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AHH NO! 2nd memory card gone

Ok, so when i first got the TD2 i bought a 16gb mem with it, but about 2 weeks in, it just wiped my memory card and made it useless, trying it on the computer, on the phone, even in a camera brought nothing up. I was hoping it was the memory card faulty. So i bought a new 16gb and it's gone and done it again. Just randomly, whilst using coreplayer to watch some blue, my phone froze. so i did a soft reset and now my mem card has disappeared. all my apps saved it it have gone, all my pics...just everything
what the hell is going on?
I use spb shell, luckily that was saved to my phone so i stil have it, but half the apps on it don't work now

I installed Advanced Config 3.3 and turned on SD-card powermanagement... shortly after that I lost one 8GB sandisk card ... Diamond2 could not see it anymore. My PC could not see it anymore.... Maybe it was the Advanced Config setting that somehow broke it or maybe it was coincidence?? ****ty thing is I didn't make a backup so lost a lot of nice pictures on it...

If you use activesync, you would need to configure WM device center to NOT replace items on the device. Switch that to replace items on desktop.
If its not that, then maybe shell is the culprit. Or advanced config.

tomtommy306 said:
If you use activesync, you would need to configure WM device center to NOT replace items on the device. Switch that to replace items on desktop.
If its not that, then maybe shell is the culprit. Or advanced config.
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Nope, it's not just deleted data. In my case the SD-card is really broken. I cannot open it in any device anymore.

I had this problem with my Xperia twice, and I'm far from convinced that the TD2 is any more stable.
I haven't tracked down what is causing it, but I have never had any problems with SD cards in all my years with PalmOS or Symbian devices. I think it is just a 'feature' of Windows Mobile because the system is unstable and prone to crashes which corrupt the cards.

Mr Anderson said:
I had this problem with my Xperia twice, and I'm far from convinced that the TD2 is any more stable.
I haven't tracked down what is causing it, but I have never had any problems with SD cards in all my years with PalmOS or Symbian devices. I think it is just a 'feature' of Windows Mobile because the system is unstable and prone to crashes which corrupt the cards.
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Well corruption can usually be repared by a format or something like that but in my case the card isn't even recognized by the system anymore, it just won't show up.'

this has happened to me too. twice!

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Mr Anderson said:
I think it is just a 'feature' of Windows Mobile because the system is unstable and prone to crashes which corrupt the cards.
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Really? Talk about 'give a dog a bad name'. If you knew a little more you'd soon realise it has zip zero and sweet buggerall to do with WM, which is stable, flexible and reliable, though the UI is admittedly rather dated, and everything to do with HTC's implementation.
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Blizze said:
Nope, it's not just deleted data. In my case the SD-card is really broken. I cannot open it in any device anymore.
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Yep twice with me as well
once with normal TF3D and once with SPB shell
Just totally broken my card...tried using 2 usb readers and 2 computers with it...nothing
tried putting it into an sd card converter and putting into 2 cameras...nothing
Be warned people!
Back up your stuff! TD2 looks like it enjoys corrupting micro sd cards and making you pay for more
perhaps HTC has a contract with Sandisk or something
Keeps sandisk bringing in profits in this troubled time of recession

AFW said:
If you knew a little more you'd soon realise it has zip zero and sweet buggerall to do with WM, which is stable, flexible and reliable, though the UI is admittedly rather dated, and everything to do with HTC's implementation.
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Our opinions differ it seems, but unless someone finds the actual cause we will never know the truth.
My apologies for not knowing much - I am trying to learn WM after many years on other platforms. All I have to go on is my personal experiences with 4 WM devices (all originating from HTC), and those experiences are not great. WM has a bad name in my eyes, from direct personal experience. Maybe I am maligning it falsely if the true cause of the problems I experience lies elsewhere...I am willing to have an open mind.
I am several £££ out of pocket, having lost 2 16GB cards to these devices - a problem I have only ever suffered with HTC/WM. Given that HTC is the leading manufacturer of WM devices it does not reflect well on either them or the OS platform they are working with that they cannot create stable bug-free systems.

Are these genuine memory sticks?
I work in repairs and I have had a number of HTC devices along with others too that have had this issue.
It turned out that on average, 7/10 devices had fake memory sticks from reputable vendors who were duped.
1/10 were corrupt memory cards just from use/standard wear and tear or just corrupt out of factory.
and the last 1/10 was a faulty memory card reader on the device -

I had an original SANDISK 8GB micro-SD card in it. I now have a 6GB in it which still is OK for now... But backups will be made. I am going to get me another 8GB card and possible trade in the broken one (warranty)... these things should not brake this soon.. the card was 3 weeks old!! If the second one also breaks than maybe it's a D2 problem??
edit: I have to notice that it broke down I did turn on the SD-card powermanagement save option from Advanced Config.... maybe that's the cause??

I've had my 16gb card in the phone since April 15th when I got my unit...not one issue touch wood so touch its the phone ... if anything, it might be your specific unit but I would still bet on the card itself
As an example, I got a 32GB USB stick from Kingston - so not exactly a small make
Within a week, I lost 31.8GB and was left with 2mb.
Data has gone and is not retrievable. Kingston have now tested and diagnoised the memory is corrupt and unfixable so they are replacing it.
So it can happen

An advice: Whenever you do a operation such as backup or something, do not charge your phone!! That really hurt your SD card....

cedarlake888 said:
An advice: Whenever you do a operation such as backup or something, do not charge your phone!! That really hurt your SD card....
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what do you mean? Like no charge when on activesync? I can't see
why that would hurt the card.

Did you guys format your mem cards before using them?

I have a stack of SanDisk MicroSD cards (256mb, 1gb, 2gb, 4gb hc, 8gb hc and 16Gb hc). My 16Gb and 4GB cards both had faults (the 16gb one wouldn't format and the 4gb one just didn't work and wasn't even recognised as being in my phone or card reader).
SanDisk have a 5 year warranty, so I registered all of my cards on their website, reported the fault and had them replaced. The whole process took about 4 weeks, but they sent me brand new 16gb and 4gb cards.
Sometimes flash media just fails...

maybe you all should get transcend.. they give you lifetime warranty...

Yep, but I lost my reciept ... and I need that to trade in.. But yesterday a bought a new one... maybe I use the new reciept to trade in the old.. cards are the same size en look the same.. so i'll probably get away with that.

Me too - lost the 8 GB card in my TD2 last week, it's completely unreadable now, can't be formatted, etc. Never happened to me before. Hope this isn't s.th. serious with the TD2...

I just started getting this error...

When I press gallery it says my SD card is unmounted. I powered off, removed card, cleaned card and phone, then I restarted it and it worked but now I'm getting it again. Pretty annoying. Also, is this the type of issue covered by the warranty?
I ran a search on Google and nexus one general forum before posting, thanks in advance for any help...

oh wow....i just unmounted the card, then i powered down. when i powered on it said the card was damaged and i may need to reformat it.
So i put it in my laptop and it says it needs to be formatted.
Have i lost all of the stuff on my card and, if so, what could have caused this? its kind of devastating for me.
The ONLY thing i did today that was out of the ordinary was install zumodrive on the phone.
its a class 6, A Data 8 gig and ive had it for a matter of 6 months, im guessing it was the phone or an app that caused it?

Unless you were constantly removing the card while a device was in the middle of writing to it, I dont think the phone it self would have caused much damage... I'm thinking it was more likely a defective card...

