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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?
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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?
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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
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Try the link I posted.
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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.
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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.
Okay, So I am a pretty new user of android. However I am a technically minded person and used to jailbreak my iPhone all the time. I decided to go for a while without rooting my Galaxy note II to see what the experience was like without root. However I found that I came across the need to root for certain apps. So Using a Windows PC I rooted with Odin. Now, on My mac, I can no longer connect to samsung Kies, no software on my mac will see the phone. I remember that plugging in my device would usually show usb options in the notification bar and i could select media or mass storage. But now my device acts as if it's only charging and not connected to my mac. I'm not sure what went wrong but I have been rooted for about 5 hours and it went pretty smoothly. So I really don't see why my phone will no longer mount to my mac as storage to enable me to use samsung kies.
Any help is really appreciated.
The only other info I can think of giving is that I'm running OS X 10.8.2.
Try googling for "SGS3 Easy UMS". It will load your SD card as an external drive and should work on the Mac.
This won't help for Kies though. Never used it and probably never will. It's dreadful.
Keith
Unfortunately, mass storage was removed by Samsung in s3 and note 2. Your root has nothing to do with it.
Also I'm not sure why you would need Kies, which is a terrible piece of software. Assuming you know how to root your phone using odin, you should know how to flash firmware using it as well.
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It will appear if u enable usb debugging under developed options. Don't know why...
Sent From my Samsung Note 2 GT-N7100
Am i missig something here? when i plug my phone to my pc it is automatically recognized [able to transfer files] without even needing to turn on usb storage on through the taskbar.
Of course you're still able to transfer files regularly back and forth from and to the PC, just on an MTP connection, not mass storage.
RESOLVED!
Okay, Maybe I had my terminology a Little wrong. But I still managed to correct the problem. The issue was that my mac was not seeing the phone at all because the USB Settings in PhoneUtil accessed by dialing *#7284# in the phones keypad, was set to Modem rather than PDA. Many thanks for your suggestions though. I hope this may help someone in the future.
Hi guys, was hoping someone on the forums was able to help me out with an issue I am having with my Note 2. I am a first time android user so I might be doing something wrong. Whenever I connect my note 2 to my computer, it gives me a pop up message on my phone.
"Unable to find software on your PC that can recognize your device. Service pack 3, Windows Media Player, version 10 or higher, for Windows XP or Android File Transfer for Mac OS must be Installed."
After getting this message I went to update everything on my computer. I am current on my Service Pack and I downloaded Windows media player 11. I also downloaded Kies on my computer and still, my PC doesnt recognize my phone.
Has anyone else ever experienced this issue? Also, do I need to have a micro SD card to be able to connect to my PC?
I believe right now the pc is trying to read from your device's internal memory but it doesn't have the proper drivers installed.
If you had a micro sd, it would just show up in your file explorer as readable media that you can transfer files to and from.
Sounds to me like you just need proper drivers installed and then you can do the same with your internal storage.
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note II (SGH-I317) on the infamous AT&T Network.
That makes a lot of sense. Thank you for your reply. I guess I should just pick up a micro sd card and then try it out again. Thanks again for your help.
No problem. If your browse the developer forum or do a search, I'm sure you could dig up the drivers somewhere. I'm honestly surprised that this device didn't include a disc to install proper drivers.
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note II (SGH-I317) on the infamous AT&T Network.
i to had this same problem, it wouldn't recognize the phone so i had to install and uninstall the samsung drivers 10 times for it to finally see the phone and SD card. after hours of frustration i think i found the issue. uninstall any USB drivers windows may have installed when u connected the phone and go get the installer from samsung. while in the settings menu on the phone under the developer section at the bottom make sure USB Debugging is turned off. then install the drivers plug the phone in after and let windows do its thing and bam ur done. full access to internal drive and SD if u have one installed
Had the same problem and finally found the solution on another forum site. There is a hidden setting that switches USB connectivity between USB Mass Storage and Samsung Kies. The only way to get to the setting is to create a shortcut on the Home screen as follows:
1. Press and hold an empty spot on the Home screen.
2. Choose Shortcuts
3. Choose Activities
4. Scroll down and choose USB Settings
Using the new shortcut you can now switch to Mass Storage mode and your phone will be recognized as a hard drive (even though Windows says it is a Portable Media player). Just double click on it in Explorer and you have access to both the internal memory and the SD card.
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jow350 said:
Had the same problem and finally found the solution on another forum site. There is a hidden setting that switches USB connectivity between USB Mass Storage and Samsung Kies. The only way to get to the setting is to create a shortcut on the Home screen as follows:
1. Press and hold an empty spot on the Home screen.
2. Choose Shortcuts
3. Choose Activities
4. Scroll down and choose USB Settings
Using the new shortcut you can now switch to Mass Storage mode and your phone will be recognized as a hard drive (even though Windows says it is a Portable Media player). Just double click on it in Explorer and you have access to both the internal memory and the SD card.
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How do you press and hold an empty spot on Note 2?
Because for my Note 2, when I press and hold the Home Screen, it will pop up with a box that you only can choose set wallpaper, apps and widgets or folder. SO how to choose shortcuts? Because it is not there?
Please help me. TQ
carlz_sky81 said:
How do you press and hold an empty spot on Note 2?
Because for my Note 2, when I press and hold the Home Screen, it will pop up with a box that you only can choose set wallpaper, apps and widgets or folder. SO how to choose shortcuts? Because it is not there?
