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I'm not sure if I was a little too cocky after trying most of the WM2003 versions, and SE, all via OSImageTool (except SE) and the SD card flashing method; or I just screwed up, but I did it in a way I haven't read about here (and I've been reading here for a loong time .
I was trying to cook up ROM version 4.02.04 in my own kitchen (more like hotplate), and it appeared to go well. I had (have) wallaby bootloader 5.15 come up, and I go ahead and update from SD card as usual, sos I don't get myself locked out with a PITA version of bootloader, and it looked good and normal. Rebooted, no backlight, which has happened temporarily (1st reboot) before. Backlight doesn't come on. Ever.
Missing splash screen. Instead, I have a black screen, one flash from the backlight or so, with red
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in the lower right corner. Ok. Regular welcome screen (which, I've been through so many times, I could kill the person who decided that it needs to come up after every (or any!) cold boot). Then today screen looks normal, with no operator branding, still no backlight. Or sound.
Also have no cell signal icon at the top; instead it's like a network disconnected icon.
Start button brings up programs & settings, somewhat like normal. However settings doesn't have any power, backllight, or device information icons. (maybe missing something else I'm not thinking of, also). The Phone applet in control panel makes it look like it just rebooted, backlight flashes, get the red version info in the right, and I'm back to the today screen.
About half the apps work, but most disturbingly, activesync is not one of them - it complains its missing repllog (or one of it's components), so I can't get any files to my phone that way. None of the custom apps I had tried to put in there (if I tried that, I don't recall now) are in there, so no regedit or better file explorer... If I tried to put anything in there. By now I can't remember. I'm not sure I did, this may have been going to be a dry run sort of thing, then I'd add my BS if it all worked. I think.
Word crashes w/ no message, excel works fine. ?
There is no repllog in \windows as far as I can see, but I don't recall if you can see it with regular file explorer anyway. PIE works, contacts doesn't, calendar doesn't, notes does, mplayer does, but says it has no codec, and the little sound player doesn't go.
I can setup network connections in the control panel, but they never appear as an option on the top disconnected icon to connect to.
Beam says it works, but it doesn't really. looking at the XDA with a webcam that's been tweaked w/ no IR filter, it would appear the IR led is a very very dim 'on'. But it never talks to anything else, which is no surprise, because it's _really_ dim. TV remote blinds the camera in comparison.
I still have wallaby bootloader 5.15, and it ACTS like I can flash the ROM to the unit, it takes 5 minutes or so, does the counting thing, makes me cold boot, but then returns to the single flash, black with red version 'splash' screen, and time to go through welcome again.
I've tried OSImageTool with wm2002, 2003, various versions, both nbf and nb1, and no change. Tried XDArit (old) various versions, and even when it wrote the image to the SD card without crashing, it acted the same. Tried XDArit (old) with wallaby-patch.nb2, and wallaby-patch-tool.nb2, then all the above again - no change.
Tried bootloader -> SD card & back again of the same rom, which looks like it does something, but leaves me in the same place. I've screwed with all the files in the \windows directrory, hoping that an initial-setup type app just didn't fire, but that didn't help. Only about half the apps ran anyway. And it's missing a bunch of the stuff that's usually in there. (like the file for activesync) . the startup folder has poutlook, and that's it.
Uhm.. Oh, no green "I'm a gsm phone" led blinging every 3 seconds; going into the phone via start menu ( hardbutton for bringing phone up !work), brings up the dialpad, but anything I try to dial immedialy comes back with Call Ended, in a second or less. But on the happy side, the bootloader reports GSM (and everything else) is happy.
So I'm stumped. FWIW, I dumprom'ed the bad rom file, and it has repllog, and more than a few other files in the rom that don't appear to be in \windows. setup4.sh tells me
no operator rom found
xip regions not found: 81b00000=XDA_DEVELOPERS2, 81400000=EXAPPS, 817c0000=MISC
please extract parts manually.
and never sticks the rom.nb1 in cfg, so I think somehow.. I dunno know, but it's not good. I can run the dumprom on the err, deadly.nb1 (named after the fact) & that's where I see the repllog & all the \windows stuff.
So any help would be REALLY appriciated..!!! I don't understand why it's not using my new (proven good) ROM images via SD card flash; I can't beam any files to it or get online to get any tools t help poke around... I'm at a loss.
