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[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreadnought86:
i had the same problem. the 8gb SanDisk microsd card that originally comes with my htc hd 2 is now useless. lost a lot of pics, cab & songs. it can't even be read by card reader on my laptop. is this some kind of bug?? now im using another 8gb card & hope it wont happen again. im glad though that im not the only one having the problem ;)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] echobunny:
And i thought i was the only one. My 8GB only lasted for 1 day before it went died. Had to get a replacement from Service Center. The staff seem to handle it in a very fast manner (guess i am not the only one to get the SD card replaced recently!!)

My guess is i did a hard reset on the phone with the SD card in it. Anyone else did the same thing?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] airwater9:
My card has been corrupted twice no the HD2 leading to:

1) Very poor performance

2) Very warm phone

3) Very fast draining battery

I believe it was due to the power saving features enabled to do with the microsd as someone else mentioned on this forum.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shak7i:
its a manufactures defect. something should be done. lots of users are getting this problem now,including me
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bimo_nugroho:
maybe i know the answer..

sorry for my bad english..

I've the same problem. But searching from all forums, finally i get the answer. just find n download EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard Proffessional 4.3.6 (for 5 MB). Insert the mmc in card reader, use this software to recovery all the missing file (choose Complete Recovery Option). After recovery process done, use software LLFTool (for 600kb, just doing some browsing at google) to Low Level Format the mmc (this LLFTool can recognize the mmc). After all done, Windows can recognize again the mmc at windows explorer. Just right click and choose quick format (format FAT32). Done, you can use the mmc like the new one :-)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shak7i:
thanks for your help. i tried your solution but it doesn't work. neither the EASEUS Data Recovery Wizard Professional nor LLFTool detect the memory card. i think there's nothing to be done for the card. just hope htc will sort that out
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] l3mm:
I have also recently had an issue with my 8gb Sandisk Micro SD card.

It has been working fine for a while now, then yesterday when I went to pick up my phone, I noticed my S2U2 unlock screen was black instead of having my usual wallpaper there. My HD2 had just suddenly decided it can't recognise the card anymore and tells me I need to format it for it to be readable.

I pressed 'no' and tried to read the card on several computers as I wanted to transfer all data off before formatting it, but it would not read on any of them, nor would it work in my old N95.

I don't understand why this has happened, it has been working fine no probs, had about 3gb left on it still and have not recently installed anything on it - very annoyed as I have lost lots of recent photos of my 6month old boy which I cant get back now. :mad:

Have had to order a new card and hope this doesn't happen again, but not a happy bunny
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sky8989:
ya now i used abt 14days then memory card cannot work... lol..
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTI WR6:
same problem here. 2 8GB memory cards dead. I bought my HD2 this 10 days ago and the frist card died on the second day. They second card (replacement) died a week later. Both were 8GB Sandisk micro sd cards. I live in South Asia btw, so I believe this problem is not geographic location specific only.

Now using my good old 2GB micro sd from my goold old E71. Will use this for now to see if this one crashes.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTI WR6:
sorry for the double post.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dio62000:
Where did you all get your cards from? eBay? There's a lot of crap sold on eBay, I myself bought a fake card. At first it seemed to be working ok, but as soon as I put more the number of GB's on it it was supposed to handle it crashed.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTI WR6:
Mine came with the box and the second once was replaced from another HD2 box from the same phone shop. Not from ebay.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dojomaster1984:
Mine is a class 10 16GB Kingston from Ebuyer and it too is a dead one. £70 down the drain
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTI WR6:
You mean eBay, right?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shak7i:
i can't understand why the hd2 is 'killing' the cards. hd2 without memory card is like half useless phone
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTI WR6:
I think most of the "dead" cards are 8GB and above. so far my 2GB, which is more than enough for me is doing alright....
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dojomaster1984:
Mine was from Ebuyer not Ebay numb nuts. But my 2GB is working fine, 4GB at a reduced/slow speed for some reason. And the 16 GB is completely dead an going back to Ebuyer most probably. LASTEST ROM/RADIO music player Hotfix etc. Nothing seems to cure the slow memory card read speed
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTI WR6:
Thats not a nice thing to say.... :mad:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fi3ry_icy:
mine just died too.. im from singapore and my microsd card came with the phone..

sandisk 8gb..

totally dead.. shows up as 31.5mb raw partition ..

cant format and anything else..

we have people on stock rom having this problem.. so im guessing its not cooked roms causing the the problem..

some1 mentioned power saving might be the problem so we might have a lead..

any1 whose micro sd got chewed by their hd2 who did not enable "power saving features"?

