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Wp7 and sdcards.....be careful!!!!!

Well its my own fault but I thought maybe I can save some others the heartbreak of a damaged sdcard. We all know that wp7 reformats the sdcard when installing the first time. Also if you switch sdcards while phone is off or anything and then boot into wp7 you will fry your card.
I flashed wp7 just to see what it was all about blah blah. Decided it was time to return to android. Blah blah i stuck my android sdcard with all my backups, pics, work stuff back into the phone and rebooted to flash android back through nand . Somehow i let it boot back to wp7 instead of nand and it killed my card. Lesson learned. Keep your sdcard 10ft. away from Wp7 at all times. Don't switch out your wp7 sdcard till you are actually back in android just to be safe. Oh and backup your sdcard!!!!!!!!
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Though the information is greatly appreciated, why did you post this here? This is a test forum created to see how the site would react to adding sub-forums when the new forum layout project is started on Saturday.
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Mark.

If for any reason your sd card becomes corrupt just use this program: http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Hard-Disk-Utils/HP-USB-Disk-Storage-Format-Tool.shtml

lol, hard lesson but it was obviously worth it as you wont be stupid enough to do something like that again, especially when it clearly states in read-me that card is partitioned etc.

Thank you for this post, I was not aware that something like this can happen, and now I'll take precautions so it wont happen to me.

TheATHEiST said:
lol, hard lesson but it was obviously worth it as you wont be stupid enough to do something like that again, especially when it clearly states in read-me that card is partitioned etc.
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Did you actually read the second paragraph????? Yes I read the read-me. That's how I knew to use a spare sdcard. Plus the read me states that the card will be reformatted upon first boot and if removed the phone will lose all userdata. Had nothing to do with stupidity. Has to do with a pregnant wife needing my attention and me letting go of the power button to soon. Stuff happens.
Now to be more helpful than negative......unlike the athiest with his stellar "I don't believe in God, but I sure think I am a God of android" bad attitude.
The sdcard wasn't reformatted. It was showing as being damaged. I was able to find a simple, free data recovery program that was able to recover most of the card.
I see this may happen often because after using wp7 you may be in a haste to flash back to android (wp7 is just sad IMO). Just wait till you are booted into android just to be safe. Also while fixing my mess up yesterday I stumbled on another problem.
Recently read a post about partitioning the sdcard for optimum use when ram builds came out. System -ext. for data and another for cache. I picked up this sdcard off the desk after finding my main card had been damaged. Then did a task 29, flashed magdlr, and Mdj's gingerbread. Inserted the sdcard and did first boot. To my surprise I had all of my apps pre loaded and I hadn't logged into Google yet so I knew it wasn't Google data backup that loaded my apps. So I went into root explorer and saw the ext. and then realized which sdcard I had slid in. There for a second I thought "WOW me and mdj have the exact same apps". Blah blah reformatted card and reflashed gingerbread. Done.
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Thank you....srry for the mix up.
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Mark.
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Myself, and a few others, have manged to reformat the SD card in a single button press by puttinf it into a digital camera and using the format option. It shows the card as 200mb but after the lighting quick format reads the correct size...voila.

Thanks...good to know. I will try it today. It took 8 hrs. for that application to fix my sdcard so that the computer could read it. Though my phone still wont read it. Out of 3700 pics I recovered 98% of them, all of my work files and android apps. Got real lucky. Took another hour after that for the computer to copy them to another 16gb card. Made for a long night. Now when I get home I can reformat the bad card and use as backup.
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I´ve repaired a lot Sd cards, usb-sticks.... making a low-level format with this tool:
http://hddguru.com/software/2006.04.12-HDD-Low-Level-Format-Tool/
The only care you have to have is not to format your hd

