Hi, guys I really need some help for about 2 weeks since I got my galaxy s4 and switched from my iphone I am regretting it so much because I dont use windows anymore..... I cant connect my galaxy s4 I am not new to rooting and custom recovery on android phones...
I will make a donation via paypal or whatever really need some HELP
Only people that use mac with there android can you please help me....
I cant get the phone to connect and all the basic settings on my phone are turned on and such....
So if anyone can help me getting my phone to be able to come up on the mac like how the hard drive icon on the mac shows up on the desktop I need that with my phone and all settings like media on the phone are turned debugging and such...... Sorry for the sloppy post im just over this stock galaxy right now
PLEASE HELP
GTALK ARHicken
Mac doesn't have built in MTP support for finder. You need the official app below.
http://www.android.com/filetransfer/
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I have tried that program but when I click the android file transfer green guy it says please try reconnecting device I cant get it to recognize it
you know what I should I do
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I have tried that program but when I click the android file transfer green guy it says please try reconnecting device I cant get it to recognize it
you know what I should I do
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Sounds like you have Kies installed. Uninstall Kies and it should work.
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This is so frustrating i have been trying to basic root to my phone for 2 weeks and cant get this phone to connect to mac I told you i have done a lot of reading and kies is unistalled and it still wont work,
ARHicken said:
This is so frustrating i have been trying to basic root to my phone for 2 weeks and cant get this phone to connect to mac I told you i have done a lot of reading and kies is unistalled and it still wont work,
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Completely unistalled or just dragged to the trash can?
Important! You must uninstall Kies for Mac before running Android File Transfer. Otherwise, the application will not connect to your device.
To uninstall Kies, download the Kies for Mac software by visiting the Kies website.
From Finder, click Go > Downloads > KiesMac_xxxx.dmg > Uninstall.
Why do you even need to connect your phone to the mac to root? Unless you have a 64gb sd card your going to have to format the sd card by taking it out of your phone first.
Did all those things don't have 64 gig SD card so how do I start this root without connecting I'm not a noob to custom recovery always read and with this Mac junk these phones really do have major compatibility issue
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ARHicken said:
Did all those things don't have 64 gig SD card so how do I start this root without connecting I'm not a noob to custom recovery always read and with this Mac junk these phones really do have major compatibility issue
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The card just needs to be formatted correctly.
Once that is done you need to extract the files to the root of the card.
You should be able to format the card in the phone.
Take the card out of the phone and use an adapter to directly connect to the Mac.
That's what I did.
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My phone is running android version 2.3.6 baseband I717UCLA1 kernel 2.6.35.11 it says hand crafted by Saurom projekt team and buildnumber RC_IV. Now with that all said I know it is OLD and way out o date witch is why I am here. I have been googleing and reading for about 6 hours after spending about 3 hours trying to flash a new ROM. it always just aborts instal from CWM. Now I know I need to update CWM bc I am on version 2.5.1.2 but it will not update. I am running on mac so cant use Odin and mobile odin is not an option for me. ROM manager will not do anything with CWM nor will goo manager do anything. Any advice? I am so frustrated with it right now.
Use cwm to flash latest twrp. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1647575
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My phone is running android version 2.3.6 baseband I717UCLA1 kernel 2.6.35.11 it says hand crafted by Saurom projekt team and buildnumber RC_IV. Now with that all said I know it is OLD and way out o date witch is why I am here. I have been googleing and reading for about 6 hours after spending about 3 hours trying to flash a new ROM. it always just aborts instal from CWM. Now I know I need to update CWM bc I am on version 2.5.1.2 but it will not update. I am running on mac so cant use Odin and mobile odin is not an option for me. ROM manager will not do anything with CWM nor will goo manager do anything. Any advice? I am so frustrated with it right now.
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refresh my memory on a mac, can you create a windows XP or 7 vm and do a hardware passthrough? if so I'd move that route. But like the previous poster said update it to twrp. the easiest way to do so is download the goo manager from the market click on the menu button and click install open recovery kit. But I'd check compatibility with the older cwm version. I don't think you'd have a problem, but it's always best to check.
Also how are you attempting to update CWM? It should be as easy as downloading the new version, putting it on your SD card, flashing, reboot to verify the change.
