Fitting Micro SD card into Adapter

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The Micro SD card + Adapter has just arrived for my Android. My plan was to copy some MP3 files from my Vista PC to the card (which takes the full sized adapter) and then plug the micro SD card into the Android. However, the micro SD card doesn't seem to fit very well inside the adapter that came with it. It only pushes half way in then hits a dead stop. It isn't remotely tight to remove either. How far are these micro SD cards supposed to push into the adapter card?

I plugged the adapter card into the Vista computer and it can see it fine. However, it hasn't given me a drive letter for the device. I get the impression it can see the adapter but not the micro SD card that's half way shoved into it. I daren't push the micro SD card any harder for fear of breaking it.

I used one of those things some time ago and it seemed rather a basic affair, but the micro-SD did at least push a fair way into the adapter. There was no comforting "click"; it just stopped moving, although there was some resistance which appeared to indicate contacts were engaged. The phone I'd used it with had a tiny "push to fit, push to remove" slot with a nice clicky feedback but this adapter was nothing like that.

Are you sure the micro-SD is the right way round? I can't get to one without dismantling stuff, but IIRC the orientation mechanism on the adapter was pretty basic and stopping the card from being fully inserted, without making that obvious, was about as good as it got.
From your description it's functioning well enough to be detected by Windows, so a disconnected SD card sounds very likely.

Thanks Cornflake; yes its the right way around. I've just tried again with Vista. When I push the adapter in it finds the new removable device but insists no device is inserted in it - pretty much like it would with an empty CD tray. No matter how I wiggle the micro sd card inside the adapter Windows doesn't see it. Maybe the problem is with Vista.

I'll go with plan B. Copy the MP3 files to a usb stick then plug the usb stick into the Android and copy the files from the usb to the micro sd in place.

What?! Nooo - say it isn't so. Vista... has problems?
/sarc
Always helps to have a plan B.
Entirely coincidentally - I used a similar trick when FTP'ing a stack of files to a Windows box overnight: the thing kept crashing, and walking the files over on a USB stick was a useful plan B there too.

One thing I noticed, or rather noticed the lack of, was being prompted to format the micro sd card. Is this normal? Do they come pre-formatted or don't they need formatting for Android?

They're normally preformatted as a single primary partition on FAT32.

One of the things I just do is stick the SD card into my phone and then connect my phone to the computer using the USB cable, from there I just copy my files to it. I don't bother to take the card out of my phone and plug it into my computer.

BTW: why the hell are you still using vista?

I can't afford a new computer, simple as that. The wife has a little touch-screen laptop with Windows 8.1 on it and frankly that is worse than Vista!

Just noticed a cable that came with the tablet for connecting to the PC's USB port... Vista has gone in search of device drivers for the new device "Android"... so far it isn't having much luck, or it is taking it a very long time to find what it is looking for. I see a couple of new drives have appeared on the Vista machine associated with the tablet but they say no media is mounted on them.

It should appear to Windows just as a USB stick would and pop up as a new drive with no nonsense about device drivers etc - but, you may need to tell the tablet how you expect it to connect first. Vista will probably fall over unless things are kept simple...

On a phone, that's typically found in Settings -> Connect to PC and then change the Default connection type to "Disk drive".

Can't find any settings anywhere for how it should connect to a PC. Consequently Vista and the Tablet aren't on speaking terms. Oh well - at least I can pass files between the two on a USB stick. Sigh.

I am assuming you have wifi on both the PC and that tablet. Course Vista might have a mental breakdown but you can always try this. Quite the convenient app.

WIFI File Explorer Application

Edit: BTW, welcome to the un-standardized world of Android. Kind of like the early days of the PC. It drives devs nutz trust me!!

2nd Edit: I give it 2 weeks before your completely bald and decide just to root the thing and be done with it! I too held off until the limitations imposed for the general masses drove me to near insanity. Anyone that has already poked about as much as you have will reach a breaking point sooner or later.....

You don't need a new computer to upgrade to win 7. If you have a legit copy, you can upgrade for free or for about $20 depending on your computer's OEM. If not. you can always get it from your favorite BT site. Win 7 runs alot better then vista. BTW: avoid Win 8 like the plague, unless you have a touch screen. Win 8 is just awful.



My computer just mounted the drives on my GS3 phone as if they where USB flash drives, both the internal flash and the SD card.