Looks like external SD card mounts as read only. At least I can`t delete anything. Is it normal? Can it be mounted with write acess.? I mean without having a root.
serg675 said:
Looks like external SD card mounts as read only. At least I can`t delete anything. Is it normal? Can it be mounted with write acess.? I mean without having a root.
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I'm pretty sure you need to be rooted.
in stock 3.2 its read only when using the Xoom. Its Read/Write in MTP mode when connected to PC.
If you root, you can read/write on Xoom using Root Explorer, or other file manager with "root" features (like File Manager HD). I can't write with Astro File Manager (which doesn't offer root features).
At first I thought you needed to root and install custom kernel, but I'm just rooted and I can read/write with Root Explorer and File Manager (HD). Note: File Manager HD's root options are apparently disabled by default, so you have to go into its settings menus to enable before it will write.
How to format the sd card. We can access the data from here. But I am not able to write data to my external sd card. It says premission denied. I have rooted my Asus zenfone 5(kitkat). Using file explorer, when I delete the android_secure folder, it works for sometimes.Again that folder appears and write permission denied. I have tried so many methods to format it but not succeded. The apps available on sd card is no longer in use. Sometimes, when I restart my phone, it works for sometimes. Therefore, please provide me any method to remove write protection on sd card or to format it.
ravi_sh said:
How to format the sd card. We can access the data from here. But I am not able to write data to my external sd card. It says premission denied. I have rooted my Asus zenfone 5(kitkat). Using file explorer, when I delete the android_secure folder, it works for sometimes.Again that folder appears and write permission denied. I have tried so many methods to format it but not succeded. The apps available on sd card is no longer in use. Sometimes, when I restart my phone, it works for sometimes. Therefore, please provide me any method to remove write protection on sd card or to format it.
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You can't easily delete your .android_secure, it contains info of your system. I recommend you not to delete it. If it is write protected or need to formsat then go to settings>storage>format sdcard
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ravi_sh said:
How to format the sd card. We can access the data from here. But I am not able to write data to my external sd card. It says premission denied. I have rooted my Asus zenfone 5(kitkat). Using file explorer, when I delete the android_secure folder, it works for sometimes.Again that folder appears and write permission denied. I have tried so many methods to format it but not succeded. The apps available on sd card is no longer in use. Sometimes, when I restart my phone, it works for sometimes. Therefore, please provide me any method to remove write protection on sd card or to format it.
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If you're not going to use that SD card with the phone anymore then you could format it from recovery, assuming you have a custom recovery installed (be aware, formatting will delete *everything* on the card, not just the android secure folder). In recovery you can do this from the format menu in either CWM or Philz.
If you still want to use it with the phone, you should leave android secure alone. It will just keep coming back anyways.
You could ask for help here,
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/help/asus-zenfone-5-zenfone-6-to-t2839984 :good:
I accidentally deleted Android_Secure once. Simply sticked the card into my laptop, selected the folder and hit delete. That was before I realized that folder contained files required by apps, even if they're not installed on the MicroSD. Several apps gave 'not installed' even though the icons were there.
Android recreates the folder by itself. If you want to get rid of it to use the card for a different purpose, stick it in a computer and delete the folder.
ravi_sh said:
How to format the sd card. We can access the data from here. But I am not able to write data to my external sd card. It says premission denied. I have rooted my Asus zenfone 5(kitkat). Using file explorer, when I delete the android_secure folder, it works for sometimes.Again that folder appears and write permission denied. I have tried so many methods to format it but not succeded. The apps available on sd card is no longer in use. Sometimes, when I restart my phone, it works for sometimes. Therefore, please provide me any method to remove write protection on sd card or to format it.
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Format the SD Card by a PC, the best method
You can also format it by any CUSTOM RECOVERY
Format into Fat32
All of a sudden now since I put in a new SD card into my tablet I can't seem to grant write permission to apps, or more I can't see the card in the window to give permission to grant it. When it takes me to the window to grant permission all it has on the left is recent and internal storage, going into the menu on the right it's already set to show SD card, selecting hide SD card hide internal storage, so basically it's acting like the internal storage is the SD card and there is no SD card. my tablet is not rooted and is running the latest software update available.
rooting the tablet will allow you to fix it easily. the exSD problem has been around for awhile.
one of the easiest ways to do it is to install a free app that does it for you. (then uninstall if you have no plans to use it)
TWRP manager and Foldermount come to mind, they will both fix the SD issue autoamagically when you first run them.
you can not fix this issue, to my knowledge, without root permissions.
At this point don't want to go thru everything for rooting till after they push out Marshmallow to the tablet. What I don't get though is why it's a not working correctly now, giving apps write permission worked totally fine before when I had my old 32gb SD card in there, it just won't let me grant permission to the new 64gb card.
Marshmallow has a really good SD card access solution, but it only works if apps are told to use the DocumentProvider.
Solid Explorer and Titanium Backup can use the DocumentProvider access, but all other apps that I have don't request SD access, they just try it without DocumentProvider - and fail.
How can I manually do this?
I have problem that i can't find answer to anywhere.
I recently installed new 128GB sd card. I wanted to delete some mp3 file (i will be doing that quite often now) and Aimp asked for permission to do so, and popup from android came out, with internal storage. I switched to sd and clicked ”use this folder” on root directory of sd, but i still can't delete files as i don't have write permission. Aimp still asks for write permission but now root directory of sd has no 'use this folder button' it shows up after i go to any folder and then back up, but it changes nothing, i still can't write to sd.
I have identical situation with ttorrent.
What i can do to change that? It's extremely annoying.
I granted permissions in apk setting for writing in memory too.
Same issue for me. It was on Android 9, and it is on Android 10 also(