16 hours and I have only one issue left.. memory card is only being recogised 200mb - HD2 General

I have been at this for 16 odd hours and have overcome wifi probs, activation probs, chevvy issues.. done 3 flashes of wp7, radio updated.. all is grand now but the memory card issue!
Please, someone allow me to go to bed by explaining how I can format the card to show more than 200mb?!
I have taken the card out, formatted on my pc, reformatted with other tools, am stuck, and have spent the last hour searching through threads for info I had earlier but can no longer find! it doesnt help that any search containing "SD" is ignored as xda search sees it as too small a word.
Who wants some good Karma?

I really dont get why this topic is been creating/cloned etc on a regular basis??
Please use search function, this topic has been discussed many times.
Use some commen sense, dont look for "SD", use keywords like "WP7" and "200" or "200mb", "partition" etc. Or even reading the readme that came with the WP7 rom would be a good start

Why not help me instead of witholding what you know and making me forrage around one hell of a mess of a forum to find information I have been searching for since this afternoon????????

from the read me, and i quote "WARNING: WP7 will format the SD card during the first boot.
Two SD card partitions are created during cold boot.
First one is a 200Mb FAT partition and another one with unknown format which
is used as RAID with main memory."
That doesnt explain how to change the RAID partition into physical memory I can access from the device...

xandercom said:
I have been at this for 16 odd hours and have overcome wifi probs, activation probs, chevvy issues.. done 3 flashes of wp7, radio updated.. all is grand now but the memory card issue!
Please, someone allow me to go to bed by explaining how I can format the card to show more than 200mb?!
I have taken the card out, formatted on my pc, reformatted with other tools, am stuck, and have spent the last hour searching through threads for info I had earlier but can no longer find! it doesnt help that any search containing "SD" is ignored as xda search sees it as too small a word.
Who wants some good Karma?
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Here is what you need to do:
Make sure your SD card is in the phone
Do a factory reset by going to settings>About>Reset your phone.
After WP7 reboots, it will recognize your card and all the date.
You will have to re-enter your Activation code.

changochulo said:
Here is what you need to do:
Make sure your SD card is in the phone
Do a factory reset by going to settings>About>Reset your phone.
After WP7 reboots, it will recognize your card and all the date.
You will have to re-enter your Activation code.
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Thanks for the advice.
Is there any way this can be done outside of the device? I have heard that I can get an SD formatting tool but whatever one I downloaded did nothing to help.
I am reluctant to do the 4th hard reset of the day for this OS as a) there is talk of the auth code working only 3 times, and b) I have everything else working now and dont want to tempt fate!
Is it only a WP7 hard reset that will resolve this for me now?
:-(
Thanks in advance of your help my man!!

also, wont a hard reset undo all of the unlocking and such from chevvy?

xandercom said:
also, wont a hard reset undo all of the unlocking and such from chevvy?
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Im pretty sure it will undo the unlocking, but it only takes a few minutes to go thru it again once you have everything downloaded.

Hard reset number 5 it is then!!
It didnt save my settings on the mem card, obviously as it wasnt in there in the first place during the previous hard reset.
Im becoming a master at hard resets and personalisation now!

that's not gonna help, , the first time it boots its gonna again make a 200meg partition and the rest create a raid.
download a partition program (there are loads, personally i have a ubuntu laptop and use that, you could also make an ubuntu live cd, boot to that and delete teh partition there.
through Ubuntu...
phone into magldr, usb mass storage, connect to Ubuntu, the 200meg filesystem icon will soon appear on the desktop, right click, format, instead of clicking ok click disk utility, select the 200 partition and click unmount then click delete, then select the unknown partition, and click delete.
if you are going back to android now would be a great time to set up an ext partition if you want one.
If you are sticking with wp7, then you can't format it to show more than 200meg, that's all that wp7 allocates to the fat partition, all the rest goes to system storage. Messing with the disk (even removing it whilst wp7 is running, i believe) will trash the data on the card and wp7 will reformat it.
If you are heading back to wm then create a fat32 partition the full size of the card.

samsamuel said:
that's not gonna help, , the first time it boots its gonna again make a 200meg partition and the rest create a raid.
download a partition program (there are loads, personally i have a ubuntu laptop and use that, you could also make an ubuntu live cd, boot to that and delete teh partition there.
through Ubuntu...
phone into magldr, usb mass storage, connect to Ubuntu, the 200meg filesystem icon will soon appear on the desktop, right click, format, instead of clicking ok click disk utility, select the 200 partition and click unmount then click delete, then select the unknown partition, and click delete.
if you are going back to android now would be a great time to set up an ext partition if you want one.
If you are sticking with wp7, then you can't format it to show more than 200meg, that's all that wp7 allocates to the fat partition, all the rest goes to system storage. Messing with the disk (even removing it whilst wp7 is running, i believe) will trash the data on the card and wp7 will reformat it.
If you are heading back to wm then create a fat32 partition the full size of the card.
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Sam,
Ive already tried this and it worked for me. Im just going off my experience.

samsamuel said:
that's not gonna help, , the first time it boots its gonna again make a 200meg partition and the rest create a raid.
download a partition program (there are loads, personally i have a ubuntu laptop and use that, you could also make an ubuntu live cd, boot to that and delete teh partition there.
through Ubuntu...
phone into magldr, usb mass storage, connect to Ubuntu, the 200meg filesystem icon will soon appear on the desktop, right click, format, instead of clicking ok click disk utility, select the 200 partition and click unmount then click delete, then select the unknown partition, and click delete.
if you are going back to android now would be a great time to set up an ext partition if you want one.
If you are sticking with wp7, then you can't format it to show more than 200meg, that's all that wp7 allocates to the fat partition, all the rest goes to system storage. Messing with the disk (even removing it whilst wp7 is running, i believe) will trash the data on the card and wp7 will reformat it.
If you are heading back to wm then create a fat32 partition the full size of the card.
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Actually, it has done the trick, however now I am back to having a locked device again and cant deploy apps from my pc. Back to where I was 6 hours ago.
All I want is space to store more than 4 apps before the dang thing runs out of space.
Time to grab a beer me thinks.

