Who's broken their SD card slot?

[Guest fluffcat1]

A few people have asked me about repairing PPC / smartphone devices with full size SD card slots, so I was just wondering how many people had actually broken theirs?

Those who have broken it please post where / who fixed it, if under warranty and if not how much it cost. Please also post what was wrong - loose card ,won't eject, won't read etc etc.

I've never personnally broken one, but I never keep the same device longer than a couple of months and I'm not that rough with them :)

Richard

[Guest Disco Stu]

The closest I've got is getting the card stuck behind the edge of the Jam's casing but it was easily fixed.

[Guest abhayseth]

Have destroyed an SD card while shifting it from the phone to the reader coz i installed it into a wrong slot but never on the phone - big loss of data but no damage to the phone - & luckily... it wasnt mine...!

The closest I've got is getting the card stuck behind the edge of the Jam's casing but it was easily fixed.

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[Guest Pondrew]

The option I needed wasn't there...

:)

Incidentally, for members information the problem was on an SPV E200 and was that the SD card holder had come away from the board on which it was meant to be attached.

[Guest fluffcat1]

The option I needed wasn't there...

:)

Incidentally, for members information the problem was on an SPV E200 and was that the SD card holder had come away from the board on which it was meant to be attached.

To be fair, I did try to re-solder the SD slot holder but there was damage to the tracks around the legs so couldn't easily and ended up swopping the keypad out so didn't really 'fix' that one...

Older palmpilots were prone to having their spring mis-locate in the SD slot so it wouldn't eject but usually the faults I've seen have been caused by accidental force either jamming the sd card in the wrong way or at an angle.... :roll:

There's no strain relief on modern internal connections. In the case of the XDA II, there are componants very near the sync connector at the bottom that break off readily should you damage your sync port so even with a new port connector you still have more work to do to make it sync. Almost as if they designed it this way on puropse :evil:

Richard