Re: unable to repartition SD card from Android phone

2017-05-28 Thread David Christensen
On 05/28/2017 02:35 AM, Pascal Hambourg wrote: Le 27/05/2017 à 22:58, David Christensen a écrit : I bought a SanDisk 32GB Micro SDHC card for my Android phone a while back. It came with a Micro SDHC to SD adapter, and the adapter has an unmarked switch in the same style and location of the wri

Re: unable to repartition SD card from Android phone

2017-05-28 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Le 27/05/2017 à 22:58, David Christensen a écrit : I bought a SanDisk 32GB Micro SDHC card for my Android phone a while back. It came with a Micro SDHC to SD adapter, and the adapter has an unmarked switch in the same style and location of the write-protect switches on my other SD cards. It i

Re: unable to repartition SD card from Android phone

2017-05-27 Thread David Christensen
On 05/27/2017 11:30 AM, Mark Copper wrote: Does you SD card and/or SD card adapter have a write-protect tab or other such mechanism? If so, put it in the unlocked position. The micro SD cards used in phones don't appear to have such mechanisms, but your point is well taken; viz. I've not adeq

Re: unable to repartition SD card from Android phone

2017-05-27 Thread David Christensen
On 05/27/2017 10:18 AM, Fungi4All wrote: From: dpchr...@holgerdanske.com Please do, but release it under a license that allows us to read it on-line for free and then decide if we want to buy it. Only Greeks provide you with free gifts if you are a heroic Thracian city. For everything else th

Re: unable to repartition SD card from Android phone

2017-05-27 Thread Mark Copper
> > Does you SD card and/or SD card adapter have a write-protect tab or other > such mechanism? If so, put it in the unlocked position. The micro SD cards used in phones don't appear to have such mechanisms, but your point is well taken; viz. I've not adequately checked the hardware path (MB, car

Re: unable to repartition SD card from Android phone

2017-05-27 Thread JPlews
On 27/05/17 18:18, Fungi4All wrote: > But while it gives you a long error message in another system it notifies > google of what that system is and which android user is attempting it. How? Please provide citation(s). That's my shot on science fiction, but you wouldn't think they are that e

Re: unable to repartition SD card from Android phone

2017-05-27 Thread JPlews
On 26/05/17 20:52, Mark Copper wrote: Maybe I should just toss it, but I'm curious why none of my tools can recover an SD card previously used for Android internal storage. I have returned 2 cards from this state, dd has never failed me but needs extra steps to remove both places GTP is stori

Re: unable to repartition SD card from Android phone

2017-05-27 Thread Fungi4All
From: dpchr...@holgerdanske.com On 05/26/2017 03:23 PM, Fungi4All wrote: > I think google locks the mbr so no other system can ever use it again. How? Please provide citation(s). I am kidding, but you may want to try this straight off your debian repository or the latest from its developers htt

Re: unable to repartition SD card from Android phone

2017-05-26 Thread David Christensen
On 05/26/2017 03:23 PM, Fungi4All wrote: I think google locks the mbr so no other system can ever use it again. How? Please provide citation(s). But while it gives you a long error message in another system it notifies google of what that system is and which android user is attempting it.

Re: unable to repartition SD card from Android phone

2017-05-26 Thread David Christensen
On 05/26/2017 12:52 PM, Mark Copper wrote: Maybe I should just toss it, but I'm curious why none of my tools can recover an SD card previously used for Android internal storage. Does you SD card and/or SD card adapter have a write-protect tab or other such mechanism? If so, put it in the unlo

Re: unable to repartition SD card from Android phone

2017-05-26 Thread Fungi4All
From: mlcop...@gmail.com Maybe I should just toss it, but I'm curious why none of my tools can recover an SD card previously used for Android internal storage. Is it still functional in android? I think google locks the mbr so no other system can ever use it again. But while it gives you a long e

unable to repartition SD card from Android phone

2017-05-26 Thread Mark Copper
Maybe I should just toss it, but I'm curious why none of my tools can recover an SD card previously used for Android internal storage. Here's how gdisk sees it: gdisk -l /dev/sdc GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.10 Partition table scan: MBR: protective BSD: not present APM: not present GPT: