I'm having trouble with MTP using the latest version of Paranoid Android, it's SO slow, I just copied a 5MB file to the phone and the transfer lasted like 15 seconds, also, I really don't like that "media" layer thats added, I need to make some space in my internal storage/SDCARD and I can't even use a program to calculate the folder sizes, I want direct access to it, just that, I don't understand why it's not available in AOSP.
Well, I searched and someone said "hey, mount the storage/sd with recovery", ok, here we go. And nope, last TWRP doesn't work for some reason. OK, lets go back to CMW. And nope, again, can't mount them, it just won't work, nothing happens when I check the mount button...
Also I read that using the "Fix permissions" fix may solve it, well, it doesn't, tried that with both recoveries.
So, is there any way to enable USB Mass Storage Mode? Also, why is MTP SO DAMN SLOW? I've searched and I'm not the only one thats having this problem it seems.
Thanks.
Anyone?
Samsung made it like that, you cant do nothing about thet so far.
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Samsung made it like that, you cant do nothing about thet so far.
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Can you explain a bit further about that? What did Samsung do?
Cant sorry, samsung made your sd car like a media storage not all file storage, more for music, movies, pictures, thats one of the reasons why samsung wont let you save apps on sd card.
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gefilus said:
Cant sorry, samsung made your sd car like a media storage not all file storage, more for music, movies, pictures, thats one of the reasons why samsung wont let you save apps on sd card.
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Well, thats a crap sad, thanks for the explanation, I guess that I should use an external sdcard reader :S
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First off: UMS/MSC is USB Mass Storage/Mass Storage Class
This is something I've been working on. We don't have UMS. And, I want UMS. Google/Samsung's reasoning was they didn't want to make us choose between internal storage for apps, and external storage for music.
The one flaw that comes with this is that we lose UMS. UMS requires a block device that can be unmounted from the phone and mounted to the host machine (Windows/Linux/Mac).
We can get this back relatively easy I believe without re partitioning our phones. I don't want to play with partition tables, because there isn't an easy way that I know of to restore it to stock.
To get technical: /sdcard on the Nexus is just a symlink to /data/media. We can break that symlink, modify the fstab and init.rc to mount an image file to /sdcard, then modify vold to allow us to mount that image file to windows. The downside: we'd lose what google/samsung thought was an amazing idea: not making us choose between sdcard storage and internal app storage.
I guess why I'm posting this: is anyone interested enough for me to actually do this?
What exactly is the benefit? Could you explain?
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What exactly is the benefit? Could you explain?
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Sounds like a ext but to the sdcard instead of the data partition..
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sounds interesting! the convenience of having UMS is definitely missed. as long as everything functioned "normally" I'd do it.
Yes please! Especially if u can do it so that it'll also work in clockwork, might be easier. It would make everyone's life easier, and I bet a lot of devs would end up baking it in to their roms!
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If I am reading this correctly this would essentially make that folder act like it would under an external SD card meaning once I mounted it to windows I would lose all access until unmounting it from windows?
More options are always good, but honestly I've gotten used to MTP and not having to mount and remount as well as not having to worry about swapping between internal storage and sdcard. I say do it just so we have options as users, but I'm not really sure I'd use it over the current methods.
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If I am reading this correctly this would essentially make that folder act like it would under an external SD card meaning once I mounted it to windows I would lose all access until unmounting it from windows?
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You got it. You could even use the folder as /sdcard and programs wouldn't know the difference.
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You got it. You could even use the folder as /sdcard and programs wouldn't know the difference.
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This would be very very nice for Linux users as mtp can be a pain to transfer files with. And adb isn't exactly the fastest for large files.
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Great idea. Mtp sucks
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Would love this to use with my MacBook Pro.
I'd use it.
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Yes pleaseeeeee!!!!!!!
You should work for Google. I think that's how they should've shipped the phone.
Great idea. That would make device recognition much easier in Linux. It's a real pain trying to get it to pick up GN on Debian. If you get it working maybe I can have your permission to use it in my git for my rom compilation?
Be nice, current method with Macs is painful.
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Be nice, current method with Macs is painful.
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i agree its no picnic. but its better then nothing
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i agree its no picnic. but its better then nothing
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Whats the problem with it? I got a Mac and I have no issues, it's quite easy in fact.
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Whats the problem with it? I got a Mac and I have no issues, it's quite easy in fact.
