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Upgrading the ROM - Bootloader/SD Card Method

Updating your Qtek ROM using the 'SD Card' or 'Bootloader' Method
Forenote:
Even though I have centered these instructions to refer to the Qtek 1010 specifically, please note that they can also be applied to the following devices: O2 XDA / HTC Spaceneedle / PW10 / PW20 / Siemens SX56 / T-Mobile MDA
How do I update my ROM with an SD Card?
This is a question I see so often on the XDA-Developers Forum and I will try to present as detailed instructions as I can.
But first:
Flashing your Qtek is VERY VERY dangerous. I have already lost one Qtek by accidentally flashing it incorrectly. Please remember this. I will not be held responsible for anyone's trashed Qtek.
Ok.
Having said this, lets get on with the upgrade:
Requirements:
A Qtek with at least a 70% Charge on the Battery
A PC/Laptop with a USB Port running Windows NT, 2000 or XP*
An empty SD/MMC Card of at least 64Mb
An SD/MMC Card Reader
The XDA Developers' XDA ROM Image Tool (XDArit)
* The XDA ROM Image Tool will only work on Windows NT, 2000 or XP
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Step 1 - Always Backup your Data
Always have a backup when you play around with your Qtek in this manner. If you have a backup it saves you so much grief. A VERY important point to remember: Similar to your Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, BSD, etc.) the Qtek has what is known as a Boot Loader. This is a location in the Qtek's ROM (Memory) which is first invoked every time the device is reset. This collection of 'instructions' will load the actual Operating System (Pocket PC 2002, Windows Mobile 2003 PE) and actually start up the Qtek where you see your pretty little 'Today' screen and will enable you to run all your programs. Read this next line VERY CAREFULLY:
If your Boot Loader gets trashed for any reason, YOU WILL HAVE A DEAD QTEK. THERE WILL BE NO EASY WAY TO RESTORE YOUR QTEK TO A WORKING DEVICE. IN ESSENCE, YOU WILL END UP WITH A $500 PAPER WEIGHT. I will NOT be touching on any points which involve modifications to the Boot Loader.
Let's first find out how to enter the Boot Loader:
You enter the Boot Loader by performing a Soft Reset while holding down the Power button. You should see a screen similar to this:
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"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
If you have Boot Loader Version 5.17 or higher, then please stop reading now because I will only cover Boot Loaders 5.14 & 5.15.
The technique for upgrading with a Bootloader higher that 5.15 is given on the XDA-Developers site. You can find it here.
Next, press the Button which usually brings up your Contacts. You should then see the following screen:
Select the option ' CE ROM TO SD' and press the Action button. YOUR SD CARD WILL BE OVERWRITTEN COMPLETELY AT THIS POINT. Don't have any data on it. You should see this:
The above process should take a few minutes. At least more than five.
Let me explain what we have just done. We have entered the Boot Loader and asked it to Dump the entire OS ROM to our SD Card. It WILL NOT back up your settings or third-party applications. It merely dumps the entire OS to the Card. This is the backup we will use should, God forbid, something goes horribly wrong.
After the ROM is dumped to the SD Card, you will see this screen:
Pressing the Action button at this point of time will reset the device and it should start up as normal.
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Step 2 - Copy your old ROM onto your Hard Disk
Now that you have got a copy of your old ROM on the SD Card, we can now move it to someplace safer on your hard disk. You will use the XDA Developers' XDArit tool for this purpose. The instructions follow.
Remove the SD Card from the Qtek, put it in the Card Reader connected to your PC and start up XDArit.
Choose 'Read from SD Card' and name your backup ROM:
Press OK and the ROM will be copied from the SD Card to your Hard Disk as you specified.
Great! You now have a backup of your old ROM. We will now continue to write the new ROM onto the SD Card using XDArit.
From the main XDArit screen, choose 'Write to SD card'. Here is what should be visible:
Under the 'Windows CE' field, select the Browse button and choose your new ROM to be written onto the SD Card.
Notice that even though the 'Bootloader' field is filled out automatically, it is not ticked. LEAVE IT THE WAY IT IS! This is where so many people go wrong and completely trash their Qtek's. For added safety, I make sure to delete the contents of the field, just in case.
Click 'OK' and wait while the SD Card is written. Ensure that you see a 'Successfully written xxxxx blocks' message from XDArit (which I have not been able to screen capture). This will probably save you from writing something corrupted onto your Qtek.
Right! Now you've got your new ROM all setup on your SD Card. All that's left is to flash it to the Qtek. On to step 3
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Step 3 - Writing the new ROM onto your Qtek
So you've got the ROM on your SD Card. What next? Read on:
Insert your SD Card into your Qtek and reset to enter your Bootloader. When you do this, the Bootloader will automatically detect that you have a CE ROM in your SD Card and will ask you to press the Action button to flash the Qtek with this ROM. Press the Action button and wait for the flashing process to complete:
Once the flashing has completed, (after 6-7 minutes) you should be prompted to perform a Cold Boot or a Hard Reset:
Congratulations! You've just flashed your Qtek ROM using the 'SD Card' or 'Bootloader' method. Enjoy your new ROM.
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Thanks
Dear sheran_g
this will help lots of users who wants to have a look to the new version of Microsoft Mobile 2003 OS.
some people who doesn't have SD or MMC card migth need to wait for somebody like Mr. Jeff who did the xda-developers ROM exe file or wait for the official release which won't be free as confirmed by Carrier Devices the main distributors of Qtek
i have seen a post on another forum and here's what it says
Microsoft Mobile 2003 represents several major feature enhancements to
Pocket PC 2002, especially in the connectivity and mobility aspects
where the Qtek 1010 is very strong. As Microsoft has just released the
new upgrade there will be a short delay for us to finalise the other
elements we need to add to the operating system in order to complete our
devices. We will be providing an upgrade at an additional cost once our
integration is complete and we have checked the compatibility of
existing applications with Microsoft Mobile 2003.
thanks again sheran_g for the great job.
Othman
http://www.pocketpc4arab.com

