Is my SD Card on it's way out?? - General Accessories

Hi all,
I bought a Kingmax Platinum 1Gb SD card back in the end of September and I've noticed some funny behaviour now.
When I copy files from \My Documents onto the SD card the file either doesn't get copied or it's size gets set to 1Kb.
I've tried using Pocket Mechanic on the card to do a low-level format - which it says worked, then doing a logical format - which doesn't appear to work.
When I try to do a logical format with Pocket Mechanic it just sits there with no progress at all.
When I try to format it with anything else (like Resco Explorer) all I get is the default busy animation in the center of the screen and nothing appears to happen - is this normal behaviour?
Also, when I try to format it under Windows XP I get an error saying "Windoes was unable to complete the format.". This happens with either a quick or full format.
Is it time to send my card back?!

I had the very exact same problem 6 days after i bought my card. with the same problem in pocket mechanic n winXP on a USB cardreader. I went to my store where i bought it and they replaced it with a new one no fuss..

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2gb sandisk micro sd problem

all,
I do have a strange problem with my Artemis P3300, or with my memorycard.
I bought a Sandisk 2gb microsd.
In the cardreader of my PC it had a problem, but after an upgrade of the reader it works fine.
When I put the card in my p3300, it seems not to be able to write more then 1gb.
If I put more than 1gb on the card with the pc cardreader, the pda does not have any problem with this.
does anyone have any idea what to do ?
J.
no one with an idea ?
Currently having similar problems with 3 2gb sandisk cards I have. Causes mulitple PC Lockups and also stuffed my Blackberry up as well. Still trying to figure it out.
Even thought that perhaps I had inadvertantly purchased the dodgy fake cards from a local store such is the problem.
What happens if you try to format them in a photocamera or perhaps via pocket mechanic (triall version available). Has to be FAT 16.
Should see about 1.9 gb available if it works.
Make sure the card is formatted as "FAT32". The older "FAT" format could only address a maximum of 1gb, so if you use this FAT format on a bigger card, you'll only see 1gb of space....
I've been there myself, as my wife's old ipaq PDA can only read FAT format memory cards, so anything bigger formatted in FAT32 can't be seen. Perhaps that's your problem on your PC and in making it work on there, you've accidentally reformatted it from FAT32 to FAT.
I tried both FAT and FAT32; both have the same problem.
I do see about 1.9Gb on both my PC and my PDA, but on the PDA I get an error when writing that 1 file that goes over 50% of the capacity. If I write over that limit with the PC it is working fine.
HTC helpdesk said to upgrade to WM6, but I guess thay say that to everybody who comes up with a question on WM5 now..
J.
I had the same problem with my old iPaq. The first half of the card was ok, the second one unusable. I changed the SD with another of the same brand, but the problem simply changed and the card was "sometime" readable.
I had no other choice but to change SD brand.
It's not that the second half is unusable, it gives an error on that 1 file that crosses the 50% border, once the border is crossed (by putting some more data on the card with the cardreader in the PC) it is fully usable.
J.
It looks like it's a different problem, I tried overwriting a folder with almost 8000 files in it (that was the one where I did encounter the problem with the other time) but now there is 1.4Gb used on the card, way over the 1GB limit.
And I stil get the same problem after a while, the problem is that I can't see how much has been transferred or how many files are transferred, since ActriveSync doesn't show me that.
Is there a limit of files in 1 folder to be transferred via ActiveSync ?
or is there a limit of files in 1 folder ? (I don't think so because there is no problem when I transfer them via the cardreader)
Any suggestion is welcome.
J.
I bought a 2GB sandisk card and it broke my phone!
I inserted the card and the battery and turned the phone on, after booting the phone did not recognise the card so I turned it off and went to take the card out. It was so hot it burned my thumb!
The phone wouldn't boot again, but luckily those nice people at Tmobile gave me a new one.
I won't be buying Sandisk again!!

