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Accessing Storage Card through PC

This may be the dumbest question.. but i've tried looking around and nothing came up.. How do i explore my storage/memory card from my computer? I wanna just drag and drop items in.. Cant find an option through active sync

From your PC with the phone connected via Activesync just open My Computer and your phone should be listed there with all your drives. Just click on it and you'll see the storage card.

"explore" your device

PsyOpWarlord said:
From your PC with the phone connected via Activesync just open My Computer and your phone should be listed there with all your drives. Just click on it and you'll see the storage card.
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It doesnt show up as a drive or anything.. the only thing that shows is the Mobile Device Icon.. which will go in.. but i dont have the option to format..

Ahhhh ... You didn't ask about formatting the storage card in your initial post.
If you want to format the storage card your either going to have to get a card reader for your computer and do it that way or there are PPC programs that allow you to format the storage card that do it from the device itself.
There might be a free program but I'm not sure. I use Resco Explorer 2007 and it allows me to format the card while in the phone.
http://www.resco.net/pocketpc/explorer/default.asp

seemon said:
This may be the dumbest question.. but i've tried looking around and nothing came up.. How do i explore my storage/memory card from my computer? I wanna just drag and drop items in.. Cant find an option through active sync
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Try WM5torage (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=349143)

to just browse + drag/drop, you can use press on the explore button in the ActiveSync window (shown in the attached image file - disabled because i didn't have the phone connected). that will open the my docs folder on you device, go up a level and you will be in the root that includes "storage card".
for large files though (maps, movies, etc) it is faster to take the card out of the device and use a card reader to make it a flash memory.

Sorry for my ignorance, but my ELF stopped synchronizing so is there a way I can explore the memory card that was in my ELF by introducing it directly into my computer?

[Q] Transferring data from Nokia N95 8GB to SGS

Hi, so I'm hoping to be getting my Galaxy S tomorrow and I was wondering if anyone knew of a relatively quick and simple way of transferring the data from my old N95 8GB to the SGS, stuff like contacts, texts, music and photos etc.
My main concern is the contacts and texts, as I can just use drag and drop to move photos and music but if there's a way to do it all at the same time that'd be great. I know you can use Nokia PC Suite to do it between Nokia phones, but I'm fairly certain it's not going to work between Nokia and Samsung

No-one know any way to do it then?

bigdave196 said:
No-one know any way to do it then?
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For your contacts, export them to your N95 sd card (they go there as vcf in others/contacts), and then use "vcardio" from the market to transfer them to your galaxy. (you can first copy all the vcf's into one big one to avoid doing one by one - (copy *.* contacts.vcf.))
For your sms messages, use ovi suite first to back them up, then use nokia2android (http://www.simail.si/download/Nokia2AndroidSMS.7z) to convert that backup to an xml file, and finally use "sms backup and restore" from the market to load them to your galaxy.
For your music and photos...use your pc to move them

Don't need to convert them... on galaxy from contacts app the is an import contacts from SD card option. It will let you import the vcf files u saved on the Nokia.
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Tyxerakias said:
For your contacts, export them to your N95 sd card (they go there as vcf in others/contacts), and then use "vcardio" from the market to transfer them to your galaxy. (you can first copy all the vcf's into one big one to avoid doing one by one - (copy *.* contacts.vcf.))
For your sms messages, use ovi suite first to back them up, then use nokia2android (*link removed*) to convert that backup to an xml file, and finally use "sms backup and restore" from the market to load them to your galaxy.
For your music and photos...use your pc to move them
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Excellent, this is exactly what I wanted, thanks very much. However, there is one teeny little problem. The SD card on the N95 8GB is built in and non removable. If I back them up to the mass memory (SD Card) could I then copy the .vcf files off onto my PC and then onto the SGS that way (I'm assuming yes, don't see why not)?

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Excellent, this is exactly what I wanted, thanks very much. However, there is one teeny little problem. The SD card on the N95 8GB is built in and non removable. If I back them up to the mass memory (SD Card) could I then copy the .vcf files off onto my PC and then onto the SGS that way (I'm assuming yes, don't see why not)?
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Correct, that's what I meant, and that's also why the method proposed above by lgkahn won't work in your case. Same story with the n97.

Brilliant, thanks very much

Tyxerakias said:
...and then use "vcardio" from the market to transfer them to your galaxy. (you can first copy all the vcf's into one big one to avoid doing one by one - (copy *.* contacts.vcf.))
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A little confused. When do I use this method; 'copy *.* contacts.vcf.'? After the transfer to the computer or during the transfer to the SGS? Is this typed from with the 'Vcardio' app or within window?

ebue said:
A little confused. When do I use this method; 'copy *.* contacts.vcf.'? After the transfer to the computer or during the transfer to the SGS? Is this typed from with the 'Vcardio' app or within window?
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It's not a method, it's just a command. You can put this in a batch file and run it on your phone, but here's the less complicated version. I'll write everything, if this is too basic for you I apologise, but I'd rather cover everything now in 10 steps:
1) Export all the contacts to the sd card (called mass memory on the N95 8GB)
2) Connect the phone to your pc in mass storage mode, and find the folder Others\Contacts. Select it, and ctrl-c
3) Open My Computer, find Local Disk C:\, and paste it there (Ctrl-V). Now you will have the folder Contacts in C:
4) Open a command prompt (Windows button + R, 'cmd' ). You'll see C:\Users\(your name) or C:\Documents and settings\(blah), depending on which version of Windows you use.
5) Type 'cd \' (without the quotes). You'll see a prompt C:\>
6) Type 'cd Contacts'. You'll have a prompt C:\Contacts>
7) Type 'dir' . If everything is there, you will see a list of vcf files.
8) Type 'copy /B *.vcf allcontacts.vcf' . Then exit from the command prompt.
Go back to the window with the Contacts on your PC, and you will see one file called allcontacts.vcf, that you just created, and which contains everything.
9) Connect your Galaxy S to the PC in mass storage mode and mount it.
10) Copy the allcontacts.vcf file from C:\Contacts\ to your sdcard/, and then after disconnecting your phone, use the VcardIO app to find the allcontacts.vcf file, load it on your Galaxy S, and that's that.
Now you can delete the folder Contacts from your C drive, or move it somewhere else just in case.
P.S. In the case of linux or a mac, the 'combining the vcf files into one' command, would be 'cat *.vcf >> allcontacts.vcf' , or 'fmt -sp *.vcf > allcontacts.vcf' respectively.

I'm having a little trouble using the VcardIO app. When I click Import it starts importing the contacts, gets to about 95% on the progress bar and then just sits and does nothing, none of the contacts seem to be imported either

Interesting... I've tried it on 2 occasions now and it worked perfectly both times. Maybe there's a weird contact format it's getting stuck on? Maybe one with a big picture or some strange info? Take a look at the .xml file and check if you can spot anything out of the ordinary... *shrug*

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Interesting... I've tried it on 2 occasions now and it worked perfectly both times. Maybe there's a weird contact format it's getting stuck on? Maybe one with a big picture or some strange info? Take a look at the .xml file and check if you can spot anything out of the ordinary... *shrug*
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I got fed up and did it the (really) tedious way, opened each .vcf in Kies and then transferred them over. Thanks for the help anyway

Just in case anybody searches for this thread, I found an easy way to do this.
My N95 screen was busted so I had no in phone commands.
1. Nokia PC Suite- backup contacts to nbu file
2. Used (website- can't link) tienhuis.nl/nokia-pc-suite-empty-contact-list-fix to create a .vcf file
3. Mounted SGS and copied across .vcf file to sd/
4. Used Contacts-Menu-More-Import/Export-Import from SD card
5. Voila.
I too had the issue with vCardIO stopping at 95%, but this way seems to work too.

My answer is a bit late...
Try the MiQ service, compatible to Android, Blackberry, Symbian & Windows mobile
http://miqlive.com/

If you have gmail account I hope this will help with contact
1. Go to Tools -> Sync
2. Create a new sync profile (google sync)
3. Connection settings:
Server version: "1.2"
Server ID: "Google"
Data bearer: "Internet"
Access Point: <choose one>
Host address: "https://m.google.com/syncml"
port: "443"
User name: <your gmail username>
Password: < your gmail password>
Allow sync request: "Yes"
Accept all sync request: "No"
Network authentication: "No"
(You shouldn't enter the quotes on your phone.)
Applications:
Contacts:
Include in sync: "yes"
Remote database: "calendar"
Sync type: "both ways"

[Q] Htc Hd7 as a USB drive.... Now What?

I managed to follow the instructions found at knowyourcell.com about turning your HD7 into a USB drive... It will open and read as a drive, but I can't transfer or read anything... Help would be appreciated. I am a noob so please take it easy on me.... What now? How can I open it up?
Instructions:
1. Open Windows Registry Editor by typing regedit in your start menu
2. Go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USB
3. Perform a search for ZuneDriver
1. The search should yield a result similar to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USB\VID_045E&PID_04EC&MI_00\6&27ffd631&0&0000\Device Parameters\WUDF
4. Click up one level to the Device Parameters key
5. Change ShowInShell from 0 to 1
6. Change PortableDeviceNameSpaceExcludeFromShell from 1 to 0
7. Change EnableLegacySupport from 0 to 1
8. Change EnableDefaultAutoPlaySupport

Thats what i saw in my Explorer.
Tried to cpy a mp3 file into Music, that did not work.
After a restart of hd7 i came only to the level Storage - no sub folders are visable any more now.
And even with my first attempt i had now folder for movies. May be as i do not have any movie in devices storage?

Now everything works fine.
It did'nt work, as there was a filtransfer by zune on his way to the phone. And even killing zune on pc blocked the storage card.
-So edit the registry as mentioned above
-connect your hd7 via usb to pc
-zune starts now
-kill all zune transfer processes
-kill zune
-go to your windows explorer
-you can copy and past media files now.
unfortunaly the office hub is not visable by this procedure.
But i think we are not far away do find out in very near future.

nice! thanks for this. it works.

Sweet!! Got it to work!! Thanks for the help HUMS... Now what? Is there any way to mod up a Ringtone folder? I tried putting in a WMA ringtone and added the folder but no dice... Any suggestions?

great. it works... thanx!

z31k said:
Sweet!! Got it to work!! Thanks for the help HUMS... Now what? Is there any way to mod up a Ringtone folder? I tried putting in a WMA ringtone and added the folder but no dice... Any suggestions?
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sorry m8 - no idea.
For the moment only copy and paste available for media data.
As every program has its own hub.

Hi all, I'm getting a little frustrated with my HTC HD7. I installed Zune, but it wouldn't recognize my phone (it keeps saying "connect device") and I changed the registry as mentioned above also but whenever I plug the phone in, nothing happens and it changed all the registry values back to what it was before. Also the computer keeps failing to install the phone. Anyone with any helpful info help please? thanks.
-on a side note, i'm running windows vista

hungboii said:
Hi all, I'm getting a little frustrated with my HTC HD7. I installed Zune, but it wouldn't recognize my phone (it keeps saying "connect device") and I changed the registry as mentioned above also but whenever I plug the phone in, nothing happens and it changed all the registry values back to what it was before. Also the computer keeps failing to install the phone. Anyone with any helpful info help please? thanks.
-on a side note, i'm running windows vista
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have you checked your USB cable or your USB port on PC?

hums said:
have you checked your USB cable or your USB port on PC?[/QUO
Yes I have; I have 6 USB ports and tried all of them. My wife's iphone and my HTC HD2 connects perfectly to the computer. When I plug in the HD7 however, it takes a charge, and windows will try to install it, then says "installation failed" and thats it. I wonder if its problem with vista, with everyone that is successful at connecting their devices, anyone on vista?
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I'm running windows XP...

What is the point to copy media files to your phone via rather complicated way if you can do it simply by the Zune?

Not that simple
homer.web said:
What is the point to copy media files to your phone via rather complicated way if you can do it simply by the Zune?
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Sorry but really is not that simple with zune or may be we the users can not understand how to copy folders with zune so can you tell us how simple it is .

Yellowarmadillo said:
Sorry but really is not that simple with zune or may be we the users can not understand how to copy folders with zune so can you tell us how simple it is .
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OK. Lets split it to two issues:
1. you want to copy media files (Music, video, photos) to and from your phone
Use mouse and drag and drop what you want to sync with your phone. Its so simple.
2. you want to copy any other types of files to and from your phone
Its pointless, because files will NOT be vissible to WP7 and if you want to move files from A to B, than use what is more appropriate and designed for this purpose, like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_flash_drive#Uses

homer.web said:
OK. Lets split it to two issues:
1. you want to copy media files (Music, video, photos) to and from your phone
Use mouse and drag and drop what you want to sync with your phone. Its so simple.
2. you want to copy any other types fo files to and from your phone
Its pointless, because files will NOT be vissible to WP7 and if you want to move files from A to B, than use what is more appropriate and designed for this purpose, like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_flash_drive#Uses
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homer.web. He speaks the Truth.

homer.web said:
What is the point to copy media files to your phone via rather complicated way if you can do it simply by the Zune?
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I wanted to try this method because zune was in no way connecting to my hd7. I found the problem though. its my operating system. i plugged it into my laptop running windows 7 and it connected perfectly.

Did the required registry edits but unable to view any folders inside the Storage device on the computer, both computer & zune detects the phone though. Need to transfer a .cab file for installation of Satguide.

Would be great, except for the fact that wp7 doesn't use .cab files, only .xap files.
Sent from my HD7 using XDA Windows Phone 7 App

devinwy83 said:
Would be great, except for the fact that wp7 doesn't use .cab files, only .xap files.
Sent from my HD7 using XDA Windows Phone 7 App
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Wow! thats sad, so is there anything that we can do get it to read .cab files

no there isnt
wp7 isnt simular to windows mobile 6.5

Picture preview on PC

When I connect phone with a PC i cant get picture preview of a pictures that are on my phone. Thats very inconvenient because sometimes i want to transfer specific photo from phone to pc but I must open countless pictures until i find the right one. Does anyone know how ti fix this??

Depend on which operating system you are on:
for exemple, on win7 right click on a clear area in the folder, chose display and select the way you want to see all media inside

yeah, im on win7...i tried that but it didnt help, only thing i can chose is like large icons, extra large, medium, list view...i tried them all but only thing they change is the size of the icons.

Igor 3 said:
yeah, im on win7...i tried that but it didnt help, only thing i can chose is like large icons, extra large, medium, list view...i tried them all but only thing they change is the size of the icons.
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Mosaic should work.
If not, you have no software on your pc to generate a pics preview or your pics are corrupted (if they are ok on your SGS, try to associate files on your pc: right click on a pic, propertie -> open with).

Pics are fine, when i double tap them they open normally or when i go to properties also normal...thing im missing is Thumbnail of them so i could easily recognise them and copy on pc the ones that i want. The moment when i copy them on pc the thumnail is back but while the phone is conected to pc and and i want to see specific image on my pc (from my phone) thumbnail is missing so i cant recognise which is which except for the name.

Igor 3 said:
Pics are fine, when i double tap them they open normally or when i go to properties also normal...thing im missing is Thumbnail of them so i could easily recognise them and copy on pc the ones that i want. The moment when i copy them on pc the thumnail is back but while the phone is conected to pc and and i want to see specific image on my pc (from my phone) thumbnail is missing so i cant recognise which is which except for the name.
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Is it connected as a masse storage? or through kies?

through mass storage
it seems it wasnt mass storage but through Kies. I only thought that it was mass storage becasu when i conected phone to pc i could use it like usb to. Now everything is good when i put it on mass storage, I appreciate your help

[Q] Connecting phone to PC, treat as proper storage drive.

