Okay, so I've been scouring the Internet and these forums for a way to do this, but haven't come up with an answer, maybe it's just that I'm an idiot and would loose my head if it weren't so stubbornly attached to my body and the answer is right under my nose. Who knows (obviously not me). Anyway, I've downloaded a 7gb .mkv file onto my phone and am currently attempting to get it off my phone. I now have come to understand that the fat32 format of my sd card does not allow me to transfer any files over 4gb to it. This would like explain why I would wait forever for it to transfer and then when it finishes.... it starts all over, and just does that again and again. Next I tried cloud services and I found that they won't let you transfer files anywhere near that size, especially not for free. So that leaves me in my current dilemma. Now here's the details. I've got a brand new Mac I'd like to get the file onto and a Note 2 that I'd like to get the file off of. To complicate matters worse I use my phone for damn near everything Internet related and tether it when using the mac so I don't have any wifi either. I think I could potentially Bluetooth it (maybe?), but that would just take an absurd amount of time of its even possible so that's outta the question even if it is a possibility. Isn't there a way to just hook up my note 2 to the mac and transfer that way? Any help would be greatly, greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!
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Is there something wrong with the USB cable?
Nope. Working just fine but I'm guessing you must know something I don't cuz I haven't been able to find a way to transfer the files I want. Also though, on my macbook android file transfer wouldbt work peiod but it does on th imac, weird right? But even with android file transfer working on the imac theres a 4gb file limit so its still no help with the file I'm trying to get moved
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Try transferring it to a pc, then transfer it back out to an external hard drive formatted for Ex-FAT.
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Hey guys
I just bought a new Nexus S (the GT-I9023 model) and I really love the phone. BUT, since about two weeks, I have very strange problems with the internal USB storage. When I connect it to a computer (yes, I tried on Windows and Mac OS X), I can mount the drive and copy files to it. But as soon as I try to copy larger files from my Nexus S to my computer, the USB storage disables itself and the file transfer crashes. I constantly have this bug, and I have absolutely no clue why it does this. My Nexus S is 100% stock and not rooted (I'm running 2.3.6). Is this a hardware issue? Should I try to get my phone exchanged? Is that a know bug?
I would be EXTREMELY thankful, if you could help me track down this issue...
Please define "large files".
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Hey guys
I just bought a new Nexus S (the GT-I9023 model) and I really love the phone. BUT, since about two weeks, I have very strange problems with the internal USB storage. When I connect it to a computer (yes, I tried on Windows and Mac OS X), I can mount the drive and copy files to it. But as soon as I try to copy larger files from my Nexus S to my computer, the USB storage disables itself and the file transfer crashes. I constantly have this bug, and I have absolutely no clue why it does this. My Nexus S is 100% stock and not rooted (I'm running 2.3.6). Is this a hardware issue? Should I try to get my phone exchanged? Is that a know bug?
I would be EXTREMELY thankful, if you could help me track down this issue...
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Do you have adequate space in your storage? The next time you hook your phone up to OSX, empty the trash while the phone is connected. Sometimes the phone will show plenty of available storage but in reality all your previously deleted files are hidden somewhere waiting for you to "empty trash" in OSX.
Long shot here, but you might have a bad USB cable that makes intermittent contact, and USB disabling turning off during large file transfers is just a coincidence. My OEM cable degraded over time and I had to buy a new one.
If none of the above works, there could be some corruption in your file system. You could copy all the contents of the phone to your computer, format the storage, and copy everything that you need back.
There is one more option that happened to me, but I don't want to panic you since it doesn't sound like the same symptoms, but if you'd like to know more: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=993403&highlight=corrupt+storage
OK, all files larger than about 30MB are causing the storage to disable. Also, it's not an issue with the trash (I know what you mean, I know the .trashes folder in OSX). I also have plenty of free space.
By the way, huge thanks for the tip with the cable, it seems to have fixed the problem :O ! I actually didn't even think about an issue as simple as a broken cable... >.< At least, it seems to work fine again. The one thing I still don't get, is WHY it could copy small files from the Nexus to the computer and copy ANY file to the Nexus from the computer, but COULDN'T copy large files from the phone to my Mac....
Anyway, thank you for the simple but INSANELY useful tip!
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By the way, huge thanks for the tip with the cable, it seems to have fixed the problem :O ! I actually didn't even think about an issue as simple as a broken cable... >.< At least, it seems to work fine again. The one thing I still don't get, is WHY it could copy small files from the Nexus to the computer and copy ANY file to the Nexus from the computer, but COULDN'T copy large files from the phone to my Mac....
Anyway, thank you for the simple but INSANELY useful tip!
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Yep, glad you got it figured out.
Yeah, thank you! (Also glad it's not my Nexus or my iMac's USB ports )
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Hello everyone,
I am having an interesting problem with a 32gb micro SD card it my transformer.
