comming from android - Windows Phone 8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

hey all
as the title says iam comming from android i just want to ask......when i was on android i could have files and put them in folders and so..here can i do this? if not the nwhere i find my pdf files?

If you have Windows Phone 8 Connect your phone to your PC (if I remember correctly there should be a folder named Documentsbut I could be wrong). For some reason there is no native app to do this from the phone it's self. If your on Windows Phone 7 then there is no way.

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Win7 upgrade after HDD upgrade?

I installed a new 120 GB hard drive with no problems. I already purchased a copy of Windows 7 HP not Pro or Ultimate. Should have but didn't, too late. Anyway, I did the upgrade and now can't get the shift to recognize my external DVD drive as a bootable source. What do I do now. Is it possible to take a DVD copy of Win 7 and put it on a USB drive and create an iso file? Is there another way to get my shift to boot from a DVD that I am not aware of. I only get the option of booting from the new hard drive which is blank. I really don't want to have to buy another copy of Win 7 as a download. Is there a link to still download the Win 7 rc file? Any help would be great.
Alright, got windows 7 mounted to a usb drive and installed on the Shift but now I can't seem to get any of the drivers to install. I just get a error message about not being able to open the zip file.
are you in windows 7 ?
If you are in Windows 7, and you copied the drivers from HTC over to your device, copy them again from your device to another folder on your device, then start driver install.
Copying files from a remote source often blocks the files.
Then, if you are in Windows 7, there's a particular order to install the drivers, i gather you have discovered this yourself already.
Not being able to open a zip file. Try unzipping all the drivers on another computer then and copy them to your shift, then move them to any other directory on your shift (to release the files)
Windows 7 really works like a charm on the Shift. I don't know if your version has AERO on it, I hope so as even with aero it's really fast.
Yes, I finally figured that out. Unzip them first then install them. Sometimes I can't see the forest for the trees. I was then having problems with wifi, 3g and bluetooth. I accidentally tried to install the control center drivers with the compatibility mode set to xp accidentally. Everything is working great now. Sometimes I need to slow down a little.

Developer Registration Tool w/o full SDK?

Long story short...I have a legit Windows Phone Developer account and I want to unlock my Lumia 920. I know the unlock tool is part of the WP8 SDK, but the only problem is that the SDK requires Windows 8 64-bit. As of now, the only Windows 8 install I have is on my Samsung tablet, so I can't install it on there since its not 64-bit.
Is there a way to just get the registration tool without installing the 1.5+GB SDK? Or is there a way to do it from Windows 7?
mindfrost82 said:
Long story short...I have a legit Windows Phone Developer account and I want to unlock my Lumia 920. I know the unlock tool is part of the WP8 SDK, but the only problem is that the SDK requires Windows 8 64-bit. As of now, the only Windows 8 install I have is on my Samsung tablet, so I can't install it on there since its not 64-bit.
Is there a way to just get the registration tool without installing the 1.5+GB SDK? Or is there a way to do it from Windows 7?
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Try this. Idk if it works, but give it a shot anyway! Extract the files and put it in a folder, then run the exe.
matthew5025 said:
Try this. Idk if it works, but give it a shot anyway! Extract the files and put it in a folder, then run the exe.
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unfortunately this doesn't work, as it states we need a zune-connected phone. and the lumia 920 doesn't connect to zune
RE: register phone
Why don't you use a vmware image of windows 8 where you can install the sdk on it. I use the same method as I have a macbook. for win phone 8 dev I use vmware.
matthew5025 said:
Try this. Idk if it works, but give it a shot anyway! Extract the files and put it in a folder, then run the exe.
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I think the zip doesn't work but not because it needs a zune connected phone. Instead the issue is that the tool is probably missing some common files or something like that. It asks to connect the phone to the computer and points at a potential problem with the windows phone passthrough service (although there is no problem because the device can be browsed perfectly fine).
I wish I could at least install a XAP to my WP8 devce on Windows 7...Is THAT even possable ?
matthew5025 said:
Try this. Idk if it works, but give it a shot anyway! Extract the files and put it in a folder, then run the exe.
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Sorry for bumping this old post, but I had been having issues registering/unlocking my Windows Phone 7 Lumia 710 recently to develop.
Using Windows 7 SDKs, the registration tool with it just wasn't working - I was getting the good old "Error logging into the App Hub. Please check your Windows Live ID and password and try again" message.
Even contacting Windows Dev Support couldn't resolve this - apparently its a known issue theyre working on just now!
Long story short, I found this thread - and tried the zip file you linked and it worked! I was able to register my phone through that file instead of the registration tool that came with the SDK. So thank you very much!
Worked for me too. Thanks a bunch !!

[Q] ARHD and Mac

Hi, has anyone been able to get the Android File Transfer app working with ARHD ROM? The app cannot see the phone when plugged in. I use HTC`s software, but file transfer there does't work for me either (I can see the phone storage contents, but I cannot copy anything to or from the phone) Is there any other free option to transfer files (or ideally sync iTunes library with Android phones)?
Thanks for your time!

mtp total commander?

