Samsung Captivate :: Internal SD Card Not Mounted After USB Disconnect
Sep 9, 2010
I'm quite new to Android and the Captivate (but not new to operating systems). I ran into an issue that I can't yet figure out, but I wonder if other people have also encountered. With some USB chargers (notably Blackberry chargers), I've noticed that the USB data connection prompt comes up. Regardless of the setting I choose (including canceling the dialog), the internal SD card is unmounted. If I disconnect the USB cable, the internal SD card is STILL unmounted and I don't get an option in the UI to mount it again. I end up having to reboot the phone. Attached is a screen shot of the SD card status screen when this issue occurs. So, what would be a good way to troubleshoot this? Get dmesg output, perhaps?
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Jul 25, 2012
I have a nexus 7, OTG cable, flash drive and stickmount installed. As an external storage device this works fine for movies, audio etc.I'm not experienced with android having only previously used it on my touchpad, and wondered if the following was possible.
Is there an app that can essentially clone the externally mounted USB drive so that when installing an app with a large data download i can choose to download the data to the externally mounted usb drive instead of the main device memory. An example, Spiderman has nearly 2GB of data and i would prefer to move it using an app rather than having to continuously move the data file from the root to the external USB using es file explorer.
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Jul 21, 2010
When I boot up my phone, I'm getting this message: "Damaged Internal SD Card." Not a micro SD card. It's saying my internal SD card is damaged. Am I screwed? Do I need to return this thing? Is there a way to format the internal SD card on this thing? I found the "Format Card" option in settings. It's working fine, although the fact that this came up in the first place is very troublesome. Some further information: I did the GPS thing where you dial *#*# and some number, then rebooted my phone. My internal card was fine until I rebooted. That was the first time I got that message of a damaged internal sd card.
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Jul 28, 2010
When I look at the settings and "SD card and phone storage" option I see the different types of storage. Based on what I see, please verify the following assumptions are correct. The external SD card is obviously the one I added. I assume it can be used to store media files (via USB, direct write on a PC, etc.). I read until Froyo we won't be able to install apps on this card.
The internal SD card is what is built into the phone for apps and other things those apps write to the phone.
Looks like Google Listen writes to this area (can't make it write to the external SD and not sure why). It appears that the only things writing to there are my camera and of course any music, pics, or videos I load on there directly. Nothing else seems to make use of it. The internal phone storage is for things like the OS and is pretty much off limits. When I go into the "My Files" app on the phone it dumps me into the home directory which happens to be /sdcard. I assume this is the internal SD card? Under that directory it also has "/sd" which appears to be my external SD card. Why would they make it look like "/sd" is a subdirectory of "/sdcard" when it's not?
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Aug 5, 2010
Do the apps get stored on the internal SD card on the phone? Or on the section where it says Internal phone storage?
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Jun 12, 2010
I've had to reboot my phone 3 times in the last 2 days because the SD card becomes unreadable. Yesterday I couldn't save an attachment from GMail because it said I needed to have an SD card installed. Then Astro wouldn't let me delete a file even though I was able to locate it. And today my widgets were all screwed up because according to them there was no SD card installed that had the skins. I don't mind dealing with an issue here and there, but there have a been a few occasions where this phone has gotten under my skin. Anyone else dealing with this? I seriously doubt the SD card is bad, although there's only one way to prove that. Is there an app that will dismount and remount the SD card while the phone is running for when these situations occur?
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Jan 10, 2010
sometimes, at least once a day my phone wont read my pictures or music files. it says "sd card is not mounted or sd card is busy". the phone is fine. the phone will ring with my own ringtone from my music and i can view my pictures, then all of a sudden it will play the default ringtone. i go to check and it says sd card is not mounted or busy. the sd card is in there. i have to take it out and put it back in to fix it. this fixes it for maybe a day.
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Jan 22, 2009
Command sequence is: 1.make sdk first, and cd /home/tony/android-sdk_eng.tony_linux-x86/tools/ 2../emulator -image ../platforms/android-1.5/images/system.img - kernel ../platforms/android-1.5/images/kernel-qemu -ramdisk ../ platforms/android-1.5/images/ramdisk.img -data ../platforms/ android-1.5/images/userdata.img -sdcard /home/motorola/sdcard.img - skindir ../platforms/android-1.5/skins -skin HVGA 3. ./adb push NOTICE.txt /sdcard failed to copy 'NOTICE.txt' to '/sdcard/NOTICE.txt': Read-only file system
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Aug 8, 2010
as seen above in the desire forum, im having this issue. it just occurred today.i have a 16GB Sandisk, stock and unrooted. i move about 4 apps to SD card (out of the 30 ish apps i have, only 4 were available to be moved to SD).Micro SD card mounted as Read Only? - HTC EVO? 4G (Sprint) - Android Forums - HTC Community.seems all of us having this issue posted today or within a day or so.. so it seems like it may be Froyo related.
