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Dear All
recently, without any warnings, I lost the internal MicroDrive! I mean, it is no more detected. I am only capable of using my SD mini now.
settings > memory>pnly Storage Card (SD MINI) appears.
What can it be? Hardware failure?
What shall I do, since my athena is out of warranty and probably repairing this hard drive is even more expensive than buying a new unit.
If I launch "Format MicroDrive" I get: "The Microdrive cannot be accessed"
Will upgrade my ROM provide any help?
Details:
ROM: 2.19.707.4
Rom date: 07/06/07
rdio: 1.45.00.10
protocol: 32.78.7020
ExtROM: 2.19.707.101
Thanks a lot
Saulo866
added details
I forgot to mention hardware details:
CPU: PXA270
Speed: 624MHz
RAM: 128MB
Flash: 256MB
Thanks and waiting
Saulo
Have you tried a <hardreset> ?
take a look in the wiki to make a hardreset. please test and report ...
btw: make a backup first...
Hi
I have had the same problem and I had to replace my x7500.
But soon there will be microsdhc card with 16gb. I think this will be cheaper than buying a new device. Hans
Hard Reset?
Hallo Palmchen
Yes I did a hard reset, by using: settings > system > clear Storage...
Did I do the right thing? Or can you suggest me a different type "hard-reset" a more deep one?
Thanks and waiting
Saulo
saulo866 said:
Hallo Palmchen
Yes I did a hard reset, by using: settings > system > clear Storage...
Did I do the right thing? Or can you suggest me a different type "hard-reset" a more deep one?
Thanks and waiting
Saulo
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Pull down the volume button, and while keeping it pulled down, poke your stylus into the reset hole.
Then press action button. Then follow the prompt..
after hard reset...
Thanks Eaglesteve
I have the hard reset, as per your instructions.
During the process, I was asked to Format MicroDrive...I accepted and I got NO error messages.
Now I have a clean unit.
I go to settings > system > memory and the MicroDrive is NOT there!
What shall I do more to make it "reappear"?
Thanks a lot
Saulo
could be the today plugins installed
The same happened to me.
iLauncher was installed so I tried the option to restart in safe mode that appears when you soft-reset twice in less than 1 minute. That gave access to the microdrive and I backed up everything to a folder in the pc via WM5 just in case. Then soft-reseted again and everything was fine again.
Don't hold your breath. Your MicroDrive will get f*cked up AGAIN!!!! It's as sure as death and taxes. It's a never-ending cycle of hard-resetting, recovering, reusing, getting f*cked up AGAIN!!!, hard-resetting, recovering, etc... I have given up on using the stupid MicroDrive long ago. Sending your Athena back for repair will end up with a refurbished piece of junk getting sent back to you. Do yourself a big favor, avoid the pending aggrevation, go buy an 8GB MiniSD (on sale at Fry's Electronics for around $45) and forget about the MicroDrive!!!
saulo866 said:
Thanks Eaglesteve
I have the hard reset, as per your instructions.
During the process, I was asked to Format MicroDrive...I accepted and I got NO error messages.
Now I have a clean unit.
I go to settings > system > memory and the MicroDrive is NOT there!
What shall I do more to make it "reappear"?
Thanks a lot
Saulo
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This is an annoying limitation and searching finds many threads and I put an entry into the wiki about this as well.
You can refind the microdrive by going to Settings/system/format microdrive and use the dropdown menu to "Recover Microdrive"
You will of course lose all your data.
I dont store any data from applications on the microdrive and recently forgot why.
I had the camera store photos on it and it crashed several times till i remembered and changed this
hth
sumtingwong said:
Don't hold your breath. Your MicroDrive will get f*cked up AGAIN!!!! It's as sure as death and taxes. It's a never-ending cycle of hard-resetting, recovering, reusing, getting f*cked up AGAIN!!!, hard-resetting, recovering, etc... I have given up on using the stupid MicroDrive long ago. Sending your Athena back for repair will end up with a refurbished piece of junk getting sent back to you. Do yourself a big favor, avoid the pending aggrevation, go buy an 8GB MiniSD (on sale at Fry's Electronics for around $45) and forget about the MicroDrive!!!
