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Memory Card/MP3 problem...

My 8125 will play about the first four seconds of an MP3 from the memory card then the player (AudioManager and WMP) will lock up, sometimes I can close the app sometimes I have to soft reset. But play that SAME MP3 from the phones memory and it plays fine!!! This problem is the same for pictures on the storage card. I open up photo and video and it's supposed to load thumbnails, well it will load the first few thumbs then that app locks too but again, copy pictures to phone memory and no probs at all... I keep all my cabs and PIM backup on my memory card and after a flash it is no problem to reinstall those cabs...
Don't really want to buy new card, or is that even needed? Is there a way to reformat these miniSD cards? It is a REAL SanDisk 2GB, not a cheap one from ebay.
If this has already been talked about, just post a link please, don't be an ass...I tried to search!

If you have an SD card reader, reformatting is easy, just put the card in it, right click on the card and choose format. If you don't have a card reader, use wm5starage. Enable wm5storage on your phone, connect to activesync and your phone will show up on your computer just as it would if it were in a card reader and then right click on it and choose format.

xeno1 said:
If you have an SD card reader, reformatting is easy, just put the card in it, right click on the card and choose format. If you don't have a card reader, use wm5starage. Enable wm5storage on your phone, connect to activesync and your phone will show up on your computer just as it would if it were in a card reader and then right click on it and choose format.
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So that's what WM5torage is for... I always wondered why it was included in all the ROM's I have...hmmm
I will try it and see if it fixes the problem. Thanks.

Actually wm5storage is for using your SD card like a usb flash storage device so enableing it allows your computer to see it as a drive. Make sure you enable it before you connect it to activesync though or I don't think it will work if I remember right.

So far it's working fine. Such a simple fix. Thanks for the help!

No problem, glad I could help.

The weirdest thing happened to me today

The weirdest thing happened to me today and I was wondering if anyone can help me identify the culprit.
I was listening to some music when all of a sudden the player (Nitrogen) freezed.
I opened the player again and the songs wouldnt play,
so I looked in the library only to find that there was one song left in my /Storage Device/Music folder.
I have roughly 1.5 GB of music on my 2 GB sd-card.
When I got home I put the sd-card in my cardreader and it says that there's 100 MB of free space left
but when I select all files on the card it shows up as only 300 MB.
When I open the folder it only shows one mp3 file.
When I select all files on the card it shows that it's only 300 MB.
- I tried searching for it by file names
- I've got "see hidden folders" enabled
Mind you, I do have a backup,
just wanted to see to it that it doesn't happen again.
Update: It happened for a second time now
I formatted my sd-card and while I was copying 2 mp3 files from my computer to my sd-card, (all the files were still there) a message popped up stating that it failed and I should check if the file wasn't protected
After the message popped up all of the files inside the folder were gone (including album art)
Again, there is little free space but all the folders combined equals no more than a few hundred MB.
It would be appreciated it if someone could help me out
Thanks,

Hi mo.ammi
I work for a company who sell a lot of memory cards and the returns dept see this a lot, you should get acronis disk director and reformat the card as NTFS (most come as FAT32) When the write to the card fails it is usually because FAT32 will not take as large a file for transfer due to size restrictions, NTFS does not have these restrictions.
I have seen this work in some cases, however if it does not solve the issue then i suggest you send the card back.
Hope this helps,
Creamy-Goodness

My bet would be it's a fake (not genuine) card. Such issues are pretty common with them.

creamy said:
Hi mo.ammi
I work for a company who sell a lot of memory cards and the returns dept see this a lot, you should get acronis disk director and reformat the card as NTFS (most come as FAT32) When the write to the card fails it is usually because FAT32 will not take as large a file for transfer due to size restrictions, NTFS does not have these restrictions.
I have seen this work in some cases, however if it does not solve the issue then i suggest you send the card back.
Hope this helps,
Creamy-Goodness
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Do mind that if you do this, the card can no longer be used to flash your device, as that requires FAT32. Also, I'm not completely sure about the normal compatibility with the X1, but I guess you can give it a try.

