Hi,
Love my Orbit, but everytime I save around 600Mb of data on the storage card it gets corrupted (funny characters in file explorer, cant access any installed programs on storage card etc...)
This has happened three times in the last three weeks, pulling out the battery and restarting does not fix it, I've even hooked the sd card up to my laptop and it sees the corrupt data as well.
Has anyone else seen this?
EDIT - May 2007 - fix now found
HTC quote
An improved SD card handling mechanism is now available to all customers. To install this enhancement, please install the cab below:
There is a HTC fix for the corrupt card issue download here http://www.europe.htc.com/z/pdf/guides/ArtemisSDEnhancement.CAB
I've been having some files become corrupted for about a week. I've had my compact III for about 4 weeks. Lost night I lost the lot while using TomTom! When I checked it on the PC It still had 700mb on it but the total of the files came to just over 1mb. This was with a 1GB card.
What other software do you have on yours? Do you use a2dp?
Phil
Its never failed during use, only during installing a new program or after charging, hence my thought it might have been a file size limit.
I also use tomtom stored on my SD card, this has happened three times and I have had a variety of software on it, but have been slowly dropping titles to see what the common app is (I thought it was omap, which it wasn't) it happend last night while installing AM Task+, I had tomtom and tcpmp and 300Mb of divx on the card, but nothing running.
Does this help? To be honest I was half wishing noone would reply so I could return the card and be on my merry way!!!
I just posted another thread about the same thing!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=285520
I also have had the crazy strange characters, but a soft reset would fix that. Now it's just data disappearing (the entire contents of my 2gb card was the victim this morning...my head almost exploded!)
Man, I hope we all just have crappy cards! I'll keep testing and post results. I hope my seller will switch it out for me - then if it happens again we will have a clue as to whether the Artemis or the card is to blame!
Let's keep this the official thread on this topic - please read my post above, but reply to this thread.
This (Sandisk 1GB) card always worked perfectly on my Hermes so I am a little concerned that it might be the internal location of the card. I am going to backup my card regularly. The reason I asked about installed apps is that I have been using Battery Status with scaled overclocking to 273mhz on it for a couple of weeks now. I was using A2DP last night for 20 minutes just before my card corrupted while overclocked and was worried that this may have caused it. Temperatures did not get as hot as they do during charging so I'm pretty sure that these programs were not the direct cause.
Phil
Interesting thought about the A2DP...
I have never used a bluetooth headset before I bought my Artemis. Now, bear in mind as I said, I have lost a few files prior to using A2DP and have also seen the strange characters as well. However, I got some bluetooth headphones yesterday and used A2DP for around 20 minutes or so for the first time ever. Then this morning, after soft reset....BLAMMO! everything gone on my 2gb microSD card. Oh yeah, I am using constant overclocking to 240mhz.
Could just be coincidence, but I am going to install a few files again and then use A2DP again. If it happens again, we will be narrowing down the cause!
I will report my findings later...
P3300
I have the same problem, but with the 512mb card that was supplied with my P3300 premium. Sending it back!
I don't use A2DP
I was experiencing the same problem some days ago. Now it seems that the microDS is stable. However, there is directory named Files to be deleted that is created automatically and I suspect that is related with Tomtom software. Is anybody that has not Tomtom preinstalled having the same problem?
Regards.
I didn't have tomtom preinstalled, Whenever the card becomes corrupted I can see "Files to be deleted" which I think is actually a Windows Mobile system folder
Interesting though, there seems to be a tomtom common thread here, I may try and install another navigator and see how it goes.
I had this problem today. Lot of folders with strange letters appeared on my card. I soft reset the ppc, everything is back again. but some Chinese characters are not readable any more.
Did someone figure out already what is the reason for this?
PS: forgot to mention that I have tomtom preinstalled. My ppc runs a German system from O2 Germany
Same here, but I know why it happened
I also lost all data on my storage card, but was due to syncing with media player on my desktop. I synced music because some files were asking for certificates and that is the way to transfer those that don't play. Unfortunatly clicked the wrong button and card was replaced with music files!
