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fried sd card

i think my card is fried or corrupted cuz i popped it in paragon and i had like 7000GB on a 4gb class 6 card?..any ideas on how i can fix??

If I were you, boot into linux on your computer if you have it and format it using fdisk. If you don't have linux, then get it Besides that, if that fails, then your SD card is f*ck*d, and you might be just better off getting a new one.

corp769 said:
If I were you, boot into linux on your computer if you have it and format it using fdisk. If you don't have linux, then get it Besides that, if that fails, then your SD card is f*ck*d, and you might be just better off getting a new one.
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thanks i guess im screwed because i dont have access to linux

Nismo300zx said:
thanks i guess im screwed because i dont have access to linux
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Might be a silly question but have you tried just formatting it in Android?
Settings > SD Card > Unmount SD then Format SD.
Worth a shot anyway.

jashsu said:
Might be a silly question but have you tried just formatting it in Android?
Settings > SD Card > Unmount SD then Format SD.
Worth a shot anyway.
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yea i tried that but when i insert the sd card the phone doesnt even recognize it and tells me that i have the sd card removed....

Nismo300zx said:
yea i tried that but when i insert the sd card the phone doesnt even recognize it and tells me that i have the sd card removed....
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Doesn't sound promising. What brand card is it? Did you ever fiddle with the partition table (i.e. to do apps-to-sd)?

jashsu said:
Doesn't sound promising. What brand card is it? Did you ever fiddle with the partition table (i.e. to do apps-to-sd)?
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i have a class 6 4gig transcend micro sdhc card..and i have done app2sd i had on jacmans 1.62 hero build with app2sd on a 1gig ext3 partition...and thats the last time it worked properly

It's fried. Just got a new one. I fried three yesterday. I have no idea how, but they were only 1MB anyway.

Breakthecycle2 said:
It's fried. Just got a new one. I fried three yesterday. I have no idea how, but they were only 1MB anyway.
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damn there no way to bring it back??...i dnt think ill b able to get a new one.

The problem is, the phone or an SD card reader won't read it. IF somehow you can get it to recognize the card, you should be able to reformat. If not, why wouldn't you be able to get a new one? Staples has 2MB for 8 bucks.

Breakthecycle2 said:
The problem is, the phone or an SD card reader won't read it. IF somehow you can get it to recognize the card, you should be able to reformat. If not, why wouldn't you be able to get a new one? Staples has 2MB for 8 bucks.
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thats the thing i put it in the reader and plug it up to my pc and it pops up but when i try and format it..it says windows was unable to format this card or something along those lines..im hoping that i can save it..

When you plug into your PC, does it recognize the drive as E or F?

Breakthecycle2 said:
When you plug into your PC, does it recognize the drive as E or F?
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the sd drive is "G:" and E: is my cd-rw drive ...i dont have an F:

Nismo300zx said:
thats the thing i put it in the reader and plug it up to my pc and it pops up but when i try and format it..it says windows was unable to format this card or something along those lines..im hoping that i can save it..
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If it shows up as a device in windows it's not fried. Paragon should be able to fix it. I highly recommend downloading a Linux livecd or liveusb image that has gparted on it. That'll help you fix this in a jiffy.

jashsu said:
If it shows up as a device in windows it's not fried. Paragon should be able to fix it. I highly recommend downloading a Linux livecd or liveusb image that has gparted on it. That'll help you fix this in a jiffy.
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thanks i just used wubi to install ubuntu now im gonna try and see wat i can do...im not to familiar with linux thoso any pointers would b great

Anything on the fix?

Breakthecycle2 said:
Anything on the fix?
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well i just loaded up ubuntu and installed gparted...and once i inserted my sd reader errors came up saying that it was unable to mount my sd ...so im not sure what to do here..im gonna try and format now to see what happens...any suggestions plz ill try them all ... an i wanna say thanks for everybodys help so far.
Error message:
DBus error org.gtk.Private.RemoteVolumeMonitor.NotFound: The given volume was not found

Nismo300zx said:
well i just loaded up ubuntu and installed gparted...and once i inserted my sd reader errors came up saying that it was unable to mount my sd ...so im not sure what to do here..im gonna try and format now to see what happens...any suggestions plz ill try them all ... an i wanna say thanks for everybodys help so far.
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DBus error org.gtk.Private.RemoteVolumeMonitor.NotFound: The given volume was not found
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It cant mount anything cos your partition table is jacked up. Open gparted and just clear out whatever is in there and create a new partition table.

jashsu said:
It cant mount anything cos your partition table is jacked up. Open gparted and just clear out whatever is in there and create a new partition table.
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Well when I try and open gparted I get those errors and then it never opens up ...so is there another way to do this?
Gnome partition Is the same as gparted??

any 1? please?

