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Hi,
I have the following problem with my Qtek 9090 and my 1GB SD-Card:
I installed all applications on the storage card, as well as many documents and files.
What happens is that I lost data on the SD-Card on 3-4 occasions. The result is that some applications are obviously not available anymore.
Plus, many data files (PDF, RM, etc.) are corrupt.
I tried to fill the card on my laptop with big ZIP-Files and checked them afterwards (CRC-Check will proove file-errors), but everything went OK.
This leaves me with 3 possibilities:
- the card is defect and looses data randomly - how could I prove that to the supplier?
- I am running faulty programs on my Qtek (i.e. freeware emulators) - while trying dosbox for PocketPC for the first time, my Qtek freezed and I did a reset. After that the SD-Card was empty!!!
- The Qtek 9090 has some weird problem accessing these cards, resulting in data loss.
What do you think? Can anyone give me some good hints?
Thanks,
vma
try write lock the card?
Then some applications would not run anymore, I guess.
Also, I want to use a "My Documents" folder on the card, to make use of all the space.
It would be nice to hear from you guy's if you a) never had similar problems or b) did expirience the occasional data loss/corruption on the card.
Thanks,
vma
I have an XDA1 with a 256Mb SD card and I've randomly lost all my data twice now.
I have write-protected the card to (hopefully) stop it happening again, but if anyone knows why it's happening I'd be very grateful to hear from them.
On Friday my 256Mb card lost everything (together with all progs and applications on the Qtek 9090). It was something to do with Spb Pocket Plus but haven't really got to the cause.
I had a similar problem on my magician until I looked up the data system. By default my SD-Card was formated in Fat 16. After I formated it in Fat 32 the problems were solved. Hope I could help.
I lost all of my data on 512 MB Lexar storage card today. Only mail attachments and "ingnore my docs" are there. It really pisses me off...
I don't have any idea why this happened - it would be nice to know the reason. A couple of days ago I restored usin Sprite, that shouldn't clear storage card, should it?
Any ideas?
I am running the original ROM my Trinity came with.
WM5
ROM Version - 1.23.405.2
Radio Version - 1.38.00.11
I have no reason to change or update the ROM (partly as i don't understand how to), everything runs really well with it. My GPS, WiFi etc all work a treat. Recently I bought a 4GB Transcend Mini SDHC card as my 2GB is nearly full.
When I loaded everything onto it, it worked no problem. My Trinity recognised it and everything worked. However, when I switched my Trinity off and later put it on many of my programs wouldn't run. I used File explorer on the PDA and some of the files had disappeared. A soft reset brought them all back (which is wierd) but these problems persisted. But a soft reset would make it all work again. A couple of times everything did disappear except 1 folder (my inbox attachments), and a soft reset did not help. When I put the card into my PC (running XP) this one folder was the only thing on the card. Yet all the memory was still used up. I reformatted the card (FAT32 was the only option) and loaded everything back onto the card and into my Trinity and things worked again, but the same problems keep happening.
From doing a search here I see some people have produced Cab files which sort change the settings for SDHC cards, but these seem to be mainly for WM6 ROM's. I can see the card and it works so is there a Cab file I should install to make it work well? Is it the card? (I suspect not as it always reformates and works initially)
Will I need to upgrade to WM6? If so which ROM? Are there instructions how to do this?
Are these problems still there with WM6?
If anyone can help that would be great.
I would prefer to be able to keep WM5 and find a solution so if you have one please share it.
Thanks
Same here...
Hi, I am in the same position exactly. I would prefer to stay with my original WM5 installation as I don't want to risk upgrading the ROM. However, I would love to be able to use SDHC cards of at least 4Gb without the normal problems.
Ideally I would like to get a 6Gb card - am I living in a dream world or is this possible with my Orange SPV-M700 running WM5. If anyone has had any luck with this I'd be really grateful to know how to solve the SDHC card reliability problem.