Luckily and unexpectedly restoring the Tomtom backup from desktop restored most of the files on the storage card, and then resetting and syncing (excluded windows media player ) with pc brought the programs back. But there are two strange folders that cannot be deleted because they are "system files" in addition to the one called "FilesToBedDeleted". One is namedwith a square symbol and E (but longer name can be seen when explored from activesync).
The TomTom desktop backup really backsup the entire storage card so if you have it you should use it frequently.
Victor
Maybe a solution?
I have the same with my xda orbit, I have a 2GB microsd and once in a while suddenly I cannot access the data anymore, the folders and files are looking corrupt, weird names of the files and folders
What helped for me is, to take out the memorycard, insert it again and make sure it is tight in the lock. Then, when you switch it on again, the files should all be accessible again.
I was thinking it might be a problem that the card is not tight enough in the lock so it would lose the contact, so what I did is that I used a small pice of plastic a little thicker than the lock of the sim-card to give higher pressure on the memorycard under the battery. Until now it works fine for me, but I do not know if it is a solution yet, I will have to wait some more days to see if it really works like that.
A lot of people here said that after a softreset everything is OK again, never tried it, so maybe it was just OK coz I took out the battery, it would be similar to a soft reset.
So Now I am not sure anymore if my solution is one, but as I said, until now it is OK. I will post again if I know more.
Is this problem effect only O2 orbit, or all HTC artemis and Dopdo P800W??
I have also had this problem on my 1GB MicroSD
Just did a soft reset and then then everything appeared to be gone. When I checked how much storage was left on the card it still had 600MB shown in use but no files were visible.
I also have Tomtom 6 installed and had used it extensivley just before the card corrupted.
I have formatted it and reinstalled everything and have no probs since although I haven't used the sat nav since.
Its this occurs because of:
Micro SD brands Sandisk only, Transcend, or Kingston
MIcro SD storages size? 2 gb/ 1 gb
Device ROM: O2 orbit rom, HTC Artemis rom
Sandisk, 2 gb, O2 Orbit here
Until now still working fine after using my "trick" (I really hope it stays like that), but have to admit that I did not use TomTom since then. When thinking back when my card got corrupt (4 times all together) I was using TomTom all these days when it happened.
I have only installed TomTom on the card and its been fine for the last week. But to me this isn't a solution as I want 2gb of storage, I'm just scared to load stuff again, but I will this weekend and see how it goes
Mem: SanDisk 2GB
Phone: O2 Orbit
i am using a sandisk ultra2(!!!) 2Gb card in my hero(german) running the tmouk wwe rom and do not experience any problems whatsoever.
there is something definitely up with the orbit (maybe other variants as well) and micro sd. I have a kingston 1gb SD and i am getting the funny characters on folders. Do a soft reset and it's fine, doesn't take long for the gibberish to return though
orunner said:
I had this problem today. Lot of folders with strange letters appeared on my card. I soft reset the ppc, everything is back again. but some Chinese characters are not readable any more.
Did someone figure out already what is the reason for this?
PS: forgot to mention that I have tomtom preinstalled. My ppc runs a German system from O2 Germany
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The same story here to Greece with Ace Locked RoM
Tom Tom preinstalled and crazy character appears first time after upgrade Greek Rom Firmware.
I thing Tom Tom Extended RoM installation [email protected] our device .. :
My Solution Remove totally Tom Tom from my Artemis ..
Gents, After just recently suffering the dreaded SD card corruption "fault" (now finally fixed - I hope - with the new .cab from HTC)and having to reformat and reinstall all my programs data etc to my Orbit, I have a new issue with my microSD card.......
When the 2GB Sandisk microSDcard is queried for properties with Pocket Mechanic and Resco Explorer 2007 it notes that it is 78% full, with with 1.49GB on the card. HOWEVER, there is only 0.508GB (for sure) on the card, and this is noted when viewed using properties from Pocket Explorer!