I am trying to transfer movie files to it (approx 11 gigs). The problem is that the tablet can play the first 3 files that get transferred over but nothing past (keep getting file can not be opened error).
The files are approx 700mb each, xvid files.
I have true all of the video players that are popular with the same result.
It seems to me an issue where the transformer can not read / access the files past a certain point on the card.
I have tried transferring the files over my network and wifi as well as direct copy to the card from a desktop, same result.
Has anyone seen this before?
Would it be worth formatting the card to an ext file system as opposed to fat32?
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Try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1381529
have you tried putting the sdcard on the computer and verify that the files are working correctly?
there are some sdcards that are counterfeit, especially if they have huge capacity and sold for very cheap.
I once got (as a gift) a 4GB usb drive that was in reality 1GB in size, files up to 1gb work just fine, above that you start getting all kinds of errors.
Thanks forthe follow up. Allthe movies play fine on the desktop,still just getting that the video playerz can't open the file. It almost seemslike the system thinks they are inuse by another program.
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Try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1381529
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HUH? Don't you see question marks in his post?
Just to close this off. Issue was the memory card. Bad card. Replaced with a new one and everything is working well.
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OK guys i love my Nexus S, its a great phone, fast smooth etc etc.
Running CyberGR's rom (tho i noticed with every other rom i tried)... usb transfer speeds are sporadic at best. I couldnt even transfer a 500mb file to the storage when i have GB's free.
What gives. Tried both within the rom, and in recovery. Its not the cable tried multiple.
Hell i can transfer the file over wifi maxing out the wifi without issues... so it seems like its just a usb transfer problem!
Any tips etc?
I noticed the slow USB write speed too.
My Nexus S (i9023) running stock 4.0.4 had the Matr1x 18.5 kernel flashed yesterday. It actually made the transfer speed even worse. With stock kernel around 1.5 MB/s and now just around 0.7 MB/s.
I read some where that the problem is in the 3.x kernel family. I guess it makes sense, because with Android 2.3.6 (2.x kernel family) the USB transfer speed was usable.
If you need to move data to the phone fast, the boot into recovery (CWM) and mount USB storage. Going around the kernel (or whatever the problem is) you should be able to write 5-7 MB/s.
That's still an issue with 4.0.4? :S
Guess ICS isn't ready enough for me yet.
even in recovery write speed starts out alright... but then tanks like no ones business. to the point where it didnt even want to finish the 500MB file i was trying to transfer.
hmmm.
Read speeds within android are 100% fine... around 20-22MB/s
And i just transfered 150MB to the phone within android at 1.9MB/s without any issues.... but it seems like every other time when i try and do a xfer it will get halfway and the just stop all together.
try using a program called terra copy.it does the job for me.speeds the transfer alot.
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try using a program called terra copy.it does the job for me.speeds the transfer alot.
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thats a sad excuse for a solution IMO. on my old crappy slow LG p500 i could read and write from the sd card like no ones business never had any issues etc.
now... im lucky to be able to finish coppying the file cus the transfers are so shotty.
another interesting thing i found is that when using ADB push... to push the same file to the sd card, i got a nice consistant 4MB/s within android (obviously sd / usb storage not mounted)
no one has any tweaks etc etc.... i have tried changing the read ahead to 2048 and that changes nothing.
it looks like it is a bug with ICS at this point... blah.
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it looks like it is a bug with ICS at this point... blah.
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Yes it looks like it.
I've tried to test the transfer speed using Ubuntu, but with no luck.
I didn't get more than 0.7 MB/s so it is not a Windows USB problem.
I haven't found any statement from Google saying they're aware of the problem.
I hope they fix it in the next ICS release (if there'll be one)
Try astro manager and download the extra modules. Its free
If you experience slow USB speed, transfer files through ADB. It will be much faster.
That's not the point here. I think the point is is that with 4.0.4, there's a bug involving usb file transfer from PC to phone. We know there are alternatives but one shouldn't have to go through all that just to transfer files.
I have been getting desperate on an issue which I mention in another thread.
I wrecked my phone and got a replacement, got it back to a state I wanted, so that's all good... However, I need to send the damaged phone back by tomorrow (Thursday) or else TMO is going to slap me with a $850 fee.
The problem is that I need to copy the contents of the SD card. This isn't an unreasonable endeavor because the phone, from all appearances, works fine, other than the fact that about 5 seconds after it gets to the desktop, it goes black...but it continues to sound notifications, etc., so I know it is still functioning, albeit with no screen.
When I plug into my laptop using adb, it acknowledges the device, but says its "offline". From looking around the web reading others experience with this error, it doesn't seem like a "real" error. Solutions suggested are changing USB ports, reinstalling drivers, rebooting phone, etc., and the problem seems to go away for those users. However I have tried these solutions, and yet my device still is considered to be "offline".
