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Problem with 'restore SD image' after entering bootloader

Hello,
Some time ago, I had a problem with phone freezing on the IPL/SPL screen after flashing. I have solved it by creating and restoring SD-backup. Everything is OK, but now when I enter bootloader, it still asks me to restore SD image with that countdown despite the fact that I've already formatted SD after restoring the backup. It isn't any error, as the phone gets into the bootloader mode after countdown. However, I still want to ged rid of this, because I once accidentally pressed Voice command two times when I wanted to enter bootloader and Oops - it began formatting whole BINFS. So I had to flash ROM and everything else again which was very annoying. So how can I get rid of that screen?

That means that the first 0x200 bytes of your SD still have the SD backup information. If you have a card-writer you can fix it by getting a hex-editor program and make a file with, lets say... 0x10000 bytes of nulls (zeros), and then use a tool by itsme called psdwrite to write that file to the start of the card.
Then i think by using it like that in Wizard the WM OS asks to format it.
good luck
PS:
Do you have a backup of that SD backup? I think it's the most important thing a Wizard user can do is to keep an image of the entire phone. Don't get rid of it!
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Actually, you don't need a card writer because psdwrite can use your PPC as one Just be sure to list all devices to know which is the Wizard

hmm I've already formatted a card, so the backup is gone but I can make another backup.. Can I use that psdwrite to restore a SD backup into some file I can store into my desktop PC? Because I need to use the SD normally.. I mean, I backup files from SD, format it, make SD backup again, then use the psdwrite to extract that backup from card, then use psdwrite to "clean" the card and format it and restore backed-up files..

whitewash said:
hmm I've already formatted a card, so the backup is gone but I can make another backup.. Can I use that psdwrite to restore a SD backup into some file I can store into my desktop PC? Because I need to use the SD normally.. I mean, I backup files from SD, format it, make SD backup again, then use the psdwrite to extract that backup from card, then use psdwrite to "clean" the card and format it and restore backed-up files..
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Exactly what i did
I made a backup with r2sd all and then used psdread.exe to copy it to my PC (where it's quite safe, including a CD backup). If i ever come to need it i simply use psdwrite.exe to pass it back to the SD and use it to restore my Wizard

THX.
Could you pls. post the link to the psdwrite?
EDIT: I found something at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=224536&highlight=psdwrite . Is it current or is there any new version?

whitewash said:
THX.
Could you pls. post the link to the psdwrite?
EDIT: I found something at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=224536&highlight=psdwrite . Is it current or is there any new version?
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I'd advise you to read the wiki and also browse through wilem's (itsme) site and look for the latest package of his itsutils
http://www.xs4all.nl/~itsme/projects/xda/tools.html
cheers
EDIT:
latest update from 3 days ago

Ok, I have the PSDread. How many bytes should I copy from SD to BIN file to get entire SD backup from card?

whitewash said:
Ok, I have the PSDread. How many bytes should I copy from SD to BIN file to get entire SD backup from card?
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I can't recall exactly as i'm at work now but the mtty program should display the backup size.
Another solution is to go to the Typhoon wiki in this forum and make a sum of all the areas of the ROM/DOC... or i can give a more precise answer later on when i get home

Ok, I'll wait.. So far I have made backup of first 145 MBytes (that should be enough) but exact value would be appreciated.

whitewash said:
Ok, I'll wait.. So far I have made backup of first 145 MBytes (that should be enough) but exact value would be appreciated.
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Ok, my dump is exactly 73.927.168 bytes so i guess that looking around that location you might see the end of the file.
Saving about 75/80MB of the dump will probably include all the data but the really best option is to blank the SD card before making the backup and then see where the last bytes are and the just crop.
In the end it doesn't really matter the bytes after the end since the phone won't use them at all
cheers

File Corruption on MINI SD CARD

back then i have always been getting file corruption on my sd card and i have read up a lot on it but nothing really works. After i switched to Open Touch v3.0 it was fine until yesterday my sd card got corrupted again and i lost a lot of pictures.. Anyone have any solution?

