Hi,
sorry for stupid question, but, Is it possible to connect my S2 currently running CM10 (05102012) to PC as a mass storage? MTP seems to be very slow and I basically dont like it, I cant even format internal or external sd card throught PC, please help
littlejohn25 said:
Hi,
sorry for stupid question, but, Is it possible to connect my S2 currently running CM10 (05102012) to PC as a mass storage? MTP seems to be very slow and I basically dont like it, I cant even format internal or external sd card throught PC, please help
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Yes. It's possible to connect your phone as Mass storage.
Goto Settings > Storage > Press menu button, Select USB computer connection > enable mass storage
done.
su
setprop persist.sys.usb.config mass_storage,adb
reboot
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Hi guys,
I have had an Atrix since a few months, and everything has been working fine. However, since the last few days when I connect the phone to my computer over USB, the external 16 Gig SD card shows up as a drive, but when I click on the other drive which is supposed to be the internal SD card, it says "Please insert a disk into Removable Disk (D" in Windows.
Phone: Sim-unlocked AT&T Atrix, rooted, Gingerblur 4.5
Computer: Windows 7 (x64) with drivers installed
It has worked many many times in the past, and I haven't made any recent changes to the phone which are related to this in any way.
I have tried:
1. Changing USB connection mode between all 4 options, include USB Mass Storage
2. Restarting the computer
3. Restarting the phone
4. Switching on/off USB Debugging mode
5. Manually unmounting the "Settings" -> "SD card & phone storage settings" -> "Unmount internal phone storage"
6. Reinstalling the drivers - got it from here because the gitbrew link seems down
In fact I am able to view both /sdcard and /sdcard-ext using Root Explorer on the phone, so I don't think the internal memory is corrupt in anyway.
I've searched both xda and atrixforums, but not found a working answer to it.
Any suggestions? This is very frustrating.
Regards,
Varun
My phone has done this on occasion but a phone reboot fixed it.
Tried many reboots, but not working. Are there any filesystem integrity checks I could do via adb?
varunj said:
5. Manually unmounting the "Settings" -> "SD card & phone storage settings" -> "Unmount internal phone storage"
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This may seem a silly question, but you don't mention doing it. Did you mount the internal sdcard after you unmounted it? Did you unmount while connected to your computer or when not connected?
Were you accessing your internal sdcard with any apps, or did you have it open in root explorer for example when you connected it to your computer? This can mess up the umounting procedure when you plug into USB.
Have you tried on another computer?
I just unlocked my bootloader and now I cant access my internal phone storage.
Its says: Internal phone storage is in USB mass storage mode. Please exit this mode to access internal phone storage.
Any advice? Its not plugged into the usb. I have restarted the phone. I pulled the battery and everything. When I go to file and click on internal phone storage I get the message above. I can access my sd card.
Thinking about just SBF'ing 1.8.3 and see what happens.
Why thats a really embarrassing question to ask man!
Any way go to settings then storage and mount internal storage
Mine first this too.
Plug it into a computer and pull down the notification bar and select mount then none.
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XLR88 said:
Why thats a really embarrassing question to ask man!
Any way go to settings then storage and mount internal storage
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Thank you so much for your help. I had no clue about that Thanx again buddy.
I updated from ICS resurrection remix 1.7 to 1.8.1 and now y pc doesnt recognize my external SD card, how can i make it appear when i open USB mass storage mode ?
Also photo gallery doesnt recognize my photos even though they are on the internal SD card
Thanks beforehand
jmolina92 said:
I updated from ICS resurrection remix 1.7 to 1.8.1 and now y pc doesnt recognize my external SD card, how can i make it appear when i open USB mass storage mode ?
Also photo gallery doesnt recognize my photos even though they are on the internal SD card
Thanks beforehand
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instead of USB mass storage mode select MTP under systemsettings>storeage press soft menu key and select USB computer connection and check Media device(MTP) know u see both on ur pc
also in the same select storage configuration and check use internal storage
alternate for gallery u can use Quickpik app from stores it wrks gr8
Sun90 said:
instead of USB mass storage mode select MTP under systemsettings>storeage press soft menu key and select USB computer connection and check Media device(MTP) know u see both on ur pc
also in the same select storage configuration and check use internal storage
alternate for gallery u can use Quickpik app from stores it wrks gr8
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Now i see internal storage and external storage but when i open them, there seems that there are no files, also camera doesnt show where preview of the pics i take :S
I have the same problem. I can't access the internal SD (i don't have an external SD card).
I came from lightening ROM 2.7 and did factory reset and all the wipes before flashing Resurrection Remix v1.8.1. I allready flashed siyah kernel 3.1.2 from my internal SD (So SD is recognized in recovery but not in working mode)
Is there a solution?
How to change between the internal storage
Infernuts said:
I have the same problem. I can't access the internal SD (i don't have an external SD card).
I came from lightening ROM 2.7 and did factory reset and all the wipes before flashing Resurrection Remix v1.8.1. I allready flashed siyah kernel 3.1.2 from my internal SD (So SD is recognized in recovery but not in working mode)
Is there a solution?
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Go to settings-Storage-left softbutton-storage configuration-select use internal storage
Hope it works
I've installed the newest RR rom today and everything worked like a charm but suddenly I realized that my usb storage and external sd aren't mounting correctly. When I try to download something in the browser my phone says you need a usb storage to download stuff. And when I open the gallery it says no external storage available and it closes. When I go to settings > storage and click Mount USB-Storage it starts to mount and then suddenly it disappears. Also it doesn't work to connect my usb storage to my pc.
I tried nearly everything even in recovery mode my phone can't mount the storage or sd card but funny fact: I can access my storage via recovery mode > install zip from sd card > choose zip from internal sdcard and boom everything is there.
WTF is going on!
Does anyone know what is going on and even better how could I solve it?
Thanks and regards Lukas.
I've tested both CM v10.1 and ARHD v18.
Neither has a "plain USB storage mode" for the internal/external storage.
I mean, I would expect the phone to behave like a "usual" USB memory stick when plugged into my PC.
Instead I only get MTP and PTP modes which don't work well with my Linux boxes (my house has no windows at all!)
Any advice?
Uqbar said:
I've tested both CM v10.1 and ARHD v18.
Neither has a "plain USB storage mode" for the internal/external storage.
I mean, I would expect the phone to behave like a "usual" USB memory stick when plugged into my PC.
Instead I only get MTP and PTP modes which don't work well with my Linux boxes (my house has no windows at all!)
Any advice?
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Theres currently no way to use the internal memory as a USB device since it uses the MTP protocol.
However you can use your external SD as a usb device using SGS3 Easy UMS. Check here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1711009
Search on Google, it's a design of jelly bean, decided by Google, to secure internal emmc and to be able to use dynamically all the internal space for data. Internal sdcard is in fact a folder in data folder virtually mounted as a device by android os. On the contrary before that internal sdcard was a separate partition.
That explain why it can't be mounted as usb mass storage, which is only possible with plain partitions.
There are ways to bypass it either with the above mentioned app, either with a tweaked kernel.
While I can understand the limitation for the internal storage, I don't really get the point with the external storage.
The limit just makes things harder: I could eject the uSD and push it into a reader...
By the way, which kernel supports USB storage mode for whatever storage?
I run cm 9 / cm 10.1 .
Thanks.
You can use Easy UMS to mount the external card in mass storage mode
Yes. But why needing an extra app when it is a built-in feature with other (cheaper) phones and ROM?
Why, if the recovery (PhilZ Touch 3) CAN DO IT?
This was my original question, though.