SD card corrupt? - Page 14

**ycats** · #**131** (**permalink**) 01-28-2008, 02:45 PM

the 512 that came with my Touch crapped out last month...........no longer works at all no matter what you put it in, except maybe a paper shredder

9driver · #**132** (**permalink**) 01-28-2008, 03:53 PM

Been using the touch 1 month, with a sandisk 2gb sd. Only email attachments and pictures going to the card. Lost the card yseterday. Phone's memory utility does not recognize the card however I can nav to it using file explorer and see the email folder only, but nothing that is in it. Pictures appear to be gone.

lukevinyl · #**133** (**permalink**) 01-30-2008, 09:22 PM

I have noticed that the only time I ever got the SD card corruption issue was when I took my 4 gig card out of the Touch, and used a card reader.......

So, has anyone who has NEVER taken the SD card out of their Touch had the corruption issue???

This is probably just wishful thinking, but I know from my experiences, as well as reading through many, many, many posts on the subject that this hasn't been considered as a cause to the problem.

And yes, I am aware that this is too simple a fix to be possible!!!!

detroit_doug · #**134** (**permalink**) 01-30-2008, 09:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lukevinyl

I have noticed that the only time I ever got the SD card corruption issue was when I took my 4 gig card out of the Touch, and used a card reader.......

So, has anyone who has NEVER taken the SD card out of their Touch had the corruption issue???

Ive had my HTC Touch from Sprint for just over a month now and have been using a 4Gig HDSD Card that whole time - never an issue with anything being corrupted either in single file form or all the data on the card and this is with never removing the card as well nor using it for any form of email storage either.

I agree this is seemingly a too simple of a fix but then if this is the issue then at least its a direction for whats at fault and needs to be corrected as well.

Detroit_Doug

gpracer1 · #**135** (**permalink**) 01-30-2008, 10:04 PM

Yesterday I went to view pics and they were gone in the camera viewer. Went to file explorer and the card had been renamed StorageCard2 ???????
There was also StorageCard, which had nothing. I could not rename or delete them and had to format the freakin card.

I hope the new rev. A comes out soon and fixes this issue.

MrGoodtunes · #**136** (**permalink**) 01-30-2008, 10:26 PM

Got my Sprint Touch the day it came out, Nov 4th. Put in a 4GB microSDHC (already filled nearly to the max) that day. Within a few days, moved MP3s onto it and off from it. Sometimes, when there were only a few songs to load, I'd use ActiveSync. Several times, I'd move dozens to the card by pulling that tiny little gem from the Touch and placing it into a USB adaptor (much faster than ActiveSync, about 1 second per 4-5MB song, versus 8-10 seconds w/AS). Early in December, I got a 6GB card. Same deal moving songs to it. Meanwhile, I reformatted the 4GB and would switch it into the Touch at times. Throughout all of these operations, I've *never* experienced anything like corruption.

**mswlogo** · #**137** (**permalink**) 01-30-2008, 10:41 PM

I put mine in the first day and it corrupted several weeks later. Never took it out.

lukevinyl · #**138** (**permalink**) 01-31-2008, 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by mswlogo

I put mine in the first day and it corrupted several weeks later. Never took it out.

Hmmmm....... Well if that is the case, then the card reader is obviously not the issue. Just figured it was something worth looking into, as I have only experienced corruption when using a card reader or physically taking the micro SD card out of the phone and have not seen this mentioned as a possible cause.

Oh well.....

can6rxw · #**139** (**permalink**) 01-31-2008, 05:27 PM

Well, my 2 GB card went corrupt so I formatted it to NTFS. Touch didn't see it. So I re-formated to Fat32 and that worked fine. I re-copied over my music and a few datafiles and all went fine. I ran with it like that for a little over a week with no issues. Then, I decided to get brave; I decided to install some games to the card (instead of directly to the phone) and whoala! Corruption. Doh!! So I re-re-reformated it and copied my stuff (including the programes(games I just installed) back onto the card and it's been fine since.

I wonder if it's registry issue and nothing to do with hardware at all. Wonky registries can do weird things. Thoughts??

MrGoodtunes · #**140** (**permalink**) 01-31-2008, 07:00 PM

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Originally Posted by lukevinyl

...I have only experienced corruption when using a card reader or physically taking the micro SD card out of the phone...

My perfect record (so far) with Touch memory card corruption, and possibly the reason for your trouble Luke, may be due to settings for the USB port(s) on your desktop. Corruption was once a problem for me with an iPAQ years ago. I made changes to default USB settings, that fixed it. Now that I have Touch, those same settings remain. It's been awhile, but I seem to recall it was one setting in particular that cured my corruption. You can choose between 2 policies for write caching and safe removal:

* Optimize for quick removal, or

* Optimize for performance

Performance is default. By switching to quick removal, my card corruption issue was solved. To make the switch, assuming you're using Windows XP:

Open My Computer. Right click on any drive, I'd choose the USB drive, but any drive gets you to the important menu. From the right click menu, choose properties, the last choice. Within properties window, click the Hardware tab. You should see a list of your drives. Here's where you need to select your USB drive (any one, if you have more than 1), then click the Properties button. This brings up USB device properties window, click Policies tab. There you can see your setting and switch it if desired.

Hope this helps, MrG