Hi,
I have a HTC Touch Cruise 09 (default ROM) and it has been working fine for over 10 months now. But today I rebooted it, because it was responding very slowly to my input and after restarting, it showed me the inital configuration setup (align the screen for the stylus, setup for the provider, etc...)
It showed me the default theme, so it apparently has created a new windows profile for me. I looked at the folder structure using the file explorer (all my installed programs weren't available anymore) and saw the problem. The system folders like "Documents and Settings" were called "D0cpmen4q and Sdptans" or something like that.
Using ActiveSync it was possible to access these folders from my Windows PC, but the folders seem to be empty. Luckily I have most of my personal files stored on the storage card and I still see these files, but cannot copy them. On the PC the folder names include these block characters which are shown, when the original characters aren't available in that font. Something messed up the names of the folders.
Is there a possibility to change the names back to the original ones, so they can replace the newly created folders? I don't want to reconfigure the phone, which took me months. Or can I at least access the files on the storage card?
Apparently, this is not a very common error.
Can anyone tell me, how I can access the files on the device from my PC without ActiveSync (through Windows Explorer)? Is there an app, with which I can change the folder names?
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hello... i posted this on other boards but was suggested that i post here so hopefully i'll get some responses here:
i recently got a treo 750 for my boss and have it syncing with our exchange server. thats fine, everything syncs. problem is, my boss has 10,000+ email messages that i know he's going to want all on the treo. along with its megabytes and megabytes of attachments. i've read where there's a registry hack to move the inbox location from the internal memory out to the storage card. (AttachPath, and PropertyPath)
i successfully did it on my hp ipaq hw6945. but on the treo 750, it keeps renaming my storage card to storage card2, and then creating a folder called storage card which i assume is still on the internal memory. i read somewhere that the reason for that is because the messaging today plugin runs first before it recognizes that there is a storage card. so when the storage card is finally recognized and there is already a folder called storage card, it renames to storage card2. the suggestion was to disable the messaging today plugin. i did that. still renames my storage card. i then disabled all my today plugins, soft reset, and it still renames my storage card! this is getting frustrating. is it something about the treo 750 that the registry hack won't work? has anyone with a treo 750 successfully changed their inbox location from the \windows\messaging folder to their storage card?
anyone????
I posted a response to a similar question on the Treocentral forum. Basically, you'd probably need to wait for Windows Mobile 6 (if there is an upgrade for existing Treo 750 users). There is a video demo out there about this functionality, but basically WM 6 allows you to carry the last couple days or weeks worth of email. The rest is stored on your Exchange server. When you need something (email, attachments, etc), you can perform a search wherever you have network connection, and your Treo will search for that information on your Exchange server at work. This way, you can download all that you need, whenever and wherever you have a connection.
SD Card Storing Emails
I have the same problem; here is a workaround - not pretty but it's fast and works
1. before reset; use wireless manager to shut off phone
2. take out sd card (i don't really take it out; just let it snap out partway so it's no longer recognized
3. reboot
4. use file explorer to delete newly created (empty and actually on phone not SD card) folder "StorageCard2
5. put your sd card back in and it's properly recognized as StorageCard2
6. use wireless manager to turn phone back on
you can skip turning phone on/off but have to be quick with file explorer to delete the newly created StorageCard2 folder or, if activesync starts right away, you might get some email stored on this folder that you loose when you delete it.
My understanding is that, when WM boots, the registry entry is looking for StorageCard2 before the drivers to find the card are loaded so it creates the folder in RAM. I'm not aware of any permanent fix other that the above workaround with each reset. Fortunately, don't reset that often so this isn't a big issue
Just a quick comment, guys.
As far as I know the only registry setting causing mentioned issue is PropertyPath. AttachPath works fine (at least for me and my Treo 750).
Email & Storage Card 2 !
I posted this at treocetral, hope it helps.
Email & Storage Card 2 !
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OK here goes,
For anyone with lots of emails and attachments this is relevent. I have been trying for 3 days to work out storing the email, email attachments and internet explorer temopory files on the mini sd card. As most who try this know that windows does not play well and continues to create a new folder called storage card and displaced the actual storage card as storage card 2.