But at least i have my bootloader. ;0 and the welcome screen, and excel.
It's just very dark, and no one calls me.
I'm thinking if they did call me, they might ask if
I didn't get customrom tools mixed with demokitchen tools or something, or maybe old versions of files and newer versions mixed together, because that's the only thing i can think of why
I'm where i am right now. That and not trying to split the rom up after i made it before flashing to make sure that all worked well. Hindsight 20-20 and all that.
TIA, Brooks
1 more thing...
I forgot, even though wallaby bootloader gives me the a-ok on te SD card, and it writes to it & reads from it (i assume, I haven't broken out the hex editor to look at the SD card), WM2003 that's half on my ppc phone doesn't recognize that there is any media in the slot when it's there. I read something about people doing a trick to help fix their radio stack by making a hidden directory on the sd card, like 5547, with the radio upgrade files in it. My device doesn't realize anything is there, so I don't believe that would work in my case. (I was thinkging maybe stick a bunch of missing files, and./or reg entries in there, and it would get past my devices current reluctance to not be retarded, but it's too retarded for that trick. Nor can I email, SMS, or MMS any files from someplace else to myself.. ):
Oh well, the vibra ring wasn't working, so that gives me an excuse to take it apart while it's not working anyway. Is the motor easily accessable if you take the back off? I wasn't going to molest it that much until I could get a new bettery, but hey, if the patien't already in the hospital, might as well do a little surgery of convenience while it can't complain..
fin. Looking too hard for a simpler solution.. + SD card fix
Stuipd card reader more or less bit the dust at some point in the whole process. It's been kinda flaky, but it seemed to work when it worked. It just didn't REALLY let OSImageTool or XDArit write the correct image to the card.
I don't know when I got the clue, but I finally came to the conclusion that the wallaby was working fine, it was some other problem. So basically, I ended up getting my corrupted ROM onto the SD card (testing it out in bootloader, to see if the bootloader acted like it was doing the right thing.. it acted like it, too..), then "re-writing" the image on the card with a new one from my desktop to flash back to the wallaby. Except my desktop wasn't writing the correct thing, maybe not even anything. So I flashed the corrupt image over itself each time I was trying a "different" ROM/whatever. No wonder the .nb2 files didn't seem to make any difference. duh
Anyway, new SD card reader, everything is swell. It even lets me use the panasonic SD card format utility to bring my otherwise unformatable/useless SD card back to a state that windows agrees is a good 'disk'.
Yeah, so all those SD cards that become non-functional after you use them to flash/backup your ROM simply have got some crap written to track 0, that makes it so it no longer has the FAT filesystem windows expects. Then if you try to format it in windows, for whatever reason, windows can't write to that area (reserverd for SD card specification information, whatever that is), and says the disk is bad. Or can't be formatted. Get the panasonic utility, and it writes good SD info there, and its as good as new. Google SDFormatter, you'll find it. Windows only.
A few days ago, I bought an 8525 phone off my friend for $25. He told me that he only used the phone for a month, so it was practically brand new. I have been tinkering with it for the past couple days, using Wifi to download games and things, and it has been fine. The phone worked, texting worked, everything was perfect.
About two days ago, I accidentally dropped it about a foot onto wet asphalt. The battery fell out and the touch screen got a few drops on it, but I dried it all off, turned on the phone and tested everything; no problems from dropping it.
At some point later that night, the phone started having problems. It would randomly freeze every few minutes while in use, and I would have to take out the battery to reset it. Some buttons on the touch screen wouldn't respond at times, but then work later (the buttons next to volume, service and wifi or whatever). Then my texting and phone service stopped working. I couldn't get service anywhere that I walked, and the Settings button wouldn't work. I also tried to reconfigure the connection, but that didn't help.
I came home and found the phone I had previously, and I put the SIM card into it to see if that was the problem, which it is not. The old phone works fine with the SIM.
I don't know what the problem is, but there are a few things that may have caused it to happen:
-dropped it in rain
-plugged USB into a laptop that only turns on, but does nothing else
-maybe got virus from browsing internet on Wifi
-overheating (there was a point where the back was really hot after sitting on the USB)
-games/applications installed messing with system
Those are some examples of what I've done with the phone, but that's it.
