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K850 8gb Micro SD Compatibility |
Windowlicker
Joined: Jan 29, 2008
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Hi. I've been a user of Sony Ericsson phones for a few years now (started with T610!) and am considering getting a K850, but I just need to clear a couple of things up before I commit. My last two phones have been Walkman phones (w800 and W880) and I was considering getting w960, but recently found out that the K850 has essentially the same music player (not bothered about touchscreen), but with the added bonus of a decent camera. But what I want to know is will I be able to use an 8gb micro SD card for storing music on? I know it is compatible with 4gb but just want to make sure I can use an 8gb card in it. |
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w999ismine
Joined: Apr 18, 2007
Posts: 104
From: london
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welcome to esato. everyone on this site says it works but i wanna know if its perfect before i buy. i dont want mine to turn slower than it allready is(heaven forbid)
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Windowlicker
Joined: Jan 29, 2008
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Yeah I know what you mean. 4gb M2 slows my w880 down a bit, but its acceptable. I'm hoping the more powerful software in the k850 will be able to handle 8gb. |
Dart5
Joined: Mar 03, 2005
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Hello, I've got an 8GB mciroSDHC in my K850 - it's compatible alright, it's just that it makes the media player so slow it's unusable. It can literally take a minute or two to navigate to a specific song. Using the file manager or playlist is fine. Along with the HGE-100 I bought (only near useless software available for it), the 8GB has been a waste of money – combined, that’s £100 down the drain, thanks SE. |
Windowlicker
Joined: Jan 29, 2008
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Its not sounding like a good outlook. You say that file manager works fine, do you mean that you can choose to play music in the music player from the file manager? Because thats what i do with my w880 now anyway (its the only way to make the songs play in order for some reason) so that wont bother me. Any thoughts from anyone else?
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Togan
Joined: Jan 16, 2008
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no i wouldnt go higher than a 2GB M2
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Windowlicker
Joined: Jan 29, 2008
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Really? No bigger than 2gb? As I said earlier I'm using a 4gb m2 on my w880 and that works fine with negligable slow down. Surely the more powerful k850 can handle at least 4gb? |
tai020381
Joined: Dec 07, 2004
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Wait for k850i's newer firmware to come out then you guys try out and give comment. The phone is not yet optimised. (Just ike the PSP's initial release. It can only handle 4Gb max but now it can handle 8Gb) |
Windowlicker
Joined: Jan 29, 2008
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Do you know when the new firmware will be released? I'm not due to upgrade til end of February anyway so hopefully it will be sorted by then. And just to clarify, my 4gb m2 should be ok in the k850 for the time being? |
Dart5
Joined: Mar 03, 2005
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On 2008-01-29 10:23:20, Windowlicker wrote:
. . . You say that file manager works fine, do you mean that you can choose to play music in the music player from the file manager? . . .
You can play the music from the file manager (although not using the Media Player) OK. You don't get the full functionality this way though. I've set up Playlist for albums I most freq use which helps, but defeats the point of having a large card with so much choice. It is good is you have movies as it can hold a load. I have about 1600 song & 4 films and plenty of space for pictures.
I'm hoping the rumored latest FW will sort this out - Nokia did a great job on the N800 which had similar issues until a revised FW so I know it can be done. |
bongcp45
Joined: Dec 08, 2007
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Check this out.
http://www.sonyericsson.com/c[....]emorystickmicrom2?cc=gb&lc=en#
SE says up to 8gb |
larry 68
Joined: Nov 09, 2007
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I have just upgraded to the sandisk M2 4gb and it works fine, it slowed things down initially but seems as fast now as before. |
Windowlicker
Joined: Jan 29, 2008
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On 2008-01-29 15:42:49, Dart5 wrote:
On 2008-01-29 10:23:20, Windowlicker wrote:
. . . You say that file manager works fine, do you mean that you can choose to play music in the music player from the file manager? . . .
You can play the music from the file manager (although not using the Media Player) OK. You don't get the full functionality this way though. I've set up Playlist for albums I most freq use which helps, but defeats the point of having a large card with so much choice. It is good is you have movies as it can hold a load. I have about 1600 song & 4 films and plenty of space for pictures.
So will it not work the same as my w880 then? when selecting an album to play I go into Music from the File Manager then into the album I want, then go to More>Music Player>Play All. Is this option not available on K850? It would be great if someone could check for me. |
Erikr
Joined: Jan 10, 2008
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I too have a 8GB MicroSDHC card in mine.
But my song list is not so slow to navigate (although it certainly could be more resposnive), but I guess that is because I haven't filled my phone with that many songs yet... Maybe the the song list just gets slower and slower the more songs you have on the memory card (perhaps obvious...). But surely SE will fix it soon... can't be hard to cache all songs in memory to speed that list up...
BTW, here's a promising tracking/mapping software program to use your HGE-100 with: Wayfinder Active. Get it (free) from http://www.activeoutdoor.com/Activeoutdoor/RegisterFreeDownload.
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Dart5
Joined: Mar 03, 2005
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So will it not work the same as my w880 then? when selecting an album to play I go into Music from the File Manager then into the album I want, then go to More>Music Player>Play All. Is this option not available on K850? It would be great if someone could check for me.
Never tried it that way before, but just did and no, you can't do that on the K850 which is a shame as once you've got to the song the Media Player is fine. The new firmware is due soon so it may not be an issue for much longer. Also, others have reported that their Media Player works OK with a lot of songs, so it possible there's something about my files that it doesn't like and not a general issue with the Media Player.
Erikr - thanks for the link
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