Orbit2 USB Mass Storage Device - Touch Cruise General

Anyone know how I can use my Orbit2 as a mass storage device? My car stereo allows iPods and Mass Storage devices but cant be annoyed with the ipod any more as I always leave it in the car.
Basically I want to be able to put my music on my 8gb card and play it through the stereo.
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checkout card export from softonic, works just great
http://www.softick.com/pocket-pc/cardexport2/

Have that installed... but dont understand exactly what Im doing... it says its in Mass USB Storage but also gives me an error about drivers...

Just Beta
Hey Guys!
The Mass storage thing is just in a beta stadium.
The easiest way to fill up your 8GB Card is an Cardreader at your PC...

Im not wanting to fill it up... works perfect in vista to fill it. I want to use it as a storage device for my car stereo USB connection.

You could just use your MicroSD in a card reader and insert the card reader into your car stereo... then back in the pda when finished

Card Export
redesignni said:
Im not wanting to fill it up... works perfect in vista to fill it. I want to use it as a storage device for my car stereo USB connection.
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I also use my Polaris connected to my car stereo USB connection.
It's easy: try "Softick Card Export 3.08". It works great.
You can also try it before you buy it!

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Usb Mass Storage, how to?

Hi all,
How to use my Cruise as a Usb Mass Storage device? Are there any free alternatives to WM5torage (which does not work in WM6.1)?
I tried Diamond's UsbToPc cab, but it does not work. There's also nueusb (no2chem_usbtopc_mass_storage), but I can't find a cab for it, just OEM (and I don't know how to install it).
I know CardExport works, but it's not free.
I use Mocha FTP (free)
http://www.mochasoft.dk/freeware/ftpd.htm
works wireless or via USB.
Take NueMassStorage. it's perfect.
http://www.nuerom.com/BlogEngine/page/Pocket-PC.aspx
NueMassStorage doesn't seems to work on my Polaris (stock ROM, WM6). Most of the time the device is, indeed, detected as mass storage, but without any actual storage volumes on it. Sometimes the PC actually detects a storage volume and mounts it, yet the mounted drive remains inaccessible/unreadable.
The only solution i found to work so far is Softick's card export, yet, it costs $14.95, this is comparable to a regular card reader price, while it's speed on Polaris is about 8 to 10 times slower than an average card reader, and is only a little bit faster than transferring files via activesync.
IMHO, just get one of those nifty cards that come with a small compact reader, and keep the reader on your keychain.
InfX said:
NueMassStorage doesn't seems to work on my Polaris (stock ROM, WM6). Most of the time the device is, indeed, detected as mass storage, but without any actual storage volumes on it. Sometimes the PC actually detects a storage volume and mounts it, yet the mounted drive remains inaccessible/unreadable.
The only solution i found to work so far is Softick's card export, yet, it costs $14.95, this is comparable to a regular card reader price, while it's speed on Polaris is about 8 to 10 times slower than an average card reader, and is only a little bit faster than transferring files via activesync.
IMHO, just get one of those nifty cards that come with a small compact reader, and keep the reader on your keychain.
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and what if he's homeless?
Hmmm
He wouldn't be able to charge his phone - unless of course he got a solar charger as part of his contract...Where would they send the bills?
nir36 said:
and what if he's homeless?
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pebsuk said:
He wouldn't be able to charge his phone - unless of course he got a solar charger as part of his contract...Where would they send the bills?
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quantom energized phone.

Is the G1 really a Class 1 USB device?

