[Q] New Wintec 16gb sd card problems - EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I recently purchased a new Wintec 16gb micro sd card. I transferred all info off the old to the new and 5 days later most info had disappeared from the card, Fortunately I created a backup on my computer and restored it from there, last night it did the same thing and there is no backup for the last 6 or 7 days, I have a rooted Evo with stock rom, I have Titanium Backup, it erases the backup file also, Any ideas would be greatly appreciated

I have heard a couple people on these forums say that is a bad card.i also have one and while I do not have any problems with it yet, I did have an issue where my backups would not restore. The only advice I can give is format the card on the phone if you installed it pre formatted, or did your format on the computer.

elegantai said:
I have heard a couple people on these forums say that is a bad card.i also have one and while I do not have any problems with it yet, I did have an issue where my backups would not restore. The only advice I can give is format the card on the phone if you installed it pre formatted, or did your format on the computer.
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I did it with computer, sorry for long to reply.

My first one died on me completely after a month, my second is still going after nearly two though.

RMA your card for a new one. I was going to buy the wintec card from newegg and than I started reading the comments and more than 60% of the people posting got bad cards and they would fail after a short period of use.

Is there a memory checker availible?

Wow nothing like scientific testing on developer forum. It is no wonder you are having issues with a company that makes iPhone screens in a Chinese sweat shop that uses carcinogenic chemicals

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Fried SD card

Unplugged my Desire from the charger yesterday to discover the SD card had failed totally. Rebooting failed to recognise it and once the screen switched itself off I couldn't get it back on. With SD card removed the phone seems fine but the card is not recognised in any reader now and can't even be reformatted. Did the card just die (it got very hot) or has anyone else had this experience?
A possible SD card failure not caused by the phone or reader. IVe seen this happen and be reported before with certain brands. You should return the SD for a replacement (assuming you have tried all the normal ways to try and read it)
I had my 32GB class 2 do the same thing, I whipped it out and put it into a USB reader then reformatted. I fully believe that its down to not 'ejecting' the card first before unplugging it since I selected the device (card) to be read as a drive.
Just be careful dude, its a royal pain restoring everything, keep a regular backup of your card if you can spare the GB. its's real time saver.
I was a bit worred too about the heat of the device effecting the micro SD card, but from what I read its still well within the safe requirements of the card even at 40C.
most cards come with 2 years+ warrantly especially Sandisk so check that out if you've well and truely screwed the card up (it happens, sadly.)
Had this same problem yesterday with an 8gb card. Just wont but with the card in the phone. So far it has done it twice in a week , one 4gb , one 8gb, both times while I've been using HTC's music application. Don't know if its just a coincidence or not...
Do you use a task killer? Wondered if I'm shutting something I shouldn't be.
Was it a goldcard?
Thanks for the responses. No task killer active and cannot reformat the card because no reader will recognise it. Guess it has gone to the great card graveyard in the sky
May it rest in peace my friend...I sympathise and am sorry for your loss...
Before purchasing a new one make sure that it's not something with the phone.Can you live a few days with the spare 4GB card that came with the phone?Fill it and use that for a few days and see if something similar happens again.Except for if you've been using that already...
could creating a ext cache partition have anything to do with it ?
i had the same problem but managed to get most my data back first time....stupidly i formatted it and carried on using it. couple of days it died compeltly !
learnt my lesson and make sure i backup every few days- pain yes but it's the same with any data if you don't want to lose it back it up !
...premature death announcement there. After a couple of days rest in a darkened jacket pocket, the card is suddenly visible to my laptop again! Clearly on its last legs as several files corrupted and it refuses to reformat but at least I rescued most of the data.
As usual the only backup you ever need is the one you didn't do!
Try formatting with a digital camera...
I had a similar problem with a corrupt SD card in my old phone. Computer wouldn't read it, but managed to format it using a digital camera after which it worked again (and still is).
Might be worth a try before consigning it to the bin...
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Question about SD-Memory

Hi guys, just a couple of questions about SD Cards.
First off, I've been having issues with mine lately. It's a 16GB Sandisk and I recently found out it was only class 2. When I first bought it, it worked well, never had any problems. But after a few months of installing apps onto it, loading/deleting/reloading large (8 or 9GB) volumes of music it started giving me problems. Now and again I get a Damaged SD card message in CM7 and sometimes while listening to music it will just stop playing and say the card has been ejected. I thought it was the ROM (Wildpuzzle at the time) so I changed, but it didn't help.
Could it be that the card is damaged, or that the data transfer rates have dropped with age to a point where it won't work?
Also, what class would you recommend I buy. Class 10 would be nice but for a 16GB card I might as well buy an mp3 player.
Thanks in advance
Try formatting the card and reusing it before writing it off. It may just work.
As for a new card, Class 4 is good and should fit all needs adequately.10 is definitely overkill.
I had a similar problem recently with a cheap unbranded class 6 4gb card. I was getting random errors and occasionally couldn't transfer data to or from it. It eventually completely died. Worst about it was I was using Darktremor's a2sd. I lost everything and had to start again from scratch. I didn't even have a nandroid backup outside of my SD card. Lesson well and truely learned. Make sure you have a backup of everything you need
Yeah I backed mine up, formatted it but I still get the problems. When they first started I was using DT's Apps2ext, that maybe did some of the damage with formatting and stuff, plus the large volumes of files I kept transferring.
I'm trying to work out if I want another card or if I should just save up and wait for that Samsung Galaxy S Wifi PMP. Need to see the price first. Or a tablet, but I think the Galaxy is all I can afford for now.

