Questions about HTC Sync Manager and HTC Sync which seem to be two separate programs.
When I plug in my DNA to my PC, I see two drives pop up in addition to the HTC6435LVW Internal Storage Drive. Both are CD Drives, with one having the HTC Sync Manager files, drivers and install programs and the other with TL-Bootstrap files and folders.
What's that all about? Do I need that "stuff"?
I am having problems with those programs not working any way. They start auto-loading music, etc that I don't even want. Can't find out how to stop auto-load. Personally I don't want these programs. I would rather "drag and drop" the files to to my phone storage folders. Can I remove these drives somehow? I want to keep this DNA as simple as I can.
Anyone have comments? Thanks
Remove the HTC sync from your comp, but you need to keep the drivers .. just dont delete them , you can always use use windows media to sync music , or just drag and drop into the music file on your phone:beer:
Sent from my DROID DNA
Rammstein1313 said:
Remove the HTC sync from your comp, but you need to keep the drivers .. just dont delete them , you can always use use windows media to sync music , or just drag and drop into the music file on your phone:beer:
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Thanks for reply. Can I also remove something on my phone so those two drives don't pop up all the time?
ALSO
I noticed another program that my DNA appears to have installed: "VCast Media Manager" Can I deep 6 that also? How?
Edit: I found out that was replaced. Must have been left over from previous HTC Phone.
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Hello -
I have been trying to get music transferred from my computer running Ubuntu 10.10 to my new Thunderbolt with zero success.
The computer will recognize the phone when I plug it in and select Disk Drive from the phone, but it shows up as having no available storage space, so I can't even drag-n-drop music to it.
Has anybody else had any luck with this?
Thanks!
Sounds like it's not automounting. When you plug the phone into your computer and choose disk drive, is there an icon in Nautilus, or whatever file manager you use, for the phone? If so have you tried right clicking it and choosing "Mount." Otherwise you can just mount it from the terminal.
I use ubuntu 10.10 as my media center on my laptop and have transfered music using it. It took me awhile to figure out how to sync my music, however, i was able to access the sd card right off the bat after plugging it in. Navigate to /media and see what is listed there.
On a whim, I checked for system software updates on the computer and there were a few that needed installed. After installing them, everything works great. I'm using Rhythmbox and the phone now shows up in there and will let my sync.
Thanks for the suggestions!
I just discovered that I can sync my Zune pass music onto my wife's Incredible 2.
I'm wondering if anyone's tried and be successful at making this work on the Rezound?
It seems to be tied to the USB settings options...
On the Incredible 2 there is the option to use "Media Sync"
This doesn't appear to be the same as the Media Sync on the Rezound.
Seems like there would be a way to make this work on the Rezound. Any ideas?
fluidj said:
I just discovered that I can sync my Zune pass music onto my wife's Incredible 2.
I'm wondering if anyone's tried and be successful at making this work on the Rezound?
It seems to be tied to the USB settings options...
On the Incredible 2 there is the option to use "Media Sync"
This doesn't appear to be the same as the Media Sync on the Rezound.
Seems like there would be a way to make this work on the Rezound. Any ideas?
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Media Sync was replaced by HTC sync. So this might not be possible. I think your only recourse is to manually pull the music over to the phone.
MrSmith317 said:
Media Sync was replaced by HTC sync. So this might not be possible. I think your only recourse is to manually pull the music over to the phone.
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Manually pulling over doesn't work for the Zune Pass content due to DRM. On the Incredible 2, I can pull over everything including DRM Files. It's like it sees it as another Zune.
Wish they would open up Zune to all platforms.
Funny thing is, I can't even get Media Sync to work on my Rezound. It worked for about 20 minutes last night, then failed. And it didn't even work for media files, just contacts and calendar entries.
