I want to move a 10GB file to my computer from another one, but I don't have a pen drive or external HD around... I used to install the USB drivers on my computer, and plugged my tablet into my computer's USB port, it worked like a charm but since I upgraded to JB the drivers are useless now, what do I do?
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You need to buy a USB pen drive or an external HD, or a network cable. The tablet cannot be mounted as USB mass storage device because that mode would need to give full control over the internal storage to the computer, i.e. Android could not run at the same time.
It still works fine I copy large files all the time. Just make sure you have the latest SDK from Google installed and you should get the latest USB drivers then you can use it like a pen drive again.
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It still works fine I copy large files all the time. Just make sure you have the latest SDK from Google installed and you should get the latest USB drivers then you can use it like a pen drive again.
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As USB mass storage? I don't think so - which filesystem should be unmounted here?. Otherwise please explain in detail how. And if you mean only as MTP device, how do you transfer files > 2 GB?
Ah right yes not as a mass storage device. I never tried anything over about a gig so never thought about that.
Since JB, only MTP(Media Device) and PTP (Camera) protocols are supported. The MTP protocol is achingly slow, not just on the TF700. My SGS3 (supposedly 'faster than the tf700') is equally slow in terms of USB transfer.
I agree that it used to work as a regular Mass Storage Device before JellyBean. Mine always showed up as F:\Asus TF700T. Updated to JB and to my great annoyance, only MTP. (PTP is pointless.)
ICS with Regular took 30 seconds to copy 600MB. JB's MTP requires 5 minutes! On both of my devices.
As for it not showing up, it's not in the list of drives. It should show up below everything else, without a drive letter(!). For me it's below Control Panel and above Shared Documents. (WinXP)
Did you, by any chance, kill the wufdhost.exe process in taskmanager's processes tab? You see, I did. And not a single MTP device would be recognised afterwards. It should A, running in Taskmanager, B, be in C:\WINDOWS\system32 and C, as 'Windows Driver Foundation - User-mode Driver Framework' in services.exe.
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Hi. I've searched but found no answer so here is my thread . So I am somewhat unhappy with how my Verizon GSIII is behaving. Since day 2 I learned I cannot connect this phone as a disc drive on WIndows or Linux. The only options I get when connected via USB to a computer are Media device (MTP) and Camera (PTP). My friend show me his ATT GSII last night. It connects as a disc drive (regular flash drive behavior).
When connecting an external HDD via USB Android should recognize that drive as a mass storage device. His ATT SIII did this, my Verizon SIII did not. I got the message in the notification area "USB Connect" followed by "USB Disconnected." Thankfully, I have no files I want to transfer onto my device as I'm coming from an HTC Incredible, but in the future I will want to browse my file system on my laptop.
Am I the only one here with these issues? I am not rooted.
-Justin
Edit: I found an article which looks like I can browse the external SD Card but not hte internal memory. This is only for root users however. Enable USB Mass Storage for root.
If your Galaxy S3 connects as mass storage, post the carrier.
My S3 shows up as separate internal and external devices when I plug it into my USB port and is listed as SCH-I535 when ejecting. However my Nexus show up as an MTP device when ejecting. Both devices are rooted.
So there may be hope. I'm going to root today, well try to. Can you link me to the ROM you flashed so I have a higher possibility of achieving what I want?
Will every build ROM found in the developer section here get rid of the OEM functionality?
I have the same 2 options as you when connecting to a PC, but, when connected windows will pop the "browse for files" instantly and the 2 drives will be displayed under Computer, one for the internal SD and for the external.
This was like this from the first time i plugged the phone in, before root, same after.
It actually seems like we get to skip the step of "Enable USB sharing" which I find great, plug in and the drives pop.
JMooney5115 said:
So there may be hope. I'm going to root today, well try to. Can you link me to the ROM you flashed so I have a higher possibility of achieving what I want?
Will every build ROM found in the developer section here get rid of the OEM functionality?
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I used root66 to do mine.
However I had access to both drives prior to doing the root update.
Both of you seem to have more luck than I'm having. When I plug it into Windows I had no way of browsing files. In (K)ubuntu when I plug it in a popup has an option to browse which takes me to 1 folder names 'USB PTP Class Camera' which I can get to the internal storage, but not the SD Card. I'll be making a trip to Verizon today for sure. It makes me wonder if a rooted stock image from Samsung would fix the issue.
Quick question.
Which drivers did you install?
Why do I need drivers, I'm not doing anything but reading the flash memory? It should just work in both Linux and Windows.
Note that the guide to enable UMS on the S3 is for the International version, not the US version. The US version doesn't yet have a UMS option.
You shouldn't (and don't) need drivers for the SD storage to show up on your computer.
Just to test it I connected my S3 to my gf's laptop running W7, both drives popped right away there too.
I just want to make a note: Can't remember exactly what I did but after a few drivers on my AT&T SGS III I am able to just plug into my computer and move files around.
Can anyone helo me transfer video files...pic files i can transfer but all the video files wint...i get an error message on the computer ( pc ) and my s3 says syncing and does nothing. Its a verizon gs3.
skillzo1: How are you trying to transfer these video files?
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Just to test it I connected my S3 to my gf's laptop running W7, both drives popped right away there too.
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Thanks for the test. Just to be sure, you have a Verizon S3?
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Thanks for the test. Just to be sure, you have a Verizon S3?
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Sure do.
ICS devices use MTP to transfer files, not UMS. I have a verizon S3 and the drives appear when I plug it in. I had USB debug mode enabled and when I plugged it in it automatically downloaded and installed drivers and worked after that. You shouldn't need root to do all of this.
kthung, thanks for that tid-bit of information. Now how do I do this in Linux? I can browse internal memory, but not my micro SD card via USB.
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kthung, thanks for that tid-bit of information. Now how do I do this in Linux? I can browse internal memory, but not my micro SD card via USB.
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Hmm unfortunately I don't really know anything about linux. Maybe check this thread out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1785243
Hi,
I just received my TF700 and trying to connect to my XP PC to copy music and movies on to it.
My computer does not succeed in installing the necessary drivers to make it look like DOK.
What am I doing wrong? This should be a simple task (how will I be able to fill my 64GB ?)
Thanks,
edit: after installing PC suit from TF101 support page it works.
But why can't we charge the TF700 via USB....?
kubeb said:
Hi,
I just received my TF700 and trying to connect to my XP PC to copy music and movies on to it.
My computer does not succeed in installing the necessary drivers to make it look like DOK.
What am I doing wrong? This should be a simple task (how will I be able to fill my 64GB ?)
Thanks,
edit: after installing PC suit from TF101 support page it works.
But why can't we charge the TF700 via USB....?
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I could be wrong but iirc i've read somewhere that in order to charge it from USB you have to power off your device first.
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kubeb said:
Hi,
I just received my TF700 and trying to connect to my XP PC to copy music and movies on to it.
My computer does not succeed in installing the necessary drivers to make it look like DOK.
What am I doing wrong? This should be a simple task (how will I be able to fill my 64GB ?)
Thanks,
edit: after installing PC suit from TF101 support page it works.
But why can't we charge the TF700 via USB....?
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There's simply not enough power coming from the USB port.
The reason why connecting failed is because XP doesn't support the MTP connection, which the Infinity uses, from the beginning.
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kubeb said:
Hi,
I just received my TF700 and trying to connect to my XP PC to copy music and movies on to it.
My computer does not succeed in installing the necessary drivers to make it look like DOK.
What am I doing wrong? This should be a simple task (how will I be able to fill my 64GB ?)
Thanks,
edit: after installing PC suit from TF101 support page it works.
But why can't we charge the TF700 via USB....?
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Just for reference for new users reading through this thread: you cannot access an Android 4.x+ device as a USB Mass Storage device AT ALL -- this was sacrificed for the more stable and safe MTP connection. The latter should work if you install the drivers, as the OP already has found out.
MartyHulskemper said:
Just for reference for new users reading through this thread: you cannot access an Android 4.x+ device as a USB Mass Storage device AT ALL -- this was sacrificed for the more stable and safe MTP connection. The latter should work if you install the drivers, as the OP already has found out.
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I would have to respectfully disagree. My SGS2 running ICS has the USB mode ability. Settings / More (under data usage) / USB Utilities / USB mass storage.click the button, connect the USB cable, and there ya go!
Unfortunately, this option is either disabled or nonexistant in the transformers.
pileot said:
I would have to respectfully disagree. My SGS2 running ICS has the USB mode ability. Settings / More (under data usage) / USB Utilities / USB mass storage.click the button, connect the USB cable, and there ya go!