creamy said:
Hi mo.ammi
I work for a company who sell a lot of memory cards and the returns dept see this a lot, you should get acronis disk director and reformat the card as NTFS (most come as FAT32) When the write to the card fails it is usually because FAT32 will not take as large a file for transfer due to size restrictions, NTFS does not have these restrictions.
I have seen this work in some cases, however if it does not solve the issue then i suggest you send the card back.
Hope this helps,
Creamy-Goodness
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I tried your method and at the moment it seems stable.
You say it's usually because FAT32 won't accept large files (larger than 4GB if I remember).
But my largest file is an episode of American Dad (100MB)
Anyway, thanks for your help. Luckily it's just a 2GB card
Angelusz said:
Do mind that if you do this, the card can no longer be used to flash your device, as that requires FAT32. Also, I'm not completely sure about the normal compatibility with the X1, but I guess you can give it a try.
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I usually flash my device using the RomUpdateUtility.
Are there any pro's or con's using the card flash method?
submarine said:
My bet would be it's a fake (not genuine) card. Such issues are pretty common with them.
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It's a genuine Nokia MicroSD card.
It came with my device so I presume it's real.
Thanks for your help!

I had a similar problem with my sandisk 8gb card but it just stopped working altogether while i was using tomtom, i tried to format with windows and a panasonic sd-card formatting tool but it would not work.
I had to phone sandisk for a replacement yesterday but im still awaiting there reply
you should get acronis disk director and reformat the card as NTFS (most come as FAT32) When the write to the card fails it is usually because FAT32 will not take as large a file for transfer due to size restrictions, NTFS does not have these restrictions.
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i tried using acronis but it only shows my hard drives and not flash drives, would not mind a last ditch attempt to save it if you tell me how??

i had the same problem with a 8 GB card.
installed some tool to format the card under windows mobile took ages and i ran out of battery ... now the card is totaly unreadable. not even windows recoknizes it anymore.
guess its borked now

Hi Flext,
I am unsure as to why your card is not visible by the Acronis suite, have you tried looking in disk management on the OS to check if the PC can see it as attached?
As Angelusz has stated you will not be able to flash firmware with the Card after changing the format, however the Acronis suite will allow you to create a small partition of FAT32 on the same card that could be used for this purpose. I do not know if the Xperia will recognise both partitions and display that you have two seperate cards, if anyone has tested this can they please post their findings.
Regards,
Creamy-Goodness

windows recognises the card in my computer but when i try to explore or format it my computer hangs, forever, then normally displays an error message an hour later....
i originally installed acronis a while ago to create partions for backtrack 3, when i did this i dont remember any other drive except my HD's being displayed maybe its the version of acronis im using???
also my X1 does not see the card at all though, "there is no storage card installed", however when i plug the card into the phone when it is sleeping the phone wakes up???

Hi Flext,
Sorry to say this but i think you card is indeed knackered. Just buy another, they are really cheap these days (even the non faked ones) It would be easier on your own sanity to bin it and move on.
Oh and i'm using the latest version of acronis, just checked but i dont think it makes much difference as it seems to be more or less the same UI and functionality.
Kind Regards,
Creamy

got weird problem too with my sd card i have seen the number of mp3 count on media panel decrease to zero after an update to r2a

Problem with memory card

10 days ago i bought a new micro SDHC 8 gb card, and i started copying music to it immediately. My phone did not recognise the card after that, giving me a "damaged sd card" error. Eventually i somehow made it work, and it was good for a couple of days. After that, it would copy files on the card without problems, but once the media scanning is completed, the files are not on the card So i went to the shop where i bough it and got it replaced, only to get the same results: after 2-3 days, the copied files arent showing on the phone, or the pc. It's like i didn't copy them at all. Can anyone help me with this?

i think you just need to format your sd to fat32 again... you can do that with mini tool partition wizard

Yes, formating worked on the first card, but then the problem appeared again I can't format it every time i need something new.

