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.
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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.
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I know there must be multiple posts on this, but after an hour, I'm striking out. I found a .ZIP for a GSII, but that did not work.
Any ideas?
seanvree said:
I know there must be multiple posts on this, but after an hour, I'm striking out. I found a .ZIP for a GSII, but that did not work.
Any ideas?
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SGS3 EASY UMS (look for it here [free version] or in the play store [donate version]) mounts your phone as Universal Mass Storage rather than MTP if you want that option.
colbyrainey said:
SGS3 EASY UMS (look for it here [free version] or in the play store [donate version]) mounts your phone as Universal Mass Storage rather than MTP if you want that option.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1711009
Couldn't we just use the *#7284# to access the utility menu and change it that way?
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Sorry new to this. But would this have any negative effects if I used the above app to change to usb mass to download music from my computer? Mtp is slow and media monkey scans the whole phone before it syncs. Could I just keep it set to usb or would something not work after that?
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mrmako777 said:
Couldn't we just use the *#7284# to access the utility menu and change it that way?
Sent from my HTC MyTouch 4G
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After running this code, which one should I select?
seanvree said:
After running this code, which one should I select?
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that code gives me a chuckle. Always yelling at me about invalid mmi code
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Try the link I posted.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1711009
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Thanks. Works well and functions how the phone should be out of box.
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HELP! Turn off storage: Galaxy Amp
I don't know if this is the right thread to put this but anyway...
I have a Samsung Galaxy Amp, a much cheaper, much watered-down version of the Galaxy Series, and I have been trying to enable default installation of apps to the external sd card. However, adb devices won't recognize my device because (I think) MTP storage is on.
I Have USB debugging on and the the device works fine over USB. However there is no way to disable storage from the phone's settings. It will automatically enter MTP storage on connection and I can't unmount it from the PC.
To be clear I want to disable ALL storage on the phone, not enable mass storage
Much of the menu options, style, setup, etc are similar to the s3. Any help would be appreciated.
*Also MTP is my best guess of why adb devices won't detect it, if it's something else insight on that will be much appreciated as well, thanks.
-I am a NEWB.
Cheapskate7 said:
I don't know if this is the right thread to put this but anyway...
I have a Samsung Galaxy Amp, a much cheaper, much watered-down version of the Galaxy Series, and I have been trying to enable default installation of apps to the external sd card. However, adb devices won't recognize my device because (I think) MTP storage is on.
I Have USB debugging on and the the device works fine over USB. However there is no way to disable storage from the phone's settings. It will automatically enter MTP storage on connection and I can't unmount it from the PC.
To be clear I want to disable ALL storage on the phone, not enable mass storage
Much of the menu options, style, setup, etc are similar to the s3. Any help would be appreciated.
*Also MTP is my best guess of why adb devices won't detect it, if it's something else insight on that will be much appreciated as well, thanks.
-I am a NEWB.
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Sounds more like a driver issue to me. Click on "Drivers" in my sig and download and install the latest drivers. Then go to device manager, find where it shows your device, right click it and Update Drivers.
If that doesnt work, you can also try the UniversalAdbDriverSetup6.msi. Though after installing this, you may have reinstall the Samsung drivers again later in order to use MTP/UMS or Odin.
Normal operation for me, I can connect using ADB and still have access to the phones storage at the same time.
Thanks!
DocHoliday77 said:
Sounds more like a driver issue to me. Click on "Drivers" in my sig and download and install the latest drivers. Then go to device manager, find where it shows your device, right click it and Update Drivers.
If that doesnt work, you can also try the UniversalAdbDriverSetup6.msi. Though after installing this, you may have reinstall the Samsung drivers again later in order to use MTP/UMS or Odin.
Normal operation for me, I can connect using ADB and still have access to the phones storage at the same time.
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Thanks! This worked great! The reason i thought it was MTP is because most articles make a point of telling you to turn off storage. Sorry if I posted in the wrong place and thanks again.
I've had this Sprint Galaxy S II phone for about two or three weeks, and it just updated to 4.0.4. The only problems I am having are these:
1. power saving is set to come on at 50%, but it doesn't. Lately, I have been home and have been able to charge it or happened to look at it when it was just below 50%. If I go into the settings and manually uncheck and check it again, it turns on power saving. Any way to fix this?
2. I've never messed with the SD card yet. The card is the same as my old phone's, so there's stuff on it I can't delete. Anyway, I think they changed the way this connected to PCs because the old image of Andru on the screen is gone. So, now when I connect it, my computer thinks it's a camera. If the icons are in tile view, it won't show you the folder or file names. And it won't let me paste music (only thing I'm trying to do) onto the SD card. Now, FYI, my fiance just reinstalled my OS (XP) because of some computer problems I was having, so maybe there's some XP update I need for this to connect to the PC. If I can connect the card to the computer without the phone, I'll try that, but I don't know how.
