Is there any Kernel Developer who can make this true?
Its so hard to enable The USB Mass Storage for Nexus (like Xoom?)
Please take a look on this because i thing a lot of people here will love this!!!
please search. This has been requested about 9 jizzillion times.
That's right.
reuthermonkey said:
please search. This has been requested about 9 jizzillion times.
That's right.
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and whats the result of all this request?
I haven't looked around much but being that I haven't heard of any ums mod...I'd say mostly nothing.
It's not possible without repartitioning the phone and afaik no-one's tried it.
The reasons why have been explained multiple times, try a search.
Clancy_s said:
It's not possible without repartitioning the phone...
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If you're running Linux you don't have to.
jdbower said:
If you're running Linux you don't have to.
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and how's that?
The premise is that mass storage mode isn't possible because the SD card is not FAT32 but ext4, as such if the phone supported mass storage mode you wouldn't need to repartition under Linux since Linux natively supports ext4.
That said, why bother with something as quaint as cables when Linux also supports SSHFS and your phone supports an SSH server?
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The premise is that mass storage mode isn't possible because the SD card is not FAT32 but ext4, as such if the phone supported mass storage mode you wouldn't need to repartition under Linux since Linux natively supports ext4.
That said, why bother with something as quaint as cables when Linux also supports SSHFS and your phone supports an SSH server?
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i would say because of speed, and not having wifi everywhere you want to connect your phone.
is there already a way to export a block device/file to the usb port as mass storage?
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I use Windows and MTP works fine for me. I wouldn't need UMS.
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Does the Galaxy Nexus Support exFAT file format / system?
I did a search but ppl only vaguely mentioned exFAT.
If exFAT is not supported, has anyone tried making ext4 drives using this?
http://shuffleos.com/1847/ext2fsd-read-write-ext4-ext3-ext2-partitions-windows/
I dunno about xfat but I'bee unable to get ext2fsd on Win&64 bit to work properly with my ext4 partitions (64 bit Ubuntu). Sometimes it can read it, mostly it hangs while I'm waiting for it to open.
That's lame. Android needs to add exFAT support or create ext4 drivers for Windows.
Or else, Windows Tablet 8 is going to kill the Android tablet market!
The Galaxy Nexus doesn't function as a USB storage device when attached to a computer. It communicates via MTP instead. This renders the underlying filesystem of the partitions on the phone itself somewhat irrelevant. No, no one has hacked in a way to force the phone to act as a USB drive yet.
Sooo, in light of that, what are you talking about?
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The Galaxy Nexus doesn't function as a USB storage device when attached to a computer. It communicates via MTP instead. This renders the underlying filesystem of the partitions on the phone itself somewhat irrelevant. No, no one has hacked in a way to force the phone to act as a USB drive yet.
Sooo, in light of that, what are you talking about?
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The ability to read USB Flash drives attached to the device. It won't read exFAT and getting Windows to read/write ext4 is a big PITA.
I just ordered a Samsung OTG cable so I can use my 64gb USB Flash drive as extended storage for the phone. But I have a lot of video files larger than 4GB that won't work with FAT32.
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The ability to read USB Flash drives attached to the device.
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Reported to work with 4.0.2 using stickmount, dunno what filesystems they had on the sticks. I'd be inclined to try ntfs after fat32.
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Reported to work with 4.0.2 using stickmount, dunno what filesystems they had on the sticks. I'd be inclined to try ntfs after fat32.
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My cousin says that his Transformer Prime can read NTFS out of the box. Would love to see that kind of support in our phones.
Can someone recommend an app or mod that let's you create a partition or mounts the nexus as a mass storage device ...mtp is worthless damn you samsung
bigdade said:
Can someone recommend an app or mod that let's you create a partition or mounts the nexus as a mass storage device ...mtp is worthless damn you samsung
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1400034
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1400034
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Not quite what he asked for. StickMount is for mounting USB sticks to the nexus if you use it in host mode.
You would have to make the partition first and probably format it as fat32 because the reason there's no UMS is that all the data is on one ext4 partition, which afaik won't work for UMS (windows is still vey iffy with ext4).
I've not seen anyone get into repartitioning the GN but one could easily miss it...
try airdroid over wireless, it's a great app that gives you full access to your phone via a browser on your pc so long as the 2 are on the same wireless network. Multiplatform - works fine with my Ubuntu.
yeah I've tried Airdroid and wifi explorer pro and I still can't transfer my movies which are mkv
can the et4g be a bootable iso for windows 7?
Doubt it. The phone won't recognize he sdcard with the an ISO written to it and I don't think you could mount it if the phone doesn't recognize it. And on top of that it might be difficult to get the BIOS to see it as a boot able device.
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No. Wrong and incompatible hardware on the computer side. The software for the phone was written and compiled specifically for this phone and it's associated hardware.