Here is device info:
-Hermes 8525
-Windows Mobile 6 Pro
-CE OS 5.2.1948 (Build 18548.0.7.0)
-Processor: SC32442-400MHz
-ROM Version: Schap's 4.31
-ROM Date: 10/03/07
Sorry if I haven't provided enough information on the problem, I'm new to all of this stuff, but I hope somebody can help.
Actually, my problem has changed.
I attempted to put a new ROM on, and it seems I did something wrong. When I turn on my phone, it does the boot animation, and then the screen turns white and doesn't do anything else. I attempted to hard-reboot, but nothing happened.
I went into My Computer on my desktop, and the folder 'Mobile Device' showed up. I clicked inside of it, and apparently my entire OS is gone off the phone. How do I install a new OS?
I hope you had Hard SPL V7 installed or you will need to find your shipped stock rom.
If you did, great.
1. Format 2Gb or less sd card FAT32. Copy .nbh file of rom onto it and rename to hermimg.nbh.
2. Insert sd card into Hermes and boot into bootloader.
3. If you did everything right then follow onscreen instructions.
If you didn't & can't find your shipped stock rom, you are now the proud owner of a Hermes paperweight....
Instead of taking the battery out, there is a reset hole on the bottom near the IR port. Push in with your stylus.
I have the "No GSM" text showing up when I turn on the phone, and then it goes to the white screen. I tried to do the mtty.exe thing, but I couldn't figure out how to use the program.
I was going to try the fix that uses Visual Studio and Windows Embedded, but I'm pretty sure my phone doesn't have kitl (which I need to do that).
Most of the fixes suggested require using ActiveSync to connect to the phone, however, my ActiveSync doesn't connect. It knows the phone is there, but it can't connect, which disables me from updating the ROM.
When I attempt to flash a ROM, it says that the current ROM image on the phone is ' ' (just an empty space) and it asks if I want to update to the newer ROM image. It gets to the point where the progress bar appears on my phones screen, but as soon as it hits 1%, the whole thing fails and I get an error on the computer saying it could not connect.
Currently, I am attempting the method to fix the white screen by removing the battery for 20 minutes, and then I'm going to try the method that says to remove the battery and put it back in multiple times to fix the 'No GSM', but I'm pretty sure I messed the radio up.
@ultramag69 - I have an SD card, but I don't have a port or anything small enough on my computer to insert it. What should I do to do what you said?
Buy an adaptor, should only be a few bucks...
SD method is the easiest way to fix the problem BUT as was said earlier , you need Hard SPL V7 on your Hermes 1st.
You could also try putting your Hermes into bootloader, attaching it to the USB and flashing that way. Just make sure that "Allow USB Connections" has been unticked in Activesync on the PC.
At least you might be able to install Hard SPL V7 that way...
Like a fool I tried "upgrading" my micro SD card. I followed the steps others have had progress on. When I reboot the phone, none of my settings stay and all my apps are gone ! So of course I panic and put the original SD card back in. Now its doing the same thing, it isn't seeing the storage, its showing now that I have 15.83 MEGABYTES of total storage with 10.83 MB free. After downloading 2 apps it now says I have 1mb of storage free and it wont let me download anything due to it seeing I have no room left. I've tried multiple restarts, even tried factory resets with both cards, without a card, same result, is there anything I can do ? Or do I now have a dumb phone that can only run one app and make calls ? Please any help would MUCH be appreciated.
/Thanks...
Brian
Most likely the phone has done a hard reset without any storage card present. See, Windows Phone extends its filesystem across all available storage media (NAND, SD, etc.) and does this only at first boot (setup). So if no SD card is available at first boot, it will only map about 15MB of memory and completely ignore any SD card you put in later.
You can fool the device into doing this for you by resetting the phone (About > Reset) and removing the battery at the moment the device is booting again (but before it shows the setup screen). Best is to remove the battery at the moment you see the Dell logo. This way you interupt the reset process, making it restart next time. Now you can put in any card you want. Just repeat the process you did before and place either the original card or the new card back.
Thanks for the reply, I'm sort of confused, that is what I did when I first put in the new SD card. It didn't accept it I assume,, or maybe I pulled the battery too late ? I waited till I seen the Dell symbol then pulled the battery. Then I took out the original SD, put the new one in, then booted it up. It then went through the normal setup (setting up windows live etc..) then when I checked the storage it was 15.83mb,, so I did it again but putting the original sd back in, and its the same,, basically no storage.
