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[Touch Diamond CDMA] justinx989:
Guys i have the verizon version (Htc Touch Diamond). Stock rom ( i keep having to reset the device weekly).

Every time i plug it into charge in my xp pro sp3 machine, via the usb port, touchflo stop working and i have to reset the phone (soft restart doesnt work, taking the battery out doesnt work only the hard reset to stock works). Causing me to lose my contacts.

Sometimes the phone crashes by itself and i have to reset it to stock.

I dont have active synch installed on the pc, no antivirus software running (and i have no virus either). I tried it with windows 7, just plugging it into the usb port to charge and it did the same thing. Touchflo stopped working.

Any suggestions :( I have had this phone less than a year, bought it off the shelf with no contract and i want to smash it to dust.

Thank you friends for reading and for the nice people who may have some suggestions to offer.

Is there perhaps even a way to reinstall touchflo without having to reset the device to stock every time, losing my contacts?
[Touch Diamond CDMA] mike_art03a:
Howdy, I've had that issue with fouchflo 3d myself when it would start hanging. Use the start menu to go into your settings - personal - home/today - hit the items tab - uncheck touchflo in the box - ok - go back to home screen and wait a minute for it to clear out.

Repeat the process to re-enable and it will force touchflo to reload. It's a a bug with some of the older versions. I'd suggest flashing a newer rom onto your phone (I'm using moonscapex's rom and it works great. Also, it has the newest htc sense ui which is leaps and bounds better than touchflo and isn't prone to freezing.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vonStemmington:
Hey, I've had my Evo for a couple weeks now, and have recently started experiencing an issue that has been since happened quite frequently - the SD card will randomly appear empty, and I won't be able to add files to it. The only way to get around this, it seems, is to reboot the phone.

At first I thought my MicroSD card that came with the phone was defective, so I got Best Buy to exchange it today, but it just started happening again! My phone is rooted and running the latest RvU ROM, if that could have anything to do with it. Does anyone have any help, or is this just a hardware problem? (If it is, I'll just exchanged the phone at Best Buy, since I'm within my 30 days.)

Thanks!
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clsiburt:
Same thing for me. I tried Baked Snack and now Fresh 0.5.3, both have the same issue. Rebooting seems to work for a short time, but it always fails when I'm using programs that access the SD a lot such as the Gallery app or the Camera. As long as I stay clear of those it seems to hold up a bit longer, but I've had it fail while using Astro File Manager too.

When I was running The latest stock OTA I had no issues. I posted a similar question in the threads for both ROM's with no response yet. Because of that, I was beginning to think I had a bad card too.

I don't want to go back to stock. I just can't understand why this keeps happening.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vonStemmington:
Glad to know I'm not the only one.. I just wish there was some resolution to this.

I contacted HTC and they said it wasn't a known issue with the phone, so they said I should go to Best Buy and exchange it. So maybe our SD slots are just defective?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] awakener:
I have this problem too. It empties every day it seems and I need to reformat the SD card just to get it working again. It erases all my pictures and video and is very frustrating.

It seems to happen most often when I am taking a picture or going into Gallery, but has happened in other instances as well.

I hope HTC releases a solution that addresses this.

Also, it tells me in the notification bar that the SD card is damaged or unsupported file type or something along those lines.

And for the record, I am running a stock Evo.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GHOST99K:
i welcome u guys to my world:D.i been having the problem since day one tried everything and nothing worked.fully rooted,new radio,tried few roms,formated SD card,put in a new SD card and still that random SD failure.i reboot about 3-4 times a day and its really irritating.im afraid i might brake my evo one day or jus claim for a new one.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] awakener:
This is how I feel
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clsiburt:
I'm tempted now to go back to stock and verify, but I never had a single issue on my phone until it was rooted. However, it's possible that the problem was there and I didn't encounter it.

If I take that step and find that it is still an issue on the stock OTA, I will most likely try to get the card replaced or have the phone if it persists after a new card.

It's very inconvenient and makes the camera pretty unreliable. Plus I am a field tech, and I store .pdf's on the card for different devices. If the SD is frakked I can't be sure I can get to important paperwork in the field.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GHOST99K:
It's not the SD card.I have already reformated the SD and even put a new 16gb SD card but same issue everyday.

Sent from beneath the earth using XDA App
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vonStemmington:
It's definitely not the SD card. I've formatted it, gone to Best Buy and had the SD card replaced, and used a different SD card.

