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[Q] Memorette 32GB micro SDHC?

Are these cards junk or worth buying? Never heard of the brand, assume its a Chinese manufacturer.
Anyone have one of these, try them, good/bad experience with them?
Thx

Eat it iPhone said:
Are these cards junk or worth buying? Never heard of the brand, assume its a Chinese manufacturer.
Anyone have one of these, try them, good/bad experience with them?
Thx
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Memorette has been around for a while. They made blank cassette and video tapes, and now also make blank dvds and cds.
I have Clear & Present Danger and The Rock recorded on a Memorette video tape. I don't have a VCR though..

Anyone else have any experience with the company and/or specifically their micro sd cards?

jasongthang said:
Memorette has been around for a while. They made blank cassette and video tapes, and now also make blank dvds and cds.
I have Clear & Present Danger and The Rock recorded on a Memorette video tape. I don't have a VCR though..
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Isn't that memorex?
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I had a Memorette 32GB Class 10, and mine didn't work at all. It wouldn't write past 4GB and it was slow. IMO, these are fakes.

eyeamfresh said:
Isn't that memorex?
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Correction: I have never heard of memorette.
Sorry about that hahah

itlnstln said:
I had a Memorette 32GB Class 10, and mine didn't work at all. It wouldn't write past 4GB and it was slow. IMO, these are fakes.
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Do you still have it by chance? Did you try reformatting it other than FAT32? Did it read the total capacity correctly?
Thx yes i do NOT mean memorex, they are relatively speaking a name brand. The brand is Memorette, which im sure is some chinese stuff...considering buying them but want to make sure they are worth buying.

They are a South Korean manufacturer of all sorts of data drives etc.
http://www.memorette.co.kr/english/

KB112 said:
They are a South Korean manufacturer of all sorts of data drives etc.
http://www.memorette.co.kr/english/
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Thx couldn't find a company site
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jasongthang said:
Correction: I have never heard of memorette.
Sorry about that hahah
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I always stick with high quality Panaphonic products. Or Sorny.

Yes, it's a well-known Korean manufacturer. The only question is: will you get original product of fake. I don't know how to see the difference when buying online.
Original Memorette cards should give you 11Mb/s write speed. Friend of mine bought this for $99 a time ago. You can find such cards for $45 on eBay but are they original...

Memorette 32GB
The 32GB MemorETTE cards can be purchased online for about $10 per card in quantities of 15.
How many people think that a $10 card with that capacity/Class 10 can actually exist in the year 2011?
I tend to think these are knock-offs.

Yeah at that price, what you are getting is most likely a 2 gb card that has been hacked to read 32gb. When you go to add your media or whatever, everything after 2gb is currupt and not really there since you ran out of space after the actual card size.
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Eat it iPhone said:
Are these cards junk or worth buying? Never heard of the brand, assume its a Chinese manufacturer.
Anyone have one of these, try them, good/bad experience with them?
Thx
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I have a 32 GB Sandisk class 10 in my EVO and it works badass.

Just FYI I bought this card off ebay and I have to say DO NOT BUY!! As it was mentioned some where else. it will write like 2 or so GB then all the rest of the data becomes corrupt. I am now currently in a depute about this card and all in order to get my Evo to be my end all MP3 player (which it already kinda was) with Google Music.

xcom923 said:
Just FYI I bought this card off ebay and I have to say DO NOT BUY!! As it was mentioned some where else. it will write like 2 or so GB then all the rest of the data becomes corrupt. I am now currently in a depute about this card and all in order to get my Evo to be my end all MP3 player (which it already kinda was) with Google Music.
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Hey, I bought this one as well, fake as it can be. I have also ongoing claim with Paypal regarding this. Looking at it afterwards it was too good to be true anyway.

I also had a bad experience with this product. I could put 32 gb worth of info on it but it would never read all of the info. I mostly used it for movies and I would put about 10-15 movies on it ( each movie about 1gb) but I would only be able to watch the first couple of movies once I put the card in my tablet. My computer and tablet would show that it had 32gb on it so I just though it was my device and not the card. I think I am screwed because I bought it 3 months ago. What Ebay seller did you Buy it from. Maybe if we all bought it from the same person then Paypal will allow me to open a case.