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Oct 4, 2009
Can an Activity still have read/write access to an SD card after it has been mounted to USB storage (connecting USB and selecting Mount from the resulting notification screen). In other words, does mounting the SD card lock out system access until USB is disconnected. I need to create a live channel between an application and an external USB device and I'm running out of options.
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Feb 15, 2010
I just want to confirm the behavior I'm seeing. Is it true that when the SD Card is mounted as a USB volume, it is unavailable to applications? (This is Windows: the behavior may be different for a Linux desktop)
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Sep 13, 2010
For some reason when loading my SD Card it says "Mounted Read Only". I have been messing around with installing new ROM's and that which is probably what caused it?
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Aug 1, 2010
Well I have a problem and need some help. So for no apparent reason I started getting an error with my sd card last night. At the notification bar, it says the sd card is mounted as read only. The phone gives me the option to try to fix it. It tries without success. I have tried resetting the phone and fidgeting with the card...both with no success. Its frustrating cause I can't take pictures as a result and all I see is that error message! Its an eyesore at the top of my screen.
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Nov 29, 2010
Most of the applications on my phone are stored on the internal storage. I cannot figure out how to access the internal storage to manage these applications. I may need to reset my phone, but I don't want to lose my paid applications.
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Sep 9, 2010
Im trying to do the Bugless Beast root, but I cant seem to figure out how to get into my Captivates internal memory. I have it connected to my PC but I think all I am able to access is the external SD Card. Im new, so I apologize if this is a newb question.
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Oct 21, 2010
when I look in settings>sd card and phone storage it says:
Internal SD Card
Total space 5.78 GB
Available space 879MB
How come I only have that much free I have looked and cannot see what has filled it all up?
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May 4, 2009
Using "android-1.5" tagged source from cupcake branch created an sdcard image $ ./out/host/linux-x86/bin/mksdcard 64M sdcard.img launched the emulator to use the above image $ emulator -sdcard ./sdcard.img -scale 0.75 & $ adb shell ls -l drwxrwxrwt root root 200905-04 18:00 sqlite_stmt_journals drwxrwx--- system cache 2009-05-04 18:00 cache d--------- system system2009-05-04 18:00 sdcard lrwxrwxrwx rootroot 2009-05-04 18:00 etc -> /system/ etc drwxr-xr-x rootroot2009-04-29 20:49 system drwxr-xr-x rootroot 1970-01-01 00:00 sys drwxr-x--- root root1970-01-01 00:00 sbin dr-xr-xr-x root root 1970-01-01 00:00 proc -rwxr-x--- rootroot 9075 1970-01-01 00:00 init.rc -rwxr-x--- rootroot1677 1970-01-01 00:00 init.goldfish.rc -rwxr-x--- rootroot 106568 1970-01-01 00:00 init -rw-r--r-- root 1970-01-01 00:00 root drwxr-xr-x roo root 2009-05-04 18:01 dev $ adb shell # mount rootfs / rootfs ro 0 0 tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,mode=755 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=600 0 0 proc /proc proc rw 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0 tmpfs /sqlite_stmt_journals tmpfs rw,size=4096k 0 0 /dev/block/mtdblock0 /system yaffs2 ro 0 0 /dev/block/mtdblock1 /data yaffs2 rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0 /dev/block/mtdblock2 /cache yaffs2 rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0 The sdcard is mounted READ-ONLY !! and doesn;t even get listed as mounted !! whats going on here ? ll i wanted to do use sdcard with emulator for debugging(method tracing) an app.
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Aug 4, 2010
Update my Desire to 2.2 yesterday now everytime i turn the phone on i get an error message saying: Mounted ReadOnly. The SD card has an unexpected problem. Tapping.....(cant read the rest of the message) Can anyone help with this. The only way i can access my photos or music is going via a file explorer.
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Sep 6, 2010
SD card mounted Read Only post 2.2
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Mar 11, 2009
I registered a broadcast receiver with action android.intent.action.MEDIA_MOUNTED, but when sd card is inserted, the broadcast is not sent out. Any one could help me to solve this issue?
