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Mounting Android device as mass storage with SD-card formatted as NTFS doesnt work ..

Hello,
i formatted SD-card with NTFS and mount to Android via walkthrough on these pages- all work well,but i have trouble, when i want mount device to windows as Mass Storage- it hangs and nothing happend. Please, could you please so kind and help me? Many thanks Jirka

jirimi said:
Hello,
i formatted SD-card with NTFS and mount to Android via walkthrough on these pages- all work well,but i have trouble, when i want mount device to windows as Mass Storage- it hangs and nothing happend. Please, could you please so kind and help me? Many thanks Jirka
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Dont know if this helps ?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1416923

hi,
thanks for reply. I have proceeded exactly:
1- Flash Abyssnote Kernel - Latest Version
2- Format sdcard to ntfs in windows and plug it to phone.
3- Power on phone and GNote will recognize ntfs formatted sdcard as blank sd.
4- Download ntfs-3g.zip from attachment...
4- Extract zip and copy " ntfs-3g " to /system/bin/
5- Reboot
6- Install Terminal Emulator from market.
7- Enter these lines in terminal emulator:
su
chmod 755 /system/bin/ntfs-3g
insmod /lib/modules/fuse.ko
ntfs-3g /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 /mnt/sdcard/external_sd
vold
I can read/write from/to card, but when i want connect phone to PC as masstorage, nothing happend...

[Q JB on i9000] Phone does not mount internal sdcard at boot

Hi,
I already asked for this issue in the this Thread, but didn't got any answer.
I tested these three JB ROMS: CM10, HellyBean and SlimBean.
All of them work nice, except that my internal sdcard does not mount at boot time.
I have to do it manually every time boot up my phone by choosing System Settings --> Storage --> Mount SD card
Anyone have the same issue?
Does anyone have a solution?
Thanks

Same here! Google found this post, perhaps it will find us an answer
xalo2k said:
Hi,
I already asked for this issue in the this Thread, but didn't got any answer.
I tested these three JB ROMS: CM10, HellyBean and SlimBean.
All of them work nice, except that my internal sdcard does not mount at boot time.
I have to do it manually every time boot up my phone by choosing System Settings --> Storage --> Mount SD card
Anyone have the same issue?
Does anyone have a solution?
Thanks
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toddmworth said:
Same here! Google found this post, perhaps it will find us an answer
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I have the same issue with my I9000.
Any JB with different kernels makes the internal SD eventually be unmounted. When install a JB ROM the phone works very well but suddenly, the internal SD (phone's SD) is unmounted.
In CWM both SD are mounted and read without any problem. With ICS ROMs the phone works flawlessly.
In my case, the external SD is functioning as expected.(I have a 32 GB micro sd)
The installation language is Spahish - Spain.
No matter which method of cleaning and wiping I use, the result is the same.
Also, starting from GB stock firmware (JVU) flashed with Odin, followed by installing the nightly Cianogen CM10.1 and finally flashing the desired JB ROM works.
I tested Helly Bean, Slim Bean, C-ROM Mix and Baked Blacjbean7 obtaining the same behaviour.
Important: I'm restoring around 54 apk using Titanium backup (games, applications and utilities) in every case. I did not tested the ROMs without these restorations.

marcelogabriel said:
I have the same issue with my I9000.
Any JB with different kernels makes the internal SD eventually be unmounted. When install a JB ROM the phone works very well but suddenly, the internal SD (phone's SD) is unmounted.
In CWM both SD are mounted and read without any problem. With ICS ROMs the phone works flawlessly.
In my case, the external SD is functioning as expected.(I have a 32 GB micro sd)
The installation language is Spahish - Spain.
No matter which method of cleaning and wiping I use, the result is the same.
Also, starting from GB stock firmware (JVU) flashed with Odin, followed by installing the nightly Cianogen CM10.1 and finally flashing the desired JB ROM works.
I tested Helly Bean, Slim Bean, C-ROM Mix and Baked Blacjbean7 obtaining the same behaviour.
Important: I'm restoring around 54 apk using Titanium backup (games, applications and utilities) in every case. I did not tested the ROMs without these restorations.
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This is the problem I am having. I can see internal sd card on CWM.
But on booting in android, whatever the rom is , does not mount internal sd card on booting android.
Please help to solve this.

