Help! Storage Card suddenly not showing - dead?
Has anyone had problems with the Storage Card completely dying? I cannot read my 1GB miniSD card on my Wizard device at all any more. It started being weird yesterday but after a reset I was able to access the data, but today it is totally gone.
A 16MB one works fine. :? These cards don't generally die that easily do they?
Could this be a driver issue or something else so I can get my data back? I have tried many resets both with and without the card in place.
I've the same problem (I guess) with my card. I'm not able to read my card on the vario. When i inserted my SD card in a PC he cant read the card. When i start my PC with the card insered system hangs on loading windows.
When I restart my phone with the SD card inserted WIFI wont go on, do you have th same problem CJSnet ?
This looks like the SD disk is something like an (unreadable?) bootdisk ?
I had the same problem with a SanDisk 1GB card recently. I sent it back to the supplier and they replaced it.
Before my "Mini S" I had a "2i" and it was well known that it would "eat" cards. On that forum they compiled a list of "never eaten" cards and recommended staying away from anything not on the list.
I suspect the Wizard may have a similar problem.
i've also got a problem with my miniSD, sometimes it doesn't recognise the card. But when i remove it and re-insert a few times it does work again.
A common problem with the SD-cards is that their contacts are dirty, cleaning sometimes helps.
Thanks mmm_ok, can you provide a link to that list of 'never eaten' :lol: cards please?
Mine is an unbranded type from Viking, so that could be the reason.
zawoot, I had no problems with WiFi and the card inserted.
Have now solved it. When I loaded the card on a PC and ran chkdsk, some of the files were corrupt (plus the boot partition I expect). I copied the salvagable files to the PC, formatted the miniSD which took about an hour (!), and now the PPC can read it again. Now I just copy back the files from the PC, and the lost ones from a recent backup.
What a pain in the backside. HTC not fixing the 'eating cards' bug has cost me 3 hours of my life. What price technology!
SD card problem
I'm facing the same problem. The last thing I tried was format the SD Card
using Pocket Mechanic "Logical Format" - "do not use quick format", format it
two times and just that. Also, as a test, I'm not using the full SD Card
capacity, my SD has 1 G and at this time I'm using 700M and since 10 days ago
everythiong is fine. As an additional test I leaved the battery goes to a
very low level and reseted the device to see it it corrupt the data .. but
is still ok.
My 2GB Adata myflash card has done this. I'm so mad, it has to go all the way back to china for repair.
This is really wierd behaviour for a phone. HTC in all its shoddy glory.
CJSnet said:
Have now solved it. When I loaded the card on a PC and ran chkdsk, some of the files were corrupt (plus the boot partition I expect). I copied the salvagable files to the PC, formatted the miniSD which took about an hour (!), and now the PPC can read it again. Now I just copy back the files from the PC, and the lost ones from a recent backup.
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SO is there any other issues after you did the format?
I have an ATP 1Gb MiniSD and sometimes my MDA just said that it can't execute an application (that's installed to the miniSD card) because it was "usigned". When I run Resco Explorer, I noticed that the card is NO LONGER shown (???). So I took out the card, re-inserted it and it's now shown in Resco Explorer as "Storage Card2" ! So of course none of the program works since the links (in registry especially), pointed to "Storage Card", not the one that ends with 2. So my solution (for now) is to just shutdown the device, wait for a few minutes, then turn it on again.
I have had 2 cards from mobymemory 1gb and now 2gb - not one problem run well. Can highly recommend mobymemory the use single density cards or something that many of the other manufactures don't use. my advice stay away from cheap cards.
I used a backup utility my card died, and windows could not open it, I reformatted on my digital cam and it works again. It's the software loaded on it.
My MiniSD card popped out of its slot spontaneously last night. Ever since my Qtek 9100 would not recognise it any longer. It still worked on my card-reader attached to my PC. In the end I decided to format the card (not quick format) and now my Wizard recognises the storage card again. Losing all my downloaded attachments during the process. FYI It is a SanDisk 1GB MiniSD card.
sandisk 1g card is almost 2-yrs old and was first for typhoon and now serves faraday and wizard and just started acting wierd on wizard. every so often device does not read card upon waking. pulling it out and reinserting fixes it but i've moved programs to device. poo!!!
