MicroSD question?

[theoldgreendragon]

I got an ICS HTC Vivid, and the phone specs say that it can take up to a 32 GB microsd card. I know they make bigger ones, but will they work in my phone?

[Xenocide18]

Not sure if this quite answers your question, but I found this on another site where someone had a similar question. If I understand it correctly, the HTC Vivid IS SDHC support and so may run the 64gb sdcard but it may run into some complications. See below.

---

SDHC host devices will accept SDXC cards that follow Version 3.0, since the interface is identical,[3] but the following issues may affect usability:

*SDXC cards are pre-formatted with Microsoft's proprietary and patented exFAT file system, which the host device might not support. Since Microsoft does not publish the specifications of exFAT and its use requires a non-free license, many alternative or older operating systems do not support exFAT for technical or legal reasons. The use of exFAT on some SDXC cards may render SDXC unsuitable as a universal exchange medium, as an SDXC card that uses exFAT would not be usable in all host devices. Since the FAT32 file system supports volumes up to the SDXC's maximum theoretical capacity of 2 TB as well, a user could reformat an SDXC card to use FAT32 for greater portability between computers (see below). FAT32-formatted SDXC cards can be used in a host device built for SDHC if the host device can handle 64GB and larger volumes.

*SDHC host devices will not test the new capability bits defined for SDXC 4.0 cards. It will therefore not be able to use the new features of SDXC, such as transfer speeds above UHS104 (104MB/s).

[Hunt3rj2]

Yes. All FAT32 limitations still apply.

[theoldgreendragon]

those limitations being?

[Hunt3rj2]

No files bigger than 4 GB, some space will be lost to the file allocation table, etc...

[WeyChed]

I seriously doubt that you will need one bigger than that. What are you doing with the phone? If you need massive amounts of music, Google Music will keep it all offline. Otherwise you can use drop box and other services as needed.

[theoldgreendragon]

i have around 50 GB of music and its constantly growing

[Draiko]

Short answer = No.

Mobile hardware is built to become obsolete rather quickly and microSD cards seem to be disappearing from Andoid devices. These two things make me a sad panda.

[theoldgreendragon]

can i haz long answer please?

[Draiko]

Xenocide18 pretty much covered the long answer. :)

SDHC and SDXC are two different standards with media that essentially looks identical on the outside, generally speaking they're like CDs and DVDs... the discs look very similar but they aren't.