Diskdrive - Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Can one mount s 3 as Diskdrive? I can connect my phone directly to my car stereo and play off the files from the sd card. But since I didn't find a normal Diskdrive mount option I started to wonder if it is even possible?
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New mixrosd card... How do I format?

I don't see the option to reformat in the sd card and storage section. Any help is appreciated.
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Until root, the only way I know is factory reset. In settings when you select it, it also has a option for clear storage. You have to select it before it shows.
Edit: you can also try unmounting SD card erase, and then remount the card. Should automatically format.
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ROM manager will allow you to reformat it every which way but loose.
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I just moved majority of Apps over to sd and starting snapping pics saving to sd.... No format. What could possibly happen now? Lol.
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Try posting in the Q&A ???
If u have evo 4g rooted use that to format.
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If you bought it new, it came out of the package formatted and ready to use. Just put it in and go, after copying over the stuff from your old card of course.
Format or paritition? To format connect phone to usb connect to computer, when the phone screen asks for disc drive or charge only, select disc drive. Your computer will read it as a drive. Hit start menu, scroll up to computer click on it. Should show a couple drives, most likely the phone will be d: g: or f: NOT c: right click the drive scroll down to format and you are done. This is for windows.
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Help with moving and downloading music to SD card! Not USB storage.

OK guys! Now don't hate me. I know this has probably been asked many times before. So don't hate me, just looking for help. I download a lot of my music from the app called " mp3 music downloader". My question is " all my songs are being put into my USB storage not my external SD card. I have a 32 gig SD card that I want all my music to download too. Well one is how do I move all my music files from my USB to SD storage? and 2 how do I set it up that whenever I download music it automatically goes on my external SD card? Thank you to anyone that is willing to help a newbie.
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I believe in the USB settings you must select, "mass storage mode" when connected
When you plug your note into your computer- if you run windows autoplay should recognise 2 seperate forms of storage. Usueally drive," I: " is your external SD
You can open both and simply recognise the difference between the two and your computer will recognise the amount of storage on both there is. So it should be easy to identify your external SD
For your sake, if your transferring music or anything for that matter organize it on your computer into folders- although generally the note recognizes the entire card with or without orginization; I just prefer not to mix my music with my backups in the same place
If you have any further questions feel free to PM me!
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Wait nvm there's an easier way. Go to the ssettings of the app and change the directory to your external SD
From your phone download an app called astro file manager
Fine where your music is, cut and paste it to your external SD
What I described above is for the transfer of files through a computer but you can use your phone! Ignore my first post
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Ray_Banci said:
Wait nvm there's an easier way. Go to the ssettings of the app and change the directory to your external SD
From your phone download an app called astro file manager
Fine where your music is, cut and paste it to your external SD
What I described above is for the transfer of files through a computer but you can use your phone! Ignore my first post
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Thank you so much for the quick reply. I did want to know how to do this from the phone only. I also went into setting under my music app mp3 music downloaded. There is no selection. Probably a ****ty app. But works great. I will try astro file manager. But does this mean every time I download a song I will basically have to do a copy and paste deal?
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Mondingo said:
Thank you so much for the quick reply. I did want to know how to do this from the phone only. I also went into setting under my music app mp3 music downloaded. There is no selection. Probably a ****ty app. But works great. I will try astro file manager. But does this mean every time I download a song I will basically have to do a copy and paste deal?
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No no! Well, I'm sure the music app supports different completed download directories. Otherwise that's gonna be your best bet but ill look into it!
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Ray_Banci said:
No no! Well, I'm sure the music app supports different completed download directories. Otherwise that's gonna be your best bet but ill look into it!
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Well I checked the music app I use. Under settings there's no selection for where the music fies are downloaded. It automatically puts it in usb storage. I'm going to have to try another music app. Thanks for the help. But I did move all the files to the external SD card. Using Astro file manager. I'd like using this music app because it has the american billboard chart I can just pick the songs rather than typing and thinking of the song or searching.
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I use that app and Your right there's no way to change the file location. Once a month I just do a cut and paste to my SD card. Its the only solution I've found.
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Usb connect to listen music in honda city

