* Posts by Mike 40

4 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Apr 2021

My smartphone has wiped my microSD card again: Is it a conspiracy?

Mike 40

Maybe its Huawei

My daughters Huawei tablet used to eat MicroSD cards regularly. The card would be marked as defective somehow. There's a kill bit that makes the MicroSD card read-only so you can retrieve the existing files, but nothing I found can change it back to read-write.

I put this down to the fact that I had the tablet set to shutdown each night and restart in the morning to save battery. I thought that perhaps the card was not being unmounted before the OS shutdown. Unlikely I know, I turned off the scheduled task, same behavior. Cards lasted a week or a month, it was totally random.

BTW I discovered that SanDisks "lifetime" warranty involved submitted serial numbers etc. to an open ticket, before they ask you to ship the card back to the US!

I'm assuming they know no one will go through that faff. By the time I was asked to return the card, it had got lost somewhere in the house.

I also discovered that Huawei tablets, like most other android slabs rarely get software updates to fix this stuff.

Apple sued in nightmare case involving teen wrongly accused of shoplifting, driver's permit used by impostor, and unreliable facial-rec tech

Mike 40

What I've learned.

Whenever I go shoplifting in an Apple store, I need to carry my Tim Cook fake ID.

British gambling giant Betfred told to pay stiffed winner £1.7m jackpot after claiming 'software problem'

Mike 40

That's a lot of tax havens. Presumably the gambling companies are never mentioned when naming and shaming tax avoiders.

A floppy filled with software worth thousands of francs: Techie can't take it, customs won't keep it. What to do?

Mike 40

Welcome to the Brexit Sir!