I was trying to copy and paste some music videos from my pc to my o2 xda iis last night and got an error message that the sd card was full. I went under settings\system\memory\storage card and it said that I had 321mb available. The music video that I wanted to copy over was on 10mb. Something is wrong here. I manually deleted a few files off of the sd card and now it has the room for the music video. What gives? Has anyone run into this?
Possible solution!!
Ok I remembered when I bought this 512mb SD card that I formatted it before using it so data corruption shouldn't be a problem. I also remembered reading somewhere that the card has a problem when you have too many files on root. So, I looked at my root directory and indeed I had lots and lots of files just in root. So, I created lots of subdirectories and stuffed them with the many files I had just in root. The card seems to be fine now and I will keep you posted.
i have the same problem with linux... no matter how much free space my mda shows - on linux i have 0 till i delete some... dunno how... im using 1gb sd with fedora core 5
that's nothing new.
it's either a bug in Linux's VFAT implementation or in Windblows itself, that makes deleted or lost clusters on the card appear as "occupied".
in linux, unmount the card, and then do dosfsck -t vfat /dev/sd[X] . If your distro doesnt have it, google for dosfstools-2.11.
I recently installed WM05, we'll see if this problem keeps on occuring.
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I've now got two 1GB and one 500MB SD cards. (caused by a SNAFU setting off on holidays). They work fine in the XDA. However, when I put them into a USB card-reader I can only read / copy the files FROM the SD Card. I can't copy anything TO the card nor can I format the card. I get an error msg saying that the card is read-only. This is a nuisance as things like map files for GPS systems are large and are faster transferred using a card-reader. The switch at the side of the card is not the issue. Any suggestions as to how to wipe/format the card.
I posted a msg like this about two months ago but it seems to have been deleted. If you're a moderator and you're gonna delete this then please tell me why.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?p=136937&highlight=#136937
no it was not deleted it seems
if you click on your own nick you get the option
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guess you should try pocket mechanics for pda to see if that can help you
Hi geeks
Problem when i try to take pictures.
Does anybody have a fix for that issue "unable to save file to sd card due to insufficient file permissions".
Formatting SD or rebooting doesn't seems to fix the problem indefinitely.
error message come back after a little while.
I don't want to hard reset unless it really fix the problem!
Is it a defective sd or a bug or else ?
Many thanks
froggiedroid
HaHa, I have the same problem with taking Pics on my Desire too, I get "unable to save file to sd card due to insufficient file permissions"
I defragged my SD Card yesterday using Windows 7 defrag tool but I doubt it's damaged it long term. If I figure out a fix i'll let you know...
FIXED!
- Press Menu/Settings
- SD & Phone Storage
- Unmount SD Card
Turn off your phone then take out the SD Card. Replace the SD Card & Battery then reboot your phone. With any luck it should be working again, did the trick for me
I tried that. It works for a day or two. And then again the same issue. Any long term solutions? I am planning to send a query to HTC support. Let me see what they say.
Same problem with Evo 4G
I have an Evo 4G (from GoogleIO) and have been having the same issue. A reboot fixes it temporarily but it comes back in a day or two. Hoping HTC gives you some ideas.
It has happened to me , remove Ebuddy or any msn messenger and probably you'll be fine.
I used to get this occasionally with the 4GB card that was included with my Desire. Once I bought a new MicroSD card it stopped happening.
Same problem with Eris. I unmounted, now just formatted and still cannot take a photo. Argh
HTC aria sd card insufficient file permissions
All I did to fix this issue was reformat the SD card. In windows, go to computer management, disk management, right click on the SD card, it might be labeled as F: or E: drive, click format. I formatted mines as FAT. All done, I was now able to save pictures, and videos to my phone's SD.
