I was deving up my dinc a few weeks ago and what i think i did (im not too sure if this is ecatly what cause this it was a while back) I found a rom i wanted to install but it said to wipe dalvik cache along with the usual steps to install a rom. so I did that. the thing is, i dont usually do that. not too long afterwards, a symbol came up in my notification bar that looked like a little sd card or w/e and it said "phone storage is empty or has unsupported files" and stays there even when i flash a different rom. Also, whenever i mount usb storage to my laptop only the sd card mounts. the phone storage doesnt. does anyone know what went wrong or how i might be able to fix it cause its really annoying having that in my status bar 24/7 D:
Try formating it from the Settings - sd & phone storage - Format phone storage, or from the mounts and storage - format emmc menu in recovery Note you will loose everything on the emmc if you format it, but it sounds like you dont have anything on there your worried about.
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Try formating it from the Settings - sd & phone storage - Format phone storage, or from the mounts and storage - format emmc menu in recovery Note you will loose everything on the emmc if you format it, but it sounds like you dont have anything on there your worried about.
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im having this same problem. Is your method a proven one or are you just spit-ballin?
Just spit-balling I have had the issue in the past and i believe thats how i fixed it. I know this happens alot with the sd and the fix for it is to take it out put it in a pc copy the files to the pc format the sd fat32 and then copy the files back to the sd. Now you cant remove the internal storage and he said the pc dosent see it connected thru usb, so you will just have to accept loosing what ever is on your emmc and format it.
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i had the same problem and clearing emmc really worked
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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.
Firstly Happy New Year to all on the forum, my phone has just had a disaster can anyone help please.
My AT&T Glide crashed today in town, and on reboot I couldnt see the MMC 32gb card, which I thought had been corrupted. Well it was, when I put in another 16gb card the phone wont mount it, then I noticed that the internal usb disk isnt mounted either or even recognised ??
Hows this happened and can it be restored simply do I have to download a new dev rom and re flash from the 1.18gb I have left shown on phone as I cant put it to MMC card.
My phone has custom firmware Osimood.0122.RUXKJ5 which has been great up until this MMC sd card crash.
Any help gratefully received as its my work phone and I need it up and running asap.
Many thanks
Paul
Can you boot into cwm? I assume you have it installed. See if you can access the internal sd card from there. If yes then most probably a simple flash will fix everything, or even a nandroid backup assuming you have that as well. If no its not seen in CWM, then I do not know someone else will have to chime in, seems like something is very wrong for it to suddenly lose its memory. Could be some type of controller our buffer that went.
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Thank you for your reply, I went in to CWM and can see an update file on a the sd card so technically if I get the Osimood zip file I could reinstall the system but I am unsure which disk it is seeing this file from I dont think its the external MMC or internal USB so how to I get the file on a storage area that the phone can see.
On the phones settings, under storage pane, USB now has the option to Format USB storage, this has appeared since mounting the system files etc within CWM as most were set to unmounted, but it would not let me mount the sd card as far as I could tell from CWM, when I go to update system menu the option to install update.zip but which disk is this as I could not mount any disk from CWM to view mounted files such as directories etc.
I am in the process of recovering the MMC card that the phone crashed so not all is lost, but I am pretty sure there were files in the Glides USB storage that I would like to save if possible, if I format this storage I am unlikely to recover whats on it, but would a straight reinstall of Osimood format this disk anyway ?
One last question does anyone know what the option "download" is on the power off menu on Osimood it is along side recovery, reboot and power off etc.
ATB
Sorry one last thing I have noticed, when in storage settings SD card has the option to mount when selected it says preparing sd card but nothing actually happens the notice just goes and I'm back to square one, USB has no option in the menu to mount just to format.
I hope that the above is significant in what has happened here.
Thanks
Boot into CWM, enable "mount USB storage", then use a PC to check the internal storage for filesystem problems.
If that doesn't fix it, next step is to factory reset I'm afraid.
Hi everyone, thank you so much for all the assistance I have been at work and therefore forced to format the internal disk which once down the ext sd card became visible again ??? once reinstalling the apps again all is well again, my biggest issue is that all the sd card app back ups failed me as it wiped the ext sd card the internal was wiped on reformat so had to start again.
Note to self back up apks to computer is much safer the ext sd card.
Just hope it doesnt happen again the apk shopper was the culprit that crashed it all.
Many thanks brilliant forum.
ATB
Is it at all possible, to raid the internal and external sd's to act as one hard drive? I don;t like the fact they are separated, i would rather have them as one single hard drive.
i have never heard of this on a Phone with Sdcard, closes thing to that would be Apps2sd card, which you partition the sdcad to ext4?(correct if wrong) and phone sees it as internal phone storage, which gives you a bigger amount to store data/ and still have a fat32 partition
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i have never heard of this on a Phone with Sdcard, closes thing to that would be Apps2sd card, which you partition the sdcad to ext4?(correct if wrong) and phone sees it as internal phone storage, which gives you a bigger amount to store data/ and still have a fat32 partition
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I could be missing something, but to me it looks like if you use any other filesystem than vfat (fat32), Android will claim its a blank memory card...
I tried both Ext2 and Ext4, have to mount it manual (which is working), tried updating the vold.fstab but it doesnt seem to work with other filesystems than factory default.
Would it be correct to assume that Android has its own way of mounting things rather than using the already existing functions in the kernel ?
If so, then it would probably be possible to make things like software raid but android would not be able to start it nor mount it during startup (vold.fstab)
Maybe someone can make sense of all this...
i know , there are some lines in the build.prop for a second sd card. maybe , changing does those lines to no . could make one sd for the system
maybe android 4+ need its cuz all of the new htc phones have them
i know this is off topic . on jmz rom totemc2 have the setting disappear from the try menu and quick settings . mine did
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.
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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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when i format my SD card to be used as internal storage and i place a ROM on the SDcard to install / update the Rom im on i cant locate the zip at all. Is because its formated as internal and also when i connect to my computer only the sdcard shows not the internal memory any ideas
Let me just give you an other warning, when using Custom ROMs you should not use internal storage, because the moment you decide to switch ROMs and you either choose to or have to wipe /data, strangely it will wipe and corrupt an SD card,, its weird because wiping /data doesn't touch the real internal storage but if your SD is set as internal storage it wipes it.
I learned that the hard way, I switched to a custom ROM on my HTC 10, I was using SD Card as Internal for the first time on this device in Stock Rooted ROM, the very second I wiped /data to do a clean flash, TWRP said "can't mound sd card".
The card was wiped in a weird format so it was corrupted, a 64GB Sandisk Ultra became a 16GB card that wouldn't properly mount even in windows, yes for real! even formatting in Windows 10 wouldn't fix it, I had to use a special tool from sandisk's website to repair the card.
After all of this I searched XDA to confirm this is a real issue, it wasn't just weird bad luck, so if I were you I would be careful or just switch back to SD External Mode.
The final conclusion is this feature is very nice for the regular world with OTA's but it seems in the Root world it can be a disaster, which I'm sure why you could be having issues as well.
EDIT: I forgot to mention, the last part you mentioned is normal, internal storage will no longer be accessible in Windows or even Android for you, apps can still install there though, and in the App Manager you have the choice where you want a particular app installed.
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Let me just give you an other warning, when using Custom ROMs you should not use internal storage, because the moment you decide to switch ROMs and you either choose to or have to wipe /data, strangely it will wipe and corrupt an SD card,, its weird because wiping /data doesn't touch the real internal storage but if your SD is set as internal storage it wipes it.
I learned that the hard way, I switched to a custom ROM on my HTC 10, I was using SD Card as Internal for the first time on this device in Stock Rooted ROM, the very second I wiped /data to do a clean flash, TWRP said "can't mound sd card".
The card was wiped in a weird format so it was corrupted, a 64GB Sandisk Ultra became a 16GB card that wouldn't properly mount even in windows, yes for real! even formatting in Windows 10 wouldn't fix it, I had to use a special tool from sandisk's website to repair the card.
After all of this I searched XDA to confirm this is a real issue, it wasn't just weird bad luck, so if I were you I would be careful or just switch back to SD External Mode.
The final conclusion is this feature is very nice for the regular world with OTA's but it seems in the Root world it can be a disaster, which I'm sure why you could be having issues as well.
EDIT: I forgot to mention, the last part you mentioned is normal, internal storage will no longer be accessible in Windows or even Android for you, apps can still install there though, and in the App Manager you have the choice where you want a particular app installed.
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Thats what figured, thanks again for the quick answer.
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Thats what figured, thanks again for the quick answer.
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No problem, I will tell you my set up if it helps you, I use SD as External, all my Music, Photos, Videos, Game ROMs(SNES, N64, etc), TWRP backups, any ROMs or flash stuff is all on the SD.
My internal storage is usually never touched by me file transfer wise, all apps and other caches and such are stored there by force but I still have a good amount of space because of the SD help still.
And I have a bit of apps, including all the big file sized GTA games, Real Racing 3, etc.
Good luck on what you decide is best for you!
hey there. How should I format my SD card? Ext2/3/4? size? What's the best choice? Got a 128gb card
Thx for reply