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[Q] I Upgraded to ics and usb mass starage is missing is there a way to activate it?

I dont like this mtp crap i keep getting ''a device attached to the system is not functioning'' errors everytime i try to move a folder from my phone to my computer this is unacceptable and i never had this problem with u.m.s. im using the latest drivers and im using windows xp can someone help me out?

Daddy43205 said:
I dont like this mtp crap i keep getting ''a device attached to the system is not functioning'' errors everytime i try to move a folder from my phone to my computer this is unacceptable and i never had this problem with u.m.s. im using the latest drivers and im using windows xp can someone help me out?
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There are a number of ways to get this to work. Search the threads this is a common question. Without knowing which ICS leak you used it's hard to say. Best bet would be to use sfhub's autoroot package>Extra Options and USB storage can be enabled there http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342728 Or you can check out this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1514665&highlight=usb+mtp

If you use Option E in the Auto Root package, you can switch between MTP and USB Mass Storage modes.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342728
If you look in the reference section of the FD16 OneClick thread, you can also find a more detailed post that includes a link to an app to change between the two modes.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=24010029&postcount=889

Thanks...^^^ does anyone recall which was the last leaked build that had both mtp and mass storage support?

Daddy43205 said:
Thanks...^^^ does anyone recall which was the last leaked build that had both mtp and mass storage support?
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They all have both. They just removed the UI to enable USB Mass Storage mode in the settings menu on the more recent builds. The default has always been MTP, even on GB. However on GB if you enable USB Debugging, it turns off MTP and enables USB Mass Storage. It doesn't do that on ICS.
Look through the FAQs on the ODIN OneClick threads for the most recent ICS ROMs. From the first release they removed the UI, there is an FAQ entry to turn on USB Mass Storage. Prior to that release, there was no FAQ entry and the UI was still builtin.
I think it was one of the last FC releases or one of the earlier FD releases where the UI went away.

Oh no, USB mass storage is gone on Android 4.0 ICS Samsung G2 4GT

Ok i need some Major help with this Bare with me this is my first Post
Oh no, USB mass storage is gone on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich Samsung Galaxy S II. We should be able to use USB storage mode when enable USB debugging in Gingerbread. But it is not working on Android 4.0.4 ICS Samsung Galaxy S2. I have 2 options ~ Media device (MTP) and Camera (PTP) modes to choose only.
1.Bring up Settings.
2.Click More… (under Wireless and network).........I dont have this option at all on my device
3.Then select USB utilities ~ Set USB cable connection mode.
4.Select Connect storage to PC then.
5.Connect USB cable from phone to PC.
6.Select Turn on USB storage.
7.That’s all.
i do understand this process but its not a option for me at all i am so stuck

Try sfhubs autoroot package, though personally I like MTP mode, I can still move and copy files to/from the phone.

Just get USB switcher from the market
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musikalharmony said:
Just get USB switcher from the market
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i tried that and my super user denies permissions i cant even install cwr

kutty1905 said:
i tried that and my super user denies permissions i cant even install cwr
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There's also this. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=24010029
As rovar said..
rovar said:
Try sfhubs autoroot package, though personally I like MTP mode, I can still move and copy files to/from the phone.
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no USB utilities
I do not have "USB utilities" option on Android 4.1.1 ICS Samsung G2, so I do not know how to connect storage to PC. Anyone have an idea about it? Thanks a lot!

steven_2411 said:
I do not have "USB utilities" option on Android 4.1.1 ICS Samsung G2, so I do not know how to connect storage to PC. Anyone have an idea about it? Thanks a lot!
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Did you read the posts above? They present a couple different ways to change MTP back to USB storage.

jziggy101 said:
Did you read the posts above? They present a couple different ways to change MTP back to USB storage.
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None of them work for me either. I need it built into the phone without this pain in the butt to enable. I just ordered 990 S2's that I assume will have 4.0.4 installed like the 4 samples I have here; I have told Samsung that I will need to cancel my order if it is not an option on the device as it is required for my use. Granted, this is only about a thousand phones so it may not be enough for Samsung to care, but we shall see.

