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This can't be right.
I am playing music and plug the desire into my work pc to charge at the same time and it tells me it can't because the SD card is being used for data storage. I have checked the connection type. The flag comes up offering options and I chose Charge Only. It even says that on the statusbar. But it refuses to play. Can someone try on theirs?
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Same happens via my laptop. Play music, then insert USB; flag comes up "choose a connection type" - choose "charge only"; it shows on status bar; the music stops message says "SD Card is unavailable because it is being used as USB storage." No SD/USB management app is installed to interfere unless Astro does.
PPS
Astro uninstalled, makes no difference. Please someone try to do the same and let me know what happens.
PPPS Manual says
Disk drive
This mode is available only when you have installed a microSD card on your phone. Select this mode when you want to use your storage card as a USB thumb drive, and copy files between your phone’s storage card and your computer. When Disk Drive mode is enabled while your phone is connected to the computer, you will not be able to run applications that use the storage card, such as Music or Photos.
But it isn't enabled!!!!
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Is it because the PC recognises the connection as data regardless of the setting on the phone? eg the standard flag comes up on the PC and laptop. Even if I hit "no action" on it, it still refuses
Damn it. Factory reset? It also refuses to do anything if music is playing, eg won't download an app ("download paused")
What OS are you running on your PC's?
Now I am incandescent.
I backed up the apps, factory reset, and the apps I downloaded are all gone, including the ones I paid for. What gives????
Windows XP on both.
OK, I get it, apps back by installing Astro again.
Bastard is now fixed! Plugged in and plays music. But what happens when I unplug and plug in again? Here goes...
It works!
What a palaver
Got all the apps back except the one that cleans caches - can anyone remind me of the name please?
You can set up your Desire on how to act when you plug it into the USB port:
- Charge only
- HTC Sync
- Disk drive
- Internet sharing
I guess yours was set to be Disk drive by default...
No it wasn't. I checked, had selected charge only when offered the option and the status bar said charge only. Just a weird glitch I guess.
I am on T-Mobile UK and ever since an update was sent out about a month ago each time I plug my phone into the computer using USB it automatically connects as a hard disk. The default setting is for Charge Only.
The only way in which I can get it back to charge only is to move in the menu to something else and then move back to charge only....I then get the preparing SD card message.
Anyone else had the same issue....Anyone got a fix?
Cheers
Aidan
This happens to me all the time, just swipe down the notification bar and press the connection type option, choose Charge Only again and tap Done from the list and it will make the SD card available. For some reason even if you select charge only when you're first asked the SD card automatically becomes locked out.
Glad someone else is having the issue. Really looking to find out how to fix this. It causes me issues as it makes the SD card inaccessible and if the phone rings then my ringtone changes back to a default one...
I tend to use my laptop to charge my phone and each time I the phone use it I need to remember to click down though the usb menu.
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I have searched all over and I am not having any luck, so I am hoping that someone here can help.
At the beginning of Oct. I rooted my incredible using unrEVOked and the Stock HTC Rom. Everything was working fine at the beginning until a few days ago when I went to go plug my phone into the USB port on my car stereo, this is where it gets weird. First the stereo was not able to recognize the device, which it was able to before, and it doesn't even attempt to look for anything, almost like I didn't plug in anything at all and the Battery light keeps flashing on and off. Thinking it might be an issue with the stereo, I try it with my wife's DX with the same USB cable and it works fine. So it is not a problem with the stereo or cable. If I leave everything plugged in to the stereo and reboot there is a few seconds that the stereo is reading the phone, but as the phone gets closer to finishing the reboot the stereo stops recognizing the phone.
In my attempt to figure it out, I first did 5 different restore backups neither one worked. I unrooted and did a factory data reset and that doesn't work. In my frustration I rerooted using unrEVOked again and this time I flashed virtious ROM and Kernel, this didn't fix the problem. So I tried a different ROM and Kernel this time using Redemptive rEVOlution 1.8 along with the Hydra Kernel and again no luck.
The strange thing is when I plug my phone into the PC, both internal and sd card drives are seen and I can access the files just fine. It is only when I go to plug it in to the USB port in the car is when it is not finding anything. My car stereo is not picky when it comes to internal or external phone storage and I have put music on both drives and it does not read either one. It is almost like a file or program got erased and nothing I have done is able to fix it.
Anybody have any ideas that might help?
Have you tried copying all the files on your sd to your pc then formating the sd card fat32 from windows and then copying all your files back to the sd. This same thing happened to me once drove me nuts couldn't figure it out then I had to format my card for something else I was doing and after that it started working fine again.
Also this may sound obvious but you do have the default pc connection type set to disk drive right?
