Hi,
Wouldn't it be nice to connect a USB hard disk to your touch pro.
Copy files to it, play videos from it, etc.
Any one know if this has already been done?
joymike123 said:
Hi,
Wouldn't it be nice to connect a USB hard disk to your touch pro.
Copy files to it, play videos from it, etc.
Any one know if this has already been done?
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I do this everyday with my TPro, but not in the direct fashion you are referring to.
My TPro connects to both my office and home computers daily thru ActiveSync. Then I run EF-Commander (from EF Software) to access the SDHC card within the TPro. One side of the file manager is viewing the SD card's contents, the other side is viewing the desktop harddisk. EF-Commander is great at synchronizing between matching folders on two separate computers.
With a 16GB SDHC card in the TPro, I have oodles of data files related to my work, most of them are: MS-Word, MS-Excel, PDF's, JPG's. These are the one's that get synchronized.
Tablet shows up as storage drive but will not allow drag and drop. At least not completely.
If I drag over and drop a folder onto the tablet, only the folder and any folders inside the folder will transfer. Nothing inside the folders will move, so it just stalls out.
I've also installed Kies, and get the same results. I'm clueless at this point. What should I look for now?
Calibre won't upload books either and gives no errors.
RealRobD said:
Tablet shows up as storage drive but will not allow drag and drop. At least not completely.
If I drag over and drop a folder onto the tablet, only the folder and any folders inside the folder will transfer. Nothing inside the folders will move, so it just stalls out.
I've also installed Kies, and get the same results. I'm clueless at this point. What should I look for now?
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Can you give us a few more details....... What is your computers OS, what model tablet do you have 8013?, 4.0.4 or 4.1.2, What kind of files (avi, apk, mp3, mp4, doc, text)
Hard to help without complete details.
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kkretch said:
Can you give us a few more details....... What is your computers OS, what model tablet do you have 8013?, 4.0.4 or 4.1.2, What kind of files (avi, apk, mp3, mp4, doc, text)
Hard to help without complete details.
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Windows 7, 8013, 4.1.2
Files: epub, mobi, .jpg, .opf etc.
Nothing will transfer. Nothing from Calibre, Kies or drag and drop. Yet all those applications successfully connect to the device.
I can make new folders on the tablet but that's it.
Calibre just popped up an error that says it can't communicate with the device. Which seems odd, as it shows connected status.
RealRobD said:
Windows 7, 8013, 4.1.2
Files: epub, mobi, .jpg, .opf etc.
Nothing will transfer. Nothing from Calibre, Kies or drag and drop. Yet all those applications successfully connect to the device.
I can make new folders on the tablet but that's it.
Calibre just popped up an error that says it can't communicate with the device. Which seems odd, as it shows connected status.
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Were you able to transfer files from Calibre before or is this a first attempt?
kkretch said:
Were you able to transfer files from Calibre before or is this a first attempt?
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First attempt at all of it.
The connections: h**p://i.imgur.com/iQLSJFl.jpg
RealRobD said:
First attempt at all of it.
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In Calibre does the note 10.1 show up on the top icon bar as a black icon labeled "device"
If so right click on it and then click on "configure this device" you will need to tell calibre what kind of files you want to transfer to the tablet like pdf, epub, mobi. Then you need to choose what folders you want to transfer your book files to on your tablet.
If you can not see the black tablet labeled device make sure that your usb is set to "connect as a media device (mtp)" and not set to "camera (ptp)"
Oh..... can you see the tablet in Windows explorer.... it should be the last item in Computer, it will be after all or your hard drives and cd drives. It should be listed as "GT-N8013"
Let me know what you see so we can continue.
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kkretch said:
In Calibre does the note 10.1 show up on the top icon bar as a black icon labeled "device"
If so right click on it and then click on "configure this device" you will need to tell calibre what kind of files you want to transfer to the tablet like pdf, epub, mobi. Then you need to choose what folders you want to transfer your book files to on your tablet.
If you can not see the black tablet labeled device make sure that your usb is set to "connect as a media device (mtp)" and not set to "camera (ptp)"
Oh..... can you see the tablet in Windows explorer.... it should be the last item in Computer, it will be after all or your hard drives and cd drives. It should be listed as "GT-N8013"
Let me know what you see so we can continue.