The card is formated as FAT16 with 512 bytes/sector.....
Any advise as to reconcille whats going on? Will I have to reformat to "release" the space? ....I have not tried to copy and fill the remaining space on the card to see if the difference is real or just made-up by Pocket Mechanic/Resco Explorer...I'm worried about corrupting the card and losing all my data (again, ) All advice gratefully received!!
....doesn't anyone have an idea?
My card (2 gb sandisk) is reading the same 1500 in use 500 free.....
Its as if the Orbit is reading it the wrong way round.....
Saying that its been stable enough, Ive added more progs and mp3s also installed things.
Touch wood it seems ok.......
I would also appreciate someone letting us know what the problem could be though.......
You could backup the card and then try reformatting it with various different cluster sizes until you hit the optimum remaining space. I can't even remember what cluster size I used when I did mine , but it did take me a couple of goes.
Anyone know what the optimum is?
Well...I did exactly that uniqueboy! Solved the issue with a card format!
i) Took card out of device and plugged into USB reader
ii) Copied files (everything!) to a safe area
iii) Formated as FAT32 using default/optimum using standard HD formatter
iv) Coppied accross files exactly as were previously there
V Presto, all worked OK
.....and the remain 1GB plus was freed up! Suspect the issue was with the funny format (Fat16) and cluster size I used to try and mitigate against SD card crash.
All is well that ends well!!
I picked up a Black Friday A100, and spent the day playing with it, when I discovered that the micro-SD card I installed wasn't being read properly by the tablet. I had pulled it from my Nook Color, and while the A100 seemed to mount the card just fine, it couldn't see any of the contents. After reading a thread where someone else had a similar problem and solved it by replacing the tablet, I exchanged it at Wally World only to discover that this one has the same problem. I've tried multiple SD cards with no luck, and also noticed that the tablet doesn't give me the option of formatting the card.
Anyone else have this same problem? If so, do you have any suggestions for a solution?
Thanks in advance!
i also picked one up yesterday and popped in the SD card from my Nook Color, but I had no issues reading it.
Picked one up myself and had the same problem but found that the microSD is at /mnt/external_sd and not the usual /sdcard. They either have an internal sdcard for the tablet's memory or they have mapped onboard memory to the normal sdcard location.
Enjoy the tablet!
Sent from my HTC Glacier using XDA App
After a bit of research, it seems that the problem isn't with the tablet... it's with my expectations. Apparently, with Honeycomb, Android dropped the ability to move apps to the external SD card. The 8GB internal card is where the apps are installed, and the external_sd is only for media like movies, books, pictures and music. It seems like a strange step backward from Froyo, but it makes sense if a lot of the problems with performance and FCs had to do with apps running off of potentially crappy SD cards.
So... the stuffs still there, but it's just buried under root mnt/external_sd. For things like Titanium back-up, you just need to move the folder to the internal sdcard for the program to see it.
I hope this makes sense.
If you do need to free up some of internal storage (if you have a bunch of games with 200+ mb resource packs) you can install a root-access app called "GL to HD" that lets you move the game files to SD.
Hi, first sorry for my bad english.
Now to my problem just got a new Sony MicroSD 16GB Class4 card, plug it in my HTC 8s all working OK. So i put my favorit music on it whit the Windows8 synch app. No problem all went OK (the mp3 files are organised and well tagged Artist/Album/year/song title). But now whe i want to listen to my mp3 some of the files ar duplicated or triplicated in the WP8 standart player (tried some alternatives the same) but on the SD card i see just one file when i connect the SD card directli to my PC. Found some posts on MS forum but the problem was whit xBox music cloud but i dont us it got a FUP of 600MB on my mobile whit carier data.
Tried to format the card and synch all the mp3 again got the same problem whit some files again. after i checket the stats of the SD card in the phone and i got some strange numbers:
Its a 16GB SD card class4
It says card: 14.64GB
Used space: 8.09GB
so i went for details and the phon shows:
Music+video: 39.74GB
pictures: 0B
other: -33981857925 B (dont know whats whit the negative size, and its groving by the minute)
free space: 6.55 GB
Anyone got and idea how to solve this problem or anyone encounterd this befor ? Befor i used a 8GB SD card class8 and had no problems but the card died.