SD Card issues

So I originally asked this in Amon_RA's recovery thread, but was kindly asked to move it here. So here's my issue.
My G1 is not recognizing or creating any ext partitions using either the manual parted method or the automatic script include in Amons recovery. Using the manual method to make ext2 I get the following error:
Error: Input/output error during write on /dev/block/mmcblk0
Retry/Ignore/Cancel
Fat32 gets created fine.
I used fdisk on my laptop to create the partitions and it seems to take, but once I put the sd card back into my phone it disappears. Taking the card out of my phone and back in my laptop, the ext and swap partitions are gone. Anyone have any idea as to what the problem could be, or is my card just pretty much bricked?

SpiggidyBob said:
So I originally asked this in Amon_RA's recovery thread, but was kindly asked to move it here. So here's my issue.
My G1 is not recognizing or creating any ext partitions using either the manual parted method or the automatic script include in Amons recovery. Using the manual method to make ext2 I get the following error:
Error: Input/output error during write on /dev/block/mmcblk0
Retry/Ignore/Cancel
Fat32 gets created fine.
I used fdisk on my laptop to create the partitions and it seems to take, but once I put the sd card back into my phone it disappears. Taking the card out of my phone and back in my laptop, the ext and swap partitions are gone. Anyone have any idea as to what the problem could be, or is my card just pretty much bricked?
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try paragon partition manager 9.0. see if that works for you. if not hit up newegg or meritline for a new card

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b0ricuaguerrero said:
try paragon partition manager 9.0. see if that works for you. if not hit up newegg or meritline for a new card
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I've been pulling my hair out for the last day trying to figure out why it would act like it partitioned fine, but then when I did a 'print' in parted it would only show one FAT32 partition. I had the EXACT problem the OP was having.
Half my day spent looking for some other resolution and then realized I had another SD card with me (just half the size) and tried it in the Recovery with that one with complete success. No errors or anything. I'm trying Paragon Partition Manager for my larger card, but not finding an option for the ext2 (or other UNIX) formats. It's the free 2010 version so I'm not sure if that makes a difference.

Bad SD Card - Paragon Killing USB Drivers?
vwyankee said:
I've been pulling my hair out for the last day trying to figure out why it would act like it partitioned fine, but then when I did a 'print' in parted it would only show one FAT32 partition. I had the EXACT problem the OP was having.
Half my day spent looking for some other resolution and then realized I had another SD card with me (just half the size) and tried it in the Recovery with that one with complete success. No errors or anything. I'm trying Paragon Partition Manager for my larger card, but not finding an option for the ext2 (or other UNIX) formats. It's the free 2010 version so I'm not sure if that makes a difference.
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So, version 9.0 has the options for the needed Linux partitions. With that, it would appear I have a bum 8GB card. As stated, the 4GB works just fine - both Transcend Class 6 cards. On one PC it was having a difficult time in the formatting process after creating the partition and I had to kill the application via task manager in Windows. Then it got to where my USB port drivers couldn't start so I couldn't read via SD card adapter or USB cable to the phone with the card mounted. I'm in IT so I've dealt with drivers failing before, but I'm finding myself having to ask my friend Google now as even after uninstalling the drivers I have the same result. I'm afraid it might be due to the Paragon application. More on that below.
I installed Paragon on another laptop at home and it went through the process successfully (at least appeared to) with the 8GB card. Joy had returned to my frustrated being and I proceeded to use the restore image to upgrade from ext2 to ext3 - success! - Then it was wipe and flash. All seemed well in the world until I went into the settings after getting into the OS for the first time (again) to look at my secondary SD Card space and found it at "unknown." Looking at the card via Paragon Partition Manager once again it was showing as only two partitions instead of three with the ext3(2) being "unformatted." Just to be sure, I put in the 4GB card to verify in Paragon it's showing as expected (three partitions in correct formats).
Being the stubborn sod I am, I came to work determined to get the 8GB card working and installed Paragon on a test machine (I run a large testing lab) and redid the partitions. Removing and re-adding the partitions on the 8GB with "success" then simply unmounting and mounting the card to the PC revealed the card is definitely the major flaw all along. After mounting it came up as just the two partitions again - FAT32 and unformatted for the 2nd, even though it was only 10 seconds ago it showed successful creation of the three and formatting. Because I'm one to verify a verification I repeated my steps to see the same result. However, not only did I see this same result I now DIDN'T see the SDCard via Explorer, but could via Paragon. Inspection of Device Manager showed the exact same thing as on my home laptop that stopped being able to read the Android phone with card or adapter with card.
So, my last couple days of fighting and frustration were all because of the SD card of which I've never had a problem with it storing data for the last year with many times reformatting and re-applying data. Odd, to say the least. I am back up and running, but now I have USB drivers failing to start problem on two PC's! This is not a concern with the one at work since I'll just restage it, but I'm afraid it might take restaging my laptop for this to be fixed which as we all know is just not very convenient.
Anyhow, the lengthy explanation was more for those like me that were Googling/searching for a long time for a similar situation.
Cheers.

