So, tonight I was sitting here on my lunch break and thought I'd try something I've never tried. I have my dock with me (usually leave it at home) and decided to connect my HTC Vivid (Android 4.0.3) to my Prime's USB. When I did the phone asked if I wanted to just charge or mount as a disk drive. I told it disk. Anyway, I went into file manager it is not listed at all, not even as an SD card. I tried File Manager HD and the same thing. No notification came in as to let me know if an SD card has been inserted like it does when I put an SD card in the SD card slot of the dock. Is there a setting or some other parameter that needs to be changed on the Prime or phone? What I was going to do is transfer some pictures over to the Prime. Anybody have an answer?
Thanks
Oh ya, I tried it with USB debugging on and off on both devices.
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Hi all,
took out my SD card to write music files on it. Worked before in my Athena and then in my PC. After reintslling card to Athena it won't be recognized any more.
Tried reboot, checked power in advanced config.
What can I do else ?
Dieter
Probably buy a new card! That has happened to me (more than once).
Try re-seating it a few times making sure it is going in the right way.
The fragile nature of these cards is one of the good things about having the disk drive built in.
OK so I connected my prime to my PC to transfer over some music and videos to occupy me for my upcoming trip specifically to my micro SD card, and it only connects "as media Device" and shows up in my computer as portable media player. This if F-ing retarded I just want it to operate as a disk drive as my phone does. I plug my phone in and it asks me like a good piece of silicon should.
Maybe I am missing something and all is well but where is that option? It is a problem because it just doesn't work, if I want to check a file on my prime from my PC it has to copy it to some temp spot on my pc????? also I tried copying 12gb over and it was going to take something ridiculous like 4 hours!!!!
I stick the same card in my android GB PHONE and it copies in ~ 20 minutes so is this and ICS thing or is this just yet another stupid move by ASUS?
I have tried to be objective with this tablet, I have barely posted anything bad in the 2 MONTHS (today) I have owned it but this just annoys me along with the bluetooth/Wifi problem, non existent GPS, random reboots, seemingly shotty haptic feedback and 4 hot spots on my screen. I would send it in to get fixed however I honestly am loosing faith in ASUS and want it for my trip to Vegas on Monday and then I'm going to Jamaica in a month.
On top of this I Pmed Gary and he must think I was digging for a lawsuit as he said he would be caught up om PMs last weekend expect for the ones he deleted feeling they were asking things in a way that was digging for a lawsuits? I have never taken a law course in my life and don't even have my own lawyer.
I just feel really betrayed and I'm sorry my little question turned into a rant I just needed to get it all out. I will send it in when I am not in need of the tablet and make my final judgement then but as it stands neither me nor my family (as I am the tech guy) will EVER buy anything ASUS again.
when I plug my prime into a computer it shows up as a media device just like you said, however I can double click on it and access the tablets internal storage and microSD card just like a USB hard drive. Transferring files too and from the tablet seem about as fast as transferring them to my USB hard drive.
Also I don't known what phone you have, but my Galaxy S2 also acts like a media device and doesn't ask me what kind of USB connection I want to make. But likewise I can still access the internal storage and microSD card just like they were a mounted hard drive.
I am connecting my devices to several Windows 7 PCs.
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when I plug my prime into a computer it shows up as a media device just like you said, however I can double click on it and access the tablets internal storage and microSD card just like a USB hard drive. Transferring files too and from the tablet seem about as fast as transferring them to my USB hard drive.
Also I don't known what phone you have, but my Galaxy S2 also acts like a media device and doesn't ask me what kind of USB connection I want to make. But likewise I can still access the internal storage and microSD card just like they were a mounted hard drive.
I am connecting my devices to several Windows 7 PCs.
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Thanks, I'm using an HTC amaze and off it i can play my files directly and transfer rate was literally 10 times faster. I did realize clicking it shows both storage directories but its super slow and try playing a copied file.
I'm using win 7 64 bit on my PC.
It's because the Prime (and most if not all new Android devices) use MTP which is MUCH slower than the previous method. So no, not Asus as fault this time!
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This might not work for you, but both my Win 7 laptop and my Win 7 desktop have SD card slots built into them. I find it much easier and faster to just pop the microSD card slot out of the Prime and plug it into my PC to move large files over to my tablet.
An microSD -> SD card adapter is much smaller to carrier around than even data cable, and they are cheap enough that you can get a bunch and just stash them around places you might need to do transfers in. I actually use an SD card adapter to replace the dummy card that came with my laptop. It still protects the SD card slot and at least now I have something functional in there.
