The Nintendo Cartridge Effect

[Dr.Gonz0]

Don't worry this is actually regarding the T-Mobile Wing's SD card slot. I've had mine for over a year now. Working great, thanks Ivanmmj for all his efforts, JustHome Rocks! That's a side issue. For some reason the SD card slot doesn't work anymore. It started off very small at first... Running TCPMP listening to some tunes, all of a sudden the music stops and it pops up with an error message "/Storage Card/Music/KRS-One - South Bronx.mp3 cannot be found" Normally I would just exit TCPMP, pop out the SD card and pop it back in and I am good to go. Now it simply has stopped working. At first I thought "SD card is fried" but nope... it worked fine on other devices so it's not them. I tried 3 different ones, all of them were SanDisk 1GB, 2GB, and an 8GB i just got.

I remember the original nintendo systems, had a similar thing with reading the cartridges, except now it's 2009 and the cartridges are waaay smaller.

Anyone got any ideas as to what the issue may be and/or how to fix it?

Thanks :)

[dougstoner]

Don't worry this is actually regarding the T-Mobile Wing's SD card slot. I've had mine for over a year now. Working great, thanks Ivanmmj for all his efforts, JustHome Rocks! That's a side issue. For some reason the SD card slot doesn't work anymore. It started off very small at first... Running TCPMP listening to some tunes, all of a sudden the music stops and it pops up with an error message "/Storage Card/Music/KRS-One - South Bronx.mp3 cannot be found" Normally I would just exit TCPMP, pop out the SD card and pop it back in and I am good to go. Now it simply has stopped working. At first I thought "SD card is fried" but nope... it worked fine on other devices so it's not them. I tried 3 different ones, all of them were SanDisk 1GB, 2GB, and an 8GB i just got.

I remember the original nintendo systems, had a similar thing with reading the cartridges, except now it's 2009 and the cartridges are waaay smaller.

Anyone got any ideas as to what the issue may be and/or how to fix it?

Thanks :)

Just blow the cartridge and stick it back in right on the edge...lol...brought back some memories. Hahaha, only thing I can think of is clean the contacts of the card. You could take the battery out and maybe use something to clean the contacts in the phone, but I have no idea what you could use that would be small enough to get in the slot.

[w220fan]

Hey, you can use a air compressor, to blow in hte microsd slot. Or you can use air-spray in a can. Or you can use a little brush, which is a bit wet.

[Dr.Gonz0]

That's where the name came from... blowing on the sd slot, cleaning the contacts on the card and praying my fone picks it up. It worked for a little while at first but over time it became unworkable. Canned air didn't help too much either, in fact it was after that it stopped reading altogether. The slightly damp brush with canned air to dry it didn't help either. My guess is the thing went to pot a long time ago. I've opened up the casing and thought i could get to it from another angle but no dice there without some major precision cutting tools to cut away at the outer hull but I don't think that'll be beneficial in the end.

I also tried a registry hack somewhere... forgot the link (think it was over at ppc geeks) to change the timing or something like that. Made a claim it would fix the issue, but no dice. If anyone knows of any hardcore tools and procedures to do some major surgery on the SD reader lemme know. I've got a back-up wing so I've got some SD action. This has turned into a lil side project for me.