i tried mounting ext sdcard in mounts/storage but the disk drive did not pop up on my mac's desktop. Does the S3 allow you to toggle USB in recovery? I think it would be a very important feature, especially if you can only boot into recovery.
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i tried mounting ext sdcard in mounts/storage but the disk drive did not pop up on my mac's desktop. Does the S3 allow you to toggle USB in recovery? I think it would be a very important feature, especially if you can only boot into recovery.
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You do not have a USB mount option in sgs3..you have a mtp transfer protocol..look for devices under the attached devices option in your pc ..
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im not too fond about the mtp/ptp feature on the s3. atleast allow the disk drive feature in recovery. if recovery was the only option after a bad rom flash. for example bootloop, u can put in a new rom flash file into the sdcard thru recovery.
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swift2fly said:
im not too fond about the mtp/ptp feature on the s3. atleast allow the disk drive feature in recovery. if recovery was the only option after a bad rom flash. for example bootloop, u can put in a new rom flash file into the sdcard thru recovery.
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Or you can just adb push it through recovery, just as easy!
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atleast allow the disk drive feature in recovery.
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The feature not being there is not based on some sort of sadism but technological constraints.
The internal storage is one big block, so you'd mount access to the phone's system partition too. However that is only a minor problem compared to the issue that the phone uses the Linux-filesystem EXT4 which neither OsX/BSD nor Windows are capable to access.
For the external storage, it's possible if the corresponding features exist in the kernel, Easy UMS is such an application.
I reckon you can do it manually though the based shell commands (I published them somewhere here, Easy UMS links to the thread)
if you want mass storage in recovery.
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All the pictures which i captured from my S3 were stored in the internal memory of my phone. But unfortunately those pics got deleted.. and now when i tried to recover those pics i have a problem. I downloaded an app to enable Mass Storage Mode, it does not work on internal memory and it seems to be only for an external microsd… I really need to enable mass storage mode on the internal card so I can run a file recovery utility to restore deleted photos.. How can i recover this? pls help....
I'm stuck in a similar boat. Even on rooted CM10, I can't get USB mode. And there is currently a bug where it won't work in recovery either. I thought this would be a really simple thing, and it still boggles my mind why it is even removed as an option.
Connect phone to PC use Windows Explorer to open phone and sd card .
jje
darshanmc said:
All the pictures which i captured from my S3 were stored in the internal memory of my phone. But unfortunately those pics got deleted.. and now when i tried to recover those pics i have a problem. I downloaded an app to enable Mass Storage Mode, it does not work on internal memory and it seems to be only for an external microsd… I really need to enable mass storage mode on the internal card so I can run a file recovery utility to restore deleted photos.. How can i recover this? pls help....
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stephendt0 said:
I'm stuck in a similar boat. Even on rooted CM10, I can't get USB mode. And there is currently a bug where it won't work in recovery either. I thought this would be a really simple thing, and it still boggles my mind why it is even removed as an option.
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The answer is that you can't enable mass storage / UMC on the Galaxy S3, because the internal sdcard is not an independent partition, is just a subfolder of the data partition, unlike older devices like Galaxy S2.
You have to use phone side applications which are more limited of course.
Read this for further understanding:
[GUIDE] MTP and PTP (Media Transfer Protocol) vs UMC (Mass Storage Class)
Check here too:
[Q] How to view all sdcard files and folder from the computer, hidden & system too?
You may try some android photo recovery software, follow this step by step guide: android phone photo recovery
hope this helps you get back deleted photos from samsung galaxy S3 phone.
christinamoyu said:
thanks for the info. looks like no way to enable mass storage for latest android.
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No, but to recover files, see General > Sticky roll-up thread > S3 storage data recovery
christinamoyu said:
thanks for the info. looks like no way to enable mass storage for latest android.
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You can, if you use DriveDroid, however the mass storage mode is limited to the file you select as virtual drive.
I can only get MTP to work on Windows 7, installed LG drivers, tried all USB modes.
How can I connect the device as simple external storage device?
BTW rooted and unlocked, The Base 0.7.3
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Adir544 said:
I can only get MTP to work on Windows 7, installed LG drivers, tried all USB modes.
How can I connect the device as simple external storage device?
BTW rooted and unlocked, The Base 0.7.3
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i am on a Mac and could'nt get it either, but I used "Android File Transfer", It worked for Mac I think they have it for windows also.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think its possible with stock ROM, not even sure if current crop of custom ROMs supports it.
Yeah I'm pretty sure mtp is the only officially supported mode of transfer. Unless of course there's a third party app that does the trick, or if its a kernel thing.
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Yeah I'm pretty sure mtp is the only officially supported mode of transfer. Unless of course there's a third party app that does the trick, or if its a kernel thing.
