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DGalvin
06-10-2005, 12:39 PM
On page 160 of the LifeDrive Getting Started Guide it states that "Your device comes with a dummy card inserted into the expansion slot ...".

My didn't come with the dummy card. Did anyone get a dummy card with theirs? It would be nice to have a dummy card in there to keep dust, etc. out of the slot.

Does anywhere sell dummy SD cards? (Maybe I should just put a real one in there).
Tam Hanna
06-10-2005, 01:11 PM
Damn, get a 64MEG off ebay. costs you about nothing!
cyberdude
06-10-2005, 01:16 PM
hey the 512mb are going for $69 and the 1gb not much more!
GadgetGuru
06-10-2005, 01:34 PM
None come with mine. All my other older Palm's do come with one dummy card.

Just stick a real card in there. But Lifedrive's slot seems tighter than previous Palm, and the card when inserted is flat, unlike previous devices where one edge seems to be protruding... I really like the small touch (the tiny SD logo on the slot's side).
walstoned
06-10-2005, 02:33 PM
nope no dummy card here empty slot sh*** marketing thats all
Adrenochrome
06-10-2005, 02:52 PM
No dummy here. Get an SD anyway, just to back up your most important stuff.
Cyker
06-10-2005, 03:37 PM
<rant, minor>
This is one thing I always hated about SD slots - Why don't they have covers??

Every single Clie I've owned had a 3.5" floppy-style door (Well, except the TH55, but that has an actual click-lock door!), but every Palm I've seen just has a big gaping hole unless you stick a card into it.

Now, granted, with Palms most people will have a memory card in it, but every SD device I've seen with an unenclosed SD slot - Cameras, camcorders, music players etc. have unshielded hols! Why is that?!?!
cyberdude
06-10-2005, 03:47 PM
<rant, minor>
This is one thing I always hated about SD slots - Why don't they have covers??

Every single Clie I've owned had a 3.5" floppy-style door (Well, except the TH55, but that has an actual click-lock door!), but every Palm I've seen just has a big gaping hole unless you stick a card into it.

Now, granted, with Palms most people will have a memory card in it, but every SD device I've seen with an unenclosed SD slot - Cameras, camcorders, music players etc. have unshielded hols! Why is that?!?!
Don't know, probably because they're cheapskates. But AFAIK this is the first palm that does not come with a dummy card.
MrNako
06-10-2005, 03:50 PM
Maybe you can sue PalmOne for not giving you a dummy card.
Cyker
06-10-2005, 04:04 PM
Roflmao!!!!
DGalvin
06-10-2005, 06:58 PM
I noticed that the Treo 650s at work come with one ... and they're more in need of having a real one fill the slot.
kwajkat
06-10-2005, 11:30 PM
Maybe whom ever was suppose to stick the dummy SD card in the slot was out sick that day. Mine didn't come with one but I just kept the one that came with my TC.
krhainos
06-11-2005, 12:10 AM
Some poor palmOne factory worker just got fired because he forgot to insert the dummy SD cards. :rolleyes:

"Now, what are we going to do with a twenty boxes of 250,000 dummy SD cards, now that the LifeDrives shipped?"
mmurray
06-11-2005, 04:24 AM
If you guys decide not to do a class action then Google says

http://www.gethightech.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?&Screen=PROD&Product_Code=PA1104&Category_Code=SD


$1 for a new one -- not sure what delivery charges are!

Michael
Cyker
06-11-2005, 05:28 AM
Y'know, I'd be more inclined to make one out of cardboard myself, rather than pay $1 plus whatever exorbitant amount of shipping they'd charge for such a waste of plastic...
Ezikial Anta
06-11-2005, 08:46 PM
Heh, I have a 512 in there just to back up certain files and media... Its cheap and adds more space if you arent into backing up a Hard Drive (Doesnt that sound stupid?)
kwajkat
06-11-2005, 11:00 PM
Has anyone else noticed if you keep a SD card inserted all the time that there is a noticeible lag time when moving around and opening applications? I didn't realize how much of a lag time there was until I took it out. Without the SD card inserted there is hardly any lag time.
PDA Maniac
06-12-2005, 06:15 PM
I have dozens of dummy cards. I take them out of the display units in the stores. I also have over 100 styli from all diferent pdas!
SonyStyle
06-12-2005, 08:10 PM
what does a dummy card look like??????
Tam Hanna
06-14-2005, 12:36 PM
Well, T3 has had a floppy door LOL
Cyker
06-14-2005, 03:28 PM
Does it??
My friend must have broken his off...! :eek:

Of course he has broken it about 3 times from dropping, sitting on and Cat Attack, so....
Cyker
06-14-2005, 03:36 PM
what does a dummy card look like??????

Well... if you get a piece of plastic that has exactly the same shape as an SD card, but without the switch or metal contacts or anything else, that's what it looks like.
Tam Hanna
06-15-2005, 06:29 AM
Hi,
I have made and attached a few little photos for you. The other card is a HAMA 64MB SD card-damn, it is fast!