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[Q] SD Card Unexpectedly Removed - ROM Related?

for some time I was using a Samsung 8GB SDHC Class 2 which came with the device.
I have made it a Goldcard, rooted the phone and installed Froyo. then I began to get SD Card Unexpectedly Removed errors after a few minutes of using an app instaled on SD (mostly when I tried to run ColorDict, which keeps dict data on SD). I am not sure, but I think this began to happen when I tried to upgrade to OTA 2.29 and "Red Triangle of Death" (lol) appeared... my Desire was getting unusable as it happened more frequently and required the phone to be powered off and the card to be taken out and insterted again. I tried formatting from Windows level, from phone level, checking for errors, bad sectors etc, but everything failed, so I bought Kingston 16GB SDHC Class 4. and, as you can expect, nothing really improved. well, maybe the errors were a little less frequent.
so I tried to change the ROM, yesterday I have flashed LeeDroid 2.3d No-A2SD, since then the error came twice - first when I tried to wipe sdext in recovery and about five minutes ago, while accessing the card with Root Explorer. I have to stress out that I use the SD intensively through the day as I install apps and test new games. so it seems that the appearence of that error is somehow related to ROM as normally it would happen much more frequently.
did anyone experience similar coincidence?

I have had the SD Card unmount itself randomly before with a custom ROM but it has been a one off. I just rebooted and it was working.
However, your problem is quite extensive. I guess you could just sort of leave it for a whole day not doing anything and see if anything happens. If so, then it could be a number of reasons. Reformat, check for errors (thoroughly), change your ROM to stock and test that out.

Desire Crashing frequently(possibly SD related)

Im using a SCLD GSM Desire rooted. Ive used Gingerbread versions of Oxygen, CM7, and currently on MIUI XJ but all freeze up on me often(almost daily) and battery pulls are required to revive.
The freezes do not happen with my 2GB Samsung SD card that came with the phone, but i have used 3 brand new Sandisk 16GB Class 4 SD cards and it crashes on all. This is regardless of whether i have Apps2SD enabled or not. I have looked for last_kmsg after the crashes on CM7 and Oxygen, but the file is never present after a battery pull, if i reboot normally i will get an old last_kmsg file from a few months back.
Was transferring about a gig of music to my phone currently on MIUI XJ 1.12.2, and after i unmounted USB storage it froze up and crashed.
The SD card im currently using was bought at a Virgin store, so im sure it wouldnt be a fake. I hope someone can help troubleshoot, im completely out of ideas!!
Thanks a tone in advance!

zigackly said:
Im using a SCLD GSM Desire rooted. Ive used Gingerbread versions of Oxygen, CM7, and currently on MIUI XJ but all freeze up on me often(almost daily) and battery pulls are required to revive.
The freezes do not happen with my 2GB Samsung SD card that came with the phone, but i have used 3 brand new Sandisk 16GB Class 4 SD cards and it crashes on all. This is regardless of whether i have Apps2SD enabled or not. I have looked for last_kmsg after the crashes on CM7 and Oxygen, but the file is never present after a battery pull, if i reboot normally i will get an old last_kmsg file from a few months back.
Was transferring about a gig of music to my phone currently on MIUI XJ 1.12.2, and after i unmounted USB storage it froze up and crashed.
The SD card im currently using was bought at a Virgin store, so im sure it wouldnt be a fake. I hope someone can help troubleshoot, im completely out of ideas!!
Thanks a tone in advance!
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which version of MIUI-XJ ie.. A2SD or XPart or D2W?
You can try the following:
1. take nand backup, titanium backup & miui backup
2. download the full rom
3. full wip/wip cache/wip dalvik
4. flash the rom, if you are using cm7r2 hboot you might have to flash market cache fix.
5. let the rom reboot automatically and then let it settle for 15-20 mins
6. go to super user and make sure you enable ROOT permission ON.
7. power-off and power-on, restore your apps.

