Hi,
I've had a 1GB SD card in my wizard for months with no problems at all. I had some software installed on the card and the other day I wanted to free up some space so I uninstalled the apps that were on the card (SPB time, SPB shell and Brain school)...Since then, my phone does not recognise the SD card. There are no errors or anything it just doesn't register that the card is there. I've done a factory reset but this has not helped.
I'm running WM5 with a moleski updated ROM that has been on the phone probably a year or so
Any ideas?
I guess the card must be knackered, I tried it in my camera and the camera wouldn't work either. weird how just removing software could kill the SD card...
Run the card in a card reader on a computer. There, you should be able to do a long format/bad sector search. This will tell you once and for all if it's dead. It's the only way to be sure.
i have exactly the same problem and its happened twice now. the data is fine on the card just wm5 doesnt recognise its existence any more... if you wipe your phone and start again it pops back to life
I've tried a factory reset (hold the four buttons then press send) but this hasn't fixed the problem....I need to buy a card reader I guess to check for sure
If you have ruined your Micro SD by installing WP7 over it, here is the solution;
First and the fastest solution is to find a friend with a Nokia symbian phone like N8. Insert the card into the phone, phone says "locked SD" press cancel when it attempts for unclock code. Then use tools menu and select reformat. Get along well with that friend if you ever plan to flash WP7 again.
Second solution is to flash a NAND Android build with working USB storage while keeping the same card in the HD2. When flashing Android recognizes the card and creates a 200 MB partition on it. So this seems to be your card's new capacity. After flashing connect to a PC and select USB storage mode. Now you are done with the HD2, leave it connected in this state.
Windows (Win7 in my case) can see and even quick format the card as USB drive. However you need to low level format with flash erase. Search the forum (or use google) and get the program "SDFormatter V2.9.0.5" of Panasonic. Install it to your PC. When you run it, pick your SD drive, click options, choose Full (Erase ON) in the Format Type and "ON" in the format size adjustment tab. Then click format on the main window. Now you can leave and find something else to kill your time. Depending on the size of your SD this may take a few hours. When it is done, congratulations, you have recovered your SD. Depending on the assigned allocation unit size, Android may not recognize your SD, but your PC surely does. in this case, you need to quick format your SD with Win 7 or another program by choosing default allocation size.
The point here is, if Android recognizes the card, which means it can bypass the "Secure Digital" locking mechanism, then SD is not "secured" anymore and we should be able to format it to the proper capacity in the same way it automatically does for the preset 200MB. I guess lock is somehow removed by MAGLDR (or Android) and we only need to wipe out everything on the SD.
I just reflashed Android(NAND), then reformatted sd card and have 14GB space available. Then saw this post. Will do rest to get all of my SDCard back. Thanks.
SDFormatter v3.0 (BETA)
I had the same problem with WP7 "shrinking" my card. After reading this thread, I searched for SDFormatter and found BETA v3.0. Using that, I was able to just put my card into my PC's card reader and do a format, and got my full 16Gb back.
Just make sure you choose FORMAT TYPE as "FULL" (Erase or OverWrite -- I used "Erase" but I doubt it matters), and most importantly, set FORMAT SIZE ADJUSTMENT to "On."
okay, i've tried using minitools partition to try and delete the 200mb partition and then recreate the entire 16gb that is my microsd as well as sdformatter with full (erase as well as overwrite) with size adjustment on but the problem is that i can only see one partition, the 200mb partition, i can't even see the the second partition or whatever that wp7 created
anyone have any other solutions?
When SDFormatter finished formatting your card, you should have gotten a pop-up giving you the results and listing the size of the card.
On that pop-up, did it say 200MB or had it changed to 14.8GB (which is the usable space on a 16GB card)?
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Just simply flash WinMo and use HTC's SD Card format tool in it, works fine (I did it myself that way).
When you format, you format a partition.
WM7 creates 2 partitions, the first one 200Mb and the rest of the SD for the 2nd.
To recover the SD:
1/ delete all partitions (I used EASEUS but many other soft will work, Win7 disk managment will not)
2/ create a new partition
3/ format it.
When I can't recover a disk I use a bootable distri of Linux, it's powerful to manage disks (sorry I've lost my disk so google will be your friend).
