[Q] My External Micro SD card is locked up! Can't write to it (android 4.3) topic

I'm not sure if this is related to the 4.3 bug or not but I have the tmobile galaxy s4 and I can no longer modify anything on my external sd card. Everything still reads fine but it seems alot slower than before.

I tried using es file manager to delete/write , but it dosen't work. It will say deleted successfully but when i refresh, it reappears. When i try to create a new file it says "sorry, operation failed"

I also checked the permissions file and it says it has r/w access for external storage.


Is my card just dying or corrupted or what? How can I fix this?

I just want to be able to use it again.

I also tried formatting. When i do it on the phone it just freezes. When I do it on the pc, it says write protected.

I tried gparted as well but it hangs during detection.


This is the default micro sd card that came with the phone...