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Anyway to recover SD Card after full device reset?

Hi,
I restored a back-up on my HD2 today and, for some reason, the phone wouldn't accept my unlock PIN (these are enforced by our Exchange Server policy). This lead to an full reset after five failed attempts.
What I didn't realise is that it would also wipe the SD Card. I've tried a few recovery apps (Active Recovery, Recuva) but they're not detecting any files.
I'm not sure what WM6.5 does to the card - but surely there isn't enough time on the reset to completely overwrite all the card data?
Has anyone had an experience of recovering files in this situation - or is this a lost cause?
Thanks,
Mark.

Storage Card - Not Installed after failed PIN attempts
Just had the same issue...
Created an email account for our exchange server - which popped up something about a policy change that requred a password to be set.
Unfortunatly, I picked a 3 digit pin.
When you go to unlock - a 3 digit number won't unlock the screen - it wants to dial instead. Hence 5 failed attempt and woops - the device is reset.
Now the phone is running again - but I don't even see the Storage Card.
Looking at settings - system - memory - storage card shows it as not installed?
Any ideas how to get the SD card to appear again?
THANKS!

Help with storage card!
Same thing just happened to me. My TP2 reset itself after password attempt failure. I removed my card as it was resetting (when I realized it was wiping out). Now I can't get the phone or my PC to recognize the card. Any way to recover the data or just the card? I can't even recognize it to reformat.

bohica1972 said:
Hi,
I restored a back-up on my HD2 today and, for some reason, the phone wouldn't accept my unlock PIN (these are enforced by our Exchange Server policy). This lead to an full reset after five failed attempts. What I didn't realise is that it would also wipe the SD Card. I've tried a few recovery apps (Active Recovery, Recuva) but they're not detecting any files.
I'm not sure what WM6.5 does to the card - but surely there isn't enough time on the reset to completely overwrite all the card data?
Has anyone had an experience of recovering files in this situation - or is this a lost cause?
Thanks,
Mark.
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Bummer! Seems to me you have a System Center Mobile Device Manager controlled device Explain the lot to your companies Admin and blame the OEM
Personally I'm glad I installed Device Status which gave me a 'Format' option within Settings - System and I've used it; I can't recount how many times..
By The Way what does this nirsoft_USB_DEViEW application do for you ??!

Device Status
How do you install this device status utility ?

Encountered this one last time but the problem with me is that my memory card was toasted after using some freeware to recover sd cards. So be careful.

[Q] Can't format sdcard via recovery

So, here is the thing.
I was running on Hellybean-20130426-crespo. Been running for quite some time without any problem.
Phone runs out of battery, so, I plug it in and get stuck on "Google" screen.
After some tests, I find out that if I unplug it from charger, and turn it on, the phone boots, but while booting, it reboots, and enters this way into an infinite loop.
So, I think, I will do a factory reset. This worked, the phone booted normally, and I was re-installing my apps, but every now and the phone rebooted.
So, I think again, I will wipe the phone clean and re-install hellybean, see what's going on.
I enter recovery, and wipe cache, system, boot and then I go to sd card...
I can't format the SD card. When I check the logs later, I see I get an error message:
Photo: puu.sh/2Q9nW.jpg
I can mount the SD card, but I can't see the files on my PC.
But when I go to the "apply zip rom SD card", recovery can see the files:
Photo: puu.sh/2Q9of.jpg
Any ideas what to do next? I will probably get it to a Samsung service center tomorrow, because I'm out of ideas.

