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[Q] Mass Storage Problem (wrting to external SD)

Have rooted my SGS and Flashed to Froyo (although the external SD card seemed a bit flaky even under Eclair). I'm using a 32Gig SD card of indeterminate heritage.
When I use USB connection, and choose the mass storage option, my PC tells me I can't write anything to the external SD card because it is write protected. I know it isn't as I'm able to write to it with a stand alone card reader/writer, and also able to copy files to it using the Android Manager WiFi app. The only reason I don't just use the WiFi app all the time, is that it seems impossible to copy whole file structures, just files or blocks of files one folder at a time.
Kies is a complete joke, slow as hell, buggy bloat-ware, and only connects to my phone a small percentage of attempts,
I have tried mounting, unmounting, removing, formatting. Has anyone got any ideas what might be the problem?
Oh, I wondered if it might be caused because the SD card is a 'generic' unbranded card of unknown 'class' off a well known auction site. Could it be just that the card is dodgy (I don't have an alternative card to try in it's place)?
Many thanks, Phil
I think my question can be disregarded. Found another thread that says it is the XXJP3 Froyo build that is causing the issue. FWIW I just tried using Kies again, and it corrupted the SD card so now I've got to start from scratch again

[Q] Internal and External SD Error

I have 2 problems
1- my external sd card its locked, and i have NO IDEIA how to unlockit. so i can format it
this is really causing me a lot of troubles.
2- my internal sd card its going crazy.
last night, the phone rebooted, by its own, and restarted. the problem is, ALL OF MY APPS FORCE CLOSES . even if the app its not open.just some apps still work. i have to uninstall the app, and reinstall, and then it will work. even gmail is FC.
And when i connect the phone to the computer, i cant access my files, not on debuging mode, not on kies. on the mac that i have at work, it recognizes.
I cant move any apps 2 sd, but maybe this is happening because of the external sd lock.
but this with the internal sd going crazy its REALLY anoying.
Can anyone have an idea how to format my external memory card???
And how to fix my internal memory card???
[I dont remember how to get the logcat so i can post it here.
Oh, and i havent been able to install angry birds and some other apps from market, that i had before it happend before (YES ITS NOT THE FIRST TIME )]
And fix my market, if its possible.
tnx

hi guy , my i9000m phone also as your. internal sd can't be find. and just can use call or browsing without any upload or install .
i flash many many ROM want to repiar this internal error, but unlucky .
who can help ? please . thanks~~

[Q] SOLVED: Connecting with USB shows only internal memorycard...

HI!
I have this problem that when I turn on the file sharing, the computer shows only internal memory card and not the external. Because the phone itself recognizes the external card I have tried to unmount and mount several times without any improvement. I am currently using the latest CM7 nightly, but the problem seemes to have started after I changed the card from 4gb to 16 gb. Any ideas?
EDIT: Erasing sd card from the phones menu helped to solve the problem.

Go Setting>Storage and remount your sd card and try???

I've done that several times....no help... android system accesses the card without problems...music, pics etc.

Did you physically remove your card and reinsert it, or just software remount?
Have you tried the card directly in your computer?
Have a look in windows device manager and see if it reports any problems. (right
click my computer and select manage)

I have tried it all and everything is ok with the sd card itself (I copied recent nightly from the computer on the sd card) also recovery recognizes is... there are also no problems in device manager...

Try to put on debugging mode. And try it with debugging mode on.
If the debugging mode is on try to take it off.
Regards Kali

I tried that also and nothing changed.... I have a feeling that it is somehow attached to me using mybackup pro... I restored application apk and data from another phone to this one and It seems that usually the application data should go to internal memory card. In this case it is on external card... so i believe that somehow the programs are still using the card when connected and do not allow phone to share it out... It's just a guess though...
EDIT: so I think the solution is to wipe everything and start all over again

So I fresh installed Rom and wiped everything and the problem still exist... still can see files with file managers in phone and when connected to computer, autorun shows only internal card...
Edit: I tried now 2gb sized sdcard and it works perfectly... the problem is with 16gb card.

Weird. Did you try another USB-port?

I tried different USB-s now and still same I found out that when I connect the phone, under my computer appears two removable disks.... if I turn on the usb connection, only one transforms to usable removable disk (internal) and the other one asks to insert the removable disk. I used the same sd card on my HTC desire with CM nightlies and it worked perfectly... could it be CM-s bug?

Sorry to ask (maby the obvious)
On Your phone.. using your filemanager (Root explorer astro or what-ever..)
Browse to sdcard
Do you have a folder called _externalSD?
On this phone, for some reason the external SD is not mounted under./ but as i said under ./sdcard/ (i.e its mounted under the internal SD card..)
Just a thought

Where the different cards are mounted doesn't make any difference. And as he said, it works with other cards (2GB and 4GB).
CyanogenMOD mounts internal card as /mnt/emmc, and external card as /mnt/sdcard by default.
When turning on USB storage, both cards should be unmounted and shared over USB.

Hi, I had the same problem with mine, and as you said in one of your previous posts, I had to do a format through the phone and as soon as I did that I was good to go.
I did use the same memory card in my old hero so this might have something to do with it... I'm not sure.

By formatting do you mean from the menu Erase SD card? On the desire I actually had the formatting request from the computer, but there was another problem (some of the rom's files were on the sdcards ext or something and I had no access to the card from the USB).... kind of a similar problem if I think back now but after changing to CM, the problem disappeared.

I forgot to mention I am running completely stock rom and unrooted (for the time being) and there is just an option under sd card & phone storage setting to format external sd card

After erasing the sd card from the phone, the computer recognized it i'm currently copying stuff back and i'm pretty sure it does not affect the recognition

I faced the same problem. I had Swapper2 on my NC, and after I uninstalled it (and cleared the data of Swapper2, just in case) everything went to normal back again.
^ a solution.

[Q] 8GB card is not working on my x8

Hello everyone.
Well my question is regarding my sd card, i have a 8gb sd card in for my xperia x8, it was working fine untill yesterday when i tried to listen to music and the whole phone froze. from that moment on the phone is not reading the sd card, i even installed froyobread (nice rom btw) but still the sd is not reconigzed in the phone.
The sd works fine in my pc, i can open it and everything but i cant format it (says that windows could not perfomr the format), i tried a 2gb and a 4gb sd in my phone and they work just fine.
What do you think? is a sd problem even tought i can read it in my pc and my camera? do you know any program to repair/format the sd and check if it works again in my phone? could it be some kind of problem with my phone that dont allow it to read 8gb+ sd cards?
Thx in advance
oh and the micro sd has no "lock" thingy xD

[PROBLEM] Droid 3 reboots when plugged to USB after sdcard swap trick (read for more)

Ok, this is the trouble: I bought a 32gb Samsung card for my D3, i noticed then, that apps couldn't placed on the ACTUAL sd card, but only on the (oh so genially) internal soldered 16gb sd card, contained in the phone... i then made the trick that let phone mounting the external card as the internal and vice versa, following this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21032236
It worked really well, but now, everytime i plug the phone into the pc USB, as a memory drive, it reboots... some time i manage to connect successfully, but often it reboots, after a couple of seconds... sometimes i managed to select "charge only" mode, and it didn't rebooted, so it's not an hardware problem (i think).... I noticed that if i unmount the external sdcard (the 16gb one, therefore) it doesnt't reboots...
I modified even the init.rc situated in the root, swapping every "sdcard" voice with "sdcard-ext" and vice versa, but maybe there are some other files to change... any idea?
Thanks in advance to you all!!

FrankieDedo said:
Ok, this is the trouble: I bought a 32gb Samsung card for my D3, i noticed then, that apps couldn't placed on the ACTUAL sd card, but only on the (oh so genially) internal soldered 16gb sd card, contained in the phone... i then made the trick that let phone mounting the external card as the internal and vice versa, following this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=21032236
It worked really well, but now, everytime i plug the phone into the pc USB, as a memory drive, it reboots... some time i manage to connect successfully, but often it reboots, after a couple of seconds... sometimes i managed to select "charge only" mode, and it didn't rebooted, so it's not an hardware problem (i think).... I noticed that if i unmount the external sdcard (the 16gb one, therefore) it doesnt't reboots...
I modified even the init.rc situated in the root, swapping every "sdcard" voice with "sdcard-ext" and vice versa, but maybe there are some other files to change... any idea?
Thanks in advance to you all!!
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Are you on gingerbread?

deviousmrtaco said:
Are you on gingerbread?
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Yep, and i am on Minimoto (yes, i forgot to say this, sorry)
I have an update too, sometimes when i connect the phone, after manually unmounting the external sdcard (that is actually the internally soldered 16gb , just to be clear memory) i can see both memories from pc... i would like anyway to just plug the phone ad browse files from pc, and i think that the secrets is somewhere in a system file... it's a nice science experiment too

FrankieDedo said:
Yep, and i am on Minimoto (yes, i forgot to say this, sorry)
I have an update too, sometimes when i connect the phone, after manually unmounting the external sdcard (that is actually the internally soldered 16gb , just to be clear memory) i can see both memories from pc... i would like anyway to just plug the phone ad browse files from pc, and i think that the secrets is somewhere in a system file... it's a nice science experiment too
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I'm not totally sure so don't quote me on this but I thought swapping sd cards through vold on stock based roms didn't work but im not sure