Internal Storage Folder DISAPPEARS

[Anonymous]

The internal Storage Folder & Contents Routinely disappears on my PDA2K. The only way to restore the folder is by doing a hard reset. After doing so, the contents of the storage folder re-appear as well.

Any ideas??

[miguelromerom]

to my it happened to me several weeks ago the same thing...

And several times it has already spent...

but still nobody has told me anything

That you program you had installed in the Storage...

regards

[axiom]

Okay, this has happened to me 4 times now in 1 weekend. Does anyone know what is going on here?

I hate this reset, sprite, use for a bit, gone again, etc business.

Driving me nuts.

Someone please help.

[TheLastOne]

Well, when the battery gets lower, it shuts down the SDIO slot. Could that be it?

[axiom]

Well, when the battery gets lower, it shuts down the SDIO slot. Could that be it?

No we are not talking about the SDIO Memory. I am talking about the internal storage. It just goes away until you hard reset.

Well I figured out what was causing it, but I still don't know why. I installed the newest version of WebIS Mail 2.1, and when retrieving mail, it pauses, after that the storage is gone, then it's good old hard reset and sprite to the rescue. Funny thing is nothing is deleted and after a sprite restore it goes back to normal. But the story continues the next time I try and retrieve mail.

So what I did was store the mail folder on my SDIO (yes it is brutaly slow), and now it works fine.

Any thoughts?

[[Krueger]Dr.Stein]

Can you please take a look at your registry?

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Loader]

Does it read : \Release\\Storage\Windows ?

If it does not maybe you would like to try importing the attached key.

[dah54]

Just a note here, that should read,

Does it read : \Release\\Storage\Windows\ ?

and not
Does it read : \Release\\Storage\Windows ?

I believe.

Sounds to me as if you mail program is over writing your storage, trying to store too much info their. This is normal behavior with this type of storage.

[BoSJo]

Well, when the battery gets lower, it shuts down the SDIO slot. Could that be it?

Is there anyway to enable it again??

I'm not thinking when the battery is low, I'm thinking to try and re enable SDIO Slot when Windows cant see the SDIO card.

It's the funniest thing, i often loose the SD card in windows, but somehow when i'm running TomTom 3.7 which is installed on the SD Card, it never fails once it's running even though i'm sometimes not able to access the SD Card with file explorer.

So somehow it's there for TomTom onces it's running, but not for Windows???

[TheLastOne]

Woops. Looks like I can't read. Sorry.

[Cabrio]

This 'internal storage' disappearing issues also happened on my Xda IIs (HK WWE), now with 1.33 + 1.06, in the past few days as well.... SINCE I installed the following two programs.

1. O2 Plus 1.6 - cracked by someone with his/her signature on the 'About page'

2. Tweak2K2 3.4

I am pretty sure that's the hacked O2 Plus does that. Since I had my splash screens customized on my IIs initially and after installed O2 Plus 1.6, after a soft reset, the 2 splashed will revert to O2 splashes then after some time, 'internal storage' disappeared.

Restored the unit back to the stage that I had version 1.5-hacked, never had a problem since. However, right after uninstalled 1.5 & reinstalled 1.6, same disaster happened again. Tried 3 times in a roll, never missed. Dont think that's the problem with Tweak2K2. Not an expert on manually tweaking the registry, but that's what I found out. I am back to 1.5-hacked & Tweak2K2 3.4. And running without a problem. Did you guys put on the O2 Plus 1.6-hacked or had it on before?

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Anyway, my first post on this incredible forum, really appreciate on everyone sharing thoughts and knowledge here.

AND to whoever wipe out wiki, 'grow up and remember what your mama taught you! Get your hands off the site and be man enough to stand out and post a message WHY you destroy months of works by a few of us here, that most probably you'd NEVER contributed to, and YOU OWE all the nice folks here an apology! DON'T JUST ACTS LIKE A PATHETIC LUNATIC OR A RAT HIDES UNDER THE DRAIN. (excuse to my words to whoever find my words offensive to this jerk, but I feel much better letting it out...)

