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TP2 Tilt can not read SD card and always in silent

I have been trying to install Android on my HTC TP2 (tilt) for a couple of months and managed it with the last version, 2.2, and it appears to work great. Looks the Dogs B*... Very pleased.
Now the crunch. I can not use it because there is no sound. If there is an alarm, a notification, a call, nothing happens. I have checked the settings and everything is on "SILENT" and can not be taken off..
I have another, less important issue, which may be the cause of the first. The phone states taht there is no music, videos, pictures or documents, etc. Further investigation it states I have no storage card installed. Clearly there is as I use it in the Windows mode and to load Android!
I have seen threads here and there that talk of reformatting the SD card to FAT 16 or 32, but would that then prevent it working on my Windows mode?
Is there another fix, alternative?

It is recommended to format in Fat32, this will not cause any problem to the device, but make sure to back up your files

I had a nasty feeling you'd say that. I have ordered a new, much larger SD card, so will format that and the copy all the files over, that way if anything goes wrong I still have the origional... I'll feed back

Diamond_dawg said:
It is recommended to format in Fat32, this will not cause any problem to the device, but make sure to back up your files
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Couldn't wait for the new card, so I copied the contents of the current one to the desktop of my laptop. I then reformatted to FAT, though I noticed it was already FAT.... copies the files back, then rebooted in to XDANDROID. I then tried to open the media player. It stated I had no Memory card installed....
It did not work. What next?

jonners59 said:
Couldn't wait for the new card, so I copied the contents of the current one to the desktop of my laptop. I then reformatted to FAT, though I noticed it was already FAT.... copies the files back, then rebooted in to XDANDROID. I then tried to open the media player. It stated I had no Memory card installed....
It did not work. What next?
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Did you format it in Fat32 or Fat? also it is recommended that after you format on PC, format it again on the Phone

Diamond_dawg said:
Did you format it in Fat32 or Fat? also it is recommended that after you format on PC, format it again on the Phone
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OK. My new card arrived today, which is puzzling being a Sunday. That was a FAT32 and I copied the files I had saved on my desktop on to the card, and it works!!! GREAT... Only prob is some files WOULD NOT transfer, the card was locked even though listed as me as the owner, and I don't know how to change that. But it works
The old card. I have tried reformatting time and again. And am in the process of just copying the files back over and will give up at this point. It works in Windows and RUbuntu, if not Android
I do NOT think it is as simple as JUST format to FAT32, as both cards were FAT32 and only one would worked, and that only some, including Linux/Android files at that would copy over. The Android install needs to be less discerning.

jonners59 said:
OK. My new card arrived today, which is puzzling being a Sunday. That was a FAT32 and I copied the files I had saved on my desktop on to the card, and it works!!! GREAT... Only prob is some files WOULD NOT transfer, the card was locked even though listed as me as the owner, and I don't know how to change that. But it works
The old card. I have tried reformatting time and again. And am in the process of just copying the files back over and will give up at this point. It works in Windows and RUbuntu, if not Android
I do NOT think it is as simple as JUST format to FAT32, as both cards were FAT32 and only one would worked, and that only some, including Linux/Android files at that would copy over. The Android install needs to be less discerning.
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A lot of people have had trouble with certain makes of cards (sandisk wouldnt work for me, transcend class 6 did). I know that my sandisk card had a few problems previously and was heavily used.
FAT will not work as DDawg said above, must be FAT32.
What card did you get out of interest?

timmymarsh said:
A lot of people have had trouble with certain makes of cards (sandisk wouldnt work for me, transcend class 6 did). I know that my sandisk card had a few problems previously and was heavily used.
FAT will not work as DDawg said above, must be FAT32.
What card did you get out of interest?
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All FAT32....
I do not know what the 8Gb card is as it does not say and I do not recall. the new 16Gb is a Kingston and that works fine, bar it was locked and some files would not transfer.
PS. How do I brows the devices folders.....?

