I have tried installing a wm7 rom on my hd2 but it kept on rebooting.
I belive that may have been down to incomaptibility of my SD card, a trancend 16GB Micro SDHC class 6. So I tried a Sandik 2GB micro SD. That seemed to get further but locked up before the splash screen.
I have since tried to reformat the SD cards but can't get them to show up in a card reader on 3 different machines.
I have flashed the HD2 back to a stock rom and ot also doesn't see the sd card.
As I can't get a windows or a Linux machine to see them I am at a loss as to how I can get them back.
Have I ruined them or is there any way I can get them back to life?
Any ideas appreciated.
Download a partition manager and wipe all the partitions on your card. then format to whatever you like
Nitro_123 said:
Download a partition manager and wipe all the partitions on your card. then format to whatever you like
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Thanks for the idea nitro,
Sadly the cards don't show up in a partition manager either
So no partitions to delete
Think I may have screwed them completely
Anyone have any idea what has happened to these cards?
I'm not familiar with WP7 (That's why I tried to flash it).
I understand WP7 encrypts the sd card?
Is that why I can't see it under another OS?
If so is there any way to recover?
cliver said:
Anyone have any idea what has happened to these cards?
I'm not familiar with WP7 (That's why I tried to flash it).
I understand WP7 encrypts the sd card?
Is that why I can't see it under another OS?
If so is there any way to recover?
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only Yuki ROM (BTTF) lock sdcards.... but you have unlock cab file for unlock card, or use old Nokia phones
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1242071
cliver said:
Anyone have any idea what has happened to these cards?
I'm not familiar with WP7 (That's why I tried to flash it).
I understand WP7 encrypts the sd card?
Is that why I can't see it under another OS?
If so is there any way to recover?
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Formatted with old NOKIA phone only solution.
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I had put wp7 on my hd2 and experience issues with it restarting over and over on its own.
I have since gone back to android and have notice they my SD only reads 200mb. Its a 16gb SD.
My question, is there a way to restore or undo the format wp7 applied to my SD? I'd rather not buy another SD lol
Any suggestions would be apreciated
I had the same problem.
I could not format in Windows XP or in Windows 7 ...
In the end I formatted in camera.
WP7 creates two partitions - one for system use the other is what you're seeing - the 200mb partition.
Theres program called SD Format nocking around on the internet that should reformat and remove the partion WP7 creates - try googling SD Format that should throw up some links to it - i beleive its freeware.
There are lots of threads and fixes about this, here is one with video:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=926225
Here is one where you don't have to install any software on your pc:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10850669&postcount=1233
irocmabe said:
I had put wp7 on my hd2 and experience issues with it restarting over and over on its own.
I have since gone back to android and have notice they my SD only reads 200mb. Its a 16gb SD.
My question, is there a way to restore or undo the format wp7 applied to my SD? I'd rather not buy another SD lol
Any suggestions would be apreciated
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I flashed the stock ROM then i went to start/tools/Format SD Card & formated worked for me
If you are using a NAND build of Android, you can just format it from the phone and it should recover the remaining amount of the SD card. I don't remember who I saw that posted it on here, but it worked for me when I tried it.
I had WP7 on my HD2, but I flashed the stock WM6.5 rom cause i got bored of WP7. But now on WM6.5 i cant see my SD Card. I read somewhere that your suppose to format your SD card after the flash. But it wont even show up on my phone. What should i do?
Format it using a microsd to SD card converter in your pc or use a camera
Sent from my duel booting beast of a phone
TrevorMcCauley said:
I had WP7 on my HD2, but I flashed the stock WM6.5 rom cause i got bored of WP7. But now on WM6.5 i cant see my SD Card. I read somewhere that your suppose to format your SD card after the flash. But it wont even show up on my phone. What should i do?
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Use the free Panasonic SD Formatter Tool
Set options to FULL ERASE and size adjustment ON
Can you change the SD Card in WP7 from a 4GB card to an 8GB or 16GB card without reformating the Phone.
Thanks
michaels0007 said:
Can you change the SD Card in WP7 from a 4GB card to an 8GB or 16GB card without reformating the Phone.
Thanks
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You can change it, but you'll lose everything you've installed and have an out the box phone so to speak.
Well at least that's what happened when I changed from my test SD card to my 8GB
Which Brand memory card do u use?
Hawkeyezghost said:
Which Brand memory card do u use?
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I use SanDisk
no!!!will not read the new sd,you have to format the new one with the rom you are installing.
N.B: sandisk 8G is highly stable with wp7...
you can switch sd cards without starting over, but then you'd have to copy the partition from your old sd card to your new sd card.
it gets slightly complicated, but only because of the numbers of steps, not technical complications.
use Easeus partition software and try to replicate the exact partitions across the old card and the new card
good luck
bravo261 said:
you can switch sd cards without starting over, but then you'd have to copy the partition from your old sd card to your new sd card.
it gets slightly complicated, but only because of the numbers of steps, not technical complications.
use Easeus partition software and try to replicate the exact partitions across the old card and the new card
good luck
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Did this work for you? I made a thread about this possibility but nobody knew if it's really working.