Related

THE SDHC EncFiltLog file CORRUPTION SOLVED

PROBLEM:
Now, the problem all started when try to format the micro SDHC on the phone or on the PC with card reader.
Tried with differ format program also low level not worked.
DONT USE THESE!!! Waste of time!!!
SOLUTION:
So after doing some thinking about the situation, I figured that there was a problem with the card inserted and find the file EncFiltLog on it.
It is the WM 6.1 encription file. You can't delete, move files from or in to the SDHC.
The best way to solve this issue, as the hard-reset DOES NOTHING to fix this issue, would be to have windows hopefully find the connected device and format it. Here are the EASY steps which DO NOT involve using a dozen computers and has provided the same result EVERY time; which is a working on my 8gig memory in my HTC HD.
1. Connect the HD to the computer and select DISK DRIVE as the option on the on-screen popup on your phone. Don’t select ACTIVE SYNC. If you miss it, then go into your phone and press START>SETTINGS>CONNECTIONS TAB>USB to PC and select the bullet of DISK DRIVE and hit ok.
2. On your computer, (USING A WINDOWS XP MACHINE), go into your "My computer"
3. A window for will open with two columns.(If not, change the view to "Group") We are looking at the RIGHT side right now. In there is has three categories, and we are only focusing on ONE of them. LOOK for STORAGE which should be the center category.
4. Click with right to the desired "Storage device; A: ; D: E;", it will take a minute or two depending on your computer speed and environment to populate your hard drive and connected memory devices.
5. You will eventually see your PHONE internal storage listed. IT WILL TAKE SOME TIME BECAUSE YOUR PHONE INTERNAL STORAGE IS CORRUPTED!
***BE SURE WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT IS IN FACT YOUR PHONE AND NOTHING SOMETHING ELSE LIKE YOUR MAIN HARD DRIVE OR SOME OTHER STORAGE DEVICE WITH IMPORTANT FILES ON THERE***
****I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY IF YOU FORMAT THE WRONG DEVICE***
6. Choose format and let it format the drive. This should also take a few minutes. Select FAT32 and name is whatever you want! Let this finish COMPLETLY!
**Your almost done**
7. Now you can copy, anything you want on it, but if you put again in to the PDA then the
EncFiltLog will come on again. But at least you not have to throw away the card,
you can use it again.
8. Finally my last comment:
If you want to speed up the card (.cab installation, copy, move ...etc.....)
the best way after all this work listed above, you should made a BACKUP from all your PERSONALITIES and
make a HARD RESET.
After it should speed up all the programs and processions with the card.
If you done then one IMPORTANT THING!:
YOU SHOULD NEVER EVER TAP ON THE CARD ENCRIPTION IN THE SETTINGS,
NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!!!!!!
Hope this helps you all out!!
BTW: I want to say thanks to XDA-FORUM (all people) to make my life easier
and to found the right gadgets to use, to play and enjoy it....
Wow - not bad at all for a first post!
Welcome to the forum!
Thanks for providing a solution!
krnkris said:
PROBLEM:
Now, the problem all started when try to format the micro SDHC on the phone or on the PC with card reader.
Tried with differ format program also low level not worked.
DONT USE THESE!!! Waste of time!!!
SOLUTION:
So after doing some thinking about the situation, I figured that there was a problem with the card inserted and find the file EncFiltLog on it.
It is the WM 6.1 encription file. You can't delete, move files from or in to the SDHC.
The best way to solve this issue, as the hard-reset DOES NOTHING to fix this issue, would be to have windows hopefully find the connected device and format it. Here are the EASY steps which DO NOT involve using a dozen computers and has provided the same result EVERY time; which is a working on my 8gig memory in my HTC HD.
1. Connect the HD to the computer and select DISK DRIVE as the option on the on-screen popup on your phone. Don’t select ACTIVE SYNC. If you miss it, then go into your phone and press START>SETTINGS>CONNECTIONS TAB>USB to PC and select the bullet of DISK DRIVE and hit ok.
2. On your computer, (USING A WINDOWS XP MACHINE), go into your "My computer"
3. A window for will open with two columns.(If not, change the view to "Group") We are looking at the RIGHT side right now. In there is has three categories, and we are only focusing on ONE of them. LOOK for STORAGE which should be the center category.
4. Click with right to the desired "Storage device; A: ; D: E;", it will take a minute or two depending on your computer speed and environment to populate your hard drive and connected memory devices.
5. You will eventually see your PHONE internal storage listed. IT WILL TAKE SOME TIME BECAUSE YOUR PHONE INTERNAL STORAGE IS CORRUPTED!
***BE SURE WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT IS IN FACT YOUR PHONE AND NOTHING SOMETHING ELSE LIKE YOUR MAIN HARD DRIVE OR SOME OTHER STORAGE DEVICE WITH IMPORTANT FILES ON THERE***
****I TAKE NO RESPONSIBILITY IF YOU FORMAT THE WRONG DEVICE***
6. Choose format and let it format the drive. This should also take a few minutes. Select FAT32 and name is whatever you want! Let this finish COMPLETLY!
**Your almost done**
7. Now you can copy, anything you want on it, but if you put again in to the PDA then the
EncFiltLog will come on again. But at least you not have to throw away the card,
you can use it again.
8. Finally my last comment:
If you want to speed up the card (.cab installation, copy, move ...etc.....)
the best way after all this work listed above, you should made a BACKUP from all your PERSONALITIES and
make a HARD RESET.
After it should speed up all the programs and processions with the card.
If you done then one IMPORTANT THING!:
YOU SHOULD NEVER EVER TAP ON THE CARD ENCRIPTION IN THE SETTINGS,
NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!!!!!!
Hope this helps you all out!!
BTW: I want to say thanks to XDA-FORUM (all people) to make my life easier
and to found the right gadgets to use, to play and enjoy it....
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Yesterday it happens for the second time that my SD-Card gets corrupt again, the first time it happens with a 8 Gb SDHC Sandisk and now with a 16 Gb.! After a hard-reset.Didn't know before I read this post that this could happen ever!??
And indeed I couldn't write or read on the card or format it again, even with a cardreader!
Both cards are useless about €120,- thrown away, gone
Didn't know before I read this post, that this is an WM 6.1 encription issue. Never used or even tap it.
Now I format another 8Gb like the way you describe here, i hope that when i need to do another hard-reset i can use the card again!
BTW, its a little bit strange to me that there are so little reaction from other users here about EncFiltLog problem?
I hope that there will come a solution in WM 6.1 to prevent that b!llsh!t.
Thanks for the great support, i hope it realy works!
Nice post
I have one more question:
What may happen when I delete this encryption file? Is it possible?
P.S. Sorry for my english :/
Hi Everyone!
The best way, if you purchase a new card, to FORMAT at first.
Then you put in to your phone and try not to teke it out any more.
If you want to use it as USB reader the as I write in my first post
START>SETTINGS>CONNECTIONS TAB>USB to PC and select the bullet of DISK DRIVE and hit ok .
In this case you can use the phone as a card reader.
It is speed up the file transfer vs. ACTIVESYNC.
If the card is not recognised ether way then,
because of the too much taking out - - put it back; went to faulty.
