64gb SD in a Bolt??

GtoJon

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Anybody tried this yet? Just curious ...... would love to know. Not many people need this option, but I'm a photog/CompTech & like to have my photos/vidoes to show & utils for computers. Had the Bionic for 3 days & constantly had issues with my 32gb in the Bionic :(

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It has been said that it works if you format the card to FAT32 when its in the thunderbolt. i have seen reports of it working on other android devices including a few HTC devices.
 

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I saw some of those threads a while back & then they got buried. Now if the price would go down :)

Cheers :) , Jon
 

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It will not work, at least with current software. The Thunderbolt (and all current devices) only support up to 32 GB SD cards. If this is also a hardware limitation like many old computers had with RAM, then there may be no way at all to get a 64 GB card to work.

Why in the world do you need that space? The only significant space I have on my SD card is my current custom ROM should I ever need to re-flash. All my music is on Google Music, and movies I can stream from my computer.
 

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Why in the world do you need that space? The only significant space I have on my SD card is my current custom ROM should I ever need to re-flash. All my music is on Google Music, and movies I can stream from my computer.
I can see where a person without unlimited data might like more space. Personally, I thought 32GB was plenty.

-Frank
 
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Why in the world do you need that space? The only significant space I have on my SD card is my current custom ROM should I ever need to re-flash. All my music is on Google Music, and movies I can stream from my computer.

So nice that that works for you. Personally, I would like to keep all my MP3s on my phone, so I can listen to whatever I want, whenever I want. 32GB is too small for that, but 64GB would be plenty.

And I want to be able to listen even when I'm in an area with bad or no signal.

And I don't want to eat the battery that it takes to stream my music over a data connection whenever I want to listen.

But that's just me....
 
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So nice that that works for you. Personally, I would like to keep all my MP3s on my phone, so I can listen to whatever I want, whenever I want. 32GB is too small for that, but 64GB would be plenty.

And I want to be able to listen even when I'm in an area with bad or no signal.

And I don't want to eat the battery that it takes to stream my music over a data connection whenever I want to listen.

But that's just me....

This is EXACTLY why I choose to store my music on my phone over using streaming services. The reason for avoiding excess battery drain is huge.
 

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Why in the world do you need that space? The only significant space I have on my SD card is my current custom ROM should I ever need to re-flash. All my music is on Google Music, and movies I can stream from my computer.

In many ways this replaces my laptop & then some. I carry all of my Photo Proofs from 10 years to show to clients, important docs, drivers, app backups & yes music .... I'm a junky :) 32gb is almost perfect, but some more would be better & then my images don't have to be compressed as much.

The future is in the plams of our hands .... I believe it now for sure :D

Cheers :)
 
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GtoJon

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As somebody said earlier, I like the speed of local files & I'm not going to put them in a place like that anyway. Sometimes when I need to show them to clients I don't have a data connection anyway.

Cheers :) , Jon
 
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What you might want to do is go through your files and clean out the "dead wood" so to speak. I am a DIGITAL PACKRAT and I like to have a lot of stuff on my phone....you never know when you will need it right?.

I ask myself "When was the last time I viewed those photo's?, listened to that music?, watched that video?". If it is more than a month or 2, then obviously it is just taking up space and I copy it to my laptop or if it is something I really want to keep I can dump it to DropBox I will have it at my fingertips.

I like the Google Music idea, but, if I am in a 3G area or I don't have access to WiFi, I would get frustrated.

I just checked...I have 11,588 files on my SD Card and I am using 26GB. That is EVERYTHING on my card....cache, temp, drivers, ROMS, Music, Movies, Pictures, Video's, Data.

I am constantly cleaning off my SD
 

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Google music has a cache option for when you don't have service? I mean this isn't a dead on solution but you should be able to access a good amount of music even without service.

I'm impressed you can fit all your MP3's onto 64gb I have and listen to way more than that haha.
 

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