If some files are copying and others not then those files could be the reason the phone is not working. Cards don't have a lock unless it's on a adapter with a lock option. And your mystery of your card coming today is that your card came yesterday but went to somebody elses house lol

Diamond_dawg said:
If some files are copying and others not then those files could be the reason the phone is not working. Cards don't have a lock unless it's on a adapter with a lock option. And your mystery of your card coming today is that your card came yesterday but went to somebody elses house lol
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The files that did not copy did not do so on the new card which was locked, or so it said it was. I could not fathom out what made the difference between files that copied over and those that did not. The types and permissions did not seem to be the difference.
As for the lock being on the adapter, maybe. I transferred the files over using an adapter and inserted directly in to the laptop. Might try the same with the old card and see if the lock appears, just for curiosity.
As for the post, you may well be right. Beep annoying though as I planned to do it all on Friday! loL

jonners59 said:
The files that did not copy did not do so on the new card which was locked, or so it said it was. I could not fathom out what made the difference between files that copied over and those that did not. The types and permissions did not seem to be the difference.
As for the lock being on the adapter, maybe. I transferred the files over using an adapter and inserted directly in to the laptop. Might try the same with the old card and see if the lock appears, just for curiosity.
As for the post, you may well be right. Beep annoying though as I panned to do it all on Friday! loL
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what i meant is that were there only certain files that were copying or nothing is copying in the new card? if there are certain files that are not copying then the problem is with the files and those could be the files causing the problem on the phone and for formatting, if you used a 8 gb card,it formatted in Fat as Fat32 is only there for cards up to 4gb, therefore i would recommend formatting it in the phone as well

Diamond_dawg said:
what i meant is that were there only certain files that were copying or nothing is copying in the new card? if there are certain files that are not copying then the problem is with the files and those could be the files causing the problem on the phone and for formatting, if you used a 8 gb card,it formatted in Fat as Fat32 is only there for cards up to 4gb, therefore i would recommend formatting it in the phone as well
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Ah, with you.
The files that did not copy, I believe were working fine, because the apps they worked in worked and those that were just documents also worked. now the apps have been copied over without these elements they do not work or work properly. Also some were within the Android OS itself. There did not seem to be any differentiator between those that would and those that would not copy over. I'm certain there is something else.
FAT: Mmm Not sure I want to go through all that again, but I guess i'll have too.!!!! The phone works with my new 16Gb card, and MUST be accessing it because it has ring tones which are stored on the card and it has found my music and videos. BUT it does not see everything and I do not know how to browse the card... It also does not show up within the available memory. Whilst looking better than my WM, it seems a bit flaky
Also i have notices the red light is on the mute button an the rear of the phone.
Just tried to Format the SD Card from within the phone... Won't. Just flashes. Also will not Unmount.

jonners59 said:
Just tried to Format the SD Card from within the phone... Won't. Just flashes. Also will not Unmount.
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you have to Format in Windows,ot android lol , as android is on the card, it cant format
also maybe ask this in the Tp2 sections, we got some good guys who will put in the help

OK, WM does not have a format facility/tool, so I put the card back in the laptop. Deleted it and then put back in the phone. The phone then formate it.
I then plugged the phone in to the laptop and copied all the files over, they all went bar 3, but then when I checked the folders all had gone over without hitch.
I then disconnected and started the phone.
In windows mobile it works, though CoPilot has lost its maps!
My Ubuntu and Android will not start. They stop in the script where it tried to open the SD Card, both of them.
I tried reinstalling Android and got the same problem. Now I am back to base

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OK, I am back where I started. I raised a different thread last night, because after al this I had a different problem, that it would not boot at all. It would get part way down the script and then stop, stating it could not open the card.
Since I plugged in to the laptop, deleted the SD card and reformatted as per all the threads using gParted. Again to FAT32
Now I am back where I started. Android boots and looks great, but there is no access to the SD card so no ringtones or media and all my files. A phone that won't ring is not very useful!

jonners59 said:
OK, I am back where I started. I raised a different thread last night, because after al this I had a different problem, that it would not boot at all. It would get part way down the script and then stop, stating it could not open the card.
Since I plugged in to the laptop, deleted the SD card and reformatted as per all the threads using gParted. Again to FAT32
Now I am back where I started. Android boots and looks great, but there is no access to the SD card so no ringtones or media and all my files. A phone that won't ring is not very useful!
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DAmn, wish i could help more, try to post in the TP2 section, we have great helpers there

SD Card freezing phone

Hi guys,
I am having a problem with my phone, i've researched everywhere but it seems that no one is experiencing the issue as me, or at least I couldnt find anybody.
The thing is that one day after syncing my phone, when I unmounted the sd card(in the correct way) and I inserted it in the phone, the phone started to freeze everytime I locked it, once I locked the phone it became unresponsie, everytime. I can turn on the display but it doesnt respond to touch, the digital buttons either. However, if I get a notification it does show up in the display, so the phone its not dead.
This behavior happens with every card I have, ive tried with 3 different cards and everytime I sync them to my mac my phone responds this way.
I did a factory reset, I wiped everything and installed different roms but the issue remains. I also formatted the cards several times.
For the phone to work correctly it has to be card-free or with a sd card that has never synced with my computer.
I uploaded a video to make the problem more understandable, Im really desperate so any help will be greatly appreciated,
thank you!!
Edit; Sorry, I dont know why the youtube thumbnail doesnt show up here,
Heres the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYIWBuJrJmA&feature=youtu.be