I'm hoping someone here can shine a little light on this. My car's receiver is a Pioneer DEH-3100UB, which includes a USB port and is designed specifically to connect an iPod via special cable or any Class 1 USB storage device. The Pioneer will not detect the G1, as other people have discussed on a bunch of car audio and other forums. The interesting part is this: If I take the Micro SD card out of my G1 and connect it to the Pioneer via a USB SD card reader, the card is fully readable. I've tried all sorts of suggestions from enabling/disabling USB debugging, to creating a shortcut to the SD Card via AnyCut and checking off the use as mass storage device option. People are not having this difficulty with other receivers including a usb port.
Obviously I'm not looking for help with the Pioneer, but I am very curious what the heck happens when you tell the G1 to mount. What does it do that makes it differ in any way from a 'Class 1 USB device?' Is there a way to alter what the hell happens when you connect the G1?? Is the G1 not really a Class 1 USB device?
Why was rooting/JF so much easier than hooking up to my car stereo
Sounds like a driver problem. Just about any card reader you install has to have drivers of some kind. Maybe the OS on the car stereo doesn't have drivers that support the card reader built into the G1? Just a thought.
by class 1, do you mean USB 1.0 ?
coz the G1 has a USB 2.0 port. and as any usb 2.0 device, it is supposed to be backward compatible. The only issue is the speed as it will connect at the lower speed.
Just wanted you to know its not just pioneer. I have a Clarion VRX785BT, and it too cannot connect to it It makes me sad. HOPEFULLY I can get BT audio streaming working as it does support bluetooth audio...
What happens ON THE PHONE when you plug the USB cable into the Pioneer? When I connect mine, it comes up with a notification (USB Connected) and I can choose Mount which switches over to the Mass Storage driver. Have you done that? Just a suggestion, because I can't think what else it could be,
Tommy
Valicore said:
What happens ON THE PHONE when you plug the USB cable into the Pioneer? When I connect mine, it comes up with a notification (USB Connected) and I can choose Mount which switches over to the Mass Storage driver. Have you done that? Just a suggestion, because I can't think what else it could be,
Tommy
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Correct. It's not always the phone. Realize that some of the world has not caught up to the fact that the G1 exists.
The G1 is a usb 2.0 device !!!
Please note: USB 1.0 or 2.0 (speed ratings) have nothing to do with the OP's issue.
Class 1 is a certain type of connection, not the speed.
-bZj
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HOPEFULLY I can get BT audio streaming working as it does support bluetooth audio...
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The G1 only support Headset and Hands free BT profiles - neither are what you need for streaming (quality) audio over BT. We'll have to wait for a BT update with A2DP profile - The Cupcake update (if it exists) is rumored to include A2DP
/Mats
This isnt going to fix this problem, but just buy a cheap auxiliary cable and mini usb to 3.5mm converter, and plug it in through the aux jack on your head unit. Thats how i play the music on my G1.
Is there a way to alter what happens on the phone when it detects a USB connection, modify the usb driver, or something else totally ridiculous to get the damn thing to work?

Car Stereo Questions

Was wondering what experience people had with using their captivate with their car stereos. Preferably via usb cable. If so, how much success are you having? Experiencing any problems? If not, how do you have your usb settings configured. I just bought a pioneer avh-p4200dvd and it gets hung "reading data". Was really hoping to get this working via usb as I dont have the cash to fork over for the bluetooth addon just yet. Any thoughts and help would be much appreciated.
Read the manual for the radio to see what it expects. I would imagine that you'll have to set the phone to mass storage mode. Some HU's have strict rules to where the audio files are located. Some have folder limits. Some require the mass storage to be formatted certain way. Some can only read fat16 formatted mass storage, some can read fat32. Hope this helps. Good luck.
Most headunits can do bluetooth now and works really well to stream bluetooth, but put in mass storage mode and u will prob need ext sd card not the main one. and that should work

[Q] How to mount only external SD?

Whenever I plug in the phone to my computer via USB, it loads it as two separate drive letters. This is fine and good for the PC side of things.
The problem is that I want to be able to use the phone's external SD as a mass storage device that attaches to a new car's USB port. The car always throws back an "unsupported" error, and I'm betting it has everything to do with the fact that the phone tries to mount the 2 cards. The car just doesn't know how to handle that information.
So, does anyone know of a tweak or setting that would force the phone to only mount one or the other, preferably the external?
I've removed the external SD card and plugged the phone in to the car. It doesn't error out now, but I didn't give it ample time to find music hidden in the internal SD.
That being the case, I still would like to know if there is a way to disable USB mass storage for one or the other without having to shift things around all the time. There's a reason why all of my music is on the external SD--it's a 16GB card and I have a ton of music.
The only way I can think of is by mounting it in clockwork recovery console. That would give you access to the music...but you'd lose the functionality of the phone during that time, so doesn't seem like it would be a viable route for you to take...but I suppose if you wanted to do bug testing to see if your external WOULD mount to your cars usb, that's one way to check that out.
Hope this helps.
I'll give that a try this afternoon. You're right, though, it does defeat the purpose--I'd really like a functioning phone while I drive. I'm sure there's a way to adjust this, I just don't know enough about the inner workings to make it happen.
Hello devitec,
I have the same Problem in a BMW with a Samsung Galaxy SII phone. I have no satisfying solution but I can use below workaround.
The BMW cannot mount both drives, but he chooses randomly one of the two. Because there are no music-files on the internal sd, it gives me an errormessage. On every second try i get the external sd which is browsable like a usb-stick. The album- and artist-informations are not parsed for the BMW-filterfunctions, so i can only choose by directory.
I hope this workaround will also work in your car.
max01001111
P.S.: The Samsung galaxy SII has to be in debug mode to mount without kies-support.
what if you guys try to unmount the internal sd before you connect ur phone to ur car?
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Phone storeage (SDcard) backup

