After I plugged my USB disk on the tablet, there's a message showed on the status bar says "external storage bla bla bla", flickered a few times and disappeared eventually. The device just won't read it. And it can read my friend's USB disk(don't know its brand) just fine...
Anyone encountered the same issue? Any suggestion or solution?
PS: I've formatted my disk with all the formats(FAT32, exFat and NTFS), not helping.
PS2: I've tried plugging it on both USB ports on dock and on that little external USB accessory.
Have you tried going into Settings > Storage, scrolling down to USB drive and clicking mount?
I know this sounds like a common sense question, but it worked for me when my flash drive was doing the same thing.
SteveG12543 said:
Have you tried going into Settings > Storage, scrolling down to USB drive and clicking mount?
I know this sounds like a common sense question, but it worked for me when my flash drive was doing the same thing.
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yes, I've tried that too. still not working. after a few flickering the message on the status bar disappeared like before. nothing happened.
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I seem to be encountering a slight inconsistency in regards to mounting the phone unto my windows 7 box.
Essentially what happens is this: I plug my phone into the computer and the little dialogue box pops up onto my phone (Kies, Mass Storage, PC Internet etc). I push "Mass Storage" and ideally what is supposed to happen is that the phone mounts onto windows.
Unfortunately it doesn't seem to mount.
What does happen is that the drive letter shows up, usually F:\ but it's not mounted.
When I pull down the settings menu, it says that USB is connected and that's about all.
I will unplug my phone, replug it back in again invoking the USB menu only this time, I will hit the "Home/House" button, or the "Back" button which will take me to the home screen.
I will drag down the settings menu like before, only this time under the USB box, when pressed it gives me the option to mount which if pressed, mounts the phone and gives me the ability to access it.
So whats the problem? It's very inconsistent. It doesn't always do that. Sometimes I have to unplug and replug my phone in to invoke the mount USB option.
My questions are these: Is anyone else having the same issue? Am I just not using this correctly? Is there any simple way to just "mount usb"? An app or perhaps a function that I'm not seeing?
Thanks!
Out of box, you always need to manually mount the drives once connected. It does not auto-mount. I was told there is an app that can auto-mount for you.
If you're running 2.1 firmware, the mount option is in notification area. If you're running 2.2 firmware, there will be a USB mass storage screen where you can click on the mount button.
That's fine manually mounting the drive, my question is: How do I mount the drive if there is no way (that I can find) that gives me the option except for the seemingly random "mount USB" box that comes up 7/10 times in the drop down settings dialogue?
It comes up 100% for me.
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Could you describe the process in which you do? Perhaps I am doing something wrong in the procedure.
It comes up randomly for me too. I didn't have this problem on 2.1 Eclair. It isn't anything crippling, but it is annoying. It happens half the time for me.
I should mention too, that i am running Eclair 2.1.
boe_dye said:
Could you describe the process in which you do? Perhaps I am doing something wrong in the procedure.
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Nothing special. Plug in the USB cable and go to notification area to mount the USB drives. I do configure my phone to prompt for USB mode everytime I connect.
You may want to try different USB ports on your PC.
My buddy has a Captivate that mounts fine in mass storage mode, except it brings up the windows dialog box saying "no disk in drive: Retry?" every time. It doesn't fail to work or anything, the sd card is accessible without any problems. It just throws up that dialog every time. It's rather annoying. Anyone seen this before?
Change it to "ask" instead of be "Mass storage" every time. I bet it'll work.
You might find that then changing it back makes it work again. Otherwise just leave it at "ask".
i never had it work in ask on connection mode, and it annoyingly always wants to launch kies no matter what setting i use even after messing with the setting in windows. i have more success with the phone in debugging mode and mounting from the notification menu. it may be that the other options wont work in debugging mode and the computer isn't trying to mount it as an mtp device because of kies.
if i was still on eclair id test it to make sure, my memory gets alittle fuzzy. froyo seems to work better in that area.
Your saying you just get "USB connected" instead of the norm "USB connected, select here to copy files to/from your computer" in the blind menu?
