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SD card/USB mass storage auto-mount problem?

Seems that under Froyo, when I connect my nexus to a PC using a USB cable to charge it, the SD card gets disabled because the USB mass storage is enabled whether I actually want it turned on or not. This means I have to unlock the phone and explicitly turn off USB mass storage to continue listening to music.
Anyone else seen the problem? If so, please add your comments to this issue:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=9116
as Google has closed my previous two bug reports without any testing or thought.

After reading your post, i guess that google is removing your issue since its not the final froyo version you are using, so its either a bug in the test froyo build, or the issue has been fixed in the final froyo that hasnt ota'ed yet

i have actually seen this before in both 2.2 and 2.1
my problem with the auto mount was actually an app i downloaded.
are you using a media player called double twist, because if you are thats the source of your problem.
go to the option menu and turn off auto mount
if not i have no clue, i never had that issue with prior to that app

Yeah, I had the same problem with "double twist" and I have removed it, as I use bTunes instead.

mrslayer007 said:
my problem with the auto mount was actually an app i downloaded.
are you using a media player called double twist, because if you are thats the source of your problem.
go to the option menu and turn off auto mount
if not i have no clue, i never had that issue with prior to that app
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Yep..
Just go to Double Twist settings and check off "Auto USB Drive", and you are done.

Winamp also has auto-mount enabled by default.

This auto-mounting was driving me crazy, I thought that I messed something with my ROM, and it appears that all of this was Winamp's fault. They shouldn't enable such option by default...

Many Thanks.
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my problem with the auto mount was actually an app i downloaded.
are you using a media player called double twist, because if you are thats the source of your problem.
go to the option menu and turn off auto mount
if not i have no clue, i never had that issue with prior to that app
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Thanks. I've used DoubleTwist on my Original Droid a year ago, and never had this problem. I recently downloaded it to my Droid. This must be a "new feature" they recently added. The problem was fixed in 1 minute , after searching XDA for 1 week and finding your post.

[Q] "Device not recognized" "Drivers were not installed successfully"

[Q] "Device not recognized" "Drivers were not installed successfully"
Well, crap. I don't know what else to try here.
I plug in my phone to update to 2.2 and in all 4 of my USB ports I get a "usb device not recognized" error. I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling the root hubs, nothing. I want to try to uninstall the drivers specifically for the phone, but can't find them (running windows 7 32 bit)
What the heck man?
So far ive done:
Uninstalled the samsung captivate drivers.
Uninstalled the USB root hubs.
Uninstalled Kies Mini.
Reinstalled captivate drivers.
Reinstalled USB Root Hubs.
Reinstalled Kies Mini.
Turned on debugging before plugging it in.
Turned off debugging before plugging it in.
Changed to mass storage mode.
Changed to Media Played mode.
Changed to Kies mode.
FACTORY RESET THE PHONE.
I think that about covers it. The next step I will try is to get a new usb to micro usb cord. Then, if not that, i am going to a friends house.
I shouldn't have to go through all of this crap. Especially when it was recognized about a week ago. nothing has been changed, deleted or updated since then either.
Quite frustrating.

Anyone have any ideas? I am close to just re-installing windows and then trying...ugh i just want my update! Been waiting months and months and now I can't even get it -___-

I received an error message about an idle screen, could NOT figure it out. Finally it worked after uninstalling launcher pro! Are you using a custom launcher? Try uninstalling!

WiredPirate said:
I received an error message about an idle screen, could NOT figure it out. Finally it worked after uninstalling launcher pro! Are you using a custom launcher? Try uninstalling!
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No. I apologize I should have mentioned that.
It is not rooted and there is no custom software. Everything I've got, I've downloaded from the android marketplace.

just had the same problem...tried every possible solution..including installing fresh copy of windows..got my phone replaced..afraid to say..hardware issue
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mariuszdziedzic said:
just had the same problem...tried every possible solution..including installing fresh copy of windows..got my phone replaced..afraid to say..hardware issue
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I897 using XDA App
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So you're saying a new phone fixed it? Well I hope that's not my only option because I don't want to go through all of that.
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tried getting it to work for two days and i gave up. my carrier didnt give me any trouble and sent me a replacement..hope its not ur case. tell me what you tried so far?

This sucks man. Stil nothing....I am not going to replace my handset because I bought mine online! It's worked before....so what changed???

I'm giving this one last shot.
Anyone have any ideas other than replacing my entire handset??