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i dont mind it either, i just rather it mount like a sd card. so it actually mounts like a Hard Drive
Yes thanks in advance
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Does anyone else have this problem? This happens when I make a nandroid backup. I just want to make sure that this is not something that will hurt my phone or keep me from being able to restore a rom. Any help would be appreciated.
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Does anyone else have this problem? This happens when I make a nandroid backup. I just want to make sure that this is not something that will hurt my phone or keep me from being able to restore a rom. Any help would be appreciated.
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I believe a nandroid only backs up your internal sd card. Its nothing to worry about. It wont hurt anything and wont cause any problems restoring a backup.
That means you don't have sd-ext is present on your sd card. EXT is simply a partition of a sd card so that you can dedicate the space to apps. Example, if you have a 2GB SD card and you partition your card to so that the 1GB will be available to apps. Other 1gb you can access it on explorer to store files, etc
Thanks for the info. How do I go about fixing it?
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Thanks for the info. How do I go about fixing it?
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create the partition cwm searches for when doing a backup.
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Hmm. OK. Thanks
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Hmm. OK. Thanks
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You don't need one....you aren't fixing anything.
EXT used to be used back in the days of the G1 because it had limited space. Now a days, phones have a ton of space and it is not really an issue.
OK. Still confused ...what do I need to do to have my sd-ext recognized.?
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You don't need to do anything. Its OK because the phone already has enough memory. This is for phones that don't have a large amount of memory. For example, the HTC G1 had like ~85 MB of memory for apps. So one had to create a separate partition on the memory card, EXT 3 or EXT 4 with at least ~500 MB to store more apps. With this phone, we get about ~1.90 GB. So there is no need for that. Anyone correct me if I'm wrong.
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OK. Still confused ...what do I need to do to have my sd-ext recognized.?
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It's attempting to back up something that no longer needs to be backed up because the information that was previously stored there is now being stored on your internal sd which IS being backed up. You don't need to do anything or worry about it, everything on your phone is being backed up except your external sd card (which no flash should touch and thus shouldn't need to be backed up). We all get the same message, it's nothing to worry about.
Wow lmfao this is comical xD answer the dude 3x n he still disnt get it xD
U want it fixed? Boot to cwm, Reformat sdcard, wen it asks for ext size put 512, swap size 0, issue "fixed" basicly useless tho on this phone, n the ext will probably b slower then the system storage, but u obviously want it to stop showin onn the log so there ye go, done
OK. Thanks for everybodies help.
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LOL thanks homeboy...
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It's attempting to back up something that no longer needs to be backed up because the information that was previously stored there is now being stored on your internal sd which IS being backed up. You don't need to do anything or worry about it, everything on your phone is being backed up except your external sd card (which no flash should touch and thus shouldn't need to be backed up). We all get the same message, it's nothing to worry about.
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Thanks for that detailed information
galaxy ace, LG
could you tell me how to make a backup for apps on the sd card, my sister and girlfriend both have **** phones where they constantly run out of space or memory so they sometimes cant even receive sms messages, my girlfriend has a galaxy ace, she can't have to many apps because the memory is crap, my sister has a crappy LG phone which gives her really bad problems, how can i turn their terrible phones into half decent phones in order to release a bit of their sd cards for app management? any bit of help would be amazing, cheers guys
So today I noticed all my photos in my gallery app were greyed out... thought it was strange. Selected one... big grey pic... then another.... and another....
These pics span the internal storage and sd card....
First I deleted the cache to the gallery app.... same result...
OK... went into es file explorer.... dcim... camera..... all JPEGs gone....
Went into the sdcard..... have multiple folders under pics main folder... all empty... except for any video files...
Then mounted on my PC... and they also don't show.
What could of happened to cause this.... I wouldn't normally care but I lost a lot of pics of my kids... that spanned 3+ years that weren't all backed up. Any help on the snowballs chance in hell of recovering this would be appreciated.... but at the very least any reasonable explanation as to why this may have happened would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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You could try pulling the sd card out, putting it in the computer directly, and then using a data restore or undelete app. As long as the sectors haven't been rewritten, they should be recoverable.
Also, this may help for the future. I use my phone to capture my kids as well. What I've been doing is using the auto upload features in both Google+ and DropBox, to back pics up in replicate. Sucks for bandwidth and battery usage, but it is what is is. lol
Hope you get them back!
