Initially all worked OK. But then after some installs from the Market i am not able to do that
Here are some facts:
- i see the drive letters assigned for both of them on PC but when you click Explore the message is "Please insert a disk into drive M: (or N or whatever)".
- They are shown as mounted on the phone . Dismount and mount again changes nothing
- the phone is recording photos/videos OK on internal memory means flash is working fine.
- SD card is perfectly working too. if you extract it and put into computer you can read/write it. On the cell you can play music from it etc no problems
- I restored everything with Factory Data Reset but things did not change
- Same story from another PC
Is this some driver problem ? Or flash memory is locked by Vibrant OS?
I suspect EasyTether or PDANet third party driver for Samsung phones is responsible.
Tethering works though
It's probably one of your 3rd party apps. Mine works fine.
Isn't it strange that combination of cell factory reset + another fresh PC does not work?
S4X, I had the same issue this morning. I was performing a data transfer and had a error message (from computer). From that point forward my phone was no longer able to mount the internal storage, external micro sd card. The only portion of space that was recognized was the dedicated internal app space. Wiping the phone failed to repair the issue. I took it my local tmobile store and they immediately swapped it for a new one. No hassle no fuss. I hope these are isolated incidents. So far my new new phone is working great.
I'd recommend a return.
I should note, my phone was not rooted and I did not have either PDAnet or Easytether installed.
Same problem here, have not fixed problem yet. looks like it's getting replaced tomorrow.
S4X said:
Initially all worked OK. But then after some installs from the Market i am not able to do that
Here are some facts:
- i see the drive letters assigned for both of them but when you click Explore the message is "Please insert a disk into drive M: (or N or whatever)".
- They are shown as mounted on the phone . Dismount and mount again changes nothing
- the phone is recording photos/videos OK on internal memory means flash is working fine.
- SD card is perfectly working too. if you extract it and put into computer you can read/write it. On the cell you can play music from it etc no problems
- I restored everything with Factory Data Reset but things did not change
- Same story from another PC
Is this some driver problem ? Or flash memory is locked by Vibrant OS?
I suspect EasyTether or PDANet third party driver for Samsung phones is responsible.
Tethering works though
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BritCrit said:
S4X, I had the same issue this morning. I was performing a data transfer and had a error message (from computer). From that point forward my phone was no longer able to mount the internal storage, external micro sd card. The only portion of space that was recognized was the dedicated internal app space. Wiping the phone failed to repair the issue. I took it my local tmobile store and they immediately swapped it for a new one. No hassle no fuss. I hope these are isolated incidents. So far my new new phone is working great.
I'd recommend a return.
I should note, my phone was not rooted and I did not have either PDAnet or Easytether installed.
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I afraid i will return it then ones per week
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I afraid i will return it then ones per week
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Sorry to hear about your troubles, I'm keeping an eye on it. If it happens again I'll post something. In the meantime, I'm avoiding any multi-gig file transfers. I'm hoping we're just two unlucky owners and this is not a wider issue. Otherwise, I love the phone.
try turning on development mode. With that off, my mac wont see my vibrant at all. turn it on, and everything shows up.
i think easytether caused the issue
i couldn't get pdanet to work, they didn't have the correct samsung driver, so i unistalled pdanet from my laptop
installed easy tether yesterday - had a heck of time getting the driver to install
then tonite, like you said, couldn't get the laptop to recognize the phone,
uninstalled easytether, re-installed, and actually did it a few times tonite - took about an hour to get my laptop connection working
the hardware recognized changed from Samsung T959, to CDX morem something, and finally when on the last attempt it was recognized as an "android ADB device" and i let windows auto install the driver, it's now working
really think it's easytether and that driver not being stable
i'm on a windows xp w/sp2
Thanks for responds guys but happily after billions of different attempts the problem is solved.
I still can not understand how these changes to the phone happened. Probably some installed software changed in Vibrant something.
Anyway, here it is, it's very simple, but this has an additional step to what it was before nevertheless. After usual USB cable connection and confirmation of using the phone as a mass storage device on the phone popped up menu (if you've made this selection on the phone settings), say into Voice dialer: "Open SD Card", and when new screen appears, click "Enable USB mass storage"
I can also post the way i tether if you like. It works fine like it works fine with EVO for example. T959 is recognized well
As you know compared to EVO and other phones the Vibrant/Samsung Galaxy S only requires one more step before installation of application on your PC: it needs Samsung own USB driver.
So you get from Market and install application on your cell; download driver from the web and install on PC; download and install application on PC.
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Here are some details for those who never tried tether and might need step-by-step instructions:
Step 1) Get and install PdaNet or EasyTether from Market on your cell phone and in Settings/Applications/Development check ON "USB debugging"
Step 2) Download and install USB driver for Samsung cellphones on your PC. Same driver works for both PdaNet or EasyTether applications. I took it from (i am new user at XDA and am not allowed to post the links) www (dot) mobile-stream (dot) com/easytether/android (dot) html
Step 3) Google, download and install PdaNet or EasyTether ( i usePdaNet, it has Bluetooth data connection option also) on your PC. During installation the application will find that the driver is already installed and will ask you what to do, you answer NO to reinstall
When you will need Internet connection:
a) Connect Vibrant and PC using USB cable
b) Launch PdaNet on Vibrant, push button "Connect"
c) if you set up not automatically connect then click on PdaNet icon "Connect" on your PC (in the task tray in right bottom corner)
Done !
