Titanium Backup cannot write on external SD card

Manafa · Apr 5, 2014

Hi, guys. I have stock rom, unlocked bootloader, rooted and TWRP recovery. Unforunately, I cannot set Titanium Backup to use my external SD card. It said It's not writeble. Rom version is 1.54. I've try to format the card few times, but no luck. No problem for camera app to save pictures there, only TB have this issue. Any suggestions?

jaythenut · Apr 5, 2014

Manafa said:
Hi, guys. I have stock rom, unlocked bootloader, rooted and TWRP recovery. Unforunately, I cannot set Titanium Backup to use my external SD card. It said It's not writeble. Rom version is 1.54. I've try to format the card few times, but no luck. No problem for camera app to save pictures there, only TB have this issue. Any suggestions?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2702765&page=3
3rd post down flash that and it will fix it

Manafa · Apr 5, 2014

Thanks a lot, I will try it. Where is the problem with this? In HTC rom/kernel or TB itself?

jaythenut · Apr 5, 2014

Manafa said:
Thanks a lot, I will try it. Where is the problem with this? In HTC rom/kernel or TB itself?

read write ,if that dont work get this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.viper.tbrestorefixerfree&hl=en_GB

Manafa · Apr 5, 2014

First solution didn't fix it. Flashed file in recovery, rebooted and still got message "Folder not writeble".

jim380 · Apr 6, 2014

Manafa said:
First solution didn't fix it. Flashed file in recovery, rebooted and still got message "Folder not writeble".

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php...feed|utmcct=FaceBook&__utmv=-&__utmk=30131004

This should solve your problem.

pachi72 · Apr 6, 2014

Try this.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.sdfix

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Electronic Punk · Apr 6, 2014

pachi72 said:
Try this.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.sdfix

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You will also need system write protection off to keep that, so would recommed via that recovery.

You can also push the file manually

adb shell
mount /system

push platform.xml /system/etc/permissions/

Manafa · Apr 6, 2014

Doesn't work. I tried to change Platform.xml, but after reboot it's going back to previous state.

Electronic Punk · Apr 6, 2014

Do it from recovery.

JUANJOSE1974 · Aug 6, 2014

Sdfix app worked for me

Manafa said:
Hi, guys. I have stock rom, unlocked bootloader, rooted and TWRP recovery. Unforunately, I cannot set Titanium Backup to use my external SD card. It said It's not writeble. Rom version is 1.54. I've try to format the card few times, but no luck. No problem for camera app to save pictures there, only TB have this issue. Any suggestions?

I downloaded SDFIX from the play store, reboot, when back to titanium backup, hit menu, general, go down to backup location, press the back button until you see mnt section, click on it, you'll see external sd, click on it, create folder & boila!! Hope it works for you

akitten007 · Aug 6, 2014

HTC does not allow writing to the /system partition unless from recovery. To disable this, flash a kernel w/ the protection disabled http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2705613 Or you can manually install this module: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2701816 After installing either of these, you can use any app posted above to gain write access to external sd.
(FYI the writing to sd card was disabled by google in recent versions of kitkat for all devices)

Sn8kbordin · Aug 7, 2014

jaythenut said:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2702765&page=3
3rd post down flash that and it will fix it

THat link there gives me the follwoing message:

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I rooted my One M8 from T-Mobile. How can I make it so all apps can write to all of SD card?

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pachi72 said:
Try this.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.sdfix

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This didn't work on my T-Mobile rooted One M8

---------- Post added at 10:42 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:24 AM ----------

JUANJOSE1974 said:
I downloaded SDFIX from the play store, reboot, when back to titanium backup, hit menu, general, go down to backup location, press the back button until you see mnt section, click on it, you'll see external sd, click on it, create folder & boila!! Hope it works for you

SDFIX app doesn't work for my rooted One M8 from T-Mobile.

NZ-Simplicity · Aug 19, 2014

JUANJOSE1974 said:
I downloaded SDFIX from the play store, reboot, when back to titanium backup, hit menu, general, go down to backup location, press the back button until you see mnt section, click on it, you'll see external sd, click on it, create folder & boila!! Hope it works for you

Tried all that, but even tho titanium reckons that sdcard2 is writable (don't get the red no write message) as soon as I try to back something up I get a not enough storage space error message (and yes I have enough space, over 11GB on external card.)

andray750 · Oct 3, 2014

Titanium Backup write on ext sdcard

NZ-Simplicity said:
Tried all that, but even tho titanium reckons that sdcard2 is writable (don't get the red no write message) as soon as I try to back something up I get a not enough storage space error message (and yes I have enough space, over 11GB on external card.)

Hi there.
I also tried your's and many other steps.
In the end it was a simple thing for me.
Went: >Settings>Storage>standard storage>choose "sdcard"
That's it.
After a restart, ii was not even necessary to choose sdcard in TB.
Changed to it itself.

M_SpatRN · Oct 21, 2014

JUANJOSE1974 said:
I downloaded SDFIX from the play store, reboot, when back to titanium backup, hit menu, general, go down to backup location, press the back button until you see mnt section, click on it, you'll see external sd, click on it, create folder & boila!! Hope it works for you

This worked for me Thanks.

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jbarr3 · Nov 16, 2014

Another fix for anyone else having trouble.
Nothing above worked for me. It was frustrating when all other relevant apps could write to the extsd card including file explorer programs.
Anyway loaded Xsense (Xposed) module which has a setting "RW to extSD card", ticked it, rebooted and bingo. Backing up to extSD card as I'm typing this.

8bacon · Dec 1, 2014

JUANJOSE1974 said:
I downloaded SDFIX from the play store, reboot, when back to titanium backup, hit menu, general, go down to backup location, press the back button until you see mnt section, click on it, you'll see external sd, click on it, create folder & boila!! Hope it works for you

This worked for me. Thanks Juanjose1974

elgrande001 · May 28, 2015

JUANJOSE1974 said:
I downloaded SDFIX from the play store, reboot, when back to titanium backup, hit menu, general, go down to backup location, press the back button until you see mnt section, click on it, you'll see external sd, click on it, create folder & boila!! Hope it works for you

Worked for me as well... Thx

wasim9283 · May 29, 2015

Not working for me

tried the same , by sdfix but no use, sdfix is telling its already fixed, now ok, but TB is still making backups in internal storage, i tried by selecting sd card, it tells cannot select.
i m on lollipop , 5.0.1, rooted, s-on

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