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one thing that really bugs me about the razr i is that it is not a mass medium, but MTP device when you connect it with the PC. I have serious issues with that (7/64bit). I don't know whether it's the driver or MTP itself, but when i connect my razr i to my PC, everything is like in slow motion.
I click "Computer" ... the blue bar in the adress bar starts running at the left side. Even this takes up to 30 seconds sometimes. I click my razr i, give it a bit of time to select SDCard. This is where it gets really funny.
Each time i navigate through the menus, it has to rebuild the index or anything similar to it. It takes 2+ minutes (!!) for every folder to show up. But it's not over yet, when i want to go to music and click this folder, it's the same issue. The connection is so incredible slow, it's faster uploading and redownloading it. A few weeks ago i copied 3gb to the SD card and it took one or two hours.
When i first discovered, how incredible slow the phone is when i want to access the SD card, i tried to put it into a cardreader, but it's somehow encrypted now (i did not encrypt it by myself, i think the razr does it by itself without asking?). Does anyone have similar issues, has a workaround (i could imagine it's because of my PC, not the phone itself)?
Wnna know something funny? I had similar issues, and using the usb ports in the back of my computer solved it. Also, i strongly recommend you to use AirDroid, its insanely fast.
tatazeuz said:
Wnna know something funny? I had similar issues, and using the usb ports in the back of my computer solved it. Also, i strongly recommend you to use AirDroid, its insanely fast.
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Back ports, same issue. I started to copy a folder to the internal storage 10 minutes ago, so far it had copied 500kb (50 png icons)
I'm downloading airdroid right now. Anyway i hope MTP will work one day as i think wireless is just a workaround .. I could swear for an hour straight, why did they remove the mass medium option that my DHD always had?
I take sd card out every time
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MTP just sucks really.
its much worse on my galaxy nexus then on the razr i. But at least on the razr i I can take the sd card out.
Not sure why google went with MTP.
Edit also could be slow as the phone is still reading and writing to the sd card at the same time as the pc.
Slower than on the razr i? 500kb in 10 minutes is ... 830 bytes per second. 830 BYTES!! Even floppies were faster than that!
Thanks for the AirDroid tip, very useful. One drawback is - apart from that it doesn't work with my beloved opera - it also tells me in chrome that it can't upload folders. So i have to create them manually.. Works fine anyway and it's enough for my needs. Thank you, you made copying to the razr i almost enjoyable!
That is a lot slower then it should be what OS are you running?
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That is a lot slower then it should be what OS are you running?
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Win7 x64. I already reinstalled the moto drivers.
I think that my old mainboard (Gigabyte P35-DS3P) could be the cause .. Although my windows install is pretty old and doesn't run that well anymore. I think i'll format my system soon, maybe it's gone after that.
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So after moving apps to the media area, the internal storage on my phone, most of the apps dissapeared. Other websites have talked about this, but I see nothing on XDA. Is this fixed by the leaked OTA?
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Its the way the OS works...you dismount a drive and anything on that drive will no longer be available (disappear). This occurs when you plug into the PC and the phone unmounts storage so the PC can mount it. Force close your launcher or if possible, restart it (launcher pro gives this option) once the storage is unmounted from the PC and remounted to the phone.
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tcrews said:
Its the way the OS works...you dismount a drive and anything on that drive will no longer be available (disappear). This occurs when you plug into the PC and the phone unmounts storage so the PC can mount it. Force close your launcher or if possible, restart it (launcher pro gives this option) once the storage is unmounted from the PC and remounted to the phone.
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Actually...I'm having the same problem. Even when the media area isn't mounted on the PC (I make sure it's mounted in Android). Doesn't bother me too much, because my apps don't take up much space. The strange part is that not all of the apps in the media area are disappearing, only some.
Javier78 said:
Actually...I'm having the same problem. Even when the media area isn't mounted on the PC (I make sure it's mounted in Android). Doesn't bother me too much, because my apps don't take up much space. The strange part is that not all of the apps in the media area are disappearing, only some.
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Same. Things will dissapear even though I never plug it into the computer. Other forums have said this is a common problem, I'll post a link when I'm experienced enough to
Has anyone installed the update, and can give a status report on this issue?
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Haven't experienced this as an issue on any droid phone, but it's probably common because alot of ppl are plugging in their phones to their computers and thus losing access to apps on SD.
As with what tcrews advised, it's the way the Os works - If this persists simply restart your phone/launcher, could be a faulty SD card swapping out the card would help.
We have so much space to use on the apps partition as it is tho so i'd recommend moving any apps that install to sd/media back to the phone to reduce issues.
-smc
I appreciate the advice, but I'm afraid no one is getting at the real issue. Since the OP, I moved a dozen apps over to test and half have dissappeared. No computer, no mounting or remounting, just one restart.
Please, this post is about the update. From other forums I believe this is droid 3 specific, and I would like to know if this was fixed. I have a lot of apps.
