So I returned to stock via Odin 2 days ago. Thought everything was fine until last night. In a nut she'll I can't add, delete or copy files to the external sdcard. If I attempt to do it the system asks me to grant permissions , I click ok but there's nothing there to select (no external nor internal but I can write to internal)
I've tried formatting both from the phone and from my computer. It formats but I still can't write to it.
What's confusing is the OS is still able to transfer some data automatically like from the camera. So its definitely not a problem with the sdcard itself. And it is reading data just fine. Unfortunately I had to format so other than new pics there's nothing for it to read and I can't transfer anything to it.
Any ideas?
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I have been trying to remove files from my SD-card by connecting my phone to my computer and remove files from the SD. So I delete the files, disconnect my phone and everything is ok but when I use AndExplorer I see that the files are still there. So I delete them with AndExplorer instead and everything is fine, but when I connect my phone to the computer again nothing has changed. I don't get any error when writing/reading to the SD but it doesn't seem to have any effect when I unmount and mount my phone again.
I have also been noticing some problems when starting the camera when it tries to "prepare sd" and save pictures wich I haven't had before. I think these problems started after my phone fell on the floor. Could it have been that the SD-card ejected it self and got corrupt?
How do I solve this? Should I buy a new SD or is there a way to fix this?
I'm running VanillaEclair 2.0.1 NAS if that's any help.
Okay, I found a similar thread on androidcommunity.
androidcommunity.com/forums/f41/cant-write-to-sdcard-17639/
I will try to format the card.
hello everyone i hope someone can help i dont what happened but now at the top there is a SD icon with a red ? it says mounted read only can not get it to work the only thing i did was i use the tethering for my laptop nothing eles was new thanks for all and any help.
Ooh boy where to begain, lets start by recovering your data manually as the cause of it may depend on the quality of the card itself which ill cover after your data is safe. If you try to solve it now you may just lose all your data. Keep in mind changing base permission manually via chmod does not solve this problem as I have tried and very aware of it
Now there are 2 ways you can access the data. First is via SDCard reader and second is via device. Now keep in mind depending on the severity of the problem the card may not even be mounted at all in that case you can access it from /mnt/sdcard/. To copy and tansfer it you can use CP command in terminal but for you I suggest you use File Manager it will save you time if you don't like console. What you want to do now is copy data from /mnt/sdcard/ and paste it /data. You can make new dir (mkdir) inside "/data/" temporarily and then have it transferred there and then unmount the sdcard and put new SDCard and have it transferred from /data. Now depending on the size of your backup you may have to do it few times.
Once this is done as you have your data. Format the SDCard from computer with card reader thoroughly, if you can't then do it from device. If not then go in recovery and format and do force partition. Now once you have access to your card you need to verify why this has happened. Now make sure the SDCard is legit by testing (R+W+V) for data integrity, you can use H2TestW. If it passes you can count out bad cell which is physical defect. Now depending on the quality of the card it will also control how data is allocated and if it will be facing data corruption by erasing itself (Blank SDCard) or by corrupting the file allocation table and reading as UFS (Unsupported File System).
In that case you can still manually reconstruct the data structure as the data is not overwritten but you have to allocate the device to access the raw data. But that is not for you and not for faint hearted.
thanks so much for the info i should have said that i tried the card in my wifes mt4g and it works fine i can see the data if i plug the in the comp but i do have to plug it in after i tell it to remount then it works i dont know if that help and should i still go ahead and do what you said thanks so much for your help.
well just wanted to say i think i fixed it all i did is hooked phone to pc and copied eveything off the SD card and put it on pc then formated the sd card on the phone then put all back on its seems to to be working i wanted to say thanks to black shelf for his info thanks.
Ok So I am here because I've posted in other places in these forums with no replies yet, So it would be better to create a thread specific to my problem.
I have an Omnia 2, thinking of acquiring the Fryo 2.2 OS, not specific about wether I want what version but here are the problems I come across before being able to install it.
1- plugging in my phone under Settings -> My storage will not show my storage on my computer, having the external SD option will show my 16GB SD card.
2- Backing up. How do I back up my storage if I can't see it on my computer? When I turn on active sync a blank storage appears other than my SD card (assuming its the internal storage) but the size seems rather small (167MB). I've been reading peoples' posts and I'm supposed to have around 2GB I believe, and either way the files I'm trying to put inside for the android OS don't seem to fit there.
