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Cannot take pics :unable to save file to sd card due to insufficient file permissions

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.

[Q] Partitoned and cant go bak!

i recently partitoned my htc evo 4g,but i have no idea how to undo it.Ive heard you can just use normal hardrive management software,but when i plug my fone in and open it in my computer,it says under it FAT32 and a little dialog box popsup saying "acess denied".I was hoping there would be someway to recover all my stuff on the sd card,or is it all gone,because all of a sudden i have like 6.89gb left on my sd ,and before this accident i only had like 191mb.

chrome256 said:
i recently partitoned my htc evo 4g,but i have no idea how to undo it.
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The only way to undo ir is ro repartition it. Im not aware of anything like Partition Magic for smartphones or SD cards.
Ive heard you can just use normal hardrive management software,but when i plug my fone in and open it in my computer,it says under it FAT32 and a little dialog box popsup saying "acess denied".
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Does your computer have a card reader or do you have access to a card reader to see if it can be done?
I was hoping there would be someway to recover all my stuff on the sd card,or is it all gone,because all of a sudden i have like 6.89gb left on my sd ,and before this accident i only had like 191mb.
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That is where I'm confused. Normally, when you partition a card, all of its contents are erased. My question to you is this: after you partitioned your card, were you able to access its contents? If so and if you have amon RA as your recovery, go into recovery, plug your EVO to your computer and then select the "MS-USB" option from within recovery. Your card should mount and be seen by your computer. You should be able to copy the contents of your card to your computer of all is well. If not, consider the contents erased and simply re-partition the card from within recovery or go to the wipe menu of the recovery and select "wipe SD card"
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On my mac, when my phone is plugged in, it will recognize both partitions and format the whole card.
Also, you can go into recovery and partition the card again, but choose 0 for heap and 0 for partition. It will reformat with not partition.

You can repartition either using recovery and selecting 0 for the ext partition size, or use windows diskpart utility to delete/repartition. Under windows, you will need a third party utility to format the space as fat32 however.

[Q] Desire doesnt recognize SD card

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.

[Q] unable to mount sdcard or even format it

Had evervolv on htc desire, but recently I got system process error, finally managed to boot into recovery, but can not fix or even format it.
it mentioned usb brick, but tried to 'usb unbrick' and got message "unable to determine your CID, please report to ext4'
please help

used the instruction #13 from 1st thread and got this message:
"The system can not find the path specified"
64 bit system

error mounting Sd card
This is very strange and have tried but do not quite understand adk tools
The first issues is that the SD card wont mount:
Sometimes in recovery i can access the card and other times I cant;
I have tried to format it in windows, but doesnt allow me to.
I have tried using the tools on recovery to fix it, but hasnt fixed it.
The second issue is that when I try to reboot it says usb brick and fix it before i can reboot,
but this has not fixed the card.
can somebody please help me with this issue as I do not want to purchase another card.

Can you at least read your sd card, preferably in a card reader to remove any phone element? If so back up the whole card to PC
Then I suggest a complete reformat of the sdcard using gparted live cd: a single FAT32 (on the left) and then maximum 2GB ext4 partition. Again do this in a card reader to remove any phone or driver issues.
Copy contents back to sdcard afterwards.
If none of this works then you may simply have a bad corrupted sdcard. Although it's not a great solution to buy a new one, make sure you stick to a reputable brand, even those are not that expensive nowadays.

No .. I have tried several times, but pc can not read it.
I do have the contents copied though.
any suggestions, as pc can not read card.

eddiehk6 said:
Can you at least read your sd card, preferably in a card reader to remove any phone element? If so back up the whole card to PC
Then I suggest a complete reformat of the sdcard using gparted live cd: a single FAT32 (on the left) and then maximum 2GB ext4 partition. Again do this in a card reader to remove any phone or driver issues.
Copy contents back to sdcard afterwards.
If none of this works then you may simply have a bad corrupted sdcard. Although it's not a great solution to buy a new one, make sure you stick to a reputable brand, even those are not that expensive nowadays.
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The card is Sandisk.
I can sometimes access the card on the pc using the usb, but not all the time

Well at least you have the data backed up, so nothing to lose except an sdcard.
- Are you using a card reader?
- Have you tried gparted and a card reader? This has the best chance of working.
If you can't read or see the card by any means, then not much else to suggest but a new card.

Can see it sometimes using usb connected to phone.
will try your suggestion shortly and let you know

phone say safe to remove sd card.

eddiehk6 said:
Can you at least read your sd card, preferably in a card reader to remove any phone element? If so back up the whole card to PC
Then I suggest a complete reformat of the sdcard using gparted live cd: a single FAT32 (on the left) and then maximum 2GB ext4 partition. Again do this in a card reader to remove any phone or driver issues.
Copy contents back to sdcard afterwards.
If none of this works then you may simply have a bad corrupted sdcard. Although it's not a great solution to buy a new one, make sure you stick to a reputable brand, even those are not that expensive nowadays.
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htc_desire_luke said:
phone say safe to remove sd card.
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using a card reader i get "please insert disk into removable media"

MicroSD problem: corrupted message and unable to format + bootloop if SD is inserted

Hi everybody, I just wanted to share my experience with microSD card reader on my XT-1676 16GB/3GB RAM
When I bought it in May everything was fine but few days after the purchase it suddently came out with a problem I can't work out with: the microSD I had inserted and which was working quite fine was recognized as "corrupted", and I had to format it (and choose between external or internal storage) in order to get it working again. Point is: formatting keeps failing, no matter what I choose (external/internal) with this error when as external: "command '15 volume partition disk:179,64 public' failed with '400 15 Command failed" (numbers change sometimes), and by stucking at 30% when as internal. On top of this, if I keep any micoSD inserted (I've tried many of them) when the phone is off, then if I power it on it will bootloop, even if I boot into TWRP recovery. As soon as I remove the SD during bootloop, the phone boots. During the last months I've been searching for a solution of course, and I figured out that many other Lenovo users has my problem, but I didn't find any Moto G5 owner with my frustrating error.
After the NPP25.137-72 update (which didn't solve) I've unlocked my bootloader and tried many ROMs, but seems that my Moto G5 is just unable to deal with /extsd (ot whatever it's called) partition. Lastly, every single microSD I have tried in my phone and has been told "corrupted" by the MotoG5, works flawlessly instead when in other devices.
Do you think I have an "hardware disease"?
Thanks

The only thing I can suggest is if you put the sd card into a pc (you can get a cheap card reader if you dont have one) - and using something like minitool (or any other partition manager) delete all partitions one the sd card and create a new fat32 partition and format it
Only use the sd card as external storage and you can use the rescan media app (see app section) to find any missing files that the android media scanner couldn't find
if it keeps coming up corrupted when trying to mount the media scanner app wont work - but if it can mount the sd card but cant display the files the media scanner app should be able to display the files - of course if you have to delete and recreate the partition than any files you had on there will be lost

TheFixItMan said:
The only thing I can suggest is if you put the sd card into a pc (you can get a cheap card reader if you dont have one) - and using something like minitool (or any other partition manager) delete all partitions one the sd card and create a new fat32 partition and format it
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I always format my SD card via GParted before inserting it in the device. I am seriously afraid this is a HW problem, though.