If you’re still trying to track down a MicroSD card for you WP7 phone that won’t be completely useless, we’re starting to get a clearer picture of which ones are okay, and which ones aren’t. From SanDisk, we have cards running from 2GB-32GB, approved for use in the Samsung Focus, with prices ranging from $16-$200.
Kingston has a similar array of cards approved for the Focus, and they’re substantially cheaper than the SanDisk versions.
Keep in mind that putting a card into a WP7 handset will render it unusable for other devices — including formatting. So far the only workaround we’ve heard of is using a Symbian smartphone, of all things.
[via MobilityDigest]
I have what appears to be the same class 2 32GB SanDisk and it gave me nothing but problems. Maybe it’s time to give it another whirl.
If not, I suppose I need to grab a Nokia phone so that I can reformat the card.
Yeah…I have that exact card sitting in my room but after Christopher’s experience I have no intention of trying it out till I really hear some more reports or can get complete confirmation that it’s either a different card or some kind of software/firmware update out there. I really want the extra space but I’m gun shy at this point as my phone really works like a dream right now.
I’m giving it one more try after a solid weekend of having no troubles. Will detail experience here in the forums. Of course, hoping for the best.
http://www.everythingwm.com/forum/threads/microsd-card-reset-brings-up-download-mode.36721/#post-349554
This is starting to smell fishy. Sandisk pulled ANY and ALL compatibility records for the focus from the site sometime within the last five hours.
I have a 32 gb micro sdhc from Kingston which is class 4. The phone (Samsung Focus) works with it but it is considerable slower (from time to time I experience hiccups – 2-5 seconds of “indecision” when nothing of the sort happened in the past when the card was not in). Syncing with Zune desktop is hanging after I filled the internal memory and the card is used (it will put 3-10 songs on the card and then hangs). Downloading songs from marketplace works although somewhat slower and installing applications definitely takes 3 times more time).
My SansDisk Micro SD 16g Class 4 crashed my phone hard. Randomly looked down and noticed it restarted itself after working seemlessly for a few days after I installed it. When the phone came back on everything on the phone was erased along with contacts, themes, prefs, you name it. Since I took it out and am working with the mere 8 local gigs the phone has I havent had an issue since. A collegue of mine who has one said once you pass the local 8 the phone comes with and start using the SDs space it becomes unstable and its only a matter of time. Im steamed with this. IF they EVER publish a list for this phone I will have to start all over again… again.