bigblue206 said:
I also had a bad experience with this product. I could put 32 gb worth of info on it but it would never read all of the info. I mostly used it for movies and I would put about 10-15 movies on it ( each movie about 1gb) but I would only be able to watch the first couple of movies once I put the card in my tablet. My computer and tablet would show that it had 32gb on it so I just though it was my device and not the card. I think I am screwed because I bought it 3 months ago. What Ebay seller did you Buy it from. Maybe if we all bought it from the same person then Paypal will allow me to open a case.
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Hi, I bought it from generalprixtop. I just got my money back from Paypal so the claim is definitely recognized. Hopefully u could get yours back as well, though 3 month is a long time. Why did u wait this long anyway?

businka19 said:
Hi, I bought it from generalprixtop. I just got my money back from Paypal so the claim is definitely recognized. Hopefully u could get yours back as well, though 3 month is a long time. Why did u wait this long anyway?
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I just thought that My G-Tablet wasn't reading the card correctl or the format of the movies wasn't working so I kind of gave up. I should have done a search to see if others were having problems.

I have one of these - 32gb memorette sdhc. Does not work well in my HTC Sensation. pictures start disappearing, video doesn't play back, carded apps begin to fail.
Now here's the odd bit - seems to work fine in Lumix G2 camera. Pics, video all stay just fine. Even when i put this in my phone after - the lumix G2 pics stayed on the chip and could be viewed on the phone fine but anything taken on the andriod phone started to become corrupt after a hour or so.
Can anyone else do this test??
***** I now think this is because the camera does add extra data so its not going over the 2gig which these cards are most likely to be. Got refunded anyway *****

So would this nfc really work?

http://tinyurl.com/6sxqgwo
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In theory, sure. It's along the same lines as SDHC cards that give Wi-Fi ability. The real issue is whether or not it's worth it to forgo the extra storage space of a memory card in favor of a NFC capability.
The concept of NFC is really cool, but isn't there yet in terms of practicality. I only use 1 credit card so, for me, having to use my phone to do transactions will more than likely take more time than just using my credit card. There are security benefits to NFC as thieves won't be able to steal information from the magnetic strip.

Megatr0n. said:
There are security benefits to NFC as thieves won't be able to steal information from the magnetic strip.
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I actually am worried this would make things less secure than currently using your credit card.

Here is what I found on there site
Will I lose data on my original microSD?
No. The great thing about moneto is the fact that the microSD doubles as a storage source on non-iPhone smartphones. If you have any data or media, such as application folders, music, videos, or pictures on your microSD that you’d like to keep you can easily transfer that content to the moneto microSD.
* * Transferring data from my microSD to my moneto microSD
Load your microSD onto your computer. You can do this by using a microSD to USB converter, a microSD to SD card converter with an onboard SD slot, or by leaving your microSD in your phone and connecting your phone to your computer via USB cable.
Copy all desired files from your microSD card to the new folder. Simply drag and drop the files or folders you wish to transfer
Right click your microSD card and select “Eject” to safely remove it
Insert the second microSD card as you did in step 1
Copy the files you moved in step two and paste them in the moneto microSD, eject the drive to safely remove the card. Removing the microSD without ejecting on your computer or unmounting on your phone can damage any data stored on the card.
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cds0699 said:
I actually am worried this would make things less secure than currently using your credit card.
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How so?
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My thoughts on it being less secure would be if someone has a receiver for NFC, they could access your chip. There was a news story here in Denver, I don't remember the station, where they went yo the airport with said receiver and started pulling up information from people with the NFC credit cards. I have no idea if that would be an issue on phones, as I have not done any research on it, so it may not be an issue...

mikey80021 said:
My thoughts on it being less secure would be if someone has a receiver for NFC, they could access your chip. There was a news story here in Denver, I don't remember the station, where they went yo the airport with said receiver and started pulling up information from people with the NFC credit cards. I have no idea if that would be an issue on phones, as I have not done any research on it, so it may not be an issue...
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You have to actually load an app and do an authorization in order to make a payment with a wallet through NFC.

ddrt said:
How so?
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I am trying to think about the hacking possibilities. Also when you think about credit card theft, cell phone theft is also pretty high. For example, if you have an NFC sd card, and your phone gets stolen, how easy would it be to hack in and get the pin and have access to everything?
I haven't learned enough about it though, I could possibly be mistaken/misunderstanding/paranoid.