I have a similar problem. One of my SD cards of 1 GB has ext 2 and 3. But the main one of 2 GB can be partitioned only with ext 2. I am using Amon Recovery 1.5.2. When I press create ext 3 I get an error and not even from console it doesn't work, I get upgrade_fs not found.

adair said:
I have a similar problem. One of my SD cards of 1 GB has ext 2 and 3. But the main one of 2 GB can be partitioned only with ext 2. I am using Amon Recovery 1.5.2. When I press create ext 3 I get an error and not even from console it doesn't work, I get upgrade_fs not found.
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I would say it IS the same problem and that your card is not being partitioned properly. The reason it can't upgrade from ext2 to ext3 is because there isn't ext2 to begin with even though the partition process gave a "success" result in the Recovery. I'm using the same Amon 1.5.2 as well. It somehow will not format as the space will be there unformatted if you open the card in a partition application with GUI.
Going to the SD Card settings from within the OS you'll see the SD Card secondary use grayed out and showing "unknown."

So what is the solution? What if I buy a new card Class 6 that can't be partitioned?

adair said:
So what is the solution? What if I buy a new card Class 6 that can't be partitioned?
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I would say keep your receipt and return it for another. I've had issues with SD cards before where they kept going corrupt within a day of use and just returned them for another (same brand, same model) that would work fine.

It's not a hardware problem, I managed to partition it after some tries. I think that Amon RA recovery does not recognize the sd card sometimes. It worked after I hit the reboot button in recovery and pull out the battery. After that I went back to recovery and I could partition it.

vwyankee said:
So, version 9.0 has the options for the needed Linux pblah blah blah blah
.... windows .....
blah blah blah
Googling/searching for a long time for a similar situation.
Cheers.
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bug a friend with a linux///mac machine and partition it with that. i've seen lots of problems with usb/partitioning on windows ,and never had the same problem on mac/linux. 3 microsd cards were 'unusable' according to vista, reeformated just fine with osx.
give it a shot.

adair said:
It's not a hardware problem, I managed to partition it after some tries. I think that Amon RA recovery does not recognize the sd card sometimes. It worked after I hit the reboot button in recovery and pull out the battery. After that I went back to recovery and I could partition it.
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You verified it worked with looking in the SD card and Phone storage settings?
I've also discovered that the 4GB card that I was able to partition without a problem was one I should've thrown out as I couldn't remember where it came from until after dealing a couple days of constant lockups on the phone (now that things are running off the SD). It was thrown in a drawer due to going corrupt every few days where the data on it was lost/gone/unreadable. Going out to get a new SD card today.
To the statement about bugging someone with a mac/linux, that doesn't appear to be the issue here since it won't work with using Gparted either (at least in my case).

Just an FYI update, that after buying a new (not the lowest end) SDHC class 6 8GB card, it partitioned just fine in the recovery image along with being able to upgrade the ext2 to ext3 then ext4. Now I'm finally seeing the speedy benefits running Cyanogen's latest ROM. No issues since replacing with a good card.

Having a few issues with sdcard and flashing

so im no newbie and flashing and zips and whatnot, but i just started getting random messages that pop in my taskbar that say damaged sd card please format, so i do it. it works for a while then i just get it again an hour later, im running icerom.
Also when i load up another rom in the sd card it just says whatever-rom-im trying to flash.zip(bad). so what im trying to say is any rom im trying to flash now just says bad at the end and installation aborted. my sdcard has never done this to me ever. My guess is that its broken, like i killed it. Is it time for a new one i dont have one lying around so i just have to buy another one. what a waste of an 8gb lol. Is this card dead?

dirkydirk23 said:
so im no newbie and flashing and zips and whatnot, but i just started getting random messages that pop in my taskbar that say damaged sd card please format, so i do it. it works for a while then i just get it again an hour later, im running icerom.
Also when i load up another rom in the sd card it just says whatever-rom-im trying to flash.zip(bad). so what im trying to say is any rom im trying to flash now just says bad at the end and installation aborted. my sdcard has never done this to me ever. My guess is that its broken, like i killed it. Is it time for a new one i dont have one lying around so i just have to buy another one. what a waste of an 8gb lol. Is this card dead?
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theres something going on. idk if its the new a2sd or roms that support ext4 but something is not reading/writing the card right. if you go from a rom that can use ext4 to one that cant, it will corrupt files on your sd. impossible to avoid. sooo yeh your cards fine just backup w/e data you can but i bet alot of it is corrupted and format the card in nandroid.

