I noticed that my device status have been modified and I have never attempted to root my device. I noticed when I wanted to check for updates. I own a i317m. is there any way of putting it back to normal so that I can get updates from Samsung? I have been searching the thread. Thanks
nevermind. i realized that my sd card installed had some rooted files. needed to unmount/restart and back to normal.
Realy now. Ill haft to try that
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keithhidalgo said:
nevermind. i realized that my sd card installed had some rooted files. needed to unmount/restart and back to normal.
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Thanks a ton for posting this realization.
This is exactly what I needed. This needs to be added to the op of all the threads that try and explain how to do this. Even though removing the SD card is inevitably part of returning your device, I had left it in until the end as I downloaded triangle away to the SD card to install. Knowing this from the begining would have saved me hours and days of frustration.
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keithhidalgo said:
nevermind. i realized that my sd card installed had some rooted files. needed to unmount/restart and back to normal.
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i need to know, SD card is in built memory of Note 2 or External SD card.
Along with that do you have any idea which are those rooted files that reside in memory even after unrooting the deveice.
Please help. Thanks.
surajskoneri said:
i need to know, SD card is in built memory of Note 2 or External SD card.
Along with that do you have any idea which are those rooted files that reside in memory even after unrooting the deveice.
Please help. Thanks.
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EXT. SD card acts as an extension of the note 2 memory. and is scanned by the OS at boot to set the normal or the modified status.
I'm not sure what it finds, but i assume it's SU access privs. or binary code changes.
I ran into this last night as well, and a cleaning of the ext. SD fixes the status on a non- rooted phone....g
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How do I fix this? I've checked the lost.dir folder and it is empty. I am not using a rooted device if it matters.
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Backup the files and format the disk then copy everything back.
As above. Its fixed in the latest 1.29.401.11 so either root and flash a rom on that base or have to suck it up until you get OTA im afraid!
UnixxinU said:
How do I fix this? I've checked the lost.dir folder and it is empty. I am not using a rooted device if it matters.
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not the most helpful answers are they lol
I've got the same issue, when i use disk usage app it shows 12GB+ of "system files" that's ridiculous but im now formatting my sd so will report back if it works or not.
As for rooting. Im not to keen on rooting just yet as the phone is still new and covered by warranty
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not the most helpful answers are they lol
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they are... they're the ones that fix the problem
H88RRY said:
As for rooting. Im not to keen on rooting just yet as the phone is still new and covered by warranty
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you don't need to root to flash an RUU as long as you use the correct one depending on location/carrier
Copy files from SD card to your computer, Format the SD card in FAT32, copy items back onto SD card and done.
You shouldn't have to worry about it happening again.
zidane2k3 said:
Copy files from SD card to your computer, Format the SD card in FAT32, copy items back onto SD card and done.
You shouldn't have to worry about it happening again.
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Thats what i just did and it looks like its sorted for now. I think that this happened after i last updated to 3UK 1.28
what i did notice that 32GB storage however on sd only 25gb. shame really could of used that bit extra.
I am having an issue with my epic 4g touch. The phone is confusing the internal memory and the external sd card. So when I download something it ends up going into the internal from music to apps. In the settings/storage it says I have things on my sd card but if I go to it in root explorer, it shows nothing. My problem is that when I flash a new rom and do a nandroid backup, the backup disappears on me. I will put the backup on the sd card but when I go back to it, it's gone. It doesn't show up on the internal either. The last time I flashed a rom I got stuck with no backup. Needless to say I am a little scared to try again. It has done this with two separate sd cards. Please help? I am confused. Does anyone else have this problem?
I have had some similar issues. For me it doesn't acknowledge my external sd card alot of times lately.
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You guys would get alot more help if you made it easy for people to help.
What ROM are you on....have you modded anything, etc
Snazarian said:
You guys would get alot more help if you made it easy for people to help.
What ROM are you on....have you modded anything, etc
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I am stock just rooted.
OcXcPunk said:
I am stock just rooted.
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Have you tried removing and formatting the MicroSD card through Windows?
(Or mount as USB in FI03 and format that way)
so, I had my phone freeze up this morning, and decided I would reboot to recovery and flash something else. When I took off the back cover, I noticed the sd card didn't look like it was fully inserted, so I took it out, and tried to click it back in; it wont click in.
so, I decided to back up the sd card to my pc, and then I would just transfer the twrp backup folder to my internal card from the external card, and get to my backups that way.
well, I have been trying to get the phone to show up on my windows 8.1 computer, so I can transfer files to the internal card, but I cant get it to show up in windows; I have gone through the mount menu in twrp, and the settings in twrp, but I cant get the damn phone to show up in my file explorer window...
obviously the phone wont boot, so I cant transfer stuff wirelessly, and I am at a loss here..