Thanks for help, appreciate it. I'm running the apps2sd version. Will flash according the method you have suggested. Since I'm on apps2sd, any reformatting/repartitiin you recommend?
Right now for the 16gb class 4 card I have a 1gb ext3 partition created using gparted.

You partitionend your SD card with an FAT32 partition and an EXT partition. If you partitionend in that order and set both partitions primary, you are ready for A2SD/A2SD+.
But please use "A2SD" if you are talking about the script which moves apps automatically to EXT partition, because with "app2sd" you could also mean the FroYo-App2SD and this would be very confusing.

Thanks for the help guys. I repartitioned and reflashed miui according to the procedures you'll mentioned. So far its been running fine, except that I had to use the terminal to reinstall a2sd yesterday, but still no crashes.
So far I have not put any music on the phone since last time it crashed when I filled up the SD. Now that I'm certain the installation is clean after using it for the past few days, ill go ahead and fill up some muswic tomorrow and will post back here.

So the phone crashes everyday now. Noticeably after I enabled a2sd amd moved dalvik.
Need to perform battery pulls to revive the phone and there is no last_kmsg after a reboot.it really kills me everytime I need to pull out the battery, hopefully someone can help troubleshoot!

I have the same problem. It's do not freeze only with stock hboot

Since I'm rooted on custom rom, any way to use a stock hboot now?

yes, you can use any rom with stock hboot. but you will not have much memory for applications

just checked, im on stock hboot.
do you have any other ideas ?

maybe here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1393132

After failing to get 3 of my 16gb sandisk cards working, I tried my Samsung 2gb that came with the phone. This card is working flawlessly for the past month (or however long its been). I'm using a 512mb partition with apps and cache moved to SD with zipalign running and its never crashed.
Does anyone have any ideas? Can't really load any music into such a small card

I have a similar problem.
My phone crashes every time I browse fast trough my picture gallery (I have a lot of pictures) or I use an app that accesses the SD card continuously for several minutes.
For instance, it happens when I do a batch backup with Titanium Backup for all my applications.
I tried the official ROMs and custom ROMs (Cyanogen, DevNull) but the problem persisted.
I sent the device to HTC and they replaced the mainboard.
I tried then the latest official ROM and I faced the same problem.
I switched again to Cyanogen and the same problem appeared.
I have to mention that all this time I used a 8GB SD card (I tried several different cards with the same result) and no App2SD.
Now I'm using the card delivered by HTC together with the device and the problem is gone.
This card is only 4GB (the brand is Samsung) but it seems to work flawless.
My advise is to try a 4GB card and see if it works.

[Q] 2.3.5 RUU update - SD Card Problems

Okay, I updated to 2.3.5 europe just last week using the RUU extracted installer. All was well and lovely until two days ago.
My SD card has gone crazy. As soon as I unmount and remount the SD card, the phone reads the SD card in a really weird way. The app drawer shows only a few apps that are installed. Majority of apps that I had on the SD card have now vanished - but are still installed because my internal memory is the same - and they still appear in applications list. It says it doesn't exist?
I've rebooted my phone, hard reset, factory reset, format SD card.. everything you can name, I've TRIED IT. Every time I reboot the phone it happens. apps disappear into a black hole. Also, I've reinstalled all apps thrice and cba to do it again! It says "failed to move application" for most apps at first when I try to move them with the App2SD app.
Has anyone else experienced this problem?
Should I revert back to my old ROM?
Is there a way to fix this? My phone is S-ON, no root.
EDIT: Now I cannot even unmount the SD card...

I had a MAJOR problem where the phone stopped recognizing the SD card. It would literally say unavailable and wouldn't recognize ANY cards at all.

