I had a Verizon Sales Rep ask if wanted to buy a 4Gb MicroSD with the MiniSd and SD adapter. She stated that it will work with XV6700. Has anyone tried this? If so, I will bite at this setup.
TucanoRC

Currently running TopRam 4Gb MiniSD without any issues.

Well, I got that 4G TopRam card off Ebay for like 40ish bucks about a week ago. So far I'm pretty happy with it. I've been running programs and tunes and videos off of it. I was a little bummed when I found I couldn't shoot pics and vids right to the SD, but then I remembered reading something on here about it, searched, found out to load over 2G of stuff on there. Soooo, I loaded over 2G of vids and tunes and now the cam will record right to the SD card ! On thing though is that it reads "total SD card memory 3830 MB". Anyone know why it doesn't say it's a full 4000 MB ??? Not that it matters, just curious. I will post again if I have any issues with the card but so far seems pretty stable.

i stumbled upon a key in my registry SDHC1. I'm currently using AKU 3.5 ROM so maybe why it's there, but was wondering if this has to do anything with anything.

It's been a while since I posted to this thread.

Overall my card has been mostly stable. I think a lot of it has to do with signing up to a AKU 3.5 ROM. The only issues I have had now in the last 2 months has been the card losing space....showing more in use than what is available...having a mystery 600 MB in use that I can't see. Fortunatley this is easily fixable as you pull the data off the card, format it, then put it back on. I have not experienced a total loss since AKU 3.5.

I am now just finshing up my 2nd format and reload since June 1. This last time it was easily able to be seen from the PPC and used, it was just invisible to the card readers...

Weird.

One thing about AKU 3.5 is that it allows you a lot more space on the device itself for apps.

I wonder if anyone has tried a SDHC card in an AKU 3.5 yet....I don't have one to try.

I would rather get a microSD with a miniSD adapter. That way, I can use it on the next phone I get (Mogul for example)

My Topram 4G card is still goin strong, too. I have the last official Verizon ROM, no homecookery. I also have the MYSTERIOUS missing space. Oh well, it's still way more than 2G. I also wanted a microsd but I couldn't find one over 2G and I really needed a 4G. I'm diggin my 4Gigger !!!

I have been able to fix the missing space problem by copying off the files you want to save....reformat in a card reader...and then copy the files back. I have been sucessfull 100% of the time with this.

Has anyone had any problem just getting the 6700 to see the 4gb SD TopRam card? My 6700 doesn't acknowlege it. Neither does my PC running Windows XP, for that matter. Any ideas?

So are these 4gB SD TopRam cards SDHC? Also, anyone tried those cards with a 3.5 6700?

I believe the Top Ram is a non-HCSD card....so assuming it is non HCSD then you will need to format your card in a compatable card reader that can read over 2 gb SD cards. If nothing else right click on the drive that is the card and ask to format it....this may work even if the pc can't see it...once it is formatted then your 6700 will see it. - I just had this happen, where my 4 GB minisd could not be seen by the PC/card reader anymore. - It had in the past many times...out of desperation, I slammed it into a card reader that had read it in the past (not now) and right clicked on the drive and asked to format it....fixed!

I've had a single 4GB topram for about 6 months.
Not SDHC spec - i.e. it works in 6700.
Now w/ BigJ's 1.02h - (AKU 3.5 new core kitchen w/ Bell Mobility 3.3 drivers) no problems at all. The card has never disappeared since the upgrade.
Just follow good practices and don't install apps on the card unless they are very robust and can stand alone.

I got a generic 4gb mini SD card off a company that specializes in camera memory cards.


What I've found is that you have to do one of two things to get it to work.


1. get a memory card reader, plug the card into your PC, and then use the DOS format command to format it in Fat16. From what I've seen my 6700 is not fat32 compatible... and xp GUI format utility won't give me the option to format in fat16... so to dos commands it is... The down side of this method is that I've found the card becomes corrupt frequently if I put programs on the card that read and write to it often. Furthermore, many programs such as the Camera program will not write at all to a 4Gb partition.

