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Occasional freeze problem

I recently got a Touch Dual/Niki and from time to time when being in standby (the screen turned off) it doesn't respond on any button press, nor does it react when trying to call it, I've got it back up and running only by removing the battery, setting it back and then I can turn on the device again.
I haven't really customized anything and the only 3rd party software that I know that have been running at the time are gmail client and/or live messenger
Anyone else experienced the same problems? ..does this seem like some software bug, or is my hardware faulty?
Rom: 1.31.414.02
Rom date: 11/02/07
Radio version: 1.58.16.27
Protocol version: 25.61.30.03H
Operator Saunalahti/Finland

same problem here!

I'd guess hardware, but just to be safe, you should probably do a hard reset and see if that helps. I had a problem with mine where it would lose random amounts of time every once in a while (the clock would be completly wrong) and the screen would become completely unresponsive for over a minute just after I rebooted the phone. At one point, it just decided it didn't want to boot and just got stuck on the WM loading screen, even after multiple hard resets. I replaced the device and the new one works perfectly.

yup, me too.. happened today after i finished a call. i just left the thing alone for a bit & was ok later

ok, just did the hard reset, if it happens again I'll go replace it

Lord of the Badgers said:
yup, me too.. happened today after i finished a call. i just left the thing alone for a bit & was ok later
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same here. at the moment I try to live with that, although it's rather annoying. happens 3 to 4 times a day. no response to touchscreen or buttons, but touching the screen makes the backlight going from dimmed to bright. (you know, after quite a while being idle, it dims and after another while it goes to standby)
about half a minute later it's back and executes some (or all) of the inputs at once.
I use some third party programs and tools, but nothing which diggs deep in the system (except AEButton+). So maybe it's one of them. Also I use scheduled IMAP synchronization, which may also play a part in this.
Any one-fits-all solution is deeply appreciated. (Not very impressive to show a frozen device...)
Cheers,
jekk

Ok, it just happened again.. I'll go complain to service.

Same thing here... happens whenever it feels like it. I thought it may have been one of my apps.... particularly Photo Contacts Pro as every now and then that does some strange things, but interesting to know this happens to others as well.

yeah
just happened to me again as well

any solutions?
*bump*
Currently I wonder whether this is a hardware or software issue. So some questions:
did someone flash the problem away?
did someone hard-reset the problem away?
did someone device-replace the problem away?
This would be helpful.
Cheers,
jekk.

Flashed my niki.
I'm getting very regular freeze up's on browsing the internet with a 3G connection. I'm waiting for a new ROM to arrive to determine if the problem is software/hardware (unless both ROM's use the same base Rom )
My old prophet had an easy accesible reset button, unfortunately I have to remove the batterycap now and I have a feeling the mechanisme won't hold for 2 years if I open it every day a couple times.

FWIW, my device is currently sent in for service, I'll report back with the outcome when I eventually get a device back..

Isn't it just brilliant, after a week of "service", they tell me freely translated: "No problem found. Device reset. (Might it be the standby mode from which the device wakes up by pressing the power button?)"
Of course they did not bother to call me to ask for further clarification... Now I'll have to wait until it arrives back at the shop where I sent it in so I can go and send it back..
Oh the joy!

Same freeze problem
Hi guys
I' have same freeze probleme on my niki, i made hard reset without solving nothing.Only solution remove battery and restart.
In my case it always happens while system is in stand by so my phone goes offline and i havent any advice.
Last mornig after a night recharge a foud my niki completely uncharged with red led.I have ordered a new battery hoping the problem may be in my battery.

I had the same problem. Sometimes it wouldn't wake up when I pressed the powerbutton.
Last thursday I flashed my device with Tom Codon's ROM.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=364335
I haven't got the problem since

I had never experienced any freezing problems with my niki until yesterday, when I first started using my new 8gb sdhc microsd card. Now it has happened three times! Is it possible that the driver is to blame? We know older devices had some perculiar issues with external storage upon wakeup.
For clarity; I have a 16-key niki from orange using the stock rom and the card is an sandisk class 4.
Let me know if you guys have a similiar setup.

