[Q] Ext SD card - Samsung Galaxy S (4G Model)

I have a question regarding the external SD card. My applications wont run and it says error while launching application. And when I connect it via usb, the selection appears for kies, media, and mass storage. If i choose media, it will show on my computer, but if i choose mass storage, it just goes back to my home screen. I am really buffed because i can browse the contents of the SD card if i use the internal file manager.
I would appreciate the help...

Wipe cache + dalvic? Idk man. That's all I really got.
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marchingbtone said:
Wipe cache + dalvic? Idk man. That's all I really got.
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i would like to try this but TB is installed in SD card and it wont run when i click it...

LarsonJayz said:
i would like to try this but TB is installed in SD card and it wont run when i click it...
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You could just get another copy of tb from the market... But wiping your caches(and fixing permissions) won't effect your sd card or any data on it.
The only time I had a issue like this required me to re-format my sd...
Were you using some sort of app 2 sd? Perhaps you put a partition on it? What rom? Help us help you
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QUIETLYloud said:
You could just get another copy of tb from the market... But wiping your caches(and fixing permissions) won't effect your sd card or any data on it.
The only time I had a issue like this required me to re-format my sd...
Were you using some sort of app 2 sd? Perhaps you put a partition on it?
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I tried but it wont install on my phone. I'll try to reformat my SD card and see what happens...

LarsonJayz said:
I tried but it wont install on my phone. I'll try to reformat my SD card and see what happens...
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Doing so will erase everything on there!
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Doing so will erase everything on there!
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yeah thanks for reminding me. I have a backup of all the contents of my SD card. Will that be enough if I reformat my SD card then transfer it back?

Should be good... Let the phone format it
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Should be good... Let the phone format it
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I want to do this but format SD card is grayed out in my phone settings. though is shows disk space. But anyways, I will try to format it on my PC...

LarsonJayz said:
I want to do this but format SD card is grayed out in my phone settings. though is shows disk space. But anyways, I will try to format it on my PC...
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Then let phone format after
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Then let phone format after
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After formatting and returning the files back to SD card, the error still persist... Will this error disappear if i flash to GB?

Do you have the option of mounting/un-mounting your card or does it just say mount SD? If it only says mount SD then your card is gone.

bswann said:
Do you have the option of mounting/un-mounting your card or does it just say mount SD? If it only says mount SD then your card is gone.
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it does have unmount option. I can also see the disk spaces and also i can browse the files with the stock file browser. Bt, im now running GB 2.3.6 and still I am experiencing the problem... formatting did not fix the problem...

When you formatted it on the PC was it set as primary?

Were you trying to update your ROM by saving your apps on the sd card then reloading them onto 2.3.6? I was wondering about doing this. Maybe gingerbread and froyo read apk's differently, and if they are already installed on sd card I could see problems arising. Never worked when I tried that with any windows formatting

bswann said:
When you formatted it on the PC was it set as primary?
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i will try a format again and check that option...

Farlander said:
Were you trying to update your ROM by saving your apps on the sd card then reloading them onto 2.3.6? I was wondering about doing this. Maybe gingerbread and froyo read apk's differently, and if they are already installed on sd card I could see problems arising. Never worked when I tried that with any windows formatting
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My first hand experience yesterday was not very successul because my SD Card is acting strangely coz it did run some apps on the new rom and the others shows error while launching. I'm on the process of reflashing and i'll post update once i'm done and run some tests...

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[Q] files showing in /mnt/sdcard but not /sdcard

i was moving some files (music) to my sdcard today and for some reason now that i go in and look for the files in /sdcard, they arent there. all i have is my Voodoo folder. but, if i look in /mnt/sdcard, all of my files appear. can someone explain this?
If i plug it into my computer through my micro sd adapter, it shows all the files
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Mod, please close. Solution found
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what was the solution? I am having the same problem...
shehrammajid said:
what was the solution? I am having the same problem...
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Oh i wish I could remember. Gahhhh let me think
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Seriously? Come on, you should put down how you fixed it. I am having the same problem.
c71clark said:
Seriously? Come on, you should put down how you fixed it. I am having the same problem.
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i would post it if i could remember it, but i can't
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Maybe try unmounting the SD card and remount it.
Settings --> SD card and phone storage --> Unount SD card
Once it's unmounted, it'll give you the option to remount it.
stephen_w said:
Maybe try unmounting the SD card and remount it.
Settings --> SD card and phone storage --> Unount SD card
Once it's unmounted, it'll give you the option to remount it.
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im thinking that's what did it for me, or maybe it was a permission fix in cwm
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Incorrect SD Card Size

