I'm looking for some help with a new Android tablet that I've come into possession of. It's a Marvell Moby 10":
www dot mobylize dot org
The problem with this tablet is that they've got some weird custom home screen and it's running 1.6, and no market.
Good news: Tablet is rooted, terminal is installed, USB debugging is also enabled. In fact, these were all enabled by default. A really nice surprise for me!
I'm an experienced Linux admin, but not a developer, and am not very familiar with the Android internals or how to even begin building a new 2.2-based ROM for this sucker.
I've managed to install some apps to it by either downloading APK's directly, or installing apps from the market via my Droid, backing them up with TitaniumBackup, swapping SD cards, and then restoring them to the tablet. This works most of the time, but there are a bunch of apps that just don't work.
It's a really nice thin tablet, but unfortunately crippled in a few undesirable ways.
Right now I'm out of town so I don't have simple things on me like a USB cable that I can use to use adb so I'm limited to the terminal.
Would appreciate as much help as I can get on this! If you guys want me to dump images, files, etc, let me know and I'll get them online.
No ideas? No tips?
Still no ideas? Not even a place to start?
Connected the Xoom 2, to a windows 7 machine.
Insists on letting installing 'Motocast' which I let it...what a complete pile of shi*.
I want to 'sync' a 700MB .avi video, over usb cable, to the device...estimated time? 30 minutes!!! I swear this complete toss of software is insisting to re-encode the entire file to some bullsh*t format of their choice. Is there an option to turn this off and transfer it natively?
Secondly, thankfully, it also installs native 'portable' device drivers, allowing Windows 7 file explorer to browse the device. Great, so I copy the same .avi file and paste it to the device...'Do you want to copy xyz.avi? Your device might not be able to play this file' I am prompted...'yes' I click. Just as it finishes copying (after about 4 minutes...much better) it bombs out, notifying me that because the device cannot play this file it is cancelling the transfer...wtf?!?!
The only interim solution i've found is renaming the extension '.avi' to something like '.proprietrysoftwarecansuckmyballs', copying it, then renaming it back to '.avi' once transfer has completed solves this.
So can anyone offer any 'clean' solutions to my file transfer woes? If theres no improvement, this device will be getting returned next week, which is a shame as the tablet is a great bit of kit, its just a shame the software blows.
Look for "Wi-Fi File Explorer" in the market.
This looks like it only transfers over wifi?
I need to transfer over usb cable.
Had this problem myself, looks like it doesn't come with the drivers. After a bit of searching, I found that the standard driver package works:
http://www.motorola.com/staticfiles...al_Drivers/MotoHelper_2.0.53_Driver_5.2.0.exe
Installed that, unplug the USB cable and put it back in - should work fine!
tr00st said:
Had this problem myself, looks like it doesn't come with the drivers. After a bit of searching, I found that the standard driver package works:
http://www.motorola.com/staticfiles...al_Drivers/MotoHelper_2.0.53_Driver_5.2.0.exe
Installed that, unplug the USB cable and put it back in - should work fine!
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Hey thanks man, that worked a treat.
Just for clarification, does you still prompt you that the device may not support playback of the file, but then successfully transfer it (whereby it would previously error at the last second)?
No idea - haven't had that particular part of the issue myself - the main thing I had was the slowness...
I am a linux user ... i will only have the option to upload files via wifi network ?
I have a Xoom 2 ME and the only way to copy a large movie file to the device was adb.
adb push foo.txt /sdcard/foo.txt
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That's the only usb-way i come up with. I'am on snow leopard and Google's Android File Copy tool does not work.
elster said:
I have a Xoom 2 ME and the only way to copy a large movie file to the device was adb.
That's the only usb-way i come up with. I'am on snow leopard and Google's Android File Copy tool does not work.
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I guess the same way will work to linux too . Xoom2 has only one partition on the disk ? that the reason not to be able to mount it as a normal usb ? If you root the device is the anyway to great a small 2 Gb for ex partition to use it for easy transfer ?
Off topic about xoom 2 ME . How good the screen and and the battery life are ?
Useless tablet ?
In fact it's worst!
As a Linux User I hoped being able to use MTP... But I tried mtpfs and mtp-tools on several distributions without any luck.
But what is worse is that FTP server applications won't work too! I tried SwiFTP, FTPServer, and some other: the servers are not reachable. It appears that not even a single ping can reach the tablet. I think Motorala have put some kind of firewall in it (maybe it has something to do with the netflix HD certification?).
For me this tablet is actually useless. If I can't find a way to transfer some files on it without using MotoCast today or tomorrow, I will bring it back to the supplier...
OldBeurt said:
In fact it's worst!
As a Linux User I hoped being able to use MTP... But I tried mtpfs and mtp-tools on several distributions without any luck.
But what is worse is that FTP server applications won't work too! I tried SwiFTP, FTPServer, and some other: the servers are not reachable. It appears that not even a single ping can reach the tablet. I think Motorala have put some kind of firewall in it (maybe it has something to do with the netflix HD certification?).
For me this tablet is actually useless. If I can't find a way to transfer some files on it without using MotoCast today or tomorrow, I will bring it back to the supplier...
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You probably hit it on the head about the Netflix certification. I would think about returning it, man.
a solution ?
Thanks to a French forum (frandroid, in the Xoom 2 topic... sorry I can't send links here), I tested a solution to the transfer problem: It is possible to use (on the computer) a server to share the files such as a samba server.
It works fine. But it's not as easy to browse, select, copy and paste file with explorers on the tablet than it is on computers (several windows, keyboard shortcuts such as Ctrl-c/v, and so on).
But it's now possible to exchange files with the Xoom 2ME without going through a cloud or using Windows/motoCast.
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Off topic about xoom 2 ME . How good the screen and and the battery life are ?
