[Immampdah]

Hey folks,

I bought myself a 1gb Kingston Micro-SD card for my Nokia 3500 classic today, but I'm not exactly happy with how it's working.

How slow are these things supposed to be? Moving 100 megs of stuff to the card from by PC via cable link takes an hour. If I open my picture browser it takes like one minute to just change the directory on the card. I can't believe it's supposed to slow down so much from only 100/1000mb usage.

Could it be that the amount of pictures is the influencing factor here instead of the size? It's roughly 5000 pics.

[EliteFranceska]

best way to test is shifting larger files, say ten 10MB files.

I must say I'm testing out 5000 small files totalling 100MB with my USB2.0 keydrive, its not having a fun time

its slower than moving a single 150MB file

[Diortarkivoff]

get a "CONVERTER"

and a card reader/writer

thats what I do.

or I use blue tooth if I cant get to a comaptable source

[Dayreive]

I copy a 5mb song in ~3sec onto my MicroSD 4gb

[Immampdah]

get a "CONVERTER"

and a card reader/writer

thats what I do.

or I use blue tooth if I cant get to a comaptable source

Is that supposedly faster?

Regardless, It'll still take a minute to simply switch directories on the phone while viewing the gallery. I don't mind the slow copying that much but I can't wait for minutes every time I wanna browse my pics.

[Diortarkivoff]

Is that supposedly faster?

Regardless, It'll still take a minute to simply switch directories on the phone while viewing the gallery. I don't mind the slow copying that much but I can't wait for minutes every time I wanna browse my pics.

perhaps the data bus on the phone is slower causing a bottle neck.

perhaps the reason why your files are slow is that perhaps the phone is "indexing them "

or has compatability issues with either capacity or the memory card


I have a samsung and a micro sd 2g and I dont have probems like you describe when browsing files

[Immampdah]

It took about 15 seconds to move a 6mb file onto the card.

[KimLinbert]

It took about 15 seconds to move a 6mb file onto the card.

Sounds about right for connection directly to the phone - as it all depends on the data bus in your phone model (as OHP has said).

Putting the card in a card reader that is connected to your PC will almost certainly be faster.

Case in point - if I want to copy 4gb of photos from my digital camera to my PC, I take the card out of my camera and put it into my card reader - I do NOT connect my camera directly to my PC, as the transfer speed is painfull.

[Immampdah]

It took way longer to move 6mb worth of ~30kb files onto the card. I guess these things really suck at small files.