It could be the ROMs we're using, but I've got a serious problem with this phone if using a rooted ROM does this.. And few other people are experiencing the problem. That leads me to believe it's a hardware defect.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GHOST99K:
My suggestion jus get your phone exchanged ASAP.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vonStemmington:
Yeah.. I've contacted Best Buy and they'll let me know when they get their next order in
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] awakener:
Unfortunately I am am outside my 30 day exchange period so I cannot do that.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pixelpop:
Well, I hate to break it to you guys, but custom ROMs is not the issue. I am stock and have had my phone since launch morning (June 4) and today, for the first time, my SD card contents disappeared. I was changing wallpaper when the default wallpaper kept coming up as the wallpaper. Note that the when selecting a wallpaper, the gallery showed all my images (cached?) but when I went to Gallery, nothing was there. I pulled the battery to reboot and now the SD card contents are back.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] herbthehammer:
I had the same thing happen with me. I've also experienced other strange things related to the card. When hooking the phone up to my macbook, sometimes files copy and sometimes they don't (to the card). I was thinking it was an app corrupting the card. I've tried large files (100-200mb) and small files (like apks or old video game console roms). It seems that when data is going to the card very aggressively, it doesn't wasn't to copy. What I mean by aggressive is like 2+ dialog boxes of files being copied at the same time.

More often than not, it seems like lots of small files pisses the phone off and it parts me back by bowling the card. Lots of files means hundreds to thousands.

I saw this thread awhile ago but didn't look at it until today. At least I'm not going crazy or even maybe have a bad card. The cards never gave me any problems with the devices its been in for maybe the last 3 years until last week.

I gotta find another card to try. I am using sandisk 16gb. Maybe a different brand? Anyone try that yet?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] herbthehammer:
I'm doing a test now. I removed the suspect 16gb card from the phone and put in a 8gb card that has never been in the evo ever. I put the 16 in a sd adapter which goes into a usb adapter. All are official sandisk. I formatted the 16 in my macbook as fat32. I am now copying 8557 files to the card which size total is about 6.97gb. After a few minutes, I'm down to 6291 files to go and almost half way finished copying. I have not received one error message or anything that might lead me to believe there is something wrong somewhere. I'm starting to think there's nothing wrong with the card(s). It's the gd phone! I am so pissed now!!!! I keep looking back at the progress window and it's chugging along no problem. I am thinking about something tho. When I was changing cards I noticed that even when the card's lock bar was down, the card could wiggle a little. HMM. I'm gonna get a piece of thick paper and put it on top of the card and see if that helps make the card not want to wiggle as much when the lock bar is in place.

I will report back if I find out if it works or not in like 24 hours or less.

I don't think it makes any difference what rom you are running but I went to the one stock rooted "EVO_1.47.651.1_Rooted_stockrom.zip" one calkulin posted.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=712695

That link is just in case someone stumbles across this post later and wonders what I'm talking about.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] herbthehammer:
So far, so good. I will give progress reports when I'm at work when I'm able to. I hope I may have stumbled across a simple fix to a defect.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redzee:
I had the issue you guys are talking abou this is what I did to resolve my issue.

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Just got a new SDHC card and simpleroot worked. The SDHC that came with my phone died. I placed a spare in there that was a 2gd regular micro and Hboot would not read the IMG for nothing.

If simple root is not working then it's the Sh!tty card acting up.

Happy ending for me.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pixelpop:
For those who post before reading the thread, I am

STOCK

and this also happened to me. Battery out/in fixed the issue (for now).
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] herbthehammer:
So far I'm going on around 16 hours without the card screwing up. If you wanna try this, get a business card. Pull the card out of the phone. Lay the card on the business card at a corner. Measure about twice as long and normal width. Cut the business card. Fold the piece in half length wise so its the same size as the sd card. If it's too big, snip the non folded end of the paper and measure it so that its the same size as the sd card. Put the card into the phone and make sure its ask the way in. don't force it to hard. Then hold the card down and slide the paper, folded end first, on top of the sd and into the card bay. Make sure the paper isn't sticking out of the card well where the battery would be on top of. Gently push and lock the lock bar down onto the card. If you have to push firmly then the paper is too thick. Place the battery in the phone and put the cover back on. That extra bit of thickness added to the card I think is keeping it from scooting around in the sd card well and judging by the size of the contacts on the card, it wouldn't take much movement to get off the contacts. The folded end under the lock bar and the other end being held down by the battery I think is doing the trick. Just power down before removing the battery next time.

So far, this is working for me and I'm keeping my fingers crossed...

Just another update and bump off the topic...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vonStemmington:
I agree the ROM probably isn't the problem, but definitely come back and let us know if the paper helped at all. It could just be that the SD card is loose.. It seems like sometimes if my SD card stops being read, but I leave the phone alone, it'll work again later, without rebooting, which is odd.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] awakener:
Yes its been a reoccurring issue for me on stock evo.... This is worth giving a shot. Hope it works. Everyday my card empties.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] herbthehammer:
Okay, I'm about 23 hours into the test and no corrupted card yet. I haven't tried the test yet of copying a boatload of files to and from the phone. I guess I could try that next. I'm operating the phone now after a reboot. I've probably rebooted at least 6 times or so today, just to see if everything holds together. It has (knock on wood).

If I am onto something, then I am guessing that somehow the card gets shifted in the area it sits in on a small number of phones out there. It might not help the situation that the vibration motor is in close proximity of the card. It running might make it shift. If it moves when you are on a read cycle off the card or when nothing is accessing the card, the data "disappears". If it's on a write cycle, then that could be the result of the card moving and being written to at the same time. Only partial data was written to the card and/or the file allocation table wasn't finished being updated when the card shifted. I've tried a few ways and programs under mac os x and xp to try and save any data still on the card. A major portion of the data was gone. Even the files that were still "good" according to the recovery programs, actually nothing was retrievable when I went back and tried opening the saved files. Some might experience this down the road eventually.

I didn't use a business card like I suggested because I didn't think off that at that moment and it's difficult describing how thick the paper should be to use. I suppose you could even use regular paper, you'd just have to use more. The idea is to put enough paper on top of the sd card that the lock bar still snaps closed without forcing it. The end off the card that the battery lays on top of, the paper should be thick enough to just barely come out off the well the card is resting in. Putting the battery in should gently push the back end of the card down. If you can visualize what I'm saying and where this is going, then I don't need to explain any further. I talk too much as it is. I do try and make things as easily understandable as I can, so I do tend to babble.

I don't know if I have enough paper in my phone yet, but it's not messing up, so I will leave it alone until it does. If it does, I will add a little more paper to it to increase the force pushing the card down and making a more solid connection with the contacts on the front of thee card and in the card slot on the phone.

Any questions, comments, ideas or improvements are welcome.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] herbthehammer:
Please excuse my spelling. I can spell correctly, swype predicts the wrong word and I wasn't paying attention.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] strung:
You probably already tried this, but it might help cleaning the contacts on the sd card and the phone.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] awakener:
I've inserted the paper. Hopefully this will be a fix. Hopefully HTC will address this. I will update later if the problem persists.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vonStemmington:
I've also inserted the paper, and so far I haven't had any problems with read/writing to the SD card... interesting.

I'm still replacing my phone when Best Buy gets one in stock, because I'd rather not just stick with a phone with a hardware fault like this (it brings back memories of my first Palm Pre, where I had to jam some paper in the battery compartment to keep the battery from losing contact with the contacts and shutting off).

Nice find though, Herb! I'll report back my results too.

EDIT

As I'm using they phone right now, the SD card just showed up as empty.. I can no longer access it. Seems the paper didn't help, after all...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] awakener:
Well this is the second day for me with the paper fix and have not experienced a problem (usually I do daily). I have also been taking lots of photos and accessing the gallery because it happens most often that way.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vonStemmington:
I've still been getting it, though it doesn't seem to happen as often.. maybe I need to use thicker paper or something.. It definitely isn't happening as often, when it used to happen multiple times a day.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] clsiburt:
Well, for me at least it doesn't appear to be the phone or any kind of gap issue. I put an old 2GB card that I used in my Mogul way back when, and it has not failed yet. Also, I put the 8GB into my laptop and formatted and ran checkdisk. It came up with several errors. I ran it a couple of more times until it showed no errors, then I reformatted one more time. Then I attempted to copy my DCIM folder to the card and it failed. I tried different folders with the same result. So, I popped the 2GB card into the laptop and tried to copy the same folders and it completed successfully in every case. Finally, I put the 2GB card back into the phone, opened the Gallery, and ran the slideshow on "All Photos" for over an hour with no errors. With the 8GB card the best I was able to get in the slideshow was about a dozen photos before failure.

My phone is past 30 days, so Radio Shack won't replace the card, neither will Sprint. Looks like I'll be buying a new one since 2GB is not nearly enough for me. It's already nearly full.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] herbthehammer:
I guess some of the people, including myself, that had the corrupt card issue might be benefiting from this "fix".

Something I was just thinking about is how everything was no problems, until a month later, people started experiencing this. Kinda strange this more or less problem popped up about the same time for the people it affected.

Mine hasn't given me any problems so far...
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] awakener:
UPDATE

Well today was the dreadful day I feared where my SD card emptied. Not only did it empty, but as long as it was in my phone, it slowed my phone down drastically until it would freeze and restart. UGH how frustrating this is.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] surrealmethod:
Mine was having this problem a few weeks ago but it hasn't happened in a while. I know it started for me when I unmounted my SD card via the unmount option in Settings>SD and Phone Storage>Unmount SD card. I was too lazy to turn the phone off to remount the SD card so I used an app from the market to mount it up again. After I installed and ran the program (which didn't remount the card correctly), I just restarted the phone.

