Upgrading SD card

[daveybaby]

are there any brands of SD card to stay away from?

No major brands that i'm aware of. The key thing is to buy it from a reliable source - there are a LOT of fakes out there on ebay (cheap generic devices relabelled as major brands, lower capacity than advertised, lower class than advertised).

 

[mez]

IS there any easy way to test the class? I want to know what class I currently have and what class some of the other cards I own are

 

[lekky]

There are no problems with the Hero and class 6 cards. Strange that CS would say that causes issues.

 

[badfrog]

swapping a card..as simple as backup/copy everything to desktop, format new card in phone, copy it all back ?

I know some apps are installed to the card, wasn't sure if this would cause a problem.

 

[blumenro]

Just want to add my 2ct:

I recently wanted to update to a 16GB card. However I had severe issues. Sometimes the card was recognized, sometimes not and Hero was saying the card would be damaged. When I plugged it in again, it was recognized again, etc.

I then contacted HTC support and they told me that they recommend to use not more than 8GB on the Hero as it would not behave stable with more GB.

 

[Slug]

IS there any easy way to test the class?

The card will have either a (4) or (6) printed on it if it meets the Class 4 or Class 6 specs. If it's unmarked then assume Class 2.

swapping a card..as simple as backup/copy everything to desktop, format new card in phone, copy it all back ?

Yup. Unless you've rooted and installed Apps2SD only application data e.g. settings, downloaded content etc is stored on the card. Copy all the folders from the old to the new and the apps will find them as before.

 

[CrashOverride_HCK]

can anyone help me? im having an issue that is frankly pissing me off. i just bought a class 6 16 gig card for my eris just so i can have more storage and speed. so i copied the files from my standard 8 gig sd card then i unmounted, put in the new card, formatted it. before and after the format(thinking because the card is empty) it says damaged sd card. then plugged the phone in, went to notification bar the the option for mount wasnt there. i am rooted with 2.1 and have done this with my friends phone as well because he did not know how to transfer cards. i did his through my phone and did not encounter a problem. so now...idk what could be the issue. i tried restarting the phone, a whole bunch and i cant get it to be able to mount. .any thoughts?

 

[premiump]

can anyone help me? im having an issue that is frankly pissing me off. i just bought a class 6 16 gig card for my eris just so i can have more storage and speed. so i copied the files from my standard 8 gig sd card then i unmounted, put in the new card, formatted it. before and after the format(thinking because the card is empty) it says damaged sd card. then plugged the phone in, went to notification bar the the option for mount wasnt there. i am rooted with 2.1 and have done this with my friends phone as well because he did not know how to transfer cards. i did his through my phone and did not encounter a problem. so now...idk what could be the issue. i tried restarting the phone, a whole bunch and i cant get it to be able to mount. .any thoughts?

Hi, do you have a dedicated SDHC reader you can use? I did a similar thing to you and initially formatted the new card on the phone. When trying to see it in Windows (using a normal card reader) it would appear then disappear. When I used the new card in the phone and connected to my laptop via USB, I found copying files really slow.

After much head-scratching and a little research, I realized I should be using a card reader specifically for SHDC (luckily I had one). Connected the card to my laptop (using the SDHC reader), formatted to FAT32 ... and my problems just went away.

Its worth a shot.

 

[marco712]

I have a 16gb micro sd, class 2
and a 6gb micro sd , class 4

Right now the Hero loads my thumbnails kind of slowly with the media on my card. I want more space.. but the class differences are stopping me. Will the phone load even slower with a class 2 device?

 

[daveybaby]

Will the phone load even slower with a class 2 device?

The class of the device only relates to the write speed, read speeds of all flash memory devices are ridiculously fast in comparison.