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THE SDHC EncFiltLog file CORRUPTION SOLVED

PROBLEM:
Now, the problem all started when try to format the micro SDHC on the phone or on the PC with card reader.
Tried with differ format program also low level not worked.
DONT USE THESE!!! Waste of time!!!
SOLUTION:
So after doing some thinking about the situation, I figured that there was a problem with the card inserted and find the file EncFiltLog on it.
It is the WM 6.1 encription file. You can't delete, move files from or in to the SDHC.
The best way to solve this issue, as the hard-reset DOES NOTHING to fix this issue, would be to have windows hopefully find the connected device and format it. Here are the EASY steps which DO NOT involve using a dozen computers and has provided the same result EVERY time; which is a working on my 8gig memory in my HTC HD.
1. Connect the HD to the computer and select DISK DRIVE as the option on the on-screen popup on your phone. Don’t select ACTIVE SYNC. If you miss it, then go into your phone and press START>SETTINGS>CONNECTIONS TAB>USB to PC and select the bullet of DISK DRIVE and hit ok.
2. On your computer, (USING A WINDOWS XP MACHINE), go into your "My computer"
3. A window for will open with two columns.(If not, change the view to "Group") We are looking at the RIGHT side right now. In there is has three categories, and we are only focusing on ONE of them. LOOK for STORAGE which should be the center category.
4. Click with right to the desired "Storage device; A: ; D: E;", it will take a minute or two depending on your computer speed and environment to populate your hard drive and connected memory devices.
5. You will eventually see your PHONE internal storage listed. IT WILL TAKE SOME TIME BECAUSE YOUR PHONE INTERNAL STORAGE IS CORRUPTED!
***BE SURE WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT IS IN FACT YOUR PHONE AND NOTHING SOMETHING ELSE LIKE YOUR MAIN HARD DRIVE OR SOME OTHER STORAGE DEVICE WITH IMPORTANT FILES ON THERE***
****I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY IF YOU FORMAT THE WRONG DEVICE***
6. Choose format and let it format the drive. This should also take a few minutes. Select FAT32 and name is whatever you want! Let this finish COMPLETLY!
**Your almost done**
7. Now you can copy, anything you want on it, but if you put again in to the PDA then the
EncFiltLog will come on again. But at least you not have to throw away the card,
you can use it again.
8. Finally my last comment:
If you want to speed up the card (.cab installation, copy, move ...etc.....)
the best way after all this work listed above, you should made a BACKUP from all your PERSONALITIES and
make a HARD RESET.
After it should speed up all the programs and processions with the card.
If you done then one IMPORTANT THING!:
YOU SHOULD NEVER EVER TAP ON THE CARD ENCRIPTION IN THE SETTINGS,
NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!!!!!!
Hope this helps you all out!!
BTW: I want to say thanks to XDA-FORUM (all people) to make my life easier
and to found the right gadgets to use, to play and enjoy it....

Wow - not bad at all for a first post!
Welcome to the forum!
Thanks for providing a solution!

