64gb MicroSD - Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Has anyone tried a 64gb MicroSD in the Epic 4g yet? It seems like they work in the S2.
The cost is still ridiculous, but in a few months it should be down to a reasonable price.

tbob18 said:
Has anyone tried a 64gb MicroSD in the Epic 4g yet? It seems like they work in the S2.
The cost is still ridiculous, but in a few months it should be down to a reasonable price.
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The SD / microSD spec only allows up to 32 gb. Anything over that is likely SDxc, which isn't supported by the Epic.

poit said:
The SD / microSD spec only allows up to 32 gb. Anything over that is likely SDxc, which isn't supported by the Epic.
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True, but from what I understand it is limited only by software, and when formatted to FAT32 it works on the S2, Epic Touch and Evo 3D. None of which officially support SDXC.

tbob18 said:
True, but from what I understand it is limited only by software, and when formatted to FAT32 it works on the S2, Epic Touch and Evo 3D. None of which officially support SDXC.
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You got me to read up a little on the format and I learned something. I guess with some clever formatting tricks and setting the proper bits in the MBR an SDXC card that supports the 3.0 standards (whatever they are) can appear to be a SDHC card and be formated FAT32. So then it seems totally OS dependent whether the phone will read a properly formated 64GB card.
I stand corrected.

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Kingmax : world's first 64GB microSD card

This would be a nice addition for our Galaxy S II
http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/26/kingmax-flaunts-worlds-first-64gb-microsd-card/
Does the SGSII support micro SDXC? I've read conflicting reports.
Nope, it only supports SDHC, not SDXC.
Any SD card over 32GB is an SDXC card. Which the SGS2 is not compatible with.
yea as far as i've read, sgs2 supports only up to 32gb sdcards.
why would u need such a cards.. 32g is more then enough, especially if u own 32gb version of device..
To each his own. I filled up my 16gb sdcard with music and podcasts...need more space
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well as u know our device does not support more then 32gb sd cards, so...
asheg said:
why would u need such a cards.. 32g is more then enough, especially if u own 32gb version of device..
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Very silly question. if i had a 500gb microsd i could still fill it with ease.
Can 64GB sdcard put in Galaxy S2?
This is why there will be SGS 3
too bad it cnat read SDXC my 32 gb sdhc is almsot full after 2 days
why not? afaik, the hardware should be able to read it, just at lower speeds (as even a "SD 1.0" reader is able to read SDXC, you just need the drivers...), and android supports eXfat, too.... so it SHOULD support it.... but not quite sure about that.... greets
Sgs2 can only support up to 32gb max (microsd) ,so who cares about this crap
And tell me how you're going to install drivers on your phone... sigh
.. SMH
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its nice to have a 64gb microSD SDXC .. the SDXC can be upgraded upto 2TB within 5~10years .. just imagine a phone with 2TB microSD
Sorrow1994 said:
why not? afaik, the hardware should be able to read it, just at lower speeds (as even a "SD 1.0" reader is able to read SDXC, you just need the drivers...), and android supports eXfat, too.... so it SHOULD support it.... but not quite sure about that.... greets
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I think there's a lot of regurgitating of essentially "what the box says" in this thread. You are correct, the hardware interface of SDHC and SDXC is exactly the same, so our hardware completely supports these new cards. The question is in software, which is hard to tell from what I've read. Wikipedia has this little gem to say:
"Other operating system kernels, such as Linux, make no distinction between SDHC and SDXC cards, as long as the card contains a compatible filesystem."
Since Android does support exFAT as you point out, it seems fairly plausible that these new cards would work in the GSII.
Little Dragon said:
Sgs2 can only support up to 32gb max (microsd) ,so who cares about this crap
And tell me how you're going to install drivers on your phone... sigh
.. SMH
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Early micro SDHC devices only officially supported up to 16gb cards, but could read 32gb cards. So what it "supports" isn't clear, since drivers may not be needed at all.
fryhole said:
I think there's a lot of regurgitating of essentially "what the box says" in this thread. You are correct, the hardware interface of SDHC and SDXC is exactly the same, so our hardware completely supports these new cards. The question is in software, which is hard to tell from what I've read. Wikipedia has this little gem to say:
"Other operating system kernels, such as Linux, make no distinction between SDHC and SDXC cards, as long as the card contains a compatible filesystem."
Since Android does support exFAT as you point out, it seems fairly plausible that these new cards would work in the GSII.
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Yeah, thats what i'm hoping for, too
fryhole said:
Early micro SDHC devices only officially supported up to 16gb cards, but could read 32gb cards. So what it "supports" isn't clear, since drivers may not be needed at all.
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My old Laptop, wich was supposed to only support max 2 GB "SD" Cards ("SD 1.0") got just recently a driver update, and now it reads my 32GB Micro "SDHC" cards ("SD 2.0") without any problems...
fryhole said:
Early micro SDHC devices only officially supported up to 16gb cards, but could read 32gb cards. So what it "supports" isn't clear, since drivers may not be needed at all.
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I've always been amongst the first to adopt higher storage micro SD cards (ever since the 4GB ones came out). At every step the official specs for phones only said compatible up to the previous highest storage amount, and yet they worked. This is a different standard, so higher chance it won't work, but nevertheless there is a chance they may work.
NZtechfreak said:
I've always been amongst the first to adopt higher storage micro SD cards (ever since the 4GB ones came out). At every step the official specs for phones only said compatible up to the previous highest storage amount, and yet they worked. This is a different standard, so higher chance it won't work, but nevertheless there is a chance they may work.
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yeah, hope dies last

