16 GB Micro SDHC, Play-branded, anyone tried?

[Guest glemmy]

Hi!

I have read that people have had problems with different brands of memory cards together with their Blades.

Now I saw that play.co.uk has some kind of sale on a 16 GB Micro SDHC with their own brand.

Has anyone tried it? I guess £15 is a pretty good price, they cost something like £23-25 over here.

It would be nice to hear if someone know it will work before I order.

Thanks

edit: The card can't be delivered outside of UK anyway :)

But perhaps the information can be useful for someone else.

Edited December 13, 2010 by glemmy

[Guest ejhollin]

Well, the Class 2 they were selling before had a 6Mb/sec write and 13Mb/s read (shown by the Android app test thing), so these could be exactly the same just rebranded. Surely they can't be any worse? I paid £15.49 last week for that one.

[Guest glemmy]

edit: Oh, never mind... The card can't be delivered outside of UK anyway :)

Well, the Class 2 they were selling before had a 6Mb/sec write and 13Mb/s read (shown by the Android app test thing), so these could be exactly the same just rebranded. Surely they can't be any worse? I paid £15.49 last week for that one.

Thanks...

To be specific, the problems I refer to are of the kind that the memory cards don't work at all sometimes. Some infinite loops of the phone accepting the card, then ejecting it occur when they are inserted.

But the former, Class 2-card, worked fine with the Blade?

Edited December 13, 2010 by glemmy

[Guest Henry_san fra user]

Hi!

I have read that people have had problems with different brands of memory cards together with their Blades.

Now I saw that play.co.uk has some kind of sale on a 16 GB Micro SDHC with their own brand.

Has anyone tried it? I guess £15 is a pretty good price, they cost something like £23-25 over here.

It would be nice to hear if someone know it will work before I order.

Thanks

Do you have a link to it? when I looked I could only see a normal 16 gb SD not micro for that price

[Guest glemmy]

Do you have a link to it? when I looked I could only see a normal 16 gb SD not micro for that price

http://www.play.com/Mobiles/Mobile/4-/9712...-4/Product.html

[Guest Arr Too]

Well, the Class 2 they were selling before had a 6Mb/sec write and 13Mb/s read (shown by the Android app test thing)

Be aware that the Class designations are minimum speed, i.e. worst case when heavily fragmented. A new card with hardly anything on it will demonstrate maximum speeds, i.e. best case with no (or very little) fragmentation.

[Guest dorren]

Its class 4 it could not be so bad could it?

[Guest pelliott]

Its class 4 it could not be so bad could it?

I just bought a Kingston 16GB micro shdc class 4 card from mymemory.co.uk for £22.40.

Sadly it does not work in the San Francisco, I get the looping problem where it continually mounts and then unmounts the card, so avoid this one.

It seems to work ok in my laptop so the problem appears to be the phone meaning I probably can't return the card.

Can anyone recommend a good 16G class 4 card that works with this phone?

[Guest netdudeuk]

I just bought a Kingston 16GB micro shdc class 4 card from mymemory.co.uk for £22.40.

Sadly it does not work in the San Francisco, I get the looping problem where it continually mounts and then unmounts the card, so avoid this one.

It seems to work ok in my laptop so the problem appears to be the phone meaning I probably can't return the card.

Can anyone recommend a good 16G class 4 card that works with this phone?

I hope that this is an isolated case. I've bought the same card from the same company. I paid more, for the Kingston, to be sure that I'd be ok. Anyone else know anything about this card ?

Thanks

[Guest germ19a27]

I've got the Play 16GB Micro SDHC card. Works fine for me in the Blade, no issues at all.

Hope that helps.

[Guest Scope]

I have just this second finished preparing a RMA of a 8gb Play labeled SDHC card.. Im have asked for a refund, trying something else next time.

[Guest rbbrslmn]

this is a good price, does anyone know what speed this card is?

[Guest Azurren]

I've bought loads of "Play" branded stuff (My RAM, Memory cards etc.)

Never had an issue with any of it

Seriously brands mean NOTHING my Sony TVs silver finish started peeling off after a few weeks, my friends brand new BMW (Must be nice if mummy and daddy are rolling in it :) ) was in the shop longer than it was in his garage.

[Guest Mike_P]

I just bought a Kingston 16GB micro shdc class 4 card from mymemory.co.uk for £22.40.

Sadly it does not work in the San Francisco, I get the looping problem where it continually mounts and then unmounts the card, so avoid this one.

It seems to work ok in my laptop so the problem appears to be the phone meaning I probably can't return the card.

Can anyone recommend a good 16G class 4 card that works with this phone?

I hope that this is an isolated case. I've bought the same card from the same company. I paid more, for the Kingston, to be sure that I'd be ok. Anyone else know anything about this card ?