Same here
TheMask007 said:
This is the problem I am having. I can see internal sd card on CWM.
But on booting in android, whatever the rom is , does not mount internal sd card on booting android.
Please help to solve this.
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I have been reading/researching about this issue for about a week (on and off) trying various fixes because this is driving me bonkers.
I have tried:
1) Reduced the amount of used space on my SD Card (Samsung 16gb SDHC) to half
2) Moved as many apps as I can to SD (Noticed more frequent unmounts after this)
3) Removed my Nandroid Back-up from my SD
4) Reflashed CM 10.1
The last thing I am going to try is wiping/reformatting my SD card. If that fails then im suspecting something else is happening at OS/kernel level. I have read in other forums where people have tried a full wipe and restore apps slowly but still get the same unmount. One user has tried another SD card (smaller 4GB one) which seemed to solve their issue?? Weird.
Anyway, I will report back if I have any joy.

In your kernel settings you have the option to mount/unmount system and more or you could write/download a script that mounts the sd card automatically.
Maybe this could help: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1971689

I give up.
cixty said:
In your kernel settings you have the option to mount/unmount system and more or you could write/download a script that mounts the sd card automatically.
Maybe this could help: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1971689
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I tried it and no good. It seems as though the Internal SD is mounted, but some error is causing it to operate/display as unmounted via OS.
I completed more testing (extreme):
Wiped Internal SD
Wiped External SD
Try other kernel
Try other CM based ROM
The issue still occurred.
I then reinstalled Stock (XXJVT) via ODIN (Pit 512) and Semaphore kernel to see if its a hardware thing.
Nope.
This combo works amazingly. Infact its faster, smoother and easier to use (along with additional tweaks in Semaphore) than CM10 so I wont be going back to Jelly Bean on this phone. Ever.
Gingerbread for the win!

Hi,
I am using PAC-ROM v22.2 (Jelly Bean) and have the same problem: 80% boot don't mount the internal sdcard (I have no problem with the external sdcard). I can't even mount it manually as xalo2k does, cause I have no "Mount SD Card" menu under Settings/storage.
I spent many hours trying to search for a fix on google, xda, and others with no success. I found a lot of "litterature" on how to mount the sdcard on the PC, or how to swap internal and external cards. However, I don't care about mouting my sdcard on the PC, and I don't want to make believe Android that my external sdcard is the internal one, as I would not like to loose the internal 8GB that the phone is supposed to provide.
In Terminal Emulator, I can do:
> su
> mount -r -w -t vfat /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /storage/sdcard0
> cd /sdcard
> ls -l
There I can see my files. However, if I exit root, the files don't appear anymore. Hence this looks like a permission problem.
Unfortunately ESExplorer still tells me sdcard0 is not mounted, and my apps (i.e. the camera) aren't able to access it. Additionnaly, the apps I had moved to the sdcard are'nt accessible...
So I tried to fix the permissions. Going under /storage as root, I can see:
drwx------ root root 1970-01-01 01:00 sdcard0
d---rwxr-x system sdcard_rw 1970-01-01 01:00 sdcard1
Si I try:
> busybox chown -R system:sdcard_rw sdcard0
But I get "Operation not permitted" for each dir/file in sdcard0
How comes that an operation is not permitted to the root user ???
Did anyone fix this problem ?
Edit: "You can't chown or chmod a vfat partition let alone a directory within it. You can only change ownership and permissions in fstab and it will apply to all directories and files. So to change ownership of the entire mount point you would change your fstab entry" (see http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1646849)
Thanks and regards

OK guys, I finally found a solution.
Thanks to http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1646849 I mentionned just above, I decided to write an fstab file (the name is important) and placed it under /etc:
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /storage/sdcard0 auto rw,uid=1000,gid=1015,fmask=0702,dmask=0702 0 0
/dev/block/vold/179:1 /storage/sdcard0 vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1015,fmask=0702,dmask=0702,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro 0 0
tmpfs /storage/sdcard0/.android_secure tmpfs ro,relatime,size=0k,mode=000 0 0
Basically, this script is the result of the terminal command (you need to be root):
mount | grep sdcard0 > /etc/fstab
... which I ran after I could get the sdcard mounted (after a mount on PC and eject). But it first failed with errors on options, so I removed a few of them until I kept the lines above.
Then I wrote a little script which I place on my external sdcard which does not have a mount problem at boot:
busybox mount -a
and placed a shortcut to this script on my desktop with SManager.
I just have to click on this shortcut after boot and the internal sdcard gets mounted.
I tried to place this script under /etc/init.d with the hope it would be launched automatically at boot, but this did not mount the sdcard. If anyone knows why ???
Hope this helps !

