The weird problems happened to my Dopod D810 twice.
The first time: The whole file system on card went crazy with all folder names became gibberish (like: &%*()jhui&%^&&!#%&). After a soft reset many folders disappeared, a few folders remained but became duplicated but many files inside were not readable (e.g there are two identical folders named My ebooks).
I thought it might be card-related and I hard reset, formated the card, and re-installed all softwares.
Today it happened again but differently:
- I had some video files in Storage card\My Documents\My Videos folder like this ... video_28.mp4, video_29.mp4, video_30.mp4
- After a video shot, I opened Resco Explorer to check and to replay but all folders and files previously in Storage card\My Documents disappeared. Other folders and programs on the card were still intact and ran fine
- I tried shooting another few video clips (with option saving to card, of course). They all disappeared after shooting.
- But the weird thing is: After shooting, I chose the preview option and WMP played the file well. I paused the playing, check the properties of the now playing file and it showed clearly: Storage card\My Documents\My videos\Video_33.mp4
But in File Explorer and Resco explorer the Storage card\My Documents is absolutely empty despite the file IS BEING PLAYED in WMP
- I tried again and again, the video clips preview were always named in sequence like video_34.mp4 then video_35.mp4, .... but they all mysteriously disappeared.
What is wrong? Has anyone experienced the same problem? Is that a hardware failure (writing-to-card)? Should I send in for repair? Please help! I have some important clips that I really want to keep. Is there any way, any tool to help recover the files that are probably still there?
Do you have another miniSD to run some tests?
This could give you an idea of what is going wrong?
The miniSD could be malfunctioning.
Regards!
Apparently, you are a new user here...
The Trinity has a hardware problem that HTC can't still fix by now. Go search for some posts. There is currently NO solution available - you may try cards with smaller capacity, or you do some preventive measures, such as install SD Sentry.
I have found that rebooting without the card in and then putting it back in sorts this out. Also I am attaching fixes from HTC and others which stop minimise this happening. Finally, it is suggested you use the Sandisk MiniSD Ultra II cards instead as they have a faster transfer rate. These are available on Amazon for about 15 UK pounds.
Hawk
Damn it! They're gone
Thanks for all the suggestion.
I did reboot without the card then reinserted it but didn't help.
The card is Kingston 2GB
@Nighthawk2050: what does the first patch do? the second patch seem to be for another set, not Trinity?
@WW2250: what does SD Sentry do?
I bought a Transcend card reader, but could not recover any video files.
The card reader however showed the My Videos folder containing only one last video clip.
It also showed 4 other folders which report error when clicked on
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1.gif
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p0.gif
There are also 2 other files
/p300p1..gif (two dots) with a reported size of 1,838,093 KB
i/p320p1..gi with a reported size of 789,709 KB
I think with a faulty product like this, I have the right to return it (to Three Australia - a 3G provider)
I think they only have one other 3G set which is the Dopod 838 Pro
Please advise if the 838 Pro has any similar problem (or other potential problems)?
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I have found that rebooting without the card in and then putting it back in sorts this out. Also I am attaching fixes from HTC and others which stop minimise this happening. Finally, it is suggested you use the Sandisk MiniSD Ultra II cards instead as they have a faster transfer rate. These are available on Amazon for about 15 UK pounds.
Hawk
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First patch (miniSD HC Patch.cab) don't work....download the new one from the official thread (anyways, it work only on LVSW's ROM v2.0.1.1 and on AX3L's ROM anyversion) http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=1341004#post1341004
Second patch (ArtemisSDEnhancement.CAB) is only for ARTEMIS, not Trinity
Try Panasonic SD formater for format your SD card.
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The first patch might not be working for WM5, since it was originally extracted from Hermes WM6 ROM. But you mileage may vary.
SD Sentry is a program written by a Spb developer, who had exactly the same problems of you (for his Artemis though). At that time, there was no fix available from HTC. So he wrote that little program to check constantly for indications of SD card corruptions, such as missing files or folders, screwed up file and folder names, etc.
If such indications are found, it offers you a warning and an option to reboot such that you won't be doing further damages to your card writing to it in an already corrupted state. If you reboot in time, you can yourself a day before it wreaks havoc.
