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..
Sent from my HTC Desire using the XDA mobile application powered by Tapatalk
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.
Sent from my HTC Desire
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.
if someone could help me with this, it would be greatly appreciated.
ever since about 3 days into flashing freshes 0.1 ROM, I have been getting unexplained SD problems. for example,
1) I would open up the camera and I would get an error mesage saying " cannot write to SD card: no sufficient privileges.
2)when i open up my music app,(I have about 10 albums of music in my music folder on my SD Card), I get a force close, or just no music would show up at all.
3) when i use a file explorer like ASTRO, I would go into a folder that I know has files in it, yet it's showing me an empty folder, or when i try to delete a file i would just get an error message.
4) and finally, when I open up my gallery, it would either get a force close, or say SD card is unmounted, or just show no pictures at all.
I updated freshes 0.2 rom thinking it may have solved the problem. but it didn't
then flashed Damage's 3.0 Rom and still same problems.
Is this software related or just my SD card going bad,( its the stock 8GB card that came with it.
It never used to be like this. just started happening about 3 days ago
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=695198
Had issue with Fresh 0.2 also so have RUU back to stock and will wait for Froyo maybe or something newer!
So, the specs are following:
Rooted Desire
Official HTC Froyo ROM v1.0c by AdamG (with latest radio)
EXT3 partition with enabled A2SD (not Froyo's)
Sandisk 8GB class 6 card
Yesterday I've created EXT3 partition on my SD card, reinstalled fresh ROM (did all wipes before), set up all programs (A2SD enabled) etc. Everything was working like a charm until this morning.
Just for the record, this ROM worked excellent even without EXT3 partition. I was using Froyo's A2SD for a week. Yesterday I've decided to set up the unofficial A2SD in order to free some internal memory.
Symptoms:
- File explorer is hanging when it's trying to access to SD card. Some times the screen is black and FC popup jumps, some times after a minute it opens SD content. But scrolling and browsing the content is pain in the a$$ and it results with "application not responding" popup.
- Market cannot download new apps. Actually download starts, the icon in status bar shows for a second and then dissapears. There is a progress bar under the "download" section but it's stuck. Few times the Market has crashed too. Tried over wifi and data connection - same result.
- Selecting ringtone from SD card is slow or impossible. Default tones are played instantly and SD card's are some times played after minute or two, and some times results with "application not responding" popup. I can receive calls and messages but they are muted.
- Camera can't take a picture or focus. Can't open camera settings... Gallery is also slow. Browser also get freeze after opening a home page.
I can't remember I did anything crucial this morning. Everything worked fine yesterday. This morning I've sent few emails, browsed the internet a little bit, nimbuzz, listened to some music, connected mobile to the computer and exchanged some photos... Nothing installed, nothing modded.
Tried reboot several times.
Tried killing problematic apps and open them again.
Tried reboot without SD card - stuck on green htc boot screen
Help?
It seems some folders on fat32 partition was damaged or corrupted. However, I formated card in windows to prevent formating ext3 partition, and now everything's running smoothly.
Does anyone know why this happend? Two folders were corrupted: one is created this morning (it's new), and one is backup folder for one app (it was automaticaly created yesterday).
Seen similar behaviour. Can be caused by disconnecting the phone from the pc when it's still executing write actions. Probably there can be more causes but this way you can even reproduce it.
I had this with one card and it became worse over time, regardless of formatting. Easiest thing to do was to remove the damaged files/folders via cmd instead of via explorer. This saved me recopying everything on there again like after a format. In the end i replaced the SD card as i couldnt get it permanently fixed, just as if a couple of memory cells had been permanently damaged and the card would start to act weird whenever something was written to those cells.
So, just keep an eye on your card and you should be fine
Hey everyone. I am running savagedzen 2.2.1 (CFS). Up until about a week ago it was running fantastic. However, it recently has started to give me tons of SDcard errors, but they're intermittant. For example when trying to run spotify, i'll get errors that the SDcard isn't currently accessible when the phone has been running a little while; but then I'll be able to open fpse and play an iso off of the sdcard just fine. Then i'll try to open a game in my snes emulator and it won't be able to open the save file even though the game works fine.
Weird stuff.
As of today I'm copying everything off and reformatting. Any suggestions on tools, utils, or some sort of fsck utility for the memory card to make sure its working ok? None of the tools seem to indicate that there is any problem. I'm still using the stock memory card so I may look into grabbing a class 10 16GB card if the time has come for a replacement.
msarro said:
Hey everyone. I am running savagedzen 2.2.1 (CFS). Up until about a week ago it was running fantastic. However, it recently has started to give me tons of SDcard errors, but they're intermittant. For example when trying to run spotify, i'll get errors that the SDcard isn't currently accessible when the phone has been running a little while; but then I'll be able to open fpse and play an iso off of the sdcard just fine. Then i'll try to open a game in my snes emulator and it won't be able to open the save file even though the game works fine.
Weird stuff.
As of today I'm copying everything off and reformatting. Any suggestions on tools, utils, or some sort of fsck utility for the memory card to make sure its working ok? None of the tools seem to indicate that there is any problem. I'm still using the stock memory card so I may look into grabbing a class 10 16GB card if the time has come for a replacement.
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reformatting is the first thing i would try.
you can also check to make sure the SD card is properly seated. perhaps it may have a loose/intermittent electrical connection.
i am not sure what else you can do.
Well, just copied everything off, and have formatted from recovery. Now I'm copying everything back - hopefully the wonkiness goes away.
Also deleted the /sdcard/android folder. Here's hoping that doesn't jack too much up. Worst case scenario is I install a new rom :X
Ok this is getting weirder.
When I try to format the disk (via recovery->wipe), it acts like it is formatting. However when i go into /sdcard, there are all my files.
I put the card in a sdcard reader, and opened it in windows - all the files are there. I am manually deleting them, and getting no errors. However when I open back up the card, all of my files are still there.
I'm about to try using dd and zeroing out the card - not sure what else to do. I don't think its write protection because there is no error when I attempt to delete a file. In explorer it even shows that the file was deleted. But if I unmount/remount the card... there it is again.
Thinking this may be a sign to get a new card.
Well, I'm about to declare the sdcard as shot.
Code:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mmcblk0
runs, and finishes with no issue. Then, wiped the card via Amon RA Recovery. Results? Files still present on the SD-Card.
The crazy thing is that I can add new files to the card, but I can't delete anything. If anyone has any ideas, I'd really appreciate it. Otherwise, I'm picking up a 16GB class 10 card on my way home from work.
Format it with Windows and see what happens
HipKat said:
Format it with Windows and see what happens
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Tried it earlier; format fails with an unknown error. mkfs.vfat appears to succeed, but then the files are still there.
Edit:
Just had a coworker attempt to format the disk using mac diskutils - same thing. Showed a successful format, and it looked like it was blank. But then after unmounting/remounting, there were my files!
Looks like I'll be picking up a new card. In the meantime I'll keep this one around as my indestructable backup copy
My sd card got the dreaded 'format not recognized please format the card' after updating my Note 2 to 4.2.2
Even after allowing the format on the phone, the error wouldn't go away. On the computer it would read fine after I did a scan and auto-fix. The old data was still there so I backed up the data onto my PC hard drive and then I formatted the card using default settings. Popped it back into the Note 2 but it still gave me the error. So after Googling for an hour and reading and trying various things, I finally found a post that worked. A formatting program from:
http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/download/fat32format.zip
and it is command line driven so if on Windows, you need to use command prompt. Simply locate where you unzipped the program. Change to that directory and then run it:
fat32format <destination drive letter of your sd card>
hope that helps anyone who has similar problems...