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[Touch HD General] kuokhong:
I have read through the thread and I think my problem is different with the rest. Ok, so I have an 8gb sd card in my device. Everything working perfectly. Then my device was having problem so I send the back the device and they exchanged a new device. Brand new device with stock rom 1.14. So, I put in my 8gb sd card which comes with the previous device and was working perfectly in the previous device. And now the device and PC wont detect the card. Tried inserting my sd card into my Omnia and the Omnia can detect it. So is it hardware problem? my new blackstone is faulty?
[Touch HD General] Matthes42:
what happens when you put the sd-card out of your omnia into your touch hd? if your htc can´t even read this card your device might be broken.
[Touch HD General] momomorphz:
???

Hi guys! Just my 2 cents here. Im pretty sure I didnt leave my card in while flashing as I've read this thread BEFORE I started flashing my phone so I made sure my sim card and SD card were out before i started messing with flashing.

Today, my card finally dissapeared. Flashing an official rom now in hopes I can see and format the card >.<
[Touch HD General] darrenmc168:
same here

just had to replace my sandisc 8gb card as the HD stoped seeing it, put a new one in and it worked straight away, after a bit of research and a chat to Orange, who told me this is a regular problem from HD owners, i think you will find that the 8gb card is not very stable and is a known issue with the HD in particular . Get a new card, i got mine under warranty, and you should be fine....till it goes again !!!!!
[Touch HD General] momomorphz:
yup, confirmed regular problem

Dudes, just to let you guys know, I did all I could, formatted my SD card and still it won't show up.

Went to HTC service center today, and they changed a (according to them) brand new SD card for me on the spot, no questions asked. Kinda exceeded expectations; I expected to be told to wait for a few days for them to diagnose the problem, then another few days for stock to arrive. Apparently this is regular enough that they are authorized to do one-to-one exchanges on the spot. Note: same model, same brand.

Not the best solution, as I'm fully expecting my card to dissapear within a few months time tops, and once warranty ends, it's gonna be expensive to keep buying new cards -.-

That being said though, at least they still do one-to-one exchanges on the spot, that kinda tides me over for a bit =D
[Touch HD General] alex7879:
I have the same problem. And it seems it's somehow connected with My Documents folder - when I connect my phone to pc as a disk drive and open the storage card, everything can be copied fine until I touch My Documents. As soon as I try to do anything with this folder, the card disappears.

Did full format and it looks like the problem is solved.
[Touch HD General] 9rinder:
same-same..

I've got same trouble even with 2 different cards: 8 gd bundled and 16 Gb brand new SanDisc. Surely, It happened under 1.56 SPL! I flashed device WITHOUT card installed. I've succeed to save data first time, but now card is fully unreadable even on my notebook - it shows drive E, but no access and only formatting option. Any soft recommended to recover data? GetDataBack couldn't help...

I must save several very important files!
[Touch HD General] 9rinder:
I couldn't recover any data anyway, but got HU-U-U-U-UGE troubles with flashing 1.14 -> 1.56 SPL back, see my "adventures" and be careful with this way:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=3998283&postcount=1082
[Touch HD General] dmeagor:
Problem caused by music indexing

I don't know if this is the cause for anyone else but my SD card vanishes after trying to add new files to the music library, either through Media player or by simply visiting the music tab which seems to trigger a library update automatically.

I can view all of the files through a USB reader on my PC though or by resetting the HD and quickly going into file explorer before doing anything else.

I am using the standard flash update from the HTC website and not any custom roms.
[Touch HD General] zoren:
uh oh... my HD stopped detecting my SD card, after i flashed a new rom. :( while trying to access it, my HD juz froze. soft reset was the only way to revive my device. :confused:
[Touch HD General] lynne02191:
the sd card problem is just ****ed up, i've encountered similar situation before, but the finnal solution turned out is that I bought a new one.........:mad:
[Touch HD General] ecuador tur:
me ayudo format

esta funcionando 1 semana
[Touch HD General] tremor83:
Same problem, after flashing a new rom (1.56) SD card don't work. I have used the micro sd with another phone to save data and then I have done a format. Still not working with touch HD! Special setting for the storedge card?

