Storage card memory??

w3po · 03-30-04, 02:53 PM

I have check the sd card which comes with the x3i and it looks like a dud, I mean just a plastic fill in to occupy the whole.
Now when i look at my memories it mentions that I have 34.81 MB of total storage card memory. Not bad for a simple piece of plastic, so what gives??
Thanks for your help nothing earthshaking but I am just curious.

Jogga · 03-30-04, 03:05 PM

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Originally posted by w3po
I have check the sd card which comes with the x3i and it looks like a dud, I mean just a plastic fill in to occupy the whole.
Now when i look at my memories it mentions that I have 34.81 MB of total storage card memory. Not bad for a simple piece of plastic, so what gives??
Thanks for your help nothing earthshaking but I am just curious.

It is a dud, the memory you refer to is probably the memory on the device unless you've got a real memory card! The giveaway is always the copper pins on the card, if it ain't got 'em, it ain't a memory card.
Jogga

w3po · 03-30-04, 03:23 PM

Thanks Jogga
It is a dud for sure no metal pins to be seen. but 34 megs from a piece of plastic aint bad so I might shove in a piece of wood in there and I might get 64 megs(just kidding)
I was just trying to figure out how the memory is being split into, and that memory card stuff has to be coming from somewhere else. Anyway I will figure it out somehow, and if the wood business works I might be on to a new venture. :D

ShadowCat · 03-30-04, 03:30 PM

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Originally posted by w3po
Thanks Jogga
It is a dud for sure no metal pins to be seen. but 34 megs from a piece of plastic aint bad so I might shove in a piece of wood in there and I might get 64 megs(just kidding)
I was just trying to figure out how the memory is being split into, and that memory card stuff has to be coming from somewhere else. Anyway I will figure it out somehow, and if the wood business works I might be on to a new venture. :D

The axim comes with two types of memory -- RAM and ROM. RAM requires electricity to keep from going blank, but things stored in the rom (or built-in storage as it is referred to in file manager) will save even if the Axim totally runs out of electricity.

You get 64meg of ROM, but a good portion of it is used to store the operating system (and programs like pocket excel and pocket word). What is left is built-in storage, in the amount of 31.something megabytes. If you get a REAL SD memory card and stick it in the slot in place of the plastic insert, you'll see a new type of storage -- and it will vary in size depending on the card.

If you put programs into memory, you should backup to built-in storage or storage card, or you'll lose everything if your batteries run out of juice (or you have to hard reboot for any other reason).

Hope this helps.

Jogga · 03-30-04, 03:31 PM

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Originally posted by w3po
Thanks Jogga
It is a dud for sure no metal pins to be seen. but 34 megs from a piece of plastic aint bad so I might shove in a piece of wood in there and I might get 64 megs(just kidding)
I was just trying to figure out how the memory is being split into, and that memory card stuff has to be coming from somewhere else. Anyway I will figure it out somehow, and if the wood business works I might be on to a new venture. :D

Patrick
If you get the wood thing to work, you will let me know, won't you? As I work for a building material distribution and supply company, there's brass to be made for both of us!!
Jogga