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Internal Storage Folder DISAPPEARS

The internal Storage Folder & Contents Routinely disappears on my PDA2K. The only way to restore the folder is by doing a hard reset. After doing so, the contents of the storage folder re-appear as well.
Any ideas??

to my it happened to me several weeks ago the same thing...
And several times it has already spent...
but still nobody has told me anything
That you program you had installed in the Storage...
regards

Okay, this has happened to me 4 times now in 1 weekend. Does anyone know what is going on here?
I hate this reset, sprite, use for a bit, gone again, etc business.
Driving me nuts.
Someone please help.

Well, when the battery gets lower, it shuts down the SDIO slot. Could that be it?

TheLastOne said:
Well, when the battery gets lower, it shuts down the SDIO slot. Could that be it?
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No we are not talking about the SDIO Memory. I am talking about the internal storage. It just goes away until you hard reset.
Well I figured out what was causing it, but I still don't know why. I installed the newest version of WebIS Mail 2.1, and when retrieving mail, it pauses, after that the storage is gone, then it's good old hard reset and sprite to the rescue. Funny thing is nothing is deleted and after a sprite restore it goes back to normal. But the story continues the next time I try and retrieve mail.
So what I did was store the mail folder on my SDIO (yes it is brutaly slow), and now it works fine.
Any thoughts?

Registry
Can you please take a look at your registry?
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Loader]
Does it read : \Release\\Storage\Windows ?
If it does not maybe you would like to try importing the attached key.

Just a note here, that should read,
Does it read : \Release\\Storage\Windows\ ?
and not
Does it read : \Release\\Storage\Windows ?
I believe.
Sounds to me as if you mail program is over writing your storage, trying to store too much info their. This is normal behavior with this type of storage.

TheLastOne said:
Well, when the battery gets lower, it shuts down the SDIO slot. Could that be it?
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Is there anyway to enable it again??
I'm not thinking when the battery is low, I'm thinking to try and re enable SDIO Slot when Windows cant see the SDIO card.
It's the funniest thing, i often loose the SD card in windows, but somehow when i'm running TomTom 3.7 which is installed on the SD Card, it never fails once it's running even though i'm sometimes not able to access the SD Card with file explorer.
So somehow it's there for TomTom onces it's running, but not for Windows???

Woops. Looks like I can't read. Sorry.

This 'internal storage' disappearing issues also happened on my Xda IIs (HK WWE), now with 1.33 + 1.06, in the past few days as well.... SINCE I installed the following two programs.
1. O2 Plus 1.6 - cracked by someone with his/her signature on the 'About page'
2. Tweak2K2 3.4
I am pretty sure that's the hacked O2 Plus does that. Since I had my splash screens customized on my IIs initially and after installed O2 Plus 1.6, after a soft reset, the 2 splashed will revert to O2 splashes then after some time, 'internal storage' disappeared.
Restored the unit back to the stage that I had version 1.5-hacked, never had a problem since. However, right after uninstalled 1.5 & reinstalled 1.6, same disaster happened again. Tried 3 times in a roll, never missed. Dont think that's the problem with Tweak2K2. Not an expert on manually tweaking the registry, but that's what I found out. I am back to 1.5-hacked & Tweak2K2 3.4. And running without a problem. Did you guys put on the O2 Plus 1.6-hacked or had it on before?
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Anyway, my first post on this incredible forum, really appreciate on everyone sharing thoughts and knowledge here.
AND to whoever wipe out wiki, 'grow up and remember what your mama taught you! Get your hands off the site and be man enough to stand out and post a message WHY you destroy months of works by a few of us here, that most probably you'd NEVER contributed to, and YOU OWE all the nice folks here an apology! DON'T JUST ACTS LIKE A PATHETIC LUNATIC OR A RAT HIDES UNDER THE DRAIN. (excuse to my words to whoever find my words offensive to this jerk, but I feel much better letting it out...)

Cabrio said:
I am pretty sure that's the hacked O2 Plus does that. Since I had my splash screens customized on my IIs initially and after installed O2 Plus 1.6, after a soft reset, the 2 splashed will revert to O2 splashes then after some time, 'internal storage' disappeared.
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I'm pretty sure we are both wrong. Because I am running 1.6 right now, and I've been running all day with no problems. I am also running Tweak2K2 3.4. My problem disappeared when I set the WebIS Mail 2.1 mail storage folder to a SDIO card instead of the internal storage.
Someone, please help with this. There is a bigger culprit here, and I don't think Cabrio or I have a proper conclusion.
But I will try uninstalling 1.6, reinstalling Mail 2.1 and try it again. I just hate all this installing and uninstalling bit.
Cheers!

I believe that the problem is due to some applications you might be using.
I am experiencing problems with files disappearing/getting corrupt on mu SD-Card, where I installed all my apps and just found out that at least part of the responsability was a certain program...
Fact is that some tools/apps are not properly tested and have bug's that can mess up the filesystem, plus you should not try to use hacked/cracked programs, as they might contain routines that cause this effects on purpose.
Cheers,
vma

Another approach
I don't think this is a rogue app.
I have had the same problem dating to the first synch I did this morning.
My files won't synch - they seem unable to complete the synch. Active synch won't "stop" in mid process - and when I remove the XDA from the cradle, it won't soft reset.
A hard reset maintains the contents of "My Documents" which is not what it's meant to do.
Having spent several hours on this, I am starting to suspect that the culprit is to do with the time change. The Calender can deal with it, contacts and notes can deal with it.
Files can't. And when it fails, it leaves the XDA unstable.
It's only my working theory. But three iPaq users in the same office had a similar issue and all had to hard reset and restore - which fixed their problem.
Users who don't synch with their local machine (i.e synch with exchange are fine). Users with earlier versions of Pocket PC are fine.
Hope this helps. I was expecting every iPaq user in the world to be up in arms - so maybe I'm wrong. Its where I'm looking now though.

Spoke too soon!
Okay, so I really have to learn to let things ride for a couple of days, before saying "No, mine is fine". Well and the story goes...
I woke up this morning, reached over to my trusty (ya right) XDA, and baam, it was just sitting there. Wouldn't do anything. I sat there, thought for a sec, thought about the last backup I had done, and off to the 2 button holy grail we go (power+reset). Restored, with sprite, uninstalled O2 Plus 1.6, and now I will sit and wait again, till tomorrow morning. I think I might have to buy this sprite backup program, it's saved my a$$ more than 6 times this week alone.
Okay, so back to the drawing board. My Plan is this.
All I need O2 Plus for is the auto msn sign in, everytime GPRS is enabled or a phone call is ended. Is there any way to do this without the O2 plus app?
I will not install O2 Plus again, I will leave everything alone as is and I am going to start uninstalling 1 app at a time.
BTW, PhoneDashboard also screwed up a few days ago, it would just sit there and process like mad. I uninstalled it and everything is fine now.
And though hacked software could have anti-piracy code inside it, but if the app has bugs why would I buy it? Fix the bugs, make it decent enough to be worth the price you are asking then I will gladly buy it. It's the same reason why I wouldn't buy Windows, I only have it cause it came free with my system

ok..got some more info about our problem..this doesnt fix our problem but i just thought you guys should know, after you hard reset theres 4 shortcuts in the startup folder they are for the permanent save contacts, tasts apointments, connections. you get that flash manager error cause the permanent save program cant save it cause that was suppose to be in the Storage Folder..and the Storage Folder wont allow you to add delete or view files in it..i know ther are files in there cause if you look in memory you'll see that its ocuping 40+mb, then after a while or until your xda hangs the Storage Folder disappears
How can we unlock/view this folder? just like the Extended_ROM folder unlocker, i bet when we unlock this folder before it disappears everything will be fixed (YEA RYT!!!). :evil: well at least one problem down..

i forgot to tell you guys after you Hard reset try deleting that 4 permanentsave shortcut..you'll feel your erge to kick the crap out of your IIs a little less. :evil:

yes I always do that. that and the STK.lnk
So I uninstalled O2 Plus 1.6, and been running since yesterday morning with no problems yet. Storage is still there and things are running normally. If this goes on for another day or two, I will be convinced that O2 Plus caused the problem.

what else did you do? mine always disapears after the first soft reset..

It just happened to me for the first time while listening to music with PocketMVP. Storage disappeared and had to do a hard reset. I'm glad I had Sprite and a current backup handy. I also had O2 Plus 1.6 installed just a few hours before this happened. So as you guys suggested, I uninstalled O2 Plus 1.6, removed the 5 permanentsave files and STK.
Before I installed O2 Plus, my PPC was very stable. I only had to reset when my memory was running low since I refuse to buy an SD Card fewer than 1gig. We will see what happens in a few days.

nomadman..could you upload your backup? or maybe could upload a Flush image of your current running OS?(http://en.pdamobiz.com/en/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=151 ) PLEASE help man..cause that myt fix my storage problem.

Anyone having trouble with wm6.5 v12?

Flashed NSFFAN's 6.5 v12, and works great for a day or two, then it freezes and losses all settings and deletes everythign! Soft reset or hard reset will get it to work teporarliy but it will only freeze again. Runing verizon radio 3.37.78. Any suggestions? Does anyone have v10 still? Might flash back to that. Thanks for your help.

Flash again... you should flash 2-3x when going to a new ROM to make sure it works right.

i have been running v12 for 2 days now and havent had any issues at all still smooth and very responsive

I'm having the same problem...I flashed twice and hard reset and still won't work properly after a few days. Is it because I'm installing games and apps that freeze up the rom??...I get frustrated when I have to restore all the apps and phone numbers from scratch repetitively...Is there anyway I could modify the autoconfig to change the settings to how I like them and have it install apps and games and restore my contacts using PIM Backup???....help pleeeeez!

NFSFAN roms support user customizations. Take a look at SdConfigGen; once you have it set up any time you flash it will install all your programs and xml provisioning files as part of the rom customization.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=411988

I installed v12 on 2 phones, with no issues. Both phones run flawlessly, and fast as hell.
Here's what else I have installed, mostly to the SD card.
Sprint MMS, Sprint DCD Carrier Cab, Pocket Earth 3.5 (slow) Skype, Team One's Reader 3, Fennec (it blows / VGA version I think), Sprint TV, Facebook, FIM, Cash Org 8, Opera 9, Efficasoft GPS Utils, Mobile Netflix, TT Nav 7 +USA/Canada, Warfare Inc, Tower Mogul, Guitar Hero IV, Arvale, Cops & Robbers, SPB Air Islands, Peggle, 5 more JAVA Games, etc. etc.
This ROM has been working absolutely great-
Here's some things I did that might work for other people -
Don't backup your old TXTs, Emails, Tasks, Appts or Contacts, and Don't restore them. Sync to google, MSN or an exchange server. I have my contacts, calender and appts. synced to Gmail and to my work's exchange server, it restores them all when you first sync. On my V-11 install I restored all of that from PIM Backup and it bogged my phone like mad / froze whenever I went into my texts from Titanium. On my V-12 install, I just backed them up but never restored- no more Text issues.
Pull out your SD Card prior to flashing-
Flash W/O SD Card installed.
Fully FORMAT your SD Card, install after all customizations run.
I know, the SD should not affect performance at all, but for some reason I had all kinds of crap on mine. When I formated and installed it like new on this last install, all my problems went away.
Been working awesome ever since.

Double Post- oops.

VZYGuy said:
NFSFAN roms support user customizations. Take a look at SdConfigGen; once you have it set up any time you flash it will install all your programs and xml provisioning files as part of the rom customization.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=411988
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but how do I make modifications to the file?...is there a tutorial that has screen shots??... or even better a video??

Same problem here. I had very few apps installed.

I flashed 2 Sprint HTC Touch. 1 with problems and 1 without problems.
The one without the problem went from WM6.1 to WM6.5 V12 without any problems. I tried to troubleshoot by pinpointing software but it seems like it's a ROM problem.
The one with problems has been consistantly updated with WM 6.5 V10, V11, then V12....once at V12 it would freeze and HARD RESETS!!! FREQUENTLY! I reflashed it 4x and hard reset after each time....all with the same result...random HARD RESETS. I don't konw why...had to downgrade from 6.5 to 6.1 v1.12 spint

No real issues to speak of with the following:
I have
Resco Radio
WunderRadio
EZinput V2.388 keyboard
CAnalogClock, CFacebook facebook&FIM home plug in and apps
Memory status (Titanium system) plug in
Ccomm manager plug in
iContact
Core Player
Skyfire
Music ID
Activesync set up with my google account
Advanced Task manager
Rhodium HTC Calculator
I'm at around 45-48 mem usage on average when idle. i was using vista battery gauge, but I found it slowing the system and using battery for soem wierd reason.
PS: I know the plug ins show WiFi even though the vogue doesn't have it, but they are super useful none the less.

