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I have a 256Mb SD card that suddenly reported itself as having only 40Mb free when the total of stored files was only 16Mb.
I had to reformat to reclaim the lost space.
Has anyone else experienced this with SD cards and, if so, what it the likely cause?
well file explore dont really display hiddenfiles so the card could have all kinds of those
other file managers like total commander display all files
hi. I don't have XDA 2 but I think it happen to most most ppc 2003 OS because you are install some software that do not fully support or not support wm 2003. ( it happen to me on h5555, h5400,e405) So you need to hard reset a few times.
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Well i have a similar problem, but could solve it with a soft reset.
Now i have another problem..... I dont know how, but my card is.... i dont know how to explain. let me start from the beginning.
When i got my SPV M1000, i also got a new SanDisc SD 256 MB.
I installed cuple o programs :
PHM ( Pocket Hack Master ) main memory
Pocket Mechanic Main Memory
Stuntman Evolution Sd Card
Crazy Cart Sd Card
just to give you some exaples.
I then copyed the exe files and a X back up on my card. to have them with me if needed.
After biing happy for a half week ( experimenting with PHM and Pocket Mechanic) and a lot of playing with my device, all of a sudden, my SD card was wiped out!!!
It was all gone!!!!!
I tryed to repair/reformat/restor with pocketmechanic but nothing.
Everythin was simply not there anymore ( im talkin about 30 meg of data!!!
Active sync tells me " unavailiable " when i try to install to the SD card, and when i chose to do it anyway.... it works.
Files get istalled just fine on my card.
Now for the interessting part.
Crazy Cart just stopped working!!!
" Cannot find "crazycart" or one of its components.
Make sure the path and filename are correct and all the required libraries are availiable"
is the text i get when i try to start it.
Its happenig again...... its starting to ,lose files??
has anybody expirienced the same or similar ?
is my card broken eaven though POCKETMECHANIC TELLS ME ALL IS FINE?
Any help would be coooooooool
thanx
peace
Hey guys, i have a problem...
there is no one, who can help me in german boards, so i hope you can help me.
I wanted to install the german version of wikipedia on my hermes (980 mb)
I tryed to put the file via activesync on my sd card, there the error (by 50%) that the file is in use... that cant be true, cause there is no programm witch is using the file...
When i try to put the file on the card via cardreader, there is the error "the sector cant be find" (bad translation )
the funny thing is:
When i place 1.5 gb music on the card, it works... but with a 950 mb file it doent work... is there any file-size-limit or something?
I formated the card with the rescon fileexplorer, because when i format it with windows, the card only shows the space of 1 gb...
Do you have any suggestions what to do?
ive seen certain card readers than can only read SD bassed media up to 1GB in size.
anythign bigger gives odd results... (often warning the card needs a format)
i'd try a diff card reader, or beter still use w5torage and keep the card in the hermes...
(my card read i had problems with was an Icy Box variant)
i dont know if this would help but if you have vista you can see your card as an external USB drive... i have put 1.8G files on my card and taken them off with no issue i have a 2G sandisk
thanks for answering!
@acuum,
what do you mean with "w5torage"?
Is this an other programm like acticesync?
I tryed everything... transfer the file via wlan... and so on...
@austinsnyc,
no, i don't have vista i dont like it
any other suggestions ?
breytex said:
thanks for answering!
@acuum,
what do you mean with "w5torage"?
Is this an other programm like acticesync?
I tryed everything... transfer the file via wlan... and so on...
@austinsnyc,
no, i don't have vista i dont like it
any other suggestions ?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=273748
Mike
okay, i will try it
I doesnt work...
Because, to make it work, i have to disable the usb advanced function...
but when i want to start "pogram > connection > usb to pc" the app opens and closes after a second...
Do anyone have an other suggestion for my mainproblem?
or a suggestion for my problem with the wm5s?
btw: i am using wm6, but in the board, there are people, who are using wm6 too, and they can use the wm5s propaly
noone can help me ?
I tryed the plugin winCE for the windows totalcommander...
35%, and the upload crashed
worked ok for me, on latest Elf, and worked on a Dutty rom i used...
one thing. If you have previosuly made any bluetooth GPS com ports you can't then disable the USB function. (no idea why this is....)
go to bluetooth and delete ANY com ports.
then go back to disable the advanced USB function. it should now be changable.
then try WM5torage
(sorry i typo'd in my previous post... (forgot the T)
Format type
Hi,
I've had problem too copying big files to my sd. I had LVSW 19.05. I imagine that my problems was one of this 2 choice:
- issue with the LVSW release ... I've tried black and all goes without problems;
- but first I've reformatted my microsd with 2 copy of fat (normal behavior in hd, not so normal in sd cards) - I've used Pocket Mechanic.
One of this 2 operations had resolved my issue ...
Don't know if useful ... but ...
bye
okay, thanks at all, the tool "card export" worked for me with the safemode tool together
thanks again!
Another thread, i think i'm a totally noOb
Today, i downloaded Wildpuzzle Rom .. and flashed it ... everything went fine
I used this tutorial...
http://baert.ulyssis.be/2010/10/13/wildpuzzle-rom-for-htc-wildfire/
this was okay...but in the 4. point ... "Creating an EXT partition on the SDCard"
there was a problem ... after i selected the fat32 and ext2 size, and the phone rebooted .... i had an error message .... "E:failed to seek in /cache/update.zip" ...
i've tried a lots of time...always rom manager failed to made the right partitions...
so i moved on, and i tried to made the partitions with manually in windows xp
i've downloaded Paragon Partition Manager 9.0 to do the partitioning....
After i had the 2 partition, 1500MB Fat32 and 300MB ext2, the pc rebooted to make the changes .... and then i had an error message (i can't remember, cause it dissapeared quickly).....
when xp started again i saw my sd card is not working .... windows said, "You must format the SD card" .... and it was only 512 kbyte the full size
i tried a lots of applications, which recovery, or fix sd cards, but nothing helped :/
any solution?!
i wouldn't like to throw away my sdcard if its not necesarry
thx.
lazlo
Try gparted, linux boot cd, make fat32 partition first then make ext3 partition no need for swap on phone
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i have tried gparted, in ubuntu live cd, but when i insert the sd card to the reader nothnig happen ... and gparted stop working :S .. its freeze or something like that
Did you try to delete the partition and creating a new drive? Like when you buy a new disc... You have to create a new partition and a new logical drive...
You can use Paragon partition manager...
I guess gparted was loading, it take a little while to read the entire HDD.
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LogicXLz' said:
Did you try to delete the partition and creating a new drive? Like when you buy a new disc... You have to create a new partition and a new logical drive...
You can use Paragon partition manager...
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No thx, Paragon partition manager killed my SD card ... so i won't use that app again, never...
But meanwhile, i could fix the SD card with Ubuntus's gParted ... i've tried a lots of time ... reinserted the card to the reader .... and finaly it recognised it ... and can made a valid partition ... so the problem solved
anyway, thx the idea
A very simple and quick solution to this kind of problem (for other users / future reference, now that you've solved it): put it in your photo/video camera and format it. This would do a low-level format of the SD card, allowing you to see and use it in Windows. Any camera with this function will do (Nikon, Canon, Panasonic, etc.)
phunctionist said:
A very simple and quick solution to this kind of problem (for other users / future reference, now that you've solved it): put it in your photo/video camera and format it. This would do a low-level format of the SD card, allowing you to see and use it in Windows. Any camera with this function will do (Nikon, Canon, Panasonic, etc.)
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thx a lot dude ... this is a simple and a good idea
never would thought this
Good one!!! It is a very simple solution. However if it works with "camera formating", then the issue with SD card is not too bad. I mean, it's not corrupted in a way to be unusable or "bricked" in some way.
And thus, I think you needn't even bother using some other gadget, just a sufficient knowledge on partitioning tools and you can make it work on your computer. I still believe it could be repaired with Paragon Partition... 've been using that program ever since and never had any problems...
Anyway, the more options avaliable, the more possibilities for a success! ;-)))
Hi there, new to this forum so can't post to development forum although I searched there. I'm running Swiftdroid 1.8 / CM7 by Mur4ik on my GT540 and all works fine. The stock 2Gb SDcard that came with the phone is a bit small for my liking so I got myself a Kingston 8Gb class 4 SDHC. Unfortunately this card does not seem to be recognized by the phone, the following are the symptoms:
1. When inserting card and booting phone, mostly it gets stuck at LG boot screen.
2. Sometimes it does boot but then doesn't mount the SDcard. After boot I get a notification like "unknown filesystem on SDcard" (or similar), and do you want to format the SDcard? Yet if I try to format it using the phone, it doesn't work.
3. Checking with adb shell and "mount" I see that the SDcard is not actually mounted.
4. The card is recognized fine on a computer via USB under both Windows and linux, and I can transfer files.
5. When manually partitioning the SDcard (gparted under Ubuntu) to only contain a 4Gb partition formatted with FAT16, then it works fine and is recognized (remaining 4Gb unused). Unfortunately FAT16 is 4Gb max, so I can't format the whole card in a single FAT16 partition. Also at that size FAT16 is very space wasteful (65k cluster size) so that even a tiny file takes minimum 65k space.
6. However, when formatting this SAME partition (i.e. 4Gb) as FAT32 it is not recognized and I get the same errors as above with the single 8Gb FAT32 partition.
7. I tried reformatting the card with SD Formatter 3.0 from ---www dot sdcard dot org--- but it did not make a difference.
So it does not seem to be the card that's faulty. Has anyone else experience with using FAT32 formatted SDcards on Swiftdroid? From reading the forums this should be no problem and certainly the Linux kernel can recognize FAT32. Also there was a report of someone using a 32Gb SDHC with the GT540 although I'm not sure which firmware (stock or mod).
I haven't tried it with Stock LG 2.1 ROM but am very happy with Swiftdroid so don't want to go back to 2.1 just to get the SDcard working.
Have you formatted it as primary
Faulty SD card? ,I'm using a 8gb on swiftdroid
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I had a problem with mine too and did tons of research but mine is really death lol is other story. But tell you what first try with the best and leave small alternative fixes for later PS. I have many . Download disk parted is freeware and is a portable program no need to install. Is intuitive to use. It has a wiki if you don't know what to do with the app.
Last post, bed time!
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gizmo001i said:
Have you formatted it as primary
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Yeah sure, formatted as first primary partition.
aaa801 said:
Faulty SD card? ,I'm using a 8gb on swiftdroid
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Don't think the SD card is faulty as I can mount, format and read/write to it via usb on a computer running both Windows and Linux.
lavero.burgos said:
I had a problem with mine too and did tons of research but mine is really death lol is other story. But tell you what first try with the best and leave small alternative fixes for later PS. I have many . Download disk parted is freeware and is a portable program no need to install. Is intuitive to use. It has a wiki if you don't know what to do with the app.
Last post, bed time!
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What is the "disk parted" software you are referring to? Can't seem to find it. Can you post a link? I've tried gparted, fdisk and cfdisk under Linux, as well as SD formatter 3.0 under Windows.
I have had similar problems after changing card, that I managed to resolved after rebuliding MBR of the card and reformating the card
Use Mini Partition Wizzard (Home Edition), delete existing partitions ,select disk and rebuild MBR, than do the format.
I hope that helps, I worked for me.
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What is the "disk parted" software you are referring to? Can't seem to find it. Can you post a link? I've tried gparted, fdisk and cfdisk under Linux, as well as SD formatter 3.0 under Windows.
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Soooooooooooooooo soooooooooooooooo sorry my fault see i was sleepy and did not remember well the name the program is called TestDisk, here is the link:
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Download
ktmt said:
I have had similar problems after changing card, that I managed to resolved after rebuliding MBR of the card and reformating the card
Use Mini Partition Wizzard (Home Edition), delete existing partitions ,select disk and rebuild MBR, than do the format.
I hope that helps, I worked for me.