porkch0p said:
back then i have always been getting file corruption on my sd card and i have read up a lot on it but nothing really works. After i switched to Open Touch v3.0 it was fine until yesterday my sd card got corrupted again and i lost a lot of pictures.. Anyone have any solution?
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sounds like you have a bad micro sd card. Corruption was common problem with the stock T-Mobile rom but not usually a problem with other roms.
Maybe you can take it out and format it. Hard Reset the phone and try it again.
You can format your card with Windows and that should work fine. Also I've had this program for awhile which is supposed to be far superior to any other program for formatting Micro SD Cards, but I've never used it. Here it is if you'd like it.

any special way to format it or should i just right click and then format?

porkch0p said:
any special way to format it or should i just right click and then format?
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It might be best to take the card out of the phone. Put it in a card reader and format it on your PC, then put it back in the phone. Making sure you hear it Click in.

SD-Card
porkch0p said:
Anyone have any solution?
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I think there are some possible reasons causing troubles like this.
- Files where not cleanly closed at poweroff.
Alway make sure, all programms and applications are terminated before you shut down.
- Incompatible SD-Card
Always refrain from cheap and/or unbranded Cards. I use a Toshiba 2GB SDCard. Never had any problems. Even with the orginal stock ROM with WM5.
- defective SD-Card
Kinda hard to detect if you have just one card. Plug the SDCard into your PC and do a "surfacescan" on the virtual Drive.
- unstable SD-Card connectors
Try to clean the connection-pads on the card and inside your device with a small brush or paper tissue. Never use any other fluits than water to clean connection-pads on the card and just a little drop of it. Make sure everything is dry before you turn your device back on or some parts could get seriously damaged!
I think its also a good advice to see your SD-Card and Systemmemory as a very unsafe and unstable place for critical data. Always do backups as often as you can.
Sorry, for my bad english. Its late and I already had some drinks PLUS I am not very used to speak english anymore..

Monarch73 said:
I think there are some possible reasons causing troubles like this.
- Files where not cleanly closed at poweroff.
Alway make sure, all programms and applications are terminated before you shut down.
- Incompatible SD-Card
Always refrain from cheap and/or unbranded Cards. I use a Toshiba 2GB SDCard. Never had any problems. Even with the orginal stock ROM with WM5.
- defective SD-Card
Kinda hard to detect if you have just one card. Plug the SDCard into your PC and do a "surfacescan" on the virtual Drive.
- unstable SD-Card connectors
Try to clean the connection-pads on the card and inside your device with a small brush or paper tissue. Never use any other fluits than water to clean connection-pads on the card and just a little drop of it. Make sure everything is dry before you turn your device back on or some parts could get seriously damaged!
I think its also a good advice to see your SD-Card and Systemmemory as a very unsafe and unstable place for critical data. Always do backups as often as you can.
Sorry, for my bad english. Its late and I already had some drinks PLUS I am not very used to speak english anymore..
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Thanks for your help don't worry about the english, i still understand you and thats all that matters. i am using Sandisk 2gb.
BTW, zcink
the file you gave me doesn't work, it doesn't even let me extract it

Don't install any programs that may be running at any given time on your SD card. If you have a program running (that's installed on the SD card) and you phone hibernates/shuts down after not being used ... will cause SD corruption.
Nothing with a Today plugin that you use ... nothing that you may accidently leave running.

duprade said:
Don't install any programs that may be running at any given time on your SD card. If you have a program running (that's installed on the SD card) and you phone hibernates/shuts down after not being used ... will cause SD corruption.
Nothing with a Today plugin that you use ... nothing that you may accidently leave running.
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and still every benchmark test shows...
... reading main memory = FASTER
... reading storage card = SLOWER
even with SDHC card!!
So I install all apps to mainmemory...

porkch0p said:
BTW, zcink
the file you gave me doesn't work, it doesn't even let me extract it
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You are right. It was not zipped right. I took it down. Zipped it correctly, tested it and reuploaded it. The one thats there now is the new one. This is supposed to be Professional software. The guy I got it from said it was the Best thing on the Market. I had never used it before, but I tested it today and it works fine.
Cheers!