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I don't think storage card is any better. In my case my microdrive and storage card failed twice each in 16 months. I install all my applications on my microdrive without any issue. My storage card is only for movies, videos, pictures, and musics. In that way I can have unlimited memory by just swapping the cards.
In all my laptops, it took them only 2-3 years... tops, and the first thing that had to be fixed and replaced was the hard drive. It does not matter what brand. I guess, I just don't trust them. So just go get the Micro SD card, never had any problems with all of mine. I still have my VERY FIRST 256 MB SD card, back when it was still considered as BIG already, and it still works like brand new.
Similarly I have notebook which is even more than 10 years old with harddisk still running fine. It is not always the first thing to go. In some of my computers, it is the video card that goes first. In others, it is the DVD-drive.
If you search the net, you will find many people having problem with SD cards. Such as reported here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=346301
http://www.hpcfactor.com/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=5907&posts=4
I have also twice lost everything on my SD card.
Just goes to show that you need to have a procedure to recover.
For me, if I lose my microdrive, it is not a big deal, as I have a copy of that on my PC. I simply reformat and copy the programs (My microdrive contains mainly the programs, and some selected data files) back there. I also am able to recover by the procedure below:
When I do backup, I have two schedule. One will backup to my microdrive and another will back up to my storage card. It is not likely that I encounter problem with BOTH at the same time. So, I'm ALWAYS able to recover a day or two old's data depending on which one I'm recovering from.
In addition, I have another storage card which is the backup of my microdrive. This I do occasionally as it takes quite a while to write to SD card. But if I'm going for a extended trip without any other means of recovery, I'd bring along that backup SD card.
Like I said, installing programs in microdrive allows me unlimited space as I can swap in and out storage cards without affecting the working of any programs. It is faster than the storage card too, and to me, there is no extra risk of losing files wherever you install your programs.
Bottom line is: while there is no guarantee that the drive will work all the time, there is no need to stay far away from it. With some usual backup procedures, there is really no need to worry at all.
a trick to solve the problem
Dear Friend:
If you saw my old topic in this forum i had this problem for about 6 mounth ago, finally i sent my athena X7500 to the registered service center and after 1 moth they sent it back to me with more and more physical and hardware fault and hits !( I live in IRAN )
and this problem occured again for about one mounth later,
one day I install the "Card Export 3.12" on my device and connect my device as a usb mass storage device, and i saw that my microdrive is re-appeared again! I advice you that test this way , I lost my Microdrive again and I recovered it with this trick , I think this problem is occurred because of a driver problem or somthing non-harware error like this .
do it and inform me the result, if this problem solved , please someone that is fluent in english write a letter of this problem that i can send it to HTC support to tell them do a official way for cover this problem,excuse me because of my very bad english.
rezam said:
Dear Friend:
If you saw my old topic in this forum i had this problem for about 6 mounth ago, finally i sent my athena X7500 to the registered service center and after 1 moth they sent it back to me with more and more physical and hardware fault and hits !( I live in IRAN )
and this problem occured again for about one mounth later,
one day I install the "Card Export 3.12" on my device and connect my device as a usb mass storage device, and i saw that my microdrive is re-appeared again! I advice you that test this way , I lost my Microdrive again and I recovered it with this trick , I think this problem is occurred because of a driver problem or somthing non-harware error like this .
do it and inform me the result, if this problem solved , please someone that is fluent in english write a letter of this problem that i can send it to HTC support to tell them do a official way for cover this problem,excuse me because of my very bad english.
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Sounds like the problem comes from the microdrive driver. I think it makes sense. Wu posted long time ago that before HTC acquire dopod the microdrive in Htc athena was not as good as that of dopod u1000. May be that's why my dopod u1000 is so much problem free.
eaglesteve said:
Sounds like the problem comes from the microdrive driver. I think it makes sense. Wu posted long time ago that before HTC acquire dopod the microdrive in Htc athena was not as good as that of dopod u1000. May be that's why my dopod u1000 is so much problem free.