You can go back to the store for guarantee replacement.
The EncFiltLog is a problem only if you encrypted the card.
The solution to delete it and use as new card described in my first post.
If you put a new card in to the Phone then this file seem to be created by the OP system.
You can delete with format, but it will come back again and again.
krnkris said:
You can delete with format, but it will come back again and again.
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Your right, the file is still there again!
But I have also a question about a next( hope not) hardreset on my device!
Is it better to format the SD-card (with USB on the device) before or after the hard-reset to save the further use of the card?
Because in my experience you have to start installing everything over again, because the data on the card was anyway corrupt and useless.
It is NOT recommended to use the MS Windows Format command to re-format any SDHC card - it will format them, of course, but with the wrong cluster size, slowing access speed down and possibly causing other problems.
I would suggest to always use a tool like Panasonic's SD Formatter when formating any kind of SD card. You can get it here: http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/sd/download/sd_formatter.html
-Valynor
Valynor said:
It is NOT recommended to use the MS Windows Format command to re-format any SDHC card - it will format them, of course, but with the wrong cluster size, slowing access speed down and possibly causing other problems.
I would suggest to always use a tool like Panasonic's SD Formatter when formating any kind of SD card. You can get it here: http://panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/sd/download/sd_formatter.html
-Valynor
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Also good to know, but does it also prevent or solve that EncFiltLog problem?
Is there no registry tweak to turn off or delete that W 6.1 encryption option anyway?
luckyuser said:
Also good to know, but does it also prevent or solve that EncFiltLog problem?
Is there no registry tweak to turn off or delete that W 6.1 encryption option anyway?
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No as far as I know.
Will creating a read-only, hidden folder called "EncFltLog.menc" on the card prevent this problem?
Phil_123 said:
Will creating a read-only, hidden folder called "EncFltLog.menc" on the card prevent this problem?
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What do you mean?How do you do?
HI folks, glad to find some peeps who are suffering from the same problem...
The solution here seems not to work for me, as I hard-reset my TouchHD before I found out about that encryption ****up...
Is there any solution that allows you to reformat the card?
Not to mention that I NEVER touched that damn encryption option as I really never trust M$ that far with my data... seems it got me Pwned anyways...
Anyone ever tried to Write M$, tell them what a bunch of wacky Ho's they are and demand a new miniSD Card from them?
sorry for my language but atm I mad as hell as I just lost a 8GB and a 16GB sanDisk...
I experienced a lot of bc during all the yaers messing with M$ stuff but this ****up ins unbelievable...
I had the same problem with my 8gb sandisk.
I would like to add that I was able to retrieve most of my files from the memory card using EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard Professional. You need to do the data recovery before attempting to reformat the card.
Hi guys sorry for messing around in your forum but this post is the closest solution to my problem. I cannot format or save anything to my 16gb sandisk card because of that bloody encryption file. Now the problem is that I'm a Kaiser user and I do not have disk mode in my phone, so has anyone successfully formatted their card without using disk mode?
one very quik question. Does this fix the problem for good? you can use the sdhc card with the phone or will it always end up with menc file?
card unreadable in one night
Yesterday, my sdhc 8gb card was working properly but in just one night something happened to it. In the morning, I came to know that it is not more being recognized by htc hd2. Every time I soft reset or hard reset the phone a message come up saying "Do you want to format this storage card to make it readable? this will permanently delete any files on the card." when I click no nothing happens and phone keeps on working and if I click yes then the card is formatted in just 1 second. I tried formatting the card myself from phone format tool (there is format card tool in tools section of the phone) but it is showing only 30.61 mb instead of 8gb.
After reading this thread, I think the problem is with EncFiltLog. Actually I backup my phone and card yesterday with sprite backup. I also backup EncFiltLog on my pc. Now after hard resetting the phone I delete the newly created EncFiltLog file by the fresh WM 6.5 installation after hard reset. I deleted that file from my pc by using the phone card storage as disk drive instead of activesync and simply shift+delete the file from removable storage in My computer. After that I copied all the phone card backup (including EncFiltLog - old one) on the freshly hard reset phone. Now all of sudden in just one night phone sdhc card is not able to recognized by phone.
Moral of the story: Never backup EncFiltLog. Keep the newly created EncFiltLog file by wm 6.5 after hard reset and copy your all files and folder from card backup to phone card (excluding EncFiltLog) after a hard reset. Don't ever overwrite the newly created EncFiltLog.menc file with old one from backup.
Reason: I think WM 6.5 pairs the newly created EncFiltLog with its some key on phone internal storage. Remember how encryption works? I am talking about public key and private key pairing. I think WM6.5 pairs one key stored in EncFiltLog with another key stored inside the phone interal storage which is itself freshly created after the hard reset but when we copy the old EncFiltLog from storage card backup to freshly hard reset phone storage card, those key pairs won't match anymore and windows mobile 6.5 simply locks up the card.
it is my own opinion.
One more clue
Ok guys, I've got one more clue after googling and reading other threads on this forum. May be HTC is supplying fake 8gb sdhc card with hd2.
I've came on that conclusion because yesterday there was more than 5 gb space left on my phone storage card. In the night RSS Hub software has updated all the feeds and stored those feeds on storage card (I've set feeds to be stored on storage card). I think something has been gone wrong there. May be the actual capacity of this fake storage cards in far less than what is written/claimed on the card (i.e. 8gb). In the night as soon as the RSS Hub stored feed on the card, it somehow corrupted the card FAT writting its data on sectors of the card where it should not be.
Hence the card is corrupted now just showing 30.61 mb instead of 8gb. There exists no solution for this situtation till now. I've sent mail to HTC regarding this on their customer support page. Let's see what would happen now. I suspect either HTC or my dealer would say that the storage card don't come under warranty. Let's see now. I will update the thread soon.
My problem is the same.....
after HSPL I faced "Do you want to format this storage card to make it readable?..." and after that I lost my mSD.
Format Storage Card didn't worked. it shows 30.61MB , Cluster Size: 0KB
also Clear Storage didn't worked...
System > Memory > Storage Card > Total storage card memory: Not installed
Is there any other way to fix this problem? because of my country, it is difficult to use HTC Service...