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Black icon, check!
Right click to configure, fail.
It gives an error because it's running a job. The job runs infinitely because it's trying to get the list of books on the device but it can't see it, apparently. Yet as I said before, it does connect to it =\
Yes the Note shows as a storage devise in Windows. But drag and drop will not work.
RealRobD said:
Black icon, check!
Right click to configure, fail.
It gives an error because it's running a job. The job runs infinitely because it's trying to get the list of books on the device but it can't see it, apparently. Yet as I said before, it does connect to it =\
Yes the Note shows as a storage devise in Windows. But drag and drop will not work.
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Are you rooted?
have you tried to transfer file with a free app called AirDroid in playstore. I like it better than Kies
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kkretch said:
Are you rooted?
have you tried to transfer file with a free app called AirDroid in playstore. I like it better than Kies
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Not rooted yet. I just got the Note yesterday and I want to get a feel for stock first.
I'll look into AirDroid, thanks for the tip.
I've just started using DropBox and moved a few books. I just wish I could take them out of DropBox and put them on my device =\
RealRobD said:
Not rooted yet. I just got the Note yesterday and I want to get a feel for stock first.
I'll look into AirDroid, thanks for the tip.
I've just started using DropBox and moved a few books. I just wish I could take them out of DropBox and put them on my device =\
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What book reader are you using and why can't you put books on you Note from dropbox?
Your drag and drop issue is on your windows7 computer correct? In the past I had drag and drop issues with some apps on my win7 computer and I had to do a reinstall of the OS to fix my issue.
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Today I plugged it into another computer, it recognized right away. Open it, drag and drop a file boom, it copies.
Go back to my machine toss Ubuntu on for dual boot. It recognizes it no problem. Open it, drag n drop a file, no go.
Seems like some kind of hardware issue.
RealRobD said:
Today I plugged it into another computer, it recognized right away. Open it, drag and drop a file boom, it copies.
Go back to my machine toss Ubuntu on for dual boot. It recognizes it no problem. Open it, drag n drop a file, no go.
Seems like some kind of hardware issue.
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If you have a home WIFI system, you might consider installing a file manager like ES File Explorer that supports SMB. You don't have to be rooted to do it and once you input your home network settings you can transfer files wirelessly. It's much more reliable than Samsung's Kies software.
mke1973 said:
If you have a home WIFI system, you might consider installing a file manager like ES File Explorer that supports SMB. You don't have to be rooted to do it and once you input your home network settings you can transfer files wirelessly. It's much more reliable than Samsung's Kies software.
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I use DropBox and ES File Explorer but that doesn't solve my issue of needing direct access via USB cable.
And besides that, broke things need fixed
Why do you use Kies?
Opens up on my PC like 2 removable discs... Tablet and card. Drag and drop files I want to copy...
Solved the problem. Bought a Mac, installed Android File Transfer, awesome ensued. PC is now a curb ornament.
RealRobD said:
Solved the problem. Bought a Mac, installed Android File Transfer, awesome ensued. PC is now a curb ornament.
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Dont want to turn on a mac vs windows war here but whats the deal ????.. you dont need any software to connect to windows
Obviously USB mass storage does not work in mac or windows..
(I use both and each has there own advantages )
Edit : did not read the full thread.. Guess its just a driver issue... I can say -" windows suck with drivers " . Love mac for that
drgopoos said:
Dont want to turn on a mac vs windows war here but whats the deal ????.. you dont need any software to connect to windows
Obviously USB mass storage does not work in mac or windows..
(I use both and each has there own advantages )
Edit : did not read the full thread.. Guess its just a driver issue... I can say -" windows suck with drivers " . Love mac for that
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There is some major bull****tery with Windows, my hardware and my GN 10.1
It connects, pops up as a drive and file transfers work on two other Win7 boxes. I did everything imaginable to get it to transfer on my ex main pc. It would show up as a drive, I could click it and see all the files but when trying to transfer files, it was a no go. It would try. A window would pop up and the progress bar would show but then stop and not transfer anything.
