Hi all..
I've been using a TwinMOS 2GB x66 cad for 2 months now, and rarely I had the problem of disappearing storage card, but a simple SR or inserting the card again solved the problem.
Since a couple of hours, the symptom has come back, but now nothing solves it I've done a dozen of SR and inserted the card several times, but still the same problem: some folders are empty, and others are written in strange letters. the card isn't actually disappearing at all, ilauncher still shows its correct size, but all folders are corrupted.
I have the feeling that all this happened after installing the free medical program EPOCRATES, since only this program's folder was viewable in the program files folder on the storage card, and all others simply disappeared. Of course uninstalling the software didn't help
Any idea guys???
Thanks in advance.
Did you try to install this cab. It's for the htc p3300 but it's work too for the htc p3600 ...
http://www.europe.htc.com/support/faq.html?id=545&device=htcp3600
Isn't it strange that this patch has been published by HTC only mentionning the pb on P3300 and not ont the P3600 ?
Are you sure applying it on a P3600 is safe ?
Yes, i am...I apply it to mine and it's work fine... I didn't have some problems with my mini-sd card but with my sim+ (128 Mo) and now it's more stable !!
And as you can see the link i put is for the htc p3600.
This cab works also with the htc :
- S310
http://www.europe.htc.com/support/faq.html?id=545&device=htcs310
- S710
http://www.europe.htc.com/support/faq.html?id=545&device=htcs710
This has been posted before in various threads, but just to repeat:
The cab mentioned is for the Artemis/P3300. It installs one file to \windows: omap850_sdhc.dll, which is the SD driver for a device with a TI OMAP 850 processor.
It will have no effect, positive or negative, to install it on a device with a Samsung processor, except wasting 42K of space.
So why the support of HTC in this differents links (3600, s310, s710) refers to it ?? And it's fact that my sim+ is more stable now !! Not to bother you ... just to understand !!
shym said:
So why the support of HTC in this differents links (3600, s310, s710) refers to it ??
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Actually they don't really. This has also been explained before in other posts, but here goes again:
If you go to www.europe.htc.com and navigate to support for P3300, you can find faq 545, which relates to the 'P3300 SD card enhancement', and when you've found that one, the URL in the address will be: www.europe.htc.com/support/faq.html?id=545
If you now go and add e.g. '&device=htcp3600' to the end of the URL and press enter, then you will get the same faq, but it will look like it's from the P3600 support, which is not really true; it's just a 'less fortunate' behaviour by the web site.
Faq 545, 'P3300 SD card enhancement', really belongs to the P3300 support area, and nowhere else.
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And it's fact that my sim+ is more stable now !! Not to bother you ... just to understand !!
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I'm sure it's correct when you say so, but if it's caused by putting omap850_sdhc.dll in your \windows directory, then it's nothing short of a miracle.
Okay...thanks !
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I'm sure it's correct when you say so, but if it's caused by putting omap850_sdhc.dll in your \windows directory, then it's nothing short of a miracle.
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... We never know... !!
Thanks guys for the replies, but I guess we went a little bit off-topic.
I understand that the patch mentioned above won't work. Is there any other solution to this issue, apart from formatting it again??
unfortunately, I forgot to move my SPB Backup file from the miniSD to my PC, so I lost even that file my bad
I would like to mention again how it happened: most presumably after installing the program EPOCRATES. Can this help??
Thanks again
You are far from being the first to have a problem like this with a SD card on a Trinity, and I'm afraid there is no easy cure.
Did you try and put the card in a card reader and see if it looked OK here?
If you can read it with a card reader, then make a backup (copy) to your PC, reformat it and restore the copy before putting it back in the Trinity, and see how it looks now.
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You are far from being the first to have a problem like this with a SD card on a Trinity, and I'm afraid there is no easy cure.
Did you try and put the card in a card reader and see if it looked OK here?
If you can read it with a card reader, then make a backup (copy) to your PC, reformat it and restore the copy before putting it back in the Trinity, and see how it looks now.
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I tried that, but same strange characters are also shown on my PC using the SD adapter. there is even a 4GB eek file in the root directory of the card. everything so strange.
Guess that you will have to do a reformat if possible.
If there is something on the card that you really want to salvage before you do the reformat, then you could try to do this with a file recovery utility.
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Guess that you will have to do a reformat if possible.
If there is something on the card that you really want to salvage before you do the reformat, then you could try to do this with a file recovery utility.
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Actually the Spb backup file would be really helpful Do u recommend any program for trying to recover it??
