A few days ago, I did a post about my adventures while installing a Bluetooth® adapter on my PC. Well, I’m glad to report that the Bluetooth interface® to the Motorola RAZR V3rTM phone is now working fine on both my desktop and laptop PCs.
So on to the next adventure…
The phone has a slot for a MicroSD flash memory card. Since the phone has a built-in camera, I thought it would be a good idea to install some additional memory since image and video files consume a lot of storage.
So off to the local computer store I went and bought a 1GB MIcroSD card made by Dane-Elec for $20.00US after all the rebates and whatever. I installed the card in the phone and then attempted to store a picture on it. Well, the phone came back with a “No Memory Available” error message. I then tried to access the memory via the phone’s Tools Menu commands and the phone generated another error message…this time it said the card needed to be formatted. I tried formatting the card, but kept getting errors. I then removed the card from the phone and inserted it into the Card Reader on my PC. The PC found the card and could read and write it with no problems. I installed the card in the phone again and tried to format it a few more times with no success. I even searched the Internet for possible fixes but didn’t find any…but what I did find was a few people looking for a solution to the same problem, i.e., the phone would not format various manufacturers’ MicroSD Cards…but seemed to have no problems at all with those from SanDisk.
So, yet one more time, off to the local computer store I went and purchased a MicroSD card made by SanDisk. I put the card in the phone, powered the phone back on, and viola…it worked perfectly! As it should have, I guess, because after all, SanDIsk did create the original MicroSD specifications and card.
So, it it appears that all MicroSD cards are not created equal. If you are contemplating adding memory to a Motorola RAZR V3rTM, don’t go cheap…use a SanDisk MicroSD card.