Here you can see how close to the end the board starts.
Shaving KxS
(Created 19 October 2008: Updated 22 Decembber 2008)
By Guy Barwood - Glass Eye View
Contributions by Gary Jones : SERAfilms, Little Rock/Chicargo
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Disclaimer
The following information is provided with absolutely NO guarantee. If you try this yourself, you do it TOTALLY at your own risk, please do not email me about how your card was ruined because you tried it and killed your card. This will only work on SOME Sandisk Ultra II 16GB 15MBps cards. If you want to provide more information because you damaged your card and want to try to help prevent others from doing the same by learning from your mistakes then feel free to email me the info and photos of your failed attempts, but please don't think anyone else is going to take any responsibility for you taking a Dremel or file to your Ultra II SDHC card! If anyone has an image of an un-altered internals of the Ultra II 16GB card please forward it through, it would be great to see what it is like inside before trying to modify.
VERY IMPORTANT NOTICE : Under not circumstances should you try this with the Transcend 16GB Class 6 cards. They are jam packed with flash chips and you will kill your card. There is basically only a sliver of plastic at the end of the card before you hit circuit board.
Update: This page is less than 12
hours old and we already have this amazing update from Jon Sands of Fohdeesha
Media, you've
just got to see this!
Update to this update: It seems some Ultra II cards are a
bit different to Jon's in the video above and
do not have as
much room to cut into. My Ultra IIs don't have those marks on the back that you can see on Jon's card in the video
(the back is bare) and the circuit board and chips
starts only 1mm into the rear of the board. Be very careful.
Here you can see how close to the end the board starts.
Here you can see the green PCB and the solder points at each end.
Ingredients:
1: SanDisk Ultra II 16GB SDHC Card (see video on linked
page above to ensure yours is the same as his)
2: Dremel or equivalent tool (and/or type of fine filing instrument)
3: The willingness to kill your SanDisk Ultra II 16GB SDHC card for the
sake of closing the door on the EX1 with KxS and not complain about it to anyone
if you do kill it (but sharing your misery is ok ;-)
4: The understanding that you will instantly void your warranty with
SanDisk on your card.
Recipe: (not rocket science)
1 Take the SDHC card and your file of choice and trim the rear of the card until the door on the EX1 closes with your shaved KxS module
Use these images as provided by Gary Jones as a guide
Dremel Grinding tool. You could also use the cutting tool as a rotating
file.
Even a nail file would work ok.
This is the best guide you will get as to how much card you should be able to
trim off.
Now you see it, now you don't!
Its close, but who cares as long as it closes, that is what counts.
Shaved KxS next to SxS.
How Gary is storing his KxS and SxS
Gary is leaving his shaved cards in the readers so storing them in this Express Card storage case is a great idea. I'll update this page with details of the case above if I can find out more from him.
(c) 2008 Guy Barwood
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Images provided with permission by Gary Jones.