I'm not sure about the power saving mode, but I ran into the issue with the sd card. I fixed it by installing the Samsung drivers (which can be found by a quick Google search, or by searching these forums) and turned on mass storage mode. I'm running xp as well and it shows up under removable storage F: & G: in the my computer folder. Hope this helps
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How do you turn on mass storage mode? The Sprint guy had me download the drivers, but the device wasn't recognized by the PC when I did. I then got SP 3 for Windows, but I haven't noticed any difference, so I am not sure if there's something else my computer is missing.
When you connect the phone a us icon shows in the status bar, swipe down and touch the notification then it will allow you to turn it on.
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squishy506 said:
How do you turn on mass storage mode? The Sprint guy had me download the drivers, but the device wasn't recognized by the PC when I did. I then got SP 3 for Windows, but I haven't noticed any difference, so I am not sure if there's something else my computer is missing.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1266018 try these drivers from this thread.
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I called Sprint today because I was still having this issue with the SD card, and they told me that since I was using Windows XP, I would never be able to see the SD card because it was too old an OS. I can't find anything online I should download, so I thought I'd check here again to see if there was a way around this. I figured if anyone would know, it would be the people on this forum.
P.S. I am still having the power saving mode issue but forgot to ask them about that.
squishy506 said:
I called Sprint today because I was still having this issue with the SD card, and they told me that since I was using Windows XP, I would never be able to see the SD card because it was too old an OS. I can't find anything online I should download, so I thought I'd check here again to see if there was a way around this. I figured if anyone would know, it would be the people on this forum.
P.S. I am still having the power saving mode issue but forgot to ask them about that.
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lolwat? XP may be old, but not old enough to still support USB mass.
ICS uses a new USB setup for connecting using MTP, and another older mode I don't remember the letters for offhand. XP should read MTP but not the other, but you typically need Samsung drivers for either. Market has an app, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.zatta.USB_switch USB Switcher that will change the USB mode from MTP to mass, after rebooting your phone. Works on my E4GT, so presumably it might for yours. Hope that helps.
Edit: It is possible though for certain size cards to not be read by XP depending on certain settings or hardware, I dunno if that's what they meant by that, I assumed you meant connecting to the card via USB on the phone. If I got that wrong my apologies, hope this helps regardless.
I'm not sure how big my SD card is as the fiance gave it to me, and I don't recall. He is the computer expert around here, so I don't pay much attention to what he does to the computers, etc. Yes, dear, whatever you say dear. Dual core, 80 Gig, micro SD card reader...if he wants me to use it, I trust that it's good. He actually told me that he bought extra licenses for Win 7, so we could install it on my computer, but I am not a fan of how Win 7 programs are organized differently from their older versions. (I may be thinking of 2010 Office Suite and just lumping that in with 7). So, I told him maybe in two years I'd upgrade to 7. For now I'll just transfer the files between two computers with a flash drive.
I KNEW this was an ICS thing. Even though I had the phone for less than a month before the update and didn't remember plugging it into the computer before then. My phone does prompt file transfer for MTP and whatever acronym they use for pictures. And I'm like, fine, I'll deal with that, but when I try to use the programs suggested to transfer files, the programs freeze or don't recognize the phone as a device plugged in. It's a crapshoot. And I figure if they went through all the trouble of doing this media/photo file transfer thing for XP, why didn't they just use a little more effort to make the SD card contents visible?
So...unless a third party develops something that will provide SD card content viewing and editing, I will just go the long route and move files from my PC to a flash drive to the Win 7 PC to the phone.
Hey guys, I just switched over to an SIII from an atrix yesterday. I just didn't realize how much of a pain in the ass it would be to transfer anything. Right now I'm on OSX Mountain Lion, on my rMBP, and so far nothing has worked to get connected. I've tried android file transfer, connecting it as a PTP device, and numerous methods of trying to get Kies up and running, but nothing has worked. The file transfer doesn't detect anything and connecting as PTP doesn't seem to do anything at all. Kies and Easy Phone Sync both detect the phone as being connected, but don't connect to it. Easy Phone Sync shows a blank screen, and Kies says that it can't connect to the device, or that the device isn't responding. I have a bootcamp partition, but it's so small that I'd like to completely avoid using it if possible.
Also, here's some info on the SIII: It's a 16gb AT&T SIII. It's been rooted, and right now the Ariel Rom is installed, so I'm on ICS.
