I've checked XDA for a similar thread but I could not find one. Sorry if there's a similar thread though, I'm still an XDA noob
I am using a Kingston 8GB class 4 microSDHC card and most of my apps are stored on it + music, pictures, everything. After (doesn't matter here, it can be 1 hour, 1 day, 5 minutes) 1 hour of idling (standby), the card gets disconnected and reconnects ! I have access to my music and pictures but my apps would simply not work anymore! It's frustrating to reboot my phone just to be able to resume reading or resume my Cut The Rope fun. This can happen up to 4 times a day. It's happening from day 1 since I bought it Is buying another card an option? Is it the phone's fault? Am I the noob here?
u can test it by using another microsd.. if it goes ok, then its ur microsd problem..
if not, maybe either a phone sw or hw..
kiz1983 said:
u can test it by using another microsd.. if it goes ok, then its ur microsd problem..
if not, maybe either a phone sw or hw..
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Thank you very much for your very fast reply. I will get a new memory card and will see how it goes. What memory card do you use? Does your Arc behave like mine?
Patriot 32GB Class 10 works fine for me.
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I use a KingMax 16GB Class 10 card and have never experienced the issue you've described.
As for getting your apps back, I would imagine you'd need to reboot.
1.gallery problem - after some hours 10 to 12 gallery does not show any photos or videos when i try to open it freezes and causes restart
2.camera - at same time camera clicks picture but does not save
3.led - the led shows red sometimes when i am on home screen doing nothing
4.market - market not downloading many many apps and fails to install
ive tried flashing full sbf
also fatory reset did nt help
tommorow going to moto care centre if it helps
what else can b done?
pls help otherwise ill have to sell defy
bought 5 days back nly.....
all works good once it is restarted then again after 10 to 12 hours same....
what micro sdhc card do you have in your defy? what class?
Change memory card. Don't use class10. Defy work best on class2, class4 or class6.
If problem persist. Wipe data and cache in stock recovery will do the trick.
i use strontium...dont know abt class..
strikoo said:
what micro sdhc card do you have in your defy? what class?
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Well...i use STRONTIUM which i previously used in my nokia e63....4gb dont know abt card class...
Well service centre told me memory card must have virus...
Shud i use the one which came inbuilt ? 2gb will it b good ?? And what are CLASS IN memory cards what do they do ?
asn39 said:
Well...i use STRONTIUM which i previously used in my nokia e63....4gb dont know abt card class...
Well service centre told me memory card must have virus...
Shud i use the one which came inbuilt ? 2gb will it b good ?? And what are CLASS IN memory cards what do they do ?
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Class is a kind of measurement for the SD card transfer speed...class 2 has a write speed of 2 MBps whereas class 10 has a speed of 10 MBps ...u can use the 2 gb card that is provided ....it is good ..only thing is 2 gb wont be enough for most users
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Try using the card that came with defy. If it works as it should then buy your self a bigger card if you need one, but remember, don't buy class10, class4 is just fine.
Let us know if problem persists. Good luck
asn39 said:
Well...i use STRONTIUM which i previously used in my nokia e63....4gb dont know abt card class...
Well service centre told me memory card must have virus...
Shud i use the one which came inbuilt ? 2gb will it b good ?? And what are CLASS IN memory cards what do they do ?
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If you are looking to buy a new card, the 8GB class 4 SanDisk available on Flipkart is a good deal, I'm using that one
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asn39 said:
1.gallery problem - after some hours 10 to 12 gallery does not show any photos or videos when i try to open it freezes and causes restart
2.camera - at same time camera clicks picture but does not save
3.led - the led shows red sometimes when i am on home screen doing nothing
4.market - market not downloading many many apps and fails to install
ive tried flashing full sbf
also fatory reset did nt help
tommorow going to moto care centre if it helps
what else can b done?
pls help otherwise ill have to sell defy
bought 5 days back nly.....
all works good once it is restarted then again after 10 to 12 hours same....
