Mon 23 Jun 2008
One (may be two) of the most popular postings on this blog is about memory card locking. There are many people are asking me how to unlock password-protected memory card. The problem is they never put any password on it; and suddenly their memory cards are locked.
I have written two postings about memory card locking, i.e.:
- How to Unlock Password-protected Memory Card. The idea is to reformat the memory card. It should work most of the time, but you will lose all your data.
- Another Tip For Password-protected Memory Card - on Nokia Eseries devices, when you activate remote lock, it will lock the memory card as well.
Apparently, there are still a few cases where memory card is suddenly locked. My previous colleagues had this problem as well. What is the solution then? Unfortunately, I don’t have a good answer if the two tips above don’t work. My colleague tried to call the memory card’s manufacturer. They said that he has to send the memory card back to the manufacturer. I am not sure whether they will replace it with a new one or do "magic" to unlock the card. They also mentioned this case sometimes happen on certain devices.
Anyone has other idea how to unlock memory card?
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October 4th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Well, I have a N95, that locked my Sandisk 2gb, 1 year ago, right after I finished updating my firmware. Never again could make the micro sd to work.
November 18th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
Wow, so if I have my back up in a SD I may lost all the info in there. Thanks for the heads up, I\\\’ll transfer it while I still can.
January 6th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
How dangerous can it be to store a lot of stuff in these micro memories?
January 6th, 2009 at 11:14 pm
@Home Decor: I don’t see anything dangerous storing a lot of stuff in memory card.
January 13th, 2009 at 9:22 am
Thanks for the info.. Great tip there..
April 4th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
i have nokia e 51
After going down software to my mobile in the agency affirmed the work of the memory card
How to solve that problem without a survey on the memory, knowing that your PC memory, also refused to villages
my memory card is micro s 512 mb
June 25th, 2009 at 6:38 am
My Nokia 6600 memory card 512 mb requires password. I forgot password
August 20th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
As a matter of best practice, as you would on your home PC you should always make a backup of important data. Whether it is on your HDD or on flash memory a backup should be done on a regular basis.
Also before you do a software upgrade you should do a backup of your phone, just in case things go wrong.
Has anyone tried to access the card via a PC?