Make sure your using the factory cable that came with your phone and unmount your external sd card.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I896

shust82 said:
Make sure your using the factory cable that came with your phone and unmount your external sd card.
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Yep, I am definitely using the factory cable, and I don't even have an external SD card in there right now (I tried it with and without one in and still nothing)
UPDATE:
I went to a friends house and tried to plug it in on his netbook...same exact issues, then his desktop computer...same exact issues.
So does this mean i am royally screwed and the only way I can ever connect my phone to a computer again is to get a new one? I can't even transfer files to and from the phone, so all of the music that I put on there before is completely useless now
EDIT!!!
I just totally realized something...I used to be able to use it via usb to transfer music, files, etc until I plugged it into my USB port on my kenwood car stereo's usb deck. It had given me error 19, which apparently is a connectivity error. Could these be related? Could it be possible that somehow plugging it into my stereo boned the usb functionality?

So I am not sure what the heck I did right, but it suddenly started working, and I am about 90% done with the 2.2 update.
I DID however unmount the internal SD card, then I re-mounted it and I guess that worked? Somehow there must have been a random glitch with the internal.
Anyways, if anyone else has this issue, try that!

Its a glitch in the media scanner program. Unmount your external (you can't unmount the internal), pull the card out, re install. We found this when doing the rodgers update, lot of people had this problem.
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I had some issues with the drivers originally. I downloaded the wrong ones from the Samsung site. Take a look for the drivers in myriad XDA threads and see if those work, after uninstalling the ones you have loaded.

Raichu206 said:
So I am not sure what the heck I did right, but it suddenly started working, and I am about 90% done with the 2.2 update.
I DID however unmount the internal SD card, then I re-mounted it and I guess that worked? Somehow there must have been a random glitch with the internal.
Anyways, if anyone else has this issue, try that!
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how did you unmount the internal

[Q] Does leaked update fix apps dissapearing from "Media"?

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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[Q] Force Closes When hooking up to pc

It just started when I was trying to transfer files from my phone to win7.
It does it every time too:
When I connect the phone and the 'USB connection' window pops up, only 2 programs force close, Lookout and Folder Organizer. They do not force close if I connect using PC Mode, Windows Media Sync, or Charge Only. Just with USB Mass Storage, and it is consistent and always only those 2 programs. I took about 5 screenshots of logs while it was happening that I put in a zip if anyone can understand them. I am amazed how much log material there is even for one minute of time...
I am rooted, Eclipse 3. and those 2 programs have been installed for a few days with connections to the pc going without FC's.
Thank you

richsapf said:
It just started when I was trying to transfer files from my phone to win7.
It does it every time too:
When I connect the phone and the 'USB connection' window pops up, only 2 programs force close, Lookout and Folder Organizer. They do not force close if I connect using PC Mode, Windows Media Sync, or Charge Only. Just with USB Mass Storage, and it is consistent and always only those 2 programs. I took about 5 screenshots of logs while it was happening that I put in a zip if anyone can understand them. I am amazed how much log material there is even for one minute of time...
I am rooted, Eclipse 3. and those 2 programs have been installed for a few days with connections to the pc going without FC's.
Thank you
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It's because the apps are running from the scars and when you mount it with windows your phone can't see it anymore

Hi Willis...thank u so much... did you know that from experience or did the logs indicate that?.. I could have sworn those were installed on main phone...odd.. because I have had both those programs for years each time I flash a rom.... I will move them...why didn't all the other apps on the sdcard fc? Just curious. So what lines in the log would indicate a fc. I briefly scanned them but could not fully understand them.
Rich

richsapf said:
Hi Willis...thank u so much... did you know that from experience or did the logs indicate that?.. I could have sworn those were installed on main phone...odd.. because I have had both those programs for years each time I flash a rom.... I will move them...why didn't all the other apps on the sdcard fc? Just curious. So what lines in the log would indicate a fc. I briefly scanned them but could not fully understand them.
Rich
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just from experience/problem solving/troubleshooting as well the fact that you mention everything works fine until you mount your sdcard as a mass storage device. Your logs indicated "unknown resources" when launching an app although I do some some dalvik permission errors after that which seems a little off but the resources are unknown/not found because they are removed from your phone when the card is mounted in the computer instead of the phone

Whats with the USB OTG on this phone.

Coming from a long line of LG's, I do have to say I loved that LG's UI automatically recognized the USB and didnt need any apps to run it, and all other apps recognized it as well. So why doesnt the Nexus 6 do this? I am using stick mount but there are apps that dont recognize this, like with my G2 since it didnt have an SD card, so to save space i would setup titanium backup to store directly to the USB, but now it doesnt recognize it.
anyone have any ideas on how to work around this?