fmac said:
Hi guys,
I am having a problem with my phone, i've researched everywhere but it seems that no one is experiencing the issue as me, or at least I couldnt find anybody.
The thing is that one day after syncing my phone, when I unmounted the sd card(in the correct way) and I inserted it in the phone, the phone started to freeze everytime I locked it, once I locked the phone it became unresponsie, everytime. I can turn on the display but it doesnt respond to touch, the digital buttons either. However, if I get a notification it does show up in the display, so the phone its not dead.
This behavior happens with every card I have, ive tried with 3 different cards and everytime I sync them to my mac my phone responds this way.
I did a factory reset, I wiped everything and installed different roms but the issue remains. I also formatted the cards several times.
For the phone to work correctly it has to be card-free or with a sd card that has never synced with my computer.
I uploaded a video to make the problem more understandable, Im really desperate so any help will be greatly appreciated,
thank you!!
Edit; Sorry, I dont know why the youtube thumbnail doesnt show up here,
Heres the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYIWBuJrJmA&feature=youtu.be
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If the issue only happen AFTER you sync it to your PC that would make me think to look at what files you are syncing and how you are doing it. What are you loading on to your sd card? What class is your SD card as I have seen cards with a class less then 4 can cause issues.

Yes I thought of that, im just syncing music, and its the exact playlist i've been syncing before with this phone. I did a virus scan and nothing. Maybe a file suddenly became corrupted, but there is no warning about that..
I've tried with class 6, class 4 and class 2, all with the same problems..
I forgot to clarify that yesterday I synced the same files and for a while everything worked perfectly, I was able to play my music, etc. But all of a sudden I opened the camera app and the phone freezed, It did this everytime until I removed the card...
I appreciate your help, thanks

fmac said:
Yes I thought of that, im just syncing music, and its the exact playlist i've been syncing before with this phone. I did a virus scan and nothing. Maybe a file suddenly became corrupted, but there is no warning about that..
I've tried with class 6, class 4 and class 2, all with the same problems..
I forgot to clarify that yesterday I synced the same files and for a while everything worked perfectly, I was able to play my music, etc. But all of a sudden I opened the camera app and the phone freezed, It did this everytime until I removed the card...
I appreciate your help, thanks
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Sounds like maybe the virus scan is not detecting it. Are you syncing it while the card is in the phone? I would try that with blocks of music until the problem pops up and then you can slim it down from there

zelendel, thanks for your help, I did try those things and the problem remains.
However after trying different things I discovered that the files are not the problem because I synced all my music wirelessly and everything worked perfectly. Until I connected my phone to my mac without syncing and unmounted the sd-card.
My guess is that there is a problem with the mount-unmount mechanism, it may be a hardware issue I dont know. Its weird, because once I unmount, the sd-card prepares and the phone identifies it, but after that I cant open any music application, camera, etc and once I lock and try to unlock the phone, it freezes as I stated before.. Im lost
What do you think? any ideas?
thanks again!

Same Thing here in Xperia mini St15i Please Helpppppp?!

bump. come on, no one? i cant run aosp roms because of this.

fmac said:
zelendel, thanks for your help, I did try those things and the problem remains.
However after trying different things I discovered that the files are not the problem because I synced all my music wirelessly and everything worked perfectly. Until I connected my phone to my mac without syncing and unmounted the sd-card.
My guess is that there is a problem with the mount-unmount mechanism, it may be a hardware issue I dont know. Its weird, because once I unmount, the sd-card prepares and the phone identifies it, but after that I cant open any music application, camera, etc and once I lock and try to unlock the phone, it freezes as I stated before.. Im lost
What do you think? any ideas?
thanks again!
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Sorry, something that is confusing....if you are unmounting your sdcard then that is why that you cannot open files..it is unmounted. What happens when u pull your sdcard out? unmount it from settings>storage and see how the phone behaves....if works smoothly then it might be a slot issue....
If your phone rooted?

