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Bluetooth Settings ??

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??

Moving a folder from SD Card to SD2

I have tried with IFileManager and Astro and cannot seem to either copy or move a folder from Internal to SD2. I long press the folder and select copy and then navigate to SD2 and press paste and nothing happens. Same if I try to move it.
Any suggestions please

The external card is a a 16Gig Polaroid Micro SD HC which is inserted in the slot on the G Tab. When I go to settings/Storage/SD external it says SD Card is unavailable. Mount and Format are grayed out. Is the card not the right card for G?

That is an unusual issue.. If you have a microSD reader for your computer try formatting it FAT32 and see if that helps.
Also, the holder on the gTablet can be a little touch and go, make sure that the card "clicks" (don't press too hard lol) when you insert it. You'll feel the mechanism grab it.
I had to use the end of my finger nail to push it in.

[Q] "Damaged SD Card" on HD2 Android NAND ROM

Hi to all
Im having a small problem on my HD2 upon first time boot up from being flashed to CMYLXGO's Stock Desire HD(2).
On the task bar its showing a SD card with a question mark and when i slide the task bar down it says "Damaged SD Card" and that i need to format it, I tried formating it from the phone it self but no luck

Have you tried another SD card yet? Is this your first ROM? Have you put that SD card in another phone, or if not available, an SD card reader? That could help give you some indication as to the state of the card, although I wouldn't rely on that alone to test.
I have toyed around with multiple ROMs on my HD2 and never had an SD card problem, although in the past I have had a card die when doing some modification on my G1. Also, if you are still using the 16gb card that's packaged with the TMOUS HD2, it may be a decent idea to consider replacing it anyway. It's only a class 2 card, and while that may suffice for many operations, it really suffers when you're trying to use an app like QQPlayer to apply software decoding to video.

Okay I found a solution to the problem, I tried using the SD card reader, and it was recognized on the computer, I could read and write from and to the SD card, and this is my fourth to fifth ROM I have tested on the HD2, I been trying to find the best ROM there is for it , and well I just grabbed another SD card that was lying around and.. boom it works im such a noob haha, I didnt think about it until you suggested it, but its still a class 2 SD card. Many thanks

I just had this similar problem with my 16 GB Class 2 microsd Card. Started happening once I created SWAP and EXT2... or 3... (can't remember) on the card for use in Android App2SD. What I did is I formated it in Windows and made sure Allocation size was set to default. Seems to have fixed my issue

Thanks, I fixed the issue now the way you said

The firs step is to download SD Formatter and save the file on your desktop.
Once done, eject MicroSD card from your Android phone and use a MMC card reader to connect it to the computer. You SD card will now be mounted as a flash drive.
Now make a backup of your SD card before proceeding further. You can either copy all folders and file on your SD card and move them to a hard disk folder or use some 3rd party application.
Now launch SD Formatter and click on “Options”.
In options, set Format Type Full (Erase On) and keep Format Size Adjustment OFF. Now press OK to proceed.
After this click on Format and let the application do the rest for you. Please note that Memory Cards with higher capacity will take more time and vice versa. Do not remove your SD card while formatting is taking place because this can permanently damage it.
Once the formatting is complete and you get the success notification, remove SD from MMC reader.
Now insert the card in your phone’s MicroSD slot and wait for damaged SD Card notification in the notification bar again.
Once it is there, simply tap on notification and press format.
Now wait for a minute or two, launch Settings > SD and Phone Storage > and you will be able to see your memory card’s details.
There you have it! You won’t have damaged SD card notification any more and your Memory Card will behave as it should.

Memory card removed while formatting
qrebek said:
The firs step is to download SD Formatter and save the file on your desktop.
Once done, eject MicroSD card from your Android phone and use a MMC card reader to connect it to the computer. You SD card will now be mounted as a flash drive.
Now make a backup of your SD card before proceeding further. You can either copy all folders and file on your SD card and move them to a hard disk folder or use some 3rd party application.
Now launch SD Formatter and click on “Options”.
In options, set Format Type Full (Erase On) and keep Format Size Adjustment OFF. Now press OK to proceed.
After this click on Format and let the application do the rest for you. Please note that Memory Cards with higher capacity will take more time and vice versa. Do not remove your SD card while formatting is taking place because this can permanently damage it.
Once the formatting is complete and you get the success notification, remove SD from MMC reader.
Now insert the card in your phone’s MicroSD slot and wait for damaged SD Card notification in the notification bar again.
Once it is there, simply tap on notification and press format.
Now wait for a minute or two, launch Settings > SD and Phone Storage > and you will be able to see your memory card’s details.
There you have it! You won’t have damaged SD card notification any more and your Memory Card will behave as it should.
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I had some problem with the card reader and i accidently removed the card!! Is there any way i could get the card working?

