Hi guys.
I wonder how I can access the phone storage space through windows explorer, I only seem to be able to get access to the SD card when I plug the usb in?
(running CM7)
I don't think its possible. To access phone storage space use ADB. If you are familiar with linux commands, use ADB and enter ADB shell. From here you can play by all linux rules and by obtaining su, you can pretty much do anything
why don't you try dropbox?
I remember there is kind of root explorer for windows. I can't locate it now but you may do a search for it.
Nietzschean said:
Hi guys.
I wonder how I can access the phone storage space through windows explorer, I only seem to be able to get access to the SD card when I plug the usb in?
(running CM7)
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I think you can through ADB,
adb shell
su
cd sdcard
ls
now you can see your files in your SDcard...
if I have misunderstanded youe meaning????
I'm a chinese vegetablebird....and my english is very.....
maybe he wants to have the access to the phone memory through usb?
He can now view and edit files on his sdcard.
I can put mp3's on my sd card, I don't know how to store them on my phone
Nietzschean said:
I can put mp3's on my sd card, I don't know how to store them on my phone
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If your phone is rooted you can copy files from the memory card to the phone's memory with a file explorer which has root privileges (Root Explorer, Yaffs Explorer, etc.). But I think it doesn't make any sense, because if you want to listen to those mp3 songs, your music player doesn't have direct access to phone's memory.
I prefer ADB shell or Terminal Emulator just because it's funner that way but the obviously easier route is to use a file explorer with root privelages. I like to feel like a geek and do it the hard way
I just don't get what the point is of having 1.5gb of storage space on the phone if you can't acces it?
Try droidexplorer , search for it ..
The point of 1.5GB phone storage is for you to install apps from the martket or other side loading apps. Accessing to SDcard for other media contents is more likely logical indeed.
But if you want to put mp3 into your phone internal storage, then this is another not so logic as you can have it in your SDcard with still the phone apps can access it rather easily.
However... if you have a short mp3 ringtones and want them to be in the phone internal storage. This one is considered making sense. Well you can do it by using root explorer to copy/move your mp3 ringtones to your phone internal storage.
Steps required:
1) rooted defy
2) root explorer installed and working properly
3) have your ringtones ready in your SDcard.
4) launch root explorer and make sure you're under read/write full access
5) copy/move your ringtones to system/media/... ringtones,notifications,alarms (depending which of your choice) and give them access right as per the default tones settings.
6) You need to delete internal sound .db in data/data/com.android.provider.media/databases.
7) exit and restart your phone. This restart required for the phone to recreate the database you deleted to the latest updated one according to the intenal storage contents.
8) Check your phone ringtones in settings for the existance of your newly installed ringtones..
Note: And of course you can still access your phone internal storage thru your root explorer app. It's more like it practical than for you to find a PC and get adb shell to gain access to your phone internal storage.
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Hi,
for a few days, i have a problem with the download folder on my sdcard.
if i access the 'download' folder with a file-manager (like ASTRO or any other..),
i get a notification, that there is an error (i guess an access-error) with the sd-card. (and the filemanager shuts down after a few seconds)
In the 'download' folder there are some strange files, which i can not access,delete,rename etc..
some have the size of 0 k, some have a few MBs and some have a size of almost 500-600 MB.
i don't know where they come from and what they really do. also the filenames are pretty weird. (the names contain 'at'-sign ...).
if this error occurs and i open the camera, there is also a notification, that i cannot take any pictures due to an sdcard-error.
does anyone know what these files are? or what to do?
kind regards
Markus
If you hava a card-reader I would take the card out and delete the files with a PC.
A Card reader is not available. But if I connect my DHD via usb and access as a hard drive,I can see the files, but cannot access them. No read / write access.
What I haven't done yet, to copy all the files from my sdcard to my pc, format the sdcard from my pc and copy all the data back. (of course only the data which are accessable). Hopefully it will not harm my desire hd.
M.
If you use Linux you definitely can mount the SD-card and do what you want with the files there (you may have to become root) but it is acutally quite easy.
I just dit it on my DHD.
If you don't have Linux installed, just download an Ubuntu Live-CD, boot from it, plug in your DHD via usb, select "drive mode" (or whatever it is called) on the DHD, go to the directory where the card is now mounted, solve your DHD problem and you don't even leave a trace on you harddrive.
Hello,
I Have a Big problem...
On my nexus, Since I copy ont file onto the SD, all other files are Disapeared....
I tryed to use recevey softwares, but oly work with mass storage cards....
Somebody have an idea how can I restore my files please ??
xTremePower said:
Hello,
I Have a Big problem...
On my nexus, Since I copy ont file onto the SD, all other files are Disapeared....
I tryed to use recevey softwares, but oly work with mass storage cards....
Somebody have an idea how can I restore my files please ??
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Can you offer any additional info? Have to used Root Explorer or a similar app to confirm without a doubt the files are gone and not just in a different place? And I am slightly confused when you say "move to sd card" because internal storage and SDcard on this phone are the same thing since there is no EXT..
I copyed files as usualy from computer to the nexus
After the copy (I copied the new google apps zip) this zip is ont the storage, but all other 12Go of data in the card are disapeared
I try to find it with windows, root explorer, es file explorer, I tryed android undelet tools and windows undelet tools... noone can see the MTP memory of the nexus .......