NaumN said:
I can't format it every time i need something new.
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true.
i also got the sd card damaged when i first inserted sd card but when i formatted it again it worked...

What bugs me the most is that it's working with no problem for just a couple of days, then it's from the start again. I noticed a LOST.DIR or something named folder on the card whenever it acts like this, and the files and the size in the lost folder fits the size of the folders i'm copying...

yep, the lost files definitely go into the lost.dir folder. Anyone knows something about this folder, other than that it collects all the lost data? Any way to recover the lost files? Why does this happen in the first place?

I had teh same problem ...
There's actually 2 options to get it working ...
1) Buy a class 4 or a class 6 sdcard. (Teh one which u get for free with u're G3 phone is class 2 sdcard and it sucks )
2) Remove teh stock applications and install some cool applications which's got teh option "manual folder scan" (You can select this option for force u're application to scan u're sdcard) Like power amp for music player and quick pic for viewing photos or wall papers or what eva ..!

OP already says "new micro SDHC 8 gb card"
so there certainly some problem with how card is handled in his Handheld.
Can you mention which version of ROM is this ?

ghpk said:
OP already says "new micro SDHC 8 gb card"
so there certainly some problem with how card is handled in his Handheld.
Can you mention which version of ROM is this ?
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I kno
But he did not say whether he bought a new class-2 8gb sdcard or calss-4 ..!
sdcard class makes a difference
Or may be he can use teh second option

The card might be bad or a fake with less memory than physically present, which would explain the corruptions and files in the lost files dir - the filesystem checker puts lost file blocks there.
Maybe test your card with something like this:
http://fightflashfraud.wordpress.co...ld-standard-in-detecting-fake-capacity-flash/
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Hey guys thanks for the new reply's, but i already took the card to service, and it is a fake. I'm waiting for a new card to arrive at the store and take it.

I too should have taken it to the store and got it replaced
Too bad i didn't think of it

You should have! I used an application which determined that the card is fake by reporting it's true capacity, told the store about it, and they scanned their products, eventually learning that all of the cards are fake (the Kingston ones). Now, i'm waiting for a new shipment to arrive and get my new card. Hopefully it will not be a fake.

NaumN said:
You should have! I used an application which determined that the card is fake by reporting it's true capacity, told the store about it, and they scanned their products, eventually learning that all of the cards are fake (the Kingston ones). Now, i'm waiting for a new shipment to arrive and get my new card. Hopefully it will not be a fake.
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What application did u use? Can u pls post teh link here ..

liraindon said:
The card might be bad or a fake with less memory than physically present, which would explain the corruptions and files in the lost files dir - the filesystem checker puts lost file blocks there.
Maybe test your card with something like this:
http://fightflashfraud.wordpress.co...ld-standard-in-detecting-fake-capacity-flash/
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It's this one. The test takes time, but it helps.

Cannot format SanDisk 64Gb microSD

I have a 64 GB microSD card and it was working fine, I had it almost full because I do travelling sometimes, but all of a sudden, I cannot delete the contents and I cannot format it from the phone or pc. I did some research and I saw that this has happened to a lot of people, mostly with galaxy phones. I have ordered samsung 64GB card now but is there any way to format the card and empty its contents?

Be careful when/if u end up getting it formatted, ive had a few come back and go corrupt after putting files on it thinking it was all cleared and fixed. Im not sayin....im just sayin.
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My note2 is eating my sdcards!! This is 2th f#$&n sdcard!! Why it doing that??

I had the same issue with the same microSD. After wasting my time to format and clear it I wasn't able to solve the problem and I sent it back to the vendor... unfortunately it was full with my personal data I hope you will be luckier.

Dika2110 said:
I had the same issue with the same microSD. After wasting my time to format and clear it I wasn't able to solve the problem and I sent it back to the vendor... unfortunately it was full with my personal data I hope you will be luckier.
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Same here as well. All my personal data is on the card, including bank passwords etc. I will have to go through quite a lot of hassle to change all the passwords and there are family pictures etc as well. This blows.