You have to reinstall the USB drivers to make it work.

PoisonerKA said:
You have to reinstall the USB drivers to make it work.
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That's only because the transfer is being made over MTP; it would not exist if the storage was presented as mass storage. The user should be able to change the way the device shows up; between MTP and mass storage. I am not going to spend the payroll to install drivers on a thousand laptops, and a regular user shouldn't have to either. I understand that sometimes phones have problems with media scanning, but that should be a user settable option and the user can make a decision.

[Q] USB Mass storage options no longer work after root

Okay, So I am a pretty new user of android. However I am a technically minded person and used to jailbreak my iPhone all the time. I decided to go for a while without rooting my Galaxy note II to see what the experience was like without root. However I found that I came across the need to root for certain apps. So Using a Windows PC I rooted with Odin. Now, on My mac, I can no longer connect to samsung Kies, no software on my mac will see the phone. I remember that plugging in my device would usually show usb options in the notification bar and i could select media or mass storage. But now my device acts as if it's only charging and not connected to my mac. I'm not sure what went wrong but I have been rooted for about 5 hours and it went pretty smoothly. So I really don't see why my phone will no longer mount to my mac as storage to enable me to use samsung kies.
Any help is really appreciated.
The only other info I can think of giving is that I'm running OS X 10.8.2.

Try googling for "SGS3 Easy UMS". It will load your SD card as an external drive and should work on the Mac.
This won't help for Kies though. Never used it and probably never will. It's dreadful.
Keith

Unfortunately, mass storage was removed by Samsung in s3 and note 2. Your root has nothing to do with it.
Also I'm not sure why you would need Kies, which is a terrible piece of software. Assuming you know how to root your phone using odin, you should know how to flash firmware using it as well.
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It will appear if u enable usb debugging under developed options. Don't know why...
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Am i missig something here? when i plug my phone to my pc it is automatically recognized [able to transfer files] without even needing to turn on usb storage on through the taskbar.

Of course you're still able to transfer files regularly back and forth from and to the PC, just on an MTP connection, not mass storage.

RESOLVED!
Okay, Maybe I had my terminology a Little wrong. But I still managed to correct the problem. The issue was that my mac was not seeing the phone at all because the USB Settings in PhoneUtil accessed by dialing *#7284# in the phones keypad, was set to Modem rather than PDA. Many thanks for your suggestions though. I hope this may help someone in the future.

[Q] HTC One X not seen as disk after JB 4.1 OTA

Hi,
I have a rooted One X on which I was running Team Venom viperX rom and few days ago I recovered the stock nand backup (original ICS rom) and then updated my HOX with the JB 4.1 OTA that was released few time ago... now, when I connect the phone to my mac, it is not seen anymore as a disk and it doesn't ask me if I wan to simply charge or mount as a disk... on windows I noticed that it doesn't ask too, but is used as a disk by default (allowing me to see sdcard content both on windows and on the phone with a file manager, which I find very strange..)...
Any idea about how to re-enable the feature that asked me to mount or not to mount the phone as a disk? It only shows me a disc with a link to HTC Sync download page and even after installing it on my MAC, nothing changed.
Any suggestion would be really appreciated!

Mass storage mode isn't available on jb sense roms yet.

nitrous² said:
Mass storage mode isn't available on jb sense roms yet.
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Tech support said it should be automatically detected by the PC, but this is not true at least on OSX platforms:
Code:
Thank you for contacting HTC.
With regards to your inquiry, kindly be informed that on android 4.1 the option to
choose what kind of connection you want between your PC and the phone has been
removed. This software support "Plug and Play" connection witch allows all those
options without being necessary to choose an option from phone's screen.
If you have any other inquiries, don’t hesitate to contact us again.
This is my reply:
Code:
Hi, I understand that the option has been removed, but it is not true that it
works automatically, expecially on OSX platforms (like my MacBook pro).
So, you removed a useful feature for people like me that used to connect their
phones to a Mac laptop and this is not correct. I'd like to be able to choose
if I want to mount the storage or not when I connect the phone to my MacBook Pro.
They should definitely re-introduce the option to choose to mount or not to mount the storage as an external disk.