Thanks for instructions
HI Sheran,
Thanks for the great instructions. I am not computer literate and intend to use Jeff's exe to upgrade my 3.16.32 ENG rom to the SER ver 1.2 which is available for use. I intend to back up my rom just in case things go wrong as you have so vividly described. So do I do the same steps as you outlined in backing up my old rom to my sd card? If things go wrong, do I simply insert my sd card with the backed up rom and reboot with the soft reset and my xda would then automatically recognised the old rom and ask for flashing? What is the action button you mentioned in your description?
Sorry for being a complete idiot and hope you could kindly provide the much needed valuable tips.
Cheers
Vic

Hi there,
Yes, you can restore your old ROM if you back it up through the Bootloader onto your SD Card. If you have the SD Card with the old ROM and reset your XDA into the Bootloader, it will ask you if you want to flash. Press the Action button at this point. (Step 3 of the Procedure)
The Action button is your navigation button. Push down on it whenever it says 'Press the Action button'

Hi Sheran,
Thanks for quick answer. Will do that as told.
One question though- will all the programs I have including things like contacts etc be erased if I flash my rom with the SER ver 1.2? I suppose this will happen since I need to hard boot the set once the rom is flashed?
Cheers
Vic

Yes. All of it will go. The SD Backup only covers the OS and not your settings, apps, contacts, etc.

Hi Sheran,
Thanks for info.
Guess I have to sync in all appts and contacts first prior to flashing rom. There is a SD backup program in my program list; wonder if this is useful to back up the programs?
Cheers
Vic

The SD Backup utility will back everything up onto your SD Card. I can't say that I've tried it, but I use Pocket Backup from Sprite Software. It's got some really great features including a Self Extracting backup file. One click and all your data is restored!

Downgrade on 5.17 bootload
I want to downgrade my WME2003 to 2002, but i've 5.17 bootload
is it possible ?
TIA

Re: Downgrade on 5.17 bootload
barshad said:
I want to downgrade my WME2003 to 2002, but i've 5.17 bootload
is it possible ?
TIA
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Take a look at this link: http://www.xda-developers.com/bootloader/
Look at the part which concerns the 5.17 bootloader. After you patch it, you should be able to follow my instructions as normal.
HTH

Upgrade ROM
Hi Sheran_g
My Wallaby Bootloader is v. 5.17
Can you tell me how to flash it by detail?
Thank?

Re: Upgrade ROM
VHS said:
Hi Sheran_g
My Wallaby Bootloader is v. 5.17
Can you tell me how to flash it by detail?
Thank?
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Hello VHS,
I'd really advise you to read the link on the xda-developers site concerning the 5.17 bootloader. I do not have any detailed info about flashing with the 5.17 bootloader at this time. I will share as soon as I put some documents together.
Check this link out. Look up the section entitled "Dealing with 5.17 bootloaders"

Hi Sheran,
I have one question about updating the rom using bootloader method.
Step "Flashing from SD card":On your site it is written not to tick "Bootloader" field by writing to SD card.
But on the xda-developers site it is ticked.
Cab you pls.explain the step "write to SD card".
What should I write excactly on the"write to SD card" screen.
Thanks.
brgds
rats
PS:On the xda-developers site it is written to enter the file names:
Bootloader: C:\test\5-15.nb0
Windows CE: C:\test\3.14.17-O2Asia.nb1
Should I write this fieldnames or the names on your site?

Hello folks and many thanks for the information.
I am trying to copy a ROm from a friend's XDA and we both have the 5.15 bootloader. I have tried your method where I have a SD card but not a card reader. Pressing the Power button and doing a soft reset tokk me to the bootloader page and pressing the "contacts" button allowed me to writ the CE Rom to the SD card
Now, I am unable to write this to my device
I have inserted the SD card into my device and have done a soft reset, nothing happened, Indeed, I was asked if I want to format the SD card to make it useable!
I have pressed the power button and done a soft reset, took me to the bootloader start page but then nothing happened
What am I supposed to do to get the already written ROm (on my SD card) to my unit?
Thanks in advance

Did you go ahead and format the SD Card? If so, you will have to dump your friend's ROM back again onto the SD Card and repeat the process.

einas_canada said:
Now, I am unable to write this to my device
I have inserted the SD card into my device and have done a soft reset, nothing happened, Indeed, I was asked if I want to format the SD card to make it useable!
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Its sounds like you only have the CE ROM hence nothings happening.
To do what you're trying to do you need the CE+Boot.

