Database Info

Storage Card Disappeared

noob here. wondering why all of a sudden the sd card is gone from the drop down bar. it isnt able to be seen through the storage program built into wm6 faria crossbow. installed the cab wmstorage, and it helped. i can see the card on windows xp but it is still not on the pda. its a wizard with wm6. nothing pretty much installed at all. did a hard start to go fresh and it didnt help. please help me!!! im sure this has been addressed before, but im not familiar with the site yet and im in a rush to get this card back. its got work files on it that i need in the morning! i promise to be a good noob and research everything else from now on... thanks!

Will try to help you out. . .
First Drop down of what? are you able to see your SD card in Settings under Memory?
can you access your card in the XP PC? open and execute files?

Overclocked?
Hi, that happened to me when I overclocked my Wizard to 221MHz i think, dont remember now, but the SD card data became corrupted, with WinXP I could see the directories but the data was unreadable, I just formated the SD card in WinXP and everything was fine again, just lost all the data..
cya,

the drop down or "start" menu. i cannot see the card anywhere on the pda. i installed wm5torage, and was able to see the card on my laptop as another drive. and i was ale to get the files and open files ect... but i got real happy until i went back to the pda, and still not there. so the card is ok, and i was able to get the data, but whys it not showing up... ??? its a g3(?) and running wm6. hope this is enough info to get started. thanks!

this just happen to my mda also.. i had to call tmobile and get a new one.. the port went bad.. it would only work if i pushed the memory card down far as possible but once i took pressure off it would disappear

Before going through all the tech support and purchasing new cards....try this...as this has happened to me many and i mean, many of times...
apparently you may have for your email attachments to be stored on storage card, then you may have done a soft reset, and quite possibly an email attachment was downloaded before storage card was initialized... so it is possible that a folder named storage card could have been created and your actual storage card may not show or be shown as storage card 2
What I did was take the card out, and delete the sotrage card folder and then reinsert the card and it shows up propperly, hoping this is what happend to you, this may do the fix.
If not, im not sure of what to do...but just a little help from my side.

killa, i tried looking through all the folders, but i believe there are some i cannot find??? i tried to do the search, but it says that search only goes through the my documents folder. do you know where you found the folder? thanks for the help.

shadytwin said:
killa, i tried looking through all the folders, but i believe there are some i cannot find??? i tried to do the search, but it says that search only goes through the my documents folder. do you know where you found the folder? thanks for the help.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Not too sure what happen to your device...but the Storage Card folder usually shows up in the root of the device just as the actual storage card does, as a matter of fact, the actual storage card would typically show up under the folder named storage card, and your actual storage card would show up as storage card 2.....hope i dont confuse you with that, but it seems that your problem may be an even more deeper problem than this, hope its not, but hopefully we can help you get this resolved.

the wm5torage program let me backup the files. the pda is still not recognizing it but i believe its a software issue obviously if the pda doesnt see it but my laptop does. i have the option of formatting the drive. i havent tried it yet, but im not sure if that will help anyway. i dont see how formatting will help the pda see it, but its another option right?

Why dont you try first on inserting other mini SD card first if your PDA recognize it then you might need to format the card. . . if it doesnt then its a phone problem? did you unlock your extended rom? it is also a reason why storage card is not available. .

Just one thought....It may be possible that your card is formatted in NTFS, then your card will only be readable in desktop but not in PPC

i was able to format it through the laptop as fat32. but it still isnt seen on the pda. i am on a business trip with a laptop and all my other peripherals are at home and i am two days away from being there. so no, i havent tried the other card/put the present one in the card reader ect... all that stuffs at home. i just dont see how all of a sudden, out of the blue, its no longer visible. i even hard started the pda and formatted the sd... it has to be a software issue. noones had this prob with faria crossbow? btw, thanks for all the tips, i try them as i read them!