izacharo said:
So, here is the thing.
I was running on Hellybean-20130426-crespo. Been running for quite some time without any problem.
Phone runs out of battery, so, I plug it in and get stuck on "Google" screen.
After some tests, I find out that if I unplug it from charger, and turn it on, the phone boots, but while booting, it reboots, and enters this way into an infinite loop.
So, I think, I will do a factory reset. This worked, the phone booted normally, and I was re-installing my apps, but every now and the phone rebooted.
So, I think again, I will wipe the phone clean and re-install hellybean, see what's going on.
I enter recovery, and wipe cache, system, boot and then I go to sd card...
I can't format the SD card. When I check the logs later, I see I get an error message:
Photo: puu.sh/2Q9nW.jpg
I can mount the SD card, but I can't see the files on my PC.
But when I go to the "apply zip rom SD card", recovery can see the files:
Photo: puu.sh/2Q9of.jpg
Any ideas what to do next? I will probably get it to a Samsung service center tomorrow, because I'm out of ideas.
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You don't need to format the SD Card for a "full wipe".
You just have to:
1. Factory Reset
2. Format System
3. Format cache
4. Format dalvik cache
5. Format Data
That really is it. Then re-flash helly bean.

If you're having funky sd card errors I would reformat my sdcard through your pc as that is the best most reliable way to do this. Then try installing what you need to.
Sent from my SGH-T889 using xda app-developers app

Well, yes only problem is that the PC can't read the sdcard, so I can't save the "update.zip" into the sdcard.
As of today, I can't even mount the sdcard, so I guess my only option is Samsung service.
When I bought the phone, the camera wouldn't focus, got it replaced (the camera)
Then the vibration stop working, got it replaced as well
2 weeks ago the speaker started making distortions, got it replaced as well.
All in warranty. The phone doesn't have a scratch, I'm very careful with it.
This time I will ask them to replace the phone, or else I will burn down their store. I've had enough....
PS: all the sdcard problems started after I sent the phone to service for the speaker problem and they downgraded me from stock 4.1.2 back to 2.3.
Don't know if it has something to do with it...

[Q] My phone suddenly says "Damaged USB storage"

So, here's the problem - I was just using my phone normally, when it froze - no big deal, recently it has been getting slower and I was just planning on factory resetting it after I back up everything. But, when it booted and went on the start screen, it says "Scanning USB storage for problems" or something like that and it says then "Damaged USB Storage -You may have to reformat it" and unmounts my SD card, so, I have no storage altogether. When I click on the notification it asks if I want to format USB storage. I just want to know if there's a way of retrieving some files, because in my phone FIle Manager there's nothing, and when I connect it to the PC (Windows XP), it doesn't dettect any stotage, if I do it through "USB Utilities" on my phone it shows two Removable Disks on my computer, which are empty, when I click on them it just says "insert disk into drive", and if I click "Turn on USB Storage" on my phone it just keeps on trying to connect, but can't.
I tried restarting it, taking the battery out, booting without an SD card, booting into safe mode, using adb to pull some files, searched the internet for a few hours but to no avail, found this "Tenoshare Android Data Recovery" but it needs root, which I'm not, so I tried rooting it with SuperOneClick - doesn't work, tried installing super user from the recovery menu from SD card, but it can't install it - I'm wondering if it's wortht it. So, now I don't know what to do - do I root my phone using the methods here (with odin and etc) and use that utility, do I just factory reset it (maybe try recovering files after I've reset it?), or is there any other available option to somehow recover the files? I'm on Android 4.0.4 unrooted with Baseband version I9103XXLQ3 - I had installed it a few years ago (my phone came with 2.3.6 and I just followed the instructions here on updating my firmware).
I'll be very grateful with any help, I just had a few more important files and the last time I backed up was in December, so any help is appreciated

[Q] Bricked my phone formatting system, Unbricked, But now Mounts2sd mucks up phone!!