I accessed the mtp file structure with total commander. I wondered on it. Is it something new?
Whoa! That's definitely *different*. What phone are you using?
I'd been considering finding (or writing) an alternate MTP client so that I could take advantage of the Full File System hack on ATIV phones and dump the running file system (Windows Explorer is a miserable MTP client). Looks like TC would probably do the job. However, looks like it also reveals even more than we knew was there...
I'll investigate (once I have a data cable and not just this silly charge cable) and see what I can find.
nothing new but available few months in beta releases (8.50)... just start TC, select Computer (drive overview) and WP8 phone is there
latest 8.50 version stable version
http://www.ghisler.com/amazons3.php
or beta 8.51 beta 4
http://www.ghisler.com/851_b4.php
The fact that the phone is there is not the exciting bit (although I didn't know TC supported MTP, so that's cool). The exciting bit is the presence of all those other "folders", like "Apps", "Metadata", "StorageInfo", etc.
I tried 8.51b4. Didn't get anything out of the norm.
thals1992 said:
I tried 8.51b4. Didn't get anything out of the norm.
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exactly , me too.
i tried it with show hidden files , etc.
but nothing new
I used an Older version with Windows media audio plugin from ghisler.com (file system plugins)
my phone is 520 with Black and devunlocked by aiyiyong for 10 Apps. Actually áll the extra folders are empty. I Will try to copy something into them.
kiss.adam.pacman said:
I used an Older version with Windows media audio plugin from ghisler.com (file system plugins)
my phone is 520 with Black and devunlocked by aiyiyong for 10 Apps. Actually áll the extra folders are empty. I Will try to copy something into them.
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what is your software version ?
Mine is 8.50
O sorry .
your Version is 8.01 . now see it
Last Edit : with 8.01 and that plugin :
still normal access on Lumia 920
I did it again by the same way.
History:
1. Installed TC a long time ago, (and it may be importent, set to always run with administrator rights)
2. bought l520
3. devunlocked l520, did preview for developers, installed gdr3, installed black
4. installed windows media audio extension
5. opened the phone, and amazed on the folders
thals1992 said:
I tried 8.51b4. Didn't get anything out of the norm.
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Wow ! Take a look
Run as Administrator . Install Media Audio plugin that he mentioned
Go To Network neighborhood then Media Audio
You see your WP Device and in this partition you can see these folders .
but Unfortunately All of these folders are empty !
I'll try it with the Odyssey tomorrow. I wonder if having the Full FS made any changes to permissions to MTP on the device to actually be able to see something inside.
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thals1992 said:
I'll try it with the Odyssey tomorrow. I wonder if having the Full FS made any changes to permissions to MTP on the device to actually be able to see something inside.
Sent from my Lumia 928 (RM-860) using Tapatalk
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The most bad thing is that we can't write files in these folders .
not only these folders even in Phone folder !
we have write permission when navigate from This PC but we can't write when we navigate from this method
It's seems not very useful but still interesting .
we have to test another MTP device . maybe this plugin shows these folders for every MTP devices !
I ran across the source code, but I haven't found any information about those folders. Altough it is possible that the starnge folders are from an API.
I am trying to find other mtp clients, but tcmd and windwos explorer might be the only ones.
see here
kiss.adam.pacman said:
I am trying to find other mtp clients, but tcmd and windwos explorer might be the only ones.
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1st my samsung
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2660691&stc=1&d=1396275291
2nd my nokia
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2660705&stc=1&d=1396275457
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Can you modify/read system files?
I don't think it is avaliable, so please upload a file system tree except for your personal files
With 8.1 a new folder is avaliable via MediaAudio2 called: Media Library Service
kiss.adam.pacman said:
With 8.1 a new folder is avaliable via MediaAudio2 called: Media Library Service
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still empty ? yes ?
ngame said:
still empty ? yes ?
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Still

Can't see Internal Storage>DCIM>Camera from my PC

Any photographs that I take with the cameras on my N6 are placed in the directory Internal Storage>DCIM>Camera.
However, when I connect my phone to my PC, I cannot see this directory in Windows Explorer on my PC - all I can see is Nexus 6>Internal Storage>DCIM (which has a subdirectory .thumbnails in it).
It doesn't make any difference whether I have the phone set to "Use USB for File Transfers" or "Use USB for Photo transfer (PTP)".
However, if I use ES File Explorer Pro on my phone, then I can see the Camera subdirectory (and I can see the .JPG files within that directory). I can also use ES File Explorer to copy the .JPG files from the Camera directory into a new directory that I have created in Internal Storage. I can then see this new directory (and the copies of the .JPG files) in Windows Explorer on my PC.
Any suggestions as to how I can get my PC to see the Camera directory?
(Phone is a Nexus 6, rooted, running 6.0.1 MOB30D and Cataclysm. PC is running Windows 10).
boo in twrp recovery,connect phone to pc,mount internal storage and see whether you can see on pc or not.
Poojan Patel said:
boo in twrp recovery,connect phone to pc,mount internal storage and see whether you can see on pc or not.
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Thanks. Yes, that works - I didn't even need to mount the Internal Storage. I can see the Camera directory and copy files from it to my PC.
Not sure what that tells me, though.
I use this app Media.re.scan. Depending on how a file is saved the media journal may not be updated which makes certain things not see the new files namely MTP and PTP functions in android. Run that app and tell it to scan and it'll make all new files show up.
I have a Samsung np700z series running W10 with 2 USB 3.0 ports and a 2.0. I've always had trouble with the 3.0 ports on W7 W8 and ten. They work fine for anything else except cause the problem you describe. Using my 2.0 I don't have nearly as much trouble. I know the Samsung hardware and windows has this issue and it's never been resolved. Sometimes it takes a few plug unplugs and sometimes it doesn't recognize it right away. This problem has persisted from a note 2 to N6, from KitKat to N which leads me to believe it's not the phone or phone OS. Fwiw.
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