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[Q] Unable to see storage card when running on Android

Hi all,
I am trying to get android to work on my old Tilt2 for my fiance so we can play games together. I've gone through all the steps by adding the correct files to the root of the storage card and running Haret. Every thing seems to work "fine" other than the fact that I can't see a storage card while in Android. I tried to partition my SD card to see if that would help but I am unable to determine the proper way to do that. Any help would be appreciated

Do you have some type of file manager installed on Android? I know that I could always see it, with the exception of the Android folder on my card.

Demonic240 said:
Hi all,
I am trying to get android to work on my old Tilt2 for my fiance so we can play games together. I've gone through all the steps by adding the correct files to the root of the storage card and running Haret. Every thing seems to work "fine" other than the fact that I can't see a storage card while in Android. I tried to partition my SD card to see if that would help but I am unable to determine the proper way to do that. Any help would be appreciated
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I've said this 100x, not sure why it never shows up on people's searches...
But backup all the data on the card. Format the card (full format, FAT32) using the HP Tool. Restore all the data on the card after the format, or start over fresh doesn't really matter. Apps should now be able to see the card, etc.

I'm not concerned about apps seeing the storage card. I don't have a "My Files" app that will let me navigate the card. Do I need to download a file manager in order for it to work?

I fixed it.. I had to download a file management app I feel dumb now.

Which App?

lotusfrontera said:
Which App?
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Astro is pretty good, and is included in AndroidApps folder IIRC.

arrrghhh said:
Astro is pretty good, and is included in AndroidApps folder IIRC.
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Amusingly, I use multiple file storage apps. Super Manager for making system files r/w, and file expert for the look and feel. I have astro too, on my other phone, but only really use it for enabling all file type downloads from the web.
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[Q] How to access SD?

Hey I am new to Android and have had my Play for over a month now.
Can anyone tell me how to access my SD cards' data, I am just see what is in it?
I came to this halt the day I had to send a PDF from my phone; stored in SD, to my computer.
These are the things I have tried.
1. Find that PDF in the QuickOffice and hold it for a second, but the options screen that appears doesn't show any option for sending via Bluetooth.
2. Secondly, I tried the same by accessing that PDF through Adobe Reader, still all in vain.

Jack Shepard said:
Hey I am new to Android and have had my Play for over a month now.
Can anyone tell me how to access my SD cards' data, I am just see what is in it?
I came to this halt the day I had to send a PDF from my phone; stored in SD, to my computer.
These are the things I have tried.
1. Find that PDF in the QuickOffice and hold it for a second, but the options screen that appears doesn't show any option for sending via Bluetooth.
2. Secondly, I tried the same by accessing that PDF through Adobe Reader, still all in vain.
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Just download a file manager off the market, It will give you access to all the non protected partitions on your device

Jack Shepard said:
Hey I am new to Android and have had my Play for over a month now.
Can anyone tell me how to access my SD cards' data, I am just see what is in it?
I came to this halt the day I had to send a PDF from my phone; stored in SD, to my computer.
These are the things I have tried.
1. Find that PDF in the QuickOffice and hold it for a second, but the options screen that appears doesn't show any option for sending via Bluetooth.
2. Secondly, I tried the same by accessing that PDF through Adobe Reader, still all in vain.
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hook your phone up to your computer using the micro usb cable, in the notification area, you'll have an option to connect to pc, turn it on, after that, open up windows explorer and your sd card will be mounted like a thumb drive in your computer.
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AndroHero said:
Just download a file manager off the market, It will give you access to all the non protected partitions on your device
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recommend any.

Jack Shepard said:
recommend any.
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astro file manager or es file explorer are two good ones
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is usb mass storage possible with root?

Just got a brand new Galaxy nexus today and haven't got a chance to root it yet. But i was seriously appalled by the fact that it doesn't support usb mass storage, which i did not know before buying it.
I just wanted to know, will rooting make usb mass storage possible?
no sd card and now this? I mean i love the phone but i can only take so much.

So you bought a Galaxy Nexus, but didn't know it didn't support UMS?
What's your specific problem with MTP?

martonikaj said:
So you bought a Galaxy Nexus, but didn't know it didn't support UMS?
What's your specific problem with MTP?
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MTP?
Yes i did buy it without knowledge of that. I guess that's what i deserve for not reading fine print?
You failed to answer my question though...
Rooting must enable mass storage though or how would roms be flashable?