SanDisk 2GB Memory Card Problem

I was using it pretty good and suddenly my memory card appear and disappear when ever i reset my ppc. Now, i cant detect it anymore on my dopod 838 pro. Any idea or comments i can do to verify that the memory card is the problem (if it is still alive?) really need some advise and thanks in advance!
gerald20000 said:
I was using it pretty good and suddenly my memory card appear and disappear when ever i reset my ppc. Now, i cant detect it anymore on my dopod 838 pro. Any idea or comments i can do to verify that the memory card is the problem (if it is still alive?) really need some advise and thanks in advance!
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Pull the card out and pop it in a Normal PC Card reader and see if you can see the contents. For some reason PPC's will occasionally corrupt the formatting of the card to majke it unreadable to it but PC's sometimes can. If you can read it with a PC, then copy the contents off, reformat usign the PC and copy the contents back and try it in the PPC again.
ok will do that. but isnt that dangerous to lose data tat way? also, when i could read the memory card, the folders r there but the files r gone. possible virus?
i can find my memory card on the card reader. i tried formatting it but it gave me an error "Window is unable to complete the format". What is wrong?
Were you able to copy your info off of the card? How were you trying to format it?
Make sure that you DON'T have a window to the card open when trying to format.
HELP ME WITH ADVISE!
My problem is back again. My data at certain folder in the memory card is disappeared but still able to browse the memory card. Then i soft-reset a couple of times and the data comes back. It took the dopod 838 pro to read the memory card very long time b4 able to show the data on the card.
What should i do?
Check the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\StorageManager. There are two DWORD values - PNPUnloadDelay and PNPWaitIODelay. If they are not set to 8196 - do that.
its 8196 as posted...
Looks to me like 2 possibilities:
Your SD Card is shot; or
Your phone has lost the plot.
If it reads OK on the PC card reader, the card is probably OK.
I'd try a hard reset of the phone first. (Make sure you have backed up everything first.)
Also, clean the SD slot as best you can to make sure there are no biscuit crumbs or old socks fallen into the hole.
gerald20000 said:
i can find my memory card on the card reader. i tried formatting it but it gave me an error "Window is unable to complete the format". What is wrong?
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Seems like some problems with this card. You didn't try another one?

-SOLVED- Tweaked w/ Advanced Config & now Stg. Card gone

I tweaked scroll bar widths and heights (did it before) and changed default location of my Documents from \My Documents to Storage Card\My Documents and then restarted. I also changed hang up time from 1000 milliseconds to 400 milliseconds and lastly menu font size to large then restarted and now my storage card is gone!
I cant even restore from SPB Backup because the backup image is on the storage card and the desktop program backs up but doesnt restore (this is assuming I can use a card reader to retrieve yesterday's backup file).
What to do? Obviously I reverted the options I changed above to default but still nothing.
I went to Memory in Settings but it says Total Storage card memory: Not Installed.
I obviously restarted a few times and then shut the phone down and took the card out then started it back up but still nothing.
HELP please !
SOLVED
The problem was the card was not being recognized on my device and being rejected by windows XP with the below mentioned problem. There was a timeout meaning the the PC could not make a connection to display it's contents and the problem arised from a semaphore issue. I learned that sephamore basically means that there is a really long destination address of a file.
Meaning the first example below is acceptable in lenght
\Storage Card\My Documents\My Pictures\Summer\picture121.jpg
The above is pretty long but within the standards of windows mobile and PC.
Apparnetly there was a destination address of a file that was:
\Storage Card\My Documents\My Pictures\Summer\July\Beach\Boating and Snorkling\picture121121323213.jpg
The above is way too long for the device or the PC to follow.
Firstly, I know for a fact that I dont have too many deep files dug. Mostly my folders are superficial and located in \Storage Card\ My Documents
So there will be
\Storage Card\My Pictures\picture121.jpg
\Storage Card\My Documents\kayak pricing.xls
\Storage Card\My Videos\video001.mpg
So im not sure how such a semaphorical(spl?) error occurred.
Secondly, I could not access the contents of my memory card to investigate the lengthy file.
Plugging the card into a card reader generated the |cannot access| problem. I decided that if I could not access the data to edit/amend the problem then I would need to format it and thankfully I had just created my StorageCard backup (2 days ago) which I could load onto the formatted card.
Problem is I could not right click the drive to select the format function. Oh oh!
Was my situation useless? NO!
I remember that you can format a hard drive in windows command utility.
So I did that, formatted really well then used SPB Backup Unpacker to copy the files back to my card and it works!
Last question is what did I do in Advanced Config to create this hassle? As I said above, those were the only items I tweaked which were within safe parameters.
Ok I plugged the storage card into my card reader but my computer did not recognize it.
Nothing happened (you know the pop up window saying a card was inserted/what would I like to do). I tried opening My Computer but it froze!
Could Advanced Config have corrupted my storage card?
Of the options mentioned above, I think changing the default location of My Documents (device) to Storage Card\My Documents messed something up!
Ok after a 5 min froze, My Computer appeared and I could see Removable Disk (h but opening it froze the folder (Explorer) again.
I popped aonther memory card into my HD and it showed up as normal on the phone.
Also, after another 5 mins of freeze, I got a on my desktop that says:
H:\ is not accessible
The sephamore timeout period has expired.
WOW? Whats that. Of all my 15 years with windows ive never seen that error before!
sounds like its bollixed so
bump bump please
Have you tried StorageTools from www.softwinter.com
This can be installed on the HD and then run to check the SD card. I used it to confirm my card had been corrupted by something (when my PC would not accept the SD card).
I then used it to reformat the card - now works fine.
i would also suggest StorageTools
i recently formated my 8Gb card with it after i tryed any other method i could imagined and anything fails, including using my PC
inserting card into my PC's sd card slot, connecting HD to my PC as disk drive, poping the card into a card reader, sktools, pocket mechanic, etc.
so, try to use this software for formating your card, and, maybe, after that your problem will be solved
good luck!
Problem Fixed.
See first post.
I had a similar problem where my micro SD card became corrupted. Couldn't format it via Vista so used my camera to format it in the end. Then reformatted it via the PC.
I've disabled all the File System caching tweaks as I think these caused the problem. Generally I keep all writes to the SD card to a minimum as well to minimise chances of corruption.
As long as you guys backup the storage card to your computers you should be fine!
what worked for me...
okay, this worked for me...
I had a memory card (MicroSD) on 16GB and suddenly it wasn't working anymore after a soft reset. Strange.
But i looked around on the net what to do but
I could not read the card via my computer. (it froze)
and I could not format the card (not by right clicking on drive and either via command prompt)
I could not get contact to the card via my phone.
Then I tried several format programs to pc (pro formatter and so) and none of them could do anything and they could not see how many GB there was on the card.
But then i found the program HDD Low Level Format Tool. I could not see the format on the card but it could see how many GB there was on the card. I tried to format it via the program and the program came with ALOT of errors. The card still didn't work but now I could format it via command prompt after that. Could not do that before formatting it with that program.
So all in all.
Format your card with HDD Low level format tool (dload)
Then go to run (WIN + R) and run CMD
type:
format x: (x being the letter of the card drive)
That was what worked for me after alot of hours trying to get it to work. And works good so far. and ofcause try to format the card without installing the HDD Low Level Format Tool if you can't do it then try the program.http://hddguru.com/content/en/software/2006.04.12-HDD-Low-Level-Format-Tool/

