My storage card had an identity crisis after I took it out of my Tilt temporarily and plugged it into a card reader. It went from officially being known as "Storage Card" to "Storage Card 2" when I plugged it back in the device.
Because of this, when I go to play my MP3s using windows media player it displays an error message that says the file cannot be found. I even tried transferring them out to my desktop and they play just fine on there.
Could this be a problem with DRM since some of them are protected files?
Anyone have any idea? I'm dying here. Please, I need my music back!
Thx.
Try pressing reset, failing which, remove the memory card, reset the phone, then reinsert the memory card, if you have applications which load from the memory card, you will have to hit reset again after.
Please note I mean soft reset, not hard reset.
Thanks, if the issue is that some files are written to Storage Card 2, is there any easy way to convert them back to the original storage card path manually?
New files on the device work fine but not the original ones which may have been saved to the card when it was under the different name. Thanks.
I had that happen too, but I noticed it immediately.
Just had to delete the "Storage Card", which was (for me) an empty directory, then soft reset. Then plugged in the SD card.
Happens to me all the time. As khaytsus said just remove the card, delete the "Storage Card" folder, then reinsert the microSD card. There is no need to soft reset in most cases.
Hello, I have a recurrent problem with my storage card. It looks like empty, programs installed in the SC stop working, etc, but if I check the usage of the storage card it show as 2gb used ! (it is a 8GBs one)
It happened 2 times, and it is so anoying. I explore the card and only see the folder with the email attachments, all the other is gone.
Can it be a problema because sync from 2 different computers ? (wokr and home) ? but it do not sync the storage card, (I think)
Some Ideas ? I see nothing about a "storage card 2" or so, and I never remove the card from the device, it is always in.
can't found a real solution in the web
thank you if somebody can provide me a litthe light
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I got my Kaiser yesterday, very nice!!!! excellent device.
Now to the issues, I got the same issue that when I had on my Hermes Shaps 3.60 that the storage card got duplicated and all the application links got lost.
I have tried the fix I used to apply on my hermes without success. (I used to move the files on the Storage Card folder, then delete the storage card folder and them remover the micro card at that moment is (storage card2) and them it became "Storage Card" as normal and all application would work. But with the Kaiser this workaround does not work, after I soft reset the card get duplicated again and I get the (storage card2). Anybody knows how to fix this?
having the same problem - i've had a hermes for a year or so and have sucesfully moved a lot of stuff to the storage card [mail, attachments, IE cache etc]
however soft-resetting with the kaiser seems to create the Storage Card2 folder, which is goofing it all up.
any ideas?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Something created a folder on the storage card in my Tilt called "(" . It appears to be empty. I am unable to delete it. I even tried taking the card out of the Tilt and putting it in a card reader. XP also sees the folder, but I can't delete it. If I use iSilo and navigate to the storage card, the folder list blinks that folder, that is, it appears ... disappears ... appears ... etc.
Any help getting rid of the folder would be greatly appreciated.
Sounds annoying, have you tried a registry editor? I think you are worrying too much about it though if it has nothing in it.
It is annoying ...
as in the iSilo example I cited. If I'm in the root of the storage card in iSilo, I have to time the tap perfectly to select a folder because literally the "(" folder appears and disappears and every folder below it changes position.
I assumed I might need to use my registry editor, but I'm not sure where to look.
try formatting the SD card
Lol, i asnwered this on the ATT forums. Look there and hopefully it will help you
Yeah, I had that problem with a folder randomly showing up with a bunch of special characters for the name, which windows doesn't like and you can't do anything with. (On my old 2125 I had one show up that was empty, but the phone kept thinking it was like 2 GB full, but it was only a 1GB card!! weird!) Anyway, to get rid of it I had to pull the card out of the phone and put it into a card reader on my PC, then I pulled all of the data other than the erroneous folder off the card and saved it temporarily to the PC, and then I reformatted the card. Put all the stuff back on, and put it back into my phone. It was a pain, but it worked.
The problem is due to storage card corruption/file corruption. I see this on a somewhat regular basis (~1500 users). I believe it is caused when the device goes into standby while writing to the storage card. I thought Win Mobile 6 handled this better than Win Mobile 5 but maybe not.
It is best to reformat the storage card if this happens.
So, I had a folder on my storage card named "My Documents".
Inside I had several subfolders including tomtom maps, videos, ebooks, etc...
Everything was fine, until last night, just before going to bed I was playing around with Dinasoft Memmaid program (first time using the software) and did a scan and a clean, then went to bed.
So today, I went about my life, then synced my phone with my laptop for a few hours to charge the batteries...
...and when I wanted to update my ebooks subfolder, I noticed that my entire "My Documents" folder in my SD card, was gone...
I have to confess that I didn't read much about the documentation of Memaid, but I don't think its functions is to wipe out an entire folder. I have a backup of the files so it's not an important issue.
But I just want to find out the explanation for the missing folder?
P.S. my phone was also extremely slow and unresponsive, but all went back to normal after a soft reset.
Ok...
Today the same thing happen again, but this it's more severe...
Now ALL the folders in my storage card are gone!!!
The entire 2GBs worth of data from my Sandisk 8GB HCSD card....
When I right click on properties on the SD card, it shows that the card has 2GBs of storage being used...
But when I go to file explorer there's nothing...empty...
Surely, this can't be normal...
Has anybody encountered a similar situation?????
Sounds like a Counter Fit SD Card. Where did you get this card?
No....you serious??? don't say that....
I bought it online.
www.play.com
If it's counterfeit I would be very pissed off.
I mean when it arrived it didn't look like counterfeit. It had all the right packaging.
Here;'s my thinking. People who have bought counter fit SD cards are typically getting, say, 2GB cards marked as, say, 8GB. Since the card is showing that it is one thing when it is really another you get data corruption and file start to disappear.
Since you used Memmaid it tried to "fix" the file system. Causing data corruption.
Here's what I would do. Copy all the contents of your SD card to your computer. Reformat the SD card and try again.
all of a sudden, my memory card is showing that its full. i know i hadnt filled all 8gb, considering that only a few days or so ago, i had only used 2.5 gigs or so....i used this program mTreeSize that i got from here, and it shows the same, that there's only 2.5 gigs used, but then under the Drives tab, it shows that the card is full......anyone experience this and know what the problem might be?
Hi
Just happened to me. I don't know exactly how it happened but it might have something to do with an app writing to my storage card as the battery died. In my case Mars Weather Panel was the culprit.
Files were written to the storage card with special characters in the names.
ie. little squares, periods, slashes etc..
I only noticed it when I tried to copy everything off the card so I could reformat it.
One strange thing was that if I plugged the phone into the pc via usb and used activesync -> explore to copy files from the card it didn't indicate a problem but when I put the card into a card reader the copy failed. After investigation I found the files with special chars. These files caused the directories to appear empty when viewing with resco exp etc.. so you can not delete them from the phone unless perhaps you know what directory contains them and you delete the directory but just a guess there.
So in the end to be safe I copied all the files to my pc except ones with corrupted file names, formated the card and copied back the files to the newly formatted card.
**This was done with the card out of the phone in a card reader.**
Hi!
I just got my SGS a week ago, and have encountered some issues I would like some help with.
The external SD card I had in my previous phone is having some issues, sometimes when I go to the music player the album art is there and all of the songs, but when you click on a song a message shows saying "the file does not exist", same thing in the gallery, there are thumbnails but when clicking nothing loads.
According to "myFiles" there is indeed a SD card present but it only contains 2 unreadable files, and in the settings menu the amount of space is still correct accordingly to what is on the card.
After a reboot the phone media scans the card, and the files are back.
I tryed format the SD card from the phone but it didn't help.
Running the phone stock out of the box with 2.1
navigate to /sdcard/sd/
then you will see your real stuff
/sdcard = internal SD of the phone
/sdcard/sd = external SD you insert into the phone
Jac_83 said:
Hi!
I just got my SGS a week ago, and have encountered some issues I would like some help with.
The external SD card I had in my previous phone is having some issues, sometimes when I go to the music player the album art is there and all of the songs, but when you click on a song a message shows saying "the file does not exist", same thing in the gallery, there are thumbnails but when clicking nothing loads.
According to "myFiles" there is indeed a SD card present but it only contains 2 unreadable files, and in the settings menu the amount of space is still correct accordingly to what is on the card.
After a reboot the phone media scans the card, and the files are back.
I tryed format the SD card from the phone but it didn't help.
Running the phone stock out of the box with 2.1
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Hey I had the same issue. Not sure what happens. I think it happens when I put the USB cable in. I downloaded some widget/app that can basically re-scan your media without you having to restart.
forget the name but check it out / search for it.
That is what i meant, in /sdcard/sd/, when i start the phone up all files are there, and then randomly disappear, both there and in musicplayer/gallery.
Hmm, but is such behavior normal, I mean it feels like it shouldn't be necessary to have a app. to constantly remind the phone of the SD cards content.
I'm curious if it's a hardware issue (SD card or phone) or just software..