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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.

[Q] Don't see my HOX as external drive after installing JB Rom

Sorry if this was answered before, I couldn't find an appropriate thread for that.
So I installed latest OrDroid 2.7.5, everything went smoothly and works fine for now.
But I have issues trying to connect the phone to my PC and access internal storage.
Once I connect the USB cable I get the usual "USB Connected - Tap to change settings". Once I press it I get the "Portable hotspot & tethering" instead of the window where I choose charge/USB only.
In My Computer it appears as Digital Camera "HTC One X", but not as Removable drive as it was before.
Any ideas how to access the storage again?
Thanks in advance

This is not specific for ordroid but
Check under
Settings
Storage
Usb computer connection ( in three dotmenu or context menu)
It should be mtp or mass storage.
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eyosen said:
This is not specific for ordroid but
Check under
Settings
Storage
Usb computer connection ( in three dotmenu or context menu)
It should be mtp or mass storage.
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T using xda app-developers app
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Thanks, but that is also a problem. I cannot find the Usb computer connection settings anywhere under the Storage. There's no 3dotmenu or context menu available either.

Found the answer to my question in one of the ROMs thread. Can be closed.

Care to repeat it here?

sure but it didn't really solve the problem, just helped me understood what's the reason for that
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1836919&highlight=usb+connection+settings&page=135
scroll down for post from user jackolus and see the next reply.
will have to try on my other PC with Win7 to see if it works.

Another option - go to Recovery and connect your phone to PC. This way it appears in My Computer as HTC Storage. Not the most convenient method, but still better than nothing.

any one know of any fix for this yet? i'm on mac and cannot mount sd card other than going into recovery. pain in the ass, every time i plug it in to my dock htc sync link pops up, tried installing it it but it's ****e, still doesnt allow direct access to sd.
If its not installed it pops up as a link, if it is installed it pops up the app. pain if i only want charge.
Really annoys me when they remove common used features.
Someone at HTC must have sat and had a thought, yes they have 32gb non removable sd card but it's highly unlikely they ever want access to it, lets take the option away.

There's no 'fix' as HTC has changed the storage from USB MS for MTP - unless they change it back there's not a lot you can do
EDIT: This might help...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1355913

Thanks, may have to revert to ics then, this is a big flaw for me, do a lot of transferring files to and from sd, cant be ****ed with entering recovery everytime.
Out of curuosity, would it be the same on AOSP jelly bean roms?
Guess i could try BT transfers

shangostar said:
Out of curuosity, would it be the same on AOSP jelly bean roms?
Guess i could try BT transfers
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I've tried, and used, many JB ROMs and never has a problem connecting my phone to a computer over a usb cable
sent via a Slim Jelly Bean

liquidguru said:
I've tried, and used, many JB ROMs and never has a problem connecting my phone to a computer over a usb cable
sent via a Slim Jelly Bean
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On a Mac?

shangostar said:
On a Mac?
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Ahhhhh, you're right...I'm a pc. Sorry, can't help
sent via a Slim Jelly Bean

Bogega said:
Sorry if this was answered before, I couldn't find an appropriate thread for that.
So I installed latest OrDroid 2.7.5, everything went smoothly and works fine for now.
But I have issues trying to connect the phone to my PC and access internal storage.
Once I connect the USB cable I get the usual "USB Connected - Tap to change settings". Once I press it I get the "Portable hotspot & tethering" instead of the window where I choose charge/USB only.
In My Computer it appears as Digital Camera "HTC One X", but not as Removable drive as it was before.
Any ideas how to access the storage again?
Thanks in advance
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you can't mount sd card while using the phone unfortunately... you need to mount it from recovery

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.
stcr1 said:
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.
stcr1 said:
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.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-T989 using Tapatalk 4

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/

[Q] ROM with working USB Mass Storage?

I recently flashed CM-10.1.3-RC2 and still no UMS. I guess it was removed from CM-10.1 earlier this due to bugginess. I wasn't able to tell if the bugs were in the SGS2 hardware, or CM itself. Can someone clarify? Because, if it's in the HW itself, it will most likely never work. I'm not using Windows so MTP/PTP simply do not work. I must boot into TWRP right now to transfer files. Iv'e also tried
Code:
setprop persist.sys.usb.config mass_storage
however no luck there either.
Anyone know of a ROM where UMS is working (AOKP, etc)?
Thanks

Last time I used AOKP (a few months ago), it had working USB Mass Storage. If you don't want to switch ROMs, there's an app called Multi Mount SD Card (Sorry, I can't post a link) that can get UMS working for you.

Noyth said:
Last time I used AOKP (a few months ago), it had working USB Mass Storage. If you don't want to switch ROMs, there's an app called Multi Mount SD Card (Sorry, I can't post a link) that can get UMS working for you.
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Some of the reviews say that app didn't work for them so I went ahead and flashed aokp_hercules_jb-mr1_milestone-2. No UMS . Perhaps for the same reasons it's no longer in CM I guess. Happy surprise though: PTP *does* seem to be working under Ubuntu 12.04 with this ROM! Hopefully it's stable so I don't have to boot recovery to get the pics off.
EDIT: Nevermind on the PTP. It's actually not working. For some strange reason it's showing some pics that appear to be on the filesystem and not the device :|
EDIT: For anyone interested, found a link that sort-of gets MTP working on Ubuntu 12.04. You have to add some unstable repos and pull down some non-standard 12.04 libraries and edit some udev configurations. There are some limitations like file size, no drag & drop and opening files directly from the MTP mount point. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2223401

[Q] USB storage issues

`Hi all,
it seems the overall connectivity of my phone to my pc is screwed up. First of, I've never got this phone to appear as mass storage in windows explorer. While I was on a JB custom ROM, I ended up using moborobo. ADB and fastboot were working. I switched to Carbon KK ROM and ofc still not able to prompt windows explorer mass storage device. And yeah, I tried severall different packages of drivers, HTC sync crap and what not. I tried moborobo again, it recognizes the device and it's able to scan my phone's contents, but I get errors when I try to upload a file. Also, adb works when booted, but not in recovery so I can't sideload or push files either. so, effectively, I have no way currently to drop files to my phone. I miss removable SD-card
I would love to get this phone to work as a mass storage device again, does anyone has got some ideas? thanks

I flashed CM11 kernel and file management in moborobo is working again. Also fixed wifi and bluetooth. Seems carbon kernel is pretty broken

onemanshow85 said:
I flashed CM11 kernel and file management in moborobo is working again. Also fixed wifi and bluetooth. Seems carbon kernel is pretty broken
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The easey way is just to disable usb debuging and you will see your sd card as mass storage when you finish enable usb debuging again.