Help! SD Card Format - Focus General

To Keep it simple, Last week I bought the Samsung foucus and did the whole SD card Merge bit, and now Today I've gotten the Galaxy Nexus 4.0 and I need my Micro SD from my Samsung Focus, D:
I don't wanna buy another, what are my options, I've been youtubing and googling
crap all day, cannot find anything except one tutorial that had me confused, because nothing made any sense, So can someone help me get my SD card back.
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Stupid WP7 idea anyway

Xaraviia said:
To Keep it simple, Last week I bought the Samsung foucus and did the whole SD card Merge bit, and now Today I've gotten the Galaxy Nexus 4.0 and I need my Micro SD from my Samsung Focus, D:
I don't wanna buy another, what are my options, I've been youtubing and googling
crap all day, cannot find anything except one tutorial that had me confused, because nothing made any sense, So can someone help me get my SD card back.
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Stupid WP7 idea anyway
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Well, you're not doing some things right, that much I can tell you.
As for getting the card "back" there are several threads if you search this forum alone, for example this.
Long story short, you either need a photo camera and format it there or a newer Nokia phone (Exx or Nxx series) to format the card.

EnderPsp said:
Well, you're not doing some things right, that much I can tell you.
As for getting the card "back" there are several threads if you search this forum alone, for example this.
Long story short, you either need a photo camera and format it there or a newer Nokia phone (Exx or Nxx series) to format the card.
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There Hasn't been anything on the Focus, I've searched. Everything Regards the HTC HD2, I just said forget it, Bought a new one today, So Close Thread.

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Sprint F***** up my phone...

So I took my hero in today for having dust under the screen and the ear piece speaker being blown out. After telling me they wont give me a replacement and taking apart my phone (without asking btw) they cleaned the screen, then told me they were going to "harvest" a speaker from a phone being returned on monday and put the used speaker in my phone. After putting it back together they gave it back to me and I found they somehow corrupted my sd card. I was running apps2sd, had about 500 pics and all my nand backups on the card. Now I'm running a program to try to recover my fat partition so i can get to my nands and pics.
All I have to say is THANK YOU SPRINT FOR BREAKING MY 8gb SD CARD AND RUINING MY ****ING DAY!
So they fixed your $300 phone, yet accidentally corrupted your data on your $20 sd card? Hmm. Im sorry.........................? Lol seriously, your CARD isnt ruined, your data is just corrupted. Would you rather have your backups and a phone that isn't working right?
beyondinferno said:
So I took my hero in today for having dust under the screen and the ear piece speaker being blown out. After telling me they wont give me a replacement and taking apart my phone (without asking btw) they cleaned the screen, then told me they were going to "harvest" a speaker from a phone being returned on monday and put the used speaker in my phone. After putting it back together they gave it back to me and I found they somehow corrupted my sd card. I was running apps2sd, had about 500 pics and all my nand backups on the card. Now I'm running a program to try to recover my fat partition so i can get to my nands and pics.
All I have to say is THANK YOU SPRINT FOR BREAKING MY 8gb SD CARD AND RUINING MY ****ING DAY!
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Why didnt you take your sdcard out before you brought it in for service? I also assume you brought it in rooted as well. All I can say is if you dont have a second copy of any of your nandbackups/files then you really never had a "backup" to begin with. Sorry to hear about your sdcard, lesson learned......
Yeah kind of have to agree with the replies here. If you didn't backup your memory card shame on you. Its not like the guy purposely set out ruin your memory card. Well I might have if you came to me with the attitude you got now. Memory cards go bad all the time. I think your just looking for something to b**ch about.
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Why didnt you take your sdcard out before you brought it in for service? I also assume you brought it in rooted as well. All I can say is if you dont have a second copy of any of your nandbackups/files then you really never had a "backup" to begin with. Sorry to hear about your sdcard, lesson learned......
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Leukay said:
So they fixed your $300 phone, yet accidentally corrupted your data on your $20 sd card? Hmm. Im sorry.........................? Lol seriously, your CARD isnt ruined, your data is just corrupted. Would you rather have your backups and a phone that isn't working right?
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Phone isn't fixed... They cleaned the screen and promised me a USED part for repair of the speaker. They did nothing to prevent the dust issue from reoccurring and I know the $20 card isn't ruined. However, the hours I'm spending trying to recover my data doesn't equate to $20. My time isn't free. And the fact they want to put used parts in my 5 week old phone is just insult to injury.
Please don't take this as some sob story, I just wanted to vent to a group of people who I thought might understand my frustration.
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Phone isn't fixed... They cleaned the screen and promised me a USED part for repair of the speaker. They did nothing to prevent the dust issue from reoccurring and I know the $20 card isn't ruined. However, the hours I'm spending trying to recover my data doesn't equate to $20. My time isn't free. And the fact they want to put used parts in my 5 week old phone is just insult to injury.
Please don't take this as some sob story, I just wanted to vent to a group of people who I thought might understand my frustration.
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I'm sorry, I'm just saying, my speaker was blown and I just replaced the speaker with the one from my old (very old) vogue, and it works perfectly fine. There's no way to prevent the dust, and you won't notice a difference between a used or new earpiece. Just sayin
Your speaker blew too?! WTF? You have any idea what might have caused it?
Last year I return my Hero to Best Buy because of the same problem, the guys changed my Hero and gave a brand new, before i walk trough my door i made a copy from my SDCard, anytime i make a NAN Backup i copy that backup to my computer, is just common sense, anyway i had the same problem with the speaker WTF is going on with the speakers?
sounds like another weak point on the phone... BTW, I usually backup to my comp but I had to go to the store straight from work. They only have a tech mon/wedns/fri 9 to 6.... Kinda gay...
beyondinferno said:
So I took my hero in today for having dust under the screen and the ear piece speaker being blown out. After telling me they wont give me a replacement and taking apart my phone (without asking btw) they cleaned the screen, then told me they were going to "harvest" a speaker from a phone being returned on monday and put the used speaker in my phone. After putting it back together they gave it back to me and I found they somehow corrupted my sd card. I was running apps2sd, had about 500 pics and all my nand backups on the card. Now I'm running a program to try to recover my fat partition so i can get to my nands and pics.
All I have to say is THANK YOU SPRINT FOR BREAKING MY 8gb SD CARD AND RUINING MY ****ING DAY!
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Sprint doesn't care about your apps2sd, and it's not their responsibility. It was yours.
what about the 500 pics? Like i said, not trying to start a sprint bashing thread just sharing my inconvenience.
Don't like it? Don't comment.
Also, anyone know of a data recovery app that's any good? Running Win7 BTW.
hey go to google and search for Pandora Recovery and download it and pop in your sd card and away you go to recovering your files. It is a free great program.
showing the card as an unsupported file format.
I can't believe you took a phone (a rooted phone with AppsToSD installed, no less) in to a Sprint repair store with NONE of your data backed up.
Sorry. Lesson learned.
yeah..... Just reformated. LESSON LEARNED! ef it, i'm gonna try some new roms!
Lol, my phone and windows thinks it's 1.3 tb now!?
I also have much dust on the screen.
Should I have to contact with sprint to agrue about that?
Anybody else has the same problem?
I took my hero to get the dust cleaned as well. I forgot to remove my 8GB card like a genius and the tech fried my 8GB too. They came back out with a 2GB card as replacement and told me my 8GB card fried because it's not the one that came with the phone.
Granted I blame myself for not removing the card beforehand, but they still had an attitude even when they fried my card.

Is HTC EVO 4G about to be launched with a massive defect?