Unfortunately, this option is either disabled or nonexistant in the transformers.
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I reckon that's because the SGSII is not a original 4.0 device. It came with 2.3 on the market.
However I don't know if the manufacturers are still allowed to use it in their new devices.
pileot said:
I would have to respectfully disagree. My SGS2 running ICS has the USB mode ability. Settings / More (under data usage) / USB Utilities / USB mass storage.click the button, connect the USB cable, and there ya go!
Unfortunately, this option is either disabled or nonexistant in the transformers.
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This is because the SGS2 was not released with ICS. It was upgraded to ICS. The real reason why UMS is not available on native ICS devices (aside from mounting external SD cards with UMS) is because Google decided to use one large volume for the internal storage instead of several. Devices that were upgraded to ICS after being release still have several volumes instead of one. Trying to rewrite the partition table during an update would be destructive, causing the loss of all data, and no manufacturer would want to do that to their customer's devices.
darkkterror said:
This is because the SGS2 was not released with ICS. It was upgraded to ICS. The real reason why UMS is not available on native ICS devices (aside from mounting external SD cards with UMS) is because Google decided to use one large volume for the internal storage instead of several. Devices that were upgraded to ICS after being release still have several volumes instead of one. Trying to rewrite the partition table during an update would be destructive, causing the loss of all data, and no manufacturer would want to do that to their customer's devices.
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When updating with kies it would copy personal data to the computer and restore that data after the update was complete. I wonder if the S3 has this functionality (usb mode). I know with the S2 there was a big deal about upgrading to ICS because it had to repartition everything, lots of warnings about losing data on the phone, never stopped us we just made backups and away we go. I dont see how the prime is much different, the USB mode COULD be put into it the same way it was put into the samsung roms, doesnt even need to be default, just there for those people like me that prefer it.
kubeb said:
Hi,
I just received my TF700 and trying to connect to my XP PC to copy music and movies on to it.
My computer does not succeed in installing the necessary drivers to make it look like DOK.
What am I doing wrong? This should be a simple task (how will I be able to fill my 64GB ?)
Thanks,
edit: after installing PC suit from TF101 support page it works.
But why can't we charge the TF700 via USB....?
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Works fine under Win 7, tablet connected as media device, and i can confrim that the charging icon is active when connected and in config menu under battery says: charging.
kind regards,
profiler270 said:
Works fine under Win 7, tablet connected as media device, and i can confrim that the charging icon is active when connected and in config menu under battery says: charging.
kind regards,
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As I said XP doesn't support MTP devices. Win 7 does it though.
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pileot said:
I would have to respectfully disagree. My SGS2 running ICS has the USB mode ability. Settings / More (under data usage) / USB Utilities / USB mass storage.click the button, connect the USB cable, and there ya go!
Unfortunately, this option is either disabled or nonexistant in the transformers.
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As said above, MTP mode is standard in ICS and UMS is no longer supported (and indeed the reason was the single-volume approach, and the fact that MTP makes the filesystem available to the host computer without the need for unmounting, and thus eliminates the risk for introducing filesystem errors on the host -- the Android system keeps everything under control and access to the filesystem is transparent to the host.)
Obviously, anything can be hacked together, and there are apps that seem to able to provide UMS mode.
Not a matter of disagreeing, but unfortunate reality.
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pileot said:
When updating with kies it would copy personal data to the computer and restore that data after the update was complete. I wonder if the S3 has this functionality (usb mode). I know with the S2 there was a big deal about upgrading to ICS because it had to repartition everything, lots of warnings about losing data on the phone, never stopped us we just made backups and away we go. I dont see how the prime is much different, the USB mode COULD be put into it the same way it was put into the samsung roms, doesnt even need to be default, just there for those people like me that prefer it.
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By the way, I strongly prefer UMS mode as well, since the computers at work (hospital) are pretty much closed-off to anything included installing any software or drivers, and they disallow MTP. Previously, I could at least access my SGS2 as a thumb drive, but with my current ROM (RootBox ICS) that's no longer an option.
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As I said XP doesn't support MTP devices. Win 7 does it though.