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Yes, USB Mass Storage is not supported on this device. The problem with USB mass storage is that you have to unmount sdcard in phone to allow mounting it on your PC.
Internal sdcard(/sdcard) on this device is actually located in /data partition (/data/media/0) and is emulated as /sdcard so it cannot be shared with PC using USB Mass Storage protocol.
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Yes, USB Mass Storage is not supported on this device. The problem with USB mass storage is that you have to unmount sdcard in phone to allow mounting it on your PC.
Internal sdcard(/sdcard) on this device is actually located in /data partition (/data/media/0) and is emulated as /sdcard so it cannot be shared with PC using USB Mass Storage protocol.
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Is it a problem to unmount and share the sdcard2(external as card)?
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UMS 100% works on our phones just install any terminal emulator from the Google Play Store. I spent a long time with everyone not having a single clue.
SIMPLY TYPE THE BELOW TEXT IN TERMINAL EMULATOR AND YOUR GOLDEN... UMS works great but has some issues, though the issues are more with the phone than UMS. It also ONLY works on External MicroSD cards.
su
setprop persist.sys.usb.config mass_storage,adb
Just a nano bump from above edited post. It's works just fine with UMS. I found though MTP seemed to be the proper option. Because of the insanity partition configuration on this phone UMS just didn't suit too well with roms and what not.
Hi everyone
I was dumb and didn't back up but wiped my system.
I'm now in twrp but i dont have a rom to flash and my device obviously wont turn on is there anything i can do?
thanks
918273645ams said:
Hi everyone
I was dumb and didn't back up but wiped my system.
I'm now in twrp but i dont have a rom to flash and my device obviously wont turn on is there anything i can do?
thanks
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Go into TWRP and adb push a rom.
There is also USB storage under mounts.
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can someone tell me how i can push a file in adb
You could always go back to stock ATT firmware. Download the LGNPST and the firmware and then put your phone into download mode and flash it. This will overwrite your recovery with stock stuff but at least you will have something running so you can start over.
shoemocker said:
You could always go back to stock ATT firmware. Download the LGNPST and the firmware and then put your phone into download mode and flash it. This will overwrite your recovery with stock stuff but at least you will have something running so you can start over.
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I was looking into that but adb seems a lot easier. just push a rom onto the phone and flash it right there. Ill see how that works out
918273645ams said:
I was looking into that but adb seems a lot easier. just push a rom onto the phone and flash it right there. Ill see how that works out
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adb push c:\example.apk /sdcard/example.apk
If you have an OTG cable you can also load a ROM onto a USB flash drive and connect it to your phone via the OTG cable. TWRP will need to be set to "External SD" in order to see it. I had to do that with my Nexus 7 when I did something similar.
Edit: Duh, I'm an idiot. It would be far easier to unmount your microSD card with TWRP, take it out of your phone, put it in a SD adapter, then load the ROM to the card from your PC, put it back in your phone, remount it in TWRP and then set it to "External SD" to flash the ROM. Provided you don't have an OTG cable, but do have a SD adapter.
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If you have an OTG cable you can also load a ROM onto a USB flash drive and connect it to your phone via the OTG cable. TWRP will need to be set to "External SD" in order to see it. I had to do that with my Nexus 7 when I did something similar.
Edit: Duh, I'm an idiot. It would be far easier to unmount your microSD card with TWRP, take it out of your phone, put it in a SD adapter, then load the ROM to the card from your PC, put it back in your phone, remount it in TWRP and then set it to "External SD" to flash the ROM. Provided you don't have an OTG cable, but do have a SD adapter.
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can someone tell me exactly how to sideload using TWRP? I can't seem to get it.
I didn't think that otg worked on our phones....what cord are you using?
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Dr0!dFreek said:
I didn't think that otg worked on our phones....what cord are you using?
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Im using the cord that came with the phone. Trying to push a rom to it while in twrp.. theres a sideload mode but i cant get it to work. I tried adb push Rom.zip /sdcard/rom.zip
and pressed enter and its just sitting there now
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Im using the cord that came with the phone. Trying to push a rom to it while in twrp.. theres a sideload mode but i cant get it to work. I tried adb push Rom.zip /sdcard/rom.zip
and pressed enter and its just sitting there now
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Dude, all you have to do is mount your storage, download which ever Rom u want on your computer and transfer it to your phone. Then do the wipes and flash the rom.
i did that once, thats y i keep copies of my fave roms on my extSD, twrp can read from the extSD and flash from that. i've done nocturnal and slick from flashed from my extSD not internal and it worked just fine, if u prefer tho twrp can copy the file to the internal storage and u can flash that. if u dont have any roms on ur extSD just plug that into the comp and copy a rom to it then restart in recovery and flash away...same idea as baron but using the extSD instead of mounting storage and plugging the phone into the computer
Sitting here in TWRP and can't for the life of me find out how to mount the storage for copying ROM's over. Is this something I have to do in the OS? Can I not mount anything within TWRP?