Well... still having troubles with my sdcard... With the above fstab script I can mount it, access the files, etc...
However, the camera still asks me to insert a sdcard... Is this a permission issue ? Which permissions (owner, group, etc...) does the camera need ? My DCIM dir has the following permissions:
d---rwxr-x system sdcard8RW 2013-06-04 10:36 DCIM
Thanks and regards
- Regis

[Q] Internal Storage problem after clean install (Xperia T & CM12)

I tried to do a clean install of CM12 by whiteneo. In addition to factory reset i also did a system and internal storage wipe (NOT SD CARD but one of two partitions in which the storage of an android is divided, in particulary the one dedicated to data).
Everything went well , the rom works...but when i tried to open camera , it said "cannot take picture without an sd card", so i tried to move an app to internal storage and the operation failed. In settings the voice move to sd doesn't appear. But at the same time i can see the content of internal storage that only contains two folder "lost+found" and "TWRP".
It's like my phone can't see the interal storage.
Any solutions ??? THANKS!!

saracerno said:
I tried to do a clean install of CM12 by whiteneo. In addition to factory reset i also did a system and internal storage wipe (NOT SD CARD but one of two partitions in which the storage of an android is divided, in particulary the one dedicated to data).
Everything went well , the rom works...but when i tried to open camera , it said "cannot take picture without an sd card", so i tried to move an app to internal storage and the operation failed. In settings the voice move to sd doesn't appear. But at the same time i can see the content of internal storage that only contains two folder "lost+found" and "TWRP".
It's like my phone can't see the interal storage.
Any solutions ??? THANKS!!
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Enter this in Terminal.
Code:
su
busybox chown -R 2800:2800 /mnt/media_rw/sdcard0

WhiteNeo said:
Enter this in Terminal.
Code:
su
busybox chown -R 2800:2800 /mnt/media_rw/sdcard0
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Now everything work, you're amazing bro. Can you explain me the problem?? I would understand.

saracerno said:
Now everything work, you're amazing bro. Can you explain me the problem?? I would understand.
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Xperia devices use a different owner for the internal storage. (2800 instead of 1023)
Unfortunately, all AOSP roms set the user to 1023 after formatting. That's why the apps can't access it.

[Q] how to backup and restore the whole content of SD card?

I have m7, rooted, s-off, ARHD 90.1 installed. When recording video, it sometimes stops after 30-120 seconds, with the message that an error occured and that I should format my internal SD card.
1. How can I backup all of the content of SD card and restore it after formatting?
2. Is the internal card formatted in fat32 and should I format it in fat32 again?
3. How to format it, via TWRP (i have 2.6.3.4 still, works best with ARHD) or what?
all of this was much easier before MTP was introduced :silly:

Just copy the whole content of your SD card to a folder on your PC.
I'm not sure if the internal is fat32 or not but its the phone that formats that I guess.

joriq said:
I have m7, rooted, s-off, ARHD 90.1 installed. When recording video, it sometimes stops after 30-120 seconds, with the message that an error occured and that I should format my internal SD card.
1. How can I backup all of the content of SD card and restore it after formatting?
2. Is the internal card formatted in fat32 and should I format it in fat32 again?
3. How to format it, via TWRP (i have 2.6.3.4 still, works best with ARHD) or what?
all of this was much easier before MTP was introduced :silly:
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You can use e2fsck to repair your internal storage without wiping anything
Boot to TWRP and select "Mounts" uncheck-unmount /system /data and /cache partitions.
Connect your usb cable and in your adb/fastboot command window type
Code:
adb shell
e2fsck -fvy dev/block/mmcblk0p35
e2fsck -fvy dev/block/mmcblk0p36
e2fsck -fvy dev/block/mmcblk0p37
exit
This will check for and repair any bad blocks within your System, Data and Cache partitions. Kind of like scandisk on a Windows pc. If you only want to do internal storage then just do mmcblk0p37 but it won't hurt to do all 3 while your at it
mmcblk0p37 = Internal Storage
mmcblk0p36 = Cache
mmcblk0p35 = System

