Hi,
This is really annoying! Anybody else or just me? Pls read below:
Where's our newest/latest photos & videos that we just capture? We even see them on the phone but when switching to PC to view them, they're not there? Everytime, we have to reboot our phone to see those new in PC. Why?
I've found this issue with some ROM: CyanogenMod, Defrost, OpenDesire...
I think this is also a known issue that I cannot find correct answer or patch. It related to media scanner or storage...
Sense ROM does not have this issue.
Hope to get it fixed soonest.
Too bad
I'm going to use the example of OpenDesire, but I'm sure its almost the same for the rest of non sense ROMs.
When you plug the phone to the PC via USB you need to enable USB transfer by sliding the notification bar and selecting USB (there you can enable/disable USB transfer). When USB is enabled you will see your phone's SD card in your computer, it should recognize it without problems. If you open it with a file explorer, theres a folder that should be named DCIM and inside should be another folder with all the photos you've taken.
If you want to syncronize photos and stuff using HTC Sync you need a Sense UI ROM to work. Non-Sense UI ROMs are only able to connect as an USB portable device (like a pendrive).
Hi there.
Apps like gallery or music can't get access to my external s-card.
Later installed apps like MX videoplayer can.
When I use USB-connection to my pc, it dosn't show the external sd also.
Any hints folks?
You ROM might be missing the SD drivers. In which case you can't do too much unless you can locate the driver and incorporate it into the ROM. As far as I know.
Thank you. Thats the Point.
Does anyone of you know, which files I have to pull in (from another ICS-ROM for example)? My ROM is not deodexed, so maybe if I know the files to replace (or add) I can manipulate the settings to get them running?
I'm currently using aokp build 3. I have tried everything from MTP to PTP, use debugging to non usb debugging, Kies, Android File Transfer. Nothing seem to work. The only thing seem to be working is Airdroid which is really slow for any large file. So how do you guys transfer file on a custom rom with mac?
hyperx136 said:
I'm currently using aokp build 3. I have tried everything from MTP to PTP, use debugging to non usb debugging, Kies, Android File Transfer. Nothing seem to work. The only thing seem to be working is Airdroid which is really slow for any large file. So how do you guys transfer file on a custom rom with mac?
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i am experiencing the same issues and have been for a very long time. when i first got the phone i could connect with Android File Transfer but no longer . I am running stock rooted. When I have experienced with ROM FILES, I have just put my SD card into an adapter and put it directly into my computer. This is also the safest way to transfer the file without risking corruption.
DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW TO GET MTP/PTP or UMS to work?? UMS would be preferable for me.
Here's a quick fix for doing a half-assed job of what you need. I am a fellow Mac user.
Download "SGS3 Easy UMS" (google it) APK to your phone. Install.
Connect your device to your computer. If you have Kies, it'll start saying "Connecting..." but it'll never connect.
Pop open SGS3EUMS, and click "Mount UMS" or whatever it's called.
Make sure you're rooted (shoulda said this before).
Boom. Pop open your finder. Send files to your external SD.
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Can't do Internal SD, or get KiesMac or even Andriod File Transfer working after flashing CM10, or any custom ROM. Stock worked beautifully.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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/
I recently flashed CM-10.1.3-RC2 and still no UMS. I guess it was removed from CM-10.1 earlier this due to bugginess. I wasn't able to tell if the bugs were in the SGS2 hardware, or CM itself. Can someone clarify? Because, if it's in the HW itself, it will most likely never work. I'm not using Windows so MTP/PTP simply do not work. I must boot into TWRP right now to transfer files. Iv'e also tried
Code:
setprop persist.sys.usb.config mass_storage
however no luck there either.
Anyone know of a ROM where UMS is working (AOKP, etc)?
Thanks
Last time I used AOKP (a few months ago), it had working USB Mass Storage. If you don't want to switch ROMs, there's an app called Multi Mount SD Card (Sorry, I can't post a link) that can get UMS working for you.
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Last time I used AOKP (a few months ago), it had working USB Mass Storage. If you don't want to switch ROMs, there's an app called Multi Mount SD Card (Sorry, I can't post a link) that can get UMS working for you.
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Some of the reviews say that app didn't work for them so I went ahead and flashed aokp_hercules_jb-mr1_milestone-2. No UMS . Perhaps for the same reasons it's no longer in CM I guess. Happy surprise though: PTP *does* seem to be working under Ubuntu 12.04 with this ROM! Hopefully it's stable so I don't have to boot recovery to get the pics off.
EDIT: Nevermind on the PTP. It's actually not working. For some strange reason it's showing some pics that appear to be on the filesystem and not the device :|
EDIT: For anyone interested, found a link that sort-of gets MTP working on Ubuntu 12.04. You have to add some unstable repos and pull down some non-standard 12.04 libraries and edit some udev configurations. There are some limitations like file size, no drag & drop and opening files directly from the MTP mount point. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2223401