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.
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Just flashed to JM2 today (had issues with JP2), I have the mimocan fix applied using ext4 at about 1 gig, the rest of the 8gb micro sd is fat 32, when the card is in the phone, all the data on the card shows up no problem but when I connect the phone to my PC via usb and mount to tranfer files the external sd doesn't show up. The internal does but not external, tried clicking the actual removable disk on my computer and it says to insert a card, any help is appreciated with this, cheers lads.
Edit: Solved, paragon wasn't formatting fat32 partition properly, formatted using windows and all is well.
yeah I have same problem since jp2 and not fixed in jp3, some have it working but its 50/50, tried all the normal ways but it says write protection/no permission, no fix for it that I hear of so have to wait on jp4 I guess.
I've had this problem with prev updates and I find that if you reformat the TF card inside SD settings (on phone) it works again. Don't forget to unmount the card first
But yes, I think its a problem with Paragon
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
I've got a problem with replacing the SD card. I searched for it and it seems like no-brainer. But I don't know what the problem is:
I bought a 16 GB Transcend to replace the SanDisk 2GB that came with my Liquid.
I have [Leaked]Froyo ROM. I had many apps on SD and some on the phone.
Here is what I did:
- I unmounted the 2GB card in my phone and turned it off.
- I put the new card and turned the phone back on.
- Then connected the old card with a card reader to my Mac. Also, connected the phone via USB and turned the USB storage on.
- I just copied everything from the old card to the new card and turned the USB storage off.
Now here's the problem:
None of the apps on SD are working! And they are not linked! It seems they are not installed.
When I tap their home screen icons, I get the error: "The application is not installed on your phone"
Also, only the apps on the phone are shown in applications.
I double tried the same process with formatting the new card in the phone, but got the same thing. I also copied the hidden folders as well. No luck with that, too.
Any suggestions? It is really driving me ...
BTW, I put the old card back and it is working just fine.
Problem Solved!
I finally found out what the problem was and upgraded my microSD successfully with all the applications working.
I decided to post the SOLUTION so it may help others as well:
The key issue is in the .android_secure folder on the SD card. Before this, I didn't know it is the place where Froyo puts all the apps that are transferred to SD.
Here are the steps that worked for me:
1) Unmounted the old SD and turned the phone off.
2) Copied EVERYTHING from the old card to my PC (I used a card reader).
**ATTENTION: By everything I mean all the files and folders including folders starting with "." (Especially .android_secure)
3) Formatted the new card (FAT32) using the Windows.
**FOR CAUTION: DO NOT use the phone to format the card. Because it makes a .android_secure and it will screw with the one you want to replace. [If you have done it anyways, just make sure to REPLACE the .android_secure folder]
4) Connected the new card to the PC and paste everything to it.
5) Put the new card in to the phone and turn it back on. BINGO! All should work without any problem.
My SD card somehow had 2 partitions, /sdcard, and /sdcard_ext.. If I plugged in my phone to my PC or took out my microSD, the only one I was able to see is the ext, and everything (pictures, apps, etc), were stored on /sdcard
So I formatted my microSD, now there's just 1 partition but, when I move apps, it doesn't show that it's taking up any more space, so where are they being moved to? How do I fix them to move to the SD?
Haloman800 said:
My SD card somehow had 2 partitions, /sdcard, and /sdcard_ext.. If I plugged in my phone to my PC or took out my microSD, the only one I was able to see is the ext, and everything (pictures, apps, etc), were stored on /sdcard
So I formatted my microSD, now there's just 1 partition but, when I move apps, it doesn't show that it's taking up any more space, so where are they being moved to? How do I fix them to move to the SD?
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Your SD card doesn't have two partitions. "SDCard" is the phones internal storage, while "SDCard-ext" is the micro-SD card. Are you sure when you took out the micro-SD card "ext" was showing? I'm willing to bet you have that part backwards.
EDIT: Okay great, formatted SD, got it working now.
I'm having another problem, I can't get internal storage to appear when I plug it in & choose usb mass storage, it keeps going to sd card. I've installed the drivers and everything, and am using moto's own cord (I know it doesn't work sometimes unless you do), how do I fix this?
