Missing SD Card problem in AKU3.3 fixed!!!!

[imkk]

what do the other two files do? I only had to replace sdmemory and my card will not go away...

Originally Posted by naigaboy

only qct and sdmemory will delete, ril??? will not delete, you have to rename it it to .bak. I tried renaming some other dlls to see if it will automatically bringup the new one so i can know wat else can be deleted, no success at that. about to back it all up and just delete them, then see. I just see myself reflashing again so soon from last night. LOL :D

[dprout69]

Originally Posted by colonel

FWIW, I did not do anything to these .dlls in my rom. I am waiting until we are sure as to what the solution is and I will put it in the next release.

Jady, if you do see any changes it may be due to reg tweaks. So, let me know.

Running just the base custom rom and the attached NoJunk ExtRom, I can power off and have the SD dismount. It does come back within a few seconds though. I will try installing apps to the SD and see if this causes a longer delay.

colonel I can tell you this much... I woke up this morning and my sd card wasnt showing. I left it that way for an hour because I didnt want to soft reset yet... right before I did soft reset I deleted sdmemory.dll for the first time just for the heck of it and instantly my card showed back up (even before I soft reset)... the file never reappeared in windows, but it still shows in ROM, so IMHO evidently the file being written to windows conflicts with the one in ROM and as long as you only have one file the sd card stays. I dont know what the other 2 .dll's do but I can verify there is a direct connection between deleting sdmemory.dll out of windows and the card reappearing.

[colonel]

Originally Posted by dprout69

the file never reappeared in windows, but it still shows in ROM, so IMHO evidently the file being written to windows conflicts with the one in ROM and as long as you only have one file the sd card stays. .

So you had it there twice? When viewing with Total Commander, I only have one SDMemory dll. When you say it is not in windows, but still shows in the rom, what exactly do you mean?

[dprout69]

Originally Posted by colonel

So you had it there twice? When viewing with Total Commander, I only have one SDMemory dll. When you say it is not in windows, but still shows in the rom, what exactly do you mean?

Before deletion... it was present in the stock explorer and that's where I deleted it from.

After deletion... if you "show all files" in the stock explorer, the file no longer shows. However if you do a search in total commander it's still listing in windows with properties of in rom.

[colonel]

Gotcha.

Okay, I just did another flash of my phone (next rom beta ). This was done with a blank ExtRom. The SDMemory.dll does not show up in the stock File Explorer when viewing all files. It is still in the rom as Total Commander shows it. Actually, all of the .dll files installed by the Sprint cab are in the rom, but not displayed in Windows with the stock File Explorer. I am going to run without installing this cab and see how things go. However, I never really had problems so if someone who did have problems wants to try this we may be able to at this cab to the list of junk.

[dprout69]

Yeah, I added AKU 3.3 then let it install all the sprint customizations (minus junk) which is probably why some people are having problems with card disappearing and some arent depending on how they set it up. Depending on where the sdmemory.dll file is being loaded from (native windows?) it might in fact be the the whole reason for DSOD since the very beginning (sprint adding that file and conflicting with the windows native file)

[nickfuzz]

To test this theory, I tried the following experiment.

1) After installing the helmi_C 3.3 ROM, backed up all data with SPB backup
2) Hard reset
3) Let NO Sprint customizations load
4) Started file explorer
5) Had to wait 5 minutes or so ... but the SD Card disappeared and reappeared at the bottom (confirming to me that the "fix" of changing the three .dll files back to the native 3.3 files doesn't work)

So I reloaded my SPB backup file and things are, once again, almost perfect. Can't wait to see the day when I can actually load programs to the SD card, have the device sleep for 2 minutes or 2 hours, and not have the programs shut down when I power on the device.

[Robb Bates]

Well, ever since I restored the ROM versions, I have NEVER lost the SD card. Before, I would lose it regularly.

So, if this "fix" doesn't work, then I'm quite happy with the way it's not working on my PPC.

Robb

[dprout69]

Originally Posted by nickfuzz

To test this theory, I tried the following experiment.

1) After installing the helmi_C 3.3 ROM, backed up all data with SPB backup
2) Hard reset
3) Let NO Sprint customizations load
4) Started file explorer
5) Had to wait 5 minutes or so ... but the SD Card disappeared and reappeared at the bottom (confirming to me that the "fix" of changing the three .dll files back to the native 3.3 files doesn't work)

So I reloaded my SPB backup file and things are, once again, almost perfect. Can't wait to see the day when I can actually load programs to the SD card, have the device sleep for 2 minutes or 2 hours, and not have the programs shut down when I power on the device.

nick try it again if you feel the urge... when the sd card disappears just delete the sdmemory.dll file from explorer and see if the card doesnt come right back

[nickfuzz]

Okay, I will try to to delete the SDmemory.dll, but I'm not sure that will help. My card disappeared/reappeared from a fresh install of 3.3 with hard reset and no Sprint cabs installed, so it is purely the stock 3.3 ROM with its native SDmemory.dll.

My issue is that the card disappears then reappears. I see the card fine, but the device has "unloaded" the SD card while the power was off, then reloaded the card when the power was turned back on. When the device unloads then reloads, I access the card right away, but if I have programs running from the card, they quit immediately. The programs that quit lose all saved information, so I can't reliably use programs run from the card unless I plan on closing them immediatly after using them. Certain programs work great for closing immediately, but many don't. When I have 10mb of Skyscape programs that I would like to run from the card but can't ... well ... that's alot of internal memory space. I'll try again, as you said ...