Memory card

[deltaoo]

Hi!
Just got my first memory card ever - put it in but can't see or access it, not appearing in storage device.

its an 8gb mini used through an mini s adapter..
please help!!

[aanatema]

Hi.
I had simillar problem with my card. Wizard is not like the other phones, it can't read cards which are damaged or not formatted. Obviously, yours is not damaged. Simply just access the card through your PC, format it, insert the card into the wizard (you will see no change at all so far), reset your phone and after windows mobile loads, it will ask you if you want to fomat the card - yes, format it. And there you go, you have yourself a storage device :P

Hope it works.

P.S.
There's also one other option, your card is too big to be handled by your device.

[deltaoo]

Hi. seems its formatted, although I did not format it.
I Put it into (vista) computer and it just worked. When I did a "show properties" on the card it was FAT 32 formatted.

Is there a Max limit to the size of card?

[greasemuntney]

If it is a 8 gig micro your phone will not read it. Sorry will only ready mini sd's
not micros or mini sdhc.

[deltaoo]

Hi!
even though I'm using a MicroSD adapter??

thanx

[aanatema]

On my wiz, my card is running FatFS , not Fat32. It could make the difference, i am not sure. Since you are in a zero position, you have nothing to lose with one more format, so just format the card in your pc and restart your wizard with the card inserted. If this doesn't help, then greasemuntney is prolly right and you can't use this card.

[deltaoo]

Hi so right :)
Whats FatFS??

thanx

[Huckleberry88]

as mentioned above the wizard does not support SDHC standard and your 8GB happens to be SDHC.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SD_Memory_Card

[deltaoo]

damn... so is there a firmware upgrade? or something that I can do to upgrade the phone to use sdhc??

I got this card as a present so can't swap it?

[Myrddin Wyllt]

Nope, you're bagged. Phone cannot read SDHC, no matter what kind of adapters, ROMs or firmware you attempt to employ. Try selling the chip on Craigslist and use the money to buy a bunch of 2GB cards.

[night-mayor]

ok before a final verdict that wizard wouldn't read an sd that is in sdhc format (fat32 reliant) do note that i had the same problem but googled to find two solutions that didn't work alone yet combined did !

first of all you need to change the latency of the card read in registray as follows:

[HKLM\System\StorageManager]
“PNPUnloadDelay“=dword:8196

[HKLM\System\StorageManager]
“PNPWaitIODelay“=dword:8196

Note that the 8196 should be entered as a DECIMAL value. The HEXADECIMAL (HEX) equivalent is 0×00002004.

now attached are two sdhc drivers that require (acording to uploader) to be installed cab file first for registry tweaks and then replace both files installed in windows directory with others included in driver bundle. (through instruction guide in a txt file is included within zip file)

finally reboot , yet as a disclamer do note the following :( your device will not be backward compatible with regular sds . (not untill you hard reset it so it would restore original dlls and setting)

[Myrddin Wyllt]

Interesting. If this works for anyone besides night-mayor, please post your hardware(G3/G4)/IPL/SPL...tracking successes and failures with this method will be valuable to other users.

[jsganaye]

In fact, you can only use standard SD cards (mini or micro with mini adapter) and the maximum capacity for standard SD protocol is 4GB, but it's difficult to find 4GB Standard SD cards (micor or mini).
Most of manufacturer actually sells HC card for 4GB size, and on web stores, it's often not very precise about HC or none HC.

Good luck...

[Myrddin Wyllt]

List of working 4GB Mini SD cards. (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=297324&page=7)

If it ain't here, it ain't working, generally speaking (it is not comprehensive). As you can see, they do make 4GB cards that aren't using the HC configuration, but they are rare. One of the replies on the thread I linked to above even mentions an 8GB kit, but it did not work.