OK, there is a really elementary step that I am missing, or my drivers are not working :-/
So, this part needs clarification to me:
Connect your usb cable and in your adb/fastboot command window type
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step by step now
I booted to TWRP, unmounted those partitions, then connected the cable (Windows 7 ultimate plays that "thu-du-dum" sound, as if it does not recognize the device), next, in the C:\adb\ folder I hold down SHIFT key and RIGHT-CLICK and select "Open command window here". I typed "adb shell", but I just get "error: device not found".
Am I doing something wrong, or my ADB is acting up, or both? :silly:
edit: I rebooted the phone to ARHD, just in case I tried the "adb shell" and it works. After typing the command "e2fsck -fvy dev/block/mmcblk0p35", I get as response (of course) "You must have r/w access to the filesystem or be root"

joriq said:
OK, there is a really elementary step that I am missing, or my drivers are not working :-/
So, this part needs clarification to me:
step by step now
I booted to TWRP, unmounted those partitions, then connected the cable (Windows 7 ultimate plays that "thu-du-dum" sound, as if it does not recognize the device), next, in the C:\adb\ folder I hold down SHIFT key and RIGHT-CLICK and select "Open command window here". I typed "adb shell", but I just get "error: device not found".
Am I doing something wrong, or my ADB is acting up, or both? :silly:
edit: I rebooted the phone to ARHD, just in case I tried the "adb shell" and it works. After typing the command "e2fsck -fvy dev/block/mmcblk0p35", I get as response (of course) "You must have r/w access to the filesystem or be root"
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Check your Device manager on your pc while your phone is connected in recovery sounds like drivers are not working properly. If your Device is listed as anything other than "MY HTC" do this
Code:
Open "Device Manager" -> select the unknown "One" -> right-click -> "Update Driver Software ..." -> "Browse my computer" -> "Let me pick" -> "Android USB Devices" -> select "My HTC ..." -> install latest available in the list
You need to do this in recovery because the partitions can't be unmounted while it's booted to Android.

Danny201281 said:
You can use e2fsck to repair your internal storage without wiping anything
Boot to TWRP and select "Mounts" uncheck-unmount /system /data and /cache partitions.
Connect your usb cable and in your adb/fastboot command window type
Code:
adb shell
e2fsck -fvy dev/block/mmcblk0p35
e2fsck -fvy dev/block/mmcblk0p36
e2fsck -fvy dev/block/mmcblk0p37
exit
This will check for and repair any bad blocks within your System, Data and Cache partitions. Kind of like scandisk on a Windows pc. If you only want to do internal storage then just do mmcblk0p37 but it won't hurt to do all 3 while your at it
mmcblk0p37 = Internal Storage
mmcblk0p36 = Cache
mmcblk0p35 = System
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Hi guys,
Please, 35...36 and 37 is for the International One? i can set this on my WWE One?
thanks in adv

Rix70 said:
Hi guys,
Please, 35...36 and 37 is for the International One? i can set this on my WWE One?
thanks in adv
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If it's M7_u or M7_ul yes 35, 36 and 37 are correct partitions :good:

Danny201281 said:
Check your Device manager on your pc while your phone is connected in recovery sounds like drivers are not working properly. If your Device is listed as anything other than "MY HTC" do this
Code:
Open "Device Manager" -> select the unknown "One" -> right-click -> "Update Driver Software ..." -> "Browse my computer" -> "Let me pick" -> "Android USB Devices" -> select "My HTC ..." -> install latest available in the list
You need to do this in recovery because the partitions can't be unmounted while it's booted to Android.
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did all of this, worked like a charm I scanned all 3 of the memories (results are in the attachment). However, I just tried recording a video, and once again got the message that I should format my SD card after the recording was interrupted after 30 seconds or so...
So... My guess is that I cannon copy, format and restore the SD card when the phone is working normally (as was suggested in the second post). What would be the proper procedure?
PS I just switched to 720p recording and it keps recording after 3 minutes... I'll keep it at 720p for now, but still, I'd like to try and fix the issue properly.
PPS I just got the message even on 720p, after 5 minutes 48 seconds of recording :-/

joriq said:
did all of this, worked like a charm I scanned all 3 of the memories (results are in the attachment). However, I just tried recording a video, and once again got the message that I should format my SD card after the recording was interrupted after 30 seconds or so...
So... My guess is that I cannon copy, format and restore the SD card when the phone is working normally (as was suggested in the second post). What would be the proper procedure?
PS I just switched to 720p recording and it keps recording after 3 minutes... I'll keep it at 720p for now, but still, I'd like to try and fix the issue properly.
PPS I just got the message even on 720p, after 5 minutes 48 seconds of recording :-/
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Sounds more like a bug with the app maybe. This is on lollipop or kitkat?

