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 Post subject: MicroSD READ-ONLY behaviour in Android
PostPosted: September 11th, 2019, 5:15 
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Hello guys,,,

I was wondering if someone knows about this issue or had similar cases like this...

MicroSD memory added to Android Mobile (Android 6+ & higher) and you use it for a while (Enabled Encryption or not its the same)
when you pull it out and connect to windows you are able to READ its data but you CANNOT FORMAT/MODIFY it

no matter what you do, it says Format done, but nothing changes... DATA remains the same (either Encrypted or not)

anyone got similar to this scenario?


Note: I came up with a result about this matter and wanted to verify with those who had similar cases...
you may PM if don`t want to go public about it...


thank you
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 Post subject: Re: MicroSD READ-ONLY behaviour in Android
PostPosted: September 11th, 2019, 6:27 
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Is it a Kingston branded memory? or does this happen with different flash cards?


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 Post subject: Re: MicroSD READ-ONLY behaviour in Android
PostPosted: September 11th, 2019, 7:25 
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HaQue wrote:
Is it a Kingston branded memory? or does this happen with different flash cards?


Any brand,,,

I have more than 10 now for research, Sandisk, Kingston and some other unbranded too

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 Post subject: Re: MicroSD READ-ONLY behaviour in Android
PostPosted: September 11th, 2019, 8:19 
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is it the read only attribute on the actual partition? or were they exFAT and not really FAT32?

this page https://forum.fairphone.com/t/sd-card-suddenly-switches-to-read-only-file-system/37570/6 is saying:

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I figured out that instead of rebooting one can unmount the SD card (Settings -> Storage -> Chose SD Card -> Eject -> Confirm) and then mount the card again, without removing it from the device.


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Thanks for the hint. Unmounting and re-mounting the SD card does indeed work. And is faster than a reboot.


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https://forum.fairphone.com/t/list-of-compatible-microsd-sdxc-cards-for-fp2/33672


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 Post subject: Re: MicroSD READ-ONLY behaviour in Android
PostPosted: September 11th, 2019, 9:04 
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@ HaQue

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 Post subject: Re: MicroSD READ-ONLY behaviour in Android
PostPosted: July 13th, 2022, 10:55 
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I have a FairPhone 2, stuck on Android logo after OS upgrade failure. I tried "wiping cache", doesn't help. Anyone knows a tool that can extract data ?


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 Post subject: Re: MicroSD READ-ONLY behaviour in Android
PostPosted: July 15th, 2022, 9:47 
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Could TMP_WRITE_PROTECT bit be set?

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