Fried memory No, this isn't some Nancy Reagan anti-drug rant. The mmc memory card on my 6630 became corrupted and unusable... I couldn't even reformat it. The problem started a few days ago when I was having some problems with saving my messages on my phone and switched to the memory card. This was followed by a couple of freeze ups that required battery removal to get restarted.

Finally, I went to take a picture, and the phone froze up, again, requiring battery removal. Once I realized all was fine without the card in use, I popped it out, put it in my card reader, and tried to reformat in FAT 32 and plain FAT format... no dice. Dead as a doornail.

After some googling, it became clear this has happened in some shape or form with others. Some claim firmware, some claim bad cards and the problem disappears once the cards are replaced. As my phone is an Asian import and fairly early release model (I think it was made in March of this year), and that rs mmc dual voltage cards are fairly new, I'd guess it was a badly manufactured card. I'm going to replace it and see what happens. Edit: see this post -- indication it is in fact a card problem.

Unfortunately, this is the price you pay for being a grey-market phone fiend who is an early adopter. If I had bought it from T-Mobile, I could just run it back for a replacement. Oh, I forgot, their phones suck.

But seriously, can Nokia ever make a phone that doesn't have some issue -- crashing (6680,6680), loose battery doors (6600), dead pixels on screens (take your pick), size of Volkswagen Jettas (N90)? I actually don't blame the cellcos for waiting so long to come out with models so the quality control bugs can burden people other than their subscribers and customer service people. And techies wonder why people stick with their crappy old samsungs...  ¶ 7:04 AM