Howdy all,
I was adding a few themes to my phone, using Activesync to copy them to my 2gb storage card, which is about 30% full with music / apps / video / etc... I was looking through my themes (all on storage card) with Activesync connected and -poof- storage card vanished. I reset my phone and I get this message "Do you want to format this storage card to make it readable? this will permanently delete any files on the card." Of course I click "No"
Any ideas on fixing the storage card --what might be wrong? Any apps to help with this?
This is major problem number three with my phone --and all three problems (all three data loss) have been directly caused by Activesync...
Is there an alternative to Activesync --I am absolutely done with Microsoft.
Tmobile Wing
Windows Mobile 6.0
Try to insert it into your Computer and rightclick at properties on your Card. Ther you can click on something like "scan for errors" This should fix the problems!
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Dear all,
I notice the following problems with "Bluetooth Settings screen". When I click on the bluetooth icon on the extreme right hand corner it would take from 5 to 20 seconds for the setting screen to come up. This will only happen if I have an SD card (Apacer 256MB) inserted in the SD slot. I have SanDisk SD Wifi card, even with this inserted it would take between 5 to 10 second to bring up the bluetooth setting screen. This happens for both the initial firmware as well as the latest firmware from official XDA II site. FYI, without any SD device inserted the bluetooth setting can be activated instantaneously. This problem can be replicated time and again so it is not something that is caused by any program installed (tested all that even after cold reset). Does anyone know of a solution to the problem? Thanks.
Regards,
Kueh.
Its likely that something on the card is slowing your XDA down..
What apps are installed onto the card ? if you have an app thats constantly being run from the card it will slow the system down, maybe not as much as you say but it does have a noticable effect with large apps.
My Bluetooth options pretty much come up instantly unless i have a few programs running, in which case it sometimes takes a couple of seconds or more..
Maybe your SD card is faulty. If so, your XDA might be constantly trying to read something from the card and keep hitting an error which isnt made known to the user. What id try is to backup the SD card, reformat it and then see if it happens again. :wink:
Hi,
I have no application running from the SD card. All of them are datafiles, mostly pictures, wmv and microsoft reader files. BTW, how do I format the SD card?. Thanks.
Regards,
Kueh.
I dont think theres an option to do it within the XDA2.
You'd need a card reader or someone who owns one which can reformat the card. If you dont want to by one or know anyone with one, go to your local PC shop, they might do it for you. :wink:
I'm having exactly the same problem.... accept for it only happens when turning on the XDAII - if I do remove the SD card then the problem does go away!!!
Is anyone else having this same problem with the BT Settings ??
You can format your SD card with a ppc application called XDA-storagetools (do a google search)
I suspect it takes longer for the BT radio to start when you have a card inserted may be because the BT software is looking for a BT device in th SD slot??
I have the same problem too...If i want to reformat my SD card through card reader, do i just simply format it in the like of formatting, for example, drive c: ? I mean, just 'right click' on the SD card and choose 'format' ? Or do i need to use a specific software ? Thanx...
You cannot format a SD card from a card reader - windaz don't do it.
You need special software, try a google search for xda storage tools
Ok...thanx a lot. By the way, how do we know that a slower BT settings is affected by SD card ? Just my curiosity :}
I don't believe formating the sd card will make any difference.... just having the sd card inserted into the XDAII is enough to cause the problem.
Could it have something to do with when the XDAII is turned on, it has to read/regonsie the sd card first... and the BT settings has to wait for this to happen??
I'm using WM6 (mUn), and I'd like to store my e-mail on my SD Card. But the card takes too long to mount, so when Cingular 8125 boots up, it creates a new "Storage Card" folder to put the mail in, and mounts my actual Storage Card as "Storage Card2"...
If I remove the "PropertyPath" value in the Registry, it mounts my card normally, but my e-mail (poutlook.exe) is placed in "Windows\Messaging" on the main memory. This seriousl limits the amount of mail I can have in poutlook. (I am storing attachments on the SD card - but that is insufficient for what I need.)
I know that the problem is related to order things happen at boot time (and after a power-on restart), but is there a solution to this _ANNOYING_ design flaw from Microsoft?
Is there any way to talk to Microsoft about this issue - clearly any other "computer" mounts it's storage devices before it starts looking for places to store things. Why does Windows Mobile (all versions) choose to do this in such a retarded way?
robinwilson2 said:
I'm using WM6 (mUn), and I'd like to store my e-mail on my SD Card. But the card takes too long to mount, so when Cingular 8125 boots up, it creates a new "Storage Card" folder to put the mail in, and mounts my actual Storage Card as "Storage Card2"...
