A Newbie trying to format a micro sd card....
Hi, I just purchased a 8220 blackberry pearl flip phone on the weekend so far I love it, just have to get used to some of the features but should have the figured out shortly.
My problem is that I am trying to format a micro1G San disk memory card, it can be read on the computer, even tried to format it on the computer and it formated fine, formatted both ways fat 32, and fat with no problems. I tried to put it in the 8220 and it doesnt recognize it. I have the media card support on, mass storage mode support on, mode when connected prompted. I do get the screen say 'warning formatting the media card will destroy any data, then i click yes,,starts to say formating disc, and few seconds later it say media card format failed.
Using ver 4.6.0.174
Could it be that it might need a higher capacity than 1G?
Any help would great be appreciated.
Erik
capacity should not matter, it is because it has a partition it does not like usually.
If you know how to remove partitions, do that next and then fromat it in the HH.
There are a few wipe utilities too that can do the same
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