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Hi!
I tried searching the forums for the problem but couldnt find anything related to mine!
I have a problem where the phone suddenly just says "No write access to file" when i try listening to stuff on spotify, take pictures etc... Yet i can access the SD on ASTRO.
Has anyone else noticed this one? Any tips? Rebooting the phone fixes the issue for a while.
Same issue here. I found in other android related forums a lot of people complaining about this as well - seams there's no solution yet (reboot helps in my case - format the card didn't). Some people reported that a change of the sdcard hasn't solved anything. I guess we have to replace the device.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=673110
Don't give up yet, if you are running a task killer, remove it and try without it.
As I said on the other thread, I removed it and I'm now testing it. Atleast now it seems to sync Spotify's offline playlists without errors..
kermaani said:
Don't give up yet, if you are running a task killer, remove it and try without it.
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I have no task killer running but still the above mentioned issue. I also removed the sd-card and put it back in several times. I cleaned carefully the contacts of the sdcard, removed ALL apps but it still happens every other day.
And no, the desire wasn't plugged into the pc via USB. m(
i had the similar kind of issue. when I switch on the phone from standby mode.. sometimes it says "cannot backup the phone data.. SD card not accessble". When I opened the Estronge File manager I can see no files under the SDcard..
This problem has started to me only after I have installed ebuddy and started using it. Then I have uninstalled the ebuddy and till now i did not get this problem again (3days tested after uninstall)
You can give a try by uninstall any recently installed apps.. my doubt is some apps are creating this issue on slow writting SD cards (my Sd card is Class 2)..
kvmanohar said:
You can give a try by uninstall any recently installed apps.. my doubt is some apps are creating this issue on slow writting SD cards (my Sd card is Class 2)..
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Been there, done that! *sigh* It happens also with no apps installed (plain stock)
Also just happened to me after installing a Touchdown update - camera was reporting no access to SD card and Astro (file navigator) was showing some weird behaviour (opening the 'download' folder took me back to the home screen)
A reboot appears to have solved it but a bit worrying
Not sure if this is 100% related, but I'll include it here. This didn't happen to me at the start but has started happening in the last few days.
I've had my phone set up to connect by default as a disk drive without asking me. Now when I connect to my computer, I get the message on my computer that there is something wrong with the drive and it needs to be scanned and corrected. I don't because I don't always trust Windows auto corrective measures, you can't always go back.
The problem really kicks in when I connect my Desire to the computer and it (the computer) says card needs to be formatted. As soon as I get this message, I know it's all over. I can't access the SD card on computer or from the phone. When I disconnect, the phone says the SD card is empty, and I get the small SD card with question mark up in the top right of the notification bar.
My system is running Win 7 x64.
I get the same problem every other day with the "cannot backup the phone data.. SD card not accessble". I also got an error message when trying to download an email attachment saying that there was no storage space but Astro shows around 6gb free on the sd!
Fairford said:
Astro shows around 6gb free on the sd!
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you have another sdcard than the stock SanDisk 4GB card, I guess? If so, could you tell us what sdcard you are running?
I have had the same problem as reported above (backup error) recently. A reboot solves it, but not permantely.. (I also had a problem where the home screen froze, but the lockscreen worked fine. I guess it could be related but I don't know...)
It's a bit annoying with these kind of problems..
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It just happen again after I replayed to a text messages..
I started my terminal emulator and checked if the sd card was still mounted (which it appeared to be). But noticed that it's set to remount as read only on errors (Not saying it's the problem, just that it may be the cause of the symptoms..)
Then I checked the rights (ls -l -d /sdcard) It was set to ---rwxr-x (owner: system, group: sdcard_rw) = Owner has no rights, group has full right and others read & execute only..
Also one thing I noticed was that the date was set to 1970-01-01 01:00 (aka start of "unix-time"). That can happen, but it still seemed a bit strange..
BUT: Apparently, that is the way it's "supposed to be", as after a reboot it says the same..
This was just an update on my experience with this error, and what I've tried (so far)..
Stock Rom and card and it is happening to me periodically.
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Update: A working solution?
I read on another forum where they (Vodaphone actually) recommended that you reformat the card if you have this sort of problems... So I thought: What a heck.. It can't become worse..
These is the steps that I did (pretty straightforward..) and it works (for about two days now without any big problems..)
Backup the card
You probably don't want to do that using Windows... (You can download free Linux Live-CDs from Ubuntu.com or other places)
Why?? For me, and I don't doubt you may encounter something similar, Windows wanted to reformat the SD Card before it mounted it (DON'T do that if you want to backup your files [and I'm not sure on what the phone would think about that]).
I guess it could work Fine in Mac OS X (but I haven't tested..)
Reboot the phone (mine had trouble recognizing the card after I had disconnected it from the computer)
Go to Settings > SD and phone memory (* ) >Unmount SD Card > Format SD card
Reboot again (not shure if it's needed but just to be sure)
Connect to the computer and put your data back on (be careful, the best is perhaps to only transfer "your stuff" and not replace any files that already are on the card). AND BEFORE you pull out the cable, make sure you unmount the card from your computer!!!!
Done!
(* Translated from Swedish, don't know what it says exactly in English.. )
If you need directions for how to use Linux for this, feel free to contact me..
Try doing a google search for h2testw its a bit of software that can be downloaded that test SD cards and removable drives. I recently had a problem with a new card ran that and it told me that the card had a problem, I sent it back and got a new card and don't have any problems now although they were different to what you were experiencing.
I get the same issue about once enery couple of days. I'm first alerted to it when I get a notification saying the automatic backup has failed, then no writes are allowed to the SD card. It's solved temporarily by rebooting.
Phone is stock, Orange ROM, stock 4Gb card. I use HTC sync and often use the phone in disk drive mode.
Simple damaged SD card...
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All my issues disappeared after i removed the task killer.
Just today, I've started getting issues. It *only* happens when I try to open Spotify. It was working fine this morning on my way to work, but now every time I open the app, the SD card gets mounted as read only. I have used Quick App Clean Cache, and wiped the cache within Spotify itself. Rebooted, powered off, removed and reinserted SD card, and nothing fixes it. ****ing annoyed and pissed off that this keeps happening.
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.
Hi,
Please forgive me if this is a noob question. I recently developed an issue transferring files to the sd card. Using the usb storage method, after transfering 2 or 3 mp3s, the phone would shut off and reboot for no reason (This caused the Zeam launcher to crash apparently? for at least 15 tries)
I tried using the SD adapter, the transfer rate is extremely slow or to no transfer at all and causes windows explorer to crash or hang (tried at least 15x).
I figured my sd card was corrupted so I tried formatting the card. If I used the SD adapter, it would say the card is write-protected even though clearly, the locked was off. I even tried another SD-adapter to no avail.
Finally, using USB storage, I was able to format the SD card.
Since I mentioned earlier that the Zeam launcher crashed, (yes, I selected always use "zeam launcher" even after it crashed causing the error message to loop) I resetted the phone with the wipe data/factory rest option in clockworkmod (I'm using ViperRom 3.03).
I wasn't sure if the 1 click root (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=770388) installed any folders into the sd card so I ran the 1 click root in windows just to make sure. After rebooting from the 1 click root, all the files that were previously formatted were back.
I guess I didn't read too clearly but
my questions is
1) how am I able to disable that backup function? I had a bunch of files (which I have no idea what they did) from when i first started playing with the phone and I want to start off fresh with just the files I need.
2) anyone have any idea why the sd card was unable to accept files through the SD adapter or USB storage method?
3) what to do when the launcher crashes (this happened to me 2x already where I lost all my data)
Thanks to anyone who can help. This will help me close some gaps in my limited Android/Epic 4g knowledge.
definitely something is weird. Using usb storage, I ran the scandisk to fix errors and some errors were found. I formatted to ntfs just for kicks and the sd card read blank and in properties the drive had nothing in use. I turned off usb storage, turned it back on and voila, all the files that weren't there are now back. It this a sign of a corrupted sd card or am I going crazy?
Which files/folders are you referring to? Because as soon as your phone mounts your sd card, it will write about 4 folders (I think) if they are not already there...
.android_secure
Android
DCIM
LOST.DIR
if I recall correctly. The other thing you can do is use your phone to format your card instead of doing it on a computer... go to 'Settings->SD card and phone storage->Unmount SD card' then after it is unmounted, use the 'Format SD card' option. If this doesn't work, then you may need a new sd card/phone.
Good afternoon everyone.
About a month ago, I noticed that my music, videos and picture folders names were changed(renamed) to this
strange names.
I could not have access to my camera pictures, my movies or some music files.
I am attaching a picture screen shot so you can see.
So I lost all the pictures I had taken with the camera from the last 3 to 4 months. I did not make a backup
since January.
I decided to start fresh and did a cashe wipe, dalvik cache wipe, a factory reset, a system wipe, an internal wipe
and even an internal data format.
I also took the SD Card out and wiped everything there and re formatted the card.
Installed everything back in and now about a month later, this happens again.
Something has re written some file names, and wiped out the data in the folders and they will not display or
play.
I am thinking it could be a virus.
I have installed programs like photosphere camera, snoozy, note 10.0 note pad, and some programs that change my
battery, and task bar.
Does anyone has an idea of what this problem could be?
Any idea or help is appreciated.
Never seen this before, but I am interested to see what it is if anyone can figure it out.
Does it happen to be a 64gb sandisk, I had the same issue with my files getting corrupt, lost all my stuff. Reformated fat32 and has be solid for the past 3 months.
rail205 said:
Does it happen to be a 64gb sandisk, I had the same issue with my files getting corrupt, lost all my stuff. Reformated fat32 and has be solid for the past 3 months.
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It is a Scandisk 64G but I had it format to fat32.
I tried to remove the files with a file explorer and also a root explorer, even the recovery explorer and it
will not let me do it.
I am going to wait until I get home and use my micro sd adapter card reader and delete the files from
my PC.
Funny thing is this corrupt files stick to your card and I think is more like a virus than hardware related.
The file name gets changed, the data erased and then file becomes read only and the devise can not delete
it or change the files.
Seems to be doing it to the video, sound and pictures folder only.
Bad SD card, same thing happens to pc hard drives when they go ka-put. Virus will also do it... but i see that as being unlikely. Just replace the sd card.
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maniep said:
Good afternoon everyone.
About a month ago, I noticed that my music, videos and picture folders names were changed(renamed) to this
strange names.
I could not have access to my camera pictures, my movies or some music files.
I am attaching a picture screen shot so you can see.
So I lost all the pictures I had taken with the camera from the last 3 to 4 months. I did not make a backup
since January.
I decided to start fresh and did a cashe wipe, dalvik cache wipe, a factory reset, a system wipe, an internal wipe
and even an internal data format.
I also took the SD Card out and wiped everything there and re formatted the card.
Installed everything back in and now about a month later, this happens again.
Something has re written some file names, and wiped out the data in the folders and they will not display or
play.
I am thinking it could be a virus.
I have installed programs like photosphere camera, snoozy, note 10.0 note pad, and some programs that change my
battery, and task bar.
Does anyone has an idea of what this problem could be?
Any idea or help is appreciated.
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Corrupted File allocation table. First, put it in a pc, go to a command prompt (windows r and type cmd), then chkdsk -f driveletter: (depends on what your machine mounts it as). That could fix it, if not, copy all data off, reformat, copy data back. If that doesn't work, then the above poster is correct, the card is going bad, and replace it. (But it might not be, fat16 and fat32 can do this sometimes, especially if it's not unmounted cleanly when android is shutting down.)
Rabid Panda said:
Bad SD card, same thing happens to pc hard drives when they go ka-put. Virus will also do it... but i see that as being unlikely. Just replace the sd card.
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mstrk242 said:
Corrupted File allocation table. First, put it in a pc, go to a command prompt (windows r and type cmd), then chkdsk -f driveletter: (depends on what your machine mounts it as). That could fix it, if not, copy all data off, reformat, copy data back. If that doesn't work, then the above poster is correct, the card is going bad, and replace it. (But it might not be, fat16 and fat32 can do this sometimes, especially if it's not unmounted cleanly when android is shutting down.)
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Thank you both.
It is a 2 month old card but nothing is perfect.
I spent most of the day wiping the phone and the card and re flashing everything.
I am going to do a back up and get a new card this coming week.
Will post back once I see if it happens again.
SD card is bad. Buy a new one. 100% sure this is the issue.
Also, sandisk is no longer a quality card. Don't buy them, get a PNY.
Good luck brother
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So been trying to work out this issue for past couple of days now. Galaxy W (obviously) PACman rom.
