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[Q] Is it Bricked? SD card unavailable.

Ok so I was running T-Mod_LeeDrOiD_2.3d_A2SD rom. And yestarday while playing Robo Defense phone just froze, screen stayd on etc. I waited few minutes and after that took out the battery. After the restart everything is fine except for the SD card being unavailable. So all my aps don't start (as that's where they install by defult). I spend few hours googling about and it look like SD brick.
I've tried standard ROM using fastboot. No luck
Trying unrEVOked without any luck.
Is there anything else I can do?
Thanks
EDIT: Tested card in PC and other phone is fine. As well tried 2 other cards, none of them is working.

Its probably your sd card that went crazy.
Simply take it out and reformat it in windows, fat32 if you're wondering.
And do the usual, partition using either ROM manager/gparted for your ext.
Though you most probably wont be able to recover whatever you had on your sd card. If you're lucky, your computer might read it.
Not too sure what caused this to happen.

Yeah, do what friedkimchi said.
Try to mount it on your PC and if it reads it, then you're good.
However back up your stuff from there and reformat it again. It happened to me once with the samsung omnia, and I was told it was a sign of a dying SD card and they were right. But that's just my case, maybe in yours some internal program code caused the mess up.

friedkimchi said:
Its probably your sd card that went crazy.
Simply take it out and reformat it in windows, fat32 if you're wondering.
And do the usual, partition using either ROM manager/gparted for your ext.
Though you most probably wont be able to recover whatever you had on your sd card. If you're lucky, your computer might read it.
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Great advice. The good news is that if your device started and works OK (minus the apps stored on your sd card) then nothing too bad has occurred. If reformat doesn't work, buy a new card - in fact probably best to buy a new card anyway as once they get a bit wonky they tend to stay that way.

O sorry i forgot to mention it. Card is fine, as well I've tested 2 other cards they all work in PC or other phone but none of them works in desire.
Just thinking is it possible that the card slot just died?

Yanluk said:
O sorry i forgot to mention it. Card is fine, as well I've tested 2 other cards they all work in PC or other phone but none of them works in desire.
Just thinking is it possible that the card slot just died?
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Could be the problem is with the ext partition on the sd card that you can't see in windows.
That's where A2SD loads the apps - probably including the game you were playing when the thing went belly-up.
If you have access to a spare card then I'd suggest you format it with an ext partition (using rom manager or similar) then reflash the LeeDroid ROM you've been using.

Problem is I can't format any card in the phone. Even in recovery mode I can't use any card

It happened to me once. It's no big deal.
Just boot your phone to fastboot mode (turn it off, and turn it on while holding back button), connect it to PC, and run this command from Android SDK tools folder:
fastboot oem enableqxdm 0
Reboot, and you are fine.
Source, more details:
http://android.modaco.com/content/htc-desire-desire-modaco-com/309939/usb-brick-rickrolled-b0rked-fixed/

Yanluk said:
Problem is I can't format any card in the phone. Even in recovery mode I can't use any card
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Then try to partition it on the PC with gparted.

Code:
H:\Software\AndroidSDK\SDK\android-sdk-windows\tools>fastboot oem enableqxdm 0
... OKAY [ 0.090s]
finished. total time: 0.091s
And still same problem

hmmm - bugger.
you can format your card using other tools - maybe take a look at this and see if it helps: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=534714

No go either
Getting permission denied error on first command

Also had some trouble when I just got my Desire, after a week using it suddenly it told me the SD was damaged, so I pulled it out like I did on my Wildfire, and put it back in, no joy.
Then found out the slot has a 'click-in-lock' so push it in till it clicks. Lock doesn't work, you can just pull it out after the click, but it fixed my troubles and I could keep using my SD.

Johny_G said:
It happened to me once. It's no big deal.
Just boot your phone to fastboot mode (turn it off, and turn it on while holding back button), connect it to PC, and run this command from Android SDK tools folder:
fastboot oem enableqxdm 0
Reboot, and you are fine.
Source, more details:
http://android.modaco.com/content/htc-desire-desire-modaco-com/309939/usb-brick-rickrolled-b0rked-fixed/
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Can you please upload a screenshot of this process as i am not understanding about your process and also i had tried it but it didnt work.
It shows fastboot is not recognized as internal or external command operable program or batch files.
Please reply asap.