SMYKUL said:
I had never experienced any freezing problems with my niki until yesterday, when I first started using my new 8gb sdhc microsd card. Now it has happened three times! Is it possible that the driver is to blame? We know older devices had some perculiar issues with external storage upon wakeup.
For clarity; I have a 16-key niki from orange using the stock rom and the card is an sandisk class 4.
Let me know if you guys have a similiar setup.
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I've just hard reset mine .... now seems stable ... before it was freezing every time I tried to use it.
So now I have no SD installed + no apps.
Before
SD with very few apps
Sprite backup HTC version
Informant previuos version
Flex Mail 2007
Copilot 6
Fsecure from Tmobile customisation
So I am thinking SD compatability may have been my issue ... I only had a 2GB Sandisk Premier. Will try a 1GB later

SMYKUL said:
[...] until yesterday, when I first started using my new 8gb sdhc microsd card.
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That's interesting... I am also using a (4gb) micro sd card. Maybe this really is the reason for the freezes. hard resets (2 till now) didn't solve the problem for me and I have not tried flashing a new rom yet. so this goes well with the possibility of a misbehaving driver thing.

As I wrote I only had freeze up's during browsing the www. After reading that there might be a sd-card driver problem I changed all IE temp directories back from the storage card to the device itself and I now can browse uninterrupted. So it seems that there is a slight driver issue.
Ralph

Changing SD card semed to fix things for me ..... at least for th last few days.
Before I swapped card I had constant problems

Camera Issues On HD2

Hello Everyone,
I made a search, but I could find only one reference to something similar to me...
I keep having the message "Camera Initialisation Error..." (in french, that is), whenever I try to use the camera after a long time...
To correct this, one thing that work but that is hassle is to power on the phone, take out the SD card, that turn on again, and there it works... miracle. Then I can put back the SD card, and it keeps working... till soemthing happen (I don't know what, and why) and it all starts again "Camera Initialisation Error...".
Has any of you got this?
It does not matter where I tell the camera to save the picture.
I did the camera and SD card hotfixes.
It does not look like hardware
So, any clue?
Thanks in advance...

I have the exact same problem. My camera works again with power on and off. annoying!

Leephi said:
I have the exact same problem. My camera works again with power on and off. annoying!
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same here. nobody knows why it can be?

vdelab said:
Hello Everyone,
I made a search, but I could find only one reference to something similar to me...
I keep having the message "Camera Initialisation Error..." (in french, that is), whenever I try to use the camera after a long time...
To correct this, one thing that work but that is hassle is to power on the phone, take out the SD card, that turn on again, and there it works... miracle. Then I can put back the SD card, and it keeps working... till soemthing happen (I don't know what, and why) and it all starts again "Camera Initialisation Error...".
Has any of you got this?
It does not matter where I tell the camera to save the picture.
I did the camera and SD card hotfixes.
It does not look like hardware
So, any clue?
Thanks in advance...
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I may have been the person who posted the original post that you saw, and to be honest you should have just added to that instead of opening a new thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=609366
Anyway, no one seems to know what the problem is, but yes doing a simple restart addresses it. Could be a bit embarrassing though LOL...hold on a minute...its reloading...on the Windows splash screen...wont be long...keep smiling...!
Have any of you applied any registry tweaks either manually or via BSB Tweaks? I noticed the issue happening after applying the tweaks, but when reverting the settings back the issue still cropped up anyway.
A mystery me thinks.

Well, im in here too, i had this issue with thee official german ROM 1.48 too, but not with the 1.43 T-Mobile ROM i had before 1.48. Now im on 1.61, but the error was still there after setting up and tweaking my device.
After a hard reset the camera worked, every single time, so it must have something to do with the things i changed on my device. So i made my way through everything i installed/tweaked and reversed it.
To get to my point: The error disappeared after my last action: Uninstalling Skype Mobile and changing the picture saving location in the camera options from SD card to main memory. 2 days later...no error. I have set it back to SD card meanwhile and another day without the message passed. So i think its gone, but im not completely sure why. Maybe thats helpful for you, good luck!

