MMC Card - Just me?

[Mordred 660]

is it just me, or does the X actually have something against MMC cards? i am constantly having problems with the MMC card in my phone. it is a 1gb card and every so often the X will tell me it is either not inserted or corrupt. it is only on this phone (the one that i push the most) that this happens.

bad card? anyone else in this boat?

oh, and now it will not let me do a backup. it fails about the 20% mark, then i have to reboot in order for the phone to recognize the card again.

[trimakassi]

Hmm, that sounds strange...Which brand is it, and did you already try to format it inside the phone?

[Mordred 660]

it is an a-data mmc 1gb. i formatted in the phone the first time i used it but have since reformatted in my card reader. does that make a difference? understand that i am constantly moving things to and from the card via a card reader or bluetooth - but that is what is was meant to do. ticks me off just a bit that this is happening.

[trimakassi]

I inderstand, but it can make a difference if you format it in your cardreader. You can format in FAT or FAT32 and that does make a difference for your X.
I'm wondering though, winxp can also manage ntfs formatting, but does the X support this also?

[stuclark]

The X (as with most devices) only supports FAT, so will not work with a memory card that's formatted as either FAT32 or NTFS.

[Mordred 660]

inly formatted FAT with the card reader - trying out a spare 32MB MMC now and if this acts up will go with a 64MB SD... if that one does the same thing off to sale it goes

[Mordred 660]

it refuses to see the 32MB MMC

[stuclark]

I think you've got a dodgy handset there...sounds too wrong for it to be a software issue... :(

[Masamune]

I don't know if you use a program called Taskspy, but when the list of apps appears, there is a background app running called unlockMMC. At a guess, it could be that this app has become corrupted by removing the MMC while a program's running. Check with TaskSpy to see if it's there. Either way, you may need to get in touch with plinkykev to get a replacement copy.

[Mordred 660]

plinky - are you out there? need some help.

ok - where i am at now is back with a workable solution. i am running a backup that i made a few days ago and it is running on my 1gb mmc card.

@mas - just in case i did not explain enough yesterday, the 1gb mmc shows just shy of a gig when in the card reader and in the phone. it has 496 or so free currently, with evrything that i have on it.

the phone will not recognize the 32mb mmc card at all. i know for a fact it is a working card as it will do just fine in another handset.

the issues that i am having seem to come about when i am using applications off the mmc rahter than installed to the phone. also, i was to the point yesterday that i could not complete a restore operation to the mmc at all. it would error out about the 20% mark. so far so good today... i will keep you posted.

[plinkykev]

Originally Posted by Mordred 660

plinky - are you out there? need some help.

We've tried LOADS of MMC and SD cards. Only issues we've seen are badly formatted - FAT32/NTFS - as already mentioned, and, sadly, some "lesser" (unbranded) type cards that seem to behave badly. Not heard of your one.
We use SanDisk and Kingston in-house, and they always seem reliable. See the other S60 forums - Nokia and Siemens users have had problems with some brands too.

Another weird issue to watch out for, while we are talking cards:

We have also found that some cards are being rebadged by suppliers as lower capacity cards. ie: 128MB card has a faulty "spot" in the 70/80MB range. Card is rebadged as a 64MB card and sold on by an "unknown" brand.

PC shows as 128MB. Format seems OK. Try to copy 128MB to it - dies around 70-80MB.

Technically they are correct I guess, but a weird problem - took us a while to spot that! Actually ended up reading the code imprinted on back of the card - which shows a "128" somewhere in it, yet front label shows 64MB.

[Mordred 660]

stu/kev - could a THEME cause the issues i was having? i just switched from another members theme to the vodaphone theme and the phone made a backup the first go. thoughts?

[stuclark]

Originally Posted by Mordred 660

stu/kev - could a THEME cause the issues i was having? i just switched from another members theme to the vodaphone theme and the phone made a backup the first go. thoughts?

It shouldn't, as themes *SHOULD* be installed only on the phone's memory. Having said that, I have seen some which will let you install them on the memory card - had you done this?

One other thing - which theme is it you were using?

[Mordred 660]

installed on the phone memory

[Mordred 660]

OK - last try. just bought a 1GB sandisk SD card. i will load this up when i get home this evening and attempt to restore the system files from a previous backup. if this one goes the same way as the 1GB MMC card i am all out of things to try.