USB Storage problems - Samsung Epic 4G Touch

Never had a Samsung Android phone before, really use to HTC EVO
Anyways, is there a way where I can just plug it in and select USB mode?
I don't want no fancy program, just directly to the phone acting as a storage device. I downloaded this new USB driver for Samsung devices, but it's horrendously slow at transferring files.
Amazing phone by the way

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Anything like this possible?
http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/30/nokia-n8s-usb-on-the-go-support-demoed-lesser-phones-turned-in/
Indeed, I'd like such a feature...
if im correct its possible on windows mobile with even more options.
edit.
http://www.xda-developers.com/windows-mobile/zeno-host-usb-drivers-updated/
'On top of that, he is looking into getting some compatibility for Android devices as well.'
I have found this link http://www.tombom.co.uk/blog/?p=124 too which has a modified cable for the DROID to be used as usb host. but i have read that drivers for G1 are online for this task. Is there any driver or mode we can do to have our HTC Desire act as usb reader...it would be awsome if i can read my flash drives or friend's on my phone without pc

[Q] Usb master mode

hello everybody here on xda,
i have my self a very shinny hox (t3) unlocked through htcdev.com but no s-off but my question is can any one tell me what usb master mode is? i may sound stupid but when you hold down both volumes and the power a weird message comes up looking for a .zip then usb master mode but reboots back to the bootloader?
cheers :good:
+1
Anyone?
USB is asymetrical - meaning that in a usb link there is a master and a slave. For example, when you plugin a usb drive to your PC, the PC is the master and the usb disk is a slave.
It's done this way to lower cost of end devices, usb devices can be "dumb" when their slaves - means less components to build them - means cheap cheap cheap!
This is why Firewire was better, but failed to adopt as much as USB.
At any rate, when you connect your OneX to the PC, it acts in slave mode, presenting a couple of devices - USB Storage, Network Adapter, ADB and what have you not. What you see in hboot is when it is in master mode - meaning you can connect stuff like USB drives and keyboards TO the One X (using a Y Cable). In hboot specifically this is used to find recovery zip/.nbh files. Since the OneX has no removable storage, if you would screw up your system and recovery for some reason, you wouldn't be able to restore your phone easily (well, yes, there are methods, but it's basically HTC trying to have functionality they used to have by using a dongle).
I believe some android roms could (and do) provide Master mode for OneX. This would allow you to hook up USB keyboards, mice, gamepads and usb disks.
Hope this explains everything

[Q] Cannot connect to Note 2 on Mac OSX

Hi there! I just bought the T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 2. I'm trying to connect the phone to my MacBook Pro running Mountain Lion OSX so I can transfer my files and such and also access the SD card. On my previous phone, (HTC Sensation 4G), all I had to do was just connect it to the usb cable and I'll see my phone accessible on finder. This is not my case for the Note 2 right now. I even installed Android File Transfer and it still doesn't work. Android File Transfer reports, "Could not connect to device. Try reconnecting or restarting the device". And of course I tried all of that. The only thing that works is the Kies software from Samsung but the software is incredibly slow. It is telling me that it will take 10 hours to transfer a 125MB file. It doesn't make any sense at all. I'm running a maxed out MacBook Pro Retina Display and I got a spankin new phone using it's provided usb cable and I tried others. My only option to transfer files fast to my SD card is by taking it out physically and connecting it to my SD Card adapter
Please help! Thanks in advance
DJCodeBlue said:
Hi there! I just bought the T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 2. I'm trying to connect the phone to my MacBook Pro running Mountain Lion OSX so I can transfer my files and such and also access the SD card. On my previous phone, (HTC Sensation 4G), all I had to do was just connect it to the usb cable and I'll see my phone accessible on finder. This is not my case for the Note 2 right now. I even installed Android File Transfer and it still doesn't work. Android File Transfer reports, "Could not connect to device. Try reconnecting or restarting the device". And of course I tried all of that. The only thing that works is the Kies software from Samsung but the software is incredibly slow. It is telling me that it will take 10 hours to transfer a 125MB file. It doesn't make any sense at all. I'm running a maxed out MacBook Pro Retina Display and I got a spankin new phone using it's provided usb cable and I tried others. My only option to transfer files fast to my SD card is by taking it out physically and connecting it to my SD Card adapter
Please help! Thanks in advance
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I've always had trouble with Android File Transfer and all my Samsung phones on my MacBook Pro. Sometimes it works and sometimes it don't. I avoid using it as much as possible now and just use AirDroid (which is slow and very similar to the Kies software) or I just remove the SD card and transfer files using an SD card adapter. I haven't found a fix or workaround to get it working properly.
julez456 said:
I've always had trouble with Android File Transfer and all my Samsung phones on my MacBook Pro. Sometimes it works and sometimes it don't. I avoid using it as much as possible now and just use AirDroid (which is slow and very similar to the Kies software) or I just remove the SD card and transfer files using an SD card adapter. I haven't found a fix or workaround to get it working properly.
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bluetooth works pretty well:good:
I got a fix for you...... buy a real computer a pc and throw that piece of crap in the garbage. Did you install the drivers? is usb debug checked in developer options?
mojorisin7178 said:
I got a fix for you...... buy a real computer a pc and throw that piece of crap in the garbage. Did you install the drivers? is usb debug checked in developer options?
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Please, don't give me that "PC vs MAC" crap I have both PC and MAC and reasons why I use both operating systems. And from using Mac & PC for the past 7 years for the work that I do, Mac OS X has been by far the most reliable operating system that I've ever used. On top of that, I do a lot of radio mixing work and DJing and graphical designing and such and Mac is a must. I've had a Windows laptop before gave me nothing but issues whatsoever. I spend a lot of money buying expensive and top of the line Windows laptops and I always have to worry about maintaining the damn thing and went through a lot of stress because of it. So I'm happy with what I have. But on a side note, I find the iPhone to be the crappiest phone on the planet and I have a Dell XPS for gaming and as a multimedia box. So I hope that justifies that I'm not an apple fan boy.
I did install drivers and yes I had USB debug checked.
Anyways I found a solution for Mac users. I have VMware running Windows 7 & Windows 8. I have both operating systems connected and running seamlessly with the my Mac files so I'll be able to access and edit files that would be on my Mac on my virtual operating systems. And that was a fix for me without having to transfer any music, pictures, etc to a different PC and then transfer the files to my phone. Although it requires virtualization, it's the only thing that worked for me. I still wish there was better compatibility. I had no issues with my old HTC HD2 and HTC Sensation 4G. Samsung really got me angry about this one and their Kies software is complete crap.

