I cannot access my sd card through any commands. I am on a mac. Have tried using linux. Device cannot be detected. Has nothing to do with drivers. Just trying to get back to stock and can't find a way that doesn't involve a computer being able to detect a device...
I need a way to get my computer to recognize the device again. No option to mount. It just charges when I connect to a computer...
HELP!!!!
Cannot mount through clockwork either.
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I connected my phone to my computer using USB, selected "Mass Storage", 2 new removable drives appeared on my computer. However, neither drives connect to the internal 16G SD card. Both drives told me to insert the media when I double clicked on it. I tried this on a XP and a Win 7 machine with the same result. Am I doing something wrong or do I have a defected phone?
I have the exact same problem on XP and win7... I've tried everything I can think of including several different cables.
Anyone have any ideas what is going on?
Make sure you're choosing "Mount" on the Captivate after connecting the cable.
See here:
http://capfaq.com/w/Connectivity#Connecting_to_a_Windows_based_PC
This device NEEDS drivers, even for the Massive Storage device (At least it didn't work for me, Win7 x64 until I installed the drivers)
Try downloading KIES and try again, the x64 drivers you can fin around here didn't seem to work for me.
What rom are you running?
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You only need driver if you're on XP. No drivers needed for Vista or Win7.
But you do have to MOUNT the drives on your phone. There are reasons why a MOUNT is required. But if you're too lazy, you can download an app from market to auto-mount for you.
foxbat121 said:
You only need driver if you're on XP. No drivers needed for Vista or Win7.
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Incorrect. I have lost track of how many XP machines I've hooked my Captivate to in Mass storage mode and not needed to install any drivers.
Oh my god you guys rock... I never had to mount the device before. I wonder why that changed recently?
Anyway, mounting the device worked.
Thanks!!
When I go to my SD settings, it is already mounted. I've unmounted, then mounted to no avail. I've downloaded and installed teh drivers from Samsung and everything says it is successful. If I try to run in USB debug mode I get the same result except 3 drivers install automatically than the 1 when I am in regular mode. Any ideas?
trekie86 said:
When I go to my SD settings, it is already mounted. I've unmounted, then mounted to no avail. I've downloaded and installed teh drivers from Samsung and everything says it is successful. If I try to run in USB debug mode I get the same result except 3 drivers install automatically than the 1 when I am in regular mode. Any ideas?
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Make sure you are connected directly to the back of the computer, not thru a hub, or the front of the computer case. I've heard the voltages needed have very tight tolerances. Try a different cable as well
Modulus1 said:
Oh my god you guys rock... I never had to mount the device before. I wonder why that changed recently?
Anyway, mounting the device worked.
Thanks!!
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It has ALWAYS been this way...
trekie86 said:
When I go to my SD settings, it is already mounted. I've unmounted, then mounted to no avail. I've downloaded and installed teh drivers from Samsung and everything says it is successful. If I try to run in USB debug mode I get the same result except 3 drivers install automatically than the 1 when I am in regular mode. Any ideas?
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You are doing the wrong thing. SD settings and mount/unmount in there is for the SD card mounting to your phone, not PC.
To connect Mass Storage mode to PC, you need set your USB mode to Mass Storage, and turn off USB debug mode. Once connected to PC, you need to go to notification window and tap on the USB notification to mount your SD cards to PC.
I just found that before I checked your reply. Thanks for the help. I can actual access the storage on the phone now without some weird settings. Now if 2.2 would only come out for the Captivate. Thanks.
Has anyone tried setting up their sdcard to be a bootable USB Drive that oyu can boot a PC from?
Idea being:
1) Install bootable systemrescuecd or memtest on your sdcard
2) Plug your phone into the pc via usb, mount your sdcard as usb mass storage
3) Turn the computer on and have it boot systemrescuecd or memtest from the phone's sdcard.
I've tried it, but my desktop, eeepc or laptop do not see the Captivate's USB mass storage as a boot device. It has been done on a G1 (since I can't post links, google "g1 pc boot" and click the first link) and I'm trying to do the same on Captivate.
Any ideas?
