I bought a 64GB Sandisk SDXC from ebay really cheap, and it was recognised fine by Windows 7 and My Android 4.0 tablet. I put my files on my tablet so I don't need to carry a hard disk. All was well for about a week.
Then yesterday I found that it got stuck on the Connecting USB Mass Storage device screen (the screen that appears when I insert the USB lead, where the green android's hand is a USB connector) and did not proceed to the "USB Storage in use" screen where the android turns orange.
Meanwhile in my notifications it had things like "card removed" (when I had not) and "checking card," and one time "card has errors."
I rebooted a couple of times. The "card has errors" went away but I could not connect.
I checked the card by putting it into an adaptor and using disk check on windows. Windows 7 saw it fine and the check said there were no errors.
Returning the card to my tablet/phone again left me stuck at the Connecting USB Mass Storage screen. I pressed the button to "Turn on USB storage" and all I got was that little round thing (the equivalent of an egg-timer on a Mac) showing me that it is busy.
Then I decided to go back to using my flash drive, re-synced my flash drive with my tablet's micro SD card.
I put the card back in my tablet, and now I can connect to it again!
What may have caused the problem is attempting to connect to a Windows XP machine. Win XP is not compatible with SDHX. If I avoid windows XP can I expect years of happy Mass Storage? I would like to be able to use my phone as my flash drive. Why is it so unreliable? What am I doing wrong? Are other people happily connecting to the USB cards and using their phones as a flash drive day-to-day?
Tim
Now using NEC Medias Tab N-O8D
Then yesterday I found that it got stuck on the Connecting USB Mass Storage device screen (the screen that appears when I insert the USB lead, where the green android's hand is a USB connector) and did not proceed to the "USB Storage in use" screen where the android turns orange.
Meanwhile in my notifications it had things like "card removed" (when I had not) and "checking card," and one time "card has errors."
I rebooted a couple of times. The "card has errors" went away but I could not connect.
I checked the card by putting it into an adaptor and using disk check on windows. Windows 7 saw it fine and the check said there were no errors.
Returning the card to my tablet/phone again left me stuck at the Connecting USB Mass Storage screen. I pressed the button to "Turn on USB storage" and all I got was that little round thing (the equivalent of an egg-timer on a Mac) showing me that it is busy.
Then I decided to go back to using my flash drive, re-synced my flash drive with my tablet's micro SD card.
I put the card back in my tablet, and now I can connect to it again!
What may have caused the problem is attempting to connect to a Windows XP machine. Win XP is not compatible with SDHX. If I avoid windows XP can I expect years of happy Mass Storage? I would like to be able to use my phone as my flash drive. Why is it so unreliable? What am I doing wrong? Are other people happily connecting to the USB cards and using their phones as a flash drive day-to-day?
Tim
Now using NEC Medias Tab N-O8D