Man, make it simple
You say that the Desktop PC sees your card, right ? Well , copy all you have on the MiniSD to the computer
Insert the MiniSD in the Wizard, and format it with any software that is able to do that(ex. RescoExplorer)
Then it should work, right ?
If you cannot see it at all from resco or similar, then reformat it into the PC and see that it is FAT not NTFS ... I don't remember which one Fat 16/32 but I guess that 32
Good luck

anichillus said:
Man, make it simple
You say that the Desktop PC sees your card, right ? Well , copy all you have on the MiniSD to the computer
Insert the MiniSD in the Wizard, and format it with any software that is able to do that(ex. RescoExplorer)
Then it should work, right ?
If you cannot see it at all from resco or similar, then reformat it into the PC and see that it is FAT not NTFS ... I don't remember which one Fat 16/32 but I guess that 32
Good luck
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
ya, the card is seen but only when i use wm5torage and activate it. but it still isnt seen on the pda. when i did that, i formatted the card through the laptop as fat32. still not seeing but im finding info on alot of the forums here. i even tried the reg value change suggestions and that didnt work. im starting to think it maybe a bad card? but then why would i be able to see it on the laptop through the mobile usb connection??? grrr...

Then Hard reset Time if all solution you have seen have failed. . . you can backup your contacts using active sync or any third party software will do. .

WMStorage - Memory Card Programs not working

Hi all,
I have WMStorage installed on my HTC Touch and it has been great. Just what I needed to transfer files simply, like a USB drive, to my linux machine.
Now the other day, after doing this, you are meant to press the 'deactivate' button to return the phone to normal operation, but the button was unresponsive, i.e. it just locked the phone up (regular thing for this HTC) so I had no choice but to do a soft reset (pressing the stylus into the hole underneath).
Now since then, any programs that were installed on the memory card will not load!
I can access files on the memory card no problem, photos etc, but programs will not load.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Jon

jcr1 said:
Hi all,
I have WMStorage installed on my HTC Touch and it has been great. Just what I needed to transfer files simply, like a USB drive, to my linux machine.
Now the other day, after doing this, you are meant to press the 'deactivate' button to return the phone to normal operation, but the button was unresponsive, i.e. it just locked the phone up (regular thing for this HTC) so I had no choice but to do a soft reset (pressing the stylus into the hole underneath).
Now since then, any programs that were installed on the memory card will not load!
I can access files on the memory card no problem, photos etc, but programs will not load.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Jon
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
have you managed to deactivate it after the softreset
try to activate and deactivate few times,maybe to pull the card out and turn on the phone,try different combinations...and see what will happen

After the soft reset it was back to normal, as in WMStorage wasn't doing anything. I have pulled the card out turning it off and on to no avail.
Will fiddle some more, but I get a horrible feeling I will loose my programs. Its wierd how everything is there and browesable, just incapable of loading.

what I'd do is backup the contents of the card, format it, and then restore the data.

joemanb said:
what I'd do is backup the contents of the card, format it, and then restore the data.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Trouble is, as I said, I have programs installed on it. Will just backing up the whole disk and restoring return programs to working order? I thought it didn't quite work like that.
But looks like I don't have a lot of choice tbh.
Cheers.

the fact that some of the files are programs shouldn't matter. It has never caused me a problem. As long as everything is restored to the same path as before everything should be fine.

Kaiser performance: Slowing down few days after flashing

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
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
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

[Q] Please help data recovery on HD7 - desperate!

2 days ago my son was born and I used my HTC HD7 to take all pictures and videos of him and my wife, these were the most amazing and precious moments of my life and I captured them all on my phone.
My wife and I both have identical HD7 phones, last night I took my phone home and charged a spare battery for her, today I took this to hospital and we both turned our phones off and waited until the "goodbye" sreen had vanished, and then swapped the batterys over in the phones so she had the fully charged battery and I had the low/quarter full battery. When she switched on her phone, everything was fine, but when I switched on mine I saw some screen flash up saying something about "pressing the volume buttons to erase your phone" I paniced at this point and did a stupid thing and took out the battery again. After I put it back in it booted up and gave me the "seup windows phone" screen. At this point I switched my phone off and havent swiched it back on since.
Is there any hope of recoverying the pictures and videos? Apps, contactacts etc I dont care about, but these are the most important moments of my life I want to recover. I have no idea what happened, but at the moment I am very upset.
I am an IT technician myself, and in the past it has been all stored on the memory card, but there is no way to remove the memory card on this phone. I am willing to destroy the phone to preserve this data if needed, Is there any way I could remove the memory card? I could try some data recovery software if this is the case.
Please help, the might be a simple way to sort this I haven't been able to find. I have now been up 36 hours as my wife has had a lot of complications and lost a lot of blood last night and ended up having a transfusion. Sorry to be so personal, but I am really desperate to save these photos.

you might have accidentally held the volume button when you turned on the device, and that triggered that factory reset feature.
I have done this accidentally with my trophy as well when i was running late for work, but instead of removing the battery, i held down the power button and tried again, but when it turned on it didnt show me a setup one where you type in your windows live id, instead my one was an image of a windows phone suggesting to connect to a laptop via USB cable, again i didnt panic and turned off the screen and held down the volume button and the power button and i did trigger the factory reset in purpose, once i was at the factory reset screen, pressing any other button (camera key, and sleep/wake/power key) apart from the volume keys disables the reset feature and will continue to boot to wp7.
I dont know if Im helping, but thats how I resolved my situation.