krnkris said:
PROBLEM:
Now, the problem all started when try to format the micro SDHC on the phone or on the PC with card reader.
Tried with differ format program also low level not worked.
DONT USE THESE!!! Waste of time!!!
SOLUTION:
So after doing some thinking about the situation, I figured that there was a problem with the card inserted and find the file EncFiltLog on it.
It is the WM 6.1 encription file. You can't delete, move files from or in to the SDHC.
The best way to solve this issue, as the hard-reset DOES NOTHING to fix this issue, would be to have windows hopefully find the connected device and format it. Here are the EASY steps which DO NOT involve using a dozen computers and has provided the same result EVERY time; which is a working on my 8gig memory in my HTC HD.
1. Connect the HD to the computer and select DISK DRIVE as the option on the on-screen popup on your phone. Don’t select ACTIVE SYNC. If you miss it, then go into your phone and press START>SETTINGS>CONNECTIONS TAB>USB to PC and select the bullet of DISK DRIVE and hit ok.
2. On your computer, (USING A WINDOWS XP MACHINE), go into your "My computer"
3. A window for will open with two columns.(If not, change the view to "Group") We are looking at the RIGHT side right now. In there is has three categories, and we are only focusing on ONE of them. LOOK for STORAGE which should be the center category.
4. Click with right to the desired "Storage device; A: ; D: E;", it will take a minute or two depending on your computer speed and environment to populate your hard drive and connected memory devices.
5. You will eventually see your PHONE internal storage listed. IT WILL TAKE SOME TIME BECAUSE YOUR PHONE INTERNAL STORAGE IS CORRUPTED!
***BE SURE WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT IS IN FACT YOUR PHONE AND NOTHING SOMETHING ELSE LIKE YOUR MAIN HARD DRIVE OR SOME OTHER STORAGE DEVICE WITH IMPORTANT FILES ON THERE***
****I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY IF YOU FORMAT THE WRONG DEVICE***
6. Choose format and let it format the drive. This should also take a few minutes. Select FAT32 and name is whatever you want! Let this finish COMPLETLY!
**Your almost done**
7. Now you can copy, anything you want on it, but if you put again in to the PDA then the
EncFiltLog will come on again. But at least you not have to throw away the card,
you can use it again.
8. Finally my last comment:
If you want to speed up the card (.cab installation, copy, move ...etc.....)
the best way after all this work listed above, you should made a BACKUP from all your PERSONALITIES and
make a HARD RESET.
After it should speed up all the programs and processions with the card.
If you done then one IMPORTANT THING!:
YOU SHOULD NEVER EVER TAP ON THE CARD ENCRIPTION IN THE SETTINGS,
NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!!!!!!
Hope this helps you all out!!
BTW: I want to say thanks to XDA-FORUM (all people) to make my life easier
and to found the right gadgets to use, to play and enjoy it....
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Yesterday it happens for the second time that my SD-Card gets corrupt again, the first time it happens with a 8 Gb SDHC Sandisk and now with a 16 Gb.! After a hard-reset.Didn't know before I read this post that this could happen ever!??
And indeed I couldn't write or read on the card or format it again, even with a cardreader!
Both cards are useless about €120,- thrown away, gone
Didn't know before I read this post, that this is an WM 6.1 encription issue. Never used or even tap it.
Now I format another 8Gb like the way you describe here, i hope that when i need to do another hard-reset i can use the card again!
BTW, its a little bit strange to me that there are so little reaction from other users here about EncFiltLog problem?
I hope that there will come a solution in WM 6.1 to prevent that b!llsh!t.
Thanks for the great support, i hope it realy works!

Nice post
I have one more question:
What may happen when I delete this encryption file? Is it possible?
P.S. Sorry for my english :/

Hi Everyone!
The best way, if you purchase a new card, to FORMAT at first.
Then you put in to your phone and try not to teke it out any more.
If you want to use it as USB reader the as I write in my first post
START>SETTINGS>CONNECTIONS TAB>USB to PC and select the bullet of DISK DRIVE and hit ok .
In this case you can use the phone as a card reader.
It is speed up the file transfer vs. ACTIVESYNC.
If the card is not recognised ether way then,
because of the too much taking out - - put it back; went to faulty.
You can go back to the store for guarantee replacement.
The EncFiltLog is a problem only if you encrypted the card.
The solution to delete it and use as new card described in my first post.
If you put a new card in to the Phone then this file seem to be created by the OP system.
You can delete with format, but it will come back again and again.

krnkris said:
You can delete with format, but it will come back again and again.
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Your right, the file is still there again!
But I have also a question about a next( hope not) hardreset on my device!
Is it better to format the SD-card (with USB on the device) before or after the hard-reset to save the further use of the card?
Because in my experience you have to start installing everything over again, because the data on the card was anyway corrupt and useless.