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I would highly recommend switching to CyanogenMod. Here are some links to get you going:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1065798
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1033654
Sorry but your suggestion doesn't make any sense . He will have same problems on CM7 and any other rom.
strikoo said:
Sorry but your suggestion doesn't make any sense . He will have same problems on CM7 and any other rom.
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Actually it does make sense.
This issue is a bug in Motorola rom, CM7 has this corrected.
I couldnt for my life use for more than 3 days my 16gb Sandisk card, I would always get errors, phone rebooting, pics not saving, "please format your card" or "card damaged" messages, etc, while using Stock or early CM7 roms.
After they introduced the fix, no more card issues. Been using my 16GB card for months now
thanx mate i would definately do that...
strikoo said:
Try using the card that came with defy. If it works as it should then buy your self a bigger card if you need one, but remember, don't buy class10, class4 is just fine.
Let us know if problem persists. Good luck
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Thanx mate and thanx to all...
People here are giving better response than care centre..lol..
Zephyrot said:
Actually it does make sense.
This issue is a bug in Motorola rom, CM7 has this corrected.
I couldnt for my life use for more than 3 days my 16gb Sandisk card, I would always get errors, phone rebooting, pics not saving, "please format your card" or "card damaged" messages, etc, while using Stock or early CM7 roms.
After they introduced the fix, no more card issues. Been using my 16GB card for months now
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OK I had problems with class10 16gb card even on cm7, replaced it with class4 16gb, on every rom it works without a problem.
Other thing, asn39 doesn't even know what is causing his problems and not everyone is found of modding and flashing their devices and loosing warranty.
i have given to care centre
strikoo said:
OK I had problems with class10 16gb card even on cm7, replaced it with class4 16gb, on every rom it works without a problem.
Other thing, asn39 doesn't even know what is causing his problems and not everyone is found of modding and flashing their devices and loosing warranty.
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i have given it to care centre they told me there must b virus which has corrupted necessary files on system...nothing else..
asn39 said:
i have given it to care centre they told me there must b virus which has corrupted necessary files on system...nothing else..
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than a simple format would fix the problem. does iz work now?
hopefully it should solve...
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than a simple format would fix the problem. does iz work now?
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Well i will get it tommorow...1st will check few days without memory card then will try with the memory card which came inbuilt...and then i will conclude...if the problem has gone or not...
But thanx alot for ur concern man...
thanx alot buddy...
Ill let u know as soon as i get my phone..
Thanx..
strikoo said:
OK I had problems with class10 16gb card even on cm7, replaced it with class4 16gb, on every rom it works without a problem.
Other thing, asn39 doesn't even know what is causing his problems and not everyone is found of modding and flashing their devices and loosing warranty.
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Yep! those are two different issues. One is with Class10 cards, but I have seen that issue on other phones too. The other is a Moto issue.
Regarding modding the defy, you can mod it and not lose warrranty, just read the Beginer's Guide I wrote here on XDA
And @ans39, try using Panasonic SD Formatter.
aye aye captain
Zephyrot said:
Yep! those are two different issues. One is with Class10 cards, but I have seen that issue on other phones too. The other is a Moto issue.
Regarding modding the defy, you can mod it and not lose warrranty, just read the Beginer's Guide I wrote here on XDA
And @ans39, try using Panasonic SD Formatter.
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Yup i will do it...i will do everything to make experience the defy still i have not tried its ruggidness lolz..
I too strongly suggest cyanogemod! The defy if crap without it...
The unofficial specifically is amazing! Official 'stable' isn't really all that stable. Also the higher class memory cards do work well with cyanogen, this is the first tine I've seen someone saying it doesn't...
Don't be scared to root and flash custom roms, defy is tough to brick
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I would rather recommend CMIUI than cm7. It works really fast and nice, UI cannot be compared to cm and has a lot of tweaks just like cm. I like both roms, but CMIUI has proven be more stable and everything just works on it, but with cm, wifi problems, FC-s all the time, random reboot, apps not working well, always in beta etc
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I would rather recommend CMIUI than cm7. It works really fast and nice, UI cannot be compared to cm and has a lot of tweaks just like cm. I like both roms, but CMIUI has proven be more stable and everything just works on it, but with cm, wifi problems, FC-s all the time, random reboot, apps not working well, always in beta etc
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I dont know, I have never had any of the issues you are mentioning, and I'm running CM7.1 Stable since it went out and every RC version since they went out. It has always worked good for me.
