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Hello, I'm not glad that i have to post this topic, but i think the whole story about "Waiting for SD card" problem will never end. I have 3 SD's at home, even one not works.
What i tried:
- i read a lot of topics about this problematics
- i tried to format my cards to fat32
- i tried clean cards
- i tried to format with special tools
- i tried customize startup.txt with msmsdcc_1bit msmsdcc_fmax=14000000 msmsdcc_nopwrsave etc.
- i tried 5 versions of android, even one not works...
I will be very glad if someone helps me or gives me an advice what should i try
Thanks a lot!
Is any one of the sd cards you tried a "class 2"? Seems that class 6 sd cards have this problem.
unstable_ said:
Hello, I'm not glad that i have to post this topic, but i think the whole story about "Waiting for SD card" problem will never end. I have 3 SD's at home, even one not works.
What i tried:
- i read a lot of topics about this problematics
- i tried to format my cards to fat32
- i tried clean cards
- i tried to format with special tools
- i tried customize startup.txt with msmsdcc_1bit msmsdcc_fmax=14000000 msmsdcc_nopwrsave etc.
- i tried 5 versions of android, even one not works...
I will be very glad if someone helps me or gives me an advice what should i try
Thanks a lot!
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no need to try more versions on your current SD cards. Go to look for some very old one, better smaller then 2GB.
I got 5 in my home, 2 of them works. Both of them are 2GB, bought 3 yrs ago.
None of new one could be used.
i realised the old versions of sd card works but the newer ones dun.
U shuld change SD card~~
Pretty Disappointing... I'm stuck too. I'm suprised it hasn't been fixed yet can't be that hard compared to everything else they've acheived.
I hope everyone involved keeps up the hard work but it'd be great for someone to revisit this problem.
its a hardware problem of the sd card, not a software problem.
it will never be fixed (its not possible).
its not like an sd card is too expensive ^^ just get another one...
have a look at this thread
N!ghty said:
its a hardware problem of the sd card, not a software problem.
it will never be fixed (its not possible).
its not like an sd card is too expensive ^^ just get another one...
have a look at this thread
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I tend to disagree. SD is a well known standard on the market.
The card that I have works fine for more than a year in Windows Mobile with Touch HD card reader. Without a single problem during that time. So everything: operating system, SD card and HTC HD card reader are fine.
It doesn't work with Android, so there is something wrong. Either with SD card initialization procedure, drivers or operating system (Android).
Unfortunately, I can't effort using 2GB card. I'm using my phone e.g. for books reading, music, photos, games etc. It's not only a phone I hope that all these hard working Android guys can fix this issue.
mlemanczyk said:
I tend to disagree. SD is a well known standard on the market.
The card that I have works fine for more than a year in Windows Mobile with Touch HD card reader. Without a single problem during that time. So both: operating system and HTC HD card reader are fine.
If it doesn't work with Android, it's Android's problem. Either with SD card initialization procedure, drivers or operating system (Android).
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we are not looking at the sd card when its detected by the operating system but by the device itself.
the problem might be that the device is simply not capable to use some sdcards without the proper drivers (which the os then provides). what im saying is: before you enter the os the device might not detect some particular sd cards, but once the os is booted, it does.
the issue here is simple: if the device doesnt support the sd card, the os wont boot, this has nothing to do with the os.
if you dont believe me:
try flashing a WM rom from the "problem sd card". u will see: it wont work.
now try booting android from the same sd card. u will see: it wont work.
now get another card u can boot android with.
now try flashing a WM rom from this sd card. u will see: it will work.
conclusion: its a hardware problem.
i must say im not an expert but im not stupid either. i tried what i explained myself and thats just how it is...
if someone has a better explanation please correct me
N!ghty said:
we are not looking at the sd card when its detected by the operating system but by the device itself.
the problem might be that the device is simply not capable to use some sdcards without the proper drivers (which the os then provides). what im saying is: before you enter the os the device might not detect some particular sd cards, but once the os is booted, it does.
the issue here is simple: if the device doesnt support the sd card, the os wont boot, this has nothing to do with the os.
conclusion: its a hardware problem.
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What you're saying may be right. I'm not an expert either, so these are only my conclusions.
I think that what may be failing is the HSPL (Bios) that most people here loaded. I'm pretty sure that I was able to flash from SD card on my stock ROM. At some point it stopped working. I'll try to rollback to stock SPL (I'm not sure how to do it, yet) and confirm. So changed HSPL may be the issue.
