SD Card

[csik]

this phone drives me crazy - bought it a week ago - upgraded to latest firmware and troubles over troubles

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turn phone/display - yes works - but after some hours only vertical - no horizontal view possible - nedes restart !!! - this is not acceptable

sd card error - please format - card works fine on pc

walkman app - home screen - does not display all albums - what is it good for ?

for sure my last sony.....

[csik]

had a chat and a call with support

they told me that uhs cards are not compatible - in the whitepaper there is no specification

very disappointing

[_alexdon_]

Have you formatted it to FAT32?

[csik]

at first usage i formatted it with the phone - i tried several times due to error messages saying card defect  -  then suddenly the card was accepted -  after this i used the sd card tool to move pics and music to sd card - i noticed that some music sub folders had been transferred and where empty on phone location - but some where still on the ephone and the corresponding folder on sd card was empty

after reboot the card was marked as defect and a "format card" message was displayed again

i removed the the card - it worked fine on my notebook  

i formatted it on the notebook but without effect - the phone still says - card defect 

the support blames the uhs specification for not working  (sandisk ultra sdhc 32gb - uhs 3)

unfortunately i have no other phone to test the card - may be tomorrow i can try it in a xperia sp - my own arc s i did not try until now - perhaps i will give it a try

[csik]

as anybody can see - the good old arc s CAN HANDLE AN UHS 3 SD CARD

this for sure proofs that the guys from the xperia support have no idea what they are talking about...

at least the 30 euros where not spent for nothing

regards

manfred

[_alexdon_]

There is no way that M2 doesn't support UHS but there is no use for it in a smartphone. Does it work now?

[csik]

you are right - there is no need for such a fast card in a phone - i think a normal class 10 will do

i will give it a last try and if it does not work return the phone - a 8 GB phone without sd card extension is useless

thx for your help

regards

manfred

[_alexdon_]

Keep us updated. Reformat in FAT32 (exFAT if the card is over 32GB) using an adapter.

[csik]

just inserted the card again and got no error the card was at last formatted on my notebook using the adapter shipped with maybe I did not try the card yesterday after formatting it with the notebook ? again I made the swap procedure moving music pictures and videos this time I took a closer look at the results because again not all music was transferred to the card - result is - all music that was encoded with iTunes (.m4a) is still on the phone - the walkwman app can play this files but it is not recognized as music by the swap tool - unfortunately my es explorer is not allowed to copy files to the sd card - I will try to copy between the internal memory and the ad card when the phone is connected by USB to a pc - or better dump music directly to the sd card

[_alexdon_]

My guess is that the music you tried to transfer is DRM protected so you won't be able to move it. You could try to move using a file explorer (file commander default app).