3- Partitions? How can I set those up for both the internal and external storage? Is there a program or feature to do so? My SD card under properties says FAT-32 so I'm not sure on how to do it IF I need to.
4- Using a W7 computer, so that knocks off any ubuntu installations, and also link is broken for Almars Beta 1 file that I was thinking of using for an SD installation.
Any help would be appreciated, I've had this phone since 2009 and I'm really hoping I can come across some help to make it work since I do want to keep this phone for a bit longer before I spend more money on a different cellphone!
Thank you!
Try out the new CyanogenMod from the link below.
http://windows.modaco.com/topic/346446-cyanogenmod-beta1-omnia-2-updated-02122011/
It has the SD Card auto installer, try it..
Back up data on your SD card first and then format your SD card within the phone and then use auto installer to install it.
As you said your computer wont detect the My Storage, try the steps below..
Transfer your data from My Storage to external SD Card, then connect your phone to computer using My Storage mode in settings.
Download Mini Tool partition wizard and format your My Storage (Mini tool partition will be able to see your My Storage even though your computer doesn't).
After format, your computer should be able to detect My Storage.
Now copy the downloaded android files to My Storage and run the auto installer as instructed in the ReadMe file inside the download package.
PS: Don't forget to backup the data on SD Card to your computer
Hope this helps
Ok so what you meant by taking things from my storage is going to file explorer and basically copying everything from the "my device" to the SD card?
Just want to make sure because if it doesent work then I haven't gotten anything backed up right.
Went to file explorer -> copied everything in the top folder which is application date, connMgr, doc and setttings, program files etc. is this all thats needed basically?
Thanks
P.S some of the things I tried taking like global.txt or exe couldn't be copied because of violations or some weird error, is it alright not to have those?
Update: My storage is still not revealed by the mini tool partition program, went under usb settings -> my storage and refreshed disk information, nothing shows up ugh it might be impossible for me to do this after all....
nobody can help me in regards to this? well then I guess a new cellphone is in order
grrrrr I should've gone with a iphone 3G or BB 9700 at the time instead...
ClaudioPerez said:
Ok so what you meant by taking things from my storage is going to file explorer and basically copying everything from the "my device" to the SD card?
Just want to make sure because if it doesent work then I haven't gotten anything backed up right.
Went to file explorer -> copied everything in the top folder which is application date, connMgr, doc and setttings, program files etc. is this all thats needed basically?
Thanks
P.S some of the things I tried taking like global.txt or exe couldn't be copied because of violations or some weird error, is it alright not to have those?
Update: My storage is still not revealed by the mini tool partition program, went under usb settings -> my storage and refreshed disk information, nothing shows up ugh it might be impossible for me to do this after all....
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I guess you will have to reflash the ROM again since your problem seems to be unsolvable. My suggestions is to flash a stock 6.5.3 ROM before you transfer the auto SD installer.
Hello there,
I have recently experienced a very serious problem in my Z1 running Lollipop. I lost every single file located in my internal and external sd card, such as photos, .obb files from /android folder and everything else. The problem occured when I connected the phone to PC via MTP, and deleted the, phenomenically, empty folder tree from my internal sd card '/emulated/legacy'. After that, Windows Explorer didn't respond, and after restarting my PC, I realised that both memories were empty. I immediately disconnected my phone, run a file explorer and experienced the same results. I even rebooted to TWRP, which approved the loss of my data.
What I think that caused the problem: The deletion of the 'empty' folder tree, as it corresponds with the one located in root/storage/ of my phone, and appears to be the mount location of both internal and external sd card, and which, somehow, made it way to the insternal sd card.
What I did: I immediately removed the MicroSD card, and powered off the phone, in order to prevent the 'free' space to be overwritten. After that I created two system dumps. One of userdata.img (mmcblk0p12), and one of the whole system mmcblk0, in order to try recovering my data. Then, I installed Ubuntu and TestDisk to check the two dumps. What the program recovered were the thumbnails from the /DICM/.thumbnails folder, some images and videos from programs cache (such as ads), and even some tagged faces from pictures of the Album application, but not the pictures themselves. I also tried the same process, but by using Recuva on Windows but nothing changed. Finally, what I tried, was mounting the insternal memory as mass storage under Ubuntu, by using Go-mptfs, but I wasn't succesfull as I experienced problems during the installation and device mounting process. I didn't find any scripts for Lollipop in order to swap the two partitions on the device itself.
