Hello
i wanted to use the external sd card as an bootable device from where i could install various Windows Versions trough USB. The Problem is the activation of the USB Mode.
The BIOS doesn't recognize the Note as an USB-HDD-Device even when i have enabled USB-Mode while pausing the BIOS Post Screen (After going into BIOS Mode it won't be recongized also).
Is there something i could do by changing a setting, or could maybe a dev search for a way to auto enable usb mode (or enable it for a longer time, with an widget which is a switch? )
Regards
Seelbreaker
i thought you had to also have the boot files on the usb fore it to be bootable?
You need to make the Partition on the sd-card bootable, by making it "active" then copy the Windows DVD-files onto the SD-Card and voila you can boot the Windows 7 Setup through your usb stick.
For default Setups, this won't be a problem, but when you want to add more files into the windows 7 installation media the fat32 limitation will kill you...
and i haven't found a way, to make 2 partitions on my 32-GB SD Card...
(ps: i hate it, that the internal storage from the galaxy note is used as "sdcard" totally fu**d up my files through recovery partitioning...)
Got luck, my files are there. Anyway i hate it ^^
you can partition a sd card using any partitioning software
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I formated my SD card on my mac as fat32 and now something strange has occured. It seemed to format fine, and I can add things to the card in both OS X and Windows, and Android, however now I cannot format the drive on the windows PC no matter what I try. The disk mounts in windows fine but when I right click and go to format, the SD card umounts and I get the pop-up message:
There is no disk in drive E:
Insert a disk, and then try again.
I think something weird happend when it was formated on the Mac.
My goal was to gain root access, which I've done in the past, but however the Mac disk utility formated the SD card, I cannot get the phone to recognize the DREAIMG.nbh file upon restarting the phone using the rooting method outlined in these forums.
I tryed a few different methods to format the card in windows, including diskpart, and through managment tools. The same thing happens with all methods.
edit: I also tryed formating using the format utility in in Android. It formats fine, but something is still wrong, it will not format in windows.
Any help would be much appreciated.
are you sure its a mac to pc issue? can you add files to the root of the sdcard and such on a mac
Yes, I can add files to the root of the card on the mac.
Whatever the mac's disk utility did during the format, the PC does not like.
Dude same thing happened to me
I found a work-around that. use a an sdcard reader (Usb or the one that comes with the sdcard) I formatted mine that way so I could use it.
Thank you! This worked.
no problem =)
I'm attempting to follow the directions at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=998861 to create a customized bootable SD image. One of the steps involves copying some files to the 4th partition of the SD card.
I've attempted to use the NookColorUMS utility (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=952456) without success. I was able to download, install, and launch the application. My understanding is that I need to connect the USB cable to the NC and my PC and then choose to mount the 4th partition in the UMS application.. however, as soon as the NC is connected to the PC, I can no longer interact with the NC (it displays the message about transferring files between the devices) until I unplug the USB cable again.
Apparently, the other option is to use the ADB utility, but I don't really understand how that works.. do I have to download the Android SDK to my PC first? If so, I prefer the method above, but I have not had any luck.. thanks in advance.
I used VirtualBox-4.0.4-70112-Win with Ubuntu 10.0 installed, this lets me see all the partitions if using a usb reader.
Thanks, I'm trying to use this utility if I can, though. Installing a virtualization suite and then Linux on top of it just to be able to see a partition on an SD card is more work than necessary, in my opinion..
I too use NOkk Color UMS....
When I connect to nook, i get the usb storage notification...I do not enable usb storage...
Then...I open nookcolor ums and am able to mount the 4th sd card partition...
Do u turn on the usb storage mode?
I'm honestly not sure why I couldn't get it to work.. I ended up using another method to create the SD image that only has one partition on it, so I was able to copy files to the card without any additional utilities.
I found this to be the simplest and easiest - just drag and drop:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=938308
HI!
I have this problem that when I turn on the file sharing, the computer shows only internal memory card and not the external. Because the phone itself recognizes the external card I have tried to unmount and mount several times without any improvement. I am currently using the latest CM7 nightly, but the problem seemes to have started after I changed the card from 4gb to 16 gb. Any ideas?
EDIT: Erasing sd card from the phones menu helped to solve the problem.
Go Setting>Storage and remount your sd card and try???
I've done that several times....no help... android system accesses the card without problems...music, pics etc.
Did you physically remove your card and reinsert it, or just software remount?