Ok, right now the sd card is in the slot, do I need to remove it,, then do a reset, pull the battery at the dell logo, put the sd back in, then power it up ? or can I just do the reset with the card in it (even tho its not seeing it), do the reset, pull the battery at the logo, then power it back up? I have tried it 4 times so far with the card still in, I do the reset, pull the battery, boot it back up it skips all the setup, right to the start screen, all the dell apps (newsroom, telenav, myaccount etc. are not there) its like a blank/with only apps like mail, messaging, pictures- wp7 phone. When I first put in the new card it appeared to accept it... it went through the set up just like the first time i turned it on... I seen the storage it was there, I downloaded apps, everything was good. Then I wanted to see if it would keep it, so i powered down the phone like normal (not hard reset) and when I booted back up , everything was gone, and the storage was 15mbs.. I've managed to re-blacken the sticker, got it back in place, its stuck on there good just like it came, surprisingly there was no "void" on the sticker at all, either way I talked to Dell they sent me a new one, will get it on Monday, then they can have this crap back. Its ridiculous that you CAN'T remove the REMOVABLE storage *(which is exactly what a SD card is) without voiding the warranty. Either way we'll see what happens, hope they dont notice. there were only 3 lil spots of black missing on the tape when I took it off, I touched it up with black fingernail polish It looks exactly like my wifes venue pro now
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Ok, right now the sd card is in the slot, do I need to remove it,, then do a reset, pull the battery at the dell logo, put the sd back in, then power it up ? or can I just do the reset with the card in it (even tho its not seeing it), do the reset, pull the battery at the logo, then power it back up? I have tried it 4 times so far with the card still in, I do the reset, pull the battery, boot it back up it skips all the setup, right to the start screen, all the dell apps (newsroom, telenav, myaccount etc. are not there) its like a blank/with only apps like mail, messaging, pictures- wp7 phone. When I first put in the new card it appeared to accept it... it went through the set up just like the first time i turned it on... I seen the storage it was there, I downloaded apps, everything was good. Then I wanted to see if it would keep it, so i powered down the phone like normal (not hard reset) and when I booted back up , everything was gone, and the storage was 15mbs.. I've managed to re-blacken the sticker, got it back in place, its stuck on there good just like it came, surprisingly there was no "void" on the sticker at all, either way I talked to Dell they sent me a new one, will get it on Monday, then they can have this crap back. Its ridiculous that you CAN'T remove the REMOVABLE storage *(which is exactly what a SD card is) without voiding the warranty. Either way we'll see what happens, hope they dont notice. there were only 3 lil spots of black missing on the tape when I took it off, I touched it up with black fingernail polish It looks exactly like my wifes venue pro now
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ok, you missed a step...so read again. To change cards, first you hard reset. When the phone reboots, pull the battery, swap the card. When the phone restarts, go through setup, you will have a working card. Want to change cards again, repeat ALL the steps, including hard reset.
No shortcuts here, 1 2 3 4. Hard reset, pull battery on reboot, do your card swap, restart, walk through the setup.
Oh, remember this, hard reset is not a reboot. Its like a format. Everything on the phone AND card are gone.
I understand, and that is what I have done and I am still trying to do. I just did factory reset, I hit yes twice, the screen goes black, as soon as the Dell logo pops up I remove the battery. I put the SD card in, put the battery back in, then power up the phone. Everytime the phone totally skips the setup part and goes directly to the start screen as if no SD card is in there. I totally understand the instructions.
dede0380 said:
I understand, and that is what I have done and I am still trying to do. I just did factory reset, I hit yes twice, the screen goes black, as soon as the Dell logo pops up I remove the battery. I put the SD card in, put the battery back in, then power up the phone. Everytime the phone totally skips the setup part and goes directly to the start screen as if no SD card is in there. I totally understand the instructions.
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by chance,are you plugged in to a charger while doing this? If so, disconnect. If you pull the card, no hard reset, will the phone start ok? If yes, try hard reset, pull battery, no other power source, put the card back in, and restart.
If you're getting no different reaction either with or without the card, then you are correct. Some thing is not right.
