So, I want to connect my Nexus to my computer to put on some wallpapers, pictures, videos, etc. Thing is, whenever I connect it, and navigate to it in Windows Explorer, it seems to freeze up Windows Explorer. I managed to get my ringtones transferred over just fine, but every time I try to copy over pictures or anything else, it gets stuck on the copy process.
Additionally, it seems like access to folders and whatnot is pretty restricted... On my previous phone (the Thunderbolt), I had used MyBackupPro to back up my save data for games. The backup files were found in the app's folder, and I just copied them from the SD card to my computer so that I could put them on the Nexus. But on the Nexus, I can't seem to get in deep enough to access the MyBackupPro folder to move my backups to...
Anyone know how to fix either of these issues?
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hey guys
I had a bunch of pics that I received via MMS and I needed to use, so I just long click on it and selected to save do sd card. But when I connect the phone to the pc on mass storage mode, I can't find them anywhere.
So I installed the app SaveMMS and saved all the pics to a folder with the same name. Still nothing showed up when I connect the phone to my PC.
Using ASTRO, I can see all the pictures on the download folder and I can also access the SaveMMS folder (and actually some other folders that I cant see from my PC).
I tried to copy to somewhere else and even that didnt work.
I ended up emailing myself the pics...
Any idea on whats happening?
I got root and im using opendesire with a partitioned sd card (and no, there's no pictures on the ext partition).
many thanks
Does any file names or folders on your phone look like, for example, this ".hello"
If so, get rid of the full stop at the start of the name via Astro, as it will not show up on your computer
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thanks for the reply
the first thing I checked was for hidden folders, and it wasnt that.
the folders ended up showing up on the desktop as well, out of nowhere.
but it just seemed some random, dont know what was the issue.
This is usually because you are using a2sd which makes the SD card do strange things. Changes are only actually saved to the card for the computer to see when restarting the phone
The problem is well documented, and a fix have been made which should fix it
Well, its really weird.
But better weird with A2SD than normal without it ;p
I went snowboarding today and took tons of great pictures . I came home and tried to upload the files to my computer. At first I tried bluetooth but it didn't work for some reason. I then plugged in the USB cable and attempted to manually copy them. I couldn't find them on either my phone or my sd card. Furthermore, I saw a folder called "Blackberry" in triplicate on my sd card ( the card was in my old BB ) and I decided to erase it. It erased 2 copies and said it couldn't erase the third one. After that... poof, ALL media files are gone. Literally everything. Folders are intact but the files are all gone! On the phone, on the SD card, in every folder: camera, pictures, whatsapp, videos, you name it.. all gone!
I am running AOKP d2att 9.30.2012 with 4.1.
I was able to recover the files from the SD card with an undelete software, by putting the card in my old BB which exports it through UMS. But the S3 has no UMS option. I then spent the next 2h trying to get the S3 to export its internal storage through UMS and hoping I could undelete the files.
Isn't this just crazy ? Anyone had anything similar happen to them ? Do I have any other options at this point ?
P.S. Didn't have time to backup the new pics...
I made *some* progress.
I installed 'DiskDigger' app which was able to retrieve the deleted files from the external sd card ( which I was already able to do by mounting it in the BB and using a desktop app for undeleting ). DiskDigger also worked on the internal sdcard and it recovered about 500 deleted files, like really old files from months ago but NONE from the Camera folder or other folders which contained images/videos. They appear to be mostly files which were displayed in the browser, used by Facebook, etc.
I booted my device in CWM and ran e2fsck in adb shell without any luck.
Where could my files be ? Are they really deleted ? If so, why doesn't the 'undelete' software pick them up ? How can videos, camera photos, whatsapp images, pictures be gone in one instant ? This makes no sense at all!
Photos are usually stored in DCIM/Camera
I currently only have 500mb available. I know that most of it is in pictures and some videos. But I can't copy over the files since everytime i try to load the DCIM folder on a computer, it freezes and shows unresponding. I have tried 5 computers and same thing happens. Now I really have to make this work since I have to send the phone back since the power button barely works, and i got a replacement. (I have the Verizon version).
please help. thanks
Try an FTP app from the Play Store (I use FTPServer) and Filezilla on your computer. It works great for me and you dont even have to plug your phone in.
Or
Set up an online storage thing (box, dropbox, google drive, etc.) and upload everything to it. Then delete everything on your device.
xev11 said:
I currently only have 500mb available. I know that most of it is in pictures and some videos. But I can't copy over the files since everytime i try to load the DCIM folder on a computer, it freezes and shows unresponding. I have tried 5 computers and same thing happens. Now I really have to make this work since I have to send the phone back since the power button barely works, and i got a replacement. (I have the Verizon version).
please help. thanks
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You could try using adb to pull it. There are tons of guides for installing and using adb floating around this site, or the internet in general.
If you have access to wifi, you could try transferring the files that way. Something like Airdroid (on the market) can help with this, although there are many other apps that can achieve similar things. There is FTP (and offshoots of it) if you don't have wifi.
Another option would be to use something to sync with the cloud. Dropbox, Google Drive...etc This may not work for you, as many of these only allow you to have 5GB with the free version of their service, which it sounds like you may have surpassed. Also, depending on the speed of your internet, and the speed of the cloud service, this could take a while.
As above..
adb pull method.. it should work well
you must have installed ADB drivers and you must have ADB files e.g adb.dll and then just open terminal and navigate to right folder and use ADB command:
Example:
adb pull /sdcard/DCIM/ C:\Users\CarlosManuel\Downloads (if I remember the commands right, that should be the way to pull the DCM folder wth the files)
***SOLUTION FOUND! I CAN NOW ACCESS THE FOLDER. SEE POST BELOW.***
Android File Transfer was working great up until a few days ago when it started to bug out, only for when trying to access the Camera folder on my exSD Card.
