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I have a Desire running froyo which has been debranded and i have also invoked apps to sd using adb method.
Hopefully, in the near future, we may get another firmware update so, in readyness for this i have a few questions that i need answering.
To upgrade firmware, i need to insert my goldcard which is a different card to the one i use reguarly in my phone. Is there any way i can maintain all of my applications after upgrade of firmware ie. Insert goldcard, upgrade return original goldcard containing app data and after having done this, maintain my adb push status and original applications.
I may be wrong (bit of a noob!) but i don't think this is straightforward as apps are split between sd and phone storage.
Please advise!
First thing to do is make your everyday card into your gold card as this sorts out having to faff about with changing cards...
OTA updates shouldn't remove apps/data so you should be fine
I was on holiday in Rhodes last week and after a drunken night out I managed to loose my desire's sd card. I've ordered a new class 10 16GB card and it should arrive today, is it just a case of putting in my new card and starting from scratch, or do I need to add folders first i.e MP3, Photos etc?. Is there anything I need to download
I did have a backup on my PC from when I upgraded my SD card but I've stupidly deleted it.
To add my phone is rooted and I'm currently running a LeeDroid ROM although I was going to update to his latest Rom..
Thanks for your help
just start from scratch, no problem...btw, since you're. starting from scratch, when you put the card in, it may need to format it to read it...using your phone for this is fine....Also, since you are starting from scratch, now would be.a good time to partition your SD card if your device has roms that support a2sd...if so, just check corresponding roms for your device for instructions on that...also, use dropbox backup in titanium next time, or at least save a nandroid in a dropbox folder if you don't want to start over again...Also, I'd go ahead and make a "rescue" folder on a new card with flashable zips of clockwork, amonra, wimax keys, format_all.zip from calkulin, and a small rooted rom (like sprintlovers), just in case you ever get into trouble. Lastly, your file can probably still be found SOMEWHERE on a windows puter...good luck!
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^^ Thanks for the advice, I'll give it a go tonight ^^
I had a question regarding the 32GB upgrade in internal memory for the HD7. I have not done this but was wondering that if I backup my data using the backup feature in Zune, will I be able to restore my data once I put my 32GB microSD card into the HD7(after hard reset and etc.)?
I plan on putting DFT's Boot loader and the future Chevron 7720 ROM (once it comes out).
atgunit09 said:
I had a question regarding the 32GB upgrade in internal memory for the HD7. I have not done this but was wondering that if I backup my data using the backup feature in Zune, will I be able to restore my data once I put my 32GB microSD card into the HD7(after hard reset and etc.)?
I plan on putting DFT's Boot loader and the future Chevron 7720 ROM (once it comes out).
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I remember reading somewhere that this is not possible. I think it was in the thread for the Back-up/Restore App.
[APP] [UPDATED 7/14/2011]V1.6 Working App to Backup Windows Phone 7 via ZUNE ANY TIME
hx4700 Killer said:
Additional tips and observances:
*You CAN'T change the memory size and perform a restore, I already know this doesnt work so forget about adding memory and just restoring
*To my knowledge you can't backup from one device and restore to another as the backup files are signed/ID'd to the device that made the backup.
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Thank you so much.
Ok I didn't find this info anywhere online yet. Perhaps this can help someone to finally find a way to recover locked SD card without Nokia phone or other known, but sometimes unavailable means.
I have a locked 8GB SD card by Mango.
It is not visible in Windows, BUT - if I leave SD card in my laptop and then go to device manager and uninstall my SD card reader, and then click on Scan for hardware changes, it will hang for a minute or two (something that is normally a second or two) and then it will find the reader, install the driver and the SD card will be visible! The point is to be patient. Seems that Windows can access the SD card, but it needs like 10 times more time to do it.
I was happy at first, but then I realized it is still a tough case.
I tried MiniTool Partition Wizard and it actually sees the card marking it (Bad Disk). The size is correct. It can even scan for partitions and then reports two that can be deleted, but I don't believe it removed them. Once I even could make a 100MB partition! But it didn't repair the whole SD card. Afterwards I tried some other methods, deleted SD MBR in MagLDR and lost that partition.
Disk manager in windows sees the device with Unalocated space and if I try to make a new partition it starts and then says there was a CRC check error. It also kind of hangs, but eventually responds and sees the device.
Windows needs like 5 minutes to show dialog for formating the SD card. It says unknown size, and finally says that it cannot format.
HD Low format tool sees the device and if you start the Format, it will start and report many errors but will finally end. I didn't see any improvements - SD is still locked.
So tomorrow I will probably find someone with a Nokia at work, but perhaps someone gets lucky and finds a way to fix it within Windows by being essentially patient while Windows is accessing it.
And yes: Olympus PEN, Canon Ixus 70 and G10 cannot format it.
Cheers,
Ivan
Mango locked SD card
ikovac said:
Ok I didn't find this info anywhere online yet. Perhaps this can help someone to finally find a way to recover locked SD card without Nokia phone or other known, but sometimes unavailable means.
I have a locked 8GB SD card by Mango.
It is not visible in Windows, BUT - if I leave SD card in my laptop and then go to device manager and uninstall my SD card reader, and then click on Scan for hardware changes, it will hang for a minute or two (something that is normally a second or two) and then it will find the reader, install the driver and the SD card will be visible! The point is to be patient. Seems that Windows can access the SD card, but it needs like 10 times more time to do it.
I was happy at first, but then I realized it is still a tough case.
I tried MiniTool Partition Wizard and it actually sees the card marking it (Bad Disk). The size is correct. It can even scan for partitions and then reports two that can be deleted, but I don't believe it removed them. Once I even could make a 100MB partition! But it didn't repair the whole SD card. Afterwards I tried some other methods, deleted SD MBR in MagLDR and lost that partition.
Disk manager in windows sees the device with Unalocated space and if I try to make a new partition it starts and then says there was a CRC check error. It also kind of hangs, but eventually responds and sees the device.
Windows needs like 5 minutes to show dialog for formating the SD card. It says unknown size, and finally says that it cannot format.
HD Low format tool sees the device and if you start the Format, it will start and report many errors but will finally end. I didn't see any improvements - SD is still locked.
So tomorrow I will probably find someone with a Nokia at work, but perhaps someone gets lucky and finds a way to fix it within Windows by being essentially patient while Windows is accessing it.
And yes: Olympus PEN, Canon Ixus 70 and G10 cannot format it.
Cheers,
Ivan
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So if this lock is because of Mango, If I downgrade to 7004 ROM with my locked SD card, will that unlock it?
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So if this lock is because of Mango, If I downgrade to 7004 ROM with my locked SD card, will that unlock it?
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It's not Mango specific. It happens with all versions of Windows Phone.
Mango locked my SD card in a way it was not visible at all. Not even a 200MB partition. The only way (and I tried everything based on my original post) was Nokia XpressMusic. It formatted it in like 5 secs. I didn't even bother to reformat it, but just plugged it in my HD2 and installed HD2O mango ROM. It works like before. No issues whatsoever.
Id like to mention its fairly trivial to make any usb mountable card usable (you know, how the REST OF THE WORLD USES SDCARDS) with linux or unix:
Find the device mount point and:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc1 bs=1M count=yourcardsizeinMb
Note, this overwrites any data on the card, but then formatting and actually using the card is possible again. Ms dropped the ball so hard on this.
Thanks, I may try it next time I lock my card!
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Id like to mention its fairly trivial to make any usb mountable card usable (you know, how the REST OF THE WORLD USES SDCARDS) with linux or unix:
Find the device mount point and:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc1 bs=1M count=yourcardsizeinMb
Note, this overwrites any data on the card, but then formatting and actually using the card is possible again. Ms dropped the ball so hard on this.
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Is this confirmed to work with wp7 locked cards? I thought symbian was the only way.
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mastamind518 said:
Is this confirmed to work with wp7 locked cards? I thought symbian was the only way.
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No, not at all (it's only for converted to WP7 HD2s). The only one solution for now - Nokia's smartphones.
You can use your Windows phone 7 device to unlock your locked SD cards.
See here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1337781
you will need to adapt to your device so use the right rom from XBmod for your device or a rom that works on your device that supports cab sender.
No need to feck about with a nokia device.
Boysie
sensboston said:
No, not at all (it's only for converted to WP7 HD2s). The only one solution for now - Nokia's smartphones.
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Mmm, I dunno, unlocked two microsd's, one from a focus something, the other from a smashed focus something a friend bought off craigslist for nothing. The 16Gb cards were worth more than the phones.
android fixed my dead 16gb wp7 hd2 sdcard
I had no accsess to nokia devices and my 16gb sdcard was totally unrecognisable to pc, sdformater etc, I thought it was well and truely dead,even reflshed wp7 but still got card changed removed errors,then fed up I flashed an android nand rom to my hd2,without sdcard installed, then I hunted for sd tool programs, and still couldnt mount it...but the hail mary pass happened and I reinserted card back into computer and somehow it found it again and got all my gb back.Im still a wp7 fanboy with my omnia 7, but well and truly converted to android on hd2
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I had no accsess to nokia devices and my 16gb sdcard was totally unrecognisable to pc, sdformater etc, I thought it was well and truely dead,even reflshed wp7 but still got card changed removed errors,then fed up I flashed an android nand rom to my hd2,without sdcard installed, then I hunted for sd tool programs, and still couldnt mount it...but the hail mary pass happened and I reinserted card back into computer and somehow it found it again and got all my gb back.Im still a wp7 fanboy with my omnia 7, but well and truly converted to android on hd2
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You have a hd2, but didn't try dd ? Ok
Ok so i had this issue too and bought another sd card for nothing.