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Mar 22, 2010
I have been running Cyanogen 5.0.5 since yesterday. I always jump back and forth between DM Updater and Clockwork depending on what recovery I need to flash a particular rom, update or kernel. Today I cranked up DM Updater expecting it to ask if I want to update recovery and I am getting a "Your SD card is not mounted" error. My SD card is fine. Just for giggles I went into my clockwork recovery and unmounted and remounted. ROM Manager reports no errors. I am at work so I can't install SB Recovery using my current PC using adb as I normally would. I guess the ROM I want to play with (SB Recovery format) will have to wait.
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Apr 17, 2009
how to check if sdcard is mounted in program
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Nov 10, 2013
I flashed my nexus 4 today, wiped everything and then wanted to install cm from my sd card. But when tried it said: SD card cannot be mounted. When I try to adb sideload my computer tells me that there is no device found. I tried it with both CWM and TWRP and nothing worked.
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Sep 18, 2010
I finally decided to apply a lag-fix to me phone. I used the RyanZA fix available in the market. I'm not exactly sure on the stock partition configuration on the Captivate but if I understand the lag-fix, an ext2 partition is created and the system files are moved to that partition. Thinking ahead for when Froyo arrives, I'm wondering if I can format all of my internal storage and reinstall a ROM. If I format the internal storage, do the necessary partitions need to be created manually or does installing a ROM create the needed partitions? I'm fairly new to Android so excuse me if my terminology is off.
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Jul 24, 2010
First off I know im in the wrong thread but the samsung captivate is not under a list in the root thread.Iv watched non stop videos on rooting my samsun captivate but none are on mac.I installed the android drivers correctly through terminal but I dont know how to put the update.zip folder in my internal sd correctly
I keep getting E:cant open /sdcard/update.zip.I dont know how to do this on mac..I know im close..Pleas someone help me..one again im on a mac!
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Nov 5, 2010
Having a new and strange SD card problem.
Was using Astro to browse my SD card to try to open a QuickOffice word file. Got to the folder where the file was located, but then suddenly, Astro closed and returned me to my home screen. Also, got a message on my notification bar that said "Mounted ReadOnly. The SD card has an unexpected problem. Tapping (sic) to recover it."
Ok, well, I tapped where it said to tap and the message went away. Back in to Astro to browse the file and...same result.
Went into Settings and Unmounted the SD card, then remounted it. Back in to Astro to browse the file and...same result!
So now I'm concerned. Used "Gallery" to browse pictures that are on my SD card...no problem. Used QuickOffice to manually open the file I was looking for in the first place...no problem. It seems that only when I go to Astro and browse does this problem occur. BTW, I also tried using Estrong File Explorer and had the same result, so I don't think it's an app thing.
Only thing I've not yet tried is going in to Clockwork Mod and unmounting/remounting SD card. Funny thing is that all my files appear intact, it just seems that for some reason, phone all of a sudden decides that the SD card is mounted "read only" (whatever that means) and is kicking me out. Dunno that I like that but...oh well.
Rooted DINC with Clockwork Mod, stock ROM, no major root apps except SetCPU.
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May 23, 2009
I'm working on an Android application that needs to look at what images a user has stored. The problem is that if the user has the sdcard mounted via the USB cable, I can't read the list of images on the disk. Does anyone know of a way to tell if the usb is mounted so that I could just pop up a message informing the user that it won't work?
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Sep 19, 2010
Anytime my phone tries to do anything that might access the SD card, I get a notification that the card encountered an unexpected problem and was mounted as read-only. After a few searches, it seemed that unmounting and reformatting it might solve the problem. If that didn't help, erasing all phone data might fix the problem. Well, I wasn't able to unmount the SD card for some reason. That option wasn't ghosted out, but clicking on it didn't do anything. Eventually, I decided to just do the factory reset. Then I did a phone storage format.
After that I saw a tip that perhaps removing the card would help. What I did was remove it, booted the phone, and inserted it while it was on. This allowed me to unmount then format the SD card. The first thing I did was try to redownload some apps from the market. First on my list was google maps update. Immediately after clicking to download, I get the same notification that the SD card was mounted as read only as a result of an unexpected error. Given all this, is my card just junk after updating to froyo?
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Aug 1, 2010
is it possible to upload one of my dvd rips to the cappy's internal memory? My sd card is full. Also,which folder would i need to place the file in? Thanks so much guys and gals!
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Aug 18, 2010
SO I flashed my BH2 to Eugenes 1.6 for galaxy rom and now my external sd card...yeah, the 2 GB one that came with the phone, is being recognized as the internal sd card....and there is no setting i can find to fix it. I formatted the sd card and reformatted it, but to no avail...still comes up when inserted into the phone as an internal sd card. b/c of this issue, i cant save pretty much anything to my phone, b/c many apps require an external sd source to save to.
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