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theres something going on. idk if its the new a2sd or roms that support ext4 but something is not reading/writing the card right. if you go from a rom that can use ext4 to one that cant, it will corrupt files on your sd. impossible to avoid. sooo yeh your cards fine just backup w/e data you can but i bet alot of it is corrupted and format the card in nandroid.
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ok i will try that and yes your right i was using darchdroid with ext4 and now i went to ice rom, so i will try what you just told me, avalaunched you will surely be missed broski in the least homo way lol
EDIT: wait how do you format your card in NANDROID?

dirkydirk23 said:
ok i will try that and yes your right i was using darchdroid with ext4 and now i went to ice rom, so i will try what you just told me, avalaunched you will surely be missed broski in the least homo way lol
EDIT: wait how do you format your card in NANDROID?
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avalaunched you will surely be missed broski in the least most homo way
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^fixed that typo for you
and go into recovery and go to partition sd card. if you want ext the set it to like 512-768. swap 0 or 32. w/e you want and the rest fat.

Avalaunchmods said:
^fixed that typo for you
and go into recovery and go to partition sd card. if you want ext the set it to like 512-768. swap 0 or 32. w/e you want and the rest fat.
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hahahahahahahahahahaha nice bro

Android don't start on 16 g sd card class 6

i have new 16 g sd card class 6 Serioux but android doesn't want to start. i tried all type of format, even partitioning. nothing work. Somone have an ideea why ? On my old sd card toshiba 8g class 4 android working great.

criszz said:
i have new 16 g sd card class 6 Serioux but android doesn't want to start. i tried all type of format, even partitioning. nothing work. Somone have an ideea why ? On my old sd card toshiba 8g class 4 android working great.
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Did you format, within phone, to FAT32? It looks as though you have experience with builds so I'm sure that you are installing the Android folder on the root of the SD card...make sure that you don't create a folder and then add the build folder to the root folder; it creates a sub and that causes problems.

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Did you format, within phone, to FAT32? It looks as though you have experience with builds so I'm sure that you are installing the Android folder on the root of the SD card...make sure that you don't create a folder and then add the build folder to the root folder; it creates a sub and that causes problems.
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thank you for answer , i'm not a newbie on Android. this card always was formatted with fat32 on pc , and phone, also with panasonic sd formatte 2.0. Card is working well , 5-6 mb on test with hdd tune. i made him active , bootable , xfat , fat 16, partitioned in 2, changed cluster, tried everything who cross my mind without any succes. No build start. i waitted 2 hour's for data.img to be created but no succes. i tried with version copy pasted from my old card who works, still nothing. i don't know what else to do .
btw, i checked your thread, very nice job.

criszz said:
thank you for answer , i'm not a newbie on Android. this card always was formatted with fat32 on pc , and phone, also with panasonic sd formatte 2.0. Card is working well , 5-6 mb on test with hdd tune. i made him active , bootable , xfat , fat 16, partitioned in 2, changed cluster, tried everything who cross my mind without any succes. No build start. i waitted 2 hour's for data.img to be created but no succes. i tried with version copy pasted from my old card who works, still nothing. i don't know what else to do .
btw, i checked your thread, very nice job.
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It might be as simple as the "Serioux" card isn't supported; the only other thing that I know off the top of my head is at the bottom of my thread; I had found a link to the formatting issue and that's where I came up with the idea of formatting within WinMo.

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It might be as simple as the "Serioux" card isn't supported; the only other thing that I know off the top of my head is at the bottom of my thread; I had found a link to the formatting issue and that's where I came up with the idea of formatting within WinMo.
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what u say is stuck on green htc logo , well, i pass this step, im stuck on next logo/animation, just plays over and over.

criszz said:
what u say is stuck on green htc logo , well, i pass this step, im stuck on next logo/animation, just plays over and over.
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I know that it does take some builds to load as it creates the data.img, especially a larger one; if you opted for the 1gb for instance.
You are using the same build as the other card? And, you loaded the file the same way? Did you do it through USB connect?
Let's see if we can't get this goin'!

criszz said:
i have new 16 g sd card class 6 Serioux but android doesn't want to start. i tried all type of format, even partitioning. nothing work. Somone have an ideea why ? On my old sd card toshiba 8g class 4 android working great.
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What build are you using, or trying to use? If I don't answer right-quick it's 'cause I'm getting ready for X-Mas...