Ciaoo
[Touch HD General] zenkinz:
in my case, I just format my sd card and the problem is resolved.
[Touch HD General] apy:
I've got the SD-problem as well. I'm using Dutty's 3.9 ROM for some weeks now. I was listening to music, stopped the touchflo media player and started a new program, it didn't recognized my microSD card anymore.

I've flashed the ROM back to stock 1.14 and didn't work either. Now I'm on stock 1.56 with still the some problem that the sd-card just doesn't exist to my HD.

My PC doesn't recognize my card. Trying to reformat the bl**dy thing doesn't seem to work as none of the software provided on this thread doesn't detect the card. Trying the command-line formatting trick gives a: Error in IOCTL call

Worse, my HD doesn't even recognize another working micro-SD card anymore. Did I hit the jackpot with a hardware failure of my device and SD-card?
[Touch HD General] JePPz:
autch! My HD has recognized it when i turned back to 1.14 each time.

Then i have the oppertunity to format it.

U sad that it recognized another SD card, was it working on another Touch HD? As I know, not all cards/manufacturer seem to work
[Touch HD General] Harmageddon:
I've had the some problem from last night untill the beginning of this afternoon.

My Touch HD didn't detected my Sandisk microSD. Even my cardreader didnt detect it.

So i left my SDcard for like 30min outside my phone. Insert it again, and now its working fine for the last 2 hours. Let's see whats going on.

Touch HD is running HSPL 1.56 and Energyrom WM6.5. I've flashed it from the SD card.
[Touch HD General] darrenmc168:
thats why

After some research and several phone calls to orange it has transpired that there is a problem with the storage cards that are shipped with the HD, orange have had a lot back for replacement, they will tell you that it is not covered on your warranty, but don't give in, it is covered and they will replace it, took me a couple of phone calls before it was replaced, it is working fine, but from what i can gather it will work fine for a period of time, then just stops...no reason for it, it is not linked to rom flashing but that does seem to be a catalyst.

hope this helps
[Touch HD General] cbreze:
Weird, the same thing happened with my 8g default card. The HD could not see it. I replaced it with the one from my pro and no more issue, This one works fine in the HD. And even weirder, the 8g card from the HD that didn't work, now works fine in the pro.
[Touch HD General] apy:
The other microSD card I borrowed from someone else to test my phone. It's working on PC, camera and any other device using SD. Just not working on my touch HD.

I tried formatting to broken microSD-card with my camera, to no avail :(
[Touch HD General] JePPz:
Yes, but was it working with another blackstone? dont know if it matters but..

ive searched and searched

The only thing people reommend is format the card..

But first it must be detected. And i dont know any other way then flasing down.

A real bommer!

I saw a name, Jeff Gibson, he was active before with things like this, Haven't had the oppertuniy to test any of his apps though
[Touch HD General] apy:
I don't know anyone with another blackstone device... That it can't be recognized by my camera and 2 pc's with difference card readers hints me that that it doesn't work. I agree that if I can get the card detected, I can retrieve my data, be it on a sector by sector basis.

My next focus is on my device, if I can get the microSD card slot working again.
[Touch HD General] dingil:
Does removing card really prevent corruption during flashing?

Is it still possible having corruption with new ROM if I have removed sd_card when flashing????:confused:
[Touch HD General] Harmageddon:
The're not getting corrupted i think. It's some kind of software problem in my opinion.

After several soft resets, the SD card is working properly again, and isn't corrupt.

But like said before, backup the SD card is something everybody should do.

I've backupped the pics i have made before i flashed my device from SD card.
[Touch HD General] ehsanij:
how to reformat the sd card

mine does not show at all even using pc card reader, i am searching for a way how to reformat it, with ROM downgrading also it does not show!!!!!!!!!!!!
[Touch HD General] apy:
I've just sent my in for repair, let's see what their diagnosis is.
[Touch HD General] Matthes42:
in this thread there are several hints to format the card anyway. So you could try to format it using a digicam.
[Touch HD General] simplistian:
I had similar issues with the stock SD card (Transcend here), my phone corrupted it for several times, it couldn't be recognized by the phone but it was able to be recognized in XP and I was asked to format the corrupted card right after i plug it in. After formatting it could be used for some days then being corrupted again.

