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storage card nuked wihtout warning

i just got my storage card nuked and i think it was by "save attachments on storage card" .. its cleanswept except for some attachment dir and a WMDRM dir.. anyone experienced this before?
Im curious if there is a way to save my storage card like file recovery for windows!?!? I've had smartphone for 2 years and never experienced such (nor used the mail portion) .. its really a drag if this is normal wm5 behavior.
anyways two questions:
- is a way to generally clone a qtek9100 with all regs and storage
- is there a way to recover lost files if nothing else is written to car? (so called quick formats)

sardaukar said:
- is a way to generally clone a qtek9100 with all regs and storage
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Backup apps:
SPB Backup - www.spbsoftwarehouse.com/products/backup/?en
Sunnysoft Backup Manager - www.sunnysoft.cz/en_clanek.php?clanekid=51
Sprite Backup - www.spritesoftware.com/pocketpc.php
Or, otherwise, copy all files over, and export the registry using Tascal Registry Editor or so. Restoring would likely be iffy, though.. e.g. overwriting the Pocket Outlook database and such - if it can be done.
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- is there a way to recover lost files if nothing else is written to card? (so called quick formats)
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Yes - there's dedicated software for this. I got one from Sandisk that came with their 1GB Ultra III compactflash card that I've got in my camera next to a 2GB memorystick.
http://www.lc-tech.com/software/rprowindetail.html

as for the nuking, I assume now it was something todo with windows mediea player and device syncronization which hadnt fully initiated ..
anyways, when you tlak of recovery what do you mean, as the link you post leads to pc software.
u put sd card in camera and mount as usb and run pc software to recover?
sprite backup seems to be very nice and feature rich.

I just had the exact same thing happen to me...was just left with the attachments directory.
The good news is that the SD card shows that there is 250MB used so i know the files are there...i just cant see them. I'm trying that SD program referenced in the last post to see if i can at least see the files.
Unfortunately, all my backups are on the SD card itself. I hadnt copied them to my HD.
wow, this is nuts - there's some serious bug lurking around!

Update on this.
I was able to recover the files with some data recovery tools. The one in this thread is useless - its meant for media files only.
I still wonder why this happened. Either way, I'm switching back Outlook attachments to main memory for a bit and see what happens.

d'oh
Well, let us know which data recovery tool you used - might come in handy for others

yup same thing happened to me... and same way, attachments on storage card
space was still missing but the files were too
didnt bother recovering though as i had backups luckily

The same happened to me twice! The first time I thought it was due to FAT FS, so i reformated it with FAT32, but it happened again.
I do have my attachements at SD, as well as I save pictures from camera to it.
BTW, the same thing happened once with my wife's iPaq 2490 (attachement at SD).
As for fixing: just use standard MS Windows checkdsk (or use Check now from drive options) if you have a card reader. It saves all files to FOUND directory (but, unfortunately, it renames it to strange names, so you'll have to find out what is what)

If this happens to you, FinalData Enterprise and EasyRecovery Pro are known to recover files very well. They will find all files and filenames. They wont restore the top level folder names but if you dont have many, you can change them yourself. More important to me were the lower level filenames and the integrity of those files.
Most of the other trial recovery programs i used couldnt do what these two products could. They typically just showed a bunch of .chk files or else tried to recover media files only.
I still want to know how this happened and if there's a way to replicate the problem. There's some nasty Outlook bug lurking around that needs to be fixed!

same thing happened to me. just realised that i have 300 meg os missing disk space that i thought had gone for ever.
can anyone recommend a freeware tool ?

Wait, my new 2gb card died 2 days ago! The Wizard won't even find it, and my PC finds it, but all the stuff on it is missing except for a couple of directories and it won't let me format it. It has to go back to China now. I'm so pissed off.
Anyone know a card recovery app?

I know the ones i mentioned earlier should work.
Someone said chkdsk may work...try that although i worry that if it recovers cross linked files (most of them are), it'll dump a bunch of useless chk files on the card.

i tried checkdisk and it didn't seem to retrieve any files. grrrrrrrrr.

Well maybe it s a bug which occurs on march 14.... because that same thing occured to my sd yesterday while I was using tt5 on the road... ;(

sardaukar said:
as for the nuking,.....bla bla.....
sprite backup seems to be very nice and feature rich.
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I'd choose SPB Backup. According to my knowledge the WM5 compatible version of Sprite Backup does not have the self extracting functionallity yet. (weird because that among other features made Sprite Backup stand tall above all other backup/clone solutions).
Hope they will include this self extracting feature soon.

2 GIG Mini SD Speed
Just got mine from Singapore yesterday. I did not format it as it came already formatted. I have noticed that playing video divx / mpg1's are very slow versus internal memory. I did the reg edits for cache size but found no real changes to media playback. Anyone out there playing with media playback on a Cingular 8125?

mike freegan said:
Wait, my new 2gb card died 2 days ago! The Wizard won't even find it, and my PC finds it, but all the stuff on it is missing except for a couple of directories and it won't let me format it. It has to go back to China now. I'm so pissed off.
Anyone know a card recovery app?
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From experiance with this same issue on a 1gb, the card eventually starts having block failures. Fortunatly the place I bought it replaced it with another. Whatever nukes it, perminatly damaged mine. Hope in your case it didn't damage it.
I'm wondering if this is related to the reboot issue some of us are experiancing... and if it has something to do with pocket outlook or pocket windows media player 10.
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Block failures are a hardware fault.
The only way you could induce one with software would be to rewrite the same location more than ~1m times, which would cause it to fail - flash has a limited lifetime, although the limit is very high.

So let me get this straight:
REGARDLESS of the BRAND of the miniSD card, the Wizard HAVE an ISSUE whereby, if MEssaging Attachement is saved to the card, the device CAN RANDOMLY nuke the card?
I haave the same issue with my ATP miniSD card (and they're considered one of the most reliable one), but instead of nuking it, it just doesn't show the file OR...worst... rename the card to "Storage CArd 2".

Depends on what people are running into.
If you're getting a corrupted card BUT you can reformat it, then it may be something with the storage card attachment thing. (I personally run with this turned on and have NOT had it happen)
If, however, the card CANNOT be reformatted - that is, its TOAST - then its NOT a software problem. The card has physically failed. Since the 2GB cards are quite new, this is entirely possible.
One other possibility - if you have a card that won't reformat first try writing a few kilobytes of zeros to it using psdwrite. If you can THEN reformat it, then the card was scrambled - it did not die.
Using "r2sd" to dump ROM images to the card has been known to interfere with reformatting to full capacity due to the internal data patterns that show up in certain places with certain ROMs. Writing a block of zeros to the front of the card will fix this, as it will wipe the data that is being misinterpreted.

Problem with memory card

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Annoying external SD issue

Hey there guys.
I have the latest european stock firmware on my SGS2. The issue persists since I bought the thing: I am using a 32GB card and I cannot get the phone to see media files that are on it. I copied 2 or 3 movies on the card, which was of course formatted before use, and it says that the space is taken but I cannot see the files either in file explorer , or in Gallery. Any idea why? Maybe it doesnt fully support a 32GB card?

Are you using fat32? If not... use it

leoking3 said:
Hey there guys.
I have the latest european stock firmware on my SGS2. The issue persists since I bought the thing: I am using a 32GB card and I cannot get the phone to see media files that are on it. I copied 2 or 3 movies on the card, which was of course formatted before use, and it says that the space is taken but I cannot see the files either in file explorer , or in Gallery. Any idea why? Maybe it doesnt fully support a 32GB card?
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did you format it with windows? if yes which format did you choose? it is always better to format it from your device directly. i also have a 32mb external sd card and it works fine

I formatted in on the device. I imagined this would be the best way. And my computer is alos set to format as FAT32. So maybe it is just a faulty card??!!

leoking3 said:
Hey there guys.
I have the latest european stock firmware on my SGS2. The issue persists since I bought the thing: I am using a 32GB card and I cannot get the phone to see media files that are on it. I copied 2 or 3 movies on the card, which was of course formatted before use, and it says that the space is taken but I cannot see the files either in file explorer , or in Gallery. Any idea why? Maybe it doesnt fully support a 32GB card?
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Maybe the movie is too big for the file system. Every file system can handle only files up to a special size... Try to reformat and check if the video is converted the right way... Take aybe 10 minutes of the movie, convert it and transfer it to your phone to be sure about the file size thing... Officialy the phone is compatible up to 64gb.

Unfortunately is none of the suggestions. Although I can use the card perfectly well on the laptop, it doesnt work properly with the phone. Must be some incompatibility. Which sucks, since it s a 32GB card... Thank anyway

Are you sure it's really a 32GB card? Many cheap cards that one can buy on places like eBay are fakes -- low-capacity cards hacked to look like high-capacity.
There are some test programs that will tell you if the card is really the capacity it's supposed to be. On the phone itself, you can run SDCardTester (free from Android Market), and on the PC you can run h2testw.

3waygeek said:
Are you sure it's really a 32GB card? Many cheap cards that one can buy on places like eBay are fakes -- low-capacity cards hacked to look like high-capacity.
There are some test programs that will tell you if the card is really the capacity it's supposed to be. On the phone itself, you can run SDCardTester (free from Android Market), and on the PC you can run h2testw.[/QU
Yes this might be an idea. It is unbranded , but on laptop it shows 32GB. Hmm.. I have it from a sony ericsson xperia from a trusted person, but on the other hand...who can you trust? I will try my 4GB card and see if it shows my movies.
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Cannot format SanDisk 64Gb microSD

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sd card question??

Hi all. Have a quick question about sd cards. I have an M8 now and a pure on order my question is can I swap cards back and forth between the two phones? Or is the card formatted for that specific phone? TIA

elevatorguy said:
Hi all. Have a quick question about sd cards. I have an M8 now and a pure on order my question is can I swap cards back and forth between the two phones? Or is the card formatted for that specific phone? TIA
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You should be able to swap back and forth, particularly if the SD card formatted as FAT32.

maigre said:
You should be able to swap back and forth, particularly if the SD card formatted as FAT32.
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That begs the question how do I tell how it's formatted? I just let my M8 do it

elevatorguy said:
That begs the question how do I tell how it's formatted? I just let my M8 do it
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If you have a Mac, mount the card on it and check Disk Utility. It'll tell you. I can't remember what you have to do on Windows. There's probably some app for Android that'll tell you, too, though I don't know what it would be. I was looking for one awhile back. ES File Explorer and Solid Explorer don't, afaik. It's possible that whatever you used for the M8 to format it will tell you. Ultimately, it won't matter one way or the other if the card works on the Moto X. No harm is likely in swapping it in and giving it a try, though a backup (of the sd card) is always in order if there's even the remotest concern. If it doesn't get recognized by the Moto X, and it turns out that it's ExFAT, you could copy the data off of it to a safe place, format it as FAT32, then copy the data back again. Formatting in with Disk Utility on a Mac is quick and easy. Again, I don't remember for sure what you have to do on recent versions of Windows. I formatted one recently on Win 10 and I think I had to use the command line. Formatting used to be available from Windows Explorer. Maybe it still is.

Wouldn't NTSF be a 1000x better though fat goes by box layers. One block goes corrupt and the whole file falls to pieces. Sometimes the entire SD card.
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nikeman513 said:
Wouldn't NTSF be a 1000x better though fat goes by box layers. One block goes corrupt and the whole file falls to pieces. Sometimes the entire SD card.
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NTSF is not natively supported by Android. There is an app or two on the Play Store that'll allow the device to read NTFS and a couple of other formats. I think some people have formatted external sd cards to ext4 (that's what the internal storage is usually formatted to) with some success. I haven't tried that.

I pulled the SD card out of my M9 and put it in my MXP and it worked fine... All my pics and movies were there and accessible.

tele_jas said:
I pulled the SD card out of my M9 and put it in my MXP and it worked fine... All my pics and movies were there and accessible.
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