HTC:
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If your connection is not done after update i suggest you to install on your PC
"HTC Sync manager" and "Android file Transfer (AFT)". when you done you
should be able to connect your phone to PC.
My reply:
Code:
Thank you for the quick reply. I'll try android file transfer, but this is not the
correct way of accomplishing this task. Before the upgrade I could mount
the phone as a disk, and this was one of the features that made me choose
this phone comparing to other ones, so it is not correct to remove such a
feature with a software upgrade. Even if HTC Sync Manager + Android File
Transfer solve this issue, I should install them on every platform on which I
connect the phone, such as my work laptop, and I'm simply not allowed to
install additional software. Is there any plan to re-introduce the possibility to
choose to mount or not to mount the storage as a disk?
HTC:
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I am just give you the options for now, I am sure that our engineers will
come with an update for this connection.

The JB update enables Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) and disables the USB Mass Storage (UMS). One advantage of this is that both the phone and the computer can access the memory simultaneously. MTP has its pros and cons, but many newer phones have it, like the Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 4, Galaxy S3. The Galaxy S2 also had this enabled in its ICS update. Maybe in time the devs will find a way to reactivate UMS mode and probably even toggle between UMS and MTP, but I don't think anything of the sort is available now as JB is freshly out. One of the main cons of MTP is flaky compatibility on Linux and OSX.
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I am getting the same problem and tbh it is really pissing me off. Sometimes my windows 7 finds it, I start to transfer a file and then boom, connection goes. Previously I could just mount and be on my merry way. Totally unimpressed. If I had known this I would never have updated!
They say to do download HTC Sync Manager, why is it 107mb?!? I would expect it to be some sort of lightweight app but now, 107mb

10.1.2 usb mass storage option?

So i upgraded to cm 10.1.2 and i'm having a hard time trying to figure out how mount as mass storage rather than MTP or PTP
for the life of my, i can't find the option.
i'm running linux so MTP is not an option for me
anyone know where i can change it?
thank you
sam

when you goto storage hit menu do you see any other options when you click menu in your storage settings ?

denti said:
So i upgraded to cm 10.1.2 and i'm having a hard time trying to figure out how mount as mass storage rather than MTP or PTP
for the life of my, i can't find the option.
i'm running linux so MTP is not an option for me
anyone know where i can change it?
thank you
sam
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That's because they removed mass storage option in 4.2.2

denti said:
guess i'll find another way to move files around as MTP and linux no play well together
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Some linux distros support MTP. Ubuntu, for example, although it hasn't been officially backported to some older releases. But it is available for older releases in a developer's third-party ppa. Unfortunately, I can't post the link. Still, I prefer USB mass storage to MTP. But I'm going to try MTP for awhile and see if it grows on me.
I noticed that there are a number of apps that come up in the Android Market / Google Play Apps if you search for "USB mass storage", but I haven't tried any of them. There are also third-party apps that provide file sharing via wifi using samba or ftp. Not exactly what you're looking for, but I thought I'd mention it. ES File Explorer is an example. I use it, and like it, but I haven't used the particular features I just mentioned because, until my recent upgrade to JB 4.2 I didn't need them -- I used USB mass storage.
In a thread on AndroidCentral, someone said google does not want to use USB mass storage. I don't know if that's true, and if it is true, I don't know what google's reasons are for abandoning USB mass storage.

