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i just got my storage card nuked and i think it was by "save attachments on storage card" .. its cleanswept except for some attachment dir and a WMDRM dir.. anyone experienced this before?
Im curious if there is a way to save my storage card like file recovery for windows!?!? I've had smartphone for 2 years and never experienced such (nor used the mail portion) .. its really a drag if this is normal wm5 behavior.
anyways two questions:
- is a way to generally clone a qtek9100 with all regs and storage
- is there a way to recover lost files if nothing else is written to car? (so called quick formats)
sardaukar said:
- is a way to generally clone a qtek9100 with all regs and storage
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Backup apps:
SPB Backup - www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/backup/?en
Sunnysoft Backup Manager - www.sunnysoft.cz/en_clanek.php?clanekid=51
Sprite Backup - www.spritesoftware.com/pocketpc.php
Or, otherwise, copy all files over, and export the registry using Tascal Registry Editor or so. Restoring would likely be iffy, though.. e.g. overwriting the Pocket Outlook database and such - if it can be done.
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- is there a way to recover lost files if nothing else is written to card? (so called quick formats)
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Yes - there's dedicated software for this. I got one from Sandisk that came with their 1GB Ultra III compactflash card that I've got in my camera next to a 2GB memorystick.
http://www.lc-tech.com/software/rprowindetail.html
as for the nuking, I assume now it was something todo with windows mediea player and device syncronization which hadnt fully initiated ..
anyways, when you tlak of recovery what do you mean, as the link you post leads to pc software.
u put sd card in camera and mount as usb and run pc software to recover?
sprite backup seems to be very nice and feature rich.
I just had the exact same thing happen to me...was just left with the attachments directory.
The good news is that the SD card shows that there is 250MB used so i know the files are there...i just cant see them. I'm trying that SD program referenced in the last post to see if i can at least see the files.
Unfortunately, all my backups are on the SD card itself. I hadnt copied them to my HD.
wow, this is nuts - there's some serious bug lurking around!
Update on this.
I was able to recover the files with some data recovery tools. The one in this thread is useless - its meant for media files only.
I still wonder why this happened. Either way, I'm switching back Outlook attachments to main memory for a bit and see what happens.
d'oh
Well, let us know which data recovery tool you used - might come in handy for others
yup same thing happened to me... and same way, attachments on storage card
space was still missing but the files were too
didnt bother recovering though as i had backups luckily
The same happened to me twice! The first time I thought it was due to FAT FS, so i reformated it with FAT32, but it happened again.
I do have my attachements at SD, as well as I save pictures from camera to it.
BTW, the same thing happened once with my wife's iPaq 2490 (attachement at SD).
As for fixing: just use standard MS Windows checkdsk (or use Check now from drive options) if you have a card reader. It saves all files to FOUND directory (but, unfortunately, it renames it to strange names, so you'll have to find out what is what)
If this happens to you, FinalData Enterprise and EasyRecovery Pro are known to recover files very well. They will find all files and filenames. They wont restore the top level folder names but if you dont have many, you can change them yourself. More important to me were the lower level filenames and the integrity of those files.
Most of the other trial recovery programs i used couldnt do what these two products could. They typically just showed a bunch of .chk files or else tried to recover media files only.
I still want to know how this happened and if there's a way to replicate the problem. There's some nasty Outlook bug lurking around that needs to be fixed!
same thing happened to me. just realised that i have 300 meg os missing disk space that i thought had gone for ever.
can anyone recommend a freeware tool ?
Wait, my new 2gb card died 2 days ago! The Wizard won't even find it, and my PC finds it, but all the stuff on it is missing except for a couple of directories and it won't let me format it. It has to go back to China now. I'm so pissed off.
Anyone know a card recovery app?
I know the ones i mentioned earlier should work.
Someone said chkdsk may work...try that although i worry that if it recovers cross linked files (most of them are), it'll dump a bunch of useless chk files on the card.
i tried checkdisk and it didn't seem to retrieve any files. grrrrrrrrr.
