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2.0 Gig Micro SD card problem with Wing

Hi Guys
I don't post much here and I tried doing a search on this before so if I missed it, PLEASE BE GENTLE WITH ME
My question/problem is that I bought a SanDisk 2.0 gig Micro SD card for the Wing. I started to add stuff to it via the ActiveSync program for the Wing. After awhile though, I received a "not enough memory" type of error message, saying that the "disk is full" and to remove programs before I can add anymore. I checked the storage on the card and I didn't even use a quarter of the storage on the card. I remember that this happened to me with the MDA when I bought a 2gig card and T-mobile told me that they really didn't support 2gig at the time. So I bought a 1gig and the same thing happened.
I figured it was a problem with the MDA. But it's happening on the Wing as well.
I go Tools> Explore Pocket PC> Mobile Windows Device. From there, I click on the Storage Card folder.
I'm only trying to add stuff to the storage card, not run any programs. I am storing themes and 30 second mp3 clips to use as Ring tones and pictures.
When I try copying one of those files from my computer to the Storage Card folder, I receive the following error message:
"Cannot copy xxxxx: There is not enough free disk space.
Delete one or more files to free disk space and then try again".
I called T-Mobile and they could not figure out what was wrong.
Then they said that it could be because I am using a SanDisk card.
Can someone tell me if this is true? Also, how are you guys doing it?
Any info would be greatly appreciated
Any suggestions? Hints?
Any info would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Robert

I have a 2 gig micro sd on my wing as well (though it is a Transcend brand) and it has been working fine for me all the time.
Try the card on a card-reader and make sure the card is fine.

Try to use a Card reader! i do not have any solutions if you wish to leave the card in your herald though..

Had the same problems with my 2GB SanDisk, suddenly the free space kept on shrinking.
I deceided to backup my XDA and did a hardreset.
So far I have no problems anymore , but I still can't read the SanDisk with all my cardreaders in the PC on Windows.
Out of 6 (including the built-in in my Notebook) only one can read that card. With Linux I had no problems at all.

Where did you buy Sandisk Memory from is the real question. If you got it from Ebay then chances are you've been had.

No, I bought it from Best Buy. Stupid thing cost me $75.00
I'm going to try that Linux reader and see if that does the trick. If not, what about reformatting the card?
That was another thing. T-Mobile tried walking me through that, but when I tried to reformat it via ActiveSync, I did not have that option when I right-clicked on the Storage Card folder.

lb1xxxx said:
No, I bought it from Best Buy. Stupid thing cost me $75.00
I'm going to try that Linux reader and see if that does the trick. If not, what about reformatting the card?
That was another thing. T-Mobile tried walking me through that, but when I tried to reformat it via ActiveSync, I did not have that option when I right-clicked on the Storage Card folder.
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Holy Crap! You paid alot for that! Newegg.com for like $25.00 and 3 day shipping sometimes it comes faster. I would order from Newegg and return that one.
I came across the same issue the other day, but unplugging and then plugging my Wing back in solve it.
In case you're interested Transcend is the memory I'm using and so far I'm happy with it. Just wish the Wing had more on-board memory. Program memory gets eaten up so fast.

Hi
I know. I have SUCKER written across my forehead. LOL!!
How did you get the files on the card? I know that might sound like a stupid question, but I am running out of ideas here. Im going to look into the card that you have.
Thanks
Robert

Try different card readers (ask your friends or maybe you neighbors). Those xx-in-1 readers should work well. Those USB-Stick like card readers didn't do the job for me as long as I use them under Windows.

try re-formatting the SD card ...then see if that works .. if not, return it ... go buy a Kingston 2gb MicroSD ...it works fine on my wing. .. i bought mine for $40 ... never had a problem with it.

Patriot 2gb card
I've been having the same problem with a Patriot Micro SD card. I've had to pull the battery or soft reset it and it works fine after that. This is also using Activesync through USB and Bluetooth.

I've never had this problem - and I spent $13 on my 2gb A-Data card (during a sale) Quick browse of NewEgg shows $20 now
Here's the Search URL
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...E&Description=MicroSD 2gb&bop=And&Order=PRICE

Succky file tranafer

I love my wing but one of the several suckky things about it is the file transfer, if i am transfering a files that is anything bigger han like 5o mb it takes mad long to tranfser from my pc to my phone. And files like movies are impossible to transfer. I was trying to transfer a movie to my phone and even after waiting about 5 hrs. it did not finish the transfer. That basically means that i can't use my phone as video player. That suck, or is there a way that i could speed up the ttransfer speeds, tips tricks hacks, anything is fine. Except i don't want ot go too far with the hacks. Thanks people

Why dont you just pop-in the microSD into its SD adapter and put it into the cardreader? I'm using a sandisk branded microSD and it transfer 1.7GB in <5mins!
For smaller data transfers(<40mb),I use activesync.