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Tried this, but it did not make a difference After trying to boot phone with newly formatted SD card, it just gets stuck at LG logo. When re-inserting the original 2Gb SD card it boots up just fine.
lavero.burgos said:
Soooooooooooooooo soooooooooooooooo sorry my fault see i was sleepy and did not remember well the name the program is called TestDisk, here is the link:
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OK, so I tried formatting the card with TestDisk (under Ubuntu linux) but again it did not help. Place freshly formatted FAT32 8Gb SDcard into phone, switch on, and it gets stuck at LG boot logo Insert original 2Gb card (FAT16) and it boots just fine....
The 8Gb card seems just fine as I can mount it under Windows and Linux, copy files, read files, etc. all normal.
So I'd be interested to hear about your many "small alternative fixes"
P.S. Also tried Mini Partition Wizard (following ktmt suggestion) under Windows, but did not work either.
SAME thing happened to me what i did is flashes some kdz files in hope to freshen up the phone and it worked for me
I think you will find that for a larger card, you really need at least a class 6 card so that the card doesn't cause a bottle neck. A class 4 card may be too slow for that size card. I have heard of a few people getting rid of any card problems they had by using a faster card.
Hi folks,
I`ve had the same problems with my sd-card on my GT540 ! (SanDisk 8GB SDHC)
So, try to solve it - the same way, I`ve solved it before !
No warranty ! And, please, do not blame me, if it will not work on your phone !
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Put the SD-CARD out of your PHONE and into an SD-CARD ADAPTER !
Plug it into your PC, make a BACKUP of all of your files !
Use GEDIT to erase all Partitions on your SD-CARD !
Create a new EXT2 Partion + Format it to EXT2 again !
Use GEDIT to erase all Partitions on your SD-CARD !
Create a new FAT32 Partition + Format it to FAT32 again !
Put the SD-CARD out of the ADAPTER and into your PHONE !
Start your PHONE, let it boot up + recognize + load your SD-CARD !
Try to make a PHOTO + to store it on your SD-CARD !
NO ERROR MESSAGES OCCURED UNTIL NOW ??? THEN EVERYTHING IS O.K: !!!
BE SURE, THAT YOU`VE INSTALLED THE LATEST CLOCKWORKMOD RECOVERY -
3.0.2.4 OR ABOVE + THE SWIFTDROID 2.3.3 V2.0 - BEFORE !!!
AND DO NOT USE WINDOWS7 TO TRY TO FORMAT YOUR SD-CARD - IT DOES NOT
WORK !!!
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PLEASE DO NOT TRY HIGHER SPEED-RATES - BECAUSE YOUR PHONE WILL GET
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maybe, it can also be a "pressure-error", because there are some people reporting, that they had to use a little piece of paper to get more pressure to the sd-card-retention.
gizmo001i said:
I think you will find that for a larger card, you really need at least a class 6 card so that the card doesn't cause a bottle neck. A class 4 card may be too slow for that size card. I have heard of a few people getting rid of any card problems they had by using a faster card.
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OK I'll try this, just need to get around to buying a class 6 card. I got similar advice on the Android Forums i.e. class 4 cards for large sizes (8Gb and up) being too slow for this phone.
I.me.myself said:
Hi folks,
I`ve had the same problems with my sd-card on my GT540 ! (SanDisk 8GB SDHC)
So, try to solve it - the same way, I`ve solved it before !
No warranty ! And, please, do not blame me, if it will not work on your phone !
........................................................................................................................................
Put the SD-CARD out of your PHONE and into an SD-CARD ADAPTER !
Plug it into your PC, make a BACKUP of all of your files !
Use GEDIT to erase all Partitions on your SD-CARD !
Create a new EXT2 Partion + Format it to EXT2 again !
Use GEDIT to erase all Partitions on your SD-CARD !
Create a new FAT32 Partition + Format it to FAT32 again !
Put the SD-CARD out of the ADAPTER and into your PHONE !
Start your PHONE, let it boot up + recognize + load your SD-CARD !
Try to make a PHOTO + to store it on your SD-CARD !
NO ERROR MESSAGES OCCURED UNTIL NOW ??? THEN EVERYTHING IS O.K: !!!
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This did not solve the problem, I think it's just the class 4 card being too slow.
I've similar problem. My brother and i have LG GT540. I've 16GB SD-Card and my brother has a 8 GB SD-Card.
In his phone 8 GB SD-Card doesn't work correctly but in my phone works fine. I didn't know what is damaged, his phone or SD-Card
In brother phone, SD-Card doesn't format correctly and after this process, phone won't mount SD-Card and i get notification that SD-card is empty or damaged ;/
I will trying my 16 GB SD-Card into brother phone.
Just pass by to remind you all guys the always unmount card properly b4 take it out cause it can get so corrupted and change to raw file system as me, then r.i.p to your sdcard
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lavero.burgos said:
Just pass by to remind you all guys the always unmount card properly b4 take it out cause it can get so corrupted and change to raw file system as me, then r.i.p to your sdcard
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When my SD card change to raw file system, i'm repairing her by EASEUS Partition Master
Hi,
I'm trying to create a bootable SD card with CM7 for my nook color. My intent is to have a dual boot option. I followed instructions from one the threads here and tried to perform the first step of loading the bootable image in the sd card. But I'm facing an issue using Win32DiskImager. The moment I select the image and try to load, it throws an exception "file is currently in use...". After googling around, it looks like the issue is due to the fact that I'm running a 64 bit windows version.
Just wondering if there's any workaround to this issue. Unfortunately,this is the only pc I've currently, so I've to make it work on a 64 bit.
Any pointer will be high;y appreciated.
- Thanks
Use WinImage. I couldn't get Win32... working either.
Taosaur said:
Use WinImage. I couldn't get Win32... working either.
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Thanks for ur reply Taosaur. I tried the 64 bit version of Winimage earlier. But I got the following exception : Error in writing disk Disk 1, error 5 : Access is Denied.
Not sure what's causing it. Have you seen this by any chance?
Use the old version r0.15 of Win32DiskImager.
I have no problem creating bootable or flashable uSD running W7 64-bit OS
I have no issues writing the image to the SD card with the newest version of this program on five different PCs running Win7 x64.
Sorry, can't be more help than just to say that I've successfully used win32diskimager too on Win7 x64 (win32diskimager-RELEASE-0.2-r23-win32 to be exact).
I think I got the "in use" error from Win32DiskImager on Win7 64 bit but I just hit ok because it was talking about my a:\ drive, not my flash drive. I was then able to select my flash drive from the list and use it normally.
It may be your card-reader, too; many people have reported problems writing images to uSD in one of those all-in-one cardreaders found on many laptops, and had to get a USB uSDHC drive.
Thanks for the suggestion guys....well,here's what I figured so far.
The sd card seemed to be showing only 115 mb in Windows instead of 4gb. Not sure it was causing the issue. I used Mini partition tool to wipe out the partition, then create a new partition and format it.After that, I was able to see 4 gb as sd card capacity.
Now,I tried WinImage32 to burn the image. It progressed to around 20%, threw exception and close the process. I was not sure whether it was able to complete, but my guess is probably not. Now, when I looked into the sd card, I noticed couple of things. First, the sd card size is back to 115 mb and secondly,there are boot image files and directory.
Since,I'm not able to post a snapshot of the files, I'm trying to quote them here.
MLO --> 15 kb
u-boot --> 282 kb
uImage --> 2,692 kb
uRamdisk --> 5,108 kb
As suggested by votinh, I'll try the older version of WinImage. As far as reader is concerned, I tried couple of different sd readers. But both threw the same exception.
A single 100ish MB partition is what Windows (but not EASEUS) should be seeing after the image is written. Windows will only see the first partition of a uSD: in this case, /boot.
It sounds like the image wrote with at least partial success. You could drop a CM7 install file on there and give it a try in the NC--maybe Windows is making noise for no reason.
@Taosaur .... tried version r0.15 of Win32DiskImager as per your suggestion, it worked like a charm. I was able to write the image and copy the CM7 version as well. I'm going to try it out on NC now, thanks a lot for your help. Appreciate it.
back2grave said:
@Taosaur .... tried version r0.15 of Win32DiskImager as per your suggestion, it worked like a charm. I was able to write the image and copy the CM7 version as well. I'm going to try it out on NC now, thanks a lot for your help. Appreciate it.
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You meant "me"? LOL
Anyway, I'm glad it works.
Enjoy