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thank you dear eaglesteve
And so Is there any way to solve this problem more offical than my trick?for example a new driver?or sth like that
hello
we looking for way to make recognize SSD instead Microdrive
do you identify the Microdrive Driver ?
I am having a repeated issue I was hoping someone has seen or could help me with.
I'm on the default rom w/ the TnT Enhancement pack and overall I LOVE the device. One thing that is literally killing me is trying to get data to/from my device.
I have tried USB linking to my Win7 64bit system as well as copying data to/from with Astro and the microSD card and more times than not either during or after any file copy/move activity the device locks up, needs to be hard booted and then I'll get the 'scanning SD card' message in the notifications and the tablet locks up hard, and becomes unuseable until I reboot about 10xs and finally it starts to return to normal.
I've tried formatting EVERYTHING and re partitioning to 2048 & 0 w/ clockwork and doing a fresh NVflash and reupdating/TnT Enhancement, etc...with similar results, so I'm not sure at this point if it's my microSD the internal card, some sort of hardware or overall software issue.
I love this device, but I'm borderline frustrated enough to return it, only problem is ALL the other tabs are WAY too expensive for what you get! ($400 is reasonable $600+ is stupid - I can get a laptop for that much - which I already have, and the tablet isn't nearly as capable/more just convenient)...
tullywork said:
I am having a repeated issue I was hoping someone has seen or could help me with.
I'm on the default rom w/ the TnT Enhancement pack and overall I LOVE the device. One thing that is literally killing me is trying to get data to/from my device.
I have tried USB linking to my Win7 64bit system as well as copying data to/from with Astro and the microSD card and more times than not either during or after any file copy/move activity the device locks up, needs to be hard booted and then I'll get the 'scanning SD card' message in the notifications and the tablet locks up hard, and becomes unuseable until I reboot about 10xs and finally it starts to return to normal.
I've tried formatting EVERYTHING and re partitioning to 2048 & 0 w/ clockwork and doing a fresh NVflash and reupdating/TnT Enhancement, etc...with similar results, so I'm not sure at this point if it's my microSD the internal card, some sort of hardware or overall software issue.
I love this device, but I'm borderline frustrated enough to return it, only problem is ALL the other tabs are WAY too expensive for what you get! ($400 is reasonable $600+ is stupid - I can get a laptop for that much - which I already have, and the tablet isn't nearly as capable/more just convenient)...
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I'm kind if unclear about your problem. Is it hanging only when you're copying stuff between /sdcard and /sdcard2?
I'm asking because you mentioned USB, but I didn't think you could xfer directly to/from /sdcard2 over USB.
If that is the case, have you tried a different microSD card?
Jim
I've tried USB xfer from computer to /sdcard as well as using multiple microsd cards to transfer data to the internal gtab memory, all seem to have the same results, when moveing external data to the gtab, it suddenly seems to cause some sort of file system corruption (as best I could guess). last round forced me to go as far as re-doing the entire device to bring it back to a stable state!
Since you mentioned returning it I would suggest exchange as this sounds like a problem with your device. Could have a bad card reader or the card is just not seating correctly
Hi,
A couple of comments:
- does the enhancement pack you have have that dataloop thing? I've seen some posts mentioning corruption w dataloop. Maybe try w/o the enhancements?
- for the scanning /sdcard2 thing, maybe try adding a file named .nomedia (period followed by nomedia) in /sdcard2. That's suppose to prevent the mediascanner from scanning the dir plus subdirs.
Jim
I'm about done with this thing. I've tried everything I can think of and I can't get away from the thing locking up (from full stock OTA gtab to the TnT custom ROMs).