It is NOT recommended to use the MS Windows Format command to re-format any SDHC card - it will format them, of course, but with the wrong cluster size, slowing access speed down and possibly causing other problems.
I would suggest to always use a tool like Panasonic's SD Formatter when formating any kind of SD card. You can get it here: http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/sd/download/sd_formatter.html
-Valynor

Valynor said:
It is NOT recommended to use the MS Windows Format command to re-format any SDHC card - it will format them, of course, but with the wrong cluster size, slowing access speed down and possibly causing other problems.
I would suggest to always use a tool like Panasonic's SD Formatter when formating any kind of SD card. You can get it here: http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/sd/download/sd_formatter.html
-Valynor
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Also good to know, but does it also prevent or solve that EncFiltLog problem?
Is there no registry tweak to turn off or delete that W 6.1 encryption option anyway?

luckyuser said:
Also good to know, but does it also prevent or solve that EncFiltLog problem?
Is there no registry tweak to turn off or delete that W 6.1 encryption option anyway?
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No as far as I know.

Will creating a read-only, hidden folder called "EncFltLog.menc" on the card prevent this problem?

Phil_123 said:
Will creating a read-only, hidden folder called "EncFltLog.menc" on the card prevent this problem?
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What do you mean?How do you do?

HI folks, glad to find some peeps who are suffering from the same problem...
The solution here seems not to work for me, as I hard-reset my TouchHD before I found out about that encryption ****up...
Is there any solution that allows you to reformat the card?
Not to mention that I NEVER touched that damn encryption option as I really never trust M$ that far with my data... seems it got me Pwned anyways...
Anyone ever tried to Write M$, tell them what a bunch of wacky Ho's they are and demand a new miniSD Card from them?
sorry for my language but atm I mad as hell as I just lost a 8GB and a 16GB sanDisk...
I experienced a lot of bc during all the yaers messing with M$ stuff but this ****up ins unbelievable...

I had the same problem with my 8gb sandisk.
I would like to add that I was able to retrieve most of my files from the memory card using EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard Professional. You need to do the data recovery before attempting to reformat the card.

Hi guys sorry for messing around in your forum but this post is the closest solution to my problem. I cannot format or save anything to my 16gb sandisk card because of that bloody encryption file. Now the problem is that I'm a Kaiser user and I do not have disk mode in my phone, so has anyone successfully formatted their card without using disk mode?

one very quik question. Does this fix the problem for good? you can use the sdhc card with the phone or will it always end up with menc file?

card unreadable in one night
Yesterday, my sdhc 8gb card was working properly but in just one night something happened to it. In the morning, I came to know that it is not more being recognized by htc hd2. Every time I soft reset or hard reset the phone a message come up saying "Do you want to format this storage card to make it readable? this will permanently delete any files on the card." when I click no nothing happens and phone keeps on working and if I click yes then the card is formatted in just 1 second. I tried formatting the card myself from phone format tool (there is format card tool in tools section of the phone) but it is showing only 30.61 mb instead of 8gb.
After reading this thread, I think the problem is with EncFiltLog. Actually I backup my phone and card yesterday with sprite backup. I also backup EncFiltLog on my pc. Now after hard resetting the phone I delete the newly created EncFiltLog file by the fresh WM 6.5 installation after hard reset. I deleted that file from my pc by using the phone card storage as disk drive instead of activesync and simply shift+delete the file from removable storage in My computer. After that I copied all the phone card backup (including EncFiltLog - old one) on the freshly hard reset phone. Now all of sudden in just one night phone sdhc card is not able to recognized by phone.
Moral of the story: Never backup EncFiltLog. Keep the newly created EncFiltLog file by wm 6.5 after hard reset and copy your all files and folder from card backup to phone card (excluding EncFiltLog) after a hard reset. Don't ever overwrite the newly created EncFiltLog.menc file with old one from backup.
Reason: I think WM 6.5 pairs the newly created EncFiltLog with its some key on phone internal storage. Remember how encryption works? I am talking about public key and private key pairing. I think WM6.5 pairs one key stored in EncFiltLog with another key stored inside the phone interal storage which is itself freshly created after the hard reset but when we copy the old EncFiltLog from storage card backup to freshly hard reset phone storage card, those key pairs won't match anymore and windows mobile 6.5 simply locks up the card.
it is my own opinion.

