Hi, I'm using Samsung Galaxy Trend GT-S7560.
So the problem is if I do anything with my external SD Card (move, rename, delete, make files.. etc), it will save any changes at first, but it will return to a specific state either after a while, or if I reformat/remount the card or restart the phone.
This happen all of a sudden.
Ex: I deleted a pic and after a while it will be there again even it was already gone before, create a file it will gone, move a file from phone storage to the external SD Card it will gone too.
It's not like I can't edit at all. But it will return to the state before I edit it.
The problem made my apps like Link2SD can't run properly.
I tried to edit the files using my PC or an app but it will return to the specific state in the end.
Please help, thanks!
(yes, my device is rooted)
(+ sorry if bad english)
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Hi, I'm using Samsung Galaxy Trend GT-S7560.
So the problem is if I do anything with my external SD Card (move, rename, delete, make files.. etc), it will save any changes at first, but it will return to a specific state either after a while, or if I reformat/remount the card or restart the phone.
This happen all of a sudden.
Ex: I deleted a pic and after a while it will be there again even it was already gone before, create a file it will gone, move a file from phone storage to the external SD Card it will gone too.
It's not like I can't edit at all. But it will return to the state before I edit it.
The problem made my apps like Link2SD can't run properly.
I tried to edit the files using my PC or an app but it will return to the specific state in the end.
Please help, thanks!
(yes, my device is rooted)
(+ sorry if bad english)
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Hello, thank you for using XDA assist!
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Sounds like your card doesn't have write permissions.
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Hi everyone... PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!
My new phone (Touch by HTC 6900) was powering off by itself and not turning on unless I removed the battery -- after I had tried to pair the phone with another phone using BlueTooth. So, I called Sprint who had me to hard reset the phone. But first beforing doing that, the Sprint representative had me to copy the PIM file to the SD card in the phone, then remove the card from the phone. After we hard reset the phone, I was told to insert the SD card back into the phone. But, the PIM file now reads "pim.vol.0b935b1b" instead of just "PIM". Now, I can not open this file (my contacts) on my phone nor my computer. I cut this file off the SD card and placed it on the desktop of my computer. When I try to open it there, I get a message saying that I'm attempting to open a ".MENC" file. So, I guess my file was encrypted. I DO NOT have this list of contacts anywhere else and despirately need to get them out of this file. Does anyone have any idea how I can retrieve my contacts list from this file - decrypt this file?
Thanks for any help that you can offer me....
& Happy Holidays!
Pierce
Hello and welcome to the forum!
Please be sure to read this!
I moved your thread in to a more appropriate topic.
Now to your question:
The file is not encrypted. I am not sure how it got the extension 0b935b1b but the name should be pim.vol.
The PC can not recognize this file because it is EDB format unique to Windows Mobile devices.
What you need to do to get your contacts back is from a PC (via ActiveSync) or by using Total Commander for PPC rename pim.vol which is in root (base "\") directory of your device to pim1.vol then copy the pim.vol you had on SD in it's place.
The soft reset the device. If the file was not damaged you should get your contacts back.
Hope this helps, good luck!
levenum said:
The file is not encrypted. I am not sure how it got the extension 0b935b1b but the name should be pim.vol.
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The file is encrypted - he did not write the full file name - extension of it is .menc.
@ Pierce: The encryption key is held in device's internal memory. After HR or flash it gets overwritten/erased. SD card encryption uses AES 128 bit encryption, brute force attack against this kind of encryption with normal PC would take decades. Your contacts are therefore most probably gone for good. More info about SD Card encryption with a link to M$ developers statement about it can be found here.
My apologies. I did not realize SD encryption actually renames the files.
Guess I need to do some reading.
Thanks for the link KarhU.
levenum said:
My apologies. I did not realize SD encryption actually renames the files.
Guess I need to do some reading.
Thanks for the link KarhU.
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No need to apologize I am no expert. But I feel sorry for the guy....
Thank you guys.... so there's no third party software that I can get to undo this problem... to allow me open this file? My husband is giving me so much grief about losing all his business contacts -- that he didn't have saved anywhere else.
Thanks again... & Happy New Year!
Hello all!
I'm not sure if this has come up yet with anybody here, and I didn't see a post referencing it. I just rooted my Shield Tablet and
installed Titanium Backup. When I went to the preferences to change the backup folder to my external SD card it told me that
it was read-only and wouldn't allow me to use it at all.
I just want to save anybody else in a similar situation some time. I'm unable to link things currently but all the credit goes to
mateenf in the Note 3 Dev Forums for posting this fix:
mateenf said:
1. Using a root-enabled file manager, navigate to /system/etc/permissions
2. Edit platform.xml and find the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission.
3. Add an additional group definition for this permission...<group gid="media_rw" />
4. Save the changes to the file.
5. Restart.
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I would also add that you must mount the partition as R/W first or you will not be able to save the edit.
Virus.Shell said:
Hello all!
I'm not sure if this has come up yet with anybody here, and I didn't see a post referencing it. I just rooted my Shield Tablet and
installed Titanium Backup. When I went to the preferences to change the backup folder to my external SD card it told me that
it was read-only and wouldn't allow me to use it at all.
I just want to save anybody else in a similar situation some time. I'm unable to link things currently but all the credit goes to
mateenf in the Note 3 Dev Forums for posting this fix:
I would also add that you must mount the partition as R/W first or you will not be able to save the edit.
