Hi All,
Is it possible to mount sd card & use usb tethering at the same time?
Thanks
No, since turning USB Tethering on "changes" the device behaviour on USB. The computer recognize it as a modem/network device rather than a phone or mass storage device.
I think you maybe can use Kies Air to access your files.
XpLoDWilD said:
No, since turning USB Tethering on "changes" the device behaviour on USB. The computer recognize it as a modem/network device rather than a phone or mass storage device.
I think you maybe can use Kies Air to access your files.
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I tried that. But the upload limitation is 100MB. Too little for me.
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Is there anyway to get the X10mini pro to show up in windows as a standard USB mass storage device, like my camera or MP3 player? I want to be able to simply copy files over to the phone without using Sony’s software etc. Is there an app I can download for this?
when i connne it shows up as long as there is a memory card not sure if need to select mount usb on the phone menu , if you want the phone memory im not sure its possible to view but as its not that big i guess ur just looking for the memory card
how do you select mount usb on the phone menu? I am still unable to connect this phone as a usb mass storage device and upload files to the card without the Sony Software
marada2 said:
how do you select mount usb on the phone menu? I am still unable to connect this phone as a usb mass storage device and upload files to the card without the Sony Software
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When you plug in the USB cable from the PC to the phone, are you greeted with this menu (see attached image)
Thanks I am familiar with that screen, however I can't get the phone to be treated as a USB mass storage device. I just want to be able to browse the memory card like on an MP3 player, camera etc without having to use the Sony software. Is there anyway I can do this natively in windows or linux?
marada2 said:
Thanks I am familiar with that screen, however I can't get the phone to be treated as a USB mass storage device. I just want to be able to browse the memory card like on an MP3 player, camera etc without having to use the Sony software. Is there anyway I can do this natively in windows or linux?
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When that screen pops up, just select "Connect my phone", and it'll mount it in mass storage mode. Works perfectly fine for me on PCs without the software installed. Haven't tried it on linux, but it works on my car's stereo that plays mp3s off a connected usb device, so I can't see why it wouldn't
My phone works like that but only with the phone drivers installed. I treid this before I installed the phone drivers but windows just said the drive was unreadable. Also you can't browse the entire directory structure.
Very odd. My Windows XP SP2 has no drivers in it for the phone but manages to read the memory card
Works fine here as regular usb mass storage in Mac OS X.
Sent from my U20a using XDA App
Ive just suddenly had a brainwave: asking for drivers? That to me sounds like its in USB debugging mode. Switch that off and it should be ok
Hi all,
Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere; I did use the search tool, honest!
Anyway, a simple question with what I hope will be a simple answer: is there any way to only make the external SD card visible to a PC when connected through USB? I use Dropbox and Foldersync a lot on my S2, and it would be lovely to leave my phone connected to my laptop to use as a USB drive without crippling the apps that look for data on my internal SD (Spotify, etc).
Many thanks,
salexc
Connect in USB mass storage mode
Via settings wireless networking usb utilities
jje
salexc said:
Hi all,
is there any way to only make the external SD card visible to a PC when connected through USB?
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Not as far as I know. what I usually do: start a FTP server on your mobile, so it's accessible through windows explorer, no cable needed. Personally I use SwiFTP, but there are a few others, free in the marketplace.
JJEgan said:
Connect in USB mass storage mode
Via settings wireless networking usb utilities
jje
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This mounts both internal and external SD; I only want to mount the external SD.
Heimiko said:
Not as far as I know. what I usually do: start a FTP server on your mobile, so it's accessible through windows explorer, no cable needed. Personally I use SwiFTP, but there are a few others, free in the marketplace.
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Thanks, a good suggestion; I should have mentioned there's no Wi-Fi available in my office so I have to connect via USB.
S.
salexc said:
Thanks, a good suggestion; I should have mentioned there's no Wi-Fi available in my office so I have to connect via USB.