ROMs are transferred to the phone via MTP on Windows, just like music and videos are transferred.
MTP is the replacement for USB Mass Storage. You can still transfer files back and forth.

donlad said:
ROMs are transferred to the phone via MTP on Windows, just like music and videos are transferred.
MTP is the replacement for USB Mass Storage. You can still transfer files back and forth.
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Thank you. I came from an incredible and i guess i expected everything to be the same.
My bad for posting prematurely and now i probably look pretty stupid, but i can blame it on it being late. thanks for your help anyway.
Looks like a got it figured out. Thanks again.

your question still wasnt answered. and yes some roms offer it i believe

donlad said:
ROMs are transferred to the phone via MTP on Windows, just like music and videos are transferred.
MTP is the replacement for USB Mass Storage. You can still transfer files back and forth.
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MTP does not transfer everything.
Try transferring your titanium backup files from your Nexus to your PC via MTP. I dare you. They're NOT there when you look at the Nexus from the PC-end.
Extracting stuff via "adb push" works fine though. This, and not having a drive-letter (so that things cant be scripted) was one motivation for me to start working on this thing:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1423392

Google/Samsung switched to MTP because now the OS and the files are on the same partition. So if you would mount the whole partition as mass storage your android would get down :-D
Maybe it could work with creating a new partition?

please please please work on this!!
I NEED UMS support bad!

josteink said:
MTP does not transfer everything.
Try transferring your titanium backup files from your Nexus to your PC via MTP. I dare you. They're NOT there when you look at the Nexus from the PC-end.
Extracting stuff via "adb push" works fine though. This, and not having a drive-letter (so that things cant be scripted) was one motivation for me to start working on this thing:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1423392
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Just transferred my contents backed up by TiBu. Works fine.
You are right, they are not viewable from PC to phone. They transfer and copy fine (entire directory).

chizzy58 said:
please please please work on this!!
I NEED UMS support bad!
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figure out how to put a SD card in the nexus and i bet it will work

josteink said:
MTP does not transfer everything.
Try transferring your titanium backup files from your Nexus to your PC via MTP. I dare you. They're NOT there when you look at the Nexus from the PC-end.
Extracting stuff via "adb push" works fine though. This, and not having a drive-letter (so that things cant be scripted) was one motivation for me to start working on this thing:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1423392
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Really? I transferred my titanium folder from Sensation 4G and it worked fine

chizzy58 said:
please please please work on this!!
I NEED UMS support bad!
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For what reason?

josteink said:
MTP does not transfer everything.
Try transferring your titanium backup files from your Nexus to your PC via MTP. I dare you. They're NOT there when you look at the Nexus from the PC-end.
Extracting stuff via "adb push" works fine though. This, and not having a drive-letter (so that things cant be scripted) was one motivation for me to start working on this thing:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1423392
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tried this many times. titanium transferring works perfectly.

Well, my problem is I work on pc's , sometimes a customer's machine doesn't get the Ethernet or wireless drivers after and install. I would normally download them on my droid x and use mass storage to transfer the file over....that works in windows 7...NOTin xp.
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chizzy58 said:
Well, my problem is I work on pc's , sometimes a customer's machine doesn't get the Ethernet or wireless drivers after and install. I would normally download them on my droid x and use mass storage to transfer the file over....that works in windows 7...NOTin xp.
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it's called a flash drive, have you heard of those?

I'm sure the OP has heard of a flash drive. However it would be much easier to just mount the phone like he has done in the past to transfer the downloaded file. Fishing out a USB OTG adapter, flash drive, and transferring is just extra steps.
Yes, a flash drive is probably the best bet for now... but I see why the OP finds it less than ideal compared to what he was used to.
Perhaps someone will come out with a custom ROM that has a new partition scheme to allow UMS. I personally wouldn't mind having a little 512MB partition on here for just that purpose.

thequinox said:
I'm sure the OP has heard of a flash drive. However it would be much easier to just mount the phone like he has done in the past to transfer the downloaded file. Fishing out a USB OTG adapter, flash drive, and transferring is just extra steps.
Yes, a flash drive is probably the best bet for now... but I see why the OP finds it less than ideal compared to what he was used to.
Perhaps someone will come out with a custom ROM that has a new partition scheme to allow UMS. I personally wouldn't mind having a little 512MB partition on here for just that purpose.
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No no no. Keep the files on the flash drive. Plug it into the computer. Win? Or if you need to find new drivers, you surely have a laptop you can use at work. Faster to find + download then using the phone anyway.
Having your phone + USB cable to hook it up to the computer is more cumbersome than just keeping the drivers for your work on flash drive

What if you need to transfer different files back and forth, and don't always keep a flash drive on you? I found with my HTC Desire that having mass storage was very useful for when I didn't have a flash drive... Admittedly, I can use my gnex for the same thing as all computers I use have win7 - but that is beside the point!

