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anyone have their minisd card zapped by 8125

My 8125 basically erased all my files on my minisd card leaving only the ie and email inbox intact. It wiped out my spbbackup I had on there so I am totally screwed I guess ... nothing to do but rebuild the POS.

Yep, I've lost 2 Sandisk 1GB cards.
So I tried another card - the cheapest piece of crap 1GB I could find... and hello no more problems after three weeks of use!

I haven't got a Wizard of any variant but this 'wipeout' did happen to me recently on my MDA Compact (JAM).
I had a 2GB miniSD in there- was working fine for about 2 months and one I day I noticed that I couldnt run any applications stored on the card. Checked the card contents and everything had wiped (including my backup) except a few files.
Still not sure exactly what caused it- the only thing i remember doing was updating the 'PocketRSS' database (which coincendently was one of the files remaining after the wipe).
Still using the same card now and its working fine

Been using a Topram 1GB off of ebay and *knock on wood* had no issue whatsoever with it so far.

So is this a problem with Wizard or SanDisk? My SanDisk has been in the Wizard since February without any problems (knock on wood as well).
I do have a list of all the software and tweaks I follow to reinstall since I've done it a couple times for ROM upgrades. Reminds me of Windows 95...

I've got the Patriot 1G...got it at Fry's for like $60. One week and counting...
http://www.patriotmem.com/products/...4&group=Signature Mini Secure Digital&catid=3

The reason why this happens is simple....
The device was accessing that card and for some reason either you pulled it out or it thinks the card was pulled out. In doing so it "blanks" out the SD card. So long as you don't format the sucker you can recover majority (if not all of your data). There's a few free ones and a few pay ones....
Free:
File Reovery
Smart Reovery - Does Pictures Only
Pay:
F-Recover - Does Pictures Only
RescuePRO

Yes, some of these recovery programs work quite well; I remember using one to recover a friends CF card contents- recovered the majority of data.
I was lucky enough to have my entire 2GB card contents on my PC (transferring from SD to miniSD), so I didn't bother investigating the problem.

MDA Storage Card Woes...

I've had a T-mobile MDA (USA) for about a month now, and I really enjoy it! But, starting a few days ago, I've been having a lot of trouble with the MiniSD flash memory cards. The first card I had was a Corsair 2GB minisd, it worked fine for about a month, then it mysteriously stopped working a few days ago. I decided to RMA the card, but while I waited for my new one to arrive, I would purchase a cheap 1GB minisd so I could at least have some of my data and programs.
The second miniSd (this one branded with the name of the store I got it from: 'Micro Center') lasted for the past two days. I noticed it was dead this morning.
Here are the symptoms in both cases:
-SD card disappears from device.
-Soft-reset / Hard-reset to find that device wants to format SD card b/c it is unreadable.
-Format SD card, only to find that it disappears from the device once more
-MDA no longer responds to SD card.
For Corsair 2GB MiniSD:
-Attempt to format SD card using desktop PC, which leaves the card with half of it's total memory available (1GB). This is also not readable on the MDA device.
I'm very distraught by this whole incident - is it possible that there is something wrong with my MDA? Or is there a possibility that the programs and data I'm storing on the MiniSD are somehow corrupting it?
There's a T-mobile store near my office, I'm thinking about heading over there on my break to ask about this... but I'm afraid I wont get anywhere with them...
If anyone has any thoughts, suggestions, etc... please let me know!
Thanks

I have issues with my SD card. Quite infrequently the SD card disapears - which is pretty annoying. In my case simply ejecting it and reseating it seems to fix the problem. Occaisonally it becomes a little more problematic.
I think it is a problem with the SD socket on the Wizard, as a friend of mine has the same problem.

memory problem

Hello I have had a look at the wiki and still could not find the answer to my problem, so I decided to post.
I seem to be having trouble with my new Memory card for my TyTn. I just bought a 4gb microSDHC from the shop. I put a single song on it and put it in my phone. When I checked the memory it says this:
“Total storage card memory: Not installed”
Does this mean there is something wrong with the card or do I need to install something.
Cheers

Are you running a wm6 rom? high capacity sd is not supported on a stock tytn. Check the Windows Mobile 6 forum and look for a cooked rom that supports SDHC. I recommend the schaps 3.60a cooked rom. Been runnin it for a couple weeks now and im pleased with the speed/stability.

Thanks for your response Surrept, I have installed the schaps 3.60a-0823_full and the phone looks great now…but I still have the same problem with the memory, any other suggestions?

Umm, should I take the memory card back to the shop, and if so what is the best one that will work with my phone?

Can anyone help please

applecorn said:
Can anyone help please
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Last thing to try:
Reformat the card using the PC Fat 16 or 32
Check size shown on PC is correct.
Try again on your Hermes.
If it does not show up, reset with the card in place.
Try again.
If it fails again - do a hard reset with the card in place.
If all that fails, then return to the shop. There is no more you can do. Since the card is not faulty, you will be a bit at their mercy. It will be a gamble to get another 4gb card, a 2 may be safer. However if it's the contacts in the phone then no card will work correctly.
Mike

Thanks!
My friend had a look at the phone and said he had no idea what to do, he handed it back and the card just started working! Wow! Is it great how that works some times.