madu2 said:
I´ve repaired a lot Sd cards, usb-sticks.... making a low-level format with this tool:
http://hddguru.com/software/2006.04.12-HDD-Low-Level-Format-Tool/
The only care you have to have is not to format your hd
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Do you have any suggestions for a good data recovery application. The one I used was free and easy to use but cost me about 4 he's of sleep. I know a lot of ppl experience sdcard corruption frequently maybe we can get it into a sticky that ppl will find before they reformat. I did not know till last night that it was possible to recover drives this way. I almost erased all of my families Christmas pics. PREGNANT wives don't like that kind of news. OF COURSE THE BEST WAY IS TO BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP
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Where is the wp7 Rom
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Its on the table by the remote control!!!
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Where is the wp7 Rom
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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. I even tried doing the low-level-format but it's still stuck at 200mb!
anyone have any other solutions?
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figured it out
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=10719128&postcount=6

vinbomb said:
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. I even tried doing the low-level-format but it's still stuck at 200mb!
anyone have any other solutions?
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Just download and install SD Formatter 3 on your pc, run the program and in the options change FORMAT SIZE ADJUSTMENT to ON and leave it at QUICK FORMAT. Dont worry that it only shows the 200MB partition it will reformat your card and bring back its full size. It worked everytime for me.
Mark.

i tried that through android usb storage mode but it would keep on going back to 200mb. the only way that using sdformatter proved to be successful was to connect the microsd through magldr and not through android
thanks for the tip though!

google samsung sd formatter. Format as FAT32 with overwrite enabled. It fixed my bad card when i returned to android
By the way, you have to mount the card via MAGLDR as it wont mount in android (it is detected in windows this way)

vinbomb said:
i tried that through android usb storage mode but it would keep on going back to 200mb. the only way that using sdformatter proved to be successful was to connect the microsd through magldr and not through android
thanks for the tip though!
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have you bought the sd card from ebay? it might be fake. It happened to me too, bought a 32gb microsd, for about 20 euro, knew it was fake, but i just tried my luck. When the package arrived it got myself some brand new earrings, probably worth 2 bucks.

[Q] How to fix SD card issue with files?

Hello everyone. I tried to search answer to this question, but so far found nothing.
This is known issue, when using Android SD build.
When I transfer files to my phone, the apps do not see the files. I have to restart my phone in order to see them. Does anyone knows how to fix it? I found ROM that I love, and it turns out to be such frustrating.
PS: I am also a noob, just got HD2 this afternoon.

Do you mean that you transfer them from your PC? If that the case it's worth checking if you not connecting to PC through Disk Drive, as this making "sd card" inaccsesible from phone apps. When you disconnect from PC, your files should be visible to the apps again.
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You can install SDRescan.

marasp said:
Do you mean that you transfer them from your PC? If that the case it's worth checking if you not connecting to PC through Disk Drive, as this making "sd card" inaccsesible from phone apps. When you disconnect from PC, your files should be visible to the apps again.
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Im noob, but not that much
Lets see how brainmaster's app will work

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You can install SDRescan.
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Sadly it doesn't work as well. I have to reboot the phone in order to get my files.

Some builds on sd dont fully support mass storage.

mattfmartin said:
Some builds on sd dont fully support mass storage.
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Alrighty then. Ill try another build

AntonJart said:
Hello everyone. I tried to search answer to this question, but so far found nothing.
This is known issue, when using Android SD build.
When I transfer files to my phone, the apps do not see the files. I have to restart my phone in order to see them. Does anyone knows how to fix it? I found ROM that I love, and it turns out to be such frustrating.
PS: I am also a noob, just got HD2 this afternoon.
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Download MULTI MOUNT from market, and use it to enable the SD to the PC (not the android built in function) This is a must for all SD builds! cause with the standard method you can corrupt your data.Multi Mount allos the phone and the pc to access the card at the same time with no risk

