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internal storage vs SDcard

Why do some rom creators prefer excluding the extra 5 gigs of space from being used at all in favor of the sd card?
EagleBlood's would be my favorite if not for the installation mount pointing to the sd card. Is there a way to have both? The cm7 flash for this style reverts it, but makes it so I cannot connect via USB.

Hiyatsu said:
Why do some rom creators prefer excluding the extra 5 gigs of space from being used at all in favor of the sd card?
EagleBlood's would be my favorite if not for the installation mount pointing to the sd card. Is there a way to have both? The cm7 flash for this style reverts it, but makes it so I cannot connect via USB.
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I had problems connecting to USB too. What I did was re-install LG Drivers and turn on USB debugging on the phone, then connected it and then I was able to connect to my PC again. Then after that, you can turn off USB debugging and connect to your computer normally.

[Q] SD card wont show using CWM

Hi
Flashed my Galaxy Note N7000 with STunner 4.2.2 JB rom on NX kernel and the SD card epic saga began.
The rom is awesome in every other aspect but this
A little background:
After flashing the above rom and kernel, the usb transfer speed is too low < 1mb/s (32 gigs class 10 card) so I searched and decided to try multi mount sd. This increased the transfer speed to normal but the phone would reboot midway of transfer. SO multimount sd failed didn't actually fix my problem. Next heard people telling me to transfer files in recovery (CWM):
1. The card mounts in recovery without any error (sdcard and usb storage tried both) but I cannot see it on my pc (Win 7 64 bit)
the card is formatted asd Fat 32 using windows and I have also tried sdformatter for windows (found this suggestion on the forum) but still it doesnt show up on windows ! Is it really that difficult to transfer files onto sdcard via USB ????
Any help on fixing this problem is highly appreciated. My aim is to transfer files via USB onto SD card at normal speed (10-15mbps) and not @ drop dead crawling speed (500kbps to 1mbps). Help people !!!!!!!

gantolaakshay said:
Hi
Flashed my Galaxy Note N7000 with STunner 4.2.2 JB rom on NX kernel and the SD card epic saga began.
The rom is awesome in every other aspect but this
A little background:
After flashing the above rom and kernel, the usb transfer speed is too low < 1mb/s (32 gigs class 10 card) so I searched and decided to try multi mount sd. This increased the transfer speed to normal but the phone would reboot midway of transfer. SO multimount sd failed didn't actually fix my problem. Next heard people telling me to transfer files in recovery (CWM):
1. The card mounts in recovery without any error (sdcard and usb storage tried both) but I cannot see it on my pc (Win 7 64 bit)
the card is formatted asd Fat 32 using windows and I have also tried sdformatter for windows (found this suggestion on the forum) but still it doesnt show up on windows ! Is it really that difficult to transfer files onto sdcard via USB ????
Any help on fixing this problem is highly appreciated. My aim is to transfer files via USB onto SD card at normal speed (10-15mbps) and not @ drop dead crawling speed (500kbps to 1mbps). Help people !!!!!!!
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Are you finding your device in the device manager? Download the adb package and try to see if your device shows when using the command "adb devices"
It it shows up it is some driver issue.
Unplug the device, uninstall all usb-drivers you can find.
Reboot
and plug in the device again and hope it's working
I have also found out that it's a bit tricky to get working, but with just trial and error you will prevail!

hartmark said:
Are you finding your device in the device manager? Download the adb package and try to see if your device shows when using the command "adb devices"
It it shows up it is some driver issue.
Unplug the device, uninstall all usb-drivers you can find.
Reboot
and plug in the device again and hope it's working
I have also found out that it's a bit tricky to get working, but with just trial and error you will prevail!
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Thanks for he reply mate!
Well here is what I have done and seems to be working finally for USB transfers:
Download and install multi mount SD
Connect USB and mount sd crads using android (Touch to copy files)
Safely remove the mount cards from windows
Unmount USB from android (touch to stop usb storage)
remount sd crads but use multi mount this time
And yes enable the option for the device to stay awake while charging
Thats it getting transfer rates of 20mbps without any problems since then

gantolaakshay said:
Thanks for he reply mate!
Well here is what I have done and seems to be working finally for USB transfers:
Download and install multi mount SD
Connect USB and mount sd crads using android (Touch to copy files)
Safely remove the mount cards from windows
Unmount USB from android (touch to stop usb storage)
remount sd crads but use multi mount this time
And yes enable the option for the device to stay awake while charging
Thats it getting transfer rates of 20mbps without any problems since then
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Is this the app you mean?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rafoid.multimountsdcard.widget
Glad to hear you got it working.