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Windows XP does support MTP, but one would need to have Windows Media Player 10 or later installed (WMP10 added MTP).
hello kubeb
If you still searching, refer to my story on this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1861444
wish you succes
Hey all, googling hasn't yielded me many results but I have a couple of issues:
Connect tablet from dock to PC over USB. Doesn't come up as MTP which has to be safely removed but just as a sync device if you know what I mean. Anyhoo takes ages to transfer files from PC to Internal memory of the tablet. Talking like 10 minutes for 300mb.
Second issue is it shows folders which are under other folders under the root of Transfomer 700 on PC
eg I have folders like Music/Pearl Jam/Ten
When I connect to PC it shows the Ten folder under the root folder not under Music/Ten
Weird.. on current firmware. Rooted and have USB debugging turned off when connected to PC as I find having it enabled doesn't show the device at all.
In settings/Storage have option USB computer connection set to MTP mode
Thanks
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Yes it is extremely slow, my phone blows this thing away in transferring from pc.
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icanfly77 said:
Hey all, googling hasn't yielded me many results but I have a couple of issues:
Connect tablet from dock to PC over USB. Doesn't come up as MTP which has to be safely removed but just as a sync device if you know what I mean. Anyhoo takes ages to transfer files from PC to Internal memory of the tablet. Talking like 10 minutes for 300mb.
Second issue is it shows folders which are under other folders under the root of Transfomer 700 on PC
eg I have folders like Music/Pearl Jam/Ten
When I connect to PC it shows the Ten folder under the root folder not under Music/Ten
Weird.. on current firmware. Rooted and have USB debugging turned off when connected to PC as I find having it enabled doesn't show the device at all.
In settings/Storage have option USB computer connection set to MTP mode
Thanks
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T using Tapatalk 2
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I believe what you are encountering is the infamous I/O issue. Most likely hardware limitation of the internal storage used in infinity. This may potentially improve some degree with software update, but won't be completely eliminated.
As I have not transferred file to internal storage for a long time (I like to keep internal storage clean) so this is more of a subjective opinion, but I feel like transferring to microsd on the unit (I use San Disk UHS 32GB) is actually equivalent or faster than the transferring to my iPad 2. So have you tried to copy to microSD instead of internal storage?
icanfly77 said:
Connect tablet from dock to PC over USB. Doesn't come up as MTP which has to be safely removed but just as a sync device if you know what I mean. Anyhoo takes ages to transfer files from PC to Internal memory of the tablet. Talking like 10 minutes for 300mb.
Second issue is it shows folders which are under other folders under the root of Transfomer 700 on PC
eg I have folders like Music/Pearl Jam/Ten
When I connect to PC it shows the Ten folder under the root folder not under Music/Ten
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Same here, using a Windows PC. It's actually even so that some folders simply do not show up at all - whether they were there already or newly created. Dis- and reconnecting the cable changes nothing. Permissions are ok/equal to the folders showing. And: some folders and/or their contents I can't even copy at all, the progress window simply disappears and nothing happens. I have not found a solution yet.
Having been fed up by the fact that I simply couldn't copy the contents of my internal SD storage for backup I connected to Wifi and copied the contents that way. THAT worked amazingly fast. Yet, that of course only works if you can connect the tab via Wifi to whatever target you want to send the files to... I did so via my router. I didn't even bother to try if I could do a direct Wifi connection between the tab and my Laptop - which in theory should work too, I guess?
Can't say I've tried copying direct from PC to Tablet but I've copied a number of movies using USB and they've been pretty quick - I didn't time it or pay much attention but a couple of minutes for 1GB movie sounds about right. Hope this helps you!
So I finally got my phone and went through the rooting process, I have root and I'm on JB, I triple checked, but I put my Titanium backup folder on my old SD card which before updating I could access on my new phone, but now I can't seem to get to pull it up. I keep getting "Unfortunately, com.motorola.huxvmm.settings has stopped when I choose the storage option in settings. I also can't get my phone to show up as a removable drive to drop the files onto the internal memory. Besides that everything seems fine, any ideas?
USB mass storage option was removed in jelly been. It sucks.
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USB mass storage option was removed in jelly been. It sucks.
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+1 :good:
You could try one of the apk'(s even here on XDA putting a widget on and having mass storage (USBMassStorageToggle, Multi-mount-sd), but since I've lost root (sigh....) when passing the OTA, I can't tell if that actually works....
