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Storage Card Problem - Not Showing UP

I just transferred some cabs and was in the middle of transferring music over to my ppc when all of a sudden it mentioned that I had inadequate space. So I opened up file explorer and it brought up the items on the storage card, including stuff transferred pre-music. I tried running one of the cabs, no avail. I figured I would soft-reset and see if that woudln't fix it. Well, now it won't show up under the memory tab and I am currently trying to run it on my pc. No money.
I guess, am I looking at a dead mem card or should I try anything to revive it?

Any help here?

You need to see if the card can be read by your pc via a card reader. Try your card in another phone or camera if you can. Also good to know what rom you have as this kinda error is more common with the older roms. Good chance your card has an error and will need to be reformatted - backup any data if you can. Reformat to fat - preferably on the device using storage tools or sktools - google for them.

meschle:
I used the adapter to try to load it up on my pc. No dice, freezes up file explorer a little bit and asks me to insert device into slot. Should I try loading it on another device? I'll load up storage tools and see if it can't find anything. I'm thinking I should look into another card, though but wanted to see if there wasn't anything I couldn't do to spare myself the money - college students get really touchy about money, you see.
On the subject, I'm looking at a $40 card from OEM - anyone have/know anything about these cards?
Thanks a lot for even responding though. I get really antsy when something ill happens to an expensive device of mine.

jose_v said:
meschle:
I used the adapter to try to load it up on my pc. No dice, freezes up file explorer a little bit and asks me to insert device into slot. Should I try loading it on another device? I'll load up storage tools and see if it can't find anything. I'm thinking I should look into another card, though but wanted to see if there wasn't anything I couldn't do to spare myself the money - college students get really touchy about money, you see.
On the subject, I'm looking at a $40 card from OEM - anyone have/know anything about these cards?
Thanks a lot for even responding though. I get really antsy when something ill happens to an expensive device of mine.
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Try loading on another device - people have had success popping them in cameras - use an sd adapter and try that.

Spectec Mini SD WiFi

Hi. i was wondering if anyone can help me out. i have the Spectec Mini SD WiFi card (SDW822 Mini SD, 802.11b standard). The card worked real well and now 6months later, it doesn't work. This is what i mean. anyone who uses it sees a green blinking light on its antenna and the device "sees" a hotspot and asks if i want to connect to it. Now, the light only blinks as if it is finding the correct setting, but doesn't pick up on a WiFi signal at all. Even sitting at my university in a "hotspot" in my student center, the card doesn't seem to be picking up the signal at all even though the appears the card is operational (the blinking green light).
i am not sure what to make of it, like if there is something busted inside the card or not, or is it my actual device (even though it worked for 6 months, why it doesn't work not i have no clue). i tried installing the drivers again, and even installing the latest driver provided by Spectec. nothing works though nor was their support much help (they just answered to uninstall and then reinstall the drivers but duh, i already knew that lol). can anyone let me know a solution like if i need to buy a new one or not? i miss having the WiFi on my ppc/phone and i don't have an unlimited data plan, plus even if i did, GPRS is painfully slow.
if this helps, my phone is an E-TEN G500 running Windows Mobile 5.0 (AKU 1.1.4). i hope i can hear a response soon. i may just end up having to buy a new one but i would like to hear anyone's thoughts. i hope you guys can help me!
by the way, i don't think it is my SD card port b/c i can still use any other card that i put in the slot with no problems like my GPS and the card i use to store my music and such.

Does anyone have anything to say? i tried their support again and still told me the same thing from their automated e-mail then send out and its really frustrating. even more so, no one has been able to say anything about to respond to this thread. please let me know anything that could lead me to a solution. i dont want ot have to buy another card to see if it works or not.