For details, you may want to visit his page at http://www.nixie.narod.ru/sdsentry/index-en.htm
BTW, there was an official fix from HTC for Artemis, but none is released for your precious Trinity, AFAIK.
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Please advise if the 838 Pro has any similar problem (or other potential problems)?
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Don't know for sure for 838 Pro - but it seems to me that this problem is a special free feature from HTC for newer devices like Artemis and Trinity. Besides this issue, I think it's not worth to go back to 838 Pro since it's an older device, slower, and has different sets of problems by itself.
I read extensive from the Artemis forum - and from there I learn that they have a worthy workaround that you may want to try: Don't ever press the power button - let the power save timeout take care of shutting down the machine when not in use.
Their theory is that there's a problem with the HW/OS that interact with the SD card whenever there's a power event, probably lies in the cache or the controller, creating corrupted filesystem data, when unfortunately being actually flushed to your card, would actually inflict real damage. So, if you get strange card suddenly disappear errors, strange filename folders, etc... you'd better reboot it immediately.
Removing the card and re-inserting it seems to reinitialize the driver and will probably revive your card too, but I'd say reboot it is your best bet.
Looks like you now need some software recovering tools to savage your files from your already damaged card. Grab as many as you can recover, re-format the card, and install SD Sentry.
I thought Dopod 838 Pro (Hermes 100) is more or less the same as a Trinity with a keyboard and without GPS?
Anyway, maybe I have to stick with this Trinity for now.
About SD Sentry: another program, would it further slow down the phone?
fookwell said:
Anyway, maybe I have to stick with this Trinity for now.
About SD Sentry: another program, would it further slow down the phone?
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It's incredibly light-weight. I even forgot its existence once installed and configured. It never get into your way unless absolutely necessary - when your card get corrupted
Hope it helps.
Hmm maybe its only my trinity but I observed everytime all the SD data is lost is when I use the internet explorer to download and install something onto the ppc.I've done downloading Flash player 7 from my ppc internet explorer and after a soft reset the sd data is also lost.tell me if I am wrong pls.maybe we can avoid it by not using the ppc i.e. to download stuff and intsall it
if you can reproduce it every time exactly, then it's good. Record the exact procedure and tell HTC about it. I read the guys at artemis forum did that and get a fix from HTC.
I want to do that but I just couldn't reproduce it.
Hello,
same pb with me. Pretty anoying...
I saw that i'm sharing this pb with several people. but doing a wide search on google doesn't give the impression that every body has this pb.
Is it a hardware pb, should I take in back for repair.
Does a WM6 upgrade would solve it ?
thanks for your help.
It's indeed annoying especially when you got nothing left in the card. I don't know about the scope of your search in google - but it's a pretty big problem here in this forum - definitely not limited to Trinity or Artemis.
I am sure not everyone encounter this problem - since it's quite related to write i/o activities to the card. Playing music with media player count as one - since it updates (read: writes) the DRM files in the card automatically whenever it is running; people who use camera reported corruption; and the original poster who downloads and installs cabs on the card.
It's definitely a hardware + software problem, which might be able to get fixed by a software driver patch, but only after HTC has identified the root cause of the problem. That's why I asked s4cr3d to report the bug to HTC if he has a recipe to reproduce the bug step by step.
Take it back for repair? Forget it. WM6 doesn't seem to resolve it as well. I read someone with WM6 (cooked) still have this problem. Don't know about the official rom.... yet.
thanks for your answer. need to wait then... still great device...
I'm using AX3L's ROM v2.0.8 and I must say the SD problem affects WM6 cooked ROMs too. It seems to me that it has something to do with software/hardware incompatibilities.
The specs are as follows:
- Corsair 2GB MiniSD
- AX3L v2.0.8
- AX3L ExtROM v2.0.5
The problem started when I used Resco Explorer's built-in unzip tool to unzip a file onto the Storage Card. Everything went ok until I opened up "Storage Card" and went, "where's the My Documents folder?". In a spectacular twist, I managed to corrupt the card (thru formatting, re-formatting again and again) and now it's dead. I used Panasonic SD Formatter, formatting in Linux, etc. and they weren't much help. My word of advice is to store everything safe in your computer the moment you see disappearing files because it might just go downhill from there.
I strongly believe it is Resco Explorer but I cannot verify this cos' I don't wanna screw up more cards.
