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File Corruption on MINI SD CARD

back then i have always been getting file corruption on my sd card and i have read up a lot on it but nothing really works. After i switched to Open Touch v3.0 it was fine until yesterday my sd card got corrupted again and i lost a lot of pictures.. Anyone have any solution?

porkch0p said:
back then i have always been getting file corruption on my sd card and i have read up a lot on it but nothing really works. After i switched to Open Touch v3.0 it was fine until yesterday my sd card got corrupted again and i lost a lot of pictures.. Anyone have any solution?
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sounds like you have a bad micro sd card. Corruption was common problem with the stock T-Mobile rom but not usually a problem with other roms.
Maybe you can take it out and format it. Hard Reset the phone and try it again.
You can format your card with Windows and that should work fine. Also I've had this program for awhile which is supposed to be far superior to any other program for formatting Micro SD Cards, but I've never used it. Here it is if you'd like it.

any special way to format it or should i just right click and then format?

porkch0p said:
any special way to format it or should i just right click and then format?
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It might be best to take the card out of the phone. Put it in a card reader and format it on your PC, then put it back in the phone. Making sure you hear it Click in.

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porkch0p said:
Anyone have any solution?
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I think there are some possible reasons causing troubles like this.
- Files where not cleanly closed at poweroff.
Alway make sure, all programms and applications are terminated before you shut down.
- Incompatible SD-Card
Always refrain from cheap and/or unbranded Cards. I use a Toshiba 2GB SDCard. Never had any problems. Even with the orginal stock ROM with WM5.
- defective SD-Card
Kinda hard to detect if you have just one card. Plug the SDCard into your PC and do a "surfacescan" on the virtual Drive.
- unstable SD-Card connectors
Try to clean the connection-pads on the card and inside your device with a small brush or paper tissue. Never use any other fluits than water to clean connection-pads on the card and just a little drop of it. Make sure everything is dry before you turn your device back on or some parts could get seriously damaged!
I think its also a good advice to see your SD-Card and Systemmemory as a very unsafe and unstable place for critical data. Always do backups as often as you can.
Sorry, for my bad english. Its late and I already had some drinks PLUS I am not very used to speak english anymore..

Monarch73 said:
I think there are some possible reasons causing troubles like this.
- Files where not cleanly closed at poweroff.
Alway make sure, all programms and applications are terminated before you shut down.
- Incompatible SD-Card
Always refrain from cheap and/or unbranded Cards. I use a Toshiba 2GB SDCard. Never had any problems. Even with the orginal stock ROM with WM5.
- defective SD-Card
Kinda hard to detect if you have just one card. Plug the SDCard into your PC and do a "surfacescan" on the virtual Drive.
- unstable SD-Card connectors
Try to clean the connection-pads on the card and inside your device with a small brush or paper tissue. Never use any other fluits than water to clean connection-pads on the card and just a little drop of it. Make sure everything is dry before you turn your device back on or some parts could get seriously damaged!
I think its also a good advice to see your SD-Card and Systemmemory as a very unsafe and unstable place for critical data. Always do backups as often as you can.
Sorry, for my bad english. Its late and I already had some drinks PLUS I am not very used to speak english anymore..
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Thanks for your help don't worry about the english, i still understand you and thats all that matters. i am using Sandisk 2gb.
BTW, zcink
the file you gave me doesn't work, it doesn't even let me extract it

Don't install any programs that may be running at any given time on your SD card. If you have a program running (that's installed on the SD card) and you phone hibernates/shuts down after not being used ... will cause SD corruption.
Nothing with a Today plugin that you use ... nothing that you may accidently leave running.

duprade said:
Don't install any programs that may be running at any given time on your SD card. If you have a program running (that's installed on the SD card) and you phone hibernates/shuts down after not being used ... will cause SD corruption.
Nothing with a Today plugin that you use ... nothing that you may accidently leave running.
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and still every benchmark test shows...
... reading main memory = FASTER
... reading storage card = SLOWER
even with SDHC card!!
So I install all apps to mainmemory...

porkch0p said:
BTW, zcink
the file you gave me doesn't work, it doesn't even let me extract it
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You are right. It was not zipped right. I took it down. Zipped it correctly, tested it and reuploaded it. The one thats there now is the new one. This is supposed to be Professional software. The guy I got it from said it was the Best thing on the Market. I had never used it before, but I tested it today and it works fine.
Cheers!

