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PC no longer sees SDcards (int/ext) in Mass Storage

Hey guys,
1) thanks to many for tips/tricks etc, especially easy root
2) Man this GPS is a pain in my ass. Otherwise, BEAUTIFUL phone. (Day 1, 20 minutes into launch day)
Real problem:
I got weird behavior yesterday, wherein I connected the phone to my laptop (tried them all same prob) and it's configured as auto Mass Storage (I use DoubleTwist) but now I see the device, but NOT the SD cards...
Things recently done that could be a part of the issue, I suppose: installed SDK.
Now, unless I have it in USB dbg, and using Droid Explorer, I can't even friggen' tell it's there!
Any ideas? :/
Also, yesterday on the way home where it suddenly told me the that the SDCARD was invalid... rebooted and it's fine.. but some media arent locating right.
UHg.
Please help if you can, and TYIA

When i had USB Debugging on i couldn't see Drives also , turned that off , and all is back to normal.
And Mass Storage mode on off course. And once connected select Mount SD cards from phone.

I did have some weird issues with mounting/unmounting behavior when I connected the phone to my computer, but when I toggled USB debugging it started working perfectly.
in your phone go to "Settings -> Applications -> Development -> USB debugging" and enable that option. This allows both my internal SD and my external SD card to show up. While the phone is connected to the computer, it unmounts those cards from the phone so if you look up your "Settings -> SD card and phone storage" you will see them marked as unavailable. But after disconnecting the phone will remount them.

Well,
I've gone back and toggle usb debugging back on.
As point of fact Astro is now telling me /sdcard is empty, and threw me an error "error creating external cache". Doesn't help that Settings > SD Card and phone Storage > Internal SD card is showing me unavailable.
Oh crap.. :/ guess I might be exchanging soon

max_warheads said:
Well,
I've gone back and toggle usb debugging back on.
As point of fact Astro is now telling me /sdcard is empty, and threw me an error "error creating external cache". Doesn't help that Settings > SD Card and phone Storage > Internal SD card is showing me unavailable.
Oh crap.. :/ guess I might be exchanging soon
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This happened to me before I enabled debugging. Simply power down the phone and restart it. It will remount your drives.

I've power cycled this thing so many times over the last day, it'd think a weeks gone by.
New whacky behavior... apparently the included Music Player sees my songs, but DoubleTwist doesn't. Also, about half my MP3's have 4 entries... oh what fun.
Looks like I might just be backing up my contacts, factory reset, format SD and reflash the stock image :/

When connecting to the PC with MTP, it loses the SD card if the PC doesnt properly talk MTP to it. Reboot.
When connecting to my work PC as mass storage, its not even seen on the front ports.
Reboot phone.
Set to USB to Mass Storage.
Install Samsung drivers on PC (needed? idk)
Install DoubleTwist on PC.
Uninstall DT on phone.
Reboot Phone.
Install DT on phone.
Plug into back port of work PC
Working drive.
Oh wtf. Wierd. I'll wax my config at home entirely tonight....

Win7 won't recognize my phone

I've installed the drivers from links within this forum that have to do with rooting. The phone is rooted but unless it is set in USB Debug Windows will not do anything with it. 2 new drives appear in My Computer after connecting the phone..one being the internal sd card and the other being the sd card I put in the phone...but both drives appear to be unusable for some reason and it shows they are both 0 bytes.

Pull down the notification tray. In mass storage mode at least, if you click the row about about USB, it will offer an option to unmount the drives from Android which will then allow the computer to use the drives.

Just makes no sense at all. I just did as you said and put it on as mass storage and the drivers were installed perfectly. What I'm trying to do is put music onto it but can't really do that using Kies without the PC recognizing it....
I also need it to be recognized to do some customizing stuff since I'm now rooted.

Plug it in, make sure you're in mass storage mode, when you plug it in, you'll get a USB icon in the notification bar, pull down the notification bar, click on USB Connected, and then click MOUNT.

Apparently Kies doesn't work in mass storage mode. I did what you said...opened Kies and it recognized the phone but it said to reconnect it cause that mode wasn't supported

iamcombat said:
Apparently Kies doesn't work in mass storage mode. I did what you said...opened Kies and it recognized the phone but it said to reconnect it cause that mode wasn't supported
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If you want to use Kies, you need all of the following:
1. USB setting must be in Kies mode, not mass storage mode
2. Your phone must be in home screen (and probably has to use Samsung's TouchWiz launcher, not 3rd party launcher).
If both are met, you will see the phone goes into MTP Application mode once connected to the PC.
I found there is really nothing Kies can do that I can't do with WMP. If you need to sync with your desktop Outlook, Kies is probably your only option. Otherwise, I'd use either Media Player mode or Mass Storage mode and use WMP on the PC to sync music and video.

Are you using Windows 7 64-bit?

foxbat121 said:
If you want to use Kies, you need all of the following:
1. USB setting must be in Kies mode, not mass storage mode
2. Your phone must be in home screen (and probably has to use Samsung's TouchWiz launcher, not 3rd party launcher).
If both are met, you will see the phone goes into MTP Application mode once connected to the PC.
I found there is really nothing Kies can do that I can't do with WMP. If you need to sync with your desktop Outlook, Kies is probably your only option. Otherwise, I'd use either Media Player mode or Mass Storage mode and use WMP on the PC to sync music and video.
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this,
you absolutely have to use touch whiz for kies to see you.
alternativly, you should just load music to ur sd card from "my computer" when in mass storage mode manually.
Lastly, pandora is free and will introduce you to a lot of good music. Give it a whirl.

Have constant issues with getting this phone to work with Windows.
I've got Windows 7 64bit at home. The provided drivers helped. I was able to detect the phone and see it.
2nd time I plugged it in, it would say error occurred. Installed Kies, phone had been freshly restarted, it was detected just fine. An hour later, after testing a few things, tried to hook up using USB and phone would not show up on Kies.
Rebooting PC or rebooting phone causes the phone to pull up.
Same issue with Windows XP 32bit.

I had some problems as well where windows would not detect it or I would b stuck on a usb slower than 2.0..turns out the stock sync cable included with the phone was garbage bought a new one off ebay and windows 7 installed the drivers perfectly and detects my phone with and without usb debugging turned on. It also gives me usb 2.0 speeds
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Rooted and now mounting USB does not work!

I've been sideloading apps for awhile now non-rooted, and copying stuff to/from my phone by mounting the USB.
Today, I decide to root using the 1-click root method, and it works fine...
However, when I connect my phone via USB (debugging on of course) and then mount my USB my PC no longer recognizes the SD cards like it did before???
Can somebody help me?

I've had two of these phones already (first one had the auto tun off problem).
Both have had this problem when I initially got them. The previous one had it after rooted as well. Its not really a bug maybe. Just go into settings>applications>USB settings and choose anything other than "mass storage". Then exit out, plug in the usb, let it do its thing (it wont work). No unplug the USB cable and go back into settings and change it back to "mass storage". It should work then.
I think if you just select anything other than mass storage then choose mass storage again it should work too. Its a little finicky. Once it starts working, it won't stop though. Just that initial connection I guess.

Try changing usb plug at pc. There has been issues with usb ports on main board. Also update chipset drivers.
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[Q] incosistent usb mass storage mounting.

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.

boe_dye said:
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.

[Q] Connecting Charge via USB on Apple OSX

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.