deadmansink said:
I know that it does take some builds to load as it creates the data.img, especially a larger one; if you opted for the 1gb for instance.
You are using the same build as the other card? And, you loaded the file the same way? Did you do it through USB connect?
Let's see if we can't get this goin'!
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tried three build's on both sd card's. on toshiba 8g all works fine. on serioux 16 g stuck. right now i'm on serioux card with Core_Droid_HD_V0.4 build and i watch that startup nice animation with droid in a fire circle. boring . i plan to let in that way till morning. like u say maybe this ''serioux'' card's are not suported. i'll report later. hope santa will come ))

still don't working.

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still don't working.
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I think it might be the card. I know that I've seen class 2 and 4 around working; your "Serioux" card is the only one that I can find, as far as brand, and nothing about it working or not working on HD2, maybe return it and get another brand?

It's definately the card. I bought a wintec class 10 16gb and android wont run hardley at all on it, went and bought a 16gb sandisk class 2 at radioshack and android runs flawless on it. The shame is that the sandisk class 2 tests at class 10 speeds. They have it on Newegg for $34, Get model # SDSDQ-016G-A11M. There are two versions on newegg so make sure you order the right one. You won't be disappointed.

thank u all for support. i will try to get another brand. in this time maybe android will boot from nand

Have you tried formatting your SD card with WinMo? This helped someone a couple of months ago, it's got something to do with a partition index file.

StephanV said:
Have you tried formatting your SD card with WinMo? This helped someone a couple of months ago, it's got something to do with a partition index file.
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yes , tryed everything. nothing works.

I used to have a similiar problem on some builds here.
Have u tried replacing a builds kernel, say hastarin because that definitely helped me boot into Android. I faced the same issue Aa you too.. which build are u flashing too btw?
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[Q] Locked SD Card (another question! i did read :) )

Hey Guys,
I did something remarkably stupid I think.
* SanDisk 8GB Class 4 SDcard
1. Installed WP7 Mango
2. Got an error message about the SDcard and couldn't use that anymore
3. Hard resetted the phone with my 4GB class 2 Sandisk card and started using that one.
Now... when I place the 8GB in the phone, it doesn't boot. It's just stuck on the HTC screen and doesn't go from there, so I can't unlock this one. (No Nokia's laying around, and the cab files don't really work, as I cannot boot with the 8GB card).
If I would start from scratch (stock...). Would I be able to 'revive' the 8GB card, by formatting it when installing WP7? (It creates the partitions and stuff in MAGLDR).
If not, I have no idea how to revive this card anymore
Please advise

Never mind, this doesn't work either. Good bye 8GB Sdcard...

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1286511
Havie you tried this method? Dont get rid.of it im sure you will.come across a nokia device

All You Have To Do Is Reflash With SD Card In It.

iKilla said:
All You Have To Do Is Reflash With SD Card In It.
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Are you positively sure about that? Because that didn't work at all.

Moschino02 said:
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Havie you tried this method? Dont get rid.of it im sure you will.come across a nokia device
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Yep, tried that too. I spent the entire day yesterday trying to fix it, but I just can't get this to work. The SDcard is not being recognized anywhere.
When starting with Mango is says the card is not functional, and the only options I have is "emergency call" or "close" >> meaning the OS will be shutdown.
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For some reason, the complete re-flash worked!
It took 41 minutes(!) for the OS to boot! But now it all seems to be in order
Is there a way to put this to "solved?"
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my SanDisk 8GB SDCard clearly does not want to be used with MANGO. Switching back to 4GB. No other way

KrewsialNL said:
Yep, tried that too. I spent the entire day yesterday trying to fix it, but I just can't get this to work. The SDcard is not being recognized anywhere.
When starting with Mango is says the card is not functional, and the only options I have is "emergency call" or "close" >> meaning the OS will be shutdown.
EDIT:
For some reason, the complete re-flash worked!
It took 41 minutes(!) for the OS to boot! But now it all seems to be in order
Is there a way to put this to "solved?"
Edit2:
my SanDisk 8GB SDCard clearly does not want to be used with MANGO. Switching back to 4GB. No other way
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Ye edit your first post and go into advance so edit the title
Please can you explain the procedure you undertook to resolve Your issue?
What did you reflash with corrupt sd card? Did you use storageunlock.cab?
Glad you got there in the end

Nope, I just started from scratch. Flash stock - Task29 - magldr - wp7, all with the sdcard inserted.
For me eventually it didnt work out as the card got locked again..
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