I use ADB often enough that I never turn off USB debugging so that isn't an issue. But while I know how to push and pull files , or fastboot flash a recovery, I don't know much else about ADB. Is there any experts or ADB gurus who can suggest some other ideas about how I can get this USB convection working? Or at least run some diagnostic too see if in fact the SD card is damaged?
It is very important I get these files of my SD..they are attorney work product and notes regarding a transaction (and also several pictures from the night the phone was damaged) . I make regular backups to dropbox, but apparently not regular enough as my backup wasn't current when I damaged it.
Please ... I am looking for any suggestions. And further, I can't believe that ifthe sd card was in fact damaged, I should still be able to recover some portion of the files. Can one access the sd card when the phone isn't on? It seems rather counterintuitive to me for HTC to create this obstacle consisting the microSD is non-removable on the first place.
Any thoughts are very much appreciated.
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Can't you just mount usb in recovery and pull the contents that way?
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Can't you just mount usb in recovery and pull the contents that way?
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The screen didn't work.
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Because he said it worked for five seconds I assumed that to be rom related and thought there might be a possibility that recovery would work. After I posted I saw other posts and realized he's pretty knowledgeable... Not too used to that.
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When I putt he SD into my phone (currently running Paranoid KANG droid 2.32) I actually get nothing more than an occasional "SD has been removed" message. However, when I put the card into my old OG droid (running Cyanogenmod 7) i get the "unsupported file system" error. This has happened before, and I just had to wait it out before the SD recovered on its own. It is not doing this now. (yes I am an idiot for still using it despite my 32 gigs of internal storage). I have a feeling it is formatted as RAW due to a formatting issue, but I can't get anything else (pc or other devices) to recognize the card, other than my OG droid. So what I want to know, is if there is a way to force mount the card, or give a PC control over the sdcard path and force mount it some way through the PC (effectively turning my phone into an external card reader, because traditional methods don't work). I need a workaround for this, because there are dozens of pictures of my family, puppies, and friends on it that I don't want to lose.
Back up the card of you can, it sounds like it's dying on you. This phone really s3ms to kill cards, I've already gone through 2 32gig cards.
I had a 32GB Sandisk Ultra MicroSD card, and by chatting with Sandisk support, I am going to exchange my dead card for a working card. BTW, while you can, salvage the data you can, because it starts out like that, before becoming completely unusable.
I've went through two SanDisk. They are easy to work with, just get the ball rolling on the replacement.
Like the others said, get your data backed up as soon as you can.
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wow. so now not only am I not able to use my phone on tmobile's 4g, I also cannot have external storage because the phone destroys it? what a tremendously idiotic piece of crap.
does anyone know about any apps or pc software that would help me get my data back? I have the card reader but the pc wants to format the card and so does the phone. I need, like, mad rescue gear.
thanks!
Wow... You can't use it on someone else's 4g because it was designed for a different network.
Also I've not had any problems whatsoever with my external.
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CortoMaltese91 said:
wow. so now not only am I not able to use my phone on tmobile's 4g, I also cannot have external storage because the phone destroys it? what a tremendously idiotic piece of crap.
does anyone know about any apps or pc software that would help me get my data back? I have the card reader but the pc wants to format the card and so does the phone. I need, like, mad rescue gear.
thanks!
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Had 4 of these cards for a year now and not one hiccup. I'd say whatever is happening to them, its something you are doing to crap them, not the vendors. ALways backup your critical data, but if you treat these cards properly they will work and last as well as any.
No, you CAN use it on someone elses network, just not T-mobile as it doesn't do hdspa+ 1700, 1900... There's even a bounty out for that elsewhere on xda, to enable these bands, I believe it's currently at over $200.
And no, I'm not doing crap to the SD card. I've had it for over two years, used it on a different phone before that, never did anything different and it just died out of the blue. I'm not a noob, I would know if I had done something to it.
You would be pretty pissed off too if all your data was deleted, the phone you spent many many hours working to pay for did not work and when you ask for help someone blames you instead of helping. But I guess it's easier to blame than to help out right?
I get that part. However, don't get mad that it doesn't work fully for the network is wasn't designed for. That was my biggest part. I know there's a bounty. However, its been up for forever and nothing has come of it. I can't stand seeing people gripe about this phone because its not literally magic. Verizon's stuff is locked down, always has been, probably always will. Its a different radio/modem/antenna set than the tmo and at&t versions. It was meant to run on Verizon's network. Period.
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wow i recover my files
hi guys, i had same problem, but then i set this sandisk ultra to my nokia xpress music and there was everything,,, my arc s cant open it anymore but nokia opens... try to reset your sd s to others phone...