yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] wywywywy:
Hi,

Please note that I know there is a thread at the top about SD card issues, but this post is not about locking up, this post is about 2i killing SD cards, thanks.

I have had my XDA 2i for about 3 months. When I first bought it, I bought a Viking 1GB SD card to use with it. After a month or so, the SD card died. At that time I thought I had a faulty SD card, so I bought another Viking 512MB SD card.

To my horror, it died as well today.

Can't read the cards in any of my readers.

So question is - do I have a faulty 2i? Is it a common problem at all? Or is there a design problem with 2i? Or is the 2i not compatible with Viking SD cards?

It seems like people have great success with the Transcent cards regarding the lock-up issue. So does anyone know whether it is going to solve this "murdering" problem?

Many thanks,

Wayne
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] Danny-B-:
I'm sure i have seen this type of post before...but to be honnest i think it might be an isolated case, perhpas its only that brand of card the XDAIIi will "Kill"

Its more than likely that what causes your XDA to kill the Viking SD cards is the same thing that only causes other SD cards to freeze.

So perhaps Viking cards are more sensative to the XDAIIi (pain in the ass) problem.
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] Pope:
Hmm... i've had 3 SD cards die on me recently too (a PQI 1GB, a Sandisk 256MB and a Pretec 128MB)... i thought it was just a bizaare coincidence or something but now you come to mention it... :?
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] standish:
I've also had two viking 1gb cards die on me each within a few days of receiving them!!!! I now use a Sandisk Ultra II 2gb card which works great apart from TomTom locking up if I don't turn of the phone radio stack.
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] bigballs:
I bought a 1gb Viking Card from Ebuyer and after about 2/3 months it dided Just got my replacement so finges crossed
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] angusmcintyre:
I've had a similar problem with my IIi I went through 2 512Mb unbranded cards from mymemory.co.uk in the space of 3 weeks. The first when screwy and reconfigured itself to be a 30Mb card. The second was completly unreadable. I put it down to me being a cheap-scate and buying unbranded products. :wink:

For the past six months I have been running without an SD related hitch (touch wood) using a Sandisk 1Gb Ultra II.
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] mambo:
Same here.

The thing is that my 1Gb Viking card only lasted 4 days!!!!

:? :? :?

I want to get another kind of card but i´m no sure what´s the best one out there.
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] wywywywy:
I think I am gonna give Transcend a go...

Viking is definitely a no-no.

Really shouldn't have just gone for the cheapest :(
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] Splatt!:
Most SD cards have long warranty periods. Get on to either the manufacturer or the retailer and get them replaced. I once had a Sandisk card die on me and it was replaced straight away. Its replacement is still working in my digital camera now.
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] andy-c1:
i too had a kingston totally die on me ,and at the same time i dropped my pda and it went skidding along the foor and was bust ,so i went back to o2 and told a small lie and so got a new 1 as it was only a week old at the time so i never found out if it was the pda or sd card ,i have now had the same sd card for a few months now no problem ...it's a transend
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] ykyloveu:
Those SD Card from Viking and Kingston are known faulty with XDA...

I never buy these brands of SD Card..

Try KingMax If U like, it works perfect with mine xda2 and xda2i
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] SubZero5:
I had my 512 Mb Kingston SD card killed with my Alpine too :(

This is not a city-myth for me anymore..
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] Server:
Hmm... Did not heard something about broking A-Data's card. Now using one 150x 2Gb. No problems at all.
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] dave55:
Killing SD cards

Hi

Yep same here 4 cards have been murdered by my XDA11i, a sandisk 256 and a couple of lesser sizes, all worked in my inbuilt laptop card reader till they went in the XDA. Now all i get is this card is write protected and its NOT!..Worse of all it also kills RS MMC out of my nokia 6680 so beware. These cards came brand new and played perfectly in the laptop then a couple of sessions in the XDA and bang This disk is write protected, they will be written to when in the nokia and synced by usb cable but the laptop will not write to them at all..