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Unless you were constantly removing the card while a device was in the middle of writing to it, I dont think the phone it self would have caused much damage... I'm thinking it was more likely a defective card...
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bummer, so i probably should just trash it as opposed to formatting it and using it again?

i have had a card fail on me, and was able to get it back and it worked fine. seemed to be just a tad bit slower the second time around, but nonetheless it worked.
it was weird thought, windows wouldnt detect it, and my phone wouldnt either. i had to go into drive management and it was seen there. once i got that squared away and go tit formatted all worked well.
as far as saving your files, im not sure... i try to backup my sdcard about once a week (simply overwrite any files that havent changed). you may be able to use a disk recovery utility, such as the ones that are used to retrieve files from dead HDD's.

i had this problem on stock
i ended up putting my sd card in the pc and backing everything up (everything was fine even after the phone showed it was corrupted)
reformatted my sdcard
tested and still got the error
so i pulled the sdcard back out, started the phone up without any sdcard inserted. after putting card back in and booting up never had the problem again
since rooting, i've never run into this problem either

Stupid SD Card.

My sd card is saying Blank SD card. Sd card blank or has unsupported filesystem. I tried to reformat on phone but still nothing. Any ideas?

Stunna4life888 said:
My sd card is saying Blank SD card. Sd card blank or has unsupported filesystem. I tried to reformat on phone but still nothing. Any ideas?
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have you tried removing and putting into a computer to see if you can access it?
if that doesnt work then somehow it got corrupted or it went bad.

Yup the computer doesn't recognize anything at all. I put it into a camera and it says need to be formatted so I do so and it just stays on a screen saying Formatting. IDK whats going on with the stupid thing. Sent HTC a email and maybe they might send me one or something. Who knows it's a shot.

Stunna4life888 said:
Yup the computer doesn't recognize anything at all. I put it into a camera and it says need to be formatted so I do so and it just stays on a screen saying Formatting. IDK whats going on with the stupid thing. Sent HTC a email and maybe they might send me one or something. Who knows it's a shot.
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Sounds like its dead. I would just pick up a new one. You can get a 16gb class 6+ for under $30 online.

I love HTC so much! Sent an email out last night, got one back today and they are going to send a new one. Just have to send old one back. Hopefully they wont see my custom roms on there lol. Any ways HTC saves the day once again and I get a good ol 8gb card back.

Stunna4life888 said:
I love HTC so much! Sent an email out last night, got one back today and they are going to send a new one. Just have to send old one back. Hopefully they wont see my custom roms on there lol. Any ways HTC saves the day once again and I get a good ol 8gb card back.
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i would still buy another. there 8GB is straight up Class 2. Barely writes over 2MB/sec. You can buy a class 6 8GB card for less than $15.00 on Newegg shipped.

Hey OP did you lose all your data?? Hopefully night. I think i might just copy my sd to my external tonight just as a backup that you said this...
Thanks...

Phillysphinest1 said:
Hey OP did you lose all your data?? Hopefully night. I think i might just copy my sd to my external tonight just as a backup that you said this...
Thanks...
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Yup lost everything so id back up to the computer to, thats just me though.

[Q]HD2 WP7 Mango freezes when boots up 80% of the time. PLS HELP

Hello I have an HTC HD2 WP7 Mango/Android via Magldr. Whenever I boot up Windows it tends to freeze up at the main screen about 80% of the time. It forces me to pull the battery and try again. Sometimes it takes me at least 30 mins to finally start windows because of battery pulls and restarts.
When it starts up and works it'll be fine and never lock up.
Any help? Anyone experience this problem?

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Hello I have an HTC HD2 WP7 Mango/Android via Magldr. Whenever I boot up Windows it tends to freeze up at the main screen about 80% of the time. It forces me to pull the battery and try again. Sometimes it takes me at least 30 mins to finally start windows because of battery pulls and restarts.
When it starts up and works it'll be fine and never lock up.
Any help? Anyone experience this problem?
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i also have this problem and ive tried everything even reinstalling the damn thing twice just guess we gotta wait till its fixed

I tried reflashing the thing about 3 times and it just still does the freezing thing.
Other than that everything works fine.
Alright well thanks at least im not the only one.

yea its really making me mad lol

yea it sucks because i cant go in to windows to unlock the sd card so i can boot android so i cant use my phone at all until it starts to act right.

