Device has some how put itself in read only mode - HD2 General

Hi there,
My HD2 has somehow made the main memory Read only, I cant install anything and cant delete anything and when I do I get the message "Cannot Delete "": Access is denied. Be certain that the file is not write-protected and is not currently in use"
Iv tried deleting multiple things and get the same message, I have done a soft reset and it still remains the same.
also the message is the same when trying to copy something to phone memory "Cannot copy "": Access is denied. Be certain that there is enough frree memory, that the destination is not write-protected and that the file is not currently in use"
Please someone tell me that there is a fix for this

Hyweljh said:
Hi there,
My HD2 has somehow made the main memory Read only, I cant install anything and cant delete anything and when I do I get the message "Cannot Delete "": Access is denied. Be certain that the file is not write-protected and is not currently in use"
Iv tried deleting multiple things and get the same message, I have done a soft reset and it still remains the same.
also the message is the same when trying to copy something to phone memory "Cannot copy "": Access is denied. Be certain that there is enough frree memory, that the destination is not write-protected and that the file is not currently in use"
Please someone tell me that there is a fix for this
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Try hard resetting the phone?
Use google to find out how.
If that doesn't work, you'll probably need to send it back to HTC.

Did a hard reset, its been two days and now it has done it again! is this happening to anyone else? or any idea why? the phone is still usable but I cant install anything or delete anything!
There is once diffrence to last time! the sd card was not read only last time and now it is! so if anything the problem has got worse!

Happened to me once. Hard reset didn't fix it.
Luckily i happened with a 2gb card and I had a 8gb in the post.
ouch wood, the 8gb has been fine for over 2 months now.

shandoli Did your phone's internal memory go into read only mode aswell though???
Update: I am going to upload a video that shows my problem in more detail!
Here is the video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncVyeXQwmvg
Please watch!

BUMP!!!!
Please can someone just give me some new things to try?

same error not sure how to fix
Hi All,
I am alos getting the same error, not able to install and delete any application any file. Can any one help on this

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Safe Mode

Is there any way to boot a Wizard into a safe mode?
I dont want to hard reset , it boots, I put it my passcode and THEN it hangs, so it boots but something is killing it before it fully loads.
I think its the today screen itself that is hanging in, is there any way to disable/remove today plugins through active sync ? Add/Remove programs wont work, so am thinking I could probably disable the plugins and then reboot.....
If when you boot the phone and it hangs, it is still visible by Activestink, you could do in to your phone and remove the plugin files... then reboot, and if that in fact was causing the problem you might be ok.
Otherwise you'll be hard resetting. Hope you made a backup!
Yeah, it syncs if I dont put the password in. Only thing I would lose would be my SMS messages which haven't been backed up in a while. Bugger will be getting a new license for Opera.
Any idea where the plugins files are?
The thing that broke it was I installed O2 plus. I re-enabled RhinoStats cause I wanted to know how much CPU was taking, and I think it was the combo of these two things which broke it.
If I hold the power key down it does ask if I want to turn off my device, which is "nice"..... it's not dead but it certainly doesnt do much.
It wont add/remove programs, it gets half way through then dies.
ANd what happens if you break a today plugin? Does it fail to load and then have windows clean up after itself? Or does it royally break things?
Wont let me delete the rhinostats dll file and I dont know which O2 files I can delete so I shall not be touching those.
Have removed the sim card, will see if that helps get it into some sort of working state so I can fix the problems it seems to be having. -> Answer, no. Just shows a different screen when it gets round to breaking.
Any more ideas?
Ok, I dont know how I managed to do it, but this time (having now re-inserted my sim and removed the 2Gb SD card) it didn't immediatly die.
I cant explain it, I dont know if this is a coincidence, but I have now de-installed O2 plus and disabled all the today plugins I could find. I shall now be running a new backup.....
Now let's see if it dies.....
On a side note, anyone know of a way of exporting all the SMS messages in a format that is readable by a desktop computer (preferably via notepad/nano)?
if u want to backup ur sms msgs, there is a file called cemail.vol.
copy it to ur storage card, hard reset, then copy iy back again.
Mohammad
mohgdeisat said:
if u want to backup ur sms msgs, there is a file called cemail.vol. copy it to ur storage card, hard reset, then copy iy back again.
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Hi Mohammad, i can't copy/paste it as it is locked by something. How to do it?
Regards...
try renaming the current cemail.vol to anything ..like cemail.volx then copy the old cemail.vol into the same directory where the new cemail.vol resides. soft reset.
da_mayhem said:
try renaming the current cemail.vol to anything ..like cemail.volx then copy the old cemail.vol into the same directory where the new cemail.vol resides. soft reset.
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but how can i backup the "old" one? as i said it is locked so i can't copy it...
btw: even renaming does not work because of the file being locked...
Tried checking it on my phone, and yes it can't, i guess this only works with Smartphones. I'm sorry for that.
Cavey.co.uk said:
Is there any way to boot a Wizard into a safe mode?
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Read http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/index.php?blog=3&p=1255&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