Thanks!
look at this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=344338
Ok - so I bought a Topram 4gb card from ebay, and it works so far. All my files are there and continue to be there. Only once over a 3 day period have I switched my Trinity on to find files not there. A quick reboot and everything works.
This card is not a SDHC card!
6 Gig works too (WM6)
Upgrading to WM6 isn't that hard. If you don't feel comfortable doing it then don't. You will just have to live with a smaller memory card capacity.
At the moment I'm using a wm6 rom with a micro 6 gig sdhc card with a mini converter. so I can use this 6 gig card in my next phone .... (Forward thinking
Hello,
still relatively new here and have been having a good experience in general (other than wife complaining i am spending too much time on the forum )
I have a Orange Kaiser, using DCS 1.5 and a 1.64 radio. So far so good,...but tonight is a nightmare:
- My SD card, a 8GB model, is showing NO FILES on file explorer, other than a ttom file: I hard reset, and still nothing. But the memory programm is showing 3.5GB is used on the card. I browsed the card on my PC...same thing! I used to have maps, photos, cab files,... I tried scanning the card on my pc, and it did find a lot of lost files, but not usable. I basically am reformating the card since I have most on my PC, except for a few pictures. Did that happen to anyone before? I hope it does not happen too often, but a good lesson learnt on backup!
- The most annoying thing is that after hardware reset the Kaiser I still cannot connect the Kaiser to my PC! When I connect through a USB cable, I would see the carging led lit, but no connection. I have vista and upgraded to the latest 6.1 windows mobile device center, and still nothing. THis is really annoying as I cannot even flash a new ROM! I tried on my wife PC, tried several USB cables, and still the same.. Any idea? Should I jsut go to bed
Hopefully I can solve this one as I can't do much without it!
Thanks for any tip.
Juju
Start, settings, Connections TAB, USB-to-pc: untick "enable advanced networking"
My sdhc card has been fine for the last few months.
unwired4 said:
Start, settings, Connections TAB, USB-to-pc: untick "enable advanced networking"
My sdhc card has been fine for the last few months.
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Unfortunately tried that before and still nothing!
Juju
I know you probably don't want to hear this, but I've heard of quite a few of the larger Micro SD Cards (4GB/8GB) wiping themselves. I never looked deep into the cause though. As for your Active Sync, can you connect to a Windows XP based computer?
Just a couple days ago my 2GB MicroSD started refusing to write, kicking back errors that the disk was full (with 1.5GB free)
I copied all the data off and reformatted the card, copied it back, and it was fine. Must have been a corruption in the FAT.. caused by.. who knows!
juju-35 said:
Hello,
still relatively new here and have been having a good experience in general (other than wife complaining i am spending too much time on the forum )
I have a Orange Kaiser, using DCS 1.5 and a 1.64 radio. So far so good,...but tonight is a nightmare:
- My SD card, a 8GB model, is showing NO FILES on file explorer, other than a ttom file: I hard reset, and still nothing. But the memory programm is showing 3.5GB is used on the card. I browsed the card on my PC...same thing! I used to have maps, photos, cab files,... I tried scanning the card on my pc, and it did find a lot of lost files, but not usable. I basically am reformating the card since I have most on my PC, except for a few pictures. Did that happen to anyone before? I hope it does not happen too often, but a good lesson learnt on backup!
- The most annoying thing is that after hardware reset the Kaiser I still cannot connect the Kaiser to my PC! When I connect through a USB cable, I would see the carging led lit, but no connection. I have vista and upgraded to the latest 6.1 windows mobile device center, and still nothing. THis is really annoying as I cannot even flash a new ROM! I tried on my wife PC, tried several USB cables, and still the same.. Any idea? Should I jsut go to bed
Hopefully I can solve this one as I can't do much without it!
Thanks for any tip.
Juju
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You can put the phone in boot loader mode (hold down the camera button and do a soft reset) disable activesync on your PC then flash to another ROM or go back to the factory ROM. Hope this helps
-McMex
Sounds like you need to format the card. That usually works when they give errors like that.