Mine corrupted too
Hi, just few minutes back I was trying to copy some files from external harddisk to my wing's stock supplied Sandisk 1 gb memory card and looks like it got corrupted. All I see is some junk characters and boxes as file name. I lost all my (memorable)photos and softwares . I was trying to copy directly from my external disk to phones storage card and I am not sure whether this caused this issue. I have Open touch 2.7 biggy.
I have two questions.
a. Where does active sync stores all the files, contacts, calendar entries in computer (the directory path). I tried searching in the computer but could not find it.
b. Does active sync saves my storage cards file too? I dont believe so. Is there a way to ask active sync to backup files from SD card too?
Thanks in advance

[Help Please] Micro SD Card

Hi
I have 2 gb micro sd card and I want to format it using Resco file explorer. But it keeps telling me to check to see if its unlocked.
I use to be able to format without a problem. But i have recently started to flash roms. I can put stop and take stuff without a problem. Just won't let me format.
I also tried formatting using my laptop, but won't work.
EDIT: Sorry, wrong place. Wanted to post this in general Kaiser forum.

Is the little write protect tab on the side of the sd card in the right position??

i moved it off the lock position and nothing? my comp won't even let me right click it. when I click to open it, says needs to be formatted and when i click format PC says it can't be formatted.
I searched on here, but no thread about this type of problem. card isn't ruined because i can still add and delete stuff.

I never experience this issue .. quite confusing.
However, this should be posted in General forum, not ROM Development. Mod, please move as such ..

tilt4life2 said:
Hi
I have 2 gb micro sd card and I want to format it using Resco file explorer. But it keeps telling me to check to see if its unlocked.
I use to be able to format without a problem. But i have recently started to flash roms. I can put stop and take stuff without a problem. Just won't let me format.
I also tried formatting using my laptop, but won't work.
EDIT: Sorry, wrong place. Wanted to post this in general Kaiser forum.
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Could be a problem with the card / slot connectors. Try with some other card reader.

I had an issue once where I couldn't format my card - I had no lock errors though, just couldn't format through the PC or with PPC programs.
Eventually I installed 'Flash Format' by CNetX (google it) - it formatted first time on the free evaluation version.
Worth a try if you're about to bin it!
Good luck.

brandall said:
I had an issue once where I couldn't format my card - I had no lock errors though, just couldn't format through the PC or with PPC programs.
Eventually I installed 'Flash Format' by CNetX (google it) - it formatted first time on the free evaluation version.
Worth a try if you're about to bin it!
Good luck.
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You sir are a genius and a life-saver!
This product is a magical potion for the microSD card. I tried so many different things online, on the laptop, and the Kaiser and none worked. This thing took less than a minute and formatted with the click of one button.
Mods, please move this thread. Hopefully it can help others who might have this problem in the future.
Thank you very much sir!

Glad it worked - it's very strange that this little program seems to be able to sort the issues that even the premium programs can't....

This is not a question. This is me venting.

First: I'm not a noob. I don't need noob-like advise. I'm not asking a question here, just frustrated with my Hero right now.
I have Fresh 2.1.2. It's awesome. I recently encountered an error and I don't think it's any inherent fault of the ROM. I think there might be an issue with either the SD card or the way the phone interacts with it. This is not a physical problem, intuition and savvy tell me that it's a software issue.
There are two (likely related) problems:
PROBLEM 1: At some point, shortly after flashing Fresh 2.1.2 (not toast) My phone became unable to "find" mp3's and images on my memory card. I've tried lots of things. A complete reformatting of the SD card, reflashing the rom, reflashing again from stock, different music and gallery apps. Nothing works. Everywhere I go I'm given, and I hear, noobish advise like "eject and remount the card", "put your music in the /sdcard/Music directory" etc. Of course those were the first things I tried before even asking for help. [Reminder: I'm not asking for help in this thread.] Once in a random while the vanilla music app will scan for music and either finds none or hangs forever. Other music apps won't even try. For the record I have tried--
HTC music app
Vanilla (Android 2.1) Music App
Mixzing
TuneWiki
Meridian
DoubleTwist (released this week)
Results are the same across the board. I have also deleted all music and image folders and files. Then adding them back after a few reboots one by one with different music files. I CAN play music by selecting the files from a file browser like ES File Explorer and Astro.
PROBLEM 2: The Sd card no longer mounts. i get no USB debugging icon in the notification bar and it will only charge. I don't get a choice of mount options--nothing. But it does charge. Because of this I can no longer ADB. All apps can still see and use the SD card as storage and A2SD is also working as advertised. I tried backing up only the most important files then putting them back after a clean wipe and repartition of the SD card.
PROBLEM 3: I'm getting a lot of silly advise. I wouldn't be on xda if I needed simple-ass advise.
Hope I'm not offending anyone but I know this type of thing happens to most of us when we need help with a real issue.
/rant

