memory corrupted
 

Hello,

Here is my problem.

settings->general->memory:

device:
(memory cards corrupted)

memory for installable applications
50.8MB available

So, there are no my 32GB...

In addition, when I get plugged my n900 to PC, a can see two new disks. When I open (explorer) first, I get the message "format or not...". When try to open second, message received "pleas insert disk to drive G:"

Thank you in advance

Re: memory corrupted
 

G: could be explained if you have no microSD in.

hard to say what is wrong about internal flash.

Re: memory corrupted
 

I say format the thing and take it from there

Re: memory corrupted
 

No, I do not have microSD
How I can format it again?

Re: memory corrupted
 

Might be https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5767 .

N900 "Memory card corrupted"
 

Hi,
Please I need help. suddenly I have memory corrupted after i buy the device couple of hours ago. here what happened:

1. i switch on the device, then i explore it and start to download some application from the application manager.

2, meanwhiel, I went to the web browser and it sayd " Operations temporarliy disabled due to low memory".

3. when i start reciving SMS messages i see the preview but could not open it as another message appear " close applications".

4. the ovi map can't started and closed immedaility and I can't open any other application.



then i went to the file manager and i want to access the device internal memory "sfil_li_memorycard_internal" a message then appear " Memeory card format unsupported".

i went through setting> phone > memory and i found that a message wirtten under the device "memery card courrupted" and before that probelm it was showen 32GB as it is the internal deviced memeory.

the external momery are shown to be ok.

the solution i think of is to upfdate the softwear and i found that there is no new update using Nokia softwear update. then i just re-update with the same version but NOT SOLVED.


PLEASE ANY SUGGESTION BESID SENDING IT BACK TO THE NOKIA.




the only thing i can do is just using the device to call.

thanx

Re: N900 "Memory card corrupted"
 

Try reflashing the eMMC as well, see http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_firmware, and this part in particular. If it still has problems after that it's probably faulty hardware.

Re: N900 "Memory card corrupted"
 

Any one have more simple way to overcome this probelm

Re: N900 "Memory card corrupted"
 

thanks a lot but is there is straight forward way to solve it.

regards,

Re: N900 "Memory card corrupted"
 

regarding the amount of different problems, you have encountered. It's really the best way to reset your firmware with flashing the device. Using the step by step manual, posted above, that should be a matter of 2-3 hours at max.
If you're using windows, visit directly this page:
http://wiki.maemo.org/Flasher

Re: N900 "Memory card corrupted"
 

from http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_f...MC_in_the_N900

1) download flasher
2) download eMMC image
3) run ./flasher-3.5 -F <eMMC image> -f -R

that's pretty straight forward i would say... :)

Re: N900 "Memory card corrupted"
 

0) install your latest service pack, when using windows ;)

Re: N900 "Memory card corrupted"
 

lady, girl, Gent,and boy....:)

Thank you very much I will try these steps (2-3 hrs) and will see ....and hopfully give postiive post once I finished. ;)

Re: N900 "Memory card corrupted"
 

ok here what I did and please help me on the rest:

1. download flasher 3.5 (after installation when i run the application it appear like cmd, command secreen starting with "c:\program files\maemo\flasher-3.5>"

2, i download the eMMC from nokia website with the following name "RX-51_2009SE_1.2009.42-11.003_PR_COMBINED_003_ARM". it is around 156MB size with extension file of .bin,

3. i tried to run the command using the flasher as "c:\program files\maemo\flasher-3.5>$ flasher-3.5 -F RX-51_2009SE_1.2009.42-11.003_PR_COMBINED_003_ARM -f -R"

but did not recognize the command also i tired the other command "c:\program files\maemo\flasher-3.5>./ flasher-3.5 -F RX-51_2009SE_1.2009.42-11.003_PR_COMBINED_003_ARM -f -R" and also didn't recoginze.

the other thing i made my device flashing by holding the "U"" key and it worked well as it appear USB images in top right corner of the device secreen and now the flasher suppose to work but it ddn't.


please any one tell what i need to do now.

