when you first boot up the device after an OS load, or after installing the media card, it asks if you want to enable MSM. if you click no it stays off.
I have songs already on my SD card from my old pearl unit. I just swaped the SD card to my 8830. I can play the songs from my SD card fine in my 8830.
When I open up Roxio media management. It recognizes the 8830 device. I can actually download songs using this application from my Computer to the 8830 device memory.
But for some reason, when I click the SD folder ( under the device menu) I don't get anything? nor can I download from my computer to the SD card.