The way the question is worded makes no sense. You want the e4gt to be a bootable ISO? Whaaaa?
I no understandy
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The way the question is worded makes no sense. You want the e4gt to be a bootable ISO? Whaaaa?
I no understandy
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Yeah please explain
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Pretty sure hes asking if he can use his phone to install windows similar to placing the windows 7 installation ISO onto a usb drive.
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Pretty sure hes asking if he can use his phone to install windows similar to placing the windows 7 installation ISO onto a usb drive.
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And the answer to that is no, because if you made your sdcard a bootable disk for win7 there would be no way for the computer to read it from the phone without being mounted, and once you try mount the sdcard the phone will require it to be formatted otherwise it won't let you mount it as a storage device.
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If you can create the drivers for the software to work with the hardware, then go for it.
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And the answer to that is no, because if you made your sdcard a bootable disk for win7 there would be no way for the computer to read it from the phone without being mounted, and once you try mount the sdcard the phone will require it to be formatted otherwise it won't let you mount it as a storage device.
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You would be mounting the phone as a usb storage device. The microsd card would be formatted and flagged bootable. Modern motherboard support booting from flash drives... i dunno last 8 or more years now?
Windows 7 has a tool for making bootable flash drives. Micro SD cards can have the boot flag on their MBR's set to bootable. The question is does the E4GT (on GB) allow for MBR access in mass storage. I can actually check that since I have a program I wrote for injecting code past the MBR it needs to read it. The next question is how does the phone represent the storage to the computer? If its not in a valid manner then the answer goes back to no because the motherboard may not wish to boot from it.
Ive created Bootable SD cards to boot through an SD card reader to flash firmware to video cards, its not much different and with windows 7 being usb drive bootable using a utility its only a question of this particular phone.
are you asking if you can emulate android on windows 7?
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are you asking if you can emulate android on windows 7?
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He asked if it can be a bootable iso for windows 7. One word corrected I am pretty sure if he asked if he can use it as a bootable flash device for windows 7 installation.
Which as I explained in my post is plausible. Many phones can do it and doing it with a regular old sd card over a reader on a motherboard with usb boot support is 100% normal. Given the lack of mass storage mount in ICS I would definitely want to be on Gingerbread before I even tried it.
I have done this with my old psp once, had to restore a friends computer which had a dead dvd drive and no usb drive around so formatted the sony memory stick on the psp. High chances of it working I don't see why not.
What format is the phones internal memory and "sd card"? As in NTFS, FAT32, ext3/ext4, etc...
Trying to mount my Gnex to my Nexus 7 to access its SD card and it's not showing up with the stickmount app, which I believe can only read NTFS and FAT32.
Both devices are rooted, and the N7 reads my 64gb NTFS thumb drive just fine.
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What format is the phones internal memory and "sd card"? As in NTFS, FAT32, ext3/ext4, etc...
Trying to mount my Gnex to my Nexus 7 to access its SD card and it's not showing up with the stickmount app, which I believe can only read NTFS and FAT32.
Both devices are rooted, and the N7 reads my 64gb NTFS thumb drive just fine.
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The Gnex mounts /data (including /data/media/) as ext4 but the only protocol available for data transfer over USB is MTP (media transfer protocol) there is no support for UMS on the Gnex. MTP does not support the functions you get from a usb storage device or portable media like SD/MMC/etc.
TL: DR; You can't mount it like a drive, by design, and if you could, you'd need to mount it with linux.
-tekkdrone
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The Gnex mounts /data (including /data/media/) as ext4 but the only protocol available for data transfer over USB is MTP (media transfer protocol) there is no support for UMS on the Gnex. MTP does not support the functions you get from a usb storage device or portable media like SD/MMC/etc.
TL: DR; You can't mount it like a drive, by design, and if you could, you'd need to mount it with linux.
-tekkdrone
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Thank you sir. While a disappointing answer, it was definitely informative and the information I was looking for. :good:
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Thank you sir. While a disappointing answer, it was definitely informative and the information I was looking for. :good:
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I wish it were different. I'm definitely not a big fan of MTP-only.
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I wish it were different. I'm definitely not a big fan of MTP-only.
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Two people on the N7 forum have successfully mounted their other devices to the N7 but I don't know if those devices use MTP or not.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=29268972&postcount=483
That was the inspiration for this post, essentially.
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Two people on the N7 forum have successfully mounted their other devices to the N7 but I don't know if those devices use MTP or not.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=29268972&postcount=483
That was the inspiration for this post, essentially.
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Similar to what tekk mentioned, the GNex does not support USB mass storage mode, while those devices obviously do.
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I cant seem to find an option to use the Galaxy S4 as USB mass storage, only media device (MTP) or Camera (PTP) is available. Cannot find any USB options in the settings either.
How am I able to copy files from and to my SD card and/or phone HD?
I appreciate any helpful posts. Thank you!