Its stock rom? Hace u ever do something to ir? Probably its hardware problem.
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Hello fellas
Same problem experienced here on two different Huwawei android phones -> sonic and ideos..gingerbread and froyo respectively.
Everytime the phones do sdcard I/O opps, all UI elements become unresponsive but bg tasks run coz they ring during incoming calls and texts.
The sdcard is the same...a 4gb kingston.
I know the sdcard works well because i've tested it more than once using H2testw 1.4 ....no flaws reported at all!
The card also works flawlessly on my nokia E63.
Does anyone have a fix for this?

sd card error ... guess so.
Hey there am too experiencing the same prob . When i insert the sd card class 2 the phone freezes , and becomes unresponsive until i remove the card ... Since dis post is about 2 yr old so guess there might b some solution to dis prob ... .... thankzz in advance

[Q] Really weird problem when syncing to computer (SOLVED)

I have searched the internet for the answer for the last few days, have tried multiple things suggested and nothing seems to fix my issue!
First the problem : When I sync my phone to my computer it syncs like normal, phone gives me all 3 options (Charge, Disk Drive, Tether). I choose disk drive and then my computer asks me what I want to do. I click explore and it opens up the phone folder yet it doesn't show anything on my SD card, just the stuff on my phone.The weird part is when I Search for a folder that is on the SD Card for example "audio" the folder shows up with all it's contents. This has been driving me insane for the last couple of days.
Things I attempted already to fix the issue to no avail : Have tried different computers, have tried 3 different cables at this point, HTC Sync (Doesn't recognize phone at all), I have went into my folder options on my computer and made sure all hidden folders are showing. I have restarted and replaced my SD Card multiple times.
The thing that really gets me is that when I do search for a folder on my SD Card such as audio it DOES show up and I am able to delete/copy/paste stuff into it but everything on the SD Card does not show unless I search for it specifically. I hope someone can help, this is really frustrating me at this point!

Okay, so I deduce windows based on htc sync - you can start by going ahead and uninstalling that. (htc sync)
What version of windows?
Try choosing your usb mode before plugging into the pc.
What brand sdcard? Capacity?
Did you format the card in the doubleshot when you started using it?
What rom are you running on the device?

Or are you sure it's not a virus? I once had a friend who had his USB drive infected with a virus. And same situation as yours. When I plugged in the usb it should that most of the space is used. Yet when I opened the usb there's no folders or even files. But when I plugged it in a linux PC I saw all the folders and found a autorun.inf and an exe file. Deleted it and when plugged back in the windows PC all the files showed up again but as hidden & system files. But all contents are intact.

Ok so to clarify some more things, Yes I am using Windows 7, have already uninstalled HTC Sync.
Next one important fact might be that I'm NOT rooted in which case I'm not sure if I'm even supposed to ask this question in these forums (I did read all the rules pages and understand this site was created for developers and development aspect of phones, did not see any specifics as far as asking questions about unrooted phones, Sorry if that is the case).
I DO have Disk Drive as default setting before plugging up.
It is a SanDisk 16GB SD Card Blue.
Don't think last two questions apply since I'm not rooted.
Also just to clarify something else, I think I actually am seeing folders on my card when plugging in but for some reason it's not showing all of them. I know this because when I search the drive for "audio" it brings up the folder and shows that it is directly under the drive, not in any subfolder.
As far as it being a virus, in that case what should my actions be?
I REALLY appreciate you guys taking the time to reply and answer some of my questions. Thanks again, hopefully I can get this fixed.

Does it do the same thing when you connect to a different PC? I want to say this is a PC OS setting issue.
Hastily spouted for your befuddlement

Coug76 said:
Does it do the same thing when you connect to a different PC? I want to say this is a PC OS setting issue.
Hastily spouted for your befuddlement
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I have tried 3 different PCs with Windows 7 and got the same result. This is beyond frustrating at this point!

If it's a virus issue have you already tried browsing the content of your SDCard? If there's a virus using a android file manager like ES Explorer for example you might see some unfamiliar files in there. On most case you should see a .exe file in the root of your SDCard. Also try looking for some odd named folders or RECYCLER.
This is not applicable on a windows OS. So I recommend you to browse through your android phone or try plugging in your device to a linux PC.

Using ES Explorer I did find an exe titled audio.exe and deleted it, restarted phone and that didn't seem to help.
The way I finally fixed my issue though, I had to uncheck "Hide protected system files" in folders options to see the rest of the folders.

Dmitriy305 said:
Using ES Explorer I did find an exe titled audio.exe and deleted it, restarted phone and that didn't seem to help.
The way I finally fixed my issue though, I had to uncheck "Hide protected system files" in folders options to see the rest of the folders.
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Classic. Right up there with windows hiding known file extensions, so you end up with some-file.zip.zip but only see one .zip extension and can't fathom why it won't work.
Glad it was something simple and not catastrophic!

