Is it possible to do this within Android?
At the moment I've this rooted phone running ICS, an SD card, an SD to USB reader and a netbook that once ran windows 7 until an hour ago. Oh and no working computer access for a few days.
I've installed a couple of versions of linux on PC's in the past, mainly as quick fixes between windows installations as I've proved myself too much of a novice to use it full time, so I know it can be done from an SD card easily enough should you be able to make one bootable with linux installed.
As I've only got this phone for a few days, would it be possible to do the above directly from this device?
I've searched google for every term and question I can think of but nothing is findable given the number of people lokig to do it the other way by installing things to their phones!
Is it even possible?
this will be a no then lol.
looks like I'll need to wait
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Ive searched google and XDA however i have not found a definitive answer to this.
is there a way to run windows phone 7 from the sd card, the way we currently run android.
i would love to test out win7 but i dont want to have to lose the ability to switch to android when i get sick of windows (which is inevitable).
dude, how can you run windows 7 from an SD card when there is hardly a windows 7 phone out in the world at all?
if windows phone is ever available to the hd2, it'll be a full rom and not an sd card option
So, here's my problem. My sd card reader won't read something as large as 16gigs and I've installed the stripped down winmo version chunkydroidrom so I can run android 2.2 smoothly. Everything works great, battery hasn't gotten hot yet and I'm loving it. But, I can't read the SD card with chunkydroidrom through activesync because that is stripped out of the the build, and android 2.2 doesn't allow the sd card to be read since the ROM is running from it. I run ubuntu on my laptop as well as windows. And I can't get ubuntu to read the sd card through chunkydroidROM either. It's not that big of a deal, i might go out and buy another card reader. But I would rather be able to transfer files easier. Is there a way to connect the laptop and phone wirelessly? Like ftp the stuff over or something?
match417 said:
So, here's my problem. My sd card reader won't read something as large as 16gigs and I've installed the stripped down winmo version chunkydroidrom so I can run android 2.2 smoothly. Everything works great, battery hasn't gotten hot yet and I'm loving it. But, I can't read the SD card with chunkydroidrom through activesync because that is stripped out of the the build, and android 2.2 doesn't allow the sd card to be read since the ROM is running from it. I run ubuntu on my laptop as well as windows. And I can't get ubuntu to read the sd card through chunkydroidROM either. It's not that big of a deal, i might go out and buy another card reader. But I would rather be able to transfer files easier. Is there a way to connect the laptop and phone wirelessly? Like ftp the stuff over or something?
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Android does allow you to read the sd card via USB while running it. Did you try it, or you just assumed it didn't?
Also, try the WinMo ROM is my sig. Stripped down, but allows you to connect your phone via USB and r/w on your sd.
You have to enable it before you can use it. On most builds I've tried (non-sense), when you connect it notifies you, and asks if you want to enable. If it doesn't ask directly, it's usually available if you drop down the top toolbar.
hey guys, I just got the hd2 yesterday, and it alread was loaded android miui onto it. I was just wondering, how do I mount a sd card from windows mobile so i can see the contents of the card on a computer? What I'm trying to do is, use a sd card that doesn't have android on it in windows mobile, but i don't have a card reader. I know thres a way to put my micro sd into my hd2 and connect it to my macbook ( i dont have any virtual machines for windows so the sync software won't work ) so I can view all the files and put the necessary files for android on it. I have the clarity rom 6.5 and in the settings in connections/usb it just says allow usb connection or something like that. everytime I connect to my mac it doesn't recognize an external device, but my hd2 charges. When i boot it into android i can mount my sd card, but the problem is i dont have android on the other sd card that i want to modify, so I can't go into android and mount my sd card to modify files. So to make a long question short, HOW DO I VIEW/MODIFY THE CONTENTS OF MY SD CARD ON MY MAC WITH ONLY MY HD2 AND USB CABLE? This is my first post, so please go easy on me.
if you set the hd2 to disk drive mode the mac should see it as a usb hard disk. shouldnt it? (in windows mobile, not android, dunno nuffink about android)
how do i do this? I have never used windows mobile. ever. thanks for the help!
well when you plug in the usb cable, normally you get a popup (on the hd2) asking what you want, actyive sync, disk drive or (sometimes) internet sharing.
if it doesnt, you can go
settings tab menu all settings connections usb to PC
or settings tab other usb to PC
select disk drive, connect (or reconnect) USB cable.
you sometimes have better luck with switching usb mode if you havent already connected the device that session. try it from a fresh phone and pc reboot, put the phone in disk mode then connect usb.