I guess no one wants to help me i guess these forums are useless if no one wants to help one another. i was hoping this would be a simple solution. i am gonna have to buy another card and see if it is my original card or if it is my device. i even upgraded the OS to AKU 2.2 but still nothing with my original card.
thanks everyone for your help

Air card is it possible

let me first start off by telling you that in no way shape or form am I skilled enough to be a developer nor am I asking the deleloper with the skill to take this on. I have searched a few forum and I really can't find any info about this subject.
I have a siearra wireless card USB598 the service is provided by Sprint, Does anyone know if it would be possible to make this work on the gtab? Or is it even possible to make it work in an android system?
When I plug the card in it powers up and seems to be doing what the card does but like you could guess it does nothing else. I didn't expect it to do anything else but I didn't think it would even power on.

I am not a developer either, but off the top of my head (devs feel free to correct me):
You would need drivers for the AirCard (no idea, but maybe the Linux drivers [if they are made for the card might work])
You would also need some sort of software to have the AirCard connect to the mobile network and to have the GTab use the Aircard as a means of communication
Dan

Velcro a mifi onto the back. : -)
Sent from my GTablet-TnT-Lite using Tapatalk

I have an air-card, as well. It's on my list of to do's but it will be tricky at best.
I had a sierra air-card a few years back, and got it to work with Ubuntu using some ppp commands. I figure that would be the most likely route in Android, since it has some *nix similarities, but I haven't gotten very far.
If you look at "dmesg", your card might be loading up. But the problem is actually getting old modems commands to it to get it running. I think.

ultimind said:
Velcro a mifi onto the back. : -)
Sent from my GTablet-TnT-Lite using Tapatalk
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YES! Sprint Overdrive 4G! WooHoo!

It'd be a lot easier to try one of the 3G/4G-to-local wireless "boxes" available through many wireless providers (I use MyWi on my jailbroken iPhone 3GS though I'm looking into clear.com's service on the go). That way not only your GTablet, but your laptop and other devices can connect to the same connection and even your friends.

The air card is provided by my employer so I'm kind of stuck with it and getting into a myfi device isn't an option.
It's not really a huge issue I can always tether to my phone, It would just be nice to pop in the card and be up and running. The card also has gps built into it and I could see some use in that too.
I think drivers are going to be the biggest issue the MFG only supports MS and MAC, but there are some threads out on the web were people have gotten them to work in ubuntu. Beyond the driver issue there still needs to be some type of dialing software. On a windows box you can use a simple dialing software and dial a #77 and it will connect.
One other thing that this card has the ability to do is NDIS where the card becomes a network card and as soon as it's inserted into a pc it connects automatically but I'm almost 100% sure that it is still software based.
Thanks for the feed back.

greyspacealien said:
The air card is provided by my employer so I'm kind of stuck with it and getting into a myfi device isn't an option.
It's not really a huge issue I can always tether to my phone, It would just be nice to pop in the card and be up and running. The card also has gps built into it and I could see some use in that too.
I think drivers are going to be the biggest issue the MFG only supports MS and MAC, but there are some threads out on the web were people have gotten them to work in ubuntu. Beyond the driver issue there still needs to be some type of dialing software. On a windows box you can use a simple dialing software and dial a #77 and it will connect.
One other thing that this card has the ability to do is NDIS where the card becomes a network card and as soon as it's inserted into a pc it connects automatically but I'm almost 100% sure that it is still software based.
Thanks for the feed back.
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For the ZT-180 tablets we got a number of these going as they looked like serial modem interfaces using ppp via the USB (might need to turn off/disable) any builtin diskstore... there sometimes required a build.prop edit to set the tty correct... I'd normally say look over on Slatedroid at our zt180 section as there were a few threads for different 3G dongles but mostly similar instructions... except slatedroid's been bottom up the last 30 or so hours... the zt-180 thread here is HUGE but I suspect you could find most of the same info scattered throughtout there also as maybe a starting point...

Novatel Ovation U727
The Ovation U727 supports Linux in addition to Windows & MAC. Data sheet indicates it has built in GPS-A in addition to 3G. Anyone tried one of these? I might get a used one & give it a try.