Is there anything else I can do?
I'm having a rather unique problem with my the Micro SD card I installed.
I can format it as internal storage and it won't pop up for file managers or my computer.
This means I can't manually move files to it all.
Despite that when it's internal storage I can move apps to it and it adds new apps to it by default.
I could go to move all and move everything it can on, but it's a fairly slow SD card so I'm hoping to mainly put music, videos and any pictures on there.
I worry about it moving the apps that I want to keep in internal storage for speed over.
Does anyone know how I could fix this?
EDIT:
I didn't manage to figure out how to add files manually while it was internal storage through either internal file managers or through the computer.
But I did manage to find the SD card while it was portable.
The trick is to use the built in file explorer on the phone and copy a small file onto the SD card.
With there being something other than just Android files on the SD card it can then be discovered by the computer.
This mainly solves my problem as I plan to use it primarily for storage of music and game files, with the emulators being on the phone itself.
I had this issue a few days ago. You have 2 options to format, (1) as a internal storage and only your phone can read this and other option (2)to use on others devices. Using the second option I managed to transfer files to my microSD like it used to be.
While using the first option I was able only to transfer apps to it through the system.
I hope it helps
I'm using one, but I'm not even able to find it with File Manager?
Is that normal for Internal Storage?
I expected there to at least be a folder in the normal phone space called SD card or something?
Is there no way to manually move music there when it's internal storage?
Also I tried changing it to be portable but my computer still couldn't see it.
File manager could actually see it and open it but I couldn't copy paste anything to it.
So I turned it back to internal as I can at least move apps to it successfully at the moment.
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I'm using one, but I'm not even able to find it with File Manager?
Is that normal for Internal Storage?
I expected there to at least be a folder in the normal phone space called SD card or something?
Is there no way to manually move music there when it's internal storage?
Also I tried changing it to be portable but my computer still couldn't see it.
File manager could actually see it and open it but I couldn't copy paste anything to it.
So I turned it back to internal as I can at least move apps to it successfully at the moment.
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When I tried as Internal Storage any File Manager found my SDcard too... Thats why I'm using as portable.
After that, i could see this.
Maybe you're missing something like changing the USB connection from Charging to File transfering.
Did you checked this?
Yes it can see the rest of my phone and move files, so I've made sure to change it to file transferring.
When you used internal storage file managers failed to find your SD card as well?
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When I tried as Internal Storage any File Manager found my SDcard too... Thats why I'm using as portable.
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Here your saying that you could find it and that's why you swapped over?
I assume you forgot to say it failed to show up separately and that's why you changed to portable.
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Yes it can see the rest of my phone and move files, so I've made sure to change it to file transferring.
When you used internal storage file managers failed to find your SD card as well?
Here your saying that you could find it and that's why you swapped over?
I assume you forgot to say it failed to show up separately and that's why you changed to portable.
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Sorry! Yes, I failed to find my SD card too, thats why i changed to portable.
Im assuming this is a normal behavior, my last Android phone was a Galaxy S2 and I stopped following Android changes for the lasts 4/5 years. But idk why you can't see it even in portable mode... That should work as worked for me.
Hope someone help you more than I did!
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Sorry! Yes, I failed to find my SD card too, thats why i changed to portable.
Im assuming this is a normal behavior, my last Android phone was a Galaxy S2 and I stopped following Android changes for the lasts 4/5 years. But idk why you can't see it even in portable mode... That should work as worked for me.
Hope someone help you more than I did!
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Thank you for trying to help.
I think I might have figured out part of the problem, the file explorer I normally use doesn't have permission to add anything to the SD card. I'm not sure how I would go about giving it permission though.
But when I use the system built in I was able to copy paste some music onto it.
With a file on the SD Card my computer was able to locate it as well, and I can now copy and paste to the SD card using my computer.
So with your help I was able to figure out how to get portable working.
It is a bit disappointing that there isn't a way to manually add files while it is an internal storage though.
So again while your solution didn't directly work, it made me think and find a solution to my problem even if it's not the one I wanted.