Sorry for such a newbie question but I can't find an answer in any forums. I used to be able to get access to both my external and internal sd card when i plugged into my windows 7 laptop. it would show as a new device SPD something. When i clicked on that icon in windows explorer it would break out two different drives the External and Internal. After flashing starburst rom and plugging in the device, it just shows an (F) Drive which is my standard storage. My phone then asks me for USB mass storage permission and it goes into mass storage mode. Clicking on F will bring me to my external SD card but I can't figure out how to access data on the built in memory chip. Any help would be appreciated!
If you got to Settings>Applications>Development and check allow usb debugging it should detect both cards as removable drives that you can access.
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Can someone walk me through how to access my sd card from my computer. It does not show up.
Thanks,
Bernard
Once you plug your phone to the usb charger, you get a notification there you select what you want to do... Whether you just want to charge the device or mount it as a disk drive. There you mount it as a disk drive and youl see it as a removable disk in the Explorer.
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Thanks,
But it is not there. I see the device but there is no SD card.
Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
More than likely its needs to be assigned a drive letter so the computer will see it
Which OS are you running?
Windows 7.
how can i use incredible's internal storage?
I can't find setting in camera config,only can select to card or phone memory,don't have internal storage option!
I do can find 2 removable disk in winxp form it.but i can only read/write the tf card.i can do nothing for the internal storage,include format,read,write!
how can i do?
JohnHi said:
how can i use incredible's internal storage?
I can't find setting in camera config,only can select to card or phone memory,don't have internal storage option!
I do can find 2 removable disk in winxp form it.but i can only read/write the tf card.i can do nothing for the internal storage,include format,read,write!
how can i do?
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your phone memory IS your internal memory (in case that is not clear).
You can enable your internal memory by going to settings/applications/development and checking USB Debugging.
hope that helps.
thanks a lot!
I check the usb debug mode,but my win7 report that can't find adb drivers!
where can i find the adb driver?
Dont enable usb debugging. Drag down the bar at top and go from charge only to usb storage mode.. windows should auto detect it as a usb drive and it will show your sd card as a usb drive...copy files over that way.
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Dont enable usb debugging. Drag down the bar at top and go from charge only to usb storage mode.. windows should auto detect it as a usb drive and it will show your sd card as a usb drive...copy files over that way.
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But in this mode,my win7 can only find the tf card disk. I can not read/write/format the internal storage. win xp can find 2 htc disk,but also only can net do anything to the internal storage disk!
what can i do?
Then you have something pretty tangled. I plug my standard DInc into my Win7 machine, and choose "Disk drive" mode and I see two disks mounted, one for the phone RAM and one for the SD card.
Likewise....
you can also use something like Astro and move files from the SDcard to the emmc (internal memory folder)
I am running bakedsnack 1.5, I also have a theme.
This problem started back before I was rooted.
First sign of issues was when I would move a app to the SD card it would give me a error, can't remember the error something like SD card unreachable. I would then hit move to SD card again and it would move.
Today I lost all my apps that were mounting on the SD card.
I can view the SD card with astro viewer.
My phone will charge when plugged into a computer and I can use adb to connect to the phone.
I can download from the market but it gets stuck on installing
One more thing, when i try to unmount my card in settings -> SD & phone storage -> unmount SD card it gives me a error and "Activity SD & phone storage (in application settings) is not responding"
Does anyone have any ideas what might be going on, bad SD card?
I did a search and nothing here really applies.
Thanks for helping a newbie
That happened to me one time when I used the safely remove USB device option in Windows. To fix it, with the phone connected to PC via USB, boot into recovery. There would be an option for USB-MS (USB Mass Storage) - toggle that on. Once you see Windows recognize your sd card as removable storage, toggle USB-MS off.
Hey all, I've tried to search here and have read what I could but I'm trying to understand how we actually see the external sd storage on the phone itself other then "settings", "storage" or when the phone is connected to a computer. I just installed a 32gb card and when looking in root explorer I'm not seeing it. Also when the phone is connected to the computer I am seeing a second drive letter this now accessible so I'm guessing that's it. I do see the card listed under storage as see I have 29.50gb available.
When I installed the card I just went into recovery, mounts & storage and then selected format /sd card. Do I need to also partition the card? I'm just trying to better understand these functions in relation to this phone and being rooted.
Thx
The second drive you see on your computer is the internal 16GB memory of your phone.
When you connect to your computer, the first drive is the "USB storage", around 11GB, which is part of your phone's internal storage. The second drive is your SD card.
If you want to look at your external SD card from your phone, use any file explorer program, it by default will go to the "USB storage", which is not your external SD card. Look for a folder called "external_sd", this folder is mounted to your SD card.
SD TIP
just a Tip
it is SAFE to rename the 2 mounted drives
so I named my internal SD as SGH-T989
and my external SD as the actual SD model+size like:
ADATA32GB
Transcent16GB
SandDisk64GB
then next time you plug it into Linux or Windows or any PC you will know right away which is which
Big thanks, I appreciate everyone's comments. That's a great tip on renaming the drives....doing that now
good info!
the first/second order can change for individual users, depending on what your OS detects first. Also these can be changed at any time, through the registry or through Disk Management. If for some reason you don't want to rename the drives as suggested above (and you should) you could alternatively just create a text document on the drive labelled as such.
I’m trying out my new Sony Xperia Z1C.
And there are some things I have questions about
Before I had a HTC One and I could connect it by cable to my audio equipment in my car (BMW 3 F series). This worked because the BMW can read MTP devices.
Connecting the Sony the first time it took ages before it was ready and then only the contents of the internal memory were shown.
When starting mirrorlink on the phone made it unusable in the car.
With a task manager I could remove the mirrorlink background task, is there no other way to stop that background task?
But the problem remained, it could connect but nothing of the SD card was shown.
So I switched to Mass storage and tried to connect again.
This was a lot faster but only four directories were shown.
I copied files on the sd card directly from my pc and not through the phone connection,
so I reformatted the card
and copied files to it through the phone connected to the pc. Copying then failed on .m3u files (why , the phone cannot do anything with them so why not copying?),
so I skipped all those files and
mounted the sd card once more as mass storage,
and now the car audio can see all of the directories. Now I know how to copy mp3 files but it is still a strange way of working, copying to the SD card directly works so much faster.
Mounting the SD card as MTP has almost the same result as before, it reads the card a lot faster now but it still does not show content of the sd.
Can anybody explain me what the correct way of working is,
is MTP only for internal memory (when connecting to the pc on MTP I can see both sdcard0 (internal memory) as sdcard1 (sd card )?
What about killing background tasks such as mirrorlink, how to proceed?
What about copying files to the SDCard, from the pc to the card or from the pc through the phone and then to the card?
Are not all filetypes supported on the card?, I think my initial problem was related to the M3U files.
no time to get into details but i know 2 things
MTP mounts the phones internal memory plus the external sd card
mass storage mounts only the sd card like any other mass storage device
and yes, MTP is slower compared to the mass storage.