Wanted to give EVO 4G owners/potential owners a heads up regarding a pretty serious issue with the included SD cards - have a look: Is HTC EVO 4G About To Be Launched With A Massive Defect In The Included 8GB MicroSD Card?
Oh great. I should've waited for things like this to develop before preordering. Hope it's nothing major.
To be fair, it wouldn't be a true HTC phone without some sort of major defect.
haven't had any problems
It could be a destructive application.
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Several people seem to have it on the Android forums for the Evo: http://androidforums.com/htc-evo-4g...disappearing-defect-included-8gb-microsd.html
Really hope this doesn't become a major problem.
I don't consider a SD card problem a "massive defect". If it was the slot or the phone then yes. I'm sure HTC will replace the cards no problem. I already have my own card so? Why you people seem to be freaking out of this its nothing. BIG DEAL.
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I don't consider a SD card problem a "massive defect". If it was the slot or the phone then yes. I'm sure HTC will replace the cards no problem. I already have my own card so? Why you people seem to be freaking out of this its nothing. BIG DEAL.
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Well it may not be the cards that is the problem. It could be a hardware issue where due to the awkward positioning of the card the phone doesn't read it sometimes, which would be a significant problem that would near impossible to fix.
I haven't experienced any problems.
I use my own 16GB card and dont have any problems. Maybe the shipped card is bad - but it is not a device deffect.
I had that exact same problem with a 4gb card from microcenter in my hero until one day, it completely died. After I replaced the card, the problem went away. It's probably just the card.
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Well it may not be the cards that is the problem. It could be a hardware issue where due to the awkward positioning of the card the phone doesn't read it sometimes, which would be a significant problem that would near impossible to fix.
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I remember the 5/19 engadget review mentioned:
"The microSD card lives underneath the battery, so we'd probably recommend just getting a nice big one (good luck finding a 32GB!) and leaving it put -- especially since HTC has chosen one of the most unusual slot designs we've ever seen on a phone. Basically, the card rests loosely in a trench and is secured using a plastic peg overhead; press it down to hold the card in place. A fingernail is enough to pop the peg up again, and the card just falls right out. It's such a bizarre design that we can only assume it was necessitated (versus, say, a conventional spring-loaded slot) by virtue of the EVO's tightly-packed circuitry. Nothing a good, old-fashioned teardown won't definitively answer, we're sure."
So is this a hardware or officially resolved software or combo issue or will we not really know until after the June 4th launch (asks an eager beaver)?
zone23 said:
I don't consider a SD card problem a "massive defect". If it was the slot or the phone then yes. I'm sure HTC will replace the cards no problem. I already have my own card so? Why you people seem to be freaking out of this its nothing. BIG DEAL.
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First of all, we still don't know what the issue is exactly - hardware, software, or a combination of the two.
And if the problem is widespread, new EVO users, who may not be tech savvy or have spare SD cards, will not be happy and this is the publicity HTC doesn't need.
And finally, if it is a bad batch, I'd like to know how HTC plans to address it and what we would need to do to get the fix.
I have seen this issue with my evo. I will test out 4gb card and see if the issue goes away.
No issues for me.
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Swapped that sucker out with a 16GB since the day i got it. No issues
I have an EVO from the I/0. I re-formatted the card before I put anything on it and haven't had any problems with it.
No issues with my nexus one 4 gb card. I will try formatting the 8 gb and try again.
Archon810 said:
Wanted to give EVO 4G owners/potential owners a heads up regarding a pretty serious issue with the included SD cards - have a look: Is HTC EVO 4G About To Be Launched With A Massive Defect In The Included 8GB MicroSD Card?
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Geez...It's a freaking storage card. You gotta love the hysteria that results when a story is headlined with the words "Massive Defect".
A massive defect would be "half the screen goes dead when used in temps of 70 F or higher" or "phone bricks when you install a memory manager".
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Geez...It's a freaking stroage card. You gotta love the hysteria that results when a story is headlined with the words "Massive Defect".
A massive defect would be "half the screen goes dead when used in temps of 70 F or higher" or "phone bricks when you install a memory manager".
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Again, if you bothered to read the article or prior posts before commenting, you'd know that nobody knows the root of the problem. It is not necessarily a faulty storage card. It could also be a problem with the hardware where the memory card does not stay connected to the phone, which would be a major issue, and replacing the memory card would not solve it. I know I'd be very upset if every time I wanted to take a picture the phone told me there was no available memory card to save it to. It also could be a software problem, which hopefully should not be too difficult to solve.
According to a poster on the Android forums,
"I contacted sprint about this problem tonight, they told me they knew about it already. Sprint said the only phones that have this problem are the ones that google gave to their employees and to the reviewers. It was a software issue,apparently the issue was only with the first 2,000 phones google gave out. With the phones being released on June 4th, the software issue is resolved. I am switching form the Crap pre to the HTC Evo 4G, and I am glad to now be a part of Android Forums. Thanks guys and have a good night."
http://androidforums.com/htc-evo-4g...sappearing-defect-included-8gb-microsd-2.html
So let's hope that is the case, but who knows how reliable either the guy is or the person he talked to at Sprint. We'll have to wait and see if it happens to us.