I remember having 2.3.3.gb stock amd I bought 8gb kingston sd card and it kept saying unexpectedly removed so I did some research on youtube and found out it was fake... so this time I bought it on ebay but in UK and that one worked properly so yh he sure to check that out.
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Yanluk said:
Ok so I was running T-Mod_LeeDrOiD_2.3d_A2SD rom. And yestarday while playing Robo Defense phone just froze, screen stayd on etc. I waited few minutes and after that took out the battery. After the restart everything is fine except for the SD card being unavailable. So all my aps don't start (as that's where they install by defult). I spend few hours googling about and it look like SD brick.
I've tried standard ROM using fastboot. No luck
Trying unrEVOked without any luck.
Is there anything else I can do?
Thanks
EDIT: Tested card in PC and other phone is fine. As well tried 2 other cards, none of them is working.
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Can you try if your memory card is readable by your recovery, like clockworkmod? If yes probably take a nand backup (alternatively take backup of data in computer), reformat & try.

I had that problem in January 2011 but thanks!
bishwa_it said:
Can you try if your memory card is readable by your recovery, like clockworkmod? If yes probably take a nand backup (alternatively take backup of data in computer), reformat & try.
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[Q] Weird problem with SD card!

Hello,
friend got her hands on a htc desire. She let some small shop unlock it before really testing it. Now we got the following problem:
The SD Card doesnt work. At first everything seemed to work okay. She took 52 pictures, even installed on app on the sd card. Then it basically froze.
We can delete half of the pictures and make some new ones. After the phone is rebooted all pictures are gone. Apps cannot be installed on the sd card.
If I remove the sd card and put it in my Nexus One everything works fine. New pictures survive the reboot, old ones get deleted.
When she puts the sd card in her desire, everything is back to 52 pictures and 1 app on it.
You cannot copy stuff like update.zip on the sd card, because the phone will only notice 52 pictures on it... Rom Manager has a "fix" option which doesnt work and partition it didnt help it - if it did anything at all.
We even bought a new 8 gb one, same problem. Some other people reported the same problem in forums, but there is never an answers what did fix it.
Its S-OFF with AlphaRev.
Sadly we both have no idea how to fix it and no android development skills. My plan would be to go back to RUU to see if the problem is still there. If yes, just get a new one from HTC. If no, unlock it again.
Sadly when it comes to roms and the "simple guides" we fail to reproduce even the first steps. "Go to fastboot and enter command XYZ" - yet we cannot enter any commands there.
Any help is welcome.

Can you connect your phone to pc in adb mode? Or simpler: what happened when you are connecting your phone to pc? Does it ask about mass storage mount? Is it in debug mode? If not, I think that it is classical USB-Brick, else... I don't know what is wrong...

I had also a problem with my sd-card.
Put it in a card reader and make checkdisk with windows solved my problem.

Weird, my answer disappeared.
When we connect it to a pc, we can delete files, format it, run scandisk, copy stuff on it. Everything works fine. When we put it back into the phone, the old 52 pictures and nothing else is on it.

And I thought I was the only one…
My problem is as follows, I had with my 1st Desire a 8gig Class 4 Transcend SD card which was perfect and connecting to and from my home and work pc was effortless.
Then my Motherboard burnt out on that phone sent it back and when I got the new one I put my 4gig Class 2 SD which I got with the phone back in and no issues.
A few days later I bought a new 8gig Kingston Class 4 SD ( I lost my Transcend SD card) and after 2 days I would get “SD mounted as read only” so formatted the SD copied my data back to my 8gig Kingston card which worked fine on my PC but the same problem persisted when I put it back in my phone. I was using ADW launcher and kept getting the same errors all the time, then I switched to Launcher Pro and since then I have had no SD card problems.
Also when I was using standard HTC sense I also never had a problem, I hope this is of some help.

I rooted my htc desire using Unrevok 3 and also tried to partition sd by mini tool home version . unfortunately after partition i cannot access or recognize sd in my desire.

Still not making any progress, ..

[Q] Micro SD not detected

This morning, my phone was normal. Using apps, making calls, no problems.
Then I noticed my ring tones and my notification tones wouldn't play. Since they are stored on the Micro SD card, I thought a reboot might solve the problem. After rebooting, I get the message "SD Card Damaged". So I took it out from my phone, plugged it into the computer through a USB MicroSD reader. It detects it, and from there I can see all the files stored on there.
I decided to run a Windows (7) error check test, as that usually fixes any sort of SD problem I've had. The check ran through successfully, saying it found some problems and fixed them. After that, I put it back in the phone, boot it up, but it still wouldn't access the card. Most of my apps are stored on there, so I wanted it fixed. I took out the card and ran it through windows error check once more, only this time, I checked the box "Scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors" and hit start. Two hours later, I notice the progress bar hasn't budged from what I can only assume was 60-65%. I decided to hit "cancel" and look up some alternative methods.
Except as soon as I hit "Cancel", something went terribly wrong. The computer no longer acknowledged I had a MicroSD card inserted. I removed the USB adapter, removed the mSD, reinserted the mSD into the USB adapter, replugged the adapter in and -- same result. I restarted the computer, and while that cycle started, I placed the card back into the phone to see if it would detect it. No luck. By this time, the computer had restarted, and I tried to reinsert the card. It detects the USB Adapter, but it's as though there was no card inserted.
At this time, I scoured the web and countless forums (including these @ xda) with no avail. I tried nearly 10 different applications built solely for data extraction, but they all had the same problem: they couldn't detect the MicroSD card. My fellow I.T. coworker suggested using an Ubuntu Live CD and try their diagnostic tools; it couldn't detect it either.
Here are the specs of my setup:
Phone: HTC Desire CDMA (USCC)
Rom: Phoenix 1.4 BravoC
Card: Samsung 8GB Class 2 MicroSD (stock from US Celluar)​At this point, all I'm really concerned about it just retrieving my lost data. I have important sentimental photos, and more importantly, I have important flash backups from my stock rom that I would need if I want to return my phone for warranty. Physically, the card is undamaged. No dust, no cracks, no wear & tear. Hours of googling "SD card not detected; data recovery" leads me to several unanswered problems and fake websites baiting computer illiterate people into downloading malicious software.
I've heard of solutions that involve sending a card in to have repaired, but in turn, shelling out a couple hundred. Now I'm not stupid when it comes to computers, but I'm not necessarily a genius either. I've tried several ways to circumvent this lockout issue, and I can't find any way to undo a process from the Windows error checker. Hell, I can't find any cases or threads pertaining to people having bigger problems because of the error checker.
So I call out to anyone who can help. I can buy a new card, no problem. I just need my data back. It's crucial for my phone and important for me and my memories.
Any suggestions?

Hi
My phone:
Disire HD (GSM)
Android 2.3.3
CyanogenMod 7.0.0 RC2
I had the same problem as you a few weeks ago(my phone wasn't rooted) ....
Tried different methodes to get my data back, they all didn't work.
The problem is not the phone or any app on it neither your roms are the problem,
searched the internet... and came to the solution that I was not alone with this problem. they assume this is an hardware fould in the SD card ( btw its weird that its an Samsung SD, didn't you thought the same I still dont understand...)
Anyway, my solution was going back to the shop where I got the phone (Belcompany NL) and ask there solution for the problem i lost all my pics and other importand crap haha..
They didn't had a solution or something, just giving me a new one.. so I got a new SD Card (for free )
But lost all my data

You know if a partition messes up, which it has done because you didn't let it finish, there is like 0% chance that you can recover any data on your SD card. You should of backed your card up before you attempted to even start doing a disk check. As for getting your SD back up and running, you can try gparted live cd and see if it will detect it in that. If so just repartition it, but next time, let it do a thorough disk check and finish. Checks can take hours and hours because it is doing something. Just backup your SD card frequently.

I've decided to purchase a new card rather than hassle with unrooting my phone for the sake of going back to the USCellular repair (on just a whim that they may replace the card).
I've heard that I need to be careful when choosing a brand of MicroSD cards. Transcend is a no go. But what about this: An 8GB A-DATA Class 6 MicroSD card?
From what I've gathered, A-DATA is a reputable brand, and it shouldn't really cause problems in my HTC Desire, right?

[Q] Cant access SD card via ROM (can in recovery..)