Problem was gone after buying a new SanDisk.
[Touch HD General] mattcrisco:
I just started a new thread with a possible solution for this issue. Try to connect your HD with your PC via USB (Disk Drive Mode). Can you access your files on your storage card? Try to write one file onto it. Unplug the HD. Look if it works. In my case the problem was solved.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=537160
[Touch HD General] Fallen Spartan:
Why start a new thread when this one is already here? Simply creating useless thread. Why not just post your solution here?

I notice the 2nd post on your new thread said simply 'it did not work for me'. So not a solution afterall?
[Touch HD General] mattcrisco:
A search didn't bring up this thread to me. I found it after starting the new thread... sorry.

A malfunctioning storage card can have lots of reasons - my solution only fixes one of it :)
[Touch HD General] Fallen Spartan:
Point taken on this
[Touch HD General] tsalta:
Hello Guys i need some HELP i have the same problem let explain you:

Im usgin the default 8GB SD card that come with the phone, so i was using befor WM 6.1 rooms for example Davideuck v 5 and v 7 No problem at all

So befor few days i flash my Blackstone with the latest ENERGY room WM 6.5 the room is good and work perfect for me and fast i have only one problem with this room!

So for example in the TF3d when i go to the Music PLayer and try to update the library after scaning the device NO MUSIC FOUND.. and after this im not able to see my SD CARD anymore so after restart the SD CARD is there without problem i can use it i can synhro the phone i also update my pictures and not have any problem but Always when i click on the Music PLayer to update the library the SD card disapear so what i did!

I remove the Music PLayer from my tabs and try to update the library directly from Gallery my Music etc.. again the same problem after searching the device for music the SD CARD disapear

SO where is the problem? i can`t understand why always when i try to update the library the CARD disapear?

After restart the CARD is here and also i can go into the SD card and play all the songs one by one but when i want to listen them and update the library again the disapear?!

So all is good but its very bad that i can`t listen my fav songs..

Can anybody tell me any solution how i can fix this problem, maybe someone have the same problem?!

Thanks in advance

P.S i try few times to format my SD Card now without succes always give me some kind of errors etc so after all i conect the phone via usb cable on Disc Drive mode and i just FORMAT the SD CARD via my PC click with the right button of the mouse on Driver (K) then pres FORMAT

and this work for me now im able to see my SD CARD in the phone and also i Update the Music and Gallery without a problem so will see in the next few days do i will have other problems with this

The bad news is that i need to INSTALL again all programs that i have befor:)
[Touch HD General] Friend of Bill W.:
+1! :cool:
[Touch HD General] noonghunna:
I started having this problem yesterday on my Touch HD. After nearly 2 months of updating to the 1.56 ROM available on HTC website.

The problem first appeared while I was driving my way back to home and CoPilot crashed. After reaching home i found that the SD card was not being read by the Windows Mobile. I restarted the mobile, the card was available again. My happiness didn't lasted long, as it vanished again when i started browsing directory structure on the SD card.

I reckon, when the device starts up, windows either verifies the file system or builds media files index after some time the device has booted.

If the device was rebooting on exploring directories on SD card via file explorer then it certainly meant that the file system has gone corrupt.

I didn't investigate which processes on the device seek SD card file system as the device boots.

Not sure why the file system got corrupt but i have my doubts on excessive internet usage via various processes running on the device. A day before i had setup 2 new email accounts on the device. There are a total of 5 emails accounts which poll the servers every hour. That is the only "new" stuff which i had done on the mobile recently.

I spent quite a good time going through what the community has shared in this thread. I didn't want to loose another day contacting HTC support or burning a new rom or even trying a new SD card. Since i didn't have much critical data on the SD card, so i thought of formating SD card.

Errr .. where do i find a micro SD card reader at 1:00am in the night? .. crap ... Instead, started looking for a scandisk utility for windows mobile and came across ScanDisk[http://www.wizcode.com/products/view/scandisk_mobile]. I gave it a try couple of times to let it fix the FAT filesystem. It identified the lost clusters but as whenever it came across the "bad" files, the SD card vanished. (Irony)

By 2 o'clock, i was thinking of letting my data go and started looking for a disk format utility instead. Storage Tools [http://www.softwinter.com/storagetools.html] is what i came across now. Quite sexy it is. It formated the SD card and i didn't see the card vanishing again after that.

