There has been a lot of finger pointing happening when it comes to data corruption with the Dell Axim and SanDisk SD Card. No one really knows what's causing the SD card to corrupt its data when used with the Axim. There is even a
website dedicated to this matter, trying to prove that SanDisk is at fault, or could it be that this is
not the fault of SanDisk at all. In any case, Axim users are right in the middle of the problem, and it seems that all fingers are being pointed at SanDisk. Then again, how could it be SanDisk if the problem only occurs with the Axim, and not with any other Pocket PC devices?
Lets look at this at a different perspective, instead of pointing all fingers to one vendor, how about thinking that the problem is cause by a combination of both the device and the card.
Here is a entry that I found in
Activewin.com. The post was made by a user named
Verymyndax, and I quote
"We've had a lot of problems with our Dell Axims at my office. When we initially received them, we had ordered them with the Sandisk 128mb SD/MMC cards from the Dell website. Turns out the Sandisk cards have a metallic label on the front of the card and in the Dell Axims, this causes a short in the device... which results in the cards not working properly. I couldn't really believe that one. We got new cards (Memorex cards I believe) and the data corruption issues on the SD cards went away. "
Could it be that the problem is solved by simply peeling the label of the card? Could it be that simple?
If it is true, in any case, it appears that SanDisk will have to take all the brunt of this fiasco since it is much easier to replace a SD card than an entire Axim ...then again, you can try and peal of the label and see if it works.
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