My friend installed wm7 on my htc hd2. The original wm 6.5 is gone completely, he said. I don't know how to go back to the Tmobile(US) version. I am a beginner at this. PLEASE HELP me step by step. I am desperate!
Alright desperate guy.
Check this link out
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=976355
Post #3 and #4 should help you out.
This is probably a more simple explanation.
Disconnect phone and memory card.
Press-hold down button, and press the reset button under battery.
Tri-color bootloader screen appears.
Flash your regular Windows Mobile 6/6.1/6.5 ROM either stock/cooked
For the memory card, Windows Phone 7 Series formatted 200mb in FAT, and the rest is put into a RAID with the phone (basically coupling, to make it seem like one...bad explanation, but should suffice).
To get rid of this RAID configuration, you have to format the memory card. The built-in Windows formatter will not do the trick. Download FDisk or a similar program, and fix the memory card to be one partition for the entire thing.
Wallaa! Sweet Windows Mobile is back!
Geez....Windows Mobile Sense is still the best looking Sense UI. What happened to the classiness? *snicker* Android */snicker*
neoslan said:
This is probably a more simple explanation.
Disconnect phone and memory card.
Press-hold down button, and press the reset button under battery.
Tri-color bootloader screen appears.
Flash your regular Windows Mobile 6/6.1/6.5 ROM either stock/cooked
For the memory card, Windows Phone 7 Series formatted 200mb in FAT, and the rest is put into a RAID with the phone (basically coupling, to make it seem like one...bad explanation, but should suffice).
To get rid of this RAID configuration, you have to format the memory card. The built-in Windows formatter will not do the trick. Download FDisk or a similar program, and fix the memory card to be one partition for the entire thing.
Wallaa! Sweet Windows Mobile is back!
Geez....Windows Mobile Sense is still the best looking Sense UI. What happened to the classiness? *snicker* Android */snicker*
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Software RAID 0, basically which extends the phone partition(s) onto the card, as you said. From a data integrity perspective, it's a pointless method of storing data, especially in computers. For the phone, if the card's FS corrupts, you'll probably need to reset the phone back to factory settings. For computers, it's a little more complicated. It involves two or more hard drives, stringing them together to act as one big drive with combined capacity. If one goes bad, you're f*cked and everything is lost because the data is spread across all of them.
Also, to reformat the card correctly, the easiest way is to pop it into a digital camera and do a low-level format, if you have one.
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I just tried to write to Rom using XDArit.exe selected my SanDisk USB drive to write to. I selected the .nb1 to use and made sure that I did not select the .nb0. Clicked Start or OK. And then I noticed my Firewire was being written to, not my SanDisk USB Drive even though it was selected.
My firewire drive had 2 partitions, the FAT32 for the first 2GB and NTFS for the remaining 58GB. All of my information was intact, but my partition table was corrupted and the first 32K of my FAT32. I dont care about my FAT32, but my NTFS is VERY IMPORTANT and I cannot get it back.
HELP!!!!!
Wade
Hi,
Yes, the same thing happened to my system drive using the old version of xdrit.
There is a new version available in the forum.
I hope you had a recent backup?
regards,
Silver
Oh ****...
We're aware some of our existing tools, XDArit being chief among them, are currently in the hands of a way, way, way too large audience. XDArit was written with a controlled geek audience in mind, and was tested on my PC and two or three others before 'release'.
We are working our asses off to correct this situation. Expect a changeover to a whole new set of tools soon. This new set of tools will be much more intuitive, user-friendly and idiot proof: no more people renaming files to something.nb0 and wasting their devices....
Please accept our apologies regarding the harddrive...
Hi Peter Poelman
For me it was not too bad because I had a new backup made just befor I used the tool.
Out of experience I take the "backup" thing serious.
So, apologies accepted.
You guys are doing a lot of excellent stuff here.
regards,
Silver
Yep - me too unfortunately - lost my entire 40GB of files on my Toshiba notebook!!! :evil:
Really wish there had been some further warning (or more thought put into the sw) for non-geek users about the possibility of killing your drives with xdarit!!! And to make matters even worse - my usual backup drive had developed a problem with the firewire interface so I hadn't backed most of the data up (although this is just my own stupid fault).
Moral: Live and learn!!
Whew! That was close. OK I lost my FAT32 which was the 1st 2GB of my drive. But I was able to recover my NTFS using this program:
http://www.acronis.com/products/recoveryexpert/
If I had data on my FAT32 I could have probably kept it, but I didn't. It looks like this program could have found my files and let me save them off, but it wasn't nessesary.
