i have a Samsung Galaxy Note II and USb File Transfer only seems to work using Kies and therefor, Samsung Drivers
i never had a Samsung Device before and i was wondering, cant i get the standard android USB?
This is really annoying and doesnt work well.
IndigoHD said:
i have a Samsung Galaxy Note II and USb File Transfer only seems to work using Kies and therefor, Samsung Drivers
i never had a Samsung Device before and i was wondering, cant i get the standard android USB?
This is really annoying and doesnt work well.
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To my best knowledge, there is no way to use the good old USB Mass Storage. In 4.1, Google remove UMS, leaving only this stupid MTP mode.
What doesn't work well, file transfers?
Which OS are you using?
I haven't had problems with Windows 7, it automatically detects the Note and installs the drivers. It is MTP, but it works well for me.
I actually have more than one problem with this, even though im using Windows 7.
Sometimes it doesnt even recognize the device and simply keeps saying "Hardware ID not found" or something until the PC is rebooted.
I used to use my phone as a portable mass storage device, usually carrying my Files for school around with me, but thats COMPLETELY out of the picture now, because its not even recognized without me installing Samsung Kies first, which im certainly not allowed to do at school.
Simply opening a rar-archive and dragging the files straight to my phone doesnt work anymore either and i have to extract it to my pc first.
Nor can i let downloaders download straight to my phone storage, since its not properly recognized....
...and so forth.
I honestly think its an abomination and i cant POSSIBLY imagine why anyone would want something as aweful as this.
That's strange. I've connected my Note II to several Windows 7 computers, all without Kies, and all have automatically detected it correctly.
Have you tried installing the drivers without Kies (using the GN2 Toolkit for example)?
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Yes actually I am finding the same problem! I use mine for school too. It's not only that though, my car's CD player (which does not support Bluetooth) has a USB input which used to work fine with my HTC One XL. However it does not recognise my Note 2 and too many files on my Portable harddrive to scan through. Some people might say "use a USB thumbdrive" but to that I say- well, essentially this is what a phone should be able to do, plus it's far more convenient to carry around (as it's always on me!)
Have you tried any of the ums tools from the market. This one appears to mount internal or external.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cafetaskers.umstooljb
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Ok, I've searched for about 3 days now and I can't find anything that answers my question.
My G2 is rooted and I'm running CM 6.1 RC2 and I would like to be able to pair AND connect to my Windows 7 laptop via bluetooth for file transfers.
I have the "Bluetooth File Transfer" app installed, but it will not connect to my laptop. It tries, but says that my laptop does not have the OBEX and/or OPP transfer protocol active. I've looked for answers on that and I can't find anything.
The phone does connect to other bluetooth devices without a problem (my car stereo for example). And my laptop connects to other devices without a problem (my mouse for example). There has to be a way to introduce these two crazy cats to each other - I know they will form a happy and fruitful relationship once they meet.
Thanks in advance.
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Clear all caches clear bluetooth up/download clear all that out reboot do not connect to anything else before u try ur laptop. You need to make your laptop discoverable in the bt settings its kind of hidden. Do one of two things..... 1. First set up a personal area network between the phone and the laptop. Once that's "paired but not connected" initiate a file transfer of a small file txt or even one picture FROM the laptop to the phone. You need to pay attention to the pairing code and try to simultaneously accept on phone then laptop or laptop then phone until it pairs and initiate the transfer from laptop to phone. The thing is Windows is a beast that likes to protect itself and your phone is quite promiscious so youu have to kind of appease Windows rather than your anything goes phone. I forgot what number two is..
It also depends on UAC settings in Win7.
If that doesn't work... I suggest trying a dedicated app like PDAnet bluetooth tethering because it will find your phone. Just to connect not to tether. (As a test)
But the bottom line is you have history of connecting to other devices so you gotta clear all that memory out on both laptop and phone. Reboot both devices start fresh.
If not then maybe someone has other ideas to help. Nice bump btw.
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So I wanted to try and mount my usb drive to my Galaxy Nexus. I just got the usb host cable today. I downloaded an app to try and see if it would list the device there, which indeed it did. I posted screen shots of it below. I watched a video on the Galaxy SII which has the usb host cable information pop right up when you attach the device. Also I am using a CDMA/LTE Verizon Galaxy Nexus with the CM9 Kang ROM. Android version: 4.0.3 CyanogenMod version: 9.0.0-RCO-GN-CMDA-KANG-01132012. Maybe they removed that capability in the ROM for stability reasons? I would be fine updating if that is needed because I have had this ROM for a week or two now and I imagine there is more stable CM9 version by now.
