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How many times has your memory card corrupted?

Today is the 7th time since June 4th(oem sd card)
stock, stock rooted, damage, joeykrim, fresh, doesnt matter. It has happened on every single one. Just happened now when i plugged in the usb cable.

ZERO corruptions for me. Stock, unrooted, both OTA's installed.

Yeah man, it seems that there is something wrong with the usb port you're plugging your phone into. I never had a problem with it. Check your other hardware before you absolutely blame it on the phone.
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NONE at all. Stock, rooted.

Just make sure you eject from your PC before unmounting your card

Just to check, you are safely removing it from your system before disconnecting your phone, correct? Not so much a problem in Windows 7, but could cause corruption if you aren't doing that.
edit: Natty_lite beat me to the punch!

One time so far, luckily I had picked up one of these:
http://www.meritline.com/microsd-memory-card-reader---p-38219.aspx
Using that, my PC was still able to read the sd card and I was able to pull all of my data off of it. Then formatted sd card on the phone, and copied data back over. Well worth the 1.85, better to be safe than sorry.
Actually got mine when it was on sale for .39 cents. At the time I didn't know if I would ever even use it, but glad that I got it now.

Zero. Using the SanDisk that came with the phone.

Jye75 said:
ZERO corruptions for me. Stock, unrooted, both OTA's installed.
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same here!

always did safely eject. on win7, vista, and xp machines(always worried about loosing pictures and music, which thank GOD i put them on dropbox yesterday.
Well since this happened i guess i can take advantage of preparing apps2sd.
sucks i gotta download all my apps all over again though to actually USE apps2sd lol.

Philosuffer said:
One time so far, luckily I had picked up one of these:
http://www.meritline.com/microsd-memory-card-reader---p-38219.aspx
Using that, my PC was still able to read the sd card and I was able to pull all of my data off of it. Then formatted sd card on the phone, and copied data back over. Well worth the 1.85, better to be safe than sorry.
Actually got mine when it was on sale for .39 cents. At the time I didn't know if I would ever even use it, but glad that I got it now.
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when in recovery (amonRA) you have the ability to mount the microSD which should be the same as using the adapter(which i have at home) but windows wouldnt even recognize it.

Replace the SD card?

0 corruptions so far for me. Both on my original 8gb and transcend 16gb.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=723477&page=2
Try that and see what happens. You got nothing to lose. I will reply on other thread if success or failure. I think it might be poor design of the SD card area. Other older designs didn't give me any problems in the past.

munsterrr said:
when in recovery (amonRA) you have the ability to mount the microSD which should be the same as using the adapter(which i have at home) but windows wouldnt even recognize it.
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Hmm, good to know. Thanks for the tip.

Ok, I've pretty much tested my theory for almost 24 hours and the card is behaving. So I don't type out my short story again, read the link I posted above for my results so far.
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HTC incredible endless boot loop

i have a non-rooted HTC incredible, however it's stuck in an endless boot loop. I can enter recovery, but that's about it.
any suggestions as to what i can do?

hard reset may work
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i tried hard resetting it. this did not solve the problem.

ok. if you are not rooted, take ot back to big red and get a replacement. from what i hear, the incredible is not that well made. i know that on my inc-- sometimes haptic feedback gives out, sound gives out, amd it overheats
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jdkoreclipse said:
ok. if you are not rooted, take ot back to big red and get a replacement. from what i hear, the incredible is not that well made. i know that on my inc-- sometimes haptic feedback gives out, sound gives out, amd it overheats
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i am the second owner of the incredible, and apparently, the warranty only applies to the original owner.

Are you root?
When and how did this start happening?

jdkoreclipse said:
ok. if you are not rooted, take ot back to big red and get a replacement. from what i hear, the incredible is not that well made. i know that on my inc-- sometimes haptic feedback gives out, sound gives out, amd it overheats
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Sounds like you got a bad one. Mine is perfect. No issues.

