miniSD card showing strange letters..

[KamaL]

Hi all..

I've been using a TwinMOS 2GB x66 cad for 2 months now, and rarely I had the problem of disappearing storage card, but a simple SR or inserting the card again solved the problem.

Since a couple of hours, the symptom has come back, but now nothing solves it :( I've done a dozen of SR and inserted the card several times, but still the same problem: some folders are empty, and others are written in strange letters. the card isn't actually disappearing at all, ilauncher still shows its correct size, but all folders are corrupted.

I have the feeling that all this happened after installing the free medical program EPOCRATES, since only this program's folder was viewable in the program files folder on the storage card, and all others simply disappeared. Of course uninstalling the software didn't help :(

Any idea guys???

Thanks in advance.

[shym]

Did you try to install this cab. It's for the htc p3300 but it's work too for the htc p3600 ...:D

http://www.europe.htc.com/support/faq.html?id=545&device=htcp3600

[snorlax]

Isn't it strange that this patch has been published by HTC only mentionning the pb on P3300 and not ont the P3600 ?

Are you sure applying it on a P3600 is safe ?

[shym]

Yes, i am...I apply it to mine and it's work fine... I didn't have some problems with my mini-sd card but with my sim+ (128 Mo) and now it's more stable !!
And as you can see the link i put is for the htc p3600.
This cab works also with the htc :
- S310
http://www.europe.htc.com/support/faq.html?id=545&device=htcs310
- S710
http://www.europe.htc.com/support/faq.html?id=545&device=htcs710

[lts]

This has been posted before in various threads, but just to repeat:

The cab mentioned is for the Artemis/P3300. It installs one file to \windows: omap850_sdhc.dll, which is the SD driver for a device with a TI OMAP 850 processor.

It will have no effect, positive or negative, to install it on a device with a Samsung processor, except wasting 42K of space.

[shym]

So why the support of HTC in this differents links (3600, s310, s710) refers to it ?? And it's fact that my sim+ is more stable now !! Not to bother you ... just to understand !!

[lts]

So why the support of HTC in this differents links (3600, s310, s710) refers to it ??

Actually they don't really. This has also been explained before in other posts, but here goes again:

If you go to www.europe.htc.com and navigate to support for P3300, you can find faq 545, which relates to the 'P3300 SD card enhancement', and when you've found that one, the URL in the address will be: www.europe.htc.com/support/faq.html?id=545

If you now go and add e.g. '&device=htcp3600' to the end of the URL and press enter, then you will get the same faq, but it will look like it's from the P3600 support, which is not really true; it's just a 'less fortunate' behaviour by the web site.

Faq 545, 'P3300 SD card enhancement', really belongs to the P3300 support area, and nowhere else.


And it's fact that my sim+ is more stable now !! Not to bother you ... just to understand !!

I'm sure it's correct when you say so, but if it's caused by putting omap850_sdhc.dll in your \windows directory, then it's nothing short of a miracle.

[shym]

Okay...thanks !

I'm sure it's correct when you say so, but if it's caused by putting omap850_sdhc.dll in your \windows directory, then it's nothing short of a miracle.

:D ... We never know... !!

[KamaL]

Thanks guys for the replies, but I guess we went a little bit off-topic.

I understand that the patch mentioned above won't work. Is there any other solution to this issue, apart from formatting it again??

unfortunately, I forgot to move my SPB Backup file from the miniSD to my PC, so I lost even that file :o my bad

I would like to mention again how it happened: most presumably after installing the program EPOCRATES. Can this help??

Thanks again :)

[lts]

You are far from being the first to have a problem like this with a SD card on a Trinity, and I'm afraid there is no easy cure.

Did you try and put the card in a card reader and see if it looked OK here?

If you can read it with a card reader, then make a backup (copy) to your PC, reformat it and restore the copy before putting it back in the Trinity, and see how it looks now.

[KamaL]

You are far from being the first to have a problem like this with a SD card on a Trinity, and I'm afraid there is no easy cure.

Did you try and put the card in a card reader and see if it looked OK here?

If you can read it with a card reader, then make a backup (copy) to your PC, reformat it and restore the copy before putting it back in the Trinity, and see how it looks now.

I tried that, but same strange characters are also shown on my PC using the SD adapter. there is even a 4GB (:eek:) file in the root directory of the card. everything so strange.

[lts]

Guess that you will have to do a reformat if possible.

If there is something on the card that you really want to salvage before you do the reformat, then you could try to do this with a file recovery utility.

[KamaL]

Guess that you will have to do a reformat if possible.

If there is something on the card that you really want to salvage before you do the reformat, then you could try to do this with a file recovery utility.

Actually the Spb backup file would be really helpful :) Do u recommend any program for trying to recover it??

Thanks

[lts]

I'm using an old release of WinHex myself.

WinHex is not free, but a trial can be downloaded from here: http://winhex.com/winhex/index-m.html

I'm not sure what limitations there might be in the unlicensed version, but I would recommend giving it a try before looking elsewhere.

I don't have any recent experience with other recovery utilities, but there are a number of them to be found here: http://www.download.com/3120-20_4-0.html?tg=dl-20&qt=recovery&tag=srch

[KamaL]

Great, after trying to recover files with Winhex (unsuccessfully), The device doesn't recognize the card anymore, and now it requires a format :mad: I give up.

Is there anything I should make to prevent future problems like this??

First of all, should I format it as FAT16 or FAT32?
should I format it on the device or using a card reader?
should I use a specific program for formatting or the default windows application?

Thanks again

[ww2250]

Try this - found from the Artemis forum.

It's a preventive measures - not one that can save your already messed up SD.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=299128&highlight=sdsentry

[Mesquire]

If you are still looking for a recovery solution, a friend had a similar incident with the 2GB Toshiba SD card on his 818 Pro just last week, and, not counting MP3s stored on the card (which he can restore from his CD library), I managed to recover for him some 90% of the files intact using Ontrack's EasyRecovery Professional.

[aZooZa]

See here:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=296800

Since I installed the official HTC GPS upgrade ROM I have had no problems anyway.