[Q] Mass storage device, instead of MTP/PTP?

I have a stock SGH-I747M with Bell Canada. When I plug in my phone into my PC, it shows up as a "phone". When I plugged in my old Atrix into my PC, it showed up as a drive, aka USB Mass Storage Device, and I could do so much more with it. The biggest problem is that I can't use Treesize on the phone. Treesize doesn't know what the hell to do with an MTP or PTP device. I can see why they chose MTP instead of MSD, because you don't have to wait for it to mount/unmount, and both devices can use the storage at the same time. But that just means I'm never going to see the max USB transfer speed.
Is there any way to force it to connect in MSD mode? Or would that require rooting? I still have a 1 year warranty, so I'd rather not root if I don't have to. Yes I know I can unroot if I have to send it back, but what if my phone breaks and becomes so unusable that I cannot unroot?
Saw this http://www.xda-developers.com/android/usb-mass-storage-app-for-recent-samsung-devices/. Not sure if it will work or not.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I747

Google Pixel XL doesn't show up in Windows Device Manager when I connect it via USB

I just purchased a mint condition Pixel 1 XL on ebay. It arrived with Android 9. I should have plugged it in then to check if USB file transfer mode would work. But I just assumed it would since I've never had a problem with any device in the past: various apple phones, samsung tablet, google nexus tablet.
So I updated the phone to Android 10 before I plugged the phone in, and then discovered it refuses to recognize my device for file transfer, only for charging. It does not show up in device manager at all, even though it is charging. The phone makes a sound to indicate it is charging, but it does not pop up with anything to ask if I want to connect to the PC. The phone 100% acts like I just plugged it into the wall instead of a PC.
OEM unlock is enabled.
USB debugging is enabled.
Default USB configuration is set to File Transfer mode.
I already installed the latest android_winusb driver.
I've rebooted both the phone and the PC.
I've tried plugging it into 3 different Windows 10 PCs with google android usb driver installed. Only one of those PCs has samsung android drivers installed on it. The others only ever had iphone plugged into them. So there shouldn't be any drivers interfering that I know of.
But no matter what, it only charges the device, it never recognizes it in device manager.
Since I bought this off ebay, it did not come with the official, original USB cable.
I'm praying maybe it's just the third-party USB cable causing the problem. But I can't find any cable that is verified to work for File Transfer. Do you know where I can buy a cable like this? Link please?
If it's not the cable, is there any way out of this situation? If I can't get device manager to recognize the phone, I think it's impossible to flash the phone back to Android 9 or something to see if Android 10 broke something???
I've already read some really scary posts online of other pixel phones of various models simply stop recognizing their phones in device manager and they never get it back. It becomes a fancy brick that works as a phone, but you can't actually do anything with it because no PC will recognize it.
I was excited to try a pixel phone for the first time until this happened. What the heck, Google?
Ok I think the stupid trick is you have to UNLOCK the phone BEFORE you plug it in. If you plug it in, and then unlock it, it will never give you a notification asking to connect to the PC no matter what you do.
As someone used to iphones, at least iphone says "unlock me" when I plug it in and it doesn't properly connect. But plenty of other times it will connect to device manager even if I don't unlock it.
Kinda annoyed Android doesn't say anything at all when you plug it in without unlocking it first.

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