No USB mass stoage? MTP only? - Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE

Just saw this in the Engaget review;
While the One X and S offer options to use USB mass storage or MTP to transfer files, your choices are cut in half with Sprint's version -- MTP is all you have.
Who's got the skinny on this? I'm not familiar to how MTP works.

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fachadick said:
Just saw this in the Engaget review;
While the One X and S offer options to use USB mass storage or MTP to transfer files, your choices are cut in half with Sprint's version -- MTP is all you have.
Who's got the skinny on this? I'm not familiar to how MTP works.
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I actually prefer MTP. Here's more:
http://www.androidcentral.com/ics-feature-mtp-what-it-why-use-it-and-how-set-it

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As it says, you can still to mass storage with the MicroSD.
It is pretty simple, though... I think I used it for my old Sansa e250 mp3 player (it gave you the option between the two systems).

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The way I read engadget's words was like this:
The internal memory, can only be accessed through MTP.
The SDCARD on the other hand, can be accessed as a mass storage device.

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watzone69 said:
I actually prefer MTP. Here's more:
http://www.androidcentral.com/ics-feature-mtp-what-it-why-use-it-and-how-set-it
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Thanks for the link, it was helpful, and I can understand why they would want to go that route, but what I got from that link is that there's no difference, in practice for the end user, between the two. Meaning even with MTP, you plug it into your computer, and you can still access and move files around. Did I get that right? Does it open as another drive on the computer like USB mass storage does? In fact, would it open as two drives - one for the internal memory, and another for the sdcard?
AssassinsLament said:
The way I read engadget's words was like this:
The internal memory, can only be accessed through MTP.
The SDCARD on the other hand, can be accessed as a mass storage device.
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I read it the same way, I was just hoping that I wouldn't be locked out of the internal memory, unless I used the phone itself (if that makes sense).

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If the internal memory is going to be laid out in a similar way to my transformer, then one option is to use samba filesharing and set up the internal storage partition as a share. This is of course going to require root but as i understand it the issue with the one x (and maybe this one) is the bootloader unlock and not simple superuser permissions. I have my transformer set up where when its connected to my home wifi network both the internal storage and the microsd card is shared as samba shares and i just transfer files in to internal storage using that.
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Dropbox
Dropbox comes pre-loaded on the phone. You can also sync with Google Drive or a similar service.

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pirlzre steadfast
fachadick said:
Just saw this in the Engaget review;
While the One X and S offer options to use USB mass storage or MTP to transfer files, your choices are cut in half with Sprint's version -- MTP is all you have.[/URL]
Who's got the skinny on this? I'm not familiar to how MTP works.
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I'm not sure which ROM you are using (probably stock), but with my Venom Viper4G 3.14 ROM, I have USB mass storage for the following:
system: NO
sdcard: NO
sdcard2 (ext_sd): YES
However, I have to do 2 things:
1. Disable USB debugging
2. toggle USB File Sharing to Disk Drive (NOT HTC Sync Master)
It's my understanding that Jewel (the HTC Evo 4G LTE) does not allow for mounting system and sdcard(1). In contrast, my HTC One X allows for mounting both system and sdcard, and it does so with USB Debugging enabled. The One X also has a Charge Only mode, but Jewel cannot.