[SOLVED] read-only USB (cellphone)

X.Cyclop · 09-28-2010, 03:04 AM

I'm trying to copy some files into my cellphone (nokia xpressm 5630) via USB (mass storage) but it mounts as read-only so i'm not able to do it.

(Ubuntu 10.4 - kernel 2.6.32-25-generic)

Any way to solve this?

/var/log/messages

Quote:

Sep 28 09:54:04 leo-laptop kernel: [ 1814.248195] usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
Sep 28 09:54:04 leo-laptop kernel: [ 1814.381216] usb 1-3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Sep 28 09:54:04 leo-laptop kernel: [ 1814.908516] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
Sep 28 09:54:04 leo-laptop kernel: [ 1814.908646] scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Sep 28 09:54:04 leo-laptop kernel: [ 1814.908741] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
Sep 28 09:54:04 leo-laptop kernel: [ 1814.908744] USB Mass Storage support registered.
Sep 28 09:54:09 leo-laptop kernel: [ 1819.909115] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access Nokia S60 1.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
Sep 28 09:54:09 leo-laptop kernel: [ 1819.913568] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
Sep 28 09:54:09 leo-laptop kernel: [ 1819.917332] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 7741440 512-byte logical blocks: (3.96 GB/3.69 GiB)
Sep 28 09:54:09 leo-laptop kernel: [ 1819.917820] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
Sep 28 09:54:10 leo-laptop kernel: [ 1819.923075] sdb:
Sep 28 09:54:10 leo-laptop kernel: [ 1820.455343] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

/etc/mtab

Quote:

/dev/sdb /media/1234-5678 vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,flush 0 0

frankbell · 09-29-2010, 07:36 PM

The line from your mtab says "rw," which I think means "read-write."

Can you enter the directory on phone and run a "sudo ls -l" command?

I'm wondering whether there might be file/directory ownership issues.

X.Cyclop · 10-01-2010, 02:28 AM

here it is:

Quote:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 leo leo 0 2009-11-26 08:31 359350023523968.ndif
drwx------ 2 leo leo 32768 2009-11-28 15:50 Activenotes
drwx------ 2 leo leo 32768 2010-01-13 08:28 Attachments
-rwxr-xr-x 1 leo leo 234 2009-01-01 12:00 card_content.xml
drwx------ 8 leo leo 32768 2009-11-26 08:22 data
-rwxr-xr-x 1 leo leo 104691 2009-06-22 11:10 DevIcon.fil
-rwxr-xr-x 1 leo leo 3812 2009-06-22 11:10 DevLogo.fil
drwx------ 3 leo leo 32768 2009-11-26 12:30 download
drwx------ 6 leo leo 32768 2009-01-01 12:00 Images
drwx------ 2 leo leo 32768 2010-01-09 18:07 Installs
drwx------ 2 leo leo 32768 2009-01-01 12:00 Music
drwx------ 3 leo leo 32768 2009-11-26 08:22 My Videos
drwx------ 2 leo leo 32768 2010-01-09 17:37 Nokia
drwx------ 3 leo leo 32768 2010-08-26 18:32 Others
drwx------ 2 leo leo 32768 2009-12-06 11:00 Playlists
-rwxr-xr-x 1 leo leo 41 2010-08-18 13:53 pmp_usb.ini
drwx------ 23 leo leo 32768 2009-06-22 11:10 Private
drwx------ 7 leo leo 32768 2010-05-28 10:26 resource
drwx------ 3 leo leo 32768 2010-09-13 02:38 ShareOnline
drwx------ 4 leo leo 32768 2009-11-26 12:30 Sounds
drwx------ 5 leo leo 32768 2010-02-19 12:32 sys
drwx------ 8 leo leo 32768 2009-11-25 17:16 system
drwx------ 4 leo leo 32768 2009-01-01 12:00 Videos
-rwxr-xr-x 1 leo leo 17121 2010-08-18 13:54 winamp_metadata.dat
-rwxr-xr-x 1 leo leo 788 2010-08-18 13:54 winamp_metadata.idx
drwx------ 5 leo leo 32768 2010-09-27 16:42 WindowsLive
-rwxr-xr-x 1 leo leo 296 2010-03-12 10:28 WMPInfo.xml

frankbell · 10-04-2010, 10:40 PM

drwx------ means that only root can access those files. This looks like a permissions issue.

You could try creating a mount point under /media pointing /dev/sdb at it in /etc/stab and specifing that it belongs to "user" and is "rw."

The line would look something like

Code:

device       mountpoint       filesysystem       mount,owner   filesystem options
/dev/sdb   /media/[mountpoint]   auto            noauto,user         0   0

Here's a blog post I wrote about setting up my podplayer in Linux. It goes into how I set up the fstab, including some links to pages I found that helped me.

Here's a good explanation of fstab.

The Slackbook has a good explanation of Linux permissions.

Good luck.

X.Cyclop · 10-05-2010, 05:41 AM

Ok, it's strange but now works. I plugged it in using Window$, then i did it in GNU/Linux and it worked as well. I think there was a problem with my cellphone.

Thanks!

frankbell · 10-05-2010, 08:32 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by X.Cyclop

Ok, it's strange but now works. I plugged it in using Window$, then i did it in GNU/Linux and it worked as well. I think there was a problem with my cellphone.

Thanks!

When I used to do tech support, that's what we called an F. M. problem--one that magically went away and we didn't quite figure out why.

Loosely translated, F. M. stand for "freakin' magic."