(just as an added point of interest, you can use the hd2 in usb disk mode to boot a PC from a suitably formatted bootlable sd card, so it is using real usb hard disk mode. I use it to boot to ubuntu when im testing faulty machines.)
I only have one usb to pc, and it says when i tap it,
enable advanced network functionality.
no other settings. is something wrong? I am on clarity rom.
oh and im on clarity rom, but for some reason its not doing anything when i plug it into the mac
dunno what to say then, you are looking for the screen as my image.
G'nite, good luck.
you might claim to be a noob, but you certainly know what you're doing and you're on the right track!
here are the facts:
1. the HD2 is TOTALLY capable of what you require, i.e. usb disk mode
2. point 1 is true in both WM6.5(.x) and android (and you have already used the feature first-hand in android!)
3. point 2 is true only for WM ROMs and android builds in which the chef has chosen to provide the ability to toggle the usb disk mode option (this feature is present and fully usable in 90+% of the available ROMs/builds and in 100% of the ROMs/builds i've tried personally!)
4. given point 3, i find it hard to believe or understand why the chef of this "clarity" ROM you speak about left out the option! maybe it is there but moved to a different section of settings as samsamuel has suggested. maybe it WAS there but somehow something got corrupted/screwed and now the option has been wiped out? maybe try hard resetting your WM.
my honest and humble suggestion to you is to post in the thread of the "clarity" ROM and ask the chef/users of the ROM.
you seem very comfortable with the tweaking and ROM scene, so why not try a different WM ROM (i suggest NRGZ's "energy" ROM series)? you are already using android, and changing the WM ROM is a whole lot easier and straight forward if your primary OS is android (like yours truly!); nothing to backup/restore, no apps to install/configure, no contacts/messages backup/restore, etc.
i am happily using an old NRGZ ROM from june 2010, i keep WM in flight mode and simply use WM as a "bootstrap" into android. my WM is properly tweaked and configured to my liking just in case android ever screws up and i end up having to rely on WM until i get android sorted. hasn't happened yet, but fingers crossed!
Hi all.
Here's the situation:
I have a 32 gb Sandisk (unsure of the class) sd card I've used with 2 different phones for at least over a year now. I took the card out of my phone to connect it through my laptops built in card reader for the purpose of transferring large files (card reader speeds are much faster than usb mounting through the phone for me). When I put it in the computer Windows wouldn't recognize it. Now it won't mount in my phone at all, and it won't work correctly on my PC. When I connect it to my computer it says the card needs to be formatted before use, but then when I go to format it, it shows up on the Windows formatting screen as only having a 30.6 mb capacity and I get the message "Windows was unable to complete the format" whenever I try to format it, no matter the settings.
So my question is, how do I get the darn thing to work again? I think something must have happened between shutting my phone down to remove it and putting it in my computer. I just don't know what. Anyone else ever experience this? (I've already given up on recovering all of my files, but if it's possible to save them that would be amazing )
Things I've tried:
formatting via Windows
formatting via android
formatting /external_sd via Clockworkmod recovery
a couple different data recovery/partitioning programs (Partition Wizard and PhotoRec/TestDisk
also using "chkdsk" in windows command prompt returns saying that the disk is in the "RAW" format.
Additional info:
Phone: Motorola Droid RAZR HD (XT926) (Verizon)
ROM: XenonHD 11.01 (Android version 4.2.2, AOSP based)
Sorry if this is more lengthy than necessary, just trying to be thorough and cover all the bases!
Thanks in advance for your help!
