last nite i was copying a file over to the storage card (the internal 16mb) of my m1000 but the unit crashed for some reason (battery was quite low so may be a reason)
now the device thinks that the storage is full 100% even though the file manager shows it as only having the backup folder and a history file. certainly not 16mb worth.
now my machine cant do the perminant backup on boot and since you cant specify what drive to backup on is a bit of a pain.
system mechanic cannot format that drive. hard reset makes no difference.
any ideas?
clean up...
check your storage card holder.. blow it or clean it.. if still desame you need to open it up.. its the storage card holder.. u can try pressing the mem card up down up down.. and blow it.. try it.
nono its the internal storage. the 16mb built in non volatile memory. my external sd card is fine
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I've performed an hard reset and then manually cancelled all the files on the storage card...but now I've discovered that the free space is 7.28 MB and not 7.6 MB (.32 MB in use...)..What do I have to do to clean the storage card ?
format it !
pleun said:
format it !
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I've tried to format it but it says that is impossible becouse the memory is locked...How to unlock ? (I'm not talking about external SD card but the on board storage memory ->7,6MB)
sorry, can't help you there
I done this in the past with I-Mate Pocket PC...
Try moving all the files from the startup folder to a different temp area.
Reset the unit - this will turn boot up without any startup programs.
Reformat the storage area. Format should work now.
Move the temp area files back to the startup folder.
Reboot the device to restart those startup apps.
Done.
Hello there
Ever since I changed the storage of my emails to the storage card, I have the problem that the device creates a folder called "Storage Card" when I perform a soft reset. The actual storage card is then mounted as "Storage Card 2". This has the effect that not only my email bodies are not saved to the storage card, but also that software installed on the card can't be run. I have to start Resco Explorer, remove the storage card, delete the "Storage Card" folder and insert the storage card.
It seems that the storage card driver isn't loaded until later, when the system already created \Storage Card\Messaging\... folder structure.
Is there any way to have the sd card driver load earlier, or any other solution? thx.
No solution?
I have had the same problem. I have only seem the problem from time to time, havent figured out what triggered it..
Try not to set the PIE temp. file to storage card and email attachment to storage card. Because during reboot the system can't see the SD yet, so it will create a storage card from existing rom, and this will cause your subsequently detected SD to be mounted as storage card2.
chtan said:
Try not to set the PIE temp. file to storage card and email attachment to storage card. Because during reboot the system can't see the SD yet, so it will create a storage card from existing rom, and this will cause your subsequently detected SD to be mounted as storage card2.
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Yes, I realize that this is the problem. I'm therefore looking for a solution to either prevent Outlook/ActiveSync from creating those folders, or else tell the system to mount the storage card a bit earlier...
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setting all the temp/cache dirs for built-in MS Win apps (like Word and PIE) on a storage card is a bad idea, from my experience, as the Universal unmounts the SD cards on power down. this causes many of the built-in Win apps to crash when powered back on, with PIE bringing down your entire phone if it can't find the cache dirs. I don't know about you, but I like my Universal to behave more like a stable phone, and not a Win PC. Installing code on the card also seems to be a bad idea, as this problem also causes apps to crash. setting cache and other volatile information to the storage card for 3rd party apps seems to be ok so far. Maybe because they're not privelaged to being integrated with the OS like built-in Win apps.
fermin said:
Hello there
Ever since I changed the storage of my emails to the storage card, I have the problem that the device creates a folder called "Storage Card" when I perform a soft reset. The actual storage card is then mounted as "Storage Card 2". ......
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Hi there... I have had your same prob... I got rid of it simply disabling the "messages" today plug in, and it worked...
have fun
I woke up this morning and found that my memory card is corrupted. I was using the device last night and the battery died while i was doing something, i put it on charge and woke up to a bunch of scrambled files.
I took out the card and reinsterted it several times until the folders and files properly show. they show up but it says 2.68mb free, although its really something like 750mb+ free. I tried pluggin it into my pc memory card reader but it's giving me an I/O error.
Now when i put the miniSD card back into my device i have two storage cards (Storage Card and Storage Card2). i reset several times with the card in and out and still same problem.
I want to copy the files off the card and format it or recover the data but my pc won't even read it. Any ideas?
1. run chkdsk on your desktop (also see http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=39583 )
2. the Storage Card2 issue is a common one with Windows Mobile; please read http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/in...y_sd_card_likes_to_rename_itself_to_sd&more=1 for a fix
it's not allowing me to run chkdsk on the drive. "The type of file system is RAW. CHKDSK is not availabe for RAW drives."
Also i don't have the messaging plugin activated, but i do have spb diary, i removed it and still, when i reset my device, i open file explorer and there is a Storage Card folder
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ok, so now i fixed the storage card2 issue, but when using resco explorer and i tap and hold on storage card, then click on properties, it says 812.27mb used. If i open the storage card and highlight everything in it and click on properties it says153.57mb used. what to do?
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it's not allowing me to run chkdsk on the drive. "The type of file system is RAW. CHKDSK is not availabe for RAW drives."
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Then, try using an on-PPC file system checker to see whether it's really RAW. (I don't think so.): any of the utilities discussed at http://pocketpcmag.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=17921
Note that you should NOT use their chkdsk equivalent - they, in genral, suck in this respect, albeit the new, Professional edition of Pocket Mechanic is said to be pretty good in that (I haven't personally checked it as yet).