Happens to me as well. Usually if I reboot both the computer and phone I'm good to go. I didn't have the problem on 2.1.
The method that has never failed for me is to turn on USB debugging. Then when I connect the USB, I always get the second notification in the pulldown screen with the text "Select to copy files...". Clicking that brings up a box to mount (or some less vague word choice in 2.2), and accepting that always works to show the 2 drives on my computer.
USB debugging completely circumvents the USB settings panel. You can either use one or the other, not both. I have always found the USB debugging approach to be totally reliable. Right now on Cog2.2 Beta6 both approaches work fine, but I usually leave USB debugging activated for other reasons so I use that method by default.
Hi,
Wondering if anyone has problems connecting a smartphone ? When trying to connect to the usb port of the dock on TF700T my Sony Xperia S is not recognized, no message appears that "mass storage device" or "usb device is being prepared".
kind regards,
What Android version is your phone running?
Once my phone was in USB connect mode, I had to go to the transformer settings > storage and then scroll down to the bottom and select the option to mount the mass storage device.
MartyHulskemper said:
What Android version is your phone running?
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Currently running version 4.0.4
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GaryParr said:
Once my phone was in USB connect mode, I had to go to the transformer settings > storage and then scroll down to the bottom and select the option to mount the mass storage device.
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Doesn't work for me, there is no available device to mount, there is no sign it is even connected in usb mode,my phone simply isn't recognized for some reason.
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Doesn't work for me, there is no available device to mount, there is no sign it is even connected in usb mode,my phone simply isn't recognized for some reason.
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I never saw any pop-ups or notifications in the status bar either. My first thought was that the device didn't know my phone was attached. I had to do some google-fu before I found the suggestion that, even though you don't see any notifications, to look at the storage settings anyway. Very strange that nothing is showing up for you. This might seem odd, but would you happen to have a USB hub you could run through? Try connecting the phone to the hub in storage mode, then connecting the hub to the transformer.
I can confirm that I did not have any notification either. My phone however detect the USB plug and I could activate USB mass storage on its side.
Then i needed to manually mount the external storage in settings. This done, I have access to the external SD card of the phone but not to the internal one.
Dehele said:
This done, I have access to the external SD card of the phone but not to the internal one.
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Besides the fact i can't seem to connect it, that would be a problem also, because with the Sony Xperia S there is no SD card slot available for external memory, only 32GB of internal memory.
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Not quite satisfied by my first test, I have made it again. With the two cards in the phone I can only access the external one. So I retreave the external card out of the phone and renew the test. this time, I can access the internal card.
So it seems that i can only see one card at a time, even if I need to mount it manually.
In any case if you have only one card, you should be able to access it.
Hi all,
Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere but I have looked and cant find anything.
My One S is Jelly Bean 4.0.1 (un-rooted)
The problem I have is basically this.
I have a Micro-B Usb Otg On The Go Cable and Integral MicroSD USB Card Reader with a 32gb Micro SD.
When I first put all this together and plugged into the USB slot of the phone everything was fine, the little red light on the Integral MicroSD USB Card Reader was lit up. The message of Unable To Charge Device was coming up but the phone was also mounting the storage for reading via Astro File Manager no problem, so I was able to play MP3's and 4's and so on. But then it literally just stopped reading the Micro SD card and the Micro USB Card Reader is not lighting up at all.
Any help will be greatly appreciated as I am at a lost as to why it would be working perfectly one second and then not another.
Thanks you.
Follow up.
Been doing a little bit more looking into this and it looks like it has to do with USB hosting. Is there any reason my phone would just stop hosting a OTG USB Flash Drive? As i mentioned before it work fine for a while and literally just stopped recognizing that there was any Mini Sd attached.
spruggs said:
Hi all,
Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere but I have looked and cant find anything.
My One S is Jelly Bean 4.0.1 (un-rooted)
The problem I have is basically this.
I have a Micro-B Usb Otg On The Go Cable and Integral MicroSD USB Card Reader with a 32gb Micro SD.