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You could try pulling the sd card out, putting it in the computer directly, and then using a data restore or undelete app. As long as the sectors haven't been rewritten, they should be recoverable.
Also, this may help for the future. I use my phone to capture my kids as well. What I've been doing is using the auto upload features in both Google+ and DropBox, to back pics up in replicate. Sucks for bandwidth and battery usage, but it is what is is. lol
Hope you get them back!
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I will try that when i get the chance.... just wish i knew WHY this happened. So frustrating!
So i was able to recover my files on the external sd card with a card reader.... now how would i do the same on the internal card, if we cant mount it with usb mass storage mode?
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So i was able to recover my files on the external sd card with a card reader.... now how would i do the same on the internal card, if we cant mount it with usb mass storage mode?
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There is a pc program called recova I think it's from pirova. I wiped my phone once and was able to do the deep scan and recovered them. Hope it helps good luck.
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So i was able to recover my files on the external sd card with a card reader.... now how would i do the same on the internal card, if we cant mount it with usb mass storage mode?
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Unfortunately, I don't think that one's doable with the way the device mounts. You may be able to mount it as a drive via recovery, but I'm not sure.
Edit: Just noticed your other post. You're asking the right thing. Hope you get an answer. If CWM doesn't have it, you could try TWRP.
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Unfortunately, I don't think that one's doable with the way the device mounts. You may be able to mount it as a drive via recovery, but I'm not sure.
Edit: Just noticed your other post. You're asking the right thing. Hope you get an answer. If CWM doesn't have it, you could try TWRP.
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Recova is what i used on the SD card and worked perfectly.
Also, i flashed TWRP... and the option isnt there either, so i will assume that its not possible on our phone yet... so for now im screwed...
am afraid to install any new programs or files, in fear of losing my more current pics, which were internally.
That happened to me too, but i am using the GS2 Tmobile, after flashing cm 9 nightlybuild. but my picture on my sd card, so i guess will use recova.
Thanks and hope you get your pictures recovered.
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It sucks that you lost quite a few pictures that mean a lot to you. I do see sincerely hope that you now understand the importance of backing up these important files. This really goes for everyone. Keep important files backed up in at least one other place, and keep it up to date. Most people don't start doing backups until they've lost something that's irreplaceable.
I have come from an xperia play, I used to be able to move apps to SD on it when it was running gingerbread or ICS. I have searched and searched but I cant even find it mentioned anywhere that this is not possible on the note 2. Any ideas?
It was also possible to mount the SD card to my computer, through usb sort of like a memory stick. I seem to only be able to to do a slow media transfer now.
This is my first post so forgive me if I have done anything wrong or something considered noobish.
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Moving apps to sd is possible when the app lets you do it, just see the details for each app on the app manager.
As for the usb/media mode, guess you can't really choose anymore, but check your cable, mine seems pretty fast to transfer files
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Joshyyl said:
I have come from an xperia play, I used to be able to move apps to SD on it when it was running gingerbread or ICS. I have searched and searched but I cant even find it mentioned anywhere that this is not possible on the note 2. Any ideas?
It was also possible to mount the SD card to my computer, through usb sort of like a memory stick. I seem to only be able to to do a slow media transfer now.
This is my first post so forgive me if I have done anything wrong or something considered noobish.
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I have the 16GB model and I must say it fills up pretty fast. I am using DirectoryBind and it is working great for me. It requires root access and one or two reboots but it's well worth it.
Another solution to the low internal memory is a mod called Ext2InternalSd which basically switches between your internal and external memory. I find it quiete extreme as a solution but that's just my opinion.
We are stuck with MTP mode now instead of USB mass storage.
Its not bad, but at least with UMS I could see the previews of my images when connected to my computer. With MTP I can't
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Welcome to jelly bean
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ICS does not allow to install to SD Card/// You can run a script on a rooted rom that swaps the internal memory for the external... Look it up dude
Use airdroid. One of my favorite apps.. solution to mtp
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I flashed this rom here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=36441591
And i knew it were gonna move many of my media file to another folder which i cannot find anymore i have : sdcard0/1 and emulated folder also I've been checking everywhere and i cannot find them anymore please tell me i didn't loose them forever !
I couldn't post in that thread because it is closed.. Ive read in the thread almost every page and no one posted this so yeah ...
