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How to disable MTP?

I know there must be multiple posts on this, but after an hour, I'm striking out. I found a .ZIP for a GSII, but that did not work.
Any ideas?

seanvree said:
I know there must be multiple posts on this, but after an hour, I'm striking out. I found a .ZIP for a GSII, but that did not work.
Any ideas?
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SGS3 EASY UMS (look for it here [free version] or in the play store [donate version]) mounts your phone as Universal Mass Storage rather than MTP if you want that option.

colbyrainey said:
SGS3 EASY UMS (look for it here [free version] or in the play store [donate version]) mounts your phone as Universal Mass Storage rather than MTP if you want that option.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1711009

Couldn't we just use the *#7284# to access the utility menu and change it that way?
Sent from my HTC MyTouch 4G

Sorry new to this. But would this have any negative effects if I used the above app to change to usb mass to download music from my computer? Mtp is slow and media monkey scans the whole phone before it syncs. Could I just keep it set to usb or would something not work after that?
Sent from my SGH-T999 using xda premium

mrmako777 said:
Couldn't we just use the *#7284# to access the utility menu and change it that way?
Sent from my HTC MyTouch 4G
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After running this code, which one should I select?

seanvree said:
After running this code, which one should I select?
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+1
---> Brought to you in part by my T999 / T-Mobile Galaxy SIII

that code gives me a chuckle. Always yelling at me about invalid mmi code
Sent from my Unicorn powered T999 using xda premium

Try the link I posted.
Sent from my SGH-T999 using xda premium

KillaHurtz said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1711009
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Thanks. Works well and functions how the phone should be out of box.
---> Brought to you in part by my T999 / T-Mobile Galaxy SIII

HELP! Turn off storage: Galaxy Amp
I don't know if this is the right thread to put this but anyway...
I have a Samsung Galaxy Amp, a much cheaper, much watered-down version of the Galaxy Series, and I have been trying to enable default installation of apps to the external sd card. However, adb devices won't recognize my device because (I think) MTP storage is on.
I Have USB debugging on and the the device works fine over USB. However there is no way to disable storage from the phone's settings. It will automatically enter MTP storage on connection and I can't unmount it from the PC.
To be clear I want to disable ALL storage on the phone, not enable mass storage
Much of the menu options, style, setup, etc are similar to the s3. Any help would be appreciated.
*Also MTP is my best guess of why adb devices won't detect it, if it's something else insight on that will be much appreciated as well, thanks.
-I am a NEWB.

Cheapskate7 said:
I don't know if this is the right thread to put this but anyway...
I have a Samsung Galaxy Amp, a much cheaper, much watered-down version of the Galaxy Series, and I have been trying to enable default installation of apps to the external sd card. However, adb devices won't recognize my device because (I think) MTP storage is on.
I Have USB debugging on and the the device works fine over USB. However there is no way to disable storage from the phone's settings. It will automatically enter MTP storage on connection and I can't unmount it from the PC.
To be clear I want to disable ALL storage on the phone, not enable mass storage
Much of the menu options, style, setup, etc are similar to the s3. Any help would be appreciated.
*Also MTP is my best guess of why adb devices won't detect it, if it's something else insight on that will be much appreciated as well, thanks.
-I am a NEWB.
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Sounds more like a driver issue to me. Click on "Drivers" in my sig and download and install the latest drivers. Then go to device manager, find where it shows your device, right click it and Update Drivers.
If that doesnt work, you can also try the UniversalAdbDriverSetup6.msi. Though after installing this, you may have reinstall the Samsung drivers again later in order to use MTP/UMS or Odin.
Normal operation for me, I can connect using ADB and still have access to the phones storage at the same time.

Thanks!
DocHoliday77 said:
Sounds more like a driver issue to me. Click on "Drivers" in my sig and download and install the latest drivers. Then go to device manager, find where it shows your device, right click it and Update Drivers.
If that doesnt work, you can also try the UniversalAdbDriverSetup6.msi. Though after installing this, you may have reinstall the Samsung drivers again later in order to use MTP/UMS or Odin.
Normal operation for me, I can connect using ADB and still have access to the phones storage at the same time.
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Thanks! This worked great! The reason i thought it was MTP is because most articles make a point of telling you to turn off storage. Sorry if I posted in the wrong place and thanks again.

[Q] usb-mass-storage?

Hey guys!
Did one of you a idea how to connect the phone via usb for mass-storage?
i want to send big files to my phone .. and not over kies!
can u help me? :/

darkfield said:
Hey guys!
Did one of you a idea how to connect the phone via usb for mass-storage?
i want to send big files to my phone .. and not over kies!
can u help me? :/
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If i connect my phone it just mounts (not as mass storage) but the media server.
Which basically works the same as mass storage, No kies involved i don't even have kies installed.