CM7.1 for the Defy is the second most installed CM version, only the Bravo (Desire) and only a bunch of them actually have issues soooo...
MIUI is closed source too, I dont thrust them that much
This is the second pny class 4 16 gig i bought for this phone and both of them have been corrupted. Today when i was texting, my phone suddenly gave me a notification saying SD card removed unexpectedly when i didn't touch it at all, then it rebooted. Now the card is stuck in read-only and cannot be formatted. I've tried putting it in the computer but i get an error saying windows cannot complete the format. Ive also tried other things such as formatting it in a camera and even in the phone itself. Does anyone have any idea why this has happened? Also, does anyone know how to fix the micro sd? I've only had this one for only 2 days.
edit: all the files on my card are still there and are not corrupted at all
are you using any mods that involve the SD card?
daniel60104 said:
are you using any mods that involve the SD card?
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Yes, im using the data2ext mod w/ an ext2 partition. On my old 8 gig class 4 sandisk i had no issues with it.
agentg1001 said:
Yes, im using the data2ext mod w/ an ext2 partition. On my old 8 gig class 4 sandisk i had no issues with it.
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Could be an issue with pny brand since it didn't happen with sandisk and happened to two pny
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Wagedroid said:
Could be an issue with pny brand since it didn't happen with sandisk and happened to two pny
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Thanks, i got a new sandisk and im having no problems with it at all. PNY probably isnt made as well as sandisk
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Thanks, i got a new sandisk and im having no problems with it at all. PNY probably isnt made as well as sandisk
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At least now we know
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I bought a new sd card.. samsung 16gb class 6 .. I partitioned it using 4EXT recovery but it was giving me problems with seb's rom and Alex's bliss droid pvteam mod as well.. I tried gparted .. it didn't help too..
Seb's rom works for a while but later it started giving me freezing problems and Alex's bliss droid pvteam mod rom stucked even at the first boot..
Then i exchanged the card with the dealer for sandisk 16gb class 4... its giving me the same problems.. I can't seem to properly partition it i guess..
and weird part is that there is no such issue with my old 8gb sandisk class 2 card... both ROMs run smoothly on that one... I just can't figure out what's wrong..
Please help... I feel like I wasted my savings on a new sd card for nothing...
Tarun Chaudhary said:
I bought a new sd card.. samsung 16gb class 6 .. I partitioned it using 4EXT recovery but it was giving me problems with seb's rom and Alex's bliss droid pvteam mod as well.. I tried gparted .. it didn't help too..
Seb's rom works for a while but later it started giving me freezing problems and Alex's bliss droid pvteam mod rom stucked even at the first boot..
Then i exchanged the card with the dealer for sandisk 16gb class 4... its giving me the same problems.. I can't seem to properly partition it i guess..
and weird part is that there is no such issue with my old 8gb sandisk class 2 card... both ROMs run smoothly on that one... I just can't figure out what's wrong..
Please help... I feel like I wasted my savings on a new sd card for nothing...
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these days class 6 from samsung are just giving speed about 6MBPS only... try sandisk class 4 .. it will give u speed 10MBPS... so samsung in india is not good... try sandisk.. the same happened to me too
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these days class 6 from samsung are just giving speed about 6MBPS only... try sandisk class 4 .. it will give u speed 10MBPS... so samsung in india is not good... try sandisk.. the same happened to me too
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I really can't get why would his phone freeze if his card was behaving as per class specification?
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sachin.02 said:
these days class 6 from samsung are just giving speed about 6MBPS only... try sandisk class 4 .. it will give u speed 10MBPS... so samsung in india is not good... try sandisk.. the same happened to me too
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I said that I tried that too. But it gives me problems too. And I'm not talking about the speed, it's the freezing issue I'm getting with these cards.
