I've mounted it just fine, but it's just that I can't read folders that are hidden with the periods in their names, like "/.Music". Any reason why?
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Whenever I do a USB file transfer to my phone, Windows complains that there may be a problem with some files and offers to scan and fix the device. Should I let it, or just keep ignoring it?
Running CM7 on the phone and Windows7 on the pc, but it's been doing this for a while, even back on CommRom.
The reason it does that's is because either a) thereis a problem with the SD catftot b) you ate not ejecting it properly from your computer whenever you connect your phone to the PC. Most of the time the latter is the issue. You should let it run but also eject your device properly so you don't mess it up later
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The reason it does that's is because either a) thereis a problem with the SD catftot b) you ate not ejecting it properly from your computer whenever you connect your phone to the PC. Most of the time the latter is the issue. You should let it run but also eject your device properly so you don't mess it up later
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So I learned a very interesting tidbit about a year ago. The problem with flash memory is that if the power is disconnected during a WRITE operation, it will kill it (almost definitely). However, if you are only doing a READ operation (copy from device to computer, reading a TXT file, etc), then it is safe to pull the drive at any time.
The long and short of it is that After you have copied files to your phone, Windows continues to write excess data in the background, even after the file transfer dialog has gone away. And on my old mp3 player (Cowon S9) this led to many tears for a lot of people.
So always always always tell your family members who don't know the difference b/t WRITE and READ to simply ALWAYS "safely remove" their flash media.
Thanks folx, I'll let Windows have its way with the card next time it wants to.
I am running Task's AOKP Build 6.3.2012. I had this same issue on build 37 as well.
I've noticed that when I connect my phone to the computer and turn on usb storage, my notification sounds and ringtones "reset".
Example: I have my wife's ringtone set to Timmy (from South Park). After I connect the usb cable and turn on usb storage, her ring tone shows "unknown". Same with any of my alarms, default notifications and ringtones...I haven't always had this problem. For me, it started with build 37. I've been on a couple other releases of this rom before 37, but I can't remember which ones.
All of the sounds that I'm using are on my microSD, in the /media/audio/ directory. From there I have Alarms, Ringtones, and Notification directories. I've gone for a while without connecting the phone to my computer, and everything is fine, until I turn on usb storage.
I seem to remember reading a while back about emmc(internal storage) and sdcard (microSD) being reversed, but I can't seem to locate that thread again. The reason I mention it, when I'm using root explorer and open the emmc directory, I'm looking at my micosd card, and when I open sdcard, I'm looking at the internal phone memory.
If you've stored your RT's and notifications on your ext-sd it'll reset every time you unmount your ext-sd.
Moving them to internal memory usually solves the issue.
Cool thanks. Not sure why I didn't think of trying that, but I will when I get home.
After re-reading my post, I want to make it clear that I'm not blaming task or his rom at all. This is clearly something I have done incorrectly, just didn't know how to fix it (or I did, just didn't think before I typed )
Okay, so this seems like it will be hard to explain..
When I connect my prime to my computer to transfer files or whatever, it totally becomes unresponsive when navigating/moving files. One minute I can easily browse to lets say.. The camera folder on my prime, then try and refresh or move a folder out of it, it will take forever to actually do anything, like if I refresh it will search for files and not actually finish and find any, even though I was looking at them a minute ago.
I tried to move a video file to an SD card on my prime and left it for about 10 minutes, the bar didnt move at all so I cancelled it and tried to refresh the folder, and nothing is coming up, just a blank folder with a loading bar at the top.
Anyone else get this problem?
It's related to Prime's slow read and write speed. It's normal behavior for devices that use cheap components.
Are you sure that the files aren't on a storage media that unmounts when you connect the prime via USB. Like for example connecting a device as disk drive to the computer, it firsts unmounts the external sd card from prime then mounts via USB and when you eject it from the USB cable it says preparing storage?
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I have strange problem. After connecting my razr to PC, there is a 50% chance that my music will disappear from SD card. That happened again today. Is this some bug in app or in firmware?
Music sync is disabled in MDM, and nothing else will disappear from the memory card. 2.3.6 nonefigsretail
Do you mean that your music player no longer sees any music? Or you've used a file explorer to browse the files on your Razr and the music files are actually gone?
Is the USB Connection set to "mass storage" or Media Device? If it's mass storage, then you won't have access to the internal nor external SD card within your phone until you disconnect or switch to media device.
I've noticed with Media Device, things are not always available. For example, if I go into the phone directly while connected to my PC and I delete files, it won't show up in windows explorer unless I disconnect and connect back. I believe it has to do with the synching not having completed yet.
I guess when you mean "disappear" do you mean it's physically deleted from your phone where it's not there anymore after you disconnect?
Player see only empty info, that there are all albums, but music catalog is empty.
No, all the music simply disappearing from the card. Before connecting the phone to the computer, I checked the contents of the folder with the music and there were 4 GB of data. Connection option was set as "charge only", but somehow my computer sees it and run MDM. After checking is there maybe ICS (yeah, right) and removing from PC the entire contents disappeared.
Ed. Ok, ICS leak installed, so I think the problem is solved in some way.
Hi everybody,
I am currently running stock, and, surprise surprise, have run into a problem. My SD card seems to work fine, I can pop it into my computer via an adapter and use it just like a USB stick. It doesn't have any issues on my phone, either.
Trying to access it from my computer while it is in my phone, however, is another ballgame. With it in camera or media mode, it can read the file structure fine, but it has a really hard time with files. Moving PDFs or images to or from the device is spotty and frustrating - many times it just says the folder is busy, or it freezes, or stops reading files and says the images are broken (they are not).
I don't get why this is happening, since all of the hardware seems to be fine. Any ideas?
Thanks,
-Andrew