i have been trying to figure this out for a while now. when i plug my phone in through active sync i can freely browse the folders via windows explorer. but i was wondering is it possible to use robocopy to move files to and from the mounted device. and if so how would i format the source\destination string when the device doesent have a drive letter
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Howdy all,
Just picked up a Gtab today from Office Depot (they match Sears pricing of $349 with no restocking fee).
I also purchased a couple of 4gb MicroSDHC cards to play around with the different ROMs Reobeet and others are developing. Great job guys..keep up the great work.
Here's my question.. Can I access the SDcard2 on my Gtab from my Windows 7 file explorer? When I connect the Gtab to the PC via USB, I see the Gtab as my E:\ drive. Opening up the E:\ drive shows the following folders:
.android_secure
Android
backups
DCIM
download
LOST.DIR
But not the SDCARD2 or any of the other directories or files is see from the Gtab ES File Explorer.
What do I need on the Windows 7 PC to view and manage files on the Gtab, internal storage and the SDcard2?
Thanks for your help.. I think I'm going to like learning how to Mod my Gtab.
Great work guys and a great forum to share information.
Sincerely,
Gramps..
Gramps said:
Howdy all,
Here's my question.. Can I access the SDcard2 on my Gtab from my Windows 7 file explorer? When I connect the Gtab to the PC via USB, I see the Gtab as my E:\ drive. Opening up the E:\ drive shows the following folders:
.android_secure
Android
backups
DCIM
download
LOST.DIR
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- Drive E as you see is GTab internal 16GB SDcard.
I don't think you can access SDcard2 via windows ( I know I can't).
Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
I did some google searching and found this andriod APK which allowed me to access both the internal memory of the Gtab and the MicroSDHC (SDCard2) memory.
SwiFTP FTP Server
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/map-android-phone-in-windows-7-to-access-root-files-over-wifi/
This Android application converts your phone/*Gtab* into an FTP server which is accessible by a unique FTP IP generated by the app. You then map the FTP IP to your Windows PC and tada.. you can access your Gtab data (all of it).
See the link above for download and instructions.
Gramps...
Gramps,
If you indeed are going to "play" with mods, then go ahead and side-load a copy of "r4root" and root your tablet.
When you root your tablet, you will be able to see the "/" root directory which has sdcard (your main memory), sdcard2 (your SD cards external), and USBdisk (the directory for your USB port).
I think you should have ES File Manager (right name?) on your stock machine and it may let you see the root directories -- but I'm not sure about accessing them.
Rev
Thanks for asking this Gramps, I was wondering it myself. I did the ftp solution and it works great.
Can't access the SD card from the PC....
I'm using MS File Explorer on the PC and am connected by USB cable, and can see folders that appear to be the data on the internal memory of Gtab, but don't see anything for the external SD card.
Can you get to your external SD card from your PC?? Any idea how I can get it to show up? Want to be able to transfer files, but am currently having to keep pulling it out of the Gtab and put it into the SD card slot on the laptop to get access.
I'm running Vegan b3. Thanks in advance!!
Hi,
If you share your pc drive, you can use ES File Explorer, by selecting LAN instead of local.
Jim
jimcpl said:
Hi,
If you share your pc drive, you can use ES File Explorer, by selecting LAN instead of local.
Jim
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Fyi, I just tested this (network sharing) and was able to access shares on a Win7 machine and on a WinXP machine. For the latter, I had to use the "guest" user, with no password.
Jim
I think he wants to do it the other way around; access the external sdcard from the PC.
One of the glaring goofs by the OEM devs and the firmware. If a microsd is in the slot, we should see two logical drives when the device is mounted.
Incredible, Galaxy S and Tab versions with internal space shows two drives (as they should). Another issue with the G is the microsd unmount function is problematic- at best.
I used to have an HTC desire and whenever I plugged it into my PC it would give me the option to mount as an external drive. I have had an HTC one x plus I no longer have this option I have root etc. and was wondering is there was perhaps an app or ROM which would allow me to do this?
What exactly are you trying to mount? The internal storage of the device or the SD card? If you want access to the internal storage of the device (accessing the YAFFS file system), to my knowledge there is no way to directly access that from the interface of your computer, as it uses a different file system. You can however, use a file viewer app on your phone to view those files, but you would be viewing them from the phone's screen. If you just want to access the SD card, it should automatically appear on your removable devices as soon as you plug in your device.
syung said:
What exactly are you trying to mount? The internal storage of the device or the SD card? If you want access to the internal storage of the device (accessing the YAFFS file system), to my knowledge there is no way to directly access that from the interface of your computer, as it uses a different file system. You can however, use a file viewer app on your phone to view those files, but you would be viewing them from the phone's screen. If you just want to access the SD card, it should automatically appear on your removable devices as soon as you plug in your device.
