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Will high speed memory card speed up phone?

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  • 06-02-2013 5:30pm
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    BlackWizard
    Registered Users Posts: 3,282 ✭✭✭


    I was just thinking about installing a bigger card in my phone.

    It's a HTC Desire HD. After much thought I decided I don't need a more powerful phone for what I do so I was thinking of treating it to a new memory card.

    If I put in a very fast 16gb card will it make anything faster? Any apps or their resources load faster?


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    Kenny Logins
    Registered Users Posts: 9,061 ✭✭✭Kenny Logins


    Probably not, no. An app clear out might help.


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    Riesen_Meal
    Registered Users Posts: 10,575 ✭✭✭✭Riesen_Meal


    Depends actually, is your phone rooted?

    If it is and you are using APP2SD for your apps, a faster card will always be better, but you do not need it too fast, as I believe a class 10 card can be finnicky with the Android OS, manufacturer dependent - apparently class 6 cards are best for APP2SD/INIT2EXT4+

    I am using an Ext4 partition with an 8gb class 2 card, its painfully slow, but I installed SD Booster and changed my swap to 2048kbps and the phone is "as normal"....

    If you are just using a standard stock phone you would not really see the benefit.....


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    BlackWizard
    Registered Users Posts: 3,282 ✭✭✭BlackWizard


    Yeah I'm just using the standard phone. Rooting my phone appears to be a bit difficult compared to other ones. So it's staying standard.


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    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,331 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    Don't most performance sensitive apps refuse to run from the memory card so it shouldn't make any difference except when loading downloaded maps and the like?


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