Hacking Did your included card reader work?

[spokenrope]

Mine works fine as well. It almost fell apart pulling it out of the usb port once, but once I clicked it all back together it's seemed more solid and hasn't felt like it's coming apart since.

Also I use a USB 1.1 port rather than a 2.0, the write speeds are slower but after hearing the stories of it overheating I thought it might be a safer bet!

That's an interesting point. I wonder if using USB 2.0 might be part of the problem. I've been using 1.1 with no problems. I wonder if the guy whose card caught fire was using USB 2.0 at the time.

 

[xiaobao]

well, mine worked.... but mine dropped on a carpet floor(yes! a carpet floor which should absorb the shock of the impact more) and the shell came apart.... it have not failed me yet

 

[iamwhoiam]

Mine works, i'm surprised how many don't work judging from the votes!

 

[eyemessiah]

Mine sort of worked, a bit. It seemed fine browsing the SD, but when I tried to copy stuff over it took forever and said "59 minutes left..." and just generally acted crazy, so I haven't tried it since for fear of file corruption.

 

[Nocturno]

I bought 3 R4 and none of the readers seem to work, windows doesn´t recognize any of them, and they become very hot after a couple of seconds..

 

[digital_sin]

it might be your PSU. this happend to me before; when i use my flash memory on my PC it works just fine and i can leave it there for like an hour without it getting hot, but when i put my it in my friends computer (generic POS power supply) it gets hot after like 1 min. some psu are extremely unstable and provide voltage/current output not even close to the recommended range.

 

[hmvh1]

Mine works, but I've been ftping everything lately.


Hey Rope, how do you FTP stuff? And what is the transfer rate like?

personally, i find the transfer speeds super slow making the dsftp totally useless - unless you are editing text files.

 

[Dazimus]

I've noticed I have problems getting the reader to work on my PC's USB 2.0 ports and my Dad's USB 2.0 ports ... but when I tried it on my girlfriends older USB 1 port, it worked perfectly! Detected straight away and didn't have no problems losing the connection to it either. Very odd!