smartphone 2 (e200, xphone, etc) not reading SD

[Guest rodrigoperu]

Hi, I hope this helps anyone who has had this problem.

The problem is that suddenly my smartphone 2 stopped detecting the SD card (which is the one it has ALWAYS worked with)

I did a search and found that a lot of people have this problem, and actually believed it was a hardware flaw. I tried cleaning the SD slot with air, rebooting the phone, to no avail.

I had decided to sell the phone for cheap, and in one las act of desperation I found a post (on some website which I don't remember) that said that a hard reset would fix it.

I tried it, and voila! The phone reads the SD again! If you don't know how, these are the steps for a hard reset: (remove the SD card first)

1: Power Off Phone

2: Hold down record button (for audio notes)

3: Power on Phone

message comes up: "press any key to enter boot loader"

4: Let go of record button

5: Push and hold down the joystick button

At this point, you're looking at a menu with 1->8 on it, select 8 and the phone should hard-reset.

If you end up at a red/green/blue screen, you've got it wrong, and you'll need to whip the battery off and start from scratch!

now for some advice!!! so please read!!

1. a hard reset will erase every info on the phone (contacts, software installed, GPRS and MMS settings, etc) so be sure of having a backup of all this important info

2. after a hard reset, the phone takes a long time to reboot (this phone by nature is slow to power on, but it's extremely slow after a hard reset,) so just give it time and don't worry, it's just slow the first time after the hard reset

3. after rebooting, the phone will ask you again to finish the process by restarting. press ok, let it restart and then insert the SD card.

Good luck and thanks to whoever found out how to fix this problem, since it seems to be a far too common ocurrence and it hasn't had any solutions so far.

[Guest nickcornaglia]

Hey...a Hard Reset. That's a GREAT idea! Thanks for the tip! ;)

[Guest rodrigoperu]

Hey...a Hard Reset. That's a GREAT idea! Thanks for the tip! ;)

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happy to help... this website is such a big source of knowledge, I'd be playing solitaire on my phone and pretty much nothing else without modaco! hehehe, so I guess this was a way of trying to give back to this great community