Has this happened to anyone else? I have few pictures on my sdcard that used to show up in thumbnail views where i can select them, now some of them are greyed out with an esclamation mark. Does this mean its time for a new sdcard? By the way does a faster sdcar mean faster phone performance? Because i have a 2gb kingston, im thinking of going up to 4gb class 4 PNY brand. Suggestions devs?
i had this happen, IIRC, i had to hard reset........
but before u do that..........
try putting the pics and anything else you want to save on the computer so u dont loose them. then reformat your card. soft reset your phone, then transfer everything back.
that should work, but if it doesnt , hard reset would probably be the next step
Ok thanks man, ill try that. I have noticed that some of the photos when i pull them off the sdcard, they are corrupt also. Do you think a better sd card would help?
I had this happen to me as well. It would be fine for awhile, then do that and when I went into ca,era app it would say no sd card inserted. I'd restart and it would be fine and pics would show for about 10min then it would do it again. I plugged my phone into the computer and and mounted it. Then a screen popped up and said some of the files on the disk were corrupt and if I would like to try to repair so I said yes. It fixed it and it really hasn't happened since (maybe once, but restarted and been fine since). I'm running an 8gb card with root.
So after playing around with ROM manager and getting the new CW recovery to work, I think I legitimately bricked my poor Xoom wifi.
Here's where we are now.
Power button doesn't work. Hard reset doesn't work. Getting to RSD/Fastboot doesn't work. USB connection isn't recognized (windows/linux). No lights work. A/C charger doesn't appear to work. Nothing happens at any direction.
So far, there is zero indication that the device is even powering at all. Yes, it's charged. Just a giant, solid black screen that is mocking me. :[
The last thing I did was partition the SD card. (trying to install new Tia kernel). Rebooted, worked fine. Powered down. Now it won't respond to anything.
Think I'm going to go sacrifice a virgin and see if that helps.
Thoughts? Or should I just go back to Best Buy and beg?
Sorry if this is all over the place. Having one of those "holy $ I have a $600 paperweight!" moments. Heh.
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THE CHARGING LIGHT WORKS!.. when connected to A/C now. Nothing else does.. but that one light works.. progress is progress..
Hope you're still within your return period. My understanding is the Xooms internal storage is labeled as sdcard and the actual sdcard is sdcard2. So by "formatting the sdcard" you essentially formatted the Xooms 32GB internal memory.
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I partitioned a 4M chunk of it to put the recovery image on it. So.. would that explain it being completely nonresponsive? The only thing I got out of it today is that the charging light was white and then green when it was fully charged. Otherwise nothing works I am within my return period but I'm traveling...until my return period is up. Boy, this is just a bad situation, is it not? Haha
That would explain it being non-responsive.
Anything that can be done? Or do I have to start playing phone and shipping tag with Motorola at this point?
And if I do send it to motorola and they get the OS back on there.. how would they do it?
First off: did you partition the internal storage or are you running Tiamat with sdcard support?
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In the recover module, I went to partition SD card, then partitioned it to 4MB. (The image is 3 and change). Whether or not it was internal or external, I couldn't tell you. I don't have an external SD card. So yes, I made a rookie mistake on that one.
I'm glad I wrote this down: Another thing, when I had it hooked up via USB and mounted the USB storage in recovery, a prompt came up in windows saying "you need to format this drive in order to use it." so.. I copied the /sdcard/ contents (cause that's what I thought it was talking about) to my PC and formatted it. I could only format it to 3MB. That's what led me to trying to partition the SD card so I could put the recovery image on whatever drive was there.
Yeah.. the more I think about this the more of a rookie mistake it was. I'm sure I formatted something that had critical operating system files on it and that's why I can't even get the thing to boot. A:LKFJ;-
Last night, while I was reading a text message, my phone rebooted itself. When it came back on, it told me that my memory card was invalid and that I would need to reformat my phone. It gave me two options: Emergency Call and Reboot. I pressed Reboot, and it turned back on normally.
Everything was fine until it rebooted itself yet again. This time, when it came back, none of my apps/games/anything work. The phone is on, but I can't do anything with it. The only apps that open are 3rd party apps that I sideloaded.
I tried connecting to Zune to roll back to a restore point, but all I get is connection errors. I even tried going into my Settings>about>reset your phone. This told me it would reset my phone back to factory settings. After doing this and having it reboot, my phone is still the same. All the apps are still there and not working, and even my custom theme is still there.
Someone please help me.
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I just did the hard reset by holding Power+Camera+Volume. It seems to have worked.
Any idea what could have caused this? I mean yeah I did a lot of registry tweaks, probably making it somewhat unstable, but this isn't cool...now I have to re-unlock it, re-force NoDo to install, etc...
EDIT: Well, the factory reset is still...resetting. It's just sitting on the Samsung splash screen not doing anything. I'll report back if it never leaves this screen.
im guessing you are usig a samsung focus? if you are you would have better luck posting is the focus forum but it sounds like you are using or you used an incompatible sd card with it.
check this thread out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=834144
and im personally using a samsung 16gig sd card bought from ebay seller nikolai1778(or something like that) since december and i havent had any issue so that card is certified. hope that helps
Yes, I am using a Focus, but I have had this card in my device for months and months. It has never given me any issues.
I took the card out, factory reset it again, and it is giving me the same "Storage card not working" message. The card isn't even in my phone anymore.
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Yes, I am using a Focus, but I have had this card in my device for months and months. It has never given me any issues.
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what size is the sdcard? you probably just now recently used up all the space on the card and thats when you started getting the random reboot and data loss. read the thread i pointed out to you a lot of the issues you are having are documented there and the only known fix is to get a certified sd card or take out that sd card and hard reset the phone.
Again, I took the card out, hard reset it, and it's just stuck on the Samsung screen.
It's an 8 GB Sandisk Class 4
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Again, I took the card out, hard reset it, and it's just stuck on the Samsung screen.
It's an 8 GB Sandisk Class 4
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im out of ideas here, thats the 1st time i have heard of that hopefully someone else can help u out. you can try calling or taking your phone to at&t
Yeah, I still have my warranty (I think?). I left it sitting on the Samsung boot screen for about half an hour and it wouldn't budge. Seems to be bricked, although if I just try to turn the phone on normally, it shows the storage card error (without the storage card present). It gets stuck while reformatting.
if you can go to settings/about/reset your phone do it whitout your sd and again with your sd card
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I don't think that is the problem. From what rmcgraw has described, it sounds like the phone is bricked, with or without the card installed. I don't think this is something that is a user-serviceable problem. My guess is that the phone needs to be replaced.
Yeah, I can't even get into the phone to go to the settings. As I had said, I tried hard resetting from the settings menu twice, to no avail. I have no idea why this happened, it was completely out of the blue. Hadn't changed any registry values that day or installed any new apps. At the time it happened, I had my phone plugged into my PC to charge and I was reading a text message.
I'm leaving for the AT&T store right now, I'll let you know how it goes.
Well, after about an hour of standing in the AT&T store on the phone with the warranty department (they couldn't even do anything in the store to help me), they told me they had no idea what was wrong and that they'd send me a replacement. I have to send my original phone back to them obviously, and if they determine that it's my fault, I have to pay $410. Oh yeah, and I have to wait a week for my phone.
I am having the same problem with my surround. Got my first one warrantied out because it was bricked at the HTC splash screen after getting the memory card error. Now my second surround is giving the error every couple of days and has needed a hard reset for the same reason you mentioned. I haven't done anything to my phone. No jailbreaking or whatever. And both have the original sd cards.
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Maybe your computer over volted in some way and the memory card ( not the removable one, the internal one) got damaged. I know that when I plug my Samsung focus into an Apple usbwall adapter that the touchscreen doesn't work (capacitive buttons do tho?) and it may reboot its self. I assume this happens because the Apple charger releases an incorrect voltage to the phone- ie; more or less than the phone needs and it causes the device to stop working properly. Never had any lasting effects on my phone, but I just can't use an Apple USB adapter
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UPDATE
Received my new Focus on Monday. Everything was fine until a couple of days ago. Just so you know, I did NOT re-install my 8 GB Sandisk Class 4 microSD, and I did NOT unlock my new device. Everything is stock on it, except for the apps I've installed.
