Hello, my PC's internal HD is having failures which is corrupting files, and causing "cyclic redundancy check error". I almost can't use this to download large files no more, but I have an external hard drive ( Samsung M3) which i never needed to use until now cause i will have to wait a few more weeks to buy another HDD.
Does these external drives have limitations upon the usage? can I download torrents, or any kind of file direct to the device?
I didn't now where to post this so if this is the wrong thread may you adm please move to the right thread?
Hi,
Thanks for using XDA Assist There is no limitation of an external Hard drive you can download your files to it without issues just make sure you wont interrupt the connection of external drive with pc while any task is performed
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Hi All
I have a xda IIs ( previously owned XDA 1 & 2 ). I have started encoding movies/tv shows which I watch on my phone and I was wondering if anyone knew of some software that would speed up the process of copying the .avi file to the memory card on the PPC ? Activesync is really *slow* so I've starting using a card reader ... but this is something else to carry around so I'm thinking there must be something that would let me write directly to the SD card at a higher speed.
Thanks in advance
Jeff
Hi wertert!
You should check out this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=17514
They discuss a couple of programs that bypass ActiveSync and let you use your device as USB mass storage device. (you don't have to install anything on the pc)
I also noticed that the transfer speed depends on the SD itself. Older cards seem to be slower.
Anyway, hope this helps. Good luck!
I purchased the G-Tablet because I wanted a way to download photos from my camera's memory, view them, and write them to an external hard drive. The problem I've run into is that I can't get my tablet (running TnT-Lite) to recognize my 1TB Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex drive to mount. I've done a lot of searching for answers, and my first thought was that the drive wasn't receiving enough power, but I've tried it through the docking station and a powered USB hub without any luck. I also reformatted it to Fat32 just to be sure it wasn't the drive format. Sniffer never even notices it's connected.
I'm using TnT-Lite, but am perfectly willing to try other ROMs if they have better external drive support. I'm not super familiar with linux so I haven't tried seeing if I could manually mount the drive, but if someone would be interested in telling me how to see if it's recognized and manually mount it I'm all ears.
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Kind of a repost...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=912212
Two things:
Make sure your harddrive format is supported by your kernel. Some kernels like clemsin support ntfs and other formats. I am not really sure what formats does the kernel that comes with tnt lite supports, but i recomend to check or install another kernel.
Second; make sure you connects your HDD to a power source before using it. I have not tried it myself, but i heard that the low power source of the usb port of the g tablet is not enough to supply power to the HDD.
Good luck with that, hope you find a solution to the problem.
Another thought, have you tried rebooting the tab after you've plugged the HDD in. I have a 500 gb WD elements, and if I'm having issues, usually rebooting with the drive plugged up takes care of it.
Pazzu510 said:
Kind of a repost...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=912212
Two things:
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Yes, others have posted similar issues, albeit with different drives/ROMs and little or no followup to troubleshoot the problem and no real solution.
I believe I was very specific in mentioning during the opening post that I tried using external power (via the dock and powered USB hub) and different drive formats.
lordgodgeneral said:
Another thought, have you tried rebooting the tab after you've plugged the HDD in. I have a 500 gb WD elements, and if I'm having issues, usually rebooting with the drive plugged up takes care of it.
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Thanks for the suggestion. I've tried having it plugged in via the dock and powered hub before boot, but still no dice.
The best case scenario for me is that someone here has the same drive, overcame this issue and is willing to share their solution. I'm hoping that I can at least find someone who knows enough about linux/ROMs to help me troubleshoot and figure out if this is a hardware, driver or software issue. Maybe the drive is being recognized but the partition isn't getting mounted for some reason? *shrug*
Try partitioning your drive to 2 500gb sections. I don't think android os recognizes 1tb drive sizes. Just a thought.
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Try partitioning your drive to 2 500gb sections. I don't think android os recognizes 1tb drive sizes. Just a thought.
