Ok...
I know, this is wierd...but every now and then the \storage card folder just disappears from the system. It's like the pocket pc no longer recognizes that there's an SD card there. I've tried taking it out, and then putting it back in. But that doesn't solve the problem. The only way I could get the device to recognize that there's an SD card installed in the slot, is via a soft reset.
Any suggestions on how to resolve this issue? I used to have an iPaq h4350, and this NEVER happened...
Thanks,
Quordandis
Strange...
Tell more about your SD card and device's ROMs (versions).
Let's see... I have a Siemens SX66 model PH20B1, ROM v1.40.00 WWE, Radio v1.13.00, ExtROM 1.40.125 WWE
The SD card is a PNY 1gb....Wierd, huh?
Thanks,
Q
I have a similar problem. But the \Storage Card 'sometimes' comes after removing and inserting back, otherwise the softreset will only do the trick. Any idea. My ROM versions are as in my sig
Our versions are almost identical, except the ExtROM is slightly different (which I'm not sure really makes much of a difference). Also, taking it out and putting it back in does NOTHING for my device....only a soft reset will solve the problem....
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Q
SD Card spontaneously Disappears
I have the same problem... if I press a little bit the storage card down it appears again. I thing this is due to bad contact result of a fall.
I send it to repair but came the same way, they only up-to-date the rom version.
Should I try to open it and check the contcats !?!?
some more info
When the PPC enters this mode, if I browse the storage card through the PC (via active sync), it shows only the folders and all files are missing. If I sopft-reset it and check it again, (life came back) I could see all the files then.
Any idea why this is?
Yes, I noticed the same thing today...!
The folders on my Storage Card are still there...but are empty! File explorer shows that the folders DO contain stuff.
I have tried to soft-reset, but no luck yet. Strange.
HappyGoat said:
Yes, I noticed the same thing today...!
The folders on my Storage Card are still there...but are empty! File explorer shows that the folders DO contain stuff.
I have tried to soft-reset, but no luck yet. Strange.
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Softreset worked for me..
I occasionally get this - usually when I have been using tomtom 5 and getting it to recalculate a lot - I noticed last time that the unit was a bit warm, so it may just be a thermal issue - I have overclocked to 530MHz+.
A soft reset sorts it out
I get this a lot too.. Programs that are currently running are
1. PocketPlus 3.0
2. Resco 2005
I notice 1 thing though.. that if I do a quick ON/OFF, the SD disappears and I have to softreset to get it back.
However, my work around is that when I switch it on, I let the thing fully load first before turning OFF the unit. (See through Resco today pluging-in). When the indicator appears.
So far hasn't bother me for more then a week d..
Happy trying.
Will try the same trick then...
I've uninstaled pocket plus 3.0 and never hapen again.I still have resco explorer 2005
Best regards
ooh
Im experiencing that same problem. The only way toget rid of this annoying thing is to soft reset the device.
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Hi all,
This has happened twice in a roll now... I removed the battery to replace my SIM card the other day and after reboot, the internal storage was missing. I couldn't get it back online and had to do a hard reset. Everything (or at least it seem) went back to normal after that.
And I had to replace my SIM again today and the same thing happen!!!! The internal storage is gone again from file explorer and all the RAM management tools report it isn't there as well. The SD card though is showing up just fine, only the internal storage is missing... Is there any easy way I can bring it back online??? And anyone know what could of cause this?? Thanks!
Very strange behaviour indeed... Wish I could help... I remember changing my SIM once using my PDA2k, but everything was normal as it should be.
Good luck !
It's happened to me twice on my PDA2K in three months.
The only way I've found to get it back it a hard reset. Thank god for Sprite Back Up.
This was once discussed and we narowed it down to being O2Plus version screw up. Do you have that installed? If you do, then a hard reset IS THE only solution. Other than that, I have no other reasons why your storage drive would disappear.
Yup, I have O2Plus 1.6 installed... I just did a little test as well, right after the hard reset, I removed the battery again and everything seems fine, the storage is intact. And then I do a full restore with O2Plus 1.6 being there and the storage disappeared again after disconnecting the battery!
I think I removed the battery couple of times when I have O2Plus 1.5 and everything was fine then, so it's version 1.6 that's causing the problem???
Yes, I had a problem with 1.6 and missing storage as well. I stay away from O2Plus altogether, but some members have had success with v.1.5. But just make sure to have a backup handy just in case.
this might be a little off topic just cuz i use a different phone but the same thing happend to me. i use the 4100 audiovox i presed the reset button along with the rocker button i got the boot loader.
there is an option to format the flash in there. after doing so it did come back. i dontknow if this will help you or not but good luck if u havent already .
Hmm....
I have this problem even when I am not running O2Plus....
I use Magician
Diamond Missing internal storage
I have discovered the same issue of the Internal storage missing, I have tried flashing it with the latest and greatest firmware and nothing appears to bring it back. It just does not show up when the phone and when I go to memory it just says that the Internal Storage card is not installed.
