[T-Mobile myTouch 4G Slide] Blue6IX:
Glad to hear you got it all!

Yep.

I'm not entirely sure about the different levels of security, or even if there are any advantages/disadvantages to this.

Your painting analogy is a real good one, and as someone who was a painter by trade for quite a few years, it's one I use a lot.

When I was doing memory speed tests in my Nook Color on flash memory, I always formatted the cards in the Nook Color, then again in the computer, ejected and re-inserted the cards before running the test using the computer.

Like what you are saying, it ensured a clean card and uniformity. I'd rather take an extra step that may or may not be unnecessary just to be sure. The focus of my tests at the time were on credibility and reliability of results, and the dual format meant that the cards always were the same.

Windows gets lazy sometimes, and if formatting a card that essentially looks no different then when it started, it might just skip over doing the work - coming from being formatted in the Nook Color meant that windows had to actually do something to the card to make it right, and made sure it would do it's work. Why leave anything to chance.

You're looking at hundreds of thousands of read/writes on modern flash memory before it wears out...a couple of extra formats aren't going to hurt anything when you look at the big picture.

When you're talking about moving a card to a device like this phone, where it's probably not going to come out much, then a fresh format first is probably a wise move. Why contaminate the new device with junk left over from other devices on the card. Everything will work better if you start fresh.

Glad to be of help, I try to do whatever I can to help out, both online and off. I suffer from severe insomnia, and sleep very little. I have to do something to keep myself occupied, and the internet and computers in general give me something to do when everyone I know is sleeping.

The more I share what I know, the more I learn from other people who come by and add to it. No matter how much you know, someone else, probably many others know more on any given topic. With a board as big as XDA, and such a great community spirit, the amount of information here is just staggering.

I try to put what I know out there as completely as possible as much for myself as others. I'd rather have the tons of learned people browsing these boards add to what I know, instead of covering the same ground. It's one of the reasons I try to be so particular about the details in everything I post.

Something like this phone is especially exciting, because it's a new thing. In a sense, we're breaking new ground with some of the stuff we're doing here, and that amps me up even more.

I have a feeling This thread is going to turn into another in-depth flash memory review like what I was involved with in the Nook Color. Check it out, since you have one of those coveted 32gig class 10 cards and see if you can add anything at some point.

I'm looking forward to picking up some to test out, and figure out what a good way of benchmarking them through the phone will be to get some definitive comparisons. It'd be nice to be able to make suggestions for people who come by in the future about what are the good cards to buy if they want to get the best level of performance out of their phone.

I'm curious to know how it goes with your recovery of the memory card in regards to getting the data back on, and whether it hiccups or not when you put your device back together. I don't have a mac, and being able to tell others who come by that it works, or why it doesn't will be very helpful to the community in general.