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Hello all, first post here.
I just bought an HD2 from eBay and it's in immaculate condition. I checked the HSPL and it was 1.66 Cotulla. Along with the phone came a 2GB SD card, to which I put darkstones FroyoStone 2.2 with Sense; and it has been working perfectly with no issues (except battery lasts about 12 hours with average usage).
However I want to install and test other builds on my 8GB SDHC which I have lying around. I have formatted this many times to GUID/MacFS, ext3 and FAT32 over it's lifespan.
When I tried to boot Android on my Omnia i900, I had an error with the SD Card and it never loaded; now when I boot the same or different Android ROMs on the HD2, they never boot. Even the exact ROM I have working on a 2GB SD card that I am using as a daily is not working on this card.
Could anybody help me with this issue?
sounds like the sdcard may have died from all the formats/flash's...
do you have a partition manager program etc that can check the card its self? most linex based partition programs will tell you if you have dead blocks.
personaly if im takeing a card thats had all sorts of partitions thrown at it, i format it, wipe it, then do a 0 wipe, this usualy fix's it.
Can I do this using the OSX Disk Utility to 'Zero Out' all the data or should I boot into Ubuntu and somehow get gParted working?
Thanks
i have no experiance with osx, but yes, gparted will usualy do the trick.
disk utility worked, thanks for the help. saves me buying a new card
good to hear! its amazing how much faster things run on a clean card...
format people!
I have question that goes with this one....I am running core series V4.1 it has the andriod boot on the windows side and I used one andriod build in this mode , but when I try others it seems it does want to go? What could be the issue?
Seems I just booted up Evo Core series on my phone, WOW i may never back to windows
FenderGuy said:
Seems I just booted up Evo Core series on my phone, WOW i may never back to windows
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hey guys,
same pbl, got a kingston cl. 4, 16gb and can't boot android...
got screen HTC logo on black background, then it restart..
seems that card is too slow for android on HD2.... I don't know...
will try to format...
Modesty23
Rom ENERGY (LAST 27.12.10)
SD card issues
modesty23 said:
hey guys,
same pbl, got a kingston cl. 4, 16gb and can't boot android...
got screen HTC logo on black background, then it restart..
seems that card is too slow for android on HD2.... I don't know...
will try to format...
Modesty23
Rom ENERGY (LAST 27.12.10)
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Had the same issue, Kinston class 4 , 4 GB card that just wont run Android on my HD2... Then I took a 1GB class 2 SD card that came with my HTC Touch (ELF) and it runs like a charm!!! Runing darkstones superRAM Froyo build and its BLAZING FAST! People do tend to have issues with Kinston class 4 SD cards for some weird reason, so imma gonna buy myself a 8 gig class 2 noname card and post here if I have any issues...
each time i copy the android on the SD card and i sync it and works great on its first boot, as soon as shut it down then open it through bootloader, it stops at te HTC page of the android, and never starts up the system !
any solution for that,
i have already tried formating the SD card
i have a energy rom GTX
radio 2.15.50.42
and used Mdjeey
tmhawary said:
each time i copy the android on the SD card and i sync it and works great on its first boot, as soon as shut it down then open it through bootloader, it stops at te HTC page of the android, and never starts up the system !
any solution for that,
i have already tried formating the SD card
i have a energy rom GTX
radio 2.15.50.42
and used Mdjeey
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do you put the android forlder on the root of you sd? like SD/Android
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do you put the android forlder on the root of you sd? like SD/Android
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yes i do have it on the root of my SD card,
tmhawary said:
yes i do have it on the root of my SD card,
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try putting your winmo on airplane mode wiwh build of m-deejay are you using?
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try putting your winmo on airplane mode wiwh build of m-deejay are you using?
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i am using MDjeey froyo HD v.3.7
tried your idea now ,, didnt work.
I've had the same problem with the latest roms released this week, so I'm assuming it MIGHT have to do with th kernel that they have in common). When it gets stuck on 2nd boot, I simply pull out battery and try again. From then on I don't have this problem anymore each time I boot using clrcad and haret. I'm not bothered to change kernel and the latest seems to be best, thanks to the dev's hard work.
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I've had the same problem with the latest roms released this week, so I'm assuming it MIGHT have to do with th kernel that they have in common). When it gets stuck on 2nd boot, I simply pull out battery and try again. From then on I don't have this problem anymore each time I boot using clrcad and haret. I'm not bothered to change kernel and the latest seems to be best, thanks to the dev's hard work.
