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Gingerbread: Wifi and USb tethering

Not sure if this topic ever discuss before... but here it goes again.
For those who unable to connect/share their internet connection with PC.
Simple steps:
1) Enable USB debugging mode.
2) Connect USB cable to phone and PC. Once connection established choose option to "None"
3) Next goto phone settings, Wireless & network settings -> Tethering & Mobile hotspot. USB tethering should now option is available to tick. Tick it.
4) Next if you're using windows 7, auto configuring/connection will resume from here.
5) surf the god damn internet...
Note: MPT USB driver will install driver for the first time. Or you could install it yourself with the MotoHelper_2.0.49_Driver_5.0.0 from motorola site.
Wifi hotspot should be easy I guess and it straight forward steps from the app icon..

farsight73 said:
Not sure if this topic ever discuss before... but here it goes again.
For those who unable to connect/share their internet connection with PC.
Simple steps:
1) Enable USB debugging mode.
2) Connect USB cable to phone and PC. Once connection established choose option to "None"
3) Next goto phone settings, Wireless & network settings -> Tethering & Mobile hotspot. USB tethering should now option is available to tick. Tick it.
4) Next if you're using windows 7, auto configuring/connection will resume from here.
5) surf the god damn internet...
Note: MPT USB driver will install driver for the first time. Or you could install it yourself with the MotoHelper_2.0.49_Driver_5.0.0 from motorola site.
Wifi hotspot should be easy I guess and it straight forward steps from the app icon..
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tethering on DEFY MIUI does not work...

This doesn't work for tethering a Linux OS to the Gingerbread phone.

USB Connected but doesn't show up on my mac

How come the internal storage and the sd card doesn't show up on my mac? I can see that it is recognizing the phone though.
Tried it with windows 7 on parallels too for some reason they don't show up as drives. Can't seem to figure out why.

It's not on by default, you have to go to Settings>Wireless And Networks>USB Utilities>Connect Storage To PC

After you connect your phone to your computer, on your phone, bring down your notifications and click usb and then click connect usb data mode or whatever it's called. I had the same problem until I found out how it worked.

Both above answers don't give the full story. The default connectivity mode for the phone is a media connectivity mode that simplifies the process and allows you to access your data without unmounting the storage, but it's only supported by Windows. Macs can't connect that way.
86apex's information is one correct way to turn on the more typical mode that will then work with your Mac. It's just not that it's not on by default, it's just that the mode that IS on isn't supported by your system.
Megatr0n.'s instructions are only valid if you have USB debugging mode turned on. Otherwise you wouldn't see what he (I'm assuming) is describing. That said, turning on that mode (Settings/Applications/Development/USB debugging) and enabling that menu option would be easier than going through the steps 86apex listed every single time you want to connect.

USB Mass Storage Mode

Hey does anyone know if the note 3 can get into mass storage mode and if so how would you go about doing it...thanks for any help....

re: usb connect modes
rockinandroid said:
Hey does anyone know if the note 3 can get into mass storage mode and if so how would you go about doing it...thanks for any help....
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To change modes plug the usb cable from phone to computer and pull the pulldown down
and you will see "connected as a media device" click on it and will be able to change it to
"Camera PTP" or "Media Device MTP". (Media device PTP is mass storage mode)
Be sure that you have the latest samsung usb drivers installed in your computer.
If you don't have it installed or if you don't see the options then that means that
either the usb drivers are not installed or the usb cable or the usb port is not
functioning properly.
Good luck!

Misterjunky said:
To change modes plug the usb cable from phone to computer and pull the pulldown down
and you will see "connected as a media device" click on it and will be able to change it to
"Camera PTP" or "Media Device MTP". (Media device PTP is mass storage mode)
Be sure that you have the latest samsung usb drivers installed in your computer.
If you don't have it installed or if you don't see the options then that means that
either the usb drivers are not installed or the usb cable or the usb port is not
functioning properly.
Good luck!
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Doing that makes it show up as a camera. Which is fine I guess, but probably just for applications on the computer that don't know how to read MTP. Neither is actually USB Mass Storage though.
Either will let you copy files to/from the device in Windows. OSX seems to need MTP and the little application Google makes available.
When people ask about UMS, they usually want to connect to something that's not a computer, like a car radio that can play music/video from a flash stick. Those devices won't support MTP/PTP. I am not aware of any way to get normal UMS to work on a Note3. Last I heard, people determined that a kernel mod needed to happen, and even if that does, the device might get angry if you take its storage away as it won't expect that. The external could probably be done without too much hassle, but the internal would be weird. And probably won't work anyway as it's an ext4 format, so only Linux devices could mount it anyway.

[Q] Win7 64 driver for USB tethering

I'd like to tether my phone to my Win7 64 PC so I can use my phone as my PC's internet connect. I am currently on CM10.0. The wireless hot spot works fine, but for personal reasons I want to make the data connection via USB.
I do have the USB divers installed so I can use Odin. I assume I need a different driver for tethering? I have poked around on xda, but there is so much information it is hard to find the relevant threads. Any help would be appreciated.

