Ok, here is a new one for you guys. My step-son, though he claims he didn't, somehow broke the tip of my microSD card off while the card was/is in the slot on my Titan. Does anyone know of a way to remove this on my own, can a cell phone repair shop due it cheaply, or should I just use my insurance for the replacement?
How much of it is broke off inside? You might be able to use a paperclip to push it in enough to get it to spring out and then use the tip of the paperclip to fish it out.
If it's just the tip, then you might try gently banging it on something firm yet soft and see if it will come out on it's own
BTC
well it seems to be pushed in enough to where I cannot *spring* it out. I just tried using the tip of a push tack to try and *pop* it out from the side, but it is not working. Might possibly be able to *pull* it out with something very thin but sturdy.
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Anyone know why ??? It just wont click in anymore... I woke up one day and it was just sticking out - Ive tried jamming it in but its just not reading it!!
Anyone have any problems like this before ? All my stuff os on the card :'(
Only replying so you dont feel alone. But 1st off check if anyone broke inside it, Anything stuck? I could suggest opening it if you have the tools to check it out and maybe fix it if its not latching right.
Also you can still get a adapter at radioshack for the mini sd. I did. It was 20$ came with SD, Mini SD and Micro SD all in one. So least you could get your stuff. =)
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Does it work if you hold it in? If so, I didn't like that mine came out occasionally so I hot glued it in. Hold it in, run a small bead of hot glue on top wait a sec and press the glue into place with your thumb. The glue wont run into the phone and it's easy enough to remove when you actually want it out. If your careful you can even heat it a little with a hair dryer to smooth out the glue. Personally, I don't ever take mine out. I had problems with the device not recognizing my files after removal. I install most everything to the SD that works right there.
**Try this at your own risk. I've done it several times and never had a problem. Just don't blame me if you break something.**
You can apply a thin layer of sticking tape around it to keep it firmly in the slot,but make sure you don't cover the connections with it.It'll stick in there and work proper.
Cheers
It just doesnt seem to be reading it at all - But when I plugged in into my wii all the music is still on it and it seems to be working fine.
When I try and jam in my old card it flashing for a second to say would you like to format the card so it must be working kinda... Argh!
Its really annoying - I used it as an mp3 player quite a lot and theres just not enough internal space...
Hopefully it will fix itself soon as that appears to be the only hope
I'm wondering if maybe the mech is loose and pushed inside. May take a little surgery. If I remember right there is some sort of spring loaded mech that keeps pressure on the card connections while in the slot.
Today I removed my minisd card and put it back in shortly after, but something went horribly wrong
Somehow I broke the thing that holds the card in position so now it wont stick in.. so I tried to make it stuck in with a paper which works but it doesn't get recognized then, I guess the mechanism which holds the card always turns on a switch thats tells my wizard to start reading the card
Does anyone got any idea to fix it, cause this sux big time (I bought the phone a few months ago for €200), I cant find my receipt but ill try to get a copy of the shop .
Im so pissed right now
Nobody knows, the warranty is overdue
Could I open the phone and maybe fix it myself?
I got the service manual but not the tools, anyone ever seen the inside of the phone, would it even be possible to fix it?
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Hi there
i had a similar problem - had to buy another htc 8125 and unfortunately it came with a broken slot for the minisd card. At first i thought i wasn't pressing the card enough for the thing to click and hold it. Then i realised it was broken. As far as i could see from the little opening there was a white slider which is pushed down by the wider side of the minisd card. It has a spring behind it and somehow it has to click in down position and hold the card.
i tried to push it down with a very very small screwdriver and understand the way it worked. With my bad luck i pushed a little harder and broke that white slider. It just broke in the middle and one part stayed down and the other was pushed up by the spring. It broke exactly at the place where it was pushed by the memory card. So my card was not jumping anymore out - it just stayed in but was not recognised by the phone.
I didn't know what else to do so i found some instructions on how to open the phone and went for it with the hope to reach the memory card slot an hopefully fix it. HTC has taken good care of the stupid slot. It is soldered to the motherboard and nothing much could be done. There are 4 points that hold it but i didn't go that far to unsolder it (didn't know how many springs and other parts would jump out of it). Anyways - what i noticed was the following:
there are two small "plates" at the bottom of the slot. Wheny ou isnert the card they touch and i think this is what makes the slot active and knowing that there is a card in it. I had some dirt betwen them and that was preventing them from making a contact. After i removed that small piece of dirt and inserted the card it worked like a charm. It stays so tight in there now that i hardly can get it out - which is not that bad because i can always use the usb cable to transfer whatever i want.