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i have tried the airplane mode and to get off the battery and insert it again ,
click on Clrcad and haret ,, still stuck on the HTC page ... gosh its annoying
Have you tried another build? I am on revolution 1.7 with s7.1 kernel, I have the second boot issue, I just pull battery out, reboot and there I am, no more issues.
You can't boot HD so try revolution.
I also use exceller to autoboot under 3 seconds.
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Have you tried another build? I am on revolution 1.7 with s7.1 kernel, I have the second boot issue, I just pull battery out, reboot and there I am, no more issues.
You can't boot HD so try revolution.
I also use exceller to autoboot under 3 seconds.
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thank you , i shall try that again,, do you have a link to 1.7 revolution ?
Are you using one of those Class 6 or Class 4 MicroSDHC cards?
If so, replace it with a Class 2 Sandisk or a Class 2 Kingston MicroSDHC card.
In order to achieve Class 6 or higher standards for MicroSDHC cards, some manufacturers uses tweaking, which saves cost in making a "real" class 6 media card. These tweaks causes different problems in different devices. Tweaks may include increasing sequential read speed, but will cause random reads/writes to not be stable.
Which is probably a reason why Microsoft Phone 7 won't allow you to use your own MicroSDHC except the one they approve, and they are still working on the list.
tmhawary said:
thank you , i shall try that again,, do you have a link to 1.7 revolution ?
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just behind your head http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=823491
LiFE1688 said:
Are you using one of those Class 6 or Class 4 MicroSDHC cards?
If so, replace it with a Class 2 Sandisk or a Class 2 Kingston MicroSDHC card.
In order to achieve Class 6 or higher standards for MicroSDHC cards, some manufacturers uses tweaking, which saves cost in making a "real" class 6 media card. These tweaks causes different problems in different devices. Tweaks may include increasing sequential read speed, but will cause random reads/writes to not be stable.
Which is probably a reason why Microsoft Phone 7 won't allow you to use your own MicroSDHC except the one they approve, and they are still working on the list.
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i am using a class 2 micro SDHC card 8gb - pqi
and used a gb class2 micro SDHC card- sandisk
still had the same problem
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just behind your head http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=823491
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Thanx gonna try it now
I've had the same problem... delete the android folder from WM before you start android the second (or third, or ecc..) time
it worked for me
L4OA said:
I've had the same problem... delete the android folder from WM before you start android the second (or third, or ecc..) time
it worked for me
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do you mean the Temp android folder created after the booting ?
so far i tried the 1.7 revolution and i tried to reboot it once , and it worked gonna give it a go for a couple of days and feed you back
many thanks all for your help
You can also try the following:
1. Download the Android build once again
2. Backup your SD card to your desktop PC
3. Delete the Android folder from the backup just made
4. Reformat your SD card
5. Restore your backup to the SD card
6. Extract your Android build to the SD card
7. Boot Android
had the same Problems with the older kernel and the newest radio..using mdeejay, too.
I changed the radio to 2.12.50.02_2 and set up the newest hastarin kernel together with the titanium Energy Rom and now it works out perfektly
@ OP, this should be in the general section.
I had same problem before. Try to run a check disk thru windows under the removable drive tools. Also have it check for bad sectors.
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i have new 16 g sd card class 6 Serioux but android doesn't want to start. i tried all type of format, even partitioning. nothing work. Somone have an ideea why ? On my old sd card toshiba 8g class 4 android working great.
criszz said:
i have new 16 g sd card class 6 Serioux but android doesn't want to start. i tried all type of format, even partitioning. nothing work. Somone have an ideea why ? On my old sd card toshiba 8g class 4 android working great.
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Did you format, within phone, to FAT32? It looks as though you have experience with builds so I'm sure that you are installing the Android folder on the root of the SD card...make sure that you don't create a folder and then add the build folder to the root folder; it creates a sub and that causes problems.
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Did you format, within phone, to FAT32? It looks as though you have experience with builds so I'm sure that you are installing the Android folder on the root of the SD card...make sure that you don't create a folder and then add the build folder to the root folder; it creates a sub and that causes problems.
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thank you for answer , i'm not a newbie on Android. this card always was formatted with fat32 on pc , and phone, also with panasonic sd formatte 2.0. Card is working well , 5-6 mb on test with hdd tune. i made him active , bootable , xfat , fat 16, partitioned in 2, changed cluster, tried everything who cross my mind without any succes. No build start. i waitted 2 hour's for data.img to be created but no succes. i tried with version copy pasted from my old card who works, still nothing. i don't know what else to do .
btw, i checked your thread, very nice job.
criszz said:
thank you for answer , i'm not a newbie on Android. this card always was formatted with fat32 on pc , and phone, also with panasonic sd formatte 2.0. Card is working well , 5-6 mb on test with hdd tune. i made him active , bootable , xfat , fat 16, partitioned in 2, changed cluster, tried everything who cross my mind without any succes. No build start. i waitted 2 hour's for data.img to be created but no succes. i tried with version copy pasted from my old card who works, still nothing. i don't know what else to do .
btw, i checked your thread, very nice job.
