File access from locked down win xp machine - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

The situation is this: at work the computers are heavily locked down. By that I mean that you can not download and install anything, no cd rom access and no usb access. they run win xp (some of you may be too young to have heard of this)
I have recently discovered, however, that when i plug my galaxy s3 in, the pc sees it as a digital camera, and i can access every folder on the internal sd card through windows explorer. i can then transfer any file i like to the computer
This never happened on my g note, nexus s, or any other device.
Now, I can only confirm that the above works on xpower 2.5 ics custom rom. when I changed to hypergalaxy jb rom, there was no access to my phone via the pc.
Can anyone help me to understand how and why this works, and how i might use a hack to enable any usb device on such a locked down pc?
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dannstarr said:
The situation is this: at work the computers are heavily locked down. By that I mean that you can not download and install anything, no cd rom access and no usb access. they run win xp (some of you may be too young to have heard of this)
And how i might use a hack to enable any usb device on such a locked down pc?
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No since they are work computers and are supposed to be locked down attempting to hack them will just get you fired since the IT department will be watching everything or notice it the next time they need to do work on that computer so if you value your job don't attempt this.
dannstarr said:
I have recently discovered, however, that when i plug my galaxy s3 in, the pc sees it as a digital camera, and i can access every folder on the internal sd card through windows explorer. i can then transfer any file i like to the computer
This never happened on my g note, nexus s, or any other device.
Now, I can only confirm that the above works on xpower 2.5 ics custom rom. when I changed to hypergalaxy jb rom, there was no access to my phone via the pc can anyone help me to understand how and why this works.
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Some devices just need their own drivers installed before they can connect as normal USB/MTP storage devices.

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[Q] Docking after root

Hello! I just rooted my Eris yesterday and when I plug my phone into my computer it doesn’t come up on my phone and ask me how I want to dock it (it is checked to ask on the phone itself) . When I first plugged it in and it tried to install the drivers it failed. Over at developer.android.com where I got and installed SDK it said to use pda.net to install drivers, which I did. So now my computer recognizes the phone and I can push apps over however the phone still will not give me the option to mount as a drive. Is there anyway I can make it mount so I can browse files in file explorer. Thank you in advance.
i'm assuming you are on a Windows PC...
firstly, are you able to mount as storage in Recovery?
also, not sure about the pdanet method (never used it)... but i know that if you install HTC Sync it should work fine (link below).
http://www.htc.com/us/support/droid-eris-verizon/downloads/
i'm assuming you are on a Windows PC...
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Sorry, yes. Windows Vista 32bit
To be honest, I'm not sure what I did but it works now. I plugged it into my laptop to charge and it wanted to mount with no problems. I Just tried it on my PC and it also worked. Even worked with the same usb cord I used last night so that rules out a cord problem
Thanks though. I didn't even think about trying it in recovery mode. If it happens again I will see where that gets me

[Q] is Kies absolutely necessary?

Ever since i installed and used kies to connect to my device via usb (somehow i got a samsung driver before that, that connected my device perfectly) it has been absolutely useless. i'm sure i'm doing something wrong with kies, but i am so frustrated with it i just want to abandon it all together.
I just flashed CM7
at the moment i'm trying drivers I got here ( http://drivers.softpedia.com/progDo...i777-USB-Driver-for-AT-T-Download-135411.html ) But when i connect my device and open up explorer... explorer just looks like its trying to scan/search something (With progress bar over the filepath bar at the top) but I can never get into the device, it ends up crashing a bunch of crap on my PC, i get frustrated and just rip my device off the USB. this happened with the driver above and kies. i tried both.
Debugging usb is off.
ALL i want to do is connect my phone to my PC like a normal USB stick.
**EDIT** SORRY. wrong section. didnt realize till after. feel free to delete.
1) uninstall any samsung drivers you already have on your PC
2) reboot
3) install this:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11721024/_P...vers/SAMSUNG_USB_Driver_for_Mobile_Phones.exe
4) reboot
5) profit!
You dont need Kies - I dont have it and it works just fine.
Never used Kies in my life.
Also, this belongs in General until the Q&A section is created.
nyydynasty said:
1) uninstall any samsung drivers you already have on your PC
2) reboot
3) install this:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11721024/_P...vers/SAMSUNG_USB_Driver_for_Mobile_Phones.exe
4) reboot
5) profit!
You dont need Kies - I dont have it and it works just fine.
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Samsung USB Driver for Mobile Phones... is this to be used for all Galaxy S II variants including Sprint and T-Mobile? Is it just a generic driver for all of their devices?
luckyduck69 said:
Samsung USB Driver for Mobile Phones... is this to be used for all Galaxy S II variants including Sprint and T-Mobile? Is it just a generic driver for all of their devices?
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I believe it will work for any of the Samsung devices including sprint, tmobile, at&t SGS1 and SGS2
It's true that i had only but problems with kies, however if i use it with the WiFi it works fantastically...
And since most of the time I'm too lazy to plug my phone, i actually enjoy kies
I must be missing something, because when I plug the phone into Windows XP or Server 2008 R2, it mounts two drives, the internal storage and the MicroSDHC, as an E: and F: drive. No drivers needed.
ferrocene said:
I must be missing something, because when I plug the phone into Windows XP or Server 2008 R2, it mounts two drives, the internal storage and the MicroSDHC, as an E: and F: drive. No drivers needed.
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you already have the drivers installed. Its impossible for anything to work without drivers.
ferrocene said:
I must be missing something, because when I plug the phone into Windows XP or Server 2008 R2, it mounts two drives, the internal storage and the MicroSDHC, as an E: and F: drive. No drivers needed.
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The Samsung mobile drivers will allow you to eject/dismount (on the PC) the device all at once, without needing to do each volume one at a time.
I've never used Kies before. I really avoided it though. I also don't think I use the Samsung USB drivers, but instead the Google ones (Nexus S ones?). I didn't install any drivers since upgrading from my Captivate (CM7) so I assume I'm still using those. They've worked fine for Odin, mounting, etc. I'm also on CM7 again in my GS2 too.
Thread moved to General..not a Dev thread, but no need to delete either. Carry on.

