Another Classic N-Gage USB Problem

5 replies · 9,403 views · Started 30 September 2005

MOE420 30 Sep 2005, 03:14

Here's what happened. I recently gave my PC a fresh reformat. Plugged my Classic N-Gage in, XP detects it, installs the drivers, and the little USB icon appears on the system tray. I transfer a couple of songs and unplug the phone. Now as I try to play them, it says my memory card's corrupted. No worries, it's happened before. I just format it using the N-Gage itself.

Plug it back in and my PC absolutely will NOT detect it.

Here's what I've done so far.

Of course, unplugged and plugged the darn thing and trying all the USB ports in the process. Not even a "busy" mouse cursor.

Used a different USB cable. Same thing.

Used the same MMC on my digital camera, took a few pictures, and tried transferring them onto the PC. Worked fine, so that rules out the MMC.

Formated the MMC using my digital camera and tried it again on my game deck. Nothing.

Unplugged every USB device, uninstalled everything under Universal Serial Bus on device manager, and plugged them all back in. Everything gets detected and installs properly EXCEPT the phone.

Restarted the Unversal Plug and Play service on services.msc. Nope.

Tried installing the software from the CD. "No Devices Found".

Heck, I've even tried safe mode.

This wouldn't be as frustrating if the PC hadn't detected it the FIRST time, if you know what I mean.

Mayday guys! I miss my N-Gage!

System's running on Windows XP, SP2. with the latest Windows Updates.

Thanks in advance!

rulirahm 01 Oct 2005, 15:14

Here is what u've to do:

Corrupted MMC fix

Necessary tools:
- Corrupted MMC
- 7tools partition manager (get it here: geocities.com/rulirahm/symbian/7tools.zip, the demo version is capable of carrying out this task)
- Pair of hands
- little brain but not necessary

lets do it PC guru

Article Part one
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Put your MMC into your card reader, select the MMC

If your partition is corrupted you will see several invalid partions in red in the left hand pane (MMC drive section)

Right click each of these and left click delete.

Click apply (top left button

You should be left with a single free unit on your MMC drive. Now right click
that unit and select create primary partition.

Go with the defaults which should be FAT16 and click on apply.

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Exit and put your card back into your N-Gage. If you find that the MMC card still does not mount via the USB cable (That is if it was mounting prior to corruption). Unplug the cable and put your MMC
card back into your card reader.

Article Part two
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Start the 7tools and select the MMC again.

In the right hand pain you will see a column that says Active (it will probably be set to "no"😉 click this and set it to yes (That take a few MB of your MMC but it makes it an active bootable drive partition), click apply

Put the MMC back into your N-Gage and format it via tools-memory-[options]-format mem card.

You will notice that the card is a couple of MB down on it original size but it will now be fully bootable and functional via the USB cable again.

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Keep in mind:
If u formatting MMC card trough windows u could fuck it up if you format in any other partition than FAT, no other partitions like NTFS, FAT32, don’t work!

Thats it, astalavista bay

Hope this help

Cheers

Read this, new virus that make ur mmc becoming disable and create random password on it: http://www.symbian-freak.com/news/1005/Cardblock.htm

MOE420 01 Oct 2005, 18:08

Excellent, except I don't have a card reader. All I have is the N-Gage and the MMC. So do you think my memory card's been corrupted? But it does work on the camera.

But I think formatting it on one device and using it on another kinda screws it up, eh?

[QUOTE=rulirahm]Here is what u've to do:

Article Part one
========================================

Put your MMC into your card reader, select the MMC

If your partition is corrupted you will see several invalid partions in red in the left hand pane (MMC drive section)

Right click each of these and left click delete.

Click apply (top left button

You should be left with a single free unit on your MMC drive. Now right click
that unit and select create primary partition.

Go with the defaults which should be FAT16 and click on apply.

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zektor 02 Oct 2005, 04:10

My personal advice is to make the $15 purchase for a reader, and do away with using the N-Gage in USB mode forever. I have a Sandisk reader ($15) that handles 11 types of cards...it is excellent. I could not imagine messing with any memory card handling device without having one of these.

Not only will your transfers of music/games/apps be MUCH quicker, but you will not have any of these card problems ever again. When you do get a reader, pop the card in and format it in Windows. Make sure you select "FAT" and NOT Fat32. Now your N-Gage will see it, as well as your PC. Good luck!

MOE420 02 Oct 2005, 05:38

Cool. I just wanted to find out where the problem really was - the MMC, my handset, or my PC. But what's weird is, I formatted the card "using" my N-Gage, so I don't see any reason why my PC won't pick it up. Furthermore the fact that it detected it the "first" time.

rulirahm 02 Oct 2005, 05:54

There is another way, install the app called mcfixersis (I knew from n-gage-help.com, u can search from google.com)