1)The first Gtab I had the screen wasn't responsive to touch (had to hit it two or three times to get it to recognize you wanted to open an App. returned to SEARS
2)The second Gtab I got, when I powered it on for the first time it had a line across the entire screen in the LCD of bad pixels (dead pixels/whatever - something was wrong with the screen) - took it back AGAIN
3)This Gtab locks up whenever I use the microSD or USB transfering files to the thing. WILL BE RETURNED
I'm convinced that these things are the biggest pieces of sh!t on the planet. I've spent (and I'm not even stretching the truth) probably 40 to 60 hours trying to get this thing to work LIKE A NORMAL DEVICE - all I want is something to: browse the web, view videos and read epubs on - I'M NOT ASKING FOR MUCH, a simple device that can't accomplish THOSE SIMPLE TASKS - SUCKS.
I'm happy to think that the money viewsonic (or whomever) spend to build these three BAD devices is out whatever it cost them, given my trouble. TiD!
how to fix
Go to settings, applications, system applications, media storage and clear data. It worked for me.
tullywork said:
I'm about done with this thing. I've tried everything I can think of and I can't get away from the thing locking up (from full stock OTA gtab to the TnT custom ROMs).
1)The first Gtab I had the screen wasn't responsive to touch (had to hit it two or three times to get it to recognize you wanted to open an App. returned to SEARS
2)The second Gtab I got, when I powered it on for the first time it had a line across the entire screen in the LCD of bad pixels (dead pixels/whatever - something was wrong with the screen) - took it back AGAIN
3)This Gtab locks up whenever I use the microSD or USB transfering files to the thing. WILL BE RETURNED
I'm convinced that these things are the biggest pieces of sh!t on the planet. I've spent (and I'm not even stretching the truth) probably 40 to 60 hours trying to get this thing to work LIKE A NORMAL DEVICE - all I want is something to: browse the web, view videos and read epubs on - I'M NOT ASKING FOR MUCH, a simple device that can't accomplish THOSE SIMPLE TASKS - SUCKS.
I'm happy to think that the money viewsonic (or whomever) spend to build these three BAD devices is out whatever it cost them, given my trouble. TiD!
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Dude, I've been telling people on here for days. Go buy an ipad and leave us gtab fans alone. My benchmark is at 3000's while having half a dozen apps running and I'm happy with it. My screen is too sensitive to say the least.
How many times we can flash our phone? like custom roming,rooting,kernel etc
I guess till it dies ..I have tested almost every rom n kernel in xda nd android world.it ,over fifty to hundred probably almost for 2 months now and keep changing no problems till now ..
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alxbsl96 said:
How many times we can flash our phone? like custom roming,rooting,kernel etc
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you can flash it as many times as you can before it get bricked(from BRICKED i mean it cannot be reapaired by any way....
As many times as you wish.
^ Not completely true. At some point, the flash ROM will die on you. It's a natural event when it comes to flash memory, although it should take a good number of rewrites for that to happen.
metalboy94 said:
^ Not completely true. At some point, the flash ROM will die on you. It's a natural event when it comes to flash memory, although it should take a good number of rewrites for that to happen.
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Flash memory gets deleted if u delete everything so theres no worry for that, so its almost,
unlimited flash times, as told until u cant start phone (hard bricked)
not soft bricked, l0l
however hard brick is kinda hard, (at least as we often cant flash other rom's also if we do so it wont boot properly to prevent phone from hard brick, so its kinda a good safety)
I'm not talking about bricking here, rather about the physical resistance of the memory. Why don't you check out the back of the packaging from a USB drive or memory card, you will notice an attribute named "Maximum Number of Cycles".
The Optimus One has EEPROM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EEPROM
Taken from Wiki:
The manufacturers usually specify the maximum number of rewrites being 10 to the 6th power or more.[2]
During storage, the electrons injected into the floating gate may drift through the insulator, especially at increased temperature, and cause charge loss, reverting the cell into erased state. The manufacturers usually guarantee data retention of 10 years or more.
In other words, don't worry about it
First, sorry for my bad English. Hope I make myself clear enough for you to understand me.
Second, to the moderators: feel free to move this topic if I posted it on the wrong session. But as you will see reading the following, I believe that the issue I will describe is directly related with the Neatrom - correct me if I'm wrong, but I have reasons to believe that.
So, here it goes:
I have a Samsung Galaxy S2 (i9100), running XXLSJ Neatrom Lite v4.0, and this kernell: 3.0.31-Siyah-s2-v6.0b4+
In december 2012, I bought a MicroSD card (model Sandisk Ultra 32Gb class 10) to install in my i9100, and it rocks.
But 4 weeks ago, when I was playing some games on the phone, I ignored the first battery low warning messages, and kept playing to a point that the phone simply turned off. Completely. I recharged the battery and, after powering the phone on again, it showed a message saying something like "blank sdcard" or something. I had many pictures and important movies on that card, so I decided to not format it; instead, I searched for a way to fix it.
I tried to access the files from my computer - on Windows, no success; on Ubuntu, no success; on Mint, no success. Windows and Linux showed the icon representing the sdcard, but when I tried to open it under Windows, it showed a message saying "this disk is not formated. Do you want to format it?". Linux didn't show any message, and didn't opne a single window to show its content. Nothing. Nada.
Then, my cousin (a geek genius) took my card to test it on his own notebook. He made some long research on the net, and installed a software called TestDisk (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk - linux version) to try to recover the partition (or the MBR, I don't know exactly the tech name of this stuff...). He even entered on the software the number of cylinders, sectors and all that stuff to try to achieve sometuing... But after almost two hours reading tutorials, and trying hard to bring that card back to life with no success, he finally gave up, telling me to RMA the sdcard.
Then, I took the card from his hands, and put it aside, giving up too. Half an hour later, accepting the fact that my files was gone forever, I decided to try to format the card on my phone, to see if it would work after being formated. So, I put the card on the phone again, and powered the phone on... And, for my surprise, the card was back to life! For no reason, it decided to work again! With all the movies, all the pictures, all the games, everything was there, untouched!!!!
So, it worked great in the last 4 weeks, fast and nice - recording long HD movies, taking hundreds of pictures, installing huge data games, etc. It worked fine - until two days ago.
Because, two days ago, I was playing again, and again I ignored the low battery warnings, and it happened again! In the middle of the game, the battery ran out, and the phone turned off. Guess what? Yeah, after recharging it and turning it on again, there came that same message, telling me that my sdcard was blank! Again, no success trying to access it from Windows or Linux. And no geek cousin nearby...
(Of course, I had a backup of my files, created just after that first "death").
so, I sent an e-mail to my cousin, asking him about the software he used, and how it used it. He told me about that testdisk software. I downloaded the Windows version of the software, and give a try - no success. The program didn't recognize the drive letter of my "blank" sdcard, because the filesystem was simply not listed by the program. So, I went to the site, and I read that, under Linux, it was possible to force Testdisk to try to repair filesystems that was not shown in the list, by using a command line telling the software to look for the device through this mounting point (a folder inside /dev/). Linux stuff, I wont go any deep on this here.
So, I decided to restart my notebook, to boot on Linux to try that method. Guess what again? Suddenly, Windows recognized the sdcard again! I just ran the TestDisk utility, with no success - no command was used, I just ran the program, and since it didn't recognize the card, I closed the program. Nothing was done.
But, given the fact that the card was dead twice in the exact circumstantes (battery wearing completely off), and given the fact that the card came back to life after a simple run of the software TestDisk, I refuse to believe that it was a simple coincidence; I am not a geek, not a linux or android expert, nor a hardware wizzard, but my little experience tells me that it is possible that the android system locked the SDcard filesystem in a way that, after a sudden energy cut, it needed some sort of "logical shock" (made by TestDisk, even without any changes or command being called by the user, thats me).
I believe that this issue is part NeatRom's (or maybe kernell's) fault, because in stock roms, the system would close the app and close all sdcard access before turning the phone off to prevent issues like this one.
Again, I must repeat: I am not a technician, not an expert, so chances are I am wrong - very wrong. But I believe that my suspicions makes some sense, and woths to be investigated - or cleared out. And, of course, chances are that the card is deffective - and I already called RMA service from Sandisk. And I made another backup right now. But, I insist: everything is working: no movie corrupted, not a single file is corrupted... So, I still have a doubt here: was this issue cause by a deffective card, or was it cause by the sudden turn-offs?
