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sd card write protect

im sure this has been discussed but for some reason i cant find it.... any way to disable the write protect on my inc2? im currently running Virtuous Affinity rom....

bump.... anyone else having this going on??? no matter what rom i use my sdcard is write protected, i can only add things while in recovery. cant move anything from my pc to the phone at all

Have you tried removing the card and formatting it(after backing it up)?
When did this problem start? Is it a new card? Did you install a new app? More info please.

yeah ive tried everything. it works fin when put in a adapter and plugged into my pc. its only write protect when in my phone. its been like this since i got the phone. others have the problem after updating their phone via the official OTA update back in july or whenever it was so i figured it was something verizon did. i dunno...

There might be another way to do this, but if you have root explorer go to the root of your SD card and click the button in the upper right corner that says "mount r/a". Maybe your SD was set as "read only" by a file explorer somewhere.
I bet estrongs file explorer has an option to mount your SD. I don't know, I've always used root explorer.
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I've looked. I have no idea what's going on. The phone itself is somehow causing it to be read only. Works great in my pc. And the phone writes to it without issue. I've replaced the card but same results. Who knows...
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Assumed that you are running Revolutionary's CWM, have you look under storages and mount ?
Running any security or anti-virus apps, etc. that might possibly be the source?
Do a backup of your mSD card first and then a Master Reset ?

Yeah I've tried changing the mount settings but didn't help. It was this way before I even rooted my phone. Since I downloaded the official update that came out around july
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Do you have a backup/spare mSD card to put into the DI2 for testing purposes? Or, borrow one if you have none from an older phone ....
Reformat the card from Recovery and/or do a reformat again connected to PC, then try R/W again?
Or, instead of pulling your hairs out trying to get it resolved, spend $10 to $20 for a new mSD card - keep this as a spare/use it for other purposes?

need help flashing rom please

Im sorry, i know this topic has come up a thousand timed but i still have found no solid answer. I am on Wicked rom right now. I went into recovery to flash the new rom but team recovery wont show the zip files on my sd card. After trying some other things and different sd cards in many different sizes and classes,( formated in every ay by phone and computer) now i have noticed nothing including root explorer wont see zip files. sometimes it will show pictures or music but not usually. usually the phone wont even see the card at all. I have heard everything from reformat to the springs that hold the card are worn and need to be bent back to class 10 (which is what I used since i got it) wont work with the s3 to 64 gigs wont work.I should also mention that TWRP wont let me so anything at all. It wont back up rom weather its on internal or external and usually it wont even let me go to external when i try to change it. I don't have enough room on the phone to back up with titanium and TWRP wont t me do a back up either, I am basically stuck on he rom in on with no sd card capabilities. My phone is starting to act up and I really need a new rom ( not that I dont love the Wicked rom) and also get rid of the bugs i'm starting to get. I know this sounds confusing and Im not sure how well I did explaining it but I could really use some help. I have no problem if it would be easier to explain in person if you think you know whats going on or how to fix it you can IM me and I will give you my phone number so we can talk in person. I would really appreciate any help and I will be sure to hit "thanks"

Have you tried a factory reset and see if then the phone can read the sd card?

Try to Odin back to stock rom see if that helps. you should be cable to connect phone to pc using your internal. have you tried using Kies air to see if you can see your card, internal and external
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gypsy214 said:
Have you tried a factory reset and see if then the phone can read the sd card?
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I went into TWRP and did a factory wipe, wipe caches and ll the usual things you do to flash a rom but when it came time to choose zip fie it said there was no sd card, thank you for rsponding

daxecutioner24 said:
Try to Odin back to stock rom see if that helps. you should be cable to connect phone to pc using your internal. have you tried using Kies air to see if you can see your card, internal and external
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I can hook up the cable and see the phones sd card but since the phone wont see the external it doesnt show under "my computer or auto play" I will give Kies a try and if I have to I guess Odin is going to have to be the way, Thanks for your help

HMMM try another sd card if you can. I had a similar issue and thought that my phone screwed up but it wasnt my phone it was my sd card. if you dont have another sd card try the one that wont work in the computer and see if your computer reads it.

