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    Thanks! It looks like running it on the phone would also allow syncing to SMB shares on Windows. In that use case, I did google it and found a report of high battery usage, although that was on an older version of Android. Do you also use it to backup your photos/videos on your phone? If so, how does it deal with trying to sync deletes (if you don't want it to do that)?
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    I believe that many of them do now. I'm happy to contact the vendors if we put together a small list of cards, to find out for sure. My understanding of f2fs is that it pools up write operations so that they are done in sequential batches in order to reduce writes. I'm not sure if it is inherent in that design or if it is just implementation issues, but it seems like there have been some reports of data loss/corruption with f2fs. I would think power losses from phone reboots or batteries going dead would be a problem. Maybe that's why it isn't used as much in phones? Apparentl
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    I did see some of those types of cards marked for endurance. At these price points, my personal approach is that I can just get another one if one wears out and it would take a lot to wear them out. They should do their own wear leveling over time, to avoid that type of problem you mentioned writing to the same blocks. The card decides where to write and it will write to different locations to even out the wear. I've been using an SD card for running most of my apps on my Relay 4G for years now and it is still chugging away. I am not using any type of virtual memory though. Do a
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    In theory, that's great, but from the tests I've seen, any cards will perform very poorly compared to internal storage, even the A2 stamped cards. I didn't look closely at the stats, but I wouldn't be surprised if that Lexar without any A ratings would outperform a SanDisk with ratings. I'll admit that I don't game on my phone. For those who need more app space than the internal 128 and more RAM than 6 GB, I guess get the fastest random access card you can. UPDATE: I've been thinking about this more. Everything is relative. I run apps on my SD card in my Relay 4G, and that SD ca
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    They sure don't make it easy, do they? With all the various specs and changing them every year. I spent some time researching (no real world testing, myself) and here is what I came away with: 1) For running apps on these cards, there is no way we can come anywhere close to the internal storage. Even if you get cards with an A1 or A2 rating, for running apps on them, they won't perform close to what they should (meaning what the A2 spec says, for instance), when run inside a phone. We're talking about small, random reads/writes. For maximum app performance, run the apps only on the
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    That is normal (but has confused many people). However, you want to be sure of your status, you can always email info@fxtec.com and ask them.
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    But wasn't there a cut off date for paying for those with coupons and if they paid after that date, they did not get shipping preference? This is just from memory, so I could be remembering incorrectly. I mention it, because 36xxx is a fairly large order number, which means the chances of paying layer may have been greater. Do you know when you paid, @Gigadoc2?
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    That is correct. And although I read previously that it worked, I wondered if that status had changed.
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    Does the screen not work at all?
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    LOL!
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    That's some good speed (400 Mbps). Is that what is reported as the link speed or is that what the SFTP client is reporting as the transfer speed? Can you share your wifi parameters? 802.11AC? PC on wifi too? Channel width? Number of streams? Which SFTP app are you using on the phone and which application on the PC? Any stats on the USB MTP connection speed? And was that with a USB 3.0 port and cable? (I read some reports online of the KeyOne shipping with a USB 2.0 cable instead of a USB 3.0 cable). That's great if you pay for it. Without paying for it, once you
  12. david
    Yes, we wouldn't want that. And software rotation would be cheating. :-)
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    I was thinking about how you are one of the few people in the world who could do this (without help from friends). But if you take a picture of the new Pro1 with the old, then any camera issues with the old would show up. And if you take pictures of the old, with the new, then they show something people can't order. I suppose if the old one is far enough away, people won't see the differences. Have software updates on the older units allowed the cameras to operate the same as the new one? Or.....Pro1 mirror selfie pictures! (selfies *of* the Pro1, *by* the Pro1!) Clean those m
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    I was thinking the same thing! lol However, she said photos taken *by* the Pro1, not of the Pro1, so you only have to de-dust the world. 😉
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    I think you may have replied to my post, but mean to reply to @EskeRahn?
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    Yeah, for some of those adapter styles, they don't talk about data transfer. But I wonder if that is because that is more a function of the cable you plug into them, so they aren't mentioning it for that reason? The nice thing about going with an adapter approach is that then you can use whatever USB cables you want to use. In other words, I can have Type-A to Type-C cables for QC and Type-C to Type-C cables for PD, but I can use the same magnetic ends for all of them. For shared chargers, I'd still need to be sure I connect to a cable that is plugged into a QC port and the Pixel users
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    Sorry, I should have made it more clear. I want a 90 degree tip on the phone end. I mentioned that earlier, but not at that point in my post. I know they exist. It is a matter of whether the USB-C nub that stays in the phone will touch the surface when the phone is set down on a hard surface. I don't want to stress the USB port/phone plastic, so I want one that is low profile, like the one @Craig found.
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    Good find. I think that is right on topic. I am hoping to install an app that will take care of incremental transfers for me by automatically (over wifi) keeping my photos and videos synced to a given PC. The app is called Syncthing and has an Android component and then components for the PC end (supports Mac, various forms of Linux, Windows, etc.). I'll have to jump through some hoops with some settings so that if I delete files form the phone, it doesn't delete them from the PC and if I delete them from the PC, it doesn't delete them from the phone, but I'm hoping this solution will
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    On my Relay 4G, my SD card is faster than my internal storage. I use an app called Link2SD (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.buak.Link2SD&hl=en_US) to allow me to run apps and have them store their data on the SD card (in a special partition). I was worried about that slowing them down, but before I went through that transformation, I tested the storage speeds with another app and was pleasantly surprised that the SD card was faster. I'm sure that isn't the case in newer phones, but in older phones it can apparently be true. After utilizing Link2SD, not only did I
  20. david
    I'm guessing you are talking about non-fast charging chargers or Qualcomm Quick Charge chargers. Those are all typically Type-A connectors. Quick Charge is Qualcomm's proprietary standard. Power Delivery is another fast charge standard that newer phones use. It is an open standard created by the group that handles all the USB standards. Apple's phones use it. Google's phones use it. And some number of other, newer Android's phone use it. It supports delivering more power than Quick Charge. Quick Charge tops out at 18 watts. Power Delivery tops out at 100 watts. But you typically
  21. david
    Another reply to these. I just realized that these don't swivel. The swivel type could come in handy for those people who are buying cables for other people who are really hard on cables, as it will reduce their desire to bend the heck out of the cables. The 90 degree, non-swivel types should reduce that as well, but the swivel type should really reduce it. Can you tell that I have to replace cables for people relatively often? :-) The other thing I thought about is that some of the cables being discussed here are type A on one end. I have chargers that require Type A and I have char
  22. david
    I agree. "For most people." I think we need to differentiate between edge cases and the typical cases. I'm looking more at the edge cases. For the typical cases, a lot of solutions will work fine. When time allows, I might do some speed testing to show the difference between the various options, with different numbers of files and different amounts of data. That will be easier for people to relate to and pick from based on their use case. In the meantime, at least we're giving people options.
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    Except that I don't think I want to get every last drop of it out of the carton when that happens! :-)
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    I replied in the other thread. :-)
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    Modems and car phones. :-) The 480 Mbps is the theoretical top speed. As you mentioned, the controller and other factors may impact this. MTP is a slow protocol. It doesn't allow for parallelism. The hope is that USB 3.0 will make up for some of that. If you can't do multiple operations concurrently, then try to do each serial operation as fast as possible (that's the idea). Of course, there is also the speed of the internal storage or SD card storage or PC storage at play here too. Lots of variables. I've never used a USB 3.0 phone to do data transfers, so I don't know h
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