I seem to have a wierd problem going on with my desire, where the ROM does not seem to be able to detect the SD card. Its is just completely greyed out as if it is not there, but if i go into recovery and mount USB, i can access it.
Ive ready about USB bricks but not sure if i have one because i can access it from recovery?
I have stock gingerbread, rooted, with clockwork recovery (used revolutionary) i have tried putting a number of different roms on and every rom has the same problem!
Ive looked on the internet for hours but cant seem to sort it out.
Bit of background may be usefull...
My phone was recently water damaged about a week ago, it was playing up, restarting as soon as it was turned on and all sorts, completely un usable. So, i took it apart and cleaned it with rubbing alchohol put it back together and it worked fine - except for the SIM and SD card. When i tried to access the SD card from recovery it would just throw back an error. Phone just reported there was no sim inserted. Took it apart again and see some of the adhesive was over the circuitry, so i removed it cleaned it up some more, then sim card worked and the SD card worked (from recovery). Problem is, as my post says, it the SD card doesnt work from within the ROM, or any ROM
Obvioulsy ive questioned this being a hardware problem, but then how would i be able to access it at all from recovery! It doesnt make sense, and software issue is wierd as i have flashed many roms, unless there is something else i could try.
Im pretty stuck, so any suggestions are appreciated.

The following command should re-enable the access for sd card:
Code:
fastboot oem enable qxdm 0
You have to run this in fastboot mode.
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Thanks, i tried this before posting as i see it somewhere else but it didnt work, i get the following error:
(bootloader) [ERR] Command error !!!
OKAY [ 0.006s]
finished. total time: 0.007s
Any ideas?

My fault. It has to be
Code:
fastboot oem enableqxdm 0
There must not be space between "enable" and "qxdm".

That command seemed to go through fine, but doesn't seem to have made a difference unfortunately
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If the command worked then try another SD card or format that SD card via recovery.

Thanks for the help so far..but I tried both them options and neither makes a difference!.
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What rom do you currently run?

I'm currently using the stock 2.3. Which I rooted with revolutionary. Ive put other ROMs on though (restored my original mondaco custom r11, and tried cyanogen) and none of them can see the SD card either. Literally only way to get to it from my pc is to mount usb from within recovery.
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Ok my new sim/sd card component came through today, swapped them over and its fixed!! So it was a hardware issue.
Still strange how it was accessable via recovery and not via the ROM.
Thanks for your help anyway

[Q] Phone not reading SD cards.

The other day my CM7 desire suddenly crashed, and so I had to take the battery out. Since then it has not been able to read SD Cards in any way. I have tried multiple SD cards, and formatted them with different file systems. Even in Clockwork recovery I could not mount the sd card. The cards work fine on my computer and in my girlfriends phone.
I gave up, and decided to restore my phone to stock to try and return it to Orange for a replacement. I phoned them and they told me it was out of warranty so they could do nothing. In hindsight I should've waited for them to tell me this before I restored to stock!
My phone is now running Android 2.3 from the HTC dev site, which I installed by just executing the update within the .zip.
I have tried to root with unrevoked, but it gets stuck at "waiting for bootloader" in both windows and ubuntu.
I gained S-off using revolutionary in order to perform the commands (as the last command only works with s-off:
Code:
fastboot oem enableqxdm 0
fastboot oem eraseconfig
Since going back to stock, I have tried different cards again. With certain cards (I don't remember which ones), my phone says "preparing SD card" but then tells me I have a "blank sd card or has unsupported filesystem". It gives me the option to format the the card, but this does nothing, and sometimes "unmounts" it.
This has given me hope, so does anyone have any ideas before I do give up?

It seems to me you somehow damaged the sdcard connector inside the phone when ripping out the battery. Did you check to make sure all the pins are not bend or bricked and all can make good contact with the sdcard ? Maybe the card cannot be pushed in the proper way ? something is holding it back or so ?
Doesn't seem to me as a rom/software related issue.

Yeah definitely seems like a hardware issue. Can push the sd card in like normal - at least it doesn't feel any different. Can't see the pins of the sd card reader as they are behind a piece of immovable metal.

Bluetooth is working?

As far as I know, it turns on and off and can discover and pair with devices.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20873122&postcount=12
it worked on my desire

name.vic said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20873122&postcount=12
it worked on my desire
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Thanks for the suggestion but it didn't work. I think this is a hardware issue unforunately.