Hi
I bought my wife an XDA II a while ago on ebay -- all works fine but....
.... it's working on a 256mb SD card.
I now have a spare 1G and 2G SD card and trying to use them --- and they will not write or format
message ranges from "write protected" to "device in use" to "write failed"
Any ideas? - are they too new? are they too big, or do I need a special format program.
Cheers
Mike
I asked qtek about the maximum SD-card size. They said 2Gb, so I bought that. It is a 150x fast card. It works fine! Would like to have a 4Gb thou!
I have had no problems with my other SD-cards either (512kb and 1Gb). (All of them had been used in cameras before, no extra formatting needed).
Thanks for your reply, I will try a soft reset and then try again
Nothing I do works.
I have even tried Panasonic SDFormatter incase it's the formatting.
All errors so far this time say that the card is write protected - but it's not
Mmmmm
I've got it ...
Checked all the messages about SD cards and one suggested a fix.
It's physical - I just need a label over the write protect switch
also remember to format teh card from your pc in a card reader, and dont format as fat32, it must be fat16 or just fat, my m1000 hates fat32 and wont let me reformat or read the card.
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My Kingston 512M SD (toshiba OEM) seems not compatible with XDA2.
The writing speed is slow (compare to lexar), and the machine always can't read the data on the SD. Sometimes the data on the card became read only. However the card works perfectly on my digital cam and card read.
Anyone got a Toshiba or Kingston 512M SD can test for me?
I had the same problem w/ my new 512 Mb Kinston SD card too.
My solution was to re-format the SD card this way:
FAT
16K blocks
Don't use FAT32 as that slows things down IMHO.
YMMV
-Jim
Thanks :lol: .
It seems perform a lot better with FAT16 and 16K blocks.
I think there must a bug in the OS because O2 never test SD card above 256M.
I've got a viking 512MB SD card from www.ebuyer.co.uk and it works fine.
Can I check how it is formated?
If you got a card reader, I think you can check it in the windows.
Use the command prompt , type "chkdsk X:" (x = your card reader's drive letter) and you can see the block size and the file system of the card.
I have a 2gb SD card that was working, but I thought I would be clever and use the SD reader in my Tosh so that I could transfer large files more easily to the card for my exec. But when I was asked to format my card by Toshiba's software, I went through the process and thought it was successful. But then at end of process the phrase "Please stop a SD memory card, then insert the card again" came up, so took card out, re-entered it in the reader and tried to attempt to transfer files to it. However windows then told me that it was not formatted and would I like to format it. So yes, I do, but although windows formatted it, it reduced the capacity from 2gb to 956 mb or thereabouts. It was recognised by the exec again, but with severe consequences as never bought a 1 gb card.
Help please...
Sounds to me like your card reader doesn't read cards bigger than 1 GB. I had the same issue with my 4 GB card. Tried it with a different reader and the PC saw all 4 gigs, never asking me to format. See if you can try a newer SD card reader?
The same thing happened to me with a 1 gigabyte pcmcia card. It was working fine in my laptop then I put it in the card slot on an Ipaq and it also did a format. The card is now exactly half the memory it should be and no way can I get it to work as a 1 gig card even though I have tried formatting on the pc.
I have found that my 2GB card formatted on my Palm LifeDrive was not readable on my laptop. When I formatted using a Toshiba format utility the space on the card was down to 1GB. It did work okay on my JJ. I had to re-format it on my Palm and then for reason it was okay again and could be read by my laptop - I did not use any card readers as the laptop has a built-in reader. And I re-formatted on my laptop using XP format softwsre and the 2GB storage was retained.
@Wannabe, have you got access to another PC or card reader to reformat your card. Also I found WM5 file managers could not reformat and regain the lost capacity
been on to Tosh
Toshiba are extremely helpful...not! Told me to get another card and see if that works as it might not accept the card. This is a Sandisk card which I believe is made by Toshiba...or at least in collaboration. Am going to check Sandisk for an answer as well...keep the ideas coming please
Hi there.