Hey there,
my question is the other way. Is it possible to flash an other rom without having my SD in to safe settings and installed apps?
I tested this way:
1. turn off phone
2. pull out the SD
3. boot
My HD2 booted into WP7 and ran a blank WP7 such as it was fresh installed.
Then I turned it off and put the SD back in and booted. It booted into my ol status.
So no I want to if I can flash an other rom, put my already formatted SD with my WP7 settings back in? Is that maybe the best way to safe settings?
olegblochin said:
Hey there,
my question is the other way. Is it possible to flash an other rom without having my SD in to safe settings and installed apps?
I tested this way:
1. turn off phone
2. pull out the SD
3. boot
My HD2 booted into WP7 and ran a blank WP7 such as it was fresh installed.
Then I turned it off and put the SD back in and booted. It booted into my ol status.
So no I want to if I can flash an other rom, put my already formatted SD with my WP7 settings back in? Is that maybe the best way to safe settings?
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i would test this for you and reply you!!! i didn't think of that before...
michaels0007 said:
Can you change the SD Card in WP7 from a 4GB card to an 8GB or 16GB card without reformating the Phone.
Thanks
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i think this link will explain you how to copy the partitions....and more
http://www.techienote.com/tag/technology
Thanks jianototi,
copying the wp7 partition between different sd cards works very well. The system accepts the copy and wp7 launches with all adjustments, downloads and installed apps.
My question now is: Can I reinstall a fresh wp7 nand and insert my sd from old installation? Will the sd be accepted? Or start wp7 with a virgin system?
regards
caiowa
so if we can move a wp7 from one sd card to another. Should it then not be possible to download from the internet, and just copy to sd-card?
Reason i ask is because i cannot get my wp7 to connnect to pc, so i cant get live services. However there seems to be a version now, where i just need to activate the phone.
If someone uploaded their data, can i download it, and update my wp7 that way?
yes put the new sdcard and restar to factory values
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so if we can move a wp7 from one sd card to another. Should it then not be possible to download from the internet, and just copy to sd-card?
Reason i ask is because i cannot get my wp7 to connnect to pc, so i cant get live services. However there seems to be a version now, where i just need to activate the phone.
If someone uploaded their data, can i download it, and update my wp7 that way?
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i was under the impression that it uses some sort of RAID over the card.
the best way to tell is to copy the card factory rest with one SD card, then swap the cards afterwards. Myguess is that it wont work the way you want it too, i doubt it will "give" you everything back on again.
Hi,
I use to use Windows Phone on my HD2 but I eventually switched back to Android. Since there was recently a release for the NODO update, I am keen to try it.
My question is if I backup my current rom with magldr, can I late (when using WP7) switch back to android simply by restoring?
Thanks!
Yes, you would need to reflash the cwm partition layout first, but then the backup can be restored.
Sam is right you can restore your Android ROM to just like it was when you made the Nandroid backup using CWM. But you need to use a seperate SD card to store the back up on or copy it to your computer cuase WP7 is going to totally reformat your SD card unless you have it partitioned correctly. Meani.g you will loose any infortion that is not on another partition on your SD card.
Ah yea that, good catch.
T-Macgnolia said:
Sam is right you can restore your Android ROM to just like it was when you made the Nandroid backup using CWM. But you need to use a seperate SD card to store the back up on or copy it to your computer cuase WP7 is going to totally reformat your SD card unless you have it partitioned correctly. Meani.g you will loose any infortion that is not on another partition on your SD card.
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If I backup my current rom to the SD card I'm using now, and then use a second SD card and flash WP7 with that, I can take out the second one, plug in the first, boot into MAGLDR and safely restore Android?
Nope, the partition WP7 uses is in some sort of locked encryption format, so in other words, WP7 won't recognize the space on the sd card and fail to boot. Hence why WP7 formats the sd card in a certain way on first boot.
So in other words, use one sd card to save your nandroid backup/android, and another sd card for WP7 to use.
Kailkti said:
Nope, the partition WP7 uses is in some sort of locked encryption format, so in other words, WP7 won't recognize the space on the sd card and fail to boot. Hence why WP7 formats the sd card in a certain way on first boot.
So in other words, use one sd card to save your nandroid backup/android, and another sd card for WP7 to use.
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So in theory I can nandroid backup on my current sd card, then use another for WP7 to partition. I can plug my first sd card back in and restore from MAGLDR replacing android over WP7?
Oops lawl I misread the post above. I thought you were trying to use a sd card for WP7 to format when it boots up first then plug in your nandroid backed up sd card and use WP7 normally.
Anyways, yes you can do that. CWM is going take over WP7 anyways.
