party Music App and it showed that the tablet had 2 SD-Cards, the first was my actual storage (16gb), and the 2nd was the actual SD-Card (8gb). This is where maybe the coding is wrong and only looks at the first SD-Card, even though its technically not.
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Yikes! It's possible to be fixed in an update down the line right? I'm considering this or the Transformer and I really like the Tablet S. Matches my Xperia Play.
No. It is not a coding error. It is google / Sony's intention to limit the use of SD card. Just like Apple, you understand.
soultics said:
You can store and play media off the SD-Card using the File Transfer app, it will only play one item at a time. The problem is that the native music/video apps will NOT scan the SD-Card slot for media, I believe this maybe just an error in coding, but I'm not knowledgeable enough in this area to more than speculate. I downloaded a 3rd party Music App and it showed that the tablet had 2 SD-Cards, the first was my actual storage (16gb), and the 2nd was the actual SD-Card (8gb). This is where maybe the coding is wrong and only looks at the first SD-Card, even though its technically not.
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pokoedge said:
No, I don't think the Sony Tablet will accept SDXC cards.
I believe the SDHC cards only go up to 32GB.
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It is possible to use SDXC cards as long as it is formatted by the tablet to FAT32(or on a computer). I am using a 128GB SDXC card without problem. I use Poweramp in order to view my music collection(45GB) and VitalPlayer Pro to play videos from the SD-card.
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It is possible to use SDXC cards as long as it is formatted by the tablet to FAT32(or on a computer). I am using a 128GB SDXC card without problem. I use Poweramp in order to view my music collection(45GB) and VitalPlayer Pro to play videos from the SD-card.
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No way!! Tell me your joking!!
You just made my day!!. crap.. yesterday I ordered a 32gb claas 10 for the tab...
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jkr284 said:
No way!! Tell me your joking!!
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I hope it's true. But then what prevents xperia play accepting 64 gb cards formatted as fat. Has any one got one to try it out please. Hope it will work too. Thanks everyone
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No way!! Tell me your joking!!
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No its no joke, the problem is that the standard Gallery does not access the SD-card but I solved it by using QuickPic. QuickPic is a superb app that lets you specify which folders you want to view. I will try to make a Youtube to show what it looks like, probably on friday since I work long night shift now.
When it comes to Xperia Play I dont know but I guess it has microSD card slot? I know that some phones takes XC cards, among them is HTC Sensation.
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No its no joke
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that's great. Thank you
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No its no joke, the problem is that the standard Gallery does not access the SD-card but I solved it by using QuickPic. QuickPic is a superb app that lets you specify which folders you want to view. I will try to make a Youtube to show what it looks like, probably on friday since I work long night shift now.
When it comes to Xperia Play I dont know but I guess it has microSD card slot? I know that some phones takes XC cards, among them is HTC Sensation.
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i only use the sd card for movies anyway so i guess im sorted!!
CHEERS!
I have a 1tb hard drive will i be able to use this with the tablet?? would seriously make me happy if i could. i bought the tablet thinking i could plug in external drives and so far have had no luck. I tried to access my photos from my camera sd card using file manager hd but had no success with that either. i must be doing something wrong any help would be greatly appreciated.
You have to wait until it's rooted. Then change the USB host to use the ext drive
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I have a 1tb hard drive will i be able to use this with the tablet?? would seriously make me happy if i could. i bought the tablet thinking i could plug in external drives and so far have had no luck. I tried to access my photos from my camera sd card using file manager hd but had no success with that either. i must be doing something wrong any help would be greatly appreciated.
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you can use an external HD as long as it is formatted FAT32 and it is up to 500gb, that's at least confirmed by Sony.
westbrand1 said:
No its no joke, the problem is that the standard Gallery does not access the SD-card but I solved it by using QuickPic. QuickPic is a superb app that lets you specify which folders you want to view. I will try to make a Youtube to show what it looks like, probably on friday since I work long night shift now.
When it comes to Xperia Play I dont know but I guess it has microSD card slot? I know that some phones takes XC cards, among them is HTC Sensation.
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Can you please still post a video that it works? Because i red a story on the sony forums that a 64gb xc card didn't work and made the card unreadable.
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It is possible to use SDXC cards as long as it is formatted by the tablet to FAT32(or on a computer). I am using a 128GB SDXC card without problem. I use Poweramp in order to view my music collection(45GB) and VitalPlayer Pro to play videos from the SD-card.
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How did you format it on the tablet? Got a 64gig yesterday, computer formatted it using exFAT? could not choose just FAT, and card can not be read by sony, says damaged sd card but cannot find a way to format on the tablet. I have es file explorer but could not find options...
Any thoughts?
Looks like there is a 64G micro SD by Sandisk. Will be good for my collections of lossless music.
http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Mobile-MicroSDXC-Memory-Adapter/dp/B005V7WIA2
Many claim that it works even on old Android devices. Just wonder if any Galaxy Player owners tried this yet?
Update:
Finally got one. Similar to the experience of other users, the player will think that the SD card is corrupted when mounted for the first time. Once you format it as instructed, it will work fine.
I have attached a couple of screenshots below for those who are interested. Two of the screenshots are benchmark of 64G Sandisk (Class 6) vs 32G Lexar (Class 10).
WT Ho said:
Looks like there is a 64G micro SD by Sandisk. Will be good for my collections of lossless music.
http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Mobile-MicroSDXC-Memory-Adapter/dp/B005V7WIA2
Many claim that it works even on old Android devices. Just wonder if any Galaxy Player owners tried this yet?
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I think I read somewhere that the SDXC I cards are somewhat compatible with older devices but not fully. That "I" degignation is new and not supported by older SDHC devices. In older devices, the "I" cards would work at a slower speeds, I believe. In this case, Class 6... I think I have seen SDXC I cards being advertised as 50Mb/sec read speeds... at class 6, that would drop do avg. 6Mb/sec... so you loose the speed the "I" standard brings but the larger capacity always sounds good. In saying so, I have not tried these. I am however, very tempted...
WT Ho said:
Looks like there is a 64G micro SD by Sandisk. Will be good for my collections of lossless music.
http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Mobile-MicroSDXC-Memory-Adapter/dp/B005V7WIA2
Many claim that it works even on old Android devices. Just wonder if any Galaxy Player owners tried this yet?
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I'd imagine it will work just fine. You just won't be able to take advantage of the "advanced speed" aspect.
If your interested in it, just purchase it with Paypal and return it if it doesn't work. I'd give it a try, but I'm fine with my 32GB + 16GB cards at this time.
If you do end up ordering it, please let us know what your results are...
Read times
Write times
Overall stability
And most important... if it works and can read the card!
WT Ho said:
Looks like there is a 64G micro SD by Sandisk. Will be good for my collections of lossless music.
http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Mobile-MicroSDXC-Memory-Adapter/dp/B005V7WIA2
Many claim that it works even on old Android devices. Just wonder if any Galaxy Player owners tried this yet?
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If I recall correctly someone over at anythingbutipod.com bought a 64 gb micro sd card and it worked perfectly with his 5.0 player.
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klin1344 said:
If I recall correctly someone over at anythingbutipod.com bought a 64 gb micro sd card and it worked perfectly with his 5.0 player.
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That's a good news. I will probably take the plunge and report back. As for speed, class 6 should be sufficient for music storage. I used to use class 4 for that purpose, it was a bit pain to load the music onto it for the first time but playing music from it is not an issue.
Like Galaxy Player only supports 32Gb, sorry for my English
Works fine on my 5.0, formatted to FAT32, speeds around class 6 using r14 kernel on international
I am using one on the 5.0 U.S version.
WT Ho said:
Looks like there is a 64G micro SD by Sandisk. Will be good for my collections of lossless music.
http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Mobile-MicroSDXC-Memory-Adapter/dp/B005V7WIA2
Many claim that it works even on old Android devices. Just wonder if any Galaxy Player owners tried this yet?
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So does the Galaxy wifi 4 player support this type of 64GB micro sd card?
It would be great news if it did.
Thanks in advance.
I am using a 64GB in my 4.0 (U.S.) formatted to fat32.
Ryzir said:
I am using a 64GB in my 4.0 formatted to fat32.
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Thanks looks like I know what I'm about to order next
Does work for me...how did you get it to work?
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I am using a 64GB in my 4.0 formatted to fat32.
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Hi Ryzir.
I'd be interested if you could explain exactly what you did to make a 64GB microSD card work on a stock 4.0...?
I've tried formatting a 64GB Sandisk microSD card to FAT32 and my 4.0 doesn't recognise the card at all...
When I first inserted the card into the 4.0 it came up with some error (corruption?) and I selected format. Been working perfectly ever since.
I should note that I'm in the US. I believe there are slight differences between US and INT version.
Frustrating
Ryzir said:
When I first inserted the card into the 4.0 it came up with some error (corruption?) and I selected format. Been working perfectly ever since.
I should note that I'm in the US. I believe there are slight differences between US and INT version.
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I'm using what I think is the US version or at least with US language...still no joy. The card isn't recognised at all.
Unless you can offer more information looks like I'll have to continue without...or perhaps see if I can buy a UK based one....
The only other thing I can think of to suggest is to try and format with SD Formatter (Google it I can't post link yet)
FWIW I'm using SanDisk - Mobile Ultra 64GB microSDXC Class 6 Memory Card (Model: SDSDQY-064G-A11A)
32 class 10?
Hi, I have question that is slightly off topic but will a 32 gig. class 10 work in YP-G70 Us version?
No joy
Ryzir said:
The only other thing I can think of to suggest is to try and format with SD Formatter (Google it I can't post link yet)
FWIW I'm using SanDisk - Mobile Ultra 64GB microSDXC Class 6 Memory Card (Model: SDSDQY-064G-A11A)
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:-( Unfortunately doesn't look like any kind of reformatting is going to make my Galaxy S Wifi 4.0 compatible with a 64GB microSD card...
Oh well I guess I'll have to way until they (or someone else) provides an alternative device with appropriate support.
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:-( Unfortunately doesn't look like any kind of reformatting is going to make my Galaxy S Wifi 4.0 compatible with a 64GB microSD card...
Oh well I guess I'll have to way until they (or someone else) provides an alternative device with appropriate support.
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Did you get the sandisk one mentioned above? And have you considered the possibility of a "bad out of box" situation? they can happen especially with electronics this small, I had a Kingston DDR laptop memory (best in the business IMHO) that was "bad out of box" so it is possible.
Sandisk card works fine elsewhere...
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Did you get the sandisk one mentioned above? And have you considered the possibility of a "bad out of box" situation? they can happen especially with electronics this small, I had a Kingston DDR laptop memory (best in the business IMHO) that was "bad out of box" so it is possible.
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I did use a Sandisk card and I've managed to use it in another device (an Android tablet) without a problem.
I'm really very confused..I can only assume that I'd need to root my device perhaps...or...well I don't know. It's really very annoying and frustrating.
Any suggestions would be gratefully received.
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I did use a Sandisk card and I've managed to use it in another device (an Android tablet) without a problem.
I'm really very confused..I can only assume that I'd need to root my device perhaps...or...well I don't know. It's really very annoying and frustrating.
Any suggestions would be gratefully received.
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I doubt rooting would make a difference,but at the same time there's no reason not to. (i had mine rooted within 6 hours of getting it out of the mailbox, and I had NEVER touched android before that moment) Maybe try rooting and flashing a popular custom ROM, Like Klins R5 and the Terrasilent kernel, at the very least doing the terrasillent (or any kernel available) along with rooting will give you the ability to use voodoo sound, and that alone is worth doing it for.
thats just weird, it reading in the other android means it should be good to go in the player.
Samsung S3 has as option of 64gb internal: if i add a 64 gb sd ,my i have a total storage of 128gb for :video app,music etc...etc..this is for my ripped C.D. collection , i should want in my phone :is it possible ?
tks gio
that's just over kill I found even with 16GB it was more than enough even tho I have a 32GBP card now
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as far as i know the 64GB never made it to the stores due to low demand so you will be good with 32Gb+64GB Sd card
Depends really on what you're gonna do.
I flash roms quite often and like having several roms to choose from incl. Gapps.
Then again. Even for that I never surpass my 16GB + 32GB micro SD set-up.
64GB+64GB is rather costly for a bonus you probably won't end up using.
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so is possible or not ,64g +64gb =128 in one partitions for audio ,video app,etc...etc...?i have 93 gb of mp3 music an o could use it.
tks gio
P.S: s3 64 gb is on line:amzzon.xx
Why not? S3 supports 64GB cards
gio_b said:
64g +64gb =128 in one partitions
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No, you cannot have it in ONE partition. It will be split.
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No, you cannot have it in ONE partition. It will be split.
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so i can't have my C.D. collection managed by one player ??? or :a player let me have 2 or 3 directors to import data ,and so we have a little help ,but not the best solutions...
neither with a cooked rom ???
tks gio.
I come from P.C. world and for me ,is incomprehensible this way to operate memory...
I also come from PC and I have 3 hard drives and no problems with media. Same thing here. No, there will be no issues, you will use one player and one common library for both storages.
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I also come from PC and I have 3 hard drives and no problems with media. Same thing here. No, there will be no issues, you will use one player and one common library for both storages.
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so:i can have one library, from both storage: internal ,and external S.D.memory ? this means i can have 128gb .....and you say me is not possible :separate memory....
tks gio.
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so:i can have one library, from both storage: internal ,and external S.D.memory ? this means i can have 128gb .....and you say me is not possible :separate memory....
tks gio.
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In the music player all music will appear in one list, even if a part of the music is on the internal SD and the other part on the external SD, since the media scanner looks all music in the phone to generate the list in the player.
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so:i can have one library, from both storage: internal ,and external S.D.memory ? this means i can have 128gb .....and you say me is not possible :separate memory....
tks gio.
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nobody said that it's not possible. it will be two separate partitions though.
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so i can't have my C.D. collection managed by one player ???
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You didn't say player, you said partition. No to one partition. yes to one player
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You didn't say player, you said partition. No to one partition. yes to one player
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sorry my mistake :i thought the player can read from only one partition or folder a time ,and not aggregate folder or partition from internal and external S.D. to create unique main folder ;as a sum of separate folder :for example like foobar.
foobar read folder/partition by folder/partition and if you want can see only one folder and all the music you have ,also if in separate folder/partition for example.
but any way no possible one partition neither with rom ,ok?
tks a lot gio.
Why want one partition? Its all about switching folders ..
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no, you cannot have one partition with two different storage devices
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can app stay in sd ?
tks gio.
To some audio crazies like me, 128 gigs is easy to fill. I've got about 150 filled on my laptop. Lossless audio takes space. I can only imagine the 128 would seem even smaller to a video geek.
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can app stay in sd ?
tks gio.
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no. you can move app data though