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.
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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.
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!!!
I have a faves pad 10.1 model yx10a03, and i'm having trouble with storage.
When I go to settings and storage it says I have total space 0.00, even with an 8gb msd card installed. so I'm thinking the tab has lost all its mount points.
I have tried 6 different micro sd cards as well and none of them seem to be recognized, I get a message " preparing sd card then nothing registers.
What do I do? I can get apps to install , but anything that needs more space like google earth etc fails during install.
Some one help...I can't find a firmware update or a custom rom from anywhere.
Iv'e tried factory data reset, no joy. I need a total system reset but not sure how.
Scott
When you connect to your computer or using something like Astro can you see or navigate to the "external" memory card drive?
If I connect it without a Micro sd card inserted I get nothing.
But if I connect the pad to my P.C via usb cable with a Micro sd card in it, it registers as external 8gb drive which I can send files to etc.
If I use astro, it sees that the sd card as a mount but nothing inside. Also doesn't show any size or storage available.
I could do with rooting method and put a custom rom on it but can't find anything about it.
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If I connect it without a Micro sd card inserted I get nothing.
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Phone/Tablet inits the device but it's OS (drivers?) can't read the format.
But if I connect the pad to my P.C via usb cable with a Micro sd card in it, it registers as external 8gb drive which I can send files to etc.
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PC recognized the mounted initialized device and can R/W to the (fat32?) format.
If I use astro, it sees that the sd card as a mount but nothing inside. Also doesn't show any size or storage available.
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Astro (AFAIK) ques the device's I/O system for file spec and info. It (again AFAIK) just sends commands through the Tablet's OS. Kinda like running LS might in IRIX or some other unix.
I could do with rooting method and put a custom rom on it but can't find anything about it.
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I have no idea and I'm a total n00b but... I wonder if the Tablet uses a proprietary/virtual FS on the SD card instead of the direct embedded card driver?
Is there anything in the instructions about formatting the card? Did you try to format the card in the tablet yet?
So this would be like when I format an SD card on my Mac... It can no longer be read by any other device until it's re-formatted by a non-mac device... But if mounted by said external device acting as a "card-reader" then the connected Mac can perform I/O normally. Only in this case your tablet is like the mac in that situation. Errr, if that made any sense.
Anyway, try to format the card on your tablet and see if that works.
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'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
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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.
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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.