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is usb mass storage possible with root?

Just got a brand new Galaxy nexus today and haven't got a chance to root it yet. But i was seriously appalled by the fact that it doesn't support usb mass storage, which i did not know before buying it.
I just wanted to know, will rooting make usb mass storage possible?
no sd card and now this? I mean i love the phone but i can only take so much.

So you bought a Galaxy Nexus, but didn't know it didn't support UMS?
What's your specific problem with MTP?

martonikaj said:
So you bought a Galaxy Nexus, but didn't know it didn't support UMS?
What's your specific problem with MTP?
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MTP?
Yes i did buy it without knowledge of that. I guess that's what i deserve for not reading fine print?
You failed to answer my question though...
Rooting must enable mass storage though or how would roms be flashable?

ROMs are transferred to the phone via MTP on Windows, just like music and videos are transferred.
MTP is the replacement for USB Mass Storage. You can still transfer files back and forth.

donlad said:
ROMs are transferred to the phone via MTP on Windows, just like music and videos are transferred.
MTP is the replacement for USB Mass Storage. You can still transfer files back and forth.
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Thank you. I came from an incredible and i guess i expected everything to be the same.
My bad for posting prematurely and now i probably look pretty stupid, but i can blame it on it being late. thanks for your help anyway.
Looks like a got it figured out. Thanks again.

your question still wasnt answered. and yes some roms offer it i believe

donlad said:
ROMs are transferred to the phone via MTP on Windows, just like music and videos are transferred.
MTP is the replacement for USB Mass Storage. You can still transfer files back and forth.
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MTP does not transfer everything.
Try transferring your titanium backup files from your Nexus to your PC via MTP. I dare you. They're NOT there when you look at the Nexus from the PC-end.
Extracting stuff via "adb push" works fine though. This, and not having a drive-letter (so that things cant be scripted) was one motivation for me to start working on this thing:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1423392

Google/Samsung switched to MTP because now the OS and the files are on the same partition. So if you would mount the whole partition as mass storage your android would get down :-D
Maybe it could work with creating a new partition?

please please please work on this!!
I NEED UMS support bad!

josteink said:
MTP does not transfer everything.
Try transferring your titanium backup files from your Nexus to your PC via MTP. I dare you. They're NOT there when you look at the Nexus from the PC-end.
Extracting stuff via "adb push" works fine though. This, and not having a drive-letter (so that things cant be scripted) was one motivation for me to start working on this thing:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1423392
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Just transferred my contents backed up by TiBu. Works fine.
You are right, they are not viewable from PC to phone. They transfer and copy fine (entire directory).

chizzy58 said:
please please please work on this!!
I NEED UMS support bad!
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figure out how to put a SD card in the nexus and i bet it will work

josteink said:
MTP does not transfer everything.
Try transferring your titanium backup files from your Nexus to your PC via MTP. I dare you. They're NOT there when you look at the Nexus from the PC-end.
Extracting stuff via "adb push" works fine though. This, and not having a drive-letter (so that things cant be scripted) was one motivation for me to start working on this thing:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1423392
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Really? I transferred my titanium folder from Sensation 4G and it worked fine

chizzy58 said:
please please please work on this!!
I NEED UMS support bad!
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For what reason?

josteink said:
MTP does not transfer everything.
Try transferring your titanium backup files from your Nexus to your PC via MTP. I dare you. They're NOT there when you look at the Nexus from the PC-end.
Extracting stuff via "adb push" works fine though. This, and not having a drive-letter (so that things cant be scripted) was one motivation for me to start working on this thing:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1423392
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tried this many times. titanium transferring works perfectly.

Well, my problem is I work on pc's , sometimes a customer's machine doesn't get the Ethernet or wireless drivers after and install. I would normally download them on my droid x and use mass storage to transfer the file over....that works in windows 7...NOTin xp.
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chizzy58 said:
Well, my problem is I work on pc's , sometimes a customer's machine doesn't get the Ethernet or wireless drivers after and install. I would normally download them on my droid x and use mass storage to transfer the file over....that works in windows 7...NOTin xp.
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it's called a flash drive, have you heard of those?

I'm sure the OP has heard of a flash drive. However it would be much easier to just mount the phone like he has done in the past to transfer the downloaded file. Fishing out a USB OTG adapter, flash drive, and transferring is just extra steps.
Yes, a flash drive is probably the best bet for now... but I see why the OP finds it less than ideal compared to what he was used to.
Perhaps someone will come out with a custom ROM that has a new partition scheme to allow UMS. I personally wouldn't mind having a little 512MB partition on here for just that purpose.

thequinox said:
I'm sure the OP has heard of a flash drive. However it would be much easier to just mount the phone like he has done in the past to transfer the downloaded file. Fishing out a USB OTG adapter, flash drive, and transferring is just extra steps.
Yes, a flash drive is probably the best bet for now... but I see why the OP finds it less than ideal compared to what he was used to.
Perhaps someone will come out with a custom ROM that has a new partition scheme to allow UMS. I personally wouldn't mind having a little 512MB partition on here for just that purpose.
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No no no. Keep the files on the flash drive. Plug it into the computer. Win? Or if you need to find new drivers, you surely have a laptop you can use at work. Faster to find + download then using the phone anyway.
Having your phone + USB cable to hook it up to the computer is more cumbersome than just keeping the drivers for your work on flash drive

What if you need to transfer different files back and forth, and don't always keep a flash drive on you? I found with my HTC Desire that having mass storage was very useful for when I didn't have a flash drive... Admittedly, I can use my gnex for the same thing as all computers I use have win7 - but that is beside the point!

