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Cannot access SD card on Captivate

I connected my phone to my computer using USB, selected "Mass Storage", 2 new removable drives appeared on my computer. However, neither drives connect to the internal 16G SD card. Both drives told me to insert the media when I double clicked on it. I tried this on a XP and a Win 7 machine with the same result. Am I doing something wrong or do I have a defected phone?

I have the exact same problem on XP and win7... I've tried everything I can think of including several different cables.
Anyone have any ideas what is going on?

Make sure you're choosing "Mount" on the Captivate after connecting the cable.
See here:
http://capfaq.com/w/Connectivity#Connecting_to_a_Windows_based_PC

This device NEEDS drivers, even for the Massive Storage device (At least it didn't work for me, Win7 x64 until I installed the drivers)
Try downloading KIES and try again, the x64 drivers you can fin around here didn't seem to work for me.

What rom are you running?
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You only need driver if you're on XP. No drivers needed for Vista or Win7.
But you do have to MOUNT the drives on your phone. There are reasons why a MOUNT is required. But if you're too lazy, you can download an app from market to auto-mount for you.

foxbat121 said:
You only need driver if you're on XP. No drivers needed for Vista or Win7.
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Incorrect. I have lost track of how many XP machines I've hooked my Captivate to in Mass storage mode and not needed to install any drivers.

Oh my god you guys rock... I never had to mount the device before. I wonder why that changed recently?
Anyway, mounting the device worked.
Thanks!!

When I go to my SD settings, it is already mounted. I've unmounted, then mounted to no avail. I've downloaded and installed teh drivers from Samsung and everything says it is successful. If I try to run in USB debug mode I get the same result except 3 drivers install automatically than the 1 when I am in regular mode. Any ideas?

trekie86 said:
When I go to my SD settings, it is already mounted. I've unmounted, then mounted to no avail. I've downloaded and installed teh drivers from Samsung and everything says it is successful. If I try to run in USB debug mode I get the same result except 3 drivers install automatically than the 1 when I am in regular mode. Any ideas?
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Make sure you are connected directly to the back of the computer, not thru a hub, or the front of the computer case. I've heard the voltages needed have very tight tolerances. Try a different cable as well

Modulus1 said:
Oh my god you guys rock... I never had to mount the device before. I wonder why that changed recently?
Anyway, mounting the device worked.
Thanks!!
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It has ALWAYS been this way...

trekie86 said:
When I go to my SD settings, it is already mounted. I've unmounted, then mounted to no avail. I've downloaded and installed teh drivers from Samsung and everything says it is successful. If I try to run in USB debug mode I get the same result except 3 drivers install automatically than the 1 when I am in regular mode. Any ideas?
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You are doing the wrong thing. SD settings and mount/unmount in there is for the SD card mounting to your phone, not PC.
To connect Mass Storage mode to PC, you need set your USB mode to Mass Storage, and turn off USB debug mode. Once connected to PC, you need to go to notification window and tap on the USB notification to mount your SD cards to PC.

I just found that before I checked your reply. Thanks for the help. I can actual access the storage on the phone now without some weird settings. Now if 2.2 would only come out for the Captivate. Thanks.

[Q] sd card/internal sd card wont mount to computer how do i fix that???

sd card/internal sd card wont mount to computer how do i fix that???

Install the LG drivers for the phone.

Ya but if he is using cyanogen its still not gonna mount internal. What rom you using.
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I'm having this same issue and I am using CM7 nightly. Is there a problem with this?

i keep on having the same problem and the hdmi wouldnt work either so i had to put i put it back to ota stock gb...and now usb mounting works but hdmi still no good

I have same issue with Cyanogenmod. When it happens go to Settings > Application > Development and turn on USB Debugging. Then it detects and mounts it.

Has anyone figured this out? My G2X won't mount to my computer. the phone recognizes that it's charging, but thats it. It doesn't even give me the usual mount settings. I've installed the LG Drivers and nothing.
Btw the phone is not rooted, and running stock 2.3.4
Thanks!

Hellfire 2.1 USB Mass Storage Faulty?

I'm new to Android custom roms and just flashed my G2x to Hellfire 2.1. Everything went pretty smoothly as I have relatively strong tech knowledge and followed all the guidelines carefully. The phone is now running a lot faster and everything looks great, with the exception of USB storage. After extensive searches I can't seem to find the solution to the problem.
The phone doesn't have an external SD card and I store everything on the internal SD. Under CM settings I have set the phone to use the internal SD. Latest LG G2x USB driver has been installed on Windows.
Now by default, USB debugging on the phone is ON. When I plug in the USB cable, the "Turn on USB storage" screen doesn't show up on phone and no SD drive is detected windows. When I turn USB debugging off, the "Turn on USB storage" screen comes up, and after clicking "On", Windows correctly detects the drive.
But after the phone reboots (USB debugging is now off since I set it off before reboot), the USB stops working again. This time the "Turn on USB storage" screen does show up on the phone, but after clicking it to turn on, Windows does not detect any drive. Basically nothing happens. However, the strange thing is if I go to turn the USB debugging back on, phone again prompts to turn on USB storage, and this time if I turn it on, Windows detects the drive. Then I turn off the debugging again, and it still works fine (screen comes up and Windows can detect).
So basically it works until the next reboot. No matter how the debugging option is set, the USB simply won't work right away. (If it's set to off, the problem described in the previous paragraph applies. If it's set to on, the phone simply won't show the "Turn on USB Storage" screen as stated initially in the post.
I have gone back and force and tweaked various settings all with the same result. I have also made sure to test this on different computers with fresh installed G2x drivers and they all exhibit the same problem.
Your help will be appreciated.