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refresh my memory on a mac, can you create a windows XP or 7 vm and do a hardware passthrough? if so I'd move that route. But like the previous poster said update it to twrp. the easiest way to do so is download the goo manager from the market click on the menu button and click install open recovery kit. But I'd check compatibility with the older cwm version. I don't think you'd have a problem, but it's always best to check.
Also how are you attempting to update CWM? It should be as easy as downloading the new version, putting it on your SD card, flashing, reboot to verify the change.
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I was updating or at least trying to by putting CWM update .zip on root of SD but it just says can not be found no matter what i do.
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Use cwm to flash latest twrp. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1647575
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I tried that too. I just keep getting install aborted.
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refresh my memory on a mac, can you create a windows XP or 7 vm and do a hardware passthrough? if so I'd move that route. But like the previous poster said update it to twrp. the easiest way to do so is download the goo manager from the market click on the menu button and click install open recovery kit. But I'd check compatibility with the older cwm version. I don't think you'd have a problem, but it's always best to check.
Also how are you attempting to update CWM? It should be as easy as downloading the new version, putting it on your SD card, flashing, reboot to verify the change.
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I can if i absolutely must do a partition for windows but I would rather not. I think if it came down to that then I would just do odin mobile. Money is a big concern for me since I am a single father so I know its bad but I would more then likely just stay on the old software if need be. Its not worth spending the money on cell phone software and computer software since the phone is working its just slow and wont update. Could it be that the ROM on the phone is just too old? I forget who made the ROM so I cant even look back to try and update that.
Old CWR only looks at external SD card.
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Use cwm to flash latest twrp. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1647575
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I did manage to get this this to work thank you very much. Im backing up now hope it takes CM10 now
Thank you all so much for your help it successfully flashed CM10 now i just need to work on finding the best ROM. Hoping to get something using tablet mode and has note 2 apps and multi view
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Old CWR only looks at external SD card.
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The ranger knows best.
Also ranger, you're in my SwiftKey suggestions every time I type ranger thought you'd get a kick out of that
@ D1PL0M4T: you can download vmware view (or the mac equivalent) for free, after that it's just a matter of getting a copy of windows in a vdmk file. It's more time consuming then anything else.
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Hehehehe!
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The ranger knows best.
Also ranger, you're in my SwiftKey suggestions every time I type ranger thought you'd get a kick out of that
@ D1PL0M4T: you can download vmware view (or the mac equivalent) for free, after that it's just a matter of getting a copy of windows in a vdmk file. It's more time consuming then anything else.
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Back a few years ago when Mac first introduced their Intel models you use to be able to download a free legit copy of windows right from microsoft. From what I can tell they stopped that and it was only a trial. However, you could get the trial as often as you like so you could keep downloading it. But it was not a very good copy and was buggy running on Mac. but needless to say the problem with freeware on Mac is very hit of miss. Like most things you get what you pay for.
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Back a few years ago when Mac first introduced their Intel models you use to be able to download a free legit copy of windows right from microsoft. From what I can tell they stopped that and it was only a trial. However, you could get the trial as often as you like so you could keep downloading it. But it was not a very good copy and was buggy running on Mac. but needless to say the problem with freeware on Mac is very hit of miss. Like most things you get what you pay for.
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I agree freeware on Mac is hit or miss, it just doesn't have a big enough market share. But on the other hand for being one hardware manufacturer, it's pretty darn big. Anyway, I know vmware view does hardware pass through on pc, it would be hard to believe that it wouldn't in the mac realm and vmware view is free. Now vsphere isn't but we aren't talking about a virtualization cluster . As for a copy of xp, I remember reading a while back that someone converted the win 7 xp mode into a vmware file and from my recollection it wasn't a violation of terms of use.
Not saying it's needed but if it was something you wanted to explore. It's always fun to broaden one's horizons.
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I agree freeware on Mac is hit or miss, it just doesn't have a big enough market share. But on the other hand for being one hardware manufacturer, it's pretty darn big. Anyway, I know vmware view does hardware pass through on pc, it would be hard to believe that it wouldn't in the mac realm and vmware view is free. Now vsphere isn't but we aren't talking about a virtualization cluster . As for a copy of xp, I remember reading a while back that someone converted the win 7 xp mode into a vmware file and from my recollection it wasn't a violation of terms of use.
