I have a 4gig thumbdrive I tote around with a persistent version of ubuntu and some other utilities, like ultimate boot cd. Since I always have my phone, I figured why not just use it instead of carrying the thumbdrive.
I have been trying to install the boot installer on my phone's sd card so I could just boot a PC with the phone. The trouble is that if I install the thumbdrive boot files on the external micro sd card there seems to be no way to boot a pc from that drive. If you goto disk drive mode and boot the PC, it only wants to boot to the first USB device, i.e. the internal SD card. I tried the multimount usb app, but that did not help in mounting just the external SD card.
I have installed the boot files on the internal SD card and successfully booted the PC with it, but once the phone is restarted it decides there is something wrong with the internal SD card and it reformats it.
Has anyone tried to use their phone as their PC boot thumbdrive?
I have tried the YUMI and the old fashion single boot on pendrivelinux.com. It matters not whether I select persistent mode.
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I'm running boot manager. WHen I trying to access the sd card, my laptop doesn't recognize the TB. The drive shows up, but I'm not able to access the sd card. What is the process for accessing my sd card via boot manager?
Thanks in advance...
Edit... Found the solution. Under boot manager settings, there's an option to mount sd card automatically when connected via USB. That did the trick. Hope this helps!!
Hi, I've installed CM7 on my SD card so that when I switch on my NT16 with the SD card it boots to CM7 and Android 3.7.3. I've extended the 4th partition on the SD card to make use of the card's full capacity but I can't seem to put any files onto this partition.
When I explore the SD card it just shows less than 200MB. When I connect the NT16 with the SD card to my laptop it shows two removable disks but when I click either it says to insert a removable disk.
Any ideas as to how I can put files onto my SD card?
Gotta put it into USB mode.
Only way I know how on my 8GB NT is to:
1) Boot from the CM7 SD card.
2) Once running CM7, connect cable to PC.
3) Android bot will appear on screen with a button that you can click to get it into USB mode.
4) Only after you click will both drives (internal and SD card) appear on the PC.
i tried the sdcard way for roms but i just can't wrap my head around how to get to the fourth partition while using the rom. if u browse to it using a file explorer like root explorer it will only display the rom partition rather than the user data partition.
so the question is: how to get the user data partition to show while using the rom...
Thank you!
When I connect my stock Note 2 to my Windows 7 computer, via any usb cable, my installed 64gb sd card momentarily is reported on my computer as a standard usb drive, however moments later this notification goes away and the phone re-connects as a MTP media device with "directories" Card & Phone. While I can access the files on the phone's internal memory and the sd card in this manner, I cannot map the sd card directories as a drive letter like I have on every other cell phone sd card I have ever owned.
How do I cuase the sd card in the Note 2 to act as a normal usb flash drive?
Ok so I wiped and formatted my SD Card to FAT32. I am in the reboot/recovery screen of my android with ClockworkMod and I noticed when I turned on USB Mass Storage, the SD Card is readable but there is nothing on it now. Is there any important files I am going to need to put on the SD Card for my android to function correctly on start up/running? Or will my android automatically put the correct files on the SD Card on boot? Haven't tried booting it yet lol..don't want to screw it up.
Skrail211 said:
Ok so I wiped and formatted my SD Card to FAT32. I am in the reboot/recovery screen of my android with ClockworkMod and I noticed when I turned on USB Mass Storage, the SD Card is readable but there is nothing on it now. Is there any important files I am going to need to put on the SD Card for my android to function correctly on start up/running? Or will my android automatically put the correct files on the SD Card on boot? Haven't tried booting it yet lol..don't want to screw it up.
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There is no need for an external SD card to boot into the OS. You can start your system without the card or with the card erased or w/e. Good luck .
Hi. I have an old i9100 and I am trying to update it. Its running the old 2.3.3. Im trying to odin it to stock 4.1.2. My laptop does not recognize the device. When I plug it into USB, it charges the device, but does not mount USB storage. I tried other USB ports and other cables. I even tried to other computers. Why does it only charge my device but not mount USB storage
secondly. I put the .zip file for 4.1.2. onto an SD card. I put the SD card in and booted into recovery. Recovery mode wont find my sd card. I went to external_sd and its empty. It shows nothing. However when I boot the phone normally and go into the OS and go into my files it shows the sd card perfectly fine and all its files.
Any idea how to solve these 2 problems????