Great!
worked but had to do it via card reader on computer. Found SDFormatter V 3.0 and set to full erase and overwrite. Took about an hour but got my memory back! Thanks!
Nokia E51 did the trick
Just to confirm that a humble Nokia E51 was good enough to format an encrypted SDHC 16GB Kingstone Class 4.
After doctor Nokia's cure, I was able to recover all the space, I then used "SD Formatter 3.1" tool in order to totally clean up the card, just in case.
Repeated the trick also against a 16GB SDHC Class 10 Trascend, same great result
HTH
Nothing worked
Tried 5 Nokia phones (no E51 unfortunately), some of them ask for a password even if I say Format or delete the password. Some say that the card is corrupted and refuse to format it. Can anyone advise anything. I have an original SanDisk 16 gb SDHC class 2 card from HD2 T-Mobile. It was locked by WP and I cannot use it anymore.
Any advise will be much appreciated !!
OP's advice doesn't work?
Oh.
I assume that you got rid of it by installing Android. And I assume you haven't got rid of your HD2 yet. If second assumption is wrong, you may go and look for a device that can see the card. If only the first is wrong, skip the next paragraph.
Flash WP7 again. Updating it isn't necessary, but the tool may not work.
Download DEV_STORAGELOCK.cab from here. Send it to your device through WP7 Cab Sender. If you don't have it, download it from here. If you don't know how to use it - put the .cab next to the "WP7 Update Cab Sender.bat" file.
Use it. Double-click that .bat file, exit Zune, wait few seconds and press S. It doesn't work? Install the tool from "if needed install this tool" folder. No need to reboot, just go to that .bat file and press S again. The phone will reboot and the cab will be installed. On the phone tap that key icon, tap OK and ta-dah - the card is unlocked. Turn off WP7, take the card out, use it. Optional - get rid of WP7.
Thank you for your reply. I still have HD2 and it runs Mango just fine. The thing is that 16 gb card was the one that didn't want to work properly with WP. So I bought another one (not one ))) ) Transcend 8gb class 4 and it works fine. So, right now I have one useless 16gb card and I decided to bring it back to life. My only concern, If I switch the cards, will I loose any data on my 8 gig card (I have installed all soft that I need, and I do not want to loose it ), or maybe my phone will start to behave strange? I'm really tired of hard resets and re-installs.
Thank you in advance.
PS
That is why I was trying Nokia "trick"
No, the files should be there. But! WP7 may not boot and tell you that you have to use your 8gb sd. If it doesnt - good, you may unlock it. If it does, then... You will need to hardreset WP7 and that deletes all your files. Or turn it off and go back to your working card and look for devices that may see and format your 16gb.
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Thanks, will try what you suggested
good job man..
All of this doesn't seem to work for me. I keep ending up in a boot loop when trying the DEV_STORAGELOCK method. The only WP7 version that i can get to work is XBmod 7004 as the HD2 also ends up in a boot loop when i try to update it. My pc won't recognize my card in any way. And the sad thing is that I only have 1 card with me at the moment. any solutions??
Haven't read the whole thread but Panasonic's SD formatter works a treat if you have access to anything that can mount the SD card to a PC.
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anyone here who also had the problem that even SD formatter cannot repair the SD card?
well before formating any way to get the data on the SD card back? 16GB SD card is like 10-15 USD its not a big issue if u lose the card, but the issue actually is in the data that we might loose
If u want to get back your data u can use O&O Disk Recovery. This program restored my files from formatted and locked SD card.
Got a 4gb sd card that got messed up trying to install bttf..
hypothetiically speaking,if i got mango working on another 8gb sd card and stick the 4gb in the phone will it recognise it? For me to activate storage unlock and will this recover my card?
Thanks
In my experience every time something is wrong with the card, the Mango will not boot beyond 'your card is not recognised' screen. So if you will install Mango with a different card and try to unlock the 4Gb one, you will not be able to. You need a card with original install on it in order to proceed, hence you will be able to unlock only the 8Gb card. I had the original install card gone off, so had it formatted in Nokia, but the phone refused to boot, even after the reset it requested. So my advise would be to format your 4Gb in a Nokia phone. I keep N95 just for that purpose.