I am aware of the solution that you gave me, but the problem is that my computer does not recognize the micro SD card in the SD adopter, which by the way is Sandisk branded and the two came together. Is there a way i can make that work??

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I am aware of the solution that you gave me, but the problem is that my computer does not recognize the micro SD card in the SD adopter, which by the way is Sandisk branded and the two came together. Is there a way i can make that work??
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there are also usb-sticks where you can put a microsd... for me that worked..

USB 1.1. Crazy right?

hidavi said:
USB 1.1. Crazy right?
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no the usb sticks are usb2!!!
http://www.dooyoo.de/sonstige-speicher-adapter/kingston-usb-microsd-reader-plus-card/

papamopps said:
no the usb sticks are usb2!!!
http://www.dooyoo.de/sonstige-speicher-adapter/kingston-usb-microsd-reader-plus-card/
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I think he meant the phone's built in connection.

^exactly what I meant. A $15 1GB flash drive has USB 2.0, but this $400 phone can't...

yay, my computer recognizes my card, but still no good.
Ok so finally after waiting an hour for my computer to recognize my Micro sd card which was in an sd adopter, it finally did it. But then when i tried to open it it took another 35 minutes to respond. And then it said that the card is'nt formatted and asked me if i wanted to format it. i know that if i format it for my computer all it's previous data will disaper, so what should i do.

There is a possibility that the cardreader doesn´t support the size of your memorycard. For examplae my laptop is equipped with a bulit-in cardreader that supports SD&Memorystick BUT only up to 1GB. Anything above that (for example my 2GB card from my digicam) and I get the same results as you do. Sometimes i isn´t recognized and sometimes it is but extremely slow but I can never write anything to it.

So is there anything i can do about that?

How to reformat storage card?

So, I've decided to return my Focus back to AT&T because I simply can not live without a physical keyboard...I'm going to keep using my Fuze for a while. I've been using my 8GB SanDisk storage card in the Focus without any issues, but now I want to REformat it so that I can use it my Fuze again. Is there a way to do that, or did the WP7 OS make permanent changes to my storage card? When I put the card into the reader on my laptop, it just says there's no card installed. I knew that I wouldn't be able to read/write info on the card after using it in a WP7 phone, but I want to format it back to "regular"...how do I do that?

Hate to be the one that breaks it to yah, but you cant. Not at this moment at least. Now there is other ways of doing it such as sticking the card in a Nokia phone with at least a S60 OS and it will do it for you. Other than that, hold tight and wait for MS to come up with a way to do it without a work around.

I was afraid of that. I thought I remembered reading something about using a Nokia phone, but I wasn't sure if it was still necessary. Thank you for your response...I'll hold onto this 8GB card until a solution comes out to reformat it.
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Hate to be the one that breaks it to yah, but you cant. Not at this moment at least. Now there is other ways of doing it such as sticking the card in a Nokia phone with at least a S60 OS and it will do it for you. Other than that, hold tight and wait for MS to come up with a way to do it without a work around.
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I ordered this item http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.27330 to try and revive a WP7-locked microSD. I have no idea if it will work or not. If it doesn't then I'm out $6.
It hasn't shipped out yet (from HK or China). I'll report back when I get it maybe in January.

djca said:
I ordered this item http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.27330 to try and revive a WP7-locked microSD. I have no idea if it will work or not. If it doesn't then I'm out $6.
It hasn't shipped out yet (from HK or China). I'll report back when I get it maybe in January.
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Interesting item, I'll be watching for an update from you.

tripntx said:
Interesting item, I'll be watching for an update from you.
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Me too. Please report on this thread, thanks!

The LG Windows Phone 7 has a keyboard! Just saying!
I was able to reformat my first SD card using a Nokia phone.

Well the other solution is to use the card in another Focus or something that can format it, because if the computer can't see it, you can't format it. Not even with formatting tools. Now I haven't checked but you might be able to format it booting into dos and using a utility but instead of going through the hassel I just gave my dad the 16Gb card when I got my 32Gb card.