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After some research, I see the issue everyone else is getting at. My problem is not the launcher shortcuts or the app drawer. In settings > applications > manage applications, the app disappears, and all that is left is the namespace, which I assume is just a link to the data on the internal storage. But I need to redownload the app before it works.
Has anyone who flashed the update experienced this, not experienced?
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After having dowloaded or created new files on my phone , it can last a long time before I can see them on my PC via USB connection. Is this normal? Is there a way to fix that?
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After having dowloaded or created new files on my phone , it can last a long time before I can see them on my PC via USB connection. Is this normal? Is there a way to fix that?
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I have seen that, Seems to happen on internal memory, try putting the file on external (Those might be the other way round, its been a while since I have noticed it)
The other thing I have done is disconnect and reboot phone
gregbradley said:
I have seen that, Seems to happen on internal memory, try putting the file on external (Those might be the other way round, its been a while since I have noticed it)
The other thing I have done is disconnect and reboot phone
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Yes, I've already tested these solutions, sometimes work sometimes not...
Try using airdroid or wifi file transfer from the market.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sand.airdroid&hl
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smarterdroid.wififiletransfer&hl
I never connect to the PC via USB anymore. The charge you gain is poor compared to A/C.
I purchased wifi file transfer pro and use it every day. You dont have to mount and unmount, then wait for the sdcard to be read. You can throw files back and forth in an instant.:good:
I use airdroid for screenshots but its virtually the same.
Thanks! I'll try that.
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Try using airdroid or wifi file transfer from the market.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sand.airdroid&hl
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smarterdroid.wififiletransfer&hl
I never connect to the PC via USB anymore. The charge you gain is poor compared to A/C.
I purchased wifi file transfer pro and use it every day. You dont have to mount and unmount, then wait for the sdcard to be read. You can throw files back and forth in an instant.:good:
I use airdroid for screenshots but its virtually the same.
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I use airdroid and other apps as well. they are good for throwing files but slow in transferring big files via wifi (Like roms etc) but for everyday file transfer these are good.
Dropbox also automatically uploads my pics, and myphonexplorer is also very good
I've been trying to add notifications to my phone and I can copy them to the phone using Android File Transfer on my mac. I put them in the Notifications folder and when I reboot they disappear.
Anyone know why?
It seems as though my SD card space is under the same write protection as /system.
Weird. I have a ton of music that I put on my phone using ATF, and I transfer files back and forth on a daily basis. I'll try to add a notification tonight and see if that works. In the meantime, try putting it in your music folder and then transfer it with ES or another file explorer and see if it sticks.
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Weird. I have a ton of music that I put on my phone using ATF, and I transfer files back and forth on a daily basis. I'll try to add a notification tonight and see if that works. In the meantime, try putting it in your music folder and then transfer it with ES or another file explorer and see if it sticks.
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I did a factory reset and now stuff is sticking.
Now that I'm trying it out, I can't get ATF to connect to my phone. I rebooted both my mac and my phone, reinstalled ATF... nothing. When I think about it, I haven't actually used ATF since rooting with pwnmymoto... have you tried it since rooting? Or installing Xposed?
I'm suspecting pwnmymoto as well. As soon as I factory reset, the problem went away. I was rooted at the time of the problem
I had to plug and unplug several times to get aft to work
Damnit. I'm gonna ask jcase if it's possible that pwnmymoto breaks mtp.
Major deal-breaker if so. I'll reroot and run some tests
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Major deal-breaker if so. I'll reroot and run some tests
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Not a dealbreaker for me, just a major PITA. I'll use google drive if I have to, but I really hope it doesn't come to that. Let me know what you figure out.
My problem seems to be an isolated one. I re-rooted and everything is working fine. Something corrupted my SD partition but it seems ok now
anyone else having trouble transferring files via AFT? after a minute or so, it'll say that I need to unlock my phone even though it's not. even while actively fiddling with it during file transfers, i get the same error message. makes it a hassle when transferring directories at a time for music since I have to unplug and plug back in again to get AFT working.
this happening to anyone else?
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anyone else having trouble transferring files via AFT? after a minute or so, it'll say that I need to unlock my phone even though it's not. even while actively fiddling with it during file transfers, i get the same error message. makes it a hassle when transferring directories at a time for music since I have to unplug and plug back in again to get AFT working.
this happening to anyone else?
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I gave up on AFT a long time ago, was always very unreliable with all devices I have used.
I suggest you take a look at airdroid. With 802.11ac Wifi I'm seeing 20MiB/s transfers all wireless while moving files from the browser (chrome) to the Nexus 6 all without having to plug anything anywhere. Convenient and fast.
I'm having no issue with AFT on the latest Yosemite OS.. I just got my Nexus 6 today and transfer all my stuff twice already. Because of the new update the phone had today. And I don't like updating on top of the old one. I like a fresh OS at every android release ?