I was a little bummed that I had to buy the program, but I have often needed a program like it before so the price was not all that bad. I spent a lot more time and money just trying to find a utility like this one that I could perform disk edit and recovery.
hi, I'd like to know if you can use the sd card and say partition it so that you can make your xda exec device use the storage on it as programe memory so it speeds the device up. this really is a fab device, but it really lacks the memory capacity that I had on a blue angel.
I have a 1gb sd card and don't mind loosing any storage space to accomplish this. if there isn't a way, can someone try and find a reg tweek for this....
anyway, I leave it with you...
cheers.
joey jojo
I think this is something which should be taken as a clue by developers who make programs such as Memaid, Pocket Mechanic, etc and include this as a a feature. Maybe the concept will be something similar to the Virtual Memory on a regular windows pc.
You are absolutely right, I too really miss the shortage of program memory. I can never open a really complicated web page with lots of images in Netfront before I get the dreadful warning that I have run out of program memory.
I hope some developer picks this up and incorporates this as a feature. I am sure this will increase his sales many many times.
Regards
you can put your internet explorer's cache on the sd-card...
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders\Cache]
change cache from '\windows\profiles\guest\temporari internet files' to '\SD_MMCard' to achieve this...
however you'll notice that it only slows your device incredibly down if your SD-Card is not set up right
see also http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=50301
There is just no way a third party program can add this. On the windows mobile team blog, there's a post from a few months back talking about doing virtual mem on the SD card, and basically, it's just not in the OS and won't be until at least WM6, and third-party programs can't do it.
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There is just no way a third party program can add this. On the windows mobile team blog, there's a post from a few months back talking about doing virtual mem on the SD card, and basically, it's just not in the OS and won't be until at least WM6, and third-party programs can't do it.
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Those are very disappointing news...
Speaking of memory management and the OS itself..I really wonder during the development of WM5, did they try to come up with a better OS, or just building up upon WM2003.
Reason why I say this is my Universal crashed yesterday, and a look into the "Memory" panel in the Settings showed the OLD memory management screen along with the sliders and all... :lol:
Looks like the developers got lazy and just placed a panel on top of the old one :lol:
Ehh.. You guys want to be buying new SD cards every third month?
Flash memory like the SD cards have only a limited number of write operations before they fail.
Using them for storage is good, because you don't write to the cards that much.
Using them as memory would totally screw up the card in a rather short time.
And, I think using SD card for program memory would result in a slower application, because of the read/write speed of the SD compared to the RAM..
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3 months is just a figure of speach..
I have no idea of how much time it would take before failure occurs..
It would probably result in slower and slower performance, because some sectors would be worn out faster than others..
What you say about the writes before failure is right, but when you are faced with a £300 PDA that has the same amount of RAM as my little finger, you have to do something.
SD cards are cheap enough these days, and money grows on trees. I'd rather be able to leave programs open and not worry about how much it will slow the machine down to have more that three big apps running than I would be about coughing up for a new SD card every 3 months.
I have seen a 4GB card on Ebay for less than £80, Tescos sell 1GB for £30 these days.
The great thing about Tescos is their guarantee. You buy the card, write it to death, take it back for a full refund, no questions asked.
As most of you probably know, the ROM of our PDA devices has a limited number of times it can be written to. This theoretical limit is roughly <1 million times. With Windows Mobile 5.0, the ROM of our devices is not only used to store the OS but also some of the more permanent information so that it doesn't get deleted should the battery run out.
I have read that this limit can be reached if the device is used intensely on a daily basis (http://www.eten-users.net/topic70 ) especially for web browsing.
My question is simple : in order to not use up the ROM capital of my Qtek ROM which to my knowledge can't really be changed, can I tell WM5 to use my SD card instead? Is there a program that allows you to do systematically do this? Is there a way of estimating the miles/kilometers of usage left the ROM?
Thanks
D.D.
I haven't really heard about this but there might be an option to store the browser's cache on SD. This would reduce considerably the amount of data that is written in the inbuilt Flash RAM (not ROM).
I read on a M$ blog that they "spread out" the read/writes to avoid this problem. The WM5 code is written to not keep using the same area of memory so that it does not "wear out" too soon. This way your device memory should last for years.
Found the blog entry - it's here: http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsmobile/archive/2006/06/07/621132.aspx
you can put anything related to the browser onto the SD
no option I'm afraid, you have to edit the registry. Search the forum for the keys.
