Saw someone alude to a similar problem in another thread and claim they didn't have the same problem with TnT, but I can't find the thread again so...
Issue is that a reboot is just fine, but if the machine powers off, then when it comes up it give a "Preparing SD Card" message twice. Which I presume is once for the internal card, and once for the external.
The problem is that after it does that, all the files on my internal SD Card are fine, but SDCard2 has the file structure (all the directories and subdirectories are still there), but no files. Kind of makes using the external card a pain.
FWIW the external card is a Class 6 Kensington 16GB card.
If this "is" a Vegan issue, would I be better off going to Cyanogen, or is TnT and the Stock firmware the only choice to avoid this?
TIA!
VeGAN Issue
I experienced the same issue on my g tab running vegan 5.1 beta today. I have a patriot micro sd card for what it's worth. I guess I'll rely more on internal memory for now...
It's a well documented bug with the TNT build used by Vegan. You can prevent this be creating an empty file called ".nomedia" in the root of your /sdcard2 folder.
You can do this using es file explorer by browsing to /sdcard2, press Menu> New > File and name it ".nomedia" without the quotes and this will prevent your files from being deleted.
Hi there!
I was wondering these days...which i have lived the very same situation about my G Tablet and a sdcard2 erasing issue.
Is this a Vegan only issue?
If i replace for another type of ROM, will i have the same?? And which rom would be strongly recommended these days?
I have been loving Vegan so far.....im with my tablet for 2 weeks only and i really have chosen GTablet for the powerfull hardware and customization options related to the Roms....Vegan runs flawlessly and its a nice system version... but as someone else has already mentioned, its a pain to have to deal with this type of card being erased.
Btw i have done the .nomedia file, but creating it through windows 7 DOS command line..... it worked for 1 reboot.... on the second time i turned gtablet off and got it back on...... the files were again gone, dead, wipped out lol
Any help would be great....
Thanks
I had the same issues. I used RootExplorer to create the .nomedia file in the root of the sdcard AND in the folder with my movies. No more erased data, going on 2 weeks now.
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Sorry for this thread, Ive managed to get it working now
Ok actually Im still having a problem with this, so heres the story
Figured I'd try here for some help here, I have a Bell SGS Vibrant, got tired of waiting for Froyo so I tried a stable build (think its stable ) anyways everything is great overall except now I cant use my external SD card, it says that its write protected, I know that sometimes cards can do that, but I had an idea and was wondering if anyone here could tell me if I was on the right path
I noticed I had a LOST.DIR and .android_secure folders now on my external SD card, from what Ive read its for Mac I believe.... anyways, I noticed the extensions and was wondering if that was the problem, for example looking at my internal SD card its in /mnt/internal_sd/sd directory, so now looking at my external SD its /mnt/internal_sd/external_sd, is that how it should be layed out? I was wondering if I was having problems due to the external SD card being in the internal SD card directory
Model number GT-I9000
Version 2.2
Baseband version I9000XXJP2
Kernel version 2.6.32.9 [email protected] #1
Build number GT-I9000-eng 2.2 MASTER 332 test-keys.332
Just noticed something new when I try to connect the phone in mass storage mode it still says write protected, but when I have it in Kies mode, Windows has it show up as a phone and I can add or delete files that way
From what I know the Lost.dir folder is for files that get corrupted during transfer. At least on the broken flash I have all incomplete transfers go there.
Also its normal that when viewing the contents of your phone through a file explorer on your device that the external SD is in the /sdcard/external_sd/ folder
Now to your problem...have you tried formatting your card?
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From what I know the Lost.dir folder is for files that get corrupted during transfer. At least on the broken flash I have all incomplete transfers go there.
Also its normal that when viewing the contents of your phone through a file explorer on your device that the external SD is in the /sdcard/external_sd/ folder
Now to your problem...have you tried formatting your card?
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Ok so I was on the wrong track then, thanks for the info I appreciate it
Ya I only brought up the LOST.DIR cuz I hadnt seen it before in the file system
I have tried formatting it but Win7 is a POS when it comes to formatting it always fails (plus dunno if a FAT format will work properly with Android?), perhaps Ill try it on my Ubuntu laptop and see if I can do it that way, I dont think its a card issue as I have tried another card with the same result, then again its not like 2 cards cant be corrupted
Ill post back here after trying that
Tried formatting it didnt solve the problem, also tried another card that I know isnt corrupted since it works on my wifes BlackBerry, its the same thing, so this is an OS issue
Done lots of Googling but have come up empty
Anyone have any ideas?
