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.
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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...
Google provides USB OTG support in ICS, if the ROM developers choose to include it.
OTG should let you plug in a mass storage device USB memory/camera etc and read the contents.
Do any of the current ICS ROMs have this enabled or are there some fundamental technical issues that prevent this?
I've been impressed with the ICS BCM RC2.1U0 but haven't got a cable to try this functionality yet.
Andy
Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't it that a (or at least one of the) OTG device must be able to power the bus and the desire cannot without external HW tweaks.
Thanks,
I'll be working with a powered device OR via a powered hub.
There are examples for doing this on the Desire, using custom ROMs but the ROMs only supported one direction or the other, so required a reflash to change mode.
Andy
Hello there...
I've seen some previous posts about this issue...both on all they were able to get either some recognition of OTG or an app to address it.
My problem is....
Sammy galaxy tab 10.1 wifi
Cm9 7/2/12
OEM OTG adaptor
In no way is it seen or recognized by my tab. I've tried all the apps like stickusb etc.. I can't get anything to work. All cards ( tried sd, microsd, & cf ) are formatted to fat32, to no avail. No USB recognition, tried Mouse's, keyboards, game pads..etc.
I have also tried wiping and using Kangs build 40. I have not tried stock.
Any ideas??:crying:
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Hello there...
I've seen some previous posts about this issue...both on all they were able to get either some recognition of OTG or an app to address it.
My problem is....
Sammy galaxy tab 10.1 wifi
Cm9 7/2/12
OEM OTG adaptor
In no way is it seen or recognized by my tab. I've tried all the apps like stickusb etc.. I can't get anything to work. All cards ( tried sd, microsd, & cf ) are formatted to fat32, to no avail. No USB recognition, tried Mouse's, keyboards, game pads..etc.
I have also tried wiping and using Kangs build 40. I have not tried stock.
Any ideas??:crying:
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well google didn't give me an answer so maybe you should try to go back on stock? ics should be released next month.
Try this for the OTG.
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Try this for the OTG.
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OK i haven't seen that one... thanks ill test it tomorrow....don't have the TAB with me today... ill let you know how it went tomorrow.....
I have no problem using OTG with CM9. I just ran out of the box. It wouldn't really show me any icons etc. but I always could access the mounted USB drive with the Terminal app.
As far as gamepads are concerned: I had to enable the kernel modules xpad and ff-memless-something with insmod. Than it would recognize the Xbox 360 controller just fine.
dear paranoid android users and developers,
I've made a fresh (and clean) install of newest BETA 4 on my Nexus 5 and Nexus 7 2013 (Wi-Fi) and encountered a small problem... I cannot seem to get StickMount to work... none of my pendrives that worked on previous versions (the ones before SuperSU was switched to Superuser) seem to show up in any file explorers...
also, when I ran the USB Host Diagnostics, I got a result in the Root API section: N/A... therefore, I'm thinking something is not right on the Superuser side...
I would be oh so thankful if someone could help with coming up with a solution! :fingers-crossed:
P.S. I'm posting a screenshot of the USB Host Diagnostics as attachment. the same result shows up on Nexus 5.
try USB OTG Helper
I don't know if it will work but its what I used when I was on a different ROM, I'll check later and see if it still works.
hmm, will look into it and see if anything changes...
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hmm, will look into it and see if anything changes...
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I just tested it. OTG works Perfectly on PA beta 4. If you are using an external HDD make sure its getting powered.
tjhooker73 said:
I just tested it. OTG works Perfectly on PA beta 4. If you are using an external HDD make sure its getting powered.
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On which device did You manage to do it? And with help of 3rd party apps, or just with the system in its own?
Also... Stock kernel or custom one?
Cheers!
Htc one x. Custom kernel but the kernel doesn't do anything for otg. And only used USB OtG Helper. Just plug the OTG cable and the USB device in and then open otg helper then plug the otg cable into the phone and wait a few seconds and then mount.
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on GNexus, with PA Beta4, stock kernel: it works from the start, without 3-party apps.
the only thing it doesn't work is when I unmount (from "settings>storage": is there any other way to do it?) it keeps a permanent notification saying "Removed USB storage. Insert new media" that won't go away. Eventually it does, don't know how, why and when.
cheers
Nexus 5, PA Beta 4, stock kernel.
OTG works flawlessy, from the settings I can mount and unmount it.
So this may not be the right area to make this thread, but I have a Sprint LG G2, so I'll post it here. Move if necessary.
I was wondering if there was a way to trick an Android phone with USB-OTG capability into thinking a PC is a USB drive? Maybe some sort of USB emulator with a bridge? I have no idea what the program would be, but if it's possible that'd be awesome. I'm interested in this because I never keep my backups on my phone for longer than it takes to move them onto my PC, so if I could just do a backup to a USB-OTG that'd make things much easier. The problem is that I don't have a USB Flash Drive or a USB-OTG cable. I could make a USB-OTG cable easy enough, and probably find a flash drive somewhere, but does anyone think this is possible? Thanks.
-xian