ITDRAGON said:
Well the other solution is to use the card in another Focus or something that can format it
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But wouldn't putting the card in another Focus format it once again so that it couldn't be used by anything but that Focus, which would continue to make it unusable by any other device?

yep but it's better than having a guitar pick laying around lol I'm just glad I didn't format the other 16Gb card I had laying around. Oh and I meant to say my dad's focus

I was able to re-format two micro-sd cards using free software and a flash memory reader on my laptop. Go to download.com and look for Easeus Partition Master.

blkbuttah said:
I was able to re-format two micro-sd cards using free software and a flash memory reader on my laptop. Go to download.com and look for Easeus Partition Master.
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microSD cards that were formatted in Windows Phone 7? How did your computer even see them?

Well the flash memory is built into my laptop but an external-usb one would work just as well. Download and install the Easeus Partition software. Insert the memory card you want to format and run the software. It will recognize the memory card. I believe you can just right click on the card and select format. Hit apply and it's done.

blkbuttah said:
Well the flash memory is built into my laptop but an external-usb one would work just as well. Download and install the Easeus Partition software. Insert the memory card you want to format and run the software. It will recognize the memory card. I believe you can just right click on the card and select format. Hit apply and it's done.
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I think you are missing the point. If Windows,Linux and OSX cant even see the card, how exactly did you format the card? Remember that Windows Phone formats the card to make it unreadable on all devices but Nokia Phones and Windows Phone.

serialtoon said:
I think you are missing the point. If Windows,Linux and OSX cant even see the card, how exactly did you format the card? Remember that Windows Phone formats the card to make it unreadable on all devices but Nokia Phones and Windows Phone.
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Exactly. I tired this software yesterday on my laptop (Win XP), using a USB card reader and the laptop never recognized the storage card...

djca said:
I ordered this item http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.27330 to try and revive a WP7-locked microSD. I have no idea if it will work or not. If it doesn't then I'm out $6.
It hasn't shipped out yet (from HK or China). I'll report back when I get it maybe in January.
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Unfortunately, this SD unlocker wasn't able to unlock my Focus-locked microSD.

djca said:
Unfortunately, this SD unlocker wasn't able to unlock my Focus-locked microSD.
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Disappointing but not all that surprising given the track-record.

So far, only Nokia phones and some WinMo phones (such as my AT&T Tilt) have been confirmed as being able to reformat the micro SDHC cards that were used in Windows Phone 7 devices.

I heard Sony Vivaz will format card as well. Don't know for sure as I have not tried, only heard that it does.

I have the same problem. I just hate the fact Focus lock the freaking micro sd card.

64gb card =2tb

So I have a 64gb sandisc u1 card, in partition magic it shows the usable space as a partition in between a small set of unpartitioned space and a large set.
All space = 2tb
Thoughts?
Explinations?
Exploits?
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I dont know.....
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You tried to download file biger than 64 gb on this card?

I didnt mod it yet. Its from bestbuy and leget in size reporting 59gb currently. I do not buy flash memory off ebay. I do not reformat flash drives in ways that I am uneduacted about [increasing size that is, im well versed in partition magic]
I know my 16gb class 4 kingston never did anything like that, it showed leget always.
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Where is a file larger than 64gb? Not even a 3d high def video lol
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Well you can always download several large files and see till where u can copy

What file system is being used? Windows doesn't like FAT32 drives over 32GB. It will R/W to them fine but refuses to format them. 2TB is the maximum size for FAT32 drives IIRC so that is probably where you are getting that number from. I own a 64GB microSD and my advice would be to format it in an Android phone and once done it should report something like 59GB space available.

It dose this on fat 32, exfat, or ntsf
Partition magic dose not equate windows formaring tool
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I'm getting a similar problem,
I need to format my SD card with 2 partitions for my phone, for a link2sd app
but my 64gb Micro SD is showing as 27gb when i put it in my computer

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What file system is being used? Windows doesn't like FAT32 drives over 32GB. It will R/W to them fine but refuses to format them. 2TB is the maximum size for FAT32 drives IIRC so that is probably where you are getting that number from. I own a 64GB microSD and my advice would be to format it in an Android phone and once done it should report something like 59GB space available.
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I thought Fat32 supported up to 4TB?

It might. I know for a fact it will do 2tb I have a 4tb drive half ntsf half fat32
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Have you tried looking at it with another partition editor? Does your hardware that you are using to read the card support SDXC properly? I highly doubt that it has more than the advertised 64GB of space, considering what a loss that would be for them to manufacture.

Fixed for Samsung 32gb class 10 uhs-i
My new Samsung 32gb Plus class 10 uhs-i also showed up as a 2TB drive with a 32gb fat32 partition in partition magic I even upgraded to the latest version of PM but it still showed as 2tb
I fixed it by swapping the usb adapter I was using :victory: now shows as a 32gb drive in PM It would have been nice to have a 2tb card though :laugh: If you are using a card adapter this also may cause errors if the card reader in the pc is old or has out of date firmware mine just plain refused to read it so hardware problem rather than software
Hope this helped :good:

If you bought the 64GB card and it showed as 2TB on computer display, 99.99% was the computer-end problem such software reading incorrectly.

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If you bought the 64GB card and it showed as 2TB on computer display, 99.99% was the computer-end problem such software reading incorrectly.
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Dude it was 150% certain the USB Card reader & not the software I speak from actual experience & not something I found on Google.
Some older or cheap card readers do not display the correct values back to the software. The built in drivers of some USB card readers cannot accommodate these new type's & size of card. Exactly the same issue can exist with the built in pc & laptop card readers that's why you may have to make sure the driver is up to date if the size reads strangely :good:

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Dude it was 150% certain the USB Card reader & not the software I speak from actual experience & not something I found on Google.
Some older or cheap card readers do not display the correct values back to the software. The built in drivers of some USB card readers cannot accommodate these new type's & size of card. Exactly the same issue can exist with the built in pc & laptop card readers that's why you may have to make sure the driver is up to date if the size reads strangely :good:
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Firstly, what I meant was it is NOT the uSD itself that causing the problem or the confusion.
Secondly, FYI, "The built in drivers of some USB card readers" is a piece of software. I hope you understand what the driver is

Check if the partition table is a MSDOS one.. And upgrade your drivers..
I love windows for that.. it found a flash drive size of -2147483647... No, this flash drive didn't destroy 2GB of my hard drive x)

Formatting error...
This has happened before.
There was a chinese website where you could buy 2TB USB Sticks, but they were just 8GB sticks re-formatted to 2TB and they didnt function as 2TB.
I believe something like this may have happened.
You need to run tests for this, try seeing how much space there is using different programs that expore it.
If possible, try and accumulate files that are over 64GB in space, some movies/games/torrents etc. and copy them to the card.
If it's more, then lucky you
Peace,
shandy1996

I give up
Advice rejected by people who all know better than I.
Waste your time by all means & mess with the software of your pc. Overload the sdcard and screw it permanently :crying:
Maybe you could just try a different USB card reader simplz :laugh:

GaryFromLondon said:
I'm getting a similar problem,
I need to format my SD card with 2 partitions for my phone, for a link2sd app
but my 64gb Micro SD is showing as 27gb when i put it in my computer
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You probably need to format the other partition

128gb micro sd card problems

Hello All
I bought a 128gb micro sd card for my z3 compact only to find out that i will need to format the card to fat32, which seems to be impossible now, i cant even format mat it to anything now let alone to fat32.
I have tried as many way to do this as possible but i keep getting errors of "format didnt complete" or some variation of that.
I have tried using cmd prompt, GUIFORMAT, windows disk managment and multiple youtuve videos.
I have read that the phone can take this type of card if you can format it to fat32. If someone has achieved this or has any advice, it would be greatly appriciated.
Thanks

Get a refund as soon as possible. You almost definitely received either a dud or a counterfeit. If you do end up being able to format it (any file system will do) run this:
https://www.raymond.cc/blog/download/did/77/
If that reports it's stable, try formatting it as NTFS in Windows. FAT32 can't handle files larger than 4gb, and exFAT isn't compatible with Android, iirc.

you sir are a great man.
i think the card is messed up, i cant even open it in windows, acting if its not even there. Even in the properties i get no deteials, everything is 0. Putting it in my phone even says sd card is damaged.
I keep reading people have these cards in tehir phones and tablets. Are you aware of a way to do this?
im sending this card back and getting either a smaller one or research into how others have managed to do it.

If it is a sdxc card, u tried to Format it via phone? Never had problems with my 64gb card

I have 128GB card too. Just put it in the phone and let it determine the type it wants. After insert the card, open setting - storage - erase SD Card. Then the 128GB should become exFat.

