I know on the S3 and S4 you could use an app that would mount the SD card so it could be read like a USB drive... But I've tried the app on my S5 and no dice..
It gives an error and eventually mounts, the usb notification says it's an installer just like it did on the S3/S4 but my car stereo can't find the media files unlike before...
Any ideas on how to get it working?
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The weird thing is that the car recognizes the card and begins searching for music... But ultimately says no media found.. I used this same card in my S4 and it had no issues
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Whenever I plug in the phone to my computer via USB, it loads it as two separate drive letters. This is fine and good for the PC side of things.
The problem is that I want to be able to use the phone's external SD as a mass storage device that attaches to a new car's USB port. The car always throws back an "unsupported" error, and I'm betting it has everything to do with the fact that the phone tries to mount the 2 cards. The car just doesn't know how to handle that information.
So, does anyone know of a tweak or setting that would force the phone to only mount one or the other, preferably the external?
I've removed the external SD card and plugged the phone in to the car. It doesn't error out now, but I didn't give it ample time to find music hidden in the internal SD.
That being the case, I still would like to know if there is a way to disable USB mass storage for one or the other without having to shift things around all the time. There's a reason why all of my music is on the external SD--it's a 16GB card and I have a ton of music.
The only way I can think of is by mounting it in clockwork recovery console. That would give you access to the music...but you'd lose the functionality of the phone during that time, so doesn't seem like it would be a viable route for you to take...but I suppose if you wanted to do bug testing to see if your external WOULD mount to your cars usb, that's one way to check that out.
Hope this helps.
I'll give that a try this afternoon. You're right, though, it does defeat the purpose--I'd really like a functioning phone while I drive. I'm sure there's a way to adjust this, I just don't know enough about the inner workings to make it happen.
Hello devitec,
I have the same Problem in a BMW with a Samsung Galaxy SII phone. I have no satisfying solution but I can use below workaround.
The BMW cannot mount both drives, but he chooses randomly one of the two. Because there are no music-files on the internal sd, it gives me an errormessage. On every second try i get the external sd which is browsable like a usb-stick. The album- and artist-informations are not parsed for the BMW-filterfunctions, so i can only choose by directory.
I hope this workaround will also work in your car.
max01001111
P.S.: The Samsung galaxy SII has to be in debug mode to mount without kies-support.
what if you guys try to unmount the internal sd before you connect ur phone to ur car?
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Hi all, I've been waiting and searching around seeing if I was able to find any kind of fix or something for some time now but it's beginning to get to me far too much.
My problem is when I had the HTC Aria I used to have the audio stored on my phone and plug it into my car's USB connection and the headunit would search the device and find all audio to play through the headunit which I was then able to use my controls on the steering wheel. After some time I bought the Samsung Galaxy S2 (l9100) and to my excitement received the whopping 16GB internal storage as a bonus, so I filled that. And heres where my problem comes in, I cant seem to make my headunit search the internal storage and play all that music, It will only search the SD card (external).
Now from reading all over the internet I've been led to believe by any posts that relate somewhat to this that it wont be possible for this to work, what frustrates me though is that it is possible. I've rooted and flashed various custom ROM's to my device (VillianROM first, Cyanogenmod Nightlies second and now MIUI yesterday). I have successfully had the headunit read my internal (newer and more songs) upon connection twice that I can recall now, I think the first time was after first connection to the car after the cyanogenmod flash and today when I first connected it again. Which led me to believe that it was working and then was just applying a new theme on my phone while hanging at a friends then was taking another friend home and plugged it in and back to only reading from my SD card (external - old crap music) and can't figure out why it has worked twice if it is not possible.
The reason why I am determined to figure this out is due to 16 GB internal storage and only 1 GB external storage and I wish to use my phone to its full potential.
While I'm at it, I guess I should mention my other problem which adds to my determination to get the USB connection working with my car. The USB connection is a much clearer & louder playback (Higher quality) then the AUX (current alternative) and to be safer while driving by using my steering controls.
But since flashing to Cyanogenmod and MIUI (cannot recall whether I had this problem on VillainROM) I've noticed the volume in headset mode (when I have something plugged into the headphone jack - ie, AUX, etc) and I begin turning up the volume from quietest to loudest it get notably louder each press until halfway or a press before halfway and then does not become any louder, which I also think may be making the audio less clear and loud when connected via AUX to my car.
Thanks in advance to anyone whom contributes.
