Hi guys,
All of a sudden I can't get access to my GNex which I'm running official, un-rooted Google Jellybean 4.2.whatever
When I plug the phone in USB I get the Galaxy Nexus in my explorer, when I open it I get the "Internal Storage." I open that up but then all the folders just keep loading in apparently, and the progress bar at the top just keeps going forever and ever. If I try to access any of the folders then Windows Explorer hangs completely until I unplug the phone.
I've tried turning on/off the USB debugging, I've tried turning switching between MTP and PTP and unplugging/replugging in the phone but nothing seems to work.
This all worked perfectly fine until recently and I have no freakin idea why.
I've got the drivers installed (the ones necessary to use the GNex Toolkit because I used that to wipe my phone completely and use an official ROM.
I can access everything just fine on the phone itself with a file explorer app so I don't believe it to be a memory corruption thing or something like that.
Here's a pic of what I mean.
http://i.imgur.com/6C63Yk0.png
You can see the bar at the top, you can see some named folders and some unnamed folders. If I try to access any of them it just hangs.
If I leave it to run and progress through the bar just keeps going forever, it doesn't stop and I still can't access any of the folders.
Any ideas?
Do you connect your phone via USB hub or anything similar?
If you do try to put your phone directly to USB.
If you have Logitech unifiying reciever try to unplug it and without it. That was a problem couple of times for me.
I am having problem with phone constantly disconnecting from USB in Explorer, don`t know why. MTP is such a bad solution, using AirDroid most of the times
marko1103 said:
Do you connect your phone via USB hub or anything similar?
If you do try to put your phone directly to USB.
If you have Logitech unifiying reciever try to unplug it and without it. That was a problem couple of times for me.
I am having problem with phone constantly disconnecting from USB in Explorer, don`t know why. MTP is such a bad solution, using AirDroid most of the times
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
It's not plugged in a USB hub at all. It goes right into my PC with a USB cable that I've always used so it's really weird that this is happening now.
What's airdroid? I'll have to look into that, thanks.
Related
I have ActiveSync 4.5 on my laptop and set my TP2 up to Sync with my work's Exchange Server OTA and it's working fine. I then went to setup AS (USB) on my laptop so I could drag files over but it won't connect. It just keeps trying to connect then just stops and I get an error on my PC saying it couldn't connect to the device.
Anyone else have this problem or know how you might fix it? I looked at the other AS threads and didn't see anything that worked for me. I have killed AS and Soft Reset my phone but to no avail. The computer recognizes that the TP2 is plugged in but won't connect. The Allow USB connection is checked on the phone's AS too.
Thanks,
Had the same problem and deleted MS active sync then reinstalled it and it worked now if I can only figure out how to change the soft keys I'll be happy
Well I uninstalled and reinstalled but to no avail. Does / did your TP2 automaticlaly make a network connection when you connected it via USB?
Lance
When you connect your phone, just choose the File Transfer mode! It's faster and doesn't use ActiveSync. You should be asked that when you connect USB.
I think something is up with the laptop as I connect my phone now and it doesn't even charge. I'm going to remove active sync again, and then reboot and see if that fixes anything.
I'll look for the file transfer mode. My 16GB MicroSDHC doesn't come until today (if I'm lucky) so i'm still ahead of the curve on most of this.
Thanks,
Lance
Robertsonland said:
I think something is up with the laptop as I connect my phone now and it doesn't even charge. I'm going to remove active sync again, and then reboot and see if that fixes anything.
I'll look for the file transfer mode. My 16GB MicroSDHC doesn't come until today (if I'm lucky) so i'm still ahead of the curve on most of this.
Thanks,
Lance
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Try a new USB cable. My USB cable broke on me a few days ago. Or try a new USB port, or a new computer. It should be charging. That means that your USB connection is bad, not ActiveSync.
Go to your Device Manager on your computer.
Look in Mobile Devices.