Well maybe it s a bug which occurs on march 14.... because that same thing occured to my sd yesterday while I was using tt5 on the road... ;(
sardaukar said:
as for the nuking,.....bla bla.....
sprite backup seems to be very nice and feature rich.
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I'd choose SPB Backup. According to my knowledge the WM5 compatible version of Sprite Backup does not have the self extracting functionallity yet. (weird because that among other features made Sprite Backup stand tall above all other backup/clone solutions).
Hope they will include this self extracting feature soon.
2 GIG Mini SD Speed
Just got mine from Singapore yesterday. I did not format it as it came already formatted. I have noticed that playing video divx / mpg1's are very slow versus internal memory. I did the reg edits for cache size but found no real changes to media playback. Anyone out there playing with media playback on a Cingular 8125?
mike freegan said:
Wait, my new 2gb card died 2 days ago! The Wizard won't even find it, and my PC finds it, but all the stuff on it is missing except for a couple of directories and it won't let me format it. It has to go back to China now. I'm so pissed off.
Anyone know a card recovery app?
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From experiance with this same issue on a 1gb, the card eventually starts having block failures. Fortunatly the place I bought it replaced it with another. Whatever nukes it, perminatly damaged mine. Hope in your case it didn't damage it.
I'm wondering if this is related to the reboot issue some of us are experiancing... and if it has something to do with pocket outlook or pocket windows media player 10.
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Block failures are a hardware fault.
The only way you could induce one with software would be to rewrite the same location more than ~1m times, which would cause it to fail - flash has a limited lifetime, although the limit is very high.
So let me get this straight:
REGARDLESS of the BRAND of the miniSD card, the Wizard HAVE an ISSUE whereby, if MEssaging Attachement is saved to the card, the device CAN RANDOMLY nuke the card?
I haave the same issue with my ATP miniSD card (and they're considered one of the most reliable one), but instead of nuking it, it just doesn't show the file OR...worst... rename the card to "Storage CArd 2".
Depends on what people are running into.
If you're getting a corrupted card BUT you can reformat it, then it may be something with the storage card attachment thing. (I personally run with this turned on and have NOT had it happen)
If, however, the card CANNOT be reformatted - that is, its TOAST - then its NOT a software problem. The card has physically failed. Since the 2GB cards are quite new, this is entirely possible.
One other possibility - if you have a card that won't reformat first try writing a few kilobytes of zeros to it using psdwrite. If you can THEN reformat it, then the card was scrambled - it did not die.
Using "r2sd" to dump ROM images to the card has been known to interfere with reformatting to full capacity due to the internal data patterns that show up in certain places with certain ROMs. Writing a block of zeros to the front of the card will fix this, as it will wipe the data that is being misinterpreted.
It seems that when I switched from my 512MB micro SD card to my 2GB sandisk microSD card, windows media player could no longer see the storage card when adding to the library. When i select menu-->Library and select library drop down from the top menu, I only see my device and not the storage card. Is there something that i can do to resolve this? Is there away to reinstall WMP10 client on my 8525 without reloading my entire phone? I am howerver able to select Menu-->Library-->menu-->Open File and can see the storage card but who wants to do this each time i want to listen to music.
Thanks for any assistance.
Have you tried updating the library?
I have the exact same problem. I can see the card in file explorer and through the "open file..." menu in WMP, but it doesn't show up in the library. Adding the files from it to the library hangs not on searching the card (it finds the files on it) but it hangs on actually adding them to the library.
My card is a SanDisk Ultra II 2 GB. I thought it might have something to do with the 2GB threshold that was the origin of many problems in earlier (desktop) windows versions.
I am planning to try and test it with some other mediaplayer. Anyone has a suggestion which player to try?
hey guys, I too have experienced this exact issue and it just started about a week ago. I did not make/add changes.
For months, I have been able to see the library from WM10 and one day I realized the same symptoms as previously described. I'm not sure what the fix is.
Yes, I m having the same problem, just only recently, i didnt install and upgrade anything. Out of a sudden, I just can't see the 2GB Card anymore. Planning to perform hard reset on this weekend.