Huh ... All of my Angelina Jolie pics are gone now! sigh! I guess it time to move on to another babe! suggestions? ^_^

Btw, If i knew the process which accessed the SD card corrupt filesystem at startup, i'd have still had my baby. It might have helped to stop all those processes so, SD card doesn't vanish and allow the filesystem recovry tool (Scandisk) to help rebuild the file allocation tables. This might help saving the existing data. I hope some clever mofo will post his finding about this some day.

In short,

Guys .. get [http://www.softwinter.com/storagetools.html] on your phone and if you don't give a **** about data on SD card, then just run it and your card won't vanish anymore.

/gieve Leffe
[Touch HD General] simonastro:
my storage card disappeared a while back

have tried all means in thread but is not seen by anything

called orange today who say is not covered by warrantee as is a non essential accessory!

anybody had any luck with orange customer services in this regard?

cheers
[Touch HD General] kieboy:
You have to format your card. I experienced the same, try soft resetting your phone then on boot use file explorer to see if the 'Storage Card' is detected again, it will be gone after a minute or if you try to access it. Without accessing any files inside it, go All Settings -> Connections -> USB to PC and set it to Disk Drive. If if ever you lost the card again, just do a soft reset. Now since its set to disk drive, plug the usb cable and to your pc. Either you try and backup some files inside (tedious cause there's a chance of losing the card again and need to reset) or format immediately.
[Touch HD General] simonastro:
cheers kieboy - but I cannot format the card as is not detected

once had a glimmer from a card reader but registered an I/O error as soon as I tried to do anything
[Touch HD General] Matthes42:
have you tried to format the card using a digi-cam as written inthis thread as a possible solution?
[Touch HD General] simonastro:
yes I have tried all the methods suggested in this thread

hence my question being has anyone had any success in obtaining a replacement from orange

cheers
[Touch HD General] apy:
I received my device back from repairs. It was covered under the HTC warranty (not through a mobile operator as I've got an unlocked device). They've replaced the micro SD Card, but I'm not sure what they've done with the done.
[Touch HD General] civic5163:
Seems like a soluton after countless frustrations...

Had my fair share of frustrations on "failed" SD cards after flashing new ROMS some many months back.

Tried all "proposed" solutions" posted in this forum and nothing seemed to work til I try this:

"Simply remove the battery before inserting/removing the SD card"

And since practising this and flashing another 5 ROMs within 2 months, my SD cards (both 8GB and 16GB) had been in perfect conditions and never fail a single time til now.

Scan Disk, done once in a while, had further re-affirmed the healthy state of all my cards.

Hope it works for you guys too.

* I also remove both SIM card and SD card when flashing new ROM.

Regards from Lion City.
[Touch HD General] Dennis-TW:
I also have been hit.....

So since recently I also come up with the issue of my standard shipped Transcend 8 GB card not being recognized by my Touch HD anymore.

It started with finding out that Spb Backup reported a failed backup (...I scheduled a full backup to the SD card every night at 4am) and that my SD card wasn't recognized anymore, however, after a soft reset everything was fine again.

Quite soon after that I had the same backup problem again and I thought maybe it's because I left the Touch HD in the cradle over night (though it was never a problem so far).

So for the next night (three nights ago) I didn't put the HD into the cradle and.....the backup was fine!!

So I was guessing that maybe the Sync connection while being put into the cradle was responsible, but the following night the backup failed again, even with the HD not being connected to the cradle....

Since then, the SD card is completely gone in the HD, but immediately recognized by my PCs card reader.

So far, I didn't make it to bring it back on the HD, but was able to copy all data to my PC without any problem. I did reformat the SD card with Windows and third party tools, made a hard reset of the HD and tried my old 1 GB Kingmax card....with no success at all.