I'm running TNT lite 2.2.0 (yes I need to flash a more recent version...) and I cannot seem to access my SD card in any way. When I took it out it told me that I had removed it unexpectantly, and when I tried to get back into ES file explorer it had all my root forlders an files in what it called: /sdcard. And the area labeled: / (the root of the gtablet) there were the old files that used to be on my SD card, even though I had removed it... from then on I have been having tons of problems accessing files, sometimes it seems like I have no files at all today, I opened it to access some media I downloaded and only the folder labeled "data" was there with a bunch of random stuff in it that I truly don't care about. Now, I got a new SD card, put it in and still the files from the old SD card were still there.... I don't know what to do, I tried clearing the cache, didn't work, I tried accessing SDcard anylist the whole app force closed on me, so that didn't work either!!!! I don't know what to do!!! I also tried rebooting, didn't work... I need help thanks.
I got it, the directory was just different but it still will not let me delete or rename stuff... still help please?? I even tried a different file explorer...
The /sdcard folder is internal memory. The /sdcard2 folder is the actual path to the microsd card.
I upgraded to stock 4.0.3 posted by stachre and its running fine. Only issue is that I can't browse to my SD card though my normal file browsers. I have tried ES file manager and root explorer. The SD card shows up fine when i plug my Xoom into my PC and also is recognized by CW Recovery console. So it seems like hardware wise everything is fine, but the OS just doesn't have it mounted to the file system for some reason.
I am pretty sure it was working right after upgraded to ICS so I'm not sure what could have happened. Can someone confirm if/where the SD card should be mounted in case i am just going insane? Also if there anything I can do short of reflashing the image?
how is the card formatted?
The card is mounted in the small slot within the same opening where a sim would go...on the top, toward the screen and to the left if looking at the front side of the Xoom. It should be able to slide in and click into place. Click it out and then back in to make sure it's seated properly. In the EOS ICS the micro sdcard will be at media/sdcard. In Honeycomb it was at mnt/external1. You may not be looking in the right place.
The card is definately seated correctly, i just used it to change over to EOS 1.0.0 image and CW had no issue seeing it. But stll no access to the SD card within the main OS. There is nothing in my media folder except an "audio" folder.
I was wondering why all my notifications weren't playing any tones and I was missing photos. Went to file commander and saw my SD Card was basically formatted. Folders are gone, but the files not in a folder were still there.
What happened?!? Is my SD Card going bad or something else happened?
I have seen this happen before to myself.
If you are rooted, make sure to flash SuperSU from recovery again (latest version just in case) and use NextApp SDFix.
I haven't had any issues after that so far, but can't confirm the issue has been solved either.
SD card weird name eg. 5488-9976 instead of ExtSdCard & write problems on SWD card
Hello, I noticed that my SD card doesn't have a name like in my Note 2. Instead, it gets some weird number.
Is ot possible to change that name?
I have rooted the phone, so if it's a mount name, please tell me how to change this mount name.
Also, I have problems writing to the SD card due to rights. There was a fix for previous Android versions, but I haven't seen any for Android 6.0. Anyone can help with that?
(Yes, I searched and searched, but couldn't find anything useful, only questions, no answers)
The same SDfix apps that worked in previous versions should still work on Marshmallow (I used it with my Nexus 6P).
I also think it's a Marshmallow thing with the random numbers being the mount point, as my brother's Moto X Play does the same thing.
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I have the same strange mount point (well, not identical but similar). Must be how MM mounts external storage.
Re: writing to the card, I think it might depend on the app. For example, in TiBu I had to change "Storage Provider" under "Backup Folder Location" to "DocumentProvider storage", then select the external sd, and then afterwards selected TiBu's folder. Other than that I've had no problems writing to external storage (also tested through MediaMonkey, which happily wrote to the storage).
that's totally normal working for ext SD on MM, no bug, no issue
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that's totally normal working for ext SD on MM, no bug, no issue
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Maybe not a bug, but the rights are a serious issue!
eg: BtSync cannot access every folder, so cannot sync everything.
Foldermount has no write access to folders I created myself.
It's completely unacceptable and, I tried previous kitkat fix, but got an error that WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE entry was not found.
edit: I sort of solved it with this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/and...2016-01-18-t3296266/post64869668#post64869668