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Problems with cards over 1GB... what's the cause?

Hi All,
I have had numerous problems with my 2GB card such as files and directories disappearing; files showing up on Windows when I plug my SD card in, but not on the PPC.
Anyone know the cause of these issues? Is anyone else experiencing the same problem? I don't think it's the new high speed format card either. It's a corsair brand.
Thanks

Raeldor said:
Hi All,
I have had numerous problems with my 2GB card such as files and directories disappearing; files showing up on Windows when I plug my SD card in, but not on the PPC.
Anyone know the cause of these issues? Is anyone else experiencing the same problem? I don't think it's the new high speed format card either. It's a corsair brand.
Thanks
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I have the same problem. its a known issue in the trinity. no solution yet.
waiting for a rom to fix that..

I have no problems with files and directories disappearing and I'm using sandisk 2GB mini sd. It seems like sandisk 2gb doesnt have any problems in TomTom either.

Also using a 2GB Sandisk and no problems whatsoever with any rom version.

No problem with my Sandisk 2G MiniSD too!
Sometimes my phone do not detect the card when it was inserted, but no problem when I insert again. It won't "mssing" or lost data as long as it was regonized.
I think it may related to the brand.

my 2gb minisd corsair card became unreadable yesterday and my phone asked to format it. ( after the phone format i only have 1Gb free space. does anyone knows how to format this card with my phone as a 2gb card, because it seems that my phone format it as a 1gb card?

My 2GB sandisk is working OK too. I think make sure the mini sd card is not a high speed one. Mine is x66

yaz00us said:
my 2gb minisd corsair card became unreadable yesterday and my phone asked to format it. ( after the phone format i only have 1Gb free space. does anyone knows how to format this card with my phone as a 2gb card, because it seems that my phone format it as a 1gb card?
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Try reformatting with your desktop PC using a card reader.

Have no problem with my 4GB miniSD card at all - everything present and running

dabs1 said:
Have no problem with my 4GB miniSD card at all - everything present and running
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Which Brand do you have?

I have a Kingston 2GB card, and it works great, except Media Player seems to screw things up. There are about 1GB of songs on it, and when Media Player creates the library, it creates a hidden folder on the card called MSMETADATA. Inside the folder it creates some kind of MediaLibrary file, which appears to get corrupted. When it does, trying to play anything from the storage card's library results in a media player error. But deleting that folder and running an Update Library works fine. Selecting a song to play directly also works.
The first time this happened, I couldn't figure out what was going on, and a hard reset didn't fix it. Sticking the card into my PC's media card reader showed me the hidden folder, since I didn't have "Show All Files" turned on on the device. It's happened a couple of times since then. But now that I know what's going on, it's a quick fix. I think removing the card might be what messes it up.
-John

Well, my Sandisk Ultra 2GB was fine until sometime in last couple of weeks.
Now it does not appear at all desipte multiple reinsertions. Need to but another adaptor before I can test in reader. But nothing changed on Trinity - now new apps installed, card never removed from slot - just vanished (not unrecognised - no prompts to format it - it just isn't there).
Any thoughts?
running Dopod ROM on HTC BTW

Mark One said:
Well, my Sandisk Ultra 2GB was fine until sometime in last couple of weeks.
Now it does not appear at all desipte multiple reinsertions. Need to but another adaptor before I can test in reader. But nothing changed on Trinity - now new apps installed, card never removed from slot - just vanished (not unrecognised - no prompts to format it - it just isn't there).
Any thoughts?
running Dopod ROM on HTC BTW
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Hmmm, very strange, I'm sure you tried soft reset. If it works in card reader, I guess you can copy everyting off of it and reformat it, maybe that will help. All this card disappearing stuff with the Trinity is very strange, it never happended with my 4gb SD in my Prophet in over a year. Mind you, I haven't had any problems with my current 4gb mini SD either but it hasn't been that long yet.
Good luck.

mavisdavis said:
Which Brand do you have?
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OEM card from MobyMemory.com

standard sandisk 2gb seem very reliable, maybe its the high speed ones that cause problems, i ordered 2gb ultra2 & had major problems, ie not detecting & when did it wanted to format then giving me only 968mb,
my 2gb (standard) sandisk works flawlessly

SD CARD Problem: Which brand and type is working on TD2 ????

