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DaoMingJin
20th June 2009, 03:29 PM
i had this very VERY strange thing happen. On my universal i upgraded it to WM6.1. I was very nervous about bricking my phone at first, but everything went well, and i used my phone for about 6 months. Then all of a sudden, i'm walking down the street one day, and i get a phone call, and my phone decides to turn on the "Low Battery alarm" at the same time i pickup the call...
My phone completely freezes, and so i reboot my phone, and i get this "No SIM card" error. Which, i know there is a SIM card in there, because i didn't take it out, and it was working just fine only 30 seconds prior.
So, i went home, swapped out the SIM card to one of my old SIM cards (a number from a previous city) and viola! No SIM Card error.
Something happened to my phone at that moment in time and just like FRIED my SIM card. So, easy solution, i just go and get a replacement SIM card. Ok , DONE.
....Happy pimpin with my HTC Univeral, right?... WRONG....
At the same time this happened, my SD card slot just seemed to STOP working. Which is really weird. I even tried enabling some system background processes and whatnot, ...basiclly turning EVERY process on. But that still had no effect.
And i can do almost nothing useful with this device now except for make phone calls and do SMS. Having a large brick in my pocket just for phone calls is a bit of an overkill i think.

So , any suggestions? How do i get my SD card working again.

BTW, i'm in china, and every repair shop that i went to REFUSES to touch any HTC phone. There seems to be a massive education gap. But if i had a nokia phone it would be no problem for them....
*sigh* STUPID CHINKS!

*grunts*

any thoughts on how to solve this problem with the SD Card?

:confused:
rajivshahi
20th June 2009, 04:25 PM
any thoughts on how to solve this problem with the SD Card?

:confused:

Hi welcome to forum and well you can try to flash another rom and see if it works or not.. if it doesn't then might be hardware problem...
DaoMingJin
20th June 2009, 04:51 PM
i'm downloading the original WM5 ROM now, and will try to reflash it tonight. I really never needed WM6, except for when i was at university (here in china), they had a problem with the CAT5 cabling, and had to redo all of it. And so the entire dorm was out of internet for 1 month. So i used my phone as a WiFi router to share my 3G data connection with my notebook. For some reason, the software would only work properly with WM6... *sigh*....

now i have a 3G Net card for my notebook....hehe

^_^
kalya
20th June 2009, 07:16 PM
Which ROM?
What SD card?Make?Capacity?
How is battery working?

Did you try ANY other cards?
Did you try formatting it?

Because SD cards getting corrupt is a very comman thing.

I did lost three 4GB SD cards last year and one 8GB SDHC. ( all made in China:rolleyes: )

So I know how it feels.

Damaged SIM...it never happened to me.
DaoMingJin
20th June 2009, 07:23 PM
As a rule in china... NEVER under any circumstances buy anything without a warrenty. HAHA. I've been here for like 4 years. But with that aside...

i can put the same SD card in my computer, and it reads just fine.
I have even changed from formatting it as FAT32 to FAT16, and still it doesn't register.

I have had the same problems with the 4GB cards too. Unless they're really high quality, they're kinda crappy and prone to defect. However, the card(s) that i have are low capacity. 512 MB, and 2 GB. So there wouldn't be any issues with the capacity of them being too large.
DaoMingJin
20th June 2009, 08:22 PM
Ok, this sucks....when i try to reflash my phone back to WM5,.....it says i have the wrong image ERROR code 100 i think it is.
But i downloaded the Factory image from this forum for WM5.

I have WM6.1 on it now, so....how do i downgrade? Just reflash?

BTW, this is an English Language Version. So that shouldn't be too conflicting.
orb3000
20th June 2009, 08:29 PM
Ok, this sucks....when i try to reflash my phone back to WM5,.....it says i have the wrong image ERROR code 100 i think it is.
But i downloaded the Factory image from this forum for WM5.

I have WM6.1 on it now, so....how do i downgrade? Just reflash?

BTW, this is an English Language Version. So that shouldn't be too conflicting.

have a look on the Wiki
Perhaps using the MTTY app can help you

Good luck,
DaoMingJin
20th June 2009, 08:52 PM
i found the reason why it failed....that rom is not ENGLISH

:(
shoulders
20th June 2009, 08:56 PM
my SD card dissapered on my UNI when my battery got old. it seems it just didnt have enough power. I put an old SD card in and that works but i got a new battery within a week.
DaoMingJin
20th June 2009, 09:29 PM
whenever my universal didn't have enough power for the SD card , it would sound the low battery alarm, and then tell me it didn't have enough power for the SD card.
I would think that if i can still run wifi for 40 minutes or so (on a full charge), there should be enough amps in the battery to turn on the SD card....at least...one would think *grin*
DaoMingJin
21st June 2009, 03:34 PM
Ok, well, i somehow managed to get my phone flashed to WM5......using the German WM5 ROM mind you :eek:

It's actually not in german, everything is in english. Anyways, whenever i put an SD card in, it still doesn't show up.
tomal
22nd June 2009, 05:35 AM
The IO conctroller used in Uni usually never die.
I would suggest you to unmount the device, use a hot air gun on the SD socket connector and nearest different points.

regards