One more clue
Ok guys, I've got one more clue after googling and reading other threads on this forum. May be HTC is supplying fake 8gb sdhc card with hd2.
I've came on that conclusion because yesterday there was more than 5 gb space left on my phone storage card. In the night RSS Hub software has updated all the feeds and stored those feeds on storage card (I've set feeds to be stored on storage card). I think something has been gone wrong there. May be the actual capacity of this fake storage cards in far less than what is written/claimed on the card (i.e. 8gb). In the night as soon as the RSS Hub stored feed on the card, it somehow corrupted the card FAT writting its data on sectors of the card where it should not be.
Hence the card is corrupted now just showing 30.61 mb instead of 8gb. There exists no solution for this situtation till now. I've sent mail to HTC regarding this on their customer support page. Let's see what would happen now. I suspect either HTC or my dealer would say that the storage card don't come under warranty. Let's see now. I will update the thread soon.

My problem is the same.....
after HSPL I faced "Do you want to format this storage card to make it readable?..." and after that I lost my mSD.
Format Storage Card didn't worked. it shows 30.61MB , Cluster Size: 0KB
also Clear Storage didn't worked...
System > Memory > Storage Card > Total storage card memory: Not installed
Is there any other way to fix this problem? because of my country, it is difficult to use HTC Service...

16 hours and I have only one issue left.. memory card is only being recogised 200mb

I have been at this for 16 odd hours and have overcome wifi probs, activation probs, chevvy issues.. done 3 flashes of wp7, radio updated.. all is grand now but the memory card issue!
Please, someone allow me to go to bed by explaining how I can format the card to show more than 200mb?!
I have taken the card out, formatted on my pc, reformatted with other tools, am stuck, and have spent the last hour searching through threads for info I had earlier but can no longer find! it doesnt help that any search containing "SD" is ignored as xda search sees it as too small a word.
Who wants some good Karma?

I really dont get why this topic is been creating/cloned etc on a regular basis??
Please use search function, this topic has been discussed many times.
Use some commen sense, dont look for "SD", use keywords like "WP7" and "200" or "200mb", "partition" etc. Or even reading the readme that came with the WP7 rom would be a good start

Why not help me instead of witholding what you know and making me forrage around one hell of a mess of a forum to find information I have been searching for since this afternoon????????

from the read me, and i quote "WARNING: WP7 will format the SD card during the first boot.
Two SD card partitions are created during cold boot.
First one is a 200Mb FAT partition and another one with unknown format which
is used as RAID with main memory."
That doesnt explain how to change the RAID partition into physical memory I can access from the device...

xandercom said:
I have been at this for 16 odd hours and have overcome wifi probs, activation probs, chevvy issues.. done 3 flashes of wp7, radio updated.. all is grand now but the memory card issue!
Please, someone allow me to go to bed by explaining how I can format the card to show more than 200mb?!
I have taken the card out, formatted on my pc, reformatted with other tools, am stuck, and have spent the last hour searching through threads for info I had earlier but can no longer find! it doesnt help that any search containing "SD" is ignored as xda search sees it as too small a word.
Who wants some good Karma?
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Here is what you need to do:
Make sure your SD card is in the phone
Do a factory reset by going to settings>About>Reset your phone.
After WP7 reboots, it will recognize your card and all the date.
You will have to re-enter your Activation code.

changochulo said:
Here is what you need to do:
Make sure your SD card is in the phone
Do a factory reset by going to settings>About>Reset your phone.
After WP7 reboots, it will recognize your card and all the date.
You will have to re-enter your Activation code.
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Thanks for the advice.
Is there any way this can be done outside of the device? I have heard that I can get an SD formatting tool but whatever one I downloaded did nothing to help.
I am reluctant to do the 4th hard reset of the day for this OS as a) there is talk of the auth code working only 3 times, and b) I have everything else working now and dont want to tempt fate!
Is it only a WP7 hard reset that will resolve this for me now?
:-(
Thanks in advance of your help my man!!

also, wont a hard reset undo all of the unlocking and such from chevvy?

xandercom said:
also, wont a hard reset undo all of the unlocking and such from chevvy?
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Im pretty sure it will undo the unlocking, but it only takes a few minutes to go thru it again once you have everything downloaded.