If I remove the "PropertyPath" value in the Registry, it mounts my card normally, but my e-mail (poutlook.exe) is placed in "Windows\Messaging" on the main memory. This seriousl limits the amount of mail I can have in poutlook. (I am storing attachments on the SD card - but that is insufficient for what I need.)
I know that the problem is related to order things happen at boot time (and after a power-on restart), but is there a solution to this _ANNOYING_ design flaw from Microsoft?
Is there any way to talk to Microsoft about this issue - clearly any other "computer" mounts it's storage devices before it starts looking for places to store things. Why does Windows Mobile (all versions) choose to do this in such a retarded way?
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Ummm...have you renamed the new folder it creates to storage card.bak, then reboot and put your card back in and see if it stops doing that.
This is a common problem on the Tmobile Wizard I am using, that solved my problem.
But, it stopped doing that since I went to Xplore rom. Also, remove messagin from the today screen, it might be what is also causing it.
Good luck.
Hi,
Just few hours ago, had power down while downloading files by activeSync to my HTC pro. Right after my SDHC (8GB) card became unusable. Had to hard reset my phone, but even after that I cant write to it and cant modify it, but i can still see all files on it while connected by activeSync.
HTC FileExplorer cant delete a single file, same with Resco, and Pocket mechanic is unable to format card.
Is there any way to format this card, or should i just bin it and buy new one?
try formatting through pc using a reader, they're pretty cheap
darek001 said:
Hi,
Just few hours ago, had power down while downloading files by activeSync to my HTC pro. Right after my SDHC (8GB) card became unusable. Had to hard reset my phone, but even after that I cant write to it and cant modify it, but i can still see all files on it while connected by activeSync.
HTC FileExplorer cant delete a single file, same with Resco, and Pocket mechanic is unable to format card.
Is there any way to format this card, or should i just bin it and buy new one?
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I believe you can hook up your device in storage mode, and reformat via windows. Or as stated above, use an external card reader. Either way of sounds like your data is toast. Good luck^^
well, i cant use it as a drive, cause windows shows its empty now. I mean, blank, unreadable and freezing windows to be more specific.
Had to remove card from the phone, as it was slowing it down so much, that it was practically unoperatable.
Card reader gives me only error message: cant read. I/O error.
But during activesync connection i can see all my data and folders there. Just cant modify them/delete/copy new/format/and or read exisitng ones.
So, i just wonder, is there any, slightest chance to format this card somehow, or i can only scrap it?
Maybe some kind of low level formatting utility for HTC?
darek001 said:
Maybe some kind of low level formatting utility for HTC?
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Pocket Mechanic might do the trick?
i think i will give up and buy new micro SDHC card....
Pocket mechanic, Memmaid, and file browser cant delete any of the files on my card, cant erase it nor format it.
After connecting to PC, ActiveSync shows card properly, but i cant modify it, or even copy files from it to my computer.
Standard Windows XP Format utility cant format this card, same with HP USB format tool.
Only program that can gain acces to this card is Paragon Partition Manager, so was able to copy all the files from my card to PC, but even this program is unable to format it, or delete partition.
It seems that my card became "read only".
Maybe someone knows Windows program allowing to operate on problematic SD cards?
Hi!
I have Motorola G7 power xt-1955-4.
And I also got a 512gb Kingston hama sdcard.
The card was formatted as internal storage.
The problem is that today I saw that I can't access the files on my phone. This happened after I moved several files from phone to my computer, to free up some space.
Now, when I open File manager it shows "main storage not available".
I reinserted my SD card a couple of times, but I keep having a notification saying "checking sdcard... Reviewing current content".
When I go to Settings - Storage it says only "sdcard checking..".
When I press on "Checking sd card" notification only it gives me the option to Forget.
How can I access my SD card without formatting it?
Thank you.
You said you moved some files from the card to your PC? How did you do this? If you removed the card from the phone and put it in your PC, then what you effectively did was slice off part of your phone's storage, messed with the files, and put it back in. You cut off a piece of brain, rooted around in it, and tried to reattach it.
Internal storage means the card is not removable, and the storage space will be filled with files essential to the phone. Chances are to get the card to work again it needs to be reformatted.
dannyetlv said:
Hi!
I have Motorola G7 power xt-1955-4.
And I also got a 512gb Kingston hama sdcard.
The card was formatted as internal storage.
The problem is that today I saw that I can't access the files on my phone. This happened after I moved several files from phone to my computer, to free up some space.
Now, when I open File manager it shows "main storage not available".
I reinserted my SD card a couple of times, but I keep having a notification saying "checking sdcard... Reviewing current content".
When I go to Settings - Storage it says only "sdcard checking..".
When I press on "Checking sd card" notification only it gives me the option to Forget.
How can I access my SD card without formatting it?
Thank you.