A7LAS said:
Sounds like you need to format the card. That usually works when they give errors like that.
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Wow, scary thread. I think I'll back my card up right now. I install program files onto it frequently, I'd hate to lose all of that suddenly.
mcmexican said:
You can put the phone in boot loader mode (hold down the camera button and do a soft reset) disable activesync on your PC then flash to another ROM or go back to the factory ROM. Hope this helps
-McMex
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Ok, will try this, I am sure I could be yelled at because it is in the wiki somewhere, but how would I load the new ROM without the USB connection working? Boot form SD card?
I will also try another XP machine at work. Maybe it is a stupid security setting from Vista....
Thanks all for the feedback.
Juju
PS: Thanks for the other comments on the card. I re-formatted it (using a SD card reader), and now it looks fine, I was able to read my files again copied form the PC. Everyobyd make sure you backup for SD card often is all I would say!
Once you have the phone in bootloader mode and activesync disabled. Just run the rom like you normally would if it was connected thru activesync. It will recognize the phone and start the flash.
-McMex
mcmexican said:
Once you have the phone in bootloader mode and activesync disabled. Just run the rom like you normally would if it was connected thru activesync. It will recognize the phone and start the flash.
-McMex
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Thanks so much, will try over lunch!
Problems Solved!
Sorry empty post! (how do I delete a post!)
Problems Solved!
SD CARD not showing any files
I had to basically reformat it and lost all my files (4.5G worth). Fortunately I have 99% on my PC. Backing up the PC as we speak!
Lesson learnt: Backup your SD cards often!
Kaiser would not connect through USB
So, after trying XP, USB to PC options, bootloader mode (would do a 260 error), ...
I discovered my mini USB connector inside the Kaiser looked like it was not right (showing 4 pins higher than the other 2 in the middle). One of the engineers at work used his swiss army knife and straightened the inside of the connector, and... it worked. He did say it may not last long, so I may have to exchange the phone, but for now I am connected.
Lesson learnt: Beware when connecting and disconnecting, those connectors are fragile.
Thanks all for your help, and sorry to bother you with my problems.
Juju
Hola....
I have the TP now 4 like 3 weeks....
In the beginning I installed a lot of programs on my STORAGE CARD!
After the installation I had a lot of problems with my device...like the broken screen issue...and the grey stripes....phone flippin...crashing....thinghs like that.
BUT then I did a hardware reset....took the easy way...
setting->system-> erase content..
After my reset I installed all the programs I installed before...
programs like advanced config, diamond tweak,, coreplayer,klaxon, tomtom etc...
BUT the difference was that I installed everything on my phone....
It worked great 4 me!
I never have issues with my phone anymore....
Everything runs smooth!
so DON'T install programs on your card...
It helped me....maybe it is gonna help you!
you might be on to something here!
thanx for sharing.
With the HUGE amount of storage on-board there's really no need to install programs to the storage card anyway. Plus stuff runs faster from internal storage and is still available if the card is ever removed, or if you connect to a PC in DISK DRIVE mode (which makes the storage card unavailable to the phone's OS).
Basically, always use internal storage until you start getting low, then use the storage card, but only for programs you use rarely.
Incidentally I think Tomtom always installs to the storage card, I don't recall ever having a choice to put it into internal storage.
Now that you mention after my "grey screen" issue i've never installed anything on my storage card and my TP is running fine ever since.
I never thought i could be something so simple and like Jim Coleman mentioned with that much memory on the device who needs the storage card for installations anymore
Great finding pensador
P.S. I will publish this on the wiki at the know issue's section
I have everything installed on my phone, and not the card (except TomTom) and I had the broken gray screen thing once about 4 days into owning the TP and never since. Ive had it weeks now.
Jiggs1337 said:
I have everything installed on my phone, and not the card (except TomTom) and I had the broken gray screen thing once about 4 days into owning the TP and never since. Ive had it weeks now.
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Have you used any Tweak programs??