@hd2_head all you need is an hard reset all data will be lost but it will be unfrozen so you can unlock SD card,

iKilla said:
@hd2_head all you need is an hard reset all data will be lost but it will be unfrozen so you can unlock SD card,
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i did the hard reset now what do i install to get the sd card unlocked?

iKilla said:
@hd2_head all you need is an hard reset all data will be lost but it will be unfrozen so you can unlock SD card,
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ive done that but with this new mango it locks up frequently during boot. I dont want to have to hard reset everytime i turn my phone on.
Id rather just keep this new updated windows and deal with the bull.

Samsunguy said:
i did the hard reset now what do i install to get the sd card unlocked?
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you need to use the cab sender to send "DEV_STORAGELOCK" to your phone
after reboot it will appear on the app list. Click it and click yes to unlock sd card, Now it should appear on a computer.
It took 27 mins to start windows today after at least 25 battery pulls!!!! WTF this cant be good for the phone.

hd2 head said:
It took 27 mins to start windows today after at least 25 battery pulls!!!! WTF this cant be good for the phone.
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bent battery pins can cause these problems, and these problems can cause bent battery pins!

i decided to go to NAND for a while or atleast there a better mango update or tweak that help with the freezing.

I'm also having this same problem, except that it only takes me like 10min to get it to work as opposed to your 20min. Hopefully we find an answer soon because I really like Windows Phone. I become afraid to restart my phone because it may take ages to finally work again.

The source to your problem
Try another SDcard, preferably class 2.
I tested 3 sd cards (all class 4), and all gave the EXACT same problem as you have.
Switched to a class 2, 4GB and no problems whatsoever.

Robbie P said:
bent battery pins can cause these problems, and these problems can cause bent battery pins!
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I think you're absolutely right. It looks like 3 main pins and the first one was bent. I bent it back and it didn't even power on. After messing with it for a while, this time it took about 2 hours after I bent the pin, it finally booted back up.
So what can I do? Try to straighten them out and hope for the best?

KrewsialNL said:
Try another SDcard, preferably class 2.
I tested 3 sd cards (all class 4), and all gave the EXACT same problem as you have.
Switched to a class 2, 4GB and no problems whatsoever.
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hey I'm using a class 2 32gb.? But thanks anyway.

Dev_unlock
Did u guy unlock ur hd2 so that u all can slideload the apps into phone? coz i think the unlock or hacking thing causes the screen freezes~

KzL said:
Did u guy unlock ur hd2 so that u all can slideload the apps into phone? coz i think the unlock or hacking thing causes the screen freezes~
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ooohh ya dont say?
Hopefully a relock will fix everything.
Thanks everyone. I really appreciate the input.

i think what you should do is check your rom. i had the same problem so i just reinstalled everything. now my phone works perfectly.. just make sure you didnt skip a part.

When mine does this it seems like an overheating issue. If I take the battery out and let it sit for a minute before putting the battery in and trying again it seems to work just fine.

banderling said:
When mine does this it seems like an overheating issue. If I take the battery out and let it sit for a minute before putting the battery in and trying again it seems to work just fine.
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Worked for me!
also put it for like 1 min or so in the fridge...?
worked on the first boot

Inesplicable deletion of files

Looks like the phone, inexplicably deleted all the directories and files that were stored in my 32 GB Class 10 Lexar micro SD card. It happened once, a few days ago, and today I was at the point of listening to some mp3s when I realised that it happened again today, although now only the "music" directory was deleted.
Does anybody have an explanation?