How would you get the Google wallet app on your phone if u get this? I love Google wallet and use it all the time withmy nexus.
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cds0699 said:
I am trying to think about the hacking possibilities. Also when you think about credit card theft, cell phone theft is also pretty high. For example, if you have an NFC sd card, and your phone gets stolen, how easy would it be to hack in and get the pin and have access to everything?
I haven't learned enough about it though, I could possibly be mistaken/misunderstanding/paranoid.
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Ya but u can track ur phone with avast and look out. So if anything its more secure
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musclehead84 said:
How would you get the Google wallet app on your phone if u get this? I love Google wallet and use it all the time withmy nexus.
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I believe it has nothing to do with google wallet. You have to download their own app in the market

mikey80021 said:
My thoughts on it being less secure would be if someone has a receiver for NFC, they could access your chip. There was a news story here in Denver, I don't remember the station, where they went yo the airport with said receiver and started pulling up information from people with the NFC credit cards. I have no idea if that would be an issue on phones, as I have not done any research on it, so it may not be an issue...
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That's more likely with RFID chips (the kind new passports have), not NFC. NFC has a very short range (literally, a few cm's) and as another person mentioned, you need to initiate a transaction for it to even show up. The only way they'd be able to do that would be to try and hijack the payment terminal itself since the range is so short. And even then, I'd imagine someone would notice if the card didn't seem like it was going through, but the customer was showing that they paid or it looked like two charges were trying to be made.
Security wise, NFC shows a lot more promise than RFID. It's really going to come down to how fast it expands (currently only uses MasterCard PayPass system and not all stores have those) and whether or not it's more convenient to use compared to traditional payment methods.

Cracking Open the HTC One X ?

Does anyone one know if anyone has done one of those "cracking open" vids for the HOX yet ? I would be interested to see how it's set up inside. I'd also like to know if the 32GB internal memory is actually a micro-SD card that could be swapped for a 64GB at some point

ozym said:
Does anyone one know if anyone has done one of those "cracking open" vids for the HOX yet ? I would be interested to see how it's set up inside. I'd also like to know if the 32GB internal memory is actually a micro-SD card that could be swapped for a 64GB at some point
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I would be shocked if the internal memory was a MicroSD and not soldered to the board. It kind of defeats the purpose to make it non-removable and NOT give us the performance of a dedicated connection.

Hemlocke said:
I would be shocked if the internal memory was a MicroSD and not soldered to the board. It kind of defeats the purpose to make it non-removable and NOT give us the performance of a dedicated connection.
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Shocked or not, it's what they did with the HD7. I wouldn't be surprised at all. A good, high speed SD card?...you'd never know the difference

Whatever is the cheaper option. That is what they did. Can pretty much guarantee it.

Arthur Hucksake said:
Whatever is the cheaper option. That is what they did. Can pretty much guarantee it.
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From a diagnostics, servicing & repair point of view it would be much cheaper and easier if it was an SD card.
Not sure about manufacturing. Probably about even.

Just wondering if the only way to open up the One X is to remove the LCD screen? If yes then what's the point of knowing if it's a 32mb SD card? Is the average joe able to open it up anyway?

lukesky said:
Just wondering if the only way to open up the One X is to remove the LCD screen? If yes then what's the point of knowing if it's a 32mb SD card? Is the average joe able to open it up anyway?
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A) Curiosity.
B) This is not about the average Joe. The average Joe does not crack open his phone, or root it, or install custom ROMs, or visit xda-developers.com. The average Joe has an iPhone.

Average Joe
ozym said:
A) Curiosity.
B) This is not about the average Joe. The average Joe does not crack open his phone, or root or, or install custom ROMs, or visit xda-developers.com. The average Joe has an iPhone.
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do you not mean peeps with iphones are like sheep and scared to get a real phone LOL

Is there a doctor among us?
Put a HOX under X-ray (Turn it OFF first) and post a pic here.
We'll find out, if there is a memory card or something. Also, may be we'll see how to disassemble a HOX.

I think the HOX may be easier to disassemble that you might think.
I bought a gel skin case for mine which I take off fairly often because the HOX is so damn beautiful and nice to hold that it seems a crime to ruin it with a case.
Anyway, the case it quite a snug fit and I noticed when removing it that if I put my thumb on top of the polycarbonate just under the buttons at the bottom of the screen and firmly but gently flex it back I can snap the polycarbonate away from the screen by just a few millimetres. I can clearly see three little snaptabs sticking off the bottom of the screen that hold the polycarbonate in place. It snaps right back into place immediately.
I am too scared to try this right now but I think with further gentle pressure the whole outer casing would be levered away and you could lift all the innards out of the polycarbonate unibody.
There is clearly no "tool" access to the device so I assume that this is how it is assembled and disassembled.

