OK so I connected my prime to my PC to transfer over some music and videos to occupy me for my upcoming trip specifically to my micro SD card, and it only connects "as media Device" and shows up in my computer as portable media player. This if F-ing retarded I just want it to operate as a disk drive as my phone does. I plug my phone in and it asks me like a good piece of silicon should.
Maybe I am missing something and all is well but where is that option? It is a problem because it just doesn't work, if I want to check a file on my prime from my PC it has to copy it to some temp spot on my pc????? also I tried copying 12gb over and it was going to take something ridiculous like 4 hours!!!!
I stick the same card in my android GB PHONE and it copies in ~ 20 minutes so is this and ICS thing or is this just yet another stupid move by ASUS?
I have tried to be objective with this tablet, I have barely posted anything bad in the 2 MONTHS (today) I have owned it but this just annoys me along with the bluetooth/Wifi problem, non existent GPS, random reboots, seemingly shotty haptic feedback and 4 hot spots on my screen. I would send it in to get fixed however I honestly am loosing faith in ASUS and want it for my trip to Vegas on Monday and then I'm going to Jamaica in a month.
On top of this I Pmed Gary and he must think I was digging for a lawsuit as he said he would be caught up om PMs last weekend expect for the ones he deleted feeling they were asking things in a way that was digging for a lawsuits? I have never taken a law course in my life and don't even have my own lawyer.
I just feel really betrayed and I'm sorry my little question turned into a rant I just needed to get it all out. I will send it in when I am not in need of the tablet and make my final judgement then but as it stands neither me nor my family (as I am the tech guy) will EVER buy anything ASUS again.
when I plug my prime into a computer it shows up as a media device just like you said, however I can double click on it and access the tablets internal storage and microSD card just like a USB hard drive. Transferring files too and from the tablet seem about as fast as transferring them to my USB hard drive.
Also I don't known what phone you have, but my Galaxy S2 also acts like a media device and doesn't ask me what kind of USB connection I want to make. But likewise I can still access the internal storage and microSD card just like they were a mounted hard drive.
I am connecting my devices to several Windows 7 PCs.
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when I plug my prime into a computer it shows up as a media device just like you said, however I can double click on it and access the tablets internal storage and microSD card just like a USB hard drive. Transferring files too and from the tablet seem about as fast as transferring them to my USB hard drive.
Also I don't known what phone you have, but my Galaxy S2 also acts like a media device and doesn't ask me what kind of USB connection I want to make. But likewise I can still access the internal storage and microSD card just like they were a mounted hard drive.
I am connecting my devices to several Windows 7 PCs.
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Thanks, I'm using an HTC amaze and off it i can play my files directly and transfer rate was literally 10 times faster. I did realize clicking it shows both storage directories but its super slow and try playing a copied file.
I'm using win 7 64 bit on my PC.
It's because the Prime (and most if not all new Android devices) use MTP which is MUCH slower than the previous method. So no, not Asus as fault this time!
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This might not work for you, but both my Win 7 laptop and my Win 7 desktop have SD card slots built into them. I find it much easier and faster to just pop the microSD card slot out of the Prime and plug it into my PC to move large files over to my tablet.
An microSD -> SD card adapter is much smaller to carrier around than even data cable, and they are cheap enough that you can get a bunch and just stash them around places you might need to do transfers in. I actually use an SD card adapter to replace the dummy card that came with my laptop. It still protects the SD card slot and at least now I have something functional in there.
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It's because the Prime (and most if not all new Android devices) use MTP which is MUCH slower than the previous method. So no, not Asus as fault this time!
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OK well thanks for clearing that up. that kind of sucks, why do they use it if its slower?
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This might not work for you, but both my Win 7 laptop and my Win 7 desktop have SD card slots built into them. I find it much easier and faster to just pop the microSD card slot out of the Prime and plug it into my PC to move large files over to my tablet.
An microSD -> SD card adapter is much smaller to carrier around than even data cable, and they are cheap enough that you can get a bunch and just stash them around places you might need to do transfers in. I actually use an SD card adapter to replace the dummy card that came with my laptop. It still protects the SD card slot and at least now I have something functional in there.
