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[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] anseio:
I'm in the process of fielding out beat-up nokia phones or a similar HD2 so I can help unbrick SD cards.

I'm thinking $5 per person + self-adressed, stamped envelope. The $5 would be per person, not per card. So multiple cards could be unbricked in one order.

Anyone interested in this idea, before I actually find a phone?
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Canterbury:
Just to clarify this solution for HD2 users using the DEV_STORAGELOCK.cab.

The "but do not let the device reboot...." was a bit misleading for me so here's what i did

using cab sender...

* run WP7 Update Cab Sender.bat with DEV_STORAGELOCK.cab

* allow reboot

* cab installs

* allow reboot

* cab installs successfully.

* In WP7 home screen there should be an icon "Storage Unlock" or something like this (forgot exact name) clicking icon opens screen saying card currently locked and to "unlock" - click unlock.

*Providing it completes successfully - you can know shutdown the phone and remove sd card. (presumably rebooting phone would relock-hence the don't allow reboot.)

Windows now detected my sd card in a card reader.

I then removed the partitions and formatted the device is i'm moving back to Android.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] anseio:
That's great if this works on devices besides just the HD2. They still need to be developer unlocked though and able to receive updates via Cab Sender.

Upon booting up, WP7 will always relock the card. If you're doing it to wipe the card and flash to android, then simply unlocking and powering down will suffice.

If you're trying to swap cards, then it's important to unlock the card, and perform a hard reset. When the phone powers down, either do a battery pull or stop the reboot at Magldr. Swap out the cards and let WP7 finish booting with the new card and finish up the hard reset process. This is the only way to put a new SD card in... via hard reset.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] phong1892:
E72 worked too but X3
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] kendallj:
Tried a friends C5-00. Was unable to replicate your sucess. Just refuses to acknowledge the WP card at all.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Garsmat72:
CAB method successfully worked on a 16GB ADATA class 6 micro-SD card.

EDIT : I also tried the killdisk method, but it didn't work.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] yoshi:
With Canon sx220

Managed to format with a canon sx220

It is first showing 220 Mbits available

After formating the 8 gigs of my SanDisk micro sd were available

Formated again

and the micro sd is working fine again
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] OTMOPO3OK:
some fujifilm camera (no idea what model it is) managed to return to life encrypted card. I guess most cameras should be able to do that
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] mautz001:
just wanted to inform that Nokia N900 also works :)
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] crysanthus:
SD Formatter 3.1 for SD/SDHC/SDXC

All,

Can somebody confirm that this software unlock/format WP7-locked SD cards?

https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/

Thanks in advance
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] princenez:
I am running Windows 7 on my computer and downloaded SD Formatter 3.1 but the computer still does not recognize the sd card for formatter to work
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] dxdy:
this maybe work before mango update locked card... now only solution read in first post
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] yozhegg:
I repair my sdcard Transcend 4GB class6 with Nokia 5228, so add this to the list of confirmed devices. :)
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] JanGun:
I did this with Nokia C6 and i got my SD to show up in Windows DT.

But how the heck i can get it to show up in my HD2 WP7? I'm currently with 7403.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Whatdoyaknow:
Try a hard reset. Worked for me. But you will loose all settings and info as you will start setup afresh. Backup all data including sms text messages photos music etc
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] elsarfe:
Confirmed working Nokia N95 :cool:

;)
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] b12rtc:
Yes, N95 is working, I format 2 different SD cards with it: Transcend 16GB class 6 and Adata 16GB class 6. The first one after flashing Yuky's rom and the second one after HD2Owner's mango rom. No problems.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] JanGun:
Tried this many times. No luck. Sometimes i'm stuck with bootscreen and ending up with sd card error message. Sometimes it just boots to wp but sd is not showing.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] anseio:
Has your card ever been recognized by WP7? It's extremely finicky. My 3 cards behaved as follows:

1st - Kingston 8GB c2 - appeared to perform fine, but battery life was 6 hours w/ little to no usage.

2nd - Kingston 16GB c4 - Since I thought the 8GB was fine, I tried this. It would not get past the splash screen that loaded after magldr.

3rd - PNY 16GB c4 - showed me just how poorly the 8GB was performing. Speeds were faster and battery life has completely normalized.

While trying to install my 16GB, there were a few times that the hard reset process did not capture the card and it wasn't coming up as part of the available memory. Try and try again. Reflash if necessary, but avoid if you can.

You can also try the 1234 hard reset. This works when you get the SD card error message that does not allow you to boot into WP7. Or do you already know how to do this? Wait for magldr to start and for it to begin booting into WPH. When the 12345 G0! GO! GO! begins to appear, immediately press and hold vol up & down simultaneously. You'll get a grey screen and vol down 2x will perform the hard reset.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] phong1892:
5230 worked for me but X2
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] JanGun:
I have Kingston 8GB c4 and it did work fine 'till phone just got tilted. I flashed rom again and after that card has not worked. I formatted it with Nokia C6 and PC does recognize it but WP7 doesen't. I have tried another Kingston 8GB c4 and it does not work at all.

Now i have ordered a new card Sandisk Micro SDHC 16gb. I'll try that one too.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] betin50:
Okay for anyone with a nokia 5230

go to File Manager

open your SDCard

hit Options

and hit Format

this will format and all you have to do is connect it to your PC and format(for good luck)

then everything should be working

I have fixed 4 sdcards 4gb class 4,8gb class 4, 8gb class 2, and 16gb class 4
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] TheCuban:
Canon SD1100 confirmed not working. :/
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] nemuro:
Nokia 6120 Classic works
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] 5ft24:
Just bought one of these cameras for this purpose... it will *NOT* format a memory card locked by WP7. Camera comes up and says the memory card is defective, then going to the format menu, it tells you there is no card and won't let you continue.

The SD Unlocker cab does work in the phone.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] dorianmuthig:
Try these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S60_(software_platform)#S60_versions_and_supported_devices

They will definitely work. However some of them (the older models) do not support SDHC cards (those larger than 2GB, max. 32GB) and as far as I'm aware none support SDXC cards (larger than 32GB).

As for those using recent versions of Linux to unlock their cards, this does not work with USB card readers. You need a PCI or PCI Express attached card reader with direct SD IO, like the Ricoh R5C841, the Panasonic CF-52, the JMicron JMB38x SDMA, or one of the many other SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controllers from VIA, Texas Instruments, Tokyo Electron, or MSI.

Toshiba used to make them, too, but those aren't supported for some weird reason.

If you have low level access to the SD card bus on your device (any device) you can also write a software program to unlock (secure erase) your SD cards.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] TheCuban:
Kill Disk did not work for me, but I had the microsd card attached through an USB SD card reader.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Hippotastic:
E63 worked for me too, please update the list. E63 asks for a password on insertion, you press the call end button, to bypass this, and then just go and format it. Worked a treat.

---------- Post added at 12:20 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:16 PM ----------

the lock on the Sd card is generatwed by the phone, it is to stop it being read by anyone else or any other phone. You need to hard reset the phone to get the lock on the Sd so it can be viewed by the phone you have.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] ikovac:
I have SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller (Jmicron) on my laptop. If you make a little trick in device manager, Windows can see the card. But it is still locked in a way that you need some low level tools to do anything with it. But at least you can see it right?

See my post here:http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=19450532#post19450532
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] dorianmuthig:
You can also try to use the SD card formatter from http://www.sdcard.org/ with your SDA Standard Compliant Secure Digital Host Controller, just check the ERASE option in advanced formatting options and see if that works (the driver needs to support it).
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Glebaka:
My Nokia E51 formated my kingston 2gb without any problems
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] dorianmuthig:
2GB and smaller SD cards aren't SDHC cards. The larger 4GB - 32GB cards are where it's at. Why did you use a 2GB card anyway?
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] anseio:
I can confirm that Ubuntu (dual boot with Win7) cannot see the card unless it's been unlocked in some other fashion, like dev_storagelock on the HD2. PartedMagic is also unable to see the card while it's locked w/ the WP7 encryption.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] dorianmuthig:
You need a SDA Standard Host Controller and kernel 2.6+ with secure digital support, USB card readers will not work. You need to run a device erase, which will clear the password and data. (http://embdev.net/topic/109942)

If you have a ARM based device at hand, you can also use the sdlock utility from Technologic Systems.

Windows Phone 7 does not encrypt the content on the SD card (yet), it uses the secure digital passphrase protection function, which works pretty much like ATA passwords for hard disk drives (CMD42) and is an optional feature of the SDA/SDIO standard.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Robbie P:
I have an ARM based device. It has various linux distros ported to it which run from various operating systems. My HD2:)

Could SDLock linux utility be used in HD2 to salvage SD cards?
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] dorianmuthig:
I don't know. Probably, yes. Try it and you'll know.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] chillem85:
where is the file manager? (nokia C3)

Perhaps a stupid question, but where can i find the file manager on a Nokia C3 phone. When i go straight to the storage card it asks for a password. I've read about going around the password by using a file manager, but I can't find the file manager :confused:
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] dorianmuthig:
Go to applications -> office -> file manager
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Cadetto Entusiasta:
Confirmed with Nokia 5800 Express Music it works!! YEAH!!
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] rxystx:
Nokia E6 works.

It is not my phone n I'm not familiar with it's OS, I hope I remember the steps correctly, it goes something like

phone ask for password, select cancel, find your way to the apps, select Office, select File Manager, select SD Card, select Format ... done!

Confirmed Nikon D90 n Coolpix 5900 not working.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] peachwork:
I try every method but don't work.

1. Ubuntu live cd

2. windows 8 and 7 cd

3. SD format

4. canon EOS 60D

5. Mac OSX 86 cd

6. CWR formatter

7. install wp7 agian for format it and then unlock >> don't work

because I can't boot into wp7

8. try to plug into samsung smart TV >> It can't detect.

9. restore to windows mobile 6.5 >> same as number 8

And 10. forget it.I have nokia 3110C but It's not support my card

I could recommend for last 2 method.

If you try a lot method and can not unlock your card.this is for you.

1. buy new card

2. claim your card

For me,I choose number 2 and next week I'm going to get a new one.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] anseio:
#7 - why can't you boot into WP7?
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] quickbird144:
I panicked today and only had 2 phones I could think of. A Nokia which didn't work and my Sidekick 08. Yes, Sidekick. I put my 16GB in it which WP7 had only left it with a 200MB partition. Formatted it and boom. It created a partition and restored the original size. Popped it back in my HD2 and on to Android I went.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] myself11:
I was able to format with HD2 running WM6.5.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] peachwork:
I found my wp7 restart loop.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] jcsy:
used EASEUS 6.5.2 Home Edition, saw 200MB partition, deleted it , create new partition, done
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] cx1:
Confirmed NOT working with Canon 60D or T1i
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Robbie P:
OK, I will bite:), How? What WP7 ROM?
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] reflecs:
Nokia E75 confirmed working!!!

Not Working:

Nikon D90

Killdisk
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] dxdy:
Not working JVC Everio Camcorders (possible all)
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] vipgemini:
another solution for me, if the SD card encrypted, i flash yuki xbmod native v2 with the encrypted SD card (amazing), when it stay at wp7 7004, i send "DEV_STORAGELOCK.cab" by wp7cabsender and unlock my SD card :)
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] zoljac:
Nokia 6220c works too and AFAIK every Nokia symbian phone with microSD slot should be able to format it without problems.

Asking for password, just choose cancel, file manager, sdcard and under options format and voila! :D
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] sortac:
I confirm that Nokia E52 works, unlocked and formatted 8 and 16GB SDcards today!

Peace!
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] bmueller77:
Nokia E72 also works
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] aaki_rocker:
even N95 works !! :D :D !!!

my n95 could even read partly corrupted cards (which dont work on other devices nor on PC) ! :D ! ;) !
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] juniwalk:
Nokia N73 also works (using adapter)

Anyway, if you have card unlocked (u see 200MB partition) you can use SD formater or in windows just open disk management and remove the partitions, then use regular format.

Path:

Start -> Control Panel -> Management Tools -> Disk Management

OR

[Win key] + [R] (Run) -> type "diskmgmt.msc" -> [enter]
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Husky997:
Nokia E51 format encrypted sd card too.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] SalJav:
Works with Nokia E63, Press cancel on the password screen, and format the disk from the options menu.

Works well for me.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] aaki_rocker:
edit : n95 does work !! ;) ;) !!
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] 82801BA:
My N73 refuses to format. Just skip, and continues to display "memory card corrupted"
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] user7483:
I had two cards that I wanted to revive. I purchased a Nokia E62 from ebay. I placed the 256mb card in the Minisd adapter and placed it in the phone and it recognized the card and began formatting it. When I placed that card in my computer, the pc told me that the card needed formatting. I tried formatting with the computer and got error message that formatting could not complete. Now that card is not seen by pc OR the E62 anymore. No problem right, I placed the 8gb card in the phone and it sees the card but tells me that the card is corrupted and will not format it at all. I think I corrupted the card trying to format it with diskkill and sdformatter. So I am just out of my two cards I guess. I want to say that the e62 will format them but I do not know for sure.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] dorianmuthig:
That phone is too old and doesn't support SDHC cards (all cards larger than 2GB, up to 32GB).
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] user7483:
That's not entirely true. It recognized and formatted a 4GB card I had in an old camera. I haven't had any problems out of that card either, just the ones I had in the WP7. The 8GB is recognized as being corrupted and the 256MB one is no longer even being seen by any device. The 8GB is seen by all devices but it can't be formatted.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] dorianmuthig:
There are a few older 4GB cards made under the normal SD standard, but due to the way they are addressed, those cards may have poorer performance than those made after SDHC standards, despite having significantly faster NAND in them. If your 4GB card works, it is likely that it is one of those extremely rare cards of the pre-SDHC days.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] steliosk:
on Nokia E51 everthing is ok. My SD finaly formated.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] juniwalk:
maybe your card isn't supported by the phone. My phone formated the card just fine.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] steliosk:
I had the same problem, one card exacly the same (8GB class6) did'nt work but the other was ok.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] erwinsie:
guys, seriously, any other easy method? i have no friend who still keep nokia. i have 8GB and i cant use it, so frustrating. can anyone help? (im with windows 7).. softwares?
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] dorianmuthig:
Go to a mobile phone store that has one on display and ask if you can use it to format your card.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] skorpio:
i try to format/unlock 3 microSD with nokia 6120c:

- sandisk 8gb class 4(removed from HTC HD7 for upgrade and invisible from windows 7)

- sandisk 8gb class 2(removed from HTC HD2 and locked)

- sandisk 16gb class 2(removed from HTC HD2 and locked)

all microSD is unlocked and work perfectly!
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] Mastermind_hassan:
hey guys .. i am facing a problem my 16gb sd card of hd7 some how get corrupted... formatted in hd7 but still it says storage corrupt .. then i put my card in card reader .. my pc ask me to format it but when i did format it says write protected.. so whats the problem is it common wp7 encryption problem or my sd card died?
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] 5ft24:
thats exactly how my 1st 32GB microsd card failed...

time for a new one
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] dorianmuthig:
You need to use a Nokia Symbian S60 or newer based phone to format your old 8Gb or 16GB SDA standard password protected SD card from your Windows Phone. You can then use a standard flash disk testing program to determine if your SD card is broken.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] anon1811:
SD Formatter

You don't need a Nokia device to unlock your sd card. SD Formatter (https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_3/) should work fine. Choose "Erase [Full]" and you should be able to use the card with Windows.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] 5ft24:
nope, been there, done that. Sdformat will not format an encrypted card. I even purchased a PCI express card reader to bypass the USB sub system. Can read the cid, but until the encryption is removed, sdformat won't touch it.

Also, in the US, no carrier has any Symbian based phones in their stores. I tried for several weeks to track one down and was told by every providers store that they no longer carried them, and would not be carrying any in the future.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] rob243:
All WP7 Cards

I am wondering do the "known" methods of formatting the WP7 cards only work on cards that come from hacked devices like for people who are dual booting android/wp7?

The reason I as is I have a 16gb pulled from a HTC Surround, and I have tried to format it in a nokia C7 (listed as confirmed to work to format WP7 locked card) and it does not work.

Any thoughts input appreciated
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] dorianmuthig:
No, formatting the card in your Nokia C7-00 should work just fine. Make sure you inserted the SD card correctly, when you are being asked for the password, select cancel, go into Applications & Programs -> Office -> File manager, tap and hold the SD card, select format and you should be able to use it again.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] rob243:
Unfortunately this does not work, I have confirmed with 2 cards both pulled from HTC surrounds from Telus, which I have tried in two Nokia C7 devices. When I try to format (the final step) it looks like it wants to format then the Nokia tells me the card is locked.

I am now wondering if the unlock cab will work with the HTC surround running ansars latest rom.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] allemeuse:
EZ fix for formatting encrypted SD card

I had no problem formatting an encrypted sd card (micro 16 gig class 4) using SDformatter on my PC (Win7 premium home 64 bit).

Bob
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] rob243:
I am unable to get windows to even acknowledge the card is actually there, same result on my mac, a ubuntu netbook, have also tried booting from gparted still nothing this is both try to see the device in a USB reader as well as the internal card reader.

I know the surround is not exactly the most popular wp7 device, but I would find it strange that they would change the lock/encryption system on one specific device so drastically that known methods for sd cards from other devices completely fail when you try with a card from teh HTC Surround.
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] [27]:
nothing in the Venue Pro section, so ill ask here.

ive tried just about everything to get my 32GB card from my Venue Pro formatted. SDformatter, Killdisk, Hirens, etc, everyone seems to be able to see the card. I cant seem to get any machine to see this thing so I can proceed with the tools everyone is using to wipe this thing clean.

To even get the sd card to be seen for the SDFormatter tool to work Ive tried:

five different machines

Hirens Boot CD

various flavors of linux

three different media readers

verfied that another, non WP7 sd card can be read

N97 (says it formatted the card, but it didn't. When placed in an android phone it couldn't be read, and when placed back into the WP7 phone all my data was still there)

any ideas on what direction I need to go?
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] bib*oops:
You should try with an E series Nokia to format your card, it did it for me!

Good luck!
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] dorianmuthig:
What Symbian version are you running on your Nokia phone? I know it works with any Symbina S60 or newer up until Symbian 3 (Symbian OS 9.5 pre-Anna). If you upgraded to Symbian Anna (or Belle) and it does no longer work, please try downgrading it.