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sd read only problem

Hi Im currently running wildpuzzle 0.7 and have an issue where the sd card becomes read only. un mount mount do not help, app can not have write access like camera for instance. Under windows file permissions appear ok.
Any clues?
Regards.
Problem resolved by connecting USB, using windows to check drive errors on card.
Thanks.
I would still love to know what may have caused it..........

Cheap sd from ebay?
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brilldoctor said:
Cheap sd from ebay?
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dont think so pal, happened to me with stock card from phone :/

True, happened to me as well, and, only formatting the SD solved it. This happened to me using the stock card.
This happened when I was playing around with A2SD, and had created an EXT partition using ROM Manager. It worked well for a fe whours, then these errors started creeping up and I had to format it. Could be something wrong there....

Sdcard help

Ok please dont laugh. I for some reason decided to erase the data on my sd card. I did it through the phone settings. Ok now i have an error in the tray saying blank or unknown file system. The sdcard doesnt show up in the storage settings. How do i fix this. I dont have access to a pc and i am running cm7.
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Robca79 said:
Ok please dont laugh. I for some reason decided to erase the data on my sd card. I did it through the phone settings. Ok now i have an error in the tray saying blank or unknown file system. The sdcard doesnt show up in the storage settings. How do i fix this. I dont have access to a pc and i am running cm7.
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Format the card from recovery
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I was able to go in recovery mode and partition tje sdcard. Problem is i could only get half the card back. Its a 8gb card now it is only 4gb. Now, how do i het the rest of it back. Lol
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Robca79 said:
I was able to go in recovery mode and partition tje sdcard. Problem is i could only get half the card back. Its a 8gb card now it is only 4gb. Now, how do i het the rest of it back. Lol
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Where did you get your SD card from cuz it sounds like it may be starting to go bad. I'd try formating again with a stock ROM...bit of a pain i know, but might produce a better result also you may wanna try to just reformat a few times in a row with your current ROM to see if it corrects the problem.
best option is if it keeps up is to pull your SD card out of your device and format with a computer when u have access to one then format using your device.

SD Card Won't Mount (CM7.2)

Hi. I am running Cyanogenmod 7.2 stable on my Evo Shift.
A few days ago, out of nowhere my phone began displaying "SD card safe to remove, You can safely remove SD card." I removed the card, removed the battery, blew on the card old school NES style, but the issue remains whenever I reboot the phone. None of my apps that are on the sd card will work and I can't access anything on the card. Is there any way to fix this or at least recover the data off the card? I have not tried to access the card in a card reader on my PC yet.
Thanks in advance for any help regarding this issue.

Your SD card could be toast I've gone through a few of them running app 2 sd
sent from a nuclear explosion

could try reformating it on your computer

+1 on trying to reformat your SD Card. You ca try SD Card Formatter. Works quite well. I've attached it below.

Although formatting your sd card will erase all your data, it may be the only way to make it usable again
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prboy1969 said:
+1 on trying to reformat your SD Card. You ca try SD Card Formatter. Works quite well. I've attached it below.
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What's wrong with formatting it in recovery?
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Turkbot, are you implying that App2SD is the cause of this? Should I avoid App2SD in the future? There's no way I could have all the apps I want on my phone without it or an alternative.
Everyone else, thanks for all the replies. I guess I will just reformat. Luckily I backed up fairly recently.

casper312 said:
Turkbot, are you implying that App2SD is the cause of this? Should I avoid App2SD in the future? There's no way I could have all the apps I want on my phone without it or an alternative.
Everyone else, thanks for all the replies. I guess I will just reformat. Luckily I backed up fairly recently.
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Well I tried to partition one of my 16 gig sd cards and it ****ed up in cwm and I had to throw it away but that doesn't happen very often
Edit: really? You can't cuss on here? What are we, like 12 years old now... That's lame
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I've been running a2sd of some kind for the past couple of years on different devices. From xdandroid for the tp1 (does that count? Everything is run from sd) to the moment, to the optimuss, to my shift. If not running a2sd, then running link2sd. I have yet to kill an sdcard, using the same sd on half of these devices. Can it kill an sdcard quicker? Yes. Will it? For some I'm sure but not everyone. It def. Will wear it out faster but for the most part, it should last longer than the device in my experience.
However on my lg I did have an issue with corruption and had to run a script every so often (unintended battery pulls were the biggest reason). If you google a2sd for the optimus s on androidcentral, I have that script posted to fix sd errors. If I find it ill post. May help your situtation, may not lol.
e2fsck -yf /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 is the script I used. Our mmcblk0p2 is different however. Hopefully someone can chime in with the correct location.
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sparksco said:
What's wrong with formatting it in recovery?
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Nothing. It's just that I prefer to use SD Formatter. I've run into an issue once or twice Formatting the SD Card in Recovery.
TEAM MiK
MikROMs Since 3/13/11

