Hi. I would like to ask for some stuff:
1. How can I know how many battery is left if WP doesn't show it correctly?
2. How to make my Fat32 partition on SD visible for WP? It seems not to see it. I copied into SD music and I can't get to it by Zune (on phone) or file explorer. Why?
[EDIT]
OK, my solutons for 2:
Go to WM Device CEnter in Menu on WP7, tick everything, turn on WM device center on PC and connect cable. It should detect.
And for 1:
Installed Battery Status, dunno if it works...
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Hi,
What happened
Yesterday when I had more time I started installing some applications on my HTC Touch HD.
I installed:
1).NET Framework 3.5
2) Advanced Configuration
3) Total Commander
4) Gyrator 2
I had already installed IGO 8 a few months ago.
After installing Advanced configuration I tested the IGO and it was working, I had no problem.
However after I installed Gyrator 2 and with Gyrator 2 on I tried to start Igo8, the IGO8 didn't want to start. After further attempts and investigation I came to the conclusion that the SD Card is corrupted.
Symptoms of the SD Card(original one that came in the box with the device):
1)While reading it from PC only the root directory of the card is visible with all the folders inside but I can access only one folder out of 15. for the others I get an error, cannot read from the device...
2) From the HTC touch HD I can even enter all the folders but while accessing some files, not all of them, I get errors saying that the files could not be opened.
3) I had to do many restarts so only two times the first screen that you see after you power-on the device is the "Smart mobility" and then after a few seconds you get the details of the ROM and two other rows in the bottom right corner. So for two times the "Smart mobility was not centered" as well as the bottom right corrner data they were not at their position. However now after 5-10 more power-on power-off manipulation the first screen seems to be ok.
Possible causes as I see it are two:
1) Gyrator 2 and IGO8 do not lik eache other very much, and some how when IGO8 started maybe the orientation of the screen just changed from portrait to landscape. It is just a theory, as I'm not an expert I cannot say if it's correct or not.
2) After installing the Gyrator2 I have somehow unplugged the USB cable while the computer might still have had a connection to the PC. That's ulikelley because I allways do the "Remove USB device" before unplugging, but I did it so many times that I do not remember exactly that time. However I trust my instincts even though I cannot exclude the possibility of an error.
The cause 2) might be realated as well with the usual problem of choosing the action needed when you connect he HTC Touh HD trough the USB cable. It happened many times that an option is preselected(read the Storage card) but I want to actually synchronise the device with ActiveSync, so initially the PC opens the SD card as an external drive and then after I click on the phone to choose the ActiveSync connection it closes the external drive and makes the connection.
Is there a better way to choose between the modes of connectivity to PC, taking into account that when you want to install some software on the device you have to either copy the file on the device itself and start it there or install it on the PC and use ActiveSync to install it as well on the device.
My main question is related with the helthcheck of my HTC Touch HD.
a) Is there a risk that the internal built in flash storage of the device is corrputed as well? I have checked all the files almost with no problems of accessing any of them. It seems ok to me. The only thing that worries me a bit is the problem with the splash screen as I explained it under possible cause 2) which now doesn't seem to appear anymore.
b) is there any other part that I should verify to make sure that my device is ok.
c) Less important, if you could help me find out what happened to make sure that I won'trepeat it again and break the next SD Card.
d) Can I recover/repair the SD Card itself, the data that I had on were not very important I have them on my PC in proportion of 90%. I downloaded some tool from SanDisk called usb-test-tool.exe but it fails to see the card(I think the tool is not the right one), or I shouldn't even bother because there is a risk of having problems afterwards.
Most probably I'll have to buy another SDMicroCard I'll try to buy the same brand maybe for 16GB, I do not know the prices yet.
Sorry for the long pot, but I wanted to give allt he details.
Thanks for your support!
And now most probably I'll have to uninstall the applications that were installed on the SDCard, I hope it will work out and there will be no left-overs in registries or on the filesystem.
coincidence
well. Mine got bricked too yesterday. it was a 16GB sd-card. Only my phone can access it and the data is gone. Data was firts messed up (like chaotic named folders and files) and then disappeared. I can create new folders and files there but it is full of lost chains and clusters (found by mobile apps) and reports the same free space as before (40%) but there are no content visible. When I connect it to laptop either as an disk drive from mobile or directly with sd-adapter I get high cpu usage of interrupts and a frozen usb managment and need to restart.
Hi,
There have been other topics on SD card corruption, then loss :
SD card not shown
HELP ME! Flash has gone wrong
Help! My HD cant find my micro-SD
SD HC_problem
foulke said:
Hi,
There have been other topics on SD card corruption, then loss :
SD card not shown
HELP ME! Flash has gone wrong
Help! My HD cant find my micro-SD
SD HC_problem
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Yeah but once its bricked it IS bricked. I got my 16G changed thanks to warranty. I actually think I fried it with overheated device.