Hello
Maybe someone can help me:
I use my diamond 2 to listen music. My micro sd card is transcend 8 go class 6.
The problem stills the same with many rom, WM 61 or 65...
I never knew that problem with my diamond 1.
So the problem is that the SD Card "disappear" after few second of music playing. Its like there's no card in the phone. To recover it, I have to open the battery cover, extract and input the card (or soft reset).
I ll try another sd card tomorrow, but I’m pretty sure of the quality of my transcend (which was formatted before first use of course).
Do you think I have to send back to seller ?
thanks a lot !
rom tess V13
radio 3462518

Hello
The problem was due to a defective micro sd ( counterfeit ?) (except the TD2 doesnt support class6 sd ?)
ciao

i have an 8 gb trancend cass 6 and it works fine on my diamond 2 but dosnt work on my fuze. i think its a software issue

i have the same problem as you.
i solved it by buying a new micro sd card
(changed from eagletech class 6 to toshiba class 4
would u pls tell me how u fixed the problem? thanks!
nooms said:
Hello
Maybe someone can help me:
I use my diamond 2 to listen music. My micro sd card is transcend 8 go class 6.
The problem stills the same with many rom, WM 61 or 65...
I never knew that problem with my diamond 1.
So the problem is that the SD Card "disappear" after few second of music playing. Its like there's no card in the phone. To recover it, I have to open the battery cover, extract and input the card (or soft reset).
I ll try another sd card tomorrow, but I’m pretty sure of the quality of my transcend (which was formatted before first use of course).
Do you think I have to send back to seller ?
thanks a lot !
rom tess V13
radio 3462518
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I have the same problem too.
I have the transcend 8 Go Class6. So I will try to change my sdcard and inform you if my problem is solved.

you may also try installing Advanced config tool that can be found here on the xda forum.
Use this program to increase the PNP wait I/O delay
This may help with your dissaperaing SD card

nooms said:
Hello
The problem was due to a defective micro sd ( counterfeit ?) (except the TD2 doesnt support class6 sd ?)
ciao
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NO NO NO
it wasnt a counterfeit.
I bought a new micro sd silicon power 8 Go class 6, and the problem still the same. The card dissapears 30 sec after the beginning of mp3 playing.
I can only use my kingston 4 Go class 4 to work.
I tried to increase the PNP delay to 2500 but nothing change.
I think again of the class of the card to be responsible ...
rom essential 1.5

I have a similar problem - only that it happens on occasions. Can't say what exactly triggers this. I contacted HTC tech support, I suggest you do the same.
If I get an answer i'll post back.

Which size of MicroSd does the TD2 support?
Until 8Gb or 16Gb?
Is there even a limit of speed-class?
If all you guys have problems with that card it would be interesting to try the same card of the same brand and size but of class 4 so we could check if the problem is actually that one (I think it could be solved through some software fixing/updating)!

I have an 8GB Sandisk MicroSD card, and it starting acting wonky a few weeks ago. I just upgraded to HTCs new official WWE ROM that was posted last week, and I'm still having the problem, but more often now. after retsart or removing and reinserting the SD card, it appears, then, more often than not, it disappears and I can't access it. Has anyone figured out a fix for this?

luca T said:
Which size of MicroSd does the TD2 support?
Until 8Gb or 16Gb?
Is there even a limit of speed-class?
If all you guys have problems with that card it would be interesting to try the same card of the same brand and size but of class 4 so we could check if the problem is actually that one (I think it could be solved through some software fixing/updating)!
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sandisk 16 GB class 2 here...and it work without any troubles....

unfortunately we didn't find fix for the moment....
which class is ur sd please ? 2 ? 4 ? 6 ?