Do I just need to manually mkdir and mount the drive? I was hoping I wouldn't have to do something like that, although that seems like it might be easy to automate with an app or script.
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Mouse was just simple plug and go:
Keyboard worked just fine as well.
Also here is the Galaxy SII video I was referring to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=giJXF5pIITc
try the app "[root] StickMount (G.Nexus)" from the market.
works like a charm for me.
galaxy nexus seems not to mount usb drives automatically, so we need the app to do that.
Update: I did try this app that Stigy was using.
[root] StickMount (G.Nexus) https://market.android.com/details?id=eu.chainfire.stickmount
http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-nexus/433685-so-you-want-more-storage-space-2.html
It made the usbStorage folder for me, but it appears the drive is empty according to my file browser. Maybe it is the how the drive is formatted. I'll play around with it and see if I get any success.
Either way I thought this was available without root. I was under the impression it was built in to ICS and possibly Honeycomb too.
Edit: Guess I should have refreshed the page. Wow quick reply. Thanks. I'm messing with it now as you can probably read.
Edit 2: Just need that StickMount app and a Fat32 formatted drive. (I actually searched for it in the market, but it didn't show up for me) The one I was trying was NTFS, my bad. Well hopefully this will help someone else from feeling like and idiot. lol =)
for me fat32 formatted drives worked. ext2/3/4 should work too.
ntfs formatted drives only work if there's the appropriate driver present (which isn't the case for the galaxy nexus).
I'm not sure if there's any possibility to add a ntfs driver to android. maybe one of the devs has further insight into that.
edit: as far as I understood it, mounting usb drives should work out of the box for the galaxy nexus. but it doesn't for some reason (bug?). so we need this app and it needs root priviledges to mount a drive
^ Ya I was about to search that up soon. It isn't that big of a deal to me to have NTFS, but it would be handy since it is a common file system. Maybe I'll just try to add ext2/3/4 support to my windows install.
Another side question, is there a maximum supported size? I could try an external hdd with its own power I guess. Although I don't have any available to test with atm, and my biggest flash drive is 16GB. Is this a good excuse to go buy a bigger flash drive?
Well I got a little daring, wasn't sure how this would work out. But I plugged my Galaxy Nexus into my HP Touchpad running CM7. Told the HP Touchpad to turn on its USB storage and then told the Galaxy Nexus to mount the storage. IT WORKED. Woot. So at least 32GB is supported. =)
Sorry if it seems a bit off topic. I just like to share and document for others, figure it can't hurt.
Hi,
I was wondering if it will be possible to use Ubuntu for Android with the Galaxy Nexus?
I know it has Dual-Core with more than 1GHz, more than 512 MB RAM and more than 2GB storage space.
But what about
- Video acceleration: shared kernel driver with associated X driver; Open GL, ES/EGL
- HDMI: video out with secondary frame buffer device
- USB host mode
And do you think it will be possible to connect an external storage to the ubuntu system? In the end 2 GB will not be enough I guess
Thank you!
If someone "hacks" it for other phones, the GN will probably be one of the first to receive it. :-D
That's the beauty of the Nexus line.
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@Valynor, what do you mean by "hacks it for other phones"? As I understand it "Ubuntu for Android" is supposed to be a free app in market that is supposed to run on as many smartphones as possible. The only problem I see with the GN is it not having an SD-Card (so it could be there is no USB-host-mode implemented for the phone) and it does not have "read" HDMI support. And I have no idea what kind of video acceleration its got.
So the question isn't weather someone can hack the app but weather it will run the Galaxy Nexus
@MS., Sorry! I am new to this forum :/ Is there a way to move the thread?
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@Valynor, what do you mean by "hacks it for other phones"? As I understand it "Ubuntu for Android" is supposed to be a free app in market that is supposed to run on as many smartphones as possible. The only problem I see with the GN is it not having an SD-Card (so it could be there is no USB-host-mode implemented for the phone) and it does not have "read" HDMI support. And I have no idea what kind of video acceleration its got.
So the question isn't weather someone can hack the app but weather it will run the Galaxy Nexus
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No, the "Ubuntu for Android" is not an App that you can just install. It needs to be tailored to the hardware (and software) on your device. It's more likely to come integrated with a custom ROM.
I'm confident someone will do it sooner or later, though.
Oh...turns out that was some wrong information I had there. Well thank you lots for explaining and I will be waiting for that ROM
I don't want to kill your hopes, but...
An HDMI connexion is mandatory on Ubuntu for Android.
The keyboard and mouse are used on the micro-USB USB Host and the video goes (normally) through the HDMI port.
Note: There can be an HDMI output on Gnex, thanks to MHL port, but when you use the Micro USB as MHL, there is no way to make the USB port to work..