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thanks for the reply, I'm trying to mount the virtual SD do as to make transferring movies, music, files and so on easier and faster than having to sync
No problem, this option should be available even if you root your devices, just select mount as disk drive or whichever option is most similar to that and you should be able to view the contents of the SD card.
i have a usb c thumb drive that i can successfully mount on my p2, and use solid explorer to navigate the drive. i can click to open the files in the default app for that filetype. this works fine.
however if instead, i open any of the default apps (or any app for that matter), i cant navigate to the mounted drive. in other words i can only access and open any files on the drive via a file browser.
is there a way that i can allow all apps direct access to the mounted usb storage? (and not have to first use a file explorer)
Can you mount BOTH Android internal & external storage onto Windows as a drive letter over Wi-Fi using a SINGLE WebDAV server?
This works:
1. I can easily mount my Android INTERNAL storage (including the read-only root hierarchy!) on Windows using any free WebDAV server and the Windows "net use" command over Wi-Fi to make that half of Android a drive letter.
WebDav Android Home Directory: /
[This gives read access to root at / and read/write access to internal storage at /storage/emulated/0]
Windows Mount Command: net use Y: \\[email protected]\DavWWWRoot /USER:username password
This works:
2. At the same time, I can just as easily mount my Android EXTERNAL storage (i.e., the entire external sd card) on Windows using any second free WebDAV server and the Windows "net use" command over Wi-Fi to make that other half of Android a different drive letter.
WebDav Android Home Directory: /storage/0000-0001
[This gives read/write access to external storage at /storage/0000-0001]
Windows Mount Command: net use Z: \\[email protected]\DavWWWRoot /USER:username password
This fails:
3. But I can't seem to get just one WebDAV server to mount ALL of android (the root file system, plus read/write on the internal sdcard and read/write on the external sdcard) as a single Windows drive letter using that single WebDAV server over Wi-Fi.
WebDav Android Home Directory: /
[I believe this should access to the entire Android phone but it doesn't. Why not?]
Windows Mount Command: net use Z: \\[email protected] /USER:username password
My questions are:
a. Can you mount the entire Android phone (all three partitions) onto Windows over Wi-Fi as a single drive letter using a single WebDav server?
b. If so, how did you do it?
c. Why can't I?
Details:
My phone is Android 12; not rooted; Samsung Galaxy A32-5G; & the free WebDav servers I'm using are:
a. WebDAV Server, by The Olive Tree, Free, +ads, requires gsf, rated 3.5, 100K+ installs
b. WebDAV Server - BestDAV by ZQ Software, Free, ad free, gsf free, rated 3.4, 10K+ installs
GalaxyA325G said:
Can you mount BOTH Android internal & external storage onto Windows as a drive letter over Wi-Fi using a SINGLE WebDAV server?
This works:
1. I can easily mount my Android INTERNAL storage (including the read-only root hierarchy!) on Windows using any free WebDAV server and the Windows "net use" command over Wi-Fi to make that half of Android a drive letter.
WebDav Android Home Directory: /
[This gives read access to root at / and read/write access to internal storage at /storage/emulated/0]
Windows Mount Command: net use Y: \\[email protected]\DavWWWRoot /USER:username password
This works:
2. At the same time, I can just as easily mount my Android EXTERNAL storage (i.e., the entire external sd card) on Windows using any second free WebDAV server and the Windows "net use" command over Wi-Fi to make that other half of Android a different drive letter.
WebDav Android Home Directory: /storage/0000-0001
[This gives read/write access to external storage at /storage/0000-0001]
Windows Mount Command: net use Z: \\[email protected]\DavWWWRoot /USER:username password
This fails:
3. But I can't seem to get just one WebDAV server to mount ALL of android (the root file system, plus read/write on the internal sdcard and read/write on the external sdcard) as a single Windows drive letter using that single WebDAV server over Wi-Fi.
WebDav Android Home Directory: /
[I believe this should access to the entire Android phone but it doesn't. Why not?]
Windows Mount Command: net use Z: \\[email protected] /USER:username password
My questions are:
a. Can you mount the entire Android phone (all three partitions) onto Windows over Wi-Fi as a single drive letter using a single WebDav server?
b. If so, how did you do it?
c. Why can't I?
Details:
My phone is Android 12; not rooted; Samsung Galaxy A32-5G; & the free WebDav servers I'm using are:
a. WebDAV Server, by The Olive Tree, Free, +ads, requires gsf, rated 3.5, 100K+ installs
b. WebDAV Server - BestDAV by ZQ Software, Free, ad free, gsf free, rated 3.4, 10K+ installs
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They can be displayed as separate drives but not as a single drive unless you have the adoptable storage option set up on your device, in that case, it would see your internal and external as a single integrated drive. One thing to note when using adoptable storage, the device will not boot with the sdcard removed.
There are also apps like Link2SD for rooted devices that can partition a portion of your external sdcard and use it as if it were part of the system partition so that you can move system apps to that partition even if your device would not normally allow you to move those apps to external sdcard. A couple of things to note about using such a partition as if it were part of the system partition, the moved apps will load and operate slower and the device won't boot without the external sdcard inserted or can even brick the device if the linked partition or external sdcard becomes corrupted.