I can access everything else except when clicking on this folder the message pops up, which makes no sense because my screen isn't locked. (Screenshot attached.)
Could it be that the amount of pictures/videos on the exSD card is too much to handle for AFT? After all, it is a 64GB card...which is a lot of land to cover and load....hmmmm
I've tried this, but no luck.
Note: I'm aware of AirDroid etc...Personally I prefer to be plugged in direct via USB.
iunlock said:
Android File Transfer was working great up until a few days ago when it started to bug out, only for when trying to access the Camera folder on my exSD Card.
I can access everything else except when clicking on this folder the message pops up, which makes no sense because my screen isn't locked. (Screenshot attached.)
Could it be that the amount of pictures/videos on the exSD card is too much to handle for AFT? After all, it is a 64GB card...which is a lot of land to cover and load....hmmmm
I've tried this, but no luck.
Note: I'm aware of AirDroid etc...Personally I prefer to be plugged in direct via USB.
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Not really a theme Or app question but I'll give it a swing.
Can you access it on your phone fine?
Did you try using a card reader an see if you can access it that way?
If it's stating locked, it may have set permissions on your folder that inhibit access? Check those in a root explorer an see what they say too
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Mod, can you move this over to the proper forum. Thanks.
Possible causes / Things I've tried:
I do have some pictures in an App called: KeepSafe, where you have to enter in a pin code to access those pics, so then I was thinking maybe this was causing the problem. So I entered the App and tried connecting, but darn...same old thing. Doesn't work and I keep getting the same error message as the pic I have attached to the original thread.
I have also tried to reboot in Recovery (twrp) and tried to mount the exSD, but still nothing. Here's the message it gave me:
E: Unable to mount '/usbstorage'
This is driving me crazy. Anyone?
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Not really a theme Or app question but I'll give it a swing.
Can you access it on your phone fine? - Yes I can access it just fine through ES File Explorer. I've also checked the permissions.
Did you try using a card reader an see if you can access it that way? - I'm sure it'll work fine with a card reader, but that's not my preferred method. It's just frustrating for something to have worked and out of the blue stop.
If it's stating locked, it may have set permissions on your folder that inhibit access? Check those in a root explorer an see what they say too - I've uploaded a screen shot of the message that I'm receiving.
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Try moving the KeepSafe files to another directory.
Frank
Update 6/30/14
SUCCESS!
From the gallery on your phone, you can create folders and move (not copy) over pictures/videos and it'll be default save it to your phones internal SD card.
I didn't want to move all 4,000+ pics/vids so I just did it in little batches of 20 here 50 there and made just a few folders.
Then I connected the phone to my computer and accessed the Camera folder and....bam there it OPENS!
My theory:
If you have more than ~50% of your external SD card filled up then chances are your computer (Android File Transfer, for Mac users) will have a hard time trying to access that huge folder that is < 30+GB's ...
Therefore, you just have to lighten up the load on that folder so that it can be accessed with ease...
Pretty straight forward and simple.
Update 6/30/14
***SOLUTION FOUND! I CAN NOW ACCESS THE FOLDER. SEE POST BELOW.***
From the gallery on your phone, you can create folders and move (don't copy) over pictures/videos and it'll by default save it to your phones internal SD card.
I didn't want to move all 4,000+ pics/vids so I just moved about a couple hundred pictures to varies folders.
Then I connected the phone to my computer and accessed the Camera folder and....bam there it OPENS!
My theory:
If you have more than ~50% of your external SD card filled up then chances are your computer (Android File Transfer, for Mac users) will have a hard time trying to access that huge folder that is < 30+GB's ... (Windows wouldn't open it either.)
Therefore, you just have to lighten up the load on that folder so that it can be accessed with ease...
Pretty straight forward and simple. Hope this helps.
iunlock said:
My theory:
If you have more than ~50% of your external SD card filled up then chances are your computer (Android File Transfer, for Mac users) will have a hard time trying to access that huge folder that is < 30+GB's ...
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It is more likely that they thought it very unlikely that there would be more than the old limit of 2,000 files in a directory so they didn't allow for it in the program code.
Frank
I am using windows 8.1 (tried on 2 different systems with same OS) and viperone rom 2.5.0 on my HTC one M8. (this is a problem i always had even on the stock rom, I thought that a custom rom might fix it but i was wrong).
When i connect my phone to my computer, it gets detected instantly.
It finds the internal sd card but also the external sd card.
HOWEVER, when i go to the internal sd card (So the memory the phone has by default) There is no Android folder. (you know, the one with the .com-facebook blabla files in it)
When i open a file explorer on my phone I can perfectly see all the files and folders on my Internal SD card. But when I use the pc to find these files, allot of them don't show up. Even some files in the ROOT of the sd card are not showing up, and these are simple .png and .log files. AS IF WINDOWS 8.1 DOES NOT DOESN'T RECOGNIZE THE FILES, and therefor decides to just not show them.
- YES i have turned on Show hidden files and folders -
Oh yeah, sometimes these folders do randomly pop up in there on the pc but then the are gone just as fast as they appeared. Also transfering files is very, very slow and gets interupted from time to time because windows "Cannot connect to device" or "Lost connection to device".
I keep wondering, why can't it be easy like an simple usb stick/drive. Those things are just plug 'n play. I recon that android should have this same option but it keeps disappointing me
I remember the good GingerBread days where you pressed the button on your phone CONNECT STORAGE TO PC. And it worked every single time, without delay or other crap. Just like CWM with its USB Storage function.
Look for a folder named "storage", in there you find the folder "emulated" and in there is the folder "0" open it and you'll see all the folders you have on your phone