How to remove memory card
Hi Herr_ando,
Firstly Congratulations on becoming a father
Secondly do not worry all is not lost, if you cannot get the handset to boot normally you can remove the memory card (without voiding the warranty too) A lot of people figured this out when they had fist purchased the HD7 and have since used the following video clip to help them upgrade the memory card size:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EcGUX3NwnQ
I have done this myself but had trouble when reading the memory card via a dongle (this is due to the differing format used by WP7) the way i got round this was either by putting the memory card into an old N97 nokia phone and using the pc software to remove the pictures from it or to use a flash drive recovery app found via google.
Hope this helps,
Creamy

It doesn't sound like you actually performed a factory reset so it's probably fine... but if you want to be safe, pull out the SD card like the previous post says. It might make you factory reset after putting it back in, but if you already save your pics and videos, who cares, right?

thesecondsfade said:
It doesn't sound like you actually performed a factory reset so it's probably fine... but if you want to be safe, pull out the SD card like the previous post says. It might make you factory reset after putting it back in, but if you already save your pics and videos, who cares, right?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It's okay to take out the SD card and put it back as long as the phone isn't turned on in the meantime and nothing is written to the SD card.
So it's okay if you use the SD card to recover photos and put it back in, as long as the phone stays off in this time.
@herr_ando: Congratulations on becoming a father!

Hi guys, thanks for the congratulations.
I tried removing the memory card and plugged it into a card reader, no joy reading this card, in fact it wouldnt even detect. I also tried putting it into my Toshiba Camileo, which I know deffo supports SDHC cards of this size, was unable to see it at all.
Also tried it in a new laptop, with a micro > full size adaptor, no joy, and a blackberry 8520 with mass storage enabled still cant read this card, when I choose disable mass storage it tells me the memory card isn't formatted.
I know Windowsphone7 files on the memory card isn't supposed to be accessable outside the OS but this makes data recovery impossible for me.
If this was a PC HDD or standard SD card I could run some data recovery software, and try to recover these files even if the card has been formatted. but I have no idea how to do this for this card... any ideas?

herr_ando said:
Hi guys, thanks for the congratulations.
I tried removing the memory card and plugged it into a card reader, no joy reading this card, in fact it wouldnt even detect. I also tried putting it into my Toshiba Camileo, which I know deffo supports SDHC cards of this size, was unable to see it at all.
Also tried it in a new laptop, with a micro > full size adaptor, no joy, and a blackberry 8520 with mass storage enabled still cant read this card, when I choose disable mass storage it tells me the memory card isn't formatted.
I know Windowsphone7 files on the memory card isn't supposed to be accessable outside the OS but this makes data recovery impossible for me.
If this was a PC HDD or standard SD card I could run some data recovery software, and try to recover these files even if the card has been formatted. but I have no idea how to do this for this card... any ideas?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Sadly, you need a Nokia cell as stated above, to read the card. Their OS is the only one that supports the partition format & password protection. I have 2 SD Cards that won't work on anything other than a Nokia cell because of this. They came out of a Nokia MusicXpress & Nuron my room mate had.