Mine corrupted too
Hi, just few minutes back I was trying to copy some files from external harddisk to my wing's stock supplied Sandisk 1 gb memory card and looks like it got corrupted. All I see is some junk characters and boxes as file name. I lost all my (memorable)photos and softwares . I was trying to copy directly from my external disk to phones storage card and I am not sure whether this caused this issue. I have Open touch 2.7 biggy.
I have two questions.
a. Where does active sync stores all the files, contacts, calendar entries in computer (the directory path). I tried searching in the computer but could not find it.
b. Does active sync saves my storage cards file too? I dont believe so. Is there a way to ask active sync to backup files from SD card too?
Thanks in advance

files on SD card are all gone?????help..!!!

well yesterday , i came to realize that all my files on the sd card is all gone...then i got a call from my gurl friend( she has a wing too..) and her file are all gone also...wut's goin on ? we both have the pdaviet rom installed....all my musics, cabs, pics, vids.....they are all gone.....can someone help out?
i even try reading the sd card on my laptop and nope...nothing on it....could it be the pdaviet rom's problem?

It probably got corrupted... sometimes if you run programs directly from the card, it can do that...
You can try to use a partition/data recovery program with a memory card reader to try to retrieve the data.

sometimes also if you use a program like SKtools or Memaid or Pocket Mechanic and such and you try to optimize the memory, it wipes out your micro SD card. I've had it happen twice now.
I stopped using those programs.
They do some other functions well.

just like ivanmmj said, Use a Data Recovery program wich you can download from the web. it'll recover mostly like 99% of your files. I use File Scavenger 3.2. It works great.
But you need a License key to get it fully working. i'll send it to you. just use mine.

are they all gone for real.. or did windows create a Storage Card 2 file?
if they are gone.. that is very sad. i feel for you. :-(

micro sd problem!! help urgent

hello all
i need help because all of my file from sandisk micro sd 8gb are disappear. 3 day before i use the files from microsd without any problem. today i open file explorer to open a doc and all my files are deleted. but when i go to setting/memory the card is use 5gb/8gb like before !!! i unplug the card from kaiser and i insert it to my laptop with usb adaptor and the same ****. the files are not here only the camera folder DCIM and one file called EncFiltLog with security icon.
i have a lot of file that i want but i dont have backup
what happend? my PDA encrypt the micro without my right?
the problems now start with my micro????\
can i recover files?
the file system of the card is FAT32.

A common experience
Ozone said:
i have a lot of file that i want but i dont have backup
what happend? my PDA encrypt the micro without my right?
the problems now start with my micro????\
can i recover files?
the file system of the card is FAT32.
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Sorry to read of your 'possible' loss. There are freeware programs out there that attempt file recovery on flash memory drives but when a similar thing happened to me out of the blue, I couldn't find one that worked well with my Sandisk 6 GB MicroSDHC and all I got were 'bits and pieces' of the files that were once there. Perhaps someone else has had a good experience of recovery software that worked well in this situation?
After you recover what you can of your files, before using the memory card again, I suggest you wipe/zero fill it to completely remove all data from it and then partition/reformat it. Sandisk offer a utility to do this but they expect you to pay for it so having lost my files on their memory card they then add salt to the wound expecting payment for a tool used in the process to get things back to normal again, what a cheek
I complained to them, mentioning that most hard disk drive manufacturers provide such a tool for free but they don't seem keen to do that. Instead I used the free HDD Wipe Tool at hddguru.com and then Win XPs own disk management function to partition and format it back to FAT32.
This is an important lesson for anyone else reading with a TyTN II - if you have anything of importance on your TyTN IIs microSD card, ensure it is backed up because there are now quite a few cases here on xda-dev like this. Personally I use Win XPs own backup utility in conjunction with the USB card reader, once I've put all my music/maps etc on the card. It's quick, simple and most importantly, free. Since I lost some (but not many) of my files on the first occasion, I've even needed to restore from backup once so don't count on your files staying there as they should.