2. Better solution. I found a program calledWM5 Storage that effectively tells a PC upon connect that your memory card is a harddrive. In the program clear all the check boxes and then activate. Then connect your device to your pc. Now open up the disk manager (right click on my computer and select manage, then select disk manager) and create two or more partitions on your drive... and then format them all in fat16. Disk manager will give you the option to format in fat16. Then disconnect your PPC and terminate WM5Storage. Your PPC should now register 2 memory cards or more plugged into it of whatever size you specified. Make sure none of the partitions exceeds 2GBs. Two partitions gets you there as there's always some loss to the file system. Now all your programs should work and you shouldn't get any more corruption issues. As a side note, I have noticed that my file transfer rates between the PPC and the PC have slowed down somewhat.

I have decided to try this and see what happens. It works so far and it shows up as 2 cards in the 6700. The second partition seems to only be accessable through active sync or WM5 storage for the PC. I put the card in a card reader (for faster transfers) and it only shows 1 of the partitions. Not a big deal, as I am putting all my music (relativley unchanging) on the card-reader-non-accessable partition. Though it is taking close to 2.5 ours to write 2 GBs of WMA's (using the WM5 program to see the partition on my PC).....I shouldn't need to do it again. The other partition I am using for Video and various other files that may change on a regular basis....this copies as fast as your card reader.

Thanks for the Idea Karmashock!

Can I use a 4gb miniSD card for the 6700?

This topic has be talked about alot...

All I can say is some people have got the cards to work doing some minor format..etc.......would I trust the 4gb cards that is hard to say.

After reading, if you would like to invest in a 4gb card and report the results...by all means go ahead...

somebody was talking about mysterious missing space. "allocated space = file(s) size + wasted space.
A huge number of small files stored on the disk significantly increase the amount of wasted space on FAT partitions. Disk space for files storage is allocated by clusters – space sections of fixed size. If the file’s size is not exactly equal to some whole number of clusters, the last cluster allocated for the file is not completely filled with the file’s contents; there is some free unused space left. These remains form the wasted space of the disk."

No - that's not what they mean. Once the generic non SDHC cards start to corrupt data - a large percentage of their file space will show up as being used, but not actually be accessible. We're talking hundreds of megs here, not cluster disparities.

I've found my Topram card corrupts even faster when I partition it as two cards, so I'm back to a 4gb space. If you use your phone to write to the card regularly (IE saving video games) then after a while, the data will become corrupted. I usually see this happen - and the wasted space - every month.

I resolve it by keeping my card data backed up on my computer for quick replacement. I'd be tempted to get an SDHC card with the new drivers - but I've heard that it might have the same issues. At least one person has reported that.

Thought I might give an update.

I have been using the 2 gb partitions on my 4 gb minisd card now for almost 2 months. I have had a very stable experience. I have even installed programs I used to not use on the card and it has been working fine.

I have also thought about the new SDHC drivers as I have switched to the WM6 rom...but will wait until the 6 or 8 gb ones come out (either Minisd or microSD w/adaptor.).

I am running Helmi's WM6 with the SDHC hack. No problems at all with the 4 gig micro chip in an adapter. Check out that thread (Helmi WM6 4 gig SDHC or something like that),,it has the link to the HC hack. Running a couple of weeks with no problems.....BTW the first post on that thead shows a screenshot of it working on a 3.5 AKU on WM5

$23 + $8 shipping from "988" on EBay.

It came packaged in a bubble-lined small manila envelope. Inside it was wrapped in one layer of incredibly thin bubble wrap, completely popped. No hard case, no anti-static materials. The packaging with the SD inside was no more the 3/8" thick.

Physically, I see circuit traces on one side, that would normally be covered on my other SD cards. There were also lots of wear marks on the plastic, although the item was sold as new.

Neither the PDA nor Windows nor Linux could see a file system on it. Windows asked to make one, but would error-out before completion, even in quick mode.

I made a single partition on it, and tried FAT 32 and 16 file systems. I'd mount the file systems, and try to write to it, and it would go nuts, every time, before writing anything significant, from either Windows or Linux. Usually after a writing error, the partitions would be gone. Note that I still haven't got it to the PDA yet.

Once on the PDA, the PDA saw it as an unformatted disk, and partitioned and formatted it. It made one extended partition containing one logical partition (the logical partition containing all 4GB).

The PDA could write a small file to it and Windows, Linux, and the PDA could see the contents, until I'd write something significant, and it would blow away the partition tables (and therefore the file system) again.

Then I noticed something interesting: when I'd partition it, it would show different disk geometries at different times. Sometimes it would show 1021 cylinders, other times, it would show a lot more.

Anyway, the seller is willing to exchange. I'll try again. I'm sending him an anti-static bag and a mini-SD case to ship it back in.