hartmark said:
Is this the app you mean?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rafoid.multimountsdcard.widget
Glad to hear you got it working.
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Well yes, that's the app (I am using the free version though )

P3110 cannot be used as mass storage in win7

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
Sent from my GT-P3110 using xda app-developers app
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But he is saying that ptp isnt working

qazmed said:
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!

[How To] Enable Write to External SD Card

This app was written by Jrummy and states that it's for Kit Kat (he should probably update it as it still works). I've used it on every device I've owned since Kit Kat without a single issue. Just run the app and uninstall it when you're done (or don't but it's pointless after you've ran it). It's making a very simple (and reversible) change.
Root is required!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jrummy.sdfix
Sent from my XT1575 using Tapatalk

I use this app to enable apps to write on micro SD card
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.sdfix
It worked fine on all my phones including moto X PE. It works on KitKat and Lollipop

Does anyone know how to use your SD card as Mass Storage when you connect it to your computer?
Currently, to write to the phone from the computer, you have to use MTP. It's too slow though. I want to be able to access my external SD like a flash drive.
I have to eject my SD card from my phone and use a SD card adapter to connect it to my computer anytime I want to make any changes.
If I could mount SD card as Mass Storage while phone is connected to computer via USB, that would make things a lot easier.

Spike96 said:
Does anyone know how to use your SD card as Mass Storage when you connect it to your computer?
Currently, to write to the phone from the computer, you have to use MTP. It's too slow though. I want to be able to access my external SD like a flash drive.
I have to eject my SD card from my phone and use a SD card adapter to connect it to my computer anytime I want to make any changes.
If I could mount SD card as Mass Storage while phone is connected to computer via USB, that would make things a lot easier.
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When I connect my Mate 7 to the computer, it gives me the option to mount it as a regular flash drive or as MTP.
So, I think it's possible through a software mod.

All,
I just picked up a new Pure, and already have it rooted, and while I have read/write, I can't get the dates to change to the creations date, instead, it has the copy date. Will I need a custom ROM to fix this bug???
(I use a backup program to put "MY" file on the SD, and it tries to use the date to see if there's a change, but can't because it can't change the date. I use to be able to do this with rooted devices.)

Def not working on mm

Any trick for Android 6.0.1? Can't find any working method..

nop dont work on mm, tried many apps and google, no fix

Anyone with a custom ROM know if Writes and datestamp work correctly. (Not per Google)

Aftab_khatri said:
nop dont work on mm, tried many apps and google, no fix
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There is no fix for Marshmallow other than using SD card as external storage?

I have my SD Card set up as portable on my 6.0 Pure, and BitTorrent Sync has issues writing to it. It works perfectly fine on my internal device storage, but starts encountering complete screwups on the SD Card. It did work when I had the SD Card formatted as adoptable, internal storage though.

chibichuba said:
I have my SD Card set up as portable on my 6.0 Pure, and BitTorrent Sync has issues writing to it....
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What ROM are you using?

matthelm said:
What ROM are you using?
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I'm on TruPureX 2.5

chibichuba said:
I'm on TruPureX 2.5
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- Does Xposed Framework runs on this custom rom?
- How many SOT are you getting?

Luckzzz said:
- Does Xposed Framework runs on this custom rom?
- How many SOT are you getting?
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Yep Xposed runs on this ROM, it's a great one. For those here for the original thread, I contacted support and sent them my logs and they were able to solve the problem in the next app update.
I'm getting about 5h SOT with moderate-heavy usage after 24h off the charger and a lot of music (Viper too) playing with the screen off. I have a solid amount of wakelocks disabled too, so that adds to it. Still think I should be able to push out some more.

