Quick question,
I currently have the Epic, which requires a driver installed on the computer before the SD card will mount properly on a windows PC.
I use my phone to upload things for work now and then, and this is a major hassle for me.
I'm thinking of moving to the Galaxy S2 when it comes out in the US, and I was wondering if the S2 mounts properly without a driver?
It's sad to be jealous of friends with HTC phones that mount properly and don't need drivers installed to simply connect to a pc.
If you set it to 'usb debug mode', it auto installs and will come up as 2 card readers.
It even works on my car's head unit so it is in usb mass storage mode.
Without debug mode it'll be detected as a phone but I'm not sure what it'll come up as since all the pc ive connected it to have samsung Kies.
Personally I use widget apps like 'multi mount sd' so I can still use the phone while the usb is accessible by the pc.
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Is there anyway to get the X10mini pro to show up in windows as a standard USB mass storage device, like my camera or MP3 player? I want to be able to simply copy files over to the phone without using Sony’s software etc. Is there an app I can download for this?
when i connne it shows up as long as there is a memory card not sure if need to select mount usb on the phone menu , if you want the phone memory im not sure its possible to view but as its not that big i guess ur just looking for the memory card
how do you select mount usb on the phone menu? I am still unable to connect this phone as a usb mass storage device and upload files to the card without the Sony Software
marada2 said:
how do you select mount usb on the phone menu? I am still unable to connect this phone as a usb mass storage device and upload files to the card without the Sony Software
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When you plug in the USB cable from the PC to the phone, are you greeted with this menu (see attached image)
Thanks I am familiar with that screen, however I can't get the phone to be treated as a USB mass storage device. I just want to be able to browse the memory card like on an MP3 player, camera etc without having to use the Sony software. Is there anyway I can do this natively in windows or linux?
marada2 said:
Thanks I am familiar with that screen, however I can't get the phone to be treated as a USB mass storage device. I just want to be able to browse the memory card like on an MP3 player, camera etc without having to use the Sony software. Is there anyway I can do this natively in windows or linux?
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When that screen pops up, just select "Connect my phone", and it'll mount it in mass storage mode. Works perfectly fine for me on PCs without the software installed. Haven't tried it on linux, but it works on my car's stereo that plays mp3s off a connected usb device, so I can't see why it wouldn't
My phone works like that but only with the phone drivers installed. I treid this before I installed the phone drivers but windows just said the drive was unreadable. Also you can't browse the entire directory structure.
Very odd. My Windows XP SP2 has no drivers in it for the phone but manages to read the memory card
Works fine here as regular usb mass storage in Mac OS X.
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Ive just suddenly had a brainwave: asking for drivers? That to me sounds like its in USB debugging mode. Switch that off and it should be ok
Is there a way that I can just connect my Vibrant to a computer without having to Install the Samsung Drivers?, that will be great because I will be able to bring data without a pesky Pen or Flash drive.
Ok the real question should be if I can make other computers see my vibrants SD's without the damn Samsung Drivers...
Settings>Applications>USB Settings
Set to Mass Storage
Settings>Applications>Development
USB Debugging off
ANY USB device you plug into XP/VISTA/7 will install drivers, but in most cases they will be mass storage drivers. This happens when you plug in a USB flash drive into a PC for the first time, Windows will install it's own drivers but work fine after that.
Same with the Vibrant - it will install mass storage drivers only once and after that it will show up as removable storage. The drivers don't have to be downloaded they are built into windows.
If you plan to flash your phone then you will need to download the drivers yourself and enable USB debugging.
But to use your phone as a flash drive just plug it in and you will see 2 new drive letters, on for internal phone memory and one for SD card..
If you updated to froyo.ka6 via mini kies you will also see a third drive, listed as a cd-rom. Weird.
Thx a lot!, ill check it out as soon as possible!
I'm trying to drag the files to the phone, but it won't transfer for some reason. I never had this problem before. I also own an s3 and it does the same thing. I downloaded the usb drivers too, still won't work.
What rom are you on? Try using airdroid.
You are using windows 7 file explorer?
Once you connect your phone did you select USB transfer? Or MTP?
Make sure its mounted as a mass storage device
android4545 said:
Make sure its mounted as a mass storage device
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You don't need to mount these phones as mass storage. You should be able to drag and drop using windows explorer in the default MTP mode.
