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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.
thequinox said:
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...
Note 2 XXALJ1 , Mac OS X 10.8.2
file transfer between mac and phone is horrible.
this a list of options I attempted
0 : Android File Transfer
useless
neither MTP option nor camera PTP work for me
(works with my Nexus 7, so it's not broken)
1 - Kies on Mac:
very clumsy interface for generic file transfer
BUT
can decide location (sd versus phone)
USB connection works and is fast.
queues multiple transfers, so suitable for transferring few large movies.
2 - Airdroid app.
wifi not usb speed
clumsy browser interface for multiple file transfer
does not support the external sd card as a target
3 - SSHdroid on phone + macfusion
WiFI not usb speed
quite often mounts in read-only. could not figure why
needs two distinct macfusion entries for sdcard and internal
OSX finder interface for file management is better than airdroid
with pathfinder you also get to queue file transfers
4 - AltMounter
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1626713
does not work for me
5 - Mount inside a VM
I tried with the virtualbox hypervisor -
could not get windows xp guest to load mtp drivers
with a ubuntu 12.04 guest it worked. so then the guest could access the mac files via ssh or shared folder
however the overall speed was disappointing.
has anyone done better ?
Thanks. I'd like to know other options as well.
Yep, Android File Transfer not working here either. It worked perfectly on the Note I when connected as Camera PTP.
Looks like I'll have to give Mac Kies a try.
PROGRESS!! MTP connection with Mac
I uninstalled Heimdall
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=32567113&postcount=1566
I uninstalled Kies (you need to download the Kies dmg again)
http://www.jrtstudio.com/iSyncr/UninstallKies
restarted mac & phone
1) use the iSyncr app
was able to connect my Note II via USB
(previously it detected it but failed to communicate)
and transfer files to either the phone or my ext sd card
2) I re-tried AltMounter (see my original post)
and it mounted the phone memory only under /Volumes/Android device
after unmount it did not work again - it is admittedly not yet completely stable.
I'll keep that as option B
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So after importing a large subset of my ITunes from the mac to the extSD card,
using iSyncr over USB I plan to reinstall the ugly :crying: Kies and my strategy will be
- using kies to usb-copy individual large files (eg movies)
- using iSyncr only over wifi (I expect iSyncr not to work when Kies is installed)
for playlist synch and small music transfers
-using airdroid over wifi for occasional other transfers
Still not optimal but second best for now.
I remain puzzled that MTP connection works with iSyncr and with Kies but not with Android File Transfer.
edo_xda said:
Note 2 XXALJ1 , Mac OS X 10.8.2
file transfer between mac and phone is horrible.
this a list of options I attempted
0 : Android File Transfer
useless
neither MTP option nor camera PTP work for me
(works with my Nexus 7, so it's not broken)
1 - Kies on Mac:
very clumsy interface for generic file transfer
BUT
can decide location (sd versus phone)
USB connection works and is fast.
queues multiple transfers, so suitable for transferring few large movies.
2 - Airdroid app.
wifi not usb speed
clumsy browser interface for multiple file transfer
does not support the external sd card as a target
3 - SSHdroid on phone + macfusion
WiFI not usb speed
quite often mounts in read-only. could not figure why
needs two distinct macfusion entries for sdcard and internal
OSX finder interface for file management is better than airdroid
with pathfinder you also get to queue file transfers
4 - AltMounter
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1626713
does not work for me
5 - Mount inside a VM
I tried with the virtualbox hypervisor -
could not get windows xp guest to load mtp drivers
with a ubuntu 12.04 guest it worked. so then the guest could access the mac files via ssh or shared folder
however the overall speed was disappointing.
has anyone done better ?
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Thanks for all your trial and error, edo. Kies works OK for my purposes for now I guess.
What a pain this is.
Unfortunately the MTP Application has stopped.
I started to get this message "Unfortunately the MTP Application has stopped." in a popup anytime I plugged in the phone.
Neither Kies not iSyncr could connect any longer via USB.
I did some extensive searches but did not find good info.
At long last, I reset the phone to the factory default - what a pain, just made it easier by having all important data on te external sd card -
and immediately then Kies connected again.
I think the MTP implementation at this stage is still not very robust.
Shame Google/Samsung removed the old USB mass storage option.
This is my only gripe with the phone. Costed me too much time and still I haven't got Finder access to the phone storage as hierarchical file system. Almost like iOS !!!!
Samsung's recommended option EasyPhoneSync works perfectly for me.
http://easyphonesync.com/en/
But it's only for syncing music. For basic file transfer I just stick the SD card in the macs card reader.
I cant get Android File Transfer to work, but iSyncr works just fine with the phone set as MTP mode.
Hope this helps.....if anyone get find out how to solve the Android File Transfer issue then please share!
Not easy the live of Mac User with Android ... i'm in the same case of you
I wish a good app for this use !!!
Considering that both iSyncr and Kies can work using the MTP connection
Google should sort its Android File transfer app out.
It's worth noting that if you peek inside the 3 Mac apps iSyncr, Kies and Android File Transfer you'll
find some files related to usb / mtp that have the same name (forgot what) in the 3 apps but are different versions.