EAR
If you format the fat32 and you have ext3, and it keeps happening, you'll need to remove the ext3 partition, format in fat32 the whole card. This will solve your problem permanently
Hi, I have an HTC HD2 which I recently upgraded it rom ver. 1.66.415.9. I used spb backup to get my main memory files. Somehow, in a way, I was able to get all of my files anfd programs with windows settings and registry using ROM upgrade mode without changing the rom version back to the old one. But the then when I took pictures then tried to open them in albums, they weren't saved. A probition sign (circle-backslash "no" sign) showed up. I tried to open it but an error shows up saying "unable to open this type of jpg file" and then the sign diappears, as if the image wasn't saved. I even tried saving a note file. After saving, I opened it but instead of showing the notes I wrote, symbol characters showed up as if the file was encrypted. After rebooting my mobile, the note file wasn't there. I still have enough storage space to save more files and pictures. Did anybody face the same problem that I did? Please help me and thank you in advance.
freakzone said:
If you format the fat32 and you have ext3, and it keeps happening, you'll need to remove the ext3 partition, format in fat32 the whole card. This will solve your problem permanently
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how do i know if the sd card has ext3 part or not and how do i format it? thanks
ivanakis said:
how do i know if the sd card has ext3 part or not and how do i format it? thanks
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If you are on Windows machine, connect your HD2 via usb and mount your SD card. In Windows go to System Tools and Drive Manager. You should see your drive mounted as a removeable hard drive. It should be about the same size as your SD card- a 4GB card will show up as 3.7 gigs or so, a 16GB. as 15 gigs, etc.
Click on that drive and on the right side window it will tell you what kind of partition it is formatted with. You can also right-click on it to reformat it.
JUST MAKE SURE YOU ARE NOT ACCIDENTALLY FORMTTING AN EXTERNAL USB DRIVE OR HARD DRIVE
ivanakis said:
how do i know if the sd card has ext3 part or not and how do i format it? thanks
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If you are on Windows machine, connect your HD2 via usb and mount your SD card. In Windows go to System Tools and Drive Manager. You should see your drive mounted as a removeable hard drive. It should be about the same size as your SD card- a 4GB card will show up as 3.7 gigs or so, a 16GB. as 15 gigs, etc.
Click on that drive and on the right side window it will tell you what kind of partition it is formatted with. You can also right-click on it to reformat it.
JUST MAKE SURE YOU ARE NOT ACCIDENTALLY FORMTTING AN EXTERNAL USB DRIVE OR HARD DRIVE
had the same problem and reboot fixed it. i thought you had to have the ext partition to do apps to sd on some of the roms. i use extended batteries and like my synister rom alot so i'd rather restart my phone occasionally to fix the issue. Usually i power down and pop in the fresh battery before heading out the door so it took a long time to notice the problem. Otherwise i'm too much of a noob to be much help but really is restarting your phone occasionally a huge deal.
In older versions of Android the external SD would be mounted as /mnt/sdcard but now that is used for the internal memory and the external SD is now /mnt/sdcard/external_sd. This is a bit of a problem as some apps can only save to /mnt/sdcard and it quickly takes up our phone's internal memory. I have offline GPS maps and a few Gameloft games which can only save their data to /mnt/sdcard and as you can imagine free space is very limited.
What I would like is to switch this around. Basically I have a 32GB SD card that I would like to use a storage for some of my apps as it is not being fully utilized. I've searched around and it doesn't seem like there is an easy way to do this. I'm not completely sure but it seems like there are methods that might be specific to different phones which requires modifying a file in /system/etc.
Will this safely work for our phone?
check this topic
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1458153&page=3
posts 21 to 25 and 33 & 34..
For Recovery swapping has been tried..
You may get some idea..
Maybe the use of symbolic links could help, but I never tried it on an Android device.
I had read people Mapping the External under a directory for example the Games directory and therefore all games would in theory be on the External. I think this is what you mentioned as symbolic links.
How can you do that. I tryed a million things. Last time i installed literom with added swap internal memory to sd mod. And after i copy something in phone i loose the mobile signal. I guess the card is getting corrupted or something. How can i make it so the sd card wont be unmounted when i plug the phone in pc ?
Might want to consider this:
Root External 2 Internal SD
I've not used this specific one myself but I have used similar apps in the past.
I didn't use that yet.
