It had it ask me what to do with the USB connection when I plugged it in, which I don't mind. I choose File Transfer. My Mac isn't recognizing it as a hard drive, like it did. Gonna have to figure this one out... Any ideas? (I never use HTC Sync...)
Update: I did the online chat with HTC and tried almost everything from clearing the Cache partition to reinstalling Sync Manager for the drivers. Still not working. Funny enough it is working on my Windows 10 laptop....
Mfreeland said:
It had it ask me what to do with the USB connection when I plugged it in, which I don't mind. I choose File Transfer. My Mac isn't recognizing it as a hard drive, like it did. Gonna have to figure this one out... Any ideas? (I never use HTC Sync...)
Update: I did the online chat with HTC and tried almost everything from clearing the Cache partition to reinstalling Sync Manager for the drivers. Still not working. Funny enough it is working on my Windows 10 laptop....
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Are you using the android file transfer app on your mac?
My experience is that it will only mount the extsd as a drive...internal sd needs that app, who knows why
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Are you using the android file transfer app on your mac?
My experience is that it will only mount the extsd as a drive...internal sd needs that app, who knows why
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Up until I updated to Marshmallow, I've been able to plug into my Mac and use both internal and SD card as hard drives. I've never used HTC Sync.... It still works like normal on my Windows 10 laptop.
Mfreeland said:
Up until I updated to Marshmallow, I've been able to plug into my Mac and use both internal and SD card as hard drives. I've never used HTC Sync.... It still works like normal on my Windows 10 laptop.
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You got lucky that it worked as a drive before, but according to google this is the standard way to transfer via mac:
https://www.android.com/filetransfer/
"To transfer files, Android File Transfer must be installed on your computer"
https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/2840804?hl=en
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You got lucky that it worked as a drive before, but according to google this is the standard way to transfer via mac:
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I used the program, and yes it worked. I really don't think I was "lucky " before. Its worked from the second I got my Mac a year ago. Even HTC and Apple thinks it should recognize it. I think it might be a bug with this version of M. I'm betting they fix it.
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Can you see both internal and external when you are in twrp? Should be basically the same functionality.
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Can you see both internal and external when you are in twrp? Should be basically the same functionality.
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Honestly, I'm not even sure if I have a twrp installed. I can see both on my Windows 10 machine... I can see it on the Mac using Android File Transfer. I could plug directly into the Mac before the M update and could see both as HD's...and of course drag and drop files.
I assumed you were rooted. If you aren't, you wouldn't have twrp.
But I believe if you put the phone in download mode, you should be able to sideload files.
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I assumed you were rooted. If you aren't, you wouldn't have twrp.
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I have not rooted this phone. ( I did root my original HTC EVO......)
And have you tried connecting via download mode?
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And have you tried connecting via download mode?
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I'm not sure what download mode is? Can yo explain, please?
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Hellol everyone, i have read thru the forums and i still have not gotten the answer i was looking for. I am trying to download android sdk.
I can install it and all, but once i click the SDK manager, a black cmd prompt pops up and then vanishes. Also i cant install a drive for my erissince everytime i try to locate the file (and i do), it says that it couldnt locate the folder.
I have read thru the website's guide and installed jdk. Im on a 32bit Vista. Droid eris phone.
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Hellol everyone, i have read thru the forums and i still have not gotten the answer i was looking for. I am trying to download android sdk.
I can install it and all, but once i click the SDK manager, a black cmd prompt pops up and then vanishes. Also i cant install a drive for my erissince everytime i try to locate the file (and i do), it says that it couldnt locate the folder.
I have read thru the website's guide and installed jdk. Im on a 32bit Vista. Droid eris phone.
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What do you mean, you can't install a drive? Do you mean you can't mount the SD card? Have you tried installing HTC Sync for the Eris from HTC's website? I know the SDK is supposed to have the drivers necessary, too, but just a thought.
After the Command Prompt vanishes, can you use the SDK Manager then? Have you selected any Available Packages to download and install from the SDK (if you need anything besides the tools).
Also, I see that they changed the organization of the SDK sub-folders as of v8. aapt.exe and adb.exe, and some other files are now in the platform-tools sub-folder now instead of the tools sub-folder.
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What do you mean, you can't install a drive? Do you mean you can't mount the SD card? Have you tried installing HTC Sync for the Eris from HTC's website? I know the SDK is supposed to have the drivers necessary, too, but just a thought.
After the Command Prompt vanishes, can you use the SDK Manager then? Have you selected any Available Packages to download and install from the SDK (if you need anything besides the tools).
Also, I see that they changed the organization of the SDK sub-folders as of v8. aapt.exe and adb.exe, and some other files are now in the platform-tools sub-folder now instead of the tools sub-folder.