I am usually stubborn enough to sort problems out myself, but for the first time I am asking for help on a community forum.
Anyone have any idea what I'm talking about?
If you need to know anything else don't hesitate to ask.
CM7 volume is a known issues or least it was last time I checked.
Try turning on/off usb debugging is my best guess.
Done that, today at some point it randomly read my internal storage and right now I'm constantly reconnecting it with no success.
The frustration continues as it is obviously possible but appears to have a mind of its own.
With my little knowledge when it comes to android and their platform, is it possible it could be there mount priority of the storage or the internal having something stored on it such as an app that could be in use by the phone which could be preventing the drive from being read?
what the hell... I have the exact OPPOSITE problem.
With my headunit its been only mounting the internal storage, but most of my music I put them in the external since I got a 32gb card!
Could it be mounting the smaller sized storage first? =P
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Actually it should be easier to do it the way you want it to (i.e mount internal only)
just unmount the sd card via the android settings -> storage -> unmount
and once it is unmounted, connect the usb to the car.
The catch is of course if you wanna use the external again you have to manually mount it via the settings.
more info but no real help
I have seen a very similar problem and I feel like I can reproduce it.
I've got a 2010 Hyundai Tucson - it has a USB/aux port in the dash console and can accept anything that can be mounted as flash media, flash drives, ipods, etc can all play back music using the Nav display to browse and playback files from the device.
The stereo plays back music perfectly through both my wife's old and new phones. An original MyTouch 3g and a MyTouch 4g. She's had no problem mounting and reading the files from her internal storage. She can playback music on her phone, the car even remembers her place and resumes where she stopped a song.
I, on the other hand, cannot easily get the car to playback files from my older or newer phone. I started with the original android, the HTC Dream/TMobile G1 then later upgraded to a Samsung Galaxy S 3g/TMob Vibrant. What's the difference? I've run modded android OS on my phones and my wife has not. I had been running CM5 and later CM6 on the G1/Dream until I retired it. Lately I've been using a MIUI mod, Lithium 360, on the Vibrant.
When I plug in to the USB on the car, the phone gives me the mount prompt and the car begins searching for files. Eventually both fail to make any progress.
I've tried many fixes including turning on/off USB debugging, I've tried wiping Dalvik cache, Wiping regular cache, I believe I even did a factory reset, flash zip, full re-install on a road trip just to see if I could get the car to read my files. What I did discover is that the problem is simply not hardware related. I could boot to recovery and use clockwork to mount USB storage. Files were seen instantly and played back fine. However, this doesn't do me any good as I can't really use the device for anything else (safety first ) and not to mention that there's no way I want to run the phone with the screen on for hours. I know there are simple workarounds here. But carrying an aux/patch cable is an extra hassle, and since my phone can hold enough data for my average means, I often don't remember to bring a flash drive with me everywhere. Besides, the USB cable in the dash does double duty, charging while giving access to files.
To be fair, I've only used CM based mods (according to wikipedia, MIUI is somewhat based on Cyanogen) on my phone and have not tried out any other android software. I don't know if that's a connection or not, but it's the only lead I have right now. There's got to be something different about the USB settings in the OS itself compared to stock Android. Is there an apk file one could flash and test somehow?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=617333&highlight=car+stereo
This thread is above seems to be describing the same problem. This however appears to be an aftermarket stereo.
[Q] After mounting it *immediately* dismounts
Connecting to a Samsung TV (USB debugging ON and clicked on USB Storage until it turns from green to orange) and then browsing USB (Menu => USB device) it mounts the USB ("Android 11GB" which is presumably the internal SD) and then dismounts within a second and restarts initializing. An ordinary USB stick (single file system) does mount.
Is this because the Galaxy S2 mounts two file systems at a time and the TV cannot handle this. Is there an app which only mounts ONE filesystem on the Galaxy ?
Hey! My note 10.1 8013 has stopped reading SD cards with the little 30 pin adaptor. When I plug in the adaptor it says USB conector connected but if I insert a SD won't read it (yes, tried with many other cards, and tried the adaptor on my wife's P3113 and it works)
OS is Darkman_RS's 4.1.2 stock, rooted and deodexed. I lightly debloated it (Crayon physics, all the game and learning hub thingy I don't care for, etc)
Any ideas on what should I look into?
Thanks!
Well you did what I would do first that's test the adaptor on your Wife's. If you can not see or fell any losenes in the plug, the 2nd thing I would do is make a full backup of my system and return to the stock rom this way you cut out any problems with cook rom or your debloating. If that works then flash back to Darkman's and re-try if it still works, it may of been something you did. If it does not work try one of the other roms till you find one you like and it works.