Hi I installed Mango but i forgot to save my pictures. I took out SD card before i wiped so is there a chance of getting pictures back?
I really need help on this one. I need my family pictures back!
yes. if you have taken out the sd card before flashing / updating new rom and never reinserted since then, you could try to flash back the rom you were on before. don't insert the card before this is finished and then don't make a hard reset when card is back in! you should be able to use the card like before and access your old pics, because the card wassn't encrypted before mango. good luck!
malsehn said:
yes. if you have taken out the sd card before flashing / updating new rom and never reinserted since then, you could try to flash back the rom you were on before. don't insert the card before this is finished and then don't make a hard reset when card is back in! you should be able to use the card like before and access your old pics, because the card wassn't encrypted before mango. good luck!
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Sorry, this won't work. your new flash will not recognise the old sd and will ask you to insert the correct sd.(that is if you CAN upgrade to mango without sd in). remember WP7 uses NAND and SD as raid memory so each installation is different.
Not sure what you can do unless skydrive or zune has copies
personally I would keep sd until someone figures a way to access and decrypt the data on it.
not, if he flashes back to where he came from (7004 /8 or nodo), there the sd will be recognized (had issues with my old sd in the early days of wp7 on my hd2 and even after hard resets (with sd outside the phone for sure) the sd was recognized after reinserting and my tile colors etc, were back then. i know, that this will not work in mango build, but that was not exactly the question i think, its worth a try, he got nothing to lose (as it's still lost for now )
Hello,
I know I already asked before, but now I need more informations.
I have a focus, fully unlocked. All my apps was installed with TOM XAP installer and Feedom marketplace wirelessly.
I have a 4gig sandisk inside, from the beginning. I would like to have a 8 gig.
I just made a full backup with CAB sender and a APPS backup with WP7AppBackupUI
When I insert my new 8gig card, the phone said to me that the storage card does'nt working.
Here's my question: If I restart the phone with volume - camera and power, I'm prompted to format. If I'm doing it is it only the media card or it's all the phone? I'm asking it because if I want to rollback, and put it back my old 4gig card, what happen? I'll be prompt to format or what?
What happen with the hack after storage card upgrade?
thanks
Anikachiktou said:
Hello,
I know I already asked before, but now I need more informations.
I have a focus, fully unlocked. All my apps was installed with TOM XAP installer and Feedom marketplace wirelessly.
I have a 4gig sandisk inside, from the beginning. I would like to have a 8 gig.
I just made a full backup with CAB sender and a APPS backup with WP7AppBackupUI.
Good, you will be able to use this to revert back to the state in the backup.
When I insert my new 8gig card, the phone said to me that the storage card does'nt working.
Here's my question: If I restart the phone with volume - camera and power, I'm prompted to format. If I'm doing it is it only the media card or it's all the phone?
If you restart the phone with a new card, you will hard reset your phone (everything, not just the card). Once installed, the memory card is like an extension of the phone's memory, they function as one, if you remove the card, it's like removing half of your HDD, for example
I'm asking it because if I want to rollback, and put it back my old 4gig card, what happen? I'll be prompt to format or what?
Yes, you will be prompted to format, each time you change a card. Again, you will need to hard reset. It's fine to lose the content on the card, since you have the backup
What happen with the hack after storage card upgrade?
Every time you change the microsd card, you will be prompted to format (aka hard reset). You will lose the sideloading ability. You will need to do the hack again.
thanks
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I don't remember if I tried it or not, but if I remember correctly, he will not be able to restore the 4GB backup to the 8GB SD card will he? It will only restore to the same size?
Thanks EnderPsp!
I'm reconsidering my idea right now. It's a lot of work for only 4 more gigs...
But, wow! Awesome!
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I don't remember if I tried it or not, but if I remember correctly, he will not be able to restore the 4GB backup to the 8GB SD card will he? It will only restore to the same size?
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He won't be able to use the backup from the 4GB with the new 8 GBcard.
As I said, once the card is in and phone booted, the card becomes one with the phone memory, as a virtual extension. In the same time, an ID is calculated from the phone's IMEI + memory card serial number. Evidently, for every card's serial number is unique, and thus the ID changes with each card. The backup is also tied to this unique ID: it's encrypted using a key derived from this ID.