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So in theory I can nandroid backup on my current sd card, then use another for WP7 to partition. I can plug my first sd card back in and restore from MAGLDR replacing android over WP7?
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You know I actually just really thought about it , and yes you can do just what you are asking. Just flash the WP7 ROM of your choice, this should not remove CWM if you currently have it flashed to your HD2, Not running CWM from SD card by placing the two required files on it. Cause flashing WP7 will remove those two files.
So when you get ready to go back to Android you will have to put a SD card with the Backup on it in your HD2 or remove the RAID format that WP7 puts on the SD card and then reformat it with Fat 32, then put the copy on it and boot into CWM and restore with your backup and you should theoretically have Android back on your HD2. I Have not tested this, but like i said it is theoretical.
Let us know how it works out.
Looking at bazinga's avatar picture is making me wish there was an HD2 tablet.
T-Macgnolia said:
You know I actually just really thought about it , and yes you can do just what you are asking. Just flash the WP7 ROM of your choice, this should not remove CWM if you currently have it flashed to your HD2, Not running CWM from SD card by placing the two required files on it. Cause flashing WP7 will remove those two files.
So when you get ready to go back to Android you will have to put a SD card with the Backup on it in your HD2 or remove the RAID format that WP7 puts on the SD card and then reformat it with Fat 32, then put the copy on it and boot into CWM and restore with your backup and you should theoretically have Android back on your HD2. I Have not tested this, but like i said it is theoretical.
Let us know how it works out.
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Yup, it worked. After trying NODO I went back to MAGLDR but I had to flash AD Recovery again. Then I just restored the backup from my SD card.
Kailkti said:
Nope, the partition WP7 uses is in some sort of locked encryption format, so in other words, WP7 won't recognize the space on the sd card and fail to boot. Hence why WP7 formats the sd card in a certain way on first boot.
So in other words, use one sd card to save your nandroid backup/android, and another sd card for WP7 to use.
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I don't really know about locked and encrypted. But what I do know is WP7 formats the SD card with RAID. This is a format for hard drives, flash memory, external storage, and the such that lets a computer/device view and treat the different storage areas as one storage and can use them as one hard drive if you will. this is used in much larger scale usually.
hi everyone after flashing wp7 now i need to return to android. the problem is that this time i used my 8gb sandisk sdcard instead of th 2gb one and now i can't restore it. all the other times i was able to repair it with sd formatter, this time windows doesn't recognize it correctly, so sdformatter can't format it. my nikon camera tells me that the sd isa damedged , so i can't restore it in this way too. any ideas?
cuzzo94 said:
hi everyone after flashing wp7 now i need to return to android. the problem is that this time i used my 8gb sandisk sdcard instead of th 2gb one and now i can't restore it. all the other times i was able to repair it with sd formatter, this time windows doesn't recognize it correctly, so sdformatter can't format it. my nikon camera tells me that the sd isa damedged , so i can't restore it in this way too. any ideas?
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I actually just fixed my sd cards today. I ultimately had to go to a store that had a nokia E71 and reformat the cards with the built in symbian OS. No pc or any other device would recognize the cards before I reformatted with the nokia. I think there is also a way by reflashing WP7 with the card inside, then make sure not to do any updates. You then pull the sd card and reformat in a PC.
Hope this helps
do you think that an e65 will work the same? probably my dad has still got his old one
thanks a lot!
cuzzo94 said:
do you think that an e65 will work the same? probably my dad has still got his old one
thanks a lot!
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Not sure man, I know that you have to do it through the file explorer that's built in, otherwise it will try and ask you for a password before formatting. As long as it's running the latest symbian you should be fine
cuzzo94 said:
do you think that an e65 will work the same? probably my dad has still got his old one
thanks a lot!
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Theres a list on this thread for confirmed devices that format wp7 corrupt sd card check it out.
If is doesnt, whilst you have wp7 installed send the storage unlock.cab to phone then send 1gb partition cab reset the phone from about..check if partition took effect first..press storage unlock on homepage tile .turn phone off your pc should recognise the sd card in sd card adapter for example it should read 7gb instead of 8gb use easeus partition tool to fully reformat..good luck
Moschino02 said:
Theres a list on this thread for confirmed devices that format wp7 corrupt sd card check it out.
If is doesnt, whilst you have wp7 installed send the storage unlock.cab to phone then send 1gb partition cab reset the phone from about..check if partition took effect first..press storage unlock on homepage tile .turn phone off your pc should recognise the sd card in sd card adapter for example it should read 7gb instead of 8gb use easeus partition tool to fully reformat..good luck
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i didn't understand all the passages. where can i find unlock .cab? and how do i have to use it?
thanks a lot
cuzzo94 said:
i didn't understand all the passages. where can i find unlock .cab? and how do i have to use it?
thanks a lot
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1250869
Send unlock cab via cab sender
Then partition cab 1gb via cab sender
Reset phone