Haloman800 said:
EDIT: Okay great, formatted SD, got it working now.
I'm having another problem, I can't get internal storage to appear when I plug it in & choose usb mass storage, it keeps going to sd card. I've installed the drivers and everything, and am using moto's own cord (I know it doesn't work sometimes unless you do), how do I fix this?
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How long have you waited? An internal storage with a lot of items can take a while to site up, particularly on win 7 machines, and can be made worse by your anti virus program if it is set scan removable devices. Since you just formatted the sdcard it probably got scanned quickly whereas the internal storage may be taking longer to get scanned....
You might also try rebooting with a battery pull if it doesn't register after 10 minutes and see if that helps.
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If you have "USB debugging " on it will not show your internal card.
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Peichor said:
If you have "USB debugging " on it will not show your internal card.
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Untrue. I have USB Debugging on and I have no problem seeing either the internal storage or external storage.
I turned of USB debuggging, still only showing up SD card... So all my pictures, video, etc. is being stored on my internal rather than my SD card? How do I change this? I set in the camera apps to save to SD card rather than internal, but it's still saving to "sdcard" which is internal.. Even if that worked, all the apps that save stuff to SD would actually be saving it to internal..
How do I fix this???
I've ran into the same issue with Windows 7 X64, sometimes one of the drives will just not get recognized. Even after uninstalling and re-installing the drivers. But a quick reboot of the PC seems to clear it up. Weird ...
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I've ran into the same issue with Windows 7 X64, sometimes one of the drives will just not get recognized. Even after uninstalling and re-installing the drivers. But a quick reboot of the PC seems to clear it up. Weird ...
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This is highly pc dependent. I run w7 x64 and haven't had issues since I was stock. I wish we/motorola could figure out why.
LT4 rom, philz kernel.
When I updated from stock ICS to stock JB, I always remove the ext SD card & SIM.
I didn't notice anything after the update until I went to use the camera, which complained about inserting an SD card.
switching it back to phone storage fixed that, but, I started checking. Root file explorer shows the card, but when you
access it, it shows NO files. When I connect it to the computer, the ext & int both show up, and when I access the ext,
all files are there. I can move programs from internal storage to external storage.
The only thing that seems to be amiss is the camera & phone file browsers.
Did a few searches, not really finding an answer. Tried unmounting, remounting, power off with the SD card, pull the SD card, reboot,
power off, reinsert SD card reboot, no luck. Tried mounting/unmounting in root file explorer.
Tried changing from media device to mass storage, still no luck.
Back up files, format within the phone and try it again??
TIA
p51d007 said:
LT4 rom, philz kernel.
When I updated from stock ICS to stock JB, I always remove the ext SD card & SIM.
I didn't notice anything after the update until I went to use the camera, which complained about inserting an SD card.
switching it back to phone storage fixed that, but, I started checking. Root file explorer shows the card, but when you
access it, it shows NO files. When I connect it to the computer, the ext & int both show up, and when I access the ext,
all files are there. I can move programs from internal storage to external storage.
The only thing that seems to be amiss is the camera & phone file browsers.
Did a few searches, not really finding an answer. Tried unmounting, remounting, power off with the SD card, pull the SD card, reboot,
power off, reinsert SD card reboot, no luck. Tried mounting/unmounting in root file explorer.
Tried changing from media device to mass storage, still no luck.
Back up files, format within the phone and try it again??
TIA
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may be the sd card got corrupted..try format and check...
Mayank Chandwani said:
may be the sd card got corrupted..try format and check...
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When I stick the card into my computer, all the files show up. Perhaps Android places or formats in a different
way than Winx, and it does need to be formatted again. Funny thing though, it JUST does that with the camera.
I have most of my apps located on the ext SD card, they all work perfectly. I just use the phone to store, then transfer
them to the SD if I need to.
Thanks for responding.
I had a problem with external sd card.
Phone could not handle the card or format and the same in windows and ubuntu.
So it look the card is dead and I wanted t throw the card away.
But it was not dead in my case , I put the card in my digital camera and format the card.
Now my phone windows and ubunto see the card and can handle it as a new card.
Henk