Apologies if this is in the wrong section.
Does anyone know - can I use the HTC Touch Diamond as a USB flash drive, and run programs?
To be specific, when I go to work, I run Firefox Portable on our crippled office desktops, from my USB thumb drive, but I'm always losing the darn thing. If I get an HTC Touch Diamond, can I plug it into my work's PC and have the PC recognise it simply as a USB flash drive, and run Firefox Portable (and other apps) from it, as if it were a regular USB flash drive?
Oh man, you've got "Search" link at the top of page...
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The Diamond already has the feature built in. Settings -> All Settings -> Connections -> USB to PC and you can swqitch between ActiveSync and Disk Drive mode. Disk Drive mode hides the 4GB storage from your PDA and that's what becomes visible to your PC when you plug it in. WM5torage is not needed with this device. RTFM.
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TheBrit said:
The Diamond already has the feature built in. Settings -> All Settings -> Connections -> USB to PC and you can swqitch between ActiveSync and Disk Drive mode. Disk Drive mode hides the 4GB storage from your PDA and that's what becomes visible to your PC when you plug it in. WM5torage is not needed with this device. RTFM.
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DriveDroid is an interesting piece of software that allows you to host iso and image files on your phone or tablet, and the developer has his very own thread here at XDA under the apps section.
Just search for it, it will come up.
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Softick Card Export II for Pocket PC turns your Pocket PC and Windows Mobile PDA into USB flash drive.
http://www.softick.com/download.php
Holy crap, this is nice.
But trial version? Please make sure you mention things like this =]
But yeah, installed, tested great. Puts a little icon in your "System Tray" to select between "Activesync" and "Card Reader".
Works on my Magician, connecting to XPSP1 machine. Yes, it had to install drivers but the drivers were native so in about 10 seconds I had access to my SD Card.
Did a quick file transfer test - MUCH faster than Activesync.
This might save me having to carry my card reader everywhere, despite the fact that the cable doubles as my Magician charger ;D
Now check this
change your owner name to
Dcs [RCAPDA]
then see what happen
Haha, thanks, but I've already fixed that little problem ;D
No go with the latest Qtek rom.
It say's you will have to download the newest USB driver ?!?!? :shock:
I discoverd that this one is for WM2003, downloaded the one for wm2005 but won't work either.
Lets see if there is an update some day.
Cheers,
Drifter
Drifter
on the download site
http://www.softick.com/pocket-pc/cardexport2/
there are three downloads
1. ZIP Microsoft Windows Installation (English)
2. CAB package for Windows Mobile 2003 (English)
3. CAB package for Windows Mobile 2005 (English)
first one ZIP is ver 2.21
others are ver 2.11
try the zip
and they say
We are permanently developing support for the new devices. Tell us what device support do you need.
try it hope you get some luck
hay Jed D`Lagged tell me the secret
next time i will be careful to mention about trial versions
Unfortunately, it seems only to function in Read-only mode on WM2005, and quite slowly too. (at least on my himalaya)
You can make your phone a USB drive without extra software. I have read that it can be done. Havn't done it yet with my 6700, but did with my 6600 but cant remember how I did it
The WM5 one works a treat on my Universal and Wizard. Or rather,it did untill I upgraded the roms to direct push capable ones. Now I have to disable direct push and kill activesync before switching the card export to 'export' mode. Irritating but still quiet usable.
If you're worried about the trial version you could alway, er, buy it! It's cheep!
USB mass storage driver
i dont know what is this & what will it do ?
USB mass storage driver is free for personal use
http://www.deje.gmxhome.de/software.html
... wrong way around. That installs a driver that let's you plug USB thumb drives into your PocketPC.
Although... I don't know any Pocket PC devices that have a USB Slot A connection?
The Fujistu-Siemens Loox (older model) had a USB host.
Thanks
Thanks
an alternative freeware which seems to work nicely on Himas (can't speak for rest)....
http://buzzdev.net/component/option,com_simpleboard/Itemid,59/func,view/id,16355/catid,26/
Cheers - Mallow1
Dear all,
my xda (Prophet) gets connected to many different computers, the only common connection mode is USB. On some of them, I cannot install software by company policy.
What I am looking for is a simple, standalone program that can be run (eg from a USB stick) on the WinXP PC and will allow simple back and forth file transfer between the PC and the Prophet via USB.
No other functionality required. Does such a beast exist?
thanks for hints,
best regards
tdklaus
there are free programs which makes the pda acts as a usb mass strorage device in the eyes of windows
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there are free programs which makes the pda acts as a usb mass strorage device in the eyes of windows
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Thanks, that is nice to hear!
