Today I started experiencing an issue where TiBu could not perform any backups because of "insufficient storage". Upon further research I found that this issue is related to the "no write permission" for the SD card. I've tried multiple fixes so far:
Adding the media read/write permission by manually editting platform.xml
Downloading SDfix patches from the playstore for 4.4.4
Flashing a zip that contained a modified platform.xml
Note, this issue started today after I restored to a nandroid backup after flashing the Google Play Edition ROM (4.4.4). I was originally on 4.4.2 and the GE rom was 4.4.4
I'm extremely frustrated because I can't seem to get TiBu to accept the fix. When I view my platform.xml through a root explorer it says the permission is there for writing to the external storage.
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Hi there. Today ive restored my device using twrp. After the restore i am unable to copy, paste, move, delete files in the internal storage using es file explorer. When attepmting this, i get a message 'access denied' . Strangely, the stock file manager works just fine. I tried to wipe cache, done the fix permissions option in twrp and still, nothing helped. Im running a stock rooted 4.4.2 rom.
Hi,
I've recently rooted my I9505 using Philz Touch recovery method, and I adjusted the platform.xml file to allow Titanium Backup to write direct to external SD. After rebooting, I get several "Unfortunately, xxx has stopped" for several apps. When I connect the phone via MTP the Card and Phone storage spaces both show remaining space, but are both empty, and if I open ES File Explorer and look in the /storage folder it's completely empty, which I assume is causing the problems with the apps as they can't find their stored files.
I've tried putting a backup copy of platform.xml back in /etc/permissions while in recovery, checked permissions on that file are set to 644, and even reflashed the same stock ROM back on the phone using Odin, but the errors continue.
Is there a way I can fix this without doing a wipe data/factory reset? I can get adb access as root in recovery if needed.
Thanks in advance!
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Done a bit more testing this evening and if I do a factory reset and reflash to stock then everything works as normal. I then reflashed Philz Touch and did a custom nandroid restore of /data only, and the problem returned (the nandroid backup was taken after the issue started).
So the issue points to something in the /data rather than something in /system or elsewhere, if that helps anyone to diagnose?
I flashed the Liquidsmooth 4.4.4 ROM (I did a nandrood backup before that though) and it was a bit buggy so I restored my nandroid.
However, after booting, I kept getting application crashes and some apps are unable to write to SD. for eg, I can't take pictures with Google Camera because the pictures are no longer saved to Gallery, and when I open quickpic, it says something about read/write error. I reinstalled quickpic and now it throws: unknown error (code 14) could not open database.
Considering that I've already nandroid restored, how do I fix this?
Edit: the external SD is fine, it's the internal one that I can't write/delete. I can rename though. I tested using ES file explorer.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2684384?
I flashed my i9500 with TWRP 2.8.1.0 using Odin and it wrote an undeletable backup onto my internal memory. To get rid of that, I backed up the "BACKUPS" folder and formatted the internal storage only for it now to cause the entire internal storage to be write protected to my android apps. I can copy and delete stuff to it through PC but my apps wont work, those that require to download pics and videos or make backups to the internal storage, web browsers can't download anything to the internal storage yet I now have over 7GB free space.
It's clear TWRP is write protecting the internal storage selectively (first it wrote protected the storage to both the phone and pc, now to the phone only). How should I sort this problem out?
I have also just tried using root explorer to change permissions to the internal storage but it doesn't work. It's failing. Titanium backup shows its own backup folder is unwrittable. It cannot be changed by Root explorer
I just tried fixing permissions in twrp but to no avail. I uninstalled Clean master only to try and re-install it and it won't install now, it gives a failed install error. Kingsoft office continually shows "stopped working" and fails to work completely. All this started with flashing Twrp. I can't view pics in whats app or send them, neither can I edit documents. Any help to rid of this issue will be gladly appreciated.
People please please avoid twrp at all costs!, i have now lost all my data and apps are all failing. I deerly deerly regret why i ever flashed twrp recover in the first place!
I seem to have solved the issue after a very grueling experience.
TWRP has its flaws and it is quite notable here. Here is how I have gotten around the issue:-
Immediately after I installed TWRP I made a system backup of the entire phone as of its state at the time.
I copied it to my pc and tried to delete the backup that TWRP had made. It was completely write protected, nothing could delete it.
I then decided to use TWRP to format my internal storage after backing it up. Then restore the data back which I did successfully.
Little did I know what had happened. TWRP had assigned the internal storage attributes that even Root explorer (paid) could not undo.
The internal storage had become unusable to the system and user apps.
Slowly my apps began to collapse one after the other failing. From frustration I tried to salvage the data the apps held at the time so that I can factory reset and restore but Titanium backup could not access its own folder. That's where all the frustration begun.
I later flashed CWM and accidentally formatted all my data instead of the data partition.. this was now hell.
One last try which was about 5 hours later I returned TWRP recovery, wiped the data partition and got hold of my prior backup with TWRP, restored it and am 9 hrs back from total loss of data. So the internal storage now has its initial attributes prior to the predicament.
Am actually back exactly to where all this mayhem began when I decided to delete the "BACKUPS" folder and there was absolutely nothing else that was wrong, which now I will attempt to delete hoping that I won't experience deja vu.
This is a problem worth reporting to TWRP developers and I don't know how
TWRP recovery Fix Permissions
I couldn't delete back ups from the internal storage at all. I couldn't even copy saved back ups from my pc to my Note 3. I went into TWRP recovery, under Advanced select Fix Permissions
Now I can delete folders in the TWRP main folder with a ES file explorer or on my PC via usb cable.
Never had any problems like this with TWRP on my S4+. For me the backups taken and its folders can be handled just fine, copied, deleted, moved etc. Must be som compatibility issue with your setup.
I have rooted my stock Android 7.0 firmware and wish to select the extSDcard for backup within Titanium Backup. When I attempt to do this it says, can't write. Anyone have a solution? I've already tried 4 varieties of FixSD apps without any success.
BTW, I've selected the extSDcard within the camera app without problems. Also my TWRP Nandroid backups have been saved to the extSDcard without problems.
Update: finally got it working by changing file system to DocumentProvider storage. Took a bunch of playing around before I got it to accept the extSDcard. It then automatically moved the content from old to new folder. The whole thing was a bit mysterious.