BTW, here is a short video of the "opening" I mentioned above :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpBAupp8kKc
Sorry about the quality.

subscribed.
I will wait for a first brave soul to take it apart.

ozym said:
BTW, here is a short video of the "opening" I mentioned above :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpBAupp8kKc
Sorry about the quality.
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Come on, open it, open it open it!

Foggy79 said:
Come on, open it, open it open it!
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Yeah, y'know, I think I'll leave that to someone else.
Maybe someone who's already bricked theirs or got a DOA.
Mine's too new and shiny

So maybe this brings hope, that this is not a throw away phone or a send back to HTC service centre senario. Hopefully the battery could be user replacable in a few years time, once third party batteries become available.

gives me hope too...
even if it's a Li-Po, probably third parties will make a bigger battery for it, if it's possible.. >=)
oh and, HOX, what a wonderful name =D xD

Foggy79 said:
Come on, open it, open it open it!
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if some one tell me that I can change the battery nothing will make me more happy

ozym said:
I'd also like to know if the 32GB internal memory is actually a micro-SD card that could be swapped for a 64GB at some point
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The flash is eMMC and not SD.
Manufacturer ID=0x15
OEM ID=0x100
Date Manufactured=02/2012
Name=K2U00M

CbIP said:
Is there a doctor among us?
Put a HOX under X-ray (Turn it OFF first) and post a pic here.
We'll find out, if there is a memory card or something. Also, may be we'll see how to disassemble a HOX.
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We had a guy in the desire HD forum who did a xray of his DHD at work it looked awesome and loads used it as a wallpaper
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How much force did you use to get the results shown in the vid? I really want to open that One X..

Samsung Micro SD cards #BEWARE OF FAKES#

Hello everybody,
I have read and learned many useful things on this site, so thought I'd share my experience in the hope you would not have to go through the same thing.
I initially brought a Samsung class 10 mSD card from ebay for £19.99 delivered. It came with only the plastic case and no other external packaging. Immediately I tested it and noticed the poor transfer rates. of approx. 16kb/s read, 5kb/s write.
At this point I was suspicious that the card was a fake.
I ran numerous tests on several diagnostic programs and its was the same.
I wanted to be sure before making my complaint to ebay, so I brought another one, this time from Amazon.
The one from Amazon appears identical from the front of the card, but on the back it was different. See photo [The one on the left = genuine]
I then ran diagnostics on them side-by-side, tested both card with pretty much the same data, and my initial suspicions were confirmed. The ebay one was fake. [The one on the left = genuine]
I have read on here and seen some other members posting benchmark data on Sandisk and Samsung mSD cards [with similar slow speeds] brought from ebay traders.
If your card turns out to be slower, then there's a good chance it could be a fake. I recommend you contact ebay stating your item is not as described and request a full refund. This is exactly what I did.
I hope this information helps as many people as possible.
There's nothing worst than being conned, apart from the feeling of being cheated.

I just bought one from Amazon
well to be precise I bought a 32GB Samsung card from an Amazon trader as Amazon UK dont sell them direct at all. It came in what appeared to be samsung packaging and could not be detected from the original by the human eye.
I am of course suspicious about the price but then also aware that most phone manufacturers vastly over price "official" merchandise. (my £2.50 phone bumper fits and does the job just as well as the Sammy one) Unfortunately I dont have a reader for my computer so can only test it in the phone and am currently converting/uploading some videos through the USB cable which is of course a slow process. It reports as being about 29GB which would be expected but it seems there is software than can fake this. I am therfore fully expecting it to fail when it goes over about 2GB or when I try to play back the movie files - will wait and see.
However my question really is this - for most users additional storage is a luxury rather than necessety and I am not really too worried about the "class" of the card as I dont intend to store anything important on it, just extra music and videos for long trips. Would it therefore be more sensible to purchase a generic 32 GB class 4 card from a reputable dealer for about £20-£25 rather than go for a discounted Samsung one? It seems far less likely to me that people would push fake unbranded cards as there is less profit to be made. £50 - £60 is too much to pay for somehing that I dont really need - and anyway how could I be sure that a £60 was any more genuine - do I trust the likes of Play.com?
If I do find this one is fake I am considering reporting it through trading standards because giving these rogue traders (and there are thousands of them) the cop out of simply refunding the money is doing nothing to stop this illegal trading

This is exactly why I don't start penny pinching on memory cards for my main devices, because for a few £s extra I can get from Amazon or Play.com and know it usually is real, or if fake can get an easy refund.

