OK here is the deal. I Am on ICS Ni8 And now 12 And I am having one heck of a time getting my external sd card to have write permissions. I can see the card when I go to menu,settings and storage. But when I go into Astro file manager and select External Memory I get Directory does not exist. Create? So I select OK. And then I get "error writing file". So, who would like to help me enable R&W permissions?
Jaytronics said:
OK here is the deal. I Am on ICS Ni8 And now 12 And I am having one heck of a time getting my external sd card to have write permissions. I can see the card when I go to menu,settings and storage. But when I go into Astro file manager and select External Memory I get Directory does not exist. Create? So I select OK. And then I get "error writing file". So, who would like to help me enable R&W permissions?
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You're rooted of course? For Xoom WiFi, mounting the card using Root Explorer works. Don't know if Astro works with root.
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Happy Sunday!
I put a 16g micro sd in the card slot inside the holder for an sd card. I formatted the card so there should be nothing on it. Every time I turn on the tablet, it wants me to transfer the files but there are no files to be transferred. How do I stop that and how can I start using the card for storage?
Thank you,
You need to do abit of reading. The external sd slot is used to transfer files between sd card and the internal And visa versa. There is apost that is looking into it. I am eargerly waiting to use the sd card to use as extra storage.
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diddy64 said:
You need to do abit of reading. The external sd slot is used to transfer files between sd card and the internal And visa versa. There is apost that is looking into it. I am eargerly waiting to use the sd card to use as extra storage.
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That needs to get fixed right away. Seems very silly to do that, but Sony is known for doing silly things.
Now that the device is rooted, this should be doable by one of our more talented members.
dtaylorr said:
That needs to get fixed right away. Seems very silly to do that, but Sony is known for doing silly things.
Now that the device is rooted, this should be doable by one of our more talented members.
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Your other option is to check the setting for the File Transfer app and choose not to be prompted every time, and then to stop using File Manager and start using something like Astro.
If you're using Astro File Manager, you can change the folder paths in the settings so that External SD Card leads to /mnt/sdcard2 and USB Storage leads to /mnt/usbdisk1 and you'll be ready to go.
agc93 said:
Your other option is to check the setting for the File Transfer app and choose not to be prompted every time, and then to stop using File Manager and start using something like Astro.
If you're using Astro File Manager, you can change the folder paths in the settings so that External SD Card leads to /mnt/sdcard2 and USB Storage leads to /mnt/usbdisk1 and you'll be ready to go.
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Are you saying that this has been confirmed and working successfully?
Would this be a permanent adjustment, meaning it wont reset to default on system bootup?
I've noted a problem with SD Card permissions after updating to ICS. I am not rooted, and now that I have updated, it doesn't look like I can root now but the card appears to be Read Only for everything except the preloaded apps.
Any third party app (Astro, Chrome, etc) cannot save files to the SD card. I have to save the file on internal card and then use File Transfer to move it over.
I've found a few suggestions on how to fix it but it requires Root access. Does anyone have an idea how to change the permissions without Root?
Thanks in advance.
I don't think it's possible to change permission assigned to the sdcard2 (external sd), because the file you have to modify is in the system partition. It is possible if you have root permission on your tablet.
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You might use /mnt/sdcard2 instead. At least with ES File Explorer this works fine. Try to contact the developers of your Apps if they don't provide a configuration option.
alexfreu said:
You might use /mnt/sdcard2 instead. At least with ES File Explorer this works fine. Try to contact the developers of your Apps if they don't provide a configuration option.
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That's not going to help. In ICS, the external SD is still mounted at /mnt/sdcard2, but now its mounted read-only for non-Sony apps. You would need root to remount the SD card if you want rw to sdcard2, so I've got nothing.
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In ICS, the external SD is still mounted at /mnt/sdcard2, but now its mounted read-only for non-Sony apps.
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I'm not sure if I understand correctly. I successfully copied a file into /mnt/sdcard2 with ES File Explorer. A copy to /sdcard2 fails.
I'm at ICS.
Information on this issue: "Is Google blocking apps writing to SD cards" (I'm not allowed to post link)
Thanks for the suggestions. I've tried the /mnt/sdcard2 option but it still failed. I have several ways to work around it but it's just annoying that it can't be easily fixed.
I read where ICS 4.06 fixes this but no telling when Sony will release an update to that. I will probably just wait until I can root the device.
Thanks again.
i'm writing to sony support, it's really stupid that i can't access my SD with the file manager i like !
Won't see sd card
Hi guys, i have a problem.
I bought a new sd card and tablet won't see it.
But in phone that sd card could be read.
What is the problem?
I tried to format sd card but the same.
Also the sd card from phone could be read in tablet, that is strange
Make sure the SD card is formatted in FAT32 so the Tablet can read it.
I have used the file explorer that is included with the phone which is cool and it gives me access to the external sd card along with the space that is included with the phone. I was wondering, while I was using Root explorer, I only see the sd card space that is included with the phone, how can I see the external sd card space?
Same here, Im going crazy trying to look for the ExtSdCard...Help Please...thanks in advanced...
go to /mnt in there you will see sdcard and extsdcard . Ext is external.
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Hey all i just got my evo 4g lte and i rooted it asap. I just made a noob error and formated the internal memory of the phone when i wanted to format the sdcard my issue is im running cm10 and Its running great but when i open es file explorer I cant see ext_sd which would be the sd card mounted to internal memory as a folder. Is there anyway I can get this back cause i want to put files on my sd card not the internal memory.
Thanks for the help
Try this
maddogcz75c said:
Hey all i just got my evo 4g lte and i rooted it asap. I just made a noob error and formated the internal memory of the phone when i wanted to format the sdcard my issue is im running cm10 and Its running great but when i open es file explorer I cant see ext_sd which would be the sd card mounted to internal memory as a folder. Is there anyway I can get this back cause i want to put files on my sd card not the internal memory.
Thanks for the help
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Enable "Up to root" under "Root Settings" in the app, and your external SD card can be accessed at /external_sd and/or /storage/sdcard1.
Captain_Throwback said:
Enable "Up to root" under "Root Settings" in the app, and your external SD card can be accessed at /external_sd and/or /storage/sdcard1.
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Thnx so much guys was stuck for a while on this lol
i try to use folder mount after rooted my marshmallow, but the result was error. then i found with file manager hd that after upgrade to marshmallow, while i open sd card, it showing 2 folder, "storage>9c33-6bbd". what it is mean?
is there other way to enable data put to sd card? pls help
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problem solved. just need to instal busybox and remount the folder mount.
to copy file from internal use file manager hd, setting enable root and change system
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