When I use Droid Explorer (after getting Kies drivers and rooting), I can see all the files on my phone, but they're all read-only. Is there a way to write to your phone (not the SD card) from a computer - especially the system files?
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I will give some background to begin with. I had installed the Kies mini update to the 2.2 software on my Captivate. I then rooted with super one click. I have the drivers for the Captivate installed in Windows XP and I have USB debugging enabled. It recognizes the drive and will show me the contents on the computer, but it doesn't allow me to copy from the computer to the drive. I know I can use dropbox for some things, but for other things like installing a custom rom, I would like to be able to copy to the drive. It does show as mounted and mass storage is enabled on the phone. Any ideas?
If you are rooted just go into cwr and mount sd card there. if not i have no idea as i haven't kept a phone stock since a week after i got my old Moto Droid, as soon as i found out it was possible.
Well apparently the version of Clockwork Mod Recovery that I have doesn't give the option to mount the SD card. I have 2.5.1.2. I did find a way using SGS tools to download a custom rom to the root of the SD card. I was going to reinstall Debian Linux at some point on my computer so I may have better luck with using that to write to the SD card then I am having with XP.
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Make sure that the SD card isn't locked. Also, back up everything on it to your computer and do a complete format as well. And if you're wanting to write ROMs to your SD (or CWM, etc.) in Linux, you're going to have to use dd in the terminal, and most like will be writing to "sdb".
Here's a simple walkthrough just in case you don't know how to use dd:
Become root by typing "su" and following it with your password. If you don't have a root password, type in "sudo passwd" and set it.
Next you have to unmount your microSD. To see what you have mounted type in "mount". Your SD card will most likely be called "/dev/sdb" or "/media/sdb" or something along those lines (not sdb1, that is the partition on the card). Once you know what your SD is called and where it's located, type in "umount /dev/sdb", placing '/dev/sdb' with the actual location and name of your SD card.
Now we get to use dd. Type in: dd if=<insert location of IMG here without the tags I included> of=<location of your sd without the tags I included> bs=1M
Be patient, because it usually takes a while, depending on what you're writing. Good luck mate.
I was looking for an answer to this myself. Me and my girlfriend both have the same phone, galaxy S. We both put andromeda rom on it and are now going to switch to FireFly (I did, she's trying to).
Well, mounting her USB storage ends up with the internal SD card being recognized as a CD ROM and the external as a usb storage device.
Anything we try to do to her internal says there's write protection and to disable it or use something else every time we do anything.
Only even trying this because we're getting some weird "Error at line 17: symlink with SU..." blah blah....
Completely stuck here. Doesn't make any fracking sense.
same to me. what should i do? I'm trying to install Andromeda. But I can't even copy ROM file to internal SD card. HELP ME ASAP!
Hi,
Some files from my efs folder were deleted (which resulted in corrupt imei, but thats another story) and I found a program that can restore deleted files from flash storage.
But the problem is that it sees only storage cards. (It sees the phone's storage if I mount it)
Is there a way to somehow mount the root of the device as a storage device? (I have the drivers of the device so I can access its root through adb or "android commander" but not through this program)
Sent from my imei messed up (half bricked)Nexus S using XDA App
Any help here?
I don't think so. Before you can mount the sd card on the computer, you have to unmount it on the phone. So in order to mount root on the computer, you might first have to first unmount root on the phone (not sure about this). I can imagine your phone having a small problem with this.
Could you copy the contents of root to the sd card (maybe in fastboot or recovery), and let the program work on the files there?
I have an LG Metro PCS phone that I just recently was able to root w/towelroot and was able to transfer apps to the SD card by using terminal on my Mac (Mavericks) system. 1. I plugged the droid in and (Android File Transfer) would open and I was able to manipulate the phone.
2. When I was on my Linux MInt laptop I tried to do the same thing but Linux would not see the phone so I screwed around with it and was not successful. 3. Now that I am back on the Mac I cannot see the phone through AFT and so I cannot manipulate the device for apps and moving to SD card.
What did I do that F'd up the MTP functionality? Any help from you Guru's would be greatly appreciated. BTW ---Great forum and website!!!! :fingers-crossed:
Hi everybody,
I have a question about file system on external SD cards for an Android Smartphone. I searched already in the internet for a solution but I did not find anything what helped me.
Basically my problem is simple: I want to copy files from my Windows PC (Windows 7) to the external SD card of my Android Smartphone (Android 5). That is simple: connect the Smartphone with USB cable to the PC, then the Smartphone appears as device in Windows Explorer, so I can easily copy files. But when the files are larger than 4 GB, then it doesn't work, because the SD card is formatted with FAT32 file system, which does not support files > 4 GB. This is clear.
One option is to split large files into smaller files (e.g. using 7-zip), but for several reasons, that is not a usable way and I tried it, it doesn't always really work in a reliable way.
So I would like to copy files > 4 GB to my Smarphone and informed about different file systems and made some experiments (by plugging the SD card into the SD card slot of my Windows PC and formatting it). Here are the results:
- NTFS: Formatted: On Windows, using MiniTool Partition Wizard. Writable on Windows: yes. On the Smartphone: "SD card is blank or has unsupported file system."
- exFAT: Formatted: On Windows, using Windows Explorer. Writable on Windows: yes. On the Smartphone: "SD card is blank or has unsupported file system."
- ext2: Formatted: On Windows, using MiniTool Partition Wizard. Writable on Windows: no. Smartphone: Not tried, because not writable on Windows.
Then I installed an ext2 driver on Windows (Paragon ExtFS), but when I tried to read the SD card in my Smartphone again, it still did not work. It's hopeless. Seems that there is no file system which can easily be read/ written by Windows and Android and doesn't have the 4 GB file size limit.
Does anybody know which file systm is suitable for my needs?
Thanks a lot and with best regards,
Bernd
I've installed this rom: https://forum.xda-developers.com/ga...-android-nougat-7-0-beta-3-zpkk-odex-t3507499
Everything goes fine. Plug in my USB, phone is detected, SD is detected. Phone gives me the options it should for using the USB connection.
I go to Windows Explorer, open a window for the phone's SD card and one for the directory I wish to move files from...drag and drop...windows error sound with no files being moved and no error message.
Same thing with cut and paste. Yet, I can manipulate files on the SD Card with Windows Explorer, including creating directories. I've disabled AV and all other culprits I can imagine.
Does anyone have advice? Using SendAnywhere is ok, but I prefer the direct USB connection for moving large files.