Here's one I don't come by often.
I got a new 32 GB class 10 card to test (Transcend ultimate). On the Focus (rev 1.3) there's now a 16 GB class 4.
I want to take out the old card, test the new one and if it doesn't work, put back to the old card. I've already made a backup with the old card.
My questions are:
1. assuming the new card doesn't work, will the Focus see an already "locked" card when put back in the phone, and will it be able to re-format it? Or do I need to unlock the card first?
2. ...and more important: will the backup work?
Did anyone went through this?
You can't test SD cards. You have to format the phone in order to see the new card at all. And if you put the old card back, you have to re-format again, loosing everything on it. Meanwhile your new card will be locked and can't be used anywhere else.
If you are using voluptuary's ROM you can unlock the card and format it on your PC again to use it normally. The phone will see an already locked card. I have swapped out locked cards in the phone and even though it starts from scratch it will work with the cards regardless. Dont know if backups will work with a different sized card though.
@foxbat121: I know that if I'm going to put the card in I'm going to hard reset (ie format) to be seen by the phone. I've written that myself in the wiki, actually
My question was (and still is): will a stock Focus ROM see another locked card? Most probably yes, as fenrir26 says, if a custom rom sees locked cards then most probably the stock should too.
Stock should do the same, before I swapped to a custom ROM I had swapped a 4GB and a 16GB in and out of my Focus a couple time and it didnt have any issues seeing the previous card when I swapped it back in.
Again thank you fenrir26 !
I can confirm that the phone sees locked cards and also switching back to the old card, restore works!
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Hello,
maybe somebody have advice, or have the same problem.
Few days ago, my phone do not recognize my SD card (sandisk 8 GB SDHC ), I try everything, but unfortunatelly SD card died.
OK, I went to store and buy another one, this time Kingstone 8GB class 4.
And, this one last 4 days and now it dies too.
I noticed that they dies after flashing new ROM, when I run SPB full restore.
Some advice, help.....???
Thanks in advance.
Interesting. I have just had a 16gb card die on me - and I mean die completely. Previously I have had corruptions but they are normally recoverable with a reformat. This time the card might as well not exist - neither the HD2 nor the PC can even see it.
Most of my past problems with card corruption have been related to flashes and i have learned from bitter experience to remove the card while flashing. Having done all of this as normal, the card was fine for a couple of hours after flashing and then just died. As I had followed the process I put it down to bad luck and am looking to get a replacement.
I don't use backup and restore after flashing as i am normally moving to new versions of ROM and the risks of restoring to a different ROM far outweigh the benefits. So it won't be that, but I would be interested to know if there is a perception that card corruptions are becoming more common after flashing.
I do flash through USB and wonder if flashing straight from the card might be safer, but other than that, I can't see what more can be done to get around this issue.
Is the card also "dead" on a pc card reader?
You don't use card encryption on the phone, do you?
The 8gb card that came with my Desire HD works perfectly as you expect. But i wanted to upgrade so i bought a class 4 Kingston 16gb microsd card.
So i unmount the card, take it out, then put the new one in... and when i go to storage management it has unknown for everything. When i take the card out the OS says "Card removed, insert new one", i put the old one in and it works perfectly.
I then reformatted with windows and made it 16kb fat32 and the exact same thing happens.
The card works perfectly on the computer and is not an ebay fake.
Any suggestions?
Edit- i just loaded up CWM and it easily saw my sd card. So i dont know whats going on there. I partitioned it using CWM and now am installing a different rom and hopefully the problem will be fixed without me even knowing what the issue was.
Still any suggestions will be appreciated.
patriotaus said:
The 8gb card that came with my Desire HD works perfectly as you expect. But i wanted to upgrade so i bought a class 4 Kingston 16gb microsd card.
So i unmount the card, take it out, then put the new one in... and when i go to storage management it has unknown for everything. When i take the card out the OS says "Card removed, insert new one", i put the old one in and it works perfectly.
I then reformatted with windows and made it 16kb fat32 and the exact same thing happens.
The card works perfectly on the computer and is not an ebay fake.
Any suggestions?
Edit- i just loaded up CWM and it easily saw my sd card. So i dont know whats going on there. I partitioned it using CWM and now am installing a different rom and hopefully the problem will be fixed without me even knowing what the issue was.
Still any suggestions will be appreciated.
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Most of the steps you took, make sense to me, but I am not an expert on this.
One question, can you let all of us know what the result was, after you flashed a different ROM? Might help someone with similar issues.
i have an hd2 and flashed wm7 to the device insteadof sd card. how do i fix this all help is very appreciated thanks
Are you serious -.-? Windows PHONE 7 can only be installed on the phone (NAND)!!!
am i right in thinking you installed WP7 to the device and your SD card isnt in use?
assumeing you had the SD card plugged in when you installed it then i am affraid your SD card isnt compatible,you will need to try another card, try stick to class 2 or 4 sd cards, unfortunately there isnt a list of working cards because every card is different and may or may not work
if you didnt have the SD card in then thats why the SD card isnt used, it needs to be present when you flash it
finally, if i have got this mixed up and you want to install to only the SD card and not the phone itsself then im sorry but it cant be done yet/ if at all
its true forgot to put in the sd card all together and it flashed to device... it works but no space for anything to save. dont know what to do at the moment. flashed magldr and then ppcboy wm7 like i said works reallly well just cant save anything and access the sd
If you do a hard reset with sd card in the phone should be all set. Wouldn't have to reflash anything. Just make sure sd card is in phone then go to settings,about, and click on reset phone. Should format on first boot and everything should be all set.
Answers my question I've been looking for. If I can flash my other hd2 that the sd card socket is broken with wp7. Already running it on the one I use all the time.
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!
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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 )