If your phone is DEAD from battery, and you charge it from your laptop, then Windows "takes over" the phone and accesses the memory card in dedicated mode.
When it does this, if you have been using Email or Messaging on your memory card, the next time you start your phone you are "toast" and it thinks it lost access to the drive. Then you are basically screwed since it will say "using Phone Memory". If you switch *back* to your Mass Memory, emails get copied and Outlook via Mail For Exchange is now out of sync. Full Sync required.
Stinks.
There should be a way to stop the phone from "listening" to a request to use the memory card from a PC.. .i.e., JUST CHARGE IT.... but there isn't.
Best workaround I can come up with is to *always, always* leave Ovi Suite running and to only charge via PC when the Phone is *on*.
Second warning: if the phone gets really low in power or dead, and then you charge it a bit - DISCONNECT before turning the phone on. If you try to turn the phone on while charging it gets "confused"... and the screen lock/unlock doesn't work... even opening the keyboard doesn't help (yes, I'm on V11)... and you have to pull the battery out.
tx
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