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Sorry for answering so late.
The screen is quite good.
The battery life is terrible compared to my ipad2. Charging needs a lot of time and is very slow. I guess it's because of mini usb only.
Currently i'am using the device as a Kindle Fire replacement, because off the lightweight (KF is heavier and bulky). The books i usually read have more weight than the device itself.
I like it for that.
But i may not be a good adviser because my device is a prototype. It is not smooth and the speakers are terrible.
I think 8,2" is the perfect size for me. The weight is so much better than any other tablet i had.
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In fact it's worst!
As a Linux User I hoped being able to use MTP... But I tried mtpfs and mtp-tools on several distributions without any luck.
But what is worse is that FTP server applications won't work too! I tried SwiFTP, FTPServer, and some other: the servers are not reachable. It appears that not even a single ping can reach the tablet. I think Motorala have put some kind of firewall in it (maybe it has something to do with the netflix HD certification?).
For me this tablet is actually useless. If I can't find a way to transfer some files on it without using MotoCast today or tomorrow, I will bring it back to the supplier...
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Try using a terminal on the Xoom 2 and ping the computer you're trying to connect to, while pinging your Xoom 2 from that computer at the same time. It's like you have to force them to see each other before they can start connecting in future.
I used fileexpert to see and download files with smb shared folder on Ubuntu Linux without a problem.
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My husband attempted to connect his Tab 2 7.0 to our desktop computer which runs Xubuntu 12 only to find he cannot transfer music or video files to the tab. I ran across the "[GUIDE] How to transfer files in Linux" thread, forwarded it to him, and he followed the directions given. Everything appears to have gone smoothly during the process, however Linux is still not recognizing the tablet or the tablet gives a (vague) error. We never had this trouble using the Samsung Galaxy Player as it would simply connect and we were good to go. Any thoughts or advice would be greatly appreciated. If I need to give more details, let me know! Sorry if I am not providing enough information to start with.
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My husband attempted to connect his Tab 2 7.0 to our desktop computer which runs Xubuntu 12 only to find he cannot transfer music or video files to the tab. I ran across the "[GUIDE] How to transfer files in Linux" thread, forwarded it to him, and he followed the directions given. Everything appears to have gone smoothly during the process, however Linux is still not recognizing the tablet or the tablet gives a (vague) error. We never had this trouble using the Samsung Galaxy Player as it would simply connect and we were good to go. Any thoughts or advice would be greatly appreciated. If I need to give more details, let me know! Sorry if I am not providing enough information to start with.
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I would suggest reading this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1728486
Since ICS and Jelly Bean no longer support USB Mass Storage for file transfer (replaced by MTP) file transfers between Linux and ICS/JB are a little harder at the moment. I run Fedora 17 and am not able to drag/drop files from my PC to my tablet. Until the kinks are worked out I'm using scp to copy files. I installed "DropBear SSH Serfver" from the market, which is a good SSH server.
There is a tool called 'gmtp' that is a GNU/Linux UI for MTP-Filetransfer. It does not always connect to the tablet, though. But when it does, it works like a charm.
Ah... if you disable ADB, gmtp should more realibly connect to the tablet.
I'm currently trying out ADBFS.
I'm a little disappointed with the decision to move to MTP, but I understand why they did it. In order to allow you to mount as mass storage, it has to first unmount the flash, which can cause issues if events come in and sounds (which exist on the flash) need to be played, etc.
Honestly, I just use a cheap NAS at home and use Astro to transfer files to and from it. I don't need to worry about cables this way.
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Hello, I'm trying to use my old smartphone (android) as a seedbox.
The problem is that my phone does not support CIFS so I can not mount network drives on the phone (it does not support a SD big enough for the purpose). The HDD (500gb) is connected directly to my router so I can access to it by SAMBA but I can't mount it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Livebox
So, anybody knows what can I do to fix this, or if there is any torrent client with samba support?
My phone is a fake Chinese phone with a MT6573 chipset
Thanks
I am interested too. I think this could be veeery interesting feature.
Any news 2 years afterwards?
Hello folks,
there are portable network storages with built-in WiFi and battery available like CloudFTP, Seagate Goflex Satellite etc. I always wanted such a thing because I could put all my music on this network storage, mount the storage on my tablet file system with CIFS Manager and use PowerAMP to index and access the music files in a comfortable manner. For me, it's important that the device has hotspot functionality because I want to be able to use the server even when no other WiFi or other wireless connection is available.
I had the CloudFTP, and it worked somehow, but it was very unreliable and in fact unusable (there are many complaints about lacking QC in the respective forums, by the way...) and I returned it. And the Goflex Satellite is only usable with a hacked firmware which is $35, so it's way too expensive.
So I had the following idea: My rooted SGS2 has mobile hotspot functionality and the app "Samba Filesharing" which works good. Why not use the phone instead of a CloudFTP?? Just connect a USB disk drive to the phone, and here you go!
Up to now, I can indeed access the storage on the phone from my (of course also rooted) Nexus 7 over a file manager like ES File Explorer. Works really well and easily fast enough! For watching videos or accessing documents this would be sufficient and the story would end here - but for using PowerAMP or Gonemad Music Player I have to MOUNT the server storage, otherwise indexing is impossible!
CIFS Manager seems not to be able to mount the server share! It always says that there is not such a device.
I already tried different URLs like "/192.168.43.1/" or "/192.168.43.1/SDCARD" or "192.168.43.1/sdcard" or "192.168.43.1/ANDROID" etc. - all with no success! :crying:
What am I doing wrong? Or is mounting not possible in this case??
Could someone test this on his setup and possibly suggest working settings parameters for CIFS Manager?
Thaaaaanks in advance!
Best Wishes,
Hasenbein
Nobody an idea??
Is it probably a port issue??