Micro SD in Tilt Showing up as less then full

Im running the TF2d and have recently purchased a 4gig micro.
For some reason the tilt is only seeing somewhere in the range of
2.25 gigs?
Thought i saw some sort of utility for this? Anyone ? Anyone?
Bueller?
(i searched till my fingers bled- found nothing but older posts on this
my apologies if i missed something!)
Thanks
Ok I'm off to work to go build the cheapest network money can buy on a sunday.
Ghetro-PCS.
(yuck no evdo!!!)

How does a card reader handle it?
What capacity is shown if you put the card in its matching card reader (capable of handling microSDHC capacities) connected to your recent desktop PC? Back up whatever you want saved off it then zero fill (used to incorrectly be called low-level formatting) the card using a suitable utility (I use a freebie from the HDDGuru website) then use WinXP to partition and format the card (FAT32 ONLY) and see how that goes.

Im going to try that tonite, thanks for the advice.
It did read 3.89 gigs or something close at one point. I had an issue w/ the card seeming corrupt here and there (the file browser would show nonsense characters when viewing) - so i reformatted. I checked it on my desktop, (winXP) thru two different card readers (newer ones w/ sdhc slot) and it only shows as 2.25 or so now.
Maybe when i reformatted i got this issue you mention. I will try a similar utility and see what happens.

My 4g card did the same thing a simple reformat fixed the issue it was too bad when it was messed it the root of my sd card had files with names like @@*^&$(@^@@* *#@!!)# with file sizes of up to 3.6Gb each so for a while I had a 40G Microsod card

16GB SDHC not showing?

Hey all,
This morning I have noticed that the "storage card" option isn't showing in file explorer. If I click on the drop down box at top left of the screen, the only option I see is "my device" Yesterday the storage card was visible in the file explorer, but today is isn't there.
I have tried taking the SDHC out of my HD2, and re-inserting, but nothing. Plus I am currently charging the HD2 via my PC, and the "autoPlay" pops up on my screen for the SDHC, while it's inserted in the HD2.
Any ideas why I can't get the SDHC to show up on my device?
Cheers.

take the storage card out of the phone and restart the phone, use file explorer to search and see if you see a file called storage card, if you do, then rename it to storage card2 or something similar, insert your 16gb card back in into the phone again and delete the one you called storage card 2.
I have had a similar problem like this before and the steps above resolved the issue. I think it was caused when i connected to the laptop and picked use phone as a disk drive instead of active sync.
The steps above worked for a 4gig card but I also have a 16Gb card which is not recognised by the phone or laptop anymore and I have seen similar threads with this issue and hope that you card is not faulty.

xtreme__boi said:
Plus I am currently charging the HD2 via my PC, and the "autoPlay" pops up on my screen for the SDHC, while it's inserted in the HD2.
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This probably has to do with choosing 'disc drive' instead of ActiveSync; so when your phone is connected to your PC it will open to see the files on your phone (like it would with an external hard disc or USB stick).

HasC said:
take the storage card out of the phone and restart the phone, use file explorer to search and see if you see a file called storage card, if you do, then rename it to storage card2 or something similar, insert your 16gb card back in into the phone again and delete the one you called storage card 2.
I have had a similar problem like this before and the steps above resolved the issue. I think it was caused when i connected to the laptop and picked use phone as a disk drive instead of active sync.
The steps above worked for a 4gig card but I also have a 16Gb card which is not recognised by the phone or laptop anymore and I have seen similar threads with this issue and hope that you card is not faulty.
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That's didn't work.
I'm quite sure the SD card ain't faulty, as my PC is able to read it, no problem at all. It's just the HD2 ain't reading it today, but was reading if fine yesterday.

xtreme__boi said:
That's didn't work.
I'm quite sure the SD card ain't faulty, as my PC is able to read it, no problem at all. It's just the HD2 ain't reading it today, but was reading if fine yesterday.
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Don't be too sure your card is ok. I had the same problem as you, I was able to copy files to the card, seemingly without problems, but when I took a closer look at the copied files on the card, they turned out to be corrupt. Testing the card showed the card was defective. I also had the problem of the card not showing up in the file explorer on my phone.

HasC said:
take the storage card out of the phone and restart the phone, use file explorer to search and see if you see a file called storage card, if you do, then rename it to storage card2 or something similar, insert your 16gb card back in into the phone again and delete the one you called storage card 2.
I have had a similar problem like this before and the steps above resolved the issue. I think it was caused when i connected to the laptop and picked use phone as a disk drive instead of active sync.
The steps above worked for a 4gig card but I also have a 16Gb card which is not recognised by the phone or laptop anymore and I have seen similar threads with this issue and hope that you card is not faulty.
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i had this same issue and managed to resolve it by changing the name back

Argh, I am SO dumb!
It was because I had the HD2 connected via USB on charge, so as the card was read by the PC, the HD2 won't read the card while connected to the PC.
I should have remembered this when I had a windows phone (T-Mobile vario III) 18 months ago, Do'h! Since then I have been on Blackberry for the past 18 months, but am now back on Windows Mobile
Now the only other thing I need to resolve/fix is the fact that Windows Mobile Device Centre / ActiveSync will not work when I am connecting the HD2 to my PC via USB. Very, very annoying!