[Q] "SD Card mounted as read-only"?

Hi,
I'm posting this issue second time. I have a class 2 SD card with almost 1700mb of ext3 partition. the problem is that my SD turns to read only when accessing some files from my sd card. it says in the notification SD card mounted as a read only and then say "tap" to resolve the card responded unexpectedly.
tapping on it sometimes help if i remove the files that I was trying to access that created the problem. otherwise it mounts it as read only.
Hi, you sure your card is a genuine one? The problems you are having are identical to what I had. Turns out my 32gb card was in fact an 8gb card, and the problem was when capacity was reached it would go to read only. The only way to rectify this was to take the card out, place it in my PC card reader right click on properties of the drive and run the error checking tool. Hope this helps. Got my money back anyway thought £36 was a bit cheap lol! Try writing a large file to the card using your Computer, this should give you an indication if the card is genuine or not.
lewyharvey said:
Hi, you sure your card is a genuine one? The problems you are having are identical to what I had. Turns out my 32gb card was in fact an 8gb card, and the problem was when capacity was reached it would go to read only. The only way to rectify this was to take the card out, place it in my PC card reader right click on properties of the drive and run the error checking tool. Hope this helps. Got my money back anyway thought £36 was a bit cheap lol! Try writing a large file to the card using your Computer, this should give you an indication if the card is genuine or not.
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Card is genuine. I have placed my card several times in my brothers htc hd and formatted it through windows. its almost 8 gb i checked it on windows. last time I deleted a folder which has wiered name as if the folder was corrupted. I deleted that folder n it was running fine again. but its back again.
mine came with telus, so it should be genuine. what does class signify? like i have class 2, what does it mean?
CLass is the speed of read and writes.
I recently had a problen like this it turned out to be a corrupt file in the .secure folder used for apps to sd.
rchatburn said:
CLass is the speed of read and writes.
I recently had a problen like this it turned out to be a corrupt file in the .secure folder used for apps to sd.
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then I guess its because of corrupt files but why is it so often specially when I copy something from windows.
I had this problem once after disconnecting from a Windows PC, simply connect the sd car directly to a computer and run the windows verification tool, it finds the corrupt file and your sd card starts working again
hey i recently had the same problem ,, but i figured it out and this method should work fine...!!
>First of all you should know how this problem has occurred..??,
well the reason is, we all connect the phone to system in usb mass storage mode ,,but while removing we'll only give safely remove in the system and forget to do the same in the phone ,,,trust me this the core for this problem....sd-card cannot be fully unmounted by system ,,, so you have to manually do this by your phone
so if you are using the sense rom ,,after ejecting the disk in the system ,,,in your your phone's notification area
in ''connect to pc'' menu select charging only .....this will completely unmount your memory card .
>if you are using non sense rom ,,"turn off the usb" mass storage
do this every time you connect your phone to the system ..!!!
ok now solution for your problem..
>reboot your phone to recovery mode using rom manager...
>select partition menu
>now select mount usb storage ,,,
>now you have tow options
1. either you backup every thing and format your sd-card (recommended)
or
2.mount your sd-card and check for errors in windows,,,
this should fix your problem ..
remember ,,next time when you are connecting your phone don't direly unplug the the cable..!!
qariboy said:
Card is genuine. I have placed my card several times in my brothers htc hd and formatted it through windows. its almost 8 gb i checked it on windows. last time I deleted a folder which has wiered name as if the folder was corrupted. I deleted that folder n it was running fine again. but its back again.
mine came with telus, so it should be genuine. what does class signify? like i have class 2, what does it mean?
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The Class number represents a multiple of 1 MB/s
So if 2 is written on ur SD card then it means that its capable of a read speed of 3MB/s
>First of all you should know how this problem has occurred..??,
well the reason is, we all connect the phone to system in usb mass storage mode ,,but while removing we'll only give safely remove in the system and forget to do the same in the phone
- Not always true, its happened to me on several occassions when not connected to PC etc... Flickie HD caused mine
If you have a mac the fix is - disk utilities - repair card
Full format I found to be better though