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just an update, i saw on a local website (of my country) that the problem was related to a recent batch of micro sd cards that are bundled with the phone,

http://www.mobinauts.com/topic/111311-htc-hd2-sd-card-problem/

at least that is the case from where i come from.. so good luck with the exchanges if it is possible..

and if u guys wonder, the microsd card that came with my phone was made in china.. so ya.. if ur is too, mayb it is the same batch..
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTI WR6:
Thanks for the info! My HD2 is a Singapore set, but I bought it in Bangladesh. My replacement Sandisk 8GB died as well. Now going to try Transcend 4GB Class 2 Micro SDHC.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elemental_Fire:
My 8GB sandisk died when I connected the phone to my pc. Instead of clicking USB on my HD2, I clicked Activesync by accident...that's when mine died. Not even formatting fixes it, not the phone, not Windows 7, not XP. Plus Vista's **** lol. Anyways whenever I choose to format, it displays 30MB space...which it still doesn't actually format either :/
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shak7i:
this is a common hd2 problem
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fi3ry_icy:
by common do u mean it happens even in the long past instead of having only surfaced recently? :confused:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
My Sandisk 8gig died after 2 weeks brand new, now i have a 8gig transcend and its been working great for 3 months :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spike15_mk:
Today I have experience some problems with the phone, so I decided to do hard reset. First I pull out the SD card(HD2 turned off), and I inserted into my lap top with adapter in order to backup my pictures and music and to format the card. I backup the data, but when I tried to format the card, I get message "windows was unable to complete the format". I also tried with several other options like: cmd format, safe mode format, sdformatter 2.0 but nothing help. The strangest thing is that I can delete the files(normally, I enter the card and via shift+delete on files), but after refresh on the windows explorer the files are back! I also tried with another laptop, I double checked the safety switch on the left side of the SD card, I even try to format via HD2, but files are always back. Nothing helps.

I appreciate assistance please

p.s SD card is SanDisk 2 Gb.

p.p.s I posted the same text in the General topic-SD card strange things!, but no answer so far.:(:(
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fi3ry_icy:
does the capacity read 30 mb? if so i think it is like mine, died and needs to be replaced.. hardware failure..
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTI WR6:
using a transcend 4GB micro SD for the past couple of weeks. so far so good.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruscik:
I did not have that problem with HD2 yet however my XDA Orbit 2 went through 5 SD cards, 2x2GB, 1x4GB and 2x8GB. In that time I sent phone for repair and it was returned "repaired" to eat last two 8GB cards.

I sent it again and told them new or cash, got new no problems from then.

Cards were 100% unusable as most of the time they were not detected up on inserting them to reader. If they did get detected as soon as you tried to open or right click or system tried to scan all PC stopped.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shak7i:
i don't know. i said common because many person are reporting this problem, including me. i recently bought a 16gb toshiba memory card from ebay. hope this one does not get corrupted too.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ozkaya:
I have exactly the same problem with my 2Gb Sandisk card that came with my HD2. Windows can't complete the format. I can copy small files onto it but after a certain total size, they seem to copy but after removing and reinserting they go away. When I delete the remaining files, they come back. I ended up buying a 4gb Sandisk card and it works fine for 2 months.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spike15_mk:
Yes, it seems that some SD cards that come with our phones are not working at all, they will stop working after period of time:confused: Well I will buy 4 GB Apacer.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTI WR6:
the Transcend 4GB just died. after about 23 days. :(
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ravishan2008:
Solution

Hey Guys!!

I work at a retails shop where we sell heaps of memory cards and cameras a day :p.. So im pretty experienced with this issue. The microSD card you get with HTC HD2 is a Class (4) card, which transfers about 5mb/s. which means that it has higher transfer rate compared to the normal everyday microSD cards you buy from your retail shops/ebay which are Class (2) which transfers about 2mb/s.

This is the reason that your HD2 kills all those Class (2) cards.. because when the phone doesn't get the enough transfer rate to read.. after couple of days they all stuff up.

Recommendations:

Try getting the new PANASONIC (JAPANESE MADE) microSD card which has a transfer rate for about 20mb/s :eek: these cards will work like butter..
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ToddeSwe:
Have to join the club... :(

Must say that i was suprised when i noticed this thread, a couple of days ago my 8GB SanDisk died after 6 months of use.

Have ordered a new one and when and if that one to dies i now know where to post my mails... :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTI WR6:
Thanks for the reply Ravishan, but why is it that just a select group of us are having this problem? I have 3 colleagues who are still using the 8gb Class 2 Sandisk SD card that they received with their HD2s. The only difference is that I bought my HD2 last month and they bought theirs more than 4 months ago.