I think i still have those manuals for opening the phone, so if you decide to go this far and can't find them i can send you an email.
Hope i was of any help
There's no need to open or disassemble the phone to repair the slot,just apply a thin layer of any adhesive tape around it but make sure you do not cover the connectors and insert the card firmly in the slot.
Cheers !
But well even if I push it in it doesnt get detected(I added a piece of paper to hold it in but it didnt detect it still).
I think ill buy a torx screwdriver and open it.
I'll still advise you to check the mini sd in some other phone,if it still doesn't get detected than get a new one or it may need to be reformatted.Opening up the phone might lead onto more problems.
Cheers !
zabardast_1 said:
I'll still advise you to check the mini sd in some other phone,if it still doesn't get detected than get a new one or it may need to be reformatted.Opening up the phone might lead onto more problems.
Cheers !
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I got a 2gb minisd and a 512mb minisd both dont work so im sure its the phones fault , they have always worked fine.
I had a problem with some keys on the keyboard not responding.
But I also have another problem, after assembling the phone back, I tried fitting the card in, and it didn't make the click sound, now somehow I'm not able to have the card inside the storage card compartment.
Is there any switch, was this done, because of the 3 sheets of paper?
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I had a problem with some keys on the keyboard not responding.
But I also have another problem, after assembling the phone back, I tried fitting the card in, and it didn't make the click sound, now somehow I'm not able to have the card inside the storage card compartment.
Is there any switch, was this done, because of the 3 sheets of paper?
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Depends where you put the paper.
Whatever, you're going to need to dismantle again. Either the slot and it's spring mechanism are damaged or (perhaps more likely, something is pressing on it/obstructing it.
I'd say dismantle and test it when you have it apart and keep a close eye on whether anyting is interferring with it as you re-assemble.
Mike
Yes Mike, I have it disassembled, I see nothing obstructing the storage card compartment, I checked on top and bottom of it, the 3 pieces of papers should not be obstructing them in any way.
I think the spring mechanism is damaged, how can I determine that, and how can I try to fix it?
When I push the card, on the left side I see something trying to move out, and from the top of it, I see the white mechanism inside pushing in, and it did feel the spring mechanism, but it didn't click, so in someplace it should click, thought I'm not able to find where.
it does go completely in, and feels like springing, but not clicking.
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Yes Mike, I have it disassembled, I see nothing obstructing the storage card compartment, I checked on top and bottom of it, the 3 pieces of papers should not be obstructing them in any way.
I think the spring mechanism is damaged, how can I determine that, and how can I try to fix it?
When I push the card, on the left side I see something trying to move out, and from the top of it, I see the white mechanism inside pushing in.
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I'd need to do a close inspection of that. Unfortunately that's unlikely until the weekend. However, even then I wouldn't be too hopeful of being able to give very practical help, if only because describing anything that small would be difficult enough let alone how to fix it.
Still, I'd be willing to have a look at mine if you still have the problem by then.
Mike
*Update*
As trying multiple times, to see if it made click with anything, the storage card is not even being recognized by the device anymore...
So now..it's basically useless to have the storage card compartment, lock the card.
Don't know why... or the reason..but I'm starting to lose faith in these HTC devices as a first timer...
But anyways, as posted on the other thread, I have an old HTC hermes, that I replaced the motherboard with.
That storage card part, works fine, it does click. But...the real question will be, how exactly can I transfer the old storage card into my own device?
Or maybe if I make work the old motherboard?
Mike: You said on some other thread, that you might think that a fuse is blown right?
I saw an image showing this, but the fuse is under the metal plate, how can I get under it, and check if the fuse is blown indeed or not?
So...
I own a Bell Atrix. My carrier is Bell.
I flashed my phone with OLYEM 1.4.2.
Rooted it with Seven's script.
Made sure ADB was allowed to su.
Installed GingerBlur.
Phone got stuck in a reboot loop.
Re-flashed with OLYEM.
Now, I cannot mount my microSD. The settings show as unavailable and the manual mount is greyed out. I have tried a battery pull, a different microSD etc. My microSD works flawlessly in a different phone. I really do not know what crapped it. Was it GingerBlur, the flashing or just bad luck...
This means I cannot root the phone anymore and im stuck with OLYEM and a defective phone.