Getting dissapointed with the XDA11i doing this and constantly freezing looking like time to offload on ebay :cry: :cry:

Dave
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] bigballs:
OK MY Replacement Viking from Ebuyer has just died so, The Vkiings are not good for the XDA then.
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] forx:
hi,i popped in here after a freind pointed this out to me.

I have spent the last 3 mths checking out suppliers of sd memory for resale thru my business and most of the brands mentioned here are the ones ive come accross.

however whats not on the packet when you buy these wonders of technology is that they are modified from Rejects off the lines.

they are also modified from 128/256/512 low quality chips.

this means that compression routines have been applied to them to produce a fake formating size.

i found,purely by accident,that if you stick your sd card in a palm pda,it will read off the original manufacturers code which looks like this 0128********,0256*********,0512********* and tru 1 gig are 0000********.i personally have only just(after 3 mths)managed to secure a shipment that has been tested to be true 1 gig.thank god.

just thought this mite help you.
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] bammyman:
my sandisk died too

Bought a 1G sandisk card and ive only had it for 3months and all im getting with the 2i is a freezing screen.I soft reset at least 10 -20 times a day.Im begining to wonder if something is wrong with the 2i.Sometime the only way to start up normally is removing the card .Can someone please advice me which 1G card works best with 2i.I ve heard the transend work ok..Thanks
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] Innovator:
3 Solutions for SD cards that don't work anymore in a PDA !

1/ Try to format with your pc or other card reader (like in pc or printer).

2/ Try to format it with PocketMechanic (dowload the free trial)

There are many options : format logical, ntfs, fat, for digital

camera,pda,...

With this tool I could reformat the card and use it again

3/ Buy a Kingston Elite Pro card in future or other with LIFETIME WARANTY

I once had a card that couldn't be fixed from Kingston, it had LIFETIME

waranty! Yess KINGSTON ELITE PRO series offer that. I just posted it

internationally to London's office with RMA nr, and received a NEW SD

Card in plastic! Speaking of service!

Bought this card from an Ebay shop. I don't know how the service is

with other brands, but some have 5y waranty, you can try to return it.

Hope helping ya all!

XDAIIi still is the best, now an XDAIIi with build in GPS Antenna and we have a real all in solution ;)
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] tamanegi:
My XDAIIi might have killed Kingston 512 SD card

hi

I have a XDAIIi purchased about 4months ago.

My XDA IIi is having a lot of problems and it also may have killed my 2 months old kingston 512 MB SD card...

I tried some data recovery softwares but they did not help.

So I brought the damaged SD card to data resucue service but they could not fix data structure of SD card.... saying as below.

And they suggested me to use less MB Sd card with the pda,

i have two other 256 sundisk SD cards but they seem to be OK.

regards

Tom
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] FJR:
SD

Hi

Mine froze up repeatable until I found this site and removed my 128 ULTIMA. I then removed my PANASONIC 256 “Hi Speed” (supposedly but does not say what speed on the card) from my camera and all is good so far.:shock:
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] jamesmsalter:
I thought it was just my XDA 2i doing this! I have got through two Kingston 256 cards and it's just killed a 512 Viking too. am now on my third viking 256 - how long will this one last?!

Is there a solution? I'm going look through the posts to see which cards people have found to be the most reliable.

Has anyone spoken to O2 or their network provider about this?
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] forx:
definatly something up with the xda2,this is the only one having repeated problems with all makes of card.

i know a lot of vikings use a "special" hardware compression to squeeze the most out of nothing but even they work in most things,pdas/mp3 players etc,just fine.

a m8 has an xda 1 for a coupler years with a 1 gig kingston card with no problems and i supply all my gps kits with king 512 and 1 g cards and ive never had a return(is why they offer a lifetime guarrantee-cos theyre good)

Other than all the dead ones here being chinese fakes(theres millions)

the xda2 must be sending the wrong voltages etc or the physical slot is flaky and resulting in that "do not remove whilst writing to card" being disconnected whilst writing.that would kill a card.

