Is there a certain driver I need to use for USB Mass Storage access? When I use a Sense ROM, Windows recognizes the phone as an MTP device, but when I use an AOSP ROM, the phone shows up as a "My HTC" device in the Device Manager, but never shows the phone's sdcard as a drive. Is there a certain driver I need to use? I'm running Win7 x64.
EDIT: Turns out my computer was using a really old HTC driver (from 2008) to identify the phone. I let it update and find another driver for it, and it used the generic USB Mass Storage device driver and added the Linux File-CD Gadget USB Device to the Disk Drives tree. I'm not sure how this will affect how Windows recognizes the phone when I use a Sense ROM, but for now this works.
tl;dr If the phone shows up as My HTC in Device Manager and doesn't show up as a USB Mass Storage Device/Linux File-CD Gadget USB Device when you enable USB Mass Storage Mode on the phone, try letting Windows find a new driver for it automatically.
Be warned that this will probably break ADB access, and you will need to keep the HTC Driver on hand to switch to when you do need ADB.
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I have the same question. Mine just shows up as "removable storage", and I can't access anything. I instead transfer files wirelessly over WiFi using ES File Explorer, but I'd still like to know how to access the phone through USB.
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Re: Can't use USB Storage in AOSP ROMs
Are you mounting as usb storage when prompted by phone? Disable HTC sync on the computer?
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ChrisPBacon said:
Are you mounting as usb storage when prompted by phone? Disable HTC sync on the computer?
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I am indeed mounting when prompted, and I'm not sure how I'd disable HTC Sync short of deleting or otherwise uninstalling it.
EDIT: Turns out my computer was using a really old HTC driver (from 2008) to identify the phone. I let it update and find another driver for it, and it used the generic USB Mass Storage device driver and added the Linux File-CD Gadget USB Device to the Disk Drives tree. I'm not sure how this will affect how Windows recognizes the phone when I use a Sense ROM, but for now this works.
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When I plug my usb cord into my Infuse and into my desktop, the desktop doesnt see the Infuse. I have the usb settings set to use the Infuse as a mass storage device, but nothing. If I put any other device or card in one of my slots, the computer instantly see's the device and reads it.. help
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When I plug my usb cord into my Infuse and into my desktop, the desktop doesnt see the Infuse. I have the usb settings set to use the Infuse as a mass storage device, but nothing. If I put any other device or card in one of my slots, the computer instantly see's the device and reads it.. help
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Try going to samsung, i had to install this driver file then i could access my files on the phone and sd card. http://www.samsung.com/us/support/downloads/SGH-I997ZKAATT
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fozzyengine1 said:
When I plug my usb cord into my Infuse and into my desktop, the desktop doesnt see the Infuse. I have the usb settings set to use the Infuse as a mass storage device, but nothing. If I put any other device or card in one of my slots, the computer instantly see's the device and reads it.. help
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If you are running windows 7 and all else fails, open device manager and find the samsung or unknown device and try to uninstall all samsung drivers, be sure when the computer asks if you want to uninstall the files too to select "yes/ok". After doing that reboot the computer let it settle down til the hard drive lite indicator on computer does not blink.
After that securly plug the usb cable into the phone and into the computer
wait 15-30 seconds more or less and if you are running windows 7 and are connected to internet then windows will automatically install fresh drivers into your computer and most likely your problem will be solved..
If this solves the problem it means that your samsung drivers for some reason got corrupted.
Also just because your computer reconizes "other cards" that does not mean that it will reconize your samsung phone.. The samsung fone requires specific drivers to be install for it to reconize your phone.
For sdcards, flash drives, external hard drives windows only uses its generic usb drivers, thats why your computer reconizes the usb cards properly now even though it does not reconize your phone.
Good luck.
A friend of mine got this P3110 running stock 4.1.1; a week of usage, she can copy files from her pc to the tab (mass storage), after a week or so, she can't used it as a mass storage device nor we can have it change thru dropdown change USB options (only MTP and camera are present no Mass Storage option). Question is how this can happen? Anyone has any idea what's going on? USB debugging is off. Installed proper drivers (KIES). But now, always asked for MTP drivers and when windows tried to install mtp drivers, not successful.
djtreo said:
A friend of mine got this P3110 running stock 4.1.1; a week of usage, she can copy files from her pc to the tab (mass storage), after a week or so, she can't used it as a mass storage device nor we can have it change thru dropdown change USB options (only MTP and camera are present no Mass Storage option). Question is how this can happen? Anyone has any idea what's going on? USB debugging is off. Installed proper drivers (KIES). But now, always asked for MTP drivers and when windows tried to install mtp drivers, not successful.
