pls help me! i lost all my programs in my tmobile mda

[brian1326]

I just bought 1gig mini sd card in my tmobile mda..I'm transferring all my files, programs in the storage card and when i go back to my main screen menu I noticed that when i tapped my start icon all my programs and software that was there before are all gone.. i did syncoronized again on my computer but still it doesnt work. All my camera, bluetooth bottoms are not working anymore.. everytime I press the bottom it says:"error opening the shortcut or locating the target filename" I cant access anymore all my files, my windows media, my camera, my pictures, my internet explorer everything you name it... i could send txt message, recieved phone outgoing and ingoing calls only but cant access all the important files.. I did call tmobile support but they cant help me.. can the tmobile could reinstall all the original softwares and programs? or do you know a website that i could install them? pls help me thanks :( :( :(

[Nurhisham Hussein]

Have you tried a hard reset? You will lose all your data and any programs you installed, but this will reset the device back to factory state.

[Sven Johannsen]

I just bought 1gig mini sd card in my tmobile mda..I'm transferring all my files, programs in the storage card and when i go back to my main screen menu I noticed that when i tapped my start icon all my programs and software that was there before are all gone
Are you saying you had programs and such installed on the device, before you had a storage card, and when you got one you just copied stuff out of Program files and onto the card?

Doesn't work like that. All the rgistry entries when you installed those programs point to internal storage. It's kind of like installing all your programs in you pc to C: and then adding a second drive. You can't just copy the programs to the new drive.

While there is the option of editing the registry to re-point all the stuff, I wouldn't recommend it to the faint of heart or novices. I'd go through and uninstall what you have, and re-install. You will this time get the option to install to the SD card. (The uninstall is to try and clear out the latent registry entries.

[Nurhisham Hussein]

Are you saying you had programs and such installed on the device, before you had a storage card, and when you got one you just copied stuff out of Program files and onto the card?


Thanks Sven, I am such a klutz! I missed that reference to transfering programs! In any case, he pm'd me yesterday saying he's resolved the problem.