So, still no word on how to format MicroSD?

Really disappointed. I need to use it in another phone and can't believe I can't format it.
Hopefully Newegg will exchange it.
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GrayWolf said:
Find a Nokia or Windows Mobile 6.x phone that has a micro SDHC slot on it (such as the AT&T Tilt) and you should be in business.
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Would a MetroPCS Samsung Code work? It has Windows 6.5 and I'm 99% sure has a MicroSD spot.
Not all WM devices can do it. Tilt is probably an anormally. My HTC Pure can't format it.
xThe Enforcer said:
Would a MetroPCS Samsung Code work? It has Windows 6.5 and I'm 99% sure has a MicroSD spot.
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I'd give it a shot. You really aren't risking anything other than a little time getting it set up to test.
GrayWolf said:
I'd give it a shot. You really aren't risking anything other than a little time getting it set up to test.
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Yep. Should be doing it soon and I'll keep ya'll updated.
I'm so glad I got back to Android..
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I'm so glad I got back to Android..
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Same here!!! It ended up not working and I exchanged my Focus for a Captivate.
WOW. I'm speechless.
Once I rooted and put a custom ROM on my Captivate it seriously OWNED the Focus.
And I had to send my SD card in to Newegg for a replacement. WP7 is a failure.
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xThe Enforcer said:
Same here!!! It ended up not working and I exchanged my Focus for a Captivate.
WOW. I'm speechless.
Once I rooted and put a custom ROM on my Captivate it seriously OWNED the Focus.
And I had to send my SD card in to Newegg for a replacement. WP7 is a failure.
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I get a laugh out of comments like this. Another expert predicting the death of an OS. I wasn't aware that I was so blessed to have joined a group with such brilliant market experts. Thanks so much, I'll just dump my Focus now.
Can anyone confirm that the Tilt will successfully format the card? I read that the Tilt 2 won't, but can seem to find anyone who tried the Tilt.
JamesAllen said:
I get a laugh out of comments like this. Another expert predicting the death of an OS. I wasn't aware that I was so blessed to have joined a group with such brilliant market experts. Thanks so much, I'll just dump my Focus now.
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Good idea; enjoy the tiles.
clfosk said:
Can anyone confirm that the Tilt will successfully format the card? I read that the Tilt 2 won't, but can seem to find anyone who tried the Tilt.
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Wasn't able to get my Tilt to even see it. As far as I can tell there's only one person on here who was able to get their Tilt to reformat it, whereas most people (myself included) failed.
I heard the Nokia N8 and the Sony Vivaz will format the card.
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I heard the Nokia N8 and the Sony Vivaz will format the card.
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Don't know anyone who owns one and a replacement is already on the way. Thanks though.
nvm !
Meh
So it turns out that my Tilt-reformatted card must've been a fluke due to the fact that my 32GB Class 4 Kingston card flaked out on me. While I was able to successfully reformat that card (which worked for a day or two before causing the phone to become unstable), I was not able to do so for a Sandisk 8GB Class 4 card that works perfectly in my colleague's Focus.
As such, I officially retract my previous belief that the Tilt is a viable platform for reformatting microSDHC cards since it clearly isn't capable of formatting "locked" cards.