JaydenR said:
Sounds like you got a bad one. Mine is perfect. No issues.
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im actually thinking of taking it back and getting a moto droid. i love the dinc, but it is poorly made.
Too bad i cant return, as i got it on release day. maybe if i can pick a good fight with the vzw guy, i could swap it out.
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JaydenR said:
Are you root?
When and how did this start happening?
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i'm not rooted. i was just using the phone normally and then it randomly rebooted. now it's stuck in a loop.
do you guys think if i apply a manual non-rooted update it would fix the problem?
if yes, where can i get a link to download this?

RUU
You should try running any of the stock RUU's; maybe even the most recent one (although I make no warranty; and this is at your risk). Perhaps your reboot loop is a heat related issue due to a faulty radio which is working too hard.
http://www.shipped-roms.com/shipped/Incredible/
has the RUU's although it is not clear as to how long.
I am on my 2nd incredible; first one overheated and would then would do a 4-13 white screen / black screen / white screen / ... until it would move on.

theanswer said:
i'm not rooted. i was just using the phone normally and then it randomly rebooted. now it's stuck in a loop.
do you guys think if i apply a manual non-rooted update it would fix the problem?
if yes, where can i get a link to download this?
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edit: post is useless.
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Try the RUU that was posted.

jdmba said:
You should try running any of the stock RUU's; maybe even the most recent one (although I make no warranty; and this is at your risk). Perhaps your reboot loop is a heat related issue due to a faulty radio which is working too hard.
http://www.shipped-roms.com/shipped/Incredible/
has the RUU's although it is not clear as to how long.
I am on my 2nd incredible; first one overheated and would then would do a 4-13 white screen / black screen / white screen / ... until it would move on.
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these RUUs require the phone to be turned on though. i cant get past the boot screen

theanswer said:
these RUUs require the phone to be turned on though. i cant get past the boot screen
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download the downgrade image. it will be found in the ota thread in the dev section.
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jdkoreclipse said:
download the downgrade image. it will be found in the ota thread in the dev section.
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just want to confirm, you want me to follow this:
http://androidforums.com/all-things...16-how-revert-back-earlier-version-hboot.html

theanswer said:
just want to confirm, you want me to follow this:
http://androidforums.com/all-things...16-how-revert-back-earlier-version-hboot.html
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put this on the root of ypur sd card, boot into bootloader, and let the phone do the rest. YOU MAY LOSE ALL DATA
http://www.mediafire.com/?yum40znzwmmmtyl
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jdkoreclipse said:
put this on the root of ypur sd card, boot into bootloader, and let the phone do the rest. YOU MAY LOSE ALL DATA
http://www.mediafire.com/?yum40znzwmmmtyl
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just tried this, and it did not solve the problem. any other suggestions?
thanks for the help btw, i really appreciate it.

theanswer said:
just tried this, and it did not solve the problem. any other suggestions?
thanks for the help btw, i really appreciate it.
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ruu, hard reset, and stock img, that is it. Your dinc is hosed. I hope you have insurance??? (this is the part where you say yes)
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Welp
While it may not help you, it can't hurt to say. I was having huge reboot issues ... highest number was 13 initial white screen / black screen cycles. I could also NEVER get into Recovery (I could get into HBOOT but when I chose recovery, it would do TWO reboots, the second being full). A battery pull was usually needed.
However, the one thing that allowed me into recovery, etc., was to let the phone charge overnight to 100% and let it be. In the morning, the phone was charged and cool. At that point, I could easily get into recovery, start up, etc.
While I am sure you have tried this; just wanted to note to make sure your phone is cool and you did a battery pull for at least 10 minutes.