try file scavenger 2.1 it worked well for me
good luck

Flying Kiwi said:
Sorry to read of your 'possible' loss. There are freeware programs out there that attempt file recovery on flash memory drives but when a similar thing happened to me out of the blue, I couldn't find one that worked well with my Sandisk 6 GB MicroSDHC and all I got were 'bits and pieces' of the files that were once there. Perhaps someone else has had a good experience of recovery software that worked well in this situation?
After you recover what you can of your files, before using the memory card again, I suggest you wipe/zero fill it to completely remove all data from it and then partition/reformat it. Sandisk offer a utility to do this but they expect you to pay for it so having lost my files on their memory card they then add salt to the wound expecting payment for a tool used in the process to get things back to normal again, what a cheek
I complained to them, mentioning that most hard disk drive manufacturers provide such a tool for free but they don't seem keen to do that. Instead I used the free HDD Wipe Tool at hddguru.com and then Win XPs own disk management function to partition and format it back to FAT32.
This is an important lesson for anyone else reading with a TyTN II - if you have anything of importance on your TyTN IIs microSD card, ensure it is backed up because there are now quite a few cases here on xda-dev like this. Personally I use Win XPs own backup utility in conjunction with the USB card reader, once I've put all my music/maps etc on the card. It's quick, simple and most importantly, free. Since I lost some (but not many) of my files on the first occasion, I've even needed to restore from backup once so don't count on your files staying there as they should.
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thanks man for the reply!
i use many recovery programms but it found all files FILE0012.CHK thats mean nothing!
the problem is if is possible to recover then i know what to do... format etc..
and this time i WILL KEEP BACKUP!!!
pxbpxb: it doesnt do anythink!

try....
Hi,
Try RecoverMyFiles
or
GetBackData (for NTFS or FAT)
Good Luck!

borov5 said:
Hi,
Try RecoverMyFiles
or
GetBackData (for NTFS or FAT)
Good Luck!
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thanks getdataback works but i need to play a litle with the application to find all the files!!!

[Q] Rooted X8 SD Card Memory Problem

Before I rooted my X8 my SD memory card had at least 1.3/ 1.4 GB space on it, which I am definatly sure about, but after the root it says that I have no space on it at all.
What gives, any ideas on how to fix it?

Copy all files to PC, format it in fat16 and copy files back.
Probably you have some errors on card.

Thanks! Hope that, that's the case.

It wasn't the case :L Something has taken up all the space... Could it have been the backup that Titanium Backup did? And how do I get rid of it?
The backup that is.

Just browse SD and delete you thing is unnecessary. Just make backup first
I don`t think that TB can make so big backup.

Don't take this the wrong way, but, rooting has nothing to do with the SDCard. Can you tell us exactly what is it you did until you've discovered that you lost the space on the SD?
beacuse, my theory is that after you rooted, you went and tried to install a new ROM, and consequently made a backup of the previous ROM. that's around 200MB, add the ROM you were planning to install plus another backup...

I havent changed the ROM on my phone yet. I havent got the confidence to yet. All I have done is rooted my phone using superoneclick, downloaded and installed titanium backup and apttek app manager, and then did a full backup using TB. After that I then noticed I had no space left on my sd card.
It doesnt matter as such now as I just bought a 4Gb card.

That is strange. Try exploring the card in windows. Might find out what's taking up space.
Sent from my TI99 4A

Did you select "charge phone" when prompted to plug the phone in super one click? You may have mounted the SD card and that might be the problem.

Yes, I did everything the tutorial told me to do :L