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maybe "Droid Explorer" is what you're looking for : http://de.codeplex.com/
connects through USB, without mass storage enabled (USB Debugging needs to be enabled on your device)
Heimiko said:
maybe "Droid Explorer" is what you're looking for : http://de.codeplex.com/
connects through USB, without mass storage enabled (USB Debugging needs to be enabled on your device)
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Ah, now *that* could be it...I shall have to have a play.
Thanks!
With Multi Mount SD-Card (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.rafoid.multimountsdcard.widget) you can choose which card to mount, internal or external or both.
I tried it because I have problems with car stereo not recognizing my phone when connected in usb storage mode. Although it didn't solve that problem, you can mount only one sd-card at the time with it.
spaceKomet said:
With Multi Mount SD-Card (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.rafoid.multimountsdcard.widget) you can choose which card to mount, internal or external or both.
I tried it because I have problems with car stereo not recognizing my phone when connected in usb storage mode. Although it didn't solve that problem, you can mount only one sd-card at the time with it.
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That might just be exactly what I'm looking for...
Good find, that man.
same problem i have but....
spaceKomet said:
With Multi Mount SD-Card you can choose which card to mount, internal or external or both.
I tried it because I have problems with car stereo not recognizing my phone when connected in usb storage mode. Although it didn't solve that problem, you can mount only one sd-card at the time with it.
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My stereo only recognizes my internal SD on my Droid 4 but i need it to read my
external SD. ive checked that app out and even purchased it but refunded the app because the app stops responding. My droid is flashed with CM9, any idea how to get it to work properly?
Thanks in advance
-Andrew
How do I enable USB Mass storage mode instead of the stupid MTP og PTP?
Regards,
BTJ
Not sure if this works for the SGS3 but it worked for the SGS2:
Bring up Settings.
Click More… (under Wireless and network).
Then select USB utilities ~ Set USB cable connection mode.
Select Connect storage to PC then.
Connect USB cable from phone to PC.
Select Turn on USB storage.
That’s all.
Sorry, no such settings in SGS3, we are stuch with MTP or PTP... Don't understand the logic behind removing USB Mass storage mode!! Both MTP and PTP are slow as hell and there is no support for S3 in libmtp at the moment to make matters worse... If I had known this, I would have reconsidered my choice of buying a SGS3.....
BTJ
Like the Nexus, /sdcard is mounted at /data/media (IIRC, mount point could be different), meaning that internal data and the internal sdcard space share the space, rather than being split. UMS removes access to the device that is mounted from the phone, so it cannot be used when the sdcard is shared in this fashion.
I thought libmtp worked? I've been using adb and a GUI for shifting lots of files, qtadb
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Seems to be a problem with both SII and SIII... But I will check out qtadb, thx...
BTJ
So am I reading this right. You can't plug a USB cable in, the SD card appears then in explorer?
I have a sensation XE at moment and use this a lot for transferring files at work/home etc.
So can I not access my files normally now that I copy to SD card, eg docs etc?
Nope... But it sounds like you are using Windows so then MTP will work, kind of like you are used to...
BTJ
The idea about using MTP is it allows you to continue to use your phone without disruption, loading Mass Storage un-mounts the sd from your phone.
However I do think we should still be given a choice
Yes, I guess I understand the idea... What I don't understand is why they have removed the choice we used to have.... :-|
BTJ
I stil don't have an S3, but am a little confused on the MTP etc. Also I use a Mac and a Windows PC.
So when you plug in an S3 on a Windows PC, what does it do in MTP mode? just still allow you to drag/drop files? does the S3 come up as another drive or something in explore?
Also anyone with a Mac, how does this work?
cheers
This might give us some insight on why no USB Storage.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/1...behind-galaxy-nexus-lack-of-usb-mass-storage/
fylim said:
This might give us some insight on why no USB Storage.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/1...behind-galaxy-nexus-lack-of-usb-mass-storage/
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I think I got the jist of that article lol but does this mean android developement were looking for devices to have either internal storage or sd storage but because the SG3 has both its sort of screwed things up a bit?
So UMS might be released in a later patch to allow easier access to added SD storage? Or does the current setting allow access to both storage thru windows pc?
Soz if I come across as a noob I havent got sg3 yet but planning to get one in a few weeks for upgrade and Ive been trying to get the low down on positives and negatives before I get the phone
Keep things simple!
Please can someone answer this simply.
Can I plug in the device into my mac/pc and just transfer any file to the micro SD card whilst it is in the phone?
All I want to do is to be able to put avi files on it as samsung kies or doubletwist doesn't seem to suppor them...
A yes or a no with and explanation would be great ta!!
pow001 said:
Please can someone answer this simply.
Can I plug in the device into my mac/pc and just transfer any file to the micro SD card whilst it is in the phone?
All I want to do is to be able to put avi files on it as samsung kies or doubletwist doesn't seem to suppor them...
A yes or a no with and explanation would be great ta!!
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yes you can easily do that. No issues in that. Simply treat it as a normal pendrive in such a case.
sorted!
toxicthunder said:
yes you can easily do that. No issues in that. Simply treat it as a normal pendrive in such a case.
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Thanks for the help. Although I figure out what everyone was talking about.
This is how I did it (maybe this will help others noobs as well):
You will need the 'Android File Transfer program' --> google search it!
1.Connect phone to PC (you will see usb icon at the top of the screen)
2. Pull down the notification centre.
3. Touch the usb thing.
4. Click PTP mode
5. Open the file transfer program
BOOM! Rock on nerds!
I'm trying to drag the files to the phone, but it won't transfer for some reason. I never had this problem before. I also own an s3 and it does the same thing. I downloaded the usb drivers too, still won't work.
What rom are you on? Try using airdroid.
You are using windows 7 file explorer?
Once you connect your phone did you select USB transfer? Or MTP?
Make sure its mounted as a mass storage device
android4545 said:
Make sure its mounted as a mass storage device
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You don't need to mount these phones as mass storage. You should be able to drag and drop using windows explorer in the default MTP mode.
@ptrle..... Were you ever able to drag and drop on the Note or your S3? Can you see your phone and internal sd card with windows explorer? Have you tried rebooting your phones and pc right before trying to transfer? Maybe a bad cable or try a different USB port. Don't go through a USB hub. Try installing the newest Samsung Kies to get the most updated drivers.
I have 4 computers and only one did I install samsung kies and the other 3 work in MTP mode without manually installing any drivers.
I ran into an odd issue..
In MTP the phone moved a season of Walking Dead in 2.5 minutes, as mass storage it said it would take 45 minutes..
So MTP transfers faster from my laptop to phone, but my ps3 says its "An unknown device" in MTP mode, so I have to switch to Mass Storage and all is well..
Probably won't help, but perhaps a route to investigate
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Settings-more under wireless and network-usb utilities-connect storage to pc
why S3 phone doesnt have USB UTILITIES so that i can easily connect my phone in USB MASS STORAGE i only use EASYUMMS but it is only for EXTERNAL not for INTERNAL..
babyyeobo14 said:
why S3 phone doesnt have USB UTILITIES so that i can easily connect my phone in USB MASS STORAGE i only use EASYUMMS but it is only for EXTERNAL not for INTERNAL..
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ask Kwon Oh Hyun why it doesn't.
babyyeobo14 said:
why S3 phone doesnt have USB UTILITIES so that i can easily connect my phone in USB MASS STORAGE i only use EASYUMMS but it is only for EXTERNAL not for INTERNAL..
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I'll answer this question the same way I'd answer a similar question in Minecraft.
Because why not?
If you can do something, then do it.
If you're looking for a more technical reason:
The mtp (Media Transfer Protocol) has some significant advantages over connecting the device directly as an Sd Card. For example: When a device is connected as an SD-card you can only use it on the computer. With MTP, you can still access the card on the phone.
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