After the root procedure I don't seem to have any ability to use USB Mass storage.
Windows reports it as an empty drive, linux will show the device as connecting and assigns it a /dev/sdx device, but when you attempt to mount or fdisk, it reports no medium.
Any one else having similar issues?
I could always try a reset to factory defaults after unrooting, but I really don't see what rooting could have done.
I used the manual method and had to run zerg several times, however beyond that no other files where modified.
I've already reverted /data/local.prop to stock, no help.
Any one have any other insights?
I had to uninstall motohelper to get USB mass storage working.
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thekurrgan said:
After the root procedure I don't seem to have any ability to use USB Mass storage.
Windows reports it as an empty drive, linux will show the device as connecting and assigns it a /dev/sdx device, but when you attempt to mount or fdisk, it reports no medium.
Any one else having similar issues?
I could always try a reset to factory defaults after unrooting, but I really don't see what rooting could have done.
I used the manual method and had to run zerg several times, however beyond that no other files where modified.
I've already reverted /data/local.prop to stock, no help.
Any one have any other insights?
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When you take a picture, does it save to your sdcard? Sounds completely unrelated huh? Well, this phone seems to have an issue with the sdcard randomly becoming read only. I have had that issue multiple times now and usually it's solved by restarting the phone. Well, I seen your issue today and didn't remember if I had tried to use it as mass storage since rooting it so I tried....no luck. Took a pic, it looked like it saved, didn't get any error, but could not find the pic in my gallery. Then I tried to take a screenshot and got the read only error. So I just took my sdcard out and made a copy of it to my pc, put it back in and rebooted my phone, it's all good now, imagine that. Needless to say, i'm backing up all my apps right now before doing anything else. Then gonna backup my contacts too.
motohelper... Sounds like a stock app...
did you just rm the apk?
thekurrgan said:
motohelper... Sounds like a stock app...
did you just rm the apk?
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No.motohelper was a bs program that got installed to my PC when I downloaded and installed the driver pack from Motorola. Until
I uninstalled it I couldn't get USB mass storage to work.phone portal would,but not storage.
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mtnlion said:
I had to uninstall motohelper to get USB mass storage working.
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I had to reinstall all the drivers through motohelper to get it to work as well =/
No problems now though~
I was able to get my sdcard recognized again but still could not use it as mass storage device, never had a problem with this before root. Did factory reset and all is well.
There is no possible way root caused the issue at all. It stopped working for me once I installed moto drivers, but shows the device with mass storage under it in usb portal mode.
koriflame said:
There is no possible way root caused the issue at all. It stopped working for me once I installed moto drivers, but shows the device with mass storage under it in usb portal mode.
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Well then it's one hell of a coincidence! Before root, w/motodrivers, worked fine, after root w/motodrivers, didn't work, after unrooting, w/motordrivers, works again.
Same thing happened with my phone. Actually now returned because of all the issues I kept having hardware wise and wound up going and getting the HTC Vivid. So if any of yall switch I will see you when a Forum is made for this device.
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Well then it's one hell of a coincidence! Before root, w/motodrivers, worked fine, after root w/motodrivers, didn't work, after unrooting, w/motordrivers, works again.
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Did you see my other post about /mount/secure corruption? I have a fully working rooted mountable phone.
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malickie said:
Same thing happened with my phone. Actually now returned because of all the issues I kept having hardware wise and wound up going and getting the HTC Vivid. So if any of yall switch I will see you when a Forum is made for this device.
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I have until the 24th of this month to decide if I want to keep this phone or not. I unrooted yesterday, will see how it goes this week. I'm not trying to pay big money for a phone right now so we'll see how it plays out.
OK I give up. The problem is intermittent. I'm going to do a log cat next time cause I'm getting about irritated. SOme times it works fine some times not. I've not unrooted or changed anything since the initial problem.
The only thing I can possibly thing is that some of the commands installed by busybox is screwing up the works.
Short of that nothing REALLY changes that could affect the operation of the phone.
What doesn't bare that idea out however is the fact that it EVER works.
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It does the exact same thing on a completely unmodified phone. Therefore, it's nothing you did to it that's cause the problem.
I have the same thing on mine but it was something with the format of the card.
I flipped it to windows media sync mode then backed up the card and after the backup I unmounted the card and let the atrix format it.
I had the card in a atrix 1 before I put it in the atrix 2 so I do not know if this is the case or not.
This has now been working with out a problem for 4 days now
Same thing happened to my phone, I never rooted it.
Confirmed user error.
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I have the same thing on mine but it was something with the format of the card.
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Thank you seraphielx! Shortly before finding this thead, I'd noticed that I had a rather large number of files in the LOST.DIR on my SDcard. Which coincided with the seemingly random disappearance of some of the apps I'd moved there. And when I pulled the SDcard to back it up on my PC, there were nearly 600mb worth of files in the LOST.DIR. Most of which were photos, plus (I think) some apps. Thank God I make regular backups!
I believe the problem, at least in my case, has to do with the fact that I could pull the SDcard without first pulling the battery; which I did when I swapped the stock 2gb card for my 32gb card right after I bought the phone. Thus corrupting many files, and probably the file system on the card as well.
After backing up what remained of my storage files, I tried to format the SDcard in the Atrix2, but It wouldn't let me select the option to format, and neither could I unmount the SDcard. So I powered down the phone, pulled the card and formatted it from my PC. Poped it back in the phone, powered up, and was then able to format it with the Atrix2. Since then I've had no issues with accessing usb mass storage, nor with disappearing apps and photos.
Thanx again for the assistance!
For me sometimes it takes a few minutes before I can access sdcard from PC.
Usually it works instantly after phone reboot while not plugged in pc, then it takes ages...
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After backing up what remained of my storage files, I tried to format the SDcard in the Atrix2, but It wouldn't let me select the option to format, and neither could I unmount the SDcard. So I powered down the phone, pulled the card and formatted it from my PC. Poped it back in the phone, powered up, and was then able to format it with the Atrix2. Since then I've had no issues with accessing usb mass storage, nor with disappearing apps and photos.
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Update: OK, I can't unmount my SDcard, again. Which, of course, means I can't access usb mass storage anymore. The only I've changes made since my last post were to install some apps and change some status bar icons via Rom Toolbox, and I can't believe that has anything with the issue.
If I do a factory reset, will I need to root again?
If you have any apps installed on your SD card you will continue to have problems.
Hi all.
I have a rooted Kindle Fire Running the latest CM7 that I grabbed from this site. I have two quick questions, if I may.
I know that once rooted an running CM7 Windows does not recognize the tablet for usb mass storage unless you take some steps and since I chose the option of the command in terminal emulator, I had to redo it when I restarted the tablet to show my buddy TWRP 2.0 and now I can't find that command anywhere. Can anyone point me to it?
Also since the Fire only comes with a 5GB partition as the SD card I wanted to Format and clean it and start fresh on it. any one know if that will mess with TWRP or CM 7 at all. I don't mind if I lose everything else because I have neglected adding many apps while I tinker with it.
I just had a thought. Since the SD Card is not technically an SD card and is Just a partition(correct me if I'm wrong), Then using TWRP to wipe it may wipe everything. Anyone done this?
Call me OCD but I'm worried about the storage and would love to get rid of anything not needed.
Or does anyone think I can just remove all of the folders accept for my backup folder? none seem to have much of anything in them. I think most were put there by the Stock Rom.
Nevermind on the usb thing. I got that confused with the ICS rom I flashed to my DX. All I had to do was select USB mass storage on the Fire.
But does anyone know if I can format my SD card with out ruining TWRP or the ROM?
Hey I'm posting here since I don't have enough posts to post in the developer forum. I just installed the latest build of Paranoid Android on my Samsung Infuse 4G. First I'd like to say thanks to the devs, this rom rocks! But sadly, it is not recognizing my microsd card. I was a bit worried at first since it has all my pics and backups on it, but I plugged it into my computer and everything is there. Any ideas why its not being recognized? Thanks.
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Hey I'm posting here since I don't have enough posts to post in the developer forum. I just installed the latest build of Paranoid Android on my Samsung Infuse 4G. First I'd like to say thanks to the devs, this rom rocks! But sadly, it is not recognizing my microsd card. I was a bit worried at first since it has all my pics and backups on it, but I plugged it into my computer and everything is there. Any ideas why its not being recognized? Thanks.
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Its listed as emmc... Use root explorer or another file manger and you will be able to find it.
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scott.hart.bti said:
Its listed as emmc... Use root explorer or another file manger and you will be able to find it.
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Thanks, I did notice that it was mounted at /emmc/ but I was having trouble changing my vold.fstab file to make it mount where it should. But whenever i edited the file my phone wouldnt boot past loading screen. A friend suggested it might be a file permissions issue but I think it is where I'm trying to mount it. should it be /mnt/sdcard/external_sd/ or /sdcard/external_SD or something else entirely?
