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I am posting this hoping it helps someone with the same problem.
I had my HTC Surround resetting itself several times a day, finding it without all the configuration (people, email, carrier hubs on the home screen, etc.) and reporting the storage as 15.73 MB instead of the 16 GB. In the last part of the problem, my phone did not recognized the storage at all, no matter what I did.
Windows Phone 7 uses the internal SD (yes, our Surrounds and most, if not all, of the HTC 7 devices have Internal SDs but covered under the phone case http://www.anandtech.com/show/4015/h...cket-boombox/8) as part of the Windows file system, it does not differentiate between on chip storage and SD storate, WP7 treat the storage as a big one, storing all kind of OS configuration (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2450831/en-us) on it (SD card). Hence when the SD problem presents, the phone resets because the OS can not continue to run due to data missed, and also this is why all the configuration (email, hotmail, also the carrier personalizations, etc.) is lost, because is stored on the SD that is not recognized by that time.
An excerpt from the link above:
The phone’s operating system integrates the SD card with the phone:
•When you start your phone for the first time.
•When your phone is reset to its original factory settings. This is called a factory reset. This is a task that is typically only performed by OEMs or MOs.
When the operating system integrates the SD card with your phone:
1.It reformats the SD card.
2.It creates a single file system that spans the internal storage and the SD card.
3.It locks the card to the phone with an automatically generated key.
So we conclude that the problem is caused by the internal SD not correctly integrated with WP7. In my case a factory reset did not help, no matter what I did the phone did not recognized the card, reporting storage as 15.73 MB. The solution involved opening the phone (I did not care to void warranty, anyway I am far from the States where I bought the phone and can not get a new one. But for you, your best bet is to get a new one, and make a factory reset as soon as you use it FOR THE FIRST TIME, and let the phone finish to do its thing). I had to open the phone, get the SD out of the phone, turn the phone on, do a factory reset, turn off the phone, insert the SD card in the phone, turn on the phone and finally do a factory reset. This procedure had WP7 reintegrating properly the SD. My phone now is rock solid, it has not reseted even once.
Thanks for sharing this. I had this very exact same issue with my developer device, a Samsung Taylor. I even made a thread in the App Hub Forum and concluded that the SD was corrupted. Unfortunately for me, the SD could not be removed as it was super-glued in place.
Another member on that forum also experienced this, so it seems like this can be potentially become a very bad problem.
http://forums.create.msdn.com/forums/t/64364.aspx?PageIndex=1
Hi, guys!
I've already created one theme, but it wasn't helpful. So, I create new theme here. The problem is very serious.
I have some problems with my WP7 device (HTC 7 PRO):
Yesterday I disassembled my device to change the memory card. The aim was to have more capacity (16Gb). Everything was fine. After I've mounted new card to my device, it was boot, but couldn't recognize new microSD card.
I supposed that I should made hard reset. I made it. After device rebooted I noticed that it couldn't recognize my Sim card, but with memory card everything was OK. Then I tried to reboot my device for 3-5 times. It wasn't helpful. Then I made another hard reset, but without any success.
I changed back to the original microSD card.
After that, I've flashed 7389 ROM and then 7390 through the Zune Update.
As a result device still can't recognize any sim-cards (I've tried 3 different).
Help me, please!
Updated: it seems that I've founded the description of my problem at MS. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2450831/en-us
Can anyone maybe try to phone them and get some information what should I do?... My English isn't good. I can donate you via PayPal if it will be helpful.
Upd2: I've bought the phone at clove.co.uk. They says that the phone isn't locked to any operator.
Sounds like you disconnected/ damaged a cable while swapping memory cards. I'd put it back to sock and contact HTC and play dumb about what I did.
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No-no, it's all OK with the cable. The problem described at the link above, at Microsoft.
The problem is in card (MicroSD). The phone can't reconize the card as official, that's why sim-card is not reconized by phone.
The solution is to get MicroSD card that'll recognized by phone as official...
Take a look at this post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=840524
These guys still doesn't have a solution...
HW failure,claim
Does anybody has HTC 7 Pro? Can you post screens that are made in SPL mode. Or just write, what do you see in SPL mode.