I noticed not too long ago that when I connected my nexus s to my computer it would show that there is only a total of 14.3 gb of total space available on the SD card when in fact there should be close to 16. Has anybody else experienced this problem? I've tried formatting the SD card and fresh installing everything but nothing has cleared it up. I've done some searching as well and I couldn't find any useful information
Dude, the SD card is partitioned between internal memory and user storage. It also doesn't help that windows and memory makers measure space differently. You're good dude.
Explained: http://www.brettbits.com/Text/MissingHardDriveSpace/
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dunkerya said:
Dude, the SD card is partitioned between internal memory and user storage. It also doesn't help that windows and memory makers measure space differently. You're good dude.
Explained: http://www.brettbits.com/Text/MissingHardDriveSpace/
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Sweet thanks! and now that I was an idiot I formated the SD Card using Disk Utility Mac OS 10.7 and CWM says "Error mounting /sdcard" when I try to install a zip
I'm still able to mount the USB storage to my computer and copy files over but CWM can't access any of the files on my phone. So basically for right now i have a bricked phone
UPDATE:
I may have solved the problem. I just relocked the bootloader and unlocked it again and when I select choose zip from sdcard in CWM 5.5.0.4 it says "no files found" instead of can't mount sdcard. I'm going to copy files back over to the phone and see if I can flash the rom I was on and get back up and running.
Let us know what happens! Hope you get it fixed.
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dunkerya said:
Let us know what happens! Hope you get it fixed.
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Yeah it turns out locking the bootloader and then unlocking it again got it all sorted out. Back up and running and everything is working great
Sweet! Glad you got it worked out.
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[Q] Can't Format External SD-Card

So I think I've tried absolutely everything (that I can think of at least), but I can't seem to format my External SD Card. I've tried from CWM, from Windows 7 from and from an old Windows XP machine. I've when connecting to the computers I've done a manually deletion of everything on the SD-Card only to un mount it and re-mount it and find everything is still there. As well as right clicking on the drive and selecting format and then un mounting and remounting and finding everything is back. What is really weird is that everything indicates like it works but once I unmounted my SD-Card and then remounted it, it just comes back. I've also gone into root explorer and tried deleting it from there. If anyone has any other ideas I would sure be grateful to hear them. Thanks. Also my phone is CM 9.1.0 with root (obviously).
How are you mounting your sd card on the computer? You are only using your phone or you have an external reader?
If you are only using your phone the issue may come from there and you should try an external reader.
Also to format it in windows try right clicking our computer>manage>manage storage and there find your card an try formatting it.
[Tutorial] How to part your micro SD card into ext4 using GParted Live CD? here
and a video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z1Tu9l8WNc
@kishke I'm using my phone to mount my SDcard, I don't have an external SDcard reader on me at the moment. I could definitely give it a shot. I'll update you on how that goes. I'm also going to try the comment below as well. I did try and do a windows format and that didn't work either. So definitely stumped on this one.
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So I found out that my external SDcard isn't writeable... but I checked the permissions in system/etc/permissions/platform.xml and everything looked good. Any different ideas out there?
reubendevries said:
So I found out that my external SDcard isn't writeable... but I checked the permissions in system/etc/permissions/platform.xml and everything looked good. Any different ideas out there?
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Sometimes they crap out. You may need a new one if none of the suggestions work
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Sometimes they crap out. You may need a new one if none of the suggestions work
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If this was the case would I still be able to pull things off of the SD Card... because that works.
reubendevries said:
If this was the case would I still be able to pull things off of the SD Card... because that works.
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Yeah
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Sorry is the "yeah" mean that you think my logic is right or is the "yeah" mean that I could still pull data from a sd card that was shot.
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Sorry is the "yeah" mean that you think my logic is right or is the "yeah" mean that I could still pull data from a sd card that was shot.
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Yes. Sometimes you can pull data of a card that is not writable.
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reubendevries said:
So I found out that my external SDcard isn't writeable... but I checked the permissions in system/etc/permissions/platform.xml and everything looked good. Any different ideas out there?
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sounds like the card is junk

