Using Card Info215Managing the Expansion Card• When writing data to an expansion card, wait for your PDAphone to complete the operation before removing the cardfrom the slot. This prevents data corruption or accidentaldamage to the expansion card.• You can install applications to an expansion card afterperforming an initial HotSync®operation. See “InstallingAdd-on Applications and Files” on page 243 for moreinformation. For optimal performance, we recommendthat you do not install more than 50 applications to asingle expansion card.• Since reading and writing information on an expansioncard uses more battery power than performing the sametask on your PDA phone, you may want to considercopying the information onto your PDA phone.• When your PDA phone’s battery level becomes very low,access to the expansion card may be disabled to protectyour data. If this occurs, recharge your PDA phone assoon as possible.Note: Expansion cards from different manufacturers demonstratedifferent data read/write access time specifications.Expansion cards that require longer data read/write accesstime may produce slower performance and/or incorrect datatransfer on expansion card operations.Following is the list of expansion card operations usaullyperformed on SGH-i530.1. Copying application to an expansion card using copymenu form application launcher.2. Recording the voice memo to expansion card.3. Copying pictures from Camer application to expansioncard4. Saving Messaging application back up data to expansioncard
