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[Q] CyanogenMod9 help

Hello all,
Complete noob here, let alone first android device and coming from Iphone. After I got my first Android device; the Samsung Galaxy Note (I717) I opted to go for another operating system to enable the tethering feature. I was successful in rooting my phone, installing CWM, and successfully flashing my ROM to the latest CM9 ROM.
However, I have a few simple task that I simply cannot accomplish, they are as follows:
1. Computer can no longer see phone as a mass USB storage device. I have enabled USB debugging mode on phone through settings.
2. No music player app can see my music files I have loaded on my microSD card, of which I have manually loaded through the computer to the microSD card.
3. the gallery cannot see my pictures I have transferred into the SD card.
However, all these files can be seen and accessed only through the OI File Manager app on the phone.
I do not know what I am missing.
Can somebody help Please?
Thank you,
Jeff

jsalinas2011 said:
Hello all,
Complete noob here, let alone first android device and coming from Iphone. After I got my first Android device; the Samsung Galaxy Note (I717) I opted to go for another operating system to enable the tethering feature. I was successful in rooting my phone, installing CWM, and successfully flashing my ROM to the latest CM9 ROM.
However, I have a few simple task that I simply cannot accomplish, they are as follows:
1. Computer can no longer see phone as a mass USB storage device. I have enabled USB debugging mode on phone through settings.
2. No music player app can see my music files I have loaded on my microSD card, of which I have manually loaded through the computer to the microSD card.
3. the gallery cannot see my pictures I have transferred into the SD card.
However, all these files can be seen and accessed only through the OI File Manager app on the phone.
I do not know what I am missing.
Can somebody help Please?
Thank you,
Jeff
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First of all, welcome to XDA!
Second, under Settings>Storage, does the SD card appear in the list? It could possibly be a ROM issue.

Hi,
Thank you so much for the warm welcome.
Yes, my SDcard does indeed show up under settings within the storage list.
Jeff

Galaxy Note 10.1, USB Mass Storage Mode, Questions and Options please?

All -
Okay, USB Mass Storage mode, what about it?
My Galaxy Note 5.3 with ICS has it. My Galaxy S3 with ICS does not have it.
I've been Googling for hours, and getting nowhere. The Samsung website says the N8000 has "USB Mass Storage Mode". But two posters on XDA say that it does not.
What I like to do is keep my PC file directory synced to my Samsung device. On my old Galaxy Tab 7 Classic, I can just plug it in (USB Mass Storage Mode), and it mounts and works. I then use ROBOCOPY (Windows rsync wannabe) and it syncs up just fine, and very quickly. I've got it in a batch file, I just plug in, double-click the icon, and it goes.
On the S3, MTP mode, as everyone seems to already know, doesn't cut it at all. It can't detect dates or metadata, so it wants to re-copy everything, in very slow MTP mode. UGH!
Prior to the ICS update for my note 5.3, I just rooted and used Samba.
So my questions:
1. Can someone definitively confirm whether the GT-N8000 Galaxy Note 10.1 has true USB Mass Storage mode support, or not?
2. If not, do we think Samsung is going to add it, as they did with the Galaxy note 5.3?
3. If not, is Samba the right way to go here? Is there a better way?
4. I've heard that "Airdroid" might be good, but does it support syncing a la rsync or robocopy?
5. Does anyone have any thoughts on how to proceed?
Thank you all so much for your patience and guidance!
Glen

I can't get USB mass storage mode to work at all. I am on Windows 8 RTM.

justauser said:
I can't get USB mass storage mode to work at all. I am on Windows 8 RTM.
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My Galaxy S2 has USB Mass Storage mode... and I'm very dissapointed that the Note 10.1 does not have USB Mass Storage mode. Why do they keep changing these file structures... its so inconsistent.
One of the reasons I jumped from Transformer Prime TF201 to the Note 10.1 is because I thought the file structure in the Note 10.1 is better sturctured, just like the S2.
Anyone has any work around this? I do not want to always remove my microSD card all the time.

