No matter if im on kitkat or lollipop, Im unable to take a screen shot. Has anyone encountered this?
On kitkat, there is a popup that says "cannot copy, file damaged". On lollipop , the popup states, "insufficient space (i have plenty) or "it isnt allowed by your app or you organization". Any help would be appreciated.
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Has anyone experienced this?
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dablitzkrieg said:
Has anyone experienced this?
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Are you trying to write to the external SD card? If so, are you rooted? If not, writing to the external SD card is limited unless you're rooted and you change the security via a change to the build.prop file in the /system partition.
If you are rooted and have opened up write access to the external SD card, maybe your SD card is corrupted? How old is it and how often do you write to it? SD cards have limited lifespan and their effectiveness decreases with each and every write you do to it. It could take up to a year, but eventually, depending on how often you write to it, it will fail and files will become corrupted.
All the messages you posted make it sound like you are definitely trying to write to the external SD card and unless you have unlocked it (there is an app for this in the store but you have to be rooted to make the change), apps cannot write to the SD card, especially cameras UNLESS the camera has a setting that allows it to and it was updated correctly to work with the new KK security settings for external SD cards.
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Are you trying to write to the external SD card? If so, are you rooted? If not, writing to the external SD card is limited unless you're rooted and you change the security via a change to the build.prop file in the /system partition.
If you are rooted and have opened up write access to the external SD card, maybe your SD card is corrupted? How old is it and how often do you write to it? SD cards have limited lifespan and their effectiveness decreases with each and every write you do to it. It could take up to a year, but eventually, depending on how often you write to it, it will fail and files will become corrupted.
All the messages you posted make it sound like you are definitely trying to write to the external SD card and unless you have unlocked it (there is an app for this in the store but you have to be rooted to make the change), apps cannot write to the SD card, especially cameras UNLESS the camera has a setting that allows it to and it was updated correctly to work with the new KK security settings for external SD cards.
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I am rooted and the SD card is only 2 weeks old. I don't understand it. I am able to take screenshots via a free app in the app store, bit this issue is frustrating.
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dablitzkrieg said:
I am rooted and the SD card is only 2 weeks old. I don't understand it. I am able to take screenshots via a free app in the app store, bit this issue is frustrating.
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You may be rooted, but did you apply the patch to allow writing to the external sd card? Just because you are rooted doesn't mean it will work still. The app itself isn't running as root. You have to apply the write to external SD card patch.
I believe I mentioned that in my post to you.
You can get the app here which requires you to be rooted (which you are):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.sdfix
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You may be rooted, but did you apply the patch to allow writing to the external sd card? Just because you are rooted doesn't mean it will work still. The app itself isn't running as root. You have to apply the write to external SD card patch.
I believe I mentioned that in my post to you.
You can get the app here which requires you to be rooted (which you are):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.sdfix
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Thank you for this. Unfortunately, I ran the app and it stated "no action required".
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dablitzkrieg said:
Thank you for this. Unfortunately, I ran the app and it stated "no action required".
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Some apps may not have been updated to notify Android to use the new permissions to write to an SD card. This might be one of them. Not sure which app it is.
I know the stock camera with the G3 can write to the external SD card because it asks for the correct permissions. The permissions most apps asked for BEFORE KitKat no longer work. There is a new permission they have to ask for and if they don't, then Android won't allow the app to modify the contents on the SD Card. Until the app is updated to ask using the new permission, it will not work.
That is what it sounds like.
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Some apps may not have been updated to notify Android to use the new permissions to write to an SD card. This might be one of them. Not sure which app it is.
I know the stock camera with the G3 can write to the external SD card because it asks for the correct permissions. The permissions most apps asked for BEFORE KitKat no longer work. There is a new permission they have to ask for and if they don't, then Android won't allow the app to modify the contents on the SD Card. Until the app is updated to ask using the new permission, it will not work.
That is what it sounds like.
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Thanks for the help. The only thing that fixed it was a flash back to stock. Thread can be closed
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I have the same problem. I tried other screenshot apps, 2 different roms, and removing the sdcard to force a write to the internal memory. A file does get written, but I cannot open it or even copy it to my computer's desktop. The file cannot be deleted by the gallery app. If I hook the phone to my computer I can drag the screenshot to the trash and delete it that way.
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Hi Guys,
I don't have Galaxy Mega. So anyone can help to test this Csc code to enable Samsung move app to SD feature?