Custom ROMs can build automount in. I don't know of any off the top of my head, but have a read of the threads

Sorry if this seems like a flame, but stop posting the same junk all over....you posted in the two other threads, and now you went and created a third for what is probably your issue.
I have Stickmount working as expected on Stock, MeanPop and BlissPop. Its seen in Root Explorer and I can get it seen by TiBu (even though TiBu says its not writeable, it actually is).

cmh714 said:
Sorry if this seems like a flame, but stop posting the same junk all over....you posted in the two other threads, and now you went and created a third for what is probably your issue.
I have Stickmount working as expected on Stock, MeanPop and BlissPop. Its seen in Root Explorer and I can get it seen by TiBu (even though TiBu says its not writeable, it actually is).
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stickmount may mount it but it doesnt automatically allow third party apps to see it. I have several apps that I use to use withmy OTG and they can no longer recognize it. and my first question was about doing it period, so dont be an ass. its a simple questions as to why the Nexus doesnt automatically do it. and so far I havent had any of the custom roms I have tried automatically mount it.

harvickgm said:
its a simple questions as to why the Nexus doesnt automatically do it
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That is not a simple question. At least not to us, since none of us were present at any google meetings where this was either decided against or not discussed.
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and so far I havent had any of the custom roms I have tried automatically mount it.
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I can't tell you any that have it. I assume Slim will have it in the future when their 5.1 ROM progresses as they had it previously on KK devices. Actually it's really only the kernel that needs to mount it in the fstab, but it is always nice to have ROM support too, where it is shown in the storage menu.
What apps do you have that cannot recognise OTG? All stick mount does is put it in a folder on your sdcard. I expect all apps can browse to folders on sdcard?

rootSU said:
That is not a simple question. At least not to us, since none of us were present at any google meetings where this was either decided against or not discussed.
I can't tell you any that have it. I assume Slim will have it in the future when their 5.1 ROM progresses as they had it previously on KK devices. Actually it's really only the kernel that needs to mount it in the fstab, but it is always nice to have ROM support too, where it is shown in the storage menu.
What apps do you have that cannot recognise OTG? All stick mount does is put it in a folder on your sdcard. I expect all apps can browse to folders on sdcard?
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thanks for your input. the original post should have asked about the transfer speeds as well, but thats not my biggest concern. quickpic use to automatically load everything up on as soon as the usb was mounted, but I havent tried it lately with any of the AOSP roms. I always liked the LG UI and never liked AOSP but since I see that stock google looks similar to AOSP that I have taken an interest to learn about them and play with their features and Euphoria 1.1 has it under storage settings but it doesnt do anything when I insert my usb. so it may still be being worked on or I could try a kernel that has it supported to see if that would do it.
but on older phones that never had SD cards I would use by USB for my Titanium Backup storage, but even with stickmount the app still wont notice it. I am going to try a few things that someone told me earlier and see if that works. my backups can become quite large and that valuable space when you only have 32gb.
so if yall have any ideas to try, let me know and I will be happy to give them a shot

Ah figured it out.. I realized I was still running my USB in exfat and once I reformatted it back to fat32 titanium now see's it.. Will have to play more to see if all is working right now

harvickgm said:
Ah figured it out.. I realized I was still running my USB in exfat and once I reformatted it back to fat32 titanium now see's it.. Will have to play more to see if all is working right now
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Ah cool. Yeah ExFat isn't going to help unless you're on a Samsung - if they still indeed support that.

rootSU said:
Ah cool. Yeah ExFat isn't going to help unless you're on a Samsung - if they still indeed support that.
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My LG's supported it, but I hate the limitation on Fat32 when you need to transfer files larger than 4gb

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My LG's supported it, but I hate the limitation on Fat32 when you need to transfer files larger than 4gb
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Yep it's a pain. ExFAT is microsoft proprietary. I'm surprised some vendors even use it. Some custom Kernels may allow use of NTFS or something. FAT32 is my only option because I have to plug into Windows and Linux systems.

rootSU said:
Yep it's a pain. ExFAT is microsoft proprietary. I'm surprised some vendors even use it. Some custom Kernels may allow use of NTFS or something. FAT32 is my only option because I have to plug into Windows and Linux systems.
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I'm honestly surprised some new format hasn't been adapted, file sizes are getting to be so big now something will have to change soon.. I hope at least

harvickgm said:
I'm honestly surprised some new format hasn't been adapted, file sizes are getting to be so big now something will have to change soon.. I hope at least
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I always think the same thing.

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I always think the same thing.
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OK, so now I have a new problem, maybe you have a work around. Since stickmount shows up under the SD card, the system counts its storage space with the space on the phone. So even tho its a 64gb USB, it won't transfer thinking there is is not enough space on the disk. Any ideas?

harvickgm said:
OK, so now I have a new problem, maybe you have a work around. Since stickmount shows up under the SD card, the system counts its storage space with the space on the phone. So even tho its a 64gb USB, it won't transfer thinking there is is not enough space on the disk. Any ideas?
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I think you're stuck on that one. The best way would be to mount it independently using the fstab of a custom kernel.

rootSU said:
I think you're stuck on that one. The best way would be to mount it independently using the fstab of a custom kernel.
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Yes, I have been meaning to try out a kernel with support but just keep forgetting. Will definitely have to do it today. Thanks man