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HMMM try another sd card if you can. I had a similar issue and thought that my phone screwed up but it wasnt my phone it was my sd card. if you dont have another sd card try the one that wont work in the computer and see if your computer reads it.
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I have tried a 2 gig 4, 8, 26, 32, and 64, brand new ones, ones I have used to phone to try to reformat, also tried windows 7 to reformat and also Ubuntu partition editor. it seems no matter what I do it just wont see an sd card. every great once and a while it will let me see the pics and music but that it, no Titanium, no recoveries, and especially no zip files with roms. it wont even let me create a nandroid and the ones I have it wont let me get to, I feel like im stuck on this rom with no external mem.

OK seems like you may need a warranty exchange if you have insurance. OK On this phone I noticed that new cwm recovery do nandroid backups on the internal memory. So if you can still mount that to the PC. Put your SD card with an attachment to your PC. Move the backup you made from clockworkmod folder to the clockworkmod in internal memory. If you don't have that folder on internal memory. Moved it all. Newest cwm u can restore a back from internal memory. And there you have it. But if it still can't seem to read the SD card. You may need to have another phone or repair that one.

gypsy214 said:
OK seems like you may need a warranty exchange if you have insurance. OK On this phone I noticed that new cwm recovery do nandroid backups on the internal memory. So if you can still mount that to the PC. Put your SD card with an attachment to your PC. Move the backup you made from clockworkmod folder to the clockworkmod in internal memory. If you don't have that folder on internal memory. Moved it all. Newest cwm u can restore a back from internal memory. And there you have it. But if it still can't seem to read the SD card. You may need to have another phone or repair that one.
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I use TWRP but with them too you can use either the internal or external. The problem is when I try to put a backup on either on it fails every time. Im gonna to have to just use my warranty and get a new one t looks like. Whats going to happen when they see the phone is rooted, Maybe I should just say I lost it because I would still like to keep the phone in case one day I get really bored and tear it apart (im an electronics tech) and see if I can fix it. IDK, if anyone has any advise I appreciate it. And thanks Gypsy

Thats a lot of money for a lost fee. It would be a lot better if you can brick it. They wouldn't know lol I had done warranty exchanged before with a htc phone with s-off and they never said a thing

gypsy214 said:
Thats a lot of money for a lost fee. It would be a lot better if you can brick it. They wouldn't know lol I had done warranty exchanged before with a htc phone with s-off and they never said a thing
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can you tell me the easiest way to brick it? Please Thanks

[Q] extSdCard gone! Please help!

My external sd cart (named extSdCard) on my sgs3 747 Lh9 dissapeared after backing up with rom manager and then pushing a file over from my computer to my phone. I tried putting it in another android phone and it called it a blank sd card and it wouldn't even open! Please help me figure out how to fix this, I have alot of important stuff on my external sd.

Seems like it got corrupted. You can try out some of the file recovery apps from the market but I've never used any so I can't vouch for them.
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d3athsd00r said:
Seems like it got corrupted. You can try out some of the file recovery apps from the market but I've never used any so I can't vouch for them.
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ok, which ones do i choose from?

d3athsd00r said:
I've never used any so I can't vouch for them.
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Yeah

Tyler.Boston1 said:
My external sd cart (named extSdCard) on my sgs3 747 Lh9 dissapeared after backing up with rom manager and then pushing a file over from my computer to my phone. I tried putting it in another android phone and it called it a blank sd card and it wouldn't even open! Please help me figure out how to fix this, I have alot of important stuff on my external sd.
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Don't format your sd card yet. This happened to me several times. It's the phone itself. The card doesn’t stay locked properly. You'll notice faster battery drain for a few days if it's like anything that happened to me. Back up your sd card if possible. Reinsert the card while the phone is off. I push the metal guard in a little so it stays in. Turn it back on. It should work. You can follow what I did at your own risk.
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Similar thing happened to me a few days ago. Notification bar said that the card was damaged. I simply put it into my PC card reader and ran Mini Tool Partition wizard (Google the free download) and I did a scan and fix and I did lose some files from a recent folder transfer (which is what I think caused the problem) but the card file system was quickly repaired and no reformatting was necessary. In other words, the card did not have physical damage.