I have since bought a Sandisk 1GB card and reflashed AX3L v2.0.8 without the ExtROM (and so, no Resco Explorer). It might be the card, it might be Resco Explorer but I have had no problems since (it's been 10 days now).
Anyway, hope this helps someone in some way. Will definitely try the SDSentry program just to be absolutely safe. These cards don't come cheap over here..
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I know this has happened to people before but ive tried searching at work and now tried searching at home... couldnt find anything.
Today... I was using my 8125 ... I changed themes... you know cingular windows default... just the ones that came with my phone.
Somehow there is nothing on my miniSD... if I go to settings then to memory it shows it has 50 megs taken up... which is what I had before.. but still .... no data there
can someone PLEASE point me in the right direction.
I had some important files on there
Thank you to all that can help
T.
Don't panic, if its showing you there's 50 still used up chances are your files are still there.
What file manager software are you using? If you are using the integrated File Explorer make sure you have it set to view hidden files. Same with Resco File Explorer.
If you are trying to find your files from a specific application such as Notes, Pocket Word, etc. make sure its set to view All Folders at the top and not a specific one.
If all else fails buy a card reader and try to get the files off of your home computer. I would advise you not to leave your SD card in your 8125 till then.
Actually this appears to be more common than we would like to admin with the Wizard. You will most likely have to use a file recovery application on your compter using a card reader to make your files visible again. Not sure why but the Wizard just seems to at random hide all your stuff.
files are not hidden.
I guess im going to have to get card reader.
I don't mean hidden in the sense of a simple file attribute. You are going to have to get a disk recovery program to get your stuff back.
I have also had this happen.
It SEEMS to only occur during a soft reset, so if I plan on resetting the phone, I remove the card first, and don't reinsert until it is done rebooting. that seems to have stopped the problem for me at least.
Very unpleasant problem to say the least!
well I used a program called 'Driverescue' on the card?
is it supposed to be fat1 or fat2 (this made no sense to me) I know a lot about different file systems but have no idea which my card is... fat1 found nothing. I have yet to try fat2.
Anyone know of any good programs (hopefully freeware) to find my data
Thanks for everyones input on this matter.
T
no one knows of any good programs?
I've posted a few software titles that I used to recover my files....
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=46295&highlight=
I had all the files disapear, so I took the card out and reinserted it and it was fine.
Hi guys and gals.
I only have 2 more issues with the Ameo at present, then I'm a happy camper.
1) Video playback (will start a new thread after some serious investigations and various setups have been explored).
2) This is a big one, but maybe I'm doing something wrong. I'm having serious problems moving large items of data to the MD via ActiveSync (AS). Not only is it damned slow, but it seems to start and then stop transfers of data if a file is big,...like a 700Mb DVD rip or even a 250Mb movie in any video format.
The only success I have had in that area is to transfer these files to SD card and then move it to MD afterwards...and that is evn slower than through AS!!
It is very frustrating for me as the 8GB is one of the major features for my intended use of the Ameo.
I am now trying to break down amovie into smaller chapters to see if I can transfer it that way, but this is ridiculous and should not be necessary. I've had a Micro Drive WM smartphone before but that was working just like mass storage device and gave no problems.
So I suppose the logical question is...is there any way to get the Athena to be recognized as a mass storage device? I've checked the CD's and there is no such software for it there. I've read the manual and that only states that data is transferred from PC to Micro Drive via useless Active Sync!
Hope someone else has a workaround for this, or maybe it's just my device or PC setup??!!
In any event there is another niggling problem in connection to this;
If moving large photo albums via Active sync, I have to make all files (hidden) to be seen in order to delete any 'database' file relating to the photos, else AS rejects the whole data transfer once it sees these automatically XP generated database files.
Once these files are deleted (do not re-enter the folder was you've deleted the database file else another one is generated!!) the transfer goes ahead smoothly...even if you have hundreds of photos in one folder.
Anybofy else experience this, or is it just me?
mackaby007 said:
Hi guys and gals.
I only have 2 more issues with the Ameo at present, then I'm a happy camper.
1) Video playback (will start a new thread after some serious investigations and various setups have been explored).
