SD card gets erased

[tachijuan]

Gang,

I've recently acquired at AT&T Branded SX56, been moderately happy, but can not complain about the price ($100 :). However, twice now I've had the SD card get completely wiped. This is the SD card that came with the phone - it used to have some nice games and the MS software pack. It went bye-bye about two weeks ago. I thought it was a glitch, however, last night the card went blank on me again. All software, data, etc on the card is completely gone.

My question are: has anyone had this problem? Is this a known thing with the phone? Do I have a virus? Am I a blithering idiot that did something stupid (likely)? How do I keep this from happening again?

TIA

[Biso007]

it's a known issue with some WM2003 versions ... what's yours ?

Try to keep the SD locked

[tachijuan]

my phone is wm2003, I guess I have to go get an SD card with a lock on it. The one that came with the phone does not. Any way to do a software "r/o" mode?

tia

[tachijuan]

if it's a know problem with certain versions of wm2003 - what version should I get and install to keep this from happening?

tia

[Biso007]

Nothing 100% confirmed but TMO 4.01.00 or AT&T 30.09 are said to be more stable

[bobn]

i have a similar proble; the unit didn't recognize the card once it was removed.

Does anyone have the files and can post so i can write on the sd?

[Rayan]

Hello,

The same thing happened to me last week on my T-Mo MDA2 (Rom Version: 1.60.00WWE, ROM date: 12/03/03) but in my case I'm using a 128MB MMC with no hardware lock.

Any suggestions aside of using a lock enabled SD Card? (which I think it's dumb since I need to be constantly writing to the card)... :roll:

Regards,
Rayan

[Fisher]

I used Kingston 512M SD card with ca. 200 M of MP3 files.

After removing of PocketMusic from MDA these files become invisible in Explorer as from desktop as and from mobile, despite new MP3s added to this card, were assigned to Windows Media.

Then I used SoftWinter StorageTools to format SD as FAT32/512Kps. Since formatting SD works well and I haven't any file lost.

May be this problem appears due to adding or removing some programs, associated with such files?

[Rayan]

The weird thing is that some people report missing the files in the card but they know the files are still there because the memory space they used to take is still there, and others (my case) the card got totally wiped releasing all the memory space just as if it was just formated. :shock:

The only thing I can think of, in my case is that since the card was formated by a Palm Tungsten T2 (I could tell that because a friend lend it to me and he has a Palm and also I could see some Palm directories in the card) and I didn't formated before I used it on my MDA2. Do you think this may have caused the problem?

Thanks!

[dazcox]

To solve this annoying problem do either(or both ) of the foillowing
1) Change the today theme to windows default (hard to believe i know but it works)

2) Using Storage Tools format the SD card to fat 32, with Backup Fat option ENABLED (you can change the theme back if you want after this)

I know its odd but i havent had this problem since then

[Leonid]

Hi,

My MDA II does not read any SD / MMC card maybe I am missing fatfs.dll file - anybody can send it or give advice please.

Leonid

[Rayan]

Hi,

My MDA II does not read any SD / MMC card maybe I am missing fatfs.dll file - anybody can send it or give advice please.

Leonid

The same happened to a friend of mine.

I suggest you to try Pocket Mechanic from http://www.antontomov.com, with this software you can format, verify and repair your storage cards. We did this and the card worked successfully after a Low Level Format and then a Logical Format.

Good Luck!