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SD Card not detected

I am using O2 XDA IIs PPC 2003 SE.
Now when I insert my SD Card 2 GB, the OS does not recognize it.
(It was good before.)
I've tried with another 256 SD Card, same result.
Those SD Cards are working well with my Card Reader plugged into my PC.
Anyone could help me please?
Thanks in advance.

I'm sorry I don't know.
However.. you've come to the wrong place if you want help.. people here seem to have an aversion to actually helping people out.. don't get me wrong, there are some very talented people that call this forum 'base', but they are understandably busy.. and the other's who hang just don't answer **** unless it suits them..
You are more likely to get the answer "read the wiki" which isn't the most helpful thing in the world. Even those of us who try others to help despite our knowledge being somewhat wanting.. just in the hopes of being seen to be at least trying, aren't deemed to be worth giving an answer to.
I suggest these two forums.
http://www.ipmart-forum.com/index.php
http://www.totalpda.co.uk/forum/
You will get help there.

Try soft resetting the device, poke the stylus in the reset hole and once the device re-boots it should see the card, you will not loose information performing a soft reset - Mike

thanks guys.

Hi, I've also have a sort of problem like yours. I tried soft reset n it actually works. But sometimes my BA still can't read my SD. I've tried format my SD n even upgrade my ROM. It seems that the problem is in hardware. I don't know what to do anymore

U have probably what I also have.. a faulty SD card reader or a bad soldering (welding)...

Last night I dissambled my BA n I found out that the screws around SD card reader were loose. I've tightened them up n so far I don't have any problem with SD card. But I've still exprerienced problem with my screen keep active when my BA was pressed even though I've locked the device n power off. I don't know what to do anymore. Any suggestion?

Problem already solved.
It was because tiny plastic dirts on the SD slot.
Once I cleaned it up, it's working as before.
Thanks to you all. What a nice forum we have here.

I had similar problems with a 1GB card. Formatting it in a PC-based card reader fixed it. Remember not to select quick format.

Can I put a 4GB SD Card in the Blue Angel? Will it work?

noone85 said:
Can I put a 4GB SD Card in the Blue Angel? Will it work?
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It will work if the card is *NOT* a SDHC card.
I found my 4 gig card on ebay, topram is the brand, and it works fine as it is a non-SDHC card.

Sdcard not reconized
HI TO ALL..
I had installed miopocket 4.0 on my VDO Dayton PNA6000-WINCE 5 but
because of problems with Garmin XT I had to uninstall but the uninstall
did not do the best for me, now my SD slot dont read any sdcard i think
its corrupted registry and i dont have access to usb active sync only
have MTP (Media Transfer Protocol) when i connect to usb(no data
transfer). How can i access my resident flash(INTERNAL MEMORY) to edit
registry,change usb mode to activesync or something else???, i think sdmemory.dll is making
load problems.
Tnx in advance!

To have access to registry use TotalCommander or SKTools

but i dont have access to system, sdslot is not functional and i cant install active sync driver just mtu in device manager..

8GB MicroSDHC Card

Hi -
I purchased the 8GB MicroSDHC card from Verizon a week ago. It worked fine on my AT&T Tilt for a few days and than it lost all information! Fortunately, I was able to restore from backup, and it seems to be OK again. Here's the strange part: even though the original files and directories are gone, the card still counts them in used memory. I.e., the used memory is about 200 MB more than it should be, the amount of space I was using before the card crashed. This applies whether I check the memory on the device, connected by USB, or with the Card Adapter that came with the card.
Any ideas what might be causing this and how to recover the used memory short of reformatting the card?
Thanks!

If you could tell us what you did for it to crash it would help
You probably tried to partition it or something...?
Looks like you will have to format the whole card.
Maybe there is a simple way to do this but here is how i would do, if it helps :
- install WM5Storage on your PDA main memory
- start wm5storage with the option memory card and connect your PDA to your PC
Activsync then wont be sync'ing and your memory card will be seen from your PC as an USB-key. Open it on your PC and check to make sure it is your memory card that you see (and not your PDA main memory).
Then use whatever format tool to format your "USB key" with FAT like format, for example you can use HPtool (be carefull to format the key and not another drive !!!).
After this do not forget to turn off wm5storage, otherwise you will not be able to "see" the memory card on PDA side...
Hope it helps, let us know...

by the way maybe you could try this :
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
I've used it sometimes when i had started to format a hard drive instead of an usb key by mistake.
Windows was asking for formating everytime i wanted to open the hard drive folder. However, using this Testdisk tool, i was able to mount the hard drive and recover everything including my photos and music and stuff... Maybe you want to try this awesome tool, plus it is free and OpenSource.
Use wm5storage tool to use your PDA as an usb-key, then use Testdisk on this usb-drive, it might be able to see, list and recover all the "lost" files and heal the whole partition at same time.

Thanks for the suggestions - I'll post again when I have the chance to try them -

No luck
Had a similar problem with my Kaiser (HTC Rom). Yesterday I did something (don't know if it was memmaid - my guess, because otherwise I just installed some cabs I had previously installed in my Wizard with no problem) and my SanDisk 6 GB MicroSD was completely 'erased".
I just noticed after the Kaiser had created new folders over it (Application Data, Cookies, History and Temporary Intenet Folders). My assumption is that something destroyed my partition table (that's why I suspect memmaid, it may have cleaned something wrong) and now I have another partition over the old one.
I tried file recovery and found 1 GB good of files, but there were 5 Gigs on the card... I really wanted to find "program files" so I didn't have to re-install lots of stuff, but no luck.
Tried Testdisk as suggested above, but it never detects any partition, not even the current one. I guess I will have to reformat it and re-do all stuff.
Well, I may be saying lots of dumb stuff, but that's my guess.
Thanks if there is any possible help in this...

Ah, and when I insert the card via a card reader in my notebook and right click properties, it says 717MB free, which means my old files are there waiting for me (new folders have only 736KB of data)... What to do?

Guys need advise do you have to do any patch to be able to use 4-8GB mini SDHC card on your PDA?
I have a Asus P535. Have asked their support site and the reply I got is the max supported is only 4GB.

I believe I've read in more than one place that the Kaiser may support up to 32 Gig, which is the MicroSD maximum. But I may be wrong...
Fact is this has never happened with my Wizard and its 1 Gig MiniSD. Now I'm gonna increase backup and cloning so I don't have to reinstall everything...
But I'll check if there is a patch anyway. Thanks.

I am able to use Sandisk microSDHC 8GB can on Asus P535.
But need a micro adapter to miniSD

mbernstein said:
Ah, and when I insert the card via a card reader in my notebook and right click properties, it says 717MB free, which means my old files are there waiting for me (new folders have only 736KB of data)... What to do?
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Click properties and then click theTools tab. Run Error-checking with both options checked. When you check your card, you will hopefully see a new directory with recovered files. You can then delete them and regain your disk space. This is what worked for me -

Thanks. I tried that at the time to no avail. I did have to reformat, and then reinstall everything... Now I'm using Sprite Backup, so everything including Storage Card is backed up in case this thing happens again.
And/Or said:
Click properties and then click theTools tab. Run Error-checking with both options checked. When you check your card, you will hopefully see a new directory with recovered files. You can then delete them and regain your disk space. This is what worked for me -
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It could be WINXP patch
I have the Sandisk 8G , it came with a small USB reader and all was working fine. However my ASUS W5 laptop also has a built-in SD slot so I installed a patch issued by Microsoft to make it HCSD compatible, and it read and write it OK but then I suddenly got the same problem that you've described here.
The disk goes blank but the files still occupy the space, even attempting to reformat the card in the built-in slot will ignore that space,i.e it shows only 5G card.
But reformatting using the small USB card reader was fine and from now on I only use the cardreader to read and write and everything is OK. In my view the XP patch was causing that problem

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?

Storage Card utility?

Hi,
My HTC 621 is having problems 'seeing' my SD Micro card.
It worked flawlessly for about a month, now it won't show up.
I can open it from my desktop, but when it's inserted back to the HTC, i won't show up (or might for a day, then disapears).
I don't have another SD to try.
Any advice?
Are there any storage card utilities out there for the dash?

groening said:
Hi,
My HTC 621 is having problems 'seeing' my SD Micro card.
It worked flawlessly for about a month, now it won't show up.
I can open it from my desktop, but when it's inserted back to the HTC, i won't show up (or might for a day, then disapears).
I don't have another SD to try.
Any advice?
Are there any storage card utilities out there for the dash?
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Im not sure about a utility program for a card but if i was you, backup whats on your card on your computer. In case it is your card.

Some time when you do format to sdcard in a computer this format is diferent to the format that do the phone.try format from phone . OR the sdcard is bad.
good luck

back up the card and format with something like sktools or a similar application. see if that helps. if so, import all your stuff back to the card and you should be all set.

help!!!
my htc s621 sees my storage card, but the folder is named bluetooth. when i clic on it, it says that there is no starage available...when i format it in resco explorer it says that it cant be formatted and to make sure my storage card is not locked....is there a way to unlock it?

ryanh11 said:
my htc s621 sees my storage card, but the folder is named bluetooth. when i clic on it, it says that there is no starage available...when i format it in resco explorer it says that it cant be formatted and to make sure my storage card is not locked....is there a way to unlock it?
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sounds like you have bluetooth ftp enabled.
do this..... open up comm manager . press right sift key. select bluetooth, then select ftpm then see if bluetooth file explorer and enable file sharing are checked.... if they are , uncheck them ... see if that helps

pudgedaddy said:
sounds like you have bluetooth ftp enabled.
do this..... open up comm manager . press right sift key. select bluetooth, then select ftpm then see if bluetooth file explorer and enable file sharing are checked.... if they are , uncheck them ... see if that helps
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ok...i unchecked both of the boxes and then rebooted my phone. i then went into my file explorer and the only thing that changed was there was no folder for my 'Storage Card' but a folder named 'Bluetooth Share' was added and its empty... i tried taking my card out and putting it back in but it still does the same thing.