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that would be the ideal solution however my PC doesn't have a card reader
They use it (if I recall correctly) because it allows for the entirety of the devices storage to be used for any purpose. I'm not sure the trade off on performance is worth it though.
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For playing with all this stuff here I'm seeking a PCMCIA card that I can use as card reader. Any recommendations?
why not as usb bet those would be waaaaaayyyy cheaper
Is and SD cardreader suitable for writing bootable SDs?
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why not as usb bet those would be waaaaaayyyy cheaper
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For one, I hate having hanging all sort of stuff on my two USB ports
or using a hub would require extra cabling, wall outlet power supply etc.
Second, my USB is 1.0 not 2.0 (I believe) and last but not least I'm not sure whether a USB card reader is compatible with the method of physical access required for SD formatting.
If you know of one, plese fill me in.
well you dont need to have the sdreader connected when you are not using it
not all sdcard readers use external psu's non of mine does
usb1 and 2 are backwards and forward compatible with eachother
generaly i think the prices of the pcmcia's are at least 2 times that of the usb ones
and the pcmcia ones i've seen only support SD and maybe mmc
where the usb readers mostly support 12 different flash times at once
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well you dont need to have the sdreader connected when you are not using it
not all sdcard readers use external psu's non of mine does
usb1 and 2 are backwards and forward compatible with eachother
generaly i think the prices of the pcmcia's are at least 2 times that of the usb ones
and the pcmcia ones i've seen only support SD and maybe mmc
where the usb readers mostly support 12 different flash times at once
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Thanks. I got one for 11 €, UCR-61, Made in China.
Success! I flashed my device, after exchanging the motherboard this morning.
As already mentioned I has a spare device with broken display which I
recently bought for experimenting purposes.
With that MB (which contained a WM 2002 BTW, I was able to flash one of the ROMS from lumpistefans site.
Now the SD seems to be formatted in some way so that the OS always ask to format the device when I insert it. Hhhm. I had my Tomtom and a backup on it. Weird.
Also it is no longer recognized (now after I used it for ROM flashing) as a Windows file system when I insert it into the USB SD reader.
Someone should have told me that the filesystem structure gets blown away when using for flashing :evil:
well i think most people know that making the sd card a bootable self install delete everything on the card goes without saying
but of cause whats obvious to some may not be so for everybody
you can use pocket mechanics to format the card if you want
I've tried via hardwire usb and swiftp but no luck. Usb get's me the furthest but then stalls about 1/2 way through while swiftp cuts our almost immediately.
I'm trying to transfer about 10 gb of files from a Windows 7 pc but don't know what to do next to get this to work.
Any ideas or suggestions? I'm currently transfering the files to a thumbdrive (no issue) then I'll attempt the same thing with my laptop/Ubuntu rig to see if that works but I'm stymied here.
What are the files, vidyas? If so, then you should think about getting a micro sd. I find that is the most convenient. Other than that, you can try asus webstorage.
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Not vidyas, ebooks, actually. Any idea why the connection is so useless though? If a micro sd is more stable then I could pick one up but I'm wondering what's up with it as is? Didn't really want to do the webstorage thing so much but I'll check it out too.
I just transferred 17gb of data with no issues.
I only have issues transfering data via wifi. All copy attempts to transfer a 2gb+ filevia network cancel immediatly. No problems via usb so far.
Well I'm thinking the issue may be with the contents of the file I've been trying to upload. I uploaded a 5gb video file this morning very quickly with no issue whatsoever.
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How are yall getting MTP to work so quickly it takes forever for me to upload anything from my pc (usb 3.0 ports or 2.0 ports) via MTP i tried transferring 8gb of music the other day came back after an hour and still no where near completion, i know once we get Mass storage hacked into the kernels itll go alot faster but there has to be a better way right now.
(micro sd atm seeems to be the fastest way (transferred 8gb music in under 15 minutes)
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What are the files, vidyas? If so, then you should think about getting a micro sd. I find that is the most convenient. Other than that, you can try asus webstorage.
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So I picked up a micro sd today and problem is solved. Just to add to this, I easily and quickly uploaded a 5gb video file this morning without issue. So I'm still not sure why I can't transfer the original successfully.
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I just transferred 17gb of data with no issues.