Ok heres the story (its not too long don't worry)-
But I URGENTLY need help to fix it please please.
I have an LG GT 540.
I got it 2months ago, and it came as factory standard, and on LG's android 1.6 operating system (so unusable basically).
Over the 2months I managed to upgrade it to a Cyanogen 4.2.1 custom rom, managed to learn how to partition my SD card into fat32 & ext2 and then installed Mounts2sd and used it to freeup space on phone.
(The phone comes with only 138mb storage, so is unusable without mounts2sd quite simply).
The phone was constantly freezingup everytime I tried to load any app ever,
but after clicking the 'Fix Permissions' tab in the recovery menu, it was all working fine and everything was working fine.
HOWEVER as 1 thing wasn't working on an app I love, and re-installing the app didn't fix the issue, I decided to wipe the whole phone, reinstall the ROM and try re-installing the app then.
But when trying to clear and wipe everything from the phone, in addition to clicking data wipe/cache wipe/dalvik cache wipe, I also clicked on the buttons saying ''Format system / Format SDcard / Format sd-ext''.
When I tried to reboot phone it was bricked, as had no boot screen logo, just was plain dark screen.
I fixed this by removing sd card from phone, putting it into laptop, placing the Cyanogen 4.2.1 rom file directly onto the sdcard, placing sd back into phone, rebooting into recovery menu, and then re-installing the ROM from the sd card.
However I now have a massive issue in that whilst the phone will now work without Mounts2sd installed (well it works but I cant install any apps as no space to do that),
As soon as I install Mounts2sd on the phone and try to use it, whilst it does freeup the memory its meant to, it totally mucksup the entire phone by making every app freeze, making phone not turn off straight away when clicked to... ect
I have removed sdcard, re-partitioned it on my laptop into Fat32 & Ext2, re-installed the ROM multiple times, and then re-installed mounts2sd on the fresh rom and tried to use it,
But everytime I try it just screwsup the phone and makes all the apps and everything on the phone freeze!!
Ive now wiped all data/cache/dalvik,
re-flashed that cyanogen rom onto the phone again (mustve done that 50x now in last 2months),
and am about to try formatting the sd card again on my laptop, then re-partitioning it to Fat32 & Ext2.
But before I re-install Mounts2sd and get the exact same issue all over again,
please please can someone tell me how I can fix this or what im doing wrong??
And so how exactly I can install Mounts2sd back onto my phone again, but without it messingup the whole phone and making everything on it freeze?
Thankyou soooo much inadvance

sd card not supported after CWM

i have successfully install the ROM as per xda suggestion but after that i how the my phone not support the sd card its show like "insert the sd card" before that its working what can i do ?

Can you just give me the link to rom amd guide on xda

cwm problem
http://androidxda.com/download-lenovo-stock-rom-models
I have follow the below steps
Reset factory
Reset coach
Storage and mount
Reset system
Reset data
Reset cache
Advanced. Dalvik cache
Than I select the zip from SD card n after rebooting I successfully install the ROM but its not support the SD card when I open the camera or filebrower its show SD card not inserted n also if I reboot the system than after phone not working than I have to do remove the battery and than connect again than after its working. So what can I do?

Which model you have

Lenovo s920 row

First of all check in your ststem foldef that you have an app called media handler is present in your device or not

Where can I found any path I try but I don't know where is it present.

Path is system/app or system/priv-app

No there is no any folder like system

What
Pleaae do not say that ever never again in your device there is a folder named syatem and your android runs from there only please check it again

Sorry
I found that using es file I cross check media app and media PRI app but there a no any app called media handler I show one app called media pro cider.apk and many others

After installation of ROM when I m trying to reboot phone its not rebboted just vibrated again n again n displaying nothing if I remove the battery than connect to again than only its responding so what can I do?

Problem with reboot function in power menu.
Try this and tellnme
Power off your device.
Andbafter 1 min switch onn it again and tell me what happens

suppose my phone is now "ON" after that if i switch off than i press the power button than its "ON" but suppose if i press "vol+ + vol- + power button" for going to CWM than its not responding just vibrating if i remove the battery n reconnect than only i go into the cwm n after going there if i select the reboot system than phone is reboting but its not switch on just vibrating agian n i have to remove the battery again.

mean boot loop or restart will not take place by the restart option

Its problem with the way recovery is installed.
Do you followed each and every step of guide carefulley.

lenovo s920 row
plzzz help me sir

Factory reset your device from recovery and do not powwr it just gobto recovery again and reinstall your rom after wiping catch and dalvic ok

i have done below steps
formating factory
formating cache
formating dalvik
than i install the zip from sd
its install succesfully
its rebooted auto maticall but after that only vibrating nothing responing

Check that the sd card is working properly.
If not then do this.
Nackup all sd card data on pc and format the sd card from your android device. Restart and see itbwill start working.