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I can mount it, but every time i plug it in, it asks me to install a drive. I have tried to direct it to the sdk folder but it wont connect. I have also tried HTC sync and i cant get the drivers intalled either becuase it wont recognize my phone.
After the cmd promt vanishes nothgin happens; its like i didn't click it at all.
No, i have not installed any additional packages. By the way, i do not have a platform-tools folder, just add-ons, platforms, tools, sdk manager(which doesn't work), read me and uninstall.
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I can mount it, but every time i plug it in, it asks me to install a drive. I have tried to direct it to the sdk folder but it wont connect. I have also tried HTC sync and i cant get the drivers intalled either becuase it wont recognize my phone.
After the cmd promt vanishes nothgin happens; its like i didn't click it at all.
No, i have not installed any additional packages. By the way, i do not have a platform-tools folder, just add-ons, platforms, tools, sdk manager(which doesn't work), read me and uninstall.
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Well let's take one step at a time. I'm concerned that you say you can't get HTC Sync's drivers to install. Are you sure you've tried the right one (meant for the Eris)? It should be version 2.0.33 and apparently it's dated 4/23/2010. Download it again from the link on this page http://www.htc.com/us/support/droid-eris-verizon/downloads/, unplug your phone, install HTC Sync completely, then plug your phone in. Wait for Windows to install all the drivers, it may take a few minutes to finish.
What method are you trying to use to mount your SD card to the computer? Meaning, are you using the official method from the phone to mount it from the notifications menu, for instance, and which dismounts the SD card from the phone as long as it's mounted to the computer?
Does everything else in Windows Vista work right? Are you able to plug USB flash drives and/or external hard drives in and have them work?
I forget the circumstances, but in the past (not right now), maybe when I'm not using my phone for tethering, Windows gave me a drive letter for my phone as long as it was plugged in, even when I didn't choose to mount the SD card. Trying to view the contents of the drive letter results in an error until you actually tell the phone to mount the SD card as USB storage.
roirraW "edor" ehT said:
Well let's take one step at a time. I'm concerned that you say you can't get HTC Sync's drivers to install. Are you sure you've tried the right one (meant for the Eris)? It should be version 2.0.33 and apparently it's dated 4/23/2010. Download it again from the link on this page http://www.htc.com/us/support/droid-eris-verizon/downloads/, unplug your phone, install HTC Sync completely, then plug your phone in. Wait for Windows to install all the drivers, it may take a few minutes to finish.
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Done, nothing much happened. when i open HTC sync it says disconnected and i cannot find my phone for phone monitor options, nor sync (it's plugged in).
roirraW "edor" ehT said:
What method are you trying to use to mount your SD card to the computer? Meaning, are you using the official method from the phone to mount it from the notifications menu, for instance, and which dismounts the SD card from the phone as long as it's mounted to the computer?
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Yes the notification method. I use the same method to dismount it. I have KaosFroyo v38 ROM.
roirraW "edor" ehT said:
Does everything else in Windows Vista work right? Are you able to plug USB flash drives and/or external hard drives in and have them work?
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Yes, everything works fine.
roirraW "edor" ehT said:
I forget the circumstances, but in the past (not right now), maybe when I'm not using my phone for tethering, Windows gave me a drive letter for my phone as long as it was plugged in, even when I didn't choose to mount the SD card. Trying to view the contents of the drive letter results in an error until you actually tell the phone to mount the SD card as USB storage.
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wut?
ilikeyoumore said:
Done, nothing much happened. when i open HTC sync it says disconnected and i cannot find my phone for phone monitor options, nor sync (it's plugged in).
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If you're trying to actually use HTC Sync to sync (not just for the drivers), you have to be running a stock ROM like xtrSENSE, xtrROM or others. Or a Sense-based Froyo ROM, but those aren't really ready for day to day use yet.
Then when you plug your phone in you get three options instead of two:
1. Charge only
2. Mount USB
3. HTC Sync
And it has to be in HTC Sync mode for the HTC Sync program to see it.
Yes the notification method. I use the same method to dismount it. I have KaosFroyo v38 ROM.
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Have you tried rebooting both the phone and the computer (with the phone disconnected)? Only reconnect it after both are fully loaded.
wut?
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In other words, with some ROMs when I plug my phone into my USB cable on my computer, the computer immediately shows a drive letter for it. It won't be accessible, though, until I choose the mount USB option on the phone.
There are other alternatives for mounting the SD card through USB, maybe you should try them.
There's a widget on the market that isn't free called Dual Mount SD. Personally I use it, it allows mounting the SD card without dismounting it from the phone. Given the problems you're having, though, perhaps this wouldn't work for you either.