This creates many problems. Any installed program will not work from the icon or shortcut as it points to the wrong place and the files intended to now be stored on the storage card are actually on a folder called storage card in the device root (not saving the intended space). In addition the new folder is locked by processes like active sync, ie, or the today screen messaging plug-in. Very problematic. There are lots of discussion about solutions from disabling the plug-in and manually hacking the registry. I have tried smart phone tweaker, tweaker 2k and direct registry edits. All of which do not help.
The final solution I have discovered is as follows.
01. Place the internet explorer temp files back on the device in the windows folder. This seems to be the biggest problem that locks the files. I do not do so much browsing that these files arevery big or add up quickly.
02. Placed the emails back on the device in the windows sub-folder. As these are text and not html they do not take up much room.
03. Now for the attachments. Mine are 37 MB! This is the meat of the problem. I went into the registry and only changed the AttachPath to the storage card and it worked. This saves me 37 MB on the device and does not yet force the new storage card/storage card2 problem.
I have not included all the registry keys and paths as a quick Google search will bring them up.
I just though people should know. What a pain in the rear, but now it is better.
Regards
islandsnow said:
anyone????
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The reason why you are having the problem is because you chose the option to store the messages on your memorycard while the memory card was not inserted in the device. It went looking for "storage card" and couldn't find it, so the OS naturally creaded the directory so the e-mail could function. Afterwards when you did insert the memory card, the file system naturally named it "storage card2" because it loads it as a virtual folder and "storage card" was already taken. If you delete "storage card" which is located on the device, your memory card will automatically change it's name from "storage card2" to "storage card". That's a quick fix. The only problem you may run into would be if you have programs installed to the memory card. Those programs will look for files on the card assuming it's still "storage card2". I ran into the same issue, deleted the "storage card" folder and fixed my e-mail issue. But right after I had to hard reset to reinstall all my programs on the card to get them working again. Have fun...
Hey Guys - I have a huge Problem ...
I was playing around with SKtools and "optimizing" the registry ... I dont know if this has anything to do with it and its the first time i'm posting here for a Problem ..
following problem : in Manila tag "messages" there are no more messages - all my sms are gone and im not able to create new ones ... i also cannot access "messaging" in start menue or settings...
same with mail accounts - cannot see mine nor create or edit a new one ...
can anyone help me please ? is this just a broken link somewhere ? Are my messages still eventually stored anywhere and if yes where ?
i would really appreciate your Help
sorry for my english
It could be registry errors.
Try to restore your backup.
well ... i dont find any option for a backup in sk tools concerning automated optimisation of the registry ..
then hard reset is another option...
next time install a proper backup tools like Sprite Backup & backup regularly
well i know
it seems that outlook is broken - is there a possibility to manually search the files/folders where sms and mail messages are stored ?
As long as your WM not discarded all the corrupted data may be you still can get it.
but I'm not sure b'coz I have never try that before.
yes - thats what i thought .. the data might still be present ...
does anyone know the folder / file where sms and mail messages are normally stored ? also I cant't find the "tmail.exe" in my System - does this have to do anything with it ? Is someone out there who has a little background knowledge ?
I had the same problem. It was fixed by going to the sd card and deleting some folder called ~"Inbox.1234123" or something.
Its some error b/c of having 2 different folders for storing attachments. Deleting that folder fixed it for me. It still pops up every now and then, i go and delete that folder, and all works perfect afterwards...
talbotlives said:
I had the same problem. It was fixed by going to the sd card and deleting some folder called ~"Inbox.1234123" or something.
Its some error b/c of having 2 different folders for storing attachments. Deleting that folder fixed it for me. It still pops up every now and then, i go and delete that folder, and all works perfect afterwards...
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Brilliant. Had this problem and two of these files (as I'm on a mac I only have my contacts etc backed up, but not my entire system)
Thus removing these two files saved me a lot of pain.
Thanks!
joan
Hope I'm posting the right forum -I didn't see any trouble-shooting here.
This is darn strange. There are several possible causes.
After some research in these forums, I recently edited the registry and loaded some cool stuff for my T-mobile Wing: S2U2, Homescreen PlusPlus, Icontact, Nitrogen (media player), .netCF 3.5, a few games, and such. But no ROM flashes or what I would consider major hacks...
In the process, I got SCREWED the first time I used activesync (ERASED all contacts + appointments on my phone without asking). Apparently this is the default for activesync. Wow -that's a whole other thread.
Fortunately, I had backed up my contacts to the SIM, so I manually restored them.