[axiom]

I am pretty sure that's the hacked O2 Plus does that. Since I had my splash screens customized on my IIs initially and after installed O2 Plus 1.6, after a soft reset, the 2 splashed will revert to O2 splashes then after some time, 'internal storage' disappeared.

[/b]

I'm pretty sure we are both wrong. Because I am running 1.6 right now, and I've been running all day with no problems. I am also running Tweak2K2 3.4. My problem disappeared when I set the WebIS Mail 2.1 mail storage folder to a SDIO card instead of the internal storage.

Someone, please help with this. There is a bigger culprit here, and I don't think Cabrio or I have a proper conclusion.

But I will try uninstalling 1.6, reinstalling Mail 2.1 and try it again. I just hate all this installing and uninstalling bit.

Cheers!

[vma]

I believe that the problem is due to some applications you might be using.

I am experiencing problems with files disappearing/getting corrupt on mu SD-Card, where I installed all my apps and just found out that at least part of the responsability was a certain program...

Fact is that some tools/apps are not properly tested and have bug's that can mess up the filesystem, plus you should not try to use hacked/cracked programs, as they might contain routines that cause this effects on purpose.

Cheers,
vma

[jpkeates]

I don't think this is a rogue app.

I have had the same problem dating to the first synch I did this morning.

My files won't synch - they seem unable to complete the synch. Active synch won't "stop" in mid process - and when I remove the XDA from the cradle, it won't soft reset.

A hard reset maintains the contents of "My Documents" which is not what it's meant to do.

Having spent several hours on this, I am starting to suspect that the culprit is to do with the time change. The Calender can deal with it, contacts and notes can deal with it.

Files can't. And when it fails, it leaves the XDA unstable.

It's only my working theory. But three iPaq users in the same office had a similar issue and all had to hard reset and restore - which fixed their problem.

Users who don't synch with their local machine (i.e synch with exchange are fine). Users with earlier versions of Pocket PC are fine.

Hope this helps. I was expecting every iPaq user in the world to be up in arms - so maybe I'm wrong. Its where I'm looking now though.

[axiom]

Okay, so I really have to learn to let things ride for a couple of days, before saying "No, mine is fine". Well and the story goes...

I woke up this morning, reached over to my trusty (ya right) XDA, and baam, it was just sitting there. Wouldn't do anything. I sat there, thought for a sec, thought about the last backup I had done, and off to the 2 button holy grail we go (power+reset). Restored, with sprite, uninstalled O2 Plus 1.6, and now I will sit and wait again, till tomorrow morning. I think I might have to buy this sprite backup program, it's saved my a$$ more than 6 times this week alone.

Okay, so back to the drawing board. My Plan is this.

All I need O2 Plus for is the auto msn sign in, everytime GPRS is enabled or a phone call is ended. Is there any way to do this without the O2 plus app?

I will not install O2 Plus again, I will leave everything alone as is and I am going to start uninstalling 1 app at a time.

BTW, PhoneDashboard also screwed up a few days ago, it would just sit there and process like mad. I uninstalled it and everything is fine now.

And though hacked software could have anti-piracy code inside it, but if the app has bugs why would I buy it? Fix the bugs, make it decent enough to be worth the price you are asking then I will gladly buy it. It's the same reason why I wouldn't buy Windows, I only have it cause it came free with my system :D

[bogs]

ok..got some more info about our problem..this doesnt fix our problem but i just thought you guys should know, after you hard reset theres 4 shortcuts in the startup folder they are for the permanent save contacts, tasts apointments, connections. you get that flash manager error cause the permanent save program cant save it cause that was suppose to be in the Storage Folder..and the Storage Folder wont allow you to add delete or view files in it..i know ther are files in there cause if you look in memory you'll see that its ocuping 40+mb, then after a while or until your xda hangs the Storage Folder disappears

How can we unlock/view this folder? just like the Extended_ROM folder unlocker, i bet when we unlock this folder before it disappears everything will be fixed (YEA RYT!!!). :evil: well at least one problem down..

