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Help! SD card in Read only Mode!

I tried installing the nfl unlocker 64 file by changing the zip to apk and attmepting to install it. Well it didn't work and right afterward I got an ! mark and it said card in read mode only. So I cannot delete, edit...files etc on the sd card. I am at work. No way to connect it to the pc to back up the sd card to try reformatting it, does anyone know any other ways to get this read mode off? I do have terminal emulator installed.
TIA

Yep this has happened thrice to me. Others have experienced this also after froyo.
One or two have stated trying to fix the card error using windows scan disk (if you have access to a pc) fixed the error. I have had success by copying the card image file, inserting the card into a card reader on the ltop, formatting the card there, then restoring the backed up image.
Aa stated this happened to me more than once. Has not happened in a few weeks.
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is that using the command chkdisk F ??
Also...hwo do you save the image file?

SD Card is write Only, how can I Fix?

I can't access the recovery anymore, can't connect it for disk drive. ROM MGR can't open the card either. I have Clockwork Recovery & I don't know what to do to get the card back to normal. Suggestions please? How will I access my Root if it's stored on this card? Don't know what to do......
Thanks in Advance...

Sometimes a file on my sd card will become corrupt, causing it to mount read only. I'm wondering if you meant to say your card was read only? If so, try plugging your card into a computer and copying the contents to the PC. If an error pops up about a file, delete that file from the card and you should be good to go. If no error happens, make a backup of the card, then reformat the card on your PC, pop it into your phone and format it again under settings->sdcard. Then just copy the contents from your PC back onto it.

Since this my first post I can't provide a link. This is a copy and paste from a different forum. Worked for me and I didn't have to reformat:
"I approached it without reformatting. I took the SD card out and loaded it into a card reader and looked at the file system on the card. One of my subdirs in my Music directory was corrupted and I wasn't able to delete the folder.
So I right clicked on the removable drive and went to properties.
From there I clicked on the TOOLS tab and then on the CHECK NOW button for error checking.
I ran this a few times until I was finally able to kill the remaining files in that subdir.
I then reloaded the card and everything seems ok, except I need to reload my music."

nukedukem said:
Sometimes a file on my sd card will become corrupt, causing it to mount read only. I'm wondering if you meant to say your card was read only? If so, try plugging your card into a computer and copying the contents to the PC. If an error pops up about a file, delete that file from the card and you should be good to go. If no error happens, make a backup of the card, then reformat the card on your PC, pop it into your phone and format it again under settings->sdcard. Then just copy the contents from your PC back onto it.
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You're right.... Thanks, will try this now. It said read only...

kingdady said:
Since this my first post I can't provide a link. This is a copy and paste from a different forum. Worked for me and I didn't have to reformat:
"I approached it without reformatting. I took the SD card out and loaded it into a card reader and looked at the file system on the card. One of my subdirs in my Music directory was corrupted and I wasn't able to delete the folder.
So I right clicked on the removable drive and went to properties.
From there I clicked on the TOOLS tab and then on the CHECK NOW button for error checking.
I ran this a few times until I was finally able to kill the remaining files in that subdir.
I then reloaded the card and everything seems ok, except I need to reload my music."
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Thanks. Both of these I have noted & will try. I appreciate You Guys taking time to help.... GOD Bless!

[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.
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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] SD Card Destroyed??

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.

SD Card Problems

Putting this out there because I've never seen this before and cannot find anything on it to fix it.
I have a 64gb microSD card that is formatted FAT32. Been working fine for months and all of the sudden, after trying to copy a zip file onto it yesterday, I no longer have write permissions. I just want to format it and start over but I can't. I've tried formatting it with 4 different programs in windows. I can't write anything to it via usb cable if its mounted in my S3. I can't write anything or delete anything via root explorer. I've tried multiple computers, different adapters in my computer, writing to it anyway that I know how and nothing works. It was never encrypted or anything, just a straight up plain microSD card.
Does anyone know how to remove write protections via a PC or force a format? I've tried to format unsuccessfully multiple times, presumably because it is write protected somehow.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Bump.
I've tried to completely repartition multiple times on two different OS's, no luck. Can't get this thing format at all. I can delete a file(s) and create new folders, and it'll show the changes initially, but then if I re-mount it, everything is the same.
When I run a repair program it points to the previously mentioned zip file, saying its corrupt but there is no way that I can see to wipe it. Ideas?

Try fixing permissions and check the first 9 boxes using root explorer.
EDIT: if you are trying to put files over 4GB it will not work.
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psp9000333 said:
Try fixing permissions and check the first 9 boxes using root explorer.
EDIT: if you are trying to put files over 4GB it will not work.
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I tried earlier in the day fixing permissions and it was a no-go. I couldn't do anything through the phone and that's why I just pulled the card and started trying to format/wipe/re-partition the card via computer. It was the same story for both devices though. I could make a change to a file (i.e. delete or move something) but as soon as I remounted the card, it would be like nothing I did ever happened. All the files prior to this happening are there and readable, I just can't create anything new or delete anything.

jperry73 said:
There's a switch on the side of your SD adapter to toggle read/write
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I wish it was that simple. If I put the switch in the locked position, the computer recognizes it as locked. However, if I put it up where it is supposed to be to write to the card, the computer thinks its writable but won't actually erase anything. Same thing is going on when I put the card in my phone and try to manipulate files, without an adapter.

Sounds like the card itself went bad and needs to be replaced.

jperry73 said:
Format it in Recovery, that;s how I did mine.
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I tried that a couple of times . At first glance it looks like it's formatted, none of the files show up. However, after rebooting, everything is still there--nothing changed. I just want to wipe this thing but I nothing is taking. I am starting to think that this thing is just done but I am holding out hope because I can still see and read the files that were on there before this fiasco.
Every time I run a repair utility, it points to the zip that caused all of this trouble, saying that it is corrupt but I can't wipe it. I have no idea what to do.

jperry73 said:
Try the Windows Disk Management
Right click it, and hit delete. Right click the unallocated space and choose Create and format NTFS. Then format it to to FAT32
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The option to delete the volume is grayed out. Any attempt to format fail. When I run disk repair it does find a problem with the zip file that caused this mess and tells me to run chkdsk to fix it. I do but it never fixes anything.
Is there a program that will forcefully wipe out the partition so that it can be reformatted?

Bump.. Same problem here .Did you find any solution?
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Try this:
- Go to start, type in cmd
- Right click on cmd, and select "run as Administrator"
- command line will start w/ Admin privileges
Here, you need to run a program called DiskPart. It helps you "clean" hard drives that have many partitions that aren't normally accessible.
- from cmd line, type diskpart
- a new command line program will start
- here, type "list", it will show you a list of commands.
- type "list disk", find out which disk is your 64GB micro (mine happens to be disk 8)
- type "select disk #" (# is your disk you want for cleaning)
- disk # will be selected.
Very important: Make sure you have the right disk!
- If you are sure, type in the word "clean". This will completely wipe out the disk that was selected.
after that, you're done, you can exit DiskPart/cmd.
Go back to Disk Management, and now you can see that the whole drive is unallocated.
At this point, you can format your drive (using your Android device or Windows, to FAT32 or exFAT)