They switched to MTP mode as it is more secure (something about allowing the app storage and user storage to be the same to increase memory) and allows the device and PC to have access to the memory at the same time.
Borderpatrol1987 said:
They switched to MTP mode as it is more secure (something about allowing the app storage and user storage to be the same to increase memory) and allows the device and PC to have access to the memory at the same time.
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MTP is supposed to be compatible with the USB spec, but there seems to be a problem for some/lots of users: When you plug in and select MTP, the phone mounts under "Portable Devices" (not "Devices with Removable Storage") like it used to in the past. This in itself is not a big deal, but the issue seems to be that though you can navigate to "Internal Storage" in Windows--that corresponds to /storage/sdcard0 on the phone (at least, mine)--some files on your phone may not be visible on your computer.
For example, I can create a folder in Windows in Internal Storage and see it on my phone, but if I delete that folder from my phone, it doesn't "sync" that delete to the computer.
I've made sure I have the latest Motorola drivers, and tried different USB cables, etc.
The fix I use is a bit complicated, but it works for me: I downloaded Total Commander (TC) on my phone, but I suspect you can do this with any other Android software that allows you to connect to a shared folder on your computer once connected to a USB.
In my case, I did the following:
On my computer, shared the folder, C:\Temp
in TC (on my phone), used the LAN (windows Network) Plugin to connect to that shared folder
Copied files from my phone to the shared folder on my computer
Great job. I've been using total commander too. It's the best and the fastest file manager I know. It has much more functions than (known from Linux) midnight commander.
Well worth the money with plenty plugins. Download shareware version from ghisler.com
Also there is a plugin for web dav too.
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I seriously hope I'm wrong about this. Connecting my phone to a computer with the USB cable no longer brings up the selection screen. Instead, it automatically turns on USB debugging. This makes it impossible to transfer files from phone to computer via USB. (This is true on Mac and Linux PCs with the newest HTC drivers.)
How am I supposed to get these ROM files onto the phone from my PC? Am I missing something?
No, JB uses the MTP crap instead. How are you going to transfer files? Well, in windows it still shows up as a drive. But you can also use adb to transfer files (which is usually faster than the MTP crap)
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I seriously hope I'm wrong about this. Connecting my phone to a computer with the USB cable no longer brings up the selection screen. Instead, it automatically turns on USB debugging. This makes it impossible to transfer files from phone to computer via USB. (This is true on Mac and Linux PCs with the newest HTC drivers.)
How am I supposed to get these ROM files onto the phone from my PC? Am I missing something?
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It should automatically pick it up on your pc that's what it should do now instead of a selection screen and usb debugging isn't enabled automatically you have to enable it in the settings under development in settings...... But yea that's what's changed in JB but your phone pc should pick it up and it should say HTC one s now instead of removable disk
Sent from my HTC One S
So is this the end of UMS for good? It's ridiculous! There are so many devices that use Mass storage Still. I can't use my phone with my Car stereo as it only has a USB port! I don't understand why google has ditched it in favor of MTP? It's slow to copy files, doesn't generate thumbnails on pictures and most of the time it crashes when copying large files!
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Anyone know if there a ROM available with UMS working?
Google hasnt ditched it afaik. All AOSP roms still runs mass storage-mode. CM10 does it for sure.
Are you running a mac or pc?
Works on CM10
Goatshocker said:
Google hasnt ditched it afaik. All AOSP roms still runs mass storage-mode. CM10 does it for sure.
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I can confirm that Mass Storage Mode works on CM10. I'm running the nightly from 1/20. I often bounce back between Sense and CM10 and I would this is one of the advantages of CM10, although I'm not sure how much of an advantage.
Nick
Well, MTP is about 10x slower than mass-storage, and 5x slower than ADB.
So if you transfer files often mass-storage is a giant advantage. If you transfer files once in a while ADB is the way to go.
MTP is only usable when theres no other option.
npiper05 said:
I can confirm that Mass Storage Mode works on CM10. I'm running the nightly from 1/20. I often bounce back between Sense and CM10 and I would this is one of the advantages of CM10, although I'm not sure how much of an advantage.
Nick
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Does CM10 ROM include UMS for Internal storage? Or only SD Card?
Only /sdcard/, its not really possible to mount anything else on the PC.
If you have the need to explore the whole phone, check out quick adb It gives you access to the whole device as long as youre rooted.