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It might be as simple as the "Serioux" card isn't supported; the only other thing that I know off the top of my head is at the bottom of my thread; I had found a link to the formatting issue and that's where I came up with the idea of formatting within WinMo.
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It might be as simple as the "Serioux" card isn't supported; the only other thing that I know off the top of my head is at the bottom of my thread; I had found a link to the formatting issue and that's where I came up with the idea of formatting within WinMo.
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what u say is stuck on green htc logo , well, i pass this step, im stuck on next logo/animation, just plays over and over.
criszz said:
what u say is stuck on green htc logo , well, i pass this step, im stuck on next logo/animation, just plays over and over.
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I know that it does take some builds to load as it creates the data.img, especially a larger one; if you opted for the 1gb for instance.
You are using the same build as the other card? And, you loaded the file the same way? Did you do it through USB connect?
Let's see if we can't get this goin'!
criszz said:
i have new 16 g sd card class 6 Serioux but android doesn't want to start. i tried all type of format, even partitioning. nothing work. Somone have an ideea why ? On my old sd card toshiba 8g class 4 android working great.
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What build are you using, or trying to use? If I don't answer right-quick it's 'cause I'm getting ready for X-Mas...
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I know that it does take some builds to load as it creates the data.img, especially a larger one; if you opted for the 1gb for instance.
You are using the same build as the other card? And, you loaded the file the same way? Did you do it through USB connect?
Let's see if we can't get this goin'!
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tried three build's on both sd card's. on toshiba 8g all works fine. on serioux 16 g stuck. right now i'm on serioux card with Core_Droid_HD_V0.4 build and i watch that startup nice animation with droid in a fire circle. boring . i plan to let in that way till morning. like u say maybe this ''serioux'' card's are not suported. i'll report later. hope santa will come ))
still don't working.
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still don't working.
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I think it might be the card. I know that I've seen class 2 and 4 around working; your "Serioux" card is the only one that I can find, as far as brand, and nothing about it working or not working on HD2, maybe return it and get another brand?
It's definately the card. I bought a wintec class 10 16gb and android wont run hardley at all on it, went and bought a 16gb sandisk class 2 at radioshack and android runs flawless on it. The shame is that the sandisk class 2 tests at class 10 speeds. They have it on Newegg for $34, Get model # SDSDQ-016G-A11M. There are two versions on newegg so make sure you order the right one. You won't be disappointed.
thank u all for support. i will try to get another brand. in this time maybe android will boot from nand
Have you tried formatting your SD card with WinMo? This helped someone a couple of months ago, it's got something to do with a partition index file.
StephanV said:
Have you tried formatting your SD card with WinMo? This helped someone a couple of months ago, it's got something to do with a partition index file.
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yes , tryed everything. nothing works.
I used to have a similiar problem on some builds here.
Have u tried replacing a builds kernel, say hastarin because that definitely helped me boot into Android. I faced the same issue Aa you too.. which build are u flashing too btw?
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Hello everyone, I would have posted this under:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=881937
but my less then 10 post restriction is not allowing me to .
My problem is once the ROM boots up, as soon as it says "Preparing SD Card", my phone freezes. The only thing I can think of is that I have an incompatible SD card. I am currently using the one that came with my phone which is a class 2 16gb SanDisk. What would you guys recommend that I use?
Use a program called SDFormatter (from Panasonic) .. format it.
Then use windows format utility to give it a slow format 4096 cluster FAT32
Works great for me on "broken" cards.
He's right. The stock card should work.
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Hello everyone, I would have posted this under:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=881937
but my less then 10 post restriction is not allowing me to .
My problem is once the ROM boots up, as soon as it says "Preparing SD Card", my phone freezes. The only thing I can think of is that I have an incompatible SD card. I am currently using the one that came with my phone which is a class 2 16gb SanDisk. What would you guys recommend that I use?
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A class 2 Sandisk should be fine unless it's defective. Maybe you have build setup wrong... have you tried a different build? Try that and see if it works. Are you trying to dualboot or anything like that? Or load the build with magldr?
Azerox said:
Use a program called SDFormatter (from Panasonic) .. format it.
Then use windows format utility to give it a slow format 4096 cluster FAT32
Works great for me on "broken" cards.
