Why did they remove drive letter access and cripple the phone with this MTP crap?
It took me 30 seconds to copy my pictures from my Droid Incredible via drive letter, and now it's taking upwards of 20 minutes to copy them over to the Nexus.
This is completely absurd...
DeaconBoogie said:
Why did they remove drive letter access and cripple the phone with this MTP crap?
It took me 30 seconds to copy my pictures from my Droid Incredible via drive letter, and now it's taking upwards of 20 minutes to copy them over to the Nexus.
This is completely absurd...
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Copying a files to/from my Galaxy Nexus takes no time at all. Much faster file transfer than on my previous phone and USB drive. Have you tried removing the driver and installing the naked samsung drivers?
DeaconBoogie said:
Why did they remove drive letter access and cripple the phone with this MTP crap?
It took me 30 seconds to copy my pictures from my Droid Incredible via drive letter, and now it's taking upwards of 20 minutes to copy them over to the Nexus.
This is completely absurd...
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And yet I'm having the exact opposite experience; on both a desktop PC and MacBook Pro with Android File Transfer, the performance of the Galaxy Nexus' filesystem has been miles ahead of the 8GB Class 10 MicroSD card I had in my previous device.
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And yet I'm having the exact opposite experience; on both a desktop PC and MacBook Pro with Android File Transfer, the performance of the Galaxy Nexus' filesystem has been miles ahead of the 8GB Class 10 MicroSD card I had in my previous device.
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I can't get the android file transfer to work on my mac. I download the dmg file and drag to applications, but it stil doesn't read my device. Am I doing something wrong? Can you shd some light for me?
And here comes the flood of "im not happy" threads.
You should have known it was MTP before you purchased it. Not trying to start an e-flame but just sayin'.
My connection always messes up, all my music got deleted last night. I'm having trouble copying music over. I'm ditching the stock ROM asap, hopefully one of the custom ROMs has mass storage.
I have to agree, I've hated MTP since the WinXP days when I first hooked up a camera directly. Had tons of corrupted files during transfers so I switched to taking out the memory cards and accessing them with USB readers.
Even now with the nexus I have trouble with files not even showing up properly in explorer but are clearly there when I use a file manager on the phone itself.
I copied a 500mb film from my pc to my phone in no-time. Must be your pc that causes the problem.
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I'm not sure why everybody needs to install stuff. I plugged the phone into my MBP and it popped up the contents. Plugged it into my W7 gaming machine and it popped up the contents.
Transfer times were the same, or faster, as they are on my Galaxy S II and Rezound.
Then again, unless it's more than 3-5 files I just use WiFi File Explorer. Fantastic way to transfer files to/from. Definitely worth the $.99 for the full version (demo only allows downloading *from* phone, not uploading to).
It's a trade-off. This way we can use the entire storage space. Just one big partition where all your apps and app data go. No more "internal storage" vs "external storage."
Mtp is very slow and makes windows crash.
sblantipodi said:
Mtp is very slow and makes windows crash.
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Maybe on your PC.
Everything works fine here with MTP, even better than Mass Storage before...
I love whatever they did. On my Thunderbolt, it would take a long time to copy files, but with the GN, it's as fast as anything! Not to mention I don't have to screw with turning on the phone, turning on USB, doing my work, turning the phone on, turning off USB, etc.
It's always on, available, and awesome!
I find that I have a lot better luck with my windows 7 machine than I do with my Vista machine.
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I'm having better luck with the good 'ol console.
adb push has been outperforming MTP for me.
So does MTP mean there's nothing to "eject" and you just pull the plug out of the phone?
Not on my PC it doesn't.
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So does MTP mean there's nothing to "eject" and you just pull the plug out of the phone?
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Yes there's no "eject" at all, because the system isn't actually mounted like it is in USB mass storage. Meaning you can still interact with the files on your phone when you're transferring to/from the phone.
I just transferred a 5.00GB mkv file in 16 minutes. That's roughly 5.2MB/sec. *Shrug*.
I'd prefer USB Mass Storage...
Anyone else notice that the pc's volume goes down when the device is unplugged?
I have Pandora playing on Win7 and unplugging the phone causes the volume for Pandora to drop. This is noticeable in the Volume Mixer.
Just picked up my nexus last night and i must say i love it! i was able to take everything from my Droid INC and get it onto my computer. When i hook up my nexus to the computer to transfer pictures and videos over my computer freezes. Even if it try to do 1 at a time. But when i transfer over apk files i can send a whole bunch and it doesnt freeze. Any ideas?
it's a bug, will be fixed with future update
for now, use airdroid, is awesome
do i download that in the market?
yeah sorry, here it is: http://goo.gl/Eos1u
Im having issues getting files from my phone to my computer, i did it before and when i did it i went to "my computer" and pretty sure it said samsung and i got the files i wanted on the computer, no i go in and it says blackberry, which the sd card came from a BB, i go in and it just gives me old pictures and videos nothing newer on it and not showing my new videos... wtf am i doing?? I connect the phone via usb and turn on mass storage.... then my computer asks what i want to use to open and i use microsoft pic manager.... i remember this being a hell lot easier in the past whats changed?
I can't get my pc to open my pictures like I am used to. I open my DCIM of my phone (when my PC actually recognizes my phone) and all I see are a bunch of JPG Icons. I have a couple of hundred pictures and I like to see my pictures as soon as I open my phone with my pc.
Having to click on every one just plain sucks. I'm running Windows 7 on my PC. I really don't want to load my pictures each time and THEN have to view them. That is terribly inconvenient. My TBOLT didn't have this problem. Samsung seems to have a few issues with certain programs on their phones.
It's because the phone only connects in mtp mode which for some reason doesn't work like mass storage mode where u can preview thumbnails of images.
Coming from an HTC phone myself I wondered the same thing until put 2 and 2 together.
Is there no way around this???
My friend dropped his note 2, and broke the screen so that it doesn't function at all anymore. I'm trying to help him recover his pictures from his phone, because he never made backups of them, and it's his pictures of his kids. The phone still works, because theringtone still goes off, and still plays the sound when it's connected to a charger.
His phone is bone stock, and non rooted. I installed the drivers, and connected it to a laptop, but can't retrieve any files. The phoneshows up in explorerer but shows the storage as completely empty. Not even icons for folders. Of course, he didn't use an sd card either. In this situation, I can't go into the phone and change settings with the busted screen, and can't get anything to show up in explorer. He got lucky and got asurion to give him a note 3 as a replacement, but will have to send back the note. Is there anyway to force the files off, or is he SOL?
If there is no response when you connect it to a windows 7 pc (the drivers are built in) you're out of luck. A possibility is Samsung Kies because that program will make an outomatic backup. Sounds like the USB port took damage too.
If you really want to work hard you can swap his main board into a working phone.
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If there is no response when you connect it to a windows 7 pc (the drivers are built in) you're out of luck. A possibility is Samsung Kies because that program will make an outomatic backup. Sounds like the USB port took damage too.
If you really want to work hard you can swap his main board into a working phone.
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It was odd because it registered in explorer as connected to usb, but showed no files or folders. Since he's the only person on earth that didn't use an sd card, I threw some files on an empty and put it in his phone, and that didn't show up either. So I'm guessing it's a lost cause? He has to send it back to asurion, so I can't take it apart.
There is two USB modes: media and storage. Sounds like storage.
Old thread, I know. The phone must be dusty now and the kids grown up. The cheapest solution to this is to get an MHL cable and hook it up to your TV. Use the stylus as your mouse and copy all files to an SD card.
This issue on my phone was due to screen security lock.