Have tried this and now it copied it. However it the end, the message I get says :check sum is incorrect and I am unable to boot my device
Any ideas? PLEASE!

Can't Boot Now
Seems like you overwrote your bootloader. Not sure why you did this. You only needed to write the OS to ROM. Not good news but it seems as though you have a pretty cool paperweight now.
Qman, your post meantioned writing both CE and Boot, why was this? Thought only the CE needed to be written according to above instructions and other websites.

The CE+Boot makes your SD bootable without it you're unable to boot from the SD. Since he didn't have a PC SD reader that was the best way to upgrade his OS besides going the .exe route. I have used this method more than once without incident.
As far as only needing CE this is in regards to using XDARit to write to PC and back to SD since the bootloader is added automatically writing to SD.
It appears now that XDARit maybe his only option to correct the incorrect check sum and in getting is XDA back online.

SD Boot
Hi Qman, thanks for the info. I'm just trying to get a good grip on this whole process and was unsure as to your comments. They are appreciated.

Upgrading from SD Card

i have used the OSimage tool to write the desired rom version cooked from yorch.net, it write it & when i preformed a resed by pressing the power botoon simultansly with the reset button, i get the boot loader screen & not an upgrade screen

what's yoru bootloader version ? ... is it 5.22 ?

thanks for your concern but i have boot loader 5.17, i understood its more protected & intentionally would not load from SD if am correct what is the solution?

Same Problem
Hello,
i have exactly the same problem. My bootloader version is 5.22.
What can i do?

Bootloader 5.17
My RSU upgrade failed and bootloader shows GSM error
When I press I think the contacts key (left top) Im getting the 4 options
to copy to SD card but when I select any of the options using the action key the message is "Card Key Invalid -Press Action to Exit" and I'm not gettting anywhere.
Anyone has any hints how to get the XDA back on line
this would be greatly appreciated.
TIA

The best bootloader version for SD method is 5.15 and you can use the XDAtools to flash the bootloader to 5.15
check this http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=3274&highlight=

how to do
How can i do an downgrade of bootloader without having a runnig OS?
And without getting the downgrade recognized from SD?

i have downloaded my bootloader to 5.15 but still can't boot from SD, BTW my sd is a 256mb would it make a defferance?

Somebody did write in the forums about having a card key error with a 256MB card. Try and get your hands on a 64MB card. I did some research on this, and there were a couple of people who posted that they solved this problem for themselves; unfortunately they didn't post how they did it :roll:.

SD Card and XDATools
My SD card is 64Mb and I use 6in 1 reader writer.
Somhow I have a problem with XDAtools to recognise the SD card so I used XDArit 1.o which allowed me to download the patch for bootloader 5.17 to bypass this Key passward and I could download the Bottloader+ROM to the card but when I wanted to modify the files names to reload them back to 02XDA none of the XDA tools would recognise the card. The message was that the SD card is not formated and if I want to format it. So I'm stack again.
Any GOOD ideas out there??
TIA

when I wanted to modify the files names to reload them back to 02XDA none of the XDA tools would recognise the card. The message was that the SD card is not formated and if I want to format it. So I'm stack again
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So you got it to recognise to load the bootloader patch, but can't get the O/S written? There's a couple of things I'm not getting here, I've done this procedure quite a few times, including downgrading the bootloader so I don't need to patch it anymore.
The first thing that doesn't make sense to me is
when I wanted to modify the files names to reload them back to O2XDA none of the XDA tools would recognise the card
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How do you mean modify the filenames? If you're using XDRit, you select "write to SD card", then click the [...] beside the type of write you want to do - O/S, bootloader or diagnostics, and you select the correct header type. You obviously got all that right to load the diagnostics to patch the bootloader. If you've patched the bootloader then when you write the O/S onto the SD card you select the headers option that you did *not* use for the diagnostics patch. The card was recognised in order to write the bootloader, so it will be equally recognised to write an O/S. You would need to elaborate on the type of error here, maybe even make some screenshots. Infact, I'll post some screenshots as a followup to this message.
The second thing that doesn't make sense to me is
The message was that the SD card is not formated and if I want to format it
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If you're trying to load the O/S from the patched bootloader you don't ever get any such message. If you select "Restore SD" from the patched bootloader and the info on the card is not recognised *nothing will happen*. There is no option to format it in the diagnostics. The option to format happens when you reboot your PPC and get into the O/S, it will recognise that the card is not formatted and prompt to do so.
That suggests to me that you are loading the bootloader patch, writing the O/S onto that card, putting it back into the machine and rebooting. That's the only place that message can appear. Once you patch the bootloader, you enter the diagnostics screen with the Action key, you then remove the SD card, write the O/S upgrade onto it using XDRit. Then place the SD card back into the device and select Restore SD. If you selected the correct headers in XDRit it will start writing the ROM, if you did not select the right headers, nothing will happen.
I hope that helps and that I haven't misunderstood, but from the info you have given the messages can only come from certain stages in the bootup lifetime.

