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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?

Mounting the Hero (FIXED)

I'm on Windows XP, and all the sudden the only way I can use as mass storage is in recovery with the usb/ms toggle. With the device on and connected I get the USB Debugging Icon and the device charges. I did everything on this thread (that i could was for windows 7) any thoughts? Thanks.
EDIT- my hero just didnt want to be mounted yesterday. today all is well.

Does it even give the option to mount? Have you seen any of those "Your sd card is damaged" errors?

Kcarpenter said:
Does it even give the option to mount? Have you seen any of those "Your sd card is damaged" errors?
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No it doesnt bring up the charge only, blah blah blah options. I am getting no sd card errors either and in recovery everything works fine. I just backed it all up. Should i try reformatting the card you think?

sdotcarlisle said:
No it doesnt bring up the charge only, blah blah blah options. I am getting no sd card errors either and in recovery everything works fine. I just backed it all up. Should i try reformatting the card you think?
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I would reformat the card and also check your USB cable. Lastly, make sure it's not your computers USB port that's causing the problems. Also, plug the USB cable into the motherboard itself on the back of your computer and if you can, test another device to check the ports as well
You should rule out all hardware problems, before actually having to format the card, but that's just me.

pseudoremora said:
I would reformat the card and also check your USB cable. Lastly, make sure it's not your computers USB port that's causing the problems. Also, plug the USB cable into the motherboard itself on the back of your computer and if you can, test another device to check the ports as well
You should rule out all hardware problems, before actually having to format the card, but that's just me.
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yea tried different cords and ports first. no go. restoring the nandroid now to see if worked. *fingers crossed*

Now when i plug it in it reboots and just keeps going through boot loop.

sdotcarlisle said:
Now when i plug it in it reboots and just keeps going through boot loop.
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Sounds like a dead filesystem. I recommend formatting/repartitioning your SD card.
Were/are you using A2SD?

smw6180 said:
Sounds like a dead filesystem. I recommend formatting/repartitioning your SD card.
Were/are you using A2SD?
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I am/was using a2sd. i did repartition; that is when i get boot loop when plugged in

sdotcarlisle said:
I am/was using a2sd. i did repartition; that is when i get boot loop when plugged in
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Repartition back to all fat32 (select 0's for swap/ext), then the rest for fat32.
See if it mounts. If not, probably a bad SD card.
If it does, repartition again, then upgrade ext2 to ext3.
If it mounts you're gold. If not, you might just have a fried SD card.

sdotcarlisle said:
I am/was using a2sd. i did repartition; that is when i get boot loop when plugged in
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How did you go about formatting your card? Did you use a mini sd card adapter and mount your sd card into your computer and format?
Or... did you format your card via recovery, making sure to set swap-size and ext2/3/4 to 0, while leaving your FAT32 set to remainder?
If you did one of the ways above, then try doing the other way and see if that fixes the issue.

I mount my hero every night in bed.

regaw_leinad said:
I mount my hero every night in bed.
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yea i usually eff it. now its effing me.

Try switching to a silicon-based lube....

smw6180 said:
Repartition back to all fat32 (select 0's for swap/ext), then the rest for fat32.
See if it mounts. If not, probably a bad SD card.
If it does, repartition again, then upgrade ext2 to ext3.
If it mounts you're gold. If not, you might just have a fried SD card.
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How did you go about formatting your card? Did you use a mini sd card adapter and mount your sd card into your computer and format?
Or... did you format your card via recovery, making sure to set swap-size and ext2/3/4 to 0, while leaving your FAT32 set to remainder?
If you did one of the ways above, then try doing the other way and see if that fixes the issue.
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i'll try this i did through recovery and did 32 swap. could it be a bad sd even though it'll mount in recovery and in an sd card reader?

tejasrichard said:
When I saw that title with you as the author.....let's just say I thought this thread would be going in a different direction....
Thought maybe you found a new use for the micro-usb port.
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LOL, naw the ports too big

sdotcarlisle said:
i'll try this i did through recovery and did 32 swap. could it be a bad sd even though it'll mount in recovery and in an sd card reader?
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Tried the steps listed above. maybe just a bad sd or i'm bound to only mount in recovery. does that mean i'm too old to mount?

sdotcarlisle said:
Tried the steps listed above. maybe just a bad sd or i'm bound to only mount in recovery. does that mean i'm too old to mount?
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Do you have another SD card lying around you can try?

sdotcarlisle said:
Tried the steps listed above. maybe just a bad sd or i'm bound to only mount in recovery. does that mean i'm too old to mount?
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*gives blue pill*

