Someone please develop a USB mass storage for this device! I can't stand MTP mode. Large files constantly fail. You can only do one operation at a time. It's horrible! I run Linux so accessing ext4 partition is not a problem.
Last few phones I've owned only allow MTP or ptp.. Eeerrrrrr
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urhaxable said:
Someone please develop a USB mass storage for this device! I can't stand MTP mode. Large files constantly fail. You can only do one operation at a time. It's horrible! I run Linux so accessing ext4 partition is not a problem.
Last few phones I've owned only allow MTP or ptp.. Eeerrrrrr
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I have noticed this as well. I and my wife both use Wifi Storage, which works ALOT better. Other than that, you could get an FTP app, upload stuff to FTP then download it from it using your phone. I did that for a short while.
Wish the Mass Storage mode didn't suck so back on this phone!
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anyone figure out how to get usb mount for the s3 for Verizon. Im looking to purchase one within a day or 2 and just wanted to make sure if i hook my phone up to the comp. will it let me copy files over like things used to be?? Don't want to have to set up some type of server and do it that way just want to plug and go.... thanks for any feedback it will make my purchase that much easier......
it comes built in... its not called USB mount, its either MTP or PTP. I haven't really figured out the difference between the two yet, both seem to work just fine for browsing the files on the phone and ext card.
so plug and add files from my comp is a go then... good to hear,,,,
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so plug and add files from my comp is a go then... good to hear,,,,
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If you have windows plug and go as windows supports mtp natively. If you have a Mac computer there is a file from Google you download and install that gives the macs mtp access.
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I find the PTP setting (i.e., appears and works like a USB thumbdrive) more convenient than MTP, which has a specific interface that not all Windows applications are able to handle in my experience. I use MTP for "synch" programs, such as MediaMonkey, which act like a more open and usable form of iTunes for our Android phones.
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Someone else posted something similar to this in another thread and I got a bunch of flak for answering that Mtp works the same as mass storage mode. Apparently people running Linux cannot use this option, and it is different than mass storage or usb mode and I don't know why. Still have yet to get an answer in the other thread "how to enable mass storage mode". Maybe I can get one here?
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Linux has been shown to have different results depending on using MTP or PTP. Windows doesn't seem to care except sometimes it gets picky and doesn't recognize the "hardware ID" of one version but does of the other.
If connected to a PC via USB and your phone is set to MTP, it's seriously as easy as drag and drop.
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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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Hi! I know this has been somewhat discussed before, but apparently not in recent months. My question is, is it still not possible to hook up your Windows Phone 8 as a regular storage device and not as a MTP device? Looks like there are a few tricks for other OS's using MTP but not WP8. Has anyone found a way?
My problem is I lost a couple of GB of pics and video and it's driving me crazy knowing they're right there and any recovery software could save them - they just cant access the phone's internal memory via MTP.
I've been using Z3 till now, there was an option for USB Mass Storage mode, which simply emulated sd card as pen drive. I could simply transfer any file I wanted with the highest speed possible!
This option is gone in XZ Premium, and the way I see it the only method available now is MTP (which sucks massively, words can't describe how bad this protocol is)
So my question is, what can I do to transfer any file I want at top speed to my phone? This is 2017, I've bought high speed SD card, I can't believe I'm stuck with MTP that goes around 5MB/s... There has to be a way for legit file transfer...
I use a app called superbeam, it uses wifi.
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I wouldn't call wifi a solution to that, I'm going to use a high speed sd card too to transfer 4k movies and stuff back and forth so I'd like to know this myself too.
Looks like Sony is providing USB 2.0 cable with Sony XZ Premium (UCB20 is USB 2.0), this is one of the reasons of low transfer speeds.
Sucks for me as well
Anybody found a better solution?
If you have Root, you can get a app from the play store that enables Mass Storage
How is this called?
Would be the solution as soon as root exploit is found
If you have fast internet just FTP? Or just use an SD card reader? But the latter will kill your flaps water resistance after time so wouldn't bother ?
Mass storage mode transfer is a thing of the past for good reason. Your phone, under such a mode, would present its internal storage to the computer to mount up and use as if it were a thumb drive. Trouble is, very few file systems support concurrent read/write mounting by multiple computers, and you won't find any of those that do on a phone. So, when in mass storage mode, the computer must be given exclusive access to the storage, meaning the phone cannot access it. Obviously, this wouldn't work if the phone had to give up exclusive access to important system files, so this lead to the two partition system whereby important stuff was on an OS partition unavailable as mass storage and user data was on an 'sdcard' partition. That partition sizing was set at the factory and couldn't be changed without root and often kernel work, and it usually wasted a ton of space on the OS partition because OEMs are necessarily conservative there. Also, it restricted what file systems OEMs could use for the sdcard partition as your computer is unlikely to understand file systems like ext3/4. So the sdcard partition was quite often fat32, which has a few downsides. Firstly, Microsoft do hold patents there that they enforce, so licensing is needed. Secondly, it is an archaic and crappy file system with limitations like no single file larger than about 4GB. Not a great plan in 2017 - I don't think I even have any movies that small on disk anymore.
All that said, I don't see the problem with MTP. If it's slow for you, it's likely because you're using the supplied cable, which is USB version 2, so slow. I slung about 15 GB or so of film onto my phone yesterday through a USB 3.1 cable in under a minute. It's definitely the fastest USB transfer to a phone I've ever experienced.
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How is this called?
Would be the solution as soon as root exploit is found
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test this but im not sure it work i have no root on my phone im use sdcard reader with my sdcard extreme pro
by @DooMLoRD
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.doomlord.xperiasdcardmounter&hl=fr
I have now tested a lot of different solutions for file transfers.
None of the ones emulating a network card and making SMB share worked.
Finally I landed on some FTP server apps.
Now I use "WiFi Pro FTP Server" as this one had best performance out of the ones I tested.
With performance I mean time until directory content (~3.000 jpeg files) is displayed by FTP client. This one takes about half a minute where crap MTP via USB took more than 5 minutes (with new, high quality USB 3.0 cable!).
I have notebook and phone in different WiFi bands to increase performance. Transfer speed is about 4-10MB/s so really good and far beyond MTP.
Of course, I am still missing good old mass storage mode