This morning my Charge started having really weird issues...the media scanner would run, then report that the USB Cable is connected & debugging was enabled, but no cable was connected. Then it would detect the SD card, run media scanner and start the whole thing over again.
I did a fresh Odin restore and the same thing happened. It would stop with USB debugging disabled, but then I can't use things like TI Backup. So I swapped in a spare 4GB card I had and it seems to be working fine with USB debugging enabled.
Could this be caused by anything else other than a bad SD card?
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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....
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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When i connect phone to PC, external sdcard is not seen. What are you guys doing to see ext sdcard from PC.
I can't get mine to show up either.
There is a USB app in the marketplace that doesn't seem to work too well.
I've resigned myself to rebooting the phone with the USB cable in, in disk mode. When the phone comes back up it always seems to show up mounted as a drive on my mac.
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.
So i installed CM 7.1 tonight and when i plug my phone into the computer using my usb cable it detects my phone, charges it and allows me to mount for usb storage.
when i mount for usb storage i do not see the sd card under removable hard drives. im new to all of this rooting and this is my first time rooting and installing a custom rom so any help is greatly appreciated.
thanks!
Search on forums. Theres a thread about that. I think you need a proper driver for you pc, in order to communicate with your phone.
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i have searched the forums, most of the issues are saying its not mounting and what not. i do have the LGdriver downloaded otherwise i would not have been able to put the necessary files onto my sd card. the problem started after i rooted my phone. my computer recognizes the phone when i plug it in but once i got into USB mass storage mode it doesnt show up in my removable hard drives..
sorry if sounds confusing, im having a hard time describing what exactly is wrong with it.
when i click turn on usb storage it'll say USB storage is on and the green android guy will turn orange and all the apps that are on my SD card are no longer in the app menu. but i have no way of copying files over to my sd card.
Go to Settings>Applications>Development>USB Debugging and turn that on, then plug in you USB as usual.
Hope it works
it worked! thanks!
at least you guys arent having the annoying problem im having.........every other day my phone says i have a blank sd card and when i put it in the pc it tells me it is damaged. It only does it when i mount it to usb. I think it is because the phone gets a little hot sometimes. Quite annoying