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After running Myns Warn Doughnut from the miniSD I can no longer delete any files or reformat the miniSD card. I've tried formating it when synced in WM6 and using Format Flash 2.85. Nothing can touch this card. It reports no errors when deleting or formating...but no files are ever removed. What's the deal? There is no "write protect" switch on a mini, right?
tonyzoc said:
After running Myns Warn Doughnut from the miniSD I can no longer delete any files or reformat the miniSD card. I've tried formating it when synced in WM6 and using Format Flash 2.85. Nothing can touch this card. It reports no errors when deleting or formating...but no files are ever removed. What's the deal? There is no "write protect" switch on a mini, right?
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Well, there's no switch (unless you use SD adapter and try to format from computer). Probably the best option is to use card reader and to format card from the computer.
P.S. I thought HTC TyTN II (Kaiser) supports only MicroSD, but you've mentioned MiniSD, strange
Make sure your micro SD card adapter which you will undoubtedly use in your card reader does not have a lock switch, i've been caught out by that before.
Sorry...microSD....(I use miniSD on my Tornado)...
I've misplaced my micro to SD adapter so I'm trying to format on the phone itself, either through ActiveSync browsing or on the phone with Flash Format. Guess I'll need to pick up an adapter. Why can't I delete any files? Maybe the card is defective?
THe card may indeed have a problem, but a reformat using a card adaptor/card reader should fix this, had a similar problem with an older 2gb SD, reformatting sorted that out.
Running from SD does raise the risk of a bad block failure, since SD cards are really storage media, using them in the same way as an HDD makes it more likely to wear quicker than normal.
The plot thickens....
Ok...I got my Transcend SD card adapter...the microSD reports to be write protected....
I tried the following with the SD Card adapter on my MSi Wind Netbook:
Formating...it won't let me.
Booting Puppy Linux and tried GParted to blow away the partition...it wouldn't let me.
Booting into OSX and trying to detroy or format the partition with Disk Utility...no dice.
I tried another card, a 128Mb, and it worked ok...although I did have some trouble getting it to read initially.
Could have a bad SD Card adapter....
Or a defective microSD card...
I was able to format the 128Mb microSD on the phone with Flash Format with no problem.
Is it possible the 8gb microSD is write protected at a file level (actual permissions). I did try changing them in Puppy Linux.
So $40 on eBay gets me a 16gb Class 4....hmmmm
P.S. more info:
I can read the card with no problem both on the phone and the computer.
I do have Android running off the microSD.
One more comment....
The Android boot menu offers an option to "Fix Permissions". I tried that and it didn't change anything...but!
If there are permissions to fix, then the Android on the SD card must be setting permissions on the install. Maybe this is the cause of the read only status of the microSD card (?). Is there a way to remove Android from the microSD card via that menu? or is there a command line ability to change permissions of the whole microSD card recursively?
I already ordered a 16gb card and I'm going to throw the problem one away as soon as I get the new one, but I'm hoping to salvage the old one if possible....also, I don't want this same issue to happen on the new card.
The only way I can think of is perhaps to repartition the card, that should, in theory, wipe everything.
Since you must be using a card adaptor, doe this have a write protect tab? some do, if not I'd check to see if there is an obstruction that is somehow making the card reader think that the Sd is write protected.
Regards 'fix permissions', this fixes the file permissions of a number of system files, usually only needed after installing an update. I'm not sure how this would make an SD write protected, since as far as I know it only fixes the owner and user bits of the files.
tonyzoc said:
One more comment....
The Android boot menu offers an option to "Fix Permissions". I tried that and it didn't change anything...but!
If there are permissions to fix, then the Android on the SD card must be setting permissions on the install. Maybe this is the cause of the read only status of the microSD card (?). Is there a way to remove Android from the microSD card via that menu? or is there a command line ability to change permissions of the whole microSD card recursively?
I already ordered a 16gb card and I'm going to throw the problem one away as soon as I get the new one, but I'm hoping to salvage the old one if possible....also, I don't want this same issue to happen on the new card.
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I'd do like that:
Boot Linux (Live CD or installed system (if you have it)).