If it's seeing the card as a RAW file system format, it's completely hosed. It should be a FAT16 or FAT32 format... not raw.
There is a slight chance the card's file table was corrupted when the phone lost power... but there is also the possibilty the card is bad. If you get the card reformatted, I would definately run a thorough chkdsk on it to check for bad sectors.
I had previously ran the "recover bad sectors" option from pocket mechanic and it took about a total of 4 hours but didn't help.
I analyzed the card and pocket mechanic says its FAT32 and 10.49% needs to be defragmented. I attempted to defragment it and let it run over night, when i woke up it was 50% and said it needed 11hours to complete. I canceled the defrag process and it forced me to soft reset the device
Now i can only view the folders, but no files. I didn't format it earlier cuz i wanted the files on it but i guess i can give them up now.
Since i'm not able to read the card through my pc's card reader, should i go ahead and format it through resco explorer?
contents on the card are hosed.... you will need to format the card and start over... the card is good, the table was just corrupted by losing power...
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contents on the card are hosed.... you will need to format the card and start over... the card is good, the table was just corrupted by losing power...
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That's what I was thinking too.
it got hosed by the loss of power.. has happened to me once... this is also similiar to the time i corrupted a usb thumbdrive.. was in a 2k machine that wasnt set up for fast removal, i pulled it out without stopping it and bam it hosed my stick... im guessing its the same principal.. the device leaves the table open for more writing, well when the memory device loses power it cant close the table and corrupts it (at least i think thats how it works)
Thanks guys, i just hit the reformat and it took under a second. But all my files are gone now
I tried GetDataBack but it was telling me something about bad sectors and I/O errors.
is there a possibility of recovering the files after the card has been formatted?
I had a similar problem, I soft reset my phone and the storage card "disappeared" (did not appear in file explorer) and I put it in an SD reader and it said it was unformatted (RAW format) and reports size as 14mb! (It is a 1gb card).
I cannot format it on my SD card reader because it says it is "read only" (even tho the miniSD to SD adaptor switch is in the correct position). Obviously I cannot format it from my phone, as it does not even appear to be mounted.
Any suggestions?! I'm guessing it's dead. I have bought a 2gb card now so not the end of the world but it'd be nice to have this card to use in my camera or something.
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DAMN YOU SPB INSIGHT!!!!
It happened again! but this time there was no power loss. last i remember was answering a phone call and when i hung up SPB Insight popped up saying "connection lost retry?" So i click on retry and put it back in my pocket. Then about 4 or 5 hours later i attempted to start an app i had installed on my Mini SD card and it wouldn't open. So i opened resco file explorer and same thing, can only view folders, not files.
My Mini SD card is supposed to be my back up. How the hell can i rely on it if everything keeps wiping twice a month?
I have a ZTE Blade V and I rooted and installed CWM. Only reason was to apply the SD swap zip. This zip, is basically a mod you can install which is editing a file in /system/etc to change the SD card mounts so they are swapped round. This means the internal tiny 1.5gb SD becomes external and I now have a 32gb SD acting as internal. I did this because I thought it would help my daughter avoid issues with her phone as much, running out of storage.
Problem....
I'm not sure when this started or if it did it from the start. The phone runs out of INTERNAL storage space. So this is neither the internal or external SD card. This is the actual internal storage for the phone reported as 0.98gb size. This gets consumed totally within about 20 minutes of the phone being on. What is happening is the file below grows and grows at a few Megabytes a second up to about 450MB and then phone reports it has no storage left and nothing works. The actual app associated with this DB, is reported as "Media Storage" app with an andoird icon.
File is called "external.db" and is located at:
/data/data/com.android.providers.media/databases
I think this DB is cataloging information to do with something but I don't understand what and why. Is it getting into a loop because something i corrupt somewhere? The device has minimal apps installed fresh phone and no media (even on either SD card).
Thanks
If I take the physical SD card out (the 32gb one I have as swapped to internal) and boot the phone up, this problem goes away. Obviously this breaks some apps like what's app that use images in converstations stored on this SD. As soon as I put the SD card back into the phone the external.db starts to grow and grow and grow again.
I took the sd card out, formatted it and started again and the problem so far has gone away. Monitoring.....
Are these files safe to delete? I was under the impression that with this being a 16gb phone I wouldn't be fighting for internal storage space after owning the phone just a few days and less than 10 installed apps.
Looks like your own backups... your internal storage wouldn't be full if you bothered to use a sd card.
If one does have an external SD card, I don't recall if TWRP defaults to storing there or if you need to select external SD - something to check on for TWRP newbies.
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Looks like your own backups... your internal storage wouldn't be full if you bothered to use a sd card.
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I've found TWRP to usually default to internal storage on every run, but once you set up the path/naming for your backups it usually sticks.
It seems like you are toying around with TWRP, possibly attempting to get ready to flash a custom rom. Given half the storage is system files, you'd barely be able to backup said default files to internal storage without running out of space.
You could always backup these files to a computer, delete them from the phone to free up enough space to download a rom (of which you should verify the md5 checksum), and hope everything goes perfectly.
If anything goes wrong, you'll need access to a computer and either use some advanced fastboot commands or.. an sd card, which you can easily swap on to a computer to download custom roms or backup files.
I would recommend getting a micro SD card for TWRP backups to avoid being fully dependent on a PC or internal storage. I like to have at least two TWRP backups on my micro SD. I know this phone works with 128GB - not sure about larger.