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Excellent suggestion. Just repartitioned it as (2) 465GB fat32 drives and copied over some test files, plugged the drive into the powered USB hub, plugged that into the G-tablet, booted...and at first I thought it didn't work. Then an hour later I look at my tablet and realize it's mounted! I can see the image file I was using to test it...except the image (png) doesn't open. I try moving it to the SDCard using iFileManager and it errors.
...so on the up side, the drive mounted. On the down side, there may still be some issues.
You didn't say what model drive. I got a 1TB drive to use on my Tonido plug server and server would not recognize it. apparently some of the new drives need non standard drivers. For bulk storage, the tonido works great and accessible from the web.
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You didn't say what model drive. I got a 1TB drive to use on my Tonido plug server and server would not recognize it. apparently some of the new drives need non standard drivers. For bulk storage, the tonido works great and accessible from the web.
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Is my opening post that difficult to read? Pretty sure I said it's a 1TB Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex.
not only is this not developement but snapping at the people trying to help you is just gonna not get you any help
Moved to general.
I have the exact same hard drive and the exact same problem as well. Running Cal's 1.1 with Clem's latest kernal ver. 6. No luck in seeing it.
Also, even with a thumb drive it cannot recognize it if it's formatted as NTFS. I know it's supposed to work but there must be something I'm doing wrong. Any ideas?
Thanks
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not only is this not developement but snapping at the people trying to help you is just gonna not get you any help
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It seemed to me that troubleshooting problems with ROMs not correctly mounting drives fell under development along with the ROM being used.
As for snapping at people, maybe I wasn't as appreciative of their effort as I should have been, but I felt like people were replying without even reading the opening post where I had tried hard to explain the situation in detail. It's like taking your car to a mechanic and telling him it's making a clunking sound, then receiving a call from them later saying, "Yeah, we took a look and there seems to be a clunking sound."
you try using a file explorer like root explorer?? or only sniffer?
rover442 said:
I have the exact same hard drive and the exact same problem as well. Running Cal's 1.1 with Clem's latest kernal ver. 6. No luck in seeing it.
Also, even with a thumb drive it cannot recognize it if it's formatted as NTFS. I know it's supposed to work but there must be something I'm doing wrong. Any ideas?
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Hey rover442. I'm thrilled to have gotten it to mount and, hopefully if we work together, we can figure out how to get everything working properly. To recap, here's what I did to get it to mount:
Delete the existing partition using Windows Disk Management
Create two new partitions (under 500GB)
Format those partitions using fat32format
Plug the drive into the tablet via a powered usb hub
Reboot
Wait an undefined amount of time for it to magically mount
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you try using a file explorer like root explorer?? or only sniffer?
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I've tried all of them, but when it finally mounted I noticed it in Sniffer then was able to access it using iFileManager.
Ok gaines. I'll reformat the drive and partition it and see what happens. Thanks!
Gaines, I made two partitions. I put an mp3 in each partition. Loaded it into G Tab and it sees one of the partitions and the mp3. It does not see the other partition. FTR, I am not using a powered USB, just plugging straight into the G. (formatted fat 32 on the external hard drive).
Success
Ok here's what I did to make things work in FAT 32
I downloaded a partition software called EASEUS Partition master Home. It was free. I fromatted again the whole 1TB hard drive (931GB available). here are the following tests I did:
Partition 431GB successfully seen in G Tab
Partition 531GB successfully seen in G Tab
So since I broke the 500GB threshold I tried to partition 631GB and it was good. So then I just repartitioned for the whole 931GB available and it is now being seen in Sniffer and Root Explorer. So it's fine.
However, the G Tab still cannot recognize NTFS.
You need a kernel that supports ntfs. Android does not recognise ntfs natively
Hi guys,
I have the asus to USB adapter for my transformer. I'm trying to plug in my galaxy s2 as a mass storage DEVICE. I want to be able to transfer files between devices without a computer in between. Bluetooth is just way too slow and fickle. However it recognises the phone and shows the sd card (not internal storage) but if I try and access the folders it says file not found or something.
Anyone made this work or have any other ideas? Sometimes I'm on the road and need a quick way to move large video files from phone to tablet. All the sync apps seem way too slow and use heaps of data I dont have, as free wifi is hard to find in new Zealand.