Hi Everyone,
My wife owns an HTC One XL (Telstra) phone which has many very important photos on it (particularly photos of the birth of our 3rd child). Normally I systematically backup all files from my wife's phones. However in this particular instance I am running into some difficulties. I have the HTC Sync program installed (on a Windows 7 64 bit computer) - and when I look at the number of photos on the device through the Sync Manager the number reported does not agree with Windows Explorer.
HTC Sync reports approximately 700 photos, whereas Windows Explorer reports around 1300!
Furthermore when I simply use Windows Explorer to copy the files from the phone over to a folder on my computer not all photos are copied across. I can then subsequently delete the files from my computer and re-copy (from the phone) over to my computer, and strangely enough a different number of files copy over successfully each time!!!
In all instances when I perform the copy operation Windows reports that copying will take about 15 minutes, and then depending on the "mood" the copy process will cease after 20 seconds, or 1 minute, or some other random time.
If anybody knows how to reliably copy all the photos on this phone to a computer can you please shed some light?
Kind Regards,
Davo
I'm guessing it's on Jellybean 4.1, so when you mount it's in the stupid MTP format.
Is the phone rooted? If it is, you could mount usb storage in recovery, which uses mass storage format, and should be easier.
Sent from my Evita
Recovery uses the same as the ROM for me. So if I use a sense jb brom recovery is also mtp but if I use aosp its mass storage.
Sent from my HTC One X using xda app-developers app
Hmm ok, if I have a sense ROM booted I can't transfer files to/from my ps3, but if I mount in recovery it works just fine. So I had assumed it was using mass storage. I've also read that somewhere. Might warrant some further investigation.
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The answer!!!
Hi Everyone,
To the best of my knowledge my wife's phone runs on Ice Cream Sandwich - and it definitely isn't rooted.
All this being said I found a solution!
1). Download and install My Mobiler for Android
2). Right click on the My Mobiler icon (in the taskbar) and select Device
My Mobiler - Select Device
3). Select Install from the Device menu
My Mobiler - Select Install
4). On your mobile you will need to grant permission for the App to install
! Once installed the My Mobiler App icon will appear in the top left hand corner of the screen on your mobile, and you will see this screen...
My Mobiler "Start Screen"
5). Select Mobile Explorer from the My Mobiler menu on your computer (same screen shot as in point 2).
! The Mobile Explorer Window will then be presented as shown below -
My Mobiler - Mobile Explorer
6). Transfer your files to your hearts content
7). Disconnect your phone, and exit both the Windows program and the App (through your phone's task manager)
I hope that this helps others who may be in a similar position.
Kind Regards,
Davo
As a side note I have never been able to get the "remote control" aspect of this software going - the screen is always jumpy!!!
I am running Windows 7 Pro and have a new Samsung S7 phone. when I connect the phone to my usb port I see a new "drive" within windows explorer. So far so good. I open it up and see my SD card, open that up and note my DCIM folder and underneath that a sub-folder with a bunch of pictures I put on the SD card. Still good. But the right context menu is not what I expect. And when I click on a JPG file, instead of opening in my default picture program, it opens up in Window's viewer instead. And none of the normal right click menu items are there.
If I try to delete a file from within the phone (not from the pc) it won't let me without giving permissions to the photo app I use (Quickpic). but it has permission to the sd card already. So it looks like if I want to mess around with photos on the sd card, I have to first pull the card from the phone.
Any thoughts on this? Is it "normal"?
Hello, everyone,
Unfortunately, something "bad" happened to us two days ago.
My wife still has an "old" Samsung Galaxy S7 without root and with the actual standard rom.
Instead of copying the pictures and videos (the first 6 months of our child's life), we moved the data.
Now we have JPEG and movie files on the PC, but they show as 9 GB each (but they only occupy a 4kb block on the disk) - With the HEX editor I could see that except a block of 4KB it contains only 0-byte "info".
Unfortunately a recovery with tools like "Recuva" does not work, because the device is not recognized as a mass storage device (even in USB debug mode).
Other free tools which supposedly recover files on the device without root have not found any data.
Do you have an idea how we can recover the photos and videos?
We switched off the mobile phone for safety reasons, so that nothing is "overwritten" by mistake. Or a TRIM-mechanism for damage to the possibly still existing data fragments so called
My root experience with Android unfortunately dates back to the "KitKat" age and at that time, as far as I remember, the data had to be wiped after the root process.
