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Deleted files in My Storage

Is there no way to take it back. I accidentally deleted it off when I connected it in my laptop using Vista Ultimate, so it is not synced. In Computer, I see it as a portable device, and inside there, there are 3 different folders \, My Storage, and Storage Card.
The files are fairly important to me... Anyway I can get it back?

first thing you need to do is NOT touch the storage card at all.. that is.. don't copy ANYTHING new on it.
now... download Active Recovery 7... read your storage card through a reader..
and you can recover the files..

Um, it is not storage card, it is the MY STORAGE from internal memory.

ninjinsamax3 said:
Um, it is not storage card, it is the MY STORAGE from internal memory.
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Try connecting your device as a card using some program. I don't remember which one. Maybe someone can enlighten you on a program that does that since I have no clue about any.

install nueMassStorage. declare connecting as a usb key rather than activesync.
it might let you use active recovery..

Thank you guys!
Thank you nir36 for the program!!
Though, I lost like 2 or 3 pictures because it was overwritten somehow? But I got msot of them back! Thank you! And very useful tool too!

[Q] How to use both Internal SD and External SD

First I have to say thank you to all the developers for making many great ROM. Second, I am not good with android .
I just upgrade to hellfire sandwich and seem like whenever i choose using"internal storage" the phone will auto gray out the external SD card (8gb). When i uncheck that option, i can use the external SD card again. But I want to use the left over internal storage 5gb too... not just 1.5gb internal storage.
Is there someway to re-partition the internal storage together? or allow the phone to recognize all the partitions?
Another question is I cannot use USB mass storage anymore, that option is grayed out too, And the only option is MTP which work really slow but a bit better than PTP. I need some help because Android commander cant recognize the device and the transfer sped is pretty slow.

You should be able to access the internal storage by navigating in the file explorer of your choice to the mnt/emmc/ directory. As for the mass storagw, I don't know the answer, but I had that problem too while I was on ICS.

The best option I have found is to use cwm to add and remove things through storage. It works all the time. Since on 2.3.3 mounts where sketchy and I've never been a fan of mtp on ics this is what I've always done.
Your transfer rates are due to your SD card class. The higher the class the higher the read/write speeds.
Ics went to using mtp and ptp instead of USB mass storage. Except there's a few roms that have hacked ums in and got it to work or claim too.
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rrroach said:
You should be able to access the internal storage by navigating in the file explorer of your choice to the mnt/emmc/ directory. As for the mass storagw, I don't know the answer, but I had that problem too while I was on ICS.
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Yes i can do that too, so there is no way to allow the phone using both... I want to let the phone install apps to internal, and use external as media storage.
kwes1020 said:
Ics went to using mtp and ptp instead of USB mass storage. Except there's a few roms that have hacked ums in and got it to work or claim too.
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Thank you, because i saw the option there so i just wonder if there is a way to enable it... but if it not supposed to be there then there is no help.

If you go to ../etc/ using a file explorer, you may edit vold.fstab using a text editor and change manually your SD cards mount points (dev_mount emmc "folder location" for internal SD and dev_mount sdcard "folder location" for external SD)
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Ok, well in your SD Card you shoud see either _Internal SD or _External SD when you go into CWM, installing a rom partitions you SD card normally using EXT4. You can navigate to both through mnt in file manager. Normally it'll load into external. You can go back to mnt and go into internal through there. Now, you may have to unmount and remount so you have access to it. If your using hellfire 1.7 you need the updated harsh kernel to access USB storage. In 1.6, however, you shouldn't have that problem.

