android adb push to external sdcard fails

penguinator · 12-04-2012, 04:46 PM

hello all,

I installed android SDK to check it out. So far, so good.

I am using adb to pull and push files. So far I can:

push and pull files to the internal sdcard storage.
pull files from from the external card

But I cannot push files to the external card.
I get permission denied error.

Here are the mount settings for the internal sdcard card and extermal sdcard

Quote:

/dev/fuse /mnt/sdcard fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,user_id=1023,group_id=1023,default_permissions,allow_other 0 0

/dev/block/vold/179:33 /mnt/extSdCard vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,nodiratime,uid=1000,gid=1023,fmask=0002,dmask=0002,allow_utim e=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro 0 0

I also have USB debuuging enabled on the phone in case you're wondering.

Android 4.0.4 has dropped USB Mass storage support. Right now, I am using a card reader to write files to the external card and it gets tedious removing it back and forth just to write to it.

Anyway, if you know a solution let me know. Thanks

MS3FGX · 12-04-2012, 04:50 PM

I assume you are able to create files on the SD card from within Android normally? What if you try and place a file on the SD card from the Android command line (using "adb shell")?

penguinator · 12-04-2012, 06:27 PM

I still get permission denied on the external card within the adb shell, I also did a chmod 777 on the extSdCard folder to no avail. However I was able to write a file on the internal sdcard within the adb shell. Very weird.

At least I have two ways I can write to the external card, one way is by removing it and using a card reader.

The second way is Airdroid. It interacts with the phone and desktop wirelessly. This method I don't have to remove the card.

Thanks for the reply and suggestion.