Any help would be fantastic.
I do not have any other applications installed (including 02Plus)
Hi, my xda is functioning normally but when I soft reset my xda, I got the following error: Cannot find 'Storage'. After few seconds or a minute, it would be ok. What does it mean? Anyway to correct the error message?
Actually, thats pretty similar to an issue I'm looking at. The storage card doesn't seem to accessible sometimes after a soft reset or after the device has been in hibernation.
Just reformatted the SD as FAT32 and waiting to see if it is still a problem
I have sometime the same issue...but I think is a matter of the internal storage and not of the storage card..
Anyone every come up with a solution to this? I'm getting this Storage is not accessable every time I reset now.
I do not know how close my issue is to what you are facing, but I had that issue when I upgraded to WM5 and then downgraded to W2K3.
The only thing I did was to run the repartition tool (Repart_DOC.exe) and created a larger extended rom (16,000 was the number that I used).
And placed the files (cooked extended rom 1.4.125) in the extended rom, and hard reset the SX66, and the message went away...
I do not know how close this is, but I think that extended rom has something to do with the "Storage".
One more thing, there is a distinction between "Storage" and "Storage Card". The above method worked for me to gain access once again to the "Storage" and not the "Storage Card"
Yeah I'm on WM2005 now so technically there is no storage. I've been running fine for weeks but starting getting this a week or so ago on hard resets.
\storate missing
upgrading to rom v1.40 doens't seem to fix this, i thought it would
i'm on tech support of more than a hundred blueangels and it frustrates me to hardreset the device everytime this problem occurs .. any help will surely be appreciated.
another problem, 'permanent save' causes the bluangel to hang, so we had to do away with it.
\storate missing
upgrading to rom v1.40 doens't seem to fix this, i thought it would
i'm on tech support of more than a hundred blueangels and it frustrates me to hardreset the device everytime this problem occurs .. any help will surely be appreciated.
another problem, 'permanent save' causes the bluangel to hang, so we had to do away with it.
In the Extended ROM - Delete RestartRadio.exe
and/or alter config.txt so it won't be started.
just do a manual Restart (flight mode)
And now you won't get the error anymore.
after unlocking my TMA ExtRom on my MDA Pro, my software - installed on SD-Card, eg. ToMTom, Spb Backup, MortPlayer,.. - cannot be started again!
Even reinstalling does not work!
Is there any trick to get it working again?
Hard reset would keep the ExtRom unlocked again, so SSDD will happen reinstalling any software on SD-Card?
If even reinstalling not helps... :roll: So, make copy of SD card, format it, hard reset with inserted card and install you progs again... have to solve...
I'm not sure, I guess you don't mean that for serious?
Even deleting "storagecard" and inserting a brand new card will initialize this oe as Storagecard2 again,..., therefore SSDD!
I'm sure, all of you who have unlocked the registry have had these troubles, or don't you?
Amazingly, I haven't found any discussions on this issiue? Maybe it's quite too simple, I can't see , please help!
Probably the issue arose due to storing Mail-attachments to StorageCard...
Deleting this feature in the Email Storage Adjustments brought the SD Card back as StorageCard (without any index), and software works fine again...
Changing the Attachment-Storage again to "Storage Card" creates storage of attachments within the ~10MB Ext.ROM space (about 7MB free).
I can live with that...., but anyway, there should be made a change within the registry settings of the system storage for those using any Push-Service...
Is there a well proved solution for that registry-change?
Edit: checking out the correlating topics, eg. http://forum.xda-developers.com/vie...torder=asc&highlight=ext+rom+unlock&start=375
makes me guess, that no solution has been found to fix the known problem?
Hi,
Every so often TomTom on my orbit loses sight of the maps I have on my storage card. I can't see any reason for this and have to recover from a phone backup . Once the internal memeory of the phone is recovered the maps are then visible.
Any ideas on what may be getting corrupt?
Cheers,
Neil
No answers but join the club and email HTC Tech Support.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=285511
HTC P3300 loosing TomTom Maps
Me too. Italian OS. Once I even had to reactivate the map, after the restore. Last time that I launched TomTom receiving a msg of the type "Cannot find maps..." I just made the PDA restart with a soft IPL. Will you believe? At the restart TomTom didn't complain for any map missing.
Maybe it's a matter of low available memory when TomTom cannot locate maps.
Hope this might help you. Let us see, if anyone else is posting his experience.
Thanks for your comments.
Once TomTom loses it's maps, a soft rest wont allow it to see them, I just keep on getting the message and the opportunity to download a free one from the website.
I did a bit of playing around last night and can confirm that a hard reset then allows TomTom (installed on the Storage Card) to see the maps (I don't need to reinstall, just run the exe file) so it looks to me as if its something getting corrupt in the standard internal memory of the phone and that this is causing the loss of maps.
Neil
This is an SD card corruption issue. Email HTC to lobby for a fix. See the relevant thead.