Captivate Glide is compatible with microSD XC 64GB [Edit]

I just received my brand new SanDisk microSD XC 64Gb.
Took some time to copy all data from my previous 32Gb microSD.
I ejected the 32Gb and replaced it by the 64Gb ... Glide wasn't able to detect the card ... at all !
On windows, file system info is : extFAT (not FAT32).
I read somewhere that most of the latest phones are compatible with this new 64Gb card.
Does this mean that current Glide ROM doesn't have the extFAT drivers embeded ?
I'll try later this 64Gb memory card on a HTC doubleshot (MT4GS).
So, more to come !
Edit : it works .... microSD 64GB needs to be formated with the device (Glide) !
You probably already know this but, the manual states that it supports up to 32GB Micro SDHC only.
dudejb said:
You probably already know this but, the manual states that it supports up to 32GB Micro SDHC only.
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Yes, I do know this.
But it has been reported that latest HTC and Samsung devices (Galaxy S II) can read/write this type of microSD card, even if user manual states that device supports only 32GB SDHC.
So I was wondering... why not our device...
I remember seeing that if you format the card on the phone first it should work and recognize all 60ish GBs. This was on a SGS2 though.
Edit: Here is the video where I saw this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYUg14u_co8
gtdRR said:
I remember seeing that if you format the card on the phone first it should work and recognize all 60ish GBs. This was on a SGS2 though.
Edit: Here is the video where I saw this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYUg14u_co8
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Just did that and ... it works !!!
Thanks a lot !
Nice! Glad to hear it worked.
Wow your telling me the glide can support more then 32GB.... Damn and I bought a 32GB class 10. OH well anyways this will be fine for now till I need more and the 64 GB cards come down in price.
dudejb said:
Wow your telling me the glide can support more then 32GB.... Damn and I bought a 32GB class 10. OH well anyways this will be fine for now till I need more and the 64 GB cards come down in price.
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Yep ! And it works great !
Got mine here : http://www.mobymemory.co.uk/micro-sd-micro-sdhc-transflash/3697-sandisk-64gb-micro-sdxc.html
frav said:
Yep ! And it works great !
Got mine here : http://www.mobymemory.co.uk/micro-sd-micro-sdhc-transflash/3697-sandisk-64gb-micro-sdxc.html
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Do you actually get the 30MB/Sec transfer speed the Micro XD card supports on the Glide? Just wondering as it normally does not support that card so are you reaping the full benefits in size and speed?
JB
dudejb said:
Do you actually get the 30MB/Sec transfer speed the Micro XD card supports on the Glide? Just wondering as it normally does not support that card so are you reaping the full benefits in size and speed?
JB
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Size: My previous 32GB was full. I copied all that stuff on the new 64GB and added a few more (large) files. So it does the trick, for now.
Speed : I used SD Tools and it gave these results:
Writing speed : 7.1 MB/s
Reading speed: 18.9 MB/s (with a peak at more than 23MB/s)
This is no 30MB/s but it works great.
Thank you for confirming this, I'm liking this phone even more now!
So it's not slower than a officially supported MicroSD card? have you noticed any read/write lags, delays or any other issues?
No, no lags at all (for now).
I can listen to music (stored quite a lot on it), watch movies with a decent bitrate.
It is not the fastest card I've ever seen, but it does its job and brings large storage capacity !
* Up to 30 MB/sec read speed. Write speed lower. Based on SanDisk internal testing; performance may be lower depending on host device. 1 megabyte (MB) = 1 million bytes.
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My 8GB Sandisk only managed 3.9MB/s Write and 8.3 MB/s read using sd tools so I think these results are great and definitely show a bright future for this phone.
I ordered it from Amazon, it's own its way!
SanDisk 64GB Mobile Ultra MicroSDXC Class 6 Memory Card with SD Adapter - Retail Packaging
http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Mobil...WIA2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1335182465&sr=8-1
It's Here! Thank you Amazon
Wow... My captivate Glide much much wonderful than I have guessed... But, last month only I have bought 32GB class10 microSD card...
frav said:
Yep ! And it works great !
Got mine here : http://www.mobymemory.co.uk/micro-sd-micro-sdhc-transflash/3697-sandisk-64gb-micro-sdxc.html
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Bought a 64gb Sandisk Sdxc from the online shop you have linked: it never worked, with any mobile up to a Galaxy S3, not just my Captivate Glide, nor my friends smartphones.
Also, using the sdxc with the provided adaptor didn't work either, with many different computers. The SDXC is never recognized by anything.
Every time I have inserted the card on a device, it started overheating.
I have asked mobymemory to either replace the item or refund my money, they never replied.
To me these makes them a bit shady as sellers, not likely to be legit, if not total scammers.
Actually this 64.GB works really great.
Got it working in the captivated glide, and now it works as well in my S3 !
Fyi: I also used it with a S2 (no format required after initial format with the Glide).
No overheating in any of these devices.
The only thing you have yo keep in mind is format the sdxc with the Glide (at least once). Then phone will be able to use it. Using the adapter will allow you to use it with Windows platforms...
Don't try to format it with windows... Glide won't recognize it at all.
About mobymemory, I bought from these guys a few memory cards (micro .sd, CF, ...) : never had any issues with these. Right now I think they are quite reliable.
Hope it helps !
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The stuff you wrote is obvious. I am speaking about the fact that it's impossible to format; that the adaptor doesn't work, and that the SDXC overheats, doesn't matter where I put it. Their service is completely unresponsive.
Good for you that it worked (for you), but given I bought from them after solely reading your post, I am not accusing you but I want to warn others, so they can compare two very different experiences with the same online store (they look to be an ebay also) and product, and make their decision.
Anyone uses these type of memory cards on ICS? Any experiences?