@ptrle..... Were you ever able to drag and drop on the Note or your S3? Can you see your phone and internal sd card with windows explorer? Have you tried rebooting your phones and pc right before trying to transfer? Maybe a bad cable or try a different USB port. Don't go through a USB hub. Try installing the newest Samsung Kies to get the most updated drivers.
I have 4 computers and only one did I install samsung kies and the other 3 work in MTP mode without manually installing any drivers.
I ran into an odd issue..
In MTP the phone moved a season of Walking Dead in 2.5 minutes, as mass storage it said it would take 45 minutes..
So MTP transfers faster from my laptop to phone, but my ps3 says its "An unknown device" in MTP mode, so I have to switch to Mass Storage and all is well..
Probably won't help, but perhaps a route to investigate
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Settings-more under wireless and network-usb utilities-connect storage to pc
when I plug in my I717 via USB in my desktop, windows sees it as Samsung Android device, but when I go into windows explorer, there's nothing to see (the usb or sd storage isnt listed at all) and I do have mtp usb storage activated on the phone and usb debug. I am running gingerbread touchwiz rom. I can see the phone and transfer files wirelessly with ES file explorer, but I cant access the sd card or the phones internal storage through usb windows explorer connection even though device management shows Samsung android device. Windows Device manager shows the phone with no yellow flags. anyone had this happen and found solution to share? thanks
You can try rebooting the computer, using different usb ports, using a different cable. I don't know if this works on gingerbread but I have used it on jellybean roms before when I've had trouble connecting... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=in.zatta.USB_switch
Just thought of one other thing. You didn't say anything about Windows loading the device drivers so I gotta ask if you have installed the Samsung drivers?
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Just thought of one other thing. You didn't say anything about Windows loading the device drivers so I gotta ask if you have installed the Samsung drivers?
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yep..have samsung drivers. also, about the app you linked above, I'd like to try it out but google play says its not compatible with my device (probably because I'm still on gingerbread). anywhere else I can download the apk and try manual install?
I think your problem is that you are connecting via MTP (media transfer protocol). You need to connect via USB mass storage. With your Note not connected to your PC, go into Settings, under Wireless and network look for USB utilities. Follow the phone's instructions for connecting to USB storage to your PC. Wait for the Windows autostart to read the phone storage. (My PC is XP and takes a minute or so.) Then you should see two new drives show on Windows Explorer. One is phone internal storage and the other is the phone's external SD card. Hope this works for you. Good luck!
I believe sonebwood is on the right track on this. I remember when the Note first came out I had to change something to get windows to see the drives. Is there any particular reason you keep the phone on gingerbread? ICS was a lot better and you can update to JB through Kies.
On every single AOSP/AOKP rom I've used since rooting my phone almost 3 years ago, I haven't been able to use data transfering over USB cable. If I connect the phone to my PC, it starts charging like it should, but I never get a prompt on the phone to enable Mass Storage, and no removable storage/devices are visible in Explorer. Is this normal behaviour or am I doing something wrong, maybe some option I haven't enabled in Settings?
I'm currently running NeatRom.
Also, where can I find some modems/basebands for my phone, which are compatible with Android Kitkat 4.4.4.?
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On every single AOSP/AOKP rom I've used since rooting my phone almost 3 years ago, I haven't been able to use data transfering over USB cable. If I connect the phone to my PC, it starts charging like it should, but I never get a prompt on the phone to enable Mass Storage, and no removable storage/devices are visible in Explorer. Is this normal behaviour or am I doing something wrong, maybe some option I haven't enabled in Settings?
I'm currently running NeatRom.
Also, where can I find some modems/basebands for my phone, which are compatible with Android Kitkat 4.4.4.?
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Are the correct drivers installed. Have you installed the samsung USB mobile drivers? Check in device manager to confirm if you have or haven't got the correct drivers. Is there a mount storage option in the rom? If not, try rebooting into recovery and it should auto-mount the storages and your pc should pick up your phone, if not, your phone'a micro USB port has a damaged pin.
Now I really do feel stupid. :/
All I had to do was go to Storage under Settings and select Mass Storage under "USB Computer Connection".
Thanks for the help!