Thanks,
Krad
AFAIK Kies and android file transfer (both terrible pieces of software) don't work properly on Mountain Lion. Just go get you an 8GB or so sd card or install the Android SDK and use adb push/pull.
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That's what I was thinking, but I just wanted to be sure. Thanks anyways.
I use the wifi file transfer app. It's easy to use.
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Hey everyone,
I've been having issues with the USB file transfer process with my SGS3.
For example, whenever I want to back up my titanium backup folder and nandroid backups to my computer's hard drive, the transfer would only transfer a few files and not all of the selected at once. I've tried using various methods of copying and still no luck.
I am having trouble backing up my phone to my computer because of this.
I am using the stock USB cable that came with the phone and the latest Samsung USB drivers are installed on said PC.
If anyone else has a similar issue or knows how to fix it so I can start flashing/updating new ROMs more frequently, please let me know.
Otherwise the phone is amazing and I have had experienced no other issues with it thus far.
Thanks!
dingalinglol said:
Hey everyone,
I've been having issues with the USB file transfer process with my SGS3.
For example, whenever I want to back up my titanium backup folder and nandroid backups to my computer's hard drive, the transfer would only transfer a few files and not all of the selected at once. I've tried using various methods of copying and still no luck.
I am having trouble backing up my phone to my computer because of this.
I am using the stock USB cable that came with the phone and the latest Samsung USB drivers are installed on said PC.
If anyone else has a similar issue or knows how to fix it so I can start flashing/updating new ROMs more frequently, please let me know.
Otherwise the phone is amazing and I have had experienced no other issues with it thus far.
Thanks!
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When you're copying the files, is your phone set to mtp or ptp file transfer mode? (Assuming you're on stock Rom)
Yea I just had a problem with transferring files turned out the stock usb cable is just cheap garbage and another cable fixed me up
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dingalinglol said:
Hey everyone,
I've been having issues with the USB file transfer process with my SGS3.
For example, whenever I want to back up my titanium backup folder and nandroid backups to my computer's hard drive, the transfer would only transfer a few files and not all of the selected at once. I've tried using various methods of copying and still no luck.
I am having trouble backing up my phone to my computer because of this.
I am using the stock USB cable that came with the phone and the latest Samsung USB drivers are installed on said PC.
If anyone else has a similar issue or knows how to fix it so I can start flashing/updating new ROMs more frequently, please let me know.
Otherwise the phone is amazing and I have had experienced no other issues with it thus far.
Thanks!
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I gotta make a thread about this.
You didn't say what OS your PC is or S3 Carrier???. It makes a difference.
Go to Device Manager and tell me if you see Yellow Explamations?
For Win7 and probably Vista, and bell/rogers/At&t, download and reinstall these drivers.
(they are AT&T drivers but trust me...they work perfect for Rogers....and WITHOUT KIES INSTALLED!
BUT...They never quite install smoothly for me....6 PCs now.
So it may say "PROBLEM installing etc." but keep going.
Pull the usb cable out...wait a few seconds.... and re insert.
Check Device manager again.
If you still have problems....manually initiate a Windows Update while the usb is plugged in.
Pull the usb cable out...wait a few seconds.... and re insert.
If you have Xp...let me know. There are different issues.
Hi guys, was hoping someone on the forums was able to help me out with an issue I am having with my Note 2. I am a first time android user so I might be doing something wrong. Whenever I connect my note 2 to my computer, it gives me a pop up message on my phone.
"Unable to find software on your PC that can recognize your device. Service pack 3, Windows Media Player, version 10 or higher, for Windows XP or Android File Transfer for Mac OS must be Installed."
After getting this message I went to update everything on my computer. I am current on my Service Pack and I downloaded Windows media player 11. I also downloaded Kies on my computer and still, my PC doesnt recognize my phone.
Has anyone else ever experienced this issue? Also, do I need to have a micro SD card to be able to connect to my PC?
I believe right now the pc is trying to read from your device's internal memory but it doesn't have the proper drivers installed.
If you had a micro sd, it would just show up in your file explorer as readable media that you can transfer files to and from.
Sounds to me like you just need proper drivers installed and then you can do the same with your internal storage.
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note II (SGH-I317) on the infamous AT&T Network.
That makes a lot of sense. Thank you for your reply. I guess I should just pick up a micro sd card and then try it out again. Thanks again for your help.
No problem. If your browse the developer forum or do a search, I'm sure you could dig up the drivers somewhere. I'm honestly surprised that this device didn't include a disc to install proper drivers.