Problem with sd card

Over the past day or so I have been playing around with some of the gingerbread sense roms out. After flashing the last one, my sdcard comes up with the message that its mounted read only due to an unexpected problem. I have tried fixing permissions, even went and removed the gingerbread rom and restored a back up of royal glacier, which had no problem with my sdcard before. Any ideas as to what is going on? I'd hate to have to format my sdcard as there's a LOT of misceleanous backups on it from my phone. Any help in this will be greatly appreciated.
P.S. If it makes any kind of difference I am using the 8gb sdcard that came with the phone.
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Have you tried mounting it via settings? Cm7 is having the same issues pretty much, if I go to settings storage and mount sd it fixes it till the next error. Lol it sux azz and I don't think anyone here can build a rom without using cm source. :/
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I tried that to no avail. Even tried remounting through adb... As far as mounting through settings goes, it shows the card is mounted read only, and will not unmount or anything, if I press the unmount it leaves that screen and comes up preparing sd card, then the same error message... I don't know, guess I'll just have to pull my sd card contents and format. Will that effect my cwm or anything else I am using which made folders on my sd card?
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HELP!!!!!
Okay. So I took the sdcard from my phone, and attempted to pull the files and folders from it. WHAT A SHOCKER! they're all set to read only. I had to take each file and folder seperately, go to properties, and uncheck read only from the attributes. But there's STILL a problem, Once I move them to my windows 7 64 bit pc, the are set to read only again. I take ownership of the folder and it's contents, and as soon as I click apply and close the properties, they're set back to read only. I have already formatted the sd card, and want to put these files back, but if they're read only wouldn't it mess up my phone's sd card again? What am I missing to get my sd card back to working condition? Anyone who can help with this issue would be a LIFE SAVER. I have a TON of info on this phone I don't want to lose. I Pray to the android GODS that my phone's sd card did not ruin all my info.

Try them, mine show read only as well on my 32 bit vista system. And they never change either.
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Mrdaviso said:
Try them, mine show read only as well on my 32 bit vista system. And they never change either.
Sent from a 100% functional ROM. BT WIFI AND ALL!
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Will do as soon as I return home and will report back with what happens, as for now I found out that what messed my sd card up in the first place was installing ginger sense with NO ext partition. Found a forum here witj a walkthrough to creating said partitions and have done so. As for my back ups and all other files, I will let you know what happens... Thanks for the help!
P.S. Am not having same problems as my saphire did that I mentioned in pm. I have no sdcard in right now, and am fully functioning...
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So far the contents of my sdcard appear safe, help is very much appreciated... Now if I may ask, what rom are you running my friend? And also is there a sense gingerbread rom that is 100% functional?
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After over a week, I just realized that my sdcard crash costed me over 200 of my pictures and videos... A lot of those were of my son... I just learned the importance of backing up your sdcard the hard way...
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[Q] Is it possible to convert an SD android os to a rom?

I just had android installed onto my sd card, and I would really like it to boot up into android, opposed to having a dual boot. Is it possible for me to convert my os to a rom? What do I have to do in order to get it to boot directly into android? I'll pay someone to walk me through and do a flash of my hd2 if necessary. Thanks!

Yes, it's possible. Just download magldr version Rom from where you have downloaded your sd Rom and flash magldr,it ll boot your Rom which is on sd. ( note that you ll have to download magldr Rom,xda developers provide same Rom in both type - magldr and sd.)
Goodluck.
Refer here for how to flash magldr..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1298188
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still confused^^^^ sorry

Here's the answer in another way:
No you can't convert it to a rom, but a devloper can.
A ROM, at least the way I know, is what you put on your device memory, while what you use on SD is called a build.
so basically to use android on HD2 you have two options, NAND which is a ROM installed on device memory, and SD which is a build copied to your SD card.
The SD method has two ways of working:
1- using haret, which is what you're using now, and this allows you to dual boot easily.
2- MAGLDR which needs to be flashed on your device. It is a tool that runs SD android right from the start, not allowing WinMo to boot. It only needs a file (usually provided by the build's developer) to run correctly, but it's the same SD build.
Note that when flashing Magldr there are certain conditions you should meet. read the whole magldr info page (that's the firsat few posts with info, not the whole thread), because if you spend 15 minutes reading what can go wrong is better than spending hours trying to fix what you messed up.