Requirement:
1) Rooted phone
2) Has CSC installed (system/csc available)
3) Has ext sd card
How to:
1) Go to system/csc and find feature.xml or other.xml
2) Open it with text editor
3) Add this code just before </FeatureSet></SamsungMobileFeature>
<CscFeature_Common_AllowExternalApkUsage>true</CscFeature_Common_AllowExternalApkUsage >
4) Save and exit
5) Set file permission to rw-r--r--
6) Reboot
7) Go to settings - apps manager
8) Try move a game to SD card
That's it. Let me know if it works.
Thank you.
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Tried it and get the option to move but it fails with "Unable to move app, not enough storage space"
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Tried it and get the option to move but it fails with "Unable to move app, not enough storage space"
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Thanks for testing. Are you sure your ext sd card is working?
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Absolutely yes, 32gb most of it free. I think the problem is possibly that the sdcard on the mega is not in the same 'place' as other devices.
Storage/extSdCard
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Absolutely yes, 32gb most of it free. I think the problem is possibly that the sdcard on the mega is not in the same 'place' as other devices.
Storage/extSdCard
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And your card is formated in extFAT, NTFS, FAT32??? Can you verified?
Thanks
It's a Sandisk Ultra 32gb 30mb/s class 10 formatted Fat32 and it's working fine with foldermount. I currently run SkySafari Pro and CoPilot sat nav off it, over 1.5gb data between them. So plenty of available space and no access problems.
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It's a Sandisk Ultra 32gb 30mb/s class 10 formatted Fat32 and it's working fine with foldermount. I currently run SkySafari Pro and CoPilot sat nav off it, over 1.5gb data between them. So plenty of available space and no access problems.
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I guess the code alone is not enough to enable move app to SD.
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Arsaw said:
I guess the code alone is not enough to enable move app to SD.
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Foldermount does work though
No problems with Foldermount, as I said I'm using it but it would be easier to just be able to select move to SD in app manager. Full marks to Arsaw for trying to help with that.
Sorry to bump but have there been any advancements in this area? Main reason I wanted to root was to move apps to the SD card but I'm finding it very hard to find anything that will allow me to do this.
Also tried the above and received the same message.
As far as I can tell the only thing that seems to work is FolderMount, but from what I can see this only moves app data to the SD card and not the actual application itself?
Any news from Samsung if the app2sd support will be heading our way as well as the S4?
Krijs said:
Sorry to bump but have there been any advancements in this area? Main reason I wanted to root was to move apps to the SD card but I'm finding it very hard to find anything that will allow me to do this.
Also tried the above and received the same message.
As far as I can tell the only thing that seems to work is FolderMount, but from what I can see this only moves app data to the SD card and not the actual application itself?
Any news from Samsung if the app2sd support will be heading our way as well as the S4?
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I don't have the device. Can't test further. Use FolderMount for now.
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Arsaw said:
Hi Guys,
I don't have Galaxy Mega. So anyone can help to test this Csc code to enable Samsung move app to SD feature?
Requirement:
1) Rooted phone
2) Has CSC installed (system/csc available)
3) Has ext sd card
How to:
1) Go to system/csc and find feature.xml or other.xml
2) Open it with text editor
3) Add this code just before </FeatureSet></SamsungMobileFeature>
<CscFeature_Common_AllowExternalApkUsage>true</CscFeature_Common_AllowExternalApkUsage >
4) Save and exit
5) Set file permission to rw-r--r--
6) Reboot
7) Go to settings - apps manager
8) Try move a game to SD card
That's it. Let me know if it works.
Thank you.
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I'm getting the message that isn"t possible because phone or so is mirrored.
wth is that?
rayenvs said:
I'm getting the message that isn"t possible because phone or so is mirrored.
wth is that?
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I'm not sure.
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is there anyway to move apps to sd card i tried all app2sd apps and scripts and didnt work only space is available on my device is 1.56gb and most of gameloft games size is from 1gb to 2gb
zeyadhan said:
is there anyway to move apps to sd card i tried all app2sd apps and scripts and didnt work only space is available on my device is 1.56gb and most of gameloft games size is from 1gb to 2gb
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As said earlier , use folder mount .
Pls mention its only possible to edit the system files if its rooted
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With this we only enable that option to be visible... we must edit also the vold.fstab file to get this functional...