I have notice some flaws with the VZW 6.5
Contacts:
If I select a person that I want to call & if there are multiple numbers is where I notice the problem. I think the mobile number is the first option by default. If I use the D-pad to select say the work number the screen reverts back to the top of the contacts list.
Call History:
I can’t use the D-pad to simply scroll through call history. When I get passed the fourth number all the numbers are highlighted blue & the names become illegible.
eWallet:
If I need to look at a password key I should only have to tap the selection once but I have to tap twice. Then it brings me to the screen to edit the fields which isn’t correct.
These issues may seem to be relatively minor but I didn’t have these issue with the VZw 6.1 ROM

massive reboot
i've flashed my Telus CDMA with the WM6.5 V12 ROM and my phone reboot and reboot and reboot... i've flashed 3 times now and it still reboot again and again but only when i disconnect the usb cable, when it's plugged to the phone, it goes well but always when i disconnect the cable.. phone restart. What can cause that failure ?

One little thng I noticed is the icons on the left side of the call history screen is missing.

Got it to work
To fix the problem, I did the following:
-Went to HTC's website and downloaded the latest Sprint ROM.
-Reinstalled V12.
A couple of notes:
-I was using radio 3.42.50. After downloading the official rom, I have 3.42.30.
-I had to repeat the process twice because the first time I did it, I had no data. The second time through I verified I had data with the official ROM before upgrading to V12.

roz1 said:
To fix the problem, I did the following:
-Went to HTC's website and downloaded the latest Sprint ROM.
-Reinstalled V12.
A couple of notes:
-I was using radio 3.42.50. After downloading the official rom, I have 3.42.30.
-I had to repeat the process twice because the first time I did it, I had no data. The second time through I verified I had data with the official ROM before upgrading to V12.
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That would be the correct thing to have done in the first place. Flashing your own carriers radio and letting customizations rrun helps ensure your phone is properly provisioned. The difference between the .30 and .50 radio is virtually none. Back when the 6.1 updates first came out (including the 3.xx radios with rev.a and gps) people were updating other carriers radio's to get gps, rev a etc. Now that most carriers have had official 6.1 updates since last August or so that is not required.
The only possible exception might be the verizon slaves with the gps problems.

BIG problem with Activesync & memory card

I had a perfectly working TP2 (except a few irregular freeze, but I assume like everybody has) until this morning
I installed the splash screen shown at the therad below:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=516013
(I installed through installing the cabs)
A while later my device froze, I soft reseted it and... Two huge problems:
1. Activesync doesnt work. When I launche it it is grey and diappears nearly instantly from the screen (I can relaunch, the same thing happens. I would expect it to stay on screen)
2. When acessing my microSD card with explorer, after going in a folder, I very quikly (a few seconds) lose my card (an see it anymore)
I do not know if it is related to the splash screen installation (It may be just a coincidence and I do not see why it would have an effect). It;s more likely teh reset ****ed up something in the registry. That's why I post here and not in the thread I just referenced
I am just hoping the issues I am encountering will remind someone about a classic problem
FYI I removed the software (of course) and also tried to disable Manilla 3D, but didnt change anything...
In Manilla, whenever trying to launch SMS from the tab or emails from the tab, it crashes Manilla (But trying to launch them with Manilla disabled doesnt work either, so I do not think it is a Manilla issue... Just manilla doesnt manage to make them strat and reboots). If I am on contact tab, trying to look for events (lie Facebook) crashes Manilla
Hope this rings a bell to someone. Thanks in advance

And obviously without a SD card or a working Activesync, Backing up the device is going to be a F*@!%# pain (if not impossible). Plus all the crap to reinstall...
AAAHHHH this never happened with my Hermes !! (Granted, I was using trusted cooked ROMs and not the garbage original one...)
I liek this device... but hate the sh%$t that seem to happen with the sofware...

It seems
Sometimes it goes through... I managed to finally synchronize (finally !!) after trying 50 or 60 times to launch ctivesync. Things went well but I needed to reboot, which I did
And now back to the problem...
It looks like if Activesync doesnt ahve an immediate conection, it just "dies" and doesnt stay on screen...

Interesting (but depressing) to notice: If I launch PIM Backup it sees no email/MMS/SMS account
I just cant (_*!^*^$

OK, problem narrowed down to potential dtaa corruption on my microSD crad (Could be linked to my phne crash). when the card is out no problem (And I am storing my attachments on my card so this explains a lot...)
Going to try to read it directly on my PC and try to save what I can
It's been a long monologue, hopefully this will be helpful to some people

Audiomanager_eng.exe keeps crashing

Hello,
I bought new HTC TOUCH PRO 2 with Sprint. I have 16 GB SC card installed, and I copied around 8GB of music too it.
The experience has been miserable - half the time after 5 to 8 seconds of playing a song, it crashes, and I get the error audiomanager_eng.exe has crashed, etc.
I search this forum and found a thread suggesting to install two cab files to fix the issue - however it wasn't until after I installed them, I saw they were for windows mobile 6.5. So, I tried uninstalling them with the remove programs.
Now, when I try to goto the sprint music player, nothing comes up but a black screen, and then it relaunches touch flo 3d. How can I fix this? Or is there a better music player then the built in touch flo spring music?
I'm pretty disappointed in this device. It can't play simple mp3 files? wtf?
The whole reason I got this phone was for exchange support, and not spending 200 bucks on an IPOD.

im having the same problem and i posted a thread asking about it...wouldnt u know, i didnt get a useful response either...if i find and answer ill definitely let you know

Any ideas for alternative music players? Anyone have original cabs for sprint music player so I can re-install?

I have had this problem before. I reflashed my phone and reset a few times only to find it was a problem with the files on my memory stick. I formatted my card and put music back on and it works great now. Hope this helps

Internal Error :0

Greetings.
I have Sprint TP2. It's a stock install except I disabled touchflo3d and i'm using plain WinMo home screen.
Ever since yesterday I noticed that when I check my phone after its been in sleep mode for a few minutes there is a small popup window waiting for me on the home screen.
Title of that popup window is "Internal Error"
Body is a red X icon and text ":0"
If i press ok button that window goes away but then after a few minutes its back.
Rebooting the phone doesn't solve this.
How would i troubleshoot/solve this?

Have you installed any software that didn't come on the phone? If so, try uninstalling one by one to see if you find your troublesome app. If you have all stock software the best bet would be to hard reset. But be sure to backup all data (contact, text messages, etc) if you hard reset.

I have the same issue. mxxcon, did you ever determine root cause?

I'm getting the same thing on both of my Touch Pro 2's, one is with Verizon and the other is with U.S. Cellular, and it seems to have started for me tonight. It's not hurting anything that I can tell, just annoying. However, I'm not seeing it on my HTC Pure (AT&T), so it seems to be specific to the Touch Pro 2.
Edit-It looks like it might be related to the newest version of Google Maps, I wonder if leaving it running in the background is causing this?
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=99760

I have the same issue on my ATT Fuze. It is definitely the goggle map application, I wonder if its cause i have it running on the SD card.
Anyone else having the problem?

i think its has to do with lattitude with google maps when you exit say no to keep shareing your location i just tried it let ya know what happens

well so far 20 mins later no error message

Tilt google maps :0 sd card
paul201 said:
goggle map application, I wonder if its cause i have it running on the SD card.
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Thanks for the idea.
ATT Tilt, WM6.1
I nominate for The 2010 Most Useless Error Message Award ":0" --> read: "I have no plonking clue." LOL!!!
Hard reset, install google maps 3.1 to SD, returns :0 on the first try.
(It -may- have even trashed my email and messaging - desktop icons stopped working - but not willing to re-re-re-re-reinstall to test that further.)
Just for fun, uninstall GM, install from CAB to SD and returns :0 simply on the **install**!!!!!!
Hard reset, changed install to main memory rather than SD, and it installed and ran perfectly on the first try. Several soft resets later it still runs like a bunny.
Actually GM is working better than previously. I used to get constant failures from GM to connect to the GPS in the phone ('not found' and such). I used to have to -first- turn on VisualGPSce, and -then- GM would find it immediately. GM is now aaallll grown up and can now do that aaallll by itself.
Have a day!
Jim
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