128GB micro sd memory card

Hi, does anyone know when microsd 64GB memory card will be in the market?
I'm assuming from the title you wanna know when a 128 sd card will be released as far as I know the galaxy s3 only supports cards up to 64gb (someone feel free to correct me) and they're out now.
Ry4n said:
I'm assuming from the title you wanna know when a 128 sd card will be released as far as I know the galaxy s3 only supports cards up to 64gb (someone feel free to correct me) and they're out now.
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From what I understand the 128 would definitely work
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Interesting title
x7nofate said:
Hi, does anyone know when microsd 64GB memory card will be in the market?
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Serious? Its been on the market for a while.. Keep an eye out, it has been going on sale for 50$ every once in a while.
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Ry4n said:
I'm assuming from the title you wanna know when a 128 sd card will be released as far as I know the galaxy s3 only supports cards up to 64gb (someone feel free to correct me) and they're out now.
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Android support memory card up to 2TB (2000GB) so 128 GB is no problem for SGS 3
Sent from Samsung Galaxy S 2 (80GB)
128GB cards will work, as to when they'll hit the market who knows. I'm hoping no later than October-ish this year, which would be one year after the 64GB cards. I will get one at release regardless of cost and confirm they are working in various handsets for everyone. Cannot come soon enough for me, had my 64GB since a few days after they were released and just not adequate for my needs.
The Galaxy SII Skyrocket is only rated to handle a 32GB microSD card, but easily works w/64GB microSD cards also.
So I'd be willing to bet the SIII would do just fine with a 128GB card.
My wallet on the other hand... :silly:
btw these new emoticons kinda suck.
CZ Eddie said:
The Galaxy SII Skyrocket is only rated to handle a 32GB microSD card, but easily works w/64GB microSD cards also.
So I'd be willing to bet the SIII would do just fine with a 128GB card.
My wallet on the other hand... :silly:
btw these new emoticons kinda suck.
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i agree this new emoticons are suckage.
i missed my favorite green smilie!
sgs3 supports sdxc, which supports storage sizes up to 2TB. 64GB just happens to be the largest sd card you can get in the market right now.
Any News on a Faster 64bd card than the class 10 ?
Thanks
NZtechfreak said:
128GB cards will work, as to when they'll hit the market who knows. I'm hoping no later than October-ish this year, which would be one year after the 64GB cards. I will get one at release regardless of cost and confirm they are working in various handsets for everyone. Cannot come soon enough for me, had my 64GB since a few days after they were released and just not adequate for my needs.
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Really enjoy(ed) your S3 review(s) and from your connectivity tests I can believe you would welcome a 128 (or bigger) microSD :fingers-crossed: .
2 tb?
are you serious. who needs that in a phone unless you have every song ever written on it? i can't get my s3 until december :crying: i'm on sprint with the epic 4g rooted of course. plus i'm waiting for the wireless charging kit anyway. just hope it's out by then. i heard around september it should be coming out. anyone heard anything different on that?
ilordvader said:
Any News on a Faster 64bd card than the class 10 ?
Thanks
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class 10 refer to minimum speed so anything above is still classified as class 10, although transcend has released a class 16, but that not official, according the the SDA, class 10 is the highest.
ilordvader said:
Any News on a Faster 64bd card than the class 10 ?
Thanks
