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"Great concept, needs work" on by kirteentex
Pros: Great display, great sound, good sized buttons, easy controls
Cons: The interface with an added M2 memory card seems to have severe problems
Summary: My mother and I both got this phone, mainly for the MP3 player. When we added a 4GB M2 memory card the phone became glitchy. Sometimes it would see the memory card and other times it would just say no file or memory card not installed. When connected to a data cable attached to my laptop it would not always show the memory card, would not let me transfer thing saying memory card had stopped responding or would only show part of the memory card files. After going through three of them, I brought my laptop with me to the AT&T store to test another exchange. The assistant manager set up the phone and connected to the laptop. It did not show all the files so he disconnected and tried viewing them on the phone. Same error I kept getting, no files, no memory card installed, ect. I tried other memory cards to be sure it was not the card and the same thing happened. So they tried another one while I was at the store and it too was defective. The phone it self is great it just has a problem with the memory card interface. I hope they are able to correct this soon.
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lastwitness
Did the phone let you use all of your 8 GBs? -
This has to be an isolated case of possibly the shippment to that particular store. With my phone I purchased an 8GB M2 chip on Ebay and I works great, especially when it is only listed at Max cap. 4GB.
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Actually, I experienced the same problem until I figured out that it is not the phone's problem but more or less Sony's memory card interface problem, especially the M2 card that easily time out. Testing the memory card itself with a card reader will reveal the root cause.
But there's a solution. Make sure always use Sony's PC suit. I was able to transfer over a gig of music to the memory card smoothly. So the PC suit took care of the problem for me. Hope it helps.
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