Are you talking about HTC Sync? I tried it out and it worked, somewhat. Took me a while to find where it put the synced stuff on my computer though. Turned out is was in my user folder > Documents > My Documents/My Photos. It never made a My Music folder in there but I made a Music folder on the ext sd card and tbh I never went into settings to try and make it sync that folder. I really don't like syncing anyway, I was just trying it out. I prefer to maintain my phone media manually.
feralicious said:
Are you talking about HTC Sync? I tried it out and it worked, somewhat. Took me a while to find where it put the synced stuff on my computer though. Turned out is was in my user folder > Documents > My Documents/My Photos. It never made a My Music folder in there but I made a Music folder on the ext sd card and tbh I never went into settings to try and make it sync that folder. I really don't like syncing anyway, I was just trying it out. I prefer to maintain my phone media manually.
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I can't even get HTC Sync to work. But no, on her Incredible 2 there isn't an HTC Sync option...it's just called Media Sync. When I connect, it populates in Windows Media Player as a sync-able device, thus it's able to sync Zune Pass content. The main reason this is significant is because Zune Pass content is typically only available on Zune's or Windows Phone 7's with the Zune software.
Yeah, I was talking about on your Rezound. Oh well, I guess the DRM keeps you from using HTC Sync with it? I was thinking of going the Zune route but I don't like that DRM stuff, perhaps I'll pass on it. But I might pm you with a Zune question or two if I think about going for it.
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Yeah, I was talking about on your Rezound. Oh well, I guess the DRM keeps you from using HTC Sync with it? I was thinking of going the Zune route but I don't like that DRM stuff, perhaps I'll pass on it. But I might pm you with a Zune question or two if I think about going for it.
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Who needs a Zune when you have a Rezound?
MrSmith317 said:
Who needs a Zune when you have a Rezound?
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Especially with my 64gb ext sd card!
Only problem is I can't navigate through the songs using my car stereo. I can with an *cough* ipod *cough*, but I only have a 2gb one that my friend gave me. And with Zune there's this whole music plan thing... I just have to check on my car's forum and see if you can navigate the Zune with my stock stereo. Whatever I use it would really just be a car player and I would just leave it in there all the time.
I plug the phone in and it opens the 'what do I want to do' screen and then closes it right away. And then just keeps doing this over and over every few seconds. Anyone else notice this?
I've had mixed results. Earlier today at work, on my Win7 machine, I plugged that bad boy up and it immediately found the phone and loaded the drivers. The phone then appeared in Windows Explorer as "EVO" and when clicked on, expanded to show the contents of the memory accessible to the user. There is about 10 gb free on my phone.
At home now, is a different story. I'm running XP Pro and can't seem to get the right drivers installed. I'm tinkering with it now but am not sure what to expect. I've also installed Airdroid, but haven't gotten around to trying it yet.
Update: Still no joy getting MTP to work, so I tried Airdroid and it works beautifully.
Try swapping the cable out. I've had similar results with a cable that would charge fine, but would give dodgy results when trying to use as a disk drive.
luma said:
Try swapping the cable out. I've had similar results with a cable that would charge fine, but would give dodgy results when trying to use as a disk drive.
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I'll give it a shot.
Thanks
it wont let me copy a .apk over to device
luma said:
Try swapping the cable out. I've had similar results with a cable that would charge fine, but would give dodgy results when trying to use as a disk drive.
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This worked for me. I'm using xp pro and it couldn't seem to find the phone with the HTC cable provided so i tried an old BB cable i had lying around and strangely enough it worked
Used the cable that came with it instead of my regular Evo cable and it worked fine. Weird.
did it to me too. I was plugging intop a usb hub. Once i plugged directly into the pc, the issue resolved itself. Dont use Hubs!
Next dumb question of the night. Where do ringtones go on this thing since they don't go on the SD card like with the Evo
thenags said:
Next dumb question of the night. Where do ringtones go on this thing since they don't go on the SD card like with the Evo
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You should see a folder called sdcard. It's the name given to the 10 gigs or so available to us. If you have a physical sd card, I think it's call ext/sdcard or something like that. Anyway, there is a "ringtones" folder in the sdcard folder.
I think HTC stated that file mounting on the evo lte is different than the one x. If you wanna transfer files, im pretty sure you have to use HTC sync. If you have a memory card though, that should be able to mount as a removable device.
hope i helped
Hmmm. I see that in Astro but not when I plug it in
It seems like all I can do is select HTC Sync.