I never buy from sellers, always by from Amazon or Play direct because I know they don't sell fakes.

but that really is not the question
Michael_P said:
This is exactly why I don't start penny pinching on memory cards for my main devices, because for a few £s extra I can get from Amazon or Play.com and know it usually is real, or if fake can get an easy refund.
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I also know I can get a refund through an amazon reseller however my point is this. £60 odd is a vastly inflated price for just 32GB when the stuff being stored is neither critical, irreplacable or in all honesty more than just an added convenience. Which is why I really asked if an unbranded 32 GB class 4 which rarely sell anywhere for more than £25 is a better solution than a branded one heavily discounted.
This said the card I have reports the correct size and i have so far transferred about 12 GB of video and music content and it sitll reports 17GB. The only noticable problem with playback is with a couple of files which I let windows copy convert! Have since found that the s3 happily plays a 1gb avi file without conversion and the copy rate via the usb cable is about what I expect.
What worried me was that Moborobo didnt seem to want to copy to the card always, however the connection to Moborobo is always a bit erratic and often takes about three attempts to connect at all (pity becaue it otherwise is an excellent programme)
I think I shall just continue to fill up the card with AVI files and monitor it over the next week if it doesnt drop any and continues to play them OK then I think I will assume that I did actually get a 32GB card (whether the branding is fake or not isnt really a big issue for me and I can afford to replace this twice more for the cost of a genuine card)
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I just checked with one video file and it took 1min 15sec to transfer a 900MB file from my computer to the card in the S3 using usb cable, which sounds reasonable to me.

When i buy mine i'm going to try to make sure to make sure it is through a legit retailer
buying on amazon.com doesn't promise you anything, its the SELLER that matters
which is why im going to try to make sure i'm actually buying it FROM amazon, not ON amazon
the damn samsung from amazon went up over 41 bucks
I might just buy the sandisk model for 33ish

gbswales said:
I also know I can get a refund through an amazon reseller however my point is this. £60 odd is a vastly inflated price for just 32GB when the stuff being stored is neither critical, irreplacable or in all honesty more than just an added convenience. Which is why I really asked if an unbranded 32 GB class 4 which rarely sell anywhere for more than £25 is a better solution than a branded one heavily discounted.
This said the card I have reports the correct size and i have so far transferred about 12 GB of video and music content and it sitll reports 17GB. The only noticable problem with playback is with a couple of files which I let windows copy convert! Have since found that the s3 happily plays a 1gb avi file without conversion and the copy rate via the usb cable is about what I expect.
What worried me was that Moborobo didnt seem to want to copy to the card always, however the connection to Moborobo is always a bit erratic and often takes about three attempts to connect at all (pity becaue it otherwise is an excellent programme)
I think I shall just continue to fill up the card with AVI files and monitor it over the next week if it doesnt drop any and continues to play them OK then I think I will assume that I did actually get a 32GB card (whether the branding is fake or not isnt really a big issue for me and I can afford to replace this twice more for the cost of a genuine card)
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I just checked with one video file and it took 1min 15sec to transfer a 900MB file from my computer to the card in the S3 using usb cable, which sounds reasonable to me.
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You can get a class 10 Sandisk 32gb uhs-i card for £23 from Play.com and most people see these mobile ultra cards as one of the best cards you can buy for a phone because of decent
transfer speeds and faster to access small files, and they only cost a tiny bit more than some of the unbranded crap some places sell, so you shouldn't just blindly settle because it's the cheapest and has a high class rating.

