What is the dock's SD card (Linux) device name?
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Insert one and type "mount" in terminal ?
That really sounds too obvious...
I have the idea that to install a terminal I need to root my system first. Is this true?
Nope, you can install it from market, without need of root (i.e Terminal Emulator)
The only point is you won't have root access of course
Yep. Just a simple "mount" inside a terminal... like in any other Linux system!
(Feeling Dumb)
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Hello,
I'am looking for a solution to get the FAT32 partition access as an USB mass storage only by manipulating my PC (of course, after pluging my G1 on USB).
I don't want to use the notification system on my G1.
Through an adb command for example...
A perfect solution would be : an icon to mount, and another icon to unmount.
Any idea ?
I'm not so sure about this one. I'd imagine it would involve a script that begins running adb and mounting your Android's SD card through adb. THEN you'd have to have another icon that recognizes the currently mounted drive and unmount it. I could see how you can associate your SD card to only show up as a certain drive (I have mine set to always come up as the "B:" drive), but there's so much communication involved between your phone and PC it leads me to believe the rest of the process to be an impossiblity. You're sure asking your PC to do a LOT. Considering what you want this "program" to do, it's hardly worth the effort to even attempt writing it.
Simply put, it's like trying to train your dog to unlock and open your house for you when you come home instead of simply using your house key.
PartEdMagic is your key to a FAT32 formatted microSD card
The easiest way to FAT32 your SD card is to boot up your PC with the "gparted Magic" ISO/CD (can do in vmware even), mount your SD card (via phone may work, I used a micro-SD USB card reader) - delete your partition on the SD card and recreate as FAT32, then format it. All can be done in PartEd Magic.
Hope that helps
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mattrophy:
... i don't think he wanted to format it
Christopher3712:
Asking his PC to do alot? This is in no way a hard task, it requires 2 calls to adb, thats all...
koxx:
To mount it from your pc run: "adb wait-for-device shell sdutil ums enable", and to unmount "adb shell sdutil ums disable".
So, if you want 2 icons doing that, just make a shortcut that executes the commands above (either with the full path to ADB, or with adb's directory in your PATH var).
Joushou said:
mattrophy:
... i don't think he wanted to format it
Christopher3712:
Asking his PC to do alot? This is in no way a hard task, it requires 2 calls to adb, thats all...
koxx:
To mount it from your pc run: "adb wait-for-device shell sdutil ums enable", and to unmount "adb shell sdutil ums disable".
So, if you want 2 icons doing that, just make a shortcut that executes the commands above (either with the full path to ADB, or with adb's directory in your PATH var).
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Exactly, I don't want to format my card ... it's already done
Your command works fine ! Thank you very much !
To finish, do I need a windows command to synchronize data before unmount UMS ? (equiv of "windows unmount" operation)
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.
Yeah
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!
I made a mistake yesterday to wipe the internal sd-card in twrp recovery. There is some data on it which I want to recover (read: undelete). Data recovery itself won't be a problem, but I have troubles accessing the internal sd card from PC.
There is currently no rom installed on my tf (I don't want the internal sd being touched by anything until I recovered data).
I thought it was possible to set the tf101 in USB mass storage mode in the recovery, mounting the internal SD card, but that refuses to work.
What I've tried so far is enabling USB Mass storage mode in a variety of recoveries
- initially in TWRP recovery (v2.2.X.X not sure which version was installed, probably 2.2.2.0)
- cwm-6.0.1.4-notouch-hybrid.zip
- Rogue XM Touch Recovery v1.5.0-R1
- TWRP 2.2.2.1 (flashed by replacing the recoveryblob in a flashable zip from 2.2.0.0 version)
But it seems not possible, i.e. no drive is detected by Windows or Linux machine.
What is the correct way to access the internal sd card over USB?
./adb connection will set you free. as long as you can get an adb connection this is not a problem. once youre connected just rtfm ./adb will pull up all the options.
haxin said:
./adb connection will set you free. as long as you can get an adb connection this is not a problem. once youre connected just rtfm ./adb will pull up all the options.
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Thanks for your reply.
I'm able to connect through adb. I can access the internal sd card through adb shell. However, I need to have access to it outside adb, so I can use a data recovery tool to access the internal sd.
I still cannot find a solution, not for ICS. (this solution doesn't work for ICS).
Is it possible to enable UMS from ADB or recovery at all?
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Thanks for your reply.
I'm able to connect through adb. I can access the internal sd card through adb shell. However, I need to have access to it outside adb, so I can use a data recovery tool to access the internal sd.
I still cannot find a solution, not for ICS. (this solution doesn't work for ICS).
Is it possible to enable UMS from ADB or recovery at all?
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when you access the sdcard in ./adb shell what do you see?
haxin said:
when you access the sdcard in ./adb shell what do you see?
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The content of the internal sd card (`ls`), which is a single empty recovery dir atm. I need to recover the content (i.e. undelete).
Eventually I'm now dd-ing data from internal sd to a usb drive attached to dock USB. This way I can perform an ordinary data-recovery on the USB drive
What I did was:
- install a ROM with terminal emulator in it
- open terminal emulator (followed by the su command)
- dd with default blocksize (512) from interal to usb drive (after checking mounting points with mount command):
Code:
dd if=dev/block/mmcblk0p7 of=/dev/block/vold/8\:1
There is probably a more efficient way doing this (using ADB), but I'm finally able to recover the data, happy now
S3 internal SD card
I have an Samsun S3 with JB update. Now the internal SD card is no longer visible as USB drive from the PC. It cannot be done based on other threads.
Can I use the following method to get around the UMS issue? Can I use a Terminal Emulator app? can I dump to external SD card and then run recovery SW on it?