WP7 ate away my SD CARD!

So I tried using WP7 On hd2.
But I didn't like it as much as Android. So I reverted back to android. But guess what I only have 200mb on SD Card instead of 16gb. (I should have expected this I suppose)
Can anyone tell me how to restore my SD Card to 16gb? I am sure there are others who are curious as well.
Thanks
Try formatting the card, windows, winmo or android, try em, it might work.
Get an adapter, shove it in a camera and format it
cos wp7 creates an unknown format partition. use a partitioning program, see if you can delete the partitions (there will be two, one 200meg fat and one unknown format) then reset a new FAT32 partition for the full size.
Be careful in disk management, delete from the wrong disk and its hello to up-all-night-reinstalling-your-PC, hehe.
I've used geparted live cd...worked fine. You have to delete partition and re- format as any filesystem you want.
TheATHEiST said:
Why's that? Because you didnt even bother to read the read me files like a tard??
Use some common sense ffs, Read info before doing anything like this.
It CLEARY states that WP7 creates partitions on your card and anybody with half a brain would know to re-format card after using a different OS especially one that creates partitions.
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While I agree that the OP is at fault for clearly not reading anything and just flashing (I read instructions and used a different SD card when I tried WP7 - it was VERY clear!!!), I don't see why you feel the need to be so offensive to him. That's just plain out of order man. Stop just dissing people. If you don't have anything constructive to say then just don't say anything.
This is a friendly forum. Be friendly.
TheATHEiST said:
Why's that? Because you didnt even bother to read the read me files like a tard??
Use some common sense ffs, Read info before doing anything like this.
It CLEARY states that WP7 creates partitions on your card and anybody with half a brain would know to re-format card after using a different OS especially one that creates partitions.
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Feel better about yourself after that?
Yup, I should have read about this before flashing but I had fun for a while and went back to Duttys Rom. However, I have 14gb of files and music on the card and a 200mb fat partition. Is there any way of at least retrieving the pictures and music before I reformat? Windows can only see the 200mb. Disk management shows the two partitions but won't let me delete the 200mb partition. Any suggestions?
I hope this guy doesn't treat his kids like that...."hey retard, go clean your room! It's the only way you'll learn"
The internet gives some people license to be morons unfortunately.
To the OP, I hope you get that fixed. If you find a way to fix it let us know which way worked for you in case we have to do the same thing to. I have a few SD cards but I don't want any of them to be rendered useless.
try using minitools partition wizard (home edition). delete both partitions so that each partition is displayed as a whole unpartitioned space and create a PRIMARY partition using fat32. your data was deleted when windows phone 7 was setting up for the first time. luckily i used another card but good luck
if you go bk to android leave a bit of space after when doing the primary fat32 and create a ext2 partition. its in the file system tab in the create partition bit
splinters69 said:
Yup, I should have read about this before flashing but I had fun for a while and went back to Duttys Rom. However, I have 14gb of files and music on the card and a 200mb fat partition. Is there any way of at least retrieving the pictures and music before I reformat? Windows can only see the 200mb. Disk management shows the two partitions but won't let me delete the 200mb partition. Any suggestions?
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how about using usb storage in wp7 to transfer the files?
SH4YD33 said:
how about using usb storage in wp7 to transfer the files?
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it wipes the card n formats it when win phone 7 first boots up.
Thanks everyone for their input. I managed to restore my SD Card. I am a happy android user. From my experience, I think android is far more stable than WP7. Android offers more versatility and customization. Again thanks.
Theres a fix for that just search
I couldn't find a way of saving the data so I lost it. Popping it in a camera formatted it perfectly. Won't be running wp7 again. Looks nice but too much hassle to get calendars etc.
To format the sd... put in the camera (mine for example is a nikon) and format it..
For me works well.
But I have another problem: in WP7 I have only some MB free.. so.. I can put in music if I have that little space?
My sd is 8GB...
dissa said:
To format the sd... put in the camera (mine for example is a nikon) and format it..
For me works well.
But I have another problem: in WP7 I have only some MB free.. so.. I can put in music if I have that little space?
My sd is 8GB...
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Well so far I haven't been able to figure out the usb data storage method for wp7 if one even exists... so the only way you can put music and photos and other files onto wp7 is through zune.. if you try usb mass storage in magldr you will only see 200mb but through zune you can transfer files to your 8gb sd card capacity.
zup2sky said:
So I tried using WP7 On hd2.
But I didn't like it as much as Android. So I reverted back to android. But guess what I only have 200mb on SD Card instead of 16gb. (I should have expected this I suppose)
Can anyone tell me how to restore my SD Card to 16gb? I am sure there are others who are curious as well.
Thanks
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to restore back yours 16 Gb, you must reformat your SD with SDformater Windows application.
lan78691 said:
Well so far I haven't been able to figure out the usb data storage method for wp7 if one even exists... so the only way you can put music and photos and other files onto wp7 is through zune.. if you try usb mass storage in magldr you will only see 200mb but through zune you can transfer files to your 8gb sd card capacity.
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That is the problem. When I try to transfer just only a song Zune tells me that there is no enough space for the tranfer.
dissa said:
That is the problem. When I try to transfer just only a song Zune tells me that there is no enough space for the tranfer.
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I had the same problem...
What you need to do is:
In Zune, go to 'Settings'. Then click on 'Phone'. Next, click on 'Reserved Space'.
Make the reserved space about 10%. This should give you about 6.5 Gb on an 8 Gig SD card. It also gives WP7 a bit of 'extra memory' to work with.
For a first release, this is an awesome piece of work. A few things don't work, but on the whole I'm impressed. I'm going to test it for a month to see how it performs.
The main functions work - Phone, text, e-mail, music, video. And nearly all of it is automatically set up. Correctly too.
Worked for me. Plenty of room for syncing via Zune.
Enjoy.......