Blank USB storage or has unsupported file system

Flashing the newest leak failed, and bricked my phone....after doing several different things, I have the phone functioning again, the internal SD card is giving a "Blank USB storage or has unsupported file system" error and I cannot mount it or access it. I have reformatted it from both the OS and from recovery. Cleared caches, all of that, and no joy.
I've been searching for the last day, and haven't found anything useful. And advice on what I can try would be appreciated, or, at the very least, someone that knows what they're talking about just letting me know that it's pretty well screwed.
Thanks

dan828 said:
Flashing the newest leak failed, and bricked my phone....after doing several different things, I have the phone functioning again, the internal SD card is giving a "Blank USB storage or has unsupported file system" error and I cannot mount it or access it. I have reformatted it from both the OS and from recovery. Cleared caches, all of that, and no joy.
I've been searching for the last day, and haven't found anything useful. And advice on what I can try would be appreciated, or, at the very least, someone that knows what they're talking about just letting me know that it's pretty well screwed.
Thanks
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Are you referring to the "USB Storage" or "external_sd" folder in your internal?
The "external_sd" folder is just that...your external sd card.
The "USB Storage" folder is a feature of the skyrocket that allows you to connect a thumb drive to your phone with a micro USB to USB adapter.
If you do not have a thumb drive attached to the phone this folder will be blank by default.
Is that what you are talking about?

Nantai said:
Are you referring to the "USB Storage" or "external_sd" folder in your internal?
The "external_sd" folder is just that...your external sd card.
The "USB Storage" folder is a feature of the skyrocket that allows you to connect a thumb drive to your phone with a micro USB to USB adapter.
If you do not have a thumb drive attached to the phone this folder will be blank by default.
Is that what you are talking about?
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That is the error that it gives-- basically, the internal SD card doesn't show up and won't mount. Formatting it, it acts like it does it, does the scan afterwards, and has the same issue. Go to a file browser and it says "no sd card inserted." Go to storage in settings, and it shows device memory (total space 1.97GB), USB Storage is blank, SD Card has "mount SD card" when if touched tries to mount and then apparently fails and goes back to the "mount SD card" text.
If an external SD card is inserted, the only thing that changes is that a "SD card safe to remove" notification comes up.
From recovery, if I try to mount /emmc it says "Error mounting /emmc!" attempting to format /emmc gives the same error.

Have you tried to start from scratch from download mode using odin file?
I'm not at home right now but when I get home I can link you the instructions
EDIT:
Can you get into download mode??
-plug usb into computer(not phone yet)
-Turn off phone
-hold both volume up and down and plug usb into phone, continue holding until you see download mode
-should prompt you to hit the up volume button
-you should now be in download mode
-download this: "Odin one click 4.0.4 from kennethpenn" - http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1652679
-make sure Odin sees your phone in one of the COM ports. Start Flash
-if everything works fine you should be on 4.0.4 ICS and you are free to do as you wish
Hope this helps. Kinda used as a last resort. Assuming you want ICS...
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put it in a computer and check. File system should be fat32. not fat16, fat, or ntfs. I dont believe the phone does an actual format of the sd. I know thats what it says, but I think it means just erase. A real, true format is done after the empty space is partitioned and properly allocated. Ive never seen an unpartitioned sd card sooooo.

Ends said:
put it in a computer and check. File system should be fat32. not fat16, fat, or ntfs. I dont believe the phone does an actual format of the sd. I know thats what it says, but I think it means just erase. A real, true format is done after the empty space is partitioned and properly allocated. Ive never seen an unpartitioned sd card sooooo.
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It's the internal SD card that's partition that appears hosed-- the built in one that can't be removed. I Downloaded an App that shows the partition table, and all that is listing is:
/mnt/sdcard
(mmcblk0p1) 0.0/0.0MB
/sd-ext
(mmcblk0p2) 0.0/0.2MB

I'm having the same problem. Re-flashing UCLF5 didn't help. I'm about to flash UCLE2, but have no real reason to think it'll work.
Ideas, anyone? The "usb storage" is the internal sd card and can't be removed and stuck in a computer.

groovy9 said:
I'm having the same problem. Re-flashing UCLF5 didn't help. I'm about to flash UCLE2, but have no real reason to think it'll work.
Ideas, anyone? The "usb storage" is the internal sd card and can't be removed and stuck in a computer.
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You can save your time....I've already flashed to UCLE2, and even back to the original stock, and it doesn't help. Now I'm back to UCLF5.