Another question is, why SD drivers in either case are not loaded with the boot image. I don't know Android internals, so I can't tell if this is possible. But it would help in this case.
In both cases I don't think this is hardware issue that can't be resolved.
N!ghty said:
we are not looking at the sd card when its detected by the operating system but by the device itself.
the problem might be that the device is simply not capable to use some sdcards without the proper drivers (which the os then provides). what im saying is: before you enter the os the device might not detect some particular sd cards, but once the os is booted, it does.
the issue here is simple: if the device doesnt support the sd card, the os wont boot, this has nothing to do with the os.
if you dont believe me:
try flashing a WM rom from the "problem sd card". u will see: it wont work.
now try booting android from the same sd card. u will see: it wont work.
now get another card u can boot android with.
now try flashing a WM rom from this sd card. u will see: it will work.
conclusion: its a hardware problem.
i must say im not an expert but im not stupid either. i tried what i explained myself and thats just how it is...
if someone has a better explanation please correct me
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Sorry. You are wrong. I am frequently flash my phone using SD card with HSPL. But the card also face problem with Android. So definitely not the hardware problem.
Hello
I have 2 card's, one 8GB from Transcend and one 4GB from Kingston, and the kingston only works with android!
UPDATE: Transcend Class 6, Kingston Class 4
cereal86 said:
Hello
I have 2 card's, one 8GB from Transcend and one 4GB from Kingston, and the kingston only works with android!
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lucky guy
From my personal experience on my Kaiser I can confirm that newer SD cards do indeed seem to cause problems in Android, especially with installing or running from SD.
I have 3 SD cards I normally use for my phones, the newest a 4Gb class 6, which I have never been able to use for Android on Kaiser or Blackstone, I can't even flash with it, it just never works, using it for data storage works fine, just can't run Android from SD or Flash with it, the other 2 are 2Gb class 2's, both work just fine for flashing, and work great when using them for running Android builds from SD on Kais and Blac hardware.
My conclusions? Well I fall into the 'hardware problem' camp, mostly, since I can't flash either Winmo or Android with the class 6, it may be the card, but I wonder sometimes if it's the capacity, since both the class 2's are almost the same age as the class 6, all are sdhc, all 3 are from the same manufacturer , (SanDisk), in fact the only real difference is the capacity.
Waiting for SD Card
I have also tried a Transcend 8 GB SD Card and it doesn't work.
The same files on a Tanscend 1GB SD Card work just fine, so it's definitely a hardware problem caused by the card.
I've tried everything - formatting the card with different tools and different cluster sizes, partitioning the card below 4GB - all without success.
For all you guys out there with the "waiting for SD card" problem: Get a different (small) card !! - It's worth it !
what about this - copy files in the package into device internal memory and boot from there(i don´t know where to change booting directory in cfg...). if it created data.img on the sdcard, it would be fine solution...
kosmodisk said:
what about this - copy files in the package into device internal memory and boot from there(i don´t know where to change booting directory in cfg...). if it created data.img on the sdcard, it would be fine solution...
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Not sure it's that simple... once winmo is killed, the internal memory would have to be accessed natively by Android. It could be different for every device (where as SD is a standard, device agnostic format, internal memory isn't)
Whilst most HTC devices will work in an almost identical manner, there is no guarantee of what the internal memory is (it could actually be a HDD in theory).
I had this problem with my Transcend 8GB SD card, nothing solved it so I traded it for a Sandisk 8GB SD card with a colleague.
Works fine now. ^^
kalyster said:
I had this problem with my Transcend 8GB SD card, nothing solved it so I traded it for a Sandisk 8GB SD card with a colleague.
Works fine now. ^^
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I'm using a Transcend 8GB card...the one that came with my blackstone with no problems at all. Don't think I did anything special though, formatted to FAT32, installed android from a CAB (in this thread) loaded Android and then I copied my WinMo files back to the SD card as well.
One 2GB sandisk card I had though didn't work at all until I formatted it to FAT32 under linux, then it worked fine in WinMo and Android.
A friend also suggested to me trying to reduce the 'allocation unit size' when formatting the card but I've not tried that approach.
maybe u can try format SD Card to FAT (not FAT32 formatted i think.. maybe it FAT16)! i have 8gb and 2gb SD Cards.. and that all cards not work untill i formatted my 2gb SD Card to FAT!