gbswales said:
well to be precise I bought a 32GB Samsung card from an Amazon trader as Amazon UK dont sell them direct at all. It came in what appeared to be samsung packaging and could not be detected from the original by the human eye.
Although nothing is guaranteed, and the fact that there are many traders selling via Amazon, Amazon themselves do sell these mSD cards, or at least the one I brought was "Sold by: Amazon EU S.a.r.L. "
As others have confirmed, with a reputable seller, its less likely to be fake, but even if there is a mistake somewhere along the way, a refund is less difficult to obtain.
I am of course suspicious about the price but then also aware that most phone manufacturers vastly over price "official" merchandise. (my £2.50 phone bumper fits and does the job just as well as the Sammy one) Unfortunately I dont have a reader for my computer so can only test it in the phone and am currently converting/uploading some videos through the USB cable which is of course a slow process. It reports as being about 29GB which would be expected but it seems there is software than can fake this. I am therfore fully expecting it to fail when it goes over about 2GB or when I try to play back the movie files - will wait and see.
Let us know how you get on with this...
However my question really is this - for most users additional storage is a luxury rather than necessety and I am not really too worried about the "class" of the card as I dont intend to store anything important on it, just extra music and videos for long trips.
Class determines speed of data transfer, not quality.
Would it therefore be more sensible to purchase a generic 32 GB class 4 card from a reputable dealer for about £20-£25 rather than go for a discounted Samsung one? It seems far less likely to me that people would push fake unbranded cards as there is less profit to be made. £50 - £60 is too much to pay for somehing that I dont really need - and anyway how could I be sure that a £60 was any more genuine - do I trust the likes of Play.com?
£50 or £60 damn, you must be shopping at the wrong places.
Amazon does a Sandisk 32GB, class 10 for £25 delivered to your door.
If I do find this one is fake I am considering reporting it through trading standards because giving these rogue traders (and there are thousands of them) the cop out of simply refunding the money is doing nothing to stop this illegal trading
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Agree, the rotten apples should be reported so that they are stopped before they spoil the market and more people are cheated.
Michael_P said:
This is exactly why I don't start penny pinching on memory cards for my main devices, because for a few £s extra I can get from Amazon or Play.com and know it usually is real, or if fake can get an easy refund.
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Totally agree with you.
Until now, I have always had a positive experience on ebay. ie]
ebay offers the best service and value, when it comes to accessories such as phone cases, cables, car chargers, mounts.... all sent from Hong Kong/China....but with certain things like memory, PC components and so on.. its best not to chance it.
Mr_Twist said:
I never buy from sellers, always by from Amazon or Play direct because I know they don't sell fakes.
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It depends, Amazon sells a huge range of items by working with other businesses to deliver an all under one site e-shopping experience.
jdhommert said:
When i buy mine i'm going to try to make sure to make sure it is through a legit retailer
buying on amazon.com doesn't promise you anything, its the SELLER that matters
which is why im going to try to make sure i'm actually buying it FROM amazon, not ON amazon
Too Right :good:
Michael_P said:
You can get a class 10 Sandisk 32gb uhs-i card for £23 from Play.com and most people see these mobile ultra cards as one of the best cards you can buy for a phone because of decent
transfer speeds and faster to access small files, and they only cost a tiny bit more than some of the unbranded crap some places sell, so you shouldn't just blindly settle because it's the cheapest and has a high class rating.
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:good: Michael_p is a savvy shopper!
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jdhommert said:
buying on amazon.com doesn't promise you anything, its the SELLER that matters
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Not true
Amazon said:
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AW079 said:
Hello everybody,
I have read and learned many useful things on this site, so thought I'd share my experience in the hope you would not have to go through the same thing.
I initially brought a Samsung class 10 mSD card from ebay for £19.99 delivered. It came with only the plastic case and no other external packaging. Immediately I tested it and noticed the poor transfer rates. of approx. 16kb/s read, 5kb/s write.
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To save yourself some time next time. Call the company and give them the serial number printed on the card and ask them if it's on the system.
This might not work though as the fake manufacturer might have printed the same one on all of them. But if another person reported it or the specs don't match or Samsung doesn't have the serial number in their system then you know you got a fake.
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KainamHD said:
Not true
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ok yes i know amazon has a policy like that, so does ebay but its still possible and has happened numerous times to people if you read the reviews

I just ordered my sd card today after I seen this thread...hope I get a legit card. I got it from here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006Y61KY4/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00

How do you test them using CystalDiscInfo? Can you test it when it is in the phone?

sold by amazon ..... or not
Well I have looked through the Amazon UK store and cannot find any 32GB micro SD cards that are actually sold by Amazon. There are many that look as if they are but if you read the small print it says "fullfilled by Amazon". You are not buying from Amazon "fullfilled by" means only that a third party supplier is using the amazon warehouse to store their stock, amazon pick and despatch but your legal contract is with the third party store and not Amazon.
The one I purchased was from a trade called Samsung 3D store UK (this forum wont let me post a link because I am a new member )
It looks genuine and it shows up on the phone as 29.23GB - I have loaded a lot of films and music which all plays ok and in settings it shows 14GB still free. My initial concern was that Moborobo file manager didnt always upload to it (but then that nice programme is still a bit flakey) I uploaded everything direct from windows through the USB cable without any conversion.
Hopefully I have a good (genuine or not) one

lol its common sense. u bought it from ebay + it was cheap....

