Well, the real issue is that my PDMI port appears to be damaged due to a faulty connector. The tablet charges great but it's unable to connect to a PC; without USB access, I can't flash CWM. Of course, I can't use ROM manager because I also can't root. I'm just kinda stuck; there's really no reason for anyone do develop an onboard root method with Superoneclick working fine and I don't even know if it's possible.
My question is: Is there some obvious workaround via external sd I'm missing, or am I just plain out-of-luck?
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Hi,
Sorry this a newb question.
I'm totally new to SGS but not new to Android (my experience is with a HTC Desire).
Well my problem today with my brand new SGS is that it doesn't mount on the PC: be it with or without an external SD Card, whenever I attempt to mount the SGS, nothing is going on the PC... the USB connection icon doesn't show in the notification tray in the PC (I'm on Win7). I don't get any error message from the SGS itself (it seems to be considering that the SD cards have been mounted on the PC...)
Do I need to install any specific Samsung/Kies drivers in order to see the SGS on my PC? If that is the case, well this is pretty annoying because at work I'm not allowed to install new drivers.
By contrast, my HTC Desire can be mounted to any PC without any specific drivers installed... so I'm wondering why the SGS would require such devices...
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I was running fine on CM7 like I have been for months now and I go to use my phone and its frozen. I can turn the display on and off but everything else is frozen. I try to reboot and it won't boot up past the kernel screen. So I decided to try to flash back to stock and now my external and internal SD cards won't mount. I can boot up my phone on stock JF6 but cannot access either SD card. And it would only boot up when I had my external card in the phone. I have never had this problem and I did nothing to change anything that I've been running for months.
Is my phone screwed and semi-bricked?? I will be pissed if it is when I didn't even do anything to it. Its well past the time to get a warranty replacement since I've had this phone since last August. I've flashed 100s of times and never had any problems and now I don't do anything and its screwed up. Please someone give me some good news.
All these views and no one can help? Im thinking I'm screwed. I'm within 6 months of an upgrade so I think I could get them to allow me to upgrade if they don't replace my phone.
Have you reformatted the external SD (in a computer, outside of the phone)? Does ADB see your device when connected?
I can get to download mode and recovery,but cant flash cwm recovery since it cant find either sd cards. My pc sees my phone, I can flash with odin but it doesnt do any good. I cant see the sd cards on the pc though, can just see it in odin. Havent tried adb yet.
What program did you use to flash back to stock?
If it was Odin, I believe that there is an option (in the full version of Odin) to repartition. It might be worthwhile to see if you can find a package that will make use of that reparitioning option, and give that a whirl to see if it fixes your file system.
You could also do it with the latest Heimdall (1.3.1, I believe), but I'd recommend asking Benjamin Dobell (the person who made it - here on XDA) about using it for repartitioning.
I used odin one click which repartitions. I've used it tons of times and I dont think its the problem since it was screwing up when I still had cm7
You said Odin can see your SD cards. If you take your external SD, put it in an adapter, and stick it in your computer (assuming you have the tools for this, of course), does the computer recognize it? If so, is the size of the card read correctly, and what format does it recognize the card as?
The card reads fine. My main concern is my internal as well. Neither one of them are recognized by the phone. Says something like incorrect mounting points. In settings, the option to format/mount are grayed out and in total space it says unavailable for both. The external reads fine on my wife's phone, so its definitely something hardware on the phone. I just don't understand how it could all of a sudden break with me not changing anything.
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The card reads fine. My main concern is my internal as well. Neither one of them are recognized by the phone. Says something like incorrect mounting points. In settings, the option to format/mount are grayed out and in total space it says unavailable for both. The external reads fine on my wife's phone, so its definitely something hardware on the phone. I just don't understand how it could all of a sudden break with me not changing anything.
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If you can use ADB on the phone, you could try using the ADB shell and seeing if you can pull/check the /etc/void.fstab. It might give you a clue as to why Android is running but not seeing your internal or external SD.
For reference, mine says:
## void configuration file for the emulator/SDK
volume_sdcard (
## This is the direct uevent device path to the SD slot on the device
emu_media_path /devices/platform/goldfish_mmc.0/mmc_hst/mmc0
media_type mmc
mount_point /sdcard
ums_path /devices/platform/usb_mass_storage/lun0
)
Well, can't get adb to work. Surprisingly, I don't really know how. I've never needed it in the year and a half that I've had the phone. Luckily, I called Samsung and they said my phone is still under warranty since I've had to get a replacement once before. So ill be taking my phone to the at&t repair store and see what phone I can get out of them.