Hi mate
So you reckon if I buy a Nokia 5230 or similar I should be able to read this card? I should be able to pick one of these up for £35 or so, well worth it to get these photos back.
I have no experiance of nokia phones since the old days of my 3310. Do i need to use nokia software or does this present itself as a removable hdd in windows?
Many thanks.

herr_ando said:
Hi mate
So you reckon if I buy a Nokia 5230 or similar I should be able to read this card? I should be able to pick one of these up for £35 or so, well worth it to get these photos back.
I have no experiance of nokia phones since the old days of my 3310. Do i need to use nokia software or does this present itself as a removable hdd in windows?
Many thanks.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Creamy stated the n97. I'm not family with all this as I never done it, but there's a lot of threads regarding this. People using Nokia phones to unlock & reformat SD card so they'll work for other devices. As to what devices this work on, I'm not sure, but as long as the card hasn't been erased yet, it's possible that a Nokia phone will be able to read the card & transfer files to your pc. You can look through the forum for more information from people with experience. My experience only deals with trying to get these 2 SD cards working with other devices & will result in for formatting the cards.
NOTE: Also, I do believe you need the nokia desktop software install to transfer file, but am not sure. Another thing, if you do find the sd card is empty, maybe reformatting it in the nokia phone, you'll be able to directly put the sd card in your pc & use your partition recovery tools on it.

Best Digital Media Recovery Software
Hi,
Congratulations on becoming a father!
If the memory card is not recognized in the PC or it is impossible to access the data on it, the controller on the card is damaged. There is only one way to get the data back, digital media recovery and directly access their raw data with a programable digital media recovery tool. Have a look at: RecoverDataTools DigitalMediaRecoveryTool

Mozart not recognised by windows so can't backup please help!!

I was recently given a Htc mozart by a friend who had cracked the screen and bought a new phone, they said I could have it but would like their photos and vids off it so if I could back it up (easy as pie I thought!!!)
The phone charges and functions fine (I changed the digitzer) but when plugged into a pc it displays usb unrecognized error code 43 (malfunction?). I have tried multiple cables, laptops and even os (xp, 7 32bit/64bit and osx), I have searched the internet and have seen some suggestions on wiping the phone (but I don't want to do this until the data is backed up) also looked at reading the micro sd but found you can't by conventional methods.
I have also tried multiple apps - boxfiles, sendstuffnow,sharefile (they seem to allow one photo at a time but not videos), I also tried emailing them but again I can't email vids and the phone has over 500 pics! tried bluetooth and also yivosoft but it doesn't seem to be able to view the files (root access required??), tried a few other programs such as ftp and they just state the phone needs to be updated via zune (currently running 7.0.7004.0).
I was thinking of sticking another microsd card in and formatting it etc just to see if it is then recognised in windows and poss update the firmware then put the old micro sd back in? would this work or is the firmware stored on the micro sd card and also if not when I update would it then state the old micro sd needs formatting or something? If anyone has any suggestions on how I can get the pics and vids off it would be greatly appreciated! I am an android user and this is my first experience with a windows phone so if I am way off my apologies. Thanks again

For sure don't mess with the uSD cards. They're locked to the device (the "S" in SD stands for "Secure" and refers to a rarely-used ability to lock an SD card). Even if you managed to make the card usable again, the data on it would be gone. Also, yes, the OS is at least partially stored on the SD card, and your switch-update suggestion would not work.
WiFi sync would work, but if that's not already set up you'd need to connect the phone to Zune via the USB to set it up. There are some homebrew apps that would be able to lift the files easily enough, but unless you have something lile TouchXplorer or Advanced Explorer installed already, that's not an option (you need USB connection to install more homebrew).
Sorry, man. This is one of the reasons why I plug in my phone to my PC every day or two and sync it; the tiny amount of time it takes is worth the reassurance. I realize that doesn't help now, though...

GoodDayToDie said:
For sure don't mess with the uSD cards. They're locked to the device (the "S" in SD stands for "Secure" and refers to a rarely-used ability to lock an SD card). Even if you managed to make the card usable again, the data on it would be gone. Also, yes, the OS is at least partially stored on the SD card, and your switch-update suggestion would not work.
WiFi sync would work, but if that's not already set up you'd need to connect the phone to Zune via the USB to set it up. There are some homebrew apps that would be able to lift the files easily enough, but unless you have something lile TouchXplorer or Advanced Explorer installed already, that's not an option (you need USB connection to install more homebrew).
Sorry, man. This is one of the reasons why I plug in my phone to my PC every day or two and sync it; the tiny amount of time it takes is worth the reassurance. I realize that doesn't help now, though...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for the reply, know what you mean I back up regular also but my friend didn't. I can't believe its so difficult to transfer the files without the usb connection :S also can't believe the updates are no ota :S was hoping there might be a method of unlocking the phone for homebrew like there was with the iphone at one stage. Ah well back to the drawing board unless someone can come up with any other ideas!