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Samsung Ace II

Hello guys,
i just bought my first Android, its a Samsung ACE 2 - i8160, im well impressed as this time.
Is there a Costume ROM? i have no KIS updates to the phone so im asking here if anyone knows anything newer than 2.3 Gingerbread that came as stock firmware.
Thanks alot for helping this noooooob

grikster said:
Hello guys,
i just bought my first Android, its a Samsung ACE 2 - i8160, im well impressed as this time.
Is there a Costume ROM? i have no KIS updates to the phone so im asking here if anyone knows anything newer than 2.3 Gingerbread that came as stock firmware.
Thanks alot for helping this noooooob
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No custom roms have been made till now!
Samsung will release ICS update and possibly a jelly bean update too later.
Currently, CyanogenMod 10(Jelly Bean) is being made!

Hi all,
I ask here in order to not open a new thread.
Do you know how the f$·"$"·k to disable the MTP connection on this phone? I want only USB mass storage, but currently I'm not able to access the external SD card, only the internal one. Folders "external_sd" and "usbStorage" are empty (I guess the phone mounts the ext SD on one of them)
I tried to enable USB debugging, then Settings -> Wireless networks -> USB settings, but there are not choices to choose P); I can only "connect to PC", without any chance to get to ext SD card, as mentioned.
Any ideas?

pacorrop said:
Hi all,
I ask here in order to not open a new thread.
Do you know how the f$·"$"·k to disable the MTP connection on this phone? I want only USB mass storage, but currently I'm not able to access the external SD card, only the internal one. Folders "external_sd" and "usbStorage" are empty (I guess the phone mounts the ext SD on one of them)
I tried to enable USB debugging, then Settings -> Wireless networks -> USB settings, but there are not choices to choose P); I can only "connect to PC", without any chance to get to ext SD card, as mentioned.
Any ideas?
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Opening a new thread is appropriate in this case; also, you can't simply post off topic content -- that's 1000x worse than opening a new thread. I recommend trying the specific forum for your phone.
On my phone, it's under:
Code:
Settings->Sony Ericsson->Connectivity->USB connection mode
. Obviously, it will differ for your phone.

galaxyace152 said:
Currently, CyanogenMod 10(Jelly Bean) is being made!
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I can't find any nightly build for the Galaxy Ace 2. Do you have some news about this dev ?

Try to re-install samsung drivers for mtp device in Windows then You shoud get both int and ext SD.
And for now mtp is "the one" connection type You can get.
Enabling debuging should allow You to run adb. Then You can push and pull files to/from device.
All best.
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[Q] How to access storage without HTC Sync Manager (USM, MTP, PTP, etc...)

Hi community,
I have read around quite a wile now... but I cannot find the answer.
I used to have an HTC Desire, rooted with custom roms. So I stayed with android 2.2 for a very long time. I could plug the phone in a USB on my computer(s) and drag and drop media content to the SD card that got mounted as mass storage, all fine.
Now I upgraded to an HTC One S (Snapdragon S4) and I was quite happy... Until I got the OTA update with Android 4.1.1. and Sense 4+.
My biggest complain is that USB mass storage has gone, i.e. we now need to use HTC Sync Manager to access storage. I guess USM = USB Mass Storage.
I found a lot of acronyms like MTP and PTP, no idea what it means, could not find an accurate explanation.
As for my main question:
did the USB Mass storage feature disappear because of Android 4.1 of is it HTC that blocked the whole thing forcing people to use HTC Sync Manager?
if yes, how to get it back?
if no, which custom ROM with Sense supports USB Mass Storage (i.e. Venom)?
is there any reason why not using USB Mass storage?

Main questions:
1. Yes, USBMS is removed in 4.1 by HTC (and many other makers) and was replaced by MTP. MTP works without sync manager though.
2. Use an AOSP rom or go back to ICS
3. Any ICS Sense rom supports USBMS.
4. No, USBMS is superior in every single way. Why they decided to go with MTP I have no idea, and Id like to meet the retard who thought it was a good idea...
Your other option is using ADB. My Quick ADB makes it easy to transfer files etc and is roughly 5x faster than MTP (USBMS is roughly 10x faster than MTP).