How to convince them my SD card is broken?

I'm not sure this is the right place to ask this, but I'll give it a shot considering its about SD card partitioning for the Desire ROMs.
I recently bought an A-DATA class 6 card, 8 GB. The very 1st day I switched to this card (after I properly partitioned it with gparted), I had problems with the ext partitions. Nandroid backups were corrupted the moment they were done through recovery (tried Ra 2.0.1 and 2.0.0/CWM 2.5.6.7, all with the same problem), sometimes when my phone died suddenly (4 in 1 reboot into recovery) or even when I ran off battery and the phone shut down normally, after I turned it on the ext partition wasn't recognized, apps from phone were all missing, but fat32 was ok. In fact, I never had any issues with fat32 partition, except when I had corrupted files by nandroid backups and the phone was telling me "error: card is read-only" or something like that. When I mounted the card to PC it prompted me to scan the card cause it had problems, and then it was fixed. I repartitioned the card numberless times, both with gparted and in recovery when I had amon ra, and always the same problems. And now, it says the card has 3.6GB occupied, but if I get to count all the files in it, it barely gets to 1.5GB.
And lately I wanted to do a titanium backup of all my apps. My usual backups consist of 170-190MB, now after I performed a backup, most of the files were corrupted in it, and after the PC scanned for issues and fixed them, the backup folder had 25MB left, meaning all the other files were corrupted. How can I prove the store I bought this stupid thing from, that its broken? Cause I know it is, I switched to my stock card class 2 that the phone comes with, and everything is back to normal, no issues at all, it runs perfectly except its not that fast.
How will they believe me if the fat32 runs ok, they probably haven't even heard of ext partitions on SD cards...
Hey man. Sounds like a bit is a tough situation. I have an a-data class 10
And luckily it works fine.
I'm under the impression that with memory (ram anyway as I've returned
Many sets of dead sticks) is not tested if you say its faulty they take your word
and replace the part when it gets to them and either bin or recycle the "faulty"
Part. Thats just my speculation though from personal experience. I've had ram
Returned in a week and believe if the company had to test the ram first it would
Have taken much longer. May be worth a shot, worst case scenario they just send
You back your current card. Only other thing I can think of is that you stress the card
untill it actually does fail but that could take a hell of a long time.
esk02k said:
Hey man. Sounds like a bit is a tough situation. I have an a-data class 10
And luckily it works fine.
I'm under the impression that with memory (ram anyway as I've returned
Many sets of dead sticks) is not tested if you say its faulty they take your word
and replace the part when it gets to them and either bin or recycle the "faulty"
Part. Thats just my speculation though from personal experience. I've had ram
Returned in a week and believe if the company had to test the ram first it would
Have taken much longer. May be worth a shot, worst case scenario they just send
You back your current card. Only other thing I can think of is that you stress the card
untill it actually does fail but that could take a hell of a long time.
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Nah, its been on the same "stress" as the stock card, I'm having these problems since the 1st day I introduced the card inside, like I said.
lvnatic said:
Nah, its been on the same "stress" as the stock card, I'm having these problems since the 1st day I introduced the card inside, like I said.
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no what i meant was that you stress the card untill it actually pops then send
it back.
esk02k said:
no what i meant was that you stress the card untill it actually pops then send
it back.
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Lol, haven't thought of that, does the warranty even cover that?
How would I be able to heavily stress the card? I heard ext4 does that, but what does generally stress a SD card?
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-lightweight-tools-to-check-the-speed-of-your-usb-flash-drive-windows/
You could try Check Flash, seems to have a Burn it! mode which should be just what you are looking for
ooie said:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-lightweight-tools-to-check-the-speed-of-your-usb-flash-drive-windows/
You could try Check Flash, seems to have a Burn it! mode which should be just what you are looking for
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Looks great, thanks. Does it read it from the phone directly? Thing is, I don't have an adapter which could be mounted to the PC, only via the phone. Downloading now.

