Who has NOT had memory card issues with the Touch?

[maxqc]

Pocket Mechanics told me the card was FAT16 so using the same soft, I formated it in FAT32... Maybe it'll help..

[pjhurth]

Originally Posted by maxqc

Pocket Mechanics told me the card was FAT16 so using the same soft, I formated it in FAT32... Maybe it'll help..

I've had the problem with the same card formatted both ways (as FAT16 and FAT32).

[hippity.hoppity]

Originally Posted by kg4peq

Since installing the P3300 patch I've still had filesystem issues, but instead of the filenames getting garbled and the outrageous file sizes and dates, here's what's happening: The directory structure remains intact, but the files vanish. Reset, and they're back.

I decided the best way to fix this is to go Blackberry. I like Windows Mobile, except for the fact I haven't yet come across a WM PDA or phone that works as intended. Combined with the fact HTC has had this issue before and still can't get it right (and my Touch is a replacement for several Mogul's that also didn't work right) I think it's time to call it quits and go back to what works.

Just use S2U2. No SD card isssues when using it because you can blank the screen instead of sleeping.

[desh]

Originally Posted by hippity.hoppity

Just use S2U2. No SD card isssues when using it because you can blank the screen instead of sleeping.

What's the difference in battery performance between blanking the screen and sleeping the phone?

[fuuup]

I have not had memory card issues with the Touch.

[hippity.hoppity]

Originally Posted by desh

What's the difference in battery performance between blanking the screen and sleeping the phone?

I haven't noticed any.

[Ph33zy]

Originally Posted by hippity.hoppity

Just use S2U2. No SD card isssues when using it because you can blank the screen instead of sleeping.

Can you tell me what settings i should enable for this?

Is it: "but Blank Screen only" under "On Battery Power" and "On External Power"

or

"Don't Suspend Power" under "Advanced"

[mcw]

Well, it finally happened to me... I lost the files on my SD card - previously, all I had to do was eject the card and re-insert, and my files would show up... But not last night.

So, I decided to figure out what had happened... Since data recovery is just one of the things we handle at work, I fired up some applications to figure out where my data went. I assumed that the data was still there, but just no longer visible - similar to when, with Windows 98, if you powered off improperly, your drive would think you had less data than you did, and a scandisk fixed it...

Ran the utils, and all 350MB of files I had thought were gone were sitting right there - the recovery apps said they were right there - I should see them. Until I looked at the PATH... Turns out that something is going wrong with the path structure, the files that were missing were in the "." path... Confused?

Let's say the root of my SD is the "I:" drive... So
I:\Blah.file is where my files were...
But now, they were here:
I:\.\Blah.file

Still there, just in "." - and of course, you can't access that! So I simply had it move the data back to the root, and viola - all my files, no corruption, no lost data.

I decided to do a chkdsk on the card, to see if anything had gone wrong other than the data (it was 5AM and I didn't want to do a full byte scan with the recovery apps). XP's chkdsk reported that the path structure was invalid, and even noted that "." and ".." were wrong, so it corrected them! WARNING - DO NOT DO THIS IF YOU HAVE DATA, XP/VISTA CHKDSK WILL NOT RESTORE YOUR FILES THIS WAY, IT WILL ONLY CORRECT THE BAD PATH, BUT YOUR FILES WILL NOT COME BACK. And, funny thing, it said I had CROSSLINKED FILES! Now that's weird - and the only time that really happens is when write processes are interrupted...

Anyway, for people that have important files that they think they have lost, they can probably be easily recovered... Just do NOT use standard operating system tools to fix it, since they probably won't...

[dew.man]

Originally Posted by mcw

Anyway, for people that have important files that they think they have lost, they can probably be easily recovered... Just do NOT use standard operating system tools to fix it, since they probably won't...

From what I've seen and has been previously posted, the problem is that the cached FAT table becomes corrupt. So if/when the device tries to write to the card after the problem starts, it can overwrite valid data. This is why sometimes you can reset your device and all is well, while others...

[hippity.hoppity]

Originally Posted by Ph33zy

Can you tell me what settings i should enable for this?

Is it: "but Blank Screen only" under "On Battery Power" and "On External Power"

or

"Don't Suspend Power" under "Advanced"

The first one.