glenbarney said:
All -
Okay, USB Mass Storage mode, what about it?
My Galaxy Note 5.3 with ICS has it. My Galaxy S3 with ICS does not have it.
I've been Googling for hours, and getting nowhere. The Samsung website says the N8000 has "USB Mass Storage Mode". But two posters on XDA say that it does not.
What I like to do is keep my PC file directory synced to my Samsung device. On my old Galaxy Tab 7 Classic, I can just plug it in (USB Mass Storage Mode), and it mounts and works. I then use ROBOCOPY (Windows rsync wannabe) and it syncs up just fine, and very quickly. I've got it in a batch file, I just plug in, double-click the icon, and it goes.
On the S3, MTP mode, as everyone seems to already know, doesn't cut it at all. It can't detect dates or metadata, so it wants to re-copy everything, in very slow MTP mode. UGH!
Prior to the ICS update for my note 5.3, I just rooted and used Samba.
So my questions:
1. Can someone definitively confirm whether the GT-N8000 Galaxy Note 10.1 has true USB Mass Storage mode support, or not?
2. If not, do we think Samsung is going to add it, as they did with the Galaxy note 5.3?
3. If not, is Samba the right way to go here? Is there a better way?
4. I've heard that "Airdroid" might be good, but does it support syncing a la rsync or robocopy?
5. Does anyone have any thoughts on how to proceed?
Thank you all so much for your patience and guidance!
Glen
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In settings/developer options, select usb debugging. Then when you connect to pc you should get mass storage hookup

You just need the MTP drivers .........
On WinXP machines mostly You will have to download KIES , install it to get drivers installed but not run it, connect 10.1 via USB and voila You will have a folder showing "phone" and sdcard folder.
Now You can use the sdcard card as mass storage. Only when it comes to transfer of files not recognized by Android or the device it will ask You wether it should be copied , just click yes.
On most win7 pcs Sammy devices are recognized automatically as MTP ...........

Same issue here , and for windows 8 i can't get the right drivers for it , the pc can't recognize the device in case i installed last version of Samsung Kies

The Note 10.1 uses MTP like the S3. I used this -> http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1711009 on my Note 10.1 and it lets me mount the external micro SD card when I plug it into my Windows 7 computer. You have to be rooted w/ busybox installed. It should work for the S3 also, since that is what it was made for.
Good luck!

go to settings...
I'm running ICS 4.0.4 on galaxy note which runs MTP mode by default.
Usb mass storage mode can be enabled from settings-> wireless and network (more) -> usb utilities... turn on mass storage
There u r... hope it helps

is there a mod for the note 10.1 for ums?

Bump for an old question -
Is there a working solution for USB mass storage mode that works well with our note yet ?

aalupatti said:
Bump for an old question -
Is there a working solution for USB mass storage mode that works well with our note yet ?
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help me please
how i can do recovery my deleted photo's ??
i cant connect my tablet to PC via mass storage
N8000

ehsan102 said:
help me please
how i can do recovery my deleted photo's ??
i cant connect my tablet to PC via mass storage
N8000
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there are few apps in the market that i have seen that can do it.
Also there are windows applications that can do it too..
Dont remember anything over my head, but i am sure search will give you results..
I have done once in the past... It was along toiling process but eventually got many of them back.

aalupatti said:
there are few apps in the market that i have seen that can do it.
Also there are windows applications that can do it too..
Dont remember anything over my head, but i am sure search will give you results..
I have done once in the past... It was along toiling process but eventually got many of them back.
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i tested all apps
but dosnt work again

ehsan102 said:
i tested all apps
but dosnt work again
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Try mounting the internal sd a card in windows or mac and try using a mac or windows application.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/digitalcameras/how-to-recover-deleted-photos-from-your-sd-card/1102

aalupatti said:
Try mounting the internal sd a card in windows or mac and try using a mac or windows application.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/digitalcameras/how-to-recover-deleted-photos-from-your-sd-card/1102
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thanks my friend
but that above link was for deleted photo and for not portable device
do You know a software windows for recovery file for portable device ?

ehsan102 said:
thanks my friend
but that above link was for deleted photo and for not portable device
do You know a software windows for recovery file for portable device ?
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If you are able to mount the internal sd as card in your pc then you should be able to do it, since it would be acting like any other hard drive
I dont think this is possible with stock firmware.. but if you are able to install an asop rom like CM then you might have option to do it by using some app like ums mass storage enabler or so..

aalupatti said:
If you are able to mount the internal sd as card in your pc then you should be able to do it, since it would be acting like any other hard drive
I dont think this is possible with stock firmware.. but if you are able to install an asop rom like CM then you might have option to do it by using some app like ums mass storage enabler or so..
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see the attach image
im using a custom ROM
but UMS donsnt work with any apps
do you know apps for recovery photo for android ?

ehsan102 said:
see the attach image
im using a custom ROM
but UMS donsnt work with any apps
do you know apps for recovery photo for android ?
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By stock i meant , stock and stock based roms...
You will need an asop based rom

aalupatti said:
By stock i meant , stock and stock based roms...
You will need an asop based rom
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Please offer to me a ASOP for n8000
thanks so much

ehsan102 said:
Please offer to me a ASOP for n8000
thanks so much
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try pacman or cm or revolt..