scirio said:
First: I'm not a noob. I don't need noob-like advise. I'm not asking a question here, just frustrated with my Hero right now.
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Perfectly understandable. I have my own set of rants about 2.1, so I understand.
PROBLEM 2: The Sd card no longer mounts. i get no USB debugging icon in the notification bar and it will only charge. I don't get a choice of mount options--nothing. But it does charge. Because of this I can no longer ADB. All apps can still see and use the SD card as storage and A2SD is also working as advertised. I tried backing up only the most important files then putting them back after a clean wipe and repartition of the SD card.
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I isolated this issue because this also happened to me. I was showing a friend of mine (who also owns a Hero) all the things I have done with A2SD. He liked the boot animation of Fresh 2.1.2, so I put that on his phone (his runs Fresh 1.1). After I searched his phone for the boot animation files, I disconnected his phone from ADB and put mine, only to find out ADB wasn't working. Thought this may have been the switching of the phone, so I killed the adb server and restarted it. No luck. I rebooted the phone...no luck. Checked to see if USB Debugging was on, and it was. I turned the debugging off, then on again to see if maybe it's a setting issue...no such luck on the fix.
Ended up reflashing the rom again to fix it.

Have you tried rebooting your phone?

Sounds like you need to try a different SD card buddy. If that does'nt work then try a different Rom, if that does'nt work then nandroid back to a 1.5 or ruu to 1.5 and start over.
Your problems are there because you allow them to be there. If and when you RUU and repeat the root process once more essentially making your Hero a "Virgin" again you should be able to fix above stated issue and be on your way.
If none of these work, then your answers are not in XDA, but on the phone with sprint's insurance department.
have a great day.

tkirton said:
Perfectly understandable. I have my own set of rants about 2.1, so I understand.
I isolated this issue because this also happened to me. ...
Ended up reflashing the rom again to fix it.
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I had already tried that, didn't work.
doojer said:
Have you tried rebooting your phone?
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this guy.

[Q] Need Serious help !!!

hello everyone
i got the incredible S 3 weeks ago and all was gr8
a day ago something happened while it was connected to my comp and my
phone SD card was formatted, now the SD has no files and no folders - its completly blank - and back on my phone maps and stuff tells me "files are missing" blah blah you got the point. seems like neccery files came ON SD card now its now finding it - and its not apps i installed - its things came with the phone. also HTC sync install files are gone and basically every thing that was originally on the SD card as i got it from HTC factory is gone.
now i know HTC sync is downloadble but you get the point of me wanting everything back as it was right of the box.
so i did factory reset but still files are missing cuz it cleand my phone bun didn put the originally SD stuff back, its still empty.
so
1.how do i get all the FACTORY DEFAULT files as i got them before they were deleted ?
2. what does it really do if you format your SD Card? aside to delete pics and video i made? does it really a problem or im just going crazy for nothing?
3. how do i get my phone to be as just the way i took it out of the box, inside and out, phone and SD card...all..?
tnx!!!

Are you looking for some specific things on sd card?
For maps, go to locations and download the map of your country.
For htc sync, download on your pc and copy to sd card.
I dnt think any other files would be missing
Sent from my HTC Incredible S using XDA App

thats the problem - i donk know what have been gone...
for example the LOCATIONS App is asking me to download files that are missing on the SD card, but it wont work...dk why
so thats why im asking :
1.how do i get all the FACTORY DEFAULT files as i got them before they were deleted ?
2. what does it really do if you format your SD Card? aside to delete pics and video i made? does it really a problem or im just going crazy for nothing?
3. how do i get my phone to be as just the way i took it out of the box, inside and out, phone and SD card...all..?