At this point my card would unmount itself every once in while, at random. But in the last few weeks, I haven't had this issue.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vonStemmington:
So, after flashing my phone with CyanogenMod's RC1, I haven't noticed the issue. I'm trying to decide if this is a coincidence or if it might have been software to begin with. I was running 1.47.651.1. CyanogenMod isn't built on HTC's Sense build of Android, so am I correct in assuming the version I was running before had no bearing on this? Could that version been causing the problem?

Or should I just exchange my phone tomorrow at Best Buy just in case?
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] herbthehammer:
Ever since I posted the "fix" with the paper, my card hasn't flaked out once. I know it might not make any difference, but the paper I used was from the paper label on the belt line from a new pair of Levi's jeans. The paper that tells the waist and inseam size. Stupid, I know, but just for reference.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] herbthehammer:
3 high res pics I just took, from different angles, to show you what I meant. Like I said before, I have not experienced a single hiccup since I did this. The paper isn't flush, if you can see that, underneath where the battery would rest. This helps put a little, not too much, pressure on one side of the card so it won't move when the battery is installed.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vonStemmington:
I actually did the paper trick you suggested, with some paper that was about as thick as what you're talking about, maybe a bit thinner. I was still experiencing the problem, but since flashing CyanogenMod onto my phone (granted it's only been like two days) I haven't had an issue.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gault_timothy:
I just started experiencing this on my EVO last night. I am already running Cyanogen. I put in a different SD card and it mounted/worked fine. I think my card is just corrupted. Still it's really random that this is happening.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tregrad:
mine says damaged card, then i try to go into my ES file explorer and it says "unmounted or not present" tried the paper trick and to no avail. is this the same problem yall havin or is my card just toast.
[EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pragyatsrivastava:
I am using HTC magic.encountering the same problem.Tried the whole world of solutiond and different SD cards of my friends, vendors etc but none is working once it started saying SD card blank or has unsupported format.It does read it in fastboot mode but thats it.it seems like some kind of hardware defect only.Or may be a Hardware lock of some kind placed by HTC or T-mobile if anybody tries to tamper something in the phone.Who knows what.I am planning to dump this phone soon.It's a very fragile handset and keeps developing problems.Gone are the days when phone could bear trauma like shocks, mild water etc. :(:(:(
[Vibrant Android Development] justadude:
***This will work on the T-Mobile US branded Vibrant and generic Galaxy S models***

***IMPORTANT: YOU PERFORM THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK, THIS MAY VOID YOUR WARRANTY, I NOR ANYONE ELSE IS RESPONSIBLE IF YOU BRICK YOUR DEVICE.***

***UPDATE: Now you can do this without ADB installed!

The following method should be relatively care-free but there is always a risk with activities like rooting a device or flashing a new firmware.

1. Download the attached zip and rename to: update.zip

2. On your device, navigate to Settings > Applications > USB settings and select Mass storage

3. Plug your device into your computer, select mount USB from your device's pull-down window

4. Copy the update.zip to the INTERNAL SD memory (~14gb on this drive, not the one w/ Avatar if you've still got the 2gb SD card in)

5. Turn your phone off.

6. Hold down volume up and volume down while powering on the phone, this should get you to a recovery menu, you may have to try this a few times.

7. In Recovery menu select 'Reinstall Packages' (use vol_down then power to select)

Phone will reboot

and you have

1. su+Superuser

2. busybox (/system/xbin/busybox)

Original credit goes to LeshaK at Samdroid, I modified the script within update.zip to work on the Vibrant.

Other credits to the fine folks in this thread that noted the vol up+down recovery menu.

I would link to the Samdroid forum but I can't...but check Samdroid > i9000 Development forum for the original post.
[Vibrant Android Development] iceshinobi:
Intriguing may try this on Thursday :D
[Vibrant Android Development] quickex99:
How easy is it to put back to stock for warranty purposes?
[Vibrant Android Development] marsupial99:
Thank you to the OP for posting this. Does it make sense to append the post with a quick guide to installing and getting ADB to work with Vibrant for those who have never done that? This would make it a truly complete guide to rooting Vibrant.
[Vibrant Android Development] Drachen:
Thanks for this. I'm planning on getting an AT&T Captivate when it comes out. What would I have to change in your script to have it work on the Captivate? Would it just be a matter of changing the model names in the file updater-script? That seems to be the only file with an updated file date. TIA.
[Vibrant Android Development] basataom:
So with this root, will the normal Galaxy S custom rom (modaco) work on the vibrant? or does the rom need adjusting?
[Vibrant Android Development] BigWorldJust:
Thanks for this :D. Can't wait until Thursday!!