Which rom, anything suspicious installed, anything new installed, rooted, connected it to a different computer, anything else which might help others to help you?
Also, wrong forum.

could be faulty card. also make sure you do not just eject the card from phone and/or computer without first properly unmounting it.
if it is a new card, or you do not care about data on it, reformat with this tool
https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/

Well, I'm on stock ROM KI4 (Android vers. 2.3.4), my phone is unrooted and I never touched the card since I first put it in the phone, 2 months ago. However the first time I had the unpleasant surprise to find all the directories deleted I was on a previous ROM (android 2.3.3), so it seems that the issue is not ROM dependant. I do have quite a few apps that I downloaded from forums and therefore may be suspected to play tricks. It may be these, or it may indeed be compatibility issues with the micro SD, but what seeems strange to me, is that I don't get errrors in reading or writing files on that memory, but simply all of a sudden, at the point of opening a file, I realize the file no longer there together with its entire directory...
Ok, I was just wondering if I was the only one experiencing this issue, and as it looks so, then I'll keep monitoring the situation to see if it happens again, in such case I'll try to investigate more deeply the possible causes.
Thank you both for the useful sugggestions, and kreoXDA for the link to that utility... It may become handy!
And sorry if I am in the wrong forum (am I?). I thought that this was the right one.

JuniorGG said:
it may indeed be compatibility issues with the micro SD, but what seeems strange to me, is that I don't get errrors in reading or writing files on that memory, but simply all of a sudden, at the point of opening a file, I realize the file no longer there together with its entire directory...
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If you haven't already, I would strongly recommend checking your SD card using h2testw.

No actually, I haven't... thank you, I'll do it!

oinkylicious said:
If you haven't already, I would strongly recommend checking your SD card using h2testw.
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There's a similar program, SDCardTester, in the Android market, so you can test on the SGS2 itself.

Ok, that would a more significative test. And it will let me test the card even now that I am away from home and I have no access to a PC. Thank you.

If you bought a 32gb sdcard off ebay at a knockdown price then I suspect you have been conned.
Try the sdcard test as suggested, it is probably a 1gb card with false code.
If it is from ebay, Dont return item either as recorded delivery will be too expensive, greater than cost of card, phone ebay and they should refund you.
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No I'm quite sure that the card is not a fake. I have been using it for 2 or 3 months, filling it almost fully with no problems of capacity, speed, data corruption or whatsoever. Yes I bought the card from ebay, but from a well respected seller at "normal" price and it definitely came sealed by the manufacturer in its original blister.
I've just tried testing with SD Card Tester and everything looks OK. I get about 10 MBps r/w that if I'm not wrong is compatible with the class of the card.
I'm suspecting more android or some malware, rather than the card or some incompatibilty issues, to have erased all its contents except one directory with 5 pictures in it.
Well, as I said, for the moment I think the best thing I can do is simply to keep monitoring the situation.
Thank you mates anyway.

You need to do the capacity test...
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I have been having a similar issue with a genuine 16gb class 10 from kingston. Files dissappearing or beconing corrupt. Assuming its a faulty card but not had chance to check.
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Me too... it's not easy to perform an exhaustive test...

And here we go again... yesterday I noticed that all the apps that were installed on the sd card had gone... this thing begins to hurt my nerves...

Are you sure the files are deleted or did the as card just unmount?
Happened to me and I just restarted phone, all good.
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In fact, that's the first thing I suspected, but unfortunately unmounting / mounting the SD card, even phisically removing / reinstalling it from the slot, and shutting off / turning back on the phone didn't solve the problem...

Well just to give some more info. Its def not a mount/unmount issue as the card contents become corrupt randomly. Im just wondering if its a spec issue as in is class 10 causing a problem. My card is being swapped out by kingston so i will update when I can.
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JuniorGG said:
it's not easy to perform an exhaustive test...
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And here we go again... yesterday I noticed that all the apps that were installed on the sd card had gone... this thing begins to hurt my nerves...
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Yet you still haven't followed the advice in the thread, which was to run h2testw or SDCardTester to check the true capacity of the drive, and ensure data written to is is not corrupted.

I too face this similar problem. Use a Nokia 8gb card, don't know if Nokia manufactures it or not. Anyway, my files get deleted too. Apps also get corrupted. Is this a sd card slot problem. Maybe it's faulty?
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No one??
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