Interesting to know for you probably is that I never touched any of the 1.56 Roms....the only Roms I flashed were 1.14 Roms and most of the times without SIM and SD card inside, since I was always afraid of.....guess what!!....damaging the cards in whatever way while flashing, however, I forgot to remove the SD card one or two times.....

In my case the problem does not seem to be the SD card itself, but the HD's card reader. Strange however that it happened to me more than two months after my last flashing since I was happy with a 1.14 stock rom together with Mobile Shell......but now it seems that my HD will get some more attention in terms of testing some other Roms hoping to solve the issue (....before going to buy a new SD card).

Greetings from Taiwan....with HTC's headquarters almost around the corner ;)

Edit: So after unsuccessful testing of all methods mentioned in this thread I just bought a brand new KINGSTON 4 GB Class 4 micro-SDHC card and........it doesn't work!!!!! Now I'm quite in panic mode since all my cards are fine in PCs and cameras, already formatted them several times with several tools and I'm still using stock 1.14 ROM and never changed to any 1.54/1.56 ROM, hence all conclusions and suggestions failed for me so far.

Since everyone else seemed to be successful with buying a brand new SANDISK card....did I made a mistake in buying one from KINGSTON? Is it compatible with the TOUCH HD?
[Touch HD General] Dennis-TW:
It's back again!!!

After one more day of thinking and trying resolving my special SD-card problem I'm happy to present another alternative to resolve this issue.

As previously mentioned, neither soft/hard reset, downgrading SPL version, reformatting SD-card nor using a brand new SD-card brought it back to my Touch HD until.....

....as kind of a last attempt I tried flashing the HD directly from the storage card just to see whether the card would be recognized in boot loader (tricolor) mode.

Since I didn't install any permanent HSPL (always flashed with USPL), the flashing didn't go through, which actually was the way I wanted. After the majority of incidences was reported after flashing the HD with an inserted SD-card, I wouldn't dare to think that flashing from the SD-card itself could be a solution. :rolleyes:

Just canceling (...or in my case not proceeding since no HSPL installed), after the process started from the card (indicating that HD's card reader is still alive) might be the safer solution for ones having HSPL from Olinex installed.

Running for about 18 hours now, including complete backup to the card, listening MP3's etc.....and it seems that nothing ever happened!!

As for the balance of my "SD-card crisis": Almost the whole weekend spent with resetting, flashing, formatting hardware and reading through the forums in English and German.....already getting informationen about possible duration of repair processes etc. and then with one of the last ideas, resolving the issue with a basically easy action. :cool:
[Touch HD General] Dennis-TW:
Back to square one....

Well....and now the same story again....

SD-Card not shown and my previous trick doesn't work anymore.

So besides all steps mentioned in this thread....some more ideas anyone?
[Touch HD General] webbyfoot:
won't see card with .JPG, but will with .jpg !!!!!!

Got my TP2 yesterday and struggled to get my 8GB Sandisk mobile ultra (class 6) card to show - had to reformat it on my camera before I could use it. An important feature for me is to be able to whip out my card from my camera and view images (and maybe videos) on the nice new shiny screen of my phone - and be able to email them from there so recognition of the card by the phone is most important!!

Any way after half filling the card with the usual junk (copilot etc etc) I put it back in my camera, took a few video clips and was slightly disappointed that the TP2 juddered even on the 30fps VGA clips (still they are gross mjpgs) but slightly impressed that it managed about every 50th frame of the HD ones (720x1280).

So I put the card back in the camera and took a few stills - and BUM! The card was no longer recognised by my TP2!

So connected the phone as mass storage and my PC saw the card contents fine - then remembered my Canon for some reason saved it's stills with an uppercase extension - so on a whim I renamed them to .jpgs, unplugged the phone from the PC and bam the card popped up in File Explorer!

EDIT: Doh! just renamed back to JPG and card still recognised so it is just flaky TP2 afterall - it's just making any change through a mass storage connection to the card that then makes the TP2 recognise the card, so please ignore above!!!!
[Touch HD General] xhaavardx:
I have the solution

Download and install Advanced Configuration Tool 3.3 and enable SD card power management. That's all
[Touch HD General] otoro_315:
xhaavardx - your suggestion is contradicting to post #4 :confused:, so whose is correct?