NOOB and i need pointed in the right direction.

hello im thinking of getting an hd2 today but im not sure what all needs to be done before i can flash windows 7 i was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction. i have look on xda but im not 100% sure where to start. what all you have to do with the hd2 because i have changed roms a bunch on my nexus one. yet it seems like the hd2 is a lot different then how i do it on my nexus. so if there is a good guide that kinda shows what all you need and how to do it that would be awesome. thank you for your time.
The best tutorial for the flashing process imho can be found in the HD2 Android section - the steps are actually the same, except you will flash a WP7 NAND ROM instead of Android. Check it here.
To start, as you can read in above linked tutorial, you will have to install HSPL 2.08, which can be a little tricky in case your HD2 comes with SPL 3.03. For this case, you´ll find another tutorial, it´s not that hard.
Otherwise, no big issue, I guess.
I strongly recommend to flash a custom ROM, those include the "Chevron" jailbreak from scratch, biggest advantage is that there won´t be any re-locking issues. The original "Leo70 ROM" does not include the jailbreak.
However, if you want to use Live services, you will still need an activation code from MS. WP7 runs fine without those, but you´ll lack quite a few interesting options, I think.
Happy flashing!
This is a pretty good video guide........
thank you both for your quick responses. i will look at all the tuts you posted. i know i seen for one windows 7 thing that you needed hspl 3 so i wasnt sure on that.
this is a little of topic but is 225 for what there saying is a brand new only opened for photos, good for a hd2.
Sounds reasonable but I would be suspicious of the "only opened for photos" part..
If I was selling a brand new phone, Id much rather describe it as "Unopened" than "only opened for photos......
My hd2 is over a year old and very nearly in mint condition despite never being in a case so I'd imagine if someone had used one for 6 months in a case then it would be possible to pass it off as "brand new"........
Then again I'm a very suspicious guy......
conantroutman said:
Sounds reasonable but I would be suspicious of the "only opened for photos" part..
If I was selling a brand new phone, Id much rather describe it as "Unopened" than "only opened for photos......
My hd2 is over a year old and very nearly in mint condition despite never being in a case so I'd imagine if someone had used one for 6 months in a case then it would be possible to pass it off as "brand new"........
Then again I'm a very suspicious guy......
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lol yea thats what i was kinda thinking. i know from talking to him he doesnt seem to know much about hd2's in general. now if it was brand new it would come with the 8gb sd card or did tmobile stop including that? when i go to look at it today im going to make sure the touch screen works well and that there is nothing wrong with the device and make sure it has everything it is suppose to come with out of the box.
If your getting to see it and test it then thats good.
The things I'd check are the earpiece, the usb port and the little slot for your fingernail to open the back cover, if its had use these will give the game away.
That said, if it works ok then it shouldnt really matter how much use its had.
You could always try and get some money off if he's tryed to dupe you though
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If your getting to see it and test it then thats good.
The things I'd check are the earpiece, the usb port and the little slot for your fingernail to open the back cover, if its had use these will give the game away.
That said, if it works ok then it shouldnt really matter how much use its had.
You could always try and get some money off if he's tryed to dupe you though
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that is very true. well i asked him if it had the sd card and he didnt even know where to find it if it did and i didnt know either since never owning one lol. but i just watched a video so i know where to find it.
krypticos said:
that is very true. well i asked him if it had the sd card and he didnt even know where to find it if it did and i didnt know either since never owning one lol. but i just watched a video so i know where to find it.
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I think they were 2gb cards that went out with the phone. Might have been 8gb with tmous though, not sure......

[Q] Is there a way to back up my SD card?