1. Enter command (into terminal): sudo gparted
I. Try to unmount MicroSD (not to eject)
II. Delete partition
III. Save changes
IV. Create new partition
V. Save changes
2. If gParted failed, then go to System -> Administration -> Disk utility and try to do the same steps.
3. Enter command: sudo nautilus (or another file browser).
If you still won't be able to delete data - problem definitely isn't in the permissions.
4. Maybe bad SD adapter. You should find someone who has normal card reader (sorry, I live too far from you ) which supports reading directly from MicroSD (without SD adapter).
EDIT:
5. Some adapters and older card readers doesn't support MicroSDHC. Cards up to 2 GB are simple MicroSD and you won't have problems even with old readers.
Starting from 4 GB there's only MicroSDHC (HC stands for High Capacity) cards. This technology is newer and that's why some adapters (maybe even HTC TyTN II) might face some problems.
RE: Card
Hi,
plug it into PC with linux open terminal (firt look to device id) and write.
$sudo mkfs fat 32/dev/sdb - SUDO(superuser do) MKFS- FORMATE !!! , format, /dev/-device which U formate.
BUT DETECT first what /dev/is sdcard.
OR do it thru GPARTED.
Write protect tab i on the adapter s not an issue. I tested it with another card and it works fine...also I can't write to or format (using Flash Format) the microSD on the phone without an adatper. Also, I tried repartitioning with GParted off a Puppy Linux boot, with DiskUtility on a Mac OSX boot, and with fdisk on a windows boot. The disk is untouchable.
I tried this with puppy linux with has gparted on it. Thought the disk is recognize (sdc1) , after I dismount it doesn't show up at all in gparted. I can't select the drive as it's not seen.
I also tried a low level format with HDDGURU Low Level Format tool. I tried deleting the partition with DiskUtility on OSX and Windows Disk Manager....no dice.
The adpater I have is the Transcend adapter that came with the card. Also, It works fine with 2 other cards I have (128mb and 2 gb) so I doubt it's the adapter.
Vytelo said:
I'd do like that:
Boot Linux (Live CD or installed system (if you have it)).
1. Enter command (into terminal): sudo gparted
I. Try to unmount MicroSD (not to eject)
II. Delete partition
III. Save changes
IV. Create new partition
V. Save changes
2. If gParted failed, then go to System -> Administration -> Disk utility and try to do the same steps.
3. Enter command: sudo nautilus (or another file browser).
If you still won't be able to delete data - problem definitely isn't in the permissions.
4. Maybe bad SD adapter. You should find someone who has normal card reader (sorry, I live too far from you ) which supports reading directly from MicroSD (without SD adapter).
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5. Some adapters and older card readers doesn't support MicroSDHC. Cards up to 2 GB are simple MicroSD and you won't have problems even with old readers.
Starting from 4 GB there's only MicroSDHC (HC stands for High Capacity) cards. This technology is newer and that's why some adapters (maybe even HTC TyTN II) might face some problems.
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That pretty much confirms it then, I'm afraid the SD is no more, it has shuffled of this mortal coil, it has ceased to be, it is an ex-SD card.
Hi,
I'm posting this issue second time. I have a class 2 SD card with almost 1700mb of ext3 partition. the problem is that my SD turns to read only when accessing some files from my sd card. it says in the notification SD card mounted as a read only and then say "tap" to resolve the card responded unexpectedly.
tapping on it sometimes help if i remove the files that I was trying to access that created the problem. otherwise it mounts it as read only.
Hi, you sure your card is a genuine one? The problems you are having are identical to what I had. Turns out my 32gb card was in fact an 8gb card, and the problem was when capacity was reached it would go to read only. The only way to rectify this was to take the card out, place it in my PC card reader right click on properties of the drive and run the error checking tool. Hope this helps. Got my money back anyway thought £36 was a bit cheap lol! Try writing a large file to the card using your Computer, this should give you an indication if the card is genuine or not.
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Hi, you sure your card is a genuine one? The problems you are having are identical to what I had. Turns out my 32gb card was in fact an 8gb card, and the problem was when capacity was reached it would go to read only. The only way to rectify this was to take the card out, place it in my PC card reader right click on properties of the drive and run the error checking tool. Hope this helps. Got my money back anyway thought £36 was a bit cheap lol! Try writing a large file to the card using your Computer, this should give you an indication if the card is genuine or not.