If your card is locked.....Flash a 7004 rom that you can push cabs into it. Push the unlock sd cab and when installed find it in apps and unlock the SD. Take it out and format that sucka with easeus. Thats it. you can use the micro sd again.
With this trick i took out 16gb SD from broken HTC surround and popped it into HD2
i love my HD2. wp7 UltraFruit rom.
Hi everybody. Not sure where to post this question, so please move if this is not the most suitable place.
Yesterday I bought a new 32GB microSDHC card casas 10. I then proceeded to partition it, creating one FAT32 partition and one EXT2 partition using the Minitool Partition Wizard on Windows XP. I then copied a few flashable zips with ROMs on them to try out.
This morning, as I set out to flash a new ROM, I noticed on the instructions that I needed a third SWAP partition. So I went back to the drawing board and created one. So far so good.
Except that then a few strange things happened:
* Partition wizard, after giving me the thumbs up, did not recognize the 2 partitions it had supposedly created (I restarted the program, unplugged and re-plugged the card, etc.). So I "un-partitioned" (sic) and re-partitioned. I hope this didn't screw anything up. Only later did I read that this was normal because XP does not recognize EXT2 or SWAP, which is why the wizard was showing it all as an "unallocated" lump.
* Although windows saw the files on the SD card, it did not allow me to transfer new any new ones. The system told me the device was not ready and asked me whether I wanted to format. After trying a few times, I ended up accepting, but the formatting process failed. ...or maybe it was at first and then no more, can't remember. Thing is, there are no more files on the card (which is fine, no need to recover them)
These things didn't happen in this particular order, rather, it was a going back and forth with both issues, including a request from partition manager to re-start, only to get a message saying partitioning was not possible because the file system had changed (???). It did go through upon retrying though (no re-start required)
Now:
1. partition wizard sees the sd card, but windows explorer doesn't.
2. partition wizard sees it as fully used up (no free memory left), even though there is nothing on it
3. partition wizard found the whole card to have errors in every sector but won't give me options to correct them.
4. windows is still unable to either format or explore the sd card
Wiping did not help. Formatting and resizing are not an option. I could delete the partition, but at this point I'm afraid of what that would do. No need to recover anything, but I would hate to have to go out again and get a new card.
Can you please help me?
Thanks!
ok, spent some more time scouring the web, and something occured to me... could it be that by doing a DoD wipe with Minitool partition wizard I re-wrote the partition (which is why it is full) and also protected it (which is can't re-format)?
of course, that doesn't answer the question of why windows XP (and windows 7 on my other machine) won't recognize the card....
PS. apologies for the double post , but seeing as there were 36 views and no replies, i thought I'd let people see that there was additional information here... hope that's alright
Your problem could be windows since when it sees a USB or HDD with ext2 it thinks its corrupted and asks to format and fails...
from what i know ext2 is used for linux so i would try your program on a linux distro. i could be wrong though
it might not help using windows xp
good luck
After reading both of your posts I have no idea what type of device you have. That is the first step, check out your devices General or Q&A forums.
Look at the top of the browser window, see where it says Find Your Device... type in the first few letters of the name and see if it doesn't come up there. The first and best source of information like you are asking for is in there, or if you can't find it by searching, it is the best place to ask.
Also, since you are new to XDA, I would suggest giving this guide a read as it may answer some of your questions and help you find out where to look for the answers.
[GUIDE] How to be a New User (and not a noob)
Thx. The device is an htc wildfire s, but I don't see how that is relevant.
What I have is a microsdhc card that has no data on it yet is full.
Although the card has been used, it suddenly requires formatting. However, neither win xp, nor win 7, nor partition wizaed, nor my camera nor Recovery on my phone are able to successfully format.
Now when I plug it into either PC (win xp and windows 7) the system no longer recognizes it when I go into My PC, whereas partition wizard (running on both those systems) can.
And now I wonder whether the DoD wipe of the partition could be to blame...
Isn't it fair to sy that the issue s device-neutral?
I think your problem may be Windows, because when it sees a USB or hard drive with ext2 that damage to the required format and failure Check your equipment in general
shuiguo said:
I think your problem may be Windows, because when it sees a USB or hard drive with ext2 that damage to the required format and failure Check your equipment in general
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thanks for this. In the end, I gave up and bought a new card, formatted it properly from the start, and am a happy camper
...except of course for the fact that the total for the 2 sd cards adds up to half the cost fo my phone...
maximum sd card??
^^ wat do u mean maxium sd card??