Down to o2 to supply an answer i think now.......i wont hold my breath.
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] poely:
Already 6 broken SD cards of different brands

Hi I am an IT engineer at Vodafone Netherlands and we have the same problem with the Qtek 2020i ,

At this moment I have had 6 customers in the office with broken SD cards.

The SD cards are froim different brands like SanDisk, Kingston, Acer, HP....etc.

My own SD card broke today in the 2020i, it happend at the moment when the Qtek was in the cradle only for recharging and not for connection with the PC. At a certain moment the qtek locked up and I had to soft reset the device. After this he couldn't find the SD card anymore.

Also a cardreader connected to a PC can't read the cards anymore.

I contacted Qtek support but they said that this is not a known issue and that it hasnt happened before. Theý also thought that I am using faulty SD cards.

Remark : it only happens in the Qtek 2020i and not in the 2020.
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] udance4ever:
Re: 3 Solutions for SD cards that don't work anymore in a PD

I can vouch for reformatting - in fact, in my case, try your digital camera!

I had a 256MB SanDisk SD that died on me a year ago and had no luck formatting it from Windows, Mac OS X, PPC, format utilities, etc - it's been RIP ever since. Just a week ago, I popped it into a SD400 and wasn't surprised it didn't work. Then I tried a low-level format in the SD400 itself - the card got reborn from the dead and to my amazment, was even readable on my card reader which I has suspected to be the culprit!

I have no explanations for these behaviours - but does anyone *really* have explanations when technology acts up?!? :roll:
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] depolle:
Tomtom 5.21 upgrade

Tomtom 5.21 upgrade and no more problems with sd-cards.

I have Kingston 512 and Integral 1gb, both MLC (double layer).

No problems any more.
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] fei886:
I bought a Viking 1G sd card on Amazon.co.uk, i used it for 3 month now it is dead, does any one could tell my how get a replacement form Amazon, i tried to find a email or tel numer that i could contact them directly, but there is nothing i can found on their web!! does anyone got any idears?? :(
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] gregpakes:
I have had exactly this issue.

I bought 3 PNY SD cards for use in my XDA 2i. Some of you are saying that reformatting works, if so, then I do not think you have the same problem as me. My problem was that the XDA 2i was actually destroying the cards. they became unreadable in ALL readers, PC, XDA, Cameras etc etc.

I since switched to ScanDisk SD card and it has been fine for over 3 months. I think the XDA 2i has problems with some cards. Best buy one that is known to work. ScanDisk does work. Amazon had SD cards for VERY cheap, so no real reason to buy an unbranded one.
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] tomw86:
I've used various SD cards in mine, and never had a problem. I've generally gone for cheap un-known brands. Infact, i just had a look, and non of them even have a brand name of them. my 128Mb was bought from 7dayshop.com or something, the other was a 512Mb from mymemory. Not had any problem with either of them.
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] defroster:
TOSHIBA

yep, my 2i killed my 512mb TOSHIBA SD card after a few weeks.

is everyone who's had this happen using the latest upgraded rom?

I am...
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] fei886:
my second Viking 1G sd card just dead when i useing xbackup, is it xbackup killing my sd card??

do not buy viking!!
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] fei886:
I received my new viking 1G sd card today, but the problem still occurs. I tried to use the sd card to backup my PDA document, at the begining the card was frozen, after i tried again the card was just dead, both my PDA and card reader can not recognise the card.

I found the 1G viking card is not a reliable product
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] defroster:
I think it's getting pretty obvious there's a fault with the IIi which damages SD Cards, civil lawsuit time!
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] falum:
I came across this thread this morning and i thought about the 1Gb viking that failed 2 months ago from ebuyer and then low and behold! my replacement has just stopped working!

Is this o2's problem or ebuyers?

I'm reluctant to keep putting cards in if they are gonna get nailed like this.
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] Matteh:
I've had an Aria own brand 1GB sd card since march. it has just died

so annoying :(
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] AlbertWT:
Well, it seems that the MMC / SD-Card over 512 MB is prone to error whatever the brand is. ???