But what i found untill now
1. Using Directory Bind wich makes a link between actual place of the files and where they should be. Example You put com.xxx.xxx in your SD card and set the progam to tell android when is looking into sdcard/android/data/com.xxx.xxx go for files in sdcard/external_sd/com.xxx.xxx
This method is good for games and files for them
2. Another thing is modifing vold.fstab and swapping the way adroid mounts those partitions. (this option is buggy somehow)
Hello everyone,
I recently bought the 64gm microsd card (class 10 uhs1) from Amazon and I have been having problems since day one. I am able to format the card (EaseUS) and copy my data, no issues. My problem is that the card gets corrupted after a day or two when formatted in FAT32 (32kb allocation size). It adds weird files and mediascanner service would go crazy.
So, next time I formatted to exFAT in the phone (official TW 4.1.1) and copied my data couple of times. Now, I am having a different problem. Every once in a while (within a day or within 6-8 hours), my phone would not read anything from the card. Using the ES File exporer would show the card as empty. I would have to just Unmount the SD card from the Storage settings and remount. Then all files would show up correctly. But this messes up my playlists, so I have to create them again.
I am guessing it's a common problem for all of us. I searched the forum, but didn't find anything similar to my problem.
Any suggesstions is appreciated.
gnash.s said:
Hello everyone,
I recently bought the 64gm microsd card (class 10 uhs1) from Amazon and I have been having problems since day one. I am able to format the card (EaseUS) and copy my data, no issues. My problem is that the card gets corrupted after a day or two when formatted in FAT32 (32kb allocation size). It adds weird files and mediascanner service would go crazy.
So, next time I formatted to exFAT in the phone (official TW 4.1.1) and copied my data couple of times. Now, I am having a different problem. Every once in a while (within a day or within 6-8 hours), my phone would not read anything from the card. Using the ES File exporer would show the card as empty. I would have to just Unmount the SD card from the Storage settings and remount. Then all files would show up correctly. But this messes up my playlists, so I have to create them again.
I am guessing it's a common problem for all of us. I searched the forum, but didn't find anything similar to my problem.
Any suggesstions is appreciated.
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I have two of them working fine .. as exfat.. are you sure you didnt get a knock off .. send it back for replacmenet.
lgkahn said:
I have two of them working fine .. as exfat.. are you sure you didnt get a knock off .. send it back for replacmenet.
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Like he says. I have a 64GB and it works fine
I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 12.2, SM-T900 stock non-rooted OS 4.4.2, and a Sony 64 U1 microSD.
At times I go to send an attachment and the file manager shows the card but it shows it as empty. I pop the card out, re-insert it and back it comes. Sometimes the card doesn't have the problem for weeks and other times it happens 2 or 3 times in a day.
I thought I might reformat it after copying everything off, but I know there are apps that store setting/data there and don't know if that will mess things up.
An issue anyone else has had? Any thoughts?
should be fine, first unmount the sdcard cleanly by going to settings - general - storage - unmount sdcard, then remove it - when you copy the data off make sure your pc can see hidden files since you will need the hidden folders if you have apps moved to the sdcard.
when you format the card it should be in exfat format (not fat32), since it's a sdxc card (64gb+)
if the problem persists then the sdcard probably went bad (happens all the time, I must of went through 3 64GB Sandisk ones already) the system is designed if the card gets an error reading or writing it will unmount / remount the card - it could also be temperature related too some sdcards also have a protection mechanism where it will switch it to read only mode making it impossible to write to it or format, if you are lucky it might have a good warranty and you can get it replaced hassle free.
I did check the card before posting and it is formatted exFAT. Also using an SD card adaptor put it in my PC and did a Chkdsk on it with the /f option to fix any problems and no errors were found.
Unless someone has something else to try later today I will copy everything off, put it back in the tablet, and under storage SD I'll Format it with Android.
otyg said:
should be fine, first unmount the sdcard cleanly by going to settings - general - storage - unmount sdcard, then remove it - when you copy the data off make sure your pc can see hidden files since you will need the hidden folders if you have apps moved to the sdcard.
when you format the card it should be in exfat format (not fat32), since it's a sdxc card (64gb+)
if the problem persists then the sdcard probably went bad (happens all the time, I must of went through 3 64GB Sandisk ones already) the system is designed if the card gets an error reading or writing it will unmount / remount the card - it could also be temperature related too some sdcards also have a protection mechanism where it will switch it to read only mode making it impossible to write to it or format, if you are lucky it might have a good warranty and you can get it replaced hassle free.
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