I have found that if you use any 'Generic' Tweak programs the unit starts to go squiffy..seems a few non-device specific Tweaks from older devices cause problems, especially BT (different hardware and even WM5, 6 and 6.1 specific!).
Just add the known working tweaks for this device via a reg editor ( most Diamond seem to be OK so far) and if you add them one-by-one you will know where problems occur..
Remember, everything on this forum holds the the 'Caveat Emptor' disclaimer..(except you usually get it for free!)
Here, use this from windows when connected via Async if you don't have an internal reg editor (takes up zero room also!)
Search for the thread with Raphael tweaks, before the device was even released someone who got their hands on a pre-release tested out every single tweak from the "Diamond tweaks" thread and gave feedback on if it worked or not, and how much it improved the device. That should narrow it down to the tweaks you should do and the ones you shouldn't bother with.
Thundarr The Barbarian said:
Search for the thread with Raphael tweaks, before the device was even released someone who got their hands on a pre-release tested out every single tweak from the "Diamond tweaks" thread and gave feedback on if it worked or not, and how much it improved the device. That should narrow it down to the tweaks you should do and the ones you shouldn't bother with.
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Yup can't agree more..
Search and Ye shall learn.
lol, since i owned the TP i already installed everything on the phone itself and not the storagecard.
and like i mentioned in other threads, i have never hed a problem so far.
(still knocking on wood)
even TT works great, no GPS lag or what ever (the maps are on storagecard but program is not).
I have to say that I installed a ton of programs on my Storage card, and never had any issue. I am using a 2GB MicroSd card. Maybe the problem is with larger capacity cards or the SDHC drivers on the mobile itself?
I have the Touch Pro for a bit over a month now and never had any issues with the screen or anything else other than the GPS. Most of my applications are installed on the memory card, except WkTask and Pocket Wakeup. I have also used advanced config 3.2 to alter many settings. I have a 8Gb microSD Sandisk card which I purchased for my N95 many months ago when they first came out, which is formatted as FAT32. I don't know if these help but I guess other factors should be considered, like the SD card's format, it's speed and it's quality.
I got allmost all mt programs installed on the storage card (8GB SDHC) exept the advanced config. and my phone works like like a dream.. ok that was to exaggerate
But I never had any issues with it since I uninstalled sensor lock from the phone.
Farsquidge said:
Have you used any Tweak programs??
I have found that if you use any 'Generic' Tweak programs the unit starts to go squiffy..seems a few non-device specific Tweaks from older devices cause problems, especially BT (different hardware and even WM5, 6 and 6.1 specific!).
Just add the known working tweaks for this device via a reg editor ( most Diamond seem to be OK so far) and if you add them one-by-one you will know where problems occur..
Remember, everything on this forum holds the the 'Caveat Emptor' disclaimer..(except you usually get it for free!)
Here, use this from windows when connected via Async if you don't have an internal reg editor (takes up zero room also!)
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I used AdvancedConfig to apply the speed boost tweaks as well as various other things, like power saving stuff. I did a registry edit to hide SIM contacts, that didnt save though after a soft reset.
I only had the gray screen once at a restaurant about 4 or 5 days after receiving it. Since then I have had a few freezes, but nothing major. TomTom works great for me too.
Also, something strange, when i got it new, it got very hot like i read on the forum from a few people, but since then, it doesnt do that. It gets a little warm, but not hot.
hey friends,
I installed Google Maps in storage card (4GB HDHC).
sometimes I feel it freezes. I have to close the app and restart it to make it work properly, or I have to do soft reset.
if I will install it in my phone memory, will Google Maps cache consume lot of space?
thehellraiser said:
hey friends,
I installed Google Maps in storage card (4GB HDHC).
sometimes I feel it freezes. I have to close the app and restart it to make it work properly, or I have to do soft reset.
if I will install it in my phone memory, will Google Maps cache consume lot of space?
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... way to bring a post from last year back into action:[
no it will not you should just install it to your phone , there is more than enough room to hold 15 google maps if you wanted so don't fret about installing things to internal memory.