AndroidVageta said:
Sitting here in TWRP and can't for the life of me find out how to mount the storage for copying ROM's over. Is this something I have to do in the OS? Can I not mount anything within TWRP?
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Twrp auto mounts your sdcard, just browse to where you want to go when you go to install, otherwise hit Mount and select what you want mounted.
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pio_masaki said:
Twrp auto mounts your sdcard, just browse to where you want to go when you go to install, otherwise hit Mount and select what you want mounted.
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I do this! OK, I have the USB plugged in...go to Mount and it says "Select Partition to Mount". Cache and Data are selected. Nothing happens.
I check System and nothing happens.
USB OTG can't be checked and when I tap "Storage: Internal Storage (8545 MB)" it gives me "Internal Storage" and "USB-OTG"...again can't select USB-OTG.
I really can't do anything, Mount is completely useless to me. My PC recognizes that something is plugged in (get the connect/disconnect sound) but nothing pops up as far as storage and all that goes.
Soooo...anymore ideas? Am I missing something?
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I do this! OK, I have the USB plugged in...go to Mount and it says "Select Partition to Mount". Cache and Data are selected. Nothing happens.
I check System and nothing happens.
USB OTG can't be checked and when I tap "Storage: Internal Storage (8545 MB)" it gives me "Internal Storage" and "USB-OTG"...again can't select USB-OTG.
I really can't do anything, Mount is completely useless to me. My PC recognizes that something is plugged in (get the connect/disconnect sound) but nothing pops up as far as storage and all that goes.
Soooo...anymore ideas? Am I missing something?
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Sounds like you're trying to use your PC as a USB device? Not the way it works, that's for USB flash drive type devices, not pulling stuff from your PC. Either place the ROM on the SD card, use a USB drive on an OTG cable, or use adb sideload while connected to the oc to flash from the PC storage instead of the SD card.
Putting the ROM on the SD card will probably be best.
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OOOOOOOK...so direct connection isn't possible? Got OTG to work with my OTG cable and flash drive. Worked perfectly. Not as convenient but it works. Thanks!
AndroidVageta said:
OOOOOOOK...so direct connection isn't possible? Got OTG to work with my OTG cable and flash drive. Worked perfectly. Not as convenient but it works. Thanks!
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You can do adb sideload from the PC for a direct connection.
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Meh, which ever works. Either way I got the problem solved, thanks to you!
I really love how easy it is to use TWRP with an OTG USB drive. Makes backing up and flashing very nice on a phone with limited storage.
I think he was saying he wanted to copy from his PC to internal storage while he was on TWRP...
Yes?
Phaded said:
I think he was saying he wanted to copy from his PC to internal storage while he was on TWRP...
Yes?
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That's what I was thinkin...
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Hey,
I was dumb and wiped my internal storage. I can boot into Recovery and into Fastboot, but I don`t Know, how to flash a rom now. Please help me!!!
And no, I don't have a SD card.
Thanks
IchBinNoob said:
Hey,
I was dumb and wiped my internal storage. I can boot into Recovery and into Fastboot, but I don`t Know, how to flash a rom now. Please help me!!!
And no, I don't have a SD card.
Thanks
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U can use a USB OTG or SD with the stock rom or u can push the zip via adb and flash via recovery.
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Funk Wizard said:
U can use a USB OTG or SD with the stock rom or u can push the zip via adb and flash via recovery.
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Thanks, but I am not able to activate adb in TWRP (it error) and I don't have an USB OTG cable. Waiting for other answers...
IchBinNoob said:
Thanks, but I am not able to activate adb in TWRP (it error) and I don't have an USB OTG cable. Waiting for other answers...
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Whats the error ? adb will work with adb sideload! Try blu spark's TWRP! @IchBinNoob
Just put a rom in an SD card and put it in your phone. flash it then
IchBinNoob said:
Thanks, but I am not able to activate adb in TWRP (it error) and I don't have an USB OTG cable. Waiting for other answers...
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There may be other answers but there is no other way.
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Hakim Farouk said:
Just put a rom in an SD card and put it in your phone. flash it then
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I writed it in my question, I don't have a sd card
TheDj408 said:
Whats the error ? adb will work with adb sideload! Try blu spark's TWRP! @IchBinNoob
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I have Blu sparks recovery, if I start the adb sideload there just stands, that is ist starting, and after a few minutes there appears that it has errored.
