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| === Memory card and maximum capacity === | === Memory card and maximum capacity === |
| You'll need a 4gb SD card (microSD cards in SD card adapters also work). If you're living in the amazing future world of 2025 and you can't hold of a card that small (or they cost more than bigger cards because they're now specialty devices lol), I've had success with repartitioning an 8 or 16 gig card down to a single 4 gig partition. **Careful:** The ereader **can** see cards of up to 16gb, but once you've written more than four gigs of data to the card, everything goes wrong and the reader will corrupt the card. The alternative firmware PRSPlus can mount and read larger cards, albeit by taking a different approach to everyday reading - I'll have an explanation on that up soon, but for now just partition your SD card down to 4 gigs FAT32 and everything will be fine. | You'll need a 4gb SD card (microSD cards in SD card adapters also work). If you're living in the amazing future world of 2025 and you can't hold of a card that small (or they cost more than bigger cards because they're now specialty devices lol), I've had success with repartitioning an 8 or 16 gig card down to a single 4 gig partition. **Careful:** The ereader **can** see cards of up to 16gb, but once you've written more than four gigs of data to the card, everything goes wrong and the reader will corrupt the card. The alternative firmware PRSPlus can mount and read larger cards, albeit by taking a different approach to everyday reading - I'll have an explanation on that up soon, but for now just partition your SD card down to 4 gigs (or 3.9 to be safe) FAT32 and everything will be fine. If I personally handed you one of these things then it's already got the right sort of card in it so don't worry about it. :) |
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| === Charging and battery life === | === Charging and battery life === |
| The best way to charge these things is via the round barrel jack. They'll charge from the mini-USB port, but very slowly (think days rather than hours) and only when plugged into a computer (if you plug into a phone charger then they'll //appear// to charge while actually slowly draining). | The best way to charge these things is via the round barrel jack. They'll charge from the mini-USB port, but very slowly (think days rather than hours) and only when plugged into a computer (if you plug into a phone charger then they'll //appear// to charge while actually slowly draining). |
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| There are charging cables for the PSP (remember, the handheld PlayStation console?) that have standard USB on one end, and miniUSB/barrel jack on the other. These things, you can plug the USB side into a phone charger and use the barrel jack in the ereader just fine. An afternoon's charge is good for weeks and weeks if you're on a newish battery. | There are charging cables for the PSP (remember, the handheld PlayStation console?) that have standard USB on one end, and miniUSB/barrel jack split off into two connectors on the other. These things, you can plug the USB side into a phone charger and use the barrel jack in the ereader just fine. An afternoon's charge is good for weeks and weeks if you're on a newish battery. Again, if I handed you one, I would've handed you one of these wires too, so this info is just for if you lose it or the cat chews it or whatevs. |
