Hacking r4 slot won't lock.

[Devante]

Better compatibility + more storage space > working spring loaded mechanism

 

[darksavior]

dont forget affordable. ds-x is not

 

[111111111]

I've already made a mental note never purchase another r4 product, its branded spinoff or its successors.

....

sorry to come off so harsh, but I opened it just a few minutes ago and am still shaking.

LOL.. First roadrage, now flashcart rage.

Calm down and step away from the cart..

=]

 

[corbs132]

Hrm... just bought one too. I'll keep you updated!

 

[pristinemog]

Mine works fine. Sometimes I pop the microSD in and out of the R4 slot multiple times because I enjoy the clicking sound. Been working great ever since I got it about two weeks ago.

...Does anyone else enjoy the clicking sound?

 

[Liquidsky7777]

I have the same problem at first too, but i do notice that it has two clicks (the second click is a release click). If you were to insert the sd, try not to push the sd card too far in. Push it in slowly until you here a first click sound and it should stay there. I hope this helps.

 

[ydnar64]

Mine works fine. Sometimes I pop the microSD in and out of the R4 slot multiple times because I enjoy the clicking sound. Been working great ever since I got it about two weeks ago.

...Does anyone else enjoy the clicking sound?

I like to make it where once i push down and let go the r4 pops up and then the Micro SD and then I push them all back into each other with one push...

 

[Quvack]

I've never had a single problem with either of my R4's, both work properly and the cards lock in perfectly

 

[ydnar64]

If they sell 25k to 50k with a possibility of a .1% possible fault percentage caused by manufacturing, packaging and shipping then you're looking at a total of 25 to 50 possible faulty units: . .1% is a great ratio considering the fact that this is made behind the back of Nintendo (this is close to many official products). So to be more reasonable to this situation let's say 2% are faulty (that's a 2% chance you will get one of these faulty units). That is 500 to 1000 faulty units. That is just in the range of stuff that you can expect to have issues. There isn't an actual issue with the gear until the fault percentage get to about 10% or greater. You were just unlucky (or lucky however you want to look at it). Mine works fine as does everyone else's. At least it's not like the DS-X where they had for a moment 90% of there units shipped out faulty. Also you have the same chance or greater on getting a faulty hard drive or piece of hardware for your computer. Trust me I had one time I was going 3 out of 4 hard drives I had were bad on receiving them. I just also want to say my numbers aren't official; I just want to shine some light on your problem so you know why you got a bad R4. Better luck next time. Also if you're super desperate you can always use duct tape, which fixes everything. 
so that's a very long way of saying you like to play with imaginary numbers?
while we're making up numbers let's pick a sample we can guess at more closely. How many of these were given away for review at DS 'backup/release' sites? Probably 10-20, and 20 is probably very generous. at least one of those was defective (sinkhead's) so the numbers could be looking more like 5-10%. Or if another tester was bad, the percentage could be a great deal worse.

No it's a long way to explain that there are always going to be faulty units and you just so happened to have gotten one, along with a few other people. As for your numbers I just want to state that people are more then willing to complain about something that isn't working rather then compliment it if they are content with it. If everyone started up a post about how there R4 works then you can imagion how that would look...

 

[Deleted User]

Mine works perfectly. Never had a single problem with the mechanism.

 

[neoice]

I bought 5 R4 for my friends and myself. None of them had any problems with the spring lock thing.

I put my R4 in the DS, then push in the microsd until I hear a click. *shrugs*

 

[reaperman@home]

No it's a long way to explain that there are always going to be faulty units and you just so happened to have gotten one, along with a few other people. As for your numbers I just want to state that people are more then willing to complain about something that isn't working rather then compliment it if they are content with it. If everyone started up a post about how there R4 works then you can imagion how that would look...

I'm aware every product line has a small number of defective units, but we're up to two defective test/review units now. so it looks to be a large percentage. I'm still guessing that *at most* 20 units were given away as testers to the various sites around the net.
It's a good thing R4 doesn't have an aircraft manufacturing division... they don't, right?

 

[ydnar64]

No it's a long way to explain that there are always going to be faulty units and you just so happened to have gotten one, along with a few other people. As for your numbers I just want to state that people are more then willing to complain about something that isn't working rather then compliment it if they are content with it. If everyone started up a post about how there R4 works then you can imagion how that would look...


I'm aware every product line has a small number of defective units, but we're up to two defective test/review units now. so it looks to be a large percentage. I'm still guessing that *at most* 20 units were given away as testers to the various sites around the net.
It's a good thing R4 doesn't have an aircraft manufacturing division... they don't, right?

Well you might have a point, but it's still iffy becuase they were test units. There was probably no quality control at all at that point. Or maybe they were more focused on getting the test units out then if they clicked. As to my knowlege R4 doesn't make aircraft parts.