Ya know, you might try reinstalling the sdk, and updating HTC sync. Your drivers might have gotten corrupted somehow. I had issues with mine intermittently till I did both of the above.

tejasrichard said:
Ya know, you might try reinstalling the sdk, and updating HTC sync. Your drivers might have gotten corrupted somehow. I had issues with mine intermittently till I did both of the above.
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good thinking. thanks

[SOLVED][Q] Media files on SD card

i have been using nand/zip android roms since the beginning but 2 days ago i got a disturbing issue and i tried many nand/zip roms both froyo and ginger with no luck
whenever i unmount then remount the sd card , gallery and music applications stop recognizing my media files
i currently work around this by copying all media files to new locations but this is really disturbing
can any one assist me please

I'd try backing up the SD, formatting it, then putting your files back on and seeing if the problem persists first

bates_1974 said:
I'd try backing up the SD, formatting it, then putting your files back on and seeing if the problem persists first
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I already tried that ... and it did not work

come on guys
i really need assistance here

Does rebooting fix it?

No it does the same problem as if I unmounted the card

I also tried "sdrescan" application and it returned with the same problem
Please i need the solution

Try the "Multi Mount" app.

MartijnMM said:
Try the "Multi Mount" app.
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Already tried that , but with no good

Could be sectors on your card

bates_1974 said:
Could be sectors on your card
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So you are suggesting me to try another card ?

raoufn1984 said:
So you are suggesting me to try another card ?
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either that or use a program to give it a full thorough format, not just a quick one

thorough format didn't help

FIXED
Using the program "[email protected] Kill Disk" i "Killed" my SDcard and the formatted it in android and now everything is fine
Thanks for any one who might have tried to help me

raoufn1984 said:
FIXED
Using the program "[email protected] Kill Disk" i "Killed" my SDcard and the formatted it in android and now everything is fine
Thanks for any one who might have tried to help me
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So you basically did a proper format like already advised. You obviously didnt do a proper oen before and maybe used windows standard full format etc.
In future if you wish to do a proper format of a SD card use Panasonic SD Card Formatter with following settings...
FULL (ERASE ON)
Size adjustment ON

TheATHEiST said:
So you basically did a proper format like already advised. You obviously didnt do a proper oen before and maybe used windows standard full format etc.
In future if you wish to do a proper format of a SD card use Panasonic SD Card Formatter with following settings...
FULL (ERASE ON)
Size adjustment ON
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I didn't know about this "Panasonic" program , although i did more than 4 hours of searching both in xda and google
anyway , i did try a proper format using a tool from site sdcard.org -or something like that- and it did take about the same amount of time with this "[email protected] kill disk" so I am not sure
anyway, the good thing is that it is now working
thanks anyway
hope you mentioned this program earlier

[Q] Problems with dual boot Phiremod/HC update, expanding sd card etc.

Can anyone help me out with updating the dual boot Phiremod/HC install?
My pc is a Windows 7 64-bit and I'm having absolutely no luck expanding the sd card to use the full 8GB.
Windows 7 and Easeus don't see the partitions, and Gparted does, but won't let me expand to include the free space (listed as unallocated).
I finally managed to mount the sd card via ADB, and have copied the phiremod update zip there, but when I try to install it, I get an error (bad) and after a restart, the file has vanished from the partition.
I'm very new at this, but can usually follow detailed instructions.

Here's what I did to update to 6.3:
Insert SD Card into my computer's card reader
Download EASUS Partition Manager (also using W7 64-bit)
Take the SD Card partition (#6 I believe) and extend it using the unallocated space left (mine was about 6Gb left on my 8Gb card)
Run the job in the partition manager
Throw SD Card and boot into Phiremod 6.2
connect to computer via USB and copy the 6.3 update to the SD Card
reboot in recovery, clear cache and dalvik cache (under advanced)
flash the 6.3 update zip
Mine hung at the android... screen for about 10min then I did a hard reboot and it fired up and has been working fine.
I was getting gmail force closes until I wiped cache and dalvik cache so I added that step in before flashing.
Let me know how it goes!

Ummm.... yeah, what he said above.
Thanks "toosurreal01"
It's great when a community like this helps each other out.
-Racks

toosurreal01 said:
Here's what I did to update to 6.3:
Insert SD Card into my computer's card reader
Download EASUS Partition Manager (also using W7 64-bit)
Take the SD Card partition (#6 I believe) and extend it using the unallocated space left (mine was about 6Gb left on my 8Gb card)
Let me know how it goes!
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Thanks for the step by step instructions, but for me the buck stops at trying to extend the partition. Easus only sees the boot partition. Gparted shows all the partitions, but won't extend the sd partition. It looks like it should work (lets me drag the extender thingy), but when I apply the action, it reverts back to the original, with no error message. Just doesn't do it.
Should I start over and reformat the card?

