Hi so I just cut open a 4g and it will work perfectly fine?Thanks!!

Which 4GB SD Card did you use? I would like to buy a card and try opening it as well. Thanks!

anyone else bought a regular SD card, and chopped it down to fit? now that they're become quite cheap, it's not such an expensive proposition!

I just discovered this: http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=11141

put an SD card into an RS-MMC slot. snag is, the SD card would stick out from your 770 by a very long way!

--edit-- sorry, guys, I got confused between miniSD and mini/rs- MMC. the following article might be of interest.
http://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?...3&hl=menagerie

It also won't recognize that card, unless you perform surgery on your 770; the card door has a magnetic switch.

Ideal material for such experiment is sandisk plus line but why not to use microSD with at least two easy solutions documented here (3 in 1 adapter from DX or ready made 8GB card from craves1) ?

Looks like it is for miniSD not RS-MMC. It won't fit. They are different.

RS-MMC has same width as SD or full MMC so you can fit card directly without any adapter. It will stick out however. Also SD is a bit thicker so either you need to push hard or make it a bit thinner. Or use MMCplus cards, they are same size as SD except thinner.

Or unless you comment out 2 lines in kernel source :-)

I just did that and it worked great!

I got a 4GB Transcend SDHC Class 6 memory card. It was $10 from Amazon with free shipping (with a $25 purchase. We bought other stuff too :-) ).

Just got it.

Clipped off one side carefully so I could separate the card. It was half height inside. So I took off the front (with the label and the contact grooves) and cut the back in half.
(I haven't glue'd the back on yet, so it's just loose, but that's next. )

I plugged it in, powered it on, and there's memory. 3.71GB according to the Memory card tab of the Memory applet.

It was that easy!!!

Now, let's see if I can get the card back out (since I didn't glue that piece in) and then glue the cover of the card (the lower half of the back) back on. :-)

desiv

Well, so far so good.
The card is still working and I can read/write to/from it without any problems.

It isn't a perfect fit. I was looking at it, and its a bit thinner (wrong word, it's a bit shorter side to side) and a bit shorter now (top to bottom). The actual thickness is about the same, maybe a tad less, but close with the back on.
As it is, when I slide it into the slot, I'm not sure it "clicks" properly and its in at a slight angle, I think because it's a bit less wide. And its tricky, but not "that" hard to remove it.

I'll look at possibly adding a bit more plastic to get it to be the same size as an old MMC.

But, for $10 and 5 minutes to get 4G... Not too shabby. :-)
I suppose, now that I know that the card is half height, I could start with another card and just cut the top off to the correct height and then dremmel it down to fit, rather than taking it all apart and trying to put it back together. :-)

desiv

I wanted to try this with an 8GB card. I got a pqi SD card for a decent price, but it had two chips in it.

Anybody know of an 8GB card with only one chip?

Is anyone buying cheap SDHC cards this Xmas to try chopping them to cram into their 770?

Addendum:
Picked up a 4gb sdhc patriot card #PSF4GSDHC6 for $9. Sliced open a crack in the shell and it was a full sized card.