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Sorry I'm a bit late. I had this same issue recently. Until now, I have had a problem with any program recognizing the drive without offering to format it first. I can't do that because I am stupid and had important files on there I need. I just located DiskGenius and I am running it now.
Not sure this will repair the issue, but it recognized the sd card which I had set as the primary storage not knowing something like this could happen. It is running a search now for bad sectors. When it finds them, it will provide a repair, but the sectors will be deleted. I am hoping it won't be the sectors that contain my files that I need to recover. But it's a step in the right direction.
I now know not to set an sd card as main storage for Android, because it encrypts the files, and it tied the SD card to the system. I can't even install apps right now because the main storage is non existent.
I just had to throw out a 62g card due to corruption. I do t know how it happened but I eventually had to factory reset/wipe phone. I put the card in a laptop to reformat it. Wouldn't work. I'm getting a new card, but I will not make it phone storage. Bummed me out.
I have an interesting phenomenon. I want to upgrage an extFAT 256 Gb SD card to an extFAT 1 Tb SD card. The source and the destination cards are not encrypted. I copied all unhidden files from the old one to the new one via a USB reader. I can see everything on my 1 Tb card. When I insert the new card to the phone, some folders like download, music or video are empty. I remove the card from my phone and put it to the same USB reader. These directories contain no files. It looks like you cannot simply copy files. Of course, I can copy them connecting my phone via USB; however, it will take a day to transfer 65 Gb of data. Disk imaging is very slow too. I'm on UI 4.0 Stock, Note 20 Ultra.
Format and load card in the phone.
You need a V30 rated card for best speed.
Thanks! No, it does't work. I've done it the same way: format on the phone / use very fast card. Copy to the phone speed is 700 Kps, via USB reader - 7.5 Mps. I'm afraid it has something to do with the card ID xxxx-xxxx. Volume ID changer doesn't work with new SD cards.
All I do is get a Sandisk extreme, format in phone and it's good to go.
I'm running two N10+'s, one running P the other Q. Using a 512 gb card.
In phone transfer speeds are about .5 [email protected] Average about 1.
Try going from internal memory to card. Should be about [email protected]
Check the PC, use the SmartSwitch driver.
Access SD card drive in the phone using Windows Disk Management, scan for new devices, load/download from that window.
Check Event Viewer for error messages.
Try clearing the system cache.
The story is even worse. I have a 512 Gb os Internal Storage version . I copied my SD card to it, put a new SD card and copy all my files from external to SD. The copy process was fast I was able to see my files on the new SD card. As soon as I deleted a copy from the Interatal Storage, my files were automatically erased from the SD card.
robotov said:
The story is even worse. I have a 512 Gb os Internal Storage version . I copied my SD card to it, put a new SD card and copy all my files from external to SD. The copy process was fast I was able to see my files on the new SD card. As soon as I deleted a copy from the Interatal Storage, my files were automatically erased from the SD card.
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I trust you have redundant copies saved on hdds...
How fast? The card's top speed is around [email protected] Sounds like it was just deleting the files, not writing them to the card.
Try in safe mode.
Run a Check Disk on the PC. Do a low level format and always format in the phone before use. A 3rd party app maybe more helpful for low level formatting.
More ideas.
*always keep the possibility of a virus or rootkit in mind when you observe unexplained behavior with an Android. These are very rare unless you do something stupid... as we all have.
If one disk or more are suspected of being compromised keep them 100% isolated from the backups!!! As they should be anyway.
It's also possible a hidden user setting was altered. Poorly written 3rd apps can do this, unistalling may not fix it or could even trigger it.
Factory reset to clear the user data and reset everything to default. If you did any major firmware upgrades and you didn't factory reset... it's time to.
I don't advocate factory resetting normally at all but for the above issues sometimes it's the best option for a stock Android.
If you can find the app that alter the hidden user setting you may be able to repair it sometimes by reinstalling the app and toggling the setting in it that triggered the issue than unistalling it again, if it's an option. I've done this before, in fact it was on the current load I'm using which will be 2 yo in June. I prefer to find the issue rather than nuke whenever possible... to prevent reoccurrence.
Thank you! I've found the problem. I had to disable zip compressed folders functionality on my PC using a registry fix. Obvously, the phone doesn't support this feature.
robotov said:
Thank you! I've found the problem. I had to disable zip compressed folders functionality on my PC using a registry fix. Obvously, the phone doesn't support this feature.
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Yay! Nothing like success!
Congratulations on your 1.5tb dual drive handheld PC
♤excellent♤
Lol, you had me worried as I'm thinking of up sizing to a 1tb card on my N10+
Never encrpt, compressed or clone data drives especially media files as bad things tend to happen. Those silly little null marks matter