CMIIW..
So here's my problem. As far as i can tell i am reproducing the steps to create
a gold card to the letter. However after spending close to £30 on SD cards and
getting nowhere I'm pretty much either the most unlucky S.O.B on the planet
or I'm doing it wrong, which i really don't think i am at all, I am very methodical
and re-trace my steps two, sometimes three times.
If i am just unlucky, there must be a way to tell if a card is capable of
becoming a gold card. What exactly are the requirements for a Micro SD card
to retain the HEX'd info without failing to mount? It can't be random chance
that every time i click 'save' then exit from HXD my pc/phone refuses to read
the card as a mountable, formatted file system.
another thing I've noticed is that the Information you write over in OFFSETs
01 (or whatever it is) to 170 are replicated in the second block just after it.
Is that a security back up of the CID security check on the card? because
I can't see why the card would have it twice if it had no intention of using it.
I'm probably wrong about that but It was worth mentioning.
Really my question is what EXACT make and model number has worked for
people? If enough people post in this thread with the data I will make a database
that i will maintain for people who; like myself are having serious problems
finacially getting a gold card sorted out.
So please post as follows:
Manufacturer: blah blah
Model: ohh blah
Model Number: sdsdsd
Batch Number: sdwe23e
Don't worry if there is missing information. Just post as much as you can.
If there is more or different information than i posted please post that also.
Thanks.
Confirmed working:
transcend 8gb class 6 card
ScanDisk Mobile Ultra 8GB
i got it working with a transcend 8gb class 6 card
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Transcend-microSDHC-Memory-adapter-TS8GUSDHC6/dp/B001IAMME8
didnt work first 4-5 times tho
kept trying and it worked
i would suggest instead of buying soo many cards, you keep trying
So you format the card in phone.
Take the card out, into the PC reader.
HEX edit and save.
Remove.
Boot phone with the card in.
And if it fails, repeat?
Also, noted the make and model of your card, thanks.
eh i didnt have a sd card reader at the time so i edited the stuff via sd card in the phone
immya said:
eh i didnt have a sd card reader at the time so i edited the stuff via sd card in the phone
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I've heard it works either way.
When you have edited the card and it's in the phone, can the phone read it
or does it come up as blank?
Also, in the quides where it says "reboot with card inserted" does that mean the boot console
or a normal boot? Sorry for the 101 questions btw.
It works with the stock SD card that come with the phone. Your best of having a card reader and plugging it into the pc to edit certain parts. Just do exactly as you say and you will be fine.
I have a tmobile hero also and my problem is the fact that the goldcard bit seems to work and my pc can read the card, but when following the tutorials and doing the backups, it fails, i hate tmobile
ah and Im using a ScanDisk Mobile Ultra 8GB, tried it with the stock 2GB and same problem
Detol Loki said:
I've heard it works either way.
When you have edited the card and it's in the phone, can the phone read it
or does it come up as blank?
Also, in the quides where it says "reboot with card inserted" does that mean the boot console
or a normal boot? Sorry for the 101 questions btw.
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yeah it reads it fine and by reboot it means just turn phone off and on with the power buton
akhtar1817 said:
I have a tmobile hero also and my problem is the fact that the goldcard bit seems to work and my pc can read the card, but when following the tutorials and doing the backups, it fails, i hate tmobile
ah and Im using a ScanDisk Mobile Ultra 8GB, tried it with the stock 2GB and same problem
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what bit of the guide tells you to do backups?
also i suggest formatting the sd card first
andrewb84uk said:
It works with the stock SD card that come with the phone.
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Same here,... SD card that came with handset worked fine.
Initially failed when using Windows 7 64bit but was fine with an old XP machine.
Hmmm i've had the same problems on 2 Kingston microSD 2GB cards, the whole procedure was fine but when it comes to the testing, when i tried opening the drive, they said i needed to reformat the card. Hmmm are there any sequences of steps on how to do it or so?
Detol Loki said:
So you format the card in phone.
Take the card out, into the PC reader.
HEX edit and save.
Remove.
Boot phone with the card in.
And if it fails, repeat?
Also, noted the make and model of your card, thanks.
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wORKS FOR ME!!
Thank you so much!