[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?

HELP with UMS and MTP!! huge headache over this...

So I've been trying and trying to change MTP to a UMS all day, I've finally figured out how to get my SD card to change to UMS which is cool but I want my internal memory to show up as well. I need to back up my entire internal memory, I also don't have enough space to move everything over to my SD card.
Now, the reason why I don't want to use MTP is because it transfers way to slow and for some reason a lot of folders and files are not showing up when connected to my PC but I could see them fine on the phone with root explorer or something similar.
Any ideas on how to get all drives to work as UMS or get all my files to show up using MTP.
kinda getting fed up already researching it.

nevermind i just used FTP :-/

UMS on JB?
Hey Skeltergrave,
You managed to activate UMS on Jelly Bean? I thought it was not possible, could you share how you did it? I want to connect my phone to my stereo and it's just not possible without UMS!
Also did you did this on stock rom? Or some custom rom?
Thanks in advance!
Skeltergrave said:
So I've been trying and trying to change MTP to a UMS all day, I've finally figured out how to get my SD card to change to UMS which is cool but I want my internal memory to show up as well. I need to back up my entire internal memory, I also don't have enough space to move everything over to my SD card.
Now, the reason why I don't want to use MTP is because it transfers way to slow and for some reason a lot of folders and files are not showing up when connected to my PC but I could see them fine on the phone with root explorer or something similar.
Any ideas on how to get all drives to work as UMS or get all my files to show up using MTP.
kinda getting fed up already researching it.
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adolfovm said:
Hey Skeltergrave,
You managed to activate UMS on Jelly Bean? I thought it was not possible, could you share how you did it? I want to connect my phone to my stereo and it's just not possible without UMS!
Also did you did this on stock rom? Or some custom rom?
Thanks in advance!
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Hey!
I did it on the stock Rom, but it only works for the SD Card. You could try it if you'd like. I'm not sure if it'll work for any other device then a PC but it's worth a shot. I followed this tutorial for the Atrix HD.
Since your not going to use it for your computer I don't think you'll have to follow the PC instructions.
Here is the link:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2175747
Let me know how it goes buddy.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using XDA Premium HD app

Stuffed up storage system

First post, sorry if this isn't the correct place to start the thread
Alright so I'm running resurrection remix 6.1.0 rom on my rooted oneplus 3T (android version 8.1.0)
The other day, I was trying to input a usb otg into my phone but it would not recognise. Searched all over the settings but there were no options for the usb otg (didnt seem like RRemix supported it)
Now what I did next was kinda stupid on my part, so after searching over the internet and various forums, I tried two approaches
First one was to go to the terminal, entered 'su' to get root access and entered 'sm set-force-adoptable true'
Now I'll admit that I didn't know what this command was at that time, but it still didn't make my phone recognise the otg usb
Next I installed the StickMount app from playstore, mounted the mass storage, but again didnt make my phone recognise the otg usb
But then the problems started to arise, and note that I had enough internal storage (60%)
First I couldnt update some apps (says not enough storage while 11% through download)
Couldnt take pictures nor screenshots (again says no storage)
Also couldnt delete any files Ive downloaded through the default file app ( but can delete any apps)
However I could still download new apps or new files from the internet
So I'm guessing I stuffed up the SD card/ internal storage systems. I was thinking of flashing the RR rom again and starting the phone fresh but that would be a waste of time as I have to set up everything again
I have also tried the command 'sm set-force-adoptable false' but no success
So I'm wondering, are there any ways of undoing whatever I just did, without having to wipe everything and restart??
Thank you so much for any replies, I'll make sure to know what I'm doing in the future before I follow instructions on the net haha
also just curious, but would greatly appreciate if someone could tell me what I just did, searched over the internet but couldnt find a precise answer. My phone also does not have an external SD card

What you did was tell the device to use an external storage device as part of the Interminal storage.
You will have to start over from scratch. Make sure to back everything up.
What you want to do is part of their closed sources rom. I have never had a single aosp based roms with otg.
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zelendel said:
What you did was tell the device to use an external storage device as part of the Interminal storage.
You will have to start over from scratch. Make sure to back everything up.
What you want to do is part of their closed sources rom. I have never had a single aosp based roms with otg.
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Ah I see what hapenned, thanks for your reply!
Luckily I decided to do a reboot and super glad it fixed everything. Camera app works perfectly and my phone can recognise my storage again