MicroSD switching to 'read only' + microsd killer

I have, it seems, quite a big problem. Some weeks ago I noticed some anomalies: photos were not saved after taking them with the camera, swiftkey was sending me notification about the 'not possible to save personal predictions' and so on, and I could not access the pictures gallery: 'sd card mounted as storage' and then would quit to the home screen.
I noticed then with root explorer that the microsd was mounted as 'read only'. Ok, put it back to R/W and things worked again.....for a couple minutes. Then again, read only and the same story.
I put the card in a card reader, checked with windows for errors: impossible to repair the media (sorry I don't know the exact words in english, but that would be the chkdsk function). Ok.....worst solution: back up the things, format the card, put the things back on the card. Well:
1 - back up the things = impossible. I chose something like 800MB out of 32GB of the microsd....and it was copying at 5KB/s. Definitely not normal
2 - I managed to copy the necessary things. format the card = impossible. Normal format would begin, and then one millimiter before the progress bar goes to 100%, it says 'impossible to format the card'. If I choose 'fast format', it says it right away. If I use some other tool like HP usb tool, it says impossible to format.
GOOD. I thought the card was dead....so I bought a new one (a genuine Kingston, 32GB). Things were working properly. But yesterday exactly the same happened: camera not usable, gallery that doesn't show the pictures, swiftkey doesn't give me predictions.
I check with windows: same thing. Cannot repair errors, cannot format the card. BUT I can copy from it and write on it with normal speeds. The phone would still go to read only and make a mess making the whole system unusable.
A small note: a LONG time ago I did edit the boot filesystem, in a way that the system mounts the physical microsd card as 'mass storage internal memory' and the real internal memory (12GB, in the case of samsung note) as 'physical micro sd'. This was a 'fix' from XDA, to make all the market application install the data on the bigger partition (microsd) instead of the (quite small) 12 GB partition.
But I don't think it makes a difference. Photos and stuff are really on the physical 32GB microsd, and it is not working. Also the thing that I cannot format it from windows is very strange. And this is a new genuine card bought last week. What kind of sorcery is this? Can it be that the phone's card reader somehow damages the card itself ????

[Q] MicroSD card

Just bought an ASUS HD7 tablet - specs show it will take a 32gB SD. I have a 32gB SD in my Nook Color (CM7) that has a lot of music. Let's bring it over and try that on the new HD7. I unmounted the SD card on the Nook, powered off and powered off the HD7. Inserted the card and powered the HD7 on. After boot, it claimed to be "preparing the SD card for use". I thought, "Great". But, sadly no music. I inspected the SD card with ES File Expl - it identified the SD card but with only 114mB capacity. The card is mounted but shows folders with no files/sub-folders I know are there when in the Nook C.
I pulled out a brand new 32gB SD card - never been used - right out of the blister pack. Dismounted, powered down. Inserted fresh card, powered up, "Preping card - yada-yada". But this time the new card shows an even smaller 96mB capacity.
So obviously I'm missing some key Android-ness point with respect to these cards. Since I've never actually swapped them like this, I'm sort of treating them like a "USB flash or thumb drive" and maybe I shouldn't. Am I just ignorant and missing some sort of prep step or "mount this card" command? Is it possible this reader is defective? (Remember - it recognizes, mounts and unmounts without incident...) Is it a fact that I can independently move these around from device to device in Android even if my versions are different (quite different in fact)?
Any guidance appreciated.
Hoibb

There is no prepping required for Android to recognise SD cards. Usually, they work just as thumbdrives on a PC. The "remove hardware" process should be observed because this will ensure that any cached data will be written to the removable media and that the files are all closed.
With Android, in Settings-Storage, there is a Mount / Unmount. This is similar to add or remove the storage media, eg, SD card.
You can try this workaround. As before, when switched off, insert the SD card to the HD7 and then switch it on. Go to the Settings-Storage and you should see the SD card details. Do an Unmount, remove the SD card, wait a while and then re-insert the SD card and do a Mount. You might be able to acess the data on your SD card by now.
If this still does not work and since you had just bought the HD7, bring it to the seller and have it checked. Also bring along both your SD cards that you had tried to use, as well as the Nook so that you can prove to the seller that there is nothing wrong with the SD cards.

Answer found
Answer comes from another forum:
Try a Safe Mode boot. Forget it. No help.
But...
•Power down
•Pop out SD
•Power up
•Say prayer
•Android shows the desktop
•Settings // Storage
•There's the Internal Memory restored to its correct position
•While still powered on, pop IN the SD
•Another prayer
•"Preparing SD Card..."
•Poof - it shows now as the second selection
•Done
Bonus: Tablet now runs smoothly just like it was.
Hoibb