This option is working on Galaxy S4 after first update so i think maybe would help copying that from S4 to Mega (but S4 with 4.2.2 after patch update which solve this option)
I've tried getting an answer on this before. How do I fix the internal and SD card storage problems? For some reason everything goes right to external and it never uses my sdcard. Ex; Titanium Backup goes right to internal, everything I download goes to internal, pictures too(pics go to int & sd) etc. I have a 64gb card and I'd like yo use it. Can some please explain what each folder means? There are so many paths to external and sd. Also, I went into "manage apps" and to the "on sdcard" tab. I checked each one. Does that mean every app that is checked marked is now using the sdcard for space? I'm just really confused with all this lol. I attached some screenshots of my external/scard. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
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xXezmacXx said:
I've tried getting an answer on this before. How do I fix the internal and SD card storage problems? For some reason everything goes right to external and it never uses my sdcard. Ex; Titanium Backup goes right to internal, everything I download goes to internal, pictures too(pics go to int & sd) etc. I have a 64gb card and I'd like yo use it. Can some please explain what each folder means? There are so many paths to external and sd. Also, I went into "manage apps" and to the "on sdcard" tab. I checked each one. Does that mean every app that is checked marked is now using the sdcard for space? I'm just really confused with all this lol. I attached some screenshots of my external/scard. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
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JB AOSP roms behave the same way Sense does, sd card is considered internal.
Check to see if you can change your storage location in the apps in question. People have gotten away with swapping the mount points to make external the sd card also.
mjones73 said:
JB AOSP roms behave the same way Sense does, sd card is considered internal.
Check to see if you can change your storage location in the apps in question. People have gotten away with swapping the mount points to make external the sd card also.
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Is there a post on here about making the ext the SD card also?
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I forgot, does that camcorder not work on all jb roms atm? Is going back to sense my best bet? If so can I just go ahead and flash any sense rom coming from cm? Or do I need to follow other steps first?
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Camcorder works and has been fixed for awhile...as for making your external read as internal is darn near impossible....the 4.1 and 4.2 SD card layout was caused by a bug....I bricked my last rezound trying to make a mod for you guys...so be warned about trying...there is an app somewhere that merges the 2 SD cards together but causes errors for future flashing
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xXezmacXx said:
Is there a post on here about making the ext the SD card also?
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The process changed in CM10.2, they did away with the vold.fstab file. It looks like the mounts are defined in fstab.vigor and/or fstab.goldfish now. I haven't tried modifying them personally.
It would be easier re pointing any apps you can, any changes you make to the above files would be lost every time you flash a new nightly.
I think I have seen this addressed somewhere before but I can not find it.
I have just updated to KitKat and am using Freeza's Stockish rom. When I try to run a restore in Mybackup, I am getting an error that says, Unable to write to sd card. Make sure the sd card is inserted properly, is not connected to your pc, and is not full.
When I go into Es file explorer, it shows all the files there.
How do I fix this?
I also see in Titanium backup that is says sd card not writable.
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cmdauria said:
I think I have seen this addressed somewhere before but I can not find it.
I have just updated to KitKat and am using Freeza's Stockish rom. When I try to run a restore in Mybackup, I am getting an error that says, Unable to write to sd card. Make sure the sd card is inserted properly, is not connected to your pc, and is not full.
When I go into Es file explorer, it shows all the files there.
How do I fix this?
I also see in Titanium backup that is says sd card not writable.
I GOT IT!!!
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Did you figure this out? Having the same problem.
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I'm curious to know if there's a workaround for those who aren't rooted.
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Did you figure this out? Having the same problem.
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This seems to be a common problem on the deodex rom. I will post what I did to fix it. Just know when you go into a file explorer it is going to show 2 external sd cards. They are both the same, it just shows 2 now. You have to do a simple build prop edit with a program like root explorer. Just navigate to system/etc/permissions/platform.xml. long press on platform.xml and select open in text editor. Under WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE...Add this entry... <group gid="media_rw" />
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Yea, I tried @micmars xml edit, it worked to create folders on the SD card but I still couldn't save twrp files to my SD card in recovery.
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I'm having this issue as well on official 4.4.2 rooted. Can't copy files from internal to external in both root Explorer and es file manager.
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Yea, I tried @micmars xml edit, it worked to create folders on the SD card but I still couldn't save twrp files to my SD card in recovery.
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The fix that I found allows me to do anything with the sd card.
I get the error when initially trying to copy the files.. seems like the error rests with the internal storage and not the sd card.
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Here's an interesting read.
http://www.gottabemobile.com/2014/0...ote-3-android-4-4-problem-hits-micro-sd-card/
The "Problem" is not actually a problem apparently. Google actually designed KitKat this way. They are trying to keep as much as possible on internal storage.