In general, we are have no Problem, if there is no other possibility to root the device to try out local data recovery tools?
Do you have any ideas how we can somehow recover the really emotionally important data?
Thank you very much for your help!
AgentFrost said:
Hello, everyone,
Unfortunately, something "bad" happened to us two days ago.
My wife still has an "old" Samsung Galaxy S7 without root and with the actual standard rom.
Instead of copying the pictures and videos (the first 6 months of our child's life), we moved the data.
Now we have JPEG and movie files on the PC, but they show as 9 GB each (but they only occupy a 4kb block on the disk) - With the HEX editor I could see that except a block of 4KB it contains only 0-byte "info".
Unfortunately a recovery with tools like "Recuva" does not work, because the device is not recognized as a mass storage device (even in USB debug mode).
Other free tools which supposedly recover files on the device without root have not found any data.
Do you have an idea how we can recover the photos and videos?
We switched off the mobile phone for safety reasons, so that nothing is "overwritten" by mistake. Or a TRIM-mechanism for damage to the possibly still existing data fragments so called
My root experience with Android unfortunately dates back to the "KitKat" age and at that time, as far as I remember, the data had to be wiped after the root process.
In general, we are have no Problem, if there is no other possibility to root the device to try out local data recovery tools?
Do you have any ideas how we can somehow recover the really emotionally important data?
Thank you very much for your help!
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Can you still access the photos on the phone?
cooltt said:
Can you still access the photos on the phone?
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I'm afraid not.
We have transferred the photos with "move" instead of "copy".
From the perspective of the phone, the files were successfully transferred, even if they arrived corrupted on the Windows system.
AgentFrost said:
I'm afraid not.
We have transferred the photos with "move" instead of "copy".
From the perspective of the phone, the files were successfully transferred, even if they arrived corrupted on the Windows system.
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Well all that would have been moved is a folder with all the files in. Windows should be able to open jpegs and videos easily. You possibly didn't move the correct folder.
Download Samsung USB drivers for your pc and install them.
Connect phone, wait for Windows to show in folder panel then choose allow data transfer on the phone itself.
You can then explore the various folders on the phone.
Vidoes and pictures are stored in the DCIM folder on the phone or SD card. Sometimes in folder called "Pictures".
It's highly unlikely you've lost those files if all you did was move the folder.
Even move the folder on the pc back to the phone where it came from?
cooltt said:
Well all that would have been moved is a folder with all the files in. Windows should be able to open jpegs and videos easily. You possibly didn't move the correct folder.
Download Samsung USB drivers for your pc and install them.
Connect phone, wait for Windows to show in folder panel then choose allow data transfer on the phone itself.
You can then explore the various folders on the phone.
Vidoes and pictures are stored in the DCIM folder on the phone or SD card. Sometimes in folder called "Pictures".
It's highly unlikely you've lost those files if all you did was move the folder.
Even move the folder on the pc back to the phone where it came from?
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The photos have been transferred from the DCIM folder to a Windows PC.
However, there seem to have been problems during the transfer, as the files in Windows are each over 9GB in size (over 5TB of photos and videos in total) - this can't be right, of course. In the file properties of Windows it is shown that the 9GB file only takes up 4KB of space on the hard disk. Even when i inspect one of those files with an HEX-Viewer i can see, that there is only a 4KB -Data Block at the End of the .jpeg file with no content.
As I said, it looks like the files were somehow badly damaged during transfer. And the phone thinks that the files have been moved successfully and accordingly the files are no longer findable in the Android file system or, as usual when moving, deleted from the source.
Since Windows believes that a file alone is 9GB, we are not able to transfer the file back to the device.
Is there any way to restore the files on the Android device?
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The photos have been transferred from the DCIM folder to a Windows PC.
Is there any way to restore the files on the Android device?
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Only if you set it to back up with the Google account which stores a copy of all photos video and files.
cooltt said:
Only if you set it to back up with the Google account which stores a copy of all photos video and files.
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Sadly no Cloud Backup of the files.
That's why we already tried to recover the files with Recuva (which doesn't work because of the missing USB mass storage mode) and other tools.
In the meantime I have also read that a recovery of data on the mobile phone only works with root access.