-any suggestions on how to get the external sd card to click in?
-any suggestions on how to get to the internal storage on the phone via windows explorer?
thanks all..
EDIT: Well, I got the phone to reboot, and restored a nand, but the External card still wont click in..I'll take it to ATT, and hope they don't say warranty is void since its rooted..Unless anyone knows how to get the damn external sd to stay clicked in!!
Are you sure the click part is unlocked? It may already be in the locked position.
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jdub1981 said:
Are you sure the click part is unlocked? It may already be in the locked position.
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how do you check that?
jammed it in with a screwdriver, and it seems to stay now..wont remove this till I sell the damn phone!
Thread closed at OP request. Problem solved!
I'm currently running Stock TW 4.1.1 because it just works SO well for me. I've not bothered to upgrade since I bought this phone almost a year ago now I think..?
I'm fully rooted though and I'm running the Note 2 keyboard etc.
Anyway I finally decided to try an upgrade. I tried using the Stock MOD 4.3 ROM which was MUCH slower then my 4.1.1 ROM so I Nandroided back to my backup.
I've noticed that my external 16GB SD Card is no longer working though. I mean, it works. I can access my files and open them BUT the card is not writable. If I check the file permissions I can clearly see it's not set right. If I try to change the file permissions in something like ES File Explorer or Root Explorer I just get errors about not being able to change permissions.
If I boot into TWRP and run the "Fix Permissions" this doesn't help either.
Again this is for my EXTERNAL SD Card, not the built in SD Card.
kdoggy said:
I'm currently running Stock TW 4.1.1 because it just works SO well for me. I've not bothered to upgrade since I bought this phone almost a year ago now I think..?
I'm fully rooted though and I'm running the Note 2 keyboard etc.
Anyway I finally decided to try an upgrade. I tried using the Stock MOD 4.3 ROM which was MUCH slower then my 4.1.1 ROM so I Nandroided back to my backup.
I've noticed that my external 16GB SD Card is no longer working though. I mean, it works. I can access my files and open them BUT the card is not writable. If I check the file permissions I can clearly see it's not set right. If I try to change the file permissions in something like ES File Explorer or Root Explorer I just get errors about not being able to change permissions.
If I boot into TWRP and run the "Fix Permissions" this doesn't help either.
Again this is for my EXTERNAL SD Card, not the built in SD Card.
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Have you tried backing up the contents of the sd card and formatting it? Either from within the phone's storage menu or another device.
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Have you tried backing up the contents of the sd card and formatting it? Either from within the phone's storage menu on another device?
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No I have not. I wanted to see if there was a way to do it without formatting first but if no one has any other idea's, I might have to try that.
kdoggy said:
No I have not. I wanted to see if there was a way to do it without formatting first but if no one has any other idea's, I might have to try that.
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That would be my first move to rule out a potential hardware failure, assuming you have the means to do so without much trouble.
Well being that it started right after a Nandroid restore I'm thinking it's not hardware failure related but you never know.
I guess it wouldn't take too long to do that. I'll give it a go.
Yep that did it. I guess I was WAY over thinking the issue.
I'm able to save porn to my external SD Card again so that is a major plus!
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Yep that did it. I guess I was WAY over thinking the issue.
I'm able to save porn to my external SD Card again so that is a major plus!
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lol as long as the porn is ok
Due to size limitations (GPads only coming in 16gb varieties) I am beginning to run low on space on my Gpad (v500 running cm11). However I have a 64gb microSD card and I would like to use this as much as I can to conserve space on the internal memory.
There are a few ways to solve this but I not fully know how to do this.
Firstly, is it possible install apps to microSD card? If so, how? I know some devices support this and some do not. My phone for example does not but I have heard that some people have had success with this.
Next, there are some rather large folders on my internal storage that I would like move to my sdcard however the apps that use those folder can only read them where they are currently located (cmupdates, ebooks, etc).
I read about symlinks and managed to make a few but the only place I was able to make a symlink was to /data/media/0. But the changes to that do not show up the apps which I believe read either /sdcard or /storage/emulated/0. And for my SDcard I can get to it either in /mnt/media/sdcard1 or through /storage/sdcard1.
I tried and succeeded in making a link between /mnt/media/sdcard1/eBooks and /data/media/0/eBooks however the link does not show up in /sdcard or /storage/emulated/0 and it does not show up in the apps, leading me to believe that is where the apps read the sdcard from.
If anyone can answer the above two questions or give any other suggestions for maximizing available space on my internal card please let me know.
Thank you!
I think most of your issues could be resolved with Link2SD (under 10 posts, can't post a link to Google Play).