Thanks in advance
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I hope I'm understanding u but forget the USB process altogether and use 1 micro SD card. Using a file manger on your sgs2 u can place the video files onto the micro SD and then physically take out the card and place it in your tf. Then use a file manager on your tf to either access it and or copy the files onto your internal tf memory.
You may not be able to access your micro SD card from the My Files app on your sgs2. U will need to download a file manager app from the market. Ex. Astro file manager.
U will be able to access the micro SD card from the default file manager app on the tf.
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Yeah I have thought about this. It seems like a messy way to do it though, as I have a micro sd in each, so is a lot of shuffling (and rebooting in the case of the gs2 because of the location of the sd slot). I was thinking though as the Gs2 can be mounted as USB storage, there should be some way to access it on the transformer ? I do wish google would enable an easier way of us sharing files between devices, excluding nfc of course.
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Either way...there is going to be a drawback to any method you use to end up with the same result. I use the micro sd card / file manager method all the time and have no problems nor does it seem inefficient or messy to me. This is basically the same process as using a flash drive to transfer a large file from one pc to the other.
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quick and cheeky answer- get a keyboard dock.
i have the SGS2 aswell and all i do is use the phones usb cable and plug it into the USB port on the dock, hey presto it all works fine.
you could try to connect to the tablet over direct wifi too- the SGS2 has direct wifi and only 1 needs it to get it working, you could then stream the video files to the tablet.
have a look here too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giJXF5pIITc
maybe PM nztechfreak on xda or his facebook page, there isnt a thing that guy doesnt know about android phones and tablets and he is very helpful indeed
You can also use the 'Samba Filesharing' app from the market place. Your phone will show up in 'My Computer/Networks' and you can read/write directly to/from the SD card.
You could probably set up some sort of ad-hoc wireless connection between the two devices, it would most likely be more reliable than bluetooth which I never got to work.
I use a NAS to copy files from my phone to my transformer.
I use ES file explorer to access the NAS from both devices, so they have a shared storage to copy to/from.
I haven't tried samba sharing of the SD card, but that sounds like a good idea too. saves one step.
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I have a stock Galaxy S7 running 6.0.1 with an SD card configured as portable storage. I tried two SSH servers (Ssh Server and SSH Server, I know the names are not very helpful) and they both work fine. However they can't access my SD card.
Is it possible to get this to work, can this never work, etc.? Various file managers can work with the SD card. I don't understand why the SSH servers don't.
The question behind this question is what's the easiest/fastest way to get a 100 gig of files onto an SD card that a phone or tablet running Marshmallow can access. Without Windows or Mac I don't know of any better way. Why, oh why didn't Android provide a normal plug and play USB interface like you normally get with most devices where you can mount all the drives and act like they're local...
If anybody has ideas on this that would be nice. If not if I can at least access my SD card from an SSH server running on the device I'll be able to pump my files over from my various systems.
Thank you.
Updated: I built the latest libmtp and stable gmtp today and it starts working great but eventually crashes in the middle of transferring a bunch of files. Oddly, it seems to die on the same file each time. I don't have time right now but later I'll check and see if I can prove whether it's after some amount of time/data/whatever or if the file is bad (unlikely). So unless somebody has a better idea how we can get good ole' 1990s USB mass storage working I'm kinda screwed atm.
midnightrider said:
Hi,
I have a stock Galaxy S7 running 6.0.1 with an SD card configured as portable storage. I tried two SSH servers (Ssh Server and SSH Server, I know the names are not very helpful) and they both work fine. However they can't access my SD card.
Is it possible to get this to work, can this never work, etc.? Various file managers can work with the SD card. I don't understand why the SSH servers don't.
The question behind this question is what's the easiest/fastest way to get a 100 gig of files onto an SD card that a phone or tablet running Marshmallow can access. Without Windows or Mac I don't know of any better way. Why, oh why didn't Android provide a normal plug and play USB interface like you normally get with most devices where you can mount all the drives and act like they're local...
If anybody has ideas on this that would be nice. If not if I can at least access my SD card from an SSH server running on the device I'll be able to pump my files over from my various systems.