FOR USERS OF THE WALLABY 5.17 BOOTLOADER
--ensure your device is fully charged before continuing--
1. Select your SD card reader device and click "write to SD card"
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"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
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"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
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}
2. Select the "before 5.17 (1k)" bootloader header, click the diagnostics box and locate the wallaby patch tool. Click OK to write the image to the SD card.
3. Put the SD card in your device and press reset while holding the power button, when the bootloader screen loads, press Action and you should be presented with the (patched) diagnostics screen as follows:
Wallay Patch
Tool 1.2/5.17
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Boot -> SD
CE -> SD
Boot+CE -> SD
Restore SD
About
Exit
4. Remove the SD card from your device and put it back into the SD card reader (leave your device switched on in diagnostics mode). In XDARit, select Write to SD Card, select the "at least 5.17 (3.5K) bootloader header option, and tick the Windows CE box. Locate your O/S update file and click OK to write the image to your SD card.
When complete (about 7 minutes) remove the SD card from the card reader and place back into your PPC phone. Use the arrow direction keys at the bottom of the phone to select "Restore SD", you will get a confirmation message and the device will begin reading the update.

Having Programs A&B how to get imiges for SD card to fla
Ebswift,
You are great and I thank you for your time.
In my posting I was not realy clear and you right there.
Even prior to your detailed explanation I did the bootloader 5.15 stuff as you suggested and it worked but the rest I messed up.
My old brain is not working as efficient as yours so somehow I thought that I can recover the bootloader + ROM imiges directly form my XDA, rename them and flash the XDA again. Now I guess it was wrong.
However the question now would be how I can create *.nb0 and nb1 from the 02XDA downloaded programs A&B?

Re: Having Programs A&B how to get imiges for SD card to
krystan said:
However the question now would be how I can create *.nb0 and nb1 from the 02XDA downloaded programs A&B?
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I believe than an .nbf file is a combined .nb0 and.nb1 file. If you use WinRAR you can locate a .nbf file within the installer .EXE file.
I don't know how to seperate the .nbf file into .nbo and .nb1 (well, I guess you can install the .nbf and then back up the ROM and loader seperately using the bootloader, but that's about an evening to accomplsh). But installing the .nbf file might accomplish the same as installing the two files individually.

now i have downgraded my bootloader from 5.17 to 5.15 through the fix in the OSimage tools, still my boot loader menuw doesn't have the restore from SD options, also if i write on my 256 sd card an Nb1 or nbf file to load a new rom it still doen't recoqnize it, as if i still have the 5.17 boot loader, another thing to clarify, when i went to buy an SD card reader/writer, i was told that all reader can write like files into the card (explorer way) others told me the a reader is differant than a reader/writer, which one is more accurate? (i wish someone fix the connection fault in programme A and lets us get rid of all the crappy written & reading

The 5.15 bootloader doesn't have a menu as such. If you write the ROM correctly onto the SD card it will prompt you to restore the ROM automatically in the bootloader. Use the older version of XDRit to write the ROM onto the card, you can't just copy via explorer. Ensure you select the header for pre-5.17.

so i still need an SD card Reader, os is it writer, or a normal reader will do

Cool, i'm gonna try doing that, but i need to know where to get the bootloader and windowsCE files from.
I have wallaby V5.22, and need to put it all back on as described in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=6795
Thanks

so i still need an SD card Reader, os is it writer, or a normal reader will do
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Use any device that assigns the SD card its own drive letter and you'll be able to read/write, do whatever you like. I personally used an X-Drive.

Help copying bootloader v5.15 to SD reader
I cannot figure out how to copy the bootloader_v5_15.nb0 to the SD card on my reader in a format that will be recognized by my XDA. All the examples here are will the older XDA tools which I can't find. I have the newest (I think) XDA OS Image tool and I can't seem to figure out how to get it to put the bootloader file on the SD card in the right format. Thanks.

[REF] Solution For SD Card Not Detected in PC Issues

Hi All,
This is with reference to all those who have been reporting SD Card not being detected after multiple WP7 trials on their HD2.
As mentioned in the list of phones supported (That detect the card, ) Nokia are the best as per my trials.
I too tried sandisk class4 8GB and Sandisk Classs 2 8GB for WP7.
Both times when I was trying to move forward towards 7720, either the update failed or communcation got disrupted making my phone go to recovery console.
Here are the stpes to recover the card whatever happens.
Note: Nokia 5233 (Mobile I used to recover my card) Provides hotswap support for microsd card
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1. For safer operation, select Storage memory and click remove card (In 5233 Menu)
2. Remove existing card, and insert the WP7 Bricked SDCard
3. It will show 'Type password to Unlock the card'
4. Cancel that and go to File Explorer and select the card and say Open.
5. After it opens, From the options menu, select 'Card Options>Format Card', Dont select unlock or anything, its not required.
6. If its Class 2 card it will take around 40 seconds to format (8GB).
7. If its Class 4 card it will take around 8 seconds to format (8GB).
Now close file explorer, and open file explorer again to check the card size.
Click Remove card and remove the card.
No need of partition manager,Linux, zero fill formatting, killdisk etc which is real headache.
All it needs is a Friend (Who has Nokia mobile that supports microsdcard).

They can also be rescued usin the devstorage_lock.cab run it from inside WP7 before hard resetting or powering down and you'll be able to use the SD card elsewhere and reformat it.