Surely it is possible to create some app, so as far as the PC is concerned it is connected to a USB device, but on the phone something else is occurring? Through some buffer or something...
I'm interested as well, as I'm having some trouble setting my Fedora laptop to talk as MTP. I'm comfortable transferring files via ADB but it can be a chore, and obviously none of my friends will have adb on their computers so transferring files socially will be a little hampered...

URGENT! recover photos after reformat

Hello everyone!
I have accidentally reformed my SIII and I need to recover my photos. They are photos from Disneyland. I forgot to backup and put them in Dropbox. I am desperate and need help here please.
All help appreciated! Thank you!

cloudy31 said:
Hello everyone!
I have accidentally reformed my SIII and I need to recover my photos. They are photos from Disneyland. I forgot to backup and put them in Dropbox. I am desperate and need help here please.
All help appreciated! Thank you!
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It depends.
1) Did you configure your camera to save them to the external fat32 (or exFAT) sdcard? Then it should be fairly easy to undelete most of them.
2) Or did you save them to your internal ext4 formatted sd (the default)? If yes, then you're mostly outta luck, UNLESS you were rooted, in which case you can make a disk image and then use a util on your PC like photorec (from testdisk) to recover them.

I actually have a similar but different question. I am running AOKP and end up flashing new versions often. I noticed that I lose my pictures each time and thought I was out of luck. But today I noticed in astronomy that all my pictures were actually in camera folder but the camera app does not see them. How can I make it so that they show up in the gallery?
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Alex2x3 said:
I actually have a similar but different question. I am running AOKP and end up flashing new versions often. I noticed that I lose my pictures each time and thought I was out of luck. But today I noticed in astronomy that all my pictures were actually in camera folder but the camera app does not see them. How can I make it so that they show up in the gallery?
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Not sure, maybe you're dirty flashing and need to clear data for media?
Try using QuickPic gallery instead. It's all I use and it always picks up my internal&external DCIM directories.
(I move my photos to the external fat32 DCIM dir every once in a while in order to use QuickPic's "fix file date using exif date" function, which only works on fat32, but not ext4)

zmore said:
It depends.
1) Did you configure your camera to save them to the external fat32 (or exFAT) sdcard? Then it should be fairly easy to undelete most of them.
2) Or did you save them to your internal ext4 formatted sd (the default)? If yes, then you're mostly outta luck, UNLESS you were rooted, in which case you can make a disk image and then use a util on your PC like to recover them.
I saved them at the default (not sdcard). I don't think I rooted them because I don't even know what is rooted. I just brought the phone and started taking pictures.
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I never dirty flash always complete wipe. Any other way to get the stock galaxy app to see all the pictures in the folder but just the ones that I take with the newest version?
I'm not really a fan of having multiple apps
Edit: okay just check out that app seems nice I can set it all to default but for example when I'm in the camera app and press the pictures to view them I do not go straight there. Any way to change that?
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cloudy31 said:
It depends.
1) Did you configure your camera to save them to the external fat32 (or exFAT) sdcard? Then it should be fairly easy to undelete most of them.
2) Or did you save them to your internal ext4 formatted sd (the default)? If yes, then you're mostly outta luck, UNLESS you were rooted, in which case you can make a disk image and then use a util on your PC like to recover them.
I saved them at the default (not sdcard). I don't think I rooted them because I don't even know what is rooted. I just brought the phone and started taking pictures.
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I have never tried it with a phone but try downloading Recuva , plug your phone into the computer and then on Recuva select the phone drive to scan and see if you have any luck with that.

Halmo said:
I have never tried it with a phone but try downloading Recuva , plug your phone into the computer and then on Recuva select the phone drive to scan and see if you have any luck with that.
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MTP is used now, not USB Mass Storage, so that won't work.

Since the internal SD is mounted as a fuse FS, none of the existing utilities work. I had thisbsame problem with my Xoom several months ago.
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zmore said:
MTP is used now, not USB Mass Storage, so that won't work.
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Oh, true. I hate MTP every time I want to transfer something -- "This file format is not supported would you like to convert it." even though the file is supported.

Delete.
sorry i was mistaken

Check out this Samsung galaxy recovery solution which helped me last time.

Cant Connect S3 to PC via USB- HELP!!!

i'm unable to connect my S3 to my PC via USB. even though i installed the samsung USB driver, i get an error on my PC that says it had a problem installing the Samsung Mobile MTP Device. i also get a pop up error on my phone saying i need to install Windows Media Player 10. i got XP on my laptop.. do i really need Windows Media Player 10 to connect my S3 to the PC via USB? how do i fix this?