Limited MTP capability with 6.0

My XT1540 was updated today and noticed a few minor inconveniences.
When connecting to my Linux pc, I no longer can get a MTP connection. I can still get a PTP connection.
When connecting using WIN 7, I can get a MTP connection with the internal storage, however, I am limited to PTP accessing the SD Card, only the Android and DCIM directories are available.
ADB seems to work fine with either connection. I had no issues using either Linux or Windows when on 5.1.1.
Is there a way to restore full MTP capability?

MrTooPhone said:
My XT1540 was updated today and noticed a few minor inconveniences.
When connecting to my Linux pc, I no longer can get a MTP connection. I can still get a PTP connection.
When connecting using WIN 7, I can get a MTP connection with the internal storage, however, I am limited to PTP accessing the SD Card, only the Android and DCIM directories are available.
ADB seems to work fine with either connection. I had no issues using either Linux or Windows when on 5.1.1.
Is there a way to restore full MTP capability?
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Is your sd card merged as internal? If so, unmerge and mount is the only solution right now as the SD card becomes encrypted once switched over.

christopherrrg said:
Is your sd card merged as internal? If so, unmerge and mount is the only solution right now as the SD card becomes encrypted once switched over.
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I did not set my card up as internal as that basically incorporates the card into the OS and eliminates the original intent of the SD Card. Basically makes the card invisible and no longer available to the user as he pleases. It appears Google is trying to take away the portability and convenience of a SD Card. I definitely want to portability and separation from the OS.
BTW....After further research on this topic I see many others are having the identical issues across other platforms. No solution found yet.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/nexus/6lMKqYYXpXw;context-place=topicsearchin/nexus/category$3Aconnecting-to-networks-and-devices%7Csort:relevance%7Cspell:false
Nikhil Bastikar said:
I found a solution from user named Peter Oravecz.
So basically we need to delete the cache and the data for the System apps named "External Storage and Media Storage".
Goto
Phone settings-> Apps -> Tap three dots on tiop right to select select Show system apps -> select External Storagge and Media storage and delete data ana cache.
Then REBOOT THE PHONE.
this shud work.
Worked for me.

Ulverinho said:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/nexus/6lMKqYYXpXw;context-place=topicsearchin/nexus/category$3Aconnecting-to-networks-and-devices%7Csort:relevance%7Cspell:false
Nikhil Bastikar said:
I found a solution from user named Peter Oravecz.
So basically we need to delete the cache and the data for the System apps named "External Storage and Media Storage".
Goto
Phone settings-> Apps -> Tap three dots on tiop right to select select Show system apps -> select External Storagge and Media storage and delete data ana cache.
Then REBOOT THE PHONE.
this shud work.
Worked for me.
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I will give this a shot... to bad Motorola didn't tell the soak testers this, almost everyone who left their sd card as portable storage (classic mode) lost USB MTP access to the card.

acejavelin said:
I will give this a shot... to bad Motorola didn't tell the soak testers this, almost everyone who left their sd card as portable storage (classic mode) lost USB MTP access to the card.
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Yup, figured that out already...
But if to believe this
https://motorola-global-portal.custhelp.com/app/answers/prod_answer_detail/a_id/109134/p/1449,9582
going to internal mode will give no access to sd card at all... what they were thinking in Google...hmm...
Of course, we can teach PCs and software to see ext4 - but why o why...

Ulverinho said:
Yup, figured that out already...
But if to believe this
https://motorola-global-portal.custhelp.com/app/answers/prod_answer_detail/a_id/109134/p/1449,9582
going to internal mode will give no access to sd card at all... what they were thinking in Google...hmm...
Of course, we can teach PCs and software to see ext4 - but why o why...
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Teach? lol... just run Linux, Windows sucks.

acejavelin said:
Teach? lol... just run Linux, Windows sucks.
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Agreed, I'm on Mac It's altogether a pain
Anyway, this is quite strange feature that had not much attention.
I hope that post helps.