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note II (SGH-I317) on the infamous AT&T Network.
i to had this same problem, it wouldn't recognize the phone so i had to install and uninstall the samsung drivers 10 times for it to finally see the phone and SD card. after hours of frustration i think i found the issue. uninstall any USB drivers windows may have installed when u connected the phone and go get the installer from samsung. while in the settings menu on the phone under the developer section at the bottom make sure USB Debugging is turned off. then install the drivers plug the phone in after and let windows do its thing and bam ur done. full access to internal drive and SD if u have one installed
Had the same problem and finally found the solution on another forum site. There is a hidden setting that switches USB connectivity between USB Mass Storage and Samsung Kies. The only way to get to the setting is to create a shortcut on the Home screen as follows:
1. Press and hold an empty spot on the Home screen.
2. Choose Shortcuts
3. Choose Activities
4. Scroll down and choose USB Settings
Using the new shortcut you can now switch to Mass Storage mode and your phone will be recognized as a hard drive (even though Windows says it is a Portable Media player). Just double click on it in Explorer and you have access to both the internal memory and the SD card.
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jow350 said:
Had the same problem and finally found the solution on another forum site. There is a hidden setting that switches USB connectivity between USB Mass Storage and Samsung Kies. The only way to get to the setting is to create a shortcut on the Home screen as follows:
1. Press and hold an empty spot on the Home screen.
2. Choose Shortcuts
3. Choose Activities
4. Scroll down and choose USB Settings
Using the new shortcut you can now switch to Mass Storage mode and your phone will be recognized as a hard drive (even though Windows says it is a Portable Media player). Just double click on it in Explorer and you have access to both the internal memory and the SD card.
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How do you press and hold an empty spot on Note 2?
Because for my Note 2, when I press and hold the Home Screen, it will pop up with a box that you only can choose set wallpaper, apps and widgets or folder. SO how to choose shortcuts? Because it is not there?
Please help me. TQ
carlz_sky81 said:
How do you press and hold an empty spot on Note 2?
Because for my Note 2, when I press and hold the Home Screen, it will pop up with a box that you only can choose set wallpaper, apps and widgets or folder. SO how to choose shortcuts? Because it is not there?
Please help me. TQ
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You can do that by installing a different launcher, for example nova launcher free version. Hope this method might work for you. But did not work on my note 2. I am also still looking for answer.
I'm having the same issue as you...and have tried everything as well...and am about to pull my hair out getting this to work.
The MSS install wizard is bogging down and is taking hours to install this for some reason...I am wondering if Samsung has borked this completely for Vista /XP..
I am open for suggestions
Mac
I've noticed Windows is not able to find the driver for it.
Try downloading the OEM USB driver from Samsung: http://www.samsung.com/us/support/owners/product/SGH-I317TSAATT
Disconnect the phone
Install the driver
Connect the phone
Let Windows look and install subsequent updates since the OEM version
Same Problem Here
Acyu said:
Whenever I connect my note 2 to my computer, it gives me a pop up message on my phone.
"Unable to find software on your PC that can recognize your device. Service pack 3, Windows Media Player, version 10 or higher, for Windows XP or Android File Transfer for Mac OS must be Installed.
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I have the same issue and receive the same error message. But only on my Windows XP computers. All my Windows 7 computers work perfectly, but my 64gb SD card connects as a media device, instead of a mass storage device which I could assign a drive letter in XP>
I have tried installing Samsung's USB driver numerous times with no results.
So has anyone found a real solution to connecting a Note 2 SD card to an XP computer as a mass storage device just like any other cell phone I have ever had?
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I have the same issue and receive the same error message. But only on my Windows XP computers. All my Windows 7 computers work perfectly, but my 64gb SD card connects as a media device, instead of a mass storage device which I could assign a drive letter in XP>
I have tried installing Samsung's USB driver numerous times with no results.
So has anyone found a real solution to connecting a Note 2 SD card to an XP computer as a mass storage device just like any other cell phone I have ever had?
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I am also having the identical problem. The Note 2 will not connect to any of the three computers I've tried regardless of the settings I've messed with. It used to connect fine and I'm not sure what happened, but now it just charges and registers nothing on the connected PC. Help.
Usb mass storage mode is pretty much gone at this point. Somewhere someone had the wisdom we only need ptp and mtp. I saw an app in the store that will mount external sd as ums. But that doesn't seem to help with the internal, nor do I know if it translates ext4 into something windows can read. :/
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This is crazy. I had a note 2 and it synced right away. It broke, I got a replacement and now I am getting the same errors.
Has anyone tried any different method
Has anyone tried any different method? Any solution?