I took the phone to Bell for repair. They said it's been over 30 days from the buy date so they have to send it to an external firm to have it checked... I just hope they will not come back to me saying I voided my warranty.
Please let me know if you have had this problem or if you think there is something to be done if worst comes to worst.
Thanks!
I had the same issue but it wasn't related to updating. I had to take the sd card out and press down on the metal piece that holds the card in place to get it to have better contact. This worked for a while and then i pressed down even harder and it wouldn't read at all so I had to stick something under the metal thing and pry it back up and now it works great.
Just semantics, but it should be "micro SD", rather than "mini SD" (which is a different card type).
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I had the same issue but it wasn't related to updating. I had to take the sd card out and press down on the metal piece that holds the card in place to get it to have better contact. This worked for a while and then i pressed down even harder and it wouldn't read at all so I had to stick something under the metal thing and pry it back up and now it works great.
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What did you stick under it to pry it back up? I may have to do this myself so I just want to know,
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What did you stick under it to pry it back up? I may have to do this myself so I just want to know,
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I used the semi-pointed but round end of a nice pen to press it down and when I had to reverse it I used the nail file part of some little finger nail clippers. Just stuff I had sitting around at my desk at work
Thanks for the suggestion! If I get it back and it's not fixed, I will try that. Bell rep told me it would take from 3 to 6 weeks. Yeah... 6 weeks.
Meanwhile, they gave an HTC Desire Z. I really like SenseUI. It works so much better for me when I compare it to Motoblehh. However, I do not like the feeling of the phone. The movable parts do not appeal to me.
Thanks again!
The Bell rep also told me it was the first Atrix they sent back for repair...
Ok, going really basic and this probably is not your issue, but I just had the same issue with a camera and one phone not recognizing one of my cards. I had to reformat it in windows and it has worked perfectly since. Probably because I was switching between so many devices or just coincidence, just passing this on.
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i just get this issue i want to try gingerbreak and i couldnt find my micro sd i reboot and so on many times, perhaps i make it work you need push pretty well, and try moving when its on the phone
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I had the same issue but it wasn't related to updating. I had to take the sd card out and press down on the metal piece that holds the card in place to get it to have better contact. This worked for a while and then i pressed down even harder and it wouldn't read at all so I had to stick something under the metal thing and pry it back up and now it works great.
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There are two metal plates that need to make contact - if they don't the card isn't detected.
http://guide-images.ifixit.net/igi/JhXk4VIeX3CahwaY.huge
In the lower left of the sd card slot you can see the two plates. When the card is in the slot, these two plates should touch. When I got my phone, they were not touching, so I bent them slightly to make the contact.
If the link doesn't work, just go to the iFixit teardown and look at the pics at the bottom of the first page.
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I just got my phone back. Looks like the firmware flash was what broke the phone. The repair slip shows a software update only.
Im just happy they repaired it. I think I will wait for a Bell SBF...
Thanks!
Today i put a micro sd "sandisk" in my tablet but now i dont be able to remove it, when i push it nothing appen and the sd dont turn out, what is the correct metod to do this?
It's quite a firm fit, push it in with your fingernail and the spring will launch it out across the room.
Or if you dont have any fingernails use something like an opened paperclip or a table knife to push the microsd card in far enough to eject it.
Mark.
Does your tablet show that the micro sd card is in it's slot? I hope you didn't jam it between something. When first using my sd card slot I had to be careful. It felt like the inside of the slot had edges that made inserting the card a little difficult. I always listen for the 'click' when seating or unseating the card. Good luck.
Mine won't eject, either. I can feel it springing, but it doesn't pop out. I had to use a small flat screwdriver (think: eyeglass repair kit) to get it out.
Not a HUGE deal, since I likely won't be taking the SD card out much.
I would just get an exchange if I were you. Never know what you might break accidentally trying to pry it out.
After much work i've get out the sd, probably i push too hard. Now i push it very softly and im able to take out the sd without problem. Thanks to all
I find that if I push a little to the right (where the tabs on the SD card are) w/my fingernail, then it usually clicks and comes right out.
I almost lost my microsd a couple of times as it likes to shoot out across the room whenever I try to remove it.
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If you can, return it. There is problem with some of the tf101's. My sd went in and i couldn't get it out. I used a razor blade to remove it. Now that i have a replacement i also noticed the power button was also recessed to far in on the one with the bad card slot. On the replacement unit the power button and volume rocker function much much better.