Thanks

Oh hellfire not want I wanted to read, I bought one of these from them last weekend still hasn't arrived yet.

[Guest misterLjay]

Play branded 16gb card is all good, no issues with mine, although I was jammy as I originally ordered a 4gb card for £5 but instead they sent me the 16gb. I liked Play before but I love 'em now.

[Guest nvidiax]

I've had my play brand 16gb for over a year. They are manufactured by Kingston so it is all good

[Guest Arr Too]

I just bought a Kingston 16GB micro shdc class 4 card from mymemory.co.uk for £22.40.

I've got the same card (from a different supplier) and it's working great in my SanFran. Worth double-checking that it's seated properly.

[Guest tdodd]

I ordered one on Monday this week and it arrived today (Friday). Some have reported receiving Class 2 cards, despite ordering the advertised Class 4. Mine says Class 4 but I don't know how I can test it accurately. I don't have a micro SDHC reader for my laptop and despite searching for Android software to test with the only think I've found says it's discontinued by the author. At least it works once formatted.

Thread and pictures here - http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/16gb-micro...9/#post10130261

Edited December 17, 2010 by tdodd

[Guest pelliott]

I ordered one on Monday this week and it arrived today (Friday). Some have reported receiving Class 2 cards, despite ordering the advertised Class 4. Mine says Class 4 but I don't know how I can test it accurately. I don't have a micro SDHC reader for my laptop and despite searching for Android software to test with the only think I've found says it's discontinued by the author. At least it works once formatted.

Thread and pictures here - http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/16gb-micro...9/#post10130261

After much messing around it seems that I had a faulty handest and there is no issue with the Kingston 16G class 4 SDHC card, I persuaded Orange to replace the handset and now all is fine.

[Guest pelliott]

After much messing around it seems that I had a faulty handest and there is no issue with the Kingston 16G class 4 SDHC card, I persuaded Orange to replace the handset and now all is fine.

I have a further update on this topic that may interest some people.

My replacement handset had a display problem so I had to contact Orange again for a further replacement, imagine my surprise when I then inserted the SDHC card and got exactly the same problem. The phone again reported a damaged card and stared cycling through a mount/un-mount sequence continually.

Long story short, there is a hardware fault in the Qualcomm chipset for earlier versions of Blade ZTE that means they don't work with some higher speed memory cards (Note: for me the provided Verbatim 2G card and another old class 1 card from my Satanv still worked fine in the bugged handset even though the Kingston class 4 did not), the later versions have a newer chip set without this bug and work fine. Orange are aware of the fault and if you phone them and convince them that you have the issue they will send you a new handset (from a range of serial numbers with the updated chipset) by courier the next working day. To convince them I had to try the card successfully in a PC and also another Orange phone.

I hope this is of help to people experiencing the same problem.

[Guest adamsy]

I tried the play.com 16gb class 4 sdhc card, worked on PC fine but was a disaster on the blade, it wasn't happy at all, sent it back and got a sandisk 16gb card from play.com again class 4 - is very happy and working like a dream, as a bonus it only cost £15.99 - so only about 50p more than the play.com card cost me initially....

Good Luck!

P.S. My blade is an original OLED with pauls r11 on it...

Hi!

I have read that people have had problems with different brands of memory cards together with their Blades.

Now I saw that play.co.uk has some kind of sale on a 16 GB Micro SDHC with their own brand.

Has anyone tried it? I guess £15 is a pretty good price, they cost something like £23-25 over here.

It would be nice to hear if someone know it will work before I order.

Thanks

edit: The card can't be delivered outside of UK anyway ;)

But perhaps the information can be useful for someone else.

[Guest oh!dougal]

...

Long story short, there is a hardware fault in the Qualcomm chipset for earlier versions of Blade ZTE that means they don't work with some higher speed memory cards (Note: for me the provided Verbatim 2G card and another old class 1 card from my Satanv still worked fine in the bugged handset even though the Kingston class 4 did not), the later versions have a newer chip set without this bug and work fine. Orange are aware of the fault and if you phone them and convince them that you have the issue they will send you a new handset (from a range of serial numbers with the updated chipset) by courier the next working day. To convince them I had to try the card successfully in a PC and also another Orange phone.

I hope this is of help to people experiencing the same problem.

Excellent that you posted this info - thanks!

[Guest DominicA]

My play class 4 16gb dismounts in my SF. Fine now i've moved it to my BB Torch. If I was you I'd order the Sandisk.

[Guest manit40]

dont buy cheep buy a sandisk i bought 2 of them 4 & 8 gig class 4 both work great from play.com :D

Edited March 21, 2011 by manit40