SD Card not recognised in file explorer

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Hi all,

I have searched hi and low for the resolution to my problem. I have owned a Magician (sold as Xda II Mini) for just under a year and have a 1Gb SD card (eagletec turbo 66x speed) which has worked beautifully until two days ago

File explorer does not recognise the SD card. I have tried the SD card in other devices (e.g. PC - using a card reader, digital camera, dvd player, my friend's pda etc...) and it works fine.

I have tried inserting different SD cards into the Magician and they all get recognised ok.

I have tried soft reset and hard reset to no avail.

I have formatted the SD card using a card reader on the PC (tried both FAT and FAT32) and also tried formatting it in my digital camera.

When I insert the card into the Magician (from power off state), the Magician does light up indicating to me that there is no problem with the spring load mechanism of the expansion slot. What is strange is that when I go to Settings->System->About, I get 'Expansion Slot: Not in use'

I also tried (after a suggestion in another post) to add a "shim" of plastic of paper on the contact side of the SD card. No use.

I am reluctant to flash the ROM as I have not had any other problems with the Magician to warrant it.

Any ideas?

Have you tried cleaning the contacts of the SD card? Try soft resetting with the SD card in it.

Hi thanks for replying.

Yes I have cleaned the contacts of the SD card and also tried many soft resets with the card in and also with the card out.

????

Hello,

Try formatting your card with a different reader or from a Nikia phone.

Regards
Carty..

I have tried formating the card in several card readers. Still not being recognised is file explorer. Again, the card does work in any other device I put it in - just not my mini :cry:

Anyhow, I'll just use a different card for now. Just wondered if any other people had the same issue as I do.

Thanks all.

for me the same **** happened with my new, exchanged, mdac. using the sd card with the previous machine was no problem, now the card is not being recognized at all. using it in notebook, camera ... no problem.

any ideas?

i dont want to start another thread but im having the exact same problem with my MDA Compact II. I have a 1gb Toshiba SD card that wont even work in the MDA but it works fine on my camera and PC. So I would like ot know if there is a solution to this

Thanks :)

Hi all

I am a newbie and am experiencing the same issue, external sd card not showing up in file explorer.

Sniffer can find it and I can play media files from there. Is this the norm or do I need to change something?

I am using C&C 1.5ghz Froyo Combo VERSION 8 final.

The 16GB card is seen by all other card readers I have tried.