Delete the MSMetadata folder
Had the same problem. Here is how I fixed it.
On your storage card delete the MSMETADATA folder. Then update your Library again in WMP.
That fixed it for me.
Every now and then this also happens to me... Last 2 times I resorted to a hard reset...
But deleting the MSMETADATA folder did the trick for me.
Thanks!
Jörg
Missing data card in WMP 10
It's a known issue with HTC Hermes. HTC Europe told me it would be resolved with the next software upgrade. Well I am still waiting for that to happen.(Since Sept. 2006)
The workabout above is the only way to restore your data card in the Media Player, but you will find it "drops" out every so often. I am so used to this routine already that I can do it in my sleep.
This problem only seemed to occur on the earlier models. - Before serial no. 631...........
So I wonder about the software side as I have upgraded to the latest ROM and the problem persists!
Regards
Thanks guys. I removed the MSMETADATA and it resolved my problem. I am now able see the storage card in the library and have WMP search for new files in the library without failing.
Dang...Wish i had seen this thread before...I did thehard reset
On the up side i got rid of a lot of stuff i wasnt using
What do you know it worked for me too. Thank you big time.
Thanks for this thread
Was getting really confused why my card had dissappeared in Media Player. Deleting the folder did the trick. Thanks!
see this one its wm11 problem no htc
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/software/aspnet/28840468/wmp11-and-windows-mobile.aspx
i cant find the MSMETADATA folder on my storage card? This issue is driving me nuts.
njmarchetti said:
Had the same problem. Here is how I fixed it.
On your storage card delete the MSMETADATA folder. Then update your Library again in WMP.
That fixed it for me.
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Yup worked for me as well - but I had to conenct from a PC and take a couple of goes at "refreshing" the root folder before I saw the offending folder to delete.....
seeing and removing MSMETADATA folder on ppc
jimi said:
i cant find the MSMETADATA folder on my storage card? This issue is driving me nuts.
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while you are in explorer on your pocket pc you have to go into "menu" on the bottom right of your screen and then click on (activate or check), "show all files" that way you will see the hidden files on your sd card an you can delete it
Solution: Use TCPMP.
Seriously, the ONLY thing I use WMP for anymore is WMA/WMV streaming and playback. As far as I can tell, WMP can't even do streaming MP3 playback; it chokes on every URL I give it saying the data is corrupted or it's a format it doesn't support.
MSMETADATA Deleting
First off thank you very f#@@king mucho!! This had been driving me nuts. I went into the file explore>storage card> menu>tools>options>view tab> uncheck hidden files>ok>the MSMETADATA folder should appear> delete that should fix your problem.
YEAH!
Searching here first really does help.
Problem still exists on Hermes WM6 official, and the workaround still works.
i've had an 8gb sandisk mem card for a few years. used to use it in the n95 then when i got the HD in Nov i formatted it and have been using it in there ever since. I've always had heaps of files and programs with no probs, then today i tried to access stuff via total commander and it's all gone bar a folder which is called Opera cache.
all the camera pics, installed pics, music, etc has disapeared, the card when used in a adaptor wont read in the computer, and when looking up settings via the memory function on the phone it says 'not installed'.
i'm running the Rom by Davideuck V7 MSVC for about a month with no probs previously.
can anyone tell m what the hell has happened? is my mem card stuffed or can i somehow get the data back? what concerns me is that the HD mem program wont read it nor will 2 of my computers
I had the same thing... Didn't manage to recover. I did have all of the info stored on my PC so I didn't actually lose anything, as such.
I never did find the cause or recover the data. I suspect that you will have to go to a professional data recovery agent if you want the pics back.
Sorry to hear your - well known - pain.
Nev
Pierced Soul said:
can anyone tell m what the hell has happened? is my mem card stuffed or can i somehow get the data back? what concerns me is that the HD mem program wont read it nor will 2 of my computers
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There´s already a thread discussing this issue. Take a look at it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=506560&page=1
Matthes42 said:
There´s already a thread discussing this issue. Take a look at it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=506560&page=1
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thanks for the link
I have just put about 20GB (210 albums) of music on my 32GB MicroSD memory card. All was going fine until I launched the "Music Player" and selected Artists. I get the following error (and then it takes me to the home screen):
Not enough space in music database
I can sort by album and select the all option but as soon as I touch the Artist button I get the above error. I have loads of storage space available and even after rebooting the phone (so it has max RAM) it still doesn't work.
Can someone help? I really wanna sort my music my Artist!!
Ah, I had the same with my 32GB card too, but my unit was faulty anyways, so I didn't make too much of that error. Concerning to hear its been replicated by another 32GB card owner. My replacement unit might arrive tomorrow, so can investigate further then.
I get the same error with my 8gb card. It also happens when you try to tap on the artist's name, album title or song title and search within the musicplayer.
WFK tomorrow arrive my SGS and i have a 32 gb card please pleople helps us
did you try all songs or just certain ones sound like a bug more in the music player than the card size..
maybe it doesn;t like one of the tags on the song.. i hit a similar bug in the contacts.. when it imported the birthdate was wrong ie something liek 423.1.10
and when i tried to edit it or delete it the contacts would crash...
i had to add an additonal anniversary then it would let me delete the bad one. and then re-add correctly.
Its all songs, and its not a tagging problem (my 22gb collection is meticulously tagged). I thought it was probably a size-related problem since the only other person to report the same issue till now was another 32GB card user, but obviously its not that.
What resolution are you guys using for your album art images? Mine are quite high-res (at least 600x600), and both embedded in each file and in the folder (ensures maximum player compatibility with album art), wonder whether the album art is using too much space?
I had a 32 GB card too. Could not get Artists.Downloaded btunes which works fine. It was only USD1.49, so well worth it. Does that mean it is the programme rather than the phone?
Had the phone I day, and overall very happy.
I have the same problem in my galaxy S, is there a way to solve?
Same problem here, still present in JG5 firmware...
I only have something like 2 or 3GB of music on it so it really makes no sense. Also moving the music to the internal sd doesn't help...
The problem is still here. I deleted some files from my 8gb sdcard, but it doesn't work.
I noticed that in astro file manager, looking at the sd available space, the percentage of the folders is around 86% (purple), but the disk is 97,6% (blue). What does this means?
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This does not sound good. I have about 20 GB of music too but have only brought a small percentage over to my SGS internal SD card while taking my time to look for an external memory card. I don't expect to hear so many people having problem here. I hope there are also success stories.
What brand of memory stick is everyone using I used an 8GB Transcend (i think) and it was fine but i have moved to a 16GB Sandisk and got this problem. When Googling the issue I found many links to Sandisks sansa range of media players that was displaying this problem could it be a sandisk problem or am i just barking up the wrong tree?
Could be... Sandisk here as well. 16GB Class6. Only 2 or 3 GB of music and still 8GB of free space so that can't be the problem...
Would suck if the sandisk is causing the problem, Kingston already causing issues with other things I believe. Also very strange that another music player has no issues at all!
Had the same problem but since Firmware JG5 (and now JG7) it is fixed with mine (16GB SD Card with around 8GB MP3)
Where is JG7??
Hmmm, really?
Still have the same issue with JG5, may I ask where you got JG7 btw? Any (noticable) improvements? Perhaps I should re-store all my music and hope a clean setup fixes things.
Deleted all my music and placed some new music on the internal sd... about 3GB worth. Still getting the error, getting annoying!
Has there been any updates to getting this resolved?
Mine was doing this, then it stopped (JG5 ROM). I didn't do anything special, the music files on the SD card are the same and there is less space on the internal disk so I don't know why it stopped.
Hmmn, might be a reason for me to upgrade to the JG5 ROM in that case...
applications and games ive downloaded and moved to my sd card are not showing in my list of applications. i can not use them at all with the few ways i tried. i cant download apps from the market i hit ok n it doesnt do anything. i cant uninstall apps. i cant install apps ive acquired from other sites. when i go into manage applications and click on any and "all apps" that are saved on my sd card n "on my phone" it will not show the memory used it will just show computing for everything in data and cache. i have learned that if i remove my memory card all apps that are saved to my phone will delete if if i want to delete them with the exception of preinstalled apps. my phone can download and it shows the memory use of applications in the app manager. i have tried i few tricks like signing into google n deleting data n cache from google apps and it worked, however when i shut my phone off then back on it went back to the same problem. i dont remember exactly the steps i took to get it to work because i did follow the steps but then tried a few other things that i cant recall and my phone worked properly with my sd card installed. now i try the same steps i learned but they are not working. i have no idea what to do. my phone is rooted but thats all i have done, i havent manipulated any files or installed any roms. i have however downloaded a few apps for rooted droids one being autostarts and this is where i think i may have went wrong but im not sure. when i downloaded autostarts i went crazy stopping apps that auto start to save battery life but and i dont know if i may have stopped something critical to my phone functioning properly but i cant check because autostarts is saved on my sd card and i my phone wont read apps on my sd card in a way where i can actually use them. so this is my problem i didnt make any back ups i dont want to reformat my sd card or buy a new sd card i dont think that will solve my problem anyway i dont want to wipe my phone because theres just too much on my phone. i just need to learn what i can do to fix this problem. please help n if u can ill buy you a gift on amazon and have it shipped to you or donate to this site if i knew how to do that lol... ill will attach a text doc showing the steps i took that worked for my phone but stopped working after i turned off my phone then turned it back on... p.s. it wouldnt work again because i cant delete data and caches from apps the apps memory use stays stuck on computing
I have a droid 2
sorry for all the typos ive been up for awhile
i havent tried this tip yet that i found because i just dont know what effect it will have on my phone...
THE "FOR ROOTED PHONES ONLY" LIST
(if you have to ask what that is, you probably can't/shouldn't do it)
- Delete the file system/data/data/com.android.providers.settings/databases/settings.db (or, alternatively, the whole /data/data/com.android.providers.settings directory)
- Add an entry to the HOSTS file at system/etc/hosts for android.clients.google.com (IP address for the entry varies per location, I'm in the US and used 74.125.93.113 -- this seems to primarily address proxy issues, which may be encountered by wireless users in China)
this is in the txt.doc i posted. i only did the tips listed under easy list in the txt doc
i think im going to try removing my sd card clearing the data for all the google apps then putting my sd card back in and see if that helps.
nope didnt work... also just a side note when i go into manage applications then click "on sd card" i can see my apps there with no icon logos next to its title but again i cant see its data usage and cache its stuck on computing and i cant see my apps that are installed on my sd card in my list of apps i can only see that the apps are still there when i go into manage applications then click "on sd card"
ok well i was getting really frustrated considering new non android smarthphones new service providers the works lol then i thought for a moment and said hmm maybe i just have to many apps and games saved directly to my phone and my poor phone cant handle anymore. so i removed my sd card turned on my phone and started deleting a few apps to give my phone more memory. i then again turned off my phone inserted my sd card turned on my phone and viola the phone is working properly again. i was binge eating downloads never once considering the memory on my phone smh poor phone lol well i lost the weight and my phone feels great. thanx me hopefully this will help someone else in the future.
smh im still having the same problems i dont event think it was a memory issue because simply deleting content doesnt even get my phone to read my sd card properly can anyone help
smh posting on this site was completely useless just like androids app dependent os
holy novenary post, batman. did you try sbf/factory reset or formatting the sd card?
yup factory reset n still had the same problem, and format sd card heck no are u crazy are u so completely senile youve lost all grasp of reality lol what i did do is put a knew sd card ran everything as normal removed the memory card deleted smdl2tmp1.asec file then installed the memory card ran everything as usual removed that memory card and replaced it with my original memory card with all files in the .asec folder deleted n now it has been working fine.
i think its so awesome that this site can teach you in detail how to void ya warranty in every way but for any actual real maintenance recovery n repair questions its all thumbs
knew = new lol