[Q] Newbie questions

I just got a Samsung Vibrant yesterday from a 3rd party, and I'm very excited. I know I need to read a lot on this site, but since this is my 1st smartphone, please forgive my basic/naive questions, be gentle on me, and give me some directions so that I won't have to walk in the darkness.
1) I haven't done anything essential to the phone yet, and I'm considering to root, unlock and the phone, and upgrade from 2.1-update1 to 2.2. Which one should I start first, root, unlock, or upgrade? Even though I haven't done much on the phone, do I still need to go through the backup before rooting?
2) Between the IMEI and S/N barcodes, there is '10.10' on the phone which I assume is the manufacture time of Oct. 2010. Would the GPS 'fix' be done with my phone (Build Number: Eclair.UVJI6)? Considering the amount of complaints about the GPS on Samsung Vibrant, how does the GPS work with offline applications like CoPilot? Where should I put the CoPilot Map, in internal or external SD?
3) If I want to make phone calls through WIFI connections without eating up my minutes, what kind of VOIP combination should I consider? Google Voice?
4) What web browser do you recommend? Other nice applications should I put in?
5) When I select Avatar, it says "File not found". Is it supposed to be in the external SD (which seems empty)? Where can I get the file?
Thanks a lot for your help!

I would suggest reading the bible in the Development section. or this
get the proper drivers here.
root with Superoneclick found here. There is another version floating around that works better that is called SuperOneClick for Froyo.
fix 3e recovery (if running stock froyo) software found here runs from your computer with your phone connected and usb debugging turned on.
download the Clockwork Recovery Unlock.zip from either Rom Manager or here (put it in your phones internal SD root)
I HIGHLY RECOMMEND TeamWhiskey's Rom Bionix-V 1.2.1 found here
But I would suggest getting to know your Vibrant/android phone if you have never owned one first.
Edit: Calling over wifi uses your plan's minutes. Its meant for poor reception areas where you might have wifi with broadband internet.
Edit2: Most people get rid of the "Avatar" its just the movie and takes up space. I believe it should be on the SD card that came with the phone.

Congrats on the phone
1st is to root it you can use the super-one-click, like the previous post said. There are other rooting but this one is very easy
After that, Read up on the roms the Axura, Trigger, Einherjar, and Bionix are all fine and depending on your need you have really great choices, the Axura has remarkable battery life, for example. So do the reading on which you would like. Once you pick one flash it. Then get Rom manager and Titanium back up. Free from the app store. Then you can start playing. Should you decide that you do not like or just want to try another rom, you can flash over the last most times with out problems. One thing (read the bible) if you do flash over one of the custom roms you will need to disable the voodoo lagfix. This is actually a file conversion. So Read up on that as well. Hope that helps you.

[Q] Newbie Questions
I too got a vibrant yesterday and then upgraded to 2.2 of skies mini. The problem is now I have not found a way to get it rooted with 2.2. Any ideas?

coldasice304 said:
I too got a vibrant yesterday and then upgraded to 2.2 of skies mini. The problem is now I have not found a way to get it rooted with 2.2. Any ideas?
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There is the super one click or you can get a copy of the update folder that roots the phone.... place it on the internal sd card go to recovery and install update...... that also will do it. LOOK IN THE STICKY/BIBLE

Thanks a lot for the great help, FlyingPoo and oka1! I really appreciate it.
A couple of more newbie questions:
1) When making phone calls, sometimes I need to key in some options after the phone is connected (for example, when you call a customer service 800 number). How can I bring up a on-screen keyboard when the phone is already connected?
2) It seems my Samsung Vibrant has much weaker WIFI reception than my Mac laptop, and I have to bring the phone closer to the router to get detectable WIFI signal. Is there anyway I can boost the phone's reception capability?
Thanks a lot!

I guess I get to ask the first dumb question!