I don't see that it's storage card corruption. If you read my last post you would see that the SC was left alone when a hard reset was performed. The hard reset would only affect the internal memory and that cleared the issue.
I think something is getting corrupted in the internal memory and not letting TomTom find the path to its maps. Maybe something is messing up a registry entry?
believe me. I have had this problem over 10 times in the last month. When the tomtom maps go missing, the map folder is usually empty. This can normally be rectified by softg-reseting the device which uses the backup FAT for the SD card (so I've read in the relevant thread) and restores the missing files. However, if the device attempts to write to the card again, after corruption (which TT does on application exit) then the card will be permenantly corrupted.
w0mbat said:
I don't see that it's storage card corruption. If you read my last post you would see that the SC was left alone when a hard reset was performed. The hard reset would only affect the internal memory and that cleared the issue.
I think something is getting corrupted in the internal memory and not letting TomTom find the path to its maps. Maybe something is messing up a registry entry?
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During a reset (hard or soft) WM5 will do a version of scandisk on any storage devices connected (Micro SD) which will try to fix FAT errors. So a reset does effect the SD card and can repair it.
OK RicardoC & debully, thanks for your advice.
I have already emailed HTC tech support a while ago. You know, I still think Resco file explorer may be the common link to my SD card woes..... I'll have to wait and see.
Cheers
Bluetooth possibly
Hiya,
I had this problem and it seemed to be linked to the bluetooth explorer setting a new storage card (virtual), if you get this problem go into settings and turn off bluetooth explorer and check what storage options are available from the memory settings, the bluetooth storage should have disappeared. Once I'd done this tomtom could find the maps again.
Hope this helps.... and you don't actually have SD problems....
jinx1uk said:
Hiya,
I had this problem and it seemed to be linked to the bluetooth explorer setting a new storage card (virtual), if you get this problem go into settings and turn off bluetooth explorer and check what storage options are available from the memory settings, the bluetooth storage should have disappeared. Once I'd done this tomtom could find the maps again.
Hope this helps.... and you don't actually have SD problems....
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thank you!
i have tryed that and it seems to do the bussiness
This also happens if you have Bluetooth Explorer activated in your Bluetooth settings.
TT6 losing maps, you are not alone.
I know this doesn't excatly help, but I don't think that this is unique to the artemis.
I have the same problem with TT6 on my himalya (XDAii). It seems to be linked to either phone S/W or BT stack as I have had it happen to me several times after I have made or received a call. My workaround is to remove and reinsert the SD.
Has any one checked if other handheld PC users have similar probs (HP?) with TT6?
I have used TT6 with no problems on X51v.
Only had the problem on the Orbit when the Bluetooth Explorer was activated.
Hi,
I had the same problem on my Orbit, never experienced the SD corruption though. I eventually solved the Map problem by following the instructions, not sure where I got them from, perhaps somewhere on this site.
The instructions stated the following:
1) create an empty file on your PC and name it 'autorun.exe'
2) create a directory named '2577' at the same level as your maps.
3) copy the empty autorun.exe file to the 2577 directory
this did the trick for me
Removed the Bluetooth explorer from the Bluetooth installing settings from the Comm manager and hey presto, maps are back.
Rock and Roll.
The other day my P3300 was somewhat slow and I decided to give it a soft reboot. Ever since it keeps on rebooting. It reaches the phase where you may enter your pincode but when it wants to load the user interface it reboots again.
Sometimes I have luck and after 5 loops or so it finally gets into full WM5.
If I remove the SD card the problem dissappears. So I expect it's the card (which never corrupt(ed/s) on me).
Another option would be it has run out of main memory. I'm a little short on that one. Would it reboot if memory was too low?
I think a hard reset or format of the SD card would solve it but that is the easy way. I want to know the reason so it won't happen again.
HTC P3300 T-mobile Compact III
2GB Sandisk microSD
WM5 and updates original as a danish virgin
I installed the Artemis SD patch
I had this a few times and the only way around it was a hard reset followed by a recovery of the phone from SPB backup.
It always seemed to follow me installing software, but never the same application so I thought it had corrupted something in the startup. You can try booting without the card installed and it should be OK, then you may be able to work out what app ./ reg entry is causing it.
HTH
I rebooted without card and it worked
i put the sd card in my cardreader and defaced some .exe's in my autorun folder (the 2527 folder). Than it worked again. Until... a few days ago it started all over again.
did the same procedure but there was no .exe anymore in the autorun folder.
I dont want to do hard reset. Do you guys have any clue if i can see in the register what it tries to run?
it's defenitely one program doing this. It boots straight into WM5 and is responsive but after let's say 3 seconds BOOM there it reboots again.
Mine did the same, deleted a few folders from the storage card Program Files\ folder, think from memory the progs causing mine to reboot were CE Converter Pro, Pocket Weather & E Wallet Pro, but as already mentioned it can be any number of different programs, I didn't delete any reg entries, just the actual folders on the memory card, it seems to be a common problem I a very serious bug as far as I'm concerned, definitely one that needs addressing.