I thought I found the solution by finding out that there are a bad batch of sandisk 8gb cards since last month going around in Singapore (where my phone was bought). So, I got a new Transcend 4 GB class 2 card and it does after 3 weeks.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTI WR6:
Todd, do your remember the last program you used before the micro sd died?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ToddeSwe:
Not realy, it was one of many lock-ups so i had to remove the battery to get it restarted again. And i think i was inside resco file explorer and searching on of my PC harddrives with wifi when my device freezed. But i'm not 100% sure.

Now i have left the card inside the card-reader to see if it will fix itself...

Have been there for a good 30 minutes now... how long can it take?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTI WR6:
how are you trying to fix it? can u please explain?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ToddeSwe:
By just leaving it in the card reader as someone said in the thread a couple of posts ago... :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTI WR6:
any luck yet?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ToddeSwe:
Nope! Not what so ever :) Lucky me who have a new one on the way in the mail :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ToddeSwe:
Working in the laptop card reader...

Hi! Me again!

Moved over to the Laptop and the SD card was found and told me that it had to be formated before i can use it. Now i realy would like to try to recover the stuff i had on the card. Can someone recomend a free software to do this?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] reijkelhof:
http://www.piriform.com/recuva
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ToddeSwe:
Thanks! I have now tried it and one other program Recover My Files, but i can't even find the SD card to begin a search :) so i guess it's realy bad. And it's not even possible to format, so i think i just throw it away.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ToddeSwe:
Recived my new class 4 8 gb card yesterday and i must say it was i boost for my device. Slightly faster! The old one must have been a crappy class 1 or something. :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTI WR6:
Ive decided to run my HD2 without a memory card. Everything I need is in my phone memory. :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stefan.snoop:
I have this problem too with my HTC HD2.2 of my mirdoSD cards was killed.and i send a mail to support center of HTC,then they replay to me a list compatible microSD cards for HTC HD2: kindly find below the list of 8GB & 16GB SD cards compatible to the device: ADATA 16GB-60 Class 6 Kingston 16GB-64 class 2 PQI 16GB-63 class 2 Sandisk 16GB-50 class 2 Silicon power 16GB-55 class 4 Transcend 16GB-61 class 6 ADATA 8GB-57 Class 6 Pretec 8GB-58 class 6 Sandisk 8GBBundle class 4 Sandisk 8GBBundle class 6 Silicon power 8GB-55 class 4 Transcend 8GB-Bundle class 4
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ToddeSwe:
Hmmm So my Kingston 8 GB class 4 is not supported :(
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pandemoniumone:
I recommend Transcend over any other. I'm still using my 8gig class 6 card in my Blackstone going on 3 years now. I also purchased the 16gig class 6 for my HD2, running now for a couple months with no issues.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iainbp:
this has happened to me last nite . and i am well p***ed off bout it . try everything to get the sd card working but nothing.

dont think i'll be buying another sandisk microsd again:mad:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zisfro:
I was able to find a Toshiba 8G Class-4.

We'll see how it goes...

I hope it lasts longer than the Kingston.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] michedenhaag:
I had some reading problems too with my 8Gb sd card. My solution was to put it in a non windows environment (my panasonic camera). When connecting the camera by USB to pc it gave me access to the files again to copy them to my HDD.

Then I gave the card in my camera a format et voila.... working fine again now for a year!

So bro's and sis, there's hope!
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lacabrinator:
Had my 8GB SD which came with my HD2 die on me yesterday. Sandisk 8GB. Very frustrating. When I boot the HD2 it asks to format it, then says it did so successfully, but it's unreadable. Trying to format it manually with the HD2, it's recognised as 30.61MB, same as some of you guys. Is it just dead? I have nothing else to attempt to format in, it's ridiculous that it would just stop working like this.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GTI WR6:
Its dead bro....
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ymzee:
My SD card drains the battery on the HD2.

Any suggestions??
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dotnetguyaz:
How do you know it's the SD card in particular? It could be any number of other things...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ymzee:
Hi,

I know this because it`s a huge battery drain when the sd card is installed, and the HD2 is in flight mode over the night i loose 35% in 6 hours.

When the sd card is removed, i loose 4% battery in 6 hours, when flight mode is NOT activated....

Any suggestions how to solve this? I have used different SD cards, all with the same result.

Is this a hardware or software related error?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ToddeSwe:
Could it be something that's installed on the sd card, did you have the same programs installed when trying other sd cards?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] conantroutman:
Hey man,

Hows that cards getting on?? Any problems yet?