Hello,
sorry about doubling the thread....
If some moderator pass by, please, you can append this thread to the one quoted by Morpheus.
Anayway, I did the check in the registry, so let's see what it give.
Notice that in my case, a soft reset wasn't enough. I really had to do the sd card removal thing...
Also, I did use swype before (but I uninstalled it a whuile ago due to other freeze issues and to the landscape bug as well). Actually, I miss it as I think it was a great SIP. Now I use shapewriter, to try... I don't know if it could lead to the same camera problem....
Anyway, I'll try to re-initialize the camera and see how long it lasts with the change I made in the registry. Only in P2 I had a different entry... instead of 48 I had 20000 -ish.... weird...
Thanks
Vdl

dont we have a chance to reinstall just the device.exe or camera drivers?.
thank u

i get this error when i use swype, everything works until i use the swype then the cam wont work... i really like the swype so i hope someone finds a solution

i've gotten this pop up...but it only happened after i tried to install qik on my phone...

[SOLVED] Why does my SD card mount even in "Charge Mode"

Everytime I connect my phone via USB cable to my PC it mounts the SD card in USB Storage mode.
Its not a deal breaker but definitely can be an inconvenience when trying to use the phone while charging on a PC (which is how I use my phone at work).
Anyone else run into and find a fix for this?
I kinda remember seeing someone mention a weird solution to a similar problem (maybe regarding PC charging?) that entailed changing the screen timeout.
Phone Info:
Droid 2
ROM: Fission 1.1 (installed last night over a freshly SBF-ed phone)
I see at least one other person is experiencing this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8747858&postcount=56
Tried swapping out SD card for a freshly formatted one and still seeing the same issue. So I'm going to rule out the SD card being at fault.

aplus01 said:
Everytime I connect my phone via USB cable to my PC it mounts the SD card in USB Storage mode.
Its not a deal breaker but definitely can be an inconvenience when trying to use the phone while charging on a PC (which is how I use my phone at work).
Anyone else run into and find a fix for this?
I kinda remember seeing someone mention a weird solution to a similar problem (maybe regarding PC charging?) that entailed changing the screen timeout.
Phone Info:
Droid 2
ROM: Fission 1.1 (installed last night over a freshly SBF-ed phone)
I see at least one other person is experiencing this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8747858&postcount=56
Tried swapping out SD card for a freshly formatted one and still seeing the same issue. So I'm going to rule out the SD card being at fault.
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AngDroid, part of the development team (Team DeFuse), has asked that bugs in regards to the fission rom be posted at Droid Life. It is hard for the team to manage multiple forums. Please make a post here :http://forum.droid-life.com/viewforum.php?f=61&sid=799e04fe62c2af5a7682b052087fe5aa and you will have a greater chance at getting a resolution.

I had this problem this weekend, but I'm running the stock ROM.
Some googling didn't turn up much, other than that certain programs would cause this, none of which I had. If i had the original link I'd post it. I think i read a lot about it on the Incredible forums here.. maybe?
Anyway, the only thing I had changed recently was installing Winamp.
It turned out that it was indeed Winamp. Uninstalled it and all works fine now.

Grrr! Wish I had checked this sooner. I rolled back to a nandroid backup. I was getting so fed up with it not working correctly. Glad to know it wasn't the Fission ROM. Though I kinda didn't think it was since I was having that issue even before going from the beta to 1.1.
Oh well, guess I'll try it again later. Tired of going through settings for apps. For now.
Thanks for the response, Lithoss.
Wonder if the winamp team knows their app prevents charging the Droid 2 via PC? It's a great app otherwise.

theecho said:
AngDroid, part of the development team (Team DeFuse), has asked that bugs in regards to the fission rom be posted at Droid Life. It is hard for the team to manage multiple forums. Please make a post here :http://forum.droid-life.com/viewforum.php?f=61&sid=799e04fe62c2af5a7682b052087fe5aa and you will have a greater chance at getting a resolution.
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Thanks for the heads up. Didn't know the official Fission rom forum was on droid-life. Will have to bookmark that.

