my phone is rooted and i have once and only once been able to access the drive in my computer but now for some reason i can't and i have two drives that pop up but both say please insert a disk into drive H/F, i ran the adb devices thing on commade prompt and it shows my serial number so i know i have the right drivers , i have a samsung captivate
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Quick question,
I currently have the Epic, which requires a driver installed on the computer before the SD card will mount properly on a windows PC.
I use my phone to upload things for work now and then, and this is a major hassle for me.
I'm thinking of moving to the Galaxy S2 when it comes out in the US, and I was wondering if the S2 mounts properly without a driver?
It's sad to be jealous of friends with HTC phones that mount properly and don't need drivers installed to simply connect to a pc.
If you set it to 'usb debug mode', it auto installs and will come up as 2 card readers.
It even works on my car's head unit so it is in usb mass storage mode.
Without debug mode it'll be detected as a phone but I'm not sure what it'll come up as since all the pc ive connected it to have samsung Kies.
Personally I use widget apps like 'multi mount sd' so I can still use the phone while the usb is accessible by the pc.
I flashed the resurrection remix rom (Jelly Bean) on my sgs2. By accident I formatted my INTERNAL SD CARD (phone memory), while I thought it was y EXTERNAL card. All my holiday pictures are gone. Stupid, I know, but happened without being aware of it. I know there are several programs to retrieve them back, and I've found some. However I can only select to scan a hard drive, whilst my pc says my phone is a "portable device". the program does not show "portable devices" only hard drives.
I remember when I was still on Gingerbread and I connected my phone to my PC it always showed as (indeed) a mass storage hard drive.
Can anyone tell me how I can let my PC recognize my phone as a hard drive ?
Thank you for all your prompt replies
biep99
su
setprop persist.sys.usb.config mass_storage
reboot
Turn off USB Debugging and Go to Settings - > USB Utilities and click on button
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I've moved this from a thread I started over in General where I was discussing quirkyness I'd experienced hooking my Rezound up to a computer. I guess I can say I'm returning to what is now a big problem sooner than I anticipated I'd have to. Let me recount...
I followed up on the second post in the above thread that suggested possible problems with my SDcard as the source of quirkyness I've been seeing. I first backed up my OEM card to my computer, then I reproduced that backup on two other cards using my computer, one a class 4 and the other a class 10; both cards are 16g. Also, both were formatted FAT32 out of the box. Even so, I went ahead and did a fresh re-format on the class 4 card just in case the default formatting was the problem.
Anyway, now I cannot connect to either of my computers, one a linux (Ubuntu 11.04) box, the other a win8 when either of the cards is installed in my phone. By connect I mean that I cannot connect as a disk drive and the device isn't recognized by "adb devices" when booted into the OS. In the bootloader, I don't see the "fastboot usb" designator in the fastboot menu on the device, and doing a "fastboot devices" on either of the computers also comes up blank. *Sigh*
So I guess I'm here to ask: Can anyone point me a direction where I can begin to troubleshoot the cause, which I now suspect is hardware related?
many thanks,
john
In a windows computer, what shows up in device manager when you connect the USB cable? Also have you tried at least 3 USB cables? Also try plugging your phone in booted to the Rom, going to developer options, and unchecking USB debugging and waiting about a minute then rechecking USB debugging. Do you get a noise, either positive or negative (sometimes there's a bad system sound when a device isn't recognized, sounds like someone giving the wrong answer on a game show or something)
Can you post screenshots of your command window when you run adb devices or fastboot devices.
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when I plug in my I717 via USB in my desktop, windows sees it as Samsung Android device, but when I go into windows explorer, there's nothing to see (the usb or sd storage isnt listed at all) and I do have mtp usb storage activated on the phone and usb debug. I am running gingerbread touchwiz rom. I can see the phone and transfer files wirelessly with ES file explorer, but I cant access the sd card or the phones internal storage through usb windows explorer connection even though device management shows Samsung android device. Windows Device manager shows the phone with no yellow flags. anyone had this happen and found solution to share? thanks
You can try rebooting the computer, using different usb ports, using a different cable. I don't know if this works on gingerbread but I have used it on jellybean roms before when I've had trouble connecting... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.zatta.USB_switch
Just thought of one other thing. You didn't say anything about Windows loading the device drivers so I gotta ask if you have installed the Samsung drivers?
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Just thought of one other thing. You didn't say anything about Windows loading the device drivers so I gotta ask if you have installed the Samsung drivers?
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yep..have samsung drivers. also, about the app you linked above, I'd like to try it out but google play says its not compatible with my device (probably because I'm still on gingerbread). anywhere else I can download the apk and try manual install?
I think your problem is that you are connecting via MTP (media transfer protocol). You need to connect via USB mass storage. With your Note not connected to your PC, go into Settings, under Wireless and network look for USB utilities. Follow the phone's instructions for connecting to USB storage to your PC. Wait for the Windows autostart to read the phone storage. (My PC is XP and takes a minute or so.) Then you should see two new drives show on Windows Explorer. One is phone internal storage and the other is the phone's external SD card. Hope this works for you. Good luck!
I believe sonebwood is on the right track on this. I remember when the Note first came out I had to change something to get windows to see the drives. Is there any particular reason you keep the phone on gingerbread? ICS was a lot better and you can update to JB through Kies.
i have always enjoyed plugging my phone into my PC via a USB and having access to both SD cards. i am having no such luck with my new S8+
USB debugging: check
MTP: check
Smart Switch installation (drivers) on PC: check
What else am i missing? i cannot find answers anywhere.
So i plugged the card into my PC and accessed it, and now my phone won't recognizes it. i have put it in my old phone, it recognizes it and it allows me to transfer files between PC and card; i will be going back to my old phone until i can find a solution. i am just so frustrated right now, i can't even.
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