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access android vogue sd card in a mac?

is there any way i can read and write to my sd card while running android in an osx environment? i know i can when im running winmo.

fixxxer2008 said:
is there any way i can read and write to my sd card while running android in an osx environment? i know i can when im running winmo.
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You'll need to get the android SDK for OSX. It will include the adb tool, just like the SDK for Windows and Linux.

where can i get that at?

mac android sdk wow its amazing what a simple google search can get you

okay i downloaded it but how the heck do you install it? i found a few sites that explain but why go through all of that trouble just to get the usb to work?

seems pretty complicated to get the usb to work on osx and windows. i have windows 7 installed in a virtual machine and i still can't get the os to recognize my android vogue phone. it wont let me install the driver?

fixxxer2008 said:
okay i downloaded it but how the heck do you install it? i found a few sites that explain but why go through all of that trouble just to get the usb to work?
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Wowww it's hard to get something to work that isn't supposed to??? What a shock!!!!

derekwilkinson said:
Wowww it's hard to get something to work that isn't supposed to??? What a shock!!!!
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huh? what do you mean by that?

pointless thread because somesone doesnt know how to use google

jamezelle said:
pointless thread because somesone doesnt know how to use google
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you know what dude, why don't you bite your damn lip. i did google it and i said it's too much just to get mac to recognize the sd card. i asked if there was s simpler way other than installing a ton of apps. man i guess what i heard about some of the members of xda are right!

fixxxer2008 said:
you know what dude, why don't you bite your damn lip. i did google it and i said it's too much just to get mac to recognize the sd card. i asked