alfy! said:
How do you test them using CystalDiscInfo? Can you test it when it is in the phone?
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No, you've gotta use Crystaldiskmark via a card reader on laptop or pc.
jdhommert said:
ok yes i know amazon has a policy like that, so does ebay but its still possible and has happened numerous times to people if you read the reviews
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So true. Its a shame we do not live in an ideal world :laugh:
Lpuboy87 said:
I just ordered my sd card today after I seen this thread...hope I get a legit card. I got it from here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006Y61KY4/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00
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Check transfer speeds with Crystaldiskmark, or when transferring files using explorer.
gbswales said:
Well I have looked through the Amazon UK store and cannot find any 32GB micro SD cards that are actually sold by Amazon. There are many that look as if they are but if you read the small print it says "fullfilled by Amazon". You are not buying from Amazon "fullfilled by" means only that a third party supplier is using the amazon warehouse to store their stock, amazon pick and despatch but your legal contract is with the third party store and not Amazon.
The one I purchased was from a trade called Samsung 3D store UK (this forum wont let me post a link because I am a new member )
It looks genuine and it shows up on the phone as 29.23GB - I have loaded a lot of films and music which all plays ok and in settings it shows 14GB still free. My initial concern was that Moborobo file manager didnt always upload to it (but then that nice programme is still a bit flakey) I uploaded everything direct from windows through the USB cable without any conversion.
Hopefully I have a good (genuine or not) one
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I hope you get a good one too, so far things sound good, but the only way to find out is to test it or use CDM.
You must manually refresh your list on moboplayer and it'll find all your videos.
vince1234 said:
lol its common sense. u bought it from ebay + it was cheap....
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I beg to differ, ebay have on the most part been good, its only a handful of dodgy dealers that ruin the experience. Plus things on ebay are not necessarily cheaper. 32GB card I brought from both ebay and Amazon were both same price @ £19.99.
Sometimes its not even the seller that are dodgy, but the fact that they too got duped by a dodgy supplier selling fakes.

2 days in...
Update.
So up until I received my genuine card from amazon I was using the fake card for like 4 days...its now two days with the genuine card and I can report that there is a noticeable difference in speed.
The real world usage difference between 16r/6w vs. 20r/11w is quite noticeable.
The reason being, that for the most part you will be writing to the card, or at least that's when you'll notice the speed most. 6mb/s vs 11 mb/s
Even used during transfer via USB the difference is noticeable.
FYI, you will need a card that writes at the speed of at least least 6mb/s [Class 6] if you want to record 1080p HD videos to ExtSD.
Useful background info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Digital

Currently the best deal I found on an mSD card.
Hi guys,
64GB Sandisk class 10 mSD for just under £45 delivered.
If you can wait or are planning to get one for use after 04/07 I'd recommend this.
:good:
http://www.play.com/Mobiles/Mobile/...ard-Class-10-with-Adapter/ListingDetails.html
I initially thought 32GB would be more than enough space, but a week on and I kinda wished that I'd brought the 64GB.
The reason for this.
- 2 hours Video Recording = 16GB
- my music alone already takes up 5GB [most are on 320kb/s quality]
- one way to truly appreciate the screen quality on the S3 is by using MKV video files which are like 800-1000MB for 25 mins, and a typical full length movie is approx 4GB.
64GB uses exfat file system and is sdxc spec which is fastest you can get on an SD card. Sandisk is one of the best names out there for SD card technology.
Who knows, I may just end up getting a 64GB card also
Let me know what you guys think?

gbswales said:
Well I have looked through the Amazon UK store and cannot find any 32GB micro SD cards that are actually sold by Amazon.
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Hi I ordered a 32Gb Sandisk direct from Amazon yesterday although looks to be out of stock now, not a reseller btw. http://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-32G...KLEK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1340572521&sr=8-1 Click on 6new under main info and you can buy from Amazon instead of a potential dodgy reseller. Was £22.50 when I bought mine although only had a few left when I ordered.