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It freezes up my MBP constantly. Incredibly frustrating utility.
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Have OS X 10.9.5 and Nexus 6. But AFT shows "No Android device found" when connecting phone and Mac
for me on nexus 4 (croma 6.0.0.1) and osx 10.10.5 everything is well... but AFT don't see every directory and file!
if i use it under TWRP AFT see every single file!!??
why!?
I received my OnePlus 3T today in the afternoon. So far I'm pretty impressed by the device. It's definitely a killer deal for 400-ish euros..
As the title says, I need to copy some 20 Gb-ish data (photos from the last 3 smartphones, voice recordings etc.) to the 3T. Since it doesn't have a SD card slot, the only way i know is to copy the data through a USB cable, with the smartphone turned on and set in MTP mode.
But the speed in MTP mode is pretty slow... Will need about 2-3 hours for those photos.
Can anyone suggest a better way to accomplish this "simple" task?
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I received my OnePlus 3T today in the afternoon. So far I'm pretty impressed by the device. It's definitely a killer deal for 400-ish euros..
As the title says, I need to copy some 20 Gb-ish data (photos from the last 3 smartphones, voice recordings etc.) to the 3T. Since it doesn't have a SD card slot, the only way i know is to copy the data through a USB cable, with the smartphone turned on and set in MTP mode.
But the speed in MTP mode is pretty slow... Will need about 2-3 hours for those photos.
Can anyone suggest a better way to accomplish this "simple" task?
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If nothing else, set it off before you go to sleep. The thing I noticed as being pretty fast (or the fastest) is to a) make sure to compress anything you can out of those photo's unless their particular format is already too highly compressed and zip em together, b) if you have a USB<->OTG adapter or cable and a 32 G or so USB stick, use that in conjunction with some file explorer app (like root explorer) and just do the copy. Read speeds from OTG are good, and write speeds to the filesystem aboard the OP are good, so you're headed in the best direction.
If you don't have those few things (otg cable or adapter and a stick), then you could get them from Amazon or anywhere for about 10 -> 20 bucks.
If you don't want to futz with the cables, then just use adb to push the files to your target. Most protocols seem faster than MTP to me. Good luck.
Airdroid could do it using your wireless network.
I sent most my files over WiFi using send anywhere, which is only capped by your local routers maximum output. In my case 1300AC.
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If nothing else, set it off before you go to sleep. The thing I noticed as being pretty fast (or the fastest) is to a) make sure to compress anything you can out of those photo's unless their particular format is already too highly compressed and zip em together, b) if you have a USB<->OTG adapter or cable and a 32 G or so USB stick, use that in conjunction with some file explorer app (like root explorer) and just do the copy. Read speeds from OTG are good, and write speeds to the filesystem aboard the OP are good, so you're headed in the best direction.
If you don't have those few things (otg cable or adapter and a stick), then you could get them from Amazon or anywhere for about 10 -> 20 bucks.
If you don't want to futz with the cables, then just use adb to push the files to your target. Most protocols seem faster than MTP to me. Good luck.
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Thanks for offering so many choices!
I thought as much about fastboot. But since the files will be in tens of different folders and I don't know if fastboot can push multiple files / whole folders. Searched online but found nothing.
Maybe I'll just put it there while working on the setup.
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I sent most my files over WiFi using send anywhere, which is only capped by your local routers maximum output. In my case 1300AC.
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Do you need an app for that ?
vikingsail said:
Thanks for offering so many choices!
I thought as much about fastboot. But since the files will be in tens of different folders and I don't know if fastboot can push multiple files / whole folders. Searched online but found nothing.
Maybe I'll just put it there while working on the setup.
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Actually, it'd have to be adb, not fastboot. Fastboot won't do what you want. Cheers.
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Do you need an app for that ?
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Yeah it's a free app it is great for phone to phone but tested it yesterday on my PC to move mostly music worked a treat.
https://send-anywhere.com
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Yeah it's a free app it is great for phone to phone but tested it yesterday on my PC to move mostly music worked a treat.
https://send-anywhere.com
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Thanks I'll check that out!
I am using portal (developed by pushbullet devs) Download the app to ur phone and open the page on PC. Make a connection between both by making a scan of the qr code and then just simple drag and drop in the browser to send it. For me faster then adb or Air Droid.
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Yeah it's a free app it is great for phone to phone but tested it yesterday on my PC to move mostly music worked a treat.
https://send-anywhere.com
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Thanks for mentioning that. I really like that app. I just tried it and both ways, (OP to PC and PC -> OP) seemed pretty amazingly quick for WIFI). The Portal one is fine for the one direction, but I don't see the other way (to PC).
best fastest way to copy huge amount of data to op3t
filezilla on pc & wifi transfer app on phone at the very least 1 gig a minute
I used ADB to copy about 25GB of data. Did not compare speed difference between Wi-Fi though (transferred ~10GB of data). MTP has been a pain in the ass, so I have stopped using it.