Unlock SD Card
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now that they've stopped selling the vivaz and e71, anyone know any other att phones that format my card?
i want to put it in my atrix
i want to put it in my atrix
The only thing that can repair the SD after you take it out of a WP7 phone is a Nokia N8 or any other Symbian^3 phone with an SD slot. Engadget confirmed this and I'll put the link for the article up later. Don't know about older versions of Symbian though.
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^Oh I'm well aware, does ANY carrier stock a symbian device? T-Mobile? Sprint? Verizon?
I live in Upstate, New York So any of those are my options
I live in Upstate, New York So any of those are my options
Just so everyone knows, t mobile has the nokia e73 but they are set to remove the working unit from the floor at the end of april. They don't know if they will be getting any more symbian units after this because they are moving exclusively to android and windows phone soon
For some reason I can't get the above to work, it asks for the code which I cancel but it won't let me choose format. Does this work with with a card formatted with the Focus?
T-Mobile should be selling the Nokia Astound and it should do the trick. It is the same as my N8 and I can format any memory cards that I used on the focus. If you can find one at a dealer put in the memory card and hit the center button. Then go /applications/office/file mgr. Hold your finger down on the memory card and choose format on the menu. Hope this helps.
hate to bring up an old topic, but are there any more US carriers that currently sell symbian devices as of today? I finally removed my sd card (was, somehow, causing lag on my phone at times and I didn't know why) because it was causing problems. Anyway, I'm not about to throw out a 32gb microSD card because my phone locked it up. Are there any really really cheap symbian phones (that can handle sdhc cards) which I could find on amazon or ebay? Thanks in advanced
(oh, and strange thing happened, i put the micro sd and adapter in my 3ds and... it asked me if i wanted to format it. I said yes, it went for about 2 seconds and then said "this SD card is locked or encripted, please unlock to use. it was about 2 seonds of elation and then complete deflation :-/)
(oh, and strange thing happened, i put the micro sd and adapter in my 3ds and... it asked me if i wanted to format it. I said yes, it went for about 2 seconds and then said "this SD card is locked or encripted, please unlock to use. it was about 2 seonds of elation and then complete deflation :-/)
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tried old Nokia's like the N80 and the very old 6600 but with no luck, i also tried my Sony camcorder which couldn't do it and my wife's digital cam which also couldn't make it
ill try the Vivas if i manage to get it working and all even give the E72 a try.
will post back with the results
ill try the Vivas if i manage to get it working and all even give the E72 a try.
will post back with the results
i managed to use a Nokia e71 that was on display in a mobile store nearby -_o , i inserted the card and went to the memory settings and formatted it.
after that i turned my HD2 off installed the card and did a hard reset....then voila
the phone was up and running again
after that i turned my HD2 off installed the card and did a hard reset....then voila
the phone was up and running again
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2Symbian is your answer
So I was in the same boat you are in. Nothing could read the card except for my Nokia n97 mini. It recognized the card as "locked" and prompted for a password. I bypassed the prompt and went to the file manager. From there it let me format the card and it is back to normal. See, Symbian is good for something after all!
PS: I tried the same process with an E71 and had the same successful results. All recent Symbian phones should work as it appears they can handle the encryption and password. The card is now happily back in my HTC EVO.2Guys, what's happening is that the phone is locking the card with a random 128-bit key. It's futile to try to guess it.
However, you *can* send an force erase command to the card to delete all the data on it, and reset the key. That's what Symbian is doing, and why it works to reformat the card.
Unfortunately, Windows, OSX and Linux don't know anything about SD cards, so they're not going to be able to help you erase the card, since they don't know how to send the command.
All of this is described in section 4.3.7 of this spec:
sdcard.org/developers/tech/sdcard/pls/Simplified_Physical_Layer_Spec.pdf1
I used a friends t-mobile Nokia 5230, running S60 5th Edition, to recover my 8GB microSD. It was a pain finding the format option (no familiarity with S60) but I now have a working SD card again.1
I tried on my Tilt 2 with no luck (said something like "unable to complete format- card was removed").1
Engadget found the solution. Find a symbian phone (preferably Nokia) and reformat it in one and you'll be fine.
Apparently WP7 adds a secure Id to the sd card wherein it will only be recognized by the phone only and nothing else. Hence the name "secure digital" card.