Dual Booting Mango and Android Wiped the Android Partition!

Hi,
I'm dual booting Mango and Android in my HD2.
Initially, everything was fine. i can boot into mango or android as i wish. after 1 day exploring mango, i realized that the empty space of the storage card returned to 8GB. FYI, i partitioned the SD card into 2 partitions of 4GB each.
then went into MAGDLR to boot Android...it says loading image fail...my android partition is gone!
anyone facing this issue? i'm thinking maybe mango has something to do with it...
any thoughts?
thx
me too,so i back to NAND android again
remember this is green mango and is buggy!
It probably did a hard software reset and wiped the sd card while you weren't looking.
Hope you backed up android!
You Jinxed me!!!! I read your post this afternoon I said to myself "Pfff...Sucks for U, glad I'm still on NODO!" and then an hour ago while listening to Last.fm my phone crashed and rebooted. I didn't think anything of it because it does this every time once in a while. I stuck it back in my holster while waiting for it to be ready to use again. When I took it back out of my holster and turned it on it had the "getting started menu" was on the first page! Nooooo!!!!!! I got Jinxed!!!!!!!!
Well, I was planning to upgrade to Mango shortly anyways and I have a backup of my android on my desktop, which I just I did 2 days ago, thank god!!! So not too bad though my desktop usb hubs is really wonky and unreliable at times so that will be my only headache. So to answer your question, it's not just a Mango problem. It can happen on Nodo, too!
is this a mango problem? i've been dual booting ever since wp7 was available and haven't had any mishaps. gotta backup more often, but aren't we always using new versions of android anyways?
radiikal,
How did you get Mango dual booting in the first place. I have not had the time to devote to figuring out how to work with the way Mango formats the SD card, in the past I have been running dual boot on 7004 and NoDo so I know how to do it. However, as of Mango it formats the entire card as two "Other" partitions, since the 200MB section is not FAT16 I have not been able to modify it using the usual steps and I cannot get Windows to recognize the new FAT32 partition since it is not the first partition on the disk. I am going to try and copy a partition from another SD card and see if that works but if there is another way to do it I would like to know.
~Spike~
spikespencer said:
radiikal,
How did you get Mango dual booting in the first place. I have not had the time to devote to figuring out how to work with the way Mango formats the SD card, in the past I have been running dual boot on 7004 and NoDo so I know how to do it. However, as of Mango it formats the entire card as two "Other" partitions, since the 200MB section is not FAT16 I have not been able to modify it using the usual steps and I cannot get Windows to recognize the new FAT32 partition since it is not the first partition on the disk. I am going to try and copy a partition from another SD card and see if that works but if there is another way to do it I would like to know.
~Spike~
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Guys, the dual booting method is the same for all WP7 builds. I'm using the one user elfinlazz cooked (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1157535) and i loaded it the same way as i did when i was using xbmod's build.
spike, you are right in that when WP7 formats your sd card, it doesn't make a FAT16 partition. I use minitool partition manager for the whole process and it makes one 200MB "other" partition, and the rest of the space as a second "other" partition. what you do is this:
1) Delete the bigger "other"(red) partition and click apply. it should be "unallocated" (gray)
2) Click create make it "unformatted"(dark green), leave as logical, and make sure that "partition size" is BIGGER than "unallocated space before" (I would make it AT LEAST a 1gb difference. I've had issues where if you try to make them equal sizes, windows would format the whole card again)
NOTE: make sure the partitions read in THIS EXACT ORDER:
200MB "other" partition
smaller "unallocated" partition
bigger "unformatted" partition
click apply and it may take a while. once it's done, put it in the phone and boot into WP7
3) you should go through the setting up phone process. once you get to the home screen, go to settings, about phone, and check the available storage. it SHOULD be the size of the bigger "unformatted" partition (give or take a couple mb for the os files). if all is well, hit "reset your phone", when it asks are you sure, hit yes, and your phone will reboot. MAKE SURE YOU BOOT INTO MAGLDR.
4) once in magldr, put the sd back in the computer and open minitool
5) you can now delete the 200MB "other" partition and it will merge with the smaller "unallocated" partition. from there, click create, make it FAT32, make it primary, and make the cluster size 32kb. click apply and let it work.
6) you should now have 2 partitions, a FAT32 and an "other" partition. the "other" partition should be bigger. right click on the "other" partition, go to "modify" and click set as primary. both partition should be set as primary or android will not see your SD storage.
7) if that's good, copy your android build to the sd card and before booting into android, i would boot into WP7 again, set up your phone again, and check the available storage. should be the same as the first time you booted wp7. if not, then you'll have to do the process all over again, and i would make the WP7 partition bigger than you did.
