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[Cingular] MP3's / Mini-Sd Card and MPx220
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Posted by: ehsimpson

I recently bought a MPx220 and was very impressed with the phone until I started having a problem. I decided to buy a mini-sd card for my phone after sticking a few MP3's on the dedicated memory that the phone had and found out quickly that there was hardly any room. So after I bought a Ri-data 512mb chip for it and stuck it in there, I put several MP3's on there and noticed that it wouldn't play any of the files they would show up on the windows media player that is in the phone; however, a red symbol shows up next to it. On top of that it sometimes won't allow me to transfer data to the phone all the time. It will sometimes say that the disk is full when there is next to nothing on it, and then when I do delete files off of the memory card they later show up again on the phone like they are still there. It's really strange and is making me mad because I just bought this sd card and I can't get music to load on it. Thanks for all the help on this issue.

Posted by: Omega2008

The MPx 220 is picky about what kind of miniSD card it has, there have been reports about some brands not working so well with the MPx 220. I would try send that miniSD card back and try getting a more repuable brand, I use 256 SanDisk miniSD. I never had any of the problems you are describing, I also use a memory card reader as well as my phone to read/write files to the miniSD. I mainly use Bluetooth to read/write files to the miniSD card via ActiveSync. All my mp3 and mp3 ringtones on my card are showed under Start, Settings, Sounds.

Posted by: nycaribguy

Hey i've found by converting the mp3 to a wma file and changing the file to 64 KBPS the ringers and the volume on the phone sounded better. I have 40 songs on my 256 miniSD they all sound great with room to ad more I wish there was a way to stream the audio to my bluetooth headset. I used dbpoweramp music converter along with WM player 9.1 codec converter. Enjoy all was free software

Posted by: butzchan

I am using an ATP 512MB MiniSD card. No problems at all.

Posted by: ehsimpson

I now took a picture on my phone and stored it on the mini-sd card and then tried to view it and it wouldn't show up.... I think the card is defective and I'm planning on sending it back.

Posted by: spikyazn

PQI 512mb works great for me.

Posted by: phermat

Anyone using the 1 Gb Mini-Sd cards having any problems?

Posted by: aarons6

are there 1 gig mini SD cards?

Posted by: SmarthPhoneGuy

I was having the same problems with my Scandisk Mini SD card. I exchange it the other day at Best Buy and now everything works fine. I gues it was a corrupted card.
It's funny how a lot of people is having this problem. I wonder if the cards are getting corrupted by the phone somehow. I don't think these many cards can be corrupted from factory. In either case, I exchanged mine and now everything works great.

Posted by: Jay Schmay

I've got a 256MB Sandisk card, and I've noticed that the card takes a few seconds to be "read" before I can access my files. I have to refresh the media player playlist sometimes before the files on my SD card show up. Anyone else notice this? I have no problems whatsover with reading/writing... the access times are a little slow, that's all.

Posted by: skizza

I know this may sound a little weird, but how do you get more than one song to go into your playlist in windows media player. I don't have a memory card yet, but I do have about three or four songs located under sounds, and I can't seem to figure out how to get more than one song into my playlist. Thanks

Posted by: Jay Schmay

click on "menu" then "local content"

Posted by: skizza

If i have windows media player open, then go menu-local content, it beeps and doesn't open up anything but a windows media clip that is the default clip on the phone.

Posted by: Jay Schmay

How are your files stored? Windows Media Player doesn't like files that are more than 3 folders deep... for example, I had mine saved as /Storage Card/My Documents/My MP3s/example/ Try just placing them in My Documents. Also, WMP only looks in certain folders for your music. I have MP3 files stored in the "sounds" folder, and they don't show up either. Ideally...place them in a folder in My Documents. Hope this helps..

Posted by: dchester

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Originally posted by Jay Schmay
I've got a 256MB Sandisk card, and I've noticed that the card takes a few seconds to be "read" before I can access my files. I have to refresh the media player playlist sometimes before the files on my SD card show up. Anyone else notice this? I have no problems whatsover with reading/writing... the access times are a little slow, that's all.

I also have a Sandisk 256MB card, and I have the same symptom that you describe, but it only started after I upgraded to the 1.3 rev of firmware (I was on .325 previously).

Posted by: Jay Schmay

Yep, I have version 1.3 It really doesn't bother me too much, I've gotten used to the way it is.

Posted by: pluto168

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Originally posted by ehsimpson
I now took a picture on my phone and stored it on the mini-sd card and then tried to view it and it wouldn't show up.... I think the card is defective and I'm planning on sending it back.

I was planning to buy a RiData 512MB because several folks in the forum recommded it. How's yours now? Did you send it back and get a new one?