Samsung Galaxy S3 not recognized (with drivers)

I have installed Samsung USB Drivers manually and also tried Kies to install the newest drivers, but my Samsung Galaxy S3 still isn't recognized by my computer. What can I do?
EDIT: It only works sometimes, so when I plug it out and in like 10 times, maybe I'm lucky and it will connect once.
Rankiz said:
I have installed Samsung USB Drivers manually and also tried Kies to install the newest drivers, but my Samsung Galaxy S3 still isn't recognized by my computer. What can I do?
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Switch off the phone.connect to PC.turn it on....it all surely get recognised...
Still don work means do a factory reset
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I have the same problem. My VSGS3 works with my W8 laptop but not my W7 desktop (at all). The only thing I can assume that it would be is MTP issues with Truecrypt (my desktop is encrypted). I cannot get it to work at all.
take a look at this thread...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1652004&page=1
dont seem like there is a solution yet.
Really???? S3 Not Recognized?
Maybe I missed something in this thread but is this really the case??? The S3 cannot be recognized as a USB storage device by Windows? I accidentally left my SD card out and now have videos I need to transfer to PC, but cannot via email or any other means I can find. Anybody have a solution? I have installed the Samsung drivers but still not recognized . . . HELP!!!
gregn said:
Maybe I missed something in this thread but is this really the case??? The S3 cannot be recognized as a USB storage device by Windows? I accidentally left my SD card out and now have videos I need to transfer to PC, but cannot via email or any other means I can find. Anybody have a solution? I have installed the Samsung drivers but still not recognized . . . HELP!!!
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No USB storage for GS3 internal memory.
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You can use MTP mode to copy the files to the computer.
The device will appear with a phone-logo in 'My Computer'
Just plug Samsung USB cable into USB port on a PC with the Samsung USB drivers installed and cut and paste as many GB as you want .SD Phone or EXT SD card via Windows Explorer as normal .
jje
This problem is quite depressing Has a restore fixed it for anyone?
I use mac OSX and after searching for a month or so, I couldnt find a solution to connect via USB. So now I use 'Air Droid' app from Play Store. Its pretty good and simple!! Plus, you can do alot more stuff like send or read SMS from PC.. Dont need to connect via USB anymore
I found that installing that rootkit installed the drivers to connect via USB - didnt root it just installed it for the drivers. THANKS!
I am having the same problem.
My Galaxy S3 charges when connected to computer via USB.
But is not detected in USB Debugging or regular mode.
Which windows version are u using. Try installing pdanet.exe on ur pc
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You must know what windows you use, 32 bit or 64 bit? Download Kies through Samsung website, make sure got right software.
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If you are using x64 Windows 7 this will EXE file can be found here:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Samsung\Kies\USB Driver\SAMSUNG_USB_Driver_for_Mobile_Phones.exe
back this up and then you can remove KIES. This is all you need to have your phone connected without ever really needing KIES.
Or you can use the driver provided by the TOOLKIT that MSKIP has designed (thanks - love it).
Cheers,
try disabling usb debugging
it worked for me
AbdallaKhalid said:
try disabling usb debugging
it worked for me
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nothing has worked for me. I have not tried the toolkit but I installed drivers from the TeamEpic's easy root as described by QBKing77 and those have not worked since I installed twrp
One more to this incredible situation :angel:
experienced the same on my win7 64 bit. I removed it on the faulty usb port to another one and then luckily the driver installation went fine. Weird but worked.
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YES!
Disabled USB Debugging and it worked!
Cheers @AbdallaKhalid