See the wizard thread for a list of keys to change. I used the Mobile registry editor http://www.breaksoft.com/Blog/Utilities/2005/1/Mobile_Registry_Editor.aspx as it does it via Activesync, nothing to install on either device or PC.
There is also a util which will change the path to the SD card for you. I did it manually as I wanted to select the path on my SD card, all done and working lovely.
I have only a few things loaded into my phone and most of the programs are loaded into the memory card (8 gig). so why is it out of no where, i have only 9 Megs of memory left for storage!?!!?
since i'm on SPB Mobile Shell 3, can i just uninstall HTC's home thing? it's really obsolete now that the Shell 3 is not only beautiful but easy to use and very well laid out (which basically saying i did a good job laying it out).
what can be done to increase memory size? what is needed and what isn't?
thanks!!
chivas228 said:
I have only a few things loaded into my phone and most of the programs are loaded into the memory card (8 gig). so why is it out of no where, i have only 9 Megs of memory left for storage!?!!?
since i'm on SPB Mobile Shell 3, can i just uninstall HTC's home thing? it's really obsolete now that the Shell 3 is not only beautiful but easy to use and very well laid out (which basically saying i did a good job laying it out).
what can be done to increase memory size? what is needed and what isn't?
thanks!!
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dude, you must have a heap of stuff installed on your device. I install a fair bit of stuff with each new ROM, but generally have between 60 - 80 mb free.
you sure you haven't downloaded some stuff accidentally to your device instead of your storage card?
Sounds like your card could be corrupt.You could try put it in a card reader right click on your card in my computer click properties on under the tools tab click error checking.You could also try http://www.wizcode.com/products/view/pocket_mechanic_professional this is a demo but will let you scan your disk and fix cross linked files or corrupted volumes.
cr1960 said:
dude, you must have a heap of stuff installed on your device. I install a fair bit of stuff with each new ROM, but generally have between 60 - 80 mb free.
you sure you haven't downloaded some stuff accidentally to your device instead of your storage card?
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well, i started off with 6.0 and upgraded to the oem 6.1 rom. i've stuck with it since it's simple and didn't seem to have much problems based on feedbacks on this board. i'm not sure if the OEM rom is bloated or not. maybe... hum... i'll have to look into that.
meknb said:
Sounds like your card could be corrupt.You could try put it in a card reader right click on your card in my computer click properties on under the tools tab click error checking.You could also try http://www.wizcode.com/products/view/pocket_mechanic_professional this is a demo but will let you scan your disk and fix cross linked files or corrupted volumes.
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i have SK tools but i've also used Pocket Mechanic before but i don't remember if it made any difference. i'll give it a try and report back. Thanks!
Hello
Try the just released ScanDisk Mobile, this is an improved version of the ScanDisk version used in Pocket Mechanic that can detect and fix much more issues than Pocket Mechanic. It will become an integral part of Pocket Mechanic v3 soon! By the way if anybody is interested in beta testing our newest product - Unformat Mobile please drop me a message. Unformat Mobile scans the card sector by sector and uses zero assumption data recovery algorithms for reconstructing pieces of files found without even relying on the file system. Basically it is able to recover files from a formatted or severely damaged storage cards and so far alpha testing gives lots of promises!
Cheers,
Anton Tomov
Wizcode
chivas228 said:
I have only a few things loaded into my phone and most of the programs are loaded into the memory card (8 gig). so why is it out of no where, i have only 9 Megs of memory left for storage!?!!?
since i'm on SPB Mobile Shell 3, can i just uninstall HTC's home thing? it's really obsolete now that the Shell 3 is not only beautiful but easy to use and very well laid out (which basically saying i did a good job laying it out).
what can be done to increase memory size? what is needed and what isn't?
thanks!!
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r u talkin about the phone memory or the memory card
syto203 said:
r u talkin about the phone memory or the memory card
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the phone memory.
i did the unthinkable for me today. i did a hard reset so i'm starting from scratch. i'm not sure what happened but now i have what i suspect is the "normal" amount of phone storage size which is 78 megs.
i think when i did a restore on the phone, it doubled what was in storage thus causing the low amount of memory.
i guess sometimes it's good to do a hard reset to clean things up though i had my phone setup perfectly... exactly the way i want it except for the memory part.
Is it possible to use Ext2 on my SD-card instead of the useless FAT32?