And people: A L W A Y S B A C K U P Y O U R S T U F F !!!!
darfri said:
well. Mine got bricked too yesterday. it was a 16GB sd-card. Only my phone can access it and the data is gone. Data was firts messed up (like chaotic named folders and files) and then disappeared. I can create new folders and files there but it is full of lost chains and clusters (found by mobile apps) and reports the same free space as before (40%) but there are no content visible. When I connect it to laptop either as an disk drive from mobile or directly with sd-adapter I get high cpu usage of interrupts and a frozen usb managment and need to restart.
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Same happened to me with my 16gb Sandisk card.
Card reader said is was write protected and could not format using SDFormatter.
Solution after a search found on the Raphael forum was to download http://www.cnetx.com/format/download.asp and install to main memory.
Success !
Then I could read it and formatted again with SDFormatter
Hope this helps
r
Andrew
I'm the only one having problems with usb mass storage? With all builds from all chef and all kernels it happens the same. I can read from the pc what is on the SD, but if I copy a file Android dont see it , the file size is 0. And new files created in android can't be readed by windows either (I can only read the files that were written on the SD before the last android boot)
I missing something? I tryied dismounting the SD from android with same results
Are you using it in the same way USB MASS STORAGE in WM6.5 ???
I use USB storage all the time and in every andrioid build I've used(about 20) I've never had any problems. There are many people like me that also have no problems, but there are also many like you that have plenty of problems. I'm not sure that anyone really knows why.
RobertsDF said:
I use USB storage all the time and in every andrioid build I've used(about 20) I've never had any problems. There are many people like me that also have no problems, but there are also many like you that have plenty of problems. I'm not sure that anyone really knows why.
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Thanks for answering. Do you have 2 partitions on the sd ?
Just want to check a few things:
1: you plug in via usb and select "disk drive"
2: you are not still connected via usb when trying to read the items on the sd card?
3: When you disconnect the usb, you use the usual method (right click the icon in the taskbar and select "safely remove hardware") then wait for the SD card to be prepared by android before accessing it?
Also, how are you accessing the files in Android?
Reno_79 said:
Just want to check a few things:
1: you plug in via usb and select "disk drive"
2: you are not still connected via usb when trying to read the items on the sd card?
3: When you disconnect the usb, you use the usual method (right click the icon in the taskbar and select "safely remove hardware") then wait for the SD card to be prepared by android before accessing it?
Also, how are you accessing the files in Android?
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1 & 2: Yes. Windows assing the drive letter and can read it fine.
3: I connect Android to pc, choose USB MASS STORAGE, in windows access the new drive letter, rename a file , choose "safele remove hardware", disconnect the cable, wait for Android to "prepare the sd" , go to the file and it has the old name!!! the weird thing is that if I connect to the pc again, I see in the pc the new name!
Is like Android is working with his own FAT32 table IN MEMORY and not refreshing it.
I tried Ghost Commander/ES file manager/Root Explorer, all with the same results.
PD: I found something else... If I DISMOUNT the SD from Android Im still able to access it with ES File Manager,etc. So its not really dismounting it Why can this be happening with all builds/roms?
I have the same problem. Strange thing is it worked fine fore the first couple of days. Anybody have a solution?
Try using "Rescan Media" app after you copy your files to the SD
Still nothing. I have to boot back into winMo to transfer files to my SD card! This is really annoying,
Plenty of other tools provide media scan as well, like Optimize toolbox, Switch pro widget and more. they all worked for me.
[edit] sorry, optimize toolbox doesn't offer it, it just clears the cache :/
power control plus however has this function as well.
I don't understand why this is so difficult?
I have installed the latest eclair pc suite, the driver, and nero and still no dice..
wtf?
I have searched and am not coming up with a resolution..
lil help?
As it stands the device does not show up in the pc explorer. i do see android phone listed in the device manager and there aree no conflicts.
the little pc suite tray icon shows a red x through it "Disconnected" and i have never got that to actually show my phone.
nor has the mem card showed in the explorer..
Your phone, when connected, should have a icon in the top bar that says usb connect or something like that. Click that, then you will go to a screen that says "turn on USB storage". Turn it on. Your SD card will show up on your computer.
I've done that and it doesnt work it just says its now safe to remove the sd card..lol
ofcourse thats not what i want to do..
im on windows vista btw..
xilpaxim said:
Your phone, when connected, should have a icon in the top bar that says usb connect or something like that. Click that, then you will go to a screen that says "turn on USB storage". Turn it on. Your SD card will show up on your computer.
