Hey folks,
Big issue here, after installing Liquid ROM 3.0 on my DX running the GB OTA, my SD card is set as Read Only, and I don't see a way to change it.
I can't change permissions from Root Explorer, and now I can't even download things to the card.
Anyone know what to do?
Thanks.
**Edit** Fixed - went to Settings>Storage> Unmounted then remounted card.
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Just realized I can't install apps to SD like angry birds or minisquadron. I figured I need to unmount SD and then load and it works.
Anyone know how I can fix this issue? I tried searching with no luck
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are you getting error 18? if you are, i had the same problem today and i searched it on google. people said to delete the file smdl2tmp1.asec in the /sdcard/.android_secure/ directory. unfortunately for me, i didnt have the file so another solution suggeted what you did, unmount sd card, install/update app, mount sd and that worked for me
Once you unmount, install, remount you can then move to SD.
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i used to be able to load these items on first try without unmounting.
I think the issue lies with flashing so many roms in the fast few weeks. Going to 322 and back to 318 must have written something to my sd card.
when a new rom comes out, i will move my crap off my sd card, format and try again. That will probably fix it.
i have tried deleting android.secure, data on my external sd, no help.
i also don't have that file on my phone to delete.
UPDATE well it looks as though I have found a solution to my woes. I made several attempts of formatting the 2gb card in my laptop to no avail. I tried my old captivate that it originally came out of and the cappy had troubles reading it. I then stuck it in my evo and it registered instant, so I did asdcard format on my evo and then finally the tablet registers the card. In case this helps anyone else
First off someone please enlighten me on the tabs use and the way it mounts the external SD, I read somewhere that it only uses it for media files such as music books and pics. I have an 8GB that belongs in my EVO, and a 2gb that I had for my captivate I was hoping to use in my Tab for now.
Here's my story, maybe someone can shed a little light here: My tab was purchased with Stock 3.1, I was getting annoyed by the constant update request so I went ahead and rooted and installed CWM without incident, then I decided to install the Stock rooted update from here, however when I insert my SD cards they say they are unavailable. So I stick my 2gb in my laptop format to fat32 (should this be different?, typically it works in every other device I own) It still won't read, I did exactly as others point out in other threads but still I am stumped as to how the card is made available to the OS ? Now in a fit of frustration I pulled my 8gb out of my evo put the 2gb in and wham there it is, I put the 3.2 download on the 8gb popped it in tab entered CWM and flashed the update, I don't know if the 2gb is mountable in CWM I will try tonight but the 8gb was mountable through CWM however my 8gb also was not available to Android even after the update.
So what the heck is the use of the external SD and how is it used?
I think you might have an issue with your ROM,
I use my external SD for my titanium backups and other files I want to keep portable. I have used the SD card through my PC via USB and directly by putting into the PC's card reader.
Have you tried using a file manager? I use File Manager HD and the external card shows up as Storage on the left bar.
As for the filesystem, I think I may have originally formatted as FAT but I have also pulled my SD out of my Blackberry and used it to install Honeylicious through CWM,
All in all I dont think you should be having the issues that you are having...
Good luck
If it won't mount in CWM you need to format it in your android phone, that fixed it for me. Once it is formatted correctly you'll see a notification that an SD card is installed. Also my PC wouldn't see it until I put a custom rom on. Also to store items on it you can use a file manager to move things to and from it.
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If it won't mount in CWM you need to format it in your android phone, that fixed it for me. Once it is formatted correctly you'll see a notification that an SD card is installed. Also my PC wouldn't see it until I put a custom rom on. Also to store items on it you can use a file manager to move things to and from it.
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The 8gb card did mount in CWM but would not mount in the OS, or when it would I would get it was unavailable or sometimes even empy when I know there is only about 1 gb free space, I did not test the 2gb in CWM mainly because it was late and I needed to go to bed, but I will try tonight. The 8gb is the one I updated to rooted 3.2 with, I still need to go to 3.2.1 ? Is there a rooted Stock 3.2.1 floating around I really havent looked much into it yet
I have noticed that getting the iconia to read some sd cards is like tossing dice..Most people who have this issue says one card works perfect in every device but not in the iconia.. Some say the card will work sometimes and not others .. Some say the card works in cwm and not with file manager..
The issue here i think is that you have two CARDS THAT ARE FUSSY ABOUT mating with the iconia. OR Your rom .i would read the threads in the rom you are using.. IF still nothing that sounds like your issue ask the DEV about this.. If STILL No luck you can either try to buy a new diffrent card or flash a new rom to try and Diag. this issue..
Good luck..
Silly question
Is your microSD formatted FAT32?
If it is anything else, your unit may have trouble reading it depending on what ROM you are using - Not all ROM's are capable of reading NTFS or other file systems.
Sometimes, microSD's freak out as well, and the only way to get it back to normal is to format it in a Symbian phone (Nokia)
Also, make sure you are using the correct mount point for the card - /mnt/external_sd - Root Explorer and other apps like it can get there.
Other than that, you may just have a bad microSD, I have had many of them die for seemingly no reason.
hi folks.
here's the thing. i just flashed miui 2.1.13 .32 kernel. and when i go to file explorer, i can only see my internal sd card. no matter what program i use... same. AND when i pull out extrenal sd card, phone says that there is NO sd card inserted. but when i put it back in, everything is back to same.
help? thank you
try to push the card slightly to one side or the other. That happened to me too and it was the card that wasn't making contact with the phone.