I only use the internal memory on my Rezound, not a removable micro-SD card. Prior to rooting and installing a custom ROM, copying large files to the phone by USB was pretty quick. That was with ICS and I understand that since Android 4.2.2 you can only connect by MTP or mass storage mode. But now copying files TO the internal storage is extremely slow (about 1.4 MB/second). It's not the cable itself, as copying files FROM the internal storage to the computer goes quick, like it used to. Could the internal memory be formatted improperly? The drivers for the phone on my Win 7 computer (64 bit) looked like generic Microsoft USB drivers, but when I tried to update with drivers made available with the HTC Sync app, Windows didn't allow it, saying the drivers it was using were the most current. Copying from the computer to other USB devices like flash memory sticks is quick and fine, like always. Thanks for any help.
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I only use the internal memory on my Rezound, not a removable micro-SD card. Prior to rooting and installing a custom ROM, copying large files to the phone by USB was pretty quick. That was with ICS and I understand that since Android 4.2.2 you can only connect by MTP or mass storage mode. But now copying files TO the internal storage is extremely slow (about 1.4 MB/second). It's not the cable itself, as copying files FROM the internal storage to the computer goes quick, like it used to. Could the internal memory be formatted improperly? The drivers for the phone on my Win 7 computer (64 bit) looked like generic Microsoft USB drivers, but when I tried to update with drivers made available with the HTC Sync app, Windows didn't allow it, saying the drivers it was using were the most current. Copying from the computer to other USB devices like flash memory sticks is quick and fine, like always. Thanks for any help.
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MTP uses the generic Microsoft drivers, it just looks like a media (player/camera) device to the computer, HTC sync drivers are not used anymore for normal file transfers.
What ROM are you using? Have you tried multiple ones with the same result?
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MTP uses the generic Microsoft drivers, it just looks like a media (player/camera) device to the computer, HTC sync drivers are not used anymore for normal file transfers.
What ROM are you using? Have you tried multiple ones with the same result?
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Right now it's the LiquidSmooth v3.2, and earlier in the week I was trying the most recent Tachyon (4.3.1). When I was using Tachyon, I had a problem where the internal storage was not visible or useable. It showed up again after the wipe in preparation for the LS install.
I'm also perplexed because my battery life is pretty bad, which is in contrast to what most people say about LS v3.2. I'm a noob and wonder if I could have missed a subtle step or setting, even though I have spent lots of time reading, studying, prepping and learning. I don't actually use this Rezound as a phone, it's just a learning project and I use it as a standalone media player and occasional email/browser situation on wifi.
Thank you.
teamost said:
Right now it's the LiquidSmooth v3.2, and earlier in the week I was trying the most recent Tachyon (4.3.1). When I was using Tachyon, I had a problem where the internal storage was not visible or useable. It showed up again after the wipe in preparation for the LS install.
I'm also perplexed because my battery life is pretty bad, which is in contrast to what most people say about LS v3.2. I'm a noob and wonder if I could have missed a subtle step or setting, even though I have spent lots of time reading, studying, prepping and learning. I don't actually use this Rezound as a phone, it's just a learning project and I use it as a standalone media player and occasional email/browser situation on wifi.
Thank you.
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The internal storage gets weird sometimes on newer ROMs... if a wipe returned it you are probably all right, a "wipe" also does a format. You would probably be safe to go back to Tachyon if you wish... Always wipe twice all partitions, and I would recommend using a microSD card, most ROMs expect to see both internal and external storage, even if it is just a small 4GB or 8GB card. I have not heard of people specifically mentioning MTP transfers being that slow, but it is definitely slower than standard direct mount access as was used in ICS and prior Android versions.
Battery life on the Rezound has always been bad by comparison to other devices, 1.5 to 2 hours screen time is about the best it can do on a standard battery in nearly new condition. Since you are using it without mobile data service activated, make sure to disable mobile data.
Also, I would recommend going S-OFF... Rezounds seem to be dying lately due to failed internal storage, if you are S-ON there is often no recovery option to restore service, when S-OFF we have more options. I recommend using Rumrunner S-OFF (Google it, it's easy to find), make sure to do a backup in recovery before hand since the process often makes the phone unbootable after it is initially complete.