Edit: moved the question to WP8 general section as its not a device problem but generali a WP8 problem im not the onley one to have this.
Jurasek88 said:
Hi, first sorry for my bad english.
Now to my problem just got a new Sony MicroSD 16GB Class4 card, plug it in my HTC 8s all working OK. So i put my favorit music on it whit the Windows8 synch app. No problem all went OK (the mp3 files are organised and well tagged Artist/Album/year/song title). But now whe i want to listen to my mp3 some of the files ar duplicated or triplicated in the WP8 standart player (tried some alternatives the same) but on the SD card i see just one file when i connect the SD card directli to my PC. Found some posts on MS forum but the problem was whit xBox music cloud but i dont us it got a FUP of 600MB on my mobile whit carier data.
Tried to format the card and synch all the mp3 again got the same problem whit some files again. after i checket the stats of the SD card in the phone and i got some strange numbers:
Its a 16GB SD card class4
It says card: 14.64GB
Used space: 8.09GB
so i went for details and the phon shows:
Music+video: 39.74GB
pictures: 0B
other: -33981857925 B (dont know whats whit the negative size, and its groving by the minute)
free space: 6.55 GB
Anyone got and idea how to solve this problem or anyone encounterd this befor ? Befor i used a 8GB SD card class8 and had no problems but the card died.
Edit: moved the question to WP8 general section as its not a device problem but generali a WP8 problem im not the onley one to have this.
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I had the same problem.
I removed everything from my SD card, did a format with WP8 and copied the music through explorer.
THEDARKEST said:
I had the same problem.
I removed everything from my SD card, did a format with WP8 and copied the music through explorer.
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Don that as well it solved the problem but now i have an other one. Time from time my music gets lost i can see it on my SD card but the music player wont show the artist. I can see the songs if i list all songs in my phone but i cant access them from artist or album tab
I like this OS but if MS will not make a fix for this small bugs soon insted of making crap that noone gives a s... i will go for Android again
Hop the new Ubuntu Edge will get started ill get one insted of this half finished Paperweight :laugh:
Jurasek88 said:
Don that as well it solved the problem but now i have an other one. Time from time my music gets lost i can see it on my SD card but the music player wont show the artist. I can see the songs if i list all songs in my phone but i cant access them from artist or album tab
I like this OS but if MS will not make a fix for this small bugs soon insted of making crap that noone gives a s... i will go for Android again
Hop the new Ubuntu Edge will get started ill get one insted of this half finished Paperweight :laugh:
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Maby you should try this:
http://m.pocketnow.com/2012/11/05/how-to-sync-windows-phone-8-automatically
THEDARKEST said:
Maby you should try this:
http://m.pocketnow.com/2012/11/05/how-to-sync-windows-phone-8-automatically
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I am using WMP to sync my music it works but still i get my music library corupted a loot of times, im not using xbox music its not usable in my country. The original WP8app is usles its getting me errors all the time so thats out of the question. An other thing is playlist i must make playlist on my PC or use a terible way to make it on the go... WP8 a big disapointment atm...
I just got a nice refurbished 64 GB micro sd card from woot.com. When I listen to play music and use it as my storage location, I get typically 2 good songs, then 2 songs with a lot of chirping and cutting out, then 2 good songs, then 2 with chirping, etc. I have my titanium backups going to the SD card without issue. I also have my camera app set to store pictures there.
Titanium backup and my pictures all seem fine. I don't recall Play Music All Access doing this when my storage location was set to internal.
There is a lot of cards with fake capacity, i ran on 3 or 4 of them. It seems that they have ok capacity in windows, if you write lot of files it seems they are written ok, but when you try to read them, then the problems occurs. Google the H2testw, great program to determine real capacity of card. For 32gb it ran approximately 2.5 hours, so prepare to wait