Before you ask: no, I didn't test playing to the end of battery using another sdcard. By the way, I will never play to this point anymore. And yes, the card is still working!
Sorry for the VERY LONG POST. But I think that this testimonial may be of some value to the rom and kernell developpers.
I can honestly say i have never heard of a Rom or Kernel damaging a memory card, could be yours just developed a fault??
Galaxy s2 said:
I can honestly say i have never heard of a Rom or Kernel damaging a memory card, could be yours just developed a fault??
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Not the rom itself, but possibly some "features" of this or any other rom related to how it handles battery. I will try to make myself as clear as possible...
I know that in stock roms it is not possible to shoot photographs using flash when battery level is under 15% - this is to prevent sudden turn-off of the phone. And I know that some roms uses some tweaks that allows the user to take pictures using flash under this 15%. This is a thing that most users can think is an improvement - but we know that it is dangerous to use battery in a not-so-controled way. The history I told on the first post is a prove of it!
So, my suspictions is that, in some way, some rom configurations (or kernell configurations) may be allowing the user to play a high-power-demanding game or app to the end of battery charge - when, instead, it should close all the apps after the first warning, and before shutting down the phone. In other words, some roms let the decision up to the user - and if the user is (like me) distracted with some game, and forgot or bypass the first warning, he becomes a victim of this own distraction, wearing all the juice without thinking about closing the apk and shuting down the phone in the correct manner.
So, the question is: are there some rom tweaks that could POSSIBLY be the reason for this kind of issue?
Hope I made myself clear now, despite my horrible "engrich"...
Hello,
I'm writing this as a last refuge to console myself. I got caught up in a dangerous situation today in which I had to give up my android phone i.e. Motorola Atrix 2 in order to save my life. Since all my personal and official data was stored on the sd card, which I couldn't pull out from the phone, I had activated the factory reset - including sd card formatting - before handing it over. As luck would have it, I was pressurized to give it up before the process finished so in a bid to save the data from getting into the wrong hands, I pulled out the battery while it was erasing data from the sd card according to the dialog box. My questions is: What are the chances of the sd card getting corrupted and the data becoming inaccessible? I need to know as I'm under a lot of stress because of it and there's no chance of getting it back. I had changed my google account's password the moment I reached home (after fifteen to twenty minutes) so I also the phone would have locked out. Please respond at the earliest.
Thanks.
It probably deleted some files depending on how long the dialog was up. From my past experiences sometimes I got a corrupt card (very rare) and sometimes a few files were deleted. The only thing you can do from this point is to actually check and see it any damage was done.
lEquin0xl said:
It probably deleted some files depending on how long the dialog was up. From my past experiences sometimes I got a corrupt card (very rare) and sometimes a few files were deleted. The only thing you can do from this point is to actually check and see it any damage was done.
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It was up for 30 seconds to a minute. May be a little more. What do you think?
How much difference does it make if I change my Google account's password?
bayhosh said:
It was up for 30 seconds to a minute. May be a little more. What do you think?
How much difference does it make if I change my Google account's password?
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Could be a lot of data was deleted but it shouldn't be corrupt as far as I know just most likely completely formatted. So yea, tell you carrier that you don't have the phone anymore. The person who took your phone will just have to create his own Google account afterwards. Call the cops? They could trace the number and whatnot. I guess I didn't understand what I was reading the first time I read the post, you were held at life or death to give up your phone? That sounds horrifying, I'm sorry.
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Could be a lot of data was deleted but it shouldn't be corrupt as far as I know just most likely completely formatted. So yea, tell you carrier that you don't have the phone anymore. The person who took your phone will just have to create his own Google account afterwards. Call the cops? They could trace the number and whatnot. I guess I didn't understand what I was reading the first time I read the post, you were held at life or death to give up your phone? That sounds horrifying, I'm sorry.