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I hv transfer large files also, no problem.
No issues with file transfer via usb or wifi. I did notice though, that if you use ES File Explorer, it does not complete the transfer. Some of the file explorer apps don't work with large files very well over wifi with ICS. I just tried some of the highly rated ones until I found one that I liked. Frequently transfer large files to and from my TFP with no issues. Just pulled a 10Gb+ BDrip of avatar onto it to take on the road yesterday. Copy took several hours but completed with no issues.
is there another way to transfer pics, roms and etc to the internal sd card and the external sd card other then using this horrible MTP junk? its taken me 10 mins to transfer 3 pictures to my external sd card using the MTP crap. this is driving me nuts. i am starting to hate this phone because its so complicated to transfer anything to the damn sd cards on this phone. i want mass storage back. so much quicker
so nobody has this issue like i do? i cant seem to transfer nothing to my internal or external sd card. even if i get lucky and it does start to transfer, im gonna be waiting at least 15 to 20 mins just to transfer some pictures
How are you doing the transfer? When I plug in my phone, it shows up in "My Computer" just like a disk. I double click my way to the right location and just drag and drop. simple. I was worried because of all the fuss over not supporting UMS, but I think this works as well or better.
One issue I did have was the usb cable I was using. The only one that works for me is the charging cable that came with the phone. If you're usng anything else, try using that cable.
Yes MTP is total crap compared to mass storage, but it's all we really got so...
i plug my phone into my windows 7 pc. it shows my phone, then i click on it and it shows me my internal sd card and external sd card. then i click on my external sd card and drag my photos from the pc to the external sd card and it shows its transferring then it just gets stuck at one point. nothing i can do about it. here is some pics to show u. the one wallpaper i tried to transfer from the pc to my sd card was only 1.43mb and it wont transfer over. when i try to transfer a rom over. forget about it. nothing happens
Edit: the only way i can get my stuff transferred over is to put my external sd card in my gfs sensation 4g and transfer all my files from my pc to her phone. then when i am done i take my sd card out of her phone and put it back in mine. thats the only way i can do it so far. i was hoping there was an easier way but i guess not. this is bs if u ask me. i hate samsung for making this so complicated
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Yes MTP is total crap compared to mass storage, but it's all we really got so...
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yeah it is bs. i was hoping someone would figure out a way to enable mass storage like they do for the international version.
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i plug my phone into my windows 7 pc. it shows my phone, then i click on it and it shows me my internal sd card and external sd card. then i click on my external sd card and drag my photos from the pc to the external sd card and it shows its transferring then it just gets stuck at one point. nothing i can do about it. here is some pics to show u. the one wallpaper i tried to transfer from the pc to my sd card was only 1.43mb and it wont transfer over. when i try to transfer a rom over. forget about it. nothing happens
Edit: the only way i can get my stuff transferred over is to put my external sd card in my gfs sensation 4g and transfer all my files from my pc to her phone. then when i am done i take my sd card out of her phone and put it back in mine. thats the only way i can do it so far. i was hoping there was an easier way but i guess not. this is bs if u ask me. i hate samsung for making this so complicated
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That's what I do. I'm still on XP. Windows 7 is supposed to be better for this. Try the original cable.
thats all i have is the original cable. still no go. idk what up with it.
I had the same issue and turned out to be the two back usb ports I was using. The sgs3 didn't like them and would transfer extremely slow. Weird because I had no issues with my sgs2. I suggest trying different USB ports on your pc.
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I had the same issue and turned out to be the two back usb ports I was using. The sgs3 didn't like them and would transfer extremely slow. Weird because I had no issues with my sgs2. I suggest trying different USB ports on your pc.
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yep that did it for me.. that is soo odd lol. i used a different usb port in the front since i have 4 of them. now everything transfers pretty quick. thanks for that tip. i still think that is so odd though. :good:
Edit: i hit the thanks button for everyone that tried to help me out.
I'm glad that worked for you. Its very odd indeed but makes me feel better that I'm not the only one or that its not just my pc. Maybe we were using lower speed ports. In any case you should be good to go now and will just have to use those ports like me.
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Hello all. Iam new to this, but I am hoping someone can help me out.