Surely it is possible to create some app, so as far as the PC is concerned it is connected to a USB device, but on the phone something else is occurring? Through some buffer or something...
I'm interested as well, as I'm having some trouble setting my Fedora laptop to talk as MTP. I'm comfortable transferring files via ADB but it can be a chore, and obviously none of my friends will have adb on their computers so transferring files socially will be a little hampered...

How to disable MTP?

I know there must be multiple posts on this, but after an hour, I'm striking out. I found a .ZIP for a GSII, but that did not work.
Any ideas?

seanvree said:
I know there must be multiple posts on this, but after an hour, I'm striking out. I found a .ZIP for a GSII, but that did not work.
Any ideas?
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SGS3 EASY UMS (look for it here [free version] or in the play store [donate version]) mounts your phone as Universal Mass Storage rather than MTP if you want that option.

colbyrainey said:
SGS3 EASY UMS (look for it here [free version] or in the play store [donate version]) mounts your phone as Universal Mass Storage rather than MTP if you want that option.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1711009

Couldn't we just use the *#7284# to access the utility menu and change it that way?
Sent from my HTC MyTouch 4G

Sorry new to this. But would this have any negative effects if I used the above app to change to usb mass to download music from my computer? Mtp is slow and media monkey scans the whole phone before it syncs. Could I just keep it set to usb or would something not work after that?
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mrmako777 said:
Couldn't we just use the *#7284# to access the utility menu and change it that way?
Sent from my HTC MyTouch 4G
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After running this code, which one should I select?

seanvree said:
After running this code, which one should I select?
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+1
---> Brought to you in part by my T999 / T-Mobile Galaxy SIII

that code gives me a chuckle. Always yelling at me about invalid mmi code
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Try the link I posted.
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KillaHurtz said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1711009
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Thanks. Works well and functions how the phone should be out of box.
---> Brought to you in part by my T999 / T-Mobile Galaxy SIII

HELP! Turn off storage: Galaxy Amp
I don't know if this is the right thread to put this but anyway...
I have a Samsung Galaxy Amp, a much cheaper, much watered-down version of the Galaxy Series, and I have been trying to enable default installation of apps to the external sd card. However, adb devices won't recognize my device because (I think) MTP storage is on.
I Have USB debugging on and the the device works fine over USB. However there is no way to disable storage from the phone's settings. It will automatically enter MTP storage on connection and I can't unmount it from the PC.
To be clear I want to disable ALL storage on the phone, not enable mass storage
Much of the menu options, style, setup, etc are similar to the s3. Any help would be appreciated.
*Also MTP is my best guess of why adb devices won't detect it, if it's something else insight on that will be much appreciated as well, thanks.
-I am a NEWB.

Cheapskate7 said:
I don't know if this is the right thread to put this but anyway...
I have a Samsung Galaxy Amp, a much cheaper, much watered-down version of the Galaxy Series, and I have been trying to enable default installation of apps to the external sd card. However, adb devices won't recognize my device because (I think) MTP storage is on.
I Have USB debugging on and the the device works fine over USB. However there is no way to disable storage from the phone's settings. It will automatically enter MTP storage on connection and I can't unmount it from the PC.
To be clear I want to disable ALL storage on the phone, not enable mass storage
Much of the menu options, style, setup, etc are similar to the s3. Any help would be appreciated.
*Also MTP is my best guess of why adb devices won't detect it, if it's something else insight on that will be much appreciated as well, thanks.
-I am a NEWB.
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Sounds more like a driver issue to me. Click on "Drivers" in my sig and download and install the latest drivers. Then go to device manager, find where it shows your device, right click it and Update Drivers.
If that doesnt work, you can also try the UniversalAdbDriverSetup6.msi. Though after installing this, you may have reinstall the Samsung drivers again later in order to use MTP/UMS or Odin.
Normal operation for me, I can connect using ADB and still have access to the phones storage at the same time.

Thanks!
DocHoliday77 said:
Sounds more like a driver issue to me. Click on "Drivers" in my sig and download and install the latest drivers. Then go to device manager, find where it shows your device, right click it and Update Drivers.
If that doesnt work, you can also try the UniversalAdbDriverSetup6.msi. Though after installing this, you may have reinstall the Samsung drivers again later in order to use MTP/UMS or Odin.
Normal operation for me, I can connect using ADB and still have access to the phones storage at the same time.
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Thanks! This worked great! The reason i thought it was MTP is because most articles make a point of telling you to turn off storage. Sorry if I posted in the wrong place and thanks again.