Hi Goatshocker,
Thank you for your super fast response.
Goatshocker said:
4. No, USBMS is superior in every single way. Why they decided to go with MTP I have no idea, and Id like to meet the retard who thought it was a good idea...
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I totally agree!
You tell me to use "an AOSP rom" I believe AOSP = Android Open Source Projet and therefore you mean any ROM in Android Dev section for my One S right?
In the case of an AOSP ROM with Android 4.1 and later with HTC Sense, how do I see if it supports USBMS? I could not find it listed in the tweaks of the amazing looking Venom Rom for instance.
Last, what do you mean by ADB? Do you mean ADB Launcher? Sorry I have about 18 month latency to the last time I flashed ROMs and was used to all that L33t talking
Cheers
EDIT: OK, saw the ADB Link in your signature, sorry.
EDIT#2: ok searched the Venom Threat and found that we need "TWRP and mount sd there" to use USBMS so question is answered. Apearingly no AOSP 4.1+ ROM has USBMS natively implemented, all kinds of retard over the place

No, AOSP roms are based on the source from google. All Sense based roms are based on the HTC Official roms.
AOSP roms does not have sense (and probably will never have).
AOSP roms have USBMS - Sense-based 4.1 roms does not.

Ya Sense base JB roms I would just go with with TWRP but if you want it like how it was on ICS then you want an AOSP's rom.

Thank You!!~
Goatshocker said:
Main questions:
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2. Use an AOSP rom or ....
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Thank you for the ADB Tool. I've got an HTC One with CM 10.1 on it, and going to try your tool ASAP. Meanwhile, what do you mean (above), in your reference to AOSP?
Are you saying that you need an AOSP rom to use scripts like this (rather than just the kernel with functionality)?!?
Or are you talking about mounting an external USB drive via OTA of recent ROMs, then using UMS protocol on the external (physically external) USB drive?
[sorry, just really curious, as I've actually been through many evenings in hades over this very same issue]

CM10.1 is AOSP, which is short for Android Open Source Project. That means its based on the source directly from google, and not from HTC.
HTC (and others) removed the good ol' Mass Storage in 4.1 and replaced it with the useless MTP-protocol.
CM, and other AOSP roms, still uses Mass Storage.... Or did, Im really not up to date anymore...
The question in this thread was regarding mounting the device on your PC, like you normally do when you want to send stuff from the phone to the PC.
OTA is unaffected, that uses a completely different code.

I have an HTC EVO 4G LTE, Android 4.0.4 and it is not rooted.
When I connect via USB to the PC, a removable device does show up. The only directories in the removable device are:
- Android
- LOST.DIR
- System Volume Information
On the phone, if I switch from 'Disk drive' to 'Media Sync', then EVO shows up under portable devices on the PC and 'card' (59.4 GB) and 'phone' (9.93 GB) show up as two separate directories but only those same directories I listed above are visible in 'card'.
I get the same results with and without the attached driver being installed on the PC.
View attachment HTC_drivers_Win7_x64.zip
Is it possible to access the phones SD card via USB without using any other software or rooting? I need the SD card to show up as removable storage and have access to all files when I attach it to the PC.
Maybe I'm not understanding the file structure and how the Android uses the SD card. On the phone, I used ES File Explorer to copy a song from the PC to the phone (/sdcard/music/). I have searched both 'card' and 'phone' via the PC and the file is not found. Is '/sdcard/music/' not the SD card?
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UPDATE: I think I figured it out. On the phone, I have to save everything in '/mnt/sdcard/ext_sd/..' in order to save things to the SD card. I was saving things to '/sdcard/..' and '/mnt/sdcard/..' thinking that was the SD card but presumably that's internal storage??? It's confusing because when I use ES File Explorer on the phone, I have the following:
- mnt->sdcard->ext_sd
- sdcard
- sdcard2
On the phone, when using ES File Explorer, 'mnt->sdcard->ext_sd' is empty when the phone is connected to the PC via USB with "Disk drive" selected on the phone. When I change from "Disk drive" to "Charge only", the directories in 'mnt->sdcard->ext_sd' are once again visible in ES File Explorer. Confusing for someone like me that does not understand how the phone's file system works.

I am new but interested to tranfer media files to HTC one M8 avoiding the nasty htc sync manager. Without much hopes, can I find normal humans here to explain if this is doable?

[Q] Still no access to internal phone via usb

Hi all,
To start with, I'm in India and tried to unlock my Verizon S3.. at first, got it rooted, tried to unlock, didn't work and it caused a bunch of connection problems, etc. with the phone, so I did a factory reset, thinking it would wipe the problems I was having.
Lost some files I forgot were on my internal memory I needed, so I wanted to do a file recovery. During this process, I re-downloaded the drivers for the S3 I needed and then found that my phone would connect, but wouldn't connect as a driver and only as a media source. So the recovery software can't find the device to inspect. Even when I debugged, it would only register as a bootloader and wouldn't recognize it as anything more.
I'm trying to figure out what other steps I need to take to either remove something that I tampered with before the factory reset, or if I need to install something new to configure my device to register as a driver, or do something else I can't figure out?
And I'm still trying to recover those files from before the factory reset too.
Anyone have any suggestions? I can explain in more detail if needed.
Thanks for all the help!