IchBinNoob said:
I writed it in my question, I don't have a sd card
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borrow it from someone for abit. sd card is easy to come by. cause if you can't do adb, there's really no other way to flash your rom in then via otg or sd.
Hakim Farouk said:
borrow it from someone for abit. sd card is easy to come by. cause if you can't do adb, there's really no other way to flash your rom in then via otg or sd.
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Ok. But how do I put a SD card of this size in my Computer? (If I would borrow one)
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Ok. But how do I put a SD card of this size in my Computer? (If I would borrow one)
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omg, are you serious.. you can use an adapter. If they don't have an adapter, just put the sd card into some other phone, and connect that other phone via usb to your pc and transfer the rom
TheDj408 said:
Whats the error ? adb will work with adb sideload! Try blu spark's TWRP! @IchBinNoob
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So... I don't even know, if I use ADB right. I use it in this way:
I boot into recovery - Open ADB on Computer - Plug my phone into the computer - Tap in the recovery ADB sideload - Its loading, loading... While its loading I check, if my ADB on my computer finds my phone (adb devices), it don't find it - my phone displays after a few minutes a red error (just one word, error)
So, am I doing right? Please correct me, if I doing sth wrong. Thanks
If you have TWRP then you should be able to connect your phone to PC via usb and transfer data on internal storage via MTP.
Hey,
All u need is a little work, firstly I would recommend you to buy 1 sdcard as it's so cheap and easy to get rather than borrowing it from friend, as u may need it again sooner or later.
Second, after u plug in usb cable to pc, please check whether your pc has installed right adb driver for your device or it wont work for adb sideload command.
Third, ensure you have the right rom for your device, I assume you have it downloaded into your pc. Just open the adb terminal and type adb sideload filename.zip . and it will automatically start installation process.
Dont forget to make a full nandroid backup at least once and save it in Sdcard or cloud storage for emergency case like one you're facing now.
Good luck buddy [emoji1]
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RidzVarn said:
Hey,
All u need is a little work, firstly I would recommend you to buy 1 sdcard as it's so cheap and easy to get rather than borrowing it from friend, as u may need it again sooner or later.
Second, after u plug in usb cable to pc, please check whether your pc has installed right adb driver for your device or it wont work for adb sideload command.
Third, ensure you have the right rom for your device, I assume you have it downloaded into your pc. Just open the adb terminal and type adb sideload filename.zip . and it will automatically start installation process.
Dont forget to make a full nandroid backup at least once and save it in Sdcard or cloud storage for emergency case like one you're facing now.
Good luck buddy [emoji1]
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Thanks I try it now
IchBinNoob said:
Thanks I try it now
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hell.... @IchBinNoob ...
Are you serious? go to some electroic store (mediamarkt, saturn, euronics,...) and get some sd-card.... dude that sh*t costs not more then 10€...
raulx222 said:
If you have TWRP then you should be able to connect your phone to PC via usb and transfer data on internal storage via MTP.
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Hey, I am not a noob, but I too accidentally deleted my internal memory of samsung SM-N750. I am quite experienced in using odin and flashing kernels etc. But I am stupidly impatient. Today I performed a nandroid backup, then went ahead and wiped off ALL DATA except sd card! It was cuz of lack of awareness and shortage of time. I am preparing for my college exams, suddenly xposed framework caused repeated bootloops, so I decided to perform a proper rom installation, root and xposed right from scratch.
Anyways, I easily installed the lollipop rom via odin, rooted it and everything's peachy.
Is there any way of recovering that nandroid backup zip file, which was on the internal storage? In short, Does twrp perform a full wipe or quick wipe of storage?
I tried using an app "undeleter" but it didn't find any such (around 4gb) zip file in the internal storage. Any other android or windows based apps?
I don't stand to lose too much, just that I would have to install all apps and settings etc which will waste a lot of time.
@arya809
I believe that big files are harder to recover. There's an app called DiskDigger but to recover .zip files you need the pro version which is paid and it can't guarantee that you will recover your file. I do not know any other app that might help you (there are many apps for windows but I can't recommend a particular one since I haven't used any).
If you didn't lost important data I will recommend to install them manually. You can use your PC and install the desired apps directly from http://play.google.com/ (it might be slightly faster to find and install them).
Boot up the recovery, plug it into your computer, your device should show up in the file manager, copy the ROM to the device, and then flash it
IchBinNoob said:
Ok. But how do I put a SD card of this size in my Computer? (If I would borrow one)
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There is a device called card reader(some wizard from hogwarts invented it) which will help you to copy data to sd card from your computer
And did you tried mount option in twrp???
In twrp first click mount internal storage the connect it with usb cable it will show storage on your device then copy the rom to it.
Sorry for bad english