Droidriven said:
They can be displayed as separate drives but not as a single drive unless you have the adoptable storage option set up on your device....
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Thank you for explaining why the "internal storage" (both / and /sdcard/) have to be one mount point while my external storage sdcard (named /storage/0000-0001/) has to be a second separate mount point.
The good news is that with two webdav servers, they can each be mounted as a drive letter each over onto Windows over Wi-Fi.
Droidriven said:
There are also apps like Link2SD for rooted devices that can partition a portion of your external sdcard and use it as if it were part of the system partition
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Thanks for that advice but I'm not rooted and T-Mobile still owns the phone (as they gave it to me for free) so I think they've disabled rooting.
The one problem that remains is I don't seem to have WRITE permission at the TOP LEVEL of the external sdcard from Windows over Wi-Fi when the external storage sdcard (named /storage/0000-0001/) is mounted as a drive letter onto Windows.
Strangely enough, using Windows with the sdcard mounted as a drive letter, I can write to any directory on that external sdcard that I had created on the phone (e.g., /storage/0000-0001/0001/) but I can't write to the top level of that external sdcard itself (i.e., /storage/0000-0001/).
I haven't debugged that write-permission problem yet as I was trying first to mount both the internal storage and external storage as a single Windows drive letter.
GalaxyA325G said:
Thank you for explaining why the "internal storage" (both / and /sdcard/) have to be one mount point while my external storage sdcard (named /storage/0000-0001/) has to be a second separate mount point.
The good news is that with two webdav servers, they can each be mounted as a drive letter each over onto Windows over Wi-Fi.
Thanks for that advice but I'm not rooted and T-Mobile still owns the phone (as they gave it to me for free) so I think they've disabled rooting.
The one problem that remains is I don't seem to have WRITE permission at the TOP LEVEL of the external sdcard from Windows over Wi-Fi when the external storage sdcard (named /storage/0000-0001/) is mounted as a drive letter onto Windows.
Strangely enough, using Windows with the sdcard mounted as a drive letter, I can write to any directory on that external sdcard that I had created on the phone (e.g., /storage/0000-0001/0001/) but I can't write to the top level of that external sdcard itself (i.e., /storage/0000-0001/).
I haven't debugged that write-permission problem yet as I was trying first to mount both the internal storage and external storage as a single Windows drive letter.
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I'm not familiar with connectivity and drive protocols with what you're doing as I've never had the need for such a process.
I'm not even sure what to look up in order to get familiar enough to troubleshoot your setup.
Also, your attachments can't be viewed correctly, the attachment feature here is quirky. It is better to upload your photos to an image hosting site and then link them here.
Droidriven said:
I'm not familiar with connectivity and drive protocols with what you're doing as I've never had the need for such a process.
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No problem. I've used ALL the freeware servers & clients on Android to interface with Windows, and I've found that WebDav works the best since it mounts Android as a drive letter over Wi-Fi.
To be clear, Ferro's FTPUse will also (supposedly) mount Android as a Windows drive letter over Wi-Fi but I find FTPUse even more problematic than WebDAV is.
Also of course SMB/Cifs/Samba "should" work best with Windows, but an unrooted Android phone can't use port 445 while Windows insists on serving SMB shares on port 445 (so all you can use are SMB clients on unrooted Android and not the SMB servers).
There are other connection methods (e.g., libmtp, kdeconnect, nitroshare, etc.), but I find WebDav to be the easiest and most functional in my tests over the years.
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I'm not even sure what to look up in order to get familiar enough to troubleshoot your setup.
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No problem. Currently I run two commands and that mounts everything; but I was just wondering why I can't do it with one.
a. I can mount the internal storage (including / & /sdcard)
b. I can mount the external storage (/storage/0000-0001)
I was hoping someone else would try it on another phone so that we can compare results. It's a very powerful feature to be able to save directly to Windows from Android and vice versa.
Droidriven said:
Also, your attachments can't be viewed correctly, the attachment feature here is quirky. It is better to upload your photos to an image hosting site and then link them here.
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Sorry about that. Here are the images posted to an image site.
Both sdcards mounted
Permissions are the same
My Files has permission
File Manager has permission
X-plore has no permission
WebDav has no sd permission
Let me know if the images show up more easily that way as I normally include them but I'm all for making life easier for folks to see them.
I found one Android app - file manager+. Seems buggy but beautifully do the integration before being automatically disconnected. Maybe my network setup has something to do I'm not sure.
This thread is great! I'm trying to repurpose an old Samsung Galaxy Tab A tablet as a network drive on my home network. Ive been able to get BestDAV and WebDAV running on the tablet...but both give access to only the root directory of the tablet. I want the external SDCARD to be visible. Ive tried to specify this in the Website home directory setting, but Im clearly doing something wrong........can anyone help with the correct setting? Many thanks!!!