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Alright thanks for the info, I'll give that a try and see how it goes.
jvillejoe said:
He's right. The stock card should work.
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A class 2 Sandisk should be fine unless it's defective. Maybe you have build setup wrong... have you tried a different build? Try that and see if it works. Are you trying to dualboot or anything like that? Or load the build with magldr?
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Possibly and no I haven't tried a different build yet but I will if this continues to happen. I am not dual booting at this moment but I am using magldr to boot up android.
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Possibly and no I haven't tried a different build yet but I will if this continues to happen. I am not dual booting at this moment but I am using magldr to boot up android.
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If you are using magldr, you need a build compatible with magldr or edit the init.rc file in the build to make it work with magldr. Look at the thread in my signature... post 2 has some builds that I edited to work with magldr. I'll be adding more soon.
Alright, well I've formatted my sd card and now it's worse then before. It just stays stuck at the MAGDLR screen and doesn't boot up at all. As far as I know the build is compatible with MAGDLR so I'm not sure what the problem is.
On my HTC HD2 (T-Mobile LEO) I have been working with several releases of WM7 trying to get to Mango. I was able to get HSPL to 2.08 and the radio to 2.15. I loaded build 7592 and got it fully configured. Everything was great (except if the battery died everything erased and I was forced to reload..never figured what I was missing on that one) but the real problem came when I tried to run the 7720 update. My SanDisk Class 2 16GB card was encrypted in the process and when the phone booted back up after running the RCTtoRTM I got an error that the card had "been changed or wasn't compliant" and the card was useless at that point. I cannot reflash the phone back to a non-encrypted WM7 version because the card is now not usable and I cannot find a tool to de-crypt or format the card over. So now I have a phone that cannot be flashed to Mango, and a 16GB plus a 32GB card that are both Encrypted and unusable. Where do I go from here? I even tried to just reverse everything and get back to stock ROM but witht he Hard SPL I cannot do that (not easily from what I understand).
Help!
If I am posting in the wrong place please don't shoot me, this is my first ever post.
you must upgrade without card if card not compatible (not recognize after mango upgrade)
make hard reset (settings - about - reset)
dont boot to WP7
take out card
turn on phone and upgrade to 7392
again do hard reset (settings - about - reset)
insert card and now upgrade to 7720
this is old trick, dont know who posted first but i salute to him
also you have posts how to unlock card
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1250869
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1242071
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1280293
davetech said:
If I am posting in the wrong place please don't shoot me, this is my first ever post.
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welcome!
you did not mention magldr. Cant believe it would work without it. Is it installed?
Gave up trying both methods
Thought i go back but When i try to install xbmod NODO rom on the same sd card that i used to install v2 .. The phone keeps rebooting
Do i need a new sd card before nodo will work? As i got no other ways of recovering
Thanks for your advice
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Gave up trying both methods
Thought i go back but When i try to install xbmod NODO rom on the same sd card that i used to install v2 .. The phone keeps rebooting
Do i need a new sd card before nodo will work? As i got no other ways of recovering
Thanks for your advice
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Perlian found a way using Killdisc in linux.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1242071
Sorry it didn't work for you. Must have been sd after all.
Robbie P said:
Perlian found a way using Killdisc in linux.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1242071
Sorry it didn't work for you. Must have been sd after all.
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no worries friend thanks for your help
will i need to insert a new sd card before flashing another wp7 rom eg xbmob nodo?
anyway i can try xbmobs sd unlock tool to recover?
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no worries mate thanks for your help
will i need to insert a new sd card to flash another wp7 rom eg xbmob nodo?
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If it worked before with NODO, I see no reason after fomatting that it shouldn't work again
i cannot reformat the ones that got runied but if i got a new sd card work right? as the one i had keep rebooting with it installed
another thing the v2 rom is it supposed to be a working rom right? because everytme i installed, it kept freezing when the sd card were still working fine..
xbmod unlock tool states not to reboot BT the cabsender automatically restarts the phone??
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i meant inorder to flash nodo all i need is a new sd card right? as the one i had keep rebooting with it installed
another thing the v2 rom is it supposed to be a working rom because everytme i installed, it kept freezing when the sd card were fresh?
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Definitely seems that a new SD card may solve your problems, especially if you had problems with XBmod's NODO rom as well. But beware, as even "confirmed-working" cards may not work with WP7. I would think hard before splashing out £££ on a 32Gb class4 for a 2 year old phone, which may or may not work
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Definitely seems that a new SD card may solve your problems, especially if you had problems with XBmod's NODO rom as well. But beware, as even "confirmed-working" cards may not work with WP7. I would think hard before splashing out £££ on a 32Gb class4 for a 2 year old phone, which may or may not work
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this 32gb working 100%
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17935456&postcount=269
you did not mention magldr. Cant believe it would work without it. Is it installed?