I have a class 4 Kingstone and has always worked well with all the ROMs that I've installed

Mine is SanDisk 4 GB Class 2. Today after copying of a new TOPAIMG to the card, it disappeared. It is impossible to see it even on my PC card reader. I have had no problems until today. I think my problem is faulty cd card. Ordered a new one Transcend 8 GB Class 6. But after I read this thread I'm so confused.

nooms said:
unfortunately we didn't find fix for the moment....
which class is ur sd please ? 2 ? 4 ? 6 ?
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Is there a way to see the speed-class through the software?

I have a similar problem only it dessapears on random times. I use an 8GB class4 sd card

8GB Sandisk Mobile Ultra (class 6) here - no problems at all.

4gb Sandisk 2class - no problems, but i can't use rom flashing from SD card - bootloader doesn't see the image

Tim4 said:
4gb Sandisk 2class - no problems, but i can't use rom flashing from SD card - bootloader doesn't see the image
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toshiba class 4 , 8g , works fine

This week my second Sandisk 16Gb class 2 SDHC started behaving erroneously. I sent the first one back to SanDisk to have it replaced, but as the second disk shows the same problem I'm thinking something in the Diamond2 must be the cause of the problem.
The problem: the storage card would suddenly disappear from the file explorer. Any applications using the disk would stop and the WM6 system would create another 'Storage card' directory on the internal memory.
With the first disk the DCIM directory was the problem. Opening that directory with the file explorer would crash the disk every time. With the second disk the problem seems to be in the music directory. I can't browse into that directory without seeing the card disappear again. The same thing happens in Vista when I insert the card using the USB adapter.
I somehow suspect that TF3D has something to do with it, because the album tab uses the first directory and the music tab the second one. TF3D is the link between them.
TF3D runs all the time and I can imagine that at some point it was accessing the card while I disconnected the Diamond2 from Activesync, or when the battery ran flat. Anyhow, something went wrong with the file system integrity on both cards.
While at first the disks would mount on restarts, and would be readable using the USB adapter, after a couple of reformatting attempts the first disk turned out to be 100% unreadable from mobile as well as PC. The second one is still mounting but none of the approaches seem to get it back on track. No matter what I try I can't delete the faulty music directory, and as soon as any formatting tool starts indexing before format the disk disappears again. I'm afraid it's on the same route to demise as the first one.

SD card NOT reading

I have installed the total commander on my sd card and all of a sudden my card stop reading.i restart the system and then got the message to format the card in order to read it. i did but still card was not reading. i inserted the card in my pc but still the card was not reading. i bring my hd2 to factory settings and then also not reading the card. then i again format the card but of no use. any help from anyone.

same here
i got the same problem recently. my 8gb sdhc stopped working. whenever i insert the card in my hd2 it says the card needs to be formatted before use. when format it says formatted successfully but the sdhc does not show anywhere as if there is no memory card in the hd2. computer also does not detect the card. it is the stock 8gb sandisk sdhc supplied by htc. only been using it for 1 week. anyone else has got this problem? do you know what may has caused this? any help will be appreciated. thanks!

Same problem here,
my (HTC supplied) 8gb SanDisk SDHC card stopped working after about 3 weeks use.. I got "do you want to format the card to make it readable.."
Tried different phone (HTC Kaiser), cardreaders on 2 different laptops, winxp/win7/debian/knoppix even canon photocam.. Several restore programs/format programs.. Even tried putting it in the refrigerator over night..
All no luck.. I gave up! (now missing some nice vids from my son..)
sync my SD card almost daily now..

dwali said:
Same problem here,
my (HTC supplied) 8gb SanDisk SDHC card stopped working after about 3 weeks use.. I got "do you want to format the card to make it readable.."
Tried different phone (HTC Kaiser), cardreaders on 2 different laptops, winxp/win7/debian/knoppix even canon photocam.. Several restore programs/format programs.. Even tried putting it in the refrigerator over night..
All no luck.. I gave up! (now missing some nice vids from my son..)
sync my SD card almost daily now..
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now many user are getting this problem. i don't know if this problem is with micro sd supplied by htc or the phone itself damaging memory card. what is weird is that it seems only the memory card sandisk 8gb supplied by htc seems to be concerned. i just hope after buying another card it does not get damaged too.

HINT
someone told me to put the card in the digital camera and try formatting the card over there. digital cameras have their own format scheme, but i don't have digital camera........its worth trying it...........people called digi gurus told me about that...........

Another card down for htc hd2
I brought a new card 4gb sandisk micro sd. its gone showing me the same message which i was getting it with my 8 gb card "format the card in order to read it" what is the problem is this a problem with the phone or with the card. it is unbelievable that my new card is also showing the same message. what is going on.
I want to know what is the problem, problem with the phone or with the micro sd card.
this is the second card which got damaged......
exact message """" DO YOU WANT TO FORMAT THIS STORAGE CARD TO MAKE IT READABLE? THIS WILL PERMANENTLY DELETE ANY FILES ON THE CARD. PRESSED YES . THIS STORAGE CARD HAS BEEN SUCCESSFULLY FORMATTED. """
NOW IF WE SEE UNDER SETTINGS SD CARD AND PHONE STORAGE NO SD CARD IS SHOWING OVER THERE.
what is the reason behind it??????????????????
I HAVE JUST TAKEN OUT THE USB FROM THE CHARGER NOT FROM THE COMPUTER AS IT IS CHARGED BY THE USB CABLE.
I am still struggling with the first card warranty from the HTC and now my second card with same message is gone down.

vikramdeepsingh said:
someone told me to put the card in the digital camera and try formatting the card over there. digital cameras have their own format scheme, but i don't have digital camera........its worth trying it...........people called digi gurus told me about that...........
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i have a digital camera panasonic dmc-fz28. i did try to format the card with the camera. but this doesn't work. you said you got another card damaged by the phone. i think the problem is with the phone itself then. send the phone to your local dealer for repair and see what they say.

My 1 year old 8GB Sandisk microsd corrupted second time since 2 weeks. It happend after running OPERA 10 installed on SD. My HD2 is running on Energy ROM.

vikramdeepsingh said:
someone told me to put the card in the digital camera and try formatting the card over there. digital cameras have their own format scheme, but i don't have digital camera........its worth trying it...........people called digi gurus told me about that...........
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Tried that too.. no luck.. (Canon powershot A430)
Now using an older (got it with my HTC Wizard) sandisk 8gb, working without probs for over a month now.. (backing up a lot though..)

Ok i am having the same issue with my class 10 16GB Kingston. All of a sudden after syncing the memory card failed. The phone recognised another class 2 4GB sandisk and works fine. THIS SEEMS TO BE A PROBLEM WITH THE PHONE. and one which has set me back £70 (Not good at all) and is something that only seem to have happened since the intorduction of the 1.66 rom for me

I had similar problem but there wasn't any message, once I go to photo album the card won't be read and all programs from card can't be run, finally took out all the videos/photos and now is fine, gotta be some software glitch.

happened to me also..i lost photos that i wasnt able to back up yet..do i need to buy a new sd card then? this is really frustrating :,(

I got the same problem with my 8Gb Sandisk SD card. after that i installed another 8gb card (from my nokia 5800) on my phone & its been a month & working fine. I think it happened to me after I installed firefox's fennec alpha on my sd card.

