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Fake Memory Sticks ? |
SE-MAN888
Joined: Aug 12, 2005
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@dgilmartin: from what happened to me, I see the following indicators for my Sony 1GB MMS (let me use your phone to show you my symptoms):
RED- The sides are poorly sealed, as in a bit messy compared to what SONY would do to their products- neat and nice (SONY finishing).
GREEN- The circle (if you carefully notice on your cards) is harder to notice and it does not reflect light. I tried on my original 64mb k750i phone and it reflected a perfect round circle of light, and if you move it around a bit, you'll notice nothin else gets reflected but that circle.
BLUE- I notice my 1GB MMS has messy patterns on the golden reading part. The original one has a VERY smooth 'SONY finishing' surface.
NOT IN PICTURE- The front side the memory card is make up of a very thin, cheap feeling (well, it is cheap) plastic. Guess what, it started to break after 1 to 2 weeks after very little memory stick discarding/ inserting activity with my phone. |
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SE-MAN888
Joined: Aug 12, 2005
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I must admit though that China did a good job (copying). We wouldn't be able to spot them unless we look very carefully. |
Silkwood
Joined: Mar 27, 2005
Posts: 218
From: England
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On 2005-08-19 18:04:02, B.J. wrote:
does the fake thingy have sumthing to do with the memory capacity? i mean, my sandisk 256 can only handle 237mb of total memory.. |
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Like computer drives they use a bit of capacity to run anyway.
Using P910i with flip off! |
ac
Joined: Feb 09, 2003
Posts: 316
From: India
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The 1gb pro duo that I bought seems to be fake too. Thought only mmc/sd fakes were available. Got the duo for a good price but hope now that its going to last long. 
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parsnip
Joined: Oct 26, 2004
Posts: 386
From: England
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damn, i think mines fake too
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s1ngs1ng
Joined: Aug 16, 2004
Posts: 19
From: Singo
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I think mine too 1GB MSD DUO PRO HS bought from ebay 5months ago crack on the side as it comes out but still working for the card......
might be dead after 1 year.....
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JJ!
Joined: Sep 13, 2005
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with me yesterday that it was fake, so i went to buy another Sandisk 1GB pro duo for gaming.. with a more reliable dealer..
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good way of them to make money from you! |
baste07
Joined: Nov 07, 2002
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yeah lets jsut hope it will reach / stay alive for a long time |
Sur_G
Joined: Jul 06, 2004
Posts: 26
From: The Netherlands
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I bought a 2GB stick from ebay. It appears to be fake as well.
It can only hold 1GB of memory and I cant acces the stick from the computer only from the phone.
You guys should check this thread out,
http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=53801
thats where I discoverd there were fakes ones one the market. Im trying to get a fefund now from the seller.
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baste07
Joined: Nov 07, 2002
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am tryi9ng to load up my memory stick. and its loading up to its specified capacity 1.9GB. so although fake it still gets the job done. |
abubakar
Joined: Sep 15, 2005
Posts: 109
From: Nigeria
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bought a 128mb duo for my s700 and it didnt work from day one. tried putting it on a card reader on my pc that allowed me to save some stuff on it but it doesnt work on my phone. while trying to reformat it i got a msg that it was corrupt. is there any hope or should i just get another from a better source? |
baste07
Joined: Nov 07, 2002
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get a better source... you don't want things dying when you need it right? like when you need to make a call thing?.. don't want your memory card dying on you when you need to save on it. |
below24
Joined: Jul 16, 2004
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From: London
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I am a consultant to Sandisk and this is what i have been informed.
"SanDisk recently broke one major ring of counterfeit products in China
being sold on eBay. Today we believe up to 50% of products sold in the
"used" market to be counterfeit. We recommend only buying products from
authorized dealers. In Asia all products have a hologram on the retail
package and products that are bought without packaging or without a
hologram are suspect."
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LeoPheonix
Joined: Aug 29, 2003
Posts: 23
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I bought my 1GB memory stick pro duo from ebay last june. I droped my phone a distance of about 6 inches last night and the phone stopped working.
I turned out that the memory stick casing split open and stoped working. The only way to get my phone to work was to remove the memory stick! |
juming
Joined: Dec 11, 2001
Posts: 141
From: Indonesia
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How about this one ? It's fake or not ? Cause I got in the original (not fake) packaging....
and this
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Posted: 2005-08-19 18:15