I too have this issue
I also have a stock incredible that I bought second hand, which when i bought it, I checked to make sure the device was ok. When I activated it like 2 minutes later it entered a reboot loop. I thought it might be a botched PRL so I went to the Verizon Rep (I met the seller at vz store) and he performed a forced activation. It continued the reboot loop so I took it home. I noticed that if I was outside or near a window, the phone would act normally. I used this discovery to root it and install a recovery. I flashed a few kernel/rom/radio combinations including stock rooted but there was no luck. I flashed back to RUU and it continued to reboot loop. The next day I reversed the activation back to my Eris. 20 minutes later the phone is perfect. I reactivated the device and it commenced rebooting immediately. I took it back to the store and they noted the same behavior. I'm pretty sure it's a faulty radio but since it wasn't activated on the original # they couldn't warranty it. They did tell me if the original owner activates it, they will warranty it so were gonna do that. I hope nobody else has this issue, but if you have this problem, try RUU, and if that doesnt fix it, it's likely hardware failure

[Q] I have two Galaxy S, i9000m with bell. one bricked, other works fine, HELP!

Ok this is what happened, my first i9000m I played around with a lot of roms, perfecting, upgrading, everything was perfect, I know what I am doing when it comes to flashing, etc.
I am almost 90% sure the problem started when my internal sd card started causing problems. I got random restarts, files missing, weird and random fc's, so I used clockwork to backup, and i was also copying files from my internal sd, to my external.
I had insanity installed, and I think just upgraded to GB, or it was around time when 2.3.3 started coming out, I rebooted to recovery, and int sd said didn't exist, or could not mount, something like that
I tried a lot of methods listed online, using odin I flashed a stock jvb using odin, it finished successfully, rebooted, and recovery came up and did the usual upgrading, etc, but it would not go through due to int sd problem.
I tried a bunch of stuff, then one night I let my (not so smart) friend look to see what I was up to, he ended up using odin to flash a custom VIBRANT rom, usually my phone starts with animated i9000m screensaver galaxy s, but this said samsung vibrant, anyway I was angry, the phone rebooted, now it will not power on, or do anything at all.
Also, before the wrong rom was flashed, I bought a 301k resistor jig from ebay to force in to download mode, that worked great until after the incorrect rom was flashed.
After this I was VERY angry, so angry I went out and bought a new i9000m, haha
My Galaxy S fetish has been restored, and my phone works great.
So... here is what I have been thinking, and reason I posted this thread...
I have ead about jtag's, etc and wondering is there anything I can do to fix my broken i9000, especially seeing how I have a working phone exact same model here with me as well.
So can anyone out there give me idea's, etc... anything??!
Thanks in advance for reading this!

I also wanted to add...
A few months ago I bought a SIM card reader/writer/cloner
-USB to RS232 adapter
-Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2303 chip.
-Prolific USB-to-Serial Comm Port
Maybe I can make my own uart?

I don't know if it would help you but I have a RiffBox that I want to get ride of.
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I ned a riffbox... Check your PM.
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sp991 said:
I don't know if it would help you but I have a RiffBox that I want to get ride of.
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yes how much

I'd also like that riffbox. How much for shipping to USA if the man above me does not want it?

Got the Update notice, now stuck on "Samsung"

I Can't believe this. I run a stock rom.
I got the update notice on my phone about 5 hours ago. I said, sure why not, I haven't modded my phone, shouldn't be any issues. WRong. Now its stuck on the black "Sumsung" boot screen. won't move!
suggestions...

Odin
10char

Have you tryed pulling the battery out and restarting
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I second! That! Odin back?
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You should pull battery and try again.
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i've pulled the battery, try to restart. stays stuck on "Samsung" screen.
I can't get into recover (volume down + camera + power) either.

collegedude10 said:
i've pulled the battery, try to restart. stays stuck on "Samsung" screen.
I can't get into recover (volume down + camera + power) either.
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Then you will have to Odin back to stock.
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I had the same problem. Running stock and received the update notice and upon installing was stuck on the samsung screen. ODINed back to stock and tried the manual update with the same result, stuck on samsung screen.
Took the phone to sprint and got a replacement, said they couldn't get it to work on my phone either. Not only did they give me a new phone but I also got the box of goodies that comes with it too.