Yeah a virus indeed! Just as I guessed on my 1st post better scan your PC then... Cleaning up your phone storage isn't enough as it will just come back once plugged in back to your PC.
And the audio.exe is indeed a virus. Also I'm sure theres more of those in your sdcard. Try to look further specially .exe files in sub directories etc.
Also I suggest these links in fixing your phone storage.
http://imacify.com/2011/02/how-to-recover-hidden-files-from-virus-infected-usb-pendrive/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxTrFSOTdjo

[Q] 64gb microSD randomly deletes files.

Hi xda guys/gals,
Recently I got a Samsung 64gb microSD to use with my Sensation, formatted it and everything, copied over the data from my previous card (32gb) and it seemed to work until I started putting music on it.
Whenever I try to add anything to the card, it'll look as though it's there, but when I remove the cable, the files are just gone, as if they'd never existed. The same thing started happening with other files, like pictures and such. The ones that my phone will easily access on my 32gb card seem to not be there on the 64gb card.
I've reformatted multiple times, and still the problem persists.
One thing I've tried is to put music in already existing folders. That made it "work", but the songs weren't tagged, were unplayable and apparently had 0kb.
I read a thread somewhere on here about someone with a similar problem (different phone, I believe, though I can't quite remember) but nothing seemed to have come out of it.
I can live with a 32gb card but I got a 64gb specifically for music (you audiophiles out there will understand). Is there any way for this to be remedied, or am I just kind of screwed?
Thanks.

What did you used to format it, PC or phone? Try doing it with phone if you haven't. Also, try to remove it from phone and to transfer files using some card reader.

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What did you used to format it, PC or phone? Try doing it with phone if you haven't. Also, try to remove it from phone and to transfer files using some card reader.
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I formatted using 4ext recovery, and I have tested it with a usb card reader; still doesn't work.

When you boot 4ext have you got an error message about "no mounted sdcard"???

[Q] Help with SD card

I was wondering if anyone has any ideas or can point me in the right direction to solve this. Yesterday I started getting messages that the apps that were installed on my sd card stopped working...........then the gallery was gone (all my pics) now there's a message in the corner that says Blank SD card......(card is bland or has unsupported filesystem) do you want to format...........I've tried taking the card out and plugging into a PC however it says its a read-only. I don't want to format, is there any way to get all my pics and data back
any help is appreciated

anesh01 said:
I was wondering if anyone has any ideas or can point me in the right direction to solve this. Yesterday I started getting messages that the apps that were installed on my sd card stopped working...........then the gallery was gone (all my pics) now there's a message in the corner that says Blank SD card......(card is bland or has unsupported filesystem) do you want to format...........I've tried taking the card out and plugging into a PC however it says its a read-only. I don't want to format, is there any way to get all my pics and data back
any help is appreciated
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Unfortunately this is mostly a lost cause. This is a known issue on the Galaxy S3, and I've heard a couple of other phones as well, including the Note 2. I've had this happen THREE times on my phone, to the point that I just don't even use an SD card anymore.
From what I've read the brand and size of the SD card doesn't make a difference.
You may be able to recover some of your pics and other files by using file recovery software on your computer. I used a program called Pandora Recovery, and while it spit out the files using different random names, at least I got a majority of my pics back (I had over 1000 on the card).
Beyond that there is no way to recover the data on the card. Once you try recovery software, you'll have to let your phone format the card if you want to use it again. Even Windows won't read the data from the card in it's current state.

Thank you for your help........im going to give Pandora a try and see what happens. I did hear about a program called DiskDigger Pro........so wish me luck..........I wish I was more pro active in reconizing the signs but it just happened out of no where

anesh01 said:
Thank you for your help........im going to give Pandora a try and see what happens. I did hear about a program called DiskDigger Pro........so wish me luck..........I wish I was more pro active in reconizing the signs but it just happened out of no where
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I believe you should able to cause it happened to me a few times and I able to recover all my stuff (videos, photos). The trick is find a good SDcard recovery software.

This may or may not help, but it's worth a shot.......http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=367912&page=2

This problem is why I will not be buying Samsung phones again. It is BS that I can't even use my 32GB SD card because it will eventually fail I will lose everything on it. It has happened twice in 7 months with the phone already.
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disk digger worked great for me except for the occasional corrupt. You have to format first.

Thanks a lot for sharing information about other products. However, while scanning the corrupt SD card encountering error messages and unable to recover entire data. In order to overcome such problems, use Remo Recover tool to restore data from corrupt or formatted SD card.

Just wanted to let you guys know that my old SD cards got corrupted because I tried to configure the metadata of my songs through such apps like player pro and etc. I have a 64gb right now and its been working fine for over a year because I just manually configure everything when I connect it to my computer.
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