I was able to read my 2GB SD card fine this morning (no brand, cheapo eBay jobby so I can see the first reply ), then I took it out this afternoon and then put it back and now the Exec cannot see the card is in there.
On the other Exec it can't see the card either, but both can see the other's card.
It's dead Jim, isn't it?
I had this weird problem with my first 1GB SD-Card, when I first tried to use it on my laptop's internal SD-Card reader.
Basically it would corrupt the contents of the card as soon as I would try to write more than 512MB onto it. Then it would just mess up everything.
First I did not understand why it happend and actually returned the card twice (and got new cards). At the end, I had to admit in the store that the problem was due to my laptop's card-reader, as an external one did not have that issues. I obviously bought that card-reader.
Then, later on, I found out that the where updated drivers for the internal card-reader (made by Ricoh), though not from Asus (my laptop's brand), but for other brands. With those new drivers, everything worked fine.
I would recommend you use a newer external card-reader. Try to format your SD-Card with it. If it is not recognized then it is probably dead.
Cheers,
vma
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I had this weird problem with my first 1GB SD-Card, when I first tried to use it on my laptop's internal SD-Card reader.
Basically it would corrupt the contents of the card as soon as I would try to write more than 512MB onto it. Then it would just mess up everything.
First I did not understand why it happend and actually returned the card twice (and got new cards). At the end, I had to admit in the store that the problem was due to my laptop's card-reader, as an external one did not have that issues. I obviously bought that card-reader.
Then, later on, I found out that the where updated drivers for the internal card-reader (made by Ricoh), though not from Asus (my laptop's brand), but for other brands. With those new drivers, everything worked fine.
I would recommend you use a newer external card-reader. Try to format your SD-Card with it. If it is not recognized then it is probably dead.
Cheers,
vma
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Yours sounded a bit like a "4gb" memory stick we had for the psp; that was unfortunately fake and only about 400mb (got our money back though ).
Found my problem though, it's a mini sd and the prongs on the adaptor had come disconnected through me taking it out; I just bent them back.
My problem was not a fake card: it was the laptop's cardreader (or it's driver) that did not support cards with more than 512MB. Whenever I tried to write over the first 512MB on a bigger card, it would mess up the existing data. Whenever that happened, I had to format the whole card.
I then purchased a new cardreader everything stared to work fine.
Beware of old cardreaders with new big-sized memory cards!
Cheers,
vma
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Hi Guys, before hand great forum. Anyway, I've had my Hermes/ 2gb Sandisk Memory Card for about a year now. I've had absolutely no problems with it up until now. I upgraded to WM6 about 2 weeks ago, and everything was fine.
ANYWAY, My storage card is not recognized, I tried cleaning it, I tried using WM5Storage, nothing. When I am in finder, and I put in the disk, it seems to act as if something was placed in with a quick like flash of the screen indicating something was place, but nothing in finder. I tried to see if I could format it, however it acts like nothing is in there?
Any suggestions, Thanks again for your time.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=294324
It sounds like the disk has failed. Try to read the disk in another reader to check that the disk has not fried it's self.
If this is the case then you may be able to return to the manufacture if it has a life time warrenty. I.E. Kingston have this feature.
Hope this helps.
D
I agree with the above post. Try inserting your card into your computer, and see if it can be recognized that way. If so, maybe copy all of your data off the card, use Windows to format the card (FAT or FAT32 only), and move your data back. Good luck.
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!!
hello everyone!
since i bought a microSDHC storage card (4GB class 6) for my hermes, i am having problems with accessing the files i store on it....
i usually format the card in the device (using StorageTools or using WM5Storage in WindowsXP) and afterwards copy various files and folders on the card. when at first, everything seems tow ork great, after some time i am having troubles accessing the files. when trying to access the storage card with TOTAL COMANDER for example, i get following error:
"Error 13 changing to dir"
after reseting the device or ejecting and inserting the storage card again, it seems to work again...
is anyone familiar with such kind of problem?
is my storage card broken?
regards,krz
Hum!
I think you should first repair your disk with CHKDSK on Windows.
Try it and report.
Cheers
thank you komanguy!
i should have added, that i already did that too.
CHKDSK did report couple of errors (sorry, i forgot which) and fixed it.
after that, i formated.
everything seemed ok, and the out of a sudden... problems again!
i will try some more things and will report back.
if anyone else got a hint, i would be grateful!
regards.krz
Maybe SDHC drivers are not proper on your device? Try partitioning your SD card.