I haven't tried this in a while (and I only ever tested on XP), but I thought it was as easy as connecting the phone to the pc and enabling USB tether in the tethering settings menu on the device. At that point, a new network connection should show up in windows. If that's not the case, I'll have to try it again.
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bbelos said:
I haven't tried this in a while (and I only ever tested on XP), but I thought it was as easy as connecting the phone to the pc and enabling USB tether in the tethering settings menu on the device. At that point, a new network connection should show up in windows. If that's not the case, I'll have to try it again.
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The phone only shows up as a USB storage device. Checking the "USB tethering" check box in the "tethering & portable hotspot" does not change this.
HOWEVER after more experimenting, I find that if I enable "Android debugging" on the phone, it now shows up as a modem in device manager with an exclamation point and the error: Device cannot start (Code 10). Reinstalling the drivers does not change the error.
Any ideas would be appreciated.

labumm said:
Any ideas would be appreciated.
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Here's an "any idea":
From the dialer dial:
- For CyanogenMod: *#*#8778#*#*
- For FC09: ##8778##
See if changing the USB option (or UART?) makes any difference.

Mr_You said:
Here's an "any idea":
From the dialer dial:
- For CyanogenMod: *#*#8778#*#*
- For FC09: ##8778##
See if changing the USB option (or UART?) makes any difference.
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Thanks to bbelos and Mr_You for the suggestions. And most of all for the information at it should work with what I have.
I was about to try Mr_You's suggestion. When I plugged the phone into the computer this morning the NDIS driver installed automatically. So problem solved. Apparently I need both USB tether and Android debugging selected. The phone shows up in device manager under "Network Adapters" as "Remote NDIS based Internet Sharing Device".
This is one of the features of Windows that drives me crazy--try the same thing again in a different day at it works. It may have been that I already had Android debugging selected before I enabled the USB tethering and plugged the phone into the PC.

Mount OnePlus 3 as drive windows?

I want to try to mount my OnePlus 3 as a drive in windows so I can use a recovery program to get some files anyone know of a way to do it.
I figure I'd need to be rooted. I thought it was possible on older Android devices using
I found this answered on SU
"Historically Android phones did support two major protocols when presenting itself to USB host: (1) Mass storage class (MSC), and (2) MTP/PTP device (media transfer protocol, with camera capabilities). The USB mode was user-switchable in some configuration area. Since the Mass Storage provides almost direct access to phone file directories (as from CMD), there were many cases of phone bricking (corruption). As result, newer phones do not offer the MSC configuration mode, only MTP/PTP. So the answer to your question is "you can't", unless your particular Android phone does have the MSC/MTP switch."
So the question becomes how do I get it into MSC mode?

Ceroes said:
I want to try to mount my OnePlus 3 as a drive in windows so I can use a recovery program to get some files anyone know of a way to do it.
I figure I'd need to be rooted. I thought it was possible on older Android devices using
I found this answered on SU
"Historically Android phones did support two major protocols when presenting itself to USB host: (1) Mass storage class (MSC), and (2) MTP/PTP device (media transfer protocol, with camera capabilities). The USB mode was user-switchable in some configuration area. Since the Mass Storage provides almost direct access to phone file directories (as from CMD), there were many cases of phone bricking (corruption). As result, newer phones do not offer the MSC configuration mode, only MTP/PTP. So the answer to your question is "you can't", unless your particular Android phone does have the MSC/MTP switch."
So the question becomes how do I get it into MSC mode?
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You said you found the answer, you have quoted that answer here, and I can confirm that the answer is correct. So, as it says, it can't be done.

You don't need root. All you have to do, is hook the phone to pc via usb cable, pull down notification bar and enable MTP for the usb connection. After this, you can open the phone's storage in Widows file manager.

kenboyles72 said:
You don't need root. All you have to do, is hook the phone to pc via usb cable, pull down notification bar and enable MTP for the usb connection. After this, you can open the phone's storage in Widows file manager.
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It's not showing up in disk drill, and there is no mtp option only ptp and file transfer. I need to recover deleted files so I need to view the storage like it would an USB drive

Ceroes said:
It's not showing up in disk drill, and there is no mtp option only ptp and file transfer. I need to recover deleted files so I need to view the storage like it would an USB drive
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Use 'file transfer' option and then you will see the contents of the phone as in USB Drive.

Ceroes said:
I want to try to mount my OnePlus 3 as a drive in windows so I can use a recovery program to get some files anyone know of a way to do it.
I figure I'd need to be rooted. I thought it was possible on older Android devices using
I found this answered on SU
"Historically Android phones did support two major protocols when presenting itself to USB host: (1) Mass storage class (MSC), and (2) MTP/PTP device (media transfer protocol, with camera capabilities). The USB mode was user-switchable in some configuration area. Since the Mass Storage provides almost direct access to phone file directories (as from CMD), there were many cases of phone bricking (corruption). As result, newer phones do not offer the MSC configuration mode, only MTP/PTP. So the answer to your question is "you can't", unless your particular Android phone does have the MSC/MTP switch."
So the question becomes how do I get it into MSC mode?
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Good Question. I believe it has to comes from core of the Android OS. We can't just patch it from above. I remember old andoird OS offered this option. So it acts like a flash drive. Direct access.
Update me if you found a workaround for this. :highfive: