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.
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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.
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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.
I have flashed my Qtek 9000 several times and it seems that when reflashing with the say O2 ROM after it was flashed with the Qtek ROM, the machine retains some information. For example:
Initial ROM Qtek
Flash with O2, all information dissapears
Flash with JasJar, all information dissapears
Flash with O2 Rom again and the call history from the period that it had the previous O2 Rom reappears.
I have also noticed that some files in the Windows directory seem to reappear. Possibly because of these old files, since the last reflashing the machine has started behaving strangely. No phone signal, restoring contacts (using the copy pim.vol procedure) doesn't bring back the contacts and the contacts application doesn't work at all (clicking on contacts has no effect whatsoever).
Is it possible to clean the machine completely before flashing?
I and others have previously reported instances of some odd files and registry settings remaining over a hard reset. One guy even said pictures had stayed put. However, I wouldn't want to rely upon it happening. :roll:
Probably has something to do with persistent memory being just too persistent :wink: .
I don't know if it helps the memory loss, but I now have the habit of leaving the battery out for a couple of hours if I want to totally clear the device, and press the reset both without and with the battery inserted back in. Will probably get myself flamed for that, but hay, ho, whatever....
I and others have previously reported instances of some odd files and registry settings remaining over a hard reset. One guy even said pictures had stayed put. However, I wouldn't want to rely upon it happening. :roll:
Probably has something to do with persistent memory being just too persistent :wink: .
I don't know if it helps the memory loss, but I now have the habit of leaving the battery out for a couple of hours if I want to totally clear the device, and press the reset both without and with the battery inserted back in. Will probably get myself flamed for that, but hay, ho, whatever....
Hi all I installed TNT 2.o Pro 6mb PP, its worked great, no issues at all. Today I reset my phone because it got stuck, and now it will boot up to where it says "TNT Windows Mobile Professional 6.0" BUt just stay stuck there and not go into windows.
Is there a way to fix this? I haven't done anything new today but record a video which went to my memory card. I have unplugged the batter for a while, taken out memory card, but Im having the same issue. I've had TNT for about 3 months now with no problems. Please don't tell me it bricked itself.
Any help please!!!
Can I do a hard reset? Will that work with the custom ROM?
Try a hard reset, or reflash you're pda.
any chance the movie you recorded ended up on the internal flash, rather than your microSD?
windows mobile doesn't always play nice when available storage nears (or is) zero. i'd vote hard reset, followed by reflash if necessary.
Lol no didn't go to flash, its in the memory card because I transfered it out to my laptop.
Well I re flashed with TNT's newest addon. So I guess its done. But now I can't remember the name of my ui for my today screen. I remembered it looked like the following:
-Big digital time numbers on the top
-had 4 icons under clock going horizontally with your Home, Contact shortcut, --weather, program shortcuts
MP3 plugin
Anyone know what im talking about?
th3oriesfus3d said:
Lol no didn't go to flash, its in the memory card because I transfered it out to my laptop.
Well I re flashed with TNT's newest addon. So I guess its done. But now I can't remember the name of my ui for my today screen. I remembered it looked like the following:
-Big digital time numbers on the top
-had 4 icons under clock going horizontally with your Home, Contact shortcut, --weather, program shortcuts
MP3 plugin
Anyone know what im talking about?
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HTC Home plugin - it can have up to six tabs though. If it is not preinstalled search for it somewhere in this forum, there are tons of links to it.
Hi-
I have a Dell Axim X51v w/WM5. I've had it for 2-3 years w/no problems, UNTIL I made the genius decision to disable the services (PHM Reg. Editor).
I had been kind of disabling them here & there for a while to get some added speed; I would always TRY to make sure that it wasn't a crucial service that I was disabling.
I don't use Bluetooth, IR, or ActiveSync (ever). When I install progs, etc., I use cabs; when I backup, I use sd cards - so no ActiveSync (hence my thinking on disabling a bunch of this stuff).
So, I FINALLY went too far & disabled a service(s) that was a no-no. Ran fine...until I rebooted. `:<
When I reboot, it goes thru the regular splash screens, but when it gets to the password screen (I assume), I have the taskbar at the top w/the time/date, and wireless icon, but the rest of the screen is the 'WinMobile' splash & won't go away to give me the password screen.
I've read about several others who said theirs was bricked when the splash screen sticks, but its hard to believe I can't do SOMETHING to re-enable the service(s) causing the problem.
Maybe booting with a Linux distro on a card, or some sort of (crippled) ActiveSync <even though I think the AS service is disabled>, etc...???
I have tried cradling it to my laptop (WinXP) to see if it shows up as mass storage (I have a usb mass storage driver on the axim), but so far, nothing. *<this MAY have something to do w/the services on the LAPTOP, too - I have all non-essential disabled; I did re-enable ones I thought XP may need for it to recognize the axim, but so far, nothing.>
I have also soft-reset several times, and left the battery out for different amounts of time, but nothing.
I have a ton of data on the thing, and really don't want to have to do a hard-reset until all options are gone. (its been a while since backing up my data.)
Do you have any suggestions on how I can fix the Axim's services (I even have the Services registry key backed up); or get my data off, etc..?
I even have ANOTHER x51v (my wife's), if there is anything I could do with it (connect the two, etc..)
Thanks in advance.
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
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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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