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Originally Posted by rscudder
Ok. most of the issues with TB are ones I can live with, especially with what you get for under $100.
However, I am beginning to notice problems with my SD card (also the charger connection, but I will leave that for another time);
Close to half the time I turn on TB, it doesn't show the little green SD icon at the bottom of the page, and there is no SD card listed in the library. Once in a while, just turning it off and on will cause it to notice the SD card, but not a lot of the time. Then I need to pop the SD card out and back in- at which point everything is fine. I have a regular SD card in there, not a micro, but I would think the stress on pushing it in and out on a micro card might end up damaging the card, since that is where you push to pop it.
Interestingly, even after popping the SD card in and out, I am able to use continue reading without any problem.
My other SD card related issue is that sometimes the text listing book files and titles, especially on the SD card, turns into gibberish, and sometimes while reading just prior to that, the page will freeze and no longer turn. Turning the reader off and on again has fixed that every time, but I do not understand why it happens, and I'd like to know if anyone else has had similar problems.
Rebecca
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I must say, you are far more patient and forgiving than I would be. I'd have returned or exchanged my TB if I experienced as many problems as you have with SD recognition and function. It sounds hardware related to me, and all the firmware updates in the world won't fix it.
I've used two different SD cards, both plain-vanilla Kingstons (512M & 2G), formatted to the default FAT 16 file system. My TB has never failed to see them, and has never messed up any files on them.
I have noticed a few software peculiarities here and there. A freshly formatted SD card inserted into the TB when it's turned off will have empty folders written to it when the TB is turned on (Digital Editions, My Books, Videos, Music, etc.). The Notes function will create and export a file to the SD card
only once. Extra stuff you add to the Notes won't be exported to the SD card if you use the export function again, although the TB won't give you an error message. There's a "Default" function in the "Settings' menu that brings up a window that allows you to make a "backup" of your stuff before you reset the TB to "factory default", but the TB sees any SD card with the folders it created as "write protected" (as far as the TB is concerned). You can only write a backup file to a freshly formatted SD card that you insert after selecting the "export" function. The backup file is far too small to actually contain your data. I think it only writes directory information, and factory default probably just deletes the pointers to your data and not the data itself. (I didn't follow through with hitting the factory default button to test my theory, however.) These, of course, are just minor matters of clumsy programming and inadequate documentation. The intermittency you describe is far more serious.