I've been off XDA for 6-7 months and just got back into flashing my Sprint SGS3, so please excuse my noobish question. And yes I searched other posts on this and found no solid solution.
I noticed now with JB there is no more mass storage mode, I get that, but are there any ROMs compatible with our phone that still has Mass Storage Mode? Shoot I'll go back to GB if I have to to get MSM back! I have a Mac so neither Kies nor AFT work on my OS X 10.8 iMac. I can use AirDroid, but it's a bit slow and not as convenient as the old "USB and go" method. I seriously think this is the worst thing to happen to Android to come back to. I loved being able to plug in and drag and drop files to my SD card. Any suggestions?
Thanks and I'm glad to be back to XDA. Ready to start flashing!!!!
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So, I've played with this thing for 4 hours and I'm about to throw it at the wall.
This is my wife's evo. I rooted it like a year ago when she got it. Shortly after she settled on a CM7 ROM she liked and I haven't touched the phone for 6 months or more. She used my Epic the other day that has the latests ACS SyndicateFrozen ROM on it and she now wants an epic because she likes the ROM so much. I'm trying to appease her by putting ACS' Elite ROM on her EVO.
I started by trying to plug her phone in to my PC, the one I originally used to root it way back when. The drivers are already installed on here. My PC acknowledges that I plugged the phone in, but I cannot view the file directory in My Computer. I then go to the phone and it says USB Debugging enabled, and gives me the option to disable. Neither way allows me to read the phones files. I've tried 2 aftermarket cables (not the HTC one). I've tried updating the HTC Sync software, although she doesn't use it. I also tried installing the HTC Sync software and drivers on my laptop and using that PC, same problem. I've thumbed thru the phones menu for hours and haven't found anything that is turned off that shouldn't be. When I plugged the phone into my laptop after installing the drivers, it acknowledged the phone, said installing drivers, and then confirmed drivers were installed successfully.
All I want to do is access the SD card so I can drop a ROM on it and reflash her phone. This is turning into a nightmare! The CM7 ROM on there now has been giving her random issues for the past month, any chance this is the cause?
I'm hoping there is something stupidly obvious that I'm overlooking.
Thanks for your help!
Reboot into recovery, while connected to your computer, and then select the USB-MS option. Your computer should recognize the card as a drive and give you access to it.
Posting & replying from my EVO 4G
Some other alternatives would be to download the rom directly from the phone, pull the SD card out and put it in a card reader, or use one of the wireless file transfer apps found in the market.
I'm using King's Alliance ROM and have had that same issue on both 7.5 and 7.6 versions. I have one of those Sprint Battery Boost devices that allow you to put an SD card in them and use it as a jump drive, so I do that instead. I would use a simple SD adapter card but the sandisk adapter i have always says it's protected somehow and won't let me transfer ROMs to it. Sorry I don;t have a solution, but I feel for ya
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So, I've played with this thing for 4 hours and I'm about to throw it at the wall.
This is my wife's evo. I rooted it like a year ago when she got it. Shortly after she settled on a CM7 ROM she liked and I haven't touched the phone for 6 months or more. She used my Epic the other day that has the latests ACS SyndicateFrozen ROM on it and she now wants an epic because she likes the ROM so much. I'm trying to appease her by putting ACS' Elite ROM on her EVO.
I started by trying to plug her phone in to my PC, the one I originally used to root it way back when. The drivers are already installed on here. My PC acknowledges that I plugged the phone in, but I cannot view the file directory in My Computer. I then go to the phone and it says USB Debugging enabled, and gives me the option to disable. Neither way allows me to read the phones files. I've tried 2 aftermarket cables (not the HTC one). I've tried updating the HTC Sync software, although she doesn't use it. I also tried installing the HTC Sync software and drivers on my laptop and using that PC, same problem. I've thumbed thru the phones menu for hours and haven't found anything that is turned off that shouldn't be. When I plugged the phone into my laptop after installing the drivers, it acknowledged the phone, said installing drivers, and then confirmed drivers were installed successfully.
All I want to do is access the SD card so I can drop a ROM on it and reflash her phone. This is turning into a nightmare! The CM7 ROM on there now has been giving her random issues for the past month, any chance this is the cause?
I'm hoping there is something stupidly obvious that I'm overlooking.
Thanks for your help!