prboy1969 said:
Nothing. It's just that I prefer to use SD Formatter. I've run into an issue once or twice Formatting the SD Card in Recovery.
TEAM MiK
MikROMs Since 3/13/11
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I understand completely, one time I formated my sdcard and I never thought I would get it to mount again until I popped it in a card reader and put some stuff on it. Seems like blank sdcards don't like to mount sometimes.
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[Q] hudge problem with sd card

Hello. I have a hudge problem with my phone. Somehow it automatically unmounts and remounts my sd card for no reason no matter what rom I use. Sometimes it unmounts my sd card and don't mount for a month. Sometimes it gives damaged sd card error and asks to format it but when I insert my card to tablet and it detects no errors. What could be the problem? Can anyone help me fix this?

Repartition your SD card in recovery
But save your data first
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You must clearing ext partition in recovery and format sdcard. + set min cpu fraquancy on 245Mhz.

didn't help

If it does happen with all roms you've tested, including stock 2.1 then your SD card is propably faulty. You formatted it under Windows?

shadovraven said:
If it does happen with all roms you've tested, including stock 2.1 then your SD card is propably faulty. You formatted it under Windows?
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I can't try stock rom because it says that my recovery is to new. SD card can't be faulty because it is new. I had other sd card earlier but my phone didn't recognized it so I bought new. And i have formatted under Windows.

username_lt said:
I can't try stock rom because it says that my recovery is to new. SD card can't be faulty because it is new. I had other sd card earlier but my phone didn't recognized it so I bought new. And i have formatted under Windows.
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Check the SD card under different phone, most simple as it can get.

shadovraven said:
Check the SD card under different phone, most simple as it can get.
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sd card working fine on my android tablet

Which ROM are you using?

Now using cm9
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Then you have to check different roms and kernels to see under which your SD card works properly. I suggest trying newest AOSP / SDSL or CM 7.2 by Tejas build three.

Maybe is the slot of your SD Card, Why?:
Using every ROM, same device and same problem = device
Used other device and everything ok = the "other" device
So, definitely your slot on your device is bad. Good Luck!

leoposas said:
Maybe is the slot of your SD Card, Why?:
Using every ROM, same device and same problem = device
Used other device and everything ok = the "other" device
So, definitely your slot on your device is bad. Good Luck!
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Maybe. But I can only try other roms because warranty is over and I do not have funds for this right now... Some day I will fix it or maybe not:victory:
Thank you for all your help

Now I realy messed up my sd card. It shows 2.9gb free storage instead of 4gb. Phone can`t recognize it at all(in recovery I can see it) and I can`t transfer any files. How to fix this?
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username_lt said:
Now I realy messed up my sd card. It shows 2.9gb free storage instead of 4gb. Phone can`t recognize it at all(in recovery I can see it) and I can`t transfer any files. How to fix this?
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How did you partition it?
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andreas__ said:
How did you partition it?
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via recovery, not remember what options I selected:victory:

username_lt said:
via recovery, not remember what options I selected:victory:
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Which cwm version?
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Just delete all partitions and make new (FAT32) with some Live CD if U don't have Linux on PC (for best get gParted Live).
Next put it in Your phone and partition again with CWM 6.0, or just use fat32.
Some customized roms mess up sd card if it has /swap.
Noticed this in some 2.3 custom rom, but don't remember name of it.