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UHS-1 Micro SDs claim to run faster than class 10 and eventually we'll get UHS-2 which should be even faster.
Michael_P said:
UHS-1 Micro SDs claim to run faster than class 10 and eventually we'll get UHS-2 which should be even faster.
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UHS and class 10 are two different standard and are not related, no phones on the market supports UHS.
kms108 said:
UHS and class 10 are two different standard and are not related, no phones on the market supports UHS.
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SanDisk advertise them as being faster than class 10 and I'm using the SanDisk 32gb UHS-1 Mobile Ultra with no problems, and the package it came in says "Ideal for Android"
Michael_P said:
SanDisk advertise them as being faster than class 10 and I'm using the SanDisk 32gb UHS-1 Mobile Ultra with no problems, and the package it came in says "Ideal for Android"
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uhs is only supported if the card reader supports this feature, sandisk also mention about this.
you can still use the same card in a non uhs compliant reader, but will only get the class 10 specification and speed.
kms108 said:
class 10 refer to minimum speed so anything above is still classified as class 10, although transcend has released a class 16, but that not official, according the the SDA, class 10 is the highest.
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It would be handy for people that want to play blurays either on their phone or through the HDMI out. Or for audiophiles that listen to lossless audio which takes up around 10 times the storage (which sound absolutely AMAZING with the wolfson DAC and voodoo). Or maybe they just want to never run out of storage?
A 32 gb card will only hold around 100-150 lossless songs, and an avg size mp3 you could have around 1000-1500. A HQ bluray rip avg size is around 8gb, which can only be played on SDXC because regular cards aren't formatted to allow playback of files over 4gb.
kms108 said:
uhs is only supported if the card reader supports this feature, sandisk also mention about this.
you can still use the same card in a non uhs compliant reader, but will only get the class 10 specification and speed.
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I'm sure I read somewhere S3 is UHS compatible.

SDXC

Can the Epic 4g Tough support these monstrous micro sdxc cards?
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I do believe 32g is the max. Not sure how big the cards you are referring to are.
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Short answer: Yes, but not officially.
Long answer: It doesn't officially support it but they do work... I'm not sure if you have to format it though for the phone to read the full 64GB... I believe that with the Evo 3D you had to format it just so it could be read correctly.
Febby said:
Short answer: Yes, but not officially.
Long answer: It doesn't officially support it but they do work... I'm not sure if you have to format it though for the phone to read the full 64GB... I believe that with the Evo 3D you had to format it just so it could be read correctly.
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I have a 64g in my phone and also in the Xoom(602). The only problem I found is with the Xoom I had to format it with the phone, no problems since. Probably best to format it in both instances.
They work up to 64gb but it needs to be formatted inorder to properly work, I'm not sure on the ET4g if it has to be formatted to xFat, fat32 or ext4. On the photon it has to be xFat or ext4 on the Evo 4g it had to be xFat or fat32. Since the et4g supports all 3 formats it may work with any of them. I have my 16gb class 10 formatted to ext4 right now, used to be xFat before I switched from my class 6 to the class 10
I know it only works up to 64gb cuz I tried the 128gb from our series 7 slate and it would only show 64gb available
We are legion, for we are many.