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Did you turn usb storage mode
dougjamal said:
Reboot into recovery, while connected to your computer, and then select the USB-MS option. Your computer should recognize the card as a drive and give you access to it.
Posting & replying from my EVO 4G
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This worked after 7 or 8 tries of toggling USB-MS. It finally connected to the computer saying it was only a USB1.1 device instead of USB2.0. Got the files copied, gonna wipe it tonight.
Thanks for the help!
bikewiz said:
This worked after 7 or 8 tries of toggling USB-MS. It finally connected to the computer saying it was only a USB1.1 device instead of USB2.0. Got the files copied, gonna wipe it tonight.
Thanks for the help!
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You're very welcome, my friend.
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Hi,
I have searched far and wide for weeks trying to find a solution to issues I am having on a Samsung Galaxy S2 T989 (Telus) - unlocked and being used with a Rogers SIM. Android version 2.3.5 | Kernel version 2.6.35.11
I bought a 32 GB memory card (formatted and mounted before using)
When trying to access gallery of photos taken on the phone (I have not added any content from my computer) it gives me the message "not enough memory, delete some items". This also occurs when I try and dl a wallpaper using Zedge.
I have gone through forums that have said to move items over to the "external SD", and when I do that in "Files" it doesn't seem like they are actually being moved over. I have tried to move apps from the phone to the internal SD, and eventually get a message telling me that there is not enough memory on the SD.
I am also unable to connect to Kies (not sure if working on a Mac is part of the issue) and understand this is to be Samsung file manager program. Is there an alternative to this?
I am fairly new to Android, and understand the OS operates quite differently from a computer, but I really feel like I am missing something. And apologize if the answer to my problems is really obvious, but I typically have no issue figuring these things out.
If someone could point me in the right direction, even to a forum or place that explains how it all works, I would really appreciate it. I would like this issue fixed asap, but I would also like to understand why it is happening and am happy to do the research or read about it to learn.
Thank you to anyone who can give me any kind of answers!!!
ODIN back to stock then flash whatever ROM you want to use. My wife's vibrant had the same problem for a while. The only way I could get files on and off was to pop out the sd card and stick it into my computer. After I ODINed back to stock and reflashed CM7 everything worked.
Hi guys,
I really need your help on this one.
I have searched the forums and the web for a full day now and it seems that I am not alone with my problem here:
Last night I used Solid Explorer to create a subfolder with pictures within the Camera folder. I then tried to move that folder somewhere else on the "SD Card".
But when the process was finished, the subfolder was empty and all the pictures were gone. I could still see the thumbnails in the Camera folder, but when I tried to open one of them, they also all just disappeared!
Now I have read several threads here on xda about the problems of file recovery on a MTP device... Seems like normal file recovery programs will not be of any help in this case.
However I was hoping, that by now someone came up with a solution to this problem, since it affects all users of the GNex.
Some more infos on my side:
The phone runs 4.0.4, is not rooted and not unlocked - everything is stock.
Data back up via Google Plus and Dropbox was not possible, since I am on holidays in Asia with no data plan or WiFi available.
I have switched the phone to flight mode and (hopefully) not written any new data on the storage.
So my questions would be the following:
1) Has anybody yet found a way to asign a physical drive letter to the GNex, making it possible to be recognized by regular file recovery software?
Or is anybody currrently looking into that matter, trying to find a solution?
2) In case that I will not be able to recover the pictures myself through some pc software off the net, will I be able to let some professional have my files restored for me? If I understand correctly, all it takes is a software, that is able to recognize a ext3 or ext4 storage system???
I would really appreciate any help on this matter, because these pictures mean a lot to me and I really hope that I will be able to get them back somehow.
Thanks in advance,
Patrick.
Edit: Argh! First post and I got it wrong already! Sorry, I meant to post this in the Q/A section but ended up posting it in General :-/
I had to format my sd card losing 13GB of information yesterday. This was also due to stupid mtp. Sorry i doubt you can recover.
Sorry to hear that! Until now I could never understand the objections many people seemed to have concerning MTP, as it handled pretty much the same as an USB device when using a Windows PC. But now that I gained some insight in the matter, it's probably the ONE thing I don't like about this phone.
It just sucks to find that out the hard way...
But maybe somebody else still has an idea and can point me in the right direction?
