I had exactly the same problem. My PNY 32GB card worked fine in my iPAQ 211 until this month. Now it doesn't recognize the card at all. I tried a clean reset (twice), reformatted the card, tried a different 32GB card, and then formatted it with the Sandisk SD card formatting tool. nothing helped. There is no ~recycled folder because the card is completely empty. Still doesn't work. Is yours still working?
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I had exactly the same problem. My PNY 32GB card worked fine in my iPAQ 211 until this month. Now it doesn't recognize the card at all. I tried a clean reset (twice), reformatted the card, tried a different 32GB card, and then formatted it with the Sandisk SD card formatting tool. nothing helped. There is no ~recycled folder because the card is completely empty. Still doesn't work. Is yours still working?
TankerBob--My Transcend 16 GB SDHC card just stopped working this a.m. (it's been working fine for, what? four months?) Unfortunately, I can't find my memory card reader, so won't be able to see whether my PC can read this card or not. Tomorrow.
This happens often enough that it should be a sticky--or maybe half-stuck or something.
Quoting from this article, "HP iPAQ 200 Series Enterprise Handheld devices support high-capacity SD (SDHC) cards. The SDHC standard supports up to 32GB of storage."
Unfortunately I don't know why you are having problems using your SDHC cards in your IPAQ. I know that the hardware on pocket pcs seem to be more sensitive to subtle differences or changes in storage cards and this can sometimes lead to compatibility issues that you might not experience on a computer. I would be interested to know if your IPAQ recognizes other SD and SDHC cards in that slot.
Quoting from this article, "HP iPAQ 200 Series Enterprise Handheld devices support high-capacity SD (SDHC) cards. The SDHC standard supports up to 32GB of storage."
Unfortunately I don't know why you are having problems using your SDHC cards in your IPAQ. I know that the hardware on pocket pcs seem to be more sensitive to subtle differences or changes in storage cards and this can sometimes lead to compatibility issues that you might not experience on a computer. I would be interested to know if your IPAQ recognizes other SD and SDHC cards in that slot.
Julie,
Thanks for the link, but it settles nothing. You should talk to HP Support. I did. They emphatically denied that they supported SDHC on the 2000-series. They said that only HP Smartphones support SDHC. So, no matter what the website says, their product support folks and their support database emphatically (and I use that word carefully) deny SDHC support. I wanted them to fix my 211, but this is the official answer which I received.
As to sensitivity, a few posts up I said that I tried another SDHC card and it doesn't work either. I also formatted both with Sandisks SDHC card formatter, but to no avail.
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It would not be the first time a support person gave out bad information to close a trouble ticket. I have many different IPAQs, but the 200 is not one that I own. If I had a 200 and was having these kinds of problems, I would call the HP support desk to discuss. If/When the support person states that the 200 does not support SDHC cards (or other such nonsense), I would refer them to their own documentation that is posted to their website and ask for further explanation.
Recently my 16 GB SDHC card stopped working in one of my WM6.1 IPAQs. I wound up having to reformat the card before I could use it again. Luckily I had backed up the SDHC card on my computer, so recovery was pretty easy. Other than that recent experience, I have not had any problems using SD or SDHC cards in my IPAQs.
Unfortunately, I can not offer much help with your current situation, but since HP's website states that up to 32 GB SDHC cards are supported on this IPAQ, and it is posted for all to see, I would not accept any such nonsense answer from an ill trained support person.
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Oy. Hp has a lot to answer for. (I recently had to send my iPAQ back for some problem with the electrical connector and they didn't want to honor the repair/exchange under my extended (or any) warranty because if it was an electrical connector problem, it was by default a user error. I.e. if it was that problem, I had to have broken it. Since it arrived with that problem, I rather thought it should be HP's problem and thus covered by my warranty. In other words, the warranty only covers the ipaq when it isn't broken.
As for the SDHC recognition problem, I just tried a new SanDisk 16 GB SDHC card in my iPAQ's slot and the device recognizes it fine. In my newly purchased card reader, my old Transcend 16 GB card triggers a you-must-format-this-card message.Given that the card reader recognizes the new card right out of the box (what is this format business anyway?), I guess the pold card is pooched for real, but I'm not reformatting until I've tried all other avenues to restore the old card.
I'm now going to research mean time to failure for Transcend (and other) SDHC cards. It may turn out that I just used the card to its max. (??)
to be continued.
Sandra
Last edited by sfrrr; 09-02-09 at 10:35 AM.
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OK. I'm going to have to live with the mystery of sdhc cards and WinMo PDAs/phones. The industry standard for mean time before failure is some one million hours. I can't imagine a million hours, but I do know that my SDHC cards get really, really heavy use, so maybe I just get short hitters and then wear them out.
Compared to twenty or thirty years ago, today seems technologically advanced to some, but to me, we're all still early adopters and at my advanced age, I'm tired of it all.
Sandra
Last edited by sfrrr; 09-03-09 at 10:04 AM.
Reason: Clarity
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