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It's because the Prime (and most if not all new Android devices) use MTP which is MUCH slower than the previous method. So no, not Asus as fault this time!
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OK well thanks for clearing that up. that kind of sucks, why do they use it if its slower?
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This might not work for you, but both my Win 7 laptop and my Win 7 desktop have SD card slots built into them. I find it much easier and faster to just pop the microSD card slot out of the Prime and plug it into my PC to move large files over to my tablet.
An microSD -> SD card adapter is much smaller to carrier around than even data cable, and they are cheap enough that you can get a bunch and just stash them around places you might need to do transfers in. I actually use an SD card adapter to replace the dummy card that came with my laptop. It still protects the SD card slot and at least now I have something functional in there.
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that would be the ideal solution however my PC doesn't have a card reader
They use it (if I recall correctly) because it allows for the entirety of the devices storage to be used for any purpose. I'm not sure the trade off on performance is worth it though.
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For some reason the SD slot or USB slot are not showing me the devices in them from my keyboard. When I insert an SD card or reader into the USB port, nothing happens. It worked a few days ago. I have rebooted a few times. Any suggestions?
Im in Thailand on vacation and was planning on using it to back up my photos, this is not good if they are no longer going to work.
Did you format it NTFS or something like that? Needs to be FAT32.
Thats not correct. The Prime can read NTFS just fine.
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Thats not correct. The Prime can read NTFS just fine.
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U sure? I formatted my micro with NTFS and it had issues mounting.....
jsjames said:
For some reason the SD slot or USB slot are not showing me the devices in them from my keyboard. When I insert an SD card or reader into the USB port, nothing happens. It worked a few days ago. I have rebooted a few times. Any suggestions?
Im in Thailand on vacation and was planning on using it to back up my photos, this is not good if they are no longer going to work.
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Have you used the mount option under Settings --> Storage? I needed to activate it there, then it showed up in the filemanager.
One device is a USB external HDD that worked a few days ago when I connected it and the other SD card is from a Sony camera that has images on it.
Both worked in the past. Really weird.
I see two options in the external storage and tried both without any luck.
BTW - the USB HDD gets power when plugged in, the light on it lights up but the tablet does not see it.
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to update everyone, I did a factory refresh on the prime hoping that it would fix it, but it looks like the dock is bad? Im typing on it now though, just the external storage ports will not work.
Now Im in Bangkok without enough CF cards for my camera now that I will not be able to back them up onto an external HDD.
I either need to find a dock in Bangkok or more CF cards to last 10 more days (today was day one).
Not very happy with this Tablet and dock right now...
I took my Droid Razr Maxx to a local repair shop to replace its broken screen ($279 + tax = ouch). After I left the store, I noticed that my 32gb Micro SD card was blank. I thought this was weird, but planned to just re-fill it with my music, etc., when I got home. However, I can't get it to read, much less format. I've tried two PCs (Win XP and Win 7 64bit). I've tried three SD card readers on both PCs. To be sure that the readers are working, I've tried them successfully in on both PCS with an old 2gb Micro SD card, so it's not the readers or the computers. I've also tried to format the 32gb card using the Razr itself (it sees the blank card... I tell phone to format it... nothing seems to happen... lather, rinse, repeat), but even after doing so, there's a status bar message that the SD card is "blank" or "has an unsupported filed system." When I try to copy a file from internal memory to the 32gb card using the Razr, it fails. When I cable my Razr to my PC it sees the SD Card slot as empty (if I try to copy something there, Windows says "insert disk"). The SD Card slot on the Razr is still functional, because my old 2gb card works just fine when installed in the Razr. My Razr is running Stock ICS 4.0.4, but is rooted.
Question -- Assuming that this is indeed the same 32gb card that was in my phone when I brought it in for repair, what could the repair shop have accidentally done to it that would cause it to stop functioning?
Either the shop broke it or they swapped it. I guess its the former, because surely the tech who did it would be risking his job if caught. Who wants to get fired over a $30 memory card. But I can't imagine what the tech could have done accidentally that could kill it.
