I unmounted my external sd card, to format it. I formatted it. Now it will not show up for USB connection. When using ES file Explorer, with root privileges turned on, I see external1 mounted with privileges of ---rwxr-x but sdcard has privileges of rwxrwxr-x so I tried assigning these privileges to external1, but it just tells me it failed. When I try in root explorer it says some file systems do not allow you to change permissions. It may not be permissions related, but the phone sees the external sdcard so why wont it mount on my desktop(Kubuntu 12.10) like it did before unmounting the sdcard? I tried to reboot the phone, but that did not help.
External SD Card No Longer Recognized After Unmounting - Permissions Screwed?
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Posted 16 December 2012 - 08:15 PM
Try formatting it with the phone. So put the card in and format it. It might have a different format and not playing nice with your phone.
a what? an android? whats that?
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Posted 16 December 2012 - 08:19 PM
Sorry I wasn't clear. I formatted it from the phone.
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Posted 16 December 2012 - 08:39 PM
Have you tried rebooting after formatting?......
Edit.... Never mind... Didnt read your last line lol.....
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Posted 16 December 2012 - 08:45 PM
Do you have safestrap installed?.... If you think it may be a permissions error there is an option in safestrap to fix permissions.... Maybe that will help
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Posted 17 December 2012 - 12:43 PM
I forgot about that. I tried it but that did not fix it. It realizes a USB connections is made because it says USB debugging is on and it lets me choose media device and camera. but not the third option that enabled the sd card to be recognized. Can you check permissions on a similar device(one with an internal sd card and a external sd card) and report back what you have. I am not 100% sure it is permission related BUT it seems like the likely culprit because the card works fine in in a cheap pos usb card reader from ebay, and it worked fine in the HD before unmounting. I have tried to remove and insert it and reformat it, and every combination of such. No luck.Do you have safestrap installed?.... If you think it may be a permissions error there is an option in safestrap to fix permissions.... Maybe that will help
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Posted 21 December 2012 - 11:38 PM
Well I ended up doing a fastboot restore to stock ,and now it works again.
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Posted 22 December 2012 - 12:15 AM
I'm glad its working for you. I'm just throwing this out, it might have been a case of the card being mounted but the filesystem wasn't. I see that at work with installing new raid sets. The raid set is mounted but the filesystem on the raid set isn't mounted. I'm not sure if the same idea applies with android tho.
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Posted 22 December 2012 - 12:18 AM
Interesting point Brutus. In this case, android was recognizing the external sd card through file explorers and settings->storage. I tried different roms, different SD cards, so the problem seems to be on Moto's end some where(or at least imo).
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Posted 22 December 2012 - 01:45 AM
I think you are right about it being something on the motorola end... Since you fastbooted back and now it works.....
Im glad it is working for you now
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Posted 23 December 2012 - 08:18 AM
Interesting devlopment...the problem is back. The only thing that changed between then and now is root, upgrade to stock JB, and flash Fuzion rom.
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Posted 03 January 2013 - 07:35 AM
I'm running Arctic HD .1 over .215 with Safestrap 2.0. I recently purchased a 32 gb sd card. backed up the 16 gb card to my pc. Shut down phone pulled 16 gb card, replaced with 32 gb card. Phone recognized card, copied data to phone. Every thing was cool for a couple of days then I start getting messages that the sd card was blank. I pulled the sd card put it in my PC and it recognized the sd card, put it back in phone phone says its blank. So I put it back in pc formated it then put it in phone and voila it is recogized, the phone even put a lost.dir folder on the card. So now I want to format it to the phone. Just to be sure, the format sd card command in the safestrap menu is for the EXTERNAL SD CARD correct?
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Posted 03 January 2013 - 07:42 AM
Not sure on ss 2.... I would backup internal prior to format just in case ')
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Posted 15 January 2013 - 10:36 PM
Having the same problem with my ext sdcard. Not recognizing sdcard as primary external sdcard. I can see it in file manager apps but either under mnt or storage. I'm on ota jelly bean fusion rom
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