Scalee said:
If i connect my phone it just mounts (not as mass storage) but the media server.
Which basically works the same as mass storage, No kies involved i don't even have kies installed.
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both modes it uses SUCK. usb mass storage is the only way to go.
if you're rooted you might be able to try a nice little command to make it go into storage mode. if you are google enable usb mass storage mode and try it out.

Use this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1711009
It works fine on Note 2 even though its made for S3, you might get com.process.media error when click UMS, just go and turn off Media Storage in app manager and it should connects just fine.

media server sucks.. its not the right way..
thank you very much!

:/ phone must be rooted!
does i lose my warranty if i root my phone?

I gave up on Usb connection and now use an app called Wi Fi File Transfer Pro.
It's great and transfers any size of file quite fast

10.1.2 usb mass storage option?

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.

stcr1 said:
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.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-T989 using Tapatalk 4

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/

[Q] connect as a USB mass storage device to the computer

Is there any way how to connect I9195 as a USB mass storage device to the computer, not only as "media device" or "camera"?

You could try SG USB Mass Storage Enabler from Google Play.
It works properly in my GT-I9195.

It needs rooted phone

I don't think there is any other way except to root it.

jed187 said:
You could try SG USB Mass Storage Enabler from Google Play.
It works properly in my GT-I9195.
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How did you get the apk? I can't seem to get it from Play Store...

jonasb_dk said:
How did you get the apk? I can't seem to get it from Play Store...
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I didn't notice that SG USB Mass Storage Enabler is marked in Play Store as incompatible with GT-I9195.
However, in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2297888 there are alternative links to this app.

jed187 said:
I didn't notice that SG USB Mass Storage Enabler is marked in Play Store as incompatible with GT-I9195.
However, in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2297888 there are alternative links to this app.
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Thanks... But I can't seem to find the apk there as well... (Sorry for being a bit slow here)

jonasb_dk said:
Thanks... But I can't seem to find the apk there as well... (Sorry for being a bit slow here)
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Link to the version 1.3 is in this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=41997991&postcount=15
In order to obtain version 1.4 just change "SamsungUSBMassStorageEnabler_1.3.apk" into "SamsungUSBMassStorageEnabler_1.4.apk" in link in that post.

jed187 said:
Link to the version 1.3 is in this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=41997991&postcount=15
In order to obtain version 1.4 just change "SamsungUSBMassStorageEnabler_1.3.apk" into "SamsungUSBMassStorageEnabler_1.4.apk" in link in that post.
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Thanks buddy

jonasb_dk said:
Thanks buddy
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Does it work for you? I only get a empty driveletter in Win7.

Mykron said:
Does it work for you? I only get a empty driveletter in Win7.
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Yes it does actually work. I had to install the Samsung_Android drivers - which automatically happened with Windows Update. (I'm using Win7)

Drive Letter issues
jonasb_dk said:
Thanks... But I can't seem to find the apk there as well... (Sorry for being a bit slow here)
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Did you roll back all old drivers, remove them in registry.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1882942
Also, if you get the MTP error after this, go to device manger "type it in start"
Go to View
Select Hidden Driver
Go To Non_Plug and Play Drivers
Right Click on Hardware Policy Driver
Go To Driver Tab,
Stop this device
and Disable it
Restart Windows ( unplug phone first, disable network card also)
Disable WiFi or network card, (double tap)
Plug in Phone
Allow windows to load the drivers on your phone.
(don't stop this at all)
Look for phone.
Later you can add updated drivers if you would like. Remember windows keeps all old drivers, even if its jacked up. PnP will still run.
This works on Vista and above. haven't tested it on XP.
IMPORTANT
U must re-enable the change to the device manager after this, or each time you reboot it will reload the drivers.
Also if you want to search for old pics (assuming they were on your external card if you had one)
Use Recurva. To do this you will need a mini USB to card reader. They make them as UBS and camera card style. Then mount and recover. If not you got to rip open your phone, take out the HD, and using the correct connector, (use by) get a drive enclosure. It will mount the HD as a external flash drive. But only do this if you don't want the phone anymore.
later and I hope it helps

[Q] GT I9195 No mass storage mode after root

Rooted my S4 mini with Clockwork and now when I plug it into a computer it is no longer recognized. Autoplay does not come up nor does it appear as a device in My Computer. I updated my samsung drivers and tried downloading a "USB Mass Storage Enabler" app, but nothing seems to work.
Anyone experience this problem? Any suggestions?
Nevermind. Found my answer. Mods, please delete this

theweekender said:
Rooted my S4 mini with Clockwork and now when I plug it into a computer it is no longer recognized. Autoplay does not come up nor does it appear as a device in My Computer. I updated my samsung drivers and tried downloading a "USB Mass Storage Enabler" app, but nothing seems to work.
Anyone experience this problem? Any suggestions?
Nevermind. Found my answer. Mods, please delete this
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Can you pls tell your solution?

Sorry, haven't been on here in a while. In short the solution was that there wasn't a way to enable mass storage, at least at the time. Haven't had the phone in over a year so it may be different now.