I have:
PC92100 SS-BC (4K)
SPL-1.24.2250.0(117856)
MicroP(LED) 0x06
TOUCH A1(v10,20)
SD SANDISK 7580MB
Partition Info-v211v423
I've seen that in another pepole's phones:
SD SANDISK 7580MB Class0
Do you have any differences?
How to get to SPL mode:
Turn off your device.
Hold vol down key and press power button. Don't relese keys before you see an 4-colored screen.
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I don't know why, but after another hard reset without card and reset with card everything go ok. I've also dismouned and mounted cable once again. Finally, I have 16Gb card in my phone.
Thank you all for the help!
Hello all,
Wanted to thank Wildstang for the 2.3.4 update, but I was messing around with my wife's phone that got a botched OTA update and accidentally used the CLEAR STORAGE function on HBOOT in order to clear the cache. Instead, I've cleared all of her data, which wouldn't be horrible accept that many of her pictures were still on the phone. Those she hasn't posted to Facebook may be gone forever.
Is there any way to recover this lost data? Otherwise I am probably headed to divorce town.
Right now the phone is sitting on my desk, I haven't touched anything accept connect it to the USB. The USB drives show up since I have the UnRevoked USB driver, but when I click on them they say "Please insert disk into drive x:". I was hoping not to uverwrite any deleted data in case it can be recovered, but considering it's flash memorey, I am probably more than hosed. Is that correct?
U can try running a recovery program like this http://www.piriform.com/recuva after you boot the phone and mount it to you PC. The app is pretty simple to use, just select the drive you want to try and recovery the info from. I hope it helps cuz I know "If the wife ain't happy, u ain't happy!"
Thanks, I'm trying that right now. I had another utility that asked me what file system is used. Does Android use FAT32? I know it doesn't use NTFS
I know that's what the SD card should be formatted to, I assuming the internal memory is the same.
Windows is saying the drives are empty. On the HTC, I get the picture of the phone with a red hazard symbol, like it's not being recognized...
Edit: I finally got the computer to recognize the "Android Boot Loader Interface" from HBOOT, but can I access the internal storage from here, or would I have to actually let the OS load up?
Did you have the phone fully boot or no? I know when I used the Clear storage function before I had to reboot the phone before my PC would recognize the drive...
I've now restarted the phone, but I get the same disk error as in the OP: "Please insert a disk into Removable Drive x:". There are two drives.
Edit: Looks like I get the same thing when I booted into RECOVERY from the HBOOT screen or when I initially load the phone (haven't done ANY set up to lessen chances of corruption of recoverable files). It's like they're registering as Removable Drives without any media inserted...
I'm assuming that you are mounting the phone after you plug it into your PC right? If you pull down the status bar you'll see the usb symbol, select it and make sure you select the mounting option...
Yeah, it looks set to Charge Only, and the only way I can change that is be starting to configure the phone. Just hoping I do a minimal amount of damage to any files I might be able to recover.
archabaddon said:
I've now restarted the phone, but I get the same disk error as in the OP: "Please insert a disk into Removable Drive x:". There are two drives.
Edit: Looks like I get the same thing when I booted into RECOVERY from the HBOOT screen or when I initially load the phone (haven't done ANY set up to lessen chances of corruption of recoverable files). It's like they're registering as Removable Drives without any media inserted...
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You get that message if you don't mount the drives. In recovery you have to navigate into advanced options and mount the sd card and emmc so that your PC will recognize the drives.
OK, so all is not lost
Apparently, when one uses the CLEAR STORAGE option, it clears user data, but retains the rest of the file structure... including my wife's beloved pictures
With VZ Backup Assistant and her Google account, I can recover all of her contacts. So I've lost SMS messages history and apps... and I'm OK with these. I think she'll be OK too now that she knows her pics are safe.
I've learned a few things today, and will manually move her pics to the SD Card after this, in case the tech support guy (me) makes any more bonehead mistakes trying to fix a half-baked VZ OTA update. If I can convince her to root her phone, Titanium Backup can take care of everything else in the future.
Regardless, thanks for the help jackbtha1
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!
ohgood said:
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
ballekom said:
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??