Hard reset number 5 it is then!!
It didnt save my settings on the mem card, obviously as it wasnt in there in the first place during the previous hard reset.
Im becoming a master at hard resets and personalisation now!

that's not gonna help, , the first time it boots its gonna again make a 200meg partition and the rest create a raid.
download a partition program (there are loads, personally i have a ubuntu laptop and use that, you could also make an ubuntu live cd, boot to that and delete teh partition there.
through Ubuntu...
phone into magldr, usb mass storage, connect to Ubuntu, the 200meg filesystem icon will soon appear on the desktop, right click, format, instead of clicking ok click disk utility, select the 200 partition and click unmount then click delete, then select the unknown partition, and click delete.
if you are going back to android now would be a great time to set up an ext partition if you want one.
If you are sticking with wp7, then you can't format it to show more than 200meg, that's all that wp7 allocates to the fat partition, all the rest goes to system storage. Messing with the disk (even removing it whilst wp7 is running, i believe) will trash the data on the card and wp7 will reformat it.
If you are heading back to wm then create a fat32 partition the full size of the card.

samsamuel said:
that's not gonna help, , the first time it boots its gonna again make a 200meg partition and the rest create a raid.
download a partition program (there are loads, personally i have a ubuntu laptop and use that, you could also make an ubuntu live cd, boot to that and delete teh partition there.
through Ubuntu...
phone into magldr, usb mass storage, connect to Ubuntu, the 200meg filesystem icon will soon appear on the desktop, right click, format, instead of clicking ok click disk utility, select the 200 partition and click unmount then click delete, then select the unknown partition, and click delete.
if you are going back to android now would be a great time to set up an ext partition if you want one.
If you are sticking with wp7, then you can't format it to show more than 200meg, that's all that wp7 allocates to the fat partition, all the rest goes to system storage. Messing with the disk (even removing it whilst wp7 is running, i believe) will trash the data on the card and wp7 will reformat it.
If you are heading back to wm then create a fat32 partition the full size of the card.
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Sam,
Ive already tried this and it worked for me. Im just going off my experience.

samsamuel said:
that's not gonna help, , the first time it boots its gonna again make a 200meg partition and the rest create a raid.
download a partition program (there are loads, personally i have a ubuntu laptop and use that, you could also make an ubuntu live cd, boot to that and delete teh partition there.
through Ubuntu...
phone into magldr, usb mass storage, connect to Ubuntu, the 200meg filesystem icon will soon appear on the desktop, right click, format, instead of clicking ok click disk utility, select the 200 partition and click unmount then click delete, then select the unknown partition, and click delete.
if you are going back to android now would be a great time to set up an ext partition if you want one.
If you are sticking with wp7, then you can't format it to show more than 200meg, that's all that wp7 allocates to the fat partition, all the rest goes to system storage. Messing with the disk (even removing it whilst wp7 is running, i believe) will trash the data on the card and wp7 will reformat it.
If you are heading back to wm then create a fat32 partition the full size of the card.
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Actually, it has done the trick, however now I am back to having a locked device again and cant deploy apps from my pc. Back to where I was 6 hours ago.
All I want is space to store more than 4 apps before the dang thing runs out of space.
Time to grab a beer me thinks.

How do I get my 16 GB memory card back...it now only shows 200 MB

I put WP 7 on my HD2 and it was working fine but I decided to go back to Android. I then took my 16 GB Sandisk card out and put it in the memory card reader but it only shows the partition of 200 MB.
I even download a program to format/partition the microSD card but I still could not get it to get back most of the available space in my 16 GB card. It keeps showing 200 MB on my computer and I tried to get rid of the partitioning but I still cannot do it.
Is there a solution to this?

sounds like your memory card is corrupted :/

Try
http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter/eula/
If that doesn't fix it, it may be borked completely.. though some people have had success with the Nokia phone formatting tools

Easy,
Put your SD Card in your PHone
POwer off you phone
During Boot hold power off/on button on phone to access the MAGDLR Menu
Connect you Phone to PC
Choose MASSSTORAGE in MAGDRL Option number 4
Format your SD CARD over PC
Power off Phone - Job done!

i had the same problem, the way the i fix it was the i format the sd card in my blackberry and it works for me i try it in a samsung and fix the problem. the computer wasnt able to fix problem i used the format method from the computer. didnt work, and i used paragon software didnt work either. the only way was with different phone

I don't know why everybody thinks you have to put the card into something else. Enter MAGLDR, go to USB, connect it to the computer, run SD Formatter,Select correct drive, Options - Format Type= Full Erase On -Format Size Adjustment =ON.
This has been covered many times since the introduction of WP7. Using the search term 200mb in this section. I came up with plenty of answers to your problem.

Wil Badger said:
I don't know why everybody thinks you have to put the card into something else. Enter MAGLDR, go to USB, connect it to the computer, run SD Formatter,Select correct drive, Options - Format Type= Full Erase On -Format Size Adjustment =ON.
This has been covered many times since the introduction of WP7. Using the search term 200mb in this section. I came up with plenty of answers to your problem.
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Thank you. I followed you instructions and I got my SD card back to 14.8 GB now.

Wil Badger said:
I don't know why everybody thinks you have to put the card into something else. Enter MAGLDR, go to USB, connect it to the computer, run SD Formatter,Select correct drive, Options - Format Type= Full Erase On -Format Size Adjustment =ON.
This has been covered many times since the introduction of WP7. Using the search term 200mb in this section. I came up with plenty of answers to your problem.
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yesss! this finally did the trick!! i've tried different way recommended by different people but this was the only one that actually worked!!!

[Q] (Q) XBmod DEV_STORAGELOCK Procedure

Hi everyone my first post and probably a stupid one at that... anyway I have three SD cards all locked after failed upgrades and would like to unlock and reformat them on my HD2 now with a successful upgrade to Mango 7.5. Could someone tell me the procedure for doing so, because the storage unlock won't work when the current Micro SD card is removed from the phone before or after booting Mango.
I know one of the locked cards is compatible but is locked due to an outage during one of my previous upgrade attempts, its 16 gig and I would like to replace the current 2g for larger storage. If the 16gig card was unlocked would this even be possible without having to reflash everything?
thanks for your help...

The encryption is unique to each device, that means you can't take a SD card and format it in another WP7.
I don't know if the seed is generated randomly or based on read only values (IMEI?) but my best guess would be that you will have to use one of the methods described in this thread.

plant100 said:
Hi everyone my first post and probably a stupid one at that... anyway I have three SD cards all locked after failed upgrades and would like to unlock and reformat them on my HD2 now with a successful upgrade to Mango 7.5. Could someone tell me the procedure for doing so, because the storage unlock won't work when the current Micro SD card is removed from the phone before or after booting Mango.
I know one of the locked cards is compatible but is locked due to an outage during one of my previous upgrade attempts, its 16 gig and I would like to replace the current 2g for larger storage. If the 16gig card was unlocked would this even be possible without having to reflash everything?
thanks for your help...
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starting with the 2Gb one that is in the phone.
1.Send extrapartition 1Gb cab.
2.do hard reset (1234)and check in settings/about if partition is applied
3. unlock the storage using storagelock tool and remove card, check you can read card in pc.
4 put in second card. do1234 hard reset
5 do step 3 again
6 put in your biggest bestest card and do 1234 hardreset.
7 send extrapartition remove cab and 1234 hard reset
then you can send a bigger extrapartition, I have 7Gb on my 16Gb SD
8 You can then in pc use gparted in linux or Easeus partition master in windows to resize and format your spare sd cards

Thanks for that, i was sure that because all three cards were created and failed within the same phone then at least one would unlock, is there not a method to take out the present sd card swap with the locked one, run the storage unlock reboot then reformat but not necessary in the order as i have tried that and it hasn't worked, i don't have access to any other phones and really need the increased storage and a card to run some android SD builds. In respect of the last question if i was to get a compatible 32gig card could i just swap it out with the 2gig or copy the 2 gig partition and put in on the 32gig without having to go back to 6.5 and do the update all over again... i don't know... i am a bit lost with all this and its a steep learning curve..

Thanks Robbie, just what i was looking for will give it a try and let you know how i get on.. you answered my question in the middle of me typing it.. strange!!!!

Robbie P said:
starting with the 2Gb one that is in the phone.
1.Send extrapartition 1Gb cab.
2.do hard reset (1234)and check in settings/about if partition is applied
3. unlock the storage using storagelock tool and remove card, check you can read card in pc.
4 put in second card. do1234 hard reset
5 do step 3 again
6 put in your biggest bestest card and do 1234 hardreset.
7 send extrapartition remove cab and 1234 hard reset
then you can send a bigger extrapartition, I have 7Gb on my 16Gb SD
8 You can then in pc use gparted in linux or Easeus partition master in windows to resize and format your spare sd cards
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Just a quick update to say that those instructions worked a treat, I how have more storage a few extra cards to try out some SD builds before I take the plunge for the dual boot. I think where I was getting confused was the difference between the (1234) hard rest and the hold vol - & + buttons while turning on the phone on reset. Robbie once again many thanks bro…

Wow I didn't think it was possible to save your sd cards after they been ruined through failed attempts...
I thought the unlock tool was only useful for the sd card that successfully upgrade to mango

Moschino02 said:
Wow I didn't think it was possible to save your sd cards after they been ruined through failed attempts...
I thought the unlock tool was only useful for the sd card that successfully upgrade to mango
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Yeah me also, that’s why I have been pulling my hair over this for the last couple of weeks, but it does work…. it’s just fining the right procedure and because all the cards were created on the same phone (EU Leo unlocked TM) I think that makes a difference. The other two cards I now know are incompatible so they have become my storage for android SD builds... I don’t think people are aware of this, maybe it should be a sticky or something… with credit to Robbie

Robbie P said:
3. unlock the storage using storagelock tool and remove card, check you can read card in pc.
4 put in second card. do1234 hard reset
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hey plant man, can you just clarify something ..
do we send dev_unlock.cab after step2?
storagelock tool?? where will we find this on the phone?
step 4 - when you insert another corrupt card into phone would phone load up ?
i wonder what are the reasons behind step 1 - does this vary depending on what type of sd card memory you have?
luckily i borrowed a sony vivaz but needs to go back and i havnt got mango yet..i imagine this trick would work on all versions ie 7403?
off the topic..cab sender option 'B' anyone know if this would restore to orginial state ie 7004 if cab sending failed? to prevent from reflashing 7004 all the ***ing time
sorry for the questions...i cant do anything without understanding things first

Moschino02 said:
hey plant man, can you just clarify something ..
do we send dev_unlock.cab after step2? you don't need to do chevron type unlock for this. you are getting confused with your locks see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1265321 for explanations
storagelock tool?? where will we find this on the phone? next to where you found extrapartion, see http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1250869 post 1
step 4 - when you insert another corrupt card into phone would phone load up ?
It will if SD is encrypted but compatible
i wonder what are the reasons behind step 1 - does this vary depending on what type of sd card memory you have?
because minimum size=minimum download and install time also Plant100 had a 2Gb card to start
luckily i borrowed a sony vivaz but needs to go back and i havnt got mango yet..i imagine this trick would work on all versions ie 7403?
off the topic..cab sender option 'B' anyone know if this would restore to orginial state ie 7004 if cab sending failed? to prevent from reflashing 7004 all the ***ing time
yes but do it before you send the partition as any change of partition size will render backup unrestorable. After you have set up your good sd and everything is fine, do a backup then
sorry for the questions...i cant do anything without understanding things first
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No worries

hey plant man, can you just clarify something ..
do we send dev_unlock.cab after step2? no just send once
storagelock tool?? where will we find this on the phone? you need to send it as a cab file with the cab sender tool can be found on the main thread
step 4 - when you insert another corrupt card into phone would phone load up ? yes for some reason when you do a hard rest
i wonder what are the reasons behind step 1 - does this vary depending on what type of sd card memory you have? i have no idea maybe robbie might be able to advise
luckily i borrowed a sony vivaz but needs to go back and i havnt got mango yet..i imagine this trick would work on all versions ie 7403? again not sure
off the topic..cab sender option 'B' anyone know if this would restore to orginial state ie 7004 if cab sending failed? to prevent from reflashing 7004 all the ***ing time dido
sorry for the questions...i cant do anything without understanding things first

Hi,
is there a chance for a xap version of DEV_STORAGELOCK ?
Regards

[Q] Locked SD Card (another question! i did read :) )

Hey Guys,
I did something remarkably stupid I think.
* SanDisk 8GB Class 4 SDcard
1. Installed WP7 Mango
2. Got an error message about the SDcard and couldn't use that anymore
3. Hard resetted the phone with my 4GB class 2 Sandisk card and started using that one.
Now... when I place the 8GB in the phone, it doesn't boot. It's just stuck on the HTC screen and doesn't go from there, so I can't unlock this one. (No Nokia's laying around, and the cab files don't really work, as I cannot boot with the 8GB card).
If I would start from scratch (stock...). Would I be able to 'revive' the 8GB card, by formatting it when installing WP7? (It creates the partitions and stuff in MAGLDR).
If not, I have no idea how to revive this card anymore
Please advise

Never mind, this doesn't work either. Good bye 8GB Sdcard...

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1286511
Havie you tried this method? Dont get rid.of it im sure you will.come across a nokia device

All You Have To Do Is Reflash With SD Card In It.

iKilla said:
All You Have To Do Is Reflash With SD Card In It.
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Are you positively sure about that? Because that didn't work at all.

Moschino02 said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1286511
Havie you tried this method? Dont get rid.of it im sure you will.come across a nokia device
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Yep, tried that too. I spent the entire day yesterday trying to fix it, but I just can't get this to work. The SDcard is not being recognized anywhere.
When starting with Mango is says the card is not functional, and the only options I have is "emergency call" or "close" >> meaning the OS will be shutdown.
EDIT:
For some reason, the complete re-flash worked!
It took 41 minutes(!) for the OS to boot! But now it all seems to be in order
Is there a way to put this to "solved?"
Edit2:
my SanDisk 8GB SDCard clearly does not want to be used with MANGO. Switching back to 4GB. No other way

KrewsialNL said:
Yep, tried that too. I spent the entire day yesterday trying to fix it, but I just can't get this to work. The SDcard is not being recognized anywhere.
When starting with Mango is says the card is not functional, and the only options I have is "emergency call" or "close" >> meaning the OS will be shutdown.
EDIT:
For some reason, the complete re-flash worked!
It took 41 minutes(!) for the OS to boot! But now it all seems to be in order
Is there a way to put this to "solved?"
Edit2:
my SanDisk 8GB SDCard clearly does not want to be used with MANGO. Switching back to 4GB. No other way
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Ye edit your first post and go into advance so edit the title
Please can you explain the procedure you undertook to resolve Your issue?
What did you reflash with corrupt sd card? Did you use storageunlock.cab?
Glad you got there in the end

Nope, I just started from scratch. Flash stock - Task29 - magldr - wp7, all with the sdcard inserted.
For me eventually it didnt work out as the card got locked again..
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