Not saying it's needed but if it was something you wanted to explore. It's always fun to broaden one's horizons.
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I have a old windows desktop (vaio PCV-RX670) witch at the time was a very good PC. But it can not be used right now until I get a new hard drive for it. Just not in a real hurry since I have a 2011 MPB and the new iMac 27". But since i am gettng back into android rooting I should prolly invest the $20 for a new HD.
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I have a old windows desktop (vaio PCV-RX670) witch at the time was a very good PC. But it can not be used right now until I get a new hard drive for it. Just not in a real hurry since I have a 2011 MPB and the new iMac 27". But since i am gettng back into android rooting I should prolly invest the $20 for a new HD.
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If you plan on doing any compiling on it you'll end up wanting to shoot yourself. assuming you bumped the RAM up, it still only has 1.8GHz P4 single core. now on a VM you can take advantage of your multiple cores and increased RAM and all around faster machine.
Anyway, I'm not trying to convince you so I'll drop it. But if you'd like a hand setting up a VM on a mac PM me and I'll send you quite a few links that will put you on your way.
Lastly sorry for being so passionate about this, my last job was highly against virtualization for fear it was the devil's work so now whenever there's push back from moving to vitalization (for whatever reason justified or not) I get like a PTSD and flashbacks and run around the office in a viking helmet. People with medicine are called, there's someone crying, someone shouting put down the stapler... I'm sure you get the picture. :silly:
Ahh the life as a datacenter admin...
I'm having this same issue, I'm on a Mac and bought a Note, went to update the firmware and I got to 8% until it froze and then Kies told me to use emergency recovery which stays at 0%. Now my phone is showing "Firmware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in Kies & try again", which I've done a few times and it just stays at 0%.
Edit: Nevermind, someone helped me, I used Odin and upgraded that way.
Everything was running smooth. Then I accidentally hit the camera(PTP) button on the USB options. Now every time i try to connect my note2 to my PC. It automatically goes into PTP mode. Go to USB options click on Media device (MTP) and it just keeps going right back to PTP immediately. Does anyone have this problem or a solution for me?
I've tried Reinstalling Kies, and drivers. Pulled the battery, basically tried everything and anything i could findon any thread with no luck. HELP!
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Everything was running smooth. Then I accidentally hit the camera(PTP) button on the USB options. Now every time i try to connect my note2 to my PC. It automatically goes into PTP mode. Go to USB options click on Media device (MTP) and it just keeps going right back to PTP immediately. Does anyone have this problem or a solution for me?
I've tried Reinstalling Kies, and drivers. Pulled the battery, basically tried everything and anything i could findon any thread with no luck. HELP!
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The only solution reported to work was to wipe and re-flash =/ Kind of a pain in the kisser
eBoody said:
The only solution reported to work was to wipe and re-flash =/ Kind of a pain in the kisser
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AAAAAAHHH!
Any update on this? Anyone find another solution? I'm trying to pull a bunch of stuff off my Note 2 to put on my Note 3, but am stuck in this situation. I guess in a pinch I can copy everything from phone to SD card with ES File explorer then read the card directly, but that would suck.
Yeah man, that's probably what you'll have to do...alternately you can use adb and the terminal to copy all of your stuff pretty easily, but if you're not familiar that would be your best bet
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bigillz said:
AAAAAAHHH!
Any update on this? Anyone find another solution? I'm trying to pull a bunch of stuff off my Note 2 to put on my Note 3, but am stuck in this situation. I guess in a pinch I can copy everything from phone to SD card with ES File explorer then read the card directly, but that would suck.
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Just use Dropbox. Then you have a backup of everything as well
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There is one more solution....
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Hi, I'm on the standard HTC software, so no rooting, no custom ROMs, etc.
In the most recent update (a few weeks ago), the device was taken from (I think) Android 4.0.4 to 4.1.2, so from ICS to JB. However, in doing that, the ability to access the SD card via USB mass-storage seems to have vanished and has been replaced with MTP. This means that I can no longer access the filesystem on the SD card via USB, which I do with Picasa, DoubleTwist, as well as the audio system in my car.