Now, how can I make you name one or two of these?
tdklaus
http://www.freewareppc.com/communication/wm5torage.shtml
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Many thanks, exactly what I was looking for!
cheers
tdklaus
Hi,
I was able to use the USB HDD function on a HTC Universal device. Since moving onto Polaris I have lost that functionality. Now I have seen Sony Experia X1 with Windows 6.1 which has the same function in the Settings> Connections> USB to PC with an option to select either Active Sync or USB Disk Drive.
Is it possible for one of our great mods to extract this function and make it a part of the cooked Roms or as a stand alone cab?
Any help will be much appreciated.
Ciao
How about installing a wm6.1 rom?
Also it an USB Mass Storage Device, not a HDD... atleast I don't know about anything even remotely similar to a Hard Disk Drive in the polaris...
Polaris under 6.1 has no such option (mass storage device).
It has USB to PC, and there's only Advanced network functionality...
So it's an experia specific function... there are always alternative apps to do this
try using softick card export. works perfectly for me
iamwin said:
try using softick card export. works perfectly for me
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Thanx mate, softick does it.
But can the mods extract that experia function to cook in Polaris Roms or Polaris is not capable of this function due to hardware software limitation.
Ciao
I work with my Dad as an I.T. tech in alberta and my phone is super useful but I thought of a feature that I'd like to ask about. We find we have a lot of boot cds and it's a pain in the butt because you need to pack them everywhere and can't forget them in a customers computer. Which brings me to the main point.
Is it possible for the android to emulate a cd drive? I imagine it is because in Cyanogenmod with USB tethering, the phone is seen as a USB wireless device.
Anyway, I'd like to be able to keep an image of xp, ubuntu, hirens, puppy linux and maybe more on it and then "change disks" on the phone, you know? So it's not a bootable usb drive but an android-phone-emulating-a-cd/dvd-drive with a menu on the phone to select which disk image to "insert".
Backing up camera photos, messenger pics, contacts, documents etc. to Windows in their original format.
Smartphone: unrooted Mate9 with Android 8
What I used to do:
Connect my previous phone (rooted Ascend Mate) to Windows via USB, it's SD card got connected as a real mass storage device. I then ran a custom robocopy batch routine that backed up/mirrored all the important things to my computer. I folder mounted everything interesting from the internal memory to the SD card, like messenger pics.
This worked really great.
Problem I have now:
My new Mate9 does not support true USB mass storage connection anymore. It only supports this awful pseudo MTP file transfer connection to Windows.
This makes robocopy unusable because it only works with real drives with an assigned letters of course.
I really don't know what to do now.
Any cloud backup solution is not an option for me, because of sensitive data and slow internet. Full phone backups feel like an overkill and I cannot access the files on the computer directly.
I know that some people run a samba server or something on their phones to turn the storage into NAS drives. (Robocopy supports NAS I think) This seems to be maximum overkill and difficult to setup and resource intense but I'm interested if its the only way.
Any tips? Thank you
Don't know much about Windows, or MPT for that matter, but perhaps you could map your device (folders you need) to a letter drive? If I recall correctly, that mapping will allow you to read the files located on the MPT drive.
This is acually possible. I found a commercial software that lets you map a driver letter to an MTP device but it's $40.
Did some more research and getting a drive letter for Android storage over WiFi is acually stupidly easy.
Just install WebDav Server on Android and click the button. Then on Windows Explorer -> Map Network Driver and enter the IP displayed on Android. Thats literally it.
I only hope that I can get two drive letters for internal and external storage. Need to try.
So I found a complete solution that I'm VERY happy with!
Its running two WebDAV servers on Androind, one for accessing the internal storage and one for the sd card. This allows me to map 2 network drives in Windows and that means robocopy magic!
Here is how I did it:
1. Install the free app WebDAV Server Ultimate. This app allows you to run multiple servers at once AND let you specify custom storage paths. Both things that the other popular app WebDAV Server can't do!
2. Create two new servers in the app with the plus button and specify the according storage paths. Also make sure these two servers use different ports. The name can be specified freely. Click on the play button to start the servers.
3. Open the Windows Explorer and click "Map network drive" in the top bar. A new window pops up: Pick a drive letter you want and enter the Network IP of your smartphone and the port under "Folder" like this example sceme: \\192.168.178.01:8080 Also check the box "Reconect at logon" if you want the drives to still be there after a restart. The your current phone IP can be viewed in the WebDAV app when you klick on the info icon.
Thats it basically. After that you have your internal storage and sd card mapped to driveletters in Windows over WiFi. Just write your robocopy routine and do one click backups You can check "Keep the device fully alive" in the WebDAV app settings which helped stability and might improve speed. I got about 4-5 MB/s which isn't fast but fast enough for me.
One more thing:
If you use Windows 7 and you want to transfer files bigger 50 MB you have to do this registry workaround by Microsoft. For security reasons, Windows 7 limits WebDAV filetransfers at 50 MB by default.
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So I found a complete solution that I'm VERY happy with!.
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Good stuff, I'd consider making a how-to thread in your devices forum for others!