Are you trying to recover personal files that were wiped?
Sent from my SCH-I535 using xda app-developers app

Trying to get my computer to register the phone as a driver so then I will be able to recover the files.
djteotancolis said:
Are you trying to recover personal files that were wiped?
Sent from my SCH-I535 using xda app-developers app
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You may be out of luck. When google went to Android 4.x, they switched to the MTP protocol which mounts the phone to the computer as a media device, rather than a mass storage device (as in previous versions of Android). As far as I can tell, devs have only been able to figure out how to get the external SD card to be seen as mass storage (and that's built into a rom, not a stand alone mod, I believe).
Is there any file recovery software/app available for Android that you can install directly on the phone, rather than needing to run it from a computer?

Well, that's not a good sign. But I will check into the direct software to the phone and let you know I find anything.
Thanks for the tip!
letinsh said:
You may be out of luck. When google went to Android 4.x, they switched to the MTP protocol which mounts the phone to the computer as a media device, rather than a mass storage device (as in previous versions of Android). As far as I can tell, devs have only been able to figure out how to get the external SD card to be seen as mass storage (and that's built into a rom, not a stand alone mod, I believe).
Is there any file recovery software/app available for Android that you can install directly on the phone, rather than needing to run it from a computer?
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[Q] Rooting info needed / Please help soon.

Hi
I wanted to ask something about Rooting but couldn't find specific section for it or if there is, i am sorry i couldn't locate it. I apologize for it.
I have a Huawei Ascend G610-U20 with Android 4.2.1. The internal memory is 4GB but only 1.86GB is useable (on format). I am using Stock ROM.
I have some applications which are installed in phone memory (sdcard 0, not external sdcard). For example Facebook and by default it doesn't have the option of shifting to SD card, that option is turned off. Similarly this is off for Mix Cloud app. There are so many other apps as well. I use Dodol launcher and all it's themes are on phone memory and cannot be migrated to external SD card.
I found this thread of making SD card as default location for installation. I didn't do it being afraid to make any disastrous changes to my phone.
Then i got to know about rooting and i was again afraid of bricking my phone. This is why i am asking it here. I had previously another Android phone and i rooted it and then it started some problems mainly software clashes. e.g. when viber is being used and a phone call comes, phone restarted. I thought of at least considered that time that this is due to rooting.
My sole purpose of doing any of above method is, to be able to migrate those apps to external SD card which are by default not able to be migrated in stock ROM. Else than this i am not much advanced user and nor do i want to go further deeper.
What you recommend and what is the best way to do.
Just a point to mention, in case of using that 1st method of Android ADB method, i think it would need me to format the phone and then reinstall the apps. Am i right?
Please guide me.
Thanks in advance.

Modified LG E400-boot from external sd?

Hi guys! Sorry if I'm posting in the wrong place, I'm new here. So basically, i have an LG E400 (i know its a really old phone, i don't use it as my regular phone) which has been modified so it can not be used in the regular way (i wont go into the reasons its been modified, its complicated). The USB port has been modified so it cant be connected with a pc (it will only charge), the cell and wifi chips have been removed so it cant be connected to the internet and the system modified so i cant install new apps (if i try to install apks it says the application google play store (process com.android.vending has stopped unexpectedly. Also, its somehow made to boot and run off external sd, if i take out the sd the screen goes blank, if i try to switch on without sd it just shows the LG logo. Recently i installed linux file systems for windows by paragon software on my pc and using it when i put the sd card in my pc it shows 2 hidden linux volume partitions or whatever its called. in there is the entire system or root or whatever it is (sorry, if this doesn't make sense, I'm new to all this stuff).
So basically i have 3 questions.
1. How was it made to run from sd card?
2. Can install apps by putting the apks in the root or sd or whatever it is? i googled about it and it seems to be possible but i would have to change permissions, is it possible to do that on pc?
3. Can i fix the google verification thing so i can install apks in the regular way?
thanks in advance!

AFAIK it's not possible to boot Android from an external SD-card this because when the phone powers up the Boot ROM code starts executing from a predefined location on NAND which is hardwired in ROM, and you can't change that.

Are you saying that my phone is impossible? what about a custom rom? i don't know if it has a custom rom but if i go into about phone, it shows build number palmoid 2 which as far as i know doesn't exist so could it be a custom rom made the company that modified the phone?