Dumb question but...
How to set USB mass storage in 4.0.4?
Having problems finding out how.
Tried with debugging off and on.
Didn't see how in any menus.
Box of rocks.
Please see second reply for corrected answer.
What?
You have to go through this just to copy a file or two from PC to external SD card.
I'll just take the card out.
Don't have to do it very often.
Thanks for replying.
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Sorry. Misunderstood. Just pull down the notification window, hit the "connected as..." thing and you can switch from there. If it doesn't work, than you need newer drivers.
They sure hid that well.
Now, if I could only remember how to mark it solved.
Thank you,
dlw
You might also consider the samba filesharing app. It sets up your sd card so you can browse to it like a windows file share.
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Suddenly my note gave me an error message that my sd card is being used as mass storage & so data cannot be accessed. Well rebooted the phone to discover alot of files do not exist! Deleted?!!!?
Seems all deletes files are data files related to applications on the phone memory itself but not the applications or its settings!
Note: All files on the movable 16GB memory card are not deletes.
Examples for the files have been deleted:
Recently captured pics & vids.
Scanned documents by Camscanner application.
Scanned business cards by Camcard application.
SMemo files but not the folder structure I created.
SPB Wallet source file.
All WhatsApp downloaded pics was available in WhatsApp pictures folder.
All downloaded books to Kobo book & Mantano reader.
Please help as I am getting crazy with the amount of data I lost suddenly especially that I do not have any explanation to what has happened to my phone in order avoid it again in future!
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what rom you are using ?
Stock! Not even rooted!
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Well now, that is a poor situation and atleast some of those files will not be possible to get back. Most of them possibly can, just as long as you do not write ANYTHING more on the SD card, not even SMS.
You could root the phone, take a .tar.bz2 image of the SD card partition on the external SD, copy the archive to your desktop and use Linux in a virtual machine to rescue the files from there -- the tool is called magicrescue.
Well this seems very complicates for me especially what's related to lunix & the virtual machine )) Anyway! Do you have any idea what might have caused this silly sudden problem so as for me to avoid? Is this common & subject to repeat? Is my device has any problem that I need to fix?
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Nour826 said:
Well this seems very complicates for me especially what's related to lunix & the virtual machine ))
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Yes, it is somewhat time-consuming atleast.
Do you have any idea what might have caused this silly sudden problem so as for me to avoid? Is this common & subject to repeat? Is my device has any problem that I need to fix?
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I know what caused the files to disappear; there was clearly filesystem corruption after improper shutdown and Android repaired it by removing affected files, but I do not know what caused your issue to begin with. Possibly something you've installed on the phone. In any case and just to be safe it, might be a good idea to backup everything, do a full factory reset and check you are running the latest firmware available.
Your explanation does make sense to me as I remembered that has happened just after I uninstalled the sslauncher application! But I also remember that the uninstallation has completed successfully with no problem!
Anyway, thank you for the valuable advice to backup & restore, I will make sure to do it today! Good day
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I had nook 1.3 stock then I installed manualnooter-4-5-18, after that installed cm-7.2.0-encore on it. I didn't clear any cash nor formatted any partition. Now it boots up correctly but there are some issues:
1- PC can't read SD and internal storage and shows to empty Removable Drives. So I can't copy new apks into it.
2- Why Camera and Messaging applications are present on my nook which doesn't have does capabilities?
3- The process com.android.settings stop when I click on CyanogenMod settings.
BTW captchas are really hard to read.
siavoshkc said:
I had nook 1.3 stock then I installed manualnooter-4-5-18, after that installed cm-7.2.0-encore on it. I didn't clear any cash nor formatted any partition. Now it boots up correctly but there are some issues:
1- PC can't read SD and internal storage and shows to empty Removable Drives. So I can't copy new apks into it.
2- Why Camera and Messaging applications are present on my nook which doesn't have does capabilities?
3- The process com.android.settings stop when I click on CyanogenMod settings.
BTW captchas are really hard to read.
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When coming from stock to CM7, you really need to do a factory reset (via CWM) either before or after putting CM7 on. There are too many incompatibilites between the two. That is why you are getting the errors.
Camera and messaging apps are sometimes necessary before some apps will install, even if not used.
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When coming from stock to CM7, you really need to do a factory reset (via CWM) either before or after putting CM7 on. There are too many incompatibilites between the two. That is why you are getting the errors.
Camera and messaging apps are sometimes necessary before some apps will install, even if not used.
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I did a factory reset and some problems were resolved but still cant access storage.
Running CM 7.2.0 UNOFFICIAL encore....couple questions.... which gapps to run.....also, no matter which I try, I can't stem to get the STORE/MARKET to run without it saying " served error " any suggestions ?
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icemanwbs said:
Running CM 7.2.0 UNOFFICIAL encore....couple questions.... which gapps to run.....also, no matter which I try, I can't stem to get the STORE/MARKET to run without it saying " served error " any suggestions ?
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Don't understand sorry. But I think I did something wrong like asking questions instead of searching or vague questions? I just can't access SD and internal storage of my Nook from PC.
[off the record] I borrowed a SD from my sister and she needs it and she is going to kill me if I don't give it back [/off the record]
Got it working. Just took a while for Google to update. Thanks anyway.
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I just can't access SD and internal storage of my Nook from PC.
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Oh, from the PC. I thought you meant you could not see them on the nook. Probably the reason you cannot see them is you have not turned them on. It is not automatic like stock. After you plug in the USB cable and the removable drives show, pull down the notification area on the nook and select turn on computer access. That will make the removable drives change to show your sdcard and emmc. Or you can use a program from my tips thread called NookColorUMS.
