Hi
I just bought my device and I already have a problem with it, or maybe there's no problem and I need to buy an SD card
When I try downloading an attachment from gmail it says "Couldn't download", when I try downloading anything from the internet it says I don't have an SD card installed. Same with dropbox.
Can't I use the phone's internal storage for these downloads or is it necessary to buy an external sd card ?
Thank you
nothing wrong with the phone
When you connect the phone to a computer choosing diskdrive, the phone can't use any of it's storage. You can still download from Google Play and install new apps though (weird but yea). Nothing wrong with your phone. Just disconnect the usb cable and downloading from gmail or dropbox will work.
infernal77 said:
When you connect the phone to a computer choosing diskdrive, the phone can't use any of it's storage. You can still download from Google Play and install new apps though (weird but yea). Nothing wrong with your phone. Just disconnect the usb cable and downloading from gmail or dropbox will work.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
this happens all the time ( including when the phone's not connected to the computer )
alexzlx said:
this happens all the time ( including when the phone's not connected to the computer )
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That would mean you need an SD-card, lol ... had one from the beginning and didn't test it now without, sorry Once you do have one though, that's how it works.
Related
guys, big issue here
On my wife's phone, she tried to take a picture and all of the sudden she got an error "sd card is being used as mass storage". now she cannot locate any of her files on the internal storage. as a matter of fact she doesn't have sd card. I checked under settings > storage and all I see is usb storage avaiable & used is at 11.50 gb.
also all backups are gone
can anyone help?
That happens when the phone is connected to your PC, if the PC is using it then you can't see it on your phone.
1. Make sure you aren't connected to your PC via USB.
2. Reboot the phone.
3. If still no joy then try a factory reset (there are probably other ways to fix this, but this is the simplest and noob friendliest way)
Bynar010 said:
That happens when the phone is connected to your PC, if the PC is using it then you can't see it on your phone.
1. Make sure you aren't connected to your PC via USB.
2. Reboot the phone.
3. If still no joy then try a factory reset (there are probably other ways to fix this, but this is the simplest and noob friendliest way)
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
That solution worked perfectly for me (reboot). Thanks.
When plugging my S3 with USB it only says its a portable mediaplayer and does not show whats on my SD-card, Please help!
the fact that it shows as a portable media player is normal: that's what it shows for me when it's either rooted or stock. you should be able to click on it and see 2 storage options your internal storage and the SD card.
thegh0sts said:
the fact that it shows as a portable media player is normal: that's what it shows for me when it's either rooted or stock. you should be able to click on it and see 2 storage options your internal storage and the SD card.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
when i click on it it says that its empty
MatzZ said:
when i click on it it says that its empty
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
do you have an SD card installed? maybe it's the drivers not working. try on another PC and see if it'll read.
Drivers Problem
This frequently happens to my computer so I know how you feel.
To solve this problem,
1. Go to devices and printers.
2. Click on your S3 device, it should be there.
3. Look at the bottom of the window
4. If it says that the device needs troubleshooting, right click the device and select troubleshoot.
5. Wait for troubleshooting to complete
6. Your SD Card and Phone memory should now pop up on your computer.
Unfortunately i have not been able to find a permanent workaround for this problem. So this solution has to be applied everytime you connect your phone to the pc.
Hit thanks if i helped you!
thanks guys! i got it working!
Did you use my solution to get it working?
I found when I use stock firmware that changing from connect to MTP to PTP and back again, my computer finds the phone, eventually but running an AOSP or Cyanogen the computer finds it without any problem
Hi everyone,
after 1 year expericing with evo 3d everything is ok,
but in the last month some problems are killing me.
1- when i put the usb connection to download image, after i get sd error and cant see any images from gallery. (files are visible with android assistan, visible after rebooting, tried different cables, different sd, the system doesnt sees anymore images of applications, maybe some refresh problem?)
2- when i turn off the screen and connected to wifi or datamobile, both turn off till i turn on the screen, its a very annoying problem...
3- also the music application cant find my mp3 folder with music.
4- when i open gmail at first it says "no data connection", even if i'm connected, and clicking refresh works. (but i have to click everytime!!!,,,,
5- today i got also a strange grey icon of the battery with an ? on it, first time ever seen it.
other miscellanea information:
the phone is all original, i'm using apex launcher instead of sense, there is a lot of free space on sd, the phone never fell on the floor, nor in the water. camera is working great and all other function, no lag in applications,,
i hope some of you great xda master can help me finding a solution,
thanks to all.
Simone
from italy
ps. does exist an application that cancel all unused application files in the sdcard? thanks again.
1 and 3 sound like a bad sd card or card reader in the phone. The rest sound like an OS bug, which a factory reset should hopefully clear up.
ps. does exist an application that cancel all unused application files in the sdcard?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
What do you mean "cancel?"
thanks for the answer,
i guess is the sd card, il try a factory reset. the new sd card that caused problem is a samsung 16 gb cas 6, i thoght it was good.
i mean wipe the garbage, like all those files left behind from applications uninstalled and no longer used.
thanks again.
sitlet said:
1 and 3 sound like a bad sd card or card reader in the phone. The rest sound like an OS bug, which a factory reset should hopefully clear up.
What do you mean "cancel?"
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Well, normally when you connect the USB cable and choose to connect the USB storage then the SD card becomes unavailable to the phone but the computer can then access it. Both the computer and the phone cannot access the SD card at the same time... I will spare you the technical reasons but you should know that this is normal. After you are done copying files with the computer then you must turn off this USB storage mode so the phone can access the SD card again and then it will see all your music and pictures again (all these are stored on your card by default).