I'm sorry but I think it depends on the cards.
I have a Sandisk 32Gb Class 4 (and for being faster than my real Sandisk 8Gb Class 4, I confirm it's not a fake, it is an original Sandisk).
I tried everything (KillDisk (on Windows & Linux), Formatter, WinMo6.5, WP7, Nokia E63, Nokia E71, N8...various partition tools. All PC softwares have been tested with both SD adapater and USB adaptater.
Nothing can repair my card.
Concerning the StorageCardunlock.cab, the card enable to start WP7 Mango, but when you go to About, there is no more memory than the internal one, that's meen that when you try to install StoragecardUnlock.cab, the CabSender says "Not enough memory' or something like that...
So I think, by reading all what we can read on XDA: 2, 4 and 8 Gb seem to be reparable, which is more difficult with bigger capacity

With bricked SD card in device:
1. Turn the device on
2. Wait for Magldr screen to boot WPH
3. When 12345 GO! GO! GO! starts appearing, press and hold vol up/down until grey screen comes up. Press vol down twice to initiate a hard reset.
4. WP7 will reset and capture the SD card in the process. Confirm this in Settings > About
5. If devstorage_lock is not installed... install it now and run it.
6. Initiate a hard reset from Settings > About
7. If your device is set to automatically boot into WP7, then press and hold the power button when the first splash screen appears - to stay in Magldr. From here, WP7 still thinks it's resetting and will capture the next SD card inserted. Or, you can flash the device with a different ROM. If you're going back to stock, then power down and enter the tri-color screen. If you're going android, then use the USB flasher option.
The ONLY thing that will keep you from unlocking the SD card is if WP7 has already captured it and won't refuses to let you boot again. Even then, reflashing WP7 should solve that problem.

Thank you Anselo,
I've saved your post in my bookmarks. This will certainly come in handy when I recover my 8 GB kingston later on.
On a side note, Mango on the HD2 is awesome. So much more fluid than Android ever was!
Cheers.
anseio said:
With bricked SD card in device:
1. Turn the device on
2. Wait for Magldr screen to boot WPH
3. When 12345 GO! GO! GO! starts appearing, press and hold vol up/down until grey screen comes up. Press vol down twice to initiate a hard reset.
4. WP7 will reset and capture the SD card in the process. Confirm this in Settings > About
5. If devstorage_lock is not installed... install it now and run it.
6. Initiate a hard reset from Settings > About
7. If your device is set to automatically boot into WP7, then press and hold the power button when the first splash screen appears - to stay in Magldr. From here, WP7 still thinks it's resetting and will capture the next SD card inserted. Or, you can flash the device with a different ROM. If you're going back to stock, then power down and enter the tri-color screen. If you're going android, then use the USB flasher option.
The ONLY thing that will keep you from unlocking the SD card is if WP7 has already captured it and won't refuses to let you boot again. Even then, reflashing WP7 should solve that problem.
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PoisonWolf said:
Thank you Anselo,
I've saved your post in my bookmarks. This will certainly come in handy when I recover my 8 GB kingston later on.
On a side note, Mango on the HD2 is awesome. So much more fluid than Android ever was!
Cheers.
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You're very welcome. I thought that I had bricked a brand new 16GB c2 SD card until I reflashed over. Oh, but that was so time consuming. Then, I was taught about the 1234 hard reset. Total life saver. I bricked my 2 cards so many times while trying to partition for dual boot. This fix got me through every time.

anseio said:
With bricked SD card in device:
1. Turn the device on
2. Wait for Magldr screen to boot WPH
3. When 12345 GO! GO! GO! starts appearing, press and hold vol up/down until grey screen comes up. Press vol down twice to initiate a hard reset.
4. WP7 will reset and capture the SD card in the process. Confirm this in Settings > About
5. If devstorage_lock is not installed... install it now and run it.
6. Initiate a hard reset from Settings > About
7. If your device is set to automatically boot into WP7, then press and hold the power button when the first splash screen appears - to stay in Magldr. From here, WP7 still thinks it's resetting and will capture the next SD card inserted. Or, you can flash the device with a different ROM. If you're going back to stock, then power down and enter the tri-color screen. If you're going android, then use the USB flasher option.
The ONLY thing that will keep you from unlocking the SD card is if WP7 has already captured it and won't refuses to let you boot again. Even then, reflashing WP7 should solve that problem.
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I'm sorry, I've got a Class 4 Sandisk 32Gb, I've just tried it, the problem still remains. The card enables the smartphone to run, but when I go to About, I've got:
"Total storage: 52.84 MB
Available storage: 32.21 MB"
The StorageLock tells me:
"The storage card is currently unlocked. Do you want to lock it?"
It's strange, normally it is the opposite the first time. Nevermind, I click "Yes" and the device tells me "Failed toggling card lock"
I i initiate a hard reste from About, nothing changes, I still have the same memory.
Maybe I have a special brick, hoping somebody find a day a solution.

And can you ser the card on your computer? I've read in another thread that people have had problems with the SanDisk 16c4. WP7 is so picky.
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In fact, The computer cannot see the card.
But all the softwares can see it quicky when you remove it from computer...

How about booting into Ubuntu to see it?
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Is it the solution with the CD with KillDisk? If yes, cannot find the card.
If it isn't that, can you explain?

