I have an old xpera z2 which recently suffered water leak. Initially the display started forming weird lines after the water damage and the sensors weren't working. Now I have the phone recovered to the best by drying out everything and now display and sensors are back to normal except for the SD card detection.
It is not detecting any SD card. Local mobile technician says opening up the board to repair it might damage the phone as the display connector shows some water damage.
So basically I'm stuck with 16GB internal storage which is not enough for me. I would like to know if there is any other solution for the memory problem.
Plug in a USB OTG stick via the USB port so as to act as an "external" storage.
iXaidyiu said:
Plug in a USB OTG stick via the USB port so as to act as an "external" storage.
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Thanks for the idea. I was looking for it and came across a micro USB SD card reader. This might be it.
Thank you.
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hi guys,
recently i had a problem with my card slot, first it was very good reading all storage cards then it started reading it sometimes and sometimes not then suddenly it cannot read a single storage card.
the thing is i have no idea if my wife did put the storage card upside down, but i know i did not mess with it.
any ideas on what to , is it an IC problem or need to replace the whole slot?
i don't think so, you should format your SD card to FAT, it is used for BA
If the SD card works Ok in other device... there are 2 lateral metalic parts:
- to detect if the card is read only
- To detect if the card is there (the bottom one)
See if they are OK if the bottom one fails... it does not detect the card.
If you cannot fix it by yourself, try the guys from http://www.apexlaptops.co.uk/
I broke 2 times my SD card reader and sent them for repair.. (bit expensive) but fixed OK.
But now I think the only problem those times was the bottom lateral metal thing.
Good exploration
Hi all,
Such devices like Xperia U,P.... iPhones,
and some other devices which have no
external storage but USB OTG supported,
can use SD card or pen drive with OTG.
There are many kind of OTG cables, but it
is very hard to carry an OTG cable & a card
reader all the time, so i am thinking of an
OTG with card reader in a very small (as
small as it can be) form which can be carried
all the time.
the card reader will b stored(may be fixed)
with the back cover(as shown in the pictures)
.
i am usuing very small card reader slot, thin
wire(like insulated copper coil wire), a tiny
siwtch(on/off).
pictures
http://d-h.st/4xT
http://d-h.st/NU4
As we know, in OTG pin 4 and 5 are
shorted so i am usuing a tiny switch, when i
switch on, the pin 4 & 5 are shorted & the
cable will work as OTG, & when i switch off
it will turn as a normal USB cable, so there
will be no Battery Drain.
i am trying to configure it ,but having
problem when soldering the wires with the
micro usb male port.
The connections are so tiny, so it is very
hard to make it alone, i tested it in a bit
large form & it workes, but in small size as
shown in figure it becomes very hard to make
it ,,,,,,,
i am requesting you all to try it & make it
by yourself,
if we can make it personally i think one day
such cables will b available in market in very
stable form for all usurs.
Long story short, my phone suffered a bit of water damage. Everything is operational except for my MicroSD card reader. It will detect when I have a Micro SD inside of the slot, but it will NOT mount it no matter what. I've formatted it to every format I could think of and still nothing. I've also tried multiple Micro SD's. Any advice?
It will also occasionally mount and detected storage and such, but not want to write to it.
Replace the sd/sim reader, how else would you repair hardware failure?
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Replace the sd/sim reader, how else would you repair hardware failure?
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Wasn't necessarily sure if it was hardware failure or not.
One last question, does the i747 and the I9300 have the same sim/sd reader?
Hello all!
I am going to start work on adding a usb micro sd card reader to the nexus 9. I started off by taking off the nexus 9 backplate (very easy, just need a finger nail to get the clips undone) and you are immediately greeted with the internals of the tablet. The first thing I noticed is an indentation for what I believe to be where the micro sim card would go for the LTE version of the tablet, it could also be a place were they were going to put a micro sd expansion slot but may have ruled it out in the end. I also noted that there is some grooves for routing wires down to the micro usb slot, which would definitely make it easier to keep the wires clean looking. the micro sd card adapter I was thinking of using is this one: http://www.amazon.com/elago-Nano-Mo...6610073&sr=1-10&keywords=micro+sd+card+reader
I would end up tripping of the usb connector for the reader and soldering wires straight from the read to the mobo.
Take a look at the pictures enclosed and let me know if you have any suggestions.
Stay tuned! More updates to come!
You beet me to this
I will most likely do this
You're looking to take over the usb connection as OTG? Or?
@minnieman
if your going to use this as an OTG
you will need to have a switch to turn it off
USBhost said:
@minnieman
if your going to use this as an OTG
you will need to have a switch to turn it off
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Duely noted.
Nice idea but this is definitly the wrong forum for this. Not Original Android development. This belongs in the general section.
Any progress yet?
Don't know if came across this threads. soldering a micro sd card has been tried before, maybe you can find some useful info here.
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/30797-op...in-micro-sd-card-reader-to-nexus-7-build-log/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1884163
This is the (electric) solution.
But with a Tablet....
http://kck.st/15qbBPw
Quick question op regarding removing the back panel. Were there any issues with the camera coming off as well? In ifixit's tear down they said the camera popped off along with the back panel because it was too snug. I will be taking mines off but have been hesitant because if this.
Hey, any updates on this?
[Q] Can I unsolder a internal flash memory & solder it again to recover all the data?
Hi,
I have an old HTC One S that just died two days ago.
Is it possible to unsolder the internal flash memory and maybe solder it again into another "thing" (maybe another old htc one s) to try to recover all the data?
I was trying to find a business that does this, but I cant find it. And I was trying to check how to do it myself buying a soldering iron, but I dont know if it would be very difficult and if the chip it is soldered "in lines around the chip" or "in balls under the chip".... :S
Or what it is possible?
More info about this case:
The phone died when the power of the house went off while it was charging.
According, to a "normal" technician, he says that the motherboard is damaged so the smartphone is totally dead.
I would like to recover all the data because the last backup I did it a few months ago, and I have a lot of important information as texts, pics, videos, etc.
I already tried to connect it to the computer, and nothing happens. It does not turn on in anyway, so I cant access to the recovery or anything. If I try to charge the phone, the only thing that happens is that the phone gets hot (even though the orange led indicator for charging does not turn on either...).
by the way, the phone does not have any sd card slot. so thats why everthing it is in the internal storage.
This is a very interesting question and I hope someone can help because I've always wondered if memory expansion would be possible for devices with low internal memory (RAM), like my Kindle here.
+1 for you
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If by died you mean, a USB port died, a display connector broke, a LCD ribbon cable is loose, or battery won't hold a charge, it would be easier to get it fixed and recover the data. Swapping chips would require you to build a specialized kernel to support the memory module, assuming the pinouts and actual communication protocols are the same. It wouldn't be worth it, and plus, unless you have been soldering insanely small things for years, you'll need a reflow oven to melt the solder off and on the pins for you. It's not easy because its not meant to be. Your best bet would be to get the phone to boot into bootlaoder and look into specialized tools for analyzing the data partition your could easily copy from a terminal. Or just let it rest in peace.
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