Ah yes, forgot to mention that....I am running aMAGLDR v1.13.
So I had the two cards that are locked, my 16GB SanDisk class 2 and a brand new PNY Class 4 32GB. In my efforts to get to Build 7720 I went ahead and just returned the 32GB PNY back to the retail store I bought it at and gave them a little white lie about the reason why the card isn't working..... so they gave me a new card and now I am trying to get the process going again. Build 7592 doesn't want to see any updates to get me to the 7392 build which is where I need to be to get the Mango process started. I looked for a manual way to load 7392 but all I could find was instructions on how to use Zune to do it. And that is getting me no where! I am still working on creating the Linux boot CD to get my 16GB card back though.
I inserted a freshly formated SD card into my hd2 enter magdlr enable& cleared enter USB flasher installed v2 native rom left it on welcome page then installed 7004-7392 via cab sender .phone started set up date and time.sent deviceprovisioning.cab succes open Zune update available to 7403 success checking for updates 7720 available keep getting errors ..thats where I'm at..no hard resets or tricks applied it was that simple took About 40min..
PNY 32GB Class 4 SD card, SanDisk 8GB Class 2 SD Card, SanDisk 16GB Class 2 SD Card. All three are toast now. The KillDisk solution doesn't work for me. Every one of these that gets encrypted and then says it won't work when the phone boots I then run through the KillDisk process and it says its got 3.74GB of space to format and thats it. I cannot get any of them to work, they all break on the first reboot after the 7720 update. Today I spent 12 hours solid working on this. I am pretty much about to give up. Its 2:00am and I am beat. Thanks to all who tried to provide help, but most of the info I got was only 1/2 info.....broken English or missing key points on how to get a particular build loaded first so the rest of the process can complete.
Sorry for the "down" attitude......I am really bummed. Going to go crash now.
I am in the same boat as where I started, can't get back to Stock ROM, I keep getting errors that the SD card is not recognized. Only now I don't have an SD left to boot with....they are all jacked up. Guess that means a quiet weekend!!! LOL..sigh.
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PNY 32GB Class 4 SD card, SanDisk 8GB Class 2 SD Card, SanDisk 16GB Class 2 SD Card. All three are toast now. The KillDisk solution doesn't work for me. Every one of these that gets encrypted and then says it won't work when the phone boots I then run through the KillDisk process and it says its got 3.74GB of space to format and thats it. I cannot get any of them to work, they all break on the first reboot after the 7720 update. Today I spent 12 hours solid working on this. I am pretty much about to give up. Its 2:00am and I am beat. Thanks to all who tried to provide help, but most of the info I got was only 1/2 info.....broken English or missing key points on how to get a particular build loaded first so the rest of the process can complete.
Sorry for the "down" attitude......I am really bummed. Going to go crash now.
I am in the same boat as where I started, can't get back to Stock ROM, I keep getting errors that the SD card is not recognized. Only now I don't have an SD left to boot with....they are all jacked up. Guess that means a quiet weekend!!! LOL..sigh.
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go ask any of your friends if they have Nokia phone, and use theirs to format. tested&working 100%. Nokias are even smart enough to display warning about SD being locked with pin, and only way to unlock is format (because code is generated randomly and preserved only in WP7 data storage)
i retrieved my Kingston SDHC 8gb class 4 that way-and yes it doesn't work well with wp7
now i'm asking you guys, if there is any SD card with 100% success rate on wp7... i'm looking for something cheap (4-8gb, being a college student), and i know about sandisk being most compatible, but some say it did not work for them
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go ask any of your friends if they have Nokia phone, and use theirs to format. tested&working 100%. Nokias are even smart enough to display warning about SD being locked with pin, and only way to unlock is format (because code is generated randomly and preserved only in WP7 data storage)
i retrieved my Kingston SDHC 8gb class 4 that way-and yes it doesn't work well with wp7
now i'm asking you guys, if there is any SD card with 100% success rate on wp7... i'm looking for something cheap (4-8gb, being a college student), and i know about sandisk being most compatible, but some say it did not work for them
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sandisk 4 GB class 4 dont work in mango(nodo ok)
mvinceti said:
sandisk 4 GB class 4 dont work in mango(nodo ok)
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that's exactly my point.
who got mango running and on which sd?
if SD card not working in mango, read my post
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17952270&postcount=2
also if you want enormous memory with 32 GB sd card, i recommended this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17935456&postcount=269