I am using dual boot too, no issues here. Works as good as it always has
radiikal said:
Hi,
I'm dual booting Mango and Android in my HD2.
Initially, everything was fine. i can boot into mango or android as i wish. after 1 day exploring mango, i realized that the empty space of the storage card returned to 8GB. FYI, i partitioned the SD card into 2 partitions of 4GB each.
then went into MAGDLR to boot Android...it says loading image fail...my android partition is gone!
anyone facing this issue? i'm thinking maybe mango has something to do with it...
any thoughts?
thx
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I think you can not dual boot with half and half size. Give WP7 greater space than Android as not to confuse WP7. I read that somewhere.
spikespencer said:
radiikal,
How did you get Mango dual booting in the first place. I have not had the time to devote to figuring out how to work with the way Mango formats the SD card, in the past I have been running dual boot on 7004 and NoDo so I know how to do it. However, as of Mango it formats the entire card as two "Other" partitions, since the 200MB section is not FAT16 I have not been able to modify it using the usual steps and I cannot get Windows to recognize the new FAT32 partition since it is not the first partition on the disk. I am going to try and copy a partition from another SD card and see if that works but if there is another way to do it I would like to know.
~Spike~
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You can use 2 different separate cards, one for each build. It's a pain to update WP7 and then go over the partitioning mess again.
The only annoyance may be the removing and the reinserting of cards. That does not bother me.
Once WP7 Mango is set up and running, it does not erase a new card you would insert by accident. WP7 asks you to turn off the phone and get the right card. It is best to setup MAGLDR to boot android automatically...
I had that same problem but that was with a 7004 build. It happened a day after I flashed radio 2.15 to 2.12 to test for better battery performance.
Have got radio 2.15 back on and not changing this time

Unlocking SD

Im Tired Of Restarting My Phone Because It Keep Freezing. Im Trying to Unlock My SD Card. I Don't Have A Nokia Phone Laying Around And I Tried Going To A Location Phone Store, They Just Act Like Ass Hole. I was thinking about using Xbmod CAB but i dont know what the steps are anyone mind helping me out,
I have a Sandisk 8 Gig.
Pls Help.
Does Anyone One Know How To Use The Xbmod Cab to unlock SD.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1286511
Check this link...have you got mango?
Yes i have mango.
The process is fairly simple, however, I doubt it will solve your freezing problems.
Once you have Mango, send a DEV_STORAGELOCK .CAB to your phone using the Cab Sender, the process also installs the .cab, so when it is completed and the phone restarts and the transfer is checked, you will have a tile with Storagelock (I know, the name is somewhat misleading). That is the program that will unlock your card when used. You have to remember though that the unlock will work only until you restart your WP7, as it locks your card again and you will have to unlock it every time you want to use it.
Thanks I Got That Step Down. I Want to unlock my whole SD card. I sent the 8_extraportion but i cant unlock it i keep getting "Fail Toggling Card".
From my experience, most freezing and glitches comes from incompatible cards. I think other users had problems of that nature and reported certain brands to fail or cause problems during or after install or update.
I installed the DEV_STORAGELOCK .cab first, hard reset from startup, rather than 'about' menu, unlock, then sent the partition cab, another hard reset. Check the 'about' in settings, it will tell you if the partitioning has been successful.
Try the whole process again. Can't say I ever had the same error message before, so not sure how to proceed.
iKilla said:
Thanks I Got That Step Down. I Want to unlock my whole SD card. I sent the 8_extraportion but i cant unlock it i keep getting "Fail Toggling Card".
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don't try to put an 8Gb partition onto an 8Gb sd card, or you will leave no room for mango to work and you will get errors.
So you need to send extrapart-remove.cab to get rid of 8gb partition
Put a 1 Gb partition on it, unlock the storage then use your pc to resize and format your sd
I sent the 1g_extrapart. How do I resize it on PC?
download easeus partition master
find your sd on the screen by plugging it in and clicking refresh (arrows), your sd should show up as disk 2 or 3 and should have two sections FAT32 and unformatted.
right click on the unformatted section and choose delete then click on "apply"(or tick) button above
right click on your 1 gb FAT32 partition and chose resize
move the slider(click and hold on the separating bar between the two partitions) to increase the size to the whole volume then click apply
right click on the volume again and choose format primary,FAT32, 32kb sectors then apply.
That should do it.
I Love You Such Much In A Friendly Way My SD Card Is Unlock And I Have The Full Size. You The Best Help. And Also @enigma1nz Thank For Helping Me Out.
Thanks For Helping Me Out.

MicroSD corrupted only on Marshmallow update.

When the Samsung Galaxy S5 (SM-G900F) received official Android 6.0.1, I have manually installed that firmware on my device. Within few weeks ago it shows that my microSD card (64GB) corrupted. At that time if i connect to the PC I can access the SD card without any error. When I tap on "fix it" it format the SD and again it shows the exact same issue.
If I connect this sd card to a PC or a another Android device (runs ICS), these devices are not detect any error. Then I rebooted my S5 into a safe mode and again it shows that issue. However, this issue will fix if I reset the phone. After few days left it again appear that error.
So how do I fix this matter?
My wifes phone has the same issue.
Non rooted phone - 100% stock. Never messed with it.
After the MM update the sdcard just says corrupted.
As soon as a photo is stored or if google play music downloads a track to it it is corrupted.
Really annoying.
Going to try a full wipe now but I'm glad it's not just her phone. I thought the SD card had died and we haven't had it long.
Looks like it's something samsung have done.
Tried formatting the SDCard with a PC?
My SDCard is the same one I've had since I got the phone, through KitKat > Lollipop > MarshMallow, and has never been wiped or formatted, still got the very first photo I ever took with the phone on it
ownjoouk said:
My wifes phone has the same issue.
Non rooted phone - 100% stock. Never messed with it.
After the MM update the sdcard just says corrupted.
As soon as a photo is stored or if google play music downloads a track to it it is corrupted.
Really annoying.
Going to try a full wipe now but I'm glad it's not just her phone. I thought the SD card had died and we haven't had it long.
Looks like it's something samsung have done.
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No need to wipe SD. Connect that SD to a PC and copy all the files.
*Detection* said:
Tried formatting the SDCard with a PC?
My SDCard is the same one I've had since I got the phone, through KitKat > Lollipop > MarshMallow, and has never been wiped or formatted, still got the very first photo I ever took with the phone on it
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I think this issue caused by some sort of app or its a firmware issue.
Yeah it's been formatted. I did pop it into a pc to try and save everything but it demanded a wipe.
So I did.
It worked for a little bit and corrupted again. Now when I pit it in the pc it struggles to read it and the phone won't "fix it" either.
Tried to wipe it in a few different programs but it appears the card is corrupted.
It's a 64gb Samsung card. Only had it since January this year. Bought brand new from amazon.
I have another in my note 3 and that is still perfect.
The only saving grace is that Google photos had all the photos synced.
So i'm going to email Samsung about it as there has been no issues with the card until the moment the MM update hit.
ownjoouk said:
Yeah it's been formatted. I did pop it into a pc to try and save everything but it demanded a wipe.
So I did.
It worked for a little bit and corrupted again. Now when I pit it in the pc it struggles to read it and the phone won't "fix it" either.
Tried to wipe it in a few different programs but it appears the card is corrupted.
It's a 64gb Samsung card. Only had it since January this year. Bought brand new from amazon.
I have another in my note 3 and that is still perfect.
The only saving grace is that Google photos had all the photos synced.
So i'm going to email Samsung about it as there has been no issues with the card until the moment the MM update hit.
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Try MiniTool Partition Wizard
Delete all partitions on the card > create new primary partition > Format to FAT32
MiniTool Partition Wizard free
https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html
Used that to repair SDCards and USB drives a few times
You can also do it manually with elevated CMD: (Hit enter after each)
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diskpart
list disk
select disk x (x = being the disk number of your USB drive/card)
clean
create partition primary
active
format fs=fat32 quick
assign
exit
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Try the card again
*Detection* said:
Try MiniTool Partition Wizard
Delete all partitions on the card > create new primary partition > Format to FAT32
MiniTool Partition Wizard free
https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html
Used that to repair SDCards and USB drives a few times
You can also do it manually with elevated CMD: (Hit enter after each)
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diskpart
list disk
select disk x (x = being the disk number of your USB drive/card)
clean
create partition primary
active
format fs=fat32 quick
assign
exit
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Try the card again
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Already tried diskpart. No dice.
Just tried MiniTool Partition Manager. Still nothing. It lets you delete the partition and then creates a new partition instantly.
It has however now loaded in windows and shows 4 android folders but even after a delete on the partition and create new it makes no changes to the card.
It also wont let me add anything. Almost as if it is locked to read only.
So thanks for the advice as I can now see the card in windows "sort of". It's really slow though. But I can't put anything on it or wipe it or do anything with it really!
Windows 10 also says there are errors and when you let it error check it just stops responding.
ownjoouk said:
Already tried diskpart. No dice.
Just tried MiniTool Partition Manager. Still nothing. It lets you delete the partition and then creates a new partition instantly.
It has however now loaded in windows and shows 4 android folders but even after a delete on the partition and create new it makes no changes to the card.
It also wont let me add anything. Almost as if it is locked to read only.
So thanks for the advice as I can now see the card in windows "sort of". It's really slow though. But I can't put anything on it or wipe it or do anything with it really!
Windows 10 also says there are errors and when you let it error check it just stops responding.
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If it still shows android folders on it, then none of the partition commands you've used, nor minitool have done anything, as you'll know, deleting all partitions on a disk completely wipes it
With MiniTool, it works a weird way, you have to basically tell it what you want to do, all steps, and then hit apply at the top, once you hit apply, it then performs the steps it looked like you had already done manually