ToiletDuck555 said:
I had the same problem. Running stock and received the update notice and upon installing was stuck on the samsung screen. ODINed back to stock and tried the manual update with the same result, stuck on samsung screen.
Took the phone to sprint and got a replacement, said they couldn't get it to work on my phone either. Not only did they give me a new phone but I also got the box of goodies that comes with it too.
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You might be on to something there.....
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Sounds like the stock update failed to install your Kernel. Nice going sprint ^-^
You have two options; One. Follow this guide here. Or, go to sprint and tell them what happened and they should do odin flash it for you =)

Similar thing happened to my wife's Epic 4G yesterday morning. Instead of the stuck logo there was a bunch of error messages and finally I realized that there was some kind of backup program running. It was frozen and since I'm not up on Samsung I took it to the nearby Sprint service center. They futzed around with it for about an hour and said they had tried everything and there was nothing they could do since it was rooted - it was bricked and I should buy a new phone.
Not so fast Kimosabe!
I looked closer and figured out that the stuff I was looking at was a menu that could be scrolled with the volume keys and selected with the power button. That got it to reboot to the Samsung logo and no amount of battery removal or other manipulation would change that. So, off I went to another Sprint Repair facility a little further away. Success! After about 90 minutes they had it working with 2.3.5 loaded and my wife is very happy, the way wives should be.
I haven't checked but I doubt it's rooted anymore which is fine as she doesn't need any of the extended functions rooting offers anyway.

brobin111 said:
Similar thing happened to my wife's Epic 4G yesterday morning. Instead of the stuck logo there was a bunch of error messages and finally I realized that there was some kind of backup program running. It was frozen and since I'm not up on Samsung I took it to the nearby Sprint service center. They futzed around with it for about an hour and said they had tried everything and there was nothing they could do since it was rooted - it was bricked and I should buy a new phone.
Not so fast Kimosabe!
I looked closer and figured out that the stuff I was looking at was a menu that could be scrolled with the volume keys and selected with the power button. That got it to reboot to the Samsung logo and no amount of battery removal or other manipulation would change that. So, off I went to another Sprint Repair facility a little further away. Success! After about 90 minutes they had it working with 2.3.5 loaded and my wife is very happy, the way wives should be.
I haven't checked but I doubt it's rooted anymore which is fine as she doesn't need any of the extended functions rooting offers anyway.
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If you can't flash your phone back to stock from a soft brick, you shouldn't be downloading things from here.
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Same thing happened to my wifes Epic. It was stocked but rooted. Same as described in the first post. She got the text or message that her upgrade was ready, but after following the steps, her phone said it was up to date. After powering it off and then back on, it wouldn't get past the Samsung screen.
I tried everything. It wouldn't boot to recovery, only download mode. I had to odin it back to EC05. Then I upgraded it manually to Gingerbread with the official update.zip. Working great.
I never got the text on my phone that my upgrade was ready. I just manually updated to Gingerbread.
BTW. Battery on both phones has never been better.
Hope you got your phone working too.
Smoke.007

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Then you will have to Odin back to stock.
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Agree with Kenny! You should odin back to stock.

I to can verify . I had just gotten a new replace 3days before the update. When the update came out I ran it and bam stuck at the sammy screen . I tried to odin and that wouldn't even work . So took it to sprint service center and they said it was a no go for them . Would have to be replaced would even go to download . Called sprint and *****ed up a storm . They over nighted me another phone . 2 phone in 1 week. Pretty sure they hate me now but screw it . This was in no way user error . I've been seeing a few other case of similar issue.
On a side note . I've found that the best way to odin if it won't go into dl is by removing battery and sd plug in to usb with odin up and then press 1 and power button at the same time . But I think it only works on soft bricks in this case it might work not sure but worth a try.
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I looked around if I'm correct some epics have a hardware reset just under the camera according to mystery emotions he has a post to restore it even on a solid brick. However it's. Been known to not be on every epic. I happen to have one woot!
Sent From my 1.4Ghz V6'd Legendary Epic >-<

ICS encryption bug - means goodbye

It's time to move on, my vibrant got the hellish ICS encrypted bug. My internal SD got corrupted, its useless. ODIN didn't fix the problem.
However I did manage to boot up but there's nothing I can do, besides using the stocks apps. there's no way to download anything, external SD doesn't work, neither does the phone.
I saw a guide to make partitions on the external SD to it can be used as an internal. It would work as usual but the SD has to be always in.
Anyways have a good one, I bought myself a SGS 3.
For those who are curious how it happen. It happened over night, had an alarm set up for the first day of work. I turned the phone on in the morning and saw that hideous message. But one thing though, that bug shouldn't really be kept a secret... I had no idea it even excited before or happened.
One last time, goodbye.
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My friend, I will be sad to see you go. Been a great addition to our corner of the forums. Good luck and say hey to Fishman for us.
PM incoming also
Edit: Can you tell me if you got my PM. XDA is getting wonky and it isn't showing in my sent box either.

I'll make sure to tell him you said hi. I overlooked the forum it reminds of the beginning of this one. Iike pictures taken with the camera, we had one here about pictures taken with the night mode. It brought me back, but now I have read before I do anything. What a hassle lol.
And I didn't get your pm
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when EU bug cause to your phone because i think it cause only on earlier build of ICS Rom. Now ICS Rom is on there perfect build.

khan_frd2002 said:
when EU bug cause to your phone because i think it cause only on earlier build of ICS Rom. Now ICS Rom is on there perfect build.
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I think is not depending on the build date of ics roms. I got the EU bug using a new rom. However as long there is a fix i still love my Vibrant.
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khan_frd2002 said:
when EU bug cause to your phone because i think it cause only on earlier build of ICS Rom. Now ICS Rom is on there perfect build.
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I was running the latest SlimICS rom.
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i was flashing cm9 nightly 7 20 an got it though i somehow managed to dodge the bullet an avoid system corruption I panic'd when i saw that screen pop up on boot so i pulled the battery an instantly plugged the phone into download an odin'd the thing with repar selected an when the phone rebooted i still had all my working memory o.o.

pintek said:
i was flashing cm9 nightly 7 20 an got it though i somehow managed to dodge the bullet an avoid system corruption I panic'd when i saw that screen pop up on boot so i pulled the battery an instantly plugged the phone into download an odin'd the thing with repar selected an when the phone rebooted i still had all my working memory o.o.
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congrats

there´s a chance....
iwillkillyou said:
It's time to move on, my vibrant got the hellish ICS encrypted bug. My internal SD got corrupted, its useless. ODIN didn't fix the problem.
However I did manage to boot up but there's nothing I can do, besides using the stocks apps. there's no way to download anything, external SD doesn't work, neither does the phone.
I saw a guide to make partitions on the external SD to it can be used as an internal. It would work as usual but the SD has to be always in.
Anyways have a good one, I bought myself a SGS 3.
For those who are curious how it happen. It happened over night, had an alarm set up for the first day of work. I turned the phone on in the morning and saw that hideous message. But one thing though, that bug shouldn't really be kept a secret... I had no idea it even excited before or happened.
One last time, goodbye.
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Do you wanna get it back working?
there´s a chance with this tutorial, but it´s a little hard and the internal sdcard can be PERMANENTLY damaged...
if you face any issue or if you are completely unsure of what you´re doing ask here before proceeding...:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1751324
Later,
Lincoln

Secret to saving the phone seems to be a battery pull as soon as you see the error come up.

Did you try to connect the phone to the computer. Use a Hiren's disk to repartition the internal SD card?
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I.survive that bug.. Try to get an 8gb sd .. Flash eugenes froyo . Then after flash lidroid twice.then.check if u have acess usually lidroid will.partition th INTERNAL sd for u
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