Find your phone
Right click on it.
Uninstall the driver.
Unplug the USB cord.
THen plug it back in.
It will go thru the installing process again.
I know this b/c I have done it too many times. hth.
Simple fix
Goto the start menu>Setting then to the Connections tab at the bottom.
Select USB to PC
UNCHECK Enable faster data synchronization.
ActiveSync should work with your PC again.
johnreden said:
Goto the start menu>Setting then to the Connections tab at the bottom.
Select USB to PC
UNCHECK Enable faster data synchronization.
ActiveSync should work with your PC again.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm going to try this with the issues I've been having, seems like it might work.
Activesync has been randomly losing connection to the phone and sometimes the phone will stop charging. I've tried 2 different usb cables including 1 I've used for a long time with no similar issue.
Once, I've even been connected to Activesync and seen the phone stop charging. This phone seems to be similar to the MDA in that the hardware has to go through the operating system to charge the battery. Ugh, once my MDA battery was so dead that I couldn't start the OS and thus couldn't charge the battery, that was fun manually connecting wires to the battery terminals to get enough charge that I could start the OS.
cabranscom said:
Go to your Device Manager on your computer.
Look in Mobile Devices.
Find your phone
Right click on it.
Uninstall the driver.
Unplug the USB cord.
THen plug it back in.
It will go thru the installing process again.
I know this b/c I have done it too many times. hth.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yup agreed, that works, I have the similar issue my ActiveSync sometime disconnected itself. Performed the above steps, then it never happened again.
I can't find "Mobile Devices" in Device Manager on XP. Is that tip just for Vista?
Also I have unticked the "Enable Faster Data Synchronisation" but still I can charge but not get a USB data connection.
Any other tips!
The Android File Transfer program on my mac keeps crashing. When i connect my galaxy nexus to my comp, the AFT program prompts, however the spinning wheel never stops spinning. i rebooted my computer and i re-installed Android File Transfer, but i cant figure out what seems to be the problem. I am running on 4.0.4, it worked fine when i was on 4.0.2. Does it relate to the new update? any suggestions? im trying to transfer files, and i prefer to do it this instead of via bluetooth, or via wifi using severs.
Mine is really picky as well. If I try to transfer large folders I often get the raindow wheel and have to force quit too. I've also found that instead of transferring large folders, its easier to create the folder on the phone and simply transfer the contents of the folder from your comp to your phone. I also always just unplug/replug the USB end.
Set your Gnex screen to stay on while it's charging. That seemed to help me.
Yeah this happens to us all I think. AFT is downright terrible.. I use AirDroid now to transfer files. It's slower than USB transferring, but its keeps me from raging over how bad AFT is /heh
But AirDroid is simple and effective, I definitely recommend trying that out.
Mine works fine. Works best if you unlock the phone then connect it. Let it open AFT and do your thing.
What version are you guys running? The current version is Version 1.0 (1.0.16.6656) and it seems to work perfectly on my MBP.
The older builds were completely useless.
It happened to me, I removed the program and reinstalled and now it is working well.
Just installed this on MBP with Lion and it's working fine. Just have to set the transfer to MTP (it was in camera mode).
Ya it does seem that it works now.
Latest version works pretty good. Not a big fan of the gui interface. Wish it looked a little better. Agree making folder on phone makes things a little easier.
I haven't used anything other than adb push or pull since android 1.6
Hey Im a bit late to the party but maybe this will work for those of you having trouble..
Im on the Samsung Galaxy S2 (running the CM9 nighties) and haven't been able to get it to mount on my Mac Pro ever since going to CM9.
None of the options (MTP, USB Mass Storage, etc) worked for me at all.
I was going to download the Mac File Transfer app again (since I initially downloaded it on my phone and now have no way to get it onto my Mac) but the website was down this morning so I ran off to Google instead.