ryanh11 said:
ok...i unchecked both of the boxes and then rebooted my phone. i then went into my file explorer and the only thing that changed was there was no folder for my 'Storage Card' but a folder named 'Bluetooth Share' was added and its empty... i tried taking my card out and putting it back in but it still does the same thing.
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Sounds like either your storage card is toast( or flaky) or somehow you've formatted it and the format is somehow incompatible with the phone

sygic mobile not working with gps

never gets a gps position anyone else seen this?

got it working had to remove from sd card and install to internal sd.. bummer because it wastes a lot of space

that's because of the file structure required.

yes but if it was the file structure i would have expected it to not run and not find the map but it ran and found the map but never got a gps signal..

lgkahn said:
yes but if it was the file structure i would have expected it to not run and not find the map but it ran and found the map but never got a gps signal..
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that's just life....

that's just life....
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so true.. as a side note it is really strange the way they addressed the internal memory and sd card
ie in case you havent figured it out the sd card is just a subdirectory of the internal memory
ie /sdcard is the internal memory
/sdcard/sd is th sd card
versus my older i8910 and n97 where the internal memory and sd cards are entirely separate disks..
very strange indeed

I had the same problem. Since I removed Sygic and re-instal it, it works great!

GastJT said:
I had the same problem. Since I removed Sygic and re-instal it, it works great!
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what is your install location for the maps and support files.
ie is i /sdcard/maps /drive /res etc
or /sdcard/sd/maps etc etc.
thanks

lgkahn said:
so true.. as a side note it is really strange the way they addressed the internal memory and sd card
ie in case you havent figured it out the sd card is just a subdirectory of the internal memory
ie /sdcard is the internal memory
/sdcard/sd is th sd card
versus my older i8910 and n97 where the internal memory and sd cards are entirely separate disks..
very strange indeed
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In linux (and in Unix systems in general) every device is represented in the file system as a folder..

In my case i had an sd card i removed from my X10 with Sygic installed on it and all i had to do to get it running on my 9000 was to install the .apk using the samsung file explorer .
For now it seems to be running perfectly and gps signal reception is fine.

Yesterday I received my Galaxy, and have no problem with Sygic, my GPS works

Guys, can you tell me the file structure of the Sygic deployment on the Galaxy S... do you put the three folders and the .apk file on to the root of the SD card, and then run the .apk setup to install it?
I have a problem where I cannot run the app becuase I cannot activate my maps, I am looking for a Device ID but cannot find one. I can find a Device Code but not sure if this is the same as the Device ID, and in any case the Device Code is blank.
Can anyone tell me if I'm doing in the install wrong so not getting a Device ID, or, is the Device ID differnt from the Device Code and in which case where do I find it?
Thanks

eeney said:
Guys, can you tell me the file structure of the Sygic deployment on the Galaxy S... do you put the three folders and the .apk file on to the root of the SD card, and then run the .apk setup to install it?
I have a problem where I cannot run the app becuase I cannot activate my maps, I am looking for a Device ID but cannot find one. I can find a Device Code but not sure if this is the same as the Device ID, and in any case the Device Code is blank.
Can anyone tell me if I'm doing in the install wrong so not getting a Device ID, or, is the Device ID differnt from the Device Code and in which case where do I find it?
Thanks
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I have the same issue.. it show device code as "-" or "_". I have no problem generating the device code from the SD card thr but not the internal memory

It wont work from the internal memory. You need to copy the files to an external sd card. Take the card out of your phone and use a card reader to access it on your pc. Now run the sygic utility and it will copy everything you need to the sd card. Stick the card back into the phone and run the apk.
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App

Sry for posting to this old thread, but this is a big probleme for me.
I put the files on my sd card and the internal memory. Same Problem. Sygic won`t get a GPS Signal. But when I start a other GPS program (+ sygic in the background) I can see that there is a fine Signal.... hmpf...
My Maps are accepted and everything is great, just this annoying problem...

On my Galaxy S work fine. Try disabling the gps from system settings, then start sygic and follow on screen tips.
Regards
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cyberz said:
On my Galaxy S work fine. Try disabling the gps from system settings, then start sygic and follow on screen tips.
Regards
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thx for help, but it doesnt work also...
I tried with Sygic Mobile Maps 10 Version 8.14 and 8.12 and 8.06....
every time this **** program dont find any gps....

Surely settings/installation is bad. Please, check this.
Regards
Sent from my GT-I9000 using XDA App

Basari said:
thx for help, but it doesnt work also...
I tried with Sygic Mobile Maps 10 Version 8.14 and 8.12 and 8.06....
every time this **** program dont find any gps....
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Try this please:
In Settings.ini
HardwareChange=false in =true
Then start Sygic, select GPS and then autodetect Hardware.
This helps me Sygic working.
Greetings from Germany

can anyone help me? i cant find the installer file after using sygic assistant to install e problem.. using the sd memory, not the ext sd card. thks. can anyone tell me step by step guide? thks