SanDisk Ultra II issues - Treo Forums

Kreth · 02-22-2006, 01:42 PM

So I'd ordered 2GB card from a Pricegrabber storefront, and it was delivered yesterday. I was all excited, ready to start putting MP3s on my new card. After a quick backup of my old SD card (Sandisk "Blue" 128MB), I pop in the new card. Card Info sees the card just fine, as long as I don't try to do anything with it. If I do, the card disappears from Card Info.
So, I run to OfficeMax and pick up the only card reader they had in stock, a brand called Digital. Both DOS and Windows formats appear to complete normally, but afterwards the card shows with 0 free space. Being a little skeptical of the unknown brand, I run out again, this time to Wal-Mart (shudder). I snag the last Sandisk 12-in-1 card reader that they have, only to return home and get the same results when attempting to format the card.
I sent an e-mail to the address at the Pricegrabber storefront explaining the problem, and was suprised to receive a reply in less than an hour. I'm sending the bad card back, and they are sending me another one, no questions asked.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed for round two...

Kreth · 03-11-2006, 02:07 PM

Well, after a few days, I received an e-mail from the vendor via Paypal. Apparently they had received a bad lot of the Ultra II cards, and did not know when they'd have further stock, so they issued me a refund. The nice thing is that they even refunded my shipping.
In the meantime, I had read in several places that there is no appreciable difference between the Ultra II and standard Sandisk "blue" SD card in the Treo, so I reinvested my refund in a "blue" 2 GB card. I've had had it for a few days now, and it worked like a charm straight out of the box. The only thing I have noticed, is that if I change batteries with a card inserted, I have to soft reset my Treo before it will recognize the card. I try to keep my batteries topped off so I don't need to swap often, so it's only a minor inconvenience.