Danny201281 said:
Sounds more like a bug with the app maybe. This is on lollipop or kitkat?
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might be. I'm on LP. Nobody in ARHD thread is complaining of the issue.
I also have that mediaserver process wakelock issue and one of the solutions is to format the SD card
http://geeknizer.com/fix-android-media-server-scanner-sdcard-cpu-battery-drain/
2 birds with one stone if I succeed :victory:

joriq said:
might be. I'm on LP. Nobody in ARHD thread is complaining of the issue.
I also have that mediaserver process wakelock issue and one of the solutions is to format the SD card
http://geeknizer.com/fix-android-media-server-scanner-sdcard-cpu-battery-drain/
2 birds with one stone if I succeed :victory:
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Ok well best way to format would be with TWRP. It does obviously include the task of backing up your Rom and Data to your pc. So make a nandroid backup of your current Rom setup. Then copy everything to a folder on your pc.
In TWRP go to "Wipe" then Format Data you will be prompted to type yes to confirm. When it's done reboot recovery < ---- very important, don't skip the reboot.
Now you can push/copy your TWRP folder back to your sd card and restore the backup of your Rom. Test your video recording before you copy everything else to your sd card. If the problem still exists I would say it's definitely an app bug.
When I get a chance I will test the app, But I'm still running 84 as my main Rom until the toolbox comes to lollipop. When I get a chance later I'll switch over to 90.1 to see if I can replicate this

you're a life saver
One more n00b question: " can push/copy your TWRP folder back to your sd". How do I do that? Will my phone be recognized as a mass storage device and how?

joriq said:
you're a life saver
One more n00b question: " can push/copy your TWRP folder back to your sd". How do I do that? Will my phone be recognized as a mass storage device and how?
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You Welcome
If your using old reliable TWRP 2.6.3.3 You will need to adb push the TWRP folder. Take the "TWRP" folder you copied from the phone and put it in your fastboot folder. Boot to TWRP connect your usb cable and use below command
Code:
adb push TWRP /sdcard/TWRP
If you using the newer TWRP 2.8.4.0 or 2.8.5.0 it has the ability to use MTP in recovery mode so you can see your internal storage on your pc. Just copy it over the normal way :good:

internal sdcard0 undetected with error: command '117 partition disk volume

Since this morning, my janice fails to mount the sdcard0 failing to download files from the browser, or pictures from whatsapp. Going in -Settings - internal memory; the sdcard0 been damaged and that to use it you must first configure / format it. Formatting does not start and a message appears: command '117 volume partition disk: 179_0 public' failed with '400 117 Command failed'
How can I fix the problem?

idk really about this..what about mount sdcard0 in recovery? Happy Canada Day ”9¶3

could you tell me step by step the steps to be taken?

Luke_99 said:
could you tell me step by step the steps to be taken?
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What izwan15 is saying is that
GO TO RECOVERY (vol UP + HOME +POWER)
Select mount and storage option
See if sd card0(internal memory card) is mounted if you see it unmount , just click and mount it ,
reboot and see if it fixes the problem .
hope it helps

From recovery when I go to - Mounts and Storage - mount / storage / sdcard0 appear this error message: / storage / sdcard0: Idle-Unmounted E: Error mounting / storage / sdcard0.
I do not know which way to turn!
Please help me!!

Luke_99 said:
From recovery when I go to - Mounts and Storage - mount / storage / sdcard0 appear this error message: / storage / sdcard0: Idle-Unmounted E: Error mounting / storage / sdcard0.
I do not know which way to turn!
Please help me!!
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HI , well i would say that the partition table is screwed for some reason, because the internal storage partition has gone completely gone you are having this issue simple thing to solve this would be flashing stock which will ultimately repart the partitions and format the sdcard0. [Try to backup some important data first].

SOLVED. Give a medal to this man.:laugh: Thank you so much @DaksAnkit.
I installed the Stock Rom via custom recovery (found on another forum by a user called Gargaros) and subsequently by a temporary recovery reinstalled the Rom I wanted (in my case 5.1.1). Now everything works perfectly!:victory:

Luke_99 said:
SOLVED. Give a medal to this man.:laugh: Thank you so much @DaksAnkit.
I installed the Stock Rom via custom recovery (found on another forum by a user called Gargaros) and subsequently by a temporary recovery reinstalled the Rom I wanted (in my case 5.1.1). Now everything works perfectly!:victory:
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Haha , :good: just a thanks is fine bro, i am just glad that it worked for you. We all are here to help each other . Enjoy the weekend .