Thank you.
Updated: I built the latest libmtp and stable gmtp today and it starts working great but eventually crashes in the middle of transferring a bunch of files. Oddly, it seems to die on the same file each time. I don't have time right now but later I'll check and see if I can prove whether it's after some amount of time/data/whatever or if the file is bad (unlikely). So unless somebody has a better idea how we can get good ole' 1990s USB mass storage working I'm kinda screwed atm.
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there is a Galaxy S7 forum
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s7
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sd_shadow said:
there is a Galaxy S7 forum
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-s7
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Thanks, but this is a generic Android Marshmallow issue as far as I know.
It appears the SD card filesystem is not world writeable. TotalCommander allows me to change it in the GUI but it doesn't actually get changed. No error or warning messages either.
edit: ok after hours of searching here and on the net this is apparently caused by design in Marshmallow. The permissions on the SD card make it not happening to directly update the card. I think, but I am not sure, there is an API for applications that want to write to the card. Some apps can certainly do it. I found a thread here where a guy figured out a solution if you are rooted. I'm sorry but I accidentally closed the tab (DOH!) and lost the link.
The choices seem to be:
1) ask the dev to fix his app to be able to write on the SD card
2) root your phone and change permissions or change the xml file to deal with it
3) use your SD card as adoptable storage. This only works if you have a really fast/expensive card otherwise your performance will suck hard and you'll be miserable. Lots of other downside to this, probably not worth it.
I have no idea if this is going to be fixed in N. I hope so because it is a huge PITA. And stupid!
I just built the linux fuse support for exfat and am downloading a bunch of doc to the sd card from linux. After I fill up the card I'll test it out and update again. Very easy build, the whole thing was less than 3 minutes. For anybody who wants to try this on a non package managed linux (I use Slackware) see here: https://github.com/relan/exfat
Hey everyone,
My micro sd card become write protected,, i am not able to delete anything from my sd card,,,not even able to format it,
If someome have wroking solution please tell
I try,,regedit and chkdsk solution but not worked ![emoji122]
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CorcRoazBa said:
Hey everyone,
My micro sd card become write protected,, i am not able to delete anything from my sd card,,,not even able to format it,
If someome have wroking solution please tell
I try,,regedit and chkdsk solution but not worked ![emoji122]
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Greetings, I noticed you recently followed my XDA profile and although on a don't participate in that part of the XDA interactions it led me to your post here which I have some experience with so I might as well share it. First a bit of advice. Creating a new thread with a question will not necessarily attract other people because most people are looking to find answers rather than looking to provide them. You can probably find threads specific to that topic. Also this topic comes up frequently in various operating system threads.
The symptoms you describe sound very much like what happens when a micro SD card's built-in protection detects an imminent failure then intentionally corrupts a bit at the beginning of the drive. In this state the drive cannot be written to or formatted. Attempts to copy or delete files on the drive on Android may seem successful but later show that nothing was moved or deleted. I would suggest first copying all the data that you need off of that drive and onto another one. The fact that you've already trying to format it means you've taken care of this step but I mention it anyhow. Then try to format it in as many different types of computers or devices as you can. I prefer gparted on Linux or Easeus partition manager on Windows. If it is a SanDisk SD card you could contact their Tech Support to see if there are any other ways to determine if a drive has been blocked in this manner. Unfortunately the solution may be to replace the drive but I cannot be certain or provide any more advice than this. Good luck.
BTW, one reason I know that creating a thread with a question does not generate much interest is because the one I created five years ago for a very similar issue only got 1 page of replies, although some good ones. Here is a link to that thread which has more details about what I described in previous post.
Micro SD: No write access, cannot format. exFAT digital write protect or SD corrupt?
I know using a thread it not necessarily the best way to ask a question but since the cause of this issue is unknown (and might just be SD corruption) and there are a few other threads where it might come up, this thread can be used as a...
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For what it's worth most of the information I gathered was from my own pro experience dealing with drives and from SanDisk support. I did not find much on XDA, and created the thread for what were probably similar reasons to yours, that there were not many other options.