So from cm14.1 to LineageOS 14.1 i still have the same error. My system won't read the sd card and by "system" I mean file explorer, music app(any of them), gallery ( any of them). I can write to it but not read. the only way is with other file explorer or manager apps. Is there a fix ? my device : KLTE
similar problem here, full wipe + install nightly 01/25 => no internal sdcard access at all.
nexus 7 2013, nightly 01/25, su, opengapps nano
I had a similar experience and found 2 file systems that worked for me. exFAT and vFAT.
I ended up putting the MicroSD in my PC, assigned a drive letter, backed up what I wanted to save then i did a complete format (not a quick format) and selected exFAT.
Though it took a while, i copied the files back to the MicroSD and put it back in the device. It worked like a charm and, so far, worked great.
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I had a similar experience and found 2 file systems that worked for me. exFAT and vFAT.
I ended up putting the MicroSD in my PC, assigned a drive letter, backed up what I wanted to save then i did a complete format (not a quick format) and selected exFAT.
Though it took a while, i copied the files back to the MicroSD and put it back in the device. It worked like a charm and, so far, worked great.
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Tnx for the advice but I think that I solved it by formatting my sd card as internal storage :good:
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I flashed the root66_ATT_I747UCDLK3 image the other night and performed a full factory reset in stock recovery. The 16GB external SD card I've been using for a couple weeks was working fine with TiBu Pro 5.7.2 on multiple ROMs (all JB-based, but on top of ICS firmware of course). Now, with the JB firmware underneath, TiBu appears to "lose" write access to /storage/extSdCard after a couple operations. I was able to restore a handful of APKs from my last backup (FrostyJB v10.1 TMO, with edited build.props), and then I had to force-stop the restore because it hung. When I went back to TiBu and checked the Backup Directory location in Prefs, it said it did not have write access to the directory. I have to unmount and remount the card in order to get the rest of the system to recognize it as writeable again after this (or reboot).
Other applications seem to work just fine with the extSdCard. I'm able to save photos to it, copy files via AFT (I have a Mac), and download via the browser to /storage/extSdCard/Download. Only TiBu seems to have problems. TiBu is able to read/write to the internal SD card with no problems, and I've been able to freeze/unfreeze applications and restore backups of call logs and messages (saved to Dropbox, not the external SD card) without issue, so I don't think it's a problem with TiBu's root permissions.
Anyone else seeing this?
Short of formatting the card with the JB image and testing again, does anyone have any suggestions?
Crap, looks like other apps are starting to have problems with the external SD card. I took it out and ran several copy/delete cycles via an SD card reader on my Mac without issue, so I don't think it's the card itself. I also had no issues with the card using the ICS firmware (even with JB ROMs on top of it).
I've edited the title of the thread. Is anyone have trouble with an external SD card in JB? I've tried formatting it, and that didn't appear to fix the issues.
Some more info. I found an old Class 4 2GB card laying around and TiBu and other apps seem to be able to read/write to it just fine (so far). The 16GB Class 10 card I was using, despite seeming to be fine according to my computer, doesn't work reliably with the phone since I updated to JB. Not sure if the speed of the card has anything to do with this, but is anyone else having trouble with Class 10 cards? If so, how big is your card?
One last update--I reformatted the 16GB Class 10 card using exFAT instead of FAT32. It seems to be happy with it so far. I was able to complete a couple of backups to it with TiBu. I will test it again periodically throughout the evening and report back.
Also, if it fails again later, I will remount the 2GB Class 4 card and do some periodic testing on that to see if it's a situation where things work immediately after mount, but then start failing later. If that's the case, does anyone have any ideas of how to start troubleshooting? Would logcat capture a filesystem being remounted read-only?
I had the same issue but I ended up flashing CWM then TWRP. Now TWRP can see my external and internal.
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I had the same issue but I ended up flashing CWM then TWRP. Now TWRP can see my external and internal.
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Thanks for the feedback, but I'm not talking about a recovery having problems with the external SD card. This is applications on the ROM itself.
So far tonight I've run several TiBu forced redo backups and taken several pictures, and they've all worked properly to the external SD card. The computer format to exFAT seems to have helped. I won't call the issue fixed until it works properly for a few days.
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Thanks for the feedback, but I'm not talking about a recovery having problems with the external SD card. This is applications on the ROM itself.
So far tonight I've run several TiBu forced redo backups and taken several pictures, and they've all worked properly to the external SD card. The computer format to exFAT seems to have helped. I won't call the issue fixed until it works properly for a few days.
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is it still good?
Hey! So my 64gb SanDisk microsd card was working fine then the other day it decided to switch to read only, and nothing I do will fix it, windows refuses to format it, ubuntu says it did but the data remains untouched, nothing works! Any help?
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Try downloading root explorer and mounting it as r/w
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do you use an adapter to connect it to your pc?
also, i had a sandisk usb flash drive. 2 of my coworkers had a flash drive and micro sd go out in december and january. coincidence? perhaps...
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Try downloading root explorer and mounting it as r/w
Edit: thanks bro! Didn't see the option to mount as r/w, that fixed it!
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It says the permissions cannot be changed because the file system is read only
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It says the permissions cannot be changed because the file system is read only
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How was this solved?
something similar happened to me with mine. I had to reformat it and I lost everything that was on it but it works now.
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I has been dealing with this issue ...now with two SanDisk Micro sd cards XC I, I did tried to format in almost all the know ways...tried Linux, Windows, command line, Different adapters, Different computers, tried with the Storage feature from the Android OS,
Now I have two beatiful 64G micro sd cards....READ ONLY. Also if you browse the content in the file explorer from the computer the Delete option is not listed in the explorer.
Is there any magic tool that can remove this read only feature from the cards????????
same issue
etvelec77 said:
I has been dealing with this issue ...now with two SanDisk Micro sd cards XC I, I did tried to format in almost all the know ways...tried Linux, Windows, command line, Different adapters, Different computers, tried with the Storage feature from the Android OS,
Now I have two beatiful 64G micro sd cards....READ ONLY. Also if you browse the content in the file explorer from the computer the Delete option is not listed in the explorer.
Is there any magic tool that can remove this read only feature from the cards????????
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Same issue here: did you update ROM to 4.3 version? I read that it could contain a setting within the platform.xml file that you find into system/etc/permission folder. See this
I tried it but with no success.
I hope you're luckier
Btw i sent it back to Amazon asking for refund (and they agreed). Bye
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Dika2110 said:
Same issue here: did you update ROM to 4.3 version? I read that it could contain a setting within the platform.xml file that you find into system/etc/permission folder. See this
I tried it but with no success.
I hope you're luckier
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I warn you trying this setting. I tried this >>> Editing .XML file. I started getting severe force closes especially Google Frame Work Services. Even reverting did not help. Had to use my Nandroid Backup to go back.
4.3 is sucking so far for 64 GB External SD Card write support. Titanium Backup & Helium both apps can not do automatic scheduled Backups on External SD Card since 99% of the time they do not get Write Access. Only way to do an external SD Card backup is manually after rebooting the phone, even that is hit n miss.
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I warn you trying this setting. I tried this >>> Editing .XML file. I started getting severe force closes especially Google Frame Work Services. Even reverting did not help. Had to use my Nandroid Backup to go back.
4.3 is sucking so far for 64 GB External SD Card write support. Titanium Backup & Helium both apps can not do automatic scheduled Backups on External SD Card since 99% of the time they do not get Write Access. Only way to do an external SD Card backup is manually after rebooting the phone, even that is hit n miss.
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I agree with you. 4.3 is still far from 64Gb SD Card support, and I know that editing this file can be dangerous, but I read that someone was able to restore his card and due to its cost was worth a try. During my tentative, this update didn't have effect (but at least I didn't get more troubles).
Same issue.
64GB SanDisk card from my Note 3 (search brought me here) became read only after 5 months.
I've ended up sending it under warranty back to SanDisk.
I'm glad I didn't loose anything as I've backed it up but still don't like the idea of returning something with a lot of my data and photos I can't delete.
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Lembo said:
Same issue.
64GB SanDisk card from my Note 3 (search brought me here) became read only after 5 months.
I've ended up sending it under warranty back to SanDisk.
I'm glad I didn't loose anything as I've backed it up but still don't like the idea of returning something with a lot of my data and photos I can't delete.
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I was having the very same problem. I finally went into the computer management, and was about to throw phone across room....when I tried to format one last time. This time I unchecked the quick format. It is taking longer, but seems to be working...I am keeping fingers crossed.
Full Format has finished and card is saved! Hope this helps anyone in the future.
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.
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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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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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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.
I tried doing the unmount trick, the one with the terminal. Still nothing
The "funny" thing is that I can install free apps without problem, but when I download Swype and Poweramp unlocker (which I bought) i keep getting this error
solutions?
Did you try a Link2SD?
More details please buddy, want to help but need to know as much as you can tell. Rom, flash details, when it first happened, etc.
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More details please buddy, want to help but need to know as much as you can tell. Rom, flash details, when it first happened, etc.