Have you tried the card directly in your computer?
Have a look in windows device manager and see if it reports any problems. (right
click my computer and select manage)
I have tried it all and everything is ok with the sd card itself (I copied recent nightly from the computer on the sd card) also recovery recognizes is... there are also no problems in device manager...
Try to put on debugging mode. And try it with debugging mode on.
If the debugging mode is on try to take it off.
Regards Kali
I tried that also and nothing changed.... I have a feeling that it is somehow attached to me using mybackup pro... I restored application apk and data from another phone to this one and It seems that usually the application data should go to internal memory card. In this case it is on external card... so i believe that somehow the programs are still using the card when connected and do not allow phone to share it out... It's just a guess though...
EDIT: so I think the solution is to wipe everything and start all over again
So I fresh installed Rom and wiped everything and the problem still exist... still can see files with file managers in phone and when connected to computer, autorun shows only internal card...
Edit: I tried now 2gb sized sdcard and it works perfectly... the problem is with 16gb card.
Weird. Did you try another USB-port?
I tried different USB-s now and still same I found out that when I connect the phone, under my computer appears two removable disks.... if I turn on the usb connection, only one transforms to usable removable disk (internal) and the other one asks to insert the removable disk. I used the same sd card on my HTC desire with CM nightlies and it worked perfectly... could it be CM-s bug?
Sorry to ask (maby the obvious)
On Your phone.. using your filemanager (Root explorer astro or what-ever..)
Browse to sdcard
Do you have a folder called _externalSD?
On this phone, for some reason the external SD is not mounted under./ but as i said under ./sdcard/ (i.e its mounted under the internal SD card..)
Just a thought
Where the different cards are mounted doesn't make any difference. And as he said, it works with other cards (2GB and 4GB).
CyanogenMOD mounts internal card as /mnt/emmc, and external card as /mnt/sdcard by default.
When turning on USB storage, both cards should be unmounted and shared over USB.
Hi, I had the same problem with mine, and as you said in one of your previous posts, I had to do a format through the phone and as soon as I did that I was good to go.
I did use the same memory card in my old hero so this might have something to do with it... I'm not sure.
By formatting do you mean from the menu Erase SD card? On the desire I actually had the formatting request from the computer, but there was another problem (some of the rom's files were on the sdcards ext or something and I had no access to the card from the USB).... kind of a similar problem if I think back now but after changing to CM, the problem disappeared.
I forgot to mention I am running completely stock rom and unrooted (for the time being) and there is just an option under sd card & phone storage setting to format external sd card
After erasing the sd card from the phone, the computer recognized it i'm currently copying stuff back and i'm pretty sure it does not affect the recognition
I faced the same problem. I had Swapper2 on my NC, and after I uninstalled it (and cleared the data of Swapper2, just in case) everything went to normal back again.
^ a solution.
So I Have got a Note (with a 4GB card) and Rom Toolbox pro, not to mention root access, CWM and superuser.
A couple of days back, i connected my note in USB mode to my brother's computer, which unfortunately was infected with a bazillion viruses. I never know that at that time.
After that, I connected the note to my PC and My antivirus deleted the viruses.
Now the problem is that if I connect my Note to pc in normal mode, i can see all the contents, but I can not back up anything as the system gives out an error.
If I connect the note in USB mode, all i can see are the folders created after the date when my AV cleaned up my phone and card.
Now I got a 32 GIG class 10 card and I wish to migrate all the apps from my Memcard to the newer memcard. But I am unable to do so. Reason being ROM toolbox doesnt show any backups when i insert the 32 GB card. Even if i put my memcard in a card reader, none of the folders show, but the space in the card is same as it shows when i see it from the storage app on my note.
So to sum up, I need to achieve these tasks:
1. I want to see all the contents of the phone and the memory card when i connect the phone in USB mode.
2. I need to know how to restore one backup to another memory card?
3. I need to know where are the backups stored?
4. I need to know how to create a complete backup on my PC.
Thanks in advance. I am new to android so kindly bear with my noob-ish questions
1st problem:
After I upgrade to Marshmallow, I'd like to format my sd card, but suddenly i hit the "FORGET" button. can i restore the setting without any root or any methods?
2nd problem:
when i plug the phone to laptop, the Internal Memory won't read too,i should change to PTP instead MTP to detect the internal memory. and I'm already installed the driver via AdbInstaller.
need your help ASAP,Thanks.
Restart your phone and try again.