Hey guys, I cant get my memory card to load up my pics or songs or anything really with any roms right now i am using jelly bean and i went back to ics and still nothing. internal amd external wont work. but if i use a file explorer it finds the songs etc perfectly just that the apps dint find them??? help!!!??? this has been killing me for like weeks now
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Hey guys, I cant get my memory card to load up my pics or songs or anything really with any roms right now i am using jelly bean and i went back to ics and still nothing. internal amd external wont work. but if i use a file explorer it finds the songs etc perfectly just that the apps dint find them??? help!!!??? this has been killing me for like weeks now
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Simplest thing, put it in the PC, copy all data and then format the card as FAT
Or then more details
- What's the ROM u using (at the moment)
- What's the app that does not see it?
odeccacccp said:
Simplest thing, put it in the PC, copy all data and then format the card as FAT
Or then more details
- What's the ROM u using (at the moment)
- What's the app that does not see it?
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well i used alllll the jell bean roms pretty much. and currently im using paranoid android. and my various music apps like the play music and th cm9/10 music app the gallery. nothing finds my sd card. could it be because its called sdcard1 and sd card1?? instead on internal or external.(the names when i use astro)
Connect the phone to your computer, make sure you have show hidden files, go to the folders with your stuff and delete .nomedia files.
so i did that and then i went into my gallerey and the two photos that were showing up is now gone
Now restart your device
phillytothemax said:
well i used alllll the jell bean roms pretty much. and currently im using paranoid android. and my various music apps like the play music and th cm9/10 music app the gallery. nothing finds my sd card. could it be because its called sdcard1 and sd card1?? instead on internal or external.(the names when i use astro)
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All those ROM u are using the sd card is no in emmc folder, you have to go out of there to / (nothing) then you will see sdcard folder.
Try to update the pass in your programs that you need to use.
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Now restart your device
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thanks it workkkeddd
I have been trying for a week now to transfer about 14gigs of comics to my my Tablet/ 4.4.2 CM 11 5/22/14 version nightly. I have tried every method but it still gives me Unable to write to disk. I'm trying to Synch it from my computer to the Tablet with BtSync but each time no matter what method I try it does it every time. I have tired sdfix for kit kat I have tried handle external storage xposed I have tried doing it manually still no dice. I tried directly from computer to Tablet with usb cable but it keeps telling me that I have to skip files eventually It will stop. I really need your help guys I don't know what to do I have looked through the forums but each method doest help me please help me.
I feel like giving up nothing has worked so far. I'm new to this sort of stuff .
kktheman1 said:
I have been trying for a week now to transfer about 14gigs of comics to my my Tablet/ 4.4.2 CM 11 5/22/14 version nightly. I have tried every method but it still gives me Unable to write to disk. I'm trying to Synch it from my computer to the Tablet with BtSync but each time no matter what method I try it does it every time. I have tired sdfix for kit kat I have tried handle external storage xposed I have tried doing it manually still no dice. I tried directly from computer to Tablet with usb cable but it keeps telling me that I have to skip files eventually It will stop. I really need your help guys I don't know what to do I have looked through the forums but each method doest help me please help me.
I feel like giving up nothing has worked so far. I'm new to this sort of stuff .
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You're not going to be able to transfer 14 gigs of anything to your tablet. You need to put those on an external micro sd card and run it from there. These tabs are only 8/16 G to start and KK and other stuff uses a few of them.
CSP III said:
You're not going to be able to transfer 14 gigs of anything to your tablet. You need to put those on an external micro sd card and run it from there. These tabs are only 8/16 G to start and KK and other stuff uses a few of them.
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I know I have an Extenal Micro Sd thats what I've been trying to write it o but no dice.
kktheman1 said:
I know I have an Extenal Micro Sd thats what I've been trying to write it o but no dice.
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Are you trying to load it straight from your computer to the card? If so, try to reformat it, and try again. If all else fails, get yourself a new one. They do fail from time to time. Mine did a few months back, got a fresh one and bam all good.
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Are you trying to load it straight from your computer to the card? If so, try to reformat it, and try again. If all else fails, get yourself a new one. They do fail from time to time. Mine did a few months back, got a fresh one and bam all good.
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Other things can be saved to the Micro Sd smaller files are transferble but, the second I try to move my comics it dosent work keeps showing the same message/
kktheman1 said:
Other things can be saved to the Micro Sd smaller files are transferble but, the second I try to move my comics it dosent work keeps showing the same message/
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That has to be a format thing then. Maybe the way your comics are setup. Sorry
CSP III said:
That has to be a format thing then. Maybe the way your comics are setup. Sorry
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What should I format the SD card to? Should I use cwm formating tool?