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Magic_Randy:
--- Quote from: D10S on January 15, 2017, 03:26:40 pm --- I've tried getting help on the PONO site and thru a support ticket to no avail.
Hoping someone may have an answer or had the same issues.
So I just got a new SanDisk 200gb micro SD card for my Pono. I had been having an issue with a 128gb SanDisk card that I just sent to SanDisk for a new one as I assumed I had a bad disk.
But the new card did the same thing the moment I put it into the PONO. The screen started to spin the volume bar came on and it sounds from artists to albums to settings etc. untill it goes to a black screen and I have to pull the card and reboot.
This card had no files on it yet, straight outta the package. Same thing the other 128gb card started to do.
I do have another 128gb card that works just fine along with a few 64gb cards that work fine.
So now I have no ideas what the cause is. Do I spend time putting all my music onto the 200gb card when it may not even work?
I am at a loss as to what is causing this. Any suggestions?
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I use a 200gb MicroSD on my Pono Players (3 of them) with no problem. I also have a Mac. But before using my MicoSD cards I formatted them with a free tool called SDFormatter. This is a tool suggested by users on the Pono forum. They said you should not format the MicroSD cards you are using using the Mac tools.
You can google SDFormatter to find the download site. Use the site from SD Association which is the provider of the software.
D10S:
I've used the program. First, like I said the one 128gb card I used for over a year and it worked fine. Then all of a sudden it started acting up as described above.
After trying several things I did eventually use that program to erase and reformat the card and the didn't help.
The new card came formatted, but I will try to format it again and see what happens.
The card that went bad first started to give me bad file errors each time I added new albums. Even though the files seemed fine. So I'd have to delete the album file as deleting the individual song file didn't seem to work.
So I thought that may have been the root of my problem until this brand new card with no files on it didn't even work.
D10S:
So I formatted the brand new SanDisk 200gb card on my Mac, this time in FAT32. Loaded a couple audio files.
Same issue.
I also loaded a 64gb disc that always worked fine. Now it does not. Acts like the 200gb does.
The 128gb disc works just fine.
Makes no sense to me that one card works just fine. The others are suddenly not.
JimH:
What might have changed?
Magic_Randy:
--- Quote from: D10S on January 16, 2017, 04:57:53 pm ---So I formatted the brand new SanDisk 200gb card on my Mac, this time in FAT32. Loaded a couple audio files.
Same issue.
I also loaded a 64gb disc that always worked fine. Now it does not. Acts like the 200gb does.
The 128gb disc works just fine.
Makes no sense to me that one card works just fine. The others are suddenly not.
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Are the cards that work unchanged?
I'm just guessing, but it sounds like you have a hardware problem. The Pono Player maintains a cache of 3 cards (internal + 2 MicroSD) so that it does not have to scan when a new card is inserted. If you change a card or add an additional card, it causes a scan of the music. If my theory is correct, the MIcroSD cards that work are unchanged and are not causing the scanning. New cards or changed cards cause scanning and expose a hardware issue.
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