There's a free program called QtADB you can find a link to in a thread on here. Google for QtADB XDA and you'll find it, and it'll link to the website for the program. You can even set it up to do this wirelessly if you have a wireless network/router. When I had real internet (not tethering like now) I tried it and it worked great. It uses something free called Wireless ADB or something like that.
You can do many things with this program, and you have to have the Android SDK installed to use it, but you can see what's on the SD card and copy files to and from it with it.
The only other alternative would be to use a Micro SD card to USB adapter, but then you'd have to turn your phone off every time you want to access you SD card on your computer.
I use DropBox (free) to upload files from my computer and download them to my phone all the time.
Hello im trying to use my tbolt as a mas storage device but my computer wont recognize my phone but when i try using the htc sync it will work any ideas tried uninstalling htc sync and the drivers but no luck any ideas on how i can get my computer recognize my phone as a mass storage by the way im using xp sp 3.
No guarantees, but have you tried downloading the android sdk and choosing to install the usb drivers?
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No guarantees, but have you tried downloading the android sdk and choosing to install the usb drivers?
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i think i tried already but not sure ill try with the android sdk again.
Did you install all the drivers that are on the cdfs partition when you plugged in the phone?
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You need to download the sync drivers.
http://www.htc.com/us/support/thunderbolt-verizon/downloads/
ScoobarSTI said:
You need to download the sync drivers.
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Those are the sync drivers im using but no luck yet tried to uninstall and reinstall but no luck.
nerozehl said:
Did you install all the drivers that are on the cdfs partition when you plugged in the phone?
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On this one i think i installed all them the issue here is that when i plug my phone it let me know that new hardware has been found then it starts with the installation some will install but i think there is one or two the just sit searching but nothing happens and then i try to closed out but it freezes up on me and when i turn off debugging then it closes out but if i try to install them with debugging off nothing comes up.
another thing i used my phone with acomputer runnig windows 7 and it worked so im guessing its a prblem with xp
I think pdanet has the drivers when you install it if you don't know how to manually add them.
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I don't know if this will work for you, but it worked for me...
When you plug your phone in via a usb cable, you will see a Verizon Mobile drive pop up on under "My Computer"
If you open it, there is a folder in there called DRV. There is a file called something like WM_driver installer. I installed that.
Then I go to my phone chose to connect as a disk drive (I have mine set to charge only by default).
Then I click on my removable disk and I can see my phone's data then.
Dnakaman said:
I don't know if this will work for you, but it worked for me...
When you plug your phone in via a usb cable, you will see a Verizon Mobile drive pop up on under "My Computer"
If you open it, there is a folder in there called DRV. There is a file called something like WM_driver installer. I installed that.
Then I go to my phone chose to connect as a disk drive (I have mine set to charge only by default).
Then I click on my removable disk and I can see my phone's data then.
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ill try it tonight lets see if it work
I am running Bamf 2.0 Android version 2.3.4, HTC sense version 2.1,with Imoseyon kernel version test 7.
I can not get my windows computer to see the phone. There appears to be a driver issue. I have tried everything I could find on this issue and nothing has worked. Please help!
Alan
Yeah I have been having the same issue installs everything when plugged in except MTP driver for the device which will not allow you to properly mount the phone to access sd card. Have been looking for hours and have not been able to find anything either.
Some people have proposed a solution in the BAMF thread of selecting the Internet passthrough when plugging in, letting it install drivers, then try to mount.
06ms6 said:
Some people have proposed a solution in the BAMF thread of selecting the Internet passthrough when plugging in, letting it install drivers, then try to mount.
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Still nothing still says I am missing MTP driver
I think its an issue with the kernel.
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Where do we get kernals?
Try updating to the 2.0.4_1 release. It fixed the issue for me with not being able to connect to PC, then connect as internet passthrough let it sit for a good 3 min then switch to disk drive
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Where do we get kernals?
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Kernel Manager is one option. But there are various threads in Development that have kernels for flashing. Just download one of them and flash it.
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Turd Furguson said:
Kernel Manager is one option. But there are various threads in Development that have kernels for flashing. Just download one of them and flash it.
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Just to make sure you all know.. there are only a couple working GB kernals so dont go grabbing anyone and flash it.
nepperz said:
Try updating to the 2.0.4_1 release. It fixed the issue for me with not being able to connect to PC, then connect as internet passthrough let it sit for a good 3 min then switch to disk drive
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Did this and I was able to connect as internet passthrough .... but when I tried to mount the sd card it still didn't work.
I really like to mount the sd card to change out the music on my phone, not a deal breaker but bummed I can't figure this out.
Alan
press intertnet passthrough and then immediately switch to mount disk drive
nepperz said:
Try updating to the 2.0.4_1 release. It fixed the issue for me with not being able to connect to PC, then connect as internet passthrough let it sit for a good 3 min then switch to disk drive
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Fixed it for my Thunderbolt, thanks!