I hope you guys here from XDA can help me solving a question I have about some errors I get when trying to backup the gameloft game's data on my PC and either nandroid backups created on the internal SD of my Galaxy Tab (something that usually happened with my old Galaxy S too).
I try both ways, with the Tab connected to Windows 7 in Mass Storage or Kies mode, but sometimes I get some weird errors (the file transfer stops and the USB connection hangs out, and sometimes, when I insist in trying to copy the file that gave me the error, the file ends up corrupting itself in the internal memory), but after turning the tab off and then on again, I can get the files normally and get no errors.
Does the internal SD memory of Galaxy series get corrupted that easily, the USB connection is poor or what?
The weird part is that this only happens copying files from the internal SD to PC. In the reverse way, I get no errors, so I don't believe it's a dock conector/USB cable problem, since it's a original and new USB cable that don't show any kind of problem when flashing roms, for example. I belive that if it was some kind of dock/usb cable problem I wouldn't be able to flash roms or transfer large files from PC to Tab without the same kind of errors showing up, right?
Did someone here experience the same errors I mentioned?
Thanks!
Nobody?
Have u updated ur Kies software becoz it installs latest USB drivers for ur Tab.
Yes, Kies is updated, but I dont think it matters when using usb mass storage mode...
Rooted tab? Read-write mode enabled?
Yes, rooted, and no read-write enabled for /system.
It just says one of the usb devices connected to this computer has malfunctioned. I have tried reloading drivers. Reflashed ICS onecosmic 4.2 again, Tried another usb cable but all no good! HELP ME PLEASE!! My wifes phone connects no worries. I even tried connecting mine to another computer and that was no good either......
It will charge when connected to computer so thats working but it wont connect
Do you have the nexus drivers installed? as the samsung ones wont work with the ics port.
They are part of the android sdk found here : http://developer.android.com/sdk/win-usb.html (instructions on page on how to install ect , there is also a link to download drivers only here : www.multiupload.com/BUCFT8M42N , but that seems to be down atm.
If Nexus S drivers don't fix it, clean your micro usb port.
I had a similar issue with Windows stating that my connection was malfunctioning. Cleaning the micro usb port with some rubbing alcohol and a micro brush (for cleaning teeth) fixed that problem for me.
Don't forget to take your battery out before cleaning your micro-usb port.
Thanks guys going to give this a go now.
Found another direct download link here : http://androiddrivers.net/samsung-android-drivers/download-nexus-s-drivers/
Thanks guys but no luck. Tried cleaning it but no luck either. I have recalled getting rain on the phone the other day and the usb cover was open! I think this is what has caused it.....Question is can I load new ICS Roms etc onto my external SD via a sd card in computer then transer them onto my internal card to flash? Then I wont have to worry about the usb....
Anyone know the answer
Your recovery doesnt allow flashing from external SD cards? Weird... Otherwise, you should be able to open up internal storage from any (Good) File manager. I use FX and FileXplorer to move files back and forth.
Make sure to move the files to internal sdcard first
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Thanks guys but no luck. Tried cleaning it but no luck either. I have recalled getting rain on the phone the other day and the usb cover was open! I think this is what has caused it.....Question is can I load new ICS Roms etc onto my external SD via a sd card in computer then transer them onto my internal card to flash? Then I wont have to worry about the usb....
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Yes that would just do fine... You shouldn't face any problems in flashing...
Well thanks for your help guys, I ended up flashing 4.0.4 rom on my phone and now its working....I dont know that maybe it dried out and self fixed or it was a rom issue??
Some time ago I dropped and broke my Samsung Galaxy S, I've since gotten a replacement but there are still some files on the internal SD that I want to recover. I should be able to do this with ADB - but USB debugging doesn't seem to be enabled on device.
I thought entering recovery enables this - but I'm basing this on my cyanogenmod 10 install on my working device, whilst I should have stock 2.3.6 installed on the broken one (this rom specifically).
I believe I have the stock SGS recovery, but I can't say for sure.
Anyone have any clue on what I could do to get usb debugging working either in the OS or in recovery?
depending on what CWM you have installed you can go in mount and storage and there mount USB storage....then it connects the internal SDcard to your pc.
On my windows pc, sometimes the internal sd card mounts to pc only with connecting the phone to it. I am not sure anymore under what circumstances i got this working. Perhaps it was in download mode or in recovery mode....also could be that this was when i only short press the power button when phone is down but USB connected.....and if i remember right it depended also on which driver were installed and that sure kies is not running....but perhaps you give it a try?