Try reading this post i made ages ago about formatting and re-newing your sd cards. It might help. It is regarding my 512mb sd card, but the principles are the same.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=21920&highlight=lydiachris
I strongly recommend using media recover, even if it's only a trial version to "wipe" your sd card to re-new it to it's factory condition. It covers and re-formats the whole card sector by sector.
http://www.mediarecover.com/
Give it a go and let us know.
Regards
lydiachris
If none of the other suggestions work then try this program that I posted on another thread:-
SDFormatter.zip:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=30900&highlight=
Use it with a card reader, follow instructions and your PPC should be able to read the full capacity.
SanDisk have taken back card...
Thanks for the suggestions, will keep in mind for future. Sandisk took back the card and found that it had become corrupted so have sent out another one. tks for suggestions though.
Today I received my 2GB Sandisk miniSD card from eCost (they sell it for real cheap so I thought I get one). I formatted it with XP (using its supplied SD placeholder) to FAT32. After I placed it on the PDA it reported the following crazy results:
2 GB storage
960 MB used
970 MBs free
In other words, my Wizard (running the latest AKU2 QTek ROM from ~March 22 2006) sees the full 2GB, but can only use 1 GB!!!
I then tried to format it with XP using FAT16, but the SAME problem occured.
Thankfully, I downloaded this utility: http://pocketgear.com/software_detail.asp?id=3191 and I did a "repair" (or format) the miniSD via the PocketPC. THIS utility saved the day! It fromatted the miniSD card correctly! And now I can see and use ALL of the card.
Please note that the problem/bug might not be with XP or the PPC. It might be with the actual SD placeholder, or even the flash reader (hardware bugs). The point is, that somewhere along the way something gets screwed during the formatting. So, if you buy a miniSD 2GB and you get such or other problems, download the StorageTools utility linked above to format (or use "repair") the miniSD card directly in the PocketPC instead of using XP and a SD-placeholder/flash-reader.
BTW, I also posted a review of the QTek 9100 yesterday: http://tuxtops.com/node/749
wow! I'm reading your post and thinking I wrote it! I had the EXACT same problem. I tried another utility (that made my miniSD card unrecognizable to my kjam).....a quick format with my pc, and I was back to only about 1gb of usable space....then i stumbled across storage tools. I ran the repair, and it was fixed! ahhhhh 2gb of space....woohoo!
Same problem, diffrent solution...
I also had the same problem, but found another solution, after trying to reformat, both in ppc and pc and cardreader in printer, card was unreadable by all devices. Therefore, as a last resort, I put the card in my digital camera (nikon s2) wich recogniced the card as unformatted and kindly asked if I would like to format it... after that it worked perfectly
help!!
i got the same problem with my 2G sd card..
i formatted with my PC and now it show only 975mb in my card!!!!!!!!!
i had try to use the StorageTools to repair it via my XDA mini s.. but it still show 975MB.... any idea???
After you used StorageTools to repair the miniSD card, you need to do a soft reset for the PocketPC to recognize the rest of the card.
However, I must tell you, the only clear deal is to FORMAT the card WITH StorageTools and NOT to simply just do a repair.
Hey I have this same problem, but the link to the program is no longer any good. Does anyone know what the name of the application was.
Thanks,
Bought new card
OK- Now I do not know what to do. I just went out and bought a new 2GB scan Disk MiniSD card. When I went to install my data on it, I can only get 1GB on the card. I need 2 GB. Does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this. I thought the last card was bad, but I guess not. This happens on 8125 and in Windows. Both see the card as 2 GB but will error out when you try to add more than 1 GB.
Please help.
Thanks,
The name is that one: storagetools...
I had the same problem and using just the evaluation version of the program was good enough to format mi sd and everything it's ok!
http://storagetools.softonic.com/pocketpc
what is a better format for MiniSD 1G (prob:read/writes slow)
I have a problem with my miniSD card reading and writing WAY too slow.