Also make sure you are choosign the right option when opening disk...I think its logical (but not sure as im not on my pc) i tried on many cards using the removable disk option and it didnt work, then on a whim i tried the other option and it worked first time!
bonesy said:
Also make sure you are choosign the right option when opening disk...I think its logical (but not sure as im not on my pc) i tried on many cards using the removable disk option and it didnt work, then on a whim i tried the other option and it worked first time!
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dude your the man ive tried 4 cards about a hundred times with no luck but never tried the other option (think it was physical disk) and it work first time
I did it with two different SD cards and it always worked on the first time. I did it with a card reader.
- SanDisk 2GB (HC)
- Sandisk 8GB (HC)
I've tried it with:
4gb Lexar
2gb PNY
2gb SanDisk
2gb Kingston
Using these steps:
wiki.cyanogenmod[dot]com/wiki/Howto:_Create_a_Goldcard (I'm not special enough to post links I guess...)
No luck at all with any of them.
Any pointers would be nice as I too would like to not have to purchase more and more SD cards to get it to work...
ok, I think I got the gold card right, but I wasn't able to use it to root the phone...
Either I didn't actually make a gold card, or the phone is just a real pain...
Ok...I've bought a new Lexar 16GB MicroSD Class 4 to replace my old Sandisk 8GB Class 4 card.
I copied everything across. However, I get random phone freezing.
The freezing only occurs when I have the new MicroSD in. I've replace it already with a new one, but it seems my phone doesn't like it.
I've tried:
1) Checking drive for errors
2) Reformatting drive using Windows
3) Reformatting drive using Android
4) Factory Reset phone
But its still the same.
[EDIT] It seems that Android is corrupting something on my card, because when I run chkdsk it comes up with the "Errors are Fixed" dialog....it says it puts the :"files in a 'FOUND' folder". However when I look into the MicroSD, there is no 'FOUND' folder. Also, copying files to and from the MicroSD card in Windows works fine.
HELP! and thanks.
You Saw this thread? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1025501
mkmck said:
You Saw this thread? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1025501
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Ok..I'll give it a go. Using SD Formatter with Full (Overwrite) option. I hope this works.
[EDIT] SD Formatter has not solved problem. Also, reformatting in 8k, 16k, 32k, 64k not working.
Annoyed.
I think Milestone2 have a SD card compatibility issue .many kind of sd card can't run well on the device .but sandisk is good on it .
I have the same problem, can´t fix... I think is a bug ...
Hey guys,
I've searched for a while but can't find a solution for my problem..
After flashing XBmod-Yuki rom V 2.00 everything works fine (also with older NoDo-roms) but when I change the region&language settings into something different, there's either a restart loop or a storage card error.
I've tried several ways of flashing, including this way.
My SD card: Transcend 16GB class6. Btw, a 2GB Sandisk works like a charm..
Is there any help out there??
Kind regards...
It could just be the card, SD cards seem to play a huge part of wp7, there are many problems that can crop up, sometimes you might not see them until you fill up the card to a certain level or the moon is full just depends... Not an answer but a possibility
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I think I had the same issue today, when I turned it on today, I had a SD Card problem. I pulled out the battery, re booted the phone, arrived in the main menu then.. it freezed! =/. I pulled out the battery, pulled out the SD Card and plugged it again and now it works fine!
Garsmat72 said:
I pulled out the battery, pulled out the SD Card and plugged it again and now it works fine!
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Didn't work for me.
Unfortunately, everything's fine after a hardreset but with a reboot (manually or to make an update/flash a cab) there is this storage card error!!
before you do anything after a flash, sync with zune and dump a few hundred meg of music on it, my card is unstable until i do that.
HD2 does not recognize a brand new 8GB Sandisk.
Any help please - my phone does not seem to recognize any SD cards anymore since I installed WM7.
I even bought a brand new 8GB card, and the phone does not recognize it at all.
The 4GB SD card that used to work fine, is also not detected anymore, but that could be due to it being encrypted now _ although I formatted with the Panasonic SD format tool.
I put 4GB of music on it - no (positive) effect...
Hello,
I've recently bought a Sandisk micro sd 32Gb class 10 for my HD2. The exact model is SDSDQU-032G-U46A.
I installed a rom via Native Sd method and everything ok until a couple of hours or so, and the phone hangs up. I had to pull of the battery and reboot. And then the same problem again. I released the micro sd and put in into the pc. To my surprise, the system ask me to format it
I reformatted it to fat32 but the issue is still there. I tried formatting the card with Sdformater, with minitool partition wizard, and other tools but everytime the same problem.
