Size limit on SD cards?

[Guest olobley]

I bought myself a shiney 256Mb SD card to accomodate video files for me to watch on the tube to work (just bought the A-Team Series 1 dvd, so having quite an entertaining tube journey in :lol:.

Anyhow, I only noticed this this afternoon at work, but my SPV E200 seems unwilling to write to SD cards that are 256Mb or larger. I've tried it with a 256, and a 512 (thus I'm presuming it applies for 512 as well). The phone has no trouble reading these cards though. The 256 & 512 are big-brand cards too (Toshiba and SanDisk).

Any ideas appreciated (and yes, I checked the lock slider :D)

Cheers,

Olly.

[Guest squall]

should work, there is no limit on card size as such, you could try formatting them, although it could well be hardware fault with phone

[Guest MurphmanL]

Darn there's a limit on the E200?

Fook i was so looking forward to sticking a 2gb or even 1gb SD in there...

[Guest chucky.egg]

I'm sure someone had a 1Gb working in an e200

The 1Gb miniSD are out now, so you might want to consider one of them so you are "future proof"

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[Guest squall]

no limit on card size so it should work, simon dresser had a 1 gig sd working, i know there are others two

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[Guest Foxy2k]

It's the dual layer issue again. Some cards have a single layer and will read and write regardless of size. Others use two layers and it'll stop any thing bigger than 4k (from memeory) being written by the phone onto the card.

[Guest squall]

sandisk cards normally work without having problems due to being dual layer

[Guest Dade]

There was a chap I was chatting to at the Event at the weekend who had an E200 with a 1gb Card in it. Cant recall his name but it must have been working ok in his phone.

There must be a maximum size of SD that the phone is capable of addressing but I have no idea what that would be. It might be more of an OS limit than hardware.

[Guest squall]

it has been talked about before, someone said there was a max size the fat file structure could handle. Needless to say when we do reach the limit someone will think of someway rounnd it, most likely mean buying new cards again tho :/ still when we get there in a couple of years i dont think i will mind to much

[Guest dj_pcs]

I've recently put a 1gb card in my e200 and it works fine. The card I bought was a non - branded SD card from www.aria.co.uk (although I was guaranteed it would work) and they usually have monthly offers selling the card for around £60 inc VAT. Unfortunately the offer isn't on at this time, but it's worth checking out every couple of days. The speed from the card is very impressive, and using a USB 2.0 card reader I transferred a 180mb divX movie in around 90 secs.

[Guest olobley]

Apologies, perhaps I wasn't entirely clear :lol:

The card isn't _totally_ broken in the E200, the phone will quite happily read from the bigger cards, however it just will not write to them (it also won't delete files from the card, but I'm guessing that's because it's a write operation - something about Access being denied).

It's all a bit of a non-issue now, as I just recieved in the post this morning a shiney C500 from Orange :D, looks like I'm going to have to go out and buy new cards...and I hate the fact I have to switch the phone off to change cards now!

[Guest zerosignull]

The Max size for the SSD card should be the max addressable size of the FAT32 file sytem as that is the format that the sd card uses and i think the Internal sorage two. I think the max size of fat32 is something like 4TB (Terra Bytes).

The Card reader on the E200 was never the best on in existance and with large cards it's better to get yourself a card reader for your desktop as they are a hell of a lot faster then the E200 at transfering data to storage

[Guest the_ugly_north]

Apologies, perhaps I wasn't entirely clear :lol:

The card isn't _totally_ broken in the E200, the phone will quite happily read from the bigger cards, however it just will not write to them (it also won't delete files from the card, but I'm guessing that's because it's a write operation - something about Access being denied).

It's all a bit of a non-issue now, as I just recieved in the post this morning a shiney C500 from Orange :D, looks like I'm going to have to go out and buy new cards...and I hate the fact I have to switch the phone off to change cards now!

Are you sure you haven't accidently moved the 'read-only' button on the side of the card???

[Guest jeffrey1989]

Lol I Have 1GB sandisk and it works great, I Had a 256 Dane-elec be4, but I couldn't write on it and not delete anything, (I put music on it with my friend SPV) Think It has to do with that dubble layer Thingie.....

Yesterday i Bought a Cardreader, and it works really fast, almost like a harddrive.... Much faster then with the phone connected with active sync :)

[Guest CybaCowboy]

I have Sandisk's 1GB SD card and it works fine...

In regards to the limit, Windows Mobile Smartphones will happily let you use memory cards up to 1GB (10GB for Pocket PCs!). Any bigger than that and the SD card will still work, your Windows Mobile Smartphone just won't "see" any more than the first 1GB.

I'm pretty sure the same policy applies to newer Windows Mobile 2003: Second Edition devices, but with the limit being increased...