2) This is a big one, but maybe I'm doing something wrong. I'm having serious problems moving large items of data to the MD via ActiveSync (AS). Not only is it damned slow, but it seems to start and then stop transfers of data if a file is big,...like a 700Mb DVD rip or even a 250Mb movie in any video format.
The only success I have had in that area is to transfer these files to SD card and then move it to MD afterwards...and that is evn slower than through AS!!
It is very frustrating for me as the 8GB is one of the major features for my intended use of the Ameo.
I am now trying to break down amovie into smaller chapters to see if I can transfer it that way, but this is ridiculous and should not be necessary. I've had a Micro Drive WM smartphone before but that was working just like mass storage device and gave no problems.
So I suppose the logical question is...is there any way to get the Athena to be recognized as a mass storage device? I've checked the CD's and there is no such software for it there. I've read the manual and that only states that data is transferred from PC to Micro Drive via useless Active Sync!
Hope someone else has a workaround for this, or maybe it's just my device or PC setup??!!
In any event there is another niggling problem in connection to this;
If moving large photo albums via Active sync, I have to make all files (hidden) to be seen in order to delete any 'database' file relating to the photos, else AS rejects the whole data transfer once it sees these automatically XP generated database files.
Once these files are deleted (do not re-enter the folder was you've deleted the database file else another one is generated!!) the transfer goes ahead smoothly...even if you have hundreds of photos in one folder.
Anybofy else experience this, or is it just me?
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In the wm2003 environment, I used to have this utility called softick card export, whic allows the active sync to be bypassed and the unit recognised as a usb mass storage device. I used to port over my wikipedia (about 2.5GB in size for one sigle file) over with this.
However, my impression is that the WM5 version is not ready yet. I'm still looking for some equivalent product, or to wait for the WM5 version of softick.
eaglesteve said:
In the wm2003 environment, I used to have this utility called softick card export, whic allows the active sync to be bypassed and the unit recognised as a usb mass storage device. I used to port over my wikipedia (about 2.5GB in size for one sigle file) over with this.
However, my impression is that the WM5 version is not ready yet. I'm still looking for some equivalent product, or to wait for the WM5 version of softick.
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Thanks for the reply eaglesteve, but we got that sorted a few weeks ago by using WM5torage. Not as good as the Softick concept (as it doesn't rely on AS drivers), but it will do for now, as some people have also reported problems with the card export software under WM5 based Athenas.
Hi, my micro drive keeps coroupting, it happen a few days ago were it said there was no space left although it was only half full, I looked in it with file exploror, all the file and folder names were coroupt. I then hard reset and formated the drive and back to normal then the same happened today, I noticed as Live search kicked up and error on startup so I looked in exploror and all the file names wee croupt and no space soft reset and I've lost 90% of my data on the drive bt it says in setings -- memory that I have about 50% free space (what there should be if all my files where there) but I can't access them does anyone have any ideas how what bor why this is happening?
Pocket Mechanic
I have had this problem ones. I was defragmenting my MicroDrive with Pocket Mechanic and I think that it went corrupt when somen huge files were defragmented. I did a low level format wit Pocket Mechanic and since ten I did not have this problem. I have read that you could also try to format the MicroDrive with WMStorage with your desktop. It works better than te format function of the Athena itself.
myrapid said:
Hi, my micro drive keeps coroupting, it happen a few days ago were it said there was no space left although it was only half full, I looked in it with file exploror, all the file and folder names were coroupt. I then hard reset and formated the drive and back to normal then the same happened today, I noticed as Live search kicked up and error on startup so I looked in exploror and all the file names wee croupt and no space soft reset and I've lost 90% of my data on the drive bt it says in setings -- memory that I have about 50% free space (what there should be if all my files where there) but I can't access them does anyone have any ideas how what bor why this is happening?
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which machine are you using? Ameo, DOPOD U1000 or HTC Advantage?
HTC Advantage
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HTC Advantage
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um....HTC Advantage seems to have a higher chance for this to happen, i have heard someone said there is some recall on this device, but still i can't get that confirm from the official. All i can say is don't put your important data in MD, install all your extra programs to SD not MD.
I use my MD to store music, movie and photo only.
I heard that HTC released later it's X7500 just to solve some problems with microdrive occurred on Ameo. That's very strange. How ever it's really tragic if I cuoldn't use micro drive for important document storage. It's one of the main reasons why I bought it...