okay, I understand. How to I run MAGLDR on my phone? Do I just copy it to the sd card? Sorry for the noob like questions ive just never flashed a phone before.

gearhead1030 said:
okay, I understand. How to I run MAGLDR on my phone? Do I just copy it to the sd card? Sorry for the noob like questions ive just never flashed a phone before.
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Then asking here is the wrong thing to do.
The best thing to do is spend some time reading the guides etc. You are not the only person to ever ask this question so obviously there si already topic that cover this and will have all the info you need.

Pls read this, here is everything u want to know..
If you still not getting then pls watch video tutorials on YouTube. There are lots of video tutorials for newbies.
Goodluck.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=893948
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It keeps on freezing on me, I dont know what is wrong with it. What can I do. Sometimes it'll work for hours, at times it wont even boot into the os, and sometimes it works for only 5min. What the hell?!?

Doesnt worked 4 me

gearhead1030 said:
It keeps on freezing on me, I dont know what is wrong with it. What can I do. Sometimes it'll work for hours, at times it wont even boot into the os, and sometimes it works for only 5min. What the hell?!?
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make sure you have a properly formatted, error-free SD card.
Scan in for file system errors, backup your data, then format it using this
http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter_3/
make it a full(overwrite) format for first time. and try again.

[Q] Can no longer boot into android!

I've been putting of asking this question for the last few days, have read and searched as much of the forumn as I can and have tried various "solutions" with no luck.
The problem I seem to be having is that I can no longer boot into android, I have used the ameriCANdroid build and over the last month or so have been using ICS (NexusHD2-ICS-4.0.3-CM9-SD V1.2). I have had no problems loading into these builds, have been using them constantly with minor issues such as freezing.
The only thing I can figure thats changed is my SD card (sandisk 16gb sdhc), I copied the contents of my sd card onto my computer and formatted the card using the one of the recommended ones from this site, I have reformatted it twice after no luck on the first time I found recommended settings on this forum. The last format I formatted it as fat32 with 64kb cluster size. Still no luck.
I have tried using clean installs etc. and the two roms. I have left the roms to try and boot for a good half hour and over. the ICS rom will lod the green htc logo and the reboot into winmo, the ameriCANdroid stays on the first boot screen and doesnt move. have to reset/ pull battery. My winmo rom is the energy rom (which ive been using for atleast 12- 18months)
Any help would be appreciated!
Many thanks in advance.

did you happen to open rom zip file and do something? say change kernel etc?

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did you happen to open rom zip file and do something? say change kernel etc?
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Not that I can tell, Just downloaded the rom and put the extract files into the correct folder and then ran from the phone!

Did u put the files in 'ICS' folder or android?
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Also did I try to replace the interdgz as mentioned by tytung?
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Are you able to use adb in the boot screen? If so, are there errors showing up in logcat?

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Did u put the files in 'ICS' folder or android?
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Yeah the ICS build is in a folder called ICS and the ameriCAN android one is in a folder called android as specified on their threads.
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Also did I try to replace the interdgz as mentioned by tytung?
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Have tried both initrd.gz, the original and the replacement plus the suggested ones through out the thread but still no luck.
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Are you able to use adb in the boot screen? If so, are there errors showing up in logcat?
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When I read about the adb tools i thought that was for magldr? or am i mistaken?
Thanks for your responses so far, much appreciated

Not sure how but I can now use android again, although my main issue is it crashes occasionally. All I did was remove everything from my sd card, then formatted with the phone this time, and only put the ICS folder back on the sd card to begin with. Took three attempts and it started to load. weird thing is i have to try and edit the name of the initrd.gz file in the phone which it wont allow me to but once Ive done that it starts loading into android fine. Thanks for your help guys. many thanks to the devs for such great work and for everyone contributing to what appears to be a friendly forum