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I took my Droid Razr Maxx to a local repair shop to replace its broken screen ($279 + tax = ouch). After I left the store, I noticed that my 32gb Micro SD card was blank. I thought this was weird, but planned to just re-fill it with my music, etc., when I got home. However, I can't get it to read, much less format. I've tried two PCs (Win XP and Win 7 64bit). I've tried three SD card readers on both PCs. To be sure that the readers are working, I've tried them successfully in on both PCS with an old 2gb Micro SD card, so it's not the readers or the computers. I've also tried to format the 32gb card using the Razr itself (it sees the blank card... I tell phone to format it... nothing seems to happen... lather, rinse, repeat), but even after doing so, there's a status bar message that the SD card is "blank" or "has an unsupported filed system." When I try to copy a file from internal memory to the 32gb card using the Razr, it fails. When I cable my Razr to my PC it sees the SD Card slot as empty (if I try to copy something there, Windows says "insert disk"). The SD Card slot on the Razr is still functional, because my old 2gb card works just fine when installed in the Razr. My Razr is running Stock ICS 4.0.4, but is rooted.
Question -- Assuming that this is indeed the same 32gb card that was in my phone when I brought it in for repair, what could the repair shop have accidentally done to it that would cause it to stop functioning?
Either the shop broke it or they swapped it. I guess its the former, because surely the tech who did it would be risking his job if caught. Who wants to get fired over a $30 memory card. But I can't imagine what the tech could have done accidentally that could kill it.
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Either a long exposition to sun/ magnetics/ dust// .etc can damage a memory. (in fact these artifacts are kinda sensitive)
Or it can just expire. A repair could work if it was at least being recognized by pc or card readers. But by your relate it'll not work anymore.
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I've seen microSD card die for no apparent reason. It actually happened to the 16GB card that was in my RAZR when I got it. I took the card out to give it to the original owner, and nothing - it was just dead.
get gparted and reformat the sd card
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get gparted and reformat the sd card
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I will need to try this!
Well... sorry for necro bumping this, but seeing as Micro SD's are a topic even nowadays, I'll ad my 2 cts.
My micro SD got partially damaged when I had too many programs on my Android Phone access it at the same time (Power Amp, OBB on SD, Galerie, Backup Program).
However in my case it was a fun kind of damage done:
- The data on the Disk was still readable, and I could recover most of it to a 32 GiB card (save for 2 unimportant image files).
The fun part is:
I can't format the disk, it'll always show the same content / files /size used if I plug it in again.
Deleting files does the same. Etched for infinity xD.
I'll try the magnet trick, as I wouldn't want anyone to read the card when I throw it away.
Hi, my M5 continually breaks SD cards! It mostly happens when transferring media to the cards, or downloading things directly to them.
Before the transfer/download finishes, a notification will pop up saying the SD card is damaged, please format etc... the inbuilt format tool will not correct the card and if I reboot the M5, it says the SD card is password locked!
If I transfer the card to my PC, it cannot read it. The drive is greyed out and it says there is no disk in the drive. Disk management says it has no media and is sized at 0 bytes. Any repair utility cannot access it and chkdsk and diskpart in command prompt cannot open it either.
It has happened within a week of using a new card 3 times now, Sandisk/Samsung/Integral, doesn't matter what brand.
It's getting annoying, and expensive to replace them. Can anybody help shed any light on the situation?
this happened with my m5 10.8 lte too. 2 times.
I was able to repartition and format the sd with my pc.
but i think it's a problem with my device, not the sd.
Cant confirm this on my 10.8 WiFi, because most of the time i use my 64gb Sandisk card with an external card reader. But initially, right after purchase, i used a Anker USB-C Cable for direct transfer of files. The Huawei-provided USB-C cable is only used with the power brick. Maybe you should try a different cable? I ran into all sorts of issues regarding USB on any device if i dont use the correct cable. For me: USB != USB.
Where are you buying the SD cards? You'd be surprised how common phony, counterfeit SD cards are.
Return the M5 if you need sdcards...
Hi,
I had 3 sdcards corrupted after copying files on it (USB to computer -> file explorer -> copy to SD). Brands were 1 Transcend, and 2 Sandisks. Two of them were brand new and bought at a mall.
I can't for sure assure you it's the tablet but three SD cards broken in less than a week sounds more than coincidence for me. I looked online and many people report the same issue on Mediapad tablets.
We needed trustworthy SD card support for our operations so I simply returned the tablet and switched back to its main competitor. Never had issues with SD cards before, nor after.
Apart from that the M5 worked like a charm and everyone loved it. I just couldn't risk it a enterprise level.
If you definitely depend on SD card support, my personnal experience is to stay away from Huawei's tablets.