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Loriski said:
Okay new here hope this is the right place.
I bought a N2a card on amazon and it works fine. Now I would like to get another nook color for my daughter but hate to spend more money on another ready made card for her's with CM7 on it. Maybe it's my SD card? ( Adata 8 gig not sure maybe doing it wrong.) If I could make a image of the one I bought Sandisk that would be great but I can't find out how to.
Thanks, Lori..
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Let me get this straight. You were too lazy to make your own card, you bought one already made and now you come to us to see if you can essentially rip off the people that make the N2A card so you don't have to spend any other of your tightfisted dollars? I hardly think so!
Maybe someone on here will forward this to the N2A people in case you were dumb enough to use a screen name that was close enough for them to identify their customer......
Loriski said:
Okay new here hope this is the right place.
I bought a N2a card on amazon and it works fine. Now I would like to get another nook color for my daughter but hate to spend more money on another ready made card for her's with CM7 on it. Maybe it's my SD card? ( Adata 8 gig not sure maybe doing it wrong.) If I could make a image of the one I bought Sandisk that would be great but I can't find out how to.
Thanks, Lori..
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You're not ripping anyone off. You purchased the N2A card. Now it's yours, you can do with it as you wish. You're not burning it to sell to someone else. Hey, maybe you want a backup of your card in case the one you have messes up.
You can either use WinImage to back up the whole card and burn the image onto the new one.
Or if you have a mac or linux box, you can use the "dd" command to do essentially the same thing.
-Racks
patruns said:
Let me get this straight. You were too lazy to make your own card, you bought one already made and now you come to us to see if you can essentially rip off the people that make the N2A card so you don't have to spend any other of your tightfisted dollars? I hardly think so!
Maybe someone on here will forward this to the N2A people in case you were dumb enough to use a screen name that was close enough for them to identify their customer......
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Who Pissed in your coffee this morning???
Loriski said:
If I could make a image of the one I bought Sandisk that would be great but I can't find out how to. /QUOTE]
Someone has said they "CLONE" the uSD.
I've never done it b4 so can't tell you for sure whether it works or not.
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You're not ripping anyone off. You purchased the N2A card. Now it's yours, you can do with it as you wish. You're not burning it to sell to someone else.
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You folks are not reading her post. She wants to clone it to use on another Nook Color. That is called piracy. In fact, it is prohibited here in the forums....
Mod time:
So, this post was brought to my attention, and is a very interesting one. At the surface, this act looks as if it is a warez post, but a little background makes me think otherwise (perhaps putting it in a grey area).
The n2a card, is actually little more than CM7 preinstalled on a new(?) SD card. Because CM7 is an open and free project, I do not feel that cloning a purchased card is actually stealing anything... indeed, the same result can be achieved with the user putting CM7 on the card the same way as n2a does it. Additionally, places advised that you really paying for the card, with the convince of having cm7 already on it.
For now, I am leaving this, but will note that tis is pending further review and discussion, and things may change...
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Mod time:
So, this post was brought to my attention, and is a very interesting one. At the surface, this act looks as if it is a warez post, but a little background makes me think otherwise (perhaps putting it in a grey area).
The n2a card, is actually little more than CM7 preinstalled on a new(?) SD card. Because CM7 is an open and free project, I do not feel that cloning a purchased card is actually stealing anything... indeed, the same result can be achieved with the user putting CM7 on the card the same way as n2a does it. Additionally, places advised that you really paying for the card, with the convince of having cm7 already on it.
For now, I am leaving this, but will note that tis is pending further review and discussion, and things may change...
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Well put Madcat! How the heck are ya, forum moderator now huh? Awesomeness. Hope all is well!
Hey hey! Yep, I am now a NC mod (among other forums)...
Anyway, as is it, I am leaving the thread as is. Leaving personal feelings aside, there is nothing wrong right now. Keep it clean guys, and all is good..
racks11479 said:
Well put Madcat! How the heck are ya, forum moderator now huh? Awesomeness. Hope all is well!
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I don't think that would be piracy any more than making your own card. N2A doesn't do anything special to their cards. You buy the service off putting Android on the card, that's it. N2A owns nothing on that card.
That being said, it still would probably be easier to follow the directions in this forum and make a new card.
Sent from my NookColor using xda premium
patruns said:
Let me get this straight. You were too lazy to make your own card, you bought one already made and now you come to us to see if you can essentially rip off the people that make the N2A card so you don't have to spend any other of your tightfisted dollars? I hardly think so!
Maybe someone on here will forward this to the N2A people in case you were dumb enough to use a screen name that was close enough for them to identify their customer......
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Okay let me set you straight I had a adata card and tried to make one and I failed maybe it was the card brand??????? So no I was not lazy.
Anyways I bought one that the guy said was paying for his time to put the free software on the card that was a sandisk brand. He said he does not own the software. So if this card does fail and or I want to use the free software on another nook I don't see a problem as I paid for the guys time already. Now if I'm wrong I'm sorry.
Thanks for your time,
Lori..
SCrid2000 said:
I don't think that would be piracy any more than making your own card. N2A doesn't do anything special to their cards. You buy the service off putting Android on the card, that's it. N2A owns nothing on that card.
That being said, it still would probably be easier to follow the directions in this forum and make a new card.
Sent from my NookColor using xda premium
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Thanks for your post. I wish it was easy I failed so I bought one. Maybe the card brand bad? I think I will try a sandisk card and maybe I will get it figured out.
Thanks,
Lori..
Delete please.
Ok, I admit I over-reacted in my original post. I've always felt the selling of the N2A card was a bit of a ripoff of all the hard work put into CM7 by the developers, especially since there was never mention of any proceeds going back to support the developers. $34.99 for an 8GB card, $49.99 for a 16GB card and $79.99 for a 32GB card ...... really? Then to see someone buy one card and then simply want to clone it to use in another NC (her daughter's if I recall correctly) just did not seem right. But, I defer to the moderators......
patruns said:
Ok, I admit I over-reacted in my original post. I've always felt the selling of the N2A card was a bit of a ripoff of all the hard work put into CM7 by the developers, especially since there was never mention of any proceeds going back to support the developers. $34.99 for an 8GB card, $49.99 for a 16GB card and $79.99 for a 32GB card ...... really? Then to see someone buy one card and then simply want to clone it to use in another NC (her daughter's if I recall correctly) just did not seem right. But, I defer to the moderators......
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Hi Again,
I agree with you totally on the money being sent to the people that developed the software. I don't have a issue with that part. ( I still don't know why they give it away for free?) If the CM7 people sold the card I would have bought from them. This is not my fault that the N2A ripped those people off. I just felt I didn't want to send N2a anymore money for something I already bought and if software is Free didn't think that was wrong. I was not going to do this to make money like them. I just need a backup for use in another one or maybe in case this one messes up somehow. I tried making my own at first but with blue dots and other items I got so confused what to do and didn't want to mess my new refurb CN up. Maybe after my chemo treatment effects subside I will feel better and can try again with a sandisk card this time. I would also like the moderators to just please delete all these posts.
Thanks
Lori
Loriski said:
Hi Again,
I agree with you totally on the money being sent to the people that developed the software. I don't have a issue with that part. ( I still don't know why they give it away for free?) If the CM7 people sold the card I would have bought from them. This is not my fault that the N2A ripped those people off. I just felt I didn't want to send N2a anymore money for something I already bought and if software is Free didn't think that was wrong. I was not going to do this to make money like them. I just need a backup for use in another one or maybe in case this one messes up somehow. I tried making my own at first but with blue dots and other items I got so confused what to do and didn't want to mess my new refurb CN up. Maybe after my chemo treatment effects subside I will feel better and can try again with a sandisk card this time. I would also like the moderators to just please delete all these posts.
Thanks
Lori
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I think any number of people have tried with the instructions here and failed to make a usable card. Why? I don't know. Maybe it's because of the plethora of conflicting instructions. Maybe it's the links to outdated software, or dead links. Maybe it's just the "simply do this, then this, then download this that may not work with your OS, so you might have to do this, then be sure to hold the buttons down just this length of time," and so on, but I tried twice and gave up.
So, I bought an N2A card, inserted it, and my NC booted up immediately and it all worked. That's certainly worth something. I now have the fairly nifty Android tablet running Jelly Bean that I had hoped to have almost a year ago, and despaired of every successfully setting up. I don't think the payment to N2A was out of line, considering the time I had spent trying to do the same thing.
I'm not sure I'd pay them for a second card, if the first one died and I had a backup.

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