1. and 3. Install an RUU file. These are Rom Update Utilities files. They will flash your phone to untouched stock files. It depend on where you are from, but get one from there: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1066949 (If you are in Europe, the first one should work fine)
2. To me, if you format your sd card, you only lose your media files (pics, videos, mp3s) and also the data files from downloaded application that have been installed on it (the Apps to SD thingie introduced in Froyo). But your phone should still be working nonetheless. Though maybe Google Maps and stuff were installed on the SD out of the box by HTC.
Anyway the RUU should restore your phone to the state you need.
Good luck with that.

angerized said:
But your phone should still be working nonetheless. Though maybe Google Maps and stuff were installed on the SD out of the box by HTC.
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exactly - and its these stuff i want, stock SD card, and stock phone...
im afraid i meesed up mine with all thr resseting and stuff

MaorIncredibleS said:
exactly - and its these stuff i want, stock SD card, and stock phone...
im afraid i meesed up mine with all thr resseting and stuff
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Maybe you did. But it's not the end of the world, even if some useless "HTC Locations" don't come back yet, you will find that, eventually
Try with an RUU as I said, and then you will see if more stuff is missing. This is the closest to the "Out Of Box experience" there is, anyway.. or so I think.

dont know whats RUU or what sould i do from now with the link
sorry, need help - im new to this

MaorIncredibleS said:
dont know whats RUU or what sould i do from now with the link
sorry, need help - im new to this
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[Q] Screenshot not saving

I'm having issues while attempting to capture a screenshot.
Each time I try to take a screenshot, I get a message in my notification saying "Couldn't capture screenshot. Storage may be in use."
Has anyone had this issue?
Can anyone help me sort out this problem?
Also, I'm on ViperOne M8.

It will save automatically please check your internal storage.

andrewnelson said:
It will save automatically please check your internal storage.
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I've checked. I've even tried switching the save destination to the external SD card. No luck

just a bird xo said:
I've checked. I've even tried switching the save destination to the external SD card. No luck
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Did you ever get this figured out, I just got this error too....I think it's because i reformated my Internal Sd card...not sure what caused it...flashing a new Rom clean didn't fix it either...Gonna try to Ruu and if that don't work i'll be lost....
Edit: I was able to get it working by going into recovery and wiping internal storage and fixing permissions...

Verizon HTC One M8 Same Issue
EVOuser94 said:
Did you ever get this figured out, I just got this error too....I think it's because i reformated my Internal Sd card...not sure what caused it...flashing a new Rom clean didn't fix it either...Gonna try to Ruu and if that don't work i'll be lost....
Edit: I was able to get it working by going into recovery and wiping internal storage and fixing permissions...
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Documenting that I also have just begun having the same issue. Sometimes a reboot will clear it, but not always.
FYI... looking for resolution.
It appears to be related to KitKat and access (or lack thereof) to the external SD card (or other storage locations). I CAN take some snapshots (Rooted Stock). Apparently, the UP24 app doesn't have 'permission' and I am guessing that is why I have what now appears to be an isolated occurrence.
I don't want to "break any rules" so please forgive me if this is a 'no-no'. This link explains what is going on better than I...
Evidently I am not allowed to post outside links, but I bet a search for "kitkat-sdcard-changes" will get you close.
HTH, Bill

EVOuser94 said:
Did you ever get this figured out, I just got this error too....I think it's because i reformated my Internal Sd card...not sure what caused it...flashing a new Rom clean didn't fix it either...Gonna try to Ruu and if that don't work i'll be lost....
Edit: I was able to get it working by going into recovery and wiping internal storage and fixing permissions...
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I'm not sure if anyone else has this issue, or still has this phone, but I was able to fix it by renaming the sdcard\Pictures\Screenshots directory to "Screenshots1" and creating a new directory named "Screenshots".
It looks like there were some hung broken image files in the old directory that still registered as saving.
Hope this helps - a year after the fact.

I recently had this problem as well, and used this exact solution.
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