If I can get it rooted, I may try to edit vold.fstab and mount my 32GB on /mnt/sdcard. I don't even care about the internal space, really, but it'd be nice to have a more elegant fix.
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fstab edit seems to have worked, at least at a glance. But it'd still be nice to actually fix the internal storage.

Have I tried hooking to a PC? It can tell you allot about the drive after its mounted
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Ends said:
Have I tried hooking to a PC? It can tell you allot about the drive after its mounted
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Been trying that-- with debugging on, it appears to be trying to mount but doesn't

groovy9 said:
If I can get it rooted, I may try to edit vold.fstab and mount my 32GB on /mnt/sdcard. I don't even care about the internal space, really, but it'd be nice to have a more elegant fix.
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fstab edit seems to have worked, at least at a glance. But it'd still be nice to actually fix the internal storage.
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Could you give me a quick rundown on what you had to do? How you get it to root and the process involved with the fstab edit? I'd appreciate it.

dan828 said:
Could you give me a quick rundown on what you had to do? How you get it to root and the process involved with the fstab edit? I'd appreciate it.
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I can't post links yet, but if you google 'how root uclf5', the top hit is the guide I used. BTW, I had to apply the icsSuperuser zip from the SD card something like 10 times before it finally took.
Then installed a root browser with built-in text editor (root explorer) and used it to edit /etc/vold.fstab. Make the top of it look like this:
Code:
# internal sdcard
{
storage_struct = cover, "/mnt/sdcard/external_sd","/mnt/sdcard/usbStorage"
ums_sys_path = /sys/class/android_usb/f_mass_storage/lun/file
#discard = enable
#secure_format = enable
android_secure_containers = enable
}
dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard auto /devices/platform/msm_sdcc.3/mmc_host/mmc2/mmc2
# external sdcard
{
ums_sys_path = /sys/class/android_usb/f_mass_storage/lun_ex/file
android_secure_containers = enable
}
#dev_mount sdcard1 /mnt/sdcard/external_sd auto /devices/platform/msm_sdcc.3/mmc_host/mmc2/mmc2

I'm having this exact same issue. No fixes? I'm going nuts here.

USB Folder has never populated
Nantai said:
The "USB Storage" folder is a feature of the skyrocket that allows you to connect a thumb drive to your phone with a micro USB to USB adapter.
If you do not have a thumb drive attached to the phone this folder will be blank by default.
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This is what I always assumed as well. However, I have never been able to make this work. I also don't know enough to see how it could? (Insert flamage here) To me it would have to link to a dynamic disk that doesn't exist yet and the devices ability to power whatever you plugged in to it.
That said, I still tried it. "....to connect a thumb drive to your phone with a micro USB to USB adapter." ...on many rom/kernal/etc combos as well as trying to mount it in recovery (turns out that "usb drive" in recovery, doesn't mean that folder). So, at least on my phone, the USB Folder has never populated. (Additional flamage here)
I have done my DD on this and am really curious....hmmm
Anyone...?

wantowan2 said:
This is what I always assumed as well. However, I have never been able to make this work. I also don't know enough to see how it could? (Insert flamage here) To me it would have to link to a dynamic disk that doesn't exist yet and the devices ability to power whatever you plugged in to it.
That said, I still tried it. "....to connect a thumb drive to your phone with a micro USB to USB adapter." ...on many rom/kernal/etc combos as well as trying to mount it in recovery (turns out that "usb drive" in recovery, doesn't mean that folder). So, at least on my phone, the USB Folder has never populated. (Additional flamage here)
I have done my DD on this and am really curious....hmmm
Anyone...?
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I don't believe that is what was meant. They mean using your phone as a usb thumb drive so that you don't need to carry around a usb thumb drive. Simply connect your phone to your computer via the usb cable and mount the drive.
I'm having a similar issue but I'm unable to connect my phone to my computer, it's complaining about "security policy restricts use of external sd card". I'll keep searching or maybe create a new thread if I can't find an answer.

BUMP
Nantai View Post said:
The "USB Storage" folder is a feature of the skyrocket that allows you to connect a thumb drive to your phone with a micro USB to USB adapter.
If you do not have a thumb drive attached to the phone this folder will be blank by default.
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wantowan2 said:
This is what I always assumed as well. However, I have never been able to make this work. I also don't know enough to see how it could? (Insert flamage here) To me it would have to link to a dynamic disk that doesn't exist yet and the devices ability to power whatever you plugged in to it.
That said, I still tried it. "....to connect a thumb drive to your phone with a micro USB to USB adapter." ...on many rom/kernal/etc combos as well as trying to mount it in recovery (turns out that "usb drive" in recovery, doesn't mean that folder). So, at least on my phone, the USB Folder has never populated. (Additional flamage here)
I have done my DD on this and am really curious....hmmm
Anyone...?
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BUMP:fingers-crossed:

if u can, get back to stock, then c if int sdcard is accesible, if not then it looks like a hardware failure of int sdcard, time for a warranty exchange,

vincom said:
if u can, get back to stock, then c if int sdcard is accesible, if not then it looks like a hardware failure of int sdcard, time for a warranty exchange,
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Hey, thanks for the reply. But who are you replying to?
I have no prob. trying stock if that's the way.
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wantowan2 said:
Hey, thanks for the reply. But who are you replying to?
I have no prob. trying stock if that's the way.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I727 using xda app-developers app
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[Q] sdcard0 and sdcard1?

Why do the phone recognize my internal storage as sdcard0? This tends to lead to some problems when locating files in recovery.
Is there a way to make sure extraneous files, such as downloads, stay only on the sd card under sdcard?
Sometimes when placing a file on the sdcard from USB-to-PC connection, I navigated to the root folder using a file explorer, and tap sdcard, only to find it's not there. Instead of I have to home-->storage-->sdcard1.
Can anyone explain what exactly is going on in this case?? Or if anyone found a way to consolidate the folders, how can I do it??
Thank you.

jldr said:
Why do the phone recognize my internal storage as sdcard0? This tends to lead to some problems when locating files in recovery.
Is there a way to make sure extraneous files, such as downloads, stay only on the sd card under sdcard?
Sometimes when placing a file on the sdcard from USB-to-PC connection, I navigated to the root folder using a file explorer, and tap sdcard, only to find it's not there. Instead of I have to home-->storage-->sdcard1.
Can anyone explain what exactly is going on in this case?? Or if anyone found a way to consolidate the folders, how can I do it??
Thank you.
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The storage isn't extended, it's two separate file spaces. Your internal memory is reported as an internal SD card (sdcard0) and your SD Card is reported as an external SD (sdcard1)

jldr said:
Why do the phone recognize my internal storage as sdcard0? This tends to lead to some problems when locating files in recovery.
Is there a way to make sure extraneous files, such as downloads, stay only on the sd card under sdcard?
Sometimes when placing a file on the sdcard from USB-to-PC connection, I navigated to the root folder using a file explorer, and tap sdcard, only to find it's not there. Instead of I have to home-->storage-->sdcard1.
Can anyone explain what exactly is going on in this case?? Or if anyone found a way to consolidate the folders, how can I do it??
Thank you.
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If you download the Motorola USB Device Manager then in my computer your device will be recognised with internal and external storage available, all folders under these will be clearly visable and you shouldn't have any issues transferring data between the two.
Cheers

I have that manager and it works well, but I would like the folder "sdcard" in the home to link me to the sdcard1 and not sdcard0. Right now the "symlink" in root browser points there. Anyway to change that?

Limited MTP capability with 6.0

My XT1540 was updated today and noticed a few minor inconveniences.
When connecting to my Linux pc, I no longer can get a MTP connection. I can still get a PTP connection.
When connecting using WIN 7, I can get a MTP connection with the internal storage, however, I am limited to PTP accessing the SD Card, only the Android and DCIM directories are available.
ADB seems to work fine with either connection. I had no issues using either Linux or Windows when on 5.1.1.
Is there a way to restore full MTP capability?

MrTooPhone said:
My XT1540 was updated today and noticed a few minor inconveniences.
When connecting to my Linux pc, I no longer can get a MTP connection. I can still get a PTP connection.
When connecting using WIN 7, I can get a MTP connection with the internal storage, however, I am limited to PTP accessing the SD Card, only the Android and DCIM directories are available.
ADB seems to work fine with either connection. I had no issues using either Linux or Windows when on 5.1.1.
Is there a way to restore full MTP capability?
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Is your sd card merged as internal? If so, unmerge and mount is the only solution right now as the SD card becomes encrypted once switched over.

christopherrrg said:
Is your sd card merged as internal? If so, unmerge and mount is the only solution right now as the SD card becomes encrypted once switched over.
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I did not set my card up as internal as that basically incorporates the card into the OS and eliminates the original intent of the SD Card. Basically makes the card invisible and no longer available to the user as he pleases. It appears Google is trying to take away the portability and convenience of a SD Card. I definitely want to portability and separation from the OS.
BTW....After further research on this topic I see many others are having the identical issues across other platforms. No solution found yet.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/nexus/6lMKqYYXpXw;context-place=topicsearchin/nexus/category$3Aconnecting-to-networks-and-devices%7Csort:relevance%7Cspell:false
Nikhil Bastikar said:
I found a solution from user named Peter Oravecz.
So basically we need to delete the cache and the data for the System apps named "External Storage and Media Storage".
Goto
Phone settings-> Apps -> Tap three dots on tiop right to select select Show system apps -> select External Storagge and Media storage and delete data ana cache.
Then REBOOT THE PHONE.
this shud work.
Worked for me.

Ulverinho said:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/nexus/6lMKqYYXpXw;context-place=topicsearchin/nexus/category$3Aconnecting-to-networks-and-devices%7Csort:relevance%7Cspell:false
Nikhil Bastikar said:
I found a solution from user named Peter Oravecz.
So basically we need to delete the cache and the data for the System apps named "External Storage and Media Storage".
Goto
Phone settings-> Apps -> Tap three dots on tiop right to select select Show system apps -> select External Storagge and Media storage and delete data ana cache.
Then REBOOT THE PHONE.
this shud work.
Worked for me.
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I will give this a shot... to bad Motorola didn't tell the soak testers this, almost everyone who left their sd card as portable storage (classic mode) lost USB MTP access to the card.

acejavelin said:
I will give this a shot... to bad Motorola didn't tell the soak testers this, almost everyone who left their sd card as portable storage (classic mode) lost USB MTP access to the card.
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Yup, figured that out already...
But if to believe this
https://motorola-global-portal.custhelp.com/app/answers/prod_answer_detail/a_id/109134/p/1449,9582
going to internal mode will give no access to sd card at all... what they were thinking in Google...hmm...
Of course, we can teach PCs and software to see ext4 - but why o why...

Ulverinho said:
Yup, figured that out already...
But if to believe this
https://motorola-global-portal.custhelp.com/app/answers/prod_answer_detail/a_id/109134/p/1449,9582
going to internal mode will give no access to sd card at all... what they were thinking in Google...hmm...
Of course, we can teach PCs and software to see ext4 - but why o why...
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Teach? lol... just run Linux, Windows sucks.

acejavelin said:
Teach? lol... just run Linux, Windows sucks.
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Agreed, I'm on Mac It's altogether a pain
Anyway, this is quite strange feature that had not much attention.
I hope that post helps.

Ulverinho said:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/nexus/6lMKqYYXpXw;context-place=topicsearchin/nexus/category$3Aconnecting-to-networks-and-devices%7Csort:relevance%7Cspell:false
Nikhil Bastikar said:
I found a solution from user named Peter Oravecz.
So basically we need to delete the cache and the data for the System apps named "External Storage and Media Storage".
Goto
Phone settings-> Apps -> Tap three dots on tiop right to select select Show system apps -> select External Storagge and Media storage and delete data ana cache.
Then REBOOT THE PHONE.
this shud work.
Worked for me.
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I tried that, but I see no option to delete cache.
So you now have full MTP access to your SD Card?
I am also interested if anyone else had success with with a MTP connection using Linux

acejavelin said:
Teach? lol... just run Linux, Windows sucks.
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So you have full MTP access to your SD Card using Linux?

MrTooPhone said:
So you have full MTP access to your SD Card using Linux?
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No... The point was if Google gave us direct access to the card as internal storage, we would need ext4 support. Was just a wishful thinking conversation.
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Ulverinho said:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/nexus/6lMKqYYXpXw;context-place=topicsearchin/nexus/category$3Aconnecting-to-networks-and-devices%7Csort:relevance%7Cspell:false
Nikhil Bastikar said:
I found a solution from user named Peter Oravecz.
So basically we need to delete the cache and the data for the System apps named "External Storage and Media Storage".
Goto
Phone settings-> Apps -> Tap three dots on tiop right to select select Show system apps -> select External Storagge and Media storage and delete data ana cache.
Then REBOOT THE PHONE.
this shud work.
Worked for me.
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Data clear and reboot also worked for me, thanks!

MrTooPhone said:
I tried that, but I see no option to delete cache.
So you now have full MTP access to your SD Card?
I am also interested if anyone else had success with with a MTP connection using Linux
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Well, Apps - Show system ones - go into app settings, then Storage - and then U'll see Wipe Data and Wipe Cache.

Ulverinho said:
Well, Apps - Show system ones - go into app settings, then Storage - and then U'll see Wipe Data and Wipe Cache.
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Thanks. I did not look under storage. Still made no difference with Linux, I get PTP but not a MTP connection for internal storage. No access to the SD Card. I will try with Windows later tonight, but I bet there will be no change (MTP for internal data and restricted to PTP for SD Card).

MrTooPhone said:
Thanks. I did not look under storage. Still made no difference with Linux, I get PTP but not a MTP connection for internal storage. No access to the SD Card. I will try with Windows later tonight, but I bet there will be no change (MTP for internal data and restricted to PTP for SD Card).
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Try making MTP default one in Developer Options - Select USB Config. Obviously this is not the solution as to mounting issue, but might force phone to choose MTP as default when cable plugs in.

Ulverinho said:
Try making MTP default one in Developer Options - Select USB Config. Obviously this is not the solution as to mounting issue, but might force phone to choose MTP as default when cable plugs in.
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I have tried all that several times with no success. Can you confirm your PC OS and if you have full MTP access to the SD Card? Not PTP access where you only see the media directories and files.

MrTooPhone said:
I have tried all that several times with no success. Can you confirm your PC OS and if you have full MTP access to the SD Card? Not PTP access where you only see the media directories and files.
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Yes, I've got access to my books, music, downloads and so on.
This is both Windows 7 and OSX.

Ulverinho said:
Yes, I've got access to my books, music, downloads and so on.
This is both Windows 7 and OSX.
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Thanks. After wiping data and cache for external storage and media storage, I have full MTP with Windows 7. Unfortunately, my Ubuntu 12.04 does not recognize the MTP connection. But it will connect when I select PTP.

OTG didn't work also. On my build. It's the same as the first update. Was fixed later.
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Actually, after clearing data and cache on these two items my attempts to access phone via USB are even worse know... In Windows 7 it just says "Unknown USB device" and the peripheral connect/disconnect tone goes off repeatedly, can't access anything anymore. But in Linux Mint I was able to access both internal storage and SD card now. Weird.
EDIT: Hmm... copying files to Linux from the SD card failed after about 1GB, as soon as I moved my laptop a bit. I might have a bad cable (this is a really old Samsung charger & cable I have carried in my laptop bag for traveling for probably 4 years). Not putting much stock in this test at this time until I can get home tomorrow night and use a known good cable.
EDIT2: Got a different cable from the front desk at the hotel, was able to copy about 8GB of music and pictures from SD card to my Linux Mint PC with no issues... Windows is still unable to recognize the device at all (might be something in my work laptop, but I think it had worked before and any other USB peripheral works fine)