That's why probably why iSyncr cannot work if Kies is installed (Kies has a couple of background processes that keep polling for a phone IIRC).
So why what is the best way for us mac users to connect our note 2 with our Macs in usb? Right now I'm kinda stucked with Airdroid
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2 - Airdroid app.
does not support the external sd card as a target
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I can select my external card as a target with Airdroid, no problems there for me. OS X 10.7.5
supramon said:
So why what is the best way for us mac users to connect our note 2 with our Macs in usb? Right now I'm kinda stucked with Airdroid
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For large transfers I wanted to use USB and so I gave in to the horrible kies.
But I am not using its synchronization features, or its library at all. The last thing I want is yet another library to maintain.
If you click on the folder icons (see screenshot attached) you can then drag and drop from the Finder to the small window.
For normal transfers I just use airdroid.
For music playlist synchronization I like iSyncr
For me I used to use Airdroid, but now i have given up and just stick the sd card into the card reader....not the ideal situation. And i agree with the OP Andriod File Transfer should be sorted out ASAP.
Kiahnlliya said:
I can select my external card as a target with Airdroid, no problems there for me. OS X 10.7.5
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You are correct - I can navigate to the extSD card using the files icon.
The speed upload shortcut does not offer the ext sd card as a target though.
it'd be great if airdroid offered something like a favorite shourtcuts list.
Will suggest it
Half Solution
Hi,
I tried with this app and it seems to work well, but only for the external SD.
I've been able to mount and copy files with my Lion Macbook
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27417817&postcount=1
Hope this helps !
hey guyss found the soliution.... everything woks 100% now..
- Download the latest version of Samsung Kies: http://www.samsung.com
- Open the downloaded DMG
- Once you have the .Kies20mac_S8173.pkg file window with the "Uninstall.app", right click on the KIES20mac_S8173.pkg and open using "The Unarchiver" and extract to a folder (I created a KIES folder on my desktop)
- From here you will see a file called "contents.pkg", Right click and select "Show Package Contents"
- Double click "Payload", it will create a file called "Payload-2", (at least it did for me)
- double click "Payload-2" and it will create another file called "Payload-2-2"(the payload part seems to have just duplicated so you may only need to do this once. But keep opening until you see the Applications Folder)
- In "Payload-2-2" you'll find the Applications folder, within the Applications folder you'll see the "Kies.app".
- Transfer the Kies.App to the Applications folder and then run Kies.
wooohhhooowww finally it works....
i have also installed ANDROID FILE TRANSFER... and it works like charm....
100% working....
Thanx to GOOGLE.com
raman21raman said:
- Download the latest version of Samsung Kies: http://www.samsung.com
- Open the downloaded DMG
- Once you have the .Kies20mac_S8173.pkg file window with the "Uninstall.app", right click on the KIES20mac_S8173.pkg and open using "The Unarchiver" and extract to a folder (I created a KIES folder on my desktop)
- From here you will see a file called "contents.pkg", Right click and select "Show Package Contents"
- Double click "Payload", it will create a file called "Payload-2", (at least it did for me)
- double click "Payload-2" and it will create another file called "Payload-2-2"(the payload part seems to have just duplicated so you may only need to do this once. But keep opening until you see the Applications Folder)
- In "Payload-2-2" you'll find the Applications folder, within the Applications folder you'll see the "Kies.app".
- Transfer the Kies.App to the Applications folder and then run Kies.
wooohhhooowww finally it works....
i have also installed ANDROID FILE TRANSFER... and it works like charm....
100% working....
Thanx to GOOGLE.com
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Hi Raman
that solution for Kies on Mountain Lion that you can still find via google is obsolete.
That was developed to get Kies to install and work on Mountain Lion when initially the new OS came out.
If you had read my post, you'd have seen that the current Kies does install and work.
it is currently version kies20mac_s9999.pkg not Kies20mac_S8173.pkg
In fact the solution you reposted only avoids installing the ssuddrv.kext kernel extension that was incompatible once,
but currently works. Actually - following the obsolete instructions makes Kies NOT recognize the Galaxy Note 2
You must have had a good ssuddrv installed anyway by some other package, that's why it works for you.
As of today,
Android File Transfer just works internal & external SD - after I uninstalled the now-unneeded Kies
Note - I re-downloaded the dmg.
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edo_xda said:
As of today,
Android File Transfer just works internal & external SD - after I uninstalled the now-unneeded Kies
Note - I re-downloaded the dmg.
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Yup, AFT working. lol :good:
I desisntalled Kies, desintalled Android File Transfert, reinstalled it (downloaded it yesterday), but got the same message when I plug the Note II : Could not connect to the device.
I'm on OSX 10.7.5 and it's a Stock ROM (MTP seems to work with alternative ROM but not with samsung's one)
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.
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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.
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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.