aplus01 said:
Grrr! Wish I had checked this sooner. I rolled back to a nandroid backup. I was getting so fed up with it not working correctly. Glad to know it wasn't the Fission ROM. Though I kinda didn't think it was since I was having that issue even before going from the beta to 1.1.
Oh well, guess I'll try it again later. Tired of going through settings for apps. For now.
Thanks for the response, Lithoss.
Wonder if the winamp team knows their app prevents charging the Droid 2 via PC? It's a great app otherwise.
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No problem.
I dont think it prevents charging.... it just mounts it too when it shouldn't.
I emailed them about it through the link in the market.. so if they read their email they should know

You're right. It does charge properly. It doesn't allow access to SD card resources though. Which means no podcasts while hooked up via USB. Deal breaker!
Hope they get it figured out soon. That was a pretty sweet interface. I liked it better than cubed (^3).

Lithoss said:
No problem.
I dont think it prevents charging.... it just mounts it too when it shouldn't.
I emailed them about it through the link in the market.. so if they read their email they should know
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This is toggleable behavior. Check the settings in winamp and you will see something to the effect of automatically mount SD card when connected. If you uncheck that, it shouldn't do it...

@natez0r - Thanks for the explanation. Guess this time it really is a feature and not a bug!
Guess I'll give winamp another shot since that "feature" can be turned off.

natez0r said:
This is toggleable behavior. Check the settings in winamp and you will see something to the effect of automatically mount SD card when connected. If you uncheck that, it shouldn't do it...
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What is the point of this option? seems pretty useless to me...

Please put [SOLVED] in your thread title. Thanks

Roger that!

Can I close this?

Lithoss said:
What is the point of this option? seems pretty useless to me...
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If I were to guess, it would be for making it easier to sync with winamp when you plug the phone into your computer. DoubleTwist also has this option, but i feel like it is more of a nuisance than anything.

@theimpaler747 - Yes, my question is answered.

aplus01 said:
@theimpaler747 - Yes, my question is answered.
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Cool, I'll close it

Issues after Kies Mini update to Froyo

I am listing problems or issues that I found so far.
- no more Android keyboard as choice for input settings!
- Avatar link no longer works, it is not opening the movie (movie is on the SD card) and when going through a file manager to open it says content is locked and when I choose option to unlock nothing happens
- gps seems to be worse than before the update, I think I was on JI6 before, and it was acceptable, not the best, but still acceptable, indoors I would lock to 5-6 now it is viewing 9 indoors but not locking on (since I cannot go outside and test now I will post update later on...)
- no more weather clock widget...

I went and got the update thru kies mini and tge recovery is now 3e. And now i cant root it! Anybody have any ideas on how i can root?! i tried the one click root and another way and no go. Any help would greatly appreciated.

I rooted KA6 using superoneclick

davemw2 said:
I went and got the update thru kies mini and tge recovery is now 3e. And now i cant root it!
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You may find that you'll get better assistance by disclosing your rooting method / app. What is your rooting method? Have you tried Z4Root?

BorisZX6R said:
I am listing problems or issues that I found so far.
- no more Android keyboard as choice for input settings!
- Avatar link no longer works, it is not opening the movie (movie is on the SD card) and when going through a file manager to open it says content is locked and when I choose option to unlock nothing happens
- gps seems to be worse than before the update, I think I was on JI6 before, and it was acceptable, not the best, but still acceptable, indoors I would lock to 5-6 now it is viewing 9 indoors but not locking on (since I cannot go outside and test now I will post update later on...)
- no more weather clock widget...
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Maybe Kies Mini is refusing to update my phone because I have it set to use the Android keyboard? Sighs. I hate Swype and the Samsung keyboard is a big pile of poop... Gues I'll be buying Swiftkey or something...
I gave up on the GPS a long time ago. Avatar is pretty meh... I guess I won't feel bad about taking that SD Card out and putting in a bigger/higher class card now, since I don't like mounting phones and using them like thumbdrives laziness is no longer an excuse if it doesn't play at all!