I think that may have happened when I formated the card as FAT32 partition instead of FAT. This thread seems like it is a helpfull answer, but which would read and write better? Does anyone know?
Thanx in advance.
Hi everybody,
I have a problem with my sd card.
I have a 4Gb transcend 150x card in my G4 prophet (s200) and reading is so slow.
Here i post a benchmark done by sktools:
Storage Card (write) : 31.75 Kb/sec
Storage Card (read) : 798.18 Kb/sec
I think reading time is so slow.
I have spanish qtek rom 2.20 and test was done using sktools 3.1.1
I have formated the sd in fat32 using computer sd card reader, but nothing goes better.
Any ideas on how to fix it?
Thanks in advance.
umm this is just a thought but have you checked the partition?
thats usually the end of most problems regarding SD cards.
What do you mean whith checking the partition?
I have formated the card twice one with panasonic formater
Best.
no check and rebuild the partition, formatting wont do much if the partition is corupted.
get something called Partition manager you can get a demo version that will do it. use your card reader and delete the active partition (remember to get your info off it first) then reinstall the partition format and mount the card.
see if that helps
Thanks very much, it seems that partition is ok and i also tried another memory card with the same results.
Could you please do the same test and tell me your results, rom version and memory brand and size.
Best.
Hello,
I have a 4GB Kingston micro sdhc card in my Topaz. The copying/writing (of cab's) work fine but when I try to install them (usually the cab's above 3MB like games etc.), the read operation hangs in between or in the begining (depending on the size of the cab) and the card is undetectable after the cab intall operation fails. After reboot of the topaz, the card is visible again.
I have tried different ROM's, formatted the sdhc via the PC, PPC and sdcard formatter software with FAT16 / 64K etc. but none of them seem to work.
Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks very much.
dren said:
Hello,
I have a 4GB Kingston micro sdhc card in my Topaz. The copying/writing (of cab's) work fine but when I try to install them (usually the cab's above 3MB like games etc.), the read operation hangs in between or in the begining (depending on the size of the cab) and the card is undetectable after the cab intall operation fails. After reboot of the topaz, the card is visible again.
I have tried different ROM's, formatted the sdhc via the PC, PPC and sdcard formatter software with FAT16 / 64K etc. but none of them seem to work.
Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks very much.
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Card has to be formatted to Fat32 and make sure that it has a decent DTR, Kingstons are not very good cards.
any particular brand for recommendations bruce?
taoist said:
any particular brand for recommendations bruce?
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Sandisk. The best for me.
Thanks very much Bruce.
I had initially formatted it with FAT32 but as it kept on hanging, and after some googling I formatted it with FAT16. But in vain.
I have again formatted it with FAT32 / 32K.
I did not get the DTR part though. Do we have to select something diffrent while formatting ?
Also I guess this Kingston came with the phone.
dren said:
Thanks very much Bruce.
I had initially formatted it with FAT32 but as it kept on hanging, and after some googling I formatted it with FAT16. But in vain.
I have again formatted it with FAT32 / 32K.
I did not get the DTR part though. Do we have to select something diffrent while formatting ?
Also I guess this Kingston came with the phone.
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Yes, SanDisk is always the best. DTR,
Data Transfer Rate is a rating on the card itself, not a setting.
San Disks are usually higher DTR than Kingston.
Ok. Thanks.
So I would try the last time with FAT 32/32K cluster format for my Kingston, else I guess out goes the card.
Next time its definitely Sandisk.
Same Problem Here
I have a Nokia 8GB SD Class 6, on a HTC PURE AT&T, Same exact problem, card reads and write fine with small files, Once I copy some big files, it crashes on reading it and then is not visible anymore until I reboot the phone. Cycle tested the card on a PC and it's seems fine...
Anyone had similar problems or found a solution?
Thanks
My new Transcend 16GB Class 6 card won't allow me to flash ROM images using microSD method :/ Have to do it the other way.
I guess some phones are just twitchy with some cards!