Skyjouby said:
I'm sorry, I've got a Class 4 Sandisk 32Gb, I've just tried it, the problem still remains. The card enables the smartphone to run, but when I go to About, I've got:
"Total storage: 52.84 MB
Available storage: 32.21 MB"
The StorageLock tells me:
"The storage card is currently unlocked. Do you want to lock it?"
It's strange, normally it is the opposite the first time. Nevermind, I click "Yes" and the device tells me "Failed toggling card lock"
I i initiate a hard reste from About, nothing changes, I still have the same memory.
Maybe I have a special brick, hoping somebody find a day a solution.
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It looks like your storage app is fuggled.
try sending storagelock_remove.cab then send storagelock.cab
Also what size partition have you got?

In fact I realized WP7 could restart with this card only if I put it in the smartphone while this one is already swithed on. Otherwise, after a hard reset, if I put the card when the phone is switched off, the phone stay blocked on boot sreen, even after many hard resets & wasting waiting time

Skyjouby, what size partition have you got?

It is an original Sandisk 32Gb Class 4.
I tried all solutions without results. At the opposite, I have another orginal Sandisk (8Gb Class 4) and I could revive it a lot of time.
Do I well reply to your question?
Edit: After a couple of hard-Reset with the 32Gb where everytime the bootscreen was blocked, I try again with my 8Gb without any trouble, in exception of a problem with French language (possible to select, but finally english).
I've just recovered 7720 from 6.5, but I have my 32Gb still bricked.
Edit 2: Before I bricked my 32Gb, it had 2 partitions: the WP7 one was created with DEV_EXTRAPART_20G.cab. The rest was used with Android. It runs perfectly one month.

Skyjouby said:
It is an original Sandisk 32Gb Class 4.
I tried all solutions without results. At the opposite, I have another orginal Sandisk (8Gb Class 4) and I could revive it a lot of time.
Do I well reply to your question?
Edit: After a couple of hard-Reset with the 32Gb where everytime the bootscreen was blocked, I try again with my 8Gb without any trouble, in exception of a problem with French language (possible to select, but finally english).
I've just recovered 7720 from 6.5, but I have my 32Gb still bricked.
Edit 2: Before I bricked my 32Gb, it had 2 partitions: the WP7 one was created with DEV_EXTRAPART_20G.cab. The rest was used with Android. It runs perfectly one month.
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Thanks.
I can only think to do the following;
Put in your 8gb card and send 1Gb extrapart, storage unlock, switch off and put in 32Gb card. In Magldr delete MBR then 1234hard reset.
If this doesn't work, it may be that bad blocks have appeared at a crucial part of the sd

After a while:
"Storage card not working
Your storage card has changed, is damaged, o is non-compliant.
To fix this, turn off your phone and either remove the storage card or replace it with a new compliant card. Then you'll need to reset your phone to the originl factory settings.
To reset your phone, refer to the owner's manual."
So I think, we can conclude the SD is dead

Hello All
Strange ERROR
Today during Zune Sync (sync music) the phone stop to respond...
I take out battery , and now it freeze on HTC quietly brilliant panel.
What do you thing?
Sollutions?
Please Help
Seems to be a storage card error and now a storage card problem.
How Can I save the storage? the information... resolve that problem?
I've read this tread carefully.
So I've to try to format my SD card (all cost) and i dont have sucess i try to change it on store becouse the card have warranty right?
Try nokia phone, 5130 express music and ask for password... even just to format
Try nokia phone, new one - for a friend - ask for passowrd but i can acess to format... but don't format... no progress bar appears.
How can we know de SD CARD password?
So i'm thinking to try PSP but i dont have an adaptor to tes yet.
Other sollutions?
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Skyjouby said:
After a while:
"Storage card not working
Your storage card has changed, is damaged, o is non-compliant.
To fix this, turn off your phone and either remove the storage card or replace it with a new compliant card. Then you'll need to reset your phone to the originl factory settings.
To reset your phone, refer to the owner's manual."
So I think, we can conclude the SD is dead
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That's the point are you sure you know how to hard reset your device?
You need to press down, volume up & down at the same time after booting from magldr and not before booting from magldr.

Thanks again Anseio.
This worked in returning my Kingston card back to normal. After unlocking, it showed about 200mb of space on my PC. I just plopped it into a camera and formatted the card and it's now showing 7.41 GB free for an 8GB SD card. Huzzah!
Testing it now on my 32GB Sandisk C4 before I start using WP7. =
Cheers.
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With bricked SD card in device:
1. Turn the device on
2. Wait for Magldr screen to boot WPH
3. When 12345 GO! GO! GO! starts appearing, press and hold vol up/down until grey screen comes up. Press vol down twice to initiate a hard reset.
4. WP7 will reset and capture the SD card in the process. Confirm this in Settings > About
5. If devstorage_lock is not installed... install it now and run it.
6. Initiate a hard reset from Settings > About
7. If your device is set to automatically boot into WP7, then press and hold the power button when the first splash screen appears - to stay in Magldr. From here, WP7 still thinks it's resetting and will capture the next SD card inserted. Or, you can flash the device with a different ROM. If you're going back to stock, then power down and enter the tri-color screen. If you're going android, then use the USB flasher option.
The ONLY thing that will keep you from unlocking the SD card is if WP7 has already captured it and won't refuses to let you boot again. Even then, reflashing WP7 should solve that problem.
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1.4.3 HELP!

okay my wife won a NC in a contest and i want to put cm7 on it, i have followed this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957&page=179 to the T and cannot get the sd to boot, or recovery mode to work, all that happnes is that upon reboot it boots into the stock b&n rom, or if i hold down the n button it asks me to factory reset which does nothing. I need help please. i have been at this for hours.