Hello,
Almost a year ago I purchased my Kaiser (an Orange Kaiser) ans started to flash my phone.
I have already used several ROM avaiable here: Dutty (sevearl versions), L26 (SEVERAL Versions), Hyperdragon, Mobile vista, etc, etc, etc. Have already tryed several versions of the Radio firmwares. 1.24, 1.57. etc. Also, have already tried almost EVERY Hard SPL avaiable and so far I had the same problem:
Few days after flashing the Kaiser starts do slow down its performence. For ex: I press the Call button and it takes 40 to 50 seconds to enter in the touchpad screen. Sometimes it don't even enter the the call screen.
It get worst: sometimes I get no signam from the phone even if i'm side by side to a antena (where any other phone have a strong signal).
The only solution: HARD RESET. I mean, after a hard reset it looks like its other phone. Strong signal, fast response.
I can't possible imagine that I'm the only one here with this kind of problem. Does anyone knows how to solve? Does anyone here knows ehy it happens?
PS: I have already tried configurations with diferent programs. I have already tried with and without S2L2, With or without HTC Home (most without), With and without pocket launcher, with and without today agenda and SPB calendar. Can only think that this is problem with something in the ROM or the radio since every single configuration had the same performance issues.
Can someone please help me?
Thanks
Dandare
I had a faulty SD card that was giving me similar problems to this. I think it was due to Coreplayer and Audio Manager scanning the faulty SD card for music and the read speed was really really slow on the card. Everything would grind to a halt. I bought a new card and everything was fine after that. You could also try formatting or removing the SD card to eliminate the card being the source of the issue.... but you'll probably turn around a say you don't have an SD card
Good luck...
Yeah recently I got this issue. The filesystem on my SD card for corrupt somehow, and I was unable to access anything on it via activesync (my pc) and my phone.
So I just installed some prob( i forget the name) and formatted the SD card, then re-flashed. And since then it's been quick as can be
Hey guys,
I've been having this issue as well. I have not found it to be my storage card as i have tried 4 different cards. i have put the cards on my BJII and it works without issues. I also have found that with some of my early L26 Flashes i would just ride it out and it would work again.
However i have not had my HDIII Pro for that long but i'm hoping that it would would do the same.
If someone does find a link to what is really going on i would greatly appreciate the advice.
Thanks
Also, I actually believe if you text message a lot (i mean basically excessivly) as my brother does, the device will slow down.
He has my older Hermes, and he has unlimited texting, but within 2 weeks he would have sent 1500-2000 text messages and recieved about the same ammount.
By that time his phone would start lagging and being a pain, so I would usually just do a new flash (or hard reset), since deleting that many texts normally would probably take 48 hours haha.
Anyway when it gets re-flashed everything runs normal and fine. But whenever the phone gets cleared everything is smooth again
So maybe it's the amount of text/emails you have? Idk
Going to test the SD card. I have a 4Gb SD card but I'm actually only using 1,4 Gb, so I can use a 2Gb with no problem.
This going to take a while since the phone starts to slow down after three or four days, but I'll let you guys know if it solved.
Thanks!!!!
stuff said:
Yeah recently I got this issue. The filesystem on my SD card for corrupt somehow, and I was unable to access anything on it via activesync (my pc) and my phone.
So I just installed some prob( i forget the name) and formatted the SD card, then re-flashed. And since then it's been quick as can be
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If you have a vista based machine, It will correct the filesystem errors automatically, and you wont have to reformat...
Works great for me, My desktop is VU64, and my lappy is MCE2005. All the flashing happens on the laptop, and transferring files to the SD (Music & Movies) via WMP happens on the desktop.
Idem
I have same problem.
I try to found confirmation in italian dedicated forum , nobody has had the same problem.
After any minutes where the kaiser freeze , i do not have the same problem.
As is autoconfigured.
Now i used selfmade rom (by official italian rom, and hardSPL 3.29).
Sorry for my bad english