Maybe it has something to do with the CLASS of mSD.
When I received my HD2 I bought a 16GB SanDisk mSD from Amazon, installed it and worked fine for half a year. Just by chance it was a CLASS 2 as I looked up now beeing very concerned by this thread. Now I bought the 32GB mSD from SanDisk (also CLASS 2), copied the contents from 16GB card to 32 GB card and it works flawless.
Now let´s check: was there any one with a bricked CLASS 2 mSD ? Or only mSDs of higher class bricked ?
If so we have to aks some hardware-specialists here wether a class 4 or higher card gets bricked because of faster data throughput since these cards seem to be bricked PERMANENTLY ? There could be several physical reasons: Voltage, Ampere, Controller etc.

I got a bricked 32GB class 2 Sandisk card. It was fresh out of the box and I got an RMA from Sandisk. Awaiting for replacement.
I thought it was just a faulty card off the production line, since my stock 2GB Sandisk card still works fine. It shouldn't have been the phone, should it?

Need help
troed said:
Maybe it has something to do with the CLASS of mSD.
When I received my HD2 I bought a 16GB SanDisk mSD from Amazon, installed it and worked fine for half a year. Just by chance it was a CLASS 2 as I looked up now beeing very concerned by this thread. Now I bought the 32GB mSD from SanDisk (also CLASS 2), copied the contents from 16GB card to 32 GB card and it works flawless.
Now let´s check: was there any one with a bricked CLASS 2 mSD ? Or only mSDs of higher class bricked ?
If so we have to aks some hardware-specialists here wether a class 4 or higher card gets bricked because of faster data throughput since these cards seem to be bricked PERMANENTLY ? There could be several physical reasons: Voltage, Ampere, Controller etc.
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I have already lost two micro sd cards one 8gb which I got with the phone and one 4gb which i brought it. Now I am using Nextar card 4gb. it seems to be fine till now, is there any problem with the scan disk cards?

Is this a reliable gadget after all...???
dwali said:
Same problem here,
my (HTC supplied) 8gb SanDisk SDHC card stopped working after about 3 weeks use.. I got "do you want to format the card to make it readable.."
Tried different phone (HTC Kaiser), cardreaders on 2 different laptops, winxp/win7/debian/knoppix even canon photocam.. Several restore programs/format programs.. Even tried putting it in the refrigerator over night..
All no luck.. I gave up! (now missing some nice vids from my son..)
sync my SD card almost daily now..
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Ok, now I am pissed. My situation is almost identical as yours - including the loss of my son´s new vids and pics... - and I have the HD2 for almost 2 months now.
Suddenly the 8Gb SDHC stock card just stopped working. It came from nowhere. I found it when I tried to watch a video and the player was not showing it. Then I got into file manager and the storage card was missing... after a soft reset, the appaling msg appeared: "Do you want to format this storage card to make it readable? This will permanently delete any files on the card."
What I did recently: installed uZardWebP and MS-NetC3.5 yesterday. But the SDHC access was alright after that.
I am surprised about how many ppl have been at the same situation.
What the heck is going on? Do you guys know if HTC has ever said something about the subject?
If I cannot recover the content of this card, it will be the first and the last HTC unit I will ever get my hands on. Four years using a Sony Ericsson and a Nokia unit with a SD card and no problems whatsoever.
Occurrence could be considered usual if there weren´t so many incidents like mine.
If someone has ANY idea about recovering the card data I would be very grateful. (although I am hopeless after some reading... ...)
Regards!
HTC Leo (HD2) / ROM 1.66.707.1 (76641) WWE / Radio 2.07.51.22_2 / Manila 2.5.19211619.0 - All stock - device´s never been flashed.

I have lost 2 cards. I haven't changed the rom.
Both sandisk I blamed ebay.
Maybe I shouldn't.