Kies problem

Hi,
I have S2 and for months i backup and sync my phone via kies to my outlook. One day I update the kies software on my computer, and since then kies on my computer doesn’t work properly.
Regardless if the phone connect to the computer or not, it doesn’t show any icons in the program window and the menu options are block except the help option, see the photo.
I tried to remove and reinstall software, even remove it from the registry, waited for new upgrades, downgrade to previous version that work well on my computer, tried to upgrade java and reinstall Silverlight but nothing fix it.
I have windows 7 64bit and Kies_2.3.3.12085_7_5 version.
What else should I do??
Thanks in advance
techpda said:
Hi,
I have S2 and for months i backup and sync my phone via kies to my outlook. One day I update the kies software on my computer, and since then kies on my computer doesn’t work properly.
Regardless if the phone connect to the computer or not, it doesn’t show any icons in the program window and the menu options are block except the help option, see the photo.
I tried to remove and reinstall software, even remove it from the registry, waited for new upgrades, downgrade to previous version that work well on my computer, tried to upgrade java and reinstall Silverlight but nothing fix it.
I have windows 7 64bit and Kies_2.3.3.12085_7_5 version.
What else should I do??
Thanks in advance
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Does your phone get detected by Windows (not Kies), i.e. can you access files on the phone using the Windows explorer?
fxrb said:
Does your phone get detected by Windows (not Kies), i.e. can you access files on the phone using the Windows explorer?
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yes i can import and export files from my computer to the phone via the explorer.
techpda said:
yes i can import and export files from my computer to the phone via the explorer.
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anybody??
techpda said:
yes i can import and export files from my computer to the phone via the explorer.
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are you using any custom rom??? When I first rooted my SG2 and started using custom rom..I can't use kies anymore...try AirDroid
HTML:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sand.airdroid&hl=en
it works for me...hope it helps
Try changing cable or USB Ports.. Since i bought i9100 my kies never recognized my device... But who cares when odin's here...
If problem not solving then maybe rom problem...
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techpda said:
yes i can import and export files from my computer to the phone via the explorer.
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Therefore USB cable, port and driver are most likely working fine. Did you try from another PC, i.e. an entirely different installation of Kies on another machine?
fxrb said:
Therefore USB cable, port and driver are most likely working fine. Did you try from another PC, i.e. an entirely different installation of Kies on another machine?
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You are right; I don’t think it related to the phone because even after new Kies installation from scratch without connecting the phone, I get at the startup window the same problem (no icons on the home window and disable options).
On another PC its work well but I need it to work well with my workstation PC at work to sync meeting & etc.
What can I change in my computer that might affect it? After all it did work well in past.
Is that so complicated issue? maybe you can refer me to another place that can handle this.
techpda said:
Is that so complicated issue? maybe you can refer me to another place that can handle this.
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I do not know how complicated the issue is. If I knew the solution I would have posted it, believe me. I tried in vain to reproduce the error you are facing.
I also do not know any better place then XDA to seek for help, but you could try to talk Samsung directly. Sorry but I'm out of ideas
Try this (KIES SGS2 connection working)
I had a big problem with getting my SGS 2 connecting to KIES. I've got repeatedly "Cannot start service ont the device" or "device not detected".
Then I tried several combinations, like:
a. connecting the phone with the SIM and SD card,
b. connecting with SIM w/o SD
c. w/o SIM and with SD
d. w/o SIM and w/o SD
Apparently KIES started to recognize my phone when SIM card was not present (as in c and d). Then I tried to connect the phone with the SIM and SD card in but the SIM was not initilized (i.e. I wasn't entering PIN). KIES recognized the phone and then I was enetring the PIN.
Everuthing worked.
I hope this helps
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[Q] Data cable connection problems.

I installed Windows XP 64 on my work computer and I can't connect properly with the data cable anymore. The computer recognizes the phone but it either thinks it's a camera or a media device, and the stupid windows default software that comes up for cameras or media devices doesn't let me just copy files from the computer to the phone's SD card like explorer. When I had XP 32 bit installed the data cable worked fine. How do I get the computer to recognize the phone as a generic device again or a gadget serial or whatever?
Try going to Samsung's website and downloading the drivers.
440bro said:
Try going to Samsung's website and downloading the drivers.
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yes I know about that.
The explorer type interface came up correctly for a Vibrant last night. I didn't think that you had to install a separate driver for every different phone. Also works with Odin.
Device manager lists a samsung android adb interface as installed correctly.
The computer makes a device connect beep when I connect the i717.
But for whatever reason, when I connect the i717, I get a choice between accessing it as a camera or a media device in windows and either gets something that limits me to the DCIM folder or windows media player and neither one lets me put roms on the card. this looks like some kind of windows thing.

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