94tbird said:
did it to me too. I was plugging intop a usb hub. Once i plugged directly into the pc, the issue resolved itself. Dont use Hubs!
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It's still a bug and should be reported. I plugged my 3D into the same cable on the same hub and it was able to dump the whole SD card over that connection, so there's something wrong with the E4GLTE if it can't handle the same setup.
I have a 32gb card and mounted as a disk drive just fine. HTC sync is for internal storage maybe?
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erikivy said:
You should see a folder called sdcard. It's the name given to the 10 gigs or so available to us. If you have a physical sd card, I think it's call ext/sdcard or something like that. Anyway, there is a "ringtones" folder in the sdcard folder.
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It put it as /sdcard2 in my brothers phone
depending on how you're looking at it, it will either be listed as /sdcard2/ or as ext-sdcard
they both mean the same thing. the /sdcard/ by itself is internal.
any ringtones you want to put in need to be in a /ringtones/ folder, doesn't matter whether you make it in the internal or external available space
same thing goes for /alarms/ and /notifications/
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Next dumb question of the night. Where do ringtones go on this thing since they don't go on the SD card like with the Evo
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You can put them on your sd card no problem. I transfered all my music over to my 32GB card on my computer last night and all was fine. Hooked up my 3D and also my LTE and just dragged the folders/files in windows explorer across the two drives fine...
Then to assign the ringtone that's on the extra sdcard(the one I put music on and didn't come with the device), all you have to do is when presented ringtone options click add and you should see the list of songs in there u added.....
Actually now I think of it, I went into HTC music player and got it to see the music before I did that too...
Also had google music sync up and download everything for offline use too but I don't think they showed up after I did that personally....though I could b wrong and its actually pulling the ringtone from my google music copy...
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You can put them on your sd card no problem. I transfered all my music over to my 32GB card on my computer last night and all was fine. Hooked up my 3D and also my LTE and just dragged the folders/files in windows explorer across the two drives fine...
Then to assign the ringtone that's on the extra sdcard(the one I put music on and didn't come with the device), all you have to do is when presented ringtone options click add and you should see the list of songs in there u added.....
Actually now I think of it, I went into HTC music player and got it to see the music before I did that too...
Also had google music sync up and download everything for offline use too but I don't think they showed up after I did that personally....though I could b wrong and its actually pulling the ringtone from my google music copy...
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I see what you mean. I didn't see the 'Add' button at first. However that just seems to list ALL music on the device which is a bit of a pain due to the amount of music on my card. I ended up moving the ringtones to my SD card then just Astro to move them over to the internal storage. Not the quickest method, but seems to be better for keeping everything organized.
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BPHusker said:
It seems like all I can do is select HTC Sync.
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It's really dumb, but don't pick one of the two big choices at the top. Pick "Media Sync" in the smaller text options below those. As long as your pc is up to date, you should see "Evo" show up under my computer.
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone knows how to make the phone show up as a harddisk instead of a portable device. The main reason for this is the fact that all my file managers cant properly detect the phone's storage. But in windows i can just drag and drop. I would like to have some scripts running to automate the sync "manually" instead of that HTC sync manager program. Is this possible?
No unfortunately because of the way the device is partitioned that's the only way it can be mounted
Slithered from my HTC One X+
nattan920 said:
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone knows how to make the phone show up as a harddisk instead of a portable device. The main reason for this is the fact that all my file managers cant properly detect the phone's storage. But in windows i can just drag and drop. I would like to have some scripts running to automate the sync "manually" instead of that HTC sync manager program. Is this possible?
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NO http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2002156
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superchilpil said:
No unfortunately because of the way the device is partitioned that's the only way it can be mounted
Slithered from my HTC One X+
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i tried this by reading forums. i have no luck. but just an fyi dont try to do it unless its tested because it will damage ur phones hd memory and then its hard to get ur phone back up and running. i experienced it the hard way.
Is it possible to delete the sync manager files, taking up nearly 4 gig of the space on the phone, from the phone? (The ones that appear as a cd when plugged into windows.)
Maybe I'm missing something obvious?
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Ania