Andrew u.k.: Agreed. Maybe you really shouldn't blame ebay.
So far my card recovery was unsuccessful.
At least I won't need to read a lot to learn how to burn a new ROM as long as I won't use this "Card killer" as a serious gadget after all.

most the time a hard reset fixes it...better then loosing valuable sd info over settting up phone again(just happened to me after loading lots of apps on sd didnt read any sd hard reset and its all normal)

[Q] Copy error to storage card

Using an HD mini, latest ROM 1.36.401.1 fitted with a 32GB memory card.
Phone syncs fine and I can copy files to the storage card using activesync but as this is very slow with larger files I've tried to use the disk drive mode.
Problem is that the file starts to copy and after a few minutes of transfer I get the error message "The Parameter is incorrect" After this I have to disconnect the phone and reconnect to be able to try again.
It was one of the reasons I bought the phone and added the memory was to be able to load on some video to watch. I use it for music files and sysnc these using media monkey with no problems at all.
Any idea's....?
I checked the HTC site but found nothing, I've also formatted the card in the phone in case it didn't like it being formatted in the PC.

I use a Sandisk 8GB Class 2 SDHC card, never experienced that kind of problem. But I have to say I never tried any files larger than around 1 GB.
What brand do you have? And how big are the files?

The card is unbranded and the video files are 80 - 170MB. I have some other cards so I can try one of them to see if this fixes the issue.

might be the usb data cable ,have you tryed another microusb cable ? or try to load files to microsd using sd-(usb)adapter and see if you still have this error

I tried another cable but the same thing. I've also tried a 1GB Sandisk card as well and that runs with no problems. This unbranded card claims SDHC but maybe it's not high enough quality for the HTC. Wouldn't be the first time a product rejects a certain media.
I've actually just ordered a new Sandisk 16GB class 4 card to try that one out. Should have it early next week and will report back what happens.

Ok, I think if you run a checkdisk on the 32GB card it will report errors. It could be a cheap clone from China, which are known to have quality issues.

Roy_S said:
I tried another cable but the same thing. I've also tried a 1GB Sandisk card as well and that runs with no problems. This unbranded card claims SDHC but maybe it's not high enough quality for the HTC. Wouldn't be the first time a product rejects a certain media.
I've actually just ordered a new Sandisk 16GB class 4 card to try that one out. Should have it early next week and will report back what happens.
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hi
where did u order sandisk card from?

MobileMini said:
Ok, I think if you run a checkdisk on the 32GB card it will report errors. It could be a cheap clone from China, which are known to have quality issues.
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When I tried it in the PC it ran with no problems it was just in the phone that I had problems.

tzacapaca said:
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where did u order sandisk card from?
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Ordered from eBay but a supplier that sells them in original packaging plus gives a guarantee that they are originals.

So received a new 16GB card today, fitted to the phone, copied over some files, so far so good. But then TCPMP would not read the video files saying the MP3 codec is invalid and the other thing I notice is that the storage card is now called Card2. In explorer from the PC it shows two storage cards as:-
Storage card
Storage card2
I seem to be going backwards, powered the phone off/on numerous times, also with the card removed, reformated the card but can't stop it from seeing the card as card2.
Getting so pi$$ed off with this now.

OK a quick update, I fitted the original 1GB card, the phone recognised this as the first storage card and the card2 reference disappeared. I fitted the new 16GB one and all back to normal no card2 issue.
What I don't understand is how it happened and what changed it back. As I intend to load TomTom onto the card the last thing I want is this happening again in the middle of driving.

Never heard of this problem before. Can't think of a cause, maybe something with partitions on your SD card?

Problem with External SD Card HELP!

So i bought a Galaxy S III yesterday and put an 8GB micro sd in it!
I installed a game called "The amazing Spiderman" and couldnt play it because of the memory.I tried to move it on the external sd card but no luck!
It tells me "this device not have a real primary external storage or the primary storage is emulated" this.
How can i move apps in the external sd? So i can play this game and not have future problems.

Is it a new card? If it is, you will probably have to format it. Go to Settings>Storage>Format SD Card

I had same problem mine wouldn't find any cards plugged in to fix I took a picture restarted and took another picture and now it mounts my card, hopefully it helps.
Sent from my SPH-L710 using xda premium

Go to SystemSettings->Storage, patriondopulo. Check you free space, see if card needs formatting etc.