I want to buy Kingston Elite Pro 1 GB SD-Card for my O2 XDA IIi but after reading these postings hm.......... I began to doubt

Need some advice here regarding the expansion card, so far there is no report in Transcend / SanDisk cards error, should I buy one of those brands or stick to Kingston Elite Pro 1 GB SD Card ?

Please shed some light here for this matter :-|

thanks
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] raj9675:
XDA 2i killing Sandisk Extreme 3 sd card

The card worked fine until I put then in my XDA 2i. They then became dead and stop working. The XDA, SD card reader and casio exlim camera can no longer read them. It also happened to the replacement card they sent me. I thought I'd take advantage of the 133x speed read/write but I'm very disappointed.
[PDA2, XDA IIi, 2020i General] AlbertWT:
Currently I'm using default settings from the factory with Transcend 80x 1 GB SD-Card SLC

it still work fine though :-)

no problem so far and fast transfer rate too from the PC.

Transcend is a good buy according to me. :p
[Android Stick & Console RockChip based Computers] queeg500:
Hi All,

I realise there is already a huge thread about the MK809II but I wanted to focus specifically on streaming media to it as I had hoped this would be its main use for me.

The first thing I installed was the iPlayer app. I have been quite disappointed with this as the streaming quality is very poor despite setting the app to use the highest quality available and my TV only being 720p to start. The iPlayer website generally works well when using firefox with the Desktop By Default add on. When available I can play the HD streams without any problem and even SD streams are better quality than the app.

4oD was my second installation. This has frustrated me even more. By default this will not play to HDMI out. My MK809II came rooted so I was able to hide the HDMI out from the app as described (I would've posted a link but I'm not allowed! Its easily found by googling). Now the app allows me to start playing a show but sits continually on a black screen with a buffering icon. I have tried instead to download a show, although there aren't many available, this does seem to download a significant proportion of the show but I always get the message 'Download failed'. Over the last couple of days despite not watching anything the app has downloaded over 2Gb of data! I have read that it will also fail to work if the device is rooted, I haven't had a specific warning about this but again tried another app to hide the fact that its rooted and restarted 4oD but the same black screen appears.

So I thought I could get round this by using the web site as I had with iPlayer, this allows me to log in ad browse around but I encounter the same black screen and buffering icon.

I haven't attempted SkyGO yet, I'm not feeling confident of getting anywhere with that if I can get 4oD to work! Nor have I tried ITV or Channel5.

For myself and others as anyone got a setup that works better than this or used other streaming services? Maybe decent quality out the iPlayer app - or anything out of 4oD?
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] The jOkEr!:
CRT Animation On/Off running any GB rom (2.3.x)

Here is the screen Off/On animations mod. An awesome tweak which makes your phone's sleeping animations like old tv's shutting down.

Lets Begin.

[NOTE: Im not responsible for any bricked devices.]

Things needed

1. JAVA - Click Here

2. APK MANAGER - Click Here

3. Notepad++ - Click Here

Procedure

And the most IMPORTANT part.

After flashing framework go to settings>Display>Animations, select "All Animations".

AND if you dont want the animation simply change

"<bool name="config_animateScreenLights">false</bool>"

to

"<bool name="config_animateScreenLights">true</bool>"

CREDITS

Daneshm90 for the APKMANAGER

me for the guide
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] The jOkEr!:
Reserved
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] thewarlord:
dude!! 4 your kind information sadly there is no any value folder in frameworks - res !!

& also bool.img in frameworks whole app.!! :( in our galaxy y!!
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] The jOkEr!:
i have checked in the stock rom of y.

it is there

If you decompile framework-res.apk you will get it.