*se-nsei. said:
Okay, I updated to 2.3.5 europe just last week using the RUU extracted installer. All was well and lovely until two days ago.
My SD card has gone crazy. As soon as I unmount and remount the SD card, the phone reads the SD card in a really weird way. The app drawer shows only a few apps that are installed. Majority of apps that I had on the SD card have now vanished - but are still installed because my internal memory is the same - and they still appear in applications list. It says it doesn't exist?
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Is there a way to fix this? My phone is S-ON, no root.
EDIT: Now I cannot even unmount the SD card...
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Have you taken out the SD-card and put it back again? Sometimes the phone gets bad connection to the card and "exercising" it may help.

lljungberg said:
Have you taken out the SD-card and put it back again? Sometimes the phone gets bad connection to the card and "exercising" it may help.
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I've tried everything, even changed back from Sandisk to my samsung SD card. Same problem, it keeps rebooting at times and eventually stops and works perfectly.
Really REALLY annoying. It must be the ROM.

Just use Jik's salsa ROM, it runs really smoothly, frees up memory via link2sd and has new lock screen.
Then install the v6 supercharger and battery calibrator for a really great experience with this phone.
Get an XTC Clip and become S-Off, it's great.
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Aef 101 said:
Just use Jik's salsa ROM, it runs really smoothly, frees up memory via link2sd and has new lock screen.
Then install the v6 supercharger and battery calibrator for a really great experience with this phone.
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I would if I had S-OFF..

Yeah sorry about that
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[Q] desire help regarding memory card .......

i bought my htc desire about two weeks ago, its used set with no warranty..............I rooted my phone and tried to partition it with gparted and installed Mildwild but the phone showed a corrupt memory card and gave an error to format it through phone which i did.........now iam using my phone without external partition but the problem I am facing since firstday is that the data in my memory always get corrupted especially image, audio and video files..........and another problem is that whenever i tried to install new rom i get an error E: can't install (file name).zip (bad installation)......
My question is that
is the problem is with my memory card?
should i buy a new one?
or is the problem is with my cell phone ?
thanx in advance
sorry for my english.......

Under windows, format the sd-card and untick "quick format", if it still doesn't work then it may be either phone or SD.
Try using somebody elses SD-card and see if you still get the problem. If you don't then it's obvious your sd is dead, if it does then you may have a problem with your phone.
If it is a problem with your phone it is probably likely a System related issue, so I would try a different ROM to see if you still get the error.

but this problem also occur in the official gingerbread 2.3 3 ....
so this means the problem is with sdcard???

It doesn't matter if it's official. Try those easy steps bortak told you and you'll see. If it's the sd, replace it, if it's the phone, don't.
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Phone hangs and memory card problem

Hey,
since a few days we have an HTC Desire.
The mobile phone has now seemingly a small problem. It depends on yourself.
Now I have rooted it and have CM10.1 installed. It was a long time in recovery mode because it did not hang up. It lay for hours on the table, without which I had installed something more or something and it did not hang up. Then the other one odere app has been installed, the phone is fully furnished and already caught the hang of.
Now I have formatted the system, cache, and everything gewipt CM10.1 reinstalled.
These have, my 4GB memory card formatted by the A2 SD support, and now you will not really recognized. After a reboot, it is recognized for a few seconds, and then you disappear.
Does anyone have an idea what I could do now?
I guess that there are generally some memory problem, thereby hangs the phone in recovery mode and there were no problems in untouched condition.

Google translate, or very bad english skills.
Try to simplify your post. What exactly is the problem?
I barely understood that it's about your phone hanging on VJ's rom, after you installed an app (?!) , that you have a partitioned 4GB sd-card, and it's being recognized for only a short time after boot. Am I correct?
What did you use to partition your sd-card?

Hey,
yes, it is a Google translation.
Yes, if everything is correct.
The partitions I created with Acronis Disc Director. A 2GB Fat32 first, then a 2GB EXT3.
As soon as even an app is installed, the phone hangs up all the time. The same happens even without a memory card, or with a "normal" memory card.

Use 4ext recovery or gparted to recreate the partition. You should make a 1.5gb ext4 partition. Look in Andoo's signature for instructions on how to do this.
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Hey,
thanks for the reply.
Now, I have still the problem that the Desire hangs again.
Someone to an idea?

SD card issue. Change your card and should work just fine.
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Hey,
I use the Desire now completely without SD card. The phone still hangs up / crashes.

Seems to be the same kind of problems im experiancing at the moment with my phone.