Installation was Unsuccessful

This happened to me before and I ended up doing a hard reset, then it happened again but then that was due to a program needing a reset so after doing a soft reset for that it worked.
Now I have the 2.26 rom in and I have spent about a month and just installed a bunch of new apps today, nearing the end the same thing has happened to me. I tried a soft reset but it didn't fix the problem, I can't even go to the add/remove programs and remove the last few programs I had. It shows no programs to remove.
I don't know if installing it via .cab would work but these last few programs I'm trying to install are only in a .exe file, not a .cab file.
Then this is also interesting, I can't delete any 'system' files, I just tried to delete the default pictures from the main memory and I recieved
"Cannot delete picture_name: Access is denied
Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and the file is currently not in use"
However I can delete the file through activesync on my computer.
There are about 16mbs of free storage.
I tried searching the forums but I couldn't find anything. I do believe this is a bug associated with WM5, does anybody have a workaround or fix?
I've only seen that a couple of times but a hrad reset was required. Curious on what software you're installing as this isn't really too common around here. Something's going rogue on you for sure, just what you're going to need to narrow down.
Sorry ...
Yes, I believe this problem comes about from an unsuccessful installation of a program, I had numerous unsuccessful installations so that is the probably the culprit. Oh well, I just did a hard reset, it's gonna be a looooong night.

Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and the file is not in use' message

I encountered the following problems all at once,and I think they are related to the same cause.
A) While trying to install an application, I got a message saying that the CAB installation was not successful,
B) when I try to uninstall any application via start>setting>system>remove program, none of no applications are listed.
C) I have an error message 'Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and the file is not in use' is I try to delete file/folder or to move or rename them. This is so for microdrive, SD, and main memory.
I've done a hard reset. But as soon as I use Sprite Restore, the above problems come back.
Has anyone come across this problem before? I think some unknown processes is locking up my device. In desktop environment, when we have this problem, there is a utility called UNLOCK to solve the problem. Is there an equivalent tool in WM5 environment?
Appreciate any help you guy can give on this.
I have another issue with memory. Sometimes it will show me that the Mini SD is full even if it is empty or i will not show the files in the Mini so i have to reset and then it will be fine. has anybody had this ptoblem before.
I solve the problem by restoring from a day old backup copy using Sprite restore. Initially I tried to restore only the system data and leave the document etc unchanged. However it didn't work. The problem went away after I did a complete restore.
Looks like there is an invisible lock places in the unit, making it looks as is all files and folders are being used by another program. We definitely need a utility program to deal with this because while my approach did solve the problem,I also lost a day's data.

'access is denied' ?

i am getting 'access is denied if I try to cut,paste,copy or delete on my exec. The programs on it are still running and it will save files in winword and such. It makes no difference if the file is on the sd card or in the ram. The story is the same as regards copying onto a pc. Help I am locked out ! I don't really want to do a hard reset in case I am still locked out and the exec becomes useless. any ideas? It happened after syncing with Vista - don't know if that did it.

Services.exe Error on Device Restart

Hi,
On 1st Jan i had to do a hard-reset of the device. Since then, regardless of the applications i've installed... my Xperia has been working with remarkable performance! But Alas! today after i was testing out new software, i ran into a new problem.
Though the performance of the device hasn't lagged, but whenever i do a soft reset, i get an error saying 'a problem has occurred with services.exe'.
Any ideas? It seems to me that it is starting something that doesn't exist anymore? Is there a startup manager app that i could use or something like that?
Best Regards.
Salman Khalid.
Oh never mind... i found that SKTools has a startup app manager, but that didn't help. I also checked missing links in registry and stuff, but still no luck... so i ended up hard resetting the phone. (true that the error came only once when you soft-reset the phone and that the phone's performance was not at all degraded, but it was annoying me crazy! )
What is the piece of software you have intalled that prior to the error ?
I think Services.exe is a system file, if that is missing or damaged you may have to do another hard reset, aslong as youve saved everything to your Pc or memory card, its ok.
One thing you have to watch with a hard reset is the system files left on the memory card from your prev install, using file explorer, click menu, show all files, and look for any folder on the memory card called things like cache, programs, MSMETADATA, WMDRM, etc, basicall anything you have not specifically copied there manually.
If you dont delete these files windows will boot up and get confused and try to follow settings you had for your last install.
Mark A Cilenti said:
What is the piece of software you have intalled that prior to the error ?
I think Services.exe is a system file, if that is missing or damaged you may have to do another hard reset, aslong as youve saved everything to your Pc or memory card, its ok.
One thing you have to watch with a hard reset is the system files left on the memory card from your prev install, using file explorer, click menu, show all files, and look for any folder on the memory card called things like cache, programs, MSMETADATA, WMDRM, etc, basicall anything you have not specifically copied there manually.
If you dont delete these files windows will boot up and get confused and try to follow settings you had for your last install.
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I installed over 10 different apps in under 10 minutes and it coule have been any one of them. Services.exe was neither corrupted nor missing, as that would have resulted in continuous errors, but like i said; the error came up only once once i rebooted.
Anyhow... i've already hard-reset the device after being unable to figure out what caused the error. As for the MicroSD card... i did a full format of the card as i can easily copy all the stuff back in from my laptop again as needed...
Thanks!

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