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Install Quick pic from play store. Run media scanner. Its will search all media files.
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Install Quick pic from play store. Run media scanner. Its will search all media files.
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Couldn't find media scanner .. But how is that gonna find my music ? I really need my music had like 220 of them
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Check /storage/emulated/legacy.
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Check /storage/emulated/legacy.
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I did and it isn't there...
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Install new ROM
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Install new ROM
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Ugh... I really like aokp roms and its just killing me the fact that i can't use music whit this rom any other solution as of now ?..
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Anyone?
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Ugh... Anyone?
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What is changing to a new rom going to do for him? If his music is gone it's gone... Unless I'm missing something? Why isn't your music on your computer or somewhere else? How did you get it on your phone, lol? If it some where and you can't find it, pull everything from your storage places and put them on your PC and search both files with in your computer search index and see if you can find them... If they are there, then create a folder named /music and you will good to go. If they aren't there then get new music or however you got them there in the first place.
Im really getting fed up whit this ... The way it makes another folder where everything elses moves there is really nonsense i have lost all my game data's also my titanium backup
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Im really getting fed up whit this ... The way it makes another folder where everything elses moves there is really nonsense i have lost all my game data's also my titanium backup
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So you are just going to vent and whine, or help me help you?
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So you are just going to vent and whine, or help me help you?
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Sorry did not see your post.
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What is changing to a new rom going to do for him? If his music is gone it's gone... Unless I'm missing something? Why isn't your music on your computer or somewhere else? How did you get it on your phone, lol? If it some where and you can't find it, pull everything from your storage places and put them on your PC and search both files with in your computer search index and see if you can find them... If they are there, then create a folder named /music and you will good to go. If they aren't there then get new music or however you got them there in the first place.
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So i downloaded all of my musics whitin my device reason i never store music on my pc is because i barely do use it...
I guess i could do that too but i once remember i restored an backup and everything was in its place ? Its weird..
Also since i use various apps to get my music they are in different folders there js nothing inside my /music folder is this anything bad ?
I could download the music back also but takes quite a while + my lost game datas and precious images :/
Off topic : thoughts on the xperia t ? Im wanting to buy one..
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So i downloaded all of my musics whitin my device reason i never store music on my pc is because i barely do use it...
I guess i could do that too but i once remember i restored an backup and everything was in its place ? Its weird..
Also since i use various apps to get my music they are in different folders there js nothing inside my /music folder is this anything bad ?
I could download the music back also but takes quite a while + my lost game datas and precious images :/
Off topic : thoughts on the xperia t ? Im wanting to buy one..
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I would start putting the music somehwere other then only on phone storage, just in case. I've accidentally wiped internal storage once, and I've had External sdcards go bad or just randomly out of no where lose all data in it. make a dropbox and do TiBu once a week and move them there your self with some type of file manager if you don't wanna pay the money for Titanium Backup pro. I also bet all your stuff is there you are just looking in the wrong places. What file manager are you using to look for your "lost stuff"?
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I would start putting the music somehwere other then only on phone storage, just in case. I've accidentally wiped internal storage once, and I've had External sdcards go bad or just randomly out of no where lose all data in it. make a dropbox and do TiBu once a week and move them there your self with some type of file manager if you don't wanna pay the money for Titanium Backup pro. I also bet all your stuff is there you are just looking in the wrong places. What file manager are you using to look for your "lost stuff"?
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Yeah dropbox is a good idea and i use root explorer and oi file manager tried whit both same results folders are not being shown but if i restore my nandroid backup they all come back ? Until i come back on a 4.2 aokp/aosp rom..
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list all the areas you are looking for the media... what is your recovery?
Aokp is awesome ROM. I dont mean to be rude but if you think those files are still there (in your phone) ;install different ROm or restore backup and pull al data from it. And wipe both internal and external cards. Amd install aokp and enter those files again via PC.
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list all the areas you are looking for the media... what is your recovery?
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Sorry for late answer but i looked into sdcard/storage0/storage1/usbdisk/ also checked emulated and legacy folder...
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Aokp is awesome ROM. I dont mean to be rude but if you think those files are still there (in your phone) ;install different ROm or restore backup and pull al data from it. And wipe both internal and external cards. Amd install aokp and enter those files again via PC.
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Yeah ill do just that i guess aokp 4.2 is just perfect for me except it has low incall volume -.-...
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