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Being an ordinary citizen, I don't have such luxuries available in my country so I have to do pretty much everything myself. I was and it's been a terrible experience - mostly just because of my data. If he logs in from another Google account on my phone, will he be able to access my apps/contacts? I had taken the battery and sim out while it was factory resetting so he'd be asked to sign-in again, right?
Thanks a lot for your response.
bayhosh said:
Being an ordinary citizen, I don't have such luxuries available in my country so I have to do pretty much everything myself. I was and it's been a terrible experience - mostly just because of my data. If he logs in from another Google account on my phone, will he be able to access my apps/contacts? I had taken the battery and sim out while it was factory resetting so he'd be asked to sign-in again, right?
Thanks a lot for your response.
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Really sorry to hear that!
Quite shocked as well
Well,if factory reset is complete which I believe shouldn't take upto 1 min [still,depends on your data, ]
Then,he'll have to sign in for sure!
If you've not backed up your contacts to Sd card and he doesn't know to recover it back, then you're contacts are safe!
However you should have probably tried not removing battery at that time [I know it's easier said than done, anyways I sincerely hope things go fine and also hope you are alright]
Take care
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Ghostfreak NB said:
Really sorry to hear that!
Quite shocked as well
Well,if factory reset is complete which I believe shouldn't take upto 1 min [still,depends on your data, ]
Then,he'll have to sign in for sure!
If you've not backed up your contacts to Sd card and he doesn't know to recover it back, then you're contacts are safe!
However you should have probably tried not removing battery at that time [I know it's easier said than done, anyways I sincerely hope things go fine and also hope you are alright]
Take care
Sent from my Xperia Neo V using xda premium
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Yes, I'm still in shock and under a lot of stress.
Factory resetting hadn't completed and it was erasing sd card when I pulled the battery out hoping it would get corrupted. To see what happens in such a situation, I went to a friend's place today who has the same phone. We used his spare sd card of 4 gb (mine was 32gb with at least only twelve gbs free) to perform the same action. I started the factory reset with sd card formatting and pulled the battery out once it started erasing (didnt give it as much time as I had given to mine. After doing that I inserted the battery again and restarted the phone to check the sd card but it had corrupted although it didn't ask me for any gmail id. That's some relief but my card had larger storage so there are some doubts as well. *sigh*
I don't remember backing them up so I'm not sure.
I wish I could...
Thanks a lot, brothers. Do let me know what you think. Its very much appreciated.
You take care as well.
Apps and contacts data are linked to your Gmail so the guy shouldn't have access to any of your data without your Gmail account. Good news that the sd card got corrupt, at least it's safe to know there's a higher chance to know it corrupted or not.
If you backed up your contacts on sd card and he finds the vcard he will restore it into another android phone! I think the sd card will got corupted!
lEquin0xl said:
Apps and contacts data are linked to your Gmail so the guy shouldn't have access to any of your data without your Gmail account. Good news that the sd card got corrupt, at least it's safe to know there's a higher chance to know it corrupted or not.
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Good to know that! I agree. I'm just hoping everything and everyone remains safe...
Just to be 100% safe, I would change the password to all my major information first. Things that have to do with credit cards like PayPal or ebay. But since you factory reset the phone it also removed the pass code you had put in it (I'm almost certain it does). Just watch yourself is all I can say, watch your online activities to see if he has any of your info.
lEquin0xl said:
Just to be 100% safe, I would change the password to all my major information first. Things that have to do with credit cards like PayPal or ebay. But since you factory reset the phone it also removed the pass code you had put in it (I'm almost certain it does). Just watch yourself is all I can say, watch your online activities to see if he has any of your info.
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Working on that. I'm even watching my physical activities.
bayhosh said:
Working on that. I'm even watching my physical activities.
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Well that's good. It sucks to have to watch your every move to avoid being treated wrongly. I hope everything goes well .
lEquin0xl said:
Well that's good. It sucks to have to watch your every move to avoid being treated wrongly. I hope everything goes well .
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You bet!
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Thanks a lot, brother! Its really appreciated.