Now back to the issues: It started crashing randomly a couple of days ago. It would do it when I plugged my phone in, as I entered apps, and sometimes just completely out of the blue. Yesterday, I got the "Storage card isn't working" error, even though a storage card has NEVER been in this device. That error actually froze, the phone re-booted itself, and has been working normally since. This is how the my other Focus was acting before it bricked.
So, my question: Is it the battery or my SIM card (those were taken from the other device)?
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UPDATE
Received my new Focus on Monday. Everything was fine until a couple of days ago. Just so you know, I did NOT re-install my 8 GB Sandisk Class 4 microSD, and I did NOT unlock my new device. Everything is stock on it, except for the apps I've installed.
Now back to the issues: It started crashing randomly a couple of days ago. It would do it when I plugged my phone in, as I entered apps, and sometimes just completely out of the blue. Yesterday, I got the "Storage card isn't working" error, even though a storage card has NEVER been in this device. That error actually froze, the phone re-booted itself, and has been working normally since. This is how the my other Focus was acting before it bricked.
So, my question: Is it the battery or my SIM card (those were taken from the other device)?
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If i had to guess is the battery .....
This may be completely unrelated, but I found it interesting...
I had installed the "Drive On" GPS app on my old device. I didn't like it so I never used it. I had made a list of all of my installed apps right before my phone bricked to reference for when I got a new one. When I got my new Focus, I did not install Drive On.
After I started having problems with my new device, I noticed that Drive On had appeared in my app list without me installing it. However, it wouldn't open. I uninstalled it and my phone hasn't crashed since. I haven't gotten the storage card error since then, either. In fact, my phone has been running flawlessly and maybe even better than before.
I could be crazy, but Drive On seemed to be a rogue, phone bricking app that I will never install again.
Phone was acting up again last night.
5-7 crashes/reboots, and I got the "Storage card not working" message again.
It's strange how these problems seems to come in waves. The phone will work perfectly for days straight, then will go crazy and have tons of reboots and errors within half an hour, and then will go back to working perfectly fine for a while.
I want this to stop.
Ugh, it just restarted itself and is now showing the "Let's get started" screen, as if it formatted itself. I took the battery out and I'll try to boot it back up in a few...
Why am I having such bad luck with these phones?
EDIT: Yep, the memory is completely wiped and everything is back to stock. All I did was plug my phone in because the battery was about to die. Every single one of these problems has occurred while the battery was extremely low and the icon would stay at the top of the screen reminding me to charge it. As soon as I plug it in while on low battery, the problems begin.
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This may be completely unrelated, but I found it interesting...
I had installed the "Drive On" GPS app on my old device. I didn't like it so I never used it. I had made a list of all of my installed apps right before my phone bricked to reference for when I got a new one. When I got my new Focus, I did not install Drive On.
After I started having problems with my new device, I noticed that Drive On had appeared in my app list without me installing it. However, it wouldn't open. I uninstalled it and my phone hasn't crashed since. I haven't gotten the storage card error since then, either. In fact, my phone has been running flawlessly and maybe even better than before.
I could be crazy, but Drive On seemed to be a rogue, phone bricking app that I will never install again.
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A day after re-formatting itself, my phone suddenly fully re-installed (by itself) Drive On again. It opens and runs. I uninstalled it again. It is the only app that keeps reappearing after I have issues with my phone.
Today i went to cellcom to get my sd card checked because it all of a sudden stopped being read by my phone and could not be read on other phones. So they gave me a new one because I'm still on warranty and when i got home and put the new one in it says the sd card is damaged when i hadn't even done anything to it yet. Any ideas whats wrong?
I also tried formatting it and that did not do anything, and i also formatted it on my computer which still did nothing
Have you tried writing on it with your computer?
yup tried formating it on computer. I also just tried it in a different phone and it was damaged. Thats strange how i got a new sd card that was damaged
try a different brand. there's a chance that if you got those memory cards from the same place, they could have been manufactured at the same time. possibly a bad batch of them