Speculating here, but ~
Is USB debugging checked?
Maybe toggle that - Unknown Sources toggle as well.
Settings>Applications>Unknown Sources
Settings>Applications>Development>USB Debugging
Maybe toggle mock locations as well - found in location w/ USB Debugging.
I have the same problem with my Vibrant. I have an Alpine IXA-W404. When I plug in my phone via usb, it shows "searching" then "not supported" but on my head units screen it starts to show some random music files on my phone, but won't play them. I tried plugging in using two different wires, and tried with debugging on and off.
Any help? I even saw a video where the guy was doing it online with a similar setup, using a Droid and some other similar Alpine deck.
Thanks!
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when i select "media player" from the usb settings on the phone, after about 20 seconds, the head unit starts to play a few songs but its very choppy. Any help is appreciated!
smtom said:
Speculating here, but ~
Is USB debugging checked?
Maybe toggle that - Unknown Sources toggle as well.
Settings>Applications>Unknown Sources
Settings>Applications>Development>USB Debugging
Maybe toggle mock locations as well - found in location w/ USB Debugging.
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This fixed my problem before when I had issues like the OP is having.
Longshot here, but this happened to me w/ my vehicle when I put a ton of mp3's on a thumb drive, and not a specific folder on the USB....
Is the vehicle trying to index the contents of SD card or other device drive and cannot?
Is the music or other content on the device in a specific folder, or spread out amongst directories/folders?
Have you tried copying say the mp3's (whatever content) onto a flash drive, and whether the car 'sees' them?
Speculation: the vehicle is trying to catalog/index the files/content ~
As such, there are either too many for the vehicle to index, and/or desired content to be read by vehicle need to be consolidated into folder(s) the vehicle can see, read, and index.
Imagine the brain in the vehicle can only index so much content.
still was not able to get it going with all of the above, i downloaded "auto mount sd card" from the market after hearing that it helps but still to no avail.
any more suggestions? this is something i'd really like to use my phone for!
Maybe let us know the device that you're connecting it to.
Oh yeah, also some after-market USB cords will only charge and not send any data- so make sure that isn't your problem either.
Could this have something to do with the usb apk? I've used a lot of different roms and some would work and some would not. I'm currently using a Sense 3.0 , Nils Business 3.0 and it doesn't mount to my car stereo.
I just restored an old backup of a rom Warm-Z and the mount worked, no problem. I then went back to my current sense 3.0 and it doesn't.
OK Since it took me several weeks to find the cause of this little bugger I figured I'd post here in case others have similar issues now or in the future:
Problem:
Your SD Card goes into "Disk Drive" mode automatically whenever you plug the device into your USB. Even if you choose "Charge Only" mode! and do not select Disk Drive.
The most likely cause and solution:
It seems the newest version of WinAMP has a setting which auto-mounts the SD Card upon USB connection, and it's default setting is ON!
The solution is to check and see if you have WinAMP (I prefer PowerAMP myself after comparing the two), and if so check the Setting in WinAmp's setting option (It's at the top).
NOTE: I've also heard that Double-Twist also has a similar setting turned on by default, but I cannot confirm that myself.
I've asked WinAMP to turn off this setting by default or to at least warn the user that this setting exists upon installation. I urge you to do the same if you have this issue.
Thank you for this
Doubletwist does this too
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My phone is always loosing connection USB connection to my PC after 3 or 4 times...then I need to reinstall the drivers. My PC finds the phone but the "USB connection" pop up on the phone doesn't appear...it's like that for a few weeks now, before that it always workd fine...
PC is Windows 7. Phone is HTC desire. "Question" is enabled, standard is "just loading". I changed the USUB cable already, that was not the fault. PC is recognizing the HTC Desire as "Android Phone", that works ALWAYS. I just can't access the SD-Card from my phone because the phone pop up is missing. Setting the "mount as HDD" doesn't help either. The phone is loading though.
In Windows 7 have you tried locating the SD Card (usually F:/ Drive) in Windows Explorer? Sometimes, depending on settings, the pop up window may not appear (you may have accidentally selected a default action for it, for example).
EDITED: I'm guessing you have debugging selected if the PC is recognising the phone so, just a thought, have you tried putting the SD Card in a reader to see if the PC can recognise it at all?
No, debugging is not activated. With "pop up" I was referring to the missing "pop up" (in the status bar) on the phone, not in the PC, sorry for that. I just found something out however: Plugged in the phone, same as ever, it's loading but no USB connection detected on the phone side. Restarted the phone WHILE it's still plugged in and directly after the restart the "ask me" notification pops up. Mounted the SD card and it works...
Activate usb debugging.
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I did. Currently it's working, but that's just a workaround, not a fix, isn't it?