Ulverinho said:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/nexus/6lMKqYYXpXw;context-place=topicsearchin/nexus/category$3Aconnecting-to-networks-and-devices%7Csort:relevance%7Cspell:false
Nikhil Bastikar said:
I found a solution from user named Peter Oravecz.
So basically we need to delete the cache and the data for the System apps named "External Storage and Media Storage".
Goto
Phone settings-> Apps -> Tap three dots on tiop right to select select Show system apps -> select External Storagge and Media storage and delete data ana cache.
Then REBOOT THE PHONE.
this shud work.
Worked for me.
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I tried that, but I see no option to delete cache.
So you now have full MTP access to your SD Card?
I am also interested if anyone else had success with with a MTP connection using Linux

acejavelin said:
Teach? lol... just run Linux, Windows sucks.
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So you have full MTP access to your SD Card using Linux?

MrTooPhone said:
So you have full MTP access to your SD Card using Linux?
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No... The point was if Google gave us direct access to the card as internal storage, we would need ext4 support. Was just a wishful thinking conversation.
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Ulverinho said:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/nexus/6lMKqYYXpXw;context-place=topicsearchin/nexus/category$3Aconnecting-to-networks-and-devices%7Csort:relevance%7Cspell:false
Nikhil Bastikar said:
I found a solution from user named Peter Oravecz.
So basically we need to delete the cache and the data for the System apps named "External Storage and Media Storage".
Goto
Phone settings-> Apps -> Tap three dots on tiop right to select select Show system apps -> select External Storagge and Media storage and delete data ana cache.
Then REBOOT THE PHONE.
this shud work.
Worked for me.
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Data clear and reboot also worked for me, thanks!

MrTooPhone said:
I tried that, but I see no option to delete cache.
So you now have full MTP access to your SD Card?
I am also interested if anyone else had success with with a MTP connection using Linux
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Well, Apps - Show system ones - go into app settings, then Storage - and then U'll see Wipe Data and Wipe Cache.

Ulverinho said:
Well, Apps - Show system ones - go into app settings, then Storage - and then U'll see Wipe Data and Wipe Cache.
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Thanks. I did not look under storage. Still made no difference with Linux, I get PTP but not a MTP connection for internal storage. No access to the SD Card. I will try with Windows later tonight, but I bet there will be no change (MTP for internal data and restricted to PTP for SD Card).

MrTooPhone said:
Thanks. I did not look under storage. Still made no difference with Linux, I get PTP but not a MTP connection for internal storage. No access to the SD Card. I will try with Windows later tonight, but I bet there will be no change (MTP for internal data and restricted to PTP for SD Card).
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Try making MTP default one in Developer Options - Select USB Config. Obviously this is not the solution as to mounting issue, but might force phone to choose MTP as default when cable plugs in.

Ulverinho said:
Try making MTP default one in Developer Options - Select USB Config. Obviously this is not the solution as to mounting issue, but might force phone to choose MTP as default when cable plugs in.
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I have tried all that several times with no success. Can you confirm your PC OS and if you have full MTP access to the SD Card? Not PTP access where you only see the media directories and files.

MrTooPhone said:
I have tried all that several times with no success. Can you confirm your PC OS and if you have full MTP access to the SD Card? Not PTP access where you only see the media directories and files.
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Yes, I've got access to my books, music, downloads and so on.
This is both Windows 7 and OSX.

Ulverinho said:
Yes, I've got access to my books, music, downloads and so on.
This is both Windows 7 and OSX.
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Thanks. After wiping data and cache for external storage and media storage, I have full MTP with Windows 7. Unfortunately, my Ubuntu 12.04 does not recognize the MTP connection. But it will connect when I select PTP.

OTG didn't work also. On my build. It's the same as the first update. Was fixed later.
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Actually, after clearing data and cache on these two items my attempts to access phone via USB are even worse know... In Windows 7 it just says "Unknown USB device" and the peripheral connect/disconnect tone goes off repeatedly, can't access anything anymore. But in Linux Mint I was able to access both internal storage and SD card now. Weird.
EDIT: Hmm... copying files to Linux from the SD card failed after about 1GB, as soon as I moved my laptop a bit. I might have a bad cable (this is a really old Samsung charger & cable I have carried in my laptop bag for traveling for probably 4 years). Not putting much stock in this test at this time until I can get home tomorrow night and use a known good cable.
EDIT2: Got a different cable from the front desk at the hotel, was able to copy about 8GB of music and pictures from SD card to my Linux Mint PC with no issues... Windows is still unable to recognize the device at all (might be something in my work laptop, but I think it had worked before and any other USB peripheral works fine)