[Q] SD card problems

I have been having a problem lately with my SD card.
When the phone boots up sometimes it fails to recognise the apps installed on the card.
The media scanner stalls at 0% when this happens.
Also I can still access the files on the card through a file explorer.
After messing with it & then letting the phone cool down, it is working now.
But I wanted to know if this was likely the card or the phone?
My first thought was that the card is going out.
I am running SRF 1.1.1 on EC05 modem
BTW: the card is a stock 16GB about 11 months old
I've started having issues with my SD cards lately. My stock 16gb fell off the map. Doesn't even get recognized as a solidstate device when I connect it up to my ubuntu desktop (kernel logs state "waiting for drive to spin up"... its SD...). Bought a new class10 16gb uSD, after a few weeks it got the 'card not recognized', didn't get recognized in windows or linux either. Ended up formatting it. Now I run My Sync Center and sync often to keep the SD card backed up.
1n4001 said:
I've started having issues with my SD cards lately. My stock 16gb fell off the map. Doesn't even get recognized as a solidstate device when I connect it up to my ubuntu desktop (kernel logs state "waiting for drive to spin up"... its SD...). Bought a new class10 16gb uSD, after a few weeks it got the 'card not recognized', didn't get recognized in windows or linux either. Ended up formatting it. Now I run My Sync Center and sync often to keep the SD card backed up.
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Thanks for help. Sounds like a format may help more than a new card.
BTW: did the class 10 card make a noticable difference?
Every Card has its plus or minus, the more you flash etc, the more you abuse it. I had a 16 gb class 4 and I am a machine in trying something new or adapting and changing....so. I have had it for over a year, just upgraded to 32 gb class 10 and you can see the difference. I am not saying jump the gun and go get what I have. Whatever makes you happy, there are articles that explain all that about sd cards.
As far as it being a Rom issue, possibility. No Pointing Fingers, just take into consideration alot of things before you ask or point at one thing. Things Happen.
Save Data do not copy the rom once downloaded transfer directly and give that a whirl. Look at all you have flashed and done since you have had your card and how long have you had it. How many times did you take it out? How much have you downloaded and taken/cleared off the card? No different than a pc, its all in that little hard disk!!! I am not asking, just take all that into consideration.
Window shop with Patience if you decide to get a card, and look for a deal.
Hope this helps.......just another one of everyones Helpful Friends and XDA!!
rootxda said:
Every Card has its plus or minus, the more you flash etc, the more you abuse it. I had a 16 gb class 4 and I am a machine in trying something new or adapting and changing....so. I have had it for over a year, just upgraded to 32 gb class 10 and you can see the difference. I am not saying jump the gun and go get what I have. Whatever makes you happy, there are articles that explain all that about sd cards.
As far as it being a Rom issue, possibility. No Pointing Fingers, just take into consideration alot of things before you ask or point at one thing. Things Happen.
Save Data do not copy the rom once downloaded transfer directly and give that a whirl. Look at all you have flashed and done since you have had your card and how long have you had it. How many times did you take it out? How much have you downloaded and taken/cleared off the card? No different than a pc, its all in that little hard disk!!! I am not asking, just take all that into consideration.
Window shop with Patience if you decide to get a card, and look for a deal.
Hope this helps.......just another one of everyones Helpful Friends and XDA!!
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Thanks, you bring up some good points I realy had not considered.
I put my existing card in the sd slot of my laptop & scanned it for errors & bad sectors. It reported errors found & possible data loss. Total capacity is down by 1GB now. Most likely my fault, I remember a few ROM related issues that wound up in a reflash (a couple of times within a week), tried running without the journaling on. BIG MISTAKE!!!!! Anyway, thinking about it this started about when that freeze up caused the ROM break down. I might need to replace it since it has sectors breaking down. Card does seem to work ok since I run the repair scan.
Thanks again for the advise.

Is my phone killing my memory card(s)?

Ok so i had a 32gb card and it started failing on my phone, it would work sometimes or ask me to format it, sometimes it would work fine so i assumed it was about to die soon so i was able to back everything up,.
Bought a new 64gb sandisk card, the one suggested from the accessories list...well i've been using it for about a week now and it just died on me today.
doesn't even get detected...
i never formatted, it, read that this phone could support it right away...well now nothing works and i've lost everything....again!!!
this is really frustrating...i've lost some major saved games and it's depressing
could it be the phone...or was it just a bad card
i've used the original charger and battery at all times...
any clues?
krazyq said:
Ok so i had a 32gb card and it started failing on my phone, it would work sometimes or ask me to format it, sometimes it would work fine so i assumed it was about to die soon so i was able to back everything up,.
Bought a new 64gb sandisk card, the one suggested from the accessories list...well i've been using it for about a week now and it just died on me today.
doesn't even get detected...
i never formatted, it, read that this phone could support it right away...well now nothing works and i've lost everything....again!!!
this is really frustrating...i've lost some major saved games and it's depressing
could it be the phone...or was it just a bad card
i've used the original charger and battery at all times...
any clues?
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Look for File Restore Plus software. it will retrieve all of your lost files in your micro SD card. this happened to me a few times but this software saved my butt!
I may be wrong here but I seem to remember some people having issues withe the 64gb cards. Search around and youll probably find something.
Also check www.sdcard.org for more info on the sdxc cards and a sd formating tool that may help.
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