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bigfoots1 said:
I've done that and it doesnt work it just says its now safe to remove the sd card..lol
ofcourse thats not what i want to do..
im on windows vista btw..
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I'm on vista with no probs
when its says safe to remove card thats usualy when you have gone into settings/sdcard & chosen unmount SD card.
when I connect phone to usb I get icon in top bar saying USB connected select to copy files to/from your computer, click it then choose mount on the pop up dialog box
Yes. I'm doing exactly as you said..but it just un mounts the card...
Sent from my Dell Streak using XDA App
I did eventually get this sorted and as i suspected it was a driver issue on the pc.
now all is working well
Can anyone tell me why when I connect in Media Transfer Mode, my SD Card reads as blank in Windows. Windows detects the phone AND the memory card but it is blank. You can create folder, files etc on the blank card but they dissapear also.
However, if you connect the phone in Mass Storage Mode or remove the card and plug it into PC, everything works fine. The card also works fine in the phone.
Windows 7. 16GB Card that came with the Play.
ps. the card data usage is reading as correct even though I can't see anything on it in Media Transfer Mode.
reinstall pc companion check my thread about mtp app it should explain everything on how to bring back everything
The blank problem is because the driver are not correctly installed.
Ok, thankyou.
Weird, followed your excellent thread and done a reinstall but still blank.
yeah weird... you are sure that everything is available on mass storage mode ?
if it's the case then maybe your data are hidden on the device...
Check if there is folder without a dot at the start of the name (non hidden folder)
put new files and see what happen
Run a chkdisk on your SDcard with windows on mass storage mode
get andexplorer and check if everything is available through this app
windows might be infected by a virus that put your SD in a weird state
do a virus check...
Last if nothing above works: media transfer mode on your xplay> go to printer and other device on PC > right click > properties > hardware tab > properties > driver > uninstall driver > follow mtp app guide again to reinstall the driver
after that report back here
kenshindono said:
yeah weird... you are sure that everything is available on mass storage mode ?
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Yep, all there. Phone is also detected fine in Media Transfer Mode in PC Companion (as R800).
Will do the rest when I get a moment, thanks for the help.
kenshindono said:
Check if there is folder without a dot at the start of the name (non hidden folder)
put new files and see what happen
- I did this in Mass Storage mode and it works normally.
Run a chkdisk on your SDcard with windows on mass storage mode
get andexplorer and check if everything is available through this app
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- Done, it is fine. I used Astro and all is there.
windows might be infected by a virus that put your SD in a weird state
do a virus check...
- Clean.
Last if nothing above works: media transfer mode on your xplay> go to printer and other device on PC > right click > properties > hardware tab > properties > driver > uninstall driver > follow mtp app guide again to reinstall the driver
after that report back here
- Done this, the driver reinstalled but still blank SD card in Media Transfer Mode.
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I'm doomed to use Mass Storage Mode!
Why doomed?
You want to get files from your PC or laptop to your Play, right?
That's what mass storage mode is for. That's what I use.
The only time I need to be in media transfer mode is to communicate with the Play with adb, having nothing to do with the SD card.
What exactly do you want here??
Maybe he didn't figure out how to mount the sd card to after choosing mass storage mode.
Remember you need to mount SD for accessing the file on the computer after setting mass storage mode
Ok, I guess it is not that big of a deal. Was just curious to getting it working as it should. It's not really gonna impact me.
Thanks for all your help kenshindono, your info and posts are very helpful.
Unlike DeadlyDazza who seems continuously rude and obnoxious.
Not really, i could understand if you had a crippling problem which prevented you from connecting your device for transfers.
But that's what mass storage mode is for, as far as I know, media transfer mode is for pushing with adb & using SE's media transfer PC software.
This is a disaster, I am using W7 64 and a Lumia 620. When I use the desktop app as soon as I open it I get an error that it has stopped responding. If I go into Windows explorer the phone is shown in there however it doesn't show the SD card only the phone. The phone itself shows the contents of my SD card so I have no way of putting anything on my SD card.
I can't edit any of the music etc on the SD card and the meta data is all totally wrong for some reason.
I have uninstalled the desktop app and reinstalled but it made no difference. Anyone else having this issue?
Get an SD card reader and it should do the job
I know this isn't the answer u were looking 4, but it is the easiest solution. The other 1 is to reinstall windows on ur computer.
Check your directories in zune settings. My WP7 phone does not have a SD card, but I was having trouble syncing and it was because I had directories in my setup that no longer existed. I forget where though. Don't have zune on my work PC, but if i remember when I get home I will check and let you know.