Ive just ordered one.......... :confused::confused:
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ToddeSwe:
No problems so far AND the device seems faster as well, AND the battery is lasting longer... must have had a bad SD card before... :)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] conantroutman:
Glad to hear that. I only read this thread after ordering my new card and it got me a little worried, thanks for the reply.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dotnetguyaz:
I would have to agree... if you have apps installed on the SD card, then yeah, I can see where the battery drain comes into play. Honestly, I install everything to main memory (I have yet to even come close to filling it up) and only using my SD card for music/movies/attachments. With a device like the HD2, there really isn't a reason to install to SD card anymore unless you have 200+ apps or something ridiculous like that.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] enkadm:
Problem with the MicroSD

Hi i had the same problem with my MicroSD card that came with the phone and i made a low level format in my Canon 450D camera and the memory is now working in my HD2....:)
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dotnetguyaz:
The cards that are shipped with the HD2 are crap... cheap throwaways... which, for a "multimedia powerhouse" as TMO and HTC billed it, you would think they would have shipped with quality, class 6 cards... but, oh well, it is what it is...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] enkadm:
I do agree but for they who do not want to buy another brand of memory i solved my problem by doing a low level format in my camera.....but in the end quality will always win...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dotnetguyaz:
I always use my PC to do low level formats of my cards... that and I only buy class 6 cards. They are usually about 50% more expensive, but I have never, never encountered a bad card (and I've got a lot of them laying around for my SDHC->RAID project).
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] enkadm:
if I discovered something that might help someone who can not afford to buy new and more expensive memory cards, I have tried to format the memory card in Linux, Windows and Mac OS X, but after I made a low-level formatting in my camera the memory worked again in the end i only tried to help.......
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joellinn:
my 16gb sandisk broke today, just copied some files on it over usb.

my phone, windows 7 nor ubuntu 10.04 are now recognizing that i put in the card.

only the hd2 format tool says that the card is damaged and cannot be formated
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pooloop:
had the same problem with sandisk 2,4 and 2x8gig totally dead cannot format so i have just bought a transcend i will see how it goes
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
should this thread just be renamed to HD2 Kills Sandisk mem cards lol
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] roendi:
Repair broken SD Cards

Hi

I have with my SD Card the same problem. You can fixit a broken SD Card. You need the Format Tool from her: http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter/

Then you need to format the SD Card with the internal SD Card Formatter on HD2. After this the SD Card will running without any problem!

I hope its help
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mb:
Thanks to this thread, I've been able to discover what was causing my battery to be absolutely caned overnight (from 100% to 0% in about 7 hours). It was doing my head in!

Took out the 16GB card and bingo - it's draining normally.

I have about 9GB+ of MP3s on the card. Is it HTC Audio Manager draining the battery? I know it does some sort of caching/album art updating in the background.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] airwater9:
Only media or do you have programs installed there also?
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Matmax:
Where do i find the hd2 format tool ? Seems that its not on NRG's ROMs...
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Canterbury:
i had a new Apacer 4GB class 4 die only after a week. Phone tries to format every reboot and only detects 30mg, but can't format it. tried in a sd cartridge, plugged into hp ipaq 4700, it wants to try and format but fails. Windows 7 can't even detect the microsd card in the sd cartridge.

I'm wanting to buy a Team 16GB class6 which i've read somewhere else in this forum are great but very skeptical about the phone trashing that as well..
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Finger Appliance:
Hi

Guess why I'm writing this :(....

My Sandisk 8GB card Class 4 died. I have tried to turn the card to life back again with LLFormat and the SanDisk format but it is completely died (or should I say fried).

In the first days I had problems with my Leo because it didn't recognice most of my SD cards. I had to insert very deeply the card inside and then I got it I even had to trim it slightly. After reading this thread I think that the problem was not physical but electric.

So I'm going to buy several more cards, and I¡m going to measure with TBattery the discharge rate with and without the SD. If I find something interesting I'll post it.
[HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Finger Appliance:
Hi

I bought a 8GB class 4 Kingston. The HD2 recognized it immediately. Oddly, my PC didn't.

I have done measures with the screen constantly at the dimmest bright and without the "auto turn if not used" disabled (sorry, my ROM is spanish and I don't know what the power manager says in the english version). Phone off.

I haven't do a through test, only a few measures. My results are the following:

No SD, flight mode: from 0.7% to 3.2% battery per hour.

No SD, WiFi on: 12% to 13% battery per hour.

SD, flight mode: 12% to 13% battery per hour.

With a figure of 12% to 13% battery per hour you may expect roughly 7 hours of lifetime for the battery (from 100% to 10%).

So the power compsumtion of the SD card is relevant.