Mass Storage Mode S8+ - Samsung Galaxy S8+ Questions & Answers

Hi,
Does anyone know of a way to enable usb mass storage device mode on the S8+. I want to connect it to my car via usb but it doesn't let me. I have read that I need to connect it as a mass storage device however all the apps that say they can do this say that they can't find my 'lun' file. I can connect it via aux but then I can't control the music with the pause buttons etc. Bluetooth isn't an option as my car doesn't have it.

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Maybe the issue is not with your S8, but with your car's USB. Try both these steps to isolate the issue:
1. Connect your S8 to a laptop to check if you can enable mass storage.
2. Connect another phone to your car's USB to see if it allows and recognized the mass storage setting.
3. Try to connect your S8 to another car and see if the mass storage can be used.

RossTeagan said:
Maybe the issue is not with your S8, but with your car's USB. Try both these steps to isolate the issue:
1. Connect your S8 to a laptop to check if you can enable mass storage.
2. Connect another phone to your car's USB to see if it allows and recognized the mass storage setting.
3. Try to connect your S8 to another car and see if the mass storage can be used.
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That is not a issue with the car USB... That kind of radio only support universal mass storage devices, the old andorid devices, android 5 and below, could be mounted as a UMS device, so the radio would be able to play it's audio files. Now android devices can only be mounted as MTP, so it doesnt works. One thing that you can do is root your phone and use some UMS enabler app.

Guys, can I access my storage from recovery mode?
I cant unlock my phone and need to get data from storage.
Is there a mass storage option, like old times?
Thx

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Has anyone found a way to connect their captivate or other android devices to their car through the usb port. I tried all the usb modes, including debugging. I thought mass storage would work, since it can index other mass storage devices, but all I get are error messages. I could just connect it trough the 3.5 aux cord but it doesn't sound is good (limited to stereo) and cant control it trough steering wheel.
Mass storage mode requires a second step to manually mount the drives. If you don't do that, the drives won't be found.
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Radio reading mp3s???
what exactly do you mean radio not reading usb do you mean like when you plug in the connection in your car through the car charger?
The radio in the car has a usb port, you can attach usb drives to it and it would play every mp3 thats on it. Now when i plug in my captivate to it and mount it it simply says device not recognized.
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I've tried USB Debugging mode also.
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Ya me too, the radio just doesn't recognize it, radio says "invalid usb information aquired". I rather use the usb cable than the usb>3.5m cable since it'll charge the phone too.
turn on mass storage or try media player mode with USB Debugging on as well
labbu63 said:
turn on mass storage or try media player mode with USB Debugging on as well
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Doesn't work, tried every possible setting.

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I think CM10 and 10.1 have USB OTG which means you don't have to allow/disallow it anything. Just pull the usb cord and that's it.
lingowistico said:
I think CM10 and 10.1 have USB OTG which means you don't have to allow/disallow it anything. Just pull the usb cord and that's it.
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Excellent, thanks!
I don't have this device but when you install JB, it use MTP mode as default, which is a Microsoft transfer standard. MTP mode allow you to use the phone storage space (and Sdcard) while transferring at the sametime, for example, if you have apps installed or files on your Sdcard they will still be accessible while plugged in. You can unplug it anytime and there are less chances of files corruption. However MTP also have its limitation such as being retarded.
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LoLaTiOn said:
it seems to me that the function is not available for our i9003
only the i9000
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No dude, this ideally should be a functionality of any phone with memory card (mass storage) provision.
1. i tried connecting my old nokia phone (express music) to my TV's USB port, by selecting the mass storage connection in the phone setting and it works. same way my friend's HTC phone also works with my TV.
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3. even my i9003 gets connected in this way, but it get disconnected immediately after the connection is established.
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Samsung fan1 said:
No dude, this ideally should be a functionality of any phone with memory card (mass storage) provision.
1. i tried connecting my old nokia phone (express music) to my TV's USB port, by selecting the mass storage connection in the phone setting and it works. same way my friend's HTC phone also works with my TV.
2. when you select the USB mass storage, the phone memory card is treated just like any other pen drive storage.
3. even my i9003 gets connected in this way, but it get disconnected immediately after the connection is established.
there is some process in the phone that terminates the connection with the TV, dont know what it is....
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Well.... Odd enough. When you say the phone turn into storage device, why I never experienced this problem on computer? Probably because lack of the USB Driver.
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Samsung fan1 said:
No dude, this ideally should be a functionality of any phone with memory card (mass storage) provision.
1. i tried connecting my old nokia phone (express music) to my TV's USB port, by selecting the mass storage connection in the phone setting and it works. same way my friend's HTC phone also works with my TV.
2. when you select the USB mass storage, the phone memory card is treated just like any other pen drive storage.
3. even my i9003 gets connected in this way, but it get disconnected immediately after the connection is established.
there is some process in the phone that terminates the connection with the TV, dont know what it is....
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well the connection gets disconnected soon enough beccause of the conflict created between the internal and external storage of your device.. this is something you should know.... As LoLa said this is not possible for I9003 but still if you wanna try your luck then I suggest you to remove your SD card and then connect to TV and see what happens

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