Re: N900 "Memory card corrupted"
 

That's because you're trying to execute UNIX commands in Windows.

Here's the Windows relevant portion of the document: http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_firmware#Windows

Re: N900 "Memory card corrupted"
 

thnaks. i went to the linked page and this is excactly the same instruction i did and follow prevouisly. i am running win7 and i installed the flasher 3.5 related to my OS but when it comes to the command i stuck and got same messages mentioned above.


please I need help.

Re: N900 "Memory card corrupted"
 

Hi,

It seems that you ar mixing Unix/Linux commands... $ and ./ are used with Unix/linux. You can try the following:
C:\Program Files\maemo\flasher-3.5>flasher-3.5.exe /?
- that shows the help info

Then the actual command would be like:
C:\Program Files\maemo\flasher-3.5>flasher-3.5.exe -F RX-51_2009SE_1.2009.42-11.003_PR_COMBINED_003_ARM -f -R

.. I dont' have N900 yet (still with N810 and that is not with me now)
so can't help much more, but anyway that is the syntax....

Hope this solves the problem...

Re: N900 "Memory card corrupted"
 

That's the firmware image. Just checking, did you really mean to download the "Middle East and North Africa" version or did you just get the highest-numbered one?

The eMMC image is RX-51_2009SE_1.2009.41-1.VANILLA_PR_EMMC_MR0_ARM.bin.

You should flash both the firmware and eMMC images.

You need to specify the full path of the firmware image, or (probably easier) just move it into "c:\program files\maemo\flasher-3.5".

Re: N900 "Memory card corrupted"
 

in addition to what kris and lma pointed out (location of the image file and correct eMMC image file), don't forget to specify the full name of the file, including the extension .bin!
so the command would look like this (all in one line):
c:\download being the location of the image file. if this path contains spaces, you have to put the whole path in double quotes "".

Re: N900 "Memory card corrupted"
 

Thanks to all....finally it works with me and the falshing and programming completed. BUT still my original probelm is not solved yet "Memory card corrupted" and i can't do any things with this device only to call.

it good to share with other that the below command shall be used in Windows expect you need to cahnge the eMMC name and you must add the estenion .bin

"flasher-3.5 -F RX-51_2009SE_1.2009.42-11.003_PR_COMBINED_003_ARM.bin -f -R"

again is there any other solution besid doing falshing and sending it back to nokia....please experts help.

Re: N900 "Memory card corrupted"
 

pls...pls....pls......any body can help....i am sick from this device if it didn't work since i buy it....

Re: N900 "Memory card corrupted"
 

I guess it's better for you do return it and get another new one. I have flashed half dozen N900 but never seen this happened. It may cause by hardware defective but not sure.

It's pain that you have to suffer this. However, to return it and get a new one is probably the best way to go.

Re: N900 "Memory card corrupted"
 

If that's the only command you used, then look down a little to Ima's post. You need to flash the eMMC image too.

Re: N900 "Memory card corrupted"
 

Threads merged.

Re: N900 "Memory card corrupted"
 

thanks these are two different eMMC images here and i think Ima refered to the USA version image as i download and utilized the middel east version image of 156MB size and run it in the command....there are different images and each one is allocated for different countries....please tell me if i am wrong and do appreciate your reply..

Re: N900 "Memory card corrupted"
 

thanks. it was deleted.

Re: N900 "Memory card corrupted"
 

you're not alone.. you're the second person I hear that has this problem.

Re: N900 "Memory card corrupted"
 

My reading of Ima's post is that you need to flash two image files, not just one file - the firmware file, and the eMMC file.

I don't know much about this, though; I don't have a device myself. Just explaining what I think Ima is telling you, because you seem to be missing a file.

Re: N900 "Memory card corrupted"
 

Yes...will do...i am currently downloading the eMMC file (235.5MB SIZE)....and will post the result here....wish for me the good luck...