You can also use an app called Foldermount. It's only $.99 ( if I recall correctly) for the unlocked version. This allows you to move any folder to SD card. I like it as it guides you thru the way and will move the data for you as well. Latest version has been updated to allow apps from play store to install properly. Well worth the $1 price.
mzfckr993 said:
I think most of your issues could be resolved with Link2SD (under 10 posts, can't post a link to Google Play).
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cbb77 said:
You can also use an app called Foldermount. It's only $.99 ( if I recall correctly) for the unlocked version. This allows you to move any folder to SD card. I like it as it guides you thru the way and will move the data for you as well. Latest version has been updated to allow apps from play store to install properly. Well worth the $1 price.
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Thanks guys! Looks like using these two combined I can get exactly what I wanted. I'll use link2SD to put apps on the SD card and Foldermount to move the other folders I want moved.
Thanks again!
Can you let me know if this works for you? I can't get mine to read or write my SD card at all! I can't even move a picture from my Box cloud account to the SD card. Are you experiencing this? Or did I get a bad unit?
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Can you let me know if this works for you? I can't get mine to read or write my SD card at all! I can't even move a picture from my Box cloud account to the SD card. Are you experiencing this? Or did I get a bad unit?
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These solutions did work for me, I am still tweaking to get it the way I like it especially since every time I update my Rom Link2SD has to generate new scripts. I can ready and write to the SD card just fine and I could before I started using this as well. I am not sure why you aren't able to write to your sd card. Could it be a bad SD card? Try plugging it into your computer.
I've tried 2 different SD cards both of which I can move files to and from on my computer. So I know it's not the card. I'm thinking maybe I should exchange it out for another day one...
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I've tried 2 different SD cards both of which I can move files to and from on my computer. So I know it's not the card. I'm thinking maybe I should exchange it out for another day one...
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Probably... That sounds like a device issue not card.
How are the cards formatted?
The ROM you are using may not support the format.
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I've tried 2 different SD cards both of which I can move files to and from on my computer. So I know it's not the card. I'm thinking maybe I should exchange it out for another day one...
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How are the cards formatted?
The ROM you are using may not support the format.
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I'm not sure I just put the card in my computer and clicked format SD card. I'm not rooted or running any special ROM, it's completely stock out've the box.
Well, if you did it from your PC, it may be formatted NTFS, and you need them formatted FAT 32. Get it here; http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html Not only allows formatting almost any format xFAT, Fat32, NTFS, etc.. and you can partition them also which is not supported by Windows, but IS supported by most Android ROMs. I doubt there is anything wrong with your device.
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I'm not sure I just put the card in my computer and clicked format SD card. I'm not rooted or running any special ROM, it's completely stock out've the box.
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C0BRA01 said:
Well, if you did it from your PC, it may be formatted NTFS, and you need them formatted FAT 32. Get it here; http://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html Not only allows formatting almost any format xFAT, Fat32, NTFS, etc.. and you can partition them also which is not supported by Windows, but IS supported by most Android ROMs. I doubt there is anything wrong with your device.
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Thanks for the tip, this makes me feel a little better about my purchase, I'll give it a try. I'm also thinking of buying a 64gb San Disk card and hopefully it will just work with a brand new one.
These solutions did work for me, I am still tweaking to get it the way I like it especially since every time I update my Rom Link2SD has to generate new scripts. I can ready and write to the SD card just fine and I could before I started using this as well. I am not sure why you aren't able to write to your sd card. Could it be a bad SD card? Try plugging it into your computer.
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These solutions did work for me, I am still tweaking to get it the way I like it especially since every time I update my Rom Link2SD has to generate new scripts. I can ready and write to the SD card just fine and I could before I started using this as well. I am not sure why you aren't able to write to your sd card. Could it be a bad SD card? Try plugging it into your computer.
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I have been trying to fix the issue with Rom updates and link2sd. You have to provide the Rom (in my case cyanogenmod) a backup script so it can back up the files. I am planning on figuring it out at some point but if you get it before I do would you mind posting your script? Thanks!
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I have been trying to fix the issue with Rom updates and link2sd. You have to provide the Rom (in my case cyanogenmod) a backup script so it can back up the files. I am planning on figuring it out at some point but if you get it before I do would you mind posting your script? Thanks!
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So a follow up with this, I was able to get a script working. I don't know if this feature is unique to cyanogenmod or not but any script in /system/addon.d will execute itself during a rom install and be restored automatically if it was wiped. So using 50-cm.sh as an example I made a script called 11-link2sd.sh to perform the backup of the mount script for link2sd which is located in /system/etc/init.d/11link2sd.
I then had insert this script and my mount script into a cyanogenmod update and flash it in. But after that I tried flashing an update of cm11 to test it and it worked! Attached is my script which should also work for anyone who is able to flash it into their /system/addon.d folder.