Hello all,
Used to be on here for about 10 years but now I don't have access to my old email so I'm back to being a newbie. I feel like one too since the last device I rooted was a HTC HD2. Those were the days... LOL I've been a longtime Windows guy since 6.1 and before and have followed the progress through 7, 8, 8.1 & 10 as an insider but I think it's time to start looking at Android again.
Anyway, saw this really great deal on Amazon for the Idol 5S and since I was already using an Idol 4S with Windows, I thought I'd give it a go. Especially for $211 it seemed like a pretty good deal to me. Now the first annoying thing is really why the price was so good and that's the Amazon Prime ads on the lock screen. No way to get rid of them. They've obviously rooted the phone already and taken away any developer options and that's what I was looking for when it brought me back to XDA.
My problem is that I have an SD card installed, I made sure to format it and it functions as you'd expect with one exception. When I connect to my PC via PTP (Win10 latest insider build), I see internal storage but not the SD card. If I change to MTP use for the USB, I get nothing at all just a charge. I've installed the correct drivers in Windows so I don't see why this should be an issue unless something has changed these days with you having no external access to the SD card? I was thinking of checking USB debug mode to make sure that was off but like I said, no developer options are available.
That brings me to my question (Dumb or not), anyone got any ideas? Is my new newbie status just making me blind? I guess there is no way to root this device yet until some clever dev comes up with a way but if anyone has any suggestions, I'm all ears. thanks in advance and have a great day! :good:

There are no dumb questions (as long as there are no sticky threads that already contain the answer ).
Are you using the SD card as an external storage or is it recognized by your phone as part of the internal storage (c.f. settings->storage)? The latter is an optional feature that got introduced with android M. Neither your phone nor your PC will distinguish between the phones internal storage and the SD card if you use this option.
You need to be aware that your SD card gets encrypted if you decide to use that feature and that only your phone is able to decrypt the data that is stored on the card. In other words if your phone dies due to whichever reason then you won't be able to recover the data on your card. In addition, the internal storage of nowadays smartphones is quite fast (in regard to its read/write speed). Most of the SD cards on the market aren't (in comparison to the internal storage's speed). This means that integrating an SD card to your internal storage slows your phone down.

Flippy498 said:
There are no dumb questions (as long as there are no sticky threads that already contain the answer ).
Are you using the SD card as an external storage or is it recognized by your phone as part of the internal storage (c.f. settings->storage)? The latter is an optional feature that got introduced with android M. Neither your phone nor your PC will distinguish between the phones internal storage and the SD card if you use this option.
You need to be aware that your SD card gets encrypted if you decide to use that feature and that only your phone is able to decrypt the data that is stored on the card. In other words if your phone dies due to whichever reason then you won't be able to recover the data on your card. In addition, the internal storage of nowadays smartphones is quite fast (in regard to its read/write speed). Most of the SD cards on the market aren't (in comparison to the internal storage's speed). This means that integrating an SD card to your internal storage slows your phone down.
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Thanks for the reply Flippy. I've tried to format the SD both ways. First as external storage and secondly as internal storage. Either way I do it, it is not showing up in Windows file explorer as expected. I see internal storage being the actual phone with no problem but no go on the SD card. It's a strange problem that I've never run across before. I've read that this may occur if USB debugging is on but since this is a pre-rooted phone by Amazon, I am unable to confirm if this is the case or not since there are no developer options or ways to get to USB debugging. They are omitted from the settings menu. I guess you get what you pay for buying from Amazon but I will hold out hope that the price and build quality will make this phone popular and some clever dev will find a way to root it so I can flash it with a new build without the limitations.
With regard to the build, it's very nice. All aluminum bezel, beautiful design. Responsive and snappy and a perfect form factor with it's size. I like it so far but I would say that I am looking forward to making it my own...
Thanks again for your response.

I need root my phone

[email protected] said:
I need root my phone
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I'm wondering if this phone will be rootable? Seems Google is making it harder with Nougat.