Assuming you flashed it correctly using nulifier to wipe and than flashed I would reboot to recovery go to advanced and fix permissions... Reboot turn debugging on and check use internal storage. The reboot again and than see if that fixes it for you.. I have 2.1 flashed and when I mount both sd's mount internal and external so it should be working for you if not you might have a corrupted download and would have to redownload and flash again
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I have 2.1 flashed and when I mount both sd's mount internal and external so it should be working for you
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Do you mean you have both internal and external SD, and when you plugin the USB cable (I assume you have USB debugging on), both cards mount to the OS as two drives? Could you please do me a favor by taking out the external SD, and see if the internal SD would still mount correctly?
And btw are you mounting under Windows or Linux?
Thanks a lot.

ilovecats said:
Do you mean you have both internal and external SD, and when you plugin the USB cable (I assume you have USB debugging on), both cards mount to the OS as two drives? Could you please do me a favor by taking out the external SD, and see if the internal SD would still mount correctly?
And btw are you mounting under Windows or Linux?
Thanks a lot.
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Windows 7 and yes they mount a 2 separate drive. i tested it out and no it didnt. i read somewhere that its how CM7 is set up it dosent mount like the stock rom. i know its a hassle but you can mount it in CMW

Fixing permissions, usually works for me...
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korny647 said:
Fixing permissions, usually works for me...
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Didnt work for me

DJLamontagneIII:
I finally got an external SD in. I reflashed, left USB debugging on. When I plugin the USB cable, the phone's "Turn On USB Storage" screen doesn't come up, but I noticed that in the pull down's notification/running it's there, below the "USB debugging turned on" ,so if I click that, the "Turn On USB" screen shows up, and after clicking to turn on, both drives mount on Windows.
Is this how your phone behaves too? If yours actually have the "Turn On USB Storage" screen pop up on front (just like the stock ROM does), what do you think is causing mine to behave in this way?
Thanks again.

[Q] Phone SD not showing on PC...help

Hi all,
Have been having issues since last week with my phone connectivity to the PC. I'm able to connect it to my PC and see it in my device manager but my SD Cards don't mount. But in My Computer i do see an extra CD Drive & Removable Disk populate, though they contain nothing and when I select them they ask me to insert media. I have USB Debugging turned on and just did a fresh reinstall of the drivers.
Does anyone know what might be causing this?
Thanks,
Derek

Lastb0isct said:
Hi all,
Have been having issues since last week with my phone connectivity to the PC. I'm able to connect it to my PC and see it in my device manager but my SD Cards don't mount. But in My Computer i do see an extra CD Drive & Removable Disk populate, though they contain nothing and when I select them they ask me to insert media. I have USB Debugging turned on and just did a fresh reinstall of the drivers.
Does anyone know what might be causing this?
Thanks,
Derek
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This should fix you up...
1) Power down phone
2) Remove card
3) Mount the card in a card reader on a Windows machine and have it do an error check (and automatically fix file system errors).
4) While Windows is scanning your card, boot your phone with an empty card slot and then shut it down again after the boot is complete.
5) When Windows has finished repairing the card, reinsert in phone and boot normally. If it was not a physical problem with the card it should work again.

badbeats said:
This should fix you up...
1) Power down phone
2) Remove card
3) Mount the card in a card reader on a Windows machine and have it do an error check (and automatically fix file system errors).
4) While Windows is scanning your card, boot your phone with an empty card slot and then shut it down again after the boot is complete.
5) When Windows has finished repairing the card, reinsert in phone and boot normally. If it was not a physical problem with the card it should work again.
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Thanks for the suggestion! I tried it out and i'm still getting the same result. Both the internal and external sd's are getting mounted as a cd-drive and removable disk but they don't contain any information still. I tried reinstalling drivers again and it didn't help. Not sure what could be causing this issue...it's very weird.

Turn off debugging and try again. My cpu will not allow mtp mode with debugging on. Turning it off allows it to work (for me)
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I flashed back to root w root66 and the re-flashed CMW and CM10. This fixed the issue, although now i'm getting greyed out connection bars on both wifi and 4g, though they're still connected. Any reasoning for this?

[Q] Mounting sd problem

For some strange reason i cant mount my sd card any more....i have tried re flashing different roms and kernels still the same result. mount sd wont even work in recovery. But the phone still recognizes the it and i can play my media off it..also what i have realised is that when i connect it to any computer phone only charges...there is no indication of it in device manager...even tried using the HTC one X all in one tool to try running a few commands ....i get device not found..
ive tried this on windows 8 x64
and windows vista x32
also i have tried different usb cables
any ideas anyone