Same problem here, with a SanDisk 64Gb Ultra microSD. Failed to delete files one day last week - they'd come back after a reboot. Sometimes with a corrupt filename.
Now completely write protected. Zero issues prior to last week.

this is à very common problem!
but there is one solution
try to format your sd card using linux (ubuntu).

No joy for me. Tried last week - writing zeroes using DD proved ineffective, as did the official Windows SD formatter application.

mohssineait said:
this is à very common problem!
but there is one solution
try to format your sd card using linux (ubuntu).
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Do you have any link, as to how it is done? I have ubuntu installed on my machine. Or is it just a regular format?

harmeet.jaipur said:
Do you have any link, as to how it is done? I have ubuntu installed on my machine. Or is it just a regular format?
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use GParted.
or u can also use gnome-disk-utility

mohssineait said:
use GParted.
or u can also use gnome-disk-utility
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Also to note that the cards have a low number times that can be written to then the Flash memory goes and the card becomes ready only I had a 64GB card which i used for 6mnths and now can only be used as a backup grrr

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use GParted.
or u can also use gnome-disk-utility
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It didn't work either. GParted cannot format it and gives an error message.

harmeet.jaipur said:
It didn't work either. GParted cannot format it and gives an error message.
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If it's the same problem mine had, then nothing is likely to help. If the controller on the card has decided to write protect the storage because of impending doom, there is nothing you're likely to achieve with most user accessible tools.
Get in touch with Sandisk - I found the staff to be brilliant. After a couple of emails back and forth, I had permission to drill through the memory ic on the card to protect my days, and an RMA number to return the product. Sadly I have to return it to the Czech Republic (awkward as in in the UK - somewhat expensive) - but is less hassle than dealing with many retailers.

Nokia 6 with SD card?

Is anyone using their Nokia 6 with an SD card?
How does it work? well? Can you move pictures/videos/documents to the SD easily?
what size SD? micro?
Thanks!

I have a 200gb microSD card in my US Nokia 6. All my apps can read files on the card, but because I set it up as removeable storage instead of simulated internal storage (it asks you to choose after you insert the card), only apps that know to request special permission can write to the SD card. Most file managers I've tried can handle writing to it, other apps like text editors are more hit and miss.
I think if I had set it up differently it might work with more apps, but I was worried that would result in it being encrypted and getting cluttered with random data files from every app. If root is ever figured out with this phone then I should be able to have better control of which apps can write to the SD card.

el_mariachi_4 said:
Is anyone using their Nokia 6 with an SD card?
How does it work? well? Can you move pictures/videos/documents to the SD easily?
what size SD? micro?
Thanks!
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It is easy to use. When I taking photo, all image files stock on SDCARD.

thriceberg said:
I have a 200gb microSD card in my US Nokia 6. All my apps can read files on the card, but because I set it up as removeable storage instead of simulated internal storage (it asks you to choose after you insert the card), only apps that know to request special permission can write to the SD card. Most file managers I've tried can handle writing to it, other apps like text editors are more hit and miss.
I think if I had set it up differently it might work with more apps, but I was worried that would result in it being encrypted and getting cluttered with random data files from every app. If root is ever figured out with this phone then I should be able to have better control of which apps can write to the SD card.
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Can it read more than 200gb? I'm thinking of shelling 256gb max but might go for 128gb or 200gb for sandisk as I have files need to be moved. I keep looking at websites that the phone can only support of upto 128gb. thank you

I'm using a class 10 32GB SanDisk SD card with mine and it runs smoothly. I can move a lot of files at once to it and expect transactions to be generally quick. Make sure to set it up as external media otherwise you'd simply be merging the card with your internal storage and won't be able to control what goes into your card. Root is a must for this phone it seems.
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lambdaxi said:
Root is a must for this phone it seems.
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It's a must for most phones... Pity there's no ay to do it with the locked bootloader...