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Originally Posted by kilohertz53
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.
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kilohertz53,
Augen missed the boat on the SD card issue and the clock implementation big time; it looks like they implemented the "stock" development code for the SD card and that was only good for fat 16 and only up to one gig.
All of my Old" under 1gig SD cards work 100% after they are reformatted to fat 16, BTW most new SD cards are pre formatted as fat 32 to keep everyone happy.
It sure looks like the Augen programming crew can now assume the title of "The Gang That Could Not Even Shoot Straight if they even Tried " and the Hollywood management team getting the FIU Marketing MBA “FUBAR” award.
One can only wonder what the so called August 30th Update will bring, or is it just a “fix” for the page alignment fubar in the
July “fix.”?
Radioman52 Over and Out....