Paul G. Allen wrote:
It has a USB port and software (for Windows) for D/L and U/L content
from/to the phone internal memory or the (up to) 8GB removable SD card
(great for music - it has an MP3 player and built-in stereo speakers as
well as either Bluetooth stereo headphones or headphones plugged into
the 1/8 phone jack). I have yet to see if I can browse the 'net from my
PC using the phone as the connection.
I just realized - 8GB is more than my laptop or any of my servers or
desktop machines!
Crap.
Yesterday I finally got a memory card for my phone (also bought stereo
headphones that will fit on my ears with my motorcycle helmet on). It's
a SanDisk 4GB MicroSDHC card. I bought a card reader at the same time.
To try it out quickly, I purchased a song using V-Cast on the phone for
$1.99. I also stored all my pictures on the card. I figured I'd have the
phone write to the card first, and then try and read it from a PC.
I plugged the card into the reader, and the reader into the laptop.
Nothing. In Linux dmesg showed a bunch of errors. In Windows the OS
froze up repeatedly and I had to reboot several times. The CD that came
with the phone supports ONLY XP and Vista, neither of which I have nor
want (though I have access to a XP CD). I did some investigating, and
finally noticed the reader did not support SDHC cards. Stupid me.
Today I exchanged the reader for the correct one from SanDisk. I plugged
the card into the reader, the reader into my USB port, and up popped a
Konquerer window showing the contents of the card. The pictures are
there and are simply standard .jpg files. The one song is there and is a
standard MP3. I was happy for about 60 seconds.
It took me that long to realize that all the music I thought I'd
downloaded onto my laptop from my server - about 250 songs - is still on
the server. The server has a dead HDD and I have not had the time to get
the thing back up and working again. I don't remember, but I hope
they're not on the dead HDD, and if they are I hope they are part of the
data I backed up. I no longer have most of the CDs the music came from,
and I don't really want to D/L it all again "illegally".
The bottom line is: The card works in Linux. It looks like any other
FAT32 mounted volume. I don't need V-Cast to put music, sounds, videos,
etc. on the phone. All that's needed is the correct reader and a USB
port on the computer. I also need to be smart enough to put my music,
etc. where I can access it easily. :o
4GB will hold a lot of music (and 8GB will hold a lot more).
PGA
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Paul G. Allen, BSIT/SE
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Random Logic Consulting Services
www.randomlogic.com
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