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Nope, it was made before 4GB SDHC as explained in this video.

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  • Posted on Jun 16, 2008

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Do the 4GB Cards say SDHC on them? They should. SDHC is simply "Secure Digital High Capacity". They're high capacity SD cards that hold more than regular cards. In this case, 4GB. The problem with these is that they need to be supported by the device. I've never put an SDHC card into a device that doesn't support them, but it looks like that's what your situation is. The highest memory capacity a non-SDHC compliant device is capable of 2GB. I recommend that you return the 4GB cards and buy 2GB cards instead.

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on Apr 23, 2009

SOURCE: Samsung s830 SDHC Problem?? Camera Dies!!

emm... I have got an 2 gb SD memorycard for mine to and it wont work. Read on several places that the camera can only handle 1 gb memory card... Dont know if that's true thou.

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Pavan Ponangi

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  • Posted on Jul 23, 2009

SOURCE: s d card wont work

hi my understanding the camera can take only a max SD Card size to 2GB you may wanna check on that

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Todd Lewis

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  • Posted on Oct 14, 2009

SOURCE: memory card full but its new!!!!

you may have a bad memory card as well. I had to return one a few months ago it was doing a similar thing. Try formatting it first, you may save yourself a trip.

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Mar 23, 2010

SOURCE: I bought a 4GB Memory Card for my Samsung Digimax

Your problem is that your camera only takes standard SD cards up to a maximum of 2GB. The card you have bought is likely to be a 4GB SDHC model. SDHC is a later development of SD; SDHC compliant devices can still use older SD cards, but SD-only devices cannot use SDHC. This is a hardware limitation so there is no way at all to use an SDHC card in your camera.

Note that if your 4GB card is definitely an SD and not an SDHC then it's still incompatible with your camera: very few standard SD devices were ever made with the firmware and hardware to handle the different memory addressing architecture used by the larger capacity card. Some cameras did have firmware updates to allow the larger SD card to be used, but yours is not one of them.

Your only fix is to sell your card (or keep it for another device) and to buy a regular SD card no larger than 2GB maximum capacity.

I trust that my reply has answered your question fully, please take a moment to rate my answer.

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