I have a Samsung Galaxy Note II from Verizon. I have installed a San Disk 32gb MicroSD card. I used the phone to format the card. I then created folders for music, photos, videos, etc. Next I set these new folders as the defaults for these file types, so that any music and photos, ect, will be stored on the external MicroSD card.
Now my problem: I copied all of my music files (about 1400, all in MPG3 format) to the music folder on the MicroSD card. However, when I attempt to play the music, a song will play for a second or 2, then jump to another song. It keeps doing this. If I play the song (stored on the phone) on my laptop (phone is connected via USB) it does the same thing. It will play a second or so, then stop.
I have deleted and recopied the music several times, I have turned the phone off then back on, nothing seems to help. Sometimes, after attempting to play music on the phone, and it reacts this way, I'll go back to the music folder, and suddenly it shows about 330 songs, not 1400 that were there before. A little while later, it will show all 1400 songs, but they still won't play properly.
I don't know if there is something I need to do with the phone, or the MicroSD card. I also noticed that 4 of my photos in my "images" folder would no longer display on the phone. After re-starting the phone, the 4 image files were gone completely.
This is driving me CRAZY!!! Someone please help!!
Thank you all very much for your support.
Bob
Oops!! I titled this thred as "MicroDS" instead of "MicroSD". Sorry
Is it a new card? One from Ebay or other unreputable seller? If so, you may have been scammed. Google "h2testw", it is a free program used to verify USB memory. It wirtes the entire drive full of data and then attempts to read it back. It will quickly uncover a fake SD card.
If that is not the case, then I don't have any ideas. The symptoms sure sound like a fake card though. The really crappy thing about the fakes is a lot of people loose valuable data when they move stuff to one of these cards. It all looks like it is there, but nothing beyond a few Kb transfers. Most of the time these are 4gb or smaller cards that have had some hacking done to display themselves as much larger. After the actual memory size is full, the file index continues to register files written, but they are physically not there at all.
Good Luck,
Jason
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Is it a new card? One from Ebay or other unreputable seller? If so, you may have been scammed. Google "h2testw", it is a free program used to verify USB memory. It wirtes the entire drive full of data and then attempts to read it back. It will quickly uncover a fake SD card.
If that is not the case, then I don't have any ideas. The symptoms sure sound like a fake card though. The really crappy thing about the fakes is a lot of people loose valuable data when they move stuff to one of these cards. It all looks like it is there, but nothing beyond a few Kb transfers. Most of the time these are 4gb or smaller cards that have had some hacking done to display themselves as much larger. After the actual memory size is full, the file index continues to register files written, but they are physically not there at all.
Good Luck,
Jason
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Hi, I really need help with this. I have the exact same issue except that I've tried 3 different 64gb sd cards now (from 2 different sellers on eBay) and have had the same results. I've tried different methods of transfer and different file types, same thing every time. The h2testw program doesn't detect my phone (phone mem or sd card) so I can't use that.
Now, I will say, all of these cards were ~$30 but were bought from high-rated sellers. Did I just happen to buy 3 hacked cards in a row?
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Hi, I really need help with this. I have the exact same issue except that I've tried 3 different 64gb sd cards now (from 2 different sellers on eBay) and have had the same results. I've tried different methods of transfer and different file types, same thing every time. The h2testw program doesn't detect my phone (phone mem or sd card) so I can't use that.
Now, I will say, all of these cards were ~$30 but were bought from high-rated sellers. Did I just happen to buy 3 hacked cards in a row?
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Same here bought my from ebay 35 bucks first day popped into phone was fine phone read the card. Then i rebooted to flash aosp rom no go with card trued different computers some read card some dont and tryingbto format i get errors or cant complete action. In read on line you can format with a digital camera to UN corrupt the card will try later and report back . I you can try before that would be nice. I have 9 hrs left at work so.
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Get a micro SD USB adapter and do H2Wtestw. The phones only mount MTP or PTP, you cannot run the test on the card in the phone, it has to be mounted as a USB mass storage device on the PC, and yes, I have no doubt that you got three hacked cards in a row. Virtually every high capacity card on ebay is fake. Most people see it mounts as the listed size and leave good feedback, it's too late to adjust your feedback when it eats all your data. Do some research, it is well documented out on the internet as to how many counterfiet cards are out there on eBay.