This should all be fixed OK by a reboot of the phone though in any case. Are you sure you rebooted the phone completely? maybe you should try to remove the battery once?
If you've done all that then you can try to repair the SD card by taking it out of the phone and using micro sd to SDHC adapter and inserting it directly into a computer then using windows to run a chkdsk on it.
hi,
i've done all you said properly, you know the problem came out because there was a differente behavior than in the past.
i remove securely the phone from pc and then is not accessible,
i didn't tried to chdsk the sdcard i'll try, but it sounded strange to me because its brand new.
i also tried to contact htc , they said " try to reboot, or try to remove the battery and the sd and start the phone again, the problem wasnt gone.
thanks for the advice.
mojomojo_man said:
Well, normally when you connect the USB cable and choose to connect the USB storage then the SD card becomes unavailable to the phone but the computer can then access it. Both the computer and the phone cannot access the SD card at the same time... I will spare you the technical reasons but you should know that this is normal. After you are done copying files with the computer then you must turn off this USB storage mode so the phone can access the SD card again and then it will see all your music and pictures again (all these are stored on your card by default).
This should all be fixed OK by a reboot of the phone though in any case. Are you sure you rebooted the phone completely? maybe you should try to remove the battery once?
If you've done all that then you can try to repair the SD card by taking it out of the phone and using micro sd to SDHC adapter and inserting it directly into a computer then using windows to run a chkdsk on it.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Well if it's just gotten corrupted then you can just reformat the sd card. You'll want to backup all your data first so if you can't do that from the USB connection to the PC then you'll need to insert it directly into a pc. Once you've formatted it you can put your backed up data back on the card and put it back in the phone and after a while it will find your mp3s again. If it's truly a bad sd card then the reformat won't help.
Do you have another sdcard? The one that came with the phone or any other? Try putting some mp3s and photos on it and then put that in your phone. If your phone recognizes the photos and mp3s then maybe your current sdcard is the problem. And can you tell the the format of your sdcard? Is it NTFS or exFAT or FAT32? If it is UHS-1 card there is a good chance that it is in exFAT. To make it work on Evo 3d, convert it to FAT32 .
mnomaanw said:
Do you have another sdcard? The one that came with the phone or any other? Try putting some mp3s and photos on it and then put that in your phone. If your phone recognizes the photos and mp3s then maybe your current sdcard is the problem. And can you tell the the format of your sdcard? Is it NTFS or exFAT or FAT32? If it is UHS-1 card there is a good chance that it is in exFAT. To make it work on Evo 3d, convert it to FAT32 .
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
the sdcard was FAT.
yesterday i made a backup of all files, formatted the newer sd,factory resetted the phone and now everything is good, also the speed of the system is increased, thanks to all!! :victory:
simone
When i start to transfar the files it open a window stuck at "calculating the time requird to transfar files" and the phone storage / SD card stop responding ..
Now i stuck with 11k photos on my phone WITHOUT BACKUP...
Some one got an idea what to do?
i try to: turn off the fire wall
re install the MTP drivers
work on PTP
turn on debugging mod...
changeing cables etc...
Most likely a fault with your pc, try another.
boomboomer said:
Most likely a fault with your pc, try another.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I dont have another PC at the moment /: anyting else i can try?
ilay47 said:
I dont have another PC at the moment /: anyting else i can try?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Try this >> http://www.freecommander.com/ <<
tallman43 said:
Try this >> http://www.freecommander.com/ <<
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Same issue the program stop responding becuase the phone itself stop responding ....
External sd card or usb stick via OTG to backup then factory reset, wipe internal sd then try again.
Hey,
if i connect my phone with my PC, i can normaly see all files,...
But if i want to copy a file from my computer to my phone (internal or external sdcard) its stock at 0%. (in system and twrp)
After a while (2-4minutes) windows says, that was an error with the transfer. After these message, the phone reboot (twrp)
I tried to reinstall the right usb drivers, tried sideload and adb push but.
i googled the problem, but i cant find something like this.
sideload says something with "cant read comand"
and push says its done (800mb file after 10sec :/ ) but there is nothing on the device.
I dont know what the problem is. the phone is from 2012 but EVERYTHING else is working fine.
sorry for my english
panther124 said:
Hey,
if i connect my phone with my PC, i can normaly see all files,...
But if i want to copy a file from my computer to my phone (internal or external sdcard) its stock at 0%. (in system and twrp)
After a while (2-4minutes) windows says, that was an error with the transfer. After these message, the phone reboot (twrp)
I tried to reinstall the right usb drivers, tried sideload and adb push but.
i googled the problem, but i cant find something like this.
sideload says something with "cant read comand"
and push says its done (800mb file after 10sec :/ ) but there is nothing on the device.
I dont know what the problem is. the phone is from 2012 but EVERYTHING else is working fine.
sorry for my english
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Did you tried with another computer ?
And if you really can't fix your problem you can also use micro sd card to transfer file.
olimar7184 said:
Did you tried with another computer ?
And if you really can't fix your problem you can also use micro sd card to transfer file.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
hi thanks for your reply
i forgot to say, its also on the sd card the problem.
i put the sd card in my tablet and its working.
panther124 said:
hi thanks for your reply
i forgot to say, its also on the sd card the problem.
i put the sd card in my tablet and its working.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
What rom are you using ?
Maybe the problem is here
Do you tablet works correctly with your pc? (to see if the problem is the phone)
Also try other usb cable
olimar7184 said:
What rom are you using ?
Maybe the problem is here
Do you tablet works correctly with your pc? (to see if the problem is the phone)
Also try other usb cable
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
fixed! it was only on cm13.
i installed mokee rom and now its fixed.
But thank you very much for your reply!