If after flashing back to stock and it still does not work and you are sure it is making a good connection then I would say it's the note, snes at one time it did work eliminating adapter incompatibility.
Just a quick edited, I was just playing with my note and was hooking up my 2TB drive and seen it was not working, well after a bit of loking found that I had forgotten to reinstall Paragon exFAT, NTFS & HFS+ program after installing the Omega Rom. So make sure your drives are Fat32 or exFat and if not you have a program like Paragon or NTFS Mounter installed.
I had to restart my tab, then it sees the card, every now and then I need to restart....dunno why?
I have seen that after playing with some emulators. I guess some apps grab or hook the port looking for something but do not free it up on exit.
Sometimes restarting does it and sometimes don't...
I have had my iPod Nano set for disk use for some time under the Apple HFS+ format, and in curiosity, I wanted to see if I could access those files via the Samsung USB connector. I tried Paragon,and the USB Mass Storage Watcher OTG and nothing has exactly happened, but it works automatically and my Mac recognizes it right away. Well with the latter program, it does charge to its credit , but with this also, it shows up as a Blank USB storage rather than with the files. Is there any possible way I could access them on the Note 10.1 [N8013] , or does it require other drivers in order to recognize the iPod Nano 6th gen?
I'm honestly not in much of a hurry concerning this issue , but wondering if others have found why the device is inaccessible to either app.
Hi There.
I bought this off eBay and received it today.
Firstly I got it up and running with no problems at all. Plugged it in and away I went. Play store works fine. Happy Happy Happy!
Until I tried to install XBMC from their website. I clicked on the android version and 'no SD card' Flashed up. So i searched for the myfiles app and it wasn't there. But there is an explorer app. I opened that and can't access the internal memory at all?? In the eBay listing it says it should have 8GB of internal memory but when I look in the settings it says there is only 0.98GB free??
I've tried to connect the Android stick to my PC but it doesn't even recognise that I have connected it.
Is there something I am doing wrong???
Thank you in advance for any help on unlocking this otherwise great little thing.
MK809III
hello I also just purchased one off eBay was going to return but it was still to cool it was suppose to be quad core at 1.8 Ghz with 8 Gb.
it has 2 Gb for the operating system but shows only 4 Gb storage mine was a little strange connecting to pc on android stick I had to check connect to pc under usb in settings each time also if usb debugging is enabled it won't show mount the storage on device
same issue
I have the same issue, any help is appreciated, it is out of the box, and if it is a defect should i return it?
walter_sobchak said:
Hi There.
I bought this off eBay and received it today.
Firstly I got it up and running with no problems at all. Plugged it in and away I went. Play store works fine. Happy Happy Happy!
Until I tried to install XBMC from their website. I clicked on the android version and 'no SD card' Flashed up. So i searched for the myfiles app and it wasn't there. But there is an explorer app. I opened that and can't access the internal memory at all?? In the eBay listing it says it should have 8GB of internal memory but when I look in the settings it says there is only 0.98GB free??
I've tried to connect the Android stick to my PC but it doesn't even recognise that I have connected it.
Is there something I am doing wrong???
Thank you in advance for any help on unlocking this otherwise great little thing.
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If you still need help let me know I might could help on xbmc I use SPMClibmedia v12.4.0 (SPMC) libmedia it has hardware drivers for video the beta xbmc builds are said to have drivers as well this one seems to work really well for me
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MK809III stop reading Ext HDD
I bought my MK809III in May14, it's been working fine until last few days ago.It stopped reading my Toshiba external HDD. I have the MK809III connected to a self-powered USB hub, and connected my Air Mouse and External HDD through the Hub.
I have tried changing a new Seagate external HDD, a new USB Hub and even a different adapter,but it's still not able to read the content in the HDD.
Not sure what else can I do?
My earlier MK808b lasted more than a year,this MK809iii doesn't have problem with other APPs, except that it just can't read HDD.I used both the default file manager and ES file explorer.
Appreciate any help please, TIA!
Hi do you have access to a PC might need to check disk or scandisk on the Toshiba I had to do that from power failure caused drive to refuse to mount not sure about Seagate I'm using a custom ROM on my MK809III some have a 2TB limit I need to connect mine back up and see what it does with external hard drive just been using 32G micro SD and network file shares
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