Can't install apps after flashing of roms

After flashing different Android 4.2 roms on her DHD, my friend is seemingly unable to install most apps and seemingly have no access to the SD card. I told her to use the repartition of the SD card function in CWM after flashing the first rom she tried, since she was stuck in the HTC boot screen. After having flashed the boot.rom file so that the OS now actually boots, something still seems seriously wrong after that repartition.
I don't know if apps actually require an SD card to function, but whenever she tries to install for example Tango, it says that the app already is installed on her phone. The reason why i suspect the OS not having access to the SD card is because the ext folders or whatever that supposedly are supposed to appear on the SD card when you install a new rom never appeared. There's nothing on it except the zip containing the new OS.
I can't find any solutions to this for this specific phone, and the information about this that i found in other topics i don't really understand.
Can someone please help us figure out what's wrong with her phone? It worked fine before in Android 2.3.

Do you have access to another SD card?

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Do you have access to another SD card?
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Hmm, no i don't think she has. But it worked before the CWM repartition, so something should make it work again.

Your first mistake was partitioning the sd card. Thats a waste of time and a headache waiting to happen. Remove sd and see if you can boot phone into recovery. If so format sd on computer do not partition then remount sd. You jave to also reflash rom.
Many people have been having issues with cmw. My suggestion is move on up to 4ext recovery. And stay away from rom manager its garbage.
Good luck
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Your first mistake was partitioning the sd card. Thats a waste of time and a headache waiting to happen. Remove sd and see if you can boot phone into recovery. If so format sd on computer do not partition then remount sd. You jave to also reflash rom.
Many people have been having issues with cmw. My suggestion is move on up to 4ext recovery. And stay away from rom manager its garbage.
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Thanks, that did solve the problem with the SD card. The folders were properly created when she flashed the rom once more.
The problem however still presists with apps; the play store says that they're already installed.

Try clearing play store history in play store settings see if that resolves it.
Edit: Also in memu>app manager try clearing rhe playstore data. It will open as tgo it was never opened and ask to accept terms and agree.
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Please need help, SD card

I need some serious help. I have been trying to get this fixed for the better part of a year now and I give up. I can't access my SD card, by any means.
I can't download an app with rooted premission
I can't wipe from ANY recovery
I can't take it out and wipe on another device
I can't wipe it from my computer
I can't do ANYTHING to it, i can't even delete files off of it.
My 64gb sd card is rendered worthless, it's driving me insane. Can somebody please help me before I rip my hair out?

sounds like your sd card is write protected....or its gone bad....check your sd manufaturer to see how to disable write protection....try that first....if you can install another card and see if you can add, delete, or modify files on that card....next insert card in question into your pc and see if you can do the same on it...if not you may just have a bad sd card
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It's not a bad SD card. I had a android version on it and then when you install the new one, it ****ing puts your SD card on lock down.
Nothing can access it and the files on it before I installed the new android version work, I just cant put anything on it or take anything off.

ok...so you need to share previous andriod version...new version...how you took the update ota or flash....build version....kernel etc. Each rom has its own little quirks and requirements and you have not given any info for others to see what may be going on...what I'm hearing is that your sd worked before you took the update but does now work after the update...
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I am pretty sure I just updated from stock to cyanogen

gonna have to be alot more specific....we can't read your phone...without the details no one can begin to help you
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No matter what I put it, there is no write protection switch. It just keeps saying I need to turn it off or it's write protected.
I removed it from my phone, put it in a microSD card converter to SD. It is directly in my slot in a laptop. I downloaded programs to try to overwrite this and it still says write protected.

just a quick interjection...sd card write proection has been an issue for some time....especially sandisk cards....I had the same problem...could read not write...could not delete move or change any files on the card...all it said was write protected though I had never enabled this....bought a new card...copied the files from old card to pc (the only thing I could do with the card)...dumped those files onto the new card and reinserted....everything has worked fine since with no problems whatever. I will say that I did not buy another sandisk card.
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Mine is a samsung..
The situation is just ****ty.. the files on it work but some of them are corrupt and **** everything up. I cant listen to music because every other song crashes my phone and it has to reboot.
Just spent 60$ on a sd card for nothing

well its out here now and someone has your answer
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gdempsey1 said:
well its out here now and someone has your answer
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I hope. I've been working this for a long time intermittently . Just give up every time after a few hours.

You could try this app to check the card. There are plenty of counterfeit sd cards out there.
http://www.humanlogic.com/sdinsight/
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