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    <p>I've got a pretty thorny problem with Android 2.3: I have an app that gathers various logs for debugging and support purposes (<a href="http://www.sdgsystems.com" rel="nofollow">my company</a> does Linux for rugged hardware), and has stopped working lately, because it's failing to write to the SD card. Here are the symptoms I've seen and the investigations I've carried out:</p> <ul> <li>Happens across multiple devices of multiple types with different SD cards, all of which have been checked for filesystem corruption (no issues found). </li> <li>All devices report: Environment.getExternalStorageState() equals Environment.MEDIA_MOUNTED.</li> <li>All devices also report that Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath().canWrite() is false.</li> <li>Via PackageManager.checkPermission(), my app reports that it has the WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE permission.</li> <li>OI File Manager is able to create directories and move files on the SD card; my app can do neither.</li> </ul> <p>This code is sufficient to cause a failure:</p> <pre><code>String sdcardDirectory = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath(); File directory = new File(sdcardDirectory + "/logger"); if(!directory.mkdirs()){ //fails here. Log.w("Logger", "Could not create logger directory."); } </code></pre> <p>Since I have access to the keys for this device, I even went so far as to sign the app with the platform key and run it as android.uid.system, with no luck. Anyone have any ideas?</p>
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    1. COPost the code you're using to try and write to teh external SD
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    2. COGah. I'll just edit it into the original post.
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    3. COif you "adb shell" on your device, can you create files/dirs there? does "ls -la" show you that files / folders in the sd card directory have the right permissions? `-rwxrwxrwx 1 1000 1015 0 Mar 13 14:18 file` `drwxrwxrwx 2 1000 1015 4096 Mar 13 14:19 folder` is what I get. Those numbers (1000 and 1015) are also important and are required for the `WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE` permission (1015 is a group in linux that every app gets member of when it has that permission).
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