You can use SD Tools with your phone to check your microSD card:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...wsMSwxLDEwOSwiYWxlcy52ZWx1c2Nlay5zZHRvb2xzIl0.
AnTuTu will do the same:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...wsMSwyLDEwOSwiY29tLmFudHV0dS5BQmVuY2hNYXJrIl0.

64GB sdxc card - $16.99

I found this in the S3 forums. I am certain it is a fake but if the size is close and the speed is around 4 or better it is still worth it IMO. So if you like to gamble here is your chance
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SanDisk-Mob...177?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2ec08afa79

holy jumbilia
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I will let you know how it goes.... Took the plunge.

latinmaxima said:
I will let you know how it goes.... Took the plunge.
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Yeah me too. For that price I figured what the hell.
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tempted but... will it even work on our phones? the samsung site says it will only support up to a 32GB card.
http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/cell-phones/SPH-D710ZKASPR-specs
meh, i might try it anyway. haha

comraderudy said:
tempted but... will it even work on our phones? the samsung site says it will only support up to a 32GB card.
http://www.samsung.com/us/mobile/cell-phones/SPH-D710ZKASPR-specs
meh, i might try it anyway. haha
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If it is actually the SDXC, I have a 64Gb one in my E4GT right now and it works great.

This exact MicroSD card is going for $99 on Newegg so there's little doubt it's counterfeit. For another $10 I'd rather spring for a 32GB card that comes with a warranty and hassle free return. Also I heard with the 64GB card the media scanner takes forever to process it.

IA-32e said:
This exact MicroSD card is going for $99 on Newegg so there's little doubt it's counterfeit. For another $10 I'd rather spring for a 32GB card that comes with a warranty and hassle free return. Also I heard with the 64GB card the media scanner takes forever to process it.
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My last one cost about 65-70$ from Amazon (so you can definitely get them cheaper than Newegg,) but I do agree that these are likely counterfeit (or stolen... muhahahaha)
Media scanner: yea, but marking the media scanner to not scan it (.nomedia) is my normal fix for that issue.

IA-32e said:
This exact MicroSD card is going for $99 on Newegg so there's little doubt it's counterfeit. For another $10 I'd rather spring for a 32GB card that comes with a warranty and hassle free return. Also I heard with the 64GB card the media scanner takes forever to process it.
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I have one already, not the one from eBay but the official one, in my S2 and the media scanner doesn't take any longer than the 32 I had. But I haven't packed it full of media either.

For the price ill bite, if something goes wrong then at least I'm paying with paypal

crawrj said:
I have one already, not the one from eBay but the official one, in my S2 and the media scanner doesn't take any longer than the 32 I had. But I haven't packed it full of media either.
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Same here, I have like 25 gb on mine. I got it got $60 on Amazon for a scan disk 64 gb class 10
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crawrj said:
I found this in the S3 forums. I am certain it is a fake but if the size is close and the speed is around 4 or better it is still worth it IMO. So if you like to gamble here is your chance
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Here is an interesting article with some very interesting insight into the world of "fake" microSD card manufacturing in China... written by an American(?) who works at a factory in China. Apparently some "fake" cards are just substandard cards that flash memory makers dump on thesecondary markets...
You can find the article via Google. Search for "On MicroSD Problems bunnie's blog" it should be the first one that comes up
The article was very long and nearly put me to sleep... but still very interesting read.

This is the reply I got from him regarding the query of the card .
Dear ********,
YES, I hope you can wait your product if you receive the product can not be used, I will refund all your money will not be returned to me, Thank you very much!
- xena198610
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I didnt understand it completely, but I think he was trying to say that he will refund fully if I will not satisfy with the card, and I dont need to return it back.
Still finger crossed.. Dont know whether the card will arrive or not

Mine emailed late last night that it was marked shipped so patiently waiting. If this is a real one then I will sad I didn't order 3 instead of one...

How do i order it? It just says sold and doesnt offer me an option to purchase it.

FuMMoD said:
How do i order it? It just says sold and doesnt offer me an option to purchase it.
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That means that sale is over. You can click on the seller and see if he has any more open. If not you are out of luck, or in luck depending on how this turns out

has anyone received the mystery card?! i didnt order one, but if its good ill look for another sale

afinch1992 said:
has anyone received the mystery card?! i didnt order one, but if its good ill look for another sale
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They are, supposedly, shipping from China. Won't get them for another week or two probably. Mine, again supposedly, shipped out on the 28th.

Same here. I will let y'all know.
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wishing for the best for you guys! hope you get some good cards so i can pick one up eventually