This one has puzzled me for quite some time.
When connecting my One or most android phones to my PC, it will appear as a drive but it NEVER works like an SD card or USB stick would.
Here is a list of things which really frustrate me about this:
You can't drag'n'drop from iTunes (or another audio programme) or WinRar to the drive, it won't have none of it. Instead you have to copy/extract the file to another location, say desktop and then move it to your desired folder on the phone.
Creating a folder on the phone using Windows causes issues. I create a new folder, it asks for a name, I name it and hit enter and then it freezes. For about 2/3 minutes it does nothing and then bam, new folder.
You can't create folder shortcuts. Example, I have podcasts I place in the same directory on the phone, instead of allowing me to create a shortcut or link to the folder, I have to navigate to the folder each time. It's a ball ache.
When you have a usb stick and you copy the address it will look like this, F:\HTC One\Internal storage\backups. When you connect an android phone it looks like this, This PC\HTC One\Internal storage\backups. Obviously pasting this address into a programme for it to use doesn't work as it doesn't recognise This PC.
Everytime I copy certain files to the phone, like m4a, Windows will ALWAYS ask if I want to convert it first. No thanks, leave it. But it asks everytime. If it treated it like a proper drive, this wouldn't happen.
I guess it is treating the phone as a camera or something, but really? It's really irritates me when the limitations on this crop up and leave me furious.
So finally, the question, is there any way which I can do the following:
Every time I connect my phone it will treat it like a proper drive, so I can drag and drop from iTunes etc and create shortcuts which remain when the device is removed and re-inserted.
If it can't ever happen, can someone explain to me why not?
Sorry for the wall of text, been on my mind for a while and annoying me for much longer.

Guess I am the only one with this issue then.

X82X said:
Guess I am the only one with this issue then.
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Unfortunately you can't mount it as a drive, it can only be accessed via MTP protocol; so you need to think of it as camera/mp3 player/etc.
But about these questions:
Creating a folder on the phone using Windows causes issues. I create a new folder, it asks for a name, I name it and hit enter and then it freezes. For about 2/3 minutes it does nothing and then bam, new folder.
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That's strange, mine does it in a second, maybe need to update drivers?
You can't drag'n'drop from iTunes (or another audio programme)
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I don't know about iTunes, but Windows Media Player recognizes MTP (and therefore the phone), and you can sync music, pictures, and videos... I would assume iTunes should recognize MTP devices too.
WinRar to the drive, it won't have none of it. Instead you have to copy/extract the file to another location, say desktop and then move it to your desired folder on the phone.
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Any program that doesn't know about MTP has that problem, no workaround
Everytime I copy certain files to the phone, like m4a, Windows will ALWAYS ask if I want to convert it first. No thanks, leave it. But it asks everytime. If it treated it like a proper drive, this wouldn't happen.
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Happens to me too, but since I don't copy much stuff to the phone, I don't care. But I'm sure there's some kind of setting (probably in the windows registry) to disable that. Try searching a bit, maybe you'll find it.

X82X said:
This one has puzzled me for quite some time.
When connecting my One or most android phones to my PC, it will appear as a drive but it NEVER works like an SD card or USB stick would.
Here is a list of things which really frustrate me about this:
You can't drag'n'drop from iTunes (or another audio programme) or WinRar to the drive, it won't have none of it. Instead you have to copy/extract the file to another location, say desktop and then move it to your desired folder on the phone.
Creating a folder on the phone using Windows causes issues. I create a new folder, it asks for a name, I name it and hit enter and then it freezes. For about 2/3 minutes it does nothing and then bam, new folder.
You can't create folder shortcuts. Example, I have podcasts I place in the same directory on the phone, instead of allowing me to create a shortcut or link to the folder, I have to navigate to the folder each time. It's a ball ache.
When you have a usb stick and you copy the address it will look like this, F:\HTC One\Internal storage\backups. When you connect an android phone it looks like this, This PC\HTC One\Internal storage\backups. Obviously pasting this address into a programme for it to use doesn't work as it doesn't recognise This PC.
Everytime I copy certain files to the phone, like m4a, Windows will ALWAYS ask if I want to convert it first. No thanks, leave it. But it asks everytime. If it treated it like a proper drive, this wouldn't happen.
I guess it is treating the phone as a camera or something, but really? It's really irritates me when the limitations on this crop up and leave me furious.
So finally, the question, is there any way which I can do the following:
Every time I connect my phone it will treat it like a proper drive, so I can drag and drop from iTunes etc and create shortcuts which remain when the device is removed and re-inserted.
If it can't ever happen, can someone explain to me why not?
Sorry for the wall of text, been on my mind for a while and annoying me for much longer.
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have you tried Airdroid
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sand.airdroid&feature=search_result
it solves some of the issues you describe