I'm really starting to get the impression this will be one of those releases that gets pulled after a few hours...
"We tried to release it, but couldn't. Please buy a Vibrant 4G+"

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I guess I won't feel bad about taking that SD Card out and putting in a bigger/higher class card now
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was this in relation to avatar somehow?
the day i got my vibrant back in july, i immediately copied the movie to my other sd card and swapped them.

I was just outside for a while and had the chance to test the gps in my car, it seems it is just as unreliable as stock before JI6, which in my case fixed the accuracy and lock on issues, now it jumps a lot more from place to place and the signal is lost much easier than before...
I purchased my Vibrant used but either way I can state with certainty that this is my last Samsung mobile purchase.
Even my friends HTC Aria works better and is more reliable than the over-hyped Samsung Galaxy S line, especially the Vibrant....

ok... Igot my phone to root useing super one click and now i cant get into cmd recovery! damn!!! any hints tips anything?!
And after a few tries, and phone wipe avatar works just fine for me.

Anyone else having issue rebooting into clockwork recovery after the kies update? I am rooted and checked that but seem to not be able to reboot into recovery mode.

megatherian said:
I'm really starting to get the impression this will be one of those releases that gets pulled after a few hours...
"We tried to release it, but couldn't. Please buy a Vibrant 4G+"
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This would be the way to go about it for TMo. Make it available via Kies only, see what happens, if bad, delay OTA.

BorisZX6R said:
I am listing problems or issues that I found so far.
- no more Android keyboard as choice for input settings!
..
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If you would have been around the last month or so since the first leak you would have known this... it's not a big issue. There's ways of getting Android Keyboard and/or the Gingy KB on it...

My phone is finally booted right before I press the reply button to post "my phone is stucked at the "S" logo" lol

tomykat said:
Anyone else having issue rebooting into clockwork recovery after the kies update? I am rooted and checked that but seem to not be able to reboot into recovery mode.
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Froyo ROMs use the 3e recovery, which will not let you load clockwork recovery, this has been known for months. you should search, there is a solution to flash 3e so it works like 2e if you absolutely need to get into clockwork recovery

Zylograth said:
Froyo ROMs use the 3e recovery, which will not let you load clockwork recovery, this has been known for months. you should search, there is a solution to flash 3e so it works like 2e if you absolutely need to get into clockwork recovery
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Is their now an alternative method in 2.2 for making rom backups/installs?

esmoger said:
was this in relation to avatar somehow?
the day i got my vibrant back in july, i immediately copied the movie to my other sd card and swapped them.
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I dont pluf my phone in for usb mass storage and the phone has a lot of internal storage.
Avatar doesnt launch because this update chanhed yhe mountpoint of the external sd card.
When u press the icon, its not going to do anything because the patg hardcoded into it does not exist.
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^any idea how to fix that? move it elsewhere? the funny thing is I just updated my coworkers phone and her avatar works.

It seems I spoke too soon regarding avatar and the gps performance.
I just took out the external sd card and formatted the internal sd card and then I did a factory data reset from the phone settings under privacy and after reboot I inserted my sd card and now avatar works fine and the gps seems to work better than with ji6.

[REF/REQ] My "fried" SD card fixed itself ..**verified by another xda'er**

I will be as short winded as possible - but I want to put detail together so that the awesome devs here can gain as much info to try and see if any of this can help to solve the elusive SD card fry..
I'm not kidding when I say my borked SD card fixed itself while in the phone this afternoon. Here is a detailed list of what took place today.
ROM: MIUI 1.8.5
Kernel : Glitch 11.1 HL
*** I noticed phone being very unresponsive/laggy first thing this morning. ran fine before i left for work but when i leave i switch to 3G, with switching from WIFI to 3G i saw a strange message in the status bar that flashed 2x for about 2 seconds each time that said "URL NOT FOUND" and then 3G kicked on.. i had to airplane mode it because data was showing as working but it wasnt. switched out of airplane 3G running fine.
*** drove to work, sitting in parking lot playing with phone before work.. while using the feedly app to read news, it suddenly froze and gave a COM.PROCESS error with force close.. i left that and it wouldnt let me back in to feedly. i then tried facebook. got a white screen and same - COM.PROCESS force close. the phone rebooted itself and came back up with the notifier in status bar about "SD CARD INCOMPATIBLE FORMAT OR NOT PRESENT" .. nothing i could do at that point, since i wouldnt be near a computer all day. all the apps worked fine all day, just no SD card.. this is the 2nd "fry" i have had..first was on JT kernel last week.
*** about 2pm, my phone chirped at me that i had a text message. i opened gmail first, since i had an email sitting there...read that, and as soon as i opened the text message (which was an MMS actually - a video to be precise) a pop up opened and said something to the effect of "USING SD STORAGE CAN ENHANCE YOUR EXPERIENCE, TURN ON NOW?" with an ok button.. i pushed OK and bing - sd card was working again.
the video MMS somehow triggered something that got the sd card to be readable again. its been running fine the last 2 hours, no error messages.
I hope this can help someone dig deeper and/or go in another direction to find the source of the sd card bug..

thanks for the info!
My SD Card fried while running CM7. Will try to send myself an mms to see if I get the same prompt.

GunM3tal - It was an mms video .. im not sure if that makes a difference.

I am also VERY curious what that "URL NOT FOUND" when switching from WIFI to 3G means.. ive never seen that message before.. and i have been running MIUI for 3 of the last 4 weeks.
something is trying to connect to the internet, or something is constantly connected to a URL and in the 3 second lag between WIFI and 3G its not connected.. that worries me..
Does that have something to do with frying the card? what url is the phone trying to connect to? what program? i havent downloaded anything new lately, and nothing out of the ordinary is in task manager...

Sweet! Seems to be a working exploit.

mrjake1970 said:
I am also VERY curious what that "URL NOT FOUND" when switching from WIFI to 3G means.. ive never seen that message before.. and i have been running MIUI for 3 of the last 4 weeks.
something is trying to connect to the internet, or something is constantly connected to a URL and in the 3 second lag between WIFI and 3G its not connected.. that worries me..
Does that have something to do with frying the card? what url is the phone trying to connect to? what program? i havent downloaded anything new lately, and nothing out of the ordinary is in task manager...
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It is getting the Verizon wireless name. It polls Verizon's server I am guessing to see what the network is called incase they change the name I guess.
Sent from my SCH-I500 using Tapatalk

My sd card couldn't be read for a couple of days while I was on miui 7/22 and glitch a few weeks ago. Then I noticed one day it was working again. Maybe it was an mms that got it running

I just tried this method. Had my wife send me a video mms with my fried stock 16gb card in. I had the option to reformat after that, lo and behold it formatted, no problem.
What the F***!
Maybe now we can figure out how to address the problem so it doesn't happen again.
Edit: btw, I'm on 7/22 miui. I put my other card back in that I've been using and it said damaged, I rebooted and it came back. So for those who try this, don't freak out, just try a reboot if the same thing happens.

Neuman.Tim said:
I just tried this method. Had my wife send me a video mms with my fried stock 16gb card in. I had the option to reformat after that, lo and behold it formatted, no problem.
What the F***!
Maybe now we can figure out how to address the problem so it doesn't happen again.
Edit: btw, I'm on 7/22 miui. I put my other card back in that I've been using and it said damaged, I rebooted and it came back. So for those who try this, don't freak out, just try a reboot if the same thing happens.
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Hahah that's the weirdest **** I've read on this forum so far. So glad that people that "fried" their cards can now get them working again.

I can not wait to try this when i get home!

Glad i stumbled on this and its working for others as well..
That will also maybe help the awesome devs find a solution
Samsung Fascinate
GeeWiz. 0.2 :: Stock ROM kernel

This doesn't really restore the SD card...you can just put it in and click format when the notification bar tells you your card is blank. Unless I'm mistaken.
Sent from my SCH-I500 using XDA App

I tried this but to no avail my 16 is still gone and stuck with a 2
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papstar said:
This doesn't really restore the SD card...you can just put it in and click format when the notification bar tells you your card is blank. Unless I'm mistaken.
Sent from my SCH-I500 using XDA App
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Before giving this a shot not a single thing would format it, not even the option from the notification bar