EDIT - Just a thought, a live Linux CD/DVD/USB might have more luck, Linux doesn't care about permissions etc
*Detection* said:
If it still shows android folders on it, then none of the partition commands you've used, nor minitool have done anything, as you'll know, deleting all partitions on a disk completely wipes it
With MiniTool, it works a weird way, you have to basically tell it what you want to do, all steps, and then hit apply at the top, once you hit apply, it then performs the steps it looked like you had already done manually
EDIT - Just a thought, a live Linux CD/DVD/USB might have more luck, Linux doesn't care about permissions etc
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I see... I have used Partition Magic in the past and if I recall you had to do this back in the old version. Completely forgot.
I've done that and it's trying to do it. It's going very sloooooooow. But it is getting further than diskpart did!
Will update when it decides to finish.
Good luck, might find it takes a few runs to undo whatever the phone/droid did to it
Unless of course it is physically damaged, but I've not had any problems with MM and my SD
EDIT - Found this from way back in 2010 in my repair folder, "Pen drive repair"
Code:
https://mega.nz/#!XdAW2R5I!sSVna0O4av5rnkTPpGuh_bkXatZpcfmr6X-R-3yjrzw
I tend to keep random programs that have fixed something difficult in the past, and put them in that repair folder, worth a shot
*Detection* said:
Good luck, might find it takes a few runs to undo whatever the phone/droid did to it
Unless of course it is physically damaged, but I've not had any problems with MM and my SD
EDIT - Found this from way back in 2010 in my repair folder, "Pen drive repair"
Code:
https://mega.nz/#!XdAW2R5I!sSVna0O4av5rnkTPpGuh_bkXatZpcfmr6X-R-3yjrzw
I tend to keep random programs that have fixed something difficult in the past, and put them in that repair folder, worth a shot
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Will take a look at that tomorrow.
It formatted the card but as soon as it finished and mounted it Windows popped up and said there was a problem and it needed scanning.
Once it opened there were still 4 android folders on it....
Annoying.
Yea very, well it's definitely not deleting the partitions if it's still got all the old folders on it
Running the tool as Admin?
It does sound like it's physically damaged, but I thought that about a 16GB flash drive I had, and another 8GB I'd left in a tub on my desk for years because it was dead, then I used diskpart and repaired both of them the same day, and since then, minitool has fixed them
Tell you what you could try, Win32DiskImager, grab any image, say a Raspberry Pi image, and use Win32DiskImager to write the image to the card, I think that uses disk/device rather than partitions to write to, so it should overwrite absolutely everything
Then you can use Minitool to wipe and format back to FAT32 (Hopefully)
*Detection* said:
Yea very, well it's definitely not deleting the partitions if it's still got all the old folders on it
Running the tool as Admin?
It does sound like it's physically damaged, but I thought that about a 16GB flash drive I had, and another 8GB I'd left in a tub on my desk for years because it was dead, then I used diskpart and repaired both of them the same day, and since then, minitool has fixed them
Tell you what you could try, Win32DiskImager, grab any image, say a Raspberry Pi image, and use Win32DiskImager to write the image to the card, I think that uses disk/device rather than partitions to write to, so it should overwrite absolutely everything
Then you can use Minitool to wipe and format back to FAT32 (Hopefully)
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The trouble with that is I can't write anything to it. It gives an i/o error ever time I try.
I'm tired now so i'm going to head to bed but tomorrow when I have a fresher head i'll take another look.
Will let you know how I go on. Will try that other tool you suggested.
The way Win32DiskImager writes to the disk is different to how Windows tries to write to it, basically like burning an ISO, vs copying files to a DVD
Yea, get some shut-eye, things are usually much simpler after a good nights sleep
Hi, i lost a kingstom 9GB after take out this card from a Samsung. I formatted, and after a few days , i disvovered, that card was set to be encrypted inside the phone, if someone takes out, and formats without unencrypt, on 2 or 3 cycles mor, the card will die, or lock, io root, i never found a solution for this, in my case, the card was locked, (ro), without any error in the partition.
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Sorry, i wrote wrong, is 8Gb, was the second sdcard lost by me, the first, was a 2Gb used on a nokia e7, that, after format this card the card was locked (ro) at all on all type of sdcard reader , usb, pc. The name, i found, is Cyclic Redundance Error, (formatted without unencrypt the filesystem)
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*Detection* said:
The way Win32DiskImager writes to the disk is different to how Windows tries to write to it, basically like burning an ISO, vs copying files to a DVD
Yea, get some shut-eye, things are usually much simpler after a good nights sleep
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Pen Drive Repair does nothing. Can't even find it.
Tried it another 2 times in MiniTool but still goes through all the motions but returns with the same four folder on the card.
I did a surface test and it found no errors. So reading it is fine. It's the writing to it where it fails.
EDIT: What I have just noticed is MiniTool states:
Capacity 59.64 Used 59.64 Unused 0B
So the card thinks it's full but there is nothing on it.
EDIT 2: And now in MiniTool is just says BadDisk. Looks like it is completely dead.
Well, there's nothing to lose by trying Win32 DI, unlikely to work,. but might as well try before writing it off
*Detection* said:
Well, there's nothing to lose by trying Win32 DI, unlikely to work,. but might as well try before writing it off
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Gave it a shot. It wont even let me pick it as a device. Windows has stopped adding it to the "My Computer" list also.
I've wasted enough time with it. Only bought it in January this year so I've emailed Samsung both about the warranty on it and also that there is a possibility the upgrade to MM caused it on the S5.
It seems to have happened to the OP and me so I thought I would mention it to them in case.

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