Later,
Jason
I have had similar problems with a lexar 32GB card. I noticed that when I copied files using the phone to transfer the files that many were incomplete. To verify this open a file browser and check the file sizes. I have another problem with my MicroSD as well. I randomly get an error stating that the card is damaged and needs formatted. I changed the format to exFat which has slowed the problem but it still does this occasionally. I an going to RMA the card and see if another card will perform better. I hope it isn't a problem with the phone because I don't feel like wasting time dealing with returning it to stock and setting up new one.
Is there a a good brand to buy like samsung ..also what does the card(say 64gb) need to be formatted to??
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Is there a a good brand to buy like samsung ..also what does the card(say 64gb) need to be formatted to??
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Samsung, Sandisk, etc. The key is ONLY buy it from someone reputable, i.e. direct from Amazon, NOT one of their resellers, and NOT from eBay. There is no free lunch. A 64GB Class 10 will cost you $50-$60, if its less do NOT buy it, its a knock-off.
Sandisk comes preformatted as exFAT. This is compatible with Samsung Touchwiz and TWRP recovery. It allows very large file sizes.
CM, ASOP roms, and CWM recovery do not support exFAT. You will need to format to Fat32 if you plan to use them. There is a file size limit of 4GB, and you will need third party software to format 64GB on Windows.
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alistairs1 said:
Samsung, Sandisk, etc. The key is ONLY buy it from someone reputable, i.e. direct from Amazon, NOT one of their resellers, and NOT from eBay. There is no free lunch. A 64GB Class 10 will cost you $50-$60, if its less do NOT buy it, its a knock-off.
Sandisk comes preformatted as exFAT. This is compatible with Samsung Touchwiz and TWRP recovery. It allows very large file sizes.
CM, ASOP roms, and CWM recovery do not support exFAT. You will need to format to Fat32 if you plan to use them. There is a file size limit of 4GB, and you will need third party software to format 64GB on Windows.
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Ok thank you.i found out the hard way about the ebay cards.I'm running jellybeans 12 and TWRP recovery.
Hi, my M5 continually breaks SD cards! It mostly happens when transferring media to the cards, or downloading things directly to them.
Before the transfer/download finishes, a notification will pop up saying the SD card is damaged, please format etc... the inbuilt format tool will not correct the card and if I reboot the M5, it says the SD card is password locked!
If I transfer the card to my PC, it cannot read it. The drive is greyed out and it says there is no disk in the drive. Disk management says it has no media and is sized at 0 bytes. Any repair utility cannot access it and chkdsk and diskpart in command prompt cannot open it either.
It has happened within a week of using a new card 3 times now, Sandisk/Samsung/Integral, doesn't matter what brand.
It's getting annoying, and expensive to replace them. Can anybody help shed any light on the situation?
this happened with my m5 10.8 lte too. 2 times.
I was able to repartition and format the sd with my pc.
but i think it's a problem with my device, not the sd.
Cant confirm this on my 10.8 WiFi, because most of the time i use my 64gb Sandisk card with an external card reader. But initially, right after purchase, i used a Anker USB-C Cable for direct transfer of files. The Huawei-provided USB-C cable is only used with the power brick. Maybe you should try a different cable? I ran into all sorts of issues regarding USB on any device if i dont use the correct cable. For me: USB != USB.
Where are you buying the SD cards? You'd be surprised how common phony, counterfeit SD cards are.
Return the M5 if you need sdcards...
Hi,
I had 3 sdcards corrupted after copying files on it (USB to computer -> file explorer -> copy to SD). Brands were 1 Transcend, and 2 Sandisks. Two of them were brand new and bought at a mall.
I can't for sure assure you it's the tablet but three SD cards broken in less than a week sounds more than coincidence for me. I looked online and many people report the same issue on Mediapad tablets.
We needed trustworthy SD card support for our operations so I simply returned the tablet and switched back to its main competitor. Never had issues with SD cards before, nor after.
Apart from that the M5 worked like a charm and everyone loved it. I just couldn't risk it a enterprise level.
If you definitely depend on SD card support, my personnal experience is to stay away from Huawei's tablets.