So maybe there is a solution, meaning that USB and mouse will be connected with Bluetooth, but that's not a good thing!
Believe me, all the demos are made with a Motorola Atrix and not a GNex, there is a reason ;-)
Dig up the Q.
GN will be the first receiving ubuntu. Just by downloading it on the ubuntu website.
For the USB/HDMI issue above remember that the GNex have a dock connection with one providing HDMI out, you have your usb free for a OTG cable that allow you to use mouse and/or keyboard (haven't tested but you probably can use Keyboard and Mouse at the same time with a dongle).
BTW and IMHO I'll be more looking after Ubuntu for phone than Ubuntu for Android.
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SG USB Mass Storage Enabler allows you to export your microSD card over USB as a Mass Storage device. It will never be able to export the internal storage on the device.
I originally made this app for myself for the SGS3, as I needed some more flexibility in mounting/unmounting than Easy UMS offered. However, I backed out from releasing it as I thought it wasn't a nice gesture towards Easy UMS's dev.
Features:
Allows you to use your microSD card as a USB Mass Storage device.
Shortcuts on your homescreen to easily enable/disable USB Mass Storage mode.
Warns the user if they try to disable Mass Storage mode without unmounting/ejecting on the PC side.
Tested working on:
Samsung Galaxy Note II (GT-N7100)
Samsung Galaxy SIII (GT-I9300)
Samsung Grand Duos (GT-I9082) - Thanks to wan Mohd in Play Store reviews.
Samsung Galaxy S4 (GT-I9500) - Thanks to taiseer999 in the replies below.
Samsung Galaxy S4 (GT-I9505) - Thanks to Solomon Chow in Play Store reviews.
Samsung Galaxy S4 (SGH-I337) - Thanks to Delyan Georgiev in Play Store reviews.
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I've loaded this and tried it out. Works well from what I've experienced. For most stuff the MTP works fine, but for stuff like Visual Basic projects, it MTP does not play nice. This, made the phone act like a flash drive, and I could load those same projects directly from the phone; in MTP, I had to copy the project to the computer first.
The only issue I've encountered, and it was cosmetic, the landscape view needs adjusting because the text and buttons overlap.
I didn't try reloading Samsung drives to see if it helps with the hardward ID issue for ADB. I assume it will not.
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Nice I like it you said that's for the s4
Yawn well this is post 10 off I go
I've loaded this and tried it out. Works well from what I've experienced. For most stuff the MTP works fine, but for stuff like Visual Basic projects, it MTP does not play nice. This, made the phone act like a flash drive, and I could load those same projects directly from the phone; in MTP, I had to copy the project to the computer first.
The only issue I've encountered, and it was cosmetic, the landscape view needs adjusting because the text and buttons overlap.
I didn't try reloading Samsung drives to see if it helps with the hardward ID issue for ADB. I assume it will not.[/QUOTE]
I am not being able to connect my Note3 to a Windows 8 PC using the USB MTP mode...
The PC is fully updated 8.1, and on the same PC it connects normally if I use windows 7. So its not a USB cable, port or ROM issue. Tried using updated samsung usb driver and Kies.
The phone shows it to be connected, not on the computer. The device manage shows it like this.
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Strangely, it connects if I use the Camera (PTP) mode, but with that I can use the pictures only. I have tried many suggestions here and there, but no luck.
Well, the first problem here is Windows 8....
Try dialing *#0808# and switching through the USB modes that way.
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Well, the first problem here is Windows 8....
Try dialing *#0808# and switching through the USB modes that way.
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Did try that already, no luck...
Now again I tried it on a windows 10 preview, and looks like it works there. Only windows 8 is somehow the problem.
Really? I was kidding about Windows 8 being the problem lol. Although somehow, I'm not surprised. I can't stand Windows 8. Glad you got it sorted, though.
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Try dialing *#0808# and switching through the USB modes that way.
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I also cannot get my phone to connect to windows for file transfer....
On my Note 4 from Verizon, when I dial *#0808#, it actually dials and there's a phone ringing on the other end.
What should happen?
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I also cannot get my phone to connect to windows for file transfer....
On my Note 4 from Verizon, when I dial *#0808#, it actually dials and there's a phone ringing on the other end.
What should happen?
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Wtf? Lol I'm pretty sure it shouldn't actually ring anywhere...Must be a Verizon thing? Maybe? Does anyone ever pick up on the other end?
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Wtf? Lol I'm pretty sure it shouldn't actually ring anywhere...Must be a Verizon thing? Maybe? Does anyone ever puck up on the other end?
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When I call now I immediately get "welcome to verizon. your call cannot be completed as dialed".