Updated to the latest version of rom, all fine but didn't go pristine. Eventually had some issues, biggest of which being I couldn't access internal SD card as storage, yet all my apps were working fine. So, tried again, went pristine, all fine for about a day, no issues whatsoever .... until dreaded internal sd unmounted. Tried again, pristine, double formatting everything and double clearing cache etc. No problems. Updated kernel to skull kernal to fix the bluetooth. No problems.
And now again, it's happened. I've tried to keep a mental correlation in what I'm doing to hopefully give me an idea of what's going on but not having much luck; hoping someone here knows what this issue is as it's driving me mad
I've changed my name in Google; could it be some sort of permissions thing?
USB; phone set to Media player, it might be it's happening after I've transferred but since everything is working fine, it's hard to tell
I've not restored anything, gone completly pristine (took hours) in an attempt to retrace my steps and not get this issue again. Part of me thinks I may as well just leave it as everything works, I can even install fine. But I can't browse it via any file manager or via USB, and a couple of programs I use (CoPilot for one) won't start properly because there is no SD card mounted.
Things I've tried -
CWM, fix permissions
Reboot
Checked Storage under settings, I can see how much free space there is etc.
Enabled and Disabled USB Debugging and tried to see it on my PC (nothing, external shows up fine)
Anything else anyone can think of before I wipe the lot and try again for a 4th time?
bob0smith said:
So been trying to work out this issue for past couple of days now. Galaxy W (obviously) PACman rom.
Updated to the latest version of rom, all fine but didn't go pristine. Eventually had some issues, biggest of which being I couldn't access internal SD card as storage, yet all my apps were working fine. So, tried again, went pristine, all fine for about a day, no issues whatsoever .... until dreaded internal sd unmounted. Tried again, pristine, double formatting everything and double clearing cache etc. No problems. Updated kernel to skull kernal to fix the bluetooth. No problems.
And now again, it's happened. I've tried to keep a mental correlation in what I'm doing to hopefully give me an idea of what's going on but not having much luck; hoping someone here knows what this issue is as it's driving me mad
I've changed my name in Google; could it be some sort of permissions thing?
USB; phone set to Media player, it might be it's happening after I've transferred but since everything is working fine, it's hard to tell
I've not restored anything, gone completly pristine (took hours) in an attempt to retrace my steps and not get this issue again. Part of me thinks I may as well just leave it as everything works, I can even install fine. But I can't browse it via any file manager or via USB, and a couple of programs I use (CoPilot for one) won't start properly because there is no SD card mounted.
Things I've tried -
CWM, fix permissions
Reboot
Checked Storage under settings, I can see how much free space there is etc.
Enabled and Disabled USB Debugging and tried to see it on my PC (nothing, external shows up fine)
Anything else anyone can think of before I wipe the lot and try again for a 4th time?
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*sigh*
No idea why it's doing it, but yeah, seems to be the USB transfer. Problem solved.
So changed USB from Media Player to MTP and back again while connected to PC, internal storage now available.
Always the way, struggled with it for a few days, finally decide to post for help, and I solve it in less than 10 minutes of making the post :silly:
Knowing my luck, it's a known bug I've somehow glossed over in all information!
Edit - spoke too soon
After a reboot, same again. Everything "works", I can install and uninstall, but I can't browse the internal sdcard0 with a file manager or via PC. The above trick isn't working now.
bob0smith said:
After a reboot, same again. Everything "works", I can install and uninstall, but I can't browse the internal sdcard0 with a file manager or via PC. The above trick isn't working now.
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Just thought I'd give it one last bump. Situation is that after every reboot, my internal sdcard is not mounted. I have to connect the phone to a PC via USB, then disconnect and hope that the phone mounts both sdcards. Usually works first time but sometimes I have to connect - disconnect 2-3 times before the internal card is mounted.
Anyone happen to know how to mount the internal card via command line? I could then workaround it with a script via smanager.
bob0smith said:
Just thought I'd give it one last bump. Situation is that after every reboot, my internal sdcard is not mounted. I have to connect the phone to a PC via USB, then disconnect and hope that the phone mounts both sdcards. Usually works first time but sometimes I have to connect - disconnect 2-3 times before the internal card is mounted.
Anyone happen to know how to mount the internal card via command line? I could then workaround it with a script via smanager.
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You'v need swap your SD card with build prob you can look arco posts you can find there how you will swap and sorry for my bad English ***:good:
Yup. U need to swap it
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