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Card is genuine. I have placed my card several times in my brothers htc hd and formatted it through windows. its almost 8 gb i checked it on windows. last time I deleted a folder which has wiered name as if the folder was corrupted. I deleted that folder n it was running fine again. but its back again.
mine came with telus, so it should be genuine. what does class signify? like i have class 2, what does it mean?
CLass is the speed of read and writes.
I recently had a problen like this it turned out to be a corrupt file in the .secure folder used for apps to sd.
rchatburn said:
CLass is the speed of read and writes.
I recently had a problen like this it turned out to be a corrupt file in the .secure folder used for apps to sd.
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then I guess its because of corrupt files but why is it so often specially when I copy something from windows.
I had this problem once after disconnecting from a Windows PC, simply connect the sd car directly to a computer and run the windows verification tool, it finds the corrupt file and your sd card starts working again
hey i recently had the same problem ,, but i figured it out and this method should work fine...!!
>First of all you should know how this problem has occurred..??,
well the reason is, we all connect the phone to system in usb mass storage mode ,,but while removing we'll only give safely remove in the system and forget to do the same in the phone ,,,trust me this the core for this problem....sd-card cannot be fully unmounted by system ,,, so you have to manually do this by your phone
so if you are using the sense rom ,,after ejecting the disk in the system ,,,in your your phone's notification area
in ''connect to pc'' menu select charging only .....this will completely unmount your memory card .
>if you are using non sense rom ,,"turn off the usb" mass storage
do this every time you connect your phone to the system ..!!!
ok now solution for your problem..
>reboot your phone to recovery mode using rom manager...
>select partition menu
>now select mount usb storage ,,,
>now you have tow options
1. either you backup every thing and format your sd-card (recommended)
or
2.mount your sd-card and check for errors in windows,,,
this should fix your problem ..
remember ,,next time when you are connecting your phone don't direly unplug the the cable..!!
qariboy said:
Card is genuine. I have placed my card several times in my brothers htc hd and formatted it through windows. its almost 8 gb i checked it on windows. last time I deleted a folder which has wiered name as if the folder was corrupted. I deleted that folder n it was running fine again. but its back again.
mine came with telus, so it should be genuine. what does class signify? like i have class 2, what does it mean?
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The Class number represents a multiple of 1 MB/s
So if 2 is written on ur SD card then it means that its capable of a read speed of 3MB/s
>First of all you should know how this problem has occurred..??,
well the reason is, we all connect the phone to system in usb mass storage mode ,,but while removing we'll only give safely remove in the system and forget to do the same in the phone
- Not always true, its happened to me on several occassions when not connected to PC etc... Flickie HD caused mine
If you have a mac the fix is - disk utilities - repair card
Full format I found to be better though
in settings/sd card&phone storage, i can see SD card
Total space
Unavailable
Available space
Unavailable
Mount SD card
Insert an SD card for mounting
Erase SD card
Erases all date on the phone's SD card, such as music and photos
The last two items (Mount SD card and Erase SD card) are grayed out.
Have formatted the card several times to fat32 through computer, where it works, using a memory card reader. But for example, the music widget doesnt say "please insert sd card", instead "no music found...." and when i go to the application then it says insert sd card, but not the widget. Also LeeDROID POST screen when vbooting states: "Detecting phone storage:microSD"
Has any1 had similar problem? Is there something i can try or is the card irreversably corrupted?
Try to use recovery from my signature, and repartition it. (using recovery)
can´t flash it. only oneclick method would be possible, but your intructions there are confusing start runme.cmd what does that mean?
It's in the .zip file, double click it...
when i click on the .img file, powerarchiver opens. and the recovery is still the same
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=661320&stc=1&d=1311252283
Download and extract on your pc to flash while your phone is fully booted (not in recovery).
usb debugging must be on (settings/applications/development)
unzip the file
If you are on Windows: start runme.cmd // Unixfreaks start runme.sh
finished
adb server is out of date, it says. then goes into a loop
seems like i downloaded something else earlier.
It doesnt find some data/local/tmp/flash_image etc files. Plus it always complaints that adb server is out of date
I'm out of ideas sorry.
Sent with smoke signals.
Make sure you installed android sdk correctly:
http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Howto:_Install_the_Android_SDK
Then turn off your phone and start it with pressed back button.
Open cmd and navigate to your android sdk folder.
Connect your phone to your computer.
In cmd enter:
Code:
fastboot devices
to make sort fastboot recognizes your phone.
If so, enter
Code:
fastboot oem enableqxdm 0
Now your sd card should be recognized again.
Swyped from Oxygen with Transparent XDA App
Have tried it several times. fastboot devices shows my device, but the command afterwardsgives me an bootloader command error
Amphor, why did you start a new thread on this same issue? I've given you 3 fixes for your problem...
The problem turned out to be something different from why started the first thread? Didn't it?
Does your PC see your card??
How did you fix your 1st problem btw?
Because i see your still getting bootloader errors ... the same errors you were getting in your last thread!?
The errors are the same but the problem is slighlty more accurate, i feel.
Computer recognizes the card both through card reader and through recovery "Mount USB storage"
Something problem with Android, because i tried it into an old LG with LG's own operating system and there i could view the contents of the card, for example. I had nothing on the card at that time so i couldn't test music playing, for example
Formatted i n FAT32 and i believe it's the only option
Amphor said:
The errors are the same but the problem is slighlty more accurate, i feel.
Computer recognizes the card both through card reader and through recovery "Mount USB storage"
Something problem with Android, because i tried it into an old LG with LG's own operating system and there i could view the contents of the card, for example. I had nothing on the card at that time so i couldn't test music playing, for example
Formatted i n FAT32 and i believe it's the only option
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Is it fixed now?
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It's not, i was just saying that the card is formatted in FAT32 and said that it's the only file system possible, i think
gparted looks like this
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/810/sdcard.png
edit: formatted as i always did in FAT32 and the problem disappeared. I guess that's one of those problems that solves itself
Amphor said:
gparted looks like this
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/810/sdcard.png
edit: formatted as i always did in FAT32 and the problem disappeared. I guess that's one of those problems that solves itself
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I told you to do that in the last thread its always good to start fresh if you can when you have problems ... At least you learnt something .. so is everything fixed?
What SD Card are you using?
size? class?
I had the same problem once.
Hi guys,
I have a 32g class 10 sd card I bought to use instead of my 16gb class 2 but I have been facing quite some issues in the last couple of weeks
I took the 32g, put it in my win7 PC, formatted it to FAT32, safely removed it and now the arc doesnt recognize it... I just wanted to format it via the settings-> storage -> erase card in order to make sure everything is all peaches and cream before loading 20+gig of music in it.
...
All I want to do is finally transfer all my music (24ish gig) to the new 32g , and back up all my apps and stuff via Titanium Back Up pro.
Simply said, I want to have my 16g card data in my 32g one , with all my beat
Please could someone share some tips or links, I'll do homeworks and have been, but I have been facing so many complications since the last few weeks
Thanks in advance
Does your phone recognize another card properly?
Did you apply a volume name when formatting the 32GB card?
Did you try the 32GB card in the phone before formatting it?
I've done pretty much the same as you with a 32GB card (Kingston Class 4) and had no problem.
Are you sure the 32GB card is good and not a counterfeit?
Try formatting it again to with FAT32, default parameters, short or no volume name. Try copying your files to the card on the PC to see if it actual works.
robsaw said:
Does your phone recognize another card properly?
Did you apply a volume name when formatting the 32GB card?
Did you try the 32GB card in the phone before formatting it?
I've done pretty much the same as you with a 32GB card (Kingston Class 4) and had no problem.
Are you sure the 32GB card is good and not a counterfeit?
Try formatting it again to with FAT32, default parameters, short or no volume name. Try copying your files to the card on the PC to see if it actual works.
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Thanks I did put a volume name. That might explain it.
Yes the card already worked ( plenty of times ). I have been trying numerous time to transfert the music ( takes forever to transfer 20gig to an SD card , even class 10... ), and had mixed results that always ended up failing ( most of the times because of me... like forgeting to safely remove the sd card from my laptop made the card unrecognizable by the phone afterward...of course I just finished to tranfers the 20gig and was too happy to safely remove it... )
I will try that right now. thanks again
*EDIT*
Bah still same problem I must be doing stupid... SD card is not recognized by the phone. In the settings menu ( storage ) I cannot mount or unmount it and thus format it via the phone itself
That even after reformating it to default FAT32 partition with no volume name using MiniTool Partition Wizard Home
So number 1 priority is getting the SD card to be recognized again by the phone
**EDIT2**
When browsing the card with astro it says problem creating external cache , with root explorer it only says directory is empty. Still can't do anything in the settings menu
Obvious statement, but did you set it to primary?
sinkster©
What brand? I have a transcend card, and its not reconized by anything at all..
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Obvious statement, but did you set it to primary?
sinkster©
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Hmm it is being formated by the default win7 tool at the moment non quick format tho so it takes some times and I can't look for sure.
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What brand? I have a transcend card, and its not reconized by anything at all..
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It's a memorette class 10 :S
Or format it wrong, Arc will say it's damaged and say that it has to format it to detect it.
Should fix it, too.
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Flo95 said:
Or format it wrong, Arc will say it's damaged and say that it has to format it to detect it.
Should fix it, too.
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Ya I'd love to get to this point ( which I got in the past hehe ) but at the moment it's still not even recognizing the sd card anymore
still formating btw....
How did you recover your issue?
I think I have a similar SD card problem. But, I encountered it after I did factory reset with SD card erase option selected. I didn't do anything after all. When I connect to PC, on the phone upper bar, there is no notification regarding USB. The middle button seems not working either.
Try formatting the card with this Panasonic SD/SDHC/SDXC Memory Card formatter.
That's strange why not just do a quick format in Win7 or WinXP, to FAT32? I use a 32GB as well and Arc has no issue with it. Coming from the 8GB, here's what I did.
1. Take off the 8GB from the Arc and placed in a USB reader.
2. Copy off all the files to your PC. I used WinRAR to accomplish this, just archive everything and STORE it (no need to compress so operation is faster). Or you can just use drag and drop plain copying its all the same.
3. Analyze the copied files and remove all unneeded bloats (ie. old movies u don't intend to watch anymore, clear out useless temp files, etc)
4. Copy back the files on your new FAT32 formatted card using the USB reader, then put in your Arc.
If you notice, the entire data migration is done via card reader/USB. Using the Arc as such will slowdown your progress and introduces unnecessary delays.
You can also use usb tool, it basicaly creates a back up image and can be restored to the new sd
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I picked up my phone looking to download a new ROM to it but then found that my ES File Explorer (given root permissions) was not able to view my external SD card via the mnt folder. At the same time, I was trying to back up my apps and such via Titanium Backup but it said that it couldn't backup anything because my card was full (it's default save location is my external card). It just said "Empty". I went to check my Settings to see if my card was somehow unmounted, but nope, it said it was still there. Even said that I had 11.27 GBs left out of 29 GB or whatever and gave me the usual options to Unmount and such. I pulled off my battery cover and the card was still there, so I assumed that the Android system might just need to sit for a while and cool off while off. Then I turned it back on to find that ES was still not able to view the contents of externalSDcard. So I went to my Root Browser and it too said that no files were there. I then went into my Settings and now it just says "Insert SD card".
I've had this happen before on other Android phones so I did what I normally do and hook it to my PC and reformat it. Windows found the device when I attached it via a SD card reader (the big fat kind like in your standard camera), it didn't want to format it. Windows brought up the prompt and said that it only could format 1GB so I knew Windows wouldn't be able to recognize it. I even tried formatting it via Command Prompt and typing "Format G:" and it too said there was only 1024MB to be formatted then went through trying to format and then said it failed.
I then tried pulling up Ubuntu's Disk Utility to format it. At first, Ubuntu wouldn't even correctly identify the device! Then I got the Disk Utility to recognize it and it couldn't even recognize how many GB/MB were originally on the card! Trying to format just brought up a message telling me that it couldn't do anything.
I had this happen a few times with my HTC Evo 4G OG but was able to format the card and put it back into my phone and have it work. Of course, the last time with my old 16GB card ended with it being destroyed much like this.
Please tell me that I can do something to fix this. Anything?!?!
This card is a 32GB Class 10 Patriot. This has happened before in my old HTC Evo 4G OG with a 16GB Class 4 SanDisk card. That card became unusable after a few times of this happening except I was able to fix it those times using the methods I tried above and allowing my phone to recognize the card again.