When I first put all this together and plugged into the USB slot of the phone everything was fine, the little red light on the Integral MicroSD USB Card Reader was lit up. The message of Unable To Charge Device was coming up but the phone was also mounting the storage for reading via Astro File Manager no problem, so I was able to play MP3's and 4's and so on. But then it literally just stopped reading the Micro SD card and the Micro USB Card Reader is not lighting up at all.
Any help will be greatly appreciated as I am at a lost as to why it would be working perfectly one second and then not another.
Thanks you.
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You seem to be stock so not sure what's up with that but could try factory reset in the bootloader has long has you haven't changed recovery but backup what's on the SD Card because that will get wiped too.
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You seem to be stock so not sure what's up with that but could try factory reset in the bootloader has long has you haven't changed recovery but backup what's on the SD Card because that will get wiped too.
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Thanks Darknites,
I have reset hard from the settings menu, does it make a difference if i reset from bootloader? I have downloaded USB Host Controller and look at what results I get from running that and I get the SC3 USB Host Driver Not Found which I believe is something to do with the chip set which doesnt apply to my phone but I also get the message of USB Root Hub Present but I also get Not Present sometimes when re-running and the same with USB Host Mode is Active and then sometimes Not Active after re-running the Host Controller App.
I did read somewhere that its possible that certain chip/chips might have been damaged/fried by an extended use of USB Hosting to a flash drive, is this correct?
Thanks again for the reply.
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I did read somewhere that its possible that certain chip/chips might have been damaged/fried by an extended use of USB Hosting to a flash drive, is this correct?
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I havnt heard of that in YEARS, and even that was in most cases a false rumor. I have never encountered a chip dying by being used properly.
If you short-circut the cables or something - then yeah, thats a different story.
spruggs said:
Thanks Darknites,
I have reset hard from the settings menu, does it make a difference if i reset from bootloader? I have downloaded USB Host Controller and look at what results I get from running that and I get the SC3 USB Host Driver Not Found which I believe is something to do with the chip set which doesnt apply to my phone but I also get the message of USB Root Hub Present but I also get Not Present sometimes when re-running and the same with USB Host Mode is Active and then sometimes Not Active after re-running the Host Controller App.
I did read somewhere that its possible that certain chip/chips might have been damaged/fried by an extended use of USB Hosting to a flash drive, is this correct?
Thanks again for the reply.
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Ya in bootloader everything gets wiped even sd.
I did cross my mind re the cable because the drives are fine in my PC, I know they are powered there though. I might try another OTG cable, there cheap as. Its just strange that one minute the Micro SD drive was working perfectly and then kaput.
Anyone noticed that after unmounting USB storage there will be persistent notification to plug in another drive. It can't even be removed. Any solutions?
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Anyone noticed that after unmounting USB storage there will be persistent notification to plug in another drive. It can't even be removed. Any solutions?
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Try to long press on notification ....app info.....uncheck the show notification check box
Lol that's not possible as it is Android system.
Anyway you got your device?
Not yet....
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Anyone noticed that after unmounting USB storage there will be persistent notification to plug in another drive. It can't even be removed. Any solutions?
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Nothing yet. The problem is there in other versions of Moto G and even Moto X too
Hi, I just bought a universal USB OTG cable, and used it to connect a 32 GB pen drive (FAT32 filesystem) to my OPO (05Q, rooted). At first it apparently detected it, but since the drive was totally empty I had no way to confirm that, so I unplugged the drive and connected it to my PC, and put some videos on it. The computer gave a me a list of files with strange simbols as name, but I thought it was something done by the phone, given the presence of the directories "Android" and "LOST.DIR" (even though I wasn't allowed to open them). Then, I plugged the drive back to the phone, and it was detected without any problem, but it was completely empty, and not even a single bit of data could be found anywhere. I repeated the process three times, always with the same results. Does someone have a solution for this annoying issue?
Thank you very much.
Edit: Problem solved, it was an issue of the USB drive.
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