Thanks
I'm using an old release of WinHex myself.
WinHex is not free, but a trial can be downloaded from here: http://winhex.com/winhex/index-m.html
I'm not sure what limitations there might be in the unlicensed version, but I would recommend giving it a try before looking elsewhere.
I don't have any recent experience with other recovery utilities, but there are a number of them to be found here: http://www.download.com/3120-20_4-0.html?tg=dl-20&qt=recovery&tag=srch
Great, after trying to recover files with Winhex (unsuccessfully), The device doesn't recognize the card anymore, and now it requires a format I give up.
Is there anything I should make to prevent future problems like this??
First of all, should I format it as FAT16 or FAT32?
should I format it on the device or using a card reader?
should I use a specific program for formatting or the default windows application?
Thanks again
sdsentry
Try this - found from the Artemis forum.
It's a preventive measures - not one that can save your already messed up SD.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=299128&highlight=sdsentry
If you are still looking for a recovery solution, a friend had a similar incident with the 2GB Toshiba SD card on his 818 Pro just last week, and, not counting MP3s stored on the card (which he can restore from his CD library), I managed to recover for him some 90% of the files intact using Ontrack's EasyRecovery Professional.
See here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=296800
Since I installed the official HTC GPS upgrade ROM I have had no problems anyway.
Okay, i know there used to be a sticky about flashing from the SD card but i have searched and am having no luck at all finding the thread about that. Was it removed? Could anybody help me with the url? I know i read it a while back but can't find it now ;(
i'll be interested in this as well
check wiki...there all set up on there
cheers
ah, the one place i forgot to check. thanks rock!
Since I hijacked a thread and it got closed since it was irrelavent to the subsection I have come here. I didn't want to create another thread so I hijacked a useless one. But if someone could answer my question it'd be appreciated. Problem is, I put the .nbh on the reformated SD card, insert it run bootloader, it wont flash via SD card, it doesn't read the contents. Yes, I put it on as KAISIMG.nbh, I have formated it to FAT32, I have my phone HardSPL, I dont understand I've read the instructions like 30 times. Plus I've been flashing since 8125 and flash my friends 8525 periodically this way. So any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
change the card
One step ahead of you... doesn't work
I saw that you already search and learn... good.
But it's against the rule to post in the new thread, since there existing thread discussing it. Why don't you post in here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=336158&highlight=sd+card+flash . Many already discuss there, so maybe someone has the same problem and can solve it for you.
Hey there all I just need some help I have some sounds that are from the hero and magic official roms that I have collected from these forums. instead of running off SDcard I want them on the phones memory since I have a MT3g I have plenty of mem and don't run BIG apps.
What I have been doing is running ADB and pushing files from my hard drive to the phones memory in /system/media/audio/ directory. I have to do this every time I re flash a rom. I would like to make this easy by flashing it from zip or in an APK if possible... Do you guys think this would be possible?
First of all, wrong forum. Please post questions like this in the General forum.
Secondly, you can create a folder on your SD card called 'media' and store your files there in the same structure as you'd put them on your ROM system area.
It'll still find them there.
OOps sorry I will post over there. I thought since it had to do with flashing or building an APK it would be fine here.
I have run if from my Class 6 SD like that but I still get a delay for notifications. So as I said I dont want to run from SD.
But thanks..
Hi, i looked in other forums but couldn't find the answer to this. If I got a new SD card, what is the process to change cards?
I formatted the new one and copied all the stuff from the old one to the new one. Booted, blank screen/wouldn't boot.
Do I need to format, Download a ROM to it, flash it, then boot or what?
Thanks in advance.
I think you would have to partition it and then put whatever rom and reflash everything
A blank screen..? The hell, that's weird. From my knowledge, it should still work with a bunch of FC's and Errors. And no you don't have to reflash everything like KingSkeme recommended, but you may have to since your device is acting a bit weird.
But yeah, first of all you need to format it. Second, you need to search this yourself. I find it bullcrap that people like you can't find this info yourself.
Here, I spent about 2 minutes of my life for you.
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php/Apps2SD#Upgrading_SD_.2F_Moving_data_to_new_SD
If you can't follow those steps, then you shouldn't have rooted your phone.
P.s depending on which Rom you use, I believe CM automatically does the ext/swaps for your SD card.
If not, oh I found more information with my friend google
http://www.mattidroid.net/2009/10/g1-rebuild-new-sd-card-and-cyanogen_09.html
TheUnlockr is your friend.
How to switch to a different SD card
EDIT: Sorry, double post.