P.S. I'm using microdrive for applications, Pictures an Video, I thought that it could be faster and safer than mini sd...
asci said:
I heard that HTC released later it's X7500 just to solve some problems with microdrive occurred on Ameo. That's very strange. How ever it's really tragic if I cuoldn't use micro drive for important document storage. It's one of the main reasons why I bought it...
P.S. I'm using microdrive for applications, Pictures an Video, I thought that it could be faster and safer than mini sd...
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you should really save your application on sd card, because it will save you more battery, yes MD does run faster but i have heard at least 7 user now report they have file loss or MD issue, so you should try to avoid saving important doc in MD. i have never heard people report that file loss in sd so it seems to be a better place for storing important data
Ive been reading posts on other threads in the forums, and it appears some users have had the same issue with SD cards on other devices, Although knobody has Id's the problem yet.
myrapid said:
Ive been reading posts on other threads in the forums, and it appears some users have had the same issue with SD cards on other devices, Although knobody has Id's the problem yet.
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some had problem with SD? you mind posting the link? i have read through all the post in Athena, don't seems to remember someone mention this
Well, on my Dopod U1000, I have twice experienced the scenario whereby my miniSD shows gibberish characters in File Explorer. I have to soft-reset my device in order for things to go back to normal. I still have no clue what could have gone wrong as I have only installed MapKing and pRSSreader on the miniSD.
Anyway, one of the things I will do this weekend is to reformat the miniSD on my laptop.
wu5262 said:
you should really save your application on sd card, because it will save you more battery, yes MD does run faster but i have heard at least 7 user now report they have file loss or MD issue, so you should try to avoid saving important doc in MD. i have never heard people report that file loss in sd so it seems to be a better place for storing important data
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I'm planning a travel very soon and I thought to use MD to store pictures and videos I will take. So you advice me to use MiniSD for apps and MD for pics, movies and music? I was also thinking about to buy a portable Hard Disk to dowload every day what is stored on MD. What do you think about it?
Where do you think it could be safe to store tomtom maps?
THX 4 your replay...
asci said:
I'm planning a travel very soon and I thought to use MD to store pictures and videos I will take. So you advice me to use MiniSD for apps and MD for pics, movies and music? I was also thinking about to buy a portable Hard Disk to dowload every day what is stored on MD. What do you think about it?
Where do you think it could be safe to store tomtom maps?
THX 4 your replay...
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personally, i will suggest you to install app in SD, tomtom map should be in SD as well, this way you can save more battery. Store only music and old and movie on MD. These file are large so they should be in MD , and if MD is loss, these data are not important as well, you can transfer again from computer.
Now for the new photo you take by the camera, store them i n SD, organize them then you can store a copy in MD.
Follow the above suggestion, you should then have no problem with all your files, app and data, and it gives you a longer usage time as well
wu5262 said:
... yes MD does run faster ...
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Is this right - My MicroDrive takes longer to do a file listing in File Explorer than the memory or an SD card?
Also, I seem now to have developed a MicroDrive directory and my MD is now called MicroDrive2. The only thing in the MicroDrive directory is an empty directory for email attachments. How could this have happened?
@wu5262
I will follow your suggestions, so I will HR my device and format microdrive and MiniSD as well. Any news about 4gb MiniSd support?
PS I will leave in july...I hope WM06 upgrade will be available as soon as possible...maybe should I wait for it before Hresetting?
About MicroDrive format do I follow procedure within Hreset, when it asks to do Hreset and MD format both?
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Also, I seem now to have developed a MicroDrive directory and my MD is now called MicroDrive2. The only thing in the MicroDrive directory is an empty directory for email attachments. How could this have happened?
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Did you happen to move your messaging folder from \Windows to the MicroDrive?
chrisoyh said:
Did you happen to move your messaging folder from \Windows to the MicroDrive?
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No - I did ask Outlook to store attachments on the Storage Card (before I had inserted an SD card). I wanted attachments to be on the MD.
Also, I've just noticed I have a directory for attachments on my MD as well!!! I have no idea what is going on.
Do I have to hard reset? (I'm beginning to think my Universal was a lot easier to live with!!!)
asci said:
@wu5262
I will follow your suggestions, so I will HR my device and format microdrive and MiniSD as well. Any news about 4gb MiniSd support?
PS I will leave in july...I hope WM06 upgrade will be available as soon as possible...maybe should I wait for it before Hresetting?
About MicroDrive format do I follow procedure within Hreset, when it asks to do Hreset and MD format both?
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wm6 Upgrade isn't coming that soon, no official date yet. All we know is summer, and usually there is a delay. I am using transcend miniSDHC 4GB, it works well on my machine, no problem at all.
When you hard restart, it will ask you whether you want to format the MD, just click yes. I have heard other people saying using other tools to format MD is better, but i have had no problem with the default tool in our machine
I've had the same problem. Won't make the same mistake twice.
I tried to defrag the HD with Pocket Mechanic but it found errors on the HD. So I ran scandisk. Scandisk fixed the problems and when I went back to defrag it locked up and programs wouldn't run and I lost data. Just sucks.
I have since installed all programs to my 4gig miniSD card and am only using the HD for temporary storage.
Hope this isn't an ongoing problem because I paid a lot for this device.
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some had problem with SD? you mind posting the link? i have read through all the post in Athena, don't seems to remember someone mention this
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=303092
the thread is about storage card corruption on a Hermes, but it is identical to what i have been getting on the athena. - the screen shot on the first post looks just like my device looked when it went bad.
myrapid said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=303092
the thread is about storage card corruption on a Hermes, but it is identical to what i have been getting on the athena. - the screen shot on the first post looks just like my device looked when it went bad.
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well, we are not really talking about Hermes here, i think the issue is a bit different here, since the MD issue happens more often on the HTC Advantage until instead of others, and personally, i think the Athena's ROM is far more stable then Hermes.
Hi everyone
I just recently bought an HD2 and already seem to be havnig problems with my storage card. It is 2GB and is already full (I only added about 5 pics and 2 mp3 files! I have all the default progs and stuff that comes on it after buying it new. I decided to update the phone with HTC's various 'updates' (hot fixes), one of which addresses the storage card problem. I followed their online instructions but it fails everytime to run the .exe
Steps taken:
- Downloaded the 'storage card' update from their website to my PC
- Sync'd the phone to the PC and put the downloaded .exe file into 'My Device>My Documents>Personal'. Don't ask my why I put it their. I didn't really know where was best.
- Unplugged the phone from the PC and searched for the file using the 'file explorer'
- Tapped the .exe
Unfortunately I can't remember what the reason was for it not running but it was something to do with not being compatible with my device
Reasons?
Before trying to run the hot fixes, I had already updated the ROM. The ROM that I used is the latest one on HTC's website. Should I have run the hot fixes first?
Any ideas?
if you are using an updated rom it proably already has the hotfix applied
rapaz05 said:
Hi everyone
I just recently bought an HD2 and already seem to be havnig problems with my storage card. It is 2GB and is already full (I only added about 5 pics and 2 mp3 files! I have all the default progs and stuff that comes on it after buying it new. I decided to update the phone with HTC's various 'updates' (hot fixes), one of which addresses the storage card problem. I followed their online instructions but it fails everytime to run the .exe
Steps taken:
- Downloaded the 'storage card' update from their website to my PC
- Sync'd the phone to the PC and put the downloaded .exe file into 'My Device>My Documents>Personal'. Don't ask my why I put it their. I didn't really know where was best.
- Unplugged the phone from the PC and searched for the file using the 'file explorer'
- Tapped the .exe
Unfortunately I can't remember what the reason was for it not running but it was something to do with not being compatible with my device
Reasons?
Before trying to run the hot fixes, I had already updated the ROM. The ROM that I used is the latest one on HTC's website. Should I have run the hot fixes first?
Any ideas?
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If you check the hotfix descriptions they tell you what version ROM they apply to. They'll all say something like "ROM versions lower than 1.61" or similar. Basically, if you've got 1.66 you don't need any of the hotfixes.
If you're having problems with space on your storage card then the hotfix wouldn't have fixed that anyway. It just changed the way that images are compressed (I believe), so you could fit mor pics on the card.
Manually go through the storage card (connect your device as a USB drive so it's quicker, and windows explorer works properly with it too). Just try and find whatever it is that's filling it up. 2GB is not that big, but it's hardly small.
I reckon you just need a good, hard hunt.