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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/
How do I connect my Sony Xperia Z1 compact to a mac? Back in my android days an Android phone could be simply used like an USB flash drive. You plug it in no matter what system and it will get recognized. I know you could toggle between USB mode and some other fancy mode. Now each time I connect my Xperia to my Mac I get „connected to PC- MTP Media Transfer Mode“ (shouldn’t it be MTM- I suppose the P might stand for protocol…never mind) but the phone won’t show up on the Mac under storage. I’ve already enabled USB Debugging under Developer Options because I assumed that would do the trick - nope.
So how can I use my android phone like a normal USB flash drive? I do NOT want to install Sony’s silly itunes rip off software.
DNStuff said:
How do I connect my Sony Xperia Z1 compact to a mac? Back in my android days an Android phone could be simply used like an USB flash drive. You plug it in no matter what system and it will get recognized. I know you could toggle between USB mode and some other fancy mode. Now each time I connect my Xperia to my Mac I get „connected to PC- MTP Media Transfer Mode“ (shouldn’t it be MTM- I suppose the P might stand for protocol…never mind) but the phone won’t show up on the Mac under storage. I’ve already enabled USB Debugging under Developer Options because I assumed that would do the trick - nope.
So how can I use my android phone like a normal USB flash drive? I do NOT want to install Sony’s silly itunes rip off software.
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Settings > XPERIA connectivity > USB connectivity > Change USB connection mode to Mass Storage Mode.
Works on my mac and also on Linux.
theprince1991 said:
Settings > XPERIA connectivity > USB connectivity > Change USB connection mode to Mass Storage Mode.
Works on my mac and also on Linux.
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That's what I've been looking for BUT
"Only SD Card supported in mass storage mode. Internal storage not available in this mode. Continue?"
WHY????! This renders it pointless since I don't have any SD Card. Is this a Sony thing only or do all Android phones roll like this nowadys? Also I still don't understand WHY i can not access the internal storage? Why does everything have to be so complicated. Isn't there some hack or something to still access it?
So yeh I've set it to Mass Storage, connected it to my MAC and of course nothing shows up. Sigh. This simply isn't any fun at all.
Read this: http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/1...behind-galaxy-nexus-lack-of-usb-mass-storage/
DNStuff said:
That's what I've been looking for BUT
"Only SD Card supported in mass storage mode. Internal storage not available in this mode. Continue?"
WHY????! This renders it pointless since I don't have any SD Card. Is this a Sony thing only or do all Android phones roll like this nowadys? Also I still don't understand WHY i can not access the internal storage? Why does everything have to be so complicated. Isn't there some hack or something to still access it?
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Yeah - the hack is to hack that Mac into little pieces with an axe. LOL. Just kidding. I wonder if newer versions of OSX can recognize MTP? If so, are you able to update your Mac? Or, if you cannot... how about using bootcamp (or whatever the latest method is), install WinXP/7 or something on the mac and you will have the choice to boot into either windows or OSX whenever you turn it on.
DNStuff said:
So yeh I've set it to Mass Storage, connected it to my MAC and of course nothing shows up. Sigh. This simply isn't any fun at all.
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Ah I'm sorry mate, I can't really think of a solution apart from giving Sony Bridge for Mac a go. You can drag and drop into internal storage. You don't need to import or sync media.
Dual booting with Windows is an option (the windows program is way better than the mac program) You can virtualise (VMbox is free) or just dual boot. Again it's a pretty drastic step to take in order to do something as simple as access internal storage! I personally have Arch Linux and OS X.
The Sony Bridge for mac has improved a lot. You don't need to do any syncing or anything, you can just drag and drop as if it is mounted like an external disk.
((Edit: @cnu4u found a quick solution for me: android.com/filetransfer/ - Doesn't mount the drives, but allows simple drag and drop. Perfect.))
Hi All,
I've been googling my brains out but am obviously bad at it. I've been looking for a way to mount my HTC 10 directly into mac, so the internal and external disks come up as drives in finder, much like you can do in Windows. I can't for the life of me see how- all I can do is get to HTC Sync Manager, and I can't seem to drag/drop files in and out of finder using that piece of crap app. I don't love being locked into HTC's software to get files in and out of my device.
Any tips? Using a stock, unrooted HTC Rom. I'd prefer not to Root if I can help it.
Thanks,
Drew
oheydrew said:
Hi All,
I've been googling my brains out but am obviously bad at it. I've been looking for a way to mount my HTC 10 directly into mac, so the internal and external disks come up as drives in finder, much like you can do in Windows. I can't for the life of me see how- all I can do is get to HTC Sync Manager, and I can't seem to drag/drop files in and out of finder using that piece of crap app. I don't love being locked into HTC's software to get files in and out of my device.
Any tips? Using a stock, unrooted HTC Rom. I'd prefer not to Root if I can help it.
Thanks,
Drew
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Try Android file transfer on Mac. It's an app from Google.
Edit: link added - https://www.android.com/filetransfer/
Bingo. That'll do it! Doesn't exactly add it as a mounted drive, but it's more than usable for drag and drop. Thanks! Great result.
AFT was my revelation as well. It sometimes is finicky with transferring files, but I've found that toggling USB debugging and/or the connection type (file transfer vs charge only) fixes that.