[bogs]

i forgot to tell you guys after you Hard reset try deleting that 4 permanentsave shortcut..you'll feel your erge to kick the crap out of your IIs a little less. :D :evil:

[axiom]

yes I always do that. that and the STK.lnk

So I uninstalled O2 Plus 1.6, and been running since yesterday morning with no problems yet. Storage is still there and things are running normally. If this goes on for another day or two, I will be convinced that O2 Plus caused the problem.

[bogs]

what else did you do? mine always disapears after the first soft reset..

[nomadman]

It just happened to me for the first time while listening to music with PocketMVP. Storage disappeared and had to do a hard reset. I'm glad I had Sprite and a current backup handy. I also had O2 Plus 1.6 installed just a few hours before this happened. So as you guys suggested, I uninstalled O2 Plus 1.6, removed the 5 permanentsave files and STK.

Before I installed O2 Plus, my PPC was very stable. I only had to reset when my memory was running low since I refuse to buy an SD Card fewer than 1gig. We will see what happens in a few days.

[bogs]

nomadman..could you upload your backup? or maybe could upload a Flush image of your current running OS?(http://en.pdamobiz.com/en/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=151 ) PLEASE help man..cause that myt fix my storage problem. :(

[axiom]

Well I have concluded that the culprit was indeed the O2 Plus 1.6. I haven't had it on my system for days now, and everything runs great. No problems here.

But this does not solve my problem of my main need for O2 plus. Is there a way to run msn messenger automatically everytime a GPRS connection is enabled and every time a phone call ends?

[nomadman]

nomadman..could you upload your backup? or maybe could upload a Flush image of your current running OS?(http://en.pdamobiz.com/en/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=151 ) PLEASE help man..cause that myt fix my storage problem. :(

I have no way to dump my current ROM since I don't have any type of SD card to dump on. If there is a way to dump it on my main PC via USB, then I would be happy to help. If this isn't possible, then IF you are in the Manila Area, we might can hook up and I can use your SD. Then you can upload it to this site's FTP.

[findus]

Well I have concluded that the culprit was indeed the O2 Plus 1.6. I haven't had it on my system for days now, and everything runs great. No problems here.

But this does not solve my problem of my main need for O2 plus. Is there a way to run msn messenger automatically everytime a GPRS connection is enabled and every time a phone call ends?

You've probably tried this already, but in Options on MSN Messenger there is a box to tick labelled run this program automatically on connection. Would this solve your MSN problem?

HTH

Fin

[axiom]

You've probably tried this already, but in Options on MSN Messenger there is a box to tick labelled run this program automatically on connection. Would this solve your MSN problem?

HTH

Fin

Nope. MS to user "That feature is currently unavailable, please try again later" :wink:

Well O2 Plus is doing it, so I'm gonna figure out a way to write an app that will detect a network connection and launch any specified app with automatic login.

If someone else has a heads up on where to start please feel free to jump in.

[nomadman]

This isn't much help, but there is hope. I remember reading about an app that will start any app you want when a internet connection is present. I just can't remember the site or the app. I have no need for it :(.

[mambojambo]

I tried downloading O2Plus through O2Connect and after first/second soft reset, my Storage dissapeared and there, had to hard reset to restore everything to normal.

Has anyone had any luck in making it run smoothly? The features are too tempting! It's everything I need!

[Cabrio]

Well, as concluded, at least from axiom and my sides, O2 Plus 1.6 is the cause of the problem. Just avoid it., that's it. If you really want to use this program, use the 1.5 version instead. I had it running on mine with loads of other apps, no problem for more that a week.

[nomadman]

Same here. I removed O2 Plus 1.6 last week. I have not had this problem since then.