[Q] ES screwed up a simple file operation, now my Note says my SD's blank (it isn't).

*deep breath*
I noticed that my Note II had bounced a rather small app update for lack of space on the phone. Okay, fine. I have a bunch of games on there (GTA is huge) and I guess I have to move/delete some stuff. Then I realize that my camera app has been storing stuff on the phone instead of the 64gb Class 10 Kingston SD card (in b4 "Kingston is crap!"). So I make that change and tell the phone to start saving photos to the SD card. Fine. There are already some photo files on the SD card, so I decide to use ES File Explorer to move the existing photos from my DCIM folder to the one on the SD card. ES tells me everything went fine, and a subsequent check confirmed this. All good so far.
Then I went for a drive and decided to play tracks off my phone. What? Nobody home. No music for some reason. Everything's gone. Fine, I'll look into it when I get home.
This morning: "Oh, I have a photo of that! Let me just get it..."
Nobody home.
Go to ES File Explorer, and all the files and folders on the stupid SD card are 404.
Go to my computer. Connect my Note II and look at the drives on the phone. Windows shows the phone's storage, and shows the card storage, which says there's stuff on there (as in, space is taken up). Click into the drive and... Nothing's there.
Unmount the SD in Settings and put it into a card reader. Maybe the phone's goofing up, right? Windows says that the card needs to be formatted (because it's using an unfamiliar filesystem).
Nuts.
Put the card back into the phone. The phone will recognize the filesystem, so it should be-- What?
Phone says the card is now blank or using an unsupported filesystem.
So there's my problem. How do I proceed? I know that stuff's on there. I just know there's something stupid going on that's preventing me from getting at it.
As long as I can yank my latest photos off there, I don't mind wiping the card and starting over, since it's just media stuff I was keeping on there anyway. What do I use to crack into it?
Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
UPDATE: Various file recovery apps (in both Windows and the phone) are telling me that the card now has truly nothing on it. There are many, many really great swear words I want to share with you right now, but am prohibited from using on this forum. It actually HURTS not to use them right now.
Why do people seem to have so many problems with 64gb Class 10 cards on the Note II?
I had similar problem, I was trying to use software for SGSII to map SD card as usb flash disk to a PC and it didn't work and when I disconnected I had same symptoms as you. I put the card in reader and connected to PC and repaired with Minitool (just search for "MiniTool Partition Wizard Home Edition"). I lost couple of folders but most of it was ok.
Good luck!
Sounds like You have a Corrupted Boot sector.
Put the SD card in a Card Reader on Your Windows PC.
Open a Command Prompt and Type This - chkdsk /X /F <SD card drive letter>:
If Your SD card is Drive G, It would Look Like This - chkdsk /X /F G:
This will repair the Boot Sector if that is the Problem.
Put the SD card back in Your Phone and You should be Good To Go.

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