Sephi said:
I did. Currently it's working, but that's just a workaround, not a fix, isn't it?
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There is no disadvantage in activating usb debugging (At least, I do not know anyone), so I think one could call it a "fix".
It's not a fix because it's not working anymore...again! It shows USB DEBUGGING CONNECTED in the status bar but the "ask me" notification isn't coming so I can't mount it as HDD. Man, that's getting real annyoing...
After a restart of the phone while it's connected it's working again..."ask me" popping up right after launch. -.-
Hi, my poor Gio is stuck constantly rebooting every time I enable USB Mass Storage. Debugging is enabled. I didn't have this problem before switching to CyangoGenMod 7.2, and come to think of it, I don't recall having this problem until recently.
This problem occurs on Windows 7 Home Premium (regular USB drivers, no KIES) and Ubuntu Linux 12.04 Precise Pangolin, both 32-bit.
I really wanted to add some files, mostly music and videos, to my device quickly, but as DoubleTwist (my main media app, I love the UI) doesn't develop software for Linux, I am forced to use USB, rather than Airsync. The fact that I can't seem to use USB without my phone rebooting doesn't help much.
Anybody have a suggestion? I'll try disabling debugging, or maybe downloading the Android Debug Bridge? I can't try it tonight, but that doesn't make any sense. Why would either of those be a factor in just simply connecting Mass Storage?
EDIT: I disabled USB Debugging, and, though it took a while for the USB storage Android to say that it was in use, it finally worked, without rebooting. Now to see if it'll work again, or if an app on the SD card was causing the problem. The thing is, I have zero free space on the, what, < 200 MB Gio users have? So, if it is indeed an app (or even my Crystal theme), that'll suck.
Stay tuned for future edits!
did u figure it out?.... i have the same problem in my Sony Ericsson X8... with custom ROM Ginger elite v2... 2.3.7 .....
it reboots after trying to connect usb mass storage when usb debugging is not enabled... after trying for some time, it reboots
& when debugging is enabled, the entire phone hangs .....!!
if u figured something out.... kindly let me know...
I can't remember if I figured it out, I know I must have but this was a long time ago, and I can no longer connect to USB anyway due to water damage. I should be getting a Windows Phone 8 relatively soon anyway so it's not worth fixing.
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alucai vivorvel said:
hi, my poor gio is stuck constantly rebooting every time i enable usb mass storage. debugging is enabled. I didn't have this problem before switching to cyangogenmod 7.2, and come to think of it, i don't recall having this problem until recently.
This problem occurs on windows 7 home premium (regular usb drivers, no kies) and ubuntu linux 12.04 precise pangolin, both 32-bit.
I really wanted to add some files, mostly music and videos, to my device quickly, but as doubletwist (my main media app, i love the ui) doesn't develop software for linux, i am forced to use usb, rather than airsync. The fact that i can't seem to use usb without my phone rebooting doesn't help much.
Anybody have a suggestion? I'll try disabling debugging, or maybe downloading the android debug bridge? I can't try it tonight, but that doesn't make any sense. Why would either of those be a factor in just simply connecting mass storage?
Edit: I disabled usb debugging, and, though it took a while for the usb storage android to say that it was in use, it finally worked, without rebooting. Now to see if it'll work again, or if an app on the sd card was causing the problem. The thing is, i have zero free space on the, what, < 200 mb gio users have? So, if it is indeed an app (or even my crystal theme), that'll suck.
Stay tuned for future edits!
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ok so i had the same prob and this is what i did..
> disable debug
>connected phone to usb - mass storage
>rebooted
>again chose mass storage
>worked!!
Glad to hear it. I did end up getting a new phone, but it wasn't WP8 - and because Samsung has some bakas on their development teams, it's actually worse for the storage situation. I also don't like how there is no longer USB Mass Storage; rather, you're stuck with either MTP or whatever cameras usually use. Both seem to be slower than a regular connection, Windows tells you that your device may not be able to open the pictures in your music folders, and the MTP app locks your phone down until it's finished syncing.
I almost miss my Gio.
Almost.
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Help
I cannot enter Mass storage mode. It is getting rebooted and also takes away the wallpaper I've set.
My phone is rooted Micromax canvas 4 A210 with custom rom (lollipop themed). This problem started recently. I can recall I installed ADB and so may be conflict with the drivers etc. I've uninstalled the Google USB drivers which installs with ADB but still no help. I checked turning on and off USB Debugging, no help. I also tried changing the USB port, no help.
Further I use Link2SD app and after a clean install of custom rom, I checked options like 'Auto link' and 'External card' as default install location. Would there be some apps which should not be moved to External card? If yes, then what they are ?