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Just delete all partitions and make new (FAT32) with some Live CD if U don't have Linux on PC (for best get gParted Live).
Next put it in Your phone and partition again with CWM 6.0, or just use fat32.
Some customized roms mess up sd card if it has /swap.
Noticed this in some 2.3 custom rom, but don't remember name of it.
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Not sure how to do that. Can you help me? Mini tutorial or sth? I am with windows7
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Which cwm version?
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Cmw 5.5.0.
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SD card won't format

Sup guys. I don't know if this is the right place to post this. But here I go. My 32gb San Disk micro SD card was working fine on my gs3 until I got my s4 and now it seems to be write protected. I can't delete or add anything onto the card. It worked fine on the s3 though. So I Googled a little about this and came across a piece of software, which I downloaded and made use of. But the tool I used to supposedly fix the card actually made it worse. Now the phone can't read it, nor can the PC explore its files (but can detect the device), its like a non allocated partition that just needs formatting. But I have tried windows format utility, SD card formatter, HD low level formatter, and HP USB disk utility software and all of them without success. Please help me as I don't know what else to do.
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Marcellff said:
Sup guys. I don't know if this is the right place to post this. But here I go. My 32gb San Disk micro SD card was working fine on my gs3 until I got my s4 and now it seems to be write protected. I can't delete or add anything onto the card. It worked fine on the s3 though. So I Googled a little about this and came across a piece of software, which I downloaded and made use of. But the tool I used to supposedly fix the card actually made it worse. Now the phone can't read it, nor can the PC explore its files (but can detect the device), its like a non allocated partition that just needs formatting. But I have tried windows format utility, SD card formatter, HD low level formatter, and HP USB disk utility software and all of them without success. Please help me as I don't know what else to do.
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use cwm recovery to format sdcard. u may need to root ur ph for dat

Yes the galaxy s4 does seam to have issues with sdcards, I myself had corrupt sdcard twice for no apparent reason. Your sdcard will now be in RAW file system and from experience very hard to recover, I've tried dozens of recovery windows apps to fix the partition without success (maybe just didn't try the right app) you can however recover SOME datas on the sdcard but there is no guarrentee how much or what you can successfully recover.
The moral of this story is to ALWAYS backup your data.
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Hi, pop it in a camera, if it detects it you are lucky, format it there and you're all set. Unfortunately you will lose all the data

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use cwm recovery to format sdcard. u may need to root ur ph for dat
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Damn, i was trying to keep my new s4 "clean" but i guess ill have to root it. Oh well, ill keep kit kat unrooted then. Lol
ranger4740 said:
Yes the galaxy s4 does seam to have issues with sdcards, I myself had corrupt sdcard twice for no apparent reason. Your sdcard will now be in RAW file system and from experience very hard to recover, I've tried dozens of recovery windows apps to fix the partition without success (maybe just didn't try the right app) you can however recover SOME datas on the sdcard but there is no guarrentee how much or what you can successfully recover.
The moral of this story is to ALWAYS backup your data.
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Yeah, data recovery isnt an issue, as ive backed it all up beforehand. I just want my card back
freakzone said:
Hi, pop it in a camera, if it detects it you are lucky, format it there and you're all set. Unfortunately you will lose all the data
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My camera uses SD cards I think, not micro. But I'll check
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just find an adapter from somewhere, usually one is supplied with the card

I tried clockwork mod recovery with no avail. I have little faith that a camera format tool would work, so I'm not even gonna bother to find a microsd adapter. Sigh. Any other suggestions please? I'm almost giving up
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new card?

Yes, that's unfortunately my last resort. I was hoping it didn't have to get to that point though, cause where I live, a 32gb micro SD card is expensive as ****. But oh well. Thank you guys for trying.
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Why not just get a card reader and use a PC and partition minitools?
To get your SD card back You may even need to do a LOW LEVEL format. This is very different from a standard format.
Use Google and get a freeware version of a low level format software then repartition USB/flash drive then normal fat32 format.
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I tried doing a low level format. I've tried it all, with no avail :/
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Marcellff said:
I tried doing a low level format. I've tried it all, with no avail :/
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Sorry mate, looks like its dead then
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