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Hello, I have flashed the JellyKat ROM v5 on my NoteII and got a new sd card (ADATA 32GB) from ebay, the card was sealed so I hope I wasn't cheated, but randomly I see these things in my DCIM folder and I can't write to the card and the phone seems to not read the media on it music photos everything, and I can't install any apps on it or update existing app or even create a folder through the default touchwiz My Files.
I tried to format the card on the PC but can only do quick format because it loads and loads and then say windows can't format this, I also formated it via the phone it worked for a while and then stopped working again, now I don't put a card in the phone.
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Hello, I have flashed the JellyKat ROM v5 on my NoteII and got a new sd card (ADATA 32GB) from ebay, the card was sealed so I hope I wasn't cheated, but randomly I see these things in my DCIM folder and I can't write to the card and the phone seems to not read the media on it music photos everything, and I can't install any apps on it or update existing app or even create a folder through the default touchwiz My Files.
I tried to format the card on the PC but can only do quick format because it loads and loads and then say windows can't format this, I also formated it via the phone it worked for a while and then stopped working again, now I don't put a card in the phone.
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Seems like sdcard's memory partitions corrupted.
Try different Sdcard & update info
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Seems like sdcard's memory partitions corrupted.
Try different Sdcard & update info
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I have been using my old card from my tablet all day now and it is working fine I created a new folder and copied some files from internal storage to it to test it and it worked.
Is there a way to fix the corrupted partitions on the other card?
Jerry69 said:
I tried doing the unmount trick, the one with the terminal. Still nothing
The "funny" thing is that I can install free apps without problem, but when I download Swype and Poweramp unlocker (which I bought) i keep getting this error
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Yup, I also faced that kind of problem before, simply run KitKat SD fix, grant root and let the app patch the platform.xml. Reboot and try again. It worked for me. :good:
Apologies if this is not the correct forum but it relates to my Tab S 10.5 and a Sandisk 32Gb SD Card.
Please bear with me because I'm wracking my brains trying to work out what's wrong.
The card was working fine up until today when I decided to copy everything from the card onto my PC. This it did with no problems. I backed up the whole card to a folder on my desktop. I then reformatted the card.
When I came to copy the files back to the card, they wouldn't. I just got the 'copying' bar until eventually Windows said 'can't copy'.
Ok, I thought, must be a dodgy card. So I checked the tablet and all seemed fine. I could transfer files from internal storage to the card and back again but try as I might, I just cannot get anything from PC to tablet. Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit.
Anyone any thoughts at all?
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Apologies if this is not the correct forum but it relates to my Tab S 10.5 and a Sandisk 32Gb SD Card.
Please bear with me because I'm wracking my brains trying to work out what's wrong.
The card was working fine up until today when I decided to copy everything from the card onto my PC. This it did with no problems. I backed up the whole card to a folder on my desktop. I then reformatted the card.
When I came to copy the files back to the card, they wouldn't. I just got the 'copying' bar until eventually Windows said 'can't copy'.
Ok, I thought, must be a dodgy card. So I checked the tablet and all seemed fine. I could transfer files from internal storage to the card and back again but try as I might, I just cannot get anything from PC to tablet. Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit.
Anyone any thoughts at all?
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When you formated the card, did you format to the way it was (FAT32 or something else) ?
in my tablet , i did that process a lot with no problem like yours:
I formatted using the Tab S.
Like I said, it works fine. I can see it in Windows Explorer (and the folders Android and LOSTDIR.)
I just can't copy from PC to Tab
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I formatted using the Tab S.
Like I said, it works fine. I can see it in Windows Explorer (and the folders Android and LOSTDIR.)
I just can't copy from PC to Tab
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Ok , i will search for help , give me some hours
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I formatted using the Tab S.
Like I said, it works fine. I can see it in Windows Explorer (and the folders Android and LOSTDIR.)
I just can't copy from PC to Tab
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Have you used a program do get admin abilities ?
Reformat in Windows to fat32. If that doesn't cure it try a different adapter if you're using one and make sure it's not write protected.
I had a bad sdcard that did this to me too. I had to put it in a PC to know for sure that it was bad since the PC didn't even write, delete, or format it either. It was a Samsung 64gb that when bad inside my Tab S, but now I'm rocking a Sandisk 64gb which so far hasn't stopped working inside the Tab S.
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I had a bad sdcard that did this to me too. I had to put it in a PC to know for sure that it was bad since the PC didn't even write, delete, or format it either. It was a Samsung 64gb that when bad inside my Tab S, but now I'm rocking a Sandisk 64gb which so far hasn't stopped working inside the Tab S.
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Weird because it wasn't the card. I reflashed to stock and all seemed well!
Thanks for the advice.