Once again the FAT32 filesystem failed.. And I cannot access my SD-card anymore. I think its the third time the crappy useless piece of **** stoped working now. And yes, I didnt do anything wrong. I just mounted it and about 2 seconds later it disapered. dmesg gives me a lots of I/O errors.
Were living in the year 2010, not the 70s.. With all my heart, I f*****g hate Bill Gates for ever released the crappy filesystem. I didnt switch to Linux just to run som old crappy Microsoft filesystem.
I'm sorry for my language, but Im really mad at the piece of **** atm.
Well,
I've had my Hero for 5 months, and only once did my SD Card become "de-formatted". And this was only when i ran the original 1.5 ROM.
What ROM do you currently use, or have you used only the official ROMs?
Or could it be a hardware problem?
Im using VanillaEclair 5.0.
Seemse like its a hardware problem after all, the SD-card adapter that came with the SD-card (?). I found a way to mount the SD-card in recovery mode and it works just fine now. Doing a new fresh backup as we speak.
But I'm still intrested in using Ext2. Feels kinda stupid to use some old filesystem.
FAT32 is kinda old and crappy, yeah.
But you can use on almost every OS and all that?
Ext2/ext3/ext4 and so on. Can't be read by windows if i'm not mistaken?
But, yeah. A newer file system would be awesome.
sublue said:
FAT32 is kinda old and crappy, yeah.
But you can use on almost every OS and all that?
Ext2/ext3/ext4 and so on. Can't be read by windows if i'm not mistaken?
But, yeah. A newer file system would be awesome.
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Theres 3rd party drivers for Ext2/3 filssystems on Windows. It worked pretty good when I tested it about 3 years ago.
Im only using GNU/Linux on my computers.
Oh, nice.
Well, i use Windows.
Tried to make Ubuntu my "main" OS, but really i got bored.
There's too much to do, and not everything works as you would want it to..
So, i went back to Windows because everything is simpler and mostly everything works..
Anyways! My point was that Android must be using Fat32 because of compatibility for most of today's OS's.
And we have ext2/3/4 data system for the ext partition.
From wikipedia - ext2 1993, fat32 1998.
What do you actually want/need the file system on removable card on a phone to do? Does it actually matter as long as it works?
Oh and I use both Linux and Windows - so no religion for me.
malarcy said:
From wikipedia - ext2 1993, fat32 1998.
What do you actually want/need the file system on removable card on a phone to do? Does it actually matter as long as it works?
Oh and I use both Linux and Windows - so no religion for me.
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To work properly.
Not sure what soft format would make up for faulty hardware but I guess blind faith is a good a hope as any.
My questions were genuine, I was interested in what features you wanted from the ext2 filesystem that you didn't have in fat32, from your response (and actually from your initial post) it seems you just want to lash out in your frustration at your hardware.
Sorry to have shown (a passing) interest in your posts - not a mistake I will repeat.
Its not FAT32. I dont like the license and the patents by Microsoft.
At first I thought it was FAT32 that was the bad guy, but it was the SD-card adapter. But in general FAT32 isnt know to be the most stable fs and I had problems with in the past.
Kinda funny though, just cuz I dont like FAT32 and use GNU/Linux I must be some kinda stupid fanatic user with Linux as my religion.
I was really angry at the time. I have lost all my data atleast once before cuz of the FAT32 and I thought I was going to loose it all again, since my last backup was a few weeks old and I've been doing a lot of stuff with my Hero the last few days.
So, now I hate both my SD-card adapter and the FAT32 filesystem. If that meets the criteria to be clasified as some fanatic Linux user so be it. I dont care.
Jolly good.
Use EXT2/3/4 format in External SD Card in Android
Hund said:
Is it possible to use Ext2 on my SD-card instead of the useless FAT32?
Once again the FAT32 filesystem failed.. And I cannot access my SD-card anymore. I think its the third time the crappy useless piece of **** stoped working now. And yes, I didnt do anything wrong. I just mounted it and about 2 seconds later it disapered. dmesg gives me a lots of I/O errors.
Were living in the year 2010, not the 70s.. With all my heart, I f*****g hate Bill Gates for ever released the crappy filesystem. I didnt switch to Linux just to run som old crappy Microsoft filesystem.
I'm sorry for my language, but Im really mad at the piece of **** atm.
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I just found pretty guide few minutes ago. I haven't tried it yet. But I'll definately going to try it. Because I want get rid of FAT's 4GB file size limitation.
If you want to try here is the link.
After typing reply I realized that thread is too old but still posting the reply hoping that it would help someone else. (I think you might have made your way to use ext2/3/4)