It wouldn't hurt. Only thing you would lose are apps you've installed.
You could always use Titanium Backup for that though.
If you do reformat make sure you do a full format and not a "quick" one so no data is still lingering on the card.
Let us know how it goes!

siskiou said:
Thanks for the step by step instructions, but for me the buck stops at trying to extend the partition. Easus only sees the boot partition. Gparted shows all the partitions, but won't extend the sd partition. It looks like it should work (lets me drag the extender thingy), but when I apply the action, it reverts back to the original, with no error message. Just doesn't do it.
Should I start over and reformat the card?
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Just a shot in the dark. But did you unmount the partitions first before applyin your changes in EAsus?

racks11479 said:
Just a shot in the dark. But did you unmount the partitions first before applyin your changes in EAsus?
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Hm, no, I don't think so.
How would I do that? Card in Nook, or in PC?
Again, Easus only shows the boot partition, and nothing else.

siskiou said:
Hm, no, I don't think so.
How would I do that? Card in Nook, or in PC?
Again, Easus only shows the boot partition, and nothing else.
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I meant gparted. Sorry. Did u unmount the partition before attempting to extend it?
And when doing so. Please don't do it while card is in nook. Only when its in PC directly with a nmicrosd card reader
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racks11479 said:
I meant gparted. Sorry. Did u unmount the partition before attempting to extend it?
And when doing so. Please don't do it while card is in nook. Only when its in PC directly with a nmicrosd card reader
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Ah, do I need a usb micro sd card reader?
I only have a regular size sd card adapter for it.
And no, I didn't unmount the partition. I checked earlier, but there is no such option in the gparted menu, and I don't have much advanced partitioning knowledge.
A google search didn't help much.
Would appreciate if you could tell me how to do this!

siskiou said:
Ah, do I need a usb micro sd card reader?
I only have a regular size sd card adapter for it.
And no, I didn't unmount the partition. I checked earlier, but there is no such option in the gparted menu, and I don't have much advanced partitioning knowledge.
A google search didn't help much.
Would appreciate if you could tell me how to do this!
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It is preferred to use a micro sdcard reader. I assume you are using a Linux box or live CD with gparted. But there should definitely be a n option for you to unmount the partition. You will not be able to make any changes to mounted partitions.
Right click over the partition that you want to work with. It should give you a menu. And unmount should be one of the options.
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racks11479 said:
Right click over the partition that you want to work with. It should give you a menu. And unmount should be one of the options.
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Thanks for all your help!
I'm using a live cd on a Win 7 pc, and there is definitely no unmount option in the right click menu when I boot into gparted. Not even a greyed out one.
I'll try and burn another cd and see if that changes things.

siskiou said:
Thanks for all your help!
I'm using a live cd on a Win 7 pc, and there is definitely no unmount option in the right click menu when I boot into gparted. Not even a greyed out one.
I'll try and burn another cd and see if that changes things.
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That is very strange. There should always be an umoint option for partitions if gparyed recoginizes the drive. Hmmmm.... which version of Ubuntu are you using?
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I downloaded the Gparted live version 0.8.1-3.iso.

siskiou said:
I downloaded the Gparted live version 0.8.1-3.iso.
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Yeah. Then there shouldn't be an issue. :/
It might just be an issue with your card reader.
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Thanks again. I'll report back in once I get a usb card reader!

racks11479 said:
It might just be an issue with your card reader.
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Got a card reader and Easeus and Win 7 Disk Management can now see all the partitions.
No luck expanding the sd partition, though. The action seems to happen, but then everything reverts back to what it was originally.
No mount/unmount option anywhere to be found, not with Easeus, nor with Gparted or Win 7.
I'm out of ideas at this point and will reformat the card and start over.
Edited to add: Aaand I'm now having trouble doing *that*, too.
Tried it on the pc: no go.
Tried it on the Nook: it claimed the card was sucessfully formatted in about 1 sec, and then got stuck on that notice.
Waited 5 minutes, still stuck. Turned it off and back on, and Nook booted into Phiremod.
Any ideas how I can reformat this demon card?
Edited to add: Am now using a low level formatting tool and get "format error occurred at offset ...". The program is still running and seems to be formatting the rest of the card.
Does this sound like the sd card is damaged?

A couple other options for you to try:
SD Formatter 3.0 - Made specifically to format SD cards - http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3/
Partition Wizard - This is the software I used to extend the SD Card partition. Really simple to use - http://download.cnet.com/Partition-Wizard-Home-Edition/3000-2094_4-10962200.html?tag=mncol;7
I would try formatting the SD card, reinstalling the dualboot image, the using Partition Wizard to extend the SD card partition.
As far as updating, I haven't tried the newest update the when I updated from 6.1 to 6.2 I plugged my Nook into my computer, dropped the update file onto the Nook's internal memory, then moved it to the SD card with the Root Explorer app.
Hope any of that helps. Good luck!

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Thanks! I will give those a try, since everything was still on the card after the low level format.
Who knew that reformatting would be such a problem!
Did you have to unmount the sd partition, before extending it?

I extended the partition with Partition Wizard immediately after burning the dual boot image. Never messed with mounting or unmounting anything. I'm a little new to this myself really. Why would you need to mount the SD card partition?

I didn't think I had to, but racks11479 mentioned it as a possible solution in this thread, so I thought I'd ask.
None of the programs had any success in reformatting my card, so I returned it to the store and got a replacement.
Now I'm very ambivalent about trying again and possibly messing up another card.
Can anyone here think of anything that I might have done (or should have done) to cause the card to act this way?
And if anyone feels like posting a baby step guide for someone like me, I'd very much appreciate it!
Edited to add: I just found the following
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It also will produce a multi partition removable disk for which windows will not allow you to re-partition. If you want to get back to "normal" disk you can reformat it with Hewlett-Packard Company's HPUSBFW.exe
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Also, I used an old 2GB card to reformat my NC (went fabulously easy) and then reformatted that and tried a CM7 rom, which worked, but was way too slow. This reformatted again, without any problems, so I'm not sure if the above statement (regarding bootable sd cards) is correct or not.
And if anyone feels like posting a baby step guide for someone like me, I'd very much appreciate it!

super slow copying to SD

trying to copy over some backed up files from my computer to the phone after reformatting and reinstalling new nand android. but its so slooow current 24kb/s
formated to fat32.
could my sd card be exhausted?

SmurfN said:
trying to copy over some backed up files from my computer to the phone after reformatting and reinstalling new nand android. but its so slooow current 24kb/s
formated to fat32.
could my sd card be exhausted?
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Try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1010767

yz.hd said:
Try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1010767
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Your link does only increase internal read and write speed....but not usb connection!

icke said:
Your link does only increase internal read and write speed....but not usb connection!
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hmm, after I increased the cluster size of my sd card to 2048 (option when formatting sd card using pc, FAT32-clustersize 2048kb) I have seen huge differences.
anyways
If you are copying "huge" files, you should try copying one after one, not all of them at once.
link

yz.hd said:
hmm, after I increased the cluster size of my sd card to 2048 (option when formatting sd card using pc, FAT32-clustersize 2049kb) I have seen huge differences.
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Just placebo...take a test:
Restart your phone and instant after reboot plug in usb and copie any large file(20mb)...you will get 4-5mb/s.
Let your phone connected for 10mins or so and than try to copie same file to phone......only 600-700kb/s.

icke said:
Just placebo...take a test:
Restart your phone and instant after reboot plug in usb and copie any large file(20mb)...you will get 4-5mb/s.
Let your phone connected for 10mins or so and than try to copie same file to phone......only 600-700kb/s.
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I never copy files over to my comp, vice versa, using the usb method I use a sd card reader. I find it faster.
The reason why your phone may act faster copying something at the first seconds after boot, may be because your phone just booted, and there are not that much running in the background.

yz.hd said:
I never copy files over to my comp, vice versa, using the usb method I use a sd card reader. I find it faster.
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Right....BUT you have to shut down your phone to pull sd card. Otherwise it will stuck.
yz.hd said:
The reason why your phone may act faster copying something at the first seconds after boot, may be because your phone just booted, and there are not that much running in the background.
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Dunno...maybe...but it sucks!

icke said:
Right....BUT you have to shut down your phone to pull sd card.
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Your phone shouldn't be stuck unless your using a script like app2sd

yz.hd said:
Your phone shouldn't be stuck unless your using a script like app2sd
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WHAT?!
LOL...A***hole!
Just tested...phone stucked imerdiantly...hehe.

icke said:
WHAT?!
LOL...A***hole!
Just tested...phone stucked imerdiantly...hehe.
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muahahahahh got ya!
but jokes beside... Aren't our phones supposed to run android without sd card?
I think you have to boot your phone without your sd card then..

yz.hd said:
muahahahahh got ya!
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Yeah....I am bored.

fixed now... turns out it was the rom that was slow