Why when i connect the usb in my car honda city it juz charge the phone?
What should i do to play the music?
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use a AUX cable!
ANy solution
johnkhor123 said:
Why when i connect the usb in my car honda city it juz charge the phone?
What should i do to play the music?
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Found any solution to this? I am also facing the same problem
johnkhor123 said:
Why when i connect the usb in my car honda city it juz charge the phone?
What should i do to play the music?
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USB port in car is for USB Flash drives only.....
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I dont think it is only for flash drive because i remember,my brother using his htc explorer to listen music using usb my guess is that the car does not support large storages,
Try moving your music to the external sdcard if this does not help buy an aux cable they are pretty cheap on ebay
ArpitAgarwal said:
I dont think it is only for flash drive because i remember,my brother using his htc explorer to listen music using usb my guess is that the car does not support large storages,
Try moving your music to the external sdcard if this does not help buy an aux cable they are pretty cheap on ebay
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Previous versions of Android had option to connect as Mass Storage. We don't have this option anymore so he can't use it as USB MP3 storage. Another issue can be multiple sc cards connected at once but not sure about that.
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djembey said:
Previous versions of Android had option to connect as Mass Storage. We don't have this option anymore so he can't use it as USB MP3 storage. Another issue can be multiple sc cards connected at once but not sure about that.
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I was really saddened to read that, so I went and tried out for myself. Apparently you can get it working.
This is, indeed, the MTP (Microsoft's "Media Transfer Protocol) vs UMS (USB Mass Storage). If you manage to get your device exposed as UMS, the car will read it. As far as i know, only the external SD card can currently be exposed as UMS on S3 (read this thread). It may be (theoretically) possible to emulate a UMS, but this sounds like hell of a task to me, i would be surprised if such a thing would exist. If it does, though - do point me to the right direction, i'll glad to read about it.
PS: Do consider simply using a flash drive. Using a UMS mode on the phone, even when available, is pretty much using your phone instead of that flash drive anyway.
DjeMBeY said:
USB port in car is for USB Flash drives only.....
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Actually when I connect my IPhone I can play and control music via usb cable but not with my android phones
Have you tried an app to enable the phone as a usb mass storage device?.
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How to get old mount settings back?

I'm on SWG 3.43 I'm having a problem connecting to my ps3. Not sure when this was changed as I haven't put anything on my system recently but as you can see in the picture these are the only options available when you click USB connected. If anybody could help I'd appreciate it.
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The Evo automatically connects as an MTP device so those options are just for if you're tethering, do the files from your SD/Flash memory automatically show up?
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I have no problem connecting my device to PC. It connects as "EVO" and I'm able to access sd card and internal storage. But I'm trying to copy data from my phone to ps3 and its not reading it. With the old mount settings I would hit mount disk drive if I remember correctly and my sd card would pop up allowing me to copy music/pics/shows etc. Now I only get these tethering settings.
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Bump. Could somebody help me out with this? Syncs fine with my computer . It used to read on my ps3 no problem now I can't figure out how to mount to the ps3. Thanks.
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Damaged usb storage

Hello,
I havr an external powered hdd which I want to connect to my phone with a usb connector the only problem is when I connect it it says damanged usb storage or blank usb storage! The file system is ntfs!
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format to fat32 or use this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paragon.mounter&hl=en
Are you using a USB-On-The-Go connection? Mine works fine with any formats. The OTG connectors cost about $4 and work well. Pretty sure there's a chip inside because the phone sees the connection even when there is nothing attached to the OTG.
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format to fat32 or use this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paragon.mounter&hl=en
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Thanks I used the app and it recognized the hdd but when I go to the plave where it was supposed to be mounted it was empty!
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