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I cant seem to find an option to use the Galaxy S4 as USB mass storage, only media device (MTP) or Camera (PTP) is available. Cannot find any USB options in the settings either.
How am I able to copy files from and to my SD card and/or phone HD?
I appreciate any helpful posts. Thank you!
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You us MTP fyi usb mass storage has been gone for a while i know for a fact the gs3 & note2 used MTP
deeznutz1977 said:
You us MTP fyi usb mass storage has been gone for a while i know for a fact the gs3 & note2 used MTP
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with MTP my device doesnt show up in Mac, as well as my Sony TV or LG receiver. what to do?
Is there anyway to disable MTP and go back to mass storage? Also, is the SDCARD MTP as well?
Mass Storage is gone for good... and while it sounds bad, there's a good reason..
Using Mass Storage forces the storage partition (or external sdcard) to be unmounted by Android, so any data/apps/widgets on there are no longer available until you disconnect your device from your PC. Using MTP allows the data partition to remain mounted and available concurrently on both your device, and on your PC via USB.
1) No, you cannot get UMS back.
2) This belongs in Q&A.
3) For Macs, you will need this.
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The auto-unmount is ok...
pakraider said:
Mass Storage is gone for good... and while it sounds bad, there's a good reason..
Using Mass Storage forces the storage partition (or external sdcard) to be unmounted by Android, so any data/apps/widgets on there are no longer available until you disconnect your device from your PC. Using MTP allows the data partition to remain mounted and available concurrently on both your device, and on your PC via USB.
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"there's a good reason" is somewhat subjective. To me the great benefit to the more general usb mass storage option is so you can connect the phone to any device as if it were a usb flash drive. No driver issues, no worries about camera or MTP mode, no Mac issues, no linux issues, no Windows issues ... it's just a usd flash drive and can be treated as such. I am ok with the side affect of auto-unmounting the sdcard from Android when I connect the phone to another device to use as noted USB drive.
Is there in fact any way this will ever come back?
I can't get my phone to show up on my computer for nothing.have the correct drivers installed and everything.running Windows
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"there's a good reason" is somewhat subjective. To me the great benefit to the more general usb mass storage option is so you can connect the phone to any device as if it were a usb flash drive. No driver issues, no worries about camera or MTP mode, no Mac issues, no linux issues, no Windows issues ... it's just a usd flash drive and can be treated as such. I am ok with the side affect of auto-unmounting the sdcard from Android when I connect the phone to another device to use as noted USB drive.
Is there in fact any way this will ever come back?
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There was an app someone made for the GS3 that did some filesystem trickery to expose the storage as UMS (needed root). I'm sure something like that will come around that works on the GS4 too.
I had the same issue until I installed Kies, no issues after that
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I can't get my phone to show up on my computer for nothing.have the correct drivers installed and everything.running Windows
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umlguy said:
"there's a good reason" is somewhat subjective. To me the great benefit to the more general usb mass storage option is so you can connect the phone to any device as if it were a usb flash drive. No driver issues, no worries about camera or MTP mode, no Mac issues, no linux issues, no Windows issues ... it's just a usd flash drive and can be treated as such. I am ok with the side affect of auto-unmounting the sdcard from Android when I connect the phone to another device to use as noted USB drive.
Is there in fact any way this will ever come back?
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How could anyone possibly know if it will come back, especially "in fact?" My guess is you would have to ask Samsung that question to get anything other than a guess or an opinion (which would be NO) but it's not "in fact" just "in an opinion."
I jumped from an S2 to the S4 and was also annoyed that USB mass storage wouldn't work either. Since I use Linux as my desktop, MTP is not an option "out-of-the-box". I therefor turned to an awesome app (that I heard about on this site!), Airdroid. Now I was able to quickly get an album/picture/book datastore onto a shiny new 32GB microSD! And yes, I know I could have put the microSD into a slot on my laptop, etc., but I shouldn't have to, just because I choose to use Linux!
I mean, its rather ironic not to be able to use Linux to connect to Linux (android), don't you think? If I'm completely wrong about this, please someone point me to the right path.
Thanks
There is a "hack" to allow the external to be read as UMS. Also, the internal sdcard is no longer yaffs2 its ext4 and only linux knows ext4. So if you were to use UMS, only a linux computer would "see" the sd card and nothing else.
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There is a "hack" to allow the external to be read as UMS. Also, the internal sdcard is no longer yaffs2 its ext4 and only linux knows ext4. So if you were to use UMS, only a linux computer would "see" the sd card and nothing else.
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elesbb,
That's awesome news! Thanks for the tip. I use opensuse (currently 12.3) with kde, will definitely make the necessary tweaks to get this going in dolphin.
Thanks again!
Ignore. Posted in wrong thread.
If you are rooted and busybox installed yes there are lot of apps on play store that can convert your externel SD Card to Mass storage.