I've had the same problem, and I'm blaming MTP as well. I finally gave up, formatted my drive and replaced MTP with cloud services or transferring files via adb.
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.
Hi everyone, I am a very new iphone to android convert, and recently bought a used epic touch 4g and switched over to ting (which is awesome if anyone is wondering). However, I stupidly accidentally formatted my USB storage through my phone, meaning the 12 gb partition that contained a bunch of pics and videos of my kids from the vacation we JUST went on. I am desperate, I really would like to have them back, and after searching it seemed like not too much trouble to get them. But after downloading Recuva and running it it didn't find anything, but I don't think it even searched my phone, and instead searched my C drive. So I tried to get my phone into USB mass storage mode, but now I am stuck. There is no USB utilities option in settings, and I can't seem to figure out how to switch it from MTP to mass storage mode so Recuva can read my phone. Is there anyone who can help me try to get these pics back? By the way, I am rooted (friend helped me), but no custom ROM. I saw a post regarding this topic and tried a USB switcher app, but it does nothing. I am clueless as to what sfhubs autoroot is, and I think since I am rooted I shouldn't be using that, but I am unsure. Please help!
woppa said:
Hi everyone, I am a very new iphone to android convert, and recently bought a used epic touch 4g and switched over to ting (which is awesome if anyone is wondering). However, I stupidly accidentally formatted my USB storage through my phone, meaning the 12 gb partition that contained a bunch of pics and videos of my kids from the vacation we JUST went on. I am desperate, I really would like to have them back, and after searching it seemed like not too much trouble to get them. But after downloading Recuva and running it it didn't find anything, but I don't think it even searched my phone, and instead searched my C drive. So I tried to get my phone into USB mass storage mode, but now I am stuck. There is no USB utilities option in settings, and I can't seem to figure out how to switch it from MTP to mass storage mode so Recuva can read my phone. Is there anyone who can help me try to get these pics back? By the way, I am rooted (friend helped me), but no custom ROM. I saw a post regarding this topic and tried a USB switcher app, but it does nothing. I am clueless as to what sfhubs autoroot is, and I think since I am rooted I shouldn't be using that, but I am unsure. Please help!
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Guess you can give this a shot..
Recover Deleted Photos - Full Tutorial: http://youtu.be/ANxPnCGo4vo
BIGSAMDA1ST said:
Guess you can give this a shot..
Recover Deleted Photos - Full Tutorial: http://youtu.be/ANxPnCGo4vo
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http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-recover-deleted-photos-from-a-memory-card/
woppa said:
Hi everyone, I am a very new iphone to android convert, and recently bought a used epic touch 4g and switched over to ting (which is awesome if anyone is wondering). However, I stupidly accidentally formatted my USB storage through my phone, meaning the 12 gb partition that contained a bunch of pics and videos of my kids from the vacation we JUST went on. I am desperate, I really would like to have them back, and after searching it seemed like not too much trouble to get them. But after downloading Recuva and running it it didn't find anything, but I don't think it even searched my phone, and instead searched my C drive. So I tried to get my phone into USB mass storage mode, but now I am stuck. There is no USB utilities option in settings, and I can't seem to figure out how to switch it from MTP to mass storage mode so Recuva can read my phone. Is there anyone who can help me try to get these pics back? By the way, I am rooted (friend helped me), but no custom ROM. I saw a post regarding this topic and tried a USB switcher app, but it does nothing. I am clueless as to what sfhubs autoroot is, and I think since I am rooted I shouldn't be using that, but I am unsure. Please help!
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Might be a little way too technical but you could try photorec (or test disk). Its specifically for pictures and videos (test disk recovers a wider array of file types) It won't give you bs about which partition you want to check. Including USB and the sort. And it works nondestructively.
Tips:
Do not take any more pictures.
In fact don't even use your phone.
Leave it on recovery mode with USB mode on.
Caveats:
Test disk only works on Linux. Terminal only at that so it may be too complicated. You need to use dd which is very dangerous if you don't know EXACTLY what your doing. Potentially brick your device ~ ^ ^.
Having said that, one of the best things you can do short of forensics recovery.
Actually theres other methods I just can't remember.
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Op I lied works on windows ^ ^
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
Good luck it's probably less dangerous on windows I've never used it in windows let me know if you have issues.