I just have a quick question.

 

I have a 256 mb sd card for my pda, and for some reason, it did not detect it yesterday. In addition to that, sometimes I would lose data although it would still say it was taken up even though I could not find it in the sd card folders.

 

Can sd cards go bad after a certain period of time?

 

I hope so, cause otherwise, my pda card slot is bad. And I don't feel like paying for a new one, or a repair job on it.

Yes SD cards, like all flash memory devices, can go wrong and lose data, I had a pendrive that lost about 90% of it's space :|

Yes SD cards, like all flash memory devices, can go wrong and lose data, I had a pendrive that lost about 90% of it's space :|

 

So, you think it's the card and not the pda?

 

I suppose it's the lesser of two evils.

I would make a backup with a card reader on the PC, format it (correctly) and put the backup back and see what happens.

hmm, I'll have to try that

 

just to clarify, use the pda cradle to format the entire device? or just the card.

Because, the pda doesn't even detect the card anymore.

try formatting the entire device and then you know you've pretty much covered everything.!

can you get a new card?

If you have a faulty SD card and you're not sure if it's the card or the pda/laptop/computer then all you do is try the SD card in another computer and see if it works.

 

If it works fine in the other computer then it's the pda's fault... if it doesn't work in the 2nd computer you can assume it's the card.

i had an i-mate smartphone and it had an SD card slot. I used SD cards in it only for listening to songs, using the phone as an mp3 player.

 

Once I left the song running and I got a call. The playing stopped and after I answered the call, it wouldn't even detect the songs. I removed it and tried putting it back again like a ... times but nothing happened. Then I removed the card and it worked on my mp3 player. The phone's battery ran out once as I couldn't charge it. When I had the power back on line, the media player worked and also played media after inserting the same SD card.

 

That phone is quite messed up though. Got a better one!