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Factory reset as u might have deleted some framework files
This device only offers mtp and ptp mode. Msc is not supported. Just read the manual
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tobbbie said:
This device only offers mtp and ptp mode. Msc is not supported. Just read the manual
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But he is saying that ptp isnt working
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But he is saying that ptp isnt working
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Well, can't find any option in settings on my stripped down JB with Custom Kernel as of now. But I think these are possible connection types:
MTP (Media Transfer Protocol): for Windows Media Player
PTP (Picture Transfer Protocol): to act like a connected camera
MSC (Mass Storage Connection): to act like connected USB drive
As far I remember the GT-P31xx only supports 1 + 2 - not 3. 1 + 2 have the disadvantage that Android Libraries must be updated before files are visible. My experience with this is not good. The manual (for ICS in German) mentions also 3.) but I cannot recall ever noticing it.
If you want to have fast copy actions, then use an external card reader to write to the sd card and then insert the card. This wirks for sure and is the fastest way.
Also check if the device connects well to another PC - problem may not be the device after all, but the PC.
tobbbie said:
Well, can't find any option in settings on my stripped down JB with Custom Kernel as of now. But I think these are possible connection types:
MTP (Media Transfer Protocol): for Windows Media Player
PTP (Picture Transfer Protocol): to act like a connected camera
MSC (Mass Storage Connection): to act like connected USB drive
As far I remember the GT-P31xx only supports 1 + 2 - not 3. 1 + 2 have the disadvantage that Android Libraries must be updated before files are visible. My experience with this is not good. The manual (for ICS in German) mentions also 3.) but I cannot recall ever noticing it.
If you want to have fast copy actions, then use an external card reader to write to the sd card and then insert the card. This wirks for sure and is the fastest way.
Also check if the device connects well to another PC - problem may not be the device after all, but the PC.
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Ya I only have ptp and mtp I never saw msc but mtp is good speed not bad
Thanks guys!
I've been trying to get USB tethering working on my HTC One S. I have CM10.1 installed and it's the only thing I've had any issues with. I got it to work by changing the USB Mass Storage Driver in the Device Manager in Windows 7 to the RNDIS driver...but this causes storage on the phone to be disabled until I uninstall the RNDIS driver and get the USB Mass Storage Driver back. I'd like to have them both working without having to go through the Device Manager.
Has anyone else had an issue like this, and if so how did you get around it?
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I've been trying to get USB tethering working on my HTC One S. I have CM10.1 installed and it's the only thing I've had any issues with. I got it to work by changing the USB Mass Storage Driver in the Device Manager in Windows 7 to the RNDIS driver...but this causes storage on the phone to be disabled until I uninstall the RNDIS driver and get the USB Mass Storage Driver back. I'd like to have them both working without having to go through the Device Manager.
Has anyone else had an issue like this, and if so how did you get around it?
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USB OTG/mass storage work around
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...tcherotg&hl=en
hi
how to transfer a file from pc to nexus 5 without enabling USB debugging?
i connected the phone to my PC. In Phone MTP is checked. but i cannot transfer a file to my phone. i dont get any drive shown in my PC. but in
pc under hardware devices the nexus 5 phone is shown. Please help..
If i turn on USB debugging in phone, then a drive is shown in "This PC" i was able to transfer any file to phone from PC. but after copying some files and flashing some ROMS i internal storage became somewhat problematic. it doesnt show files properly. please help me with it
Suhaas said:
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how to transfer a file from pc to nexus 5 without enabling USB debugging?
i connected the phone to my PC. In Phone MTP is checked. but i cannot transfer a file to my phone. i dont get any drive shown in my PC. but in
pc under hardware devices the nexus 5 phone is shown. Please help..
If i turn on USB debugging in phone, then a drive is shown in "This PC" i was able to transfer any file to phone from PC. but after copying some files and flashing some ROMS i internal storage became somewhat problematic. it doesnt show files properly. please help me with it
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Remove PIN as security option and check
Also re-install the drivers properly
Also check whether it's working fine on other PC or not using different usb cable
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Thankx. Drivers were not installed properly.
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Hello,
I pluged the device to my laptop (win 7 pro 64bit) and have chosen the driver mode, installed the drivers, then i want to access the mass storage mode to transfer the files using file commander, but the only modes are charge, MTP, PTP, driver disk....i cant see the internal and external storage as a disk in any mode. Please how to fix this?
I might be wrong, but I do not think Lollipop supports USB mass storage anymore . You should still be able to transfer files in and out via Windows Explorer using MTP mode. And I actually like that because I no longer have to worry about ejecting the device before unplugging.
Usb Mass Storage (UMS) is no more officially supported since Jelly Bean 4.2.2. Nevertheless we can find some app/mod enabling it (on playstore) but I don't know if or works with 5.0 + and root is needed.