Help Error "android.process.media has stopped unexpectedly" when SD card mounted

[jornsen]

Hi

My son just "inherited" his uncles "old" HTC Desire yesterday. And he is now very keen on getting started.
The uncle made a reset to factory settings (android 2.2, sw-number(!?) 2.29.405.5, etc.) and formatted the SD card prior to delivering the phone.

Now, the phone raises the error "android.process.media has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again" whenever we start a wide number of applications, including camera, market and system sw update through "about phone".
I've been reading that problems with the SD card may cause this, so I formatted the 4GB card, replaced it with a 128MB (!) I had, formatted that. No result.
However, unmounting SD card the eliminates the error!!!
But that's not a lasting solution, my son says..

I also guessed (googled) that a system update would help, but the system sw update just says "checking..." or similar forever, no matter if I try with wifi or 3G.

Maybe system sw update won't update because the SD card is not mounted.. ;-)

So I'm kind of stuck.. Any bright ideas??

Rgds
/Jornsen

 

[jornsen]

*Never mind!!*

In total despair, I just made a fresh reset to factory defaults - and surprisingly it helped!!!

I guess the uncle physically unmounted the SD card _after_ his reset to factory defaults _without_ using the unmount feature of android, thus messing something up in android... or something like that...
Anyway, my son is happy, installing and configuring and I'm only a few minutes away from a beer ;-)