Discussion: WM6 startup loop with Micro SD card inserted...

WM6 startup loop with Micro SD card inserted... Has anyone found a solution besides taking the card out on startup and then reinserting after the phone has booted up. Hope we find a solution quick.

2. RE: WM6 startup loop with Micro SD card inserted... on the xda-developers forum, some people have indicated that they figured out that the Windows Live program is the culprit. it apparently creates spurious items in the notification queue, which build up, and then cause the startup loop issue. so apparently it doesn't have to do anything with memory cards. the suggested solution is to delete the windows live key folder in the registry (because uninstalling the software is tricky since it is almost hardwired into WM6), but anytime you use it again problems will arise. unfortunately i actually like to use MSN Messenger, and its now integrated into Live... so i haven't personally tested it. i just try not to turn off my machine very often (charge it before battery dies out completely) and when i do i try to do it at night when i can just let it cycle/loop as much as it wants... generally it eventually boots up OK (who knows how long it takes!)

4. RE: WM6 startup loop with Micro SD card inserted... http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread...525#post1668525

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6. RE: WM6 startup loop with Micro SD card inserted... I have this same problem, however when i take out the SD card it just freezes on start-up instead of going into the loop.
My dash started do do this when i updated to WM6 however it usually started after 5 to 10 loops, i very rarely turned off my phone so this wasn't to much of a problem.
Recently I downloaded an update for Microsoft live. after i did this my phone kept saying it was running on low memory, I thought this was odd because i store everything on the SD card, so i checked the memory in task manager , no programs running and 60% memory free on my phone , and 75% free on the card, no low amounts of memory anywhere.

Shortly after this my phone would just shut off, no shut down screen or anything, it just turned off and the battery had a full charge. It did this a bunch of times for a few days until now, it won't even start up at all with or without the SD card. I also tried it without the sim card and it froze too.

any help would be greatly appreciated>

8. RE: WM6 startup loop with Micro SD card inserted... Well I found a solution to my problem, however I hope that everything on your phone has been backed up. I did a hard reset which will restore the phone to the factory settings, only stuff stored on and SD card or Sim card will be safe, but anything stored on the device will be deleted

To do a hard reset you

hold down the soft keys ( the two that have a " - " on it next to the send and end call keys)

then while holding down those keys press the power button for 1-2 seconds, keep holding down the soft keys
the t-mobile screen should flash up for a second and then it should prompt you to restore factory settings press the send key to continue.

If you get to the windows mobile screen you missed it and have to start over

even after this my phone restarted over a few times and then finally went into a cold boot config which took a few minutes then restarted and finally started up normally.

10. RE: WM6 startup loop with Micro SD card inserted... I found that mine will do it if I am running low on storage space on the phone. Whenever it starts looping, I just go delete some content, or move it to the storage card. it has worked every time for me.

12. RE: WM6 startup loop with Micro SD card inserted...

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14. RE: WM6 startup loop with Micro SD card inserted...

"I have this same problem, however when i take out the SD card it just freezes on start-up instead of going into the loop.
My dash started do do this when i updated to WM6 however it usually started after 5 to 10 loops, i very rarely turned off my phone so this wasn't to much of a problem.
Recently I downloaded an update for Microsoft live. after i did this my phone kept saying it was running on low memory, I thought this was odd because i store everything on the SD card, so i checked the memory in task manager , no programs running and 60% memory free on my phone , and 75% free on the card, no low amounts of memory anywhere.

Shortly after this my phone would just shut off, no shut down screen or anything, it just turned off and the battery had a full charge. It did this a bunch of times for a few days until now, it won't even start up at all with or without the SD card. I also tried it without the sim card and it froze too.

any help would be greatly appreciated>"

My 16 month old Dash started doing this, and the T-Mobile help desk pronounced it DOA. I have the insurance, ($6/month) but still had to pay a $110 deductible, as it was out of warranty. The new machine should arrive today. Earlier in the day, before it went terminal on me, it started giving me messages that I was out of storage room. Eventually it was giving me that message every 10 seconds, and then it went into senility, and died. Steve

16. RE: WM6 startup loop with Micro SD card inserted...

"I had a similar problem on my S710 and couldn’t locate the file omap850_sdhc_mux.dll in windows directory for the renaming solution."

That renaming solution to which your referring is to rename \Windows\omap850_sdhc_mux.dll to \Windows\omap850_sdhc_mux.dll.old or (in my case, T-Mobile Wing) to rename \Windows\omap850_sdhc.dll to \Windows\omap850_sdhc.dll.old due to a bug in the file introduced in an after ROM update. By renaming it, the equivalent file in ROM is used to replace it (thus, effectively downgrading). It worked like magic for me, but I didn't try it with the built-in file explorer so you'll probably need a 3rd party file explorer.

18. RE: WM6 startup loop with Micro SD card inserted... i had the same problem and all i did is buy a new sd card 4gb from a computer store and worked