Hi Everyone....
I just get my first XDA. It is from the 2nd hand. I have a little problem. My memory Card can't connect with PDA even it has inside. May You tell me about the solving?
thx a lot.
memory card
Are sure you've got something writting on the card, before inserted into your xda?
Check your SD Card in a card reader on PC first. Copy some junk on to it.
Then insert into PDA and go to Settings > System > Memory and see if storage card is present.
If not, your phone is buggered most likely. Same happened to my p900 when girlfriend threw it in the sink! Worked perfectly apart from not reading Memory card.
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Weird, just started doing it recently. Since only using POI autoupdate software for tomtom.
Just can’t understand it really. Tried soft and hard reset. Also using file explorer and inserting card in and out, when I leave the card in the storage card listing keeps disappearing and showing again. Also tried lightly cleaning contacts on card but no difference.
SD card is Sandisk 256MB and has been working without problems at all.
Any ideas or should I just replace card?
Thanks
to add, if I push down and hold in the card i can explore the storage card and see the contents without a problem!
you should try with another memory card, if it doesn't solves your problem, you should check your memory card's connector..
tried another card - same problem. not sure what to do now other than getting the physical card connection checked out on the PDA
-thanks
Hi all,
I just got a new Sandisk 1GB Mini SD for my Wizard. I put it in my phone and it was recognized immediately. I copied a few files across (my TomTom install and a few maps) and then finished the install. I had to soft-reboot to get TomTom to work - but after rebooting my card doesn't work. When the phone starts up it asks if I want to format the card. I tap yes and it goes away - but doesn't really do anything.
I have taken the Mini SD out of my phone and put it into the card reader that's in my laptop. Windows recognizes that it is a SD card and also prompts to format it - but when I try to format it as FAT or FAT32 it says it can't complete. I have tried doing it through DOS too, but it comes back as saying that there is a bad Track 0 and the card is unusable.
I'm struggling to believe that the card is now poked after just copying some files onto it. I'm hoping that it's just something to do with the file system that has dies somehow. Does anyone know how to reformat the card (either through my phone or Win XP) or how can I resurrect this sucker?
Thanks in advance!
try pocket mechanics
thanks rudegear. I tried pocket mechanics, but it doesn't even recognise the card. I believe that pocket mech will only work if my phone can see the card first. this isn't even happening. the phone obviously knows that there is a card in it, as it says that the expansion slot is in use, but it can't read the card at all. any other ideas?
sounds like you have a fake card. 128mb cards formated to show 1gb, you copy more than 128 they corrupt. this happened to me
okay. I've given up on this card and have sent it back. no more trying to ressurect the dead for me!
has the new card solved the prob? The problem Iam having is almost identical to yours. I purchased a 2gig mini sd card (bn) for my atom. When inserted into my laptop's integrated sd reader, it would recognise a card has been inserted but would not open the card (but the Atom recognised the card).
Thinking I have bought a faulty card, I sent it back to manufacturer. The seller tested and concluded there is nothing wrong with the card but sent me a new one.
I had the same trouble with the new card. Convinced the card was not faulty, I purchased a new card reader.
The firt day i connected the card into the reader. things were SMOOTHE! I was lovn life. The card was read instantaniously and i proceeded to fill the card with a hole heap of goodies (including tomtom).
I used up approx 100mb of stuff that day and ejected the card from reader and inserted in my atom. Data was read with no trouble on pda and pc.
I inserted the sd card back into card reader the following day and now it seems the data originally put on from the first 'contact' is now locked. I cannot delete nor add anything else to the card. Oh and before anyone asks: yes, the lock was and is in the UNLOCK position (i dont even use the lock).
So my next move now is to exchange my card reader with a simpler/single slot. I read somewhere that cardreaders/devices sometimes lock data (dont know how true it is but got no choice).
in summery:
buying an external card reader solved the initial issue of recognizing/reading sd card but created another problem of LOCKING the sd card.
Is anyone else having issues with large sd cards?
I solve the problem by inserting card to Digital Camera that use SD card.
it formatted without error.
Card Reader and other phones does not format it. I think because of file system.
hmm... I will try that. will keep you all posted.
Hi all
I have been using my Orbit for about 2 weeks now and the 512mb card is beginning to look a little small, especially if I want to start putting some MP3s on it.
If I buy a larger card, say 2gig, can I simply copy the contents from the old one to the new one or will i need to re-install everything again?
Thanks for your help
Richard
Hi Richard,
You can just copy all the data over and it should work no worries.
I would suggest you do this in your pc because you will haveto replace the memory card in the phone, and when you boot the phone it might crash as nothing will be on it.
The best idea would be to turn the phone off, remove the memory card, copy everything on it to a folder on your pc, then put your new card in the pc, copy it all back onto that and then finally put the card back in your phone and boot it.
This worked fine for me, but you will need to have a card reader in your pc to read the sd card, and you will also need an adapter for the microsd card to go into (microSD -> SD adapter). If you are buying a new microSD card they usually have this with them.
If it fails you can just put your old card back in to recover.
Cheers, Towelie.
Thanks Towelie
I just need to get the new card now
Rich
Hello all.
Was just listening to some music on my desire when Astro Player crashed. Couldn't get it to restart so restarted my phone instead. Now its telling me my SD card is damaged and I may need to reformat.
Anything I can do or am I buggered?
It wasn't the original 4gb card, I was using an older 8gb card. I've been using it awhile though without any problems so I doubt that was it?
Do you need the data on it? If not then just reformat it... there´s nothing horrible about this ;-)
I do have some stuff on there I needed. And Isn't a lot of app data stored on the SD card? Just a bit of hassle really isn't it?
Try hooking up the SD card with a card reader directly in your PC, it might be able to open/read the files without a problem. If that's the case, copy everything (just select all>copy) off the card, format it and move the stuff back.
8GB damage & repair
I also have troubles with 8GB card.
Unsure whats wrong but time to time i still get SD Card is corrupted message.
Only U can do is new format or try to read by card reader on your PC.
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I have a stock Desire - on Orange ( UK ) network. All has been fine, but it suddenly stopped reading my SD card today - which has important work photos.
Why would it have done this and any way to fix it?
cheers all
First you need to find out whether the problem is your phone or your sd card.
Can you plug your sd card into your computer? If you can, copy the files from it and format the sd card and then copy back.
make sure that it is formated to FAT32
If you dont have a computer to do this, I reccomend that you go the settings and then SD card and unmount and remount your sd card and see if that helps.
Failing that, I would look and see if there is anything bent or blocking the sd terminals.
Let me know how it goes.
Ps.. I assume you have already done the obvious and restarted your phone.