InYuco said:
okay my wife won a NC in a contest and i want to put cm7 on it, i have followed this link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1000957&page=179 to the T and cannot get the sd to boot, or recovery mode to work, all that happnes is that upon reboot it boots into the stock b&n rom, or if i hold down the n button it asks me to factory reset which does nothing. I need help please. i have been at this for hours.
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Look in my tips thread linked in my signature. In item A9 I list reasons why you may be having problems getting the SD to boot, including using a built-in SD card reader in your PC for burning.

well i have tried everything in A9 other then a USB ecard reader, I have used my laptop and my htc inspire as an ecard reader with no success. I have not tried plugging the usb chord into my pc, i will give that a try later and see how it works. If that does not work I think it is time i give up. Do i have to hold a special button combo to get it to boot into the sd card? or should it autoboot when i power back on the nook?

InYuco said:
well i have tried everything in A9 other then a USB ecard reader, I have used my laptop and my htc inspire as an ecard reader with no success. I have not tried plugging the usb chord into my pc, i will give that a try later and see how it works. If that does not work I think it is time i give up. Do i have to hold a special button combo to get it to boot into the sd card? or should it autoboot when i power back on the nook?
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You don't need any special buttons to get it to boot into the sd card if its done right. When you put your sd card in a card reader, you should see only a drive letter with boot in the name with files like uImage uRecImg, uAltImg, etc on it. If the cm7 zip file is still there, it never flashed properly. It has to have a name with an "update-" prefix, or it won't flash. If you downloaded a CM7 zip file that has any name that doesn't start with "update-", change the name to start with "update-", and try again.

okay this is what i have on my sd card its called boot F: so what do i need to change. I dont understand the update- thing, i have never had this nook cracked/rooted nothing other then stock, I also have done this with both win32 and winimage both have completed successful. I am using generic-sdcard-v1.3.img to make the sd image then copying the cm7 over that is in the attached pic. Any help would be great.
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okay this is what i have on my sd card its called boot F: so what do i need to change. I dont understand the update- thing, i have never had this nook cracked/rooted nothing other then stock, I also have done this with both win32 and winimage both have completed successful. I am using generic-sdcard-v1.3.img to make the sd image then copying the cm7 over that is in the attached pic. Any help would be great.
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Everything looks right on the card in your PC. But that does not mean it will boot in the Nook. If you have it burned properly it should boot automatically to the SD when you power on from a powered off condition. As I said in my tips thread which I think you read, many factors can prevent it from looking right to the Nook and booting. You said you used the card reader built in to the PC. That can sometimes make it not bootable by the Nook, even thought it looks fine on the PC. Get a cheap usb style card reader and burn with that.
But once you get it booting, you do need to rename that cm- file to say update-cm-. When verygreen made that script file all nightly zips started with update-. Now the CM team starts the name with cm- and verygreen's script will not recognize the name if named that.

Can't either enable or disable SD Card encryption even after exchange account removal

Guys,
Need you help
I have been googling for several days now without finding a solution. At least the ones I found up to now do not work for me.
I have had an exchange account for years. Now my company decided to enforce SD card encryption. Since then cannot access my SD card anymore.
I have removed the exchange account, but still, each time I reboot the phone tells me the SD card encryption has been turned on with full encryption option and asks me to set a an unlock password :
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Either I ignore this and click home and I can use my phone without the SD Card, or I have no other choice to click on "Set Screen Lock Type".
It then asks me for a password (I always enter the same password) :
And then asks me to confirm the password, which I do with the same password of course (no, I do not mistype : I have done this step at least 20 times) :
Then, as I could read in many places, comes the hope with the "Turn off" button appearing :
So I try "Turn Off" and the phone starts looping asking me to confirm the password :
Each time it tells me "wrong password" and returns to the previous "Confirm" page (I could not take a snapshot of the "wrong password" message as it disappears before).
So ok, I finish selecting "Continue" instead of 'Turn off"... but it keeps doing the same thing : asking me to confirm the password and then telling me it is wrong... until I clikc the home button and start using my phone without the SD Card.
Note: my SD cards (internal and external) do not seem to be encrypted at all as I can read them from the PC : internal by USB connection (external does not get mounted), and external is ok when inserting it in a SD Card reader.
Once the SD card is in the PC, I can access all the files. I backed them up and I tried formatting it (fast format and full format - tried only FAT32). I also tried to format from the command prompt with PARTDISK command. Always the same when I insert it back in the phone : I get back to :
I also factory reset my phone (from the recovery), hoping this would delete the information that the phone/SD card has to be encrypted... with no success...
I have tried to set my Exchange account back with the ExchangeSecurityBypassForLollipop Xposed mod (I am running Imperium LL ROM - version 13 right now, but I have had the same issue since v11, but I don't think this is ROM related... well maybe I could try annother ROM and see...)
Any help would be more than welcome ! I just would like to be able to use my external SD Card !...

is it possible that the card has become corrupted during the first attempt to encrypt it ? you didn't mention definitively that you've managed to format the card successfully or that you can still write to it.