stcr1 said:
Some linux distros support MTP. Ubuntu, for example, although it hasn't been officially backported to some older releases. But it is available for older releases in a developer's third-party ppa.
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I tried this without success. At this point, I forget what the problem was, because I've tried so many different things. I think I was unable to get read-write access. It was read only. Not sure, though. But it didn't work for me.
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There are also third-party apps that provide file sharing via wifi using samba or ftp.
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I tried a couple of these and they did not work reliably. I have a large git repo that I was trying to clone, and it would either silently fail mid-way (using Samba Filesharing for Android by funkyFresh), or git would complain about corrupt/missing objects (using Servers Ultimate by Ice Cold Apps). The latter also has an NFS server, but I wasn't able to connect to it. I kept getting a clnt_create Program not registered error. All of the problems here with both the samba servers and NFS could be specific to my hardware and software environment, and/or configuration settings. YMMV.
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I noticed that there are a number of apps that come up in the Android Market / Google Play Apps if you search for "USB mass storage", but I haven't tried any of them.
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I tried a ton of these. The only one that looks promising (for my device) is Multi Mount SD-Card Lite by rafoid. I hope it works out. Haven't tried cloning my git repo yet. Again, my experiences could be specific to my hardware and software environment. YMMV.
Off topic: Along the way I found AirDroid. Looks pretty cool, but doens't look like a solution to the problems in this thread.

You can try this mod and see if it works for you. It is really 2 lines on a terminal:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1800935
It worked for me before to force my phone go into mass storage mode. I haven't used it for the latest mods.

angler_fish said:
You can try this mod and see if it works for you. It is really 2 lines on a terminal:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1800935
It worked for me before to force my phone go into mass storage mode. I haven't used it for the latest mods.
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That's a good idea. I sorta tried that, and it didn't work for me, but it obviously has worked for other people. I say "sorta" because I didn't use a terminal, but used an app in the Marketplace wihich is supposed to do the same thing. The app is USB mode switch for SGS1 on CM by Zatta. It's the subject of a thread here (showthread.php?p=21505914). I would post the link to the thread, but unfortunately I can't post links.

stcr1 said:
That's a good idea. I sorta tried that, and it didn't work for me, but it obviously has worked for other people. I say "sorta" because I didn't use a terminal, but used an app in the Marketplace wihich is supposed to do the same thing. The app is USB mode switch for SGS1 on CM by Zatta. It's the subject of a thread here (showthread.php?p=21505914). I would post the link to the thread, but unfortunately I can't post links.
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Just download a Terminal Emulator on Google Play. Search Terminal and the first one should work. Make sure you give it root privilege, as you are modding system files. Hope that helps!

angler_fish said:
You can try this mod and see if it works for you. It is really 2 lines on a terminal:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1800935
It worked for me before to force my phone go into mass storage mode. I haven't used it for the latest mods.
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I put CM10.1.2 on my phone a few days ago. Until today, whenever I plugged it into my computer it would go into mass storage mode as expected and everything was fine. Then, I installed Button Savior, which required me to enable USB debugging mode, and after that it connected in MTP mode every time. If I tapped the notification it would give me an option to uncheck MTP mode, but tapping that any number of times had no effect (the checkmark wouldn't go away). I tried the solution suggested in the linked thread, but now it's even worse. It no longer connects in MTP mode, but it doesn't connect in mass storage mode either. Now, it connects in something called "installer mode" with no option to change anything. It shows up in Explorer on my computer, but when I try to open the drive the computer asks me to insert a drive.
Any idea how I get my mass storage mode back?

Odd, teamchopsticks pulled USB mass storage from cm10.1 because of crashes when disconnecting from the computer.
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Cyanogenmod removed support for USB mass storage after CM10.0 because "The kernel support was flaky... USB mass storage has been deprecated by Google and is no longer supported."
https://jira.cyanogenmod.org/browse/CYAN-540
Multi Mount SD-Card Lite by rafoid on Google Play worked for me for awhile, then stopped working reliably. I lost some files as a result. Now I'm going to try adbfs:
https://github.com/spion/adbfs-rootless
(Thanks to dalingrin for this suggestion, made in this related thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2023066)

This article explains why Android moved from USB Mass Storage to MTP access for the internal storage.
hxxp://androidpolice.com/2011/11/18/impromptu-qa-session-with-android-engineer-dan-morrill-brings-to-light-reasons-behind-galaxy-nexus-lack-of-usb-mass-storage/