Storage Card seemed dead
I had a simuliar problem with my original qtek 1.6 rom until I upgraded to the latest imate 2.17.
Having worked 5-10 minutes with wi-fi, the storage card became invisible and unaccessible. To make it visible once again it was necessary to soft reset the device.
This and some other problems disappeared once I upgraded to 2.17.
Hope this help
Since yesterday, for no apparent reason, my TyTN stopped reading memory cards. I expect a hardware problem, since for a moment it worked then stopped again.
When I insert a card, the device powers up BUT doesn't see the storage card (in apps and control panel)
Tried:
-Cleaning (blowing)
-Reinserting it in every possible way, moving it around and pushing it deeper, slower, everything!
-Formatting the card (to FAT, FAT32 and all the stuff)
Anyone knows what is wrong?
many people who had the same issue had success with softreset
I did over a dozen soft resets since the problem happened, it didn't work
From time to time it will detect the card insertion/removal (device turns on), but no matter what it won't see the card.
Alright, I'm calling Rogers to get it repaired. If I can manage to get a refund, is there another phone for 200$ with similar or superior performances?
Hi BA seems to be playing up. Started to not recognise the storage card even if I try another, then sometimes it will. Have tried a soft reset, but reluctant to try a hard reset because will have to reinstall all again. Any advise please?
Thanks,
Al.
OS WM6.
That happens to me many times. First it does not recognized the original SD card that was on it so I thought it's the SD card. But the SD card was recognized by my desktop when I plugged it into it. So I tried another SD on my BA and same thing it does not recognized it. So it's the card reader on the BA itself. I opened up my BA, check the pins on the card reader, tried to clean it with just a dry cloth, I carefully bended each pin to make sure it will touch the pins on the SD and after that it recognized all the SD cards that I have. Though it's not advisable to open your BA cuz you might kill it. Hoe this helps! Cheers!
I actually had the same issue while I was using the original releases of WM5 and WM6, but sometime down the line I guess someone fixed it. It would randomly stop seeing the card for no apparent reason... never found out why, but after upgrading to 6.1, the problem was gone...
weird...
its pins issue, i had it too until i clean everything up
Hi,
yesterday evening, just when I wanted to set the alarm and go to bed, I suddenly noticed an alarming sign on top of my display. The message that came along with it was that my sd card has been removed which definitely wasn't the case. I tried several thing to let the device know that the card is still there but none of them worked:
- re-entering the card
- rebooting the device (with and without card inserted)
Afterwards I inserted an old 2gb card and the device noticed it at once. Then I tried to use the probably one with an SanDisk Card Reader on my Computer but it didn't either - it didn't show up.
Is there anyone who experienced the same or has a clue what may have happened? The phone is vodafone branded an bought in early August. I never updated the ROM nor did I try any risky tasks ;-)
Lately I've been having problems with my touch screen, in the middle of something it stops working. And I have to either restart my phone or turn the screen on and off a number of times. I have tried many roms after this first occurred but it still persist. At the same time as this first happend, my SD card crashed..
(I have tried to mount the SD to my pc with a card reader and it makes my pc hangs everytime I try to highlight a folder.. )
Anyone out there with suggestions to fix this?
Sent from my HTC HD2 using XDA App
bump, anyone?
Sounds like the standard digitizer-going-out-hardware-fault issue that plagues the HD2's... As far as your SD card I would try to repartition or reformat it and see if that clears it up. Have you tried another PC to read the SD card?
Its so strange that i just have to close the screen a couple of times and then it works, it works like a charm when i have it plugged in to the charger.
I have tried my sd card on 3 computers and one mac. the mac didnt noticed it at all. but same result on the computers as mine.
Try slow formatting to all the SD Card in one logical FAT32 partition with default cluster size.
Tanks, but my pc just hangs, nothing happens.. think I have to buy a new sd card