[Q] 4.1.1 file transferring on mac

So i updated my One X through the OTA 4.1.1, now everything changes and stuff. Now I can't mount my hox as a disk driver, it forces me to download the htc sync manager, but it doesn't work either...
It doesn't recognize my device, it says no device.
Please help guys, i need this. Is it because i'm using a mac and that the manager has just been released recently so it still has bugs?
thanks in advance

greenjade816 said:
So i updated my One X through the OTA 4.1.1, now everything changes and stuff. Now I can't mount my hox as a disk driver, it forces me to download the htc sync manager, but it doesn't work either...
It doesn't recognize my device, it says no device.
Please help guys, i need this. Is it because i'm using a mac and that the manager has just been released recently so it still has bugs?
thanks in advance
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to use usb you need to go in recovery and mount usb, if you're not rooted, well, that's the only method... HTC ha removed the USB storage from JB

lol, sorry im really new to this android thing. How do i go into recovery mode?
and plus, if i choose to use sync manager, why doesn't it recognize my device? Is it because i don't the mtp drivers?
thanks in advance

I haven't got the JB OTA, but I usually use Solid Explorer's File Transfer mode to copy files to/from my device over wifi. I don't see why it shouldn't work on JB too, so you can give it a try - download the app from the Play Store and use your favourite mac ftp client (mine is Cyberduck). Good luck!

greenjade816 said:
lol, sorry im really new to this android thing. How do i go into recovery mode?
and plus, if i choose to use sync manager, why doesn't it recognize my device? Is it because i don't the mtp drivers?
thanks in advance
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if you don't know what recovery is then you didn't root the device so don't do that... however the Macs don't have MTP mode, it is a Windows only feature

matt95 said:
if you don't know what recovery is then you didn't root the device so don't do that... however the Macs don't have MTP mode, it is a Windows only feature
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Wait, so are you saying HTC has made the internal storage like it is on the GNex (one big partition for apps + data +user storage that can't be accessed through USB storage mode)? But could they have removed USB file transfer support without reformatting everything?

Does anyone have the USB Mass Storage Driver for DHD?

The lack of UMS drivers means that i cannot mount the SD Card in order to use the Hackace script, i have tried everything, i even tried other drivers and installing HTC Sync, and HTC Driver still did not work, i was just wondering if anyone has the drivers present on their PCs (Mine has a problem with them) Thanks.
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64

AFAIK you don't need drivers for USB Mass Storage. Best bet is to Google it but I don't think it'll help in your case. Are you Referring to the Advance Ace Hack Kit?

GuyInTheCorner said:
AFAIK you don't need drivers for USB Mass Storage. Best bet is to Google it but I don't think it'll help in your case. Are you Referring to the Advance Ace Hack Kit?
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this^^^

GuyInTheCorner said:
AFAIK you don't need drivers for USB Mass Storage. Best bet is to Google it but I don't think it'll help in your case. Are you Referring to the Advance Ace Hack Kit?
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Yes, I need to use the aahk tool to s-off my phone but the lack of drivers is causing the hack kit to come up with a bunch if errors, mainly it says that the SD Card is unmounted, I headed to Device Manager to rectify the problem and search for drivers through Windows Update, but it threw an error saying that there isn't any available, when I was on the stock ROM, Windows would recognise the phone as two devices: Android Phone, and Android Phone, the first one would be installed as 'Android ADB Interface' and the other device will not be installed. On JellyTime, its recognized as Android Phone and Mass Storage, but mass storage has the same error.
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Merry Xmas!!

I could not get the drivers installed, so I installed Windows XP on VMWare Workstation and it works perfectly.
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[Q] For Mac Users

Hey,
I'm just having this amazing phone but i'm a little bit disappointed when I connect it on my mac because I can't use it without "LG PC SUITE"
I can't find it in my finder like an usb storage and so I find it not very practical to use.
Have you any tips to use it like an usb storage?

If u can't install LG PC sure on your mac then install windows on your mac... I am sure u can install windows on your mac

Just use Android transfer for mac from here
no need to install windows for copying files from phone to mac.

Cheers but I didn't say I had a problem to install LG PC SUITE, I have it on my mac... I would just use my phone like an usb storage or usb key when I connect it on my mac and that is the problem, it doesn't appear like a usb storage.

pr0de said:
Cheers but I didn't say I had a problem to install LG PC SUITE, I have it on my mac... I would just use my phone like an usb storage or usb key when I connect it on my mac and that is the problem, it doesn't appear like a usb storage.
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Don't think thats possible with Android on a Mac, Steve Jobs made sure of that. The link I posted above will let you copy/delete/rename stuff on your phone, both internal and external SD, other than that what exactly do you want to do with the phone ?

UK-Sense said:
Don't think thats possible with Android on a Mac, Steve Jobs made sure of that. The link I posted above will let you copy/delete/rename stuff on your phone, both internal and external SD, other than that what exactly do you want to do with the phone ?
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Ha damn it!
When I had my HTC Desire HD it worked like an usb storage and it was great 'cause I could have to do a lot of things but now I'm very pissed off to know it's not possible!!!
Anyway, thanks for your advise