Novices also may not know that these applications are free for 1 month for both secure and regular unsecure http/https connections. Then if you need https you have to pay one time fee ($10 or $18) which will work on one phone and several PC. Just a regular http stays free.
I plug in my phone to my computer and ut charges but it wont connect to computer through DISK DRIVE WTF... I RESET IT TWICE AND NOTHING... ITS NOT CORD OR PHONE CUZ IT CHARGES...
when you plug it in to your PC in a mass storage mode the memory card is locked
the phone acts as a thumbdrive so you can drag and drop files onto your sd card.
theres a prompt that AKSs?(asks) you what mode would you like to connect.
either sync or mass storage.
every phone does it same btw.
Two possibilities-
1. Your card may have gotten corrupted. It's a fairly common occurrence and it will cause your phone to not be able to read it. Plug it into the PC via a card reader & see if you can see any files on it. If it takes an unusually long time for your comp to see it, or if all you see are wierd files with numbers as names, then its corrupted. Even if it loads fine, it wouldn't hurt to reformat it anyway just for the sake of maintenance. I suggest formatting it as fat32 with 64k allocation unit size for the best read speed.
2. Your settings on the phone are incorrect. Go to settings>system>connections>USB to PC and make sure the disk drive option is enabled, and that the "ask me first about USB connection type" option is checked.
If neither of those fixes it, back up your data & try a hard reset. If that STILL doesn't fix it, then your card is dead.
Just wanted to know if anyone else had had issues during transferring data using usb from pc to the device. Generally when I transfer multiple files after about 10MB I'll get a failed transfer on the PC then the device will turn off after 30 seconds. I have tried 2 memory cards and 2 cables as well. I havent tried another PC but I have tested the same files to an older phone and memory card. Last resort I can reset the device as I have yet to tamper with root and bootloader unlock.
Anything???
No, i have moved files larger than 1G without any problems
try using another pc/laptop to be sure its the phone that's the problem and check the back cover is on 100%.
i had problems for hrs until i realized the case was not on proper lol
I have not had any luck locating other people with this issue.
First off let it be noted my note 3 will be replaced tomorrow by a new note 3 (severe signal issues hampering the ability to make or receive any phone calls)
That being said, I was trying to back up some app data and long story short - I'm trying to connect my phone to the pc but the PC refuses to acknowledge it.
When the phone is plugged into the pc (usb 2 - any port) it simply charges the phone and calls it a day. No popups - no notifications - no verizon bloat spam.
I've tried installing samsung drivers via download, I've tried their Kies software. I'm getting nowhere.
Also - an odd thing - I was trying to get Helium (carbon) to work and it had me enable USB Debugging (pretty standard procedure) - When it asked to do that it auto popped up the setting page which was labeled something like "developer settings" (helium actually opened up the setting page for me) and I did - Prior to that and since that point I cannot find that settings page anywhere on the phone, as thats the page I was looking for the "disk mount" option that I'm used to seeing on my tbolt. Helium wont bring it up again either as usb debugging is enabled now.
what in the heck is going on with my gn3???
You can get the Developer Options screen in the settings by going to About Phone and tapping on the Build Number line repeatedly until it says "You are now a developer."
As far as mounting as a disk, that functionality is long gone since the Thunderbolt. There may be a yet unfound way to mount just the external sd card as a drive, but the internal memory is formatted with ext3 or ext4 and windows wouldnt touch it if it could.
Im not sure of your computer setup, but if you are using an OS before Windows 7 you may need to install the MTP porting kit from Microsoft (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=19153). All newer Android phones now use the highly inefficient, annoying MTP protocol to do file transfers through USB.
WiFi Transfer
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You can get the Developer Options screen in the settings by going to About Phone and tapping on the Build Number line repeatedly until it says "You are now a developer."
As far as mounting as a disk, that functionality is long gone since the Thunderbolt. There may be a yet unfound way to mount just the external sd card as a drive, but the internal memory is formatted with ext3 or ext4 and windows wouldnt touch it if it could.
Im not sure of your computer setup, but if you are using an OS before Windows 7 you may need to install the MTP porting kit from Microsoft (http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=19153). All newer Android phones now use the highly inefficient, annoying MTP protocol to do file transfers through USB.
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Just learning about this myself because just changed from note 2 to note 3 and had no problem on note 2. Seems like wifi transfer is a fairly easy way to go. Download something like WiFi File Transfer then you can search hidden folders and such and transfer files. Not as easy as mounting the drive though. Would like to know about other options.
Is anyone else getting this problem whereby the MTP connection to PC does not show a large percentage of the files stored?
On the phone, all media shows as expected in associated apps, root explorer sees all files.
The problem for me appears to be on my external sd card (its a Samsung 64Gb, formatted to exFat)
I was wondering if there is a way to force a refresh on the PC side?
Barring that, I think the only option I have is to back up the card and re-format it.(which will take me a couple of hours!)
Thanks