On my previous devices, I occasionally pulled out the removeable SD card, and ran a backup of the card to my laptop hard disk. I ended up with a 32GB card which was filled with music, videos, and work documents. So, I got the 32GB S III to have plenty of room. So now, generally, I have my music, documents, etc., on the S III internal 32GB SDcard as it is called. I have my videos and a few other huge items on the external removeable extSDcard.
Now the problem is, there is no practical way for me to back up the internal storage. It won't fit on what is left of my external card. I have a issues with my laptop so USB does not work, or is unreliable when it does, and too slow anyway. I don't really want to use the cloud. I have tried FTP, and it works, but clunky.
I'm thinking about getting an external hard disk and using an OTG cable. That is about the closest I can come to what I want.
Does anyone have any good solutions? I guess I could get a 64GB card, but if I got a 64GB card, I would prefer stuffing more videos and such on it, not wasting it for backup.
I'm rooted, simply so I could freeze some bloatware.
There are a bunch of questions I'd need an answer to before I could even begin to help:
What about your computer is making the USB connection spotty? Are the USB ports damaged?
What ROM are you running on your device?
What OS are you running on your laptop?
Are you familiar at all with adb? Do you have it set up to work on your laptop?
IMPORTANT: Backing up 32GB of data from anything to anything will take a long time. USB OTG will still run at USB speeds, so probably not much faster than trying to backup over USB to your laptop. Your best option will probably be something like my adb_bak2computer tool. Shameless plug I know, but its true. Well, only if you are running linux or mac (for now at least).
In the advanced options menu you can select "userdata" which will backup /data including your internal sdcard. I could write a new option to only backup the internal sdcard, actually I think I will.
Still, need answers to those questions.
Ta,
ALQI
USB is out. Long story, but basically, the laptop has an internal hub to drive all of the USB ports. A lot of devices refuse to cooperate when they are on the other end of a USB hub. Nice laptop other then that annoyance.
worwig said:
USB is out. Long story, but basically, the laptop has an internal hub to drive all of the USB ports. A lot of devices refuse to cooperate when they are on the other end of a USB hub. Nice laptop other then that annoyance.
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Most machines have a "USB hub" that drives multiple USB ports, so that shouldn't be a problem. Even if you were using an external USB Hub, and it was a powered hub, you should still be fine. Could be something wonky with your OS?
Anyhoo, if you've ruled out USB to your laptop, then its either some sort of Wifi file explorer (or wireless adb), or USB OTG.
Hope that helps,
ALQI
alquimista said:
Most machines have a "USB hub" that drives multiple USB ports, so that shouldn't be a problem. Even if you were using an external USB Hub, and it was a powered hub, you should still be fine. Could be something wonky with your OS?
Anyhoo, if you've ruled out USB to your laptop, then its either some sort of Wifi file explorer (or wireless adb), or USB OTG.
Hope that helps,
ALQI
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I'm not going to waste another minute on USB to the laptop. The USB has not worked on this laptop for years. I hope to purchase a new laptop early next year, or maybe a Surface Pro. Also, even when USB is working, I can't MOUNT it as a drive letter, so normal backup programs don't see it. I have to manually cut and paste. But that is all another story.
I really want to be able to MOUNT the S III SDcard as a drive over WiFi. That would be perfect. Then I could run an automatic backup script.
worwig said:
I really want to be able to MOUNT the S III SDcard as a drive over WiFi. That would be perfect. Then I could run an automatic backup script.
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I use an app called "FolderSync" that lets you sync whatever you want with a shared windows folder. I do this on a schedule to backup my internal and external SD cards over my home network. But it is kinda slow, so if you have 32gb then it could take all day if you are syncing for the first time.
I use FolderSync quite a bit because it also supports Dropbox and a bunch of other cloud services. It was well worth the money for the paid version, but there is a Lite version also. I don't know what the limitation are on that.
Bort76 said:
I use an app called "FolderSync" that lets you sync whatever you want with a shared windows folder. I do this on a schedule to backup my internal and external SD cards over my home network. But it is kinda slow, so if you have 32gb then it could take all day if you are syncing for the first time.
I use FolderSync quite a bit because it also supports Dropbox and a bunch of other cloud services. It was well worth the money for the paid version, but there is a Lite version also. I don't know what the limitation are on that.
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That sounds like the ticket. I'll try it for a while and report back.
EDIT: After a quick test, this looks to be nearly perfect. I can set it up to sync to my network drive (or about any other wireless storage) with ease. Thanks.

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