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Help Upgrading SD card

cydewaze

cydewaze

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Hi everyone. First post here, and new Droid owner.

I picked up my Droid 2 this past Saturday, and immediately ordered a 16GB Transcend Class 6 micro SD card for it. To install it, I plugged my Droid into my PC (Linux machine), un-hid all the hidden files, copied them to my desktop, then disconnected the Droid, took the stock card out, plugged the new card in, and copied the files back. After a reboot of the Droid, everything seemed OK.

The problems started while copying songs onto the Droid. The copy process froze, and ever since, the phone had problems with this card. It's sluggish, and hangs on shut-down.

Is there a proper way to upgrade to a new card that I don't know about? The guys at the Verizon store didn't have any ideas.
 
Super_Six_Two said:
I would recommend that you reformat the card and start again.
Menu-> settings -> SD card-> unmount -> format
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Yeah, that's what I did.

Copying the files to the card on the Droid wasn't working, so I've copied everything to the card first, then plugged the card into the Droid and booted it up. I'll report back once I know how it worked.
 
OK! That seemed to work. The only problem now is I can't access the SD card from my computer when the phone is connected via USB. It shows up as a CD, not a drive. Weird.
 
Nope, it doesn't work. It boots fine, but I can't run any apps. I get various error messages, so the original card is going back in.

I have no idea why it's not working. I used the phone to format it and everything. It's strange. It shouldn't have anything to do with my Linux PC because the Droid is Linux.
 
Solved. Apparently the card I got (or maybe any class 6 card) is not Droid compatible. I switched to a Sandisk, and everything works now.
 
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