[Q] "There is insufficient space on external storage" error message

Hello everyone. I recently underwent a forced upgrade to an LG Optimus F3 after my Kyocera Rise almost started a house fire. I am trying to get all my apps on the thing and everything has gone smoothly. However when I tried to install FIFA 14, which is a large app, I receive an error message.
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This is baffling, since I have over 25 GB of space remaining on the card.
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Any advice on how to resolve this problem would be appreciated.
Things that may be ****ing stuff up:
-I literally took the SD card straight from the other phone and put it in this one.
-I have been installing a lot of stuff today.
-I don't really know what else.
Do you have Lucky Patcher installed on you're phone..?
If you do, stop it from running and wipe LP cache... And try again...
Coertmans said:
Do you have Lucky Patcher installed on you're phone..?
If you do, stop it from running and wipe LP cache... And try again...
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No, I do not. Would you recommend I install it?
I thought the problem might be coming from the fact that the SD card was used in another phone. So I used the Erase all Data option in Settings > Storage, but the problem persists.
Can anyone help, or do you need more info?
Maybe I need to format the card another way?
And pardon the double post, but here's another screenshot, this time of ES File Explorer.
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Is it normal for there to be two directories there?
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I could really use some help figuring this out. I used Aparted to delete the partition and create a new one but still no change. Is there anywhere else or some other subforum where I should be posting this, or is there a way for me to figure this out on my own?
Does your phone detects your SD card or are you able to move apps to SD card???
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Does your phone detects your SD card or are you able to move apps to SD card???
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Well, it shows my SD cards under Settings > Storage, but I'm not seeing an option to move apps to SD on the app menus.
I also hard reset my device, but apparently the problem still persists. When I get home imma try the other SD card and see if there's a change.
No change with the other SD card, so it must be a phone error. Any ideas?
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Is your phone currently rooted??? And Aparted is an awesome software. your not using the android app to partition the sd when a pc should be used to partition the sd with a micro reader???
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Evanescent1 said:
Is your phone currently rooted??? And Aparted is an awesome software. your not using the android app to partition the sd when a pc should be used to partition the sd with a micro reader???
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Yes, I just rooted my phone. However, the problem persists, and I still don't have the option to move apps to SD card. I'm not sure what you're getting at in the second sentence though, sorry.
Okay what I mean by the second sentence is that Aparted is available for pc and as apk for android, which one did you use??? And when you partitioned the sd card what format did you use NTFS, FAT32, FAT16 etc.... and also did you wipe the sd prior to formatting it???
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Evanescent1 said:
Okay what I mean by the second sentence is that Aparted is available for pc and as apk for android, which one did you use??? And when you partitioned the sd card what format did you use NTFS, FAT32, FAT16 etc.... and also did you wipe the sd prior to formatting it???
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I used the android one, a fat32 format, and yes.
Okay, basically what I think is going on is that my phone just doesn't support apps on SD card. Something about the way my filesystem emulates an SD card or something, so it's not a capability I can just unlock from the phone. Anyway, I've been able to sort of work around the problem by using link2SD with an aparted partition, which looks like it's working perfectly, as far as it goes. If anyone else runs into a problem like this and finds a better solution please let me know!
Thanks for all the suggestions.
Awesome, and link2sd is one of best app2sd apks available....cheers man
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pictures not saving

Never had a problem until I rooted and changed the rom, but now all my pictures I take more then half of them wont save and say unsupported file, anyone else have this problem or know a fix? Thanks
Any one?
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Any one?
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Do a clean install of the rom again. Are you saving the pictures to your external SD card or to the phone internal storage.
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zune70 said:
Do a clean install of the rom again. Are you saving the pictures to your external SD card or to the phone internal storage.
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Thanks, yes I have tried the full wipe and still have it happening, and its saving to my sd card.I have re formatted that as well
awdlexusis said:
Thanks, yes I have tried the full wipe and still have it happening, and its saving to my sd card.I have re formatted that as well
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Only thing I can think of is that your SD card might be bad and you need a new one.
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