HTC tell me to install the (rather useless and bloated) HTC Sync Manager, but this doesn't give me what I need. They say there is no way to go BACK to the previous version of the OS.
So, my wise friends, I'm asking if anyone has any idea as to how to solve this problem and again get back to being able to see the SD card as a USB mass-storage device.
Many thanks for your help.
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Hi, I'm on the standard HTC software, so no rooting, no custom ROMs, etc.
In the most recent update (a few weeks ago), the device was taken from (I think) Android 4.0.4 to 4.1.2, so from ICS to JB. However, in doing that, the ability to access the SD card via USB mass-storage seems to have vanished and has been replaced with MTP. This means that I can no longer access the filesystem on the SD card via USB, which I do with Picasa, DoubleTwist, as well as the audio system in my car.
HTC tell me to install the (rather useless and bloated) HTC Sync Manager, but this doesn't give me what I need. They say there is no way to go BACK to the previous version of the OS.
So, my wise friends, I'm asking if anyone has any idea as to how to solve this problem and again get back to being able to see the SD card as a USB mass-storage device.
Many thanks for your help.
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the thing i do is, i take out memory card from phone and put it in adapter and the slide it in laptop.
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the thing i do is, i take out memory card from phone and put it in adapter and the slide it in laptop.
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Not really a workable solution!
Strange.. I installed the newest version of htc Sync and my DX became visible on my PC.
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Strange.. I installed the newest version of htc Sync and my DX became visible on my PC.
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Possibly that can work, but it's not going to help me in the car! I need the SD card filesystem to be visible, as it was before.
The thing is, that HTC removed UMS completely on JB in favor of MTP. MTP allows you to connect your device to a PC without the need to unmount before removing as it uses push / pull commands directly. So if your device in the car supports MTP, you are good to go. Otherwise, you can try to connect it via 3,5 mm audio clinch cable if your car radio has an auxialiary port for that.
well, theoretically you CAN go back to ICS, but you have to unlock your bootloader (might be a problem when it comes to warranty), flash a custom-recovery (for jellybean hboot 1.25) and flash a custom- or stock-rom based on ics.
i recommend ckpv5's myONEdx RC4.0 FX+, imho its the best and most bug-free ics custom-rom.
Airdroid. Search it on google play.
I never used usb mount storage anymore to access and manage my sd card until i found airdroid
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w1040 said:
Airdroid. Search it on google play.
I never used usb mount storage anymore to access and manage my sd card until i found airdroid
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i really doubt his car-radio has wifi and an internet browser to use airdroid.
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i really doubt his car-radio has wifi and an internet browser to use airdroid.
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Oops my bad. didnt really read the whole thing he wrote
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kkeyte said:
Possibly that can work, but it's not going to help me in the car! I need the SD card filesystem to be visible, as it was before.
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Sorry, my bad. I thought your issue is with the PC.
go here i have a guide of how to make usb mass storage work
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2318816
Hi guys, i searched the forum before making this thread so hopefully im not spamming like an idiot, heres the deal:
I recently switched to Cyanogenmod 10.1 from Stock ICS Rom on Amaze 4g, before switching i was able to see both my internal and external sd cards when i plugged the phone to windows, they would show as "Htc Storage" and "External Disk", however after i installed Cyanogenmod 10.1 whenever i plug in my phone i only get "Disk F" and its only the internal storage, i can still access my SD card from within the phone itself and i actually store there pictures and music and stuff, but if i try to connect to the pc to download the pictures from the camera im unable to, it just wont show up.
I tried turning usb debugging off, back on, tried uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers and i still cant seem to get it to work on windows, i tried this in two different pcs with both windows 7 and 8.
Its not a life or death situation but its certainly annoying, so any help would be greatly apreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Pepepedroo said:
Hi guys, i searched the forum before making this thread so hopefully im not spamming like an idiot, heres the deal:
I recently switched to Cyanogenmod 10.1 from Stock ICS Rom on Amaze 4g, before switching i was able to see both my internal and external sd cards when i plugged the phone to windows, they would show as "Htc Storage" and "External Disk", however after i installed Cyanogenmod 10.1 whenever i plug in my phone i only get "Disk F" and its only the internal storage, i can still access my SD card from within the phone itself and i actually store there pictures and music and stuff, but if i try to connect to the pc to download the pictures from the camera im unable to, it just wont show up.