Ya I've tried it every which way, with card in, with it out, same process, nope not connected to charger. I've only had the phone a few days, they are sending a new unit.. I so delicately took the sticker off with a very, very small needle, could only see one part of the black missing on the sticker whihc I touched up on the bottom side. Sticker looks untouched,,, I don't believe this counts as a warranty claim anyways since I've had the phone 5 days.. we'll see what happens, I'm not really sure what they could do anyhow considering they have already sent me a new phone and told me to ship the defective one back once I receive the replacement..
dede0380 said:
Ya I've tried it every which way, with card in, with it out, same process, nope not connected to charger. I've only had the phone a few days, they are sending a new unit.. I so delicately took the sticker off with a very, very small needle, could only see one part of the black missing on the sticker whihc I touched up on the bottom side. Sticker looks untouched,,, I don't believe this counts as a warranty claim anyways since I've had the phone 5 days.. we'll see what happens, I'm not really sure what they could do anyhow considering they have already sent me a new phone and told me to ship the defective one back once I receive the replacement..
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good luck then . I've heard of a few devices like this...but not many.
hey guys, trying to do my first upgrade to get win 7 on my very slow buggy hd2, i am following the guide
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=971478
and i am stuck on the first step, i have checked the SPL version, 1.42.00 i think it was, had phone on, connected up the usb, then downloaded and ran HSPL2_Run from my pc, and it fails on the usb connect, stuck on what to do
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I have now rebooted phone, held down the volume key and entered the coloured screen, connected usb, says usb at the bottom of the screen, and re ran the program, still no joy
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I have now tried using a different file on the link HSPL and i get past the USB connect and get a large loading bar but then get another error
Unknown error
Error Code: 0x80003
Always reference this code for eventual requests
Link used and used both downloads at bottom of page>
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=611433
Boot screen shows
PB81100 SS-BC
SPL-1.42.0000 XE
MicroP(LED) 0x05
MicroP(Touch) 0x50
USB
Can't speak for anyone else's guides but this YouTube tutorial with links to the needed files was the one I used and it works perfectly...
hey mate, thanks for the reply, i spent a good hour trying all different things and doing them over and over and all of a sudden it worked, done all the things on the video, and now i have win 7 on my phone, i am sooo pleased with my self lol
only thing is my sd card is 2gig so will need to buy a bigger one when i got some cash, when i get a bigger one can i just use the pc, drag and drop the files on the card to the pc and then back onto the bigger card, or is all the needed files saved on the phone?
cheers
I think I did read something somewhere about someone using a partition tool to do something similar, but for all practical purposes you should assume a hard reset is required to allow WP7 to format and set up the card properly.
Donketdaz said:
hey mate, thanks for the reply, i spent a good hour trying all different things and doing them over and over and all of a sudden it worked, done all the things on the video, and now i have win 7 on my phone, i am sooo pleased with my self lol
only thing is my sd card is 2gig so will need to buy a bigger one when i got some cash, when i get a bigger one can i just use the pc, drag and drop the files on the card to the pc and then back onto the bigger card, or is all the needed files saved on the phone?
cheers
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Ywe drag and drop will work with photos, videos, documents, and etc. Or you can use copy and past too.
As far as you putting the new card in I think all you have to do is put the SD card in your HD2 and then boot it up. I think it will be like the first time you booted because WP7 uses the SD card for it's internal memory so it will have to format your new card with RAID and place what info it has to place on it. Atleast that is what I have read, I do not use WP7.
T-Macgnolia said:
Ywe drag and drop will work with photos, videos, documents, and etc. Or you can use copy and past too.
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It won't. There is no real file explorer for WP7 and I don't believe the filesystem is readable outside of WP7.
I believe you will also need to reflash WP7 to have the card work effectively in the OS.
Donketdaz said:
only thing is my sd card is 2gig so will need to buy a bigger one when i got some cash, when i get a bigger one can i just use the pc, drag and drop the files on the card to the pc and then back onto the bigger card, or is all the needed files saved on the phone?
cheers
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Check this thread...
Gustopher said:
It won't. There is no real file explorer for WP7 and I don't believe the filesystem is readable outside of WP7.
I believe you will also need to reflash WP7 to have the card work effectively in the OS.
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You may be right, but I thought that you could still use drag and drop or copy and paste if you use the little USB mass storage hack for WP7. But I have never used WP7 on my HD2 so what do I know.