Eventually I go resetting ringtones for my contacts (a mix of .mid's and .mp3's), and while shuffling through them, midi's just stop playing. The files are still shown, but no sound when you select them...? (mp3's still work fine)
Now here's the fun part --I can *still* play .mid files in Windows Media Player...
ANY clues here?
I know on my PC, there is a separate volume control for midi... Is there a way to check the midi drivers in Windows?
Tmobile Wing
Windows Mobile 6.0
Update
Looks like several others have had this problem.
Looking deeper into the forums I found this link to add midi support for BA wm6...
//forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=180290&d=1240736694
Tried out the cab file on my phone -no help...
-still no solution
Tmobile Wing
Windows Mobile 6.0
Fixed
Strange fix for me...
After looking at *elementary* kind of intructions for "how do you set up ringtones on your storage card," I tried going through these one more time...
I navigated to storagecard/mydocuments/myringtones and held the pointer on a .mid file for 3 seconds -the menu comes up all in English except for where it should say "set as ringtone" it says something in a foreign language (German I think -hard to tell with abbreviations)... I click that option, and it returns (in english) with the result that the .mid file was set as my ringtone.
I exit file explorer and go to settings/phone to see if the ringtone is set. The .mid file is indeed set, and when I click play -IT PLAYED...
So then I tried setting .mid ringtones for individual contacts, and all was back to normal... Everything works again...
Conclusion: it must have been something I installed, vice a registry edit which caused the temporary loss of midi ringtones...
Found the cause
After a Hard Reset (due to other problems) I replicated the loss of midi ringtones...
The culprit was Icontact -if you install while there are already outlook contacts on your phone (seems fine to have contacts on SIM card). Not sure why this interrupts midi ringtone functionality...
Correct install order should go:
1 Backup contacts (I used PPCPIMBackup --works great)
2 Delete all contacts (hard reset did this for me)
3 Install Icontact
4 Restore contacts
5 Midi ringtones should still work
6 Side note --it looks like Icontact takes care of the problem with SIM contacts and outlook contacts being displayed together in outlook, so no need to do the registry edit ordinarily used to solve that problem...
Tmobile Wing
Win Mobile 6.0
I noticed inside my SDCard a folder named PDU_log. In there are files like sms114.pdu and so over. When i opened one of them with text editor it shows a sms that i sent. Is this a security warning ? Google gave me no answers and i found one thread in hd2 section but nothing was conclusive
Anyone? It bothers me a lot and i also noticed that if you delete the folder reappears again after reboot
What ROM are you running? I looked through everything on my SD card with Root Explorer and I don't have that folder.
Sent from my HTC Sensation 4G using Tapatalk
I'm running RUU_Pyramid_S_HTC_Europe_2.08.401.1_Radio_11.59.35 04.00U_11.16.3504.16_M, and i can confirm same folder on my SD. All my text messages are in that folder. It look like sms backup. BTW i deleted all my text messages in inbox, but is still have them in PDU_LOG folder. I deleted PDU_LOG folder, after reboot i have him again, this time empty
I'm running InsertCoin 3.4.6 and also have this folder on my SD-Card. The messages are stored in cleartext (with a space between each character) and the files also contain the recipient's phone number.
I would really like to know where this folder and files come from as I don't like my messages being backed up automatically without me setting this up.
pdu_log
Same here, insertcoin 3.4.6, PSU_log reappears after deleting. Sms and mms backup with phone numbers inside. I noticed a strange behavior as well, as I just deleted that folder I instantly saw a download notification in the notification area, pulled it down it was blank and disappeared shortly after... I find that very very strange.
UPDATE:
I just removed my HTC Sense account and the folder has disappeared. Based on this observation I'd say it's syncing with your HTC Sense account, for what reason, I don't know as there are no related options under the HTC account sync settings... Interesting..
On my Samsung S9 I'm no longer able to download images from the Camera folder over USB on Windows, which I had been doing fairly regularly.
My phone is unlocked
The USB setting is set to 'Transferring files'
I can see and copy all files and folders in the DCIM folder *except* DCIM/Camera
When opening DCIM/Camera, Windows scans the folder for about a minute and then says "This folder is empty"
What I've tried, without results:
Two different USB cables
Two different laptops
Articles on the web about this problem say the data of the Media Storage app should be cleared, but there is no such app on my S9, or at least not visible. I thought about clearing the data of the Gallery app, but I don't want to lose my favorites.
Any ideas how to solve this problem?