Is it worth using the sd slot?

[Tigermad]

This is my first post so please be gentle with me! :D

My axim should be arriving tomorrow. I was going to order a 256 sd card (staying away from Sandisk). But after reading this forum and Dells, it looks like the SD slot is faulty.

I have seen peeps recommending the Lexar card so I was going to plump for this one until I read that the same problem is happening!

Please, please tell me that I have ordered a good piece of kit and its not the Axim that is faulty.

Can someone please help as I will be using my CF slot for the ir extender so will only have the sd slot for storage.

I have read all the threads about the cards but they are so mixed and cannot come to a conclusion.

Thanks!

[Talexander]

Been using my Lexar SD card for almost a month now, no problems at all.

Just remember, when you soft reset, it has to reload all images for icons from card if you install to their, so first time clicking start or loading app will take a second.

Tim

[Tigermad]

Thanks Tim, quick response!

As Columbo would say "just one more thing!".

Can games/apps etc be loaded from the sd card or is the card purely for multimedia storage?

[Magadin]

You can install most things to the cards. I run all my games off cards and they seem to work fine. I do recommend installing anything that you would use everyday (utilities, shell enhancement, registry editor, etc..) to the default location. If you will be swapping cards at all you want to make sure that your bare necessities are always available.

[ceej13]

I agree with Magadin.
Now if you plan to keep the SD memory card in the axim, then you really shouldn't have a problem.

[Dermoth]

I was in the same position.
Actually ordered a Sandisk SD card and cancelled it when I read about the issues.
But since then I have had a Panasonic 256MB card with no issues.
And yes, I can run the apps as well as the data.

[Double-Trinity]

Keep necessary things in main memory, and programs/files/images in SD, and then media in CF (if you ahve IO)

that is what I do, I currently have games, and other nonessential programs installed on my SD, and my CF I have loaded with music, I also have a WiFi, and when I use that though, I can often stream music, so I felt that the music was the least important thing to have on the Axim at the time of connecting with wireless.

[wahern]

I have been using my 512MB Lexar SD card for well over a month now and the problem I had was one that I caused! I want to keep the CF slot for other items like the wireless card. I have also put everything except the "bare necessities" on the card. You will be fine

[tdbunker]

I have had a 256 mg Sandisk SD card since December. Have never had a problem with it. I use this as the "main memory" in my Axim except for some utilities that work better when loaded into main memory.

I use a 128 mg Sandisk CF card (also has been problem free) to hold things I may want to swap in and out (MP3 files, Mapopolis map files, etc.) and to put programs that I am just trying out. If you delete programs you should always have the CF card inserted containing the programs or they will leave traces in the registry.:D

[NMkiD]

I have *all* my after market apps and games on my SD card, why put them on main memory? You will start to use up the memory that the device uses for running the programs, also if you ever have to do a hard reset you have all your stuff on the SD card. I never take mine out and have never had a problem with it.

There is "free" built in memory if you feel you really need to install something to the device memory, but just so you know apps that need to install things in main memory or the windows dir will do it anyway even if you tell it to install to the SD card.

[tdbunker]

I try to put all my app's on the SD card but there are a couple, Battery Pack 2003 is one, that claim they need to be in main memory to be most effective.

I also find that the system will keep putting stuff in the main memory and it is hard to clean it out. I find that about 10 mg is the most I can keep free (32 mg Axim) no matter how I try to delete stuff there.


I am sometimes confused by the terminalogy. I know thet built-in memory is just unused ROM space but is Main Memory and different from default memory. The sync program could be a little less complicated if it always presented q screen with all the memory choices listed rather than the prompt that requires a user to answer NO to the default location.

I have a 128 meg Sandisk and have had any problems with it..... yet.......

"knock on wood!"

:D

[tkwok]

I have a 512 MB Lexar SD card and it has worked flawlessly for a couple of months. I have apps and data stored on it. Some applications require you to duplicate the MY DOCUMENTS directory structure on your card in order for them to find them.

It is weird though as CF cards and SD cards appear to work differently. I had a CF card first and then added an SD card. I could put things pretty much anywhere on the CF card and it would work. With my SD card, several applications I use require the MY DOCUMENTS directory. For example Acrobat Reader could find PDFs anywhere on my CF card, but would only find them on my SD card if I put them in a folder under MY DOCUMENTS on the SD card...go figure.