My card was damaged this morning. I am running cm7 7/14 with gb bootloader from jt and his v3 kernal. My friend messed his phone up at work and needed to borrow mine to edit a sdcard file. So I unmounted my card and removed it. Put his card in and mounted sd boom damaged sd card. Then put mine back in and it said damaged sd card. I left the card in and rebooted phone. The card mounted with no problem during the boot while u can see the lock screen.
Sd card works fine but I will not removing it again!!!!! That was a close call this morning. Hope this info helps someone if not I just got very lucky

drose6102 said:
My card was damaged this morning. I am running cm7 7/14 with gb bootloader from jt and his v3 kernal. My friend messed his phone up at work and needed to borrow mine to edit a sdcard file. So I unmounted my card and removed it. Put his card in and mounted sd boom damaged sd card. Then put mine back in and it said damaged sd card. I left the card in and rebooted phone. The card mounted with no problem during the boot while u can see the lock screen.
Sd card works fine but I will not removing it again!!!!! That was a close call this morning. Hope this info helps someone if not I just got very lucky
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I predict that you will have continuing problems with those SD cards now. While I was able to do the same with my backup SD card, it has continued to degrade. Certain apps can't access the card as of yesterday and CWM recovery is iffy on mounting it. Curiously, 4.0.1.4 (orange) is hit or miss, but 4.0.1.0 (blue) can access it but has trouble performing flashes or nandroid restores. Probably because we're not supposed to use three button recovery with jt's vanilla GB.
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from what it appears it depends on what happens exactly to the card...some people like me get the unrecognized/incompatible format - no sd card inserted error, and some get the sd card is damaged error.
so far from this thread, my card was completely fine (i had the incompatible format issue) with this "fix" and the damaged sd card that nobody could format is now formattable (is that a word?)
so i would assume a few things...
1. use mms video from another phone to send it to the fascinate with the borked card in the phone.
2. (TOTAL GUESS) you should probably be on the same build (e.g. miui/cm7) that you were on when it borked the first time.
3. it *should* give you the option to do something with it - either fix it, or be able to format it.
thats all any of us know right now. but whatever signal MMS videos send to the SD card to wake it up is what can be traced back to the system...maybe the SD card now gets the "SLEEP OF DEATH" like the system did with some kernels..deep sleep for the sd card? who knows...thats why i posted this in the DEV section..these devs are light years smarter at figuring this out than me. i know just enough to be dangerous
rock on..
papstar said:
This doesn't really restore the SD card...you can just put it in and click format when the notification bar tells you your card is blank. Unless I'm mistaken.
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Mr. Jake, I believe what you had, what I believe, is a soft-burned sd card. What this means is, reboots would have been a simple remedy for your "damaged" or "blank" sd card.
There comes a point when it's a HARD burned card and there's no turning back from it. If 5 reboots doesn't fix your sd card, might as well buy a new one, which is what I did.
this BURNING issue seems to be more apparent in the 8.5 MIUI. I'm hoping the 8.19 MIUI will fix the 3G glitches as well as a permanent proactive fix for the sd card burning problem.

shilohdrummer said:
Mr. Jake, I believe what you had, what I believe, is a soft-burned sd card. What this means is, reboots would have been a simple remedy for your "damaged" or "blank" sd card.
There comes a point when it's a HARD burned card and there's no turning back from it. If 5 reboots doesn't fix your sd card, might as well buy a new one, which is what I did.
this BURNING issue seems to be more apparent in the 8.5 MIUI. I'm hoping the 8.19 MIUI will fix the 3G glitches as well as a permanent proactive fix for the sd card burning problem.
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cool cool.. i just got excited because it seemed to fix the issue first - and second, may give the devs the ability to find out what is causing the issue in the first place since they can trace a sd card commit that does *something* to modify the glitch..
something to work with is better than guessing..
im still learning this developing thing..so many failures and very few successes with modding for me.. so any bit of help i can give is something i treasure after getting so much from this group...

Hmm I wonder if this would work on the Inc2 to fix a borked sdcard.
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