Mister-D85 said:
Hello All
I bought a 128gb micro sd card for my z3 compact only to find out that i will need to format the card to fat32, which seems to be impossible now, i cant even format mat it to anything now let alone to fat32.
I have tried as many way to do this as possible but i keep getting errors of "format didnt complete" or some variation of that.
I have tried using cmd prompt, GUIFORMAT, windows disk managment and multiple youtuve videos.
I have read that the phone can take this type of card if you can format it to fat32. If someone has achieved this or has any advice, it would be greatly appriciated.
Thanks
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I have a 128gb SanDisk card in my phone atm. I formatted it to exfat on Windows 8.1 and then inserted it into my phone and formatted it again using the phones format sdcard option. (cus I'm thorough like that)
Currently it is listed as being formatted as texfat.
See attached.

Mister-D85 said:
you sir are a great man.
I keep reading people have these cards in tehir phones and tablets. Are you aware of a way to do this?
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I'm not sure what you're asking here exactly, but when a card works *properly* you can just insert into basically any device and it'll format it in a few different ways, not unlike a usb flash drive.
I've had your exact problem before, though. I bought a 128gb sd card from a seller with a really high rating on Ebay, but it was for $55 and I should've known better. It was almost definately a 32GB or 64GB disk that had been re-partitioned to look like a higher capacity drive. The 'new' disk would destroy any data copied over to it after a certain limit was reached, a limit that got smaller and smaller the longer I held on to it. I'd format it, start copying, the copy would fail, the disk would eject itself, Windows wouldn't recognize it until formatting it, rinse repeat forever. I wasn't even trying to fill it to the brim, 'just' my 55ish GB music collection. I ended up actually finding one for $80 on Amazon, which ended up working flawlessly.
If you don't mind my asking, where did you buy it from? How much did you pay? What was the seller's ranking and review history like?

KoscheiTheDeathless said:
I'm not sure what you're asking here exactly, but when a card works *properly* you can just insert into basically any device and it'll format it in a few different ways, not unlike a usb flash drive.
I've had your exact problem before, though. I bought a 128gb sd card from a seller with a really high rating on Ebay, but it was for $55 and I should've known better. It was almost definately a 32GB or 64GB disk that had been re-partitioned to look like a higher capacity drive. The 'new' disk would destroy any data copied over to it after a certain limit was reached, a limit that got smaller and smaller the longer I held on to it. I'd format it, start copying, the copy would fail, the disk would eject itself, Windows wouldn't recognize it until formatting it, rinse repeat forever. I wasn't even trying to fill it to the brim, 'just' my 55ish GB music collection. I ended up actually finding one for $80 on Amazon, which ended up working flawlessly.
If you don't mind my asking, where did you buy it from? How much did you pay? What was the seller's ranking and review history like?
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I have had similar experiences myself with micro sd cards from eBay. It seems to be inconsistent regarding particular sellers and the quality of the cards. I would imagine there are sellers also getting scammed by wholesalers claiming to have legitimate cards.
Needless to say, I only buy micro sd cards now from sellers that are
A) in my home country, where I know they are bound by local law regarding faulty goods
B) selling brand name micro sd cards in their original packaging.
I might not save as much money by playing it safe, but it's worth it to be able to rely on a product and have a local warranty to back it up.

ajgftw said:
I have a 128gb SanDisk card in my phone atm. I formatted it to exfat on Windows 8.1 and then inserted it into my phone and formatted it again using the phones format sdcard option. (cus I'm thorough like that)
Currently it is listed as being formatted as texfat.
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What app is that?

Arch9 said:
What app is that?
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.kuder.diskinfo

I've had problems with Busybox installed on phone and it corrupting SD cards somehow, "Busybox on rails" was the fix for me, also it seemed to fix the damaged??? SD card after a reformat.

I also experienced similar problems with my 64gb card. It worked flawless in my Phone for some months, but when i put it in a defective card reader and connected it to my NAS, the card seemed dead. My Phone said the card was corrupted and it wasn't able to format it. My Windows PC didn't recognize it at all. Also "sd formatter" which never failed in the past, couldn't get the card back to life.
So I checked the card with fdisk under linux and I could see, that the partition table was totally messed up. I deleted the partition table and after that the card was working again.
No problems in the last 2 months. And since I have a fully automated daily backup to my local NAS, there is no need to exchange the card "just in case".
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