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Oh, from the PC. I thought you meant you could not see them on the nook. Probably the reason you cannot see them is you have not turned them on. It is not automatic like stock. After you plug in the USB cable and the removable drives show, pull down the notification area on the nook and select turn on computer access. That will make the removable drives change to show your sdcard and emmc. Or you can use a program from my tips thread called NookColorUMS.
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Thank you. notification area was somehow behind status bar (the bar which has the clock on it) so I couldn't see it. This status bar is in front of everything.
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Thank you. notification area was somehow behind status bar (the bar which has the clock on it) so I couldn't see it. This status bar is in front of everything.
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The notification area is supposed to be behind the status bar. You need to take your finger and drag from the bottom to get to show. You should see the bar to push then. Then you drag it back down when finished.
I just tried to transfer files from my PC (Win7) via USB MTP onto my Nexus7 which seemed to work as usual. When I tried to locate them on the tablet, I noticed that the complete /sdcard folder is still there, but empty. Also the /storage/sdcard0 and /storage/emulated.
This actually happend the second time, but the first time I just had updated to 4.2.1 and I thought I must've missed some instructions about backing up the files first, so I (falsely) assumed it was my error.
The device is the 16gb wifi only version running current android 4.2, it's been rooted after purchase in summer using Nexus Root Toolkit 1.5.3. I just use the usual popular play store apps like nova launcher, total commander, firefox and stuff, nothing special.
I couldn't find anyone on the internet with a similar issue, so I put this here.
//edit1: I have only one user set up: me alias the owner.
Hi have a look at your settings in multi user accounts. It hides them so others can not see them
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paul chambers said:
Hi have a look at your settings in multi user accounts. It hides them so others can not see them
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I fail to see how that should affect why I don't "see" my files anymore. I haven't switched the user, I only have one: the owner. May you please make your point more clear?
You can alter where things are stored. Have you connected back to pc to search tab that way. Check storeage settings did you use ptp or mtp for transfer
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paul chambers said:
You can alter where things are stored. Have you connected back to pc to search tab that way. Check storeage settings did you use ptp or mtp for transfer
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I used MTP. The tablet looks empty from "within" via Totalcommander & EStrong Filemanager. Also other apps like music don't see my files. Storage shows suspiciously much free space, I guess it's really gone. From PC it looks the same, completely wiped. It recreated the /sdcard/Android-Folder, and the Apps I've used since recreated their folders... I can't find where you meant I could alter where things are stored. Storage just let's me delete stuff and users just let's me edit the away-message.
Thanks anyway so far.
Hi I use wifi file explorer. Try that to transfer your files and let me know how it goes. Its in the playstore/market
This may be of intrest also http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2056828
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I have received my HTC One today. Everything goes well until I plug it into my computer (Windows 7) only to find that it shows as "HTC One" under "Portable Devices" in "Computer". Copying files by this this really suks. It is very buggy, slow, and is not compatible with some of file manager including Beyond Compare. So how to mount the internal storage as a "Removable Storage"?
Nobody knows?
lbell said:
I have received my HTC One today. Everything goes well until I plug it into my computer (Windows 7) only to find that it shows as "HTC One" under "Portable Devices" in "Computer". Copying files by this this really suks. It is very buggy, slow, and is not compatible with some of file manager including Beyond Compare. So how to mount the internal storage as a "Removable Storage"?
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cant be done that i know of. The reason is it use MTP (media transfere protacal) and there is not a way to change it back to the disk drive.. Try not to copy large amounts of files (anything over a gig will bug out that i have seen)
best of luck
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cant be done that i know of. The reason is it use MTP (media transfere protacal) and there is not a way to change it back to the disk drive.. Try not to copy large amounts of files (anything over a gig will bug out that i have seen)
best of luck
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Interesting, I am running win7 Home and i can see it as a external drive, i have transferred a couple of 2-3 gig apps with no issue (map apps and music) Checking your settings on the phone .
Me too I'm on win7and I can see it as an external drive
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F2504x4 said:
Interesting, I am running win7 Home and i can see it as a external drive, i have transferred a couple of 2-3 gig apps with no issue (map apps and music) Checking your settings on the phone .
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Me too I'm on win7and I can see it as an external drive
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So what ROM are you using? I can't find settings about it in my ViperOne with ElementalX.
Can we mount the phone as an external drive on Mac OS X? I've tried but it doesn't show up
I'm not a huge fan of AirDroid for transferring files!
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So what ROM are you using? I can't find settings about it in my ViperOne with ElementalX.
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I am still stock, i just plug it in and wait for the computer to show the drive.
raghav2511 said:
Can we mount the phone as an external drive on Mac OS X? I've tried but it doesn't show up
I'm not a huge fan of AirDroid for transferring files!
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Use "android file transfer", is a pkg for mac
I usually just hook up my nook to my pc to transfer movies but for some reason on cm11 it wont let me. Have looked in the settings and don't see an option for mass storage or anything. Is this not available in cm11? Anyone else with this issue?
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I usually just hook up my nook to my pc to transfer movies but for some reason on cm11 it wont let me. Have looked in the settings and don't see an option for mass storage or anything. Is this not available in cm11? Anyone else with this issue?
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Mass storage is not available in CM10 or CM11. It uses a protocol called MTP. It shows up in windows explorer in the left pane below the drive letters.
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leapinlar said:
Mass storage is not available in CM10 or CM11. It uses a protocol called MTP. It shows up in windows explorer in the left pane below the drive letters.
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Thanks so much for the fast response.
Also thank you personally for everything else you've done for this device. This went from an ok tab to a beast that I use all the time and is like my sidekick. Thanks alot leapinlar