3mel said:
is it possible that the card has become corrupted during the first attempt to encrypt it ? you didn't mention definitively that you've managed to format the card successfully or that you can still write to it.
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Thanks 3mel, but no, the card is not corrupted : I can still write and read to/from it on the PC and also in recovery. I could for example take a nandroid backup on my external card and restore it.
Edit: I backed up and wiped my internal SD card too (after having formatted the external card) : same thing, the phone asks me for full encryption aeach time I boot it. Where is this damn information (that the phone should be encrypted) stored ??? It it in one of the other internal partitions and which one ?
Thanks

aymelis said:
Thanks 3mel, but no, the card is not corrupted : I can still write and read to/from it on the PC and also in recovery. I could for example take a nandroid backup on my external card and restore it.
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From another forum:
1: I re-added the email account
2: Went to Security-Device Administrators
Here I unchecked the Email Exchange Admistrator, then it asked me if I want to deactivate, this operation has removed the email account.
3: Have rebooted the phone
3: From Security - Credential storage - I cleared the credentials
4: I went to Security - Encript SD card - Set screen lock type - then I changed my password - and the Disable button has appeared - doing that it will decrypt the SD card - it takes some time
5: In the meantime go to My Device - Lock Screen and you'll be able to set None for Security
http://forums.androidcentral.com/sa...g-encrypted-remove-exchange-policy-phone.html

Hi Lenniz,
Thanks for your research. I had actually come to this thread and tried the same approach with no success. Indeed at step 4 despite the disable button appearing I can't go further and enter this loop asking me to confirm the pass word. Regarding step 5 it is not relevant as i have no secured lock screen set...

aymelis said:
Hi Lenniz,
Thanks for your research. I had actually come to this thread and tried the same approach with no success. Indeed at step 4 despite the disable button appearing I can't go further and enter this loop asking me to confirm the pass word. Regarding step 5 it is not relevant as i have no secured lock screen set...
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What you could do is this:
1. Put the sd card in your pc directly.
2. Open CMD with administrator rights
Then input the following commands:
1. DISKPART and press enter
2. LIST DISK and press Enter.
3. SELECT DISK X (where X is the sd card and press enter). MAKE SURE TO SELECT THE RIGHT DRIVE OR YOU CAN FORMAT YOUR PC.
4. CLEAN and press enter
5. CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY and press enter
6. EXIT and press enter
6. format X: /FS:exFAT /Q (where X is the sd card and press enter).
7 EXIT and press enter
This will completely erase your sd card and destroy any partition on it.

Thanks again Lennyz. I appreciate. I see we have the same search engine ��. I had done that too (see the mention of PARTDISK in my first post). The conclusion is that the information that says that the card should be encrypted is not on the card itself. It is not in the internal storage either as i also have re formatted it. Must be in one of the other internal partition. Don't know which one as i have already wiped all (factory reset)... I guess the next step is to install another ROM and see... however any other idea is welcome !��
Edit: OK, I had not reformatted /system yet : I had re-installed the Impreium ROM over the previous version (with no wipe) and I had later on done a factory reset (which keeps the system). So I decided to do a factory reset and install... Resurrection Remix (CM13-based Marshmallow) ROM, just to try. No more SD encryption required and full access to SD card. But I'm gonna go back to a Touchwiz ROM (No good support of the S View cover under CM13). I expect no SD encruption required anymore as long as I do not set my exchange account back.

I have had big hassle to get back to lollipop...Tried flashing Albe95 S6 Port from Recovery : error during flash. Decided to get back to Imperium LL v13 : symlinks error during recoverry flash -> bootloop. Tried earlier version v12 : same thing.
I read that I should get the latest TWRP recovery : no more success ...
I read that I should re-install an official Samsung ROM with Odin. Did it (I9505XXUHOJ2_I9505OXXHOJ1_XEF). Strange thing happened : some of my previous apps were still installed... And I realized during the Odin flash that I had forgotten to think about the modem version in there (I was still on the old bootloader - before knox). Result : got bootloader updated and knox app appeared. OK, my phone was not under guaranty anyways.
From there decided to install Able95 S6 port : worked... but no more SD Card again ! And no "SD encryption" message. I can still access my SD Card from the recovery though...
Any idea what's going on ? THanks

Tried another SD card : same thing, can access it from recovery but not from adnroid.
The card is ok, I can read/write it when plugged into the PC.
I have also reformatted it, same thing. Any idea what's going on ? Thanks
Edit: BTW I have a "kernel is not seandroid enforcing" message at boot... This is new. Probably due to stock kernel I got back from stock rom flash before. Flashed latest Imperium kernel, same message.

OK guys, got it fixed.
Flashed (again) official I9505XXUHOJ2_I9505OXXHOJ1_XEF. Despite lots of "android.process.acore" and android.process.media FCs (don't know why, it was ok in the morning, flashed it twice in the evening with these FC), I could access to the Security settings and could AT LAST (!) select "Disable" on "SD encryption" page. Which I did, and BAM, all is ok now. I could re-install Albe95 s^ port 4.7 with full access to my external SD card now (handling my professional exchange security settings in Nince app).
Thanks for your help,
regards