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Safely remove hardware |
Lo-couk
Joined: Dec 14, 2006
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From: West Yorkshire England.
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Just how important is it to press the little green arrow in my taskbar to remove my phone? If I'm in a rush I'll just pull the lead out, but I do make sure there is no transfer in progress. Can it damage my PC or phone?
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maggflodd
Joined: Apr 20, 2006
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Kikos
Joined: Aug 17, 2006
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From: Armenia
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most of the time you can make sure that there is no file operation in progres, but not always. somtimes some applications do not close opened handles and it doesn't allow to remove safely unless you close that app. |
chamak
Joined: Jan 05, 2006
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Well I actually can't remember the last time I clicked that green button 
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Lo-couk
Joined: Dec 14, 2006
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On 2007-06-20 19:23:24, chamak wrote:
Well I actually can't remember the last time I clicked that green button
Thats good to know I'm not the only one, I have 2 opperations for my phone. One for the phnoe memory and one for the memory card. I didn't used to have this with my K750i, I just had the one thing to stop so it wasn't too much bother.
Thanx for ur replies, but if anyone has had a problem with it, please post!
regards,
Lo-couk
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JC08
Joined: Jan 07, 2007
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From: Vanderbijlpark, South Africa
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I used 2 do that with my w810 and now the mem card and phone mem is corrupted....cant download or recieve any pics,themes....
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Trev1982
Joined: Mar 07, 2007
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I have started pressing the button since i removed some flash memory once and the files got corrupted. only happened once but i just do it to be carefull now ya never no ya luck |
aatuif
Joined: Sep 04, 2006
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it can damage the phone severely... usb conn is live as long as it is connected... so better be cautious than repent afterwards...
a friend of mine screwed his pen drive for good this way...
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strizlow800
Joined: Aug 23, 2006
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I have never used that button with my W800 and I connect/disconnect the phone with the USB cable for a year and a month and never had any trouble.
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Cycovision
Joined: Nov 30, 2003
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I've never clicked it when disconnecting my P990 and never had any problems either.
It dates back to the Windows 2000 days when USB device handling was more primitive. Just don't disconnect the device when something's going on, as others here have said 
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aatuif
Joined: Sep 04, 2006
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as much as possible, remove it safely... otherwise removing it when the conn is 'idle' is also bit safe, but this ought to be limited to situation when you are in a dead hurry or the system fails to respond...
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Twometre
Joined: May 12, 2007
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Its only safe when the device is a hot-swap device.
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umerhayat
Joined: Feb 27, 2005
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From: Pakistan
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I had white screen problem with my w550 because i had removed it with out using the remove hardware safely thing
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ahmed5
Joined: Apr 16, 2007
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Its actually always safe in my experience so long as you dont have a transfer in progress. Under your 'removable disk' properties there's a checked option that enables quick removal because cache writing is disabled, you can check it out.
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Posted: 2007-06-20 17:37
Sony Ericsson software/hardware support! 
