When I first got my phone and plugged it into my computer, I had to use the pulldown menu and press a "connect to USB" button for my phone to be mounted in Windows so I could access the phone storage. Once I was done, I had to unmount the phone by using the Windows safely remove hardware function.
Now when I connect my phone it simply tries to connect to Kies and although my phone does appear within Windows and I can access the files, I don't have the connect to USB feature and when I'm done, there's nothing to unmount.
What happened? In both situations, I don't even have Kies installed, so the connect to USB option was obviously what I wanted.
Enable USB debugging to mount to usb the old fashion way. Note that if you have a sdcard in the phone when you do this, both the phone's internal memory and your sdcard will show up as two separate drives on your computer.
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Thanks. Makes sense now... when rooting it I obviously had USB debugging enabled... guess I disabled it and didn't put two and two together.
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I have the Samsung drivers installed on my PC (Win XP). When I connect the phone with a USB cable I see two drives - presumably the main memory and the SD card. But when I click on either of them I get a message: "Please Insert Disk in Drive X"
What do I need to do to be able to actually see the content?
If I insert the SD card in a regular card reader I can read and write it.
I tried setting the USB connection to "Development" and to regular storage. Makes no difference.
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When you plug the phone into the computer, open your notifications bar at the top of the phone. You should see an option that says, 'USB connected / Select to copy files to/from your computer.' Select this option, and click mount. After a few moments, the drive letters that you said were not functioning on your computer, will work successfully.
Thanks for the reply. It helped a lot. The procedure that worked for me is:
1. Set the USB mode on the phone to "Mass Storage"
2. Plug in the USB cable and connect to computer.
3. After the "Connected to USB message appears press the Menu button. Chose Notifications and than click on the USB Connected message.
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.
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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
Hey guys.
Does having this checked stop apps from automatically installing to SD like some do?
I ask this as i would like to have it ticked all the time to stop having to go into the settings and enabling mass storage.
any info would be sweet.
Cheers!
If you check Mass Storage Only in Settings/SD card & phone storage settings, it will automatically connect your phone in Mass Storage mode when you plug it via usb on your pc. That does not affect the way the SD is handled by the phone when not connected to the pc, so apps can install normally.
So you can tick it and don't worry about that when not connected to pc.
You may want to uncheck that when trying to connect via adb though, or when upgrading firmware via pc.
Cheers!
just what i needed to know
It doesn't affect the installation of apps it just puts your phone in mass storage mode directly when you connect it to your pc.
You also don't have to always chose mass storage mode from settings, if you don't have USB debugging turned on, a pop-up screen will appear with a button to turn USB mass storage on/off, or you can do it from the drop down status bar tap the USB connection notification and select mass storage.
I am trying to view the files on my phone on my PC at work. I am unable to install Kies. I have tried the USB Utilities section but it does not work. On my HTC when you plug the USB in it came up with a menu asking you what you wanted to do, is there sommething like this on Samsung phones?
FYI, this is my first Samsung phone.
Enable USB Debugging mode...not sure if it still needs the drivers for that though, I think you still might.
try pull down the top bar and select the usb message, then click on connect storage from pc
Tried that, still nothing. If you still need drivers thats rediculous! I should b able to plug my phone into any computer and view my sd card files, if not then its not much better than an iphone!
that's strange.. i got sgs2 delivered to my work today, so yeah I have no related software or drivers installed, plugged in and entered usb storage successfully.
Btw my PC is still on XP and i cancelled all the driver request that poped up
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Tried that, still nothing. If you still need drivers thats rediculous! I should b able to plug my phone into any computer and view my sd card files, if not then its not much better than an iphone!
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No drivers needed AFAIK for mass storage... Can you check device manager and see if it shows.
Got it:
-Enable usb debugging
-return to home screen
-plug usb cable in
-pull down status bar
-press ' connect usb storage' button
vinokirk said:
Got it:
-Enable usb debugging
-return to home screen
-plug usb cable in
-pull down status bar
-press ' connect usb storage' button
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It works for the internal mass storage, but i have a 16GB Sandisk SDHC card installed... i used to see/find both the internal storage and the 16GB card in my computer after connecting through USB cable but suddenly from today i am not seeing the 16GB card though it is accessible through My Files on the phone.
Any help??
Ok it's very simple you go settings then wireless and networks,usb utilities,click turn on usb storage then connect cable to pc.
i go into settings and choose usb debugging this way it stops the kies pop up each time
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vinokirk said:
Got it:
-Enable usb debugging
-return to home screen
-plug usb cable in
-pull down status bar
-press ' connect usb storage' button
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There is another approach.
1- Disconnect cable from phone
2 - Disable (uncheck): Applications \ Development \ USB Debugging
3- Go to Wireless and network \ USB utilities
4- Click Connect storage to PC. A message will show up with a "Cancel" button. DO NOT CLICK IT.
5- Connect cable to phone. The little green robot will show up.
6- Click the button to enable USB mass storage.
Whats the catch?: If you only enable USB debugging, only the Extenal SD will mount. If you do this way, then Internal USB and Extenal, both, will be mounted.
dartveiga said:
There is another approach.
1- Disconnect cable from phone
2 - Disable (uncheck): Applications \ Development \ USB Debugging
3- Go to Wireless and network \ USB utilities
4- Click Connect storage to PC. A message will show up with a "Cancel" button. DO NOT CLICK IT.
5- Connect cable to phone. The little green robot will show up.
6- Click the button to enable USB mass storage.
Whats the catch?: If you only enable USB debugging, only the Extenal SD will mount. If you do this way, then Internal USB and Extenal, both, will be mounted.
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tried this to no avail. After I connect cable at step 5, no little green guy, no option to choose? Any ideas?
Is it a proper data cable?
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wickedsaint said:
It works for the internal mass storage, but i have a 16GB Sandisk SDHC card installed... i used to see/find both the internal storage and the 16GB card in my computer after connecting through USB cable but suddenly from today i am not seeing the 16GB card though it is accessible through My Files on the phone.
Any help??
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The external storage is actually a sub directory on the phone storage, it's called external_sd_card iirc (if I remember correctly)
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UMS not mounting - W7
Hello, I have the same problem.
I have done the following already and it doesn't work:
·Updated Kies in hope to get the drivers for my phone.
·Looked for support in official Samsung website, thus downloading a program to install the drivers for my phone.
·Update through Windows update (failed in windows)
Also when i enable USB debugging mode I am forced to disable it just before turning on the USB Mass Storage. Doesn't mount and doesn't recognise phone (can't find in Device Manager).
I suppose I could live using the MTP way but still, like voiced by other people I would also like to have USB Mass Storage mode.
Thank you.
Solution:
I think I have found the solution, I have not tried this yet and supposedly you need CF-root kernel (so Siyah and other kernels might not work). Here is the link:
CLICK HERE
Like the author of that thread has said, I am not responsible if your phone gets bricked, stolen, eaten, drunk, chewed by your dog or anything of the sorts either directly or indirectly! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!
I have a Galaxy Tab SPH-P100 that I'm looking to root and update to Jelly Bean. The problem is, USB Debugging doesn't seem to work properly. I've tried connecting the Tab to my desktop and my laptop (both running Vista) and neither computer will recognize it. I've tried with USB Debugging enabled and disabled, with Micro SD mounted and unmounted. The only thing the computer recognizes is the Micro SD. The computer will actually assign a letter and it shows up as removable disk and the battery will charge, but that's it. I've run SuperOneClick and it just stops after step 5. I tried Odin and when you click on PDA, PHONE, or CSA, the only option I get is a Samsung folder leading to Kies. What am I doing wrong? The directions sound so simple.