Regards,
Carty..
card readers ....
another thing, that really pisses me off is, that SD card readers dont seem to be able to read from those cards... i tried it with the adapter from micro to normal size SD card, no succeys at all. friend of mine having the same problems....
so the only way to read/write that microSDHC is via the pda! and this is superslow!! i really wonder, why i got myself a class 6 microSDHC....?
anyone knows a cardreader, that REALLY works (fast) with microSDHC cards?
thx.krz
not all card readers support the high capacity cards.. need to find you one that does.. I bought a 1gb A-Date microSD a while back that came with a tiny USB adapter that works flawlessly with my current 8gb card.. its nice having the adapter on my keychain whenver I need to dump files to and from it. back to the problem at hand.. the contacts might be dirty.. I would blow some compressed air in it and try that then if that didn't work find some stiff paper, cut it to the microSD width.. saturate it with 90% alcohol but not dripping and run it in and out of the slot a few times.. hope this helps
from y'day.. sometimes i get the below message when i switch the phone
"phone could not able to backup data to SD card"...
The phone seems to lose access rights to the SD Card, so nothing is displayed in the file manager (estrong or Astor) The only way to fix this is to restart the phone.
in the phone settings-> SD scard option, I still have the option to unmount the SD card.. but then I don't know who to mount it back.. the only way i am able to fix it is by restarting the phone...
from y'day till now I got this problem for 3 times..
Anybody else having problems with this? please help..
Hi, I have the same issuses. It is very annoying, especially when taking photos. I tried reformat card, but it worked only for a week. I have got euro version, firmware 1.15.405.4. I hope HTC will solve this issue together with multitouch issues in next firmware.
I bought a 16Gb card and cannot get it to work in the Desire.
I've tested it in the PC, formatted it etc but it still won't work.
I'm not convinced where the fault lies, with the card or the Desire.
I had a problem once with sd+camera app, but after a reboot everything worked
funny enuff. that happened to me 2 yesterday ?
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One of my 16GB cards also got corrupted. I found it did not slide into the SDHC card slot properly and did become dislodged. Check to see if the SD card is inerted correctly. My replacement 8GB seems fine.
ShugM said:
I bought a 16Gb card and cannot get it to work in the Desire.
I've tested it in the PC, formatted it etc but it still won't work.
I'm not convinced where the fault lies, with the card or the Desire.
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I have 16 GB Kingston Class 2 in my Desire and no problem so far, quite cheap too.
I have had this a couple of times.
Install the SDMount Widget. Unmount the card in settings, click the widget, back in business.
I'm experiencing this issue about once a week... :/
NZtechfreak said:
I have had this a couple of times.
Install the SDMount Widget. Unmount the card in settings, click the widget, back in business.
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This doesn't work. I have the same problem as described above. I just ordered a new 8gb SD Card. I hope it's an SD card problem and not something wrong with the phone
Thread with same discussion here if you wanna check it out.
I've also been having SD card issues since I got the phone but yesterday things got worse!
After the problem occured again, I thought I'd try removing and reinserting the SD card (despite having done this before). When I restarted the phone it came up with a this message on the notification bar:
Blank SD Card
SD card blank or has unsupported filesystem.
I've tried reformatting the card in the phone, with the phone attached to my comp via USB, and with the card in a card reader. None of this works; the computer just doesn't recognise the card.
I've just emailed HTC support with the problem. I'll report back when I get an answer.
Also 16GB issue
Since a few days I have issues with my 16GB card also. I tried to install Navigon on the card by copying files directly to the card. After inserting it into the phone two out of three directories were empty....
Trying to copy fromt the pc to the Desire using it as a disk drive gave me the blue screen of death
I tried to install it using the original 4GB card and everything works like a charm
I tested the 16GB card (forgot what tool, it was a 1 month trial without write testing) and the card came out fats enough and without any bad blocks.
I will do a write test this evening (EU time) to see if I can fit 16GB ont the card, but everything points to the phone at this moment
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I've also been having SD card issues since I got the phone but yesterday things got worse!
After the problem occured again, I thought I'd try removing and reinserting the SD card (despite having done this before). When I restarted the phone it came up with a this message on the notification bar:
Blank SD Card
SD card blank or has unsupported filesystem.
I've tried reformatting the card in the phone, with the phone attached to my comp via USB, and with the card in a card reader. None of this works; the computer just doesn't recognise the card.
I've just emailed HTC support with the problem. I'll report back when I get an answer.
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I've had exactly the same problem which I posted about in another thread. Do let us know if HTC get back to you
Same problem with my Desire and a Sandik 16 Gb Class 2...
The card works fine on my mp3 player, but it is not recognized by the phone. I'm going to contact HTC, too.
My Desire has complained twice now that my 16GB SD card is damaged and needs to be reformatted. But when I put it in my Nokia N97, it works fine. The last time I did a disk check in XP, and that took care of the problem for a while at least, but it seems strange that the problem appeared in the first place.