SanDisk Ultra 64gb SDXC (43.99)+FS Amazon (DEAD)

http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-microSDXC-Memory-Adapter-SDSDQUA-064G-U46A/dp/B007WTAJTO/ref=br_lf_m_1000844271_1_2_ttl?t=slickdeals&tag=slickdeals&ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&s=pc&pf_rd_p=1407230222&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_t=1401&pf_rd_i=1000844271&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=01EASJ4X4N68Z0M24N29
Get it while it's hot! (in stock as of 8:19 EST) :good:
DEAD as of 3:00 am EST
Got it ordered. I check it every morning waiting for that price. I will have a 32gb Class 10 for sale on Wednesday!
Thanks, I have been on the fence with 64 gig so many nock offs.... Order is placed
Guys, be warned that SGS3 DOES NOT support UHS-1 (i.e. class 10) cards.
There's a thread some on here where the exact card is supported.
XBOHDPuKC said:
Guys, be warned that SGS3 DOES NOT support UHS-1 (i.e. class 10) cards.
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does not support, but it works fine if you format the card in the phone. exFAT does not work, however, so you are limited to files < 4gb in size. Kind of defeats the purpose of having such a large microsd card though
UHS1 is simply a speed classification typically used by high power cameras. C10 refers to the minimum write speed of 10mb/s.
This card will work in exfat format for stock GS3, however cwm or twrp recovery only supports fat32 which this card will format to.
I have used this card before so don't be reluctant to to purchase it.
I have been using this exact card since the date I got my GS3 (mid June). It works well with everything and never crashed. It also works with backup and restore within CWM. YMMV though. It is exFAT formatted.
Phone will format it as fat32 and all will be fine. Tested and works well.
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What are you guys talking about? Have anyone actually tried this out?
I have this exact same card UHS-1 Class 10 (not the old Class 6 one) in exFat format and everything works fine in CWM and in Android.
EDIT: BTW, I formatted the card with SDFormatter on my PC, not on the phone.
S3 doesn't support UHS-1 speed but it does support exFAT format. The card itself came as exFAT, S3 won't even ask you to reformat it as FAT32. Just pop it in and everything works 100%.
Sweet, just nabbed one. I check the price every day also and was just about to post it here...beaten to the punch as usual .
ps anyone want to buy a Zune80gb heh heh
Is there a good way to utilize an "external" sd card to store apps and nandroids? It seems like the GS3 (and maybe just ICS/JB in general) is setup to use the "internal" sd for everything.
ponyboy82 said:
Is there a good way to utilize an "external" sd card to store apps and nandroids? It seems like the GS3 (and maybe just ICS/JB in general) is setup to use the "internal" sd for everything.
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Yes, the latest version of cwm official supports internal and external nandroids.
Order placed...Boom! Now I can tote more of my movie rips while traveling.
dangerclose said:
Yes, the latest version of cwm official supports internal and external nandroids.
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Cool, thanks. Any idea about Play store apps? I checked the reviews on Apps2Sd and they were all complaints about how it can only see the internal memory partition.
Lolento said:
What are you guys talking about? Have anyone actually tried this out?
I have this exact same card UHS-1 Class 10 (not the old Class 6 one) in exFat format and everything works fine in CWM and in Android.
EDIT: BTW, I formatted the card with SDFormatter on my PC, not on the phone.
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SD formatter is awesome software. I had issues with a 4speed card jumping in my canon. The SDformatter, made it stop. Dunno how it works, but it does.
Saw this on another android blog this morning and picked up a 32 for the gf, and a 64 for myself. Thanks for posting guys.
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Too bad it can't be shipped to Canada. :crying:
Be aware!
I bought the very same card at the beginning of the month and after 2 days of use the Card stopped working...
The card became unusable and I had to fill a claim with Amazon since the seller didn't reply to any of the emails I sent...
Just my experience guys...

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