I haven't used XP in years but you may need to install this.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=19153
And have you seen this thread?
http://support.t-mobile.com/thread/28807

Airdroid

Did you try setting phone to the PTP mode which is like a camera just to transfer files? You could rename a tar to jpg
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Are you using the factory cable? I was using a cheap Micousb and it wouldnt work. Pulled out the original plugged it in and connected to Kies instantly.

1SiK1500 said:
Are you using the factory cable? I was using a cheap Micousb and it wouldnt work. Pulled out the original plugged it in and connected to Kies instantly.
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This..

1SiK1500 said:
Are you using the factory cable? I was using a cheap Micousb and it wouldnt work. Pulled out the original plugged it in and connected to Kies instantly.
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i'll try it.. but do i need root to view files from my sd card on my PC while my phone is connected to my PC via USB? if not, then how do i view files from the sd card on my PC when i connect my phone to my PC without being rooted?

obla1 said:
i'll try it.. but do i need root to view files from my sd card on my PC while my phone is connected to my PC via USB? if not, then how do i view files from the sd card on my PC when i connect my phone to my PC without being rooted?
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It should automatically prompt you to view internal and external sd cards on your pc. Are you rooted?
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i have this problem on XP sometimes too, even with the drivers installed.
Try changing it from MTP to PTP. Let the computer find it again, then switch it back to MTP. Works for me every time

chrisram88 said:
It should automatically prompt you to view internal and external sd cards on your pc. Are you rooted?
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hi chrisram... it doesnt prompt me for anything. i installed the snapdragon toolkit. i got xp and when i go into windows explorer, i see files on the phone, but not on the sd card. i tried also to install samsung driver 1.4.6.0 and i get a "MTP was not installed" error. and on the phone i get a pop up saying that i need windows media player 10 or higher, which i have installed.
and to answer your question, i am not rooted. DO I HAVE TO BE ROOTED TO VIEW FILES ON THE SD CARD ON MY PC VIA USB? please help because i'm on the verge on stomping on this galaxy s3. thanks,

You don't need root to view files in your phone. Did you put an SD card in there?

obla1 said:
hi chrisram... it doesnt prompt me for anything. i installed the snapdragon toolkit. i got xp and when i go into windows explorer, i see files on the phone, but not on the sd card. i tried also to install samsung driver 1.4.6.0 and i get a "MTP was not installed" error. and on the phone i get a pop up saying that i need windows media player 10 or higher, which i have installed.
and to answer your question, i am not rooted. DO I HAVE TO BE ROOTED TO VIEW FILES ON THE SD CARD ON MY PC VIA USB? please help because i'm on the verge on stomping on this galaxy s3. thanks,
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On your phone go to menu >settings >development >usb debugging
Make sure it is selected. Hit me up on gtalk if you like same as xda name
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chrisram88 said:
On your phone go to menu >settings >development >usb debugging
Make sure it is selected. Hit me up on gtalk if you like same as xda name
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hi cristianram.. i get an error that says: "there was a problem installing this hardware.. MTP. An error occurred during installation of the device. A service installation section in this INF is invalid."
i'm really tired of this phone.. i really feel like breaking it or throwing it away now.

Or like I already said.. Just use airdroid.

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Or like I already said.. Just use airdroid.
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Yea try what the user suggested. That might work, use airdroid and report back. Your not the first one with this problem man. Don't worry we will get it solved.
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chrisram88 said:
Yea try what the user suggested. That might work, use airdroid and report back. Your not the first one with this problem man. Don't worry we will get it solved.
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i seriously dont want to use airdroid.. i need to move heavy files and i dont want to spend years by my PC waiting for my phone to finish transferring files over the air.. i want to be able to see my sd card via usb.
thanks for the encouragement.. i know i'll get a solution with your help..

Fair enough. What if you do install windows media player 11 and see what that does?
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Um the sdcard can only write at about say max 80Mbps sustained. WLAN will be fast enough at 40.. what is USB2.0?
Anyways if you are putting lots of files, leave them on external, and don't have to worry about copying again. No good reason to have then on sdcard vs external.
You can just copy to ext then use any file mgr program to copy it using the phone.
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I use N so it's 100mbps and fast enough to not notice any difference. I'm guessing your problem is that XP is old as F. A simple solution is to just plug the sd card into your computer. But as it was pointed out the sd card is slower than wifi so it really doesn't matter.
Oh and I'd just like to point out you could have moved the files 10000 times by now. With airdroid you can move around the house while files are transferring. So you can relax and still use the phone instead of being tethered to the computer. And if you have splashtop you'd never even have to touch your PC.

Put Linux on a flash drive and use that?