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Lifer
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I ordered this a few days ago at Amazon:

Sandisk 2GB MicroSD TransFlash Memory Card

I'd ordered a purportedly Sandisk 2GB microSD card from Amazon in March 2014, but only later discovered it didn't work OK in the device, a Callaway uPro G1 GPS unit. The card I'd received didn't say Sandisk on it, so I assumed it was generic and I complained to Amazon a few days ago and they said the seller no longer was with them but they agreed to credit me the $4.99 it cost me.

I went ahead and ordered the one at the link above a few days ago. As you can see at Amazon's page linked above, it says Sandisk on it in the graphic from the link above, also showing a trademark imprinted on the card. However, what I received today is displayed below. I haven't done anything with it except connect it to this computer. It's FAT formatted and the name shown in Explorer is BLACKBERRY2. I have to think this thing is not supplied by Sandisk, is maybe not even new. As you can see in the snapshot I took it says Made in China. I say this is no way in hell Sandisk memory. Do you think this is actually Sandisk flash memory? :confused:

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JAG87

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Looks to have been pulled from a Blackberry phone, so clearly not new. Why don't you just buy one that is shipped and sold by Amazon.com? That way you know it will be brand new and legit. These things are so cheap anyway.
 
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If it works, and has the stated capacity, it should be good enough, regardless of its provenance.
 
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Looks legit, though not new.

Put it in the device. As long as it works, call the problem solved and move on.

I doubt there are any of these being made new.
 
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Lifer
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3chordcharlie said:
Looks legit, though not new.

Put it in the device. As long as it works, call the problem solved and move on.

I doubt there are any of these being made new.
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Yes, I can try it. Thing is Callaway (one of their reps) told me it wouldn't work. I wasn't convinced. I got it very close to working, maybe it actually will work (the original one I had), but it was suggested that the reason I had an issue could have been because I was using generic flash memory, not the best. I wanted the best, seeing as it's cheap enough, WTH. But when I realized that my Sandisk flash wasn't Sandisk at a (didn't say Sandisk on it), I figured I should try genuine Sandisk. I don't know if this one I just got is genuine Sandisk. I can try it in the device and see what happens.
 
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Lifer
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Don't know if the GPS will function correctly with it, but there's no doubt that this card is faster than the first 2GB microSD card I got. With the newly acquired card the unit boots in 82 seconds. With the card that I acquired in March. 2014, with the exact same data on the card, the GPS takes 114 seconds to boot. That's a considerable difference. As I said, I experienced disfunctionality the one time I used the GPS with the slower card, it shut down unexpectedly and I swapped out the card for a 1GB card with which it has most always worked. I will take the GPS to the course in 2 days and give it the acid test with the faster of the 2GB cards.
 
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paperwastage said:
might be also because of file defragmentation?

http://www.gps-forums.net/possible-fix-lag-roadmate-2136t-lm-unit-t44578.html

the lag plagued my gps (and a lot of other people too) until someone came up with this fix
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Interesting. I put the slower 2GB card in a reader and connected to this machine (Win 7, the other machine is XP), and Win 7 wanted to scan and fix errors and I let it. Tested the start up time of the GPS and it was marginally faster -- 109 seconds instead of 114. Will now put back in reader and defrag and retest...
 
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Lifer
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I defraged using Win 7's built in defrag. It seems to have done something to the card because the GPS won't finish booting with it. So, I just put the card back in a reader and reformatted it. I'm now "formatting" the card within the GPS, which imbues it with the system. Will then copy all the course data and stuff from the other 2GB card to it and see how it behaves.
 
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Lifer
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Did as I said and now the GPS boots with that first, slower 2GB card but it's even slower, it took 120 seconds to boot. My theory is that it's just inferior flash memory, essentially. Their graphic showed it was Sandisk but the card doesn't say Sandisk anywhere on it. It's likely generic, albeit Taiwan made memory. I will likely have no use for it.
 
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Lifer
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So far so good using the 2nd "Sandisk" 2GB card. At least one Callaway support person told me that a 2GB wouldn't work in the GPS, but I suspected it would. If they had a 4GB microSD card I'd get it. I once tried an 8GB microSDHC card and it didn't work.
 
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