Please help me. TQ
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You can do that by installing a different launcher, for example nova launcher free version. Hope this method might work for you. But did not work on my note 2. I am also still looking for answer.
I'm having the same issue as you...and have tried everything as well...and am about to pull my hair out getting this to work.
The MSS install wizard is bogging down and is taking hours to install this for some reason...I am wondering if Samsung has borked this completely for Vista /XP..
I am open for suggestions
Mac
I've noticed Windows is not able to find the driver for it.
Try downloading the OEM USB driver from Samsung: http://www.samsung.com/us/support/owners/product/SGH-I317TSAATT
Disconnect the phone
Install the driver
Connect the phone
Let Windows look and install subsequent updates since the OEM version
Same Problem Here
Acyu said:
Whenever I connect my note 2 to my computer, it gives me a pop up message on my phone.
"Unable to find software on your PC that can recognize your device. Service pack 3, Windows Media Player, version 10 or higher, for Windows XP or Android File Transfer for Mac OS must be Installed.
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I have the same issue and receive the same error message. But only on my Windows XP computers. All my Windows 7 computers work perfectly, but my 64gb SD card connects as a media device, instead of a mass storage device which I could assign a drive letter in XP>
I have tried installing Samsung's USB driver numerous times with no results.
So has anyone found a real solution to connecting a Note 2 SD card to an XP computer as a mass storage device just like any other cell phone I have ever had?
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I have the same issue and receive the same error message. But only on my Windows XP computers. All my Windows 7 computers work perfectly, but my 64gb SD card connects as a media device, instead of a mass storage device which I could assign a drive letter in XP>
I have tried installing Samsung's USB driver numerous times with no results.
So has anyone found a real solution to connecting a Note 2 SD card to an XP computer as a mass storage device just like any other cell phone I have ever had?
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I am also having the identical problem. The Note 2 will not connect to any of the three computers I've tried regardless of the settings I've messed with. It used to connect fine and I'm not sure what happened, but now it just charges and registers nothing on the connected PC. Help.
Usb mass storage mode is pretty much gone at this point. Somewhere someone had the wisdom we only need ptp and mtp. I saw an app in the store that will mount external sd as ums. But that doesn't seem to help with the internal, nor do I know if it translates ext4 into something windows can read. :/
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This is crazy. I had a note 2 and it synced right away. It broke, I got a replacement and now I am getting the same errors.
Has anyone tried any different method
Has anyone tried any different method? Any solution?
Hi Forum members,
I have a HTC One X with JB. Since the latest Synch Manager (SM) I am not able to synch anything other than Phone Storage. This is because SM doesn't see anything else. At the same time in Explorer I have a folder Internal Storage. This is the folder I also want to synch (partly). So now I can't synch music and pictures, because they are on the Internal Storage.
Anybody has any ideas how to resolve this?
Furthermore before JB I could choose what to do when I connected to my PC: only charge; use as HD; synchronize; tethering and another option. Now I don't have that possibility and tapping "USB connected" on the 'drop down' list only gives the option to change settings for tethering.
Ones again: anybody has any ideas how to resolve this?
Greetings,
Zooi
Did you update SM to the latest version ?
Yes, I have version 1.1.65.0 and the program tells me I have the latest version.
Uninstall and reinstall maybe ? Or you could mount the device in Recovery Mode so it appears as USB Mass Storage instead of MTP
After uninstalling I downloaded the latest version from the HTC website. This appeared a new version: 1.1.66.0!
Now the SM not even detects the phone :crying:, let alone finds the Phone storage or the Internal storage. So nothing is synched and I still cannot change the mode on my phone from "Charge only" (I think, for I can't see in what way the phone is connected to the PC) to "Synchronize".
I also switched the phone off and back on again, but it changed nothing.
In "My Computer" I can see the phone, but only the Internal Storage. Where is the Phone Storage?
So I'm still not able to synch the phone in the SM program. Suggestions anybody?
Zooi said:
Furthermore before JB I could choose what to do when I connected to my PC: only charge; use as HD; synchronize; tethering and another option. Now I don't have that possibility and tapping "USB connected" on the 'drop down' list only gives the option to change settings for tethering.
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No idea on your first question, but the above behaviour is normal. In Android 4.1 (and above) MTP is used to connect to the device rather than mounting it as USB storage. The only way to connect it as a mounted USB storage device is to do it in recovery (as someone already suggested).
But the recovery mode can only be accessed through a rooted device? Mine isn't rooted.
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Zooi said:
But the recovery mode can only be accessed through a rooted device? Mine isn't rooted.
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Yes, sorry. Assumed since you were posting on here you'd be rooted.
Anyway, try this: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=34660458
Still uses MTP but reading the thread it sounds like it'll let you access internal storage. I've not tried it since I'm not on Windows anyway, but might be worth a shot.
Same here sync manager does not work on mine. However, windows media player work fine.
I just install the sync manager for the driver.
Sent from my HTC One X using Tapatalk 2
Thank you all so far for trying to help. Nothing worked, so I still can't access the phone storage and SM doesn't synch other files than music and pictures.I guess I have to manually copy files from internal storage to my PC.
Greetz,
Zooi
Internet pass through don't work
Internet pass through don't work !
I can sync music between my PC with HOX, but no internet pass through via usb cable!
I have v. 1.1.66.0 Sync manger installed on my PC!
Any solution? Thanks!
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.
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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/