I was recently staying with some mates and tried connecting my HTC Legend to their laptop to transfer files, but the Legend did not recognize it was connected to a computer, just had the charging icon as if the cord was plugged into power.
I have the 'Default connection type' as Disk Drive, 'Ask me' each time option enabled.
On the computer, no autoplay or anything happens like it used to. I can see a removable disk drive, but it has the "Please insert a disk into drive X" error when I try open it.
I can access the SD card and everything fine through the phone..
Anyone know what's up?
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EDIT: Stock unrooted Legend
EDIT: Nevermind, rebooted phone and it works now.. sorry
This exact same thing started happening to me last night as well. I can see the drives in "My Computer", but they are greyed out and give me the "Insert drive to continue" error message. What gives?
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have you'l tried switching the phone off and then on again?
i've had this happen few times
its normally some app causing it not to popup or to be very slow in popping up
wait awhile.if still nothing then try switch off and then on and then connect the usb to the pc
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I've had my g1 for about 2 weeks. I have root. I have the RC33 update. I was able to connect to a pc after this update then one day I tried to get this song off of the computer so I plugged in the phone and it said "found new hardware"....I have tried everything different pc's different usb ports,different storage cards,....I tried the anycut app method....failed on one pc it opened on my laptop and then shut off again....I've soft reset,hard reset...removd the card and put it back in...no luck...any one with the answer please help...I will love you long time!
And the pc does recognize the phone is plugged up because its charging...
Hi,
Found new hardware means it was trying to install the usb drivers for your g1.
If this was not done correctly, than several things won't work like adb.
So that's what that message is.
But unplug your phone and go into settings, applications, development uncheck the box that says usb debugging,
Exit out and connect your cable, mount you drive and you can transfer files back and forth again.
Ok I did that but the box was already unchecked...so I plugged up the phone...and nothing happens so I check the box and the g1 acknowleded the pc and vise versa....and the installation wizard is for Android Phone...and is asking for an installation disk...so now I'm back to square 1...
Once you have plugged in the USB cable and Windows has recognized your phone (i.e. no new hardware found dialog anymore), you need to pull down the notification bar of the G1 and click on "connected to USB" or something along those lines. The phone will then give you an option to mount the SD card for read/write over the USB cable.
I seem to be encountering a slight inconsistency in regards to mounting the phone unto my windows 7 box.
Essentially what happens is this: I plug my phone into the computer and the little dialogue box pops up onto my phone (Kies, Mass Storage, PC Internet etc). I push "Mass Storage" and ideally what is supposed to happen is that the phone mounts onto windows.
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to mount.
What does happen is that the drive letter shows up, usually F:\ but it's not mounted.
When I pull down the settings menu, it says that USB is connected and that's about all.
I will unplug my phone, replug it back in again invoking the USB menu only this time, I will hit the "Home/House" button, or the "Back" button which will take me to the home screen.
I will drag down the settings menu like before, only this time under the USB box, when pressed it gives me the option to mount which if pressed, mounts the phone and gives me the ability to access it.
So whats the problem? It's very inconsistent. It doesn't always do that. Sometimes I have to unplug and replug my phone in to invoke the mount USB option.
My questions are these: Is anyone else having the same issue? Am I just not using this correctly? Is there any simple way to just "mount usb"? An app or perhaps a function that I'm not seeing?
Thanks!
Out of box, you always need to manually mount the drives once connected. It does not auto-mount. I was told there is an app that can auto-mount for you.
If you're running 2.1 firmware, the mount option is in notification area. If you're running 2.2 firmware, there will be a USB mass storage screen where you can click on the mount button.
That's fine manually mounting the drive, my question is: How do I mount the drive if there is no way (that I can find) that gives me the option except for the seemingly random "mount USB" box that comes up 7/10 times in the drop down settings dialogue?
It comes up 100% for me.
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Could you describe the process in which you do? Perhaps I am doing something wrong in the procedure.
It comes up randomly for me too. I didn't have this problem on 2.1 Eclair. It isn't anything crippling, but it is annoying. It happens half the time for me.
I should mention too, that i am running Eclair 2.1.
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Could you describe the process in which you do? Perhaps I am doing something wrong in the procedure.
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Nothing special. Plug in the USB cable and go to notification area to mount the USB drives. I do configure my phone to prompt for USB mode everytime I connect.
You may want to try different USB ports on your PC.