Re: N900 "Memory card corrupted"
 

good luck :)

Re: N900 "Memory card corrupted"
 

here is the result...

i ran those two commands:
1. "flasher-3.5 -F RX-51_2009SE_1.2009.41-1.VANILLA_PR_EMMC_MR0_ARM.bin -f -R" and this is for the eMMC image. i noticed that it runs in less than a second with no error.

2. "flasher-3.5 -F RX-51_2009SE_1.2009.42-11.003_PR_COMBINED_003_ARM.bin -f -R" for the firmware images.


and the result still the same of the orginal problem "Memory card corrupted".....

also i tired to change the sequances on running of the two commands but same results.

really i start to heat this device....but i feel it has very powerful softwear through usingn ..


please any other solutions....help...

Re: N900 "Memory card corrupted"
 

pls any one faced this problem before....pls we need some help here....

Re: N900 "Memory card corrupted"
 

Just a question about this. Do you remember what applications you installed? Did you enable any repositories other than the default ones that are already enabled?

Re: N900 "Memory card corrupted"
 

yes i think it was the bounace game- not 100% sure...then the device start to give the message of low memeory and could not open any other application...only calling from the device could be done.

any suggestion...pls do.

Re: N900 "Memory card corrupted"
 

Are you talking about an external memory card? A removable one? Reflashing won't fix that, of course. If it got corrupted, it will probably need to be reformatted. Are you able to install programs and such on your internal memory?

Also, did you enable extras-devel repository?

Re: N900 "Memory card corrupted"
 

Thanks. the problem is in the internal memory 32GB and this make the device applications to not work due to low memory available. the other external memory works normal and just fine...any suggestions?

Re: N900 "Memory card corrupted"
 

I had exactly the same problem, and fixed it by reflashing with the eMMC rom, exactly as explained in this thread. After that I could browse the device with the file manager, and it said 30 GB free or something.

Before I reflashed the eMMC, it said memory corrupted or something. And when I recieved a sms, a popup kept popping up saying no messages can be send or recieved because the memory is full. I could only read the sms once, when I recieved it, and then it disappeared.

The calendar app also kept crashing, and when I scrolled to the desktop which had the calendar widget on it, the phone would automaticly reboot after a few seconds. And when it booted it would say "device storage format unsupported". I could install programs, because they are installed on the other partition. The main 30 GB of the device were corrupted.

But then I found out I also had another problem, because my microphone seemed broken. And I'm not the only one as you can see in this thread. I returned my phone to Nokia today, hoping to get a new one next week.

Re: N900 "Memory card corrupted"
 

thanks God to hear someone could make it...really i appreciate if you could explain what exactly you did in steps,,,,you can copy the above mentioned steps if you wish,,,,really i am intersted to see somthing work.


thanks inadvance.

Re: N900 "Memory card corrupted"
 

thanks FC_, exactly i have te same problem but i meant here to give me the exact steps that you made so that u could over come the memeory corrupted problem,,,like give steps 1. run the comman "xxxxxxxx....." then 2. run the other step or command and so on..

i think with your support we can reach to the solution as seems we exactly having the same problem....i know it is anoying to you but really appreciate your reply.

thanks again.

Re: N900 "Memory card corrupted"
 

Well, I couldn't get the flasher-3.5 working under Windows 7, so I downloaded Ubuntu (a linux distribution which can be booted from CD-ROM without installing) and tried it there. But that shouldn't make any difference if you see the flasher program flash it, and saying the flash was succesfull.

I first flashed the RX-51_2009SE_1.2009.42-11_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin rom, which is the global release, because I have a dutch N900. I saw you tried the middle east/northern africa rom, so I assume you live in the middle east or northern africa.

And I used exactly the same command as you did:
flasher-3.5 -F RX-51_2009SE_1.2009.42-11_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin -f -R

But that didn't work. So then I flashed it again with the eMMC rom:
flasher-3.5 -F RX-51_2009SE_1.2009.41-1.VANILLA_PR_EMMC_MR0_ARM.bin -f -R

Both times the flasher-3.5 program said something like "flash succesfull" and after this the device worked perfectly except the for microphone. But that is another problem, and has nothing to do with the memory being corrupted.