I'm also on Freza's Stockish ROM and had the same problem. I can confirm that the platform.xml edit appears to fix the problem of not being able to write to the external SD.
But strangely, Titanium Backup still reports that the backup folder is not-writeable, but then when I run a backup it finishes successfully.
Kennedy808 said:
I'm also on Freza's Stockish ROM and had the same problem. I can confirm that the platform.xml edit appears to fix the problem of not being able to write to the external SD.
But strangely, Titanium Backup still reports that the backup folder is not-writeable, but then when I run a backup it finishes successfully.
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Same thing happened to me. I went into recovery, cleared cache and dalvik, and rebooted. Everything showed up properly then.
TWRP issue fixed by flashing the file located here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2471564&page=47 Post number 462.
Hey guys I'm having an issue with setting my sd card as my download directory, when I set it to external sd and try to download anything wether it be a picture or a document I get Message saying their is not enough space cannot finish download, now I thought it might be my sd card going bad so I went out and purchased a New one 64GB, old one was 32gb but I'm still getting the same message, I can set it to internal memory dl the file and then transfer it to my sd after just fine so I know now it's not an sd issue.
Anyone have a solution to this issue or advice on what I should try thanks
Btw I'm using boat browser if it matters
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have u tried running fix permissions or formatting sd card from ur pc
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bayniner said:
Hey guys I'm having an issue with setting my sd card as my download directory, when I set it to external sd and try to download anything wether it be a picture or a document I get Message saying their is not enough space cannot finish download, now I thought it might be my sd card going bad so I went out and purchased a New one 64GB, old one was 32gb but I'm still getting the same message, I can set it to internal memory dl the file and then transfer it to my sd after just fine so I know now it's not an sd issue.
Anyone have a solution to this issue or advice on what I should try thanks
Btw I'm using boat browser if it matters
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You could try the app SDFix by NextApp in the Play Store. It's free.
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OP - Are you rooted?
KitKat has issues with access to microSD depending on what you are doing.
You will need to enable full access to SD.
Look in the root thread ot use Xposed with Tweakbox.
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have u tried running fix permissions or formatting sd card from ur pc
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Yes I've tried both with no luck
tech_head said:
OP - Are you rooted?
KitKat has issues with access to microSD depending on what you are doing.
You will need to enable full access to SD.
Look in the root thread ot use Xposed with Tweakbox.
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Yes I am rooted, All I'm trying to do is set the sd card as my dl directory, so files save to my sd card and not internal memory.
I have xpososed as well as tweak box already installed
bayniner said:
Yes I am rooted, All I'm trying to do is set the sd card as my dl directory, so files save to my sd card and not internal memory.
I have xpososed as well as tweak box already installed
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boat browser is not a privileged app. It will not write everywhere on the sdcard with default kitkat privileges. you can change them manually or since you are rooted use an app like sdfix or an xposed module to do the change for you.
more details here
http://www.droidviews.com/restore-write-capability-to-external-sd-card-on-kitkat-manually/
I have the same problem with the internal card. i can't download anything off of playstore anymore because it says insufficient memory. I am going to have to flash the stock b06 thing and start over. blows. Oh and there is like 12 gig available on the internal card and I dont see any other way around it. Maybe after refreshing I will be able to implement the newest root method and that will clear it up. Also I DON'T have a problem saving random objects to the samsung evo 64gb (omg you have to get one) because I did the kitkat fix and it worked fine.
I am having trouble downloading from online and backing up from titanium backup to the external micro. Do we have to do a sd card write fix? I thought that got rid of that.
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I am having trouble downloading from online and backing up from titanium backup to the external micro. Do we have to do a sd card write fix? I thought that got rid of that.
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Isn't there an app that fixes the issue? Can't believe LG hasn't done something about this yet. This was an issue on the G3 also.
Haven't loaded Tbu yet but for other apps when you go to write to the external SD app there is a prompt to give permission to that app to the SD card.
Go to app store and download NextappSdFix. I had to do the same thing. Just run it, and reboot.
that worked , thanks make123
That fix only works if you are rooted. I have an ATT version of the V10 and (so far) it cannot be rooted.
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Some apps will prompt you to select target storage in the system which does not require root (root explorer and andftp support this feature).
A fix for those people who are having problems writing to the microSD Card (as mentioned above). Put the card in a PC and right click on it. "Rename" it or go into properties and "Label" it. On one card I had to format "exFat" & label it.
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