So finally, I thought it was a card failure and decided to ask for a refund. I received a new card, same model, and to my disappointment the new one was worse than the other one. I couldn't even install the rom, with a lot of partition errors. So I believe that there is a compatibility problem.
Anyone who has tried this card model can tell me his experience? What do you think, is it really a compatibility issue or I had bad luck?
Thank you for any help.
There is another guy having some problems with the sandisk class 10 32GB. He changed the sd, and everything worked flawlessly.
I'm not saying the sdcard is the problem, I'm saying that class 10 32GB is too good.
(Btw, I'm using the same class 10 ultra-sandisk but 16gb, and I never had a reboot on nativesd)
pepemonje said:
Hello,
I've recently bought a Sandisk micro sd 32Gb class 10 for my HD2. The exact model is SDSDQU-032G-U46A.
I installed a rom via Native Sd method and everything ok until a couple of hours or so, and the phone hangs up. I had to pull of the battery and reboot. And then the same problem again. I released the micro sd and put in into the pc. To my surprise, the system ask me to format it
I reformatted it to fat32 but the issue is still there. I tried formatting the card with Sdformater, with minitool partition wizard, and other tools but everytime the same problem.
So finally, I thought it was a card failure and decided to ask for a refund. I received a new card, same model, and to my disappointment the new one was worse than the other one. I couldn't even install the rom, with a lot of partition errors. So I believe that there is a compatibility problem.
Anyone who has tried this card model can tell me his experience? What do you think, is it really a compatibility issue or I had bad luck?
Thank you for any help.
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Hey I think I am using the same card as yours. The model number is SDSDQUA-032G-U46A. My card is working flawlessly. I have installed both Windows Phone 7 and Boxmax ROM . The SD card has 4 partitions. However, I do have issues with my phone, but it is not related to SD card. I bought the phone one month back from eBay. Well, I was unlucky and from the first day the phone has thermal problems, which has been discussed here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=982454
The seller probably sent me a refurbished piece. The phone hangs whenever I do something cpu intensive. So just a thought. Are you sure that it is problem with SD card? Or may be you can try some other ROM.
I'm pretty sure that it is the micro sd. I installed 3 different roms, all with the same result. I have tried same roms in other card and perfect.
Searching on the web I found this site http://www.sandiskcards.com/ where you can see which card is compatible with any devices. Regarding the HD2, it supports up to 32GB class 4 Sandisk micro sd. So I suppose that it's a compatiblity problem and there is nothing I can do about it.
However, there is people using a class 10 ultra-sandisk without issues at all. I'm confused.
Other who can share their experience?
Thanks.
Hey pepemonje,
did you ever try to fix permissions from within the android you are running? I had similar problems (programs being terminated and more) and tried to fix permissions from 4EXT and clockwork, but that didn't help. After fixing permissions with "NativeSDMultiboot" - "Tools" -> "Fix Permissions" those problems were mostly gone.
I'm not sure if that helps, its just a guess.
Regards
pepemonje said:
Hello,
I've recently bought a Sandisk micro sd 32Gb class 10 for my HD2. The exact model is SDSDQU-032G-U46A.
I installed a rom via Native Sd method and everything ok until a couple of hours or so, and the phone hangs up. I had to pull of the battery and reboot. And then the same problem again. I released the micro sd and put in into the pc. To my surprise, the system ask me to format it
I reformatted it to fat32 but the issue is still there. I tried formatting the card with Sdformater, with minitool partition wizard, and other tools but everytime the same problem.
So finally, I thought it was a card failure and decided to ask for a refund. I received a new card, same model, and to my disappointment the new one was worse than the other one. I couldn't even install the rom, with a lot of partition errors. So I believe that there is a compatibility problem.
Anyone who has tried this card model can tell me his experience? What do you think, is it really a compatibility issue or I had bad luck?
Thank you for any help.
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There are reports that NativeSD roms are not working very well with the SD card formatted via the mini tool. I myself encountered your issue. There are lots of FC and hangs up. I corrected this by simply performing a full wipe of data data/factory reset via the recovery. This will wipe out your data and format your Nand cache, SD Card Ext4 partition and linux swap if any in your SD, but will not touch your FAT32 windows partition and will remain intact. After that perform a fresh install and you should be good.