T-Macgnolia said:
You may be right, but I thought that you could still use drag and drop or copy and paste if you use the little USB mass storage hack for WP7. But I have never used WP7 on my HD2 so what do I know.
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You can to some degree, but it's not as simple as good old WM and WP7 will most likely rename all of the files to add further complication. For a noob, best advice is to expect a hard reset
Well after a day at work, last night i was loving the win 7 on my phone, now i hate it....
Got so many issues with it,
1. Randomly reboots itself every 10 mins or so everytime, all day long and when it does it goes into a sort of safe mode with none of my settings saved, themes etc, and i have to reboot 2+ times to get my settings back, then it goes again after 10mins
2. when screen is locked for a few mins, when i go to unlock it and activate screen nothing happens, then the phone reboots.
3. During all these problems, every other time all the apps stop working, dont load up, reset fixes, not always.
4. Battery dies within an hour os so from full
Used [LEO_70]BOYPPC-SHIFTPDA-HD2_WP7_V4_(13.Apr) rom
any others anyone can cecommend or maybe even Android?
Also how do i install a new Rom, do i just run in on the 5th option of Magldr or do i need to delete it off first then install the new one? cheers
Donketdaz said:
Well after a day at work, last night i was loving the win 7 on my phone, now i hate it....
Got so many issues with it,
1. Randomly reboots itself every 10 mins or so everytime, all day long and when it does it goes into a sort of safe mode with none of my settings saved, themes etc, and i have to reboot 2+ times to get my settings back, then it goes again after 10mins
2. when screen is locked for a few mins, when i go to unlock it and activate screen nothing happens, then the phone reboots.
3. During all these problems, every other time all the apps stop working, dont load up, reset fixes, not always.
4. Battery dies within an hour os so from full
Used [LEO_70]BOYPPC-SHIFTPDA-HD2_WP7_V4_(13.Apr) rom
any others anyone can cecommend or maybe even Android?
Also how do i install a new Rom, do i just run in on the 5th option of Magldr or do i need to delete it off first then install the new one? cheers
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Your issue most likely isn't WP7 - which is normally quite stable - but an incompatible SD card. I'd suggest you bring forward your plans to get a bigger card - have a read around (there are several threads) to see which flavours of card are more likely to work well - and prepare to re-flash.
You should note that the selection of a suitable SD card does not seem to be an exact science - there is evidence to suggest that almost identical cards may have varying levels of success.
So the bad news is you are facing expense; the good news is that your experience of WP7 isn't representative.
Hey everyone, I really need your help.
my 16GB microsd died last night, here's what happened:
I had gotten google music beta on wednesday, last night i was showing it to a friend, then clicked home. I have Watchdog installed, which told me music was taking up a lot of CPU, so i went in and killed it. instantly, android notified me that the sdcard had been ejected. then it popped up and told me that a blank card had been inserted. I was confused at first, but didn't do anything with the card, I took it out, reseated it with the phone off, started backup, same issue. I put the card into a card reader on my win7 pc, no luck, the card really is dead. It shows up with a drive letter, but notifies me that the card needs to be formatted.
Does anyone have experience recovering data from flash drives? I always backup my roms to the card, and apps using titanium, but I never ever thought of backing up the entire contents of the sdcard elsewhere. HELP!?
http://www.piriform.com/recuva
Use that on windows, it worked when my sd got messed up. This is assuming the files are still on the sd and not gone completely. You could try the repair option in windows if you have Vista/7, not sure about macs or linux.
Thanks but right now windows is telling me that the drive is not accessible. recuva is also saying "the parameter is incorrect". I can't see anything on the card. I think i need some low level scan type stuff, but I have no idea what program goes that deep.
phuzznut said:
Thanks but right now windows is telling me that the drive is not accessible. recuva is also saying "the parameter is incorrect". I can't see anything on the card. I think i need some low level scan type stuff, but I have no idea what program goes that deep.
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Sorry, don't know of any software like that. You may need to format if you can find no solutions.
I had the same problem a couple of weeks ago, but the last application that I used and caused the card's premature death was some FM radio app.
Since it is not recognized in any device whatsoever, I don't see any software that can help you even attempt to recover, fix or format the card.
But I learned a lesson: I always used to do backups once in a while, but when the card fubared I just learnt the hard way that I wish I had made backups more frequent...