[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Brokerdan:
Don't laugh... I have a cherry mobile Candy (times are hard) running android 2.2 Froyo. Not that the phone has ever done what it claims to be capable of but now I seem to be facing much more serious issues. After WinMobile 6.1 I lost the time to focus on my favorite hobby playing with devices...Now I feel like a noob again with Droid so I need help, and thank any who does so ahead of time.

That said here is what I have been experiencing, what I was doing last, and how I have attempted to fix it.

My phone was working fine with gobs of apps on it. I decided to root my phone using z4root and it worked fine, slow but that has always been the case(Phone is still rooted) In an effort to speed up and take control of the device I attempted to use a few new apps, but found that support for my (Lame) device was not supported. They include: RomManager, SetCpu, and Battery Callibrator(<Suspect #1) The first 2 barely worked, I was able to run Fix permissions as I had had 1 app hanging and thought it might help. The batt. app was the last to be used and I followed instructions to a "T" phone was fine.

All of a sudden my phone starts loosing access to the sd card (Icons turn to default green) but eventually load. Soon the phone says sd card damaged. I safely removed the card ran it through Win 7 error check and it found a few errors which it repaired. I reinstalled the card to find the same error "SD card Damaged". I formatted another 8gb sd card and installed it into the phone. This time it would not even recognize the card. A few restarts later and again it found it but again damaged sd card error. I booted the phone into test and sometimes it would recognize other times not. I cleared the NAND Flash and reformatted the Sd card (Started Fresh) Same issues as before but now randomly the phone won't wake up once it has gone to Sleep (Standby) without a battery removal. I again reset the phone this time using recovery boot and cleared the data and cache I reformatted again a NEW SD card 1gb and same problems exist damaged/missing sd errors Not able to come out of sleep "Sleep Of Death" as I have heard it called and now wifi is acting up at my work (Not Home) in this sort of loop.

***When I do not have an sd card installed the phone works as it did before, these problems only arise when an SD card is physically installed on the device.

Recap:

Problems:

1. Phone not recognizing or SD card is Damaged error

2. "Sleep of Death" Not waking up after standby (Manual or auto and randomly)

3. Wifi loop never connect. (May be router and completely separate issue)

Attempted Fixes:

1.Hard Reset(Clear NAND Flash/Cache/Data)

2. Reformat and multiple different SD cards

3.Attempt to debug with SDK ADT(See Below please)

4.Reading countless page after page on forum after forum(Now I come to the pros)

After plugging my phone into my PC (Win 7 32bit) I discovered that there was no driver support for my (Again LAME) device. Much less any other type of help from Cherry Mobile. So I followed the instructions from xda and other forums to no avail. I still have no way of installing the driver on my PC to allow SDK to work.

RE: Mt65xx Android Driver.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1164957

So here is where I am at.

To all you amazing Mobile Tech wizards here at XDA I humbly ask for your help.

1.)Is my problem Hardware, Software, or Firmware based?

2.)Is there a way to repair it?

3.)If the way to repair it is through SDK how do I correctly install the driver I downloaded on my Win 7 PC?

4.)I saw commands in a forum for SDK ADT like rebuild Network, Files etc. Am I barking up the wrong tree?

5.) Is there anyone out there that can help me!!!! :)

One last time I thank you in advance for any and all help with my phone. ~Daniel