My buddy has a Captivate that mounts fine in mass storage mode, except it brings up the windows dialog box saying "no disk in drive: Retry?" every time. It doesn't fail to work or anything, the sd card is accessible without any problems. It just throws up that dialog every time. It's rather annoying. Anyone seen this before?
Change it to "ask" instead of be "Mass storage" every time. I bet it'll work.
You might find that then changing it back makes it work again. Otherwise just leave it at "ask".
i never had it work in ask on connection mode, and it annoyingly always wants to launch kies no matter what setting i use even after messing with the setting in windows. i have more success with the phone in debugging mode and mounting from the notification menu. it may be that the other options wont work in debugging mode and the computer isn't trying to mount it as an mtp device because of kies.
if i was still on eclair id test it to make sure, my memory gets alittle fuzzy. froyo seems to work better in that area.
Your saying you just get "USB connected" instead of the norm "USB connected, select here to copy files to/from your computer" in the blind menu?
Happens to me as well. Usually if I reboot both the computer and phone I'm good to go. I didn't have the problem on 2.1.
The method that has never failed for me is to turn on USB debugging. Then when I connect the USB, I always get the second notification in the pulldown screen with the text "Select to copy files...". Clicking that brings up a box to mount (or some less vague word choice in 2.2), and accepting that always works to show the 2 drives on my computer.
USB debugging completely circumvents the USB settings panel. You can either use one or the other, not both. I have always found the USB debugging approach to be totally reliable. Right now on Cog2.2 Beta6 both approaches work fine, but I usually leave USB debugging activated for other reasons so I use that method by default.
Ok the first time I can connect fine.. but after once the USB is unplugged, I can't load it as diskdrive anymore. It won't show up on my PC. The only way I can fix this is to restart my phone.
does anyone else has this problem? quite annoying to have to restart my phone everytime I want to put files in the phone. and I always make sure sure to click "Eject Android Phone", but it made no difference.
i have used connected my device many time to my pc & never came across this issue...& dont chose any option to eject i just unplug the device
if you were running something when connecting to your pc try exiting everything & you should get the interface to choose usb connection mode
on the phone the options always pop up, i can click "mount as harddisk", but on the pc there is no reaction and I can't see the drive.
so the drive pops up for you everytime you plug in the USB? weird.. it might be my windows 7 then.. hmm
Actually it may be your comp, I had this same issue earlier when i was trying to connect my phone, I just changed usb ports and it pops up fine, so perhaps you could try that????
So this is the first android phone I have had where it is a royal pita to connect via USB. I have to disconnect and reconnect it a few times before it actually decides to connect. Once I do get it connected it refuses to let me unmount the sdcard volume. I keep on ejecting it but it keeps on re-appearing. And of course I can just disconnect it without a clean dismount but that is just wrong ...
Anyone else having issues ejecting the Droid Charge after connecting?
Mine does the same thing. I haven't found a way to eject it properly, but I'm a Mac noob.
I have my Charge set to act as Mass Storage when it detects a USB connection.
Go to: Settings > USB Settings> Mass Storage
Now, whenever you connect it to the Mac (or Windows box), the Notification bar will say that USB is connected. Select that Notification. Hit "Connect USB Storage" button on that screen and you shouldn't fail to mount. If you do, check your cable--it might be bad/going bad/un-plugged...
As far as ejecting the SD card, don't worry about it. There is no clean way to un-mount it. Just yank the cord. Issues will only occur if you do that while it's transferring stuff.
I am running Froyo 7 with Glemson's latest build (9/14) on my HTC Touchpro II. When I connect my phone to my computer, the computer recognizes the phone as a mass storage (the popup on the computer indicates the device driver is installed and the drive appears under "Devices with removable storage",) but when I try to browse it, I get the famous "Please insert a disk into removable disk X".
The phone says "USB connected" and sometimes will periodically pop up with the message "USB Connected" and a button saying, "click to turn on USB storage". When I click the button, the spinner starts, but nothing happens.
I have turned on "USB debugging" on android.
I am able to use the same cable/USB port for data transfer between my computer and phone (when the phone is running windows mobile 6.1) In fact, this is the only way I am able to transfer data to my phone. It works, but it is a pain in the butt!
I have Googled in this forum and www, but have not found a solution yet. Any help would be most welcome.
no-one has any suggestions?
This has been driving me crazy for months...
Am I the only one with this problem?
hmm. interesting