My phone is rooted and after su on TE, I can see /mnt with both sdcard and extsdcard mount points..
Tutti-frutti said:
Eventually I'm now dd-ing data from internal sd to a usb drive attached to dock USB. This way I can perform an ordinary data-recovery on the USB drive
What I did was:
- install a ROM with terminal emulator in it
- open terminal emulator (followed by the su command)
- dd with default blocksize (512) from interal to usb drive (after checking mounting points with mount command):
Code:
dd if=dev/block/mmcblk0p7 of=/dev/block/vold/8\:1
There is probably a more efficient way doing this (using ADB), but I'm finally able to recover the data, happy now
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cell800 said:
I have an Samsun S3 with JB update. Now the internal SD card is no longer visible as USB drive from the PC. It cannot be done based on other threads.
Can I use the following method to get around the UMS issue? Can I use a Terminal Emulator app? can I dump to external SD card and then run recovery SW on it?
My phone is rooted and after su on TE, I can see /mnt with both sdcard and extsdcard mount points..
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If you can see the mounting points, why not just try it?
In my case, it turned out that a lot of my data was already overwritten. I could recover some pictures and docs.
Hi. Beginner here, Please, how long this command will take to dumb about 29 GiB to a regular Micro SD card? I am waiting for minutes.
dd if=dev/block/mmcblk0p7 of=/dev/block/vold/8
Thanks.
I just installed Dosbox Turbo and it sees my Transformer TF700 internal storage as /sdcard/
I knew that was normal, but can't figure out how to mount my dock's sdcard.
I tried
"mount d /removable/sd" and got "Directory /removable/sd doesn't exist."
I also tried every other path I could think of. Does anybody have any insight that could help me?
I might just copy the game folders onto internal storage, but it bugs me that I can't get this reading the card.
By the way, I'm running stock JB 4.1.1, not rooted, not unlocked.
AnakiMana said:
can't figure out how to mount my dock's sdcard.
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The tablet should mount it itself, and show an SD card icon at the bottom of your screen, if it is recognized.
What is the format of the card (FAT32, exFAT, NTFS, etc)? Using an unsupported format or unformatted card is usually the reason for it not to be recognized and mounted.
Total Commander shows all SD cards (and USB drives) at the top of it's main browse screen, including their path.
My MicroSD card is mounted as /Removable/MicroSD. Please note that Linux, thus Android is case sensitive. Meaning that upper and lowercase letters are not treated the same as in Windows for example. So /removable/sd is not the same as /Removable/SD.
If you are using Android Terminal Emulator, use the tab key to activate the auto complete feature. Type /R, then press tab and it will complete it if there is only one match (in this case /Removable/). When there is more than one match, it will show you a list of matches. This way it is easier to not make a typo when using long paths.
Thanks for your reply.
The card was always visible from File Manager (Asus app), I just hadn't been able to use the mount command successfully in Dosbox.
I got it working by using proper capitalization, as you suggested! Thanks!
The answer, for anyone else with this issue, is: /Removable/SD
So, the command from Dosbox is "mount d /Removable/SD", to make the sdcard your D:\ drive.
Hi everyone.
I've got a problem with the permissions of my brand new Micro SD Card. I was copying music files to my card from my pc and tried to delete some on my tablet. It would not let me delete them saying I didnt have permission. I can only read the files I put on it, not modify/delete them or write new ones.
My tablet is running Chromi-X 4.6.1 with _that modded stock kernel. Im not sure how to figure out what my micro SD card it formatted to, but I want to reformat it to NTFS or FAT32 since I think that is the problem. Is there any way to format the micro sd while in the tablet? Also, what should I format to, NTFS or FAT32. Im not sure what to do.
I hope someone help me with this? Thank you
wl123 said:
Hi everyone.
I've got a problem with the permissions of my brand new Micro SD Card. I was copying music files to my card from my pc and tried to delete some on my tablet. It would not let me delete them saying I didnt have permission. I can only read the files I put on it, not modify/delete them or write new ones.
My tablet is running Chromi-X 4.6.1 with _that modded stock kernel. Im not sure how to figure out what my micro SD card it formatted to, but I want to reformat it to NTFS or FAT32 since I think that is the problem. Is there any way to format the micro sd while in the tablet? Also, what should I format to, NTFS or FAT32. Im not sure what to do.
I hope someone help me with this? Thank you
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Do you have access to a terminal emulator (GPlay Jackpal Android Terminal Emulator)? Do you have GPlay ES file explorer? What size and type of SD do you have (SDHC, Class 6?)
[Edit] First lets make sure you have your MicroSD mounted rw. In ES file explorer, in the left column find Tools, click-expand it, and find Mount RW, click that and open it. What do the radio buttons say for /Removable/MicroSD? If the RO button is dotted, change it to RW. If not, continue below.
Its probably a formatting issue but we need to check directory permissions to rule that out first. In ES file explorer, if you browse over to /Removable and then see /MicroSD as a folder, you may see permissions similar to "drwxr-xr-x" when what you need is "drwxrwxrwx". If this is the case then its a permissions problem. Proceed with the following fix.
Go open the terminal emulator and type the following code:
Code:
su
cd /Removable
chmod MicroSD 777
Which will change mode on the directory permissions to "drwxrwxrwx". The number in the code are OCTAL (4=read, 2=write, 1=execute; Sum=Root User, Group, Others) permissions codes.
If you already see "drwxrwxrwx" and still can't delete or rename then reformat your card from a PC. Quick format twice usually does it. Or you can try to copy everything off the card to PC, then copy it all back. If you want to use it ever for recovery then go FAT32. Otherwise you can go NTFS.
If its a 64GB (or larger) SDHX card, then it needs to be exFAT and you can't use it for recovery.