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I had some issues with the SD card as well. Now that you have root access go to the play store and install SD fix and netapp sd fix. Install them both and run them. I started with netapp SD fix and it said it worked but only certain apps got the right permissions. After i also installed the SD fix (kitkat) Both of them said status of good to go. And now all apps worked with the SD card. Be sure to also use the Root checker app to verify that your root is sticking.
If you have your Shield or Shield Tablet rooted, I would suggest installing Xposed Framework and then installing the "HandleExternalStorage" module. That will give you back read/write access to external storage. I'm able to read/write to my 128GB Micro SD in my Shield and Shield Tablet and to my 64GB card in a memory card reader using an OTG cable with no issues.
Virus.Shell said:
Hello all!
I'm not sure if this has come up yet with anybody here, and I didn't see a post referencing it. I just rooted my Shield Tablet and
installed Titanium Backup. When I went to the preferences to change the backup folder to my external SD card it told me that
it was read-only and wouldn't allow me to use it at all.
I just want to save anybody else in a similar situation some time. I'm unable to link things currently but all the credit goes to
mateenf in the Note 3 Dev Forums for posting this fix:
I would also add that you must mount the partition as R/W first or you will not be able to save the edit.
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Just stumbled upon this post and appreciate the information! Have an S5 and was wondering why I couldn't use my extSDcard for backups. Seems ridiculous to be limited to internal storage... One simple line of code and all is working flawlessly.
Hi,
Apologies if in wrong section, but I have a query about updating the platform.xml file on my Samsung Galaxy Trend GT-S7580
to allow rw access to the external sd card.
I have rooted the phone and mounted the file system, via Mount /system (rw/ro) app. (check root and Titanium backup confirm it as rooted)
I can navigate to and update/save the platform.xml file, however whenever I restart the phone the file reverts to its original and my changed are lost.
Before restarting I was able to create a new folder etc on the sxt sd card, but again after restarting the folder seemed to be gone too!
Is there anything I am doing wrong, or additional steps I am missing out on?
Any help is much appreciated
Update .... turns out its the microSD card that is the problem. Cant seen to write or delete from it even though its not read only.
Got a new card and hey presto, worked fine
EireAsh said:
Hi,
Apologies if in wrong section, but I have a query about updating the platform.xml file on my Samsung Galaxy Trend GT-S7580
to allow rw access to the external sd card.
I have rooted the phone and mounted the file system, via Mount /system (rw/ro) app. (check root and Titanium backup confirm it as rooted)
I can navigate to and update/save the platform.xml file, however whenever I restart the phone the file reverts to its original and my changed are lost.
Before restarting I was able to create a new folder etc on the sxt sd card, but again after restarting the folder seemed to be gone too!
Is there anything I am doing wrong, or additional steps I am missing out on?
Any help is much appreciated
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HI!
I have a rooted android phone (D2203). One of the reasons I rooted was to try to solve this problem when deleting pictures:
"Photos doesn't have access to delete item on your SD card. Go to the Gallery app to continue deleting."
I did use NextApp's "SDFix," which I thought would solve the problem, but it did not.
I realize this may be a problem on google's end, but is there any way to get the app to "realize" that it has permission to write on the SD Card?
I am not using a custom rom.
Thanks!
-Bryan
So its a long story guys.
I am Iman. And i have a samsung galaxy star pro ( i know its old, but i just need the solution, not advices to buy a new phone)
Yesterday i rooted my samsung galaxy star pro, with pc kingoroot pc software. And it was sucessfully rooted. Today I installed, link2sd, RoesoftRamExpander and FOLDERMOUNT in my phone.
Ok so when i was using folder mount when i opened the app it gave an error type of thing that a faculty error has came and it will have to do something to the sdcard (internal storage sd card) and it also said that i will create a backup as well.
I just clicked ok, and then using folder mount, i didnt found it effective because all the data was in KB's so i uninstalled folder mount. Now when i opened gallery it said that data is low than 100 mb delete some files. I rushed to settings>storage and saw the Phone memory was 4 Gb/4GB full. (my phone even doesnt supports apps2sd so i cant change default storage to ext sd card)
ok so now i opened es file explorer and the sd card was empty. I opened up /device and searched a file called sdcard.backup and it was there, which means that i have the backup. Now how can i restore it please??????????????? I really need to restore it. if theres an app to do it than tell me , i have also gone in foldermount settings but found nothing there. I can install apps, because the apps go to device/system>data
XDA Visitor said:
So its a long story guys.
I am Iman. And i have a samsung galaxy star pro ( i know its old, but i just need the solution, not advices to buy a new phone)
Yesterday i rooted my samsung galaxy star pro, with pc kingoroot pc software. And it was sucessfully rooted. Today I installed, link2sd, RoesoftRamExpander and FOLDERMOUNT in my phone.
Ok so when i was using folder mount when i opened the app it gave an error type of thing that a faculty error has came and it will have to do something to the sdcard (internal storage sd card) and it also said that i will create a backup as well.
I just clicked ok, and then using folder mount, i didnt found it effective because all the data was in KB's so i uninstalled folder mount. Now when i opened gallery it said that data is low than 100 mb delete some files. I rushed to settings>storage and saw the Phone memory was 4 Gb/4GB full. (my phone even doesnt supports apps2sd so i cant change default storage to ext sd card)
ok so now i opened es file explorer and the sd card was empty. I opened up /device and searched a file called sdcard.backup and it was there, which means that i have the backup. Now how can i restore it please??????????????? I really need to restore it. if theres an app to do it than tell me , i have also gone in foldermount settings but found nothing there. I can install apps, because the apps go to device/system>data
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