I dont know, but it seems to me that you would have to make the internal sd card in it bootable. I'd try using the HP USB formatting tool. I use it all the time to make usb thumbdrives bootable. After doing that I'd think you might be able to boot from it.
I did. I didn't use the HP one, but I used multibootisos, which worked fine on my physical thumbdrive. The same process didn't work on the captivate.
Possibly a partition of the drive might work. Then you could format iit to work for your needs.
Nice idea btw
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I'm thinking there is an issue (atleast with my phone) showing up as 2 drives. I dunno, I'm fussing with it and getting nowhere.
You get two drives because you have the internal memory and external memory mounted.
When you boot you computer, you need to be able to select the specific usb device to boot off of in bios. Usually you can hit F12 during boot to select it.
Right.. as I said, it worked fine with the physical thumbdrive.
I get why the captivate shows up as 2 devices.
I know how to select the boot device and all that. I'm saying neither of the captivate drives show up as a bootable device despite being setup exactly like the physical thumbdrive that does work as a boot device.
When I plug my usb cord into my Infuse and into my desktop, the desktop doesnt see the Infuse. I have the usb settings set to use the Infuse as a mass storage device, but nothing. If I put any other device or card in one of my slots, the computer instantly see's the device and reads it.. help
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When I plug my usb cord into my Infuse and into my desktop, the desktop doesnt see the Infuse. I have the usb settings set to use the Infuse as a mass storage device, but nothing. If I put any other device or card in one of my slots, the computer instantly see's the device and reads it.. help
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Try going to samsung, i had to install this driver file then i could access my files on the phone and sd card. http://www.samsung.com/us/support/downloads/SGH-I997ZKAATT
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When I plug my usb cord into my Infuse and into my desktop, the desktop doesnt see the Infuse. I have the usb settings set to use the Infuse as a mass storage device, but nothing. If I put any other device or card in one of my slots, the computer instantly see's the device and reads it.. help
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If you are running windows 7 and all else fails, open device manager and find the samsung or unknown device and try to uninstall all samsung drivers, be sure when the computer asks if you want to uninstall the files too to select "yes/ok". After doing that reboot the computer let it settle down til the hard drive lite indicator on computer does not blink.
After that securly plug the usb cable into the phone and into the computer
wait 15-30 seconds more or less and if you are running windows 7 and are connected to internet then windows will automatically install fresh drivers into your computer and most likely your problem will be solved..
If this solves the problem it means that your samsung drivers for some reason got corrupted.
Also just because your computer reconizes "other cards" that does not mean that it will reconize your samsung phone.. The samsung fone requires specific drivers to be install for it to reconize your phone.
For sdcards, flash drives, external hard drives windows only uses its generic usb drivers, thats why your computer reconizes the usb cards properly now even though it does not reconize your phone.
Good luck.
For some strange reason i cant mount my sd card any more....i have tried re flashing different roms and kernels still the same result. mount sd wont even work in recovery. But the phone still recognizes the it and i can play my media off it..also what i have realised is that when i connect it to any computer phone only charges...there is no indication of it in device manager...even tried using the HTC one X all in one tool to try running a few commands ....i get device not found..
ive tried this on windows 8 x64
and windows vista x32
also i have tried different usb cables
any ideas anyone
I recently had to sbf my xt926 back to stock 4.4.2, and I'm running into a problem getting my computer to read the phone. Rather than showing up as a phone, when I plug it into my computer it shows up as a CD drive.
I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the latest motorola device manager, but that didn't help. Nor did going into the windows device manager and trying to update the drivers for the "CD drive", and in fact that just makes the device manager stop responding. I've tried with USB debugging on, but then it doesn't show up at all. I've tried with the phone in PTP mode, with the same problem as USB debugging, it just doesn't show up. I've tried uninstalling the drivers for the "CD drive", unplugging the phone, and plugging it back in, but it still just gets recognized as a CD drive.
Oh, and of course I've tried restarting both the phone and the computer.
I would try plugging the SD card in directly, but unfortunately I can't seem to find my microSD to SD converter, and my computer only has a normal SD slot. I might go out and buy a new one tomorrow if this problem persists.
Anyone know how to get the correct drivers installed?