Having invested in a 16gb class 2 Kingston card for my desire I can tell you that it brings nothing but grief. I then purchased a 8gb class 6 pqi branded card and found it to be flawless in performance. One thing I noticed with the class 6 card is the very fast speed in copying to and from the card. Much faster than the Kingston class 2. On the class 6 card I have never had corruption of data or any problem. I see comments posted that the class makes no difference. In my experience it makes a huge difference.
you guys are having issues with your 8GB/16GB cards, i was considering getting a 32GB a few days from now, after reading all this i'm having second thoughts.. does size matter ? (pardon the pun)
I don't think the size of the card should matter, but then again - it just might. I was wondering if there's a slight possibility my card got corrupted from when I've had it connected to my computer in disk mode. I only use the "safe disconnection of hardware" button in XP, but I don't select to unmount it on the Desire - it shouldn't be a problem, but perhaps that's how it got broken. Or perhaps it's just damaged and glitchy
Make sure the MBR is formatted too. Windows does not do this by default. Search for a tool on the internet.
Been using this 8gb microsd for a over 2 months and never had a problem was always flashing different roms until last week while i was running sense 2.04 the card just suddenly stopped working completely!
no phone can read it! tried it on a few nokia phones and my htc magic with no luck!
tried the card reader to see if it needs format but the reader can't read it and the reader does work i tried it with other cards...
Does anyone or have an idea what I can do to get it working again? I just want to get my photos on it even if i somehow have to format i can always use a recovery software to get the files back but it's not getting recognized... probably a hardware issue? anyone with any help would be appreciated !
Had the same problem, managed to copy stuff off onto pc but cannot re-format the card.
It says it is locked.
Not really the same thing... I can't even copy my files because it doesn't get detected at all! and now just tried a different card reader so again it doesn't seem to be the reader that the issue... could it be truly dead?
I've had that happen on my G1.
Grab an Ubuntu live disk, boot from it and then plug in your memory card reader with your microsd. It should read it and then you can copy your files over to your HDD. It shouldnt be too hard. If you have an ext partition it will also read that and you can copy the contents over to your hdd. Then using Gparted, you can repartition your sd card and then copy your stuff back over.
this happened to me about 6 weeks back - Desire and WinXP would not mount the card at all, manged to mount it through ubuntu but only got a couple of files (photos) back off the card. Back to the 4Gb as supplied sd just now
Hmm just tried ubuntu guys and didn't seem to get any luck... any other ideas? thx.
k4r1m said:
Been using this 8gb microsd for a over 2 months and never had a problem was always flashing different roms until last week while i was running sense 2.04 the card just suddenly stopped working completely!
no phone can read it! tried it on a few nokia phones and my htc magic with no luck!
tried the card reader to see if it needs format but the reader can't read it and the reader does work i tried it with other cards...
Does anyone or have an idea what I can do to get it working again? I just want to get my photos on it even if i somehow have to format i can always use a recovery software to get the files back but it's not getting recognized... probably a hardware issue? anyone with any help would be appreciated !
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I got same problem with froyo, my card is dead. I tried with all methods but no luck.
Yea i thought i would just post that my desire has also killed my 8gb class 2 memory card, no computer will properly recognize it. Cannot format it or anything.
If i brought a 16gb class 6 do you think the phone will kill that as well, just dont wana waste $80.
When this happened to my 4GB card. I booted the phone into recovery mode. Selected 'MS-USB-Toggle' and the PC then picked it up. Was able to copy photos off the card and reformat it.
Give that a try?
If you still don't come right, I think it is safe to say the card is dead. May have just been a faulty card, rather than the phone killing it. (Don't see how that would even be possible, anyway)
put your micro sd in a sd-card adaptor and format via digital-camera.
camera can format killed cards.
stupsi
stupsi99 said:
put your micro sd in a sd-card adaptor and format via digital-camera.
camera can format killed cards.
stupsi
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Hmmm, not so sure about that. Normally a dead card is a dead card. End of.
However give it a try - will be surprised if it works.
To add another phone to the list: my old HTC Hero toasted my 16GB SDHC.
Yep when I got my first desire it cooked a 16Gb Sandisk card... worked fine for almost 18 months in my Touch HD... less than a week in the Desire... toast!
Me too.
My Desire seems to have fried my 16Gb Sandisk card, although I'm still trying to work out if it's a genuine card as it looks different to my other sandisk cards but the seller assures me it's real. Lost my holiday photos!!!
Just bought another 16Gb card, will see how that goes.
Going to email HTC and see what they say.
stupsi99 said:
put your micro sd in a sd-card adaptor and format via digital-camera.
camera can format killed cards.
stupsi
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I second that, they do particularly well
You can also try a low level format tool
I have used this one before - oldie but goodie - http://hddguru.com/software/2006.04.12-HDD-Low-Level-Format-Tool/ but there are others
this has hapened to my lexar 16gb card.
Ihave a rooted desire; I went into the recovery menu, formatted the card to fat32 100%.
I then plugged it into my w7pc. did a low level format, dskchk-check and fix bad blocks.
then reformatted to ext: 512 and the rest fat32 in my device, been working ever since.
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just an update from my end... I have tried everything possible card is actually dead hardware wise nothing software wise can fix it, R.I.P. my sd card