And I disabled the upload to picasa..
xTremePower said:
I copyed files as usualy from computer to the nexus
After the copy (I copied the new google apps zip) this zip is ont the storage, but all other 12Go of data in the card are disapeared
I try to find it with windows, root explorer, es file explorer, I tryed android undelet tools and windows undelet tools... noone can see the MTP memory of the nexus .......
And I disabled the upload to picasa..
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Do you have fast usb charge enabled? If so, try disabling that.
all files in /sdcard disappeared
The same thing just happened to me. I copied 386MB of music to /sdcard/Music and all appeared to be fine. I used Windows7 x64 Explorer over USB mounted as MTP.
I noticed that I could not copy some files back to Windows from Nexus. After messing around with that for a while I used ES File Explorer to check out /sdcard. Only a few folders were there, as if /sdcard were newly created. I could still see all of the lost folders in Windows Explorer.
Am I screwed?
TIA!
This is from a corrupt MediaStore DB. I ran into something similar when moving files to my phone over WiFi using File Explorer. Afterwards only a handful of folders showed up when connected via USB. Only way to fix it is to reset the DB. Settings > Apps > All > Media Storage > Clear data/cache. Reboot. It should completely rebuild the DB after the boot, and things should show up correctly again.
osm0sis said:
This is from a corrupt MediaStore DB. I ran into something similar when moving files to my phone over WiFi using File Explorer. After only a handful of folders showed up when connected via USB. Only way to fix it is to reset the DB. Settings > Apps > All > Media Storage > Clear data/cache. Reboot. It should completely rebuild the DB after the boot, and things should show up correctly again.
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That did not get all my data back, I must have done something else while trying to fix it. The good news is that this fixed one of my next questions: How do I reset the Google Music album art? The suggestion above fixed that wonderfully.
Thanks!
Hey everyone @crpalmer tagged you in case you could help
I am running Jrummy's Root explorer on the phone searching for some pictures on Dropbox.
I FINALLY found them in the /Mnt/sdcard/Android/data/... but i can't figure out where to copy and paste these imgs to so that my computer can 'see' them.
When i plug the tablet into the computer all that comes up is Internal Storage with 9 GB available and inside that i have only bare files like Alarms Android etc. But NONE of the folders have any of the phones files.
Basically i can't see anything on my tablet through my computer.
I tried pasting the file on System/root but the computer still doesn't show it!
Regards
Silkmeister1
UPDATE: i managed to stick a TINY 1 mb sd i had laying around and that changes things to where my i could copy things to the sd card and the computer sees that, but now the issue is the .jpg won't open correctly as they are too large or corrupted
wondering if this is a permissions issue
Hi there !
Where can i find installed apps folders in file manager
I'm trying - storage/emulated/0 and nothing there
Many thnx
/data/data but you have to be rooted to look in there. If you are not rooted, you will not be able to go there no matter what you do. The default file manager will not go there, so first root, then you have some options:
adb shell and then do "su -" after you've rooted and installed SuperSU. Then you can cd /data/data and do ls to your hearts content.
Install Root Explorer and you can explore outside of the internal and external SD cards. You'll be able to go to /data/data.
Install ES File Explorer and do the same as Root Explorer.
So, until you root, you're out of luck.
/data/data is where the app data is stored unless you tell it to store it on the SD card (internal SD card). Then, the data itself is stored in /sdcard/Android/data.
The actual application itself is installed in /data/app if I remember correctly. That will require root.
Also, I would avoid doing any changes in those directories. You can bugger your app up to where you'll have to re-install it and that wouldn't be good.
Thanx for your elaborated answer !!
iBolski said:
/data/data but you have to be rooted to look in there. If you are not rooted, you will not be able to go there no matter what you do. The default file manager will not go there, so first root, then you have some options:
adb shell and then do "su -" after you've rooted and installed SuperSU. Then you can cd /data/data and do ls to your hearts content.
Install Root Explorer and you can explore outside of the internal and external SD cards. You'll be able to go to /data/data.
Install ES File Explorer and do the same as Root Explorer.
So, until you root, you're out of luck.
/data/data is where the app data is stored unless you tell it to store it on the SD card (internal SD card). Then, the data itself is stored in /sdcard/Android/data.
The actual application itself is installed in /data/app if I remember correctly. That will require root.
Also, I would avoid doing any changes in those directories. You can bugger your app up to where you'll have to re-install it and that wouldn't be good.
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I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 with root access. I have some files that I cannot delete from my SD card. When moving large video files, I'll often pull the SD card out, install it into my computer, and move the files that way, rather than through the USB cable, as the transfer is much faster. The files in question, that I cannot delete, are all files that were transferred this way. Why would these files be locked in this way?
I haven't checked yet, to see if I can put the SD card back into my computer and delete them from there. I'll check tomorrow to see if that works. If not, I'll have to format my SD card in order to get rid of the files. This seems pretty strange.
Has anyone else ever experienced anything like this or have any sort of explanation for it?
Thanks.
Which file manager are you using? Make sure the file permissions are set correctly and not read only.
Windows and Linux file permissions work differently. You'll probably find you need to set file permissions to allow the files to be written or executed.
I use ES File Explorer, but I've tried others. I never had this problem with my previous tablet. I never had to set anything to give myself write access. Also, I'm able to cut, copy, paste, delete other files from the card; just not these.