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[Q] External SD Card Access from PC?

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.

[Q] [q] pictures on the sd card erased after i connected the g-tablet to usb

all my pictures are gone from my sd card right after I disconnected the usb from the g-tablet..no items were found..I then took out the sd card from the tablet and re inserted it and no pixs..why did these happen?I also have the vegan installed on this device..what could it be?any help?thanks..

I havent seen this problem with pics but, the safest thing to do is put an empty file named ".nomedia" in whatever folder you store stuff on sdcard2 or dont put them on sdcard2

HI..so how would I have to do that connect the gtablet to the pc and just transfer all the pixs to the sd2?

Bellarose120 said:
HI..so how would I have to do that connect the gtablet to the pc and just transfer all the pixs to the sd2?
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The ".nomedia" file tells the tab that there is no media in that directory so it doesnt look. There is a bug when the tab is trying to scan for media it deletes it for some reason. This only happens on the external sdcard. They seem to be safe on the internal sdcard.

Cannot access ext. sd card in gTab from windows via USB cable

I cannot access my external sd card that's in my gTab from windows via the USB cable. I seem to remember that when I first bought it , I could see both the internal and external storage when I connected the gTab to Windows via USB (when it still had stock ROM). Now I am running rooted VEGAn-TAB-v1.0.0b5.1.1 and when I connect it via USB to windows I can only see the internal storage (I couldn't see it when I tried cyanogenmod either). I can access both brom the gTab just fine and if I take out the ext. sd card, windows reads it just fine.
Any idea why and/or how to access both internal and external storage from windows when gTab is plugged in via USB to windows?

As far as I know you could never access the external sdcard from the computer by usb

I load things from my external SD to internal SD and visa versa using ghost commander. Not a super big deal just one extra step. At this point I almost forgot I had to do that to move files between them and my PC.

i use a app that mounts them both

The way I found to access my external sd card from my computer is to ftp into my gTab using filezilla on my computer and SwiFTP FTP Server (available free from Market) on my gTab. Here is another post that talks about how to access the ext. sd card remotely: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=869844

roguey said:
i use a app that mounts them both
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You could share the NAME of the app.

Multi Mount SD-Card Free
I didnt have my tab with me

roguey said:
Multi Mount SD-Card Free
I didnt have my tab with me
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Thanks, I know some other people will want to try this app.
Not a great fit for me as I dislike the delays built into a lot of free apps.

I just plug a USB thumb drive into my PC, download the files onto that then plug it into my tablet and download from the USB drive onto the SDCARD. Easy like pie.
Works the other direction too!!!

ES File Mgr Issue With SD

I'm using ES File Manager to copy files from my computer to a new Note PRO. I can copy files to the internal storage but I can't copy to the external SD. Also, I cannot use ES File Manager to move files from internal storage to the SD. I can use the stock file manager to move files between internal and SD. So the questions are:
1) Can ES File Manager be made to copy files to the SD card?
2) If not, then can the stock file manager access Windows devices to copy files from the computer to the SD?

Likely the Kitkat SD write permission issue. See here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2681357

muzzy996 said:
Likely the Kitkat SD write permission issue. See here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2681357
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Yep, that looks like it. Thank you. I'm not ready to root yet to solve the issue. I was not able to tell if this is a bug or by design. It's pretty limiting.
Still trying to figure out if the built-in file manager can be used to copy from a Windows computer to the SD card.

If you connect your tablet to your windows PC you should be able to access internal and external sdcard. They will show up as separate drives. If they don't, install Kies 3 then connect your tablet again.

dodo99x said:
If you connect your tablet to your windows PC you should be able to access internal and external sdcard. They will show up as separate drives. If they don't, install Kies 3 then connect your tablet again.
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I was hoping to get this done using wi-fi just for the convenience. It is something I did with previous devices. It always surprised when a basic feature goes away.

If you have an FTP server installed on your PC, My Files app can pull your files that way, then save them to external sdcard

ES File Explorer implemented the workaround within the first few days of KitKat's release. I've been using it to move files in all directions to and from my MicroSD on my Note 3, S5 and NotePro for months without issue. The main thing that doesn't work is renaming.
However, the WiFi transfer to MicroSD has been blocked by Google for security reasons after a series of WiFi-related file security problems. No file manager is capable of this without Root. Same as how you can no longer download files off the internet directly onto the MicroSD.
It's much faster to just pull out the MicroSD and plug it into a PC, anyway. The transfer protocols on Android are a nightmare.

Can you mount BOTH Android internal & external storage onto Windows as a drive letter over Wi-Fi using a SINGLE WebDAV server?

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.
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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!!!