Great thanks for the quick replies.
I'll do as you suggested and check the ROM version. I did the update late at night so guess my brain wasn't functioning. I'd had really annoying problems with synching, which after an exhaustive search I found were down to my motherboard's P55 chip! Needed to flash the BIOS of all things. Last thing I would have thought was causing sync probs. Soz to waste your time with something so simple.
Connecting as a mass storage device makes sense. I'll be it's the free Navigation software that takes up all the space.
rapaz05 said:
Great thanks for the quick replies.
I'll do as you suggested and check the ROM version. I did the update late at night so guess my brain wasn't functioning. I'd had really annoying problems with synching, which after an exhaustive search I found were down to my motherboard's P55 chip! Needed to flash the BIOS of all things. Last thing I would have thought was causing sync probs. Soz to waste your time with something so simple.
Connecting as a mass storage device makes sense. I'll be it's the free Navigation software that takes up all the space.
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The CoPilot folder doesn't take up too much space actually. I've got the app and the maps all on the storage card in the same folder and they only take up about 220MB. I can't imagine what could be taking up so much space!
Good luck with your hunt. Let us know how you get on mate
Just connected to the phone and checked through the SD card. Would you believe, CoPilot takes up 1.7GB!!! Which left me with very little after you add the other photos and music etc that comes with it. I guess it's so big because it is the Europe pack (their website quotes aprox 2GB for the Europe pack!).
So I'll be formatting the card now and loading it up with all my own stuff
I also checked and it appears that the ROM update I did the other day included all the hot fixes (makes sense) so all good
Now I just wanna start tinkering with all the goodies from this site to tweak it just how I like it (can imagine that I'll keep wanting the newest .cab and ROMs)
Cheers for your help guys
rapaz05 said:
Just connected to the phone and checked through the SD card. Would you believe, CoPilot takes up 1.7GB!!! Which left me with very little after you add the other photos and music etc that comes with it. I guess it's so big because it is the Europe pack (their website quotes aprox 2GB for the Europe pack!).
So I'll be formatting the card now and loading it up with all my own stuff
I also checked and it appears that the ROM update I did the other day included all the hot fixes (makes sense) so all good
Now I just wanna start tinkering with all the goodies from this site to tweak it just how I like it (can imagine that I'll keep wanting the newest .cab and ROMs)
Cheers for your help guys
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Glad you got it sorted mate. I didn't realise how much space the EU maps would take - I only have UK and Northern Ireland and it's tiny by comparison!
Good work matey
Consider buying a bigger storagecard, 8gb ain't that expensive
i am relatively new to win mo and got a htc hd 2 just little over 1 month or two back.. (ROM 1.48, Radio 2.05, manila 2.5, OS 5.2) now i was surfing the net on opera mini 9.7 (wifi, had activated the n band using BsB tweaks) and i got a email.. so i i thn just pressed the home button and went to mail on htc sense.. now as soon as i click reply the whole device just shut down and i had to manually switch it on.. everything was alrite accept when i went to the music tab on htc snese it said the music titles no longer exist... So i opened the file explorer and went to storage card it was just completely blank.. i was using a san disk 8GB (class 6 )... and i mean completely blank.. i had about 109 music tracks, contacts, 6 project files (which i had failed to back up ), and about 15 movie and tv show files... i just got damn pissed at this thing ... just wanted to know did i overload it or summin ? .. and is this common with the win mo or the hd 2 ?.. i tried searching this and 2 other forums dint find anything similar to this ?
is there any possible way i can recover any files :S.. as those 6 project files were really important was about to take a back up of it but
Use some file recovery software to recover the files using a PC.
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Use some file recovery software to recover the files using a PC.
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any software that you recommend in particular ?!
Regard's
Techie
I use [email protected] Undelete, but there are loads of others available.
Never had that problem here or heard of it whilst surfing here, that must have really gutted ya.
Sometimes WinMo device could lose its "link" with its momory card (can't load up folders/files or missing some of them) with unknown causes but your card is in fact still intact. Simplly soft reset and the device should "recognise" the card properly again.
Never heard that files inside a memory card being wiped out completely/formatted randomly. It did happen to me b4 that my Touch Cruise corrupted all files in my memory card (replacing them with strange file names) but have never heard about that in an HD2 so far.