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I'm in deep problems...Please Help me

5 replies · 2,212 views · Started 18 February 2003

I was formatting my mmc and when I gave the ok to the format the 9210i just didn't move any more. After 3 times this happened and obviously everytime I had to re-boot,on the last time a warning message came up:"your mmc is wasn't formatted or is corrupted." Did I burn my mmc?!!? 😞
Help me please...thanx

mmmz, any apps running from the mmc? like smartmemory or something?
anyway, if you can't get it to work ... a mmc reader could help, if it doesn't, well than your mmc is probably malfunctioning ... you could also try another mmc compatible device to try and format ...

That happend to me several times!

There was this one time wen i tried to format a newsly opened 128 from my friends 9210. He knew that it would take several minutes for it to end. He cancelled the operation & by the time i tried to access it from the file manager it was undetected! I rebooted the device & place the 128 in my 9210i the same thing happened!... The error message window appeared indicating that the mem card was unformatted & is unusable!

I almost popped my head out & starangled him but its a good thing that i can have it replace since i jst got it! I told the place wer i got it that it was undetectable in my phone & they replaced it w a new one immediately!

To sum it all up. Dnt try to cancell the operation or interrupt once the formating process has already commenced! In ur case... ur jst in a very bad timing that ur phone chose to hang during the process! Well my guess is as good as others! ur MMC is fried! not totally thou! There is still a thin silver lining coz some mem card readers & writers can detect the mmc & format it from there! U can also try to plug ur communicator w the defective mmc in it and format it from with in using the communicator suite wen u enter the mode wer u can view & explore the drives of your communicator! It worked once 4 m, assuming that it was only a minor damage!

Tough luck pal!
I do hope u can get it back to work again!
do tell me wat happend! 😉

well well .. the same thing happend to me ... i formated it it hang up .. and i reboted got the message .. formated again ... started working ... i have gone through this 2-3 times i mean .. everythim ei format it it happens so dont worry .. just re format it .. hope it will work .. as it did for me