I got the solution with X5-Setting. Here ist a option for internal or external Card
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I got the solution with X5-Setting. Here ist a option for internal or external Card
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awesome that helped thank you
I'm running .35 kernel, and have noticed that the last few releases of MIUI wont mount the external SD card after a shutdown & startup. It says the SD card is corrupted & needs to be formatted. I even exchanged the SD card for a new one and I still kept getting the problem. I found that rebooting the phone fixes the problem - the SD is now mounted. So it seems to only be a problem after doing a full shutdown - not a restart.
Managed to kill one of my sdcards in the latest miui, it got dced al the time and now i cant write, delete or format it. Have tried it on my laptop without luck. So be careful
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I'm running .35 kernel, and have noticed that the last few releases of MIUI wont mount the external SD card after a shutdown & startup. It says the SD card is corrupted & needs to be formatted. I even exchanged the SD card for a new one and I still kept getting the problem. I found that rebooting the phone fixes the problem - the SD is now mounted. So it seems to only be a problem after doing a full shutdown - not a restart.
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Hi,
I have the same problem! If I power on the smartphone from a full shutdown my sdcard (the external one, 16 GB Sandisk) is not mounted, then if I restart the X5 Pro, Android mount correctly my external sdcard.
For this reason I wanted to change sdcard (before I had a Sandisk 4GB) with a new Sandisk 16GB sdcard. The problem is still here
How can I fix this problem?
I flashed a lot of different roms, based on B512, B540, custom gingerbread 2.3.4, Gingerbread by Genokolar, porting U8860 Huawei Honor for X5Pro, CyanogenMod 7.1 but I have always the same problem.
Please developers, find a solution because it is not a nice bug.
Regards,
kalo86
Experiencing the same problem on my U8800, MIUI 2.1.20, 2.6.35 kernel. After shutdown, the sdcard will not mount. Have to reboot to get it to work again.
Hi, I have the same problem and for this reason I opened a new thread discussing this bug.
Have a look here and vote the poll please
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1483519
Thank you,
regards,
kalo86
addajjal said:
Managed to kill one of my sdcards in the latest miui, it got dced al the time and now i cant write, delete or format it. Have tried it on my laptop without luck. So be careful
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Did you try that on Windows tools or with Unix tools?
I had been using a 16GB external SD card on my phone and it had been working fine. I decided to swap it out for an 8GB card and now my phone doesn't even see that the card is installed. When I try to mount the card using the storage settings, it tells me that it's preparing the SD card and then it doesn't do anything else.
I've tried reformatting the card, reinstalling CM9, purging both cache and Dalvik. Nothing seems to help. The card works perfectly on my PC. What should I do to get the card to work on my phone?
What happens if you put the 16 back in? Does it mount or does it fall into the same behavior as the 8? So your file explore won't see the emmc or it is just that settings->storage doesn't see it?
Just so we are clear (and I assume you know this b/c you are running nightlies) but I have to ask, you know that External_SD is now the emmc? Sorry.
Thank you for your help. When I put the 16GB back in it acts the same way now. When I browse to the emmc folder with Root Explorer, it shows it as being empty, even though I have the SD Card installed. For some reason, it's just not mounting any of them at all. Very weird.
Did you unmount it before you took it out initially? Maybe try putting it in and rebooting and see if it mounts. Or try rebooting w/o it and them putting it in to see if it remounts. Gotta be something simple cause those are always the hardest to find.
I would suggest a few options then.
1. Post something in the CM9 thread and maybe someone will know a little more about it and possibly some code that you might type in the re-mount it. I have an idea what it would be but I am not running CM9 now, so not sure I can do it ad-hoc.
2. If you can see your internal, then maybe make a nandroid and Odin back to stock 2.1, then reinstall. (but your OP says that you already did that, hmm.)
3. There was a mount fix floating around somewhere on Euphoria or Passion maybe Slim or AOKP. That was mainly for mounting to PC.
See what Faultexception thinks, since he is maintaining the CM9 ROM.
I did unmount it before removing it. I've tried all of the steps you've suggested and even posted on the CM9 thread. Hopefully someone on there has dealt with this before. Thanks for your help. I appreciate it.
I too is having the exact issue, have tried all the above and still nothing.
Haha been having this issue on ics passion for months.. ive just ggotten over it.
My 8gb doesnt work but my exact same model/brand 4gb does.. nothint i can do will fix it.
ive tried secure formatting to every fs imaginable and several other things
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Hi guys.
Bought a S/H xoom wifi 32gb yesterday (UK) and I have a few issues with it.
When I go into recover (3e) and I try to apply update from SD card (trying to root with root file from this site) , the system doesnt "see" the SD card, tried a 512mb and an 8gb card, formatted in FAT & FAT32, it just says it failed to mount SD card.
The SD card works fine in the OS (4.0.4) , I can read and write to the card, but recovery doesnt see it. Any ideas? or is the another way I can root it so I can put jellybean on it? Any help appreciated.
ped078 said:
Hi guys.
Bought a S/H xoom wifi 32gb yesterday (UK) and I have a few issues with it.
When I go into recover (3e) and I try to apply update from SD card (trying to root with root file from this site) , the system doesnt "see" the SD card, tried a 512mb and an 8gb card, formatted in FAT & FAT32, it just says it failed to mount SD card.
The SD card works fine in the OS (4.0.4) , I can read and write to the card, but recovery doesnt see it. Any ideas? or is the another way I can root it so I can put jellybean on it? Any help appreciated.
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Check out the following threads, they both offer ways to help you root easily.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2036792
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1947219
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1242241&highlight=root
jase33 said:
Check out the following threads, they both offer ways to help you root easily.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2036792
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1947219
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1242241&highlight=root
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Thanks for your help.
I'm going to try the first link you posted even though its complicated.
The last link, has dead links to the files
Ok got it done.
After flashing r6 recovery everything started working, now running Nightlies 4.2.1
Many thanks.