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1 gig sd card problem

Hi all, just got a byteStor sd card but can't seem to copy anything to it, i've tried switching the lock, i've tried formatting it but to no avail.
has anyone any ideas ???
TIA

Does your XDA II recognise it?
One thing to try is inserting the card while XDA II is on and see if it prompts you to format it. If it's not formatted it should prompt you.

dcs said:
Does your XDA II recognise it?
One thing to try is inserting the card while XDA II is on and see if it prompts you to format it. If it's not formatted it should prompt you.
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Hi dcs, yes it sees the card and the folder i created on it, just don't seem to be able to copy any file of any format across to it, haven't used activesynce yet, just the card reader on the pc, i'll try activesynce and lt you know.
Thanks

bopdude said:
Hi dcs, yes it sees the card and the folder i created on it, just don't seem to be able to copy any file of any format across to it, haven't used activesynce yet, just the card reader on the pc, i'll try activesynce and lt you know.
Thanks
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What happens when you try to copy a file?

dcs said:
bopdude said:
Hi dcs, yes it sees the card and the folder i created on it, just don't seem to be able to copy any file of any format across to it, haven't used activesynce yet, just the card reader on the pc, i'll try activesynce and lt you know.
Thanks
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What happens when you try to copy a file?
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If I try just copying a file with the sd card in the card reader on the pc then it says that the disk is wright protected.
I've just tried copying an mp3 using activesync and it works ???? strange

So you are saying that with the card in the XDA II you can browse it from Activesync's explore option and write to it successfully? and that on your PC, the card reader doesn't seem to allow writing to it?
If that's the case, then maybe you should look at the card reader and its drivers. I think I read something somewhere about XP getting things wrong with memory cards.

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So you are saying that with the card in the XDA II you can browse it from Activesync's explore option and write to it successfully?
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Yep
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and that on your PC, the card reader doesn't seem to allow writing to it?
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Nope
dcs said:
If that's the case, then maybe you should look at the card reader and its drivers. I think I read something somewhere about XP getting things wrong with memory cards.
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It's a built in unit, not a seperate reader but yes, I will look at the driver option.... thanks

I think you might have to just let it sit for a while. It does that to me all the time.

hi guys! m new here.. i have a prob with my sd card. everything from copying files to sd card to reformatting are fine. however when i open the files using the sd, oftentimes it stops running.
i'm opening mpeg and pdf files of more than 3mb. i'm using 1Gig pqi sd card 60x.
help....

Help!!
I just got my 1gb apacer 60x sd card for my blueangel.
earlier i was using 1gb mmc card. that was working fine.
now with active sync, or with file explorer on phone, i can not delete or create anything new on the external card.
though the carrd works fine with a card reader...
i even reset the lock and tried but nothing happens..
am i missing some step somewhere??
do i need to format the card b4 using it in my BA?
reading is not a problem, its only writing, and that too from the phone and activesync only.
Pls help!!

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

Integrity check for u SD card ?

Anyone know of an application that will allow me to check the micro SD card is OK ?
I suspect I have a fault in the card as I had to recopy 2 folders and the PC can't read the card directly.
It would be nice to check first without going through all the backup and restore time (16 gigabyte card).
Thanks, D.

Cheesy Dave said:
Anyone know of an application that will allow me to check the micro SD card is OK ?
I suspect I have a fault in the card as I had to recopy 2 folders and the PC can't read the card directly.
It would be nice to check first without going through all the backup and restore time (16 gigabyte card).
Thanks, D.
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I've never heard of a WM program to do this but you could try putting the card in your pc and using Scandisk command.

elmarko99 said:
I've never heard of a WM program to do this but you could try putting the card in your pc and using Scandisk command.
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Thanks - but the PC does not recognise the card !!
But, you've given my the idea to try it directly from a DOS window using scandisk from the command line.
Thanks, D.

Active Sync?
Will you get access to the (corrupted) storage card while connected your THD with activesync?
Other way to check could provide EasyRecovery from OnTrack and your THD has to be connected in diskdrive mode.
In generell I used a tool named h2testw - which was developed by a German Computer Magazin called CT. http://sosfakeflash.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/h2testw-14-gold-standard-in-detecting-usb-counterfeit-drives/
This is the best one to check physical errors on every externel memorycard connected through USB. It has to be used on a new formated card.

Thank you for the tips I will explore those.
I'm not sure what the problem is. I can see the card via active sync but not via USB style connect.
I can not see the card when I directly connect it via a card reader.
I was able to use a different card OK and reinstall my GPS app (Route 66) which had gotten screwed up by this card "fault".
I'll report back on results ...

Hmm
These two don't work because I can't see the card from the PC (except via activesync)
There is a file called "~Recycled" in the storage card which does not show in the standard pocket pc file explorer but does show up in total commander.
Maybe that is causing a problem - will investigate on google what this is.

Cheesy Dave said:
Hmm
These two don't work because I can't see the card from the PC (except via activesync)
There is a file called "~Recycled" in the storage card which does not show in the standard pocket pc file explorer but does show up in total commander.
Maybe that is causing a problem - will investigate on google what this is.
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Noop - that's not it. Apparently this is just a delete folder from Resco File Explorer. It should not stop the PC from seeing the card.
Searching further ...

same problem here, I am contacting Orange to try to get a replacement. Not sure if its under warranty.

Try Pocket Mechanic for PPC... it has a Scan Disk utility amid a collection of others.
Successfully repaired my micro SD card with this when my HD was having problems reading my storage card some 3 days back.
Good luck!

Corrupt SD Card??

OK so yesterday I had to drive 500+ miles and I was using copilot on my phone, typically copilot decided to crash everytime I actually came to a point in my journey where I needed the sat nav.
Anyway long story short, my phone eventually died and wouldnt reboot, I tried to recover from nandroid at which point I noticed a lot of folders were missing from my SD card. Including my nandroid backup...
I have now got my phone working with another card, however they one that was in the phone I cannot access from a card reader in Windows or the handset. I did have it partioned with an EXT and SWAP partitions, anyone got any bright ideas on how I can get my 8GB card working again? I am not bothered about the data on it luckily I had a backup.
Diskpart and diskmanagement wont see the card at all in windows, do you reckon its worth trying an ubuntu live CD to see if I can completely wipe the card and reformat or does anyone know of any low level format tools?
Cheers
David

If windows can't see your Card using multiple readers in the windows Disk Management prog then its screwed my friend.

Fixed it
Ok so managed to recover my SD card this morning.
FYI if anybody is interested, I used a freeware tool called usbformat (I cant post the link because I am a newb and havent been moderated yet but if you cant find it on google PM me), this managed to detect the the card but didnt seem to care about its current state, it also repartitioned the card back to 1 big FAT32 partition.
After this I was able use the card.