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erklat said:
I really can't get why would his phone freeze if his card was behaving as per class specification?
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I know it's so weird. I can't understand too. I feel so helpless.
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If you mean by "freezing" the phone takes seconds to respond to opening an app. Yes i had the same with my class4 danelec SDcard. Switched to Verbatim microSDHC 16 GB (Class 10) and now my freezing is gone. Only 1 app is still taking a 2 or 3 seconds to respond, and that is whatsapp.
I mean the total freezing of the phone.. not just any app.. the phone freezes... you just have to pull the battery out nothing else works...
Tarun Chaudhary said:
I mean the total freezing of the phone.. not just any app.. the phone freezes... you just have to pull the battery out nothing else works...
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I see two reasons for this:
a) the partitions on your sdcard are wrong (I had the issue when a vital ext4 partition was too small)
b) the sdcard itself?
Some hints:
a)
(make a nandroid backup before you change your sdcard partitions)
recheck your partitions
make them all primary
when you repartition the card, reflash
b)
I've used SanDisk 32GB class 4 for more than 1 year...reliability is excellent and speed is good. I rather spend more money on a good sd card than having the risk that the phone 'hangs' or i lose data from my phone.
Hi all,
I've bought a SanDisk Extreme Pro 8 GB for my GF's Arc S. Unfortunately, after I inserted it the phone the phone became very unstable. After some random time after starting the phone (can be many hours but also happened after less than one hour) the phone "freezes". This (until now) always happened while phone was sleeping. Then when trying to wake up the phone by pressing the power button, the HW buttons are lit up but the display remains dark (for more details see this post).
Unfortunately, when I changed the card I also updated the ROM to Ultimate HD 5.0.0. So at first I thought that this was the cause for the problem. (Stupid me, why did I change two things at the same time? )
Phone specs:
Arc S LT18i
ROM: Ultimate HD 5.0.0
Kernel: Lupus v16 (I also tried stock kernel, but same issue)
SanDisk Extreme Pro 8 GB
CPU: 249 MHz - 1.4 GHz (I also tried downclocking to up to 1.0 GHz, but same issue)
But this morning I removed the SanDisk and went back to her old card (the one that came with the phone, no-name 8GB class 4). Et voilà, no more freezes all day! So far, so good.
So, now I'm wondering if the card is broken or if it's just not compatible with the Arc S.
Is anyone else using SanDisk Extreme Pro cards with their Arc S?
TIA and BR,
Frank
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But this morning I removed the SanDisk and went back to her old card (the one that came with the phone, no-name 8GB class 4). Et voilà, no more freezes all day! So far, so good.
So, now I'm wondering if the card is broken or if it's just not compatible with the Arc S.
Is anyone else using SanDisk Extreme Pro cards with their Arc S?
TIA and BR,
Frank
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To whom it may concern: The phone worked reliably (but s-l-o-w) with the class 4 card since the initial post.
As a next step I formatted the SanDisk Extreme Pro card, rebooted into recovery and tested the SD card using F3 (oss.digirati.com.br/f3/). All sectors were reported as being okay. So, now I will again try to continue using the card in normal operation, and see what happens to the occasional freezes.
BR,
Frank
Had you try putting the same files that were in the old card? Maybe it slow down because the phone cant find them.
Or you car format everything at once and begin from scratch.
I mean, i had changed my card once and did the copy thing and everything went ok so far. Of course my card its not the same as you ask but, you can try again before discarting their compatibility.
EDIT: Mistaken.
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Had you try putting he same files that were in the old card? Maybe it slow down because the phone cant find them.
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Yes, I put all the original files on the card.
I have put in the San Disk card now after formatting it. And now it's operational for the last days. But I did change something since the initial try. Initially I had two partitions on the card, One for data one for Link2SD. The Link2SD partition was formatted with ext2. When I formatted it for the second try I formatted both with FAT32. So, maybe it wasn't the card itself, but the filesystem that was causing the problem. Or a combination of both.
Anyway, I now consider the problem SOLVED and can answer my initial question: SanDisk Extreme Pro 8GB is compatible with Arc S. :victory: