Card init.failed! (Suggestions/Help requested!)

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Card init.failed! (Suggestions/Help requested!)

Post by Turdil »

I have the GPS working, but I consistently get init.failed errors.

After more than enough googling around all I know is that I am looking at what the code thinks is a hardware error.

Now, I admit this is not my best solder job, but I don't think I have anything is unusable.

However, here are some links to photos of the shield assembled for critique.
(Beware grainy hi-res)
One
Two
Three
Six
(The others exist they just aren't that clear)

My only theory at this point, which I admit I didn't google as thorougly, is that the SD card I am using is somehow not compatible.
PNY Optima, SD (HC) 4GB
I formatted it Fat in Win7, and formatted it Fat16 via Ubuntu. I Even tried making a partition of 512MB. I always got the init.failed error.

Hopefully that's enough information to go on for now. Thanks in advance!

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Re: Card init.failed! (Suggestions/Help requested!)

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we need clearer photos but try resoldering the 125 it looks like it is cold soldered

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Re: Card init.failed! (Suggestions/Help requested!)

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The camera on my phone isn't happy with the lighting, and doesn't want to focus on the right parts for me, sorry.
Try this one, It is after I went back and tried to clean up the 125 as best as I could. The tip on my soldering iron is a little wider than I would like, and I've been to cheap to look for a replacement since it has worked thus far.

I still get init.failed

I am going to go out and see if I can't find an SD card that isn't high capacity, and I'll see where things go from there.

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Re: Card init.failed! (Suggestions/Help requested!)

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it could be the card, yes

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Re: Card init.failed! (Suggestions/Help requested!)

Post by Turdil »

OK, I have acquired a couple older chips (128 MB and 256 MB) and they both work fine.

File writes to card, and everything is completely functional now.

Thanks for the help!

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