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Help Sd card lost data

nate f

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Dec 17, 2009
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Well I have lost every thing on my sd card music, pistures, ringtones, all of it. I'm not sure what did it but the last message I got was there was too many songs on it and that is not true. It's an 8gb card with 700+ songs 15 pics and 4 ringtones so it being full is bs. I don't know what killed it but I suspect Ringdroid or 91Pandhome both have been acting funny for a couple of days force closing alot.

Anyone else have this happen to them and is there a way to recover the data on the card as my laptop just does not see it anymore. Any help would be great.
 
I guess the only thing you could do is pop another one in there and see if it destroys it as well... that'd be a good indication. Personally I'm in the habit of backing up my SD card to a computer often, as I came from WinMo... and WinMo 6 launched with this nasty habit of just randomly deleting SD card content every now and then.

I don't know... does anyone have enough memory hardware knowledge to know if a good card can go bad? I know that I've had RAM sticks go bad in systems I've put together in the past. I'm not sure if the same could happen with an SD card, as I'm not versed in the different memory technologies.
 
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That's how SD cards always die unfortunately. I had a memory card that was perfect for over a year and when on vacation I was taking photos the last night of a week long getaway perfectly and the next morning my memory card suddenly didn't work anymore. I tried for WEEKS to recover the data but I could only see the file names, never the actual files.
 
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this is the exact reason that app2sd is not a good idea.. imagine if you had all your apps running on that SD card when it failed.. useless phone at that point.. just remember... if it's man made it WILL fail..... if it's made by Microsoft it will fail SOONER

I still think apps on sd is a good idea just have your sd card backed up somewhere in case it does its as easy as that
 
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On a whim I went looking for an app that would back up the entire contents of your SD card to a network drive over WiFi... unfortunately couldn't find one. Imagine how useful that would be though... something that does that kind of backup, maybe it could even be scheduled, and the app would turn WiFi on when it needs it and back off when it's done, fails gracefully if it can't find the appropriate network/drive. You could then just browse to that drive on your PC/Mac and grab photos and media files that were downloaded to your card from the day before. Someone should write that!!
 
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