I tried turning usb debugging off, back on, tried uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers and i still cant seem to get it to work on windows, i tried this in two different pcs with both windows 7 and 8.
Its not a life or death situation but its certainly annoying, so any help would be greatly apreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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Backup your internal memory and run a ruu it'll solve your problem
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ravike14 said:
Backup your internal memory and run a ruu it'll solve your problem
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Excuse my newbness, how do i do this?
Pepepedroo said:
Excuse my newbness, how do i do this?
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1st try flashing a stock rom it'll help as well no need for ruu
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Excuse my newbness, how do i do this?
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You basically just download a ruu and run it in bootloader. You also have to out it on the root of the sd card (not in folders). And also name it to PH85IMG.
That's what I remember I'm not an expert on ruus.
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You basically just download a ruu and run it in bootloader. You also have to out it on the root of the sd card (not in folders). And also name it to PH85IMG.
That's what I remember I'm not an expert on ruus.
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Applies only if your s off or else download the correct ruu according to the cid number
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Yup.
I think he should use other Rom for this Bcoz according to my knowledge cynogenmod doesn't support two SD card mountind
Bcoz they made is as a standard.
But RUU is the best way I think.
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No your all wrong this has been said a thousand times if you need to access both card use mtp for mouting
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I fixed the SD card issue using MTP like he said, now my only problem is the broken video recording on cyanogenmod 10.1, has anyone found a fix for it? I tried searching the forum once again but i could not find one, i even tried flashing the 4.3 camera app and still, video recording is a no go.
Go in the dev thread and look for posts on July 1
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I fixed the SD card issue using MTP like he said, now my only problem is the broken video recording on cyanogenmod 10.1, has anyone found a fix for it? I tried searching the forum once again but i could not find one, i even tried flashing the 4.3 camera app and still, video recording is a no go.
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Can you please list down the steps to do this. ? It will be a great help for newbs. Thanks!
This link may or may not be a good start:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=27510082
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neawasthi said:
Can you please list down the steps to do this. ? It will be a great help for newbs. Thanks!
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system settings > storage > menu button > usb computer connecttion > check MTP
Both cards will show up under Portable Devices in windows.
Hi. For some reason my computer just stopped recognizing my phone. It recognizes the internal memory, but not the sd card. I have the drivers installed as it has worked in the past. This is very frustrating as I'm not able to copy over ROMS, music, etc. Any advice?
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Obvious :
Uninstall drivers
Reboot
Let them reinstall. If on windows, and still not working. Update driver, point manually to win-user-appdata-common-find the driver
Update
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Obvious :
Uninstall drivers
Reboot
Let them reinstall. If on windows, and still not working. Update driver, point manually to win-user-appdata-common-find the driver
Update
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Can you please explain the last step in a little more detail. I'm a little computer illiterate.
Thanks!
Rossco_Pee said:
Can you please explain the last step in a little more detail. I'm a little computer illiterate.
Thanks!
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I ll have to get on my pc to give a better explanation, also it will help to tell what OS you running on your pc.
I ll go to start, right click on pc
Go to device manager
Look for your phone driver or usb composite
Right click and update
Choose or pick location-dont go with automatic update
Point to C/windows /user/app data /roaming /common/ find ur driver
Will reverify
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Running Win7.
I just had the same problem a few weeks ago. Even after updating the drivers it still wouldn't work. Toggling between the modes didn't help. Restarted the computer and phone got me nothing. I restarted the phone a few more times and toggled between the modes before it finally worked. Haven't had an issue. Pretty sure it was just a glitch and self-resolved.
Make sure your phone is set to MTP.
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One thing I forgot to mention...lately, my phone will stop recognizing my sd card and SIM. I have to eject them and reinsert at least once a day. This started happening right after my computer stopped recognizing the phone and seeing the sd card. Could be related, maybe not. Just throwing it out there. Won't hurt to eject the sd card and reinsert.