I´m new to this Mtp thing. I had a HOX until now and that was a breeze there.
So how is everybody copying files (non-media files) to sd-card pr ext-sd-card?
thx, nearly
Bro I just plugged my phone into my PC and my PC download the drivers needed.. recognized phone and bam. Go into computer and find your device. If you double click on it it should bring up your SD card.. From there I just drag and drop files.
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Just like a USB stick. I connect to PC and it pops up. Maybe because I.have development option ticked but don't think it's that. Just download the latest version of kies for the drivers.
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That sounds less painful than the galaxy s II
Setting-blah-blah-mount-connect-enable-driver-drag files-eject-turn off
I use airdroid.
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How is MTP speed compared to UMS?
ECrispy said:
How is MTP speed compared to UMS?
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Really sucks...
Can't use the phone while transferring large files
What about connecting the phone to a PS3, does that work?
i cant remember the last time i connected a phone to a computer for file transfers.
get samba share from the market or use es file explorer to transfer files to network shares on the pc.
LOL WIRES.
MTP/Kies really suck. My main pc is running Linux so that's a no-go with MTP. I installed Kies on my work pc as it runs Win 7. All SGS 3 drivers are installed as well. For the first few days it was working but now the phone isn't recognised anymore. Either the phone does not show at all on the pc, or it shows but the internal and external SD cards are not showing.
Saw on Samsung's website that there's a Kies version for Mac available so I installed that on my wife's macbook pro. When plugging the phone in the "connecting" message keeps running but the phone never connects. I thought it was because I'm not using the original USB cable, but using that won't work either.
So looking forward to a custom rom that has USB mass storage included. Until then I'm using the WiFi File Transfer Pro and/or Samba Sharing apps.
You can also install Kies Air from the play store on your phone. You won't have to install anything on your PC.
Just make sure you are on the same network as your PC and run the app.
It will start a server and the URL will be displayed on your device.
Enter this URL in your browser on the PC and you are ready to go
KennyG60 said:
You can also install Kies Air from the play store on your phone. You won't have to install anything on your PC.
Just make sure you are on the same network as your PC and run the app.
It will start a server and the URL will be displayed on your device.
Enter this URL in your browser on the PC and you are ready to go
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So basically it works like WiFi File Transfer Pro?
Thats nice, it creates a network share of the sdcards?
Why hasnt anyone else done that?
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slonn said:
So basically it works like WiFi File Transfer Pro?
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You can browse your entire phone, not just transfer files
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You can browse your entire phone, not just transfer files
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Ok, will give it a go. Thanks!
You're better off using airdroid if it's just a couple of files
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How can I copy file to /data directory?
I use Cyberduck on my Mac to connect to the SGS III by SSH, I have an app called SSHDroidPro on my phone. So easy to use. I can browse the entire filesystem of the phone wirelessly and file transfer is pretty fast and totally painless. MUCH better than Kies Air IMO.
Coreym said:
Bro I just plugged my phone into my PC and my PC download the drivers needed.. recognized phone and bam. Go into computer and find your device. If you double click on it it should bring up your SD card.. From there I just drag and drop files.
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I can just copy jpgs, nothing else.
Coreym said:
Bro I just plugged my phone into my PC and my PC download the drivers needed
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Only with Windows 7 in my case, wouldn't work with XP
Is there a way to browse the internal storage over USB connection to a PC? I could've sworn I've done it in the past but drawing a blank now. I think I might have use HTC Sync. Want to back up the contents before running RUU this weekend. If not will use AirDroid and download as a zip. Running 4.1.1 btw, latest MeanBean.
mumbles202 said:
Is there a way to browse the internal storage over USB connection to a PC? I could've sworn I've done it in the past but drawing a blank now. I think I might have use HTC Sync. Want to back up the contents before running RUU this weekend. If not will use AirDroid and download as a zip. Running 4.1.1 btw, latest MeanBean.
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It might not be what you're looking for exactly, but you can always do it through a command prompt with ADB. Just gotta bone up on your Linux terminal commands.
SilverZero said:
It might not be what you're looking for exactly, but you can always do it through a command prompt with ADB. Just gotta bone up on your Linux terminal commands.
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Yea, didn't think about that. Not exactly what I was expecting, but it'll work if it comes to it. Spent last hour of work troubleshooting a server via SSH so might just continue in that direction tonight.
mumbles202 said:
Is there a way to browse the internal storage over USB connection to a PC? I could've sworn I've done it in the past but drawing a blank now. I think I might have use HTC Sync. Want to back up the contents before running RUU this weekend. If not will use AirDroid and download as a zip. Running 4.1.1 btw, latest MeanBean.
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Boot into recovery, mount internal.
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