I ran across a post regarding the Galaxy Note over at androidforums.com where someone said to turn off USB debugging, and then it works. The instant I turned off debugging, the good old Android USB Mass Storage screen came up when I plugged in the USB cable, I clicked the 'Turn On' button at the bottom and it mounted both my internal and external SD cards just like it used to when I was running the stock ATT 2.3.4 rom.
Try that and see if it works for ya!
Sounds simple enough, I will definitely try it when I get home from work!
It works! Awesome tip Slavestate!
My phone will not connect with the computer for some reason. I re-installed all the drivers needed by Samsung. I even tried it with my brothers macbook. I don't understand why it wont connect? I'm using the usb wire that came with the phone. I plug it into windows 7 and nothing comes up. Its charging my phone but under "Devices" I see nothing.. Really want to root my phone but idk what to do
king718 said:
My phone will not connect with the computer for some reason. I re-installed all the drivers needed by Samsung. I even tried it with my brothers macbook. I don't understand why it wont connect? I'm using the usb wire that came with the phone. I plug it into windows 7 and nothing comes up. Its charging my phone but under "Devices" I see nothing.. Really want to root my phone but idk what to do
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ok it connected to the computer now and it comes under devices but the folder is empty.. nothing inside when i double click the device. and it is coming up as portable media player
EDIT INSTALLED KIES ITS WORKING NOW =D
I read a bunch posts on UBS issues but not that solved my problem.
Ok this seemed to start after I installed the ABLDroot tool by chainfire.... but sense then I have tried other roms, and other phones ATM I got a S3 and my S3 hooked into my computer... I going do my best make this easy for you and explain it right.
I have 2 usb ports on my computer which sucks (only having 2) its a labtop. Anyway I have 2 USB DLINK hubs.... one goes into computer and the other goes into the usb hub.. hub1----hub2----computer
hub 1 has nothing in it.....
hun 2 has my S3, S2 and the other hub pluged into it
my computer has 1 usb hub pluged into it and other port is used for my mouse (via a small hub) I do that because its usb mouse and it won't register right on the hubs.... anywaus
Easy problem could this be usb hub? Doesn't seem to be but I can't say I can tell for sure because I need stupid thing to use the phone unless I just except not being able use anything else USB (which arn't connected right now at wern't when the problem started)
This started when installed that ABD tool. Then my computer started saying wrong device error. So I went ahead and installed older drivers which fixed that problem. But the main problem is sometimes when I move stuff on my S3 like if I copy files and stuff I can see they moved on the phone but when I go to the computer and try to find my files there not there. Not moved. Or I see blank folders. Or worse even though I can use file commander still I am unable to see my phones on Cdrive. I see them in devices but not C drive.
sometimes problem goes away sometimes not. what is this ? the older drivers? the abd tool? I can't tell I tried to take one away at a time and while problem would go away often times it still happens once in awhile.... im going try some more tests with the usb plugged strait in but the problem stilll happens ..
Though its better if I don't use the hub thats not good enough for me I want problem gone
I use windows 7 any ideas thanks
only thing I dunno is could having a S2 conected mess with drivers maybe? doesn't seem so.
Any ideas? Different drivers or ... a program or... i dunno man shezzzz
Having the S2 connected shouldn't change anything. Your laptop should see both.
My guess is your USB hub but could also be from the older drivers.
This is a problem specific to your pc (either hardware or software), it's really hard to know exactly what's wrong without being there to test it.
I have my One X for like 5 months now. Everything was working just fine and I was able to connect my phone to my MacBook with no problems. I was able to transfer files using HTC Sync Manager as well. However, recently my phone would not connect to any computer. When I connect my phone to the computer it just starts charging, no other notification shows up in the bar. Sync manager would not see the phone as well. I don't know if its the software or my phone. I tried Windows and OSX; I tried different USB cables; Factory Reset did not help; Debugging is on. Its frustrating! It seems like people encounter this problem, but no real solution or answer has been found. Do you guys know something about this?