I will attach images for easier use.
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] TheFixItMan:
Have you actually tried this because this has been around for ages

I'm sure

Stock framework in our phone does not support this

cm7 percy does not support this

Both due to hardware libs
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] DarkEyed:
deleted
[Galaxy Y GT-S5360 General] TheFixItMan:
I don't think you understand

I'm not saying that the files mentioned don't exist because they do

I'm saying you can edit them as mentioned but due to our hardware libs the changes will have absolutely no effect
[General Questions and Answers] hykhleif:
hey guys please i bought myself a car stereo sony mex bt5100- which has built in bluetooth support

, but then i came across some sites that recommend using the new bluetooth adapters like kinivo adapter saying that they support bluetooth aptx.

so which do u think will produce a better sound the built in bluetooth in my car stereo or using my car stereo with the new bluetooth adapter
[HTC Incredible S] dhadaip:
Digitizer and screen not working after flashing ruu containing hboot 1.13.0000 .even i got no errors during flash and my phone have

Hboot 1.13.0000

RADIO-3805.069.03_M

eMMC- boot

nd my getvar all info is

version: 0.5

version-bootloader: 1.13.0000

version-baseband: 3805.06.03.03_M

version-cpld: None

version-microp: None

version-main: 2.30.405.1

serialno: HT12VTD10038

product: vivo

platform: HBOOT-7630

modelid: PG3213000

cidnum: HTC__038

battery-status: good

battery-voltage: 3870mV

partition-layout: Generic

security: on

build-mode: SHIP

boot-mode: FASTBOOT

commitno-bootloader: dirty-8a731c6e

hbootpreupdate: 12

gencheckpt: 0

problem that I am facing with my phone is ,it boots with htc logo and there after screen turns black and touch stops.i have checked ,phone is working by pluging headphones and playing songs. so i am not able to turn off usb debugging and switch off fastboot mode. so as to run revolutionary script. moreover if i flash with any ruu above hboot.2.00.000 every thing works perfectly.

kindly help me in this .As i am regular tester of new roms . so i wan to be on s-off.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simuchahal:
Plz help me to root my galaxy note n7000 (indian) with build no DDLSC. plz help.confused.checked all youtube links..no file for DDLSC.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nokiamodeln91:
look in Philz kernel thread.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simuchahal:
Can u post the link plz..
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nokiamodeln91:
http://bit.ly/15PM6GN
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroidSlave:
Are you incapable of using Google?
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xdafun4all:
i m getting the device this week but asking about the white back cover

i want to take the white one but i m scared about the back cover may get some change in color or get dirty by time as the cover has leather like shape and stetches on the sides

so black or white note 3 ???
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] htc6500uk:
Reports say the black cover is better but I have not compared. While looking on ebay I saw back covers in every colour of the rainbow including Gold!
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PaulGG:
The back cover will be available in any colour soon just swap it out, just like the old Nokia. I prefer the black and also the full Black face in Los of apps and menus the screen looks seam less whereas the white phone you have a white border. The white s View Cover looks good on a black faced phone
[Galaxy Note 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] snoopycr:
I hope they make a real leather back cover.

The feel of it would be nice and classy

Sent from my C6602
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TitaniumZERO:
Can anyone help me to upload Calculator, Timer, Note, and Recorder small app icons here? I have no luck getting them from Googling.

Thanks in advance. :angel:
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arn007:
Browser :

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[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Arn007:
View attachment 2308698

done
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TitaniumZERO:
Thanks pressed. :good:
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] xdafun4all:
i m getting the device this week but asking about the white back cover

i want to take the white one but i m scared about the back cover may get some change in color or get dirty by time as the cover has leather like shape and stetches on the sides

so black or white note 3 ???
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] slide83:
I plan to get the white one and then get a oem black back.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Jfree3000:
You may have to feel then to choose. Played with both today at bestbuy and the black does feel different from the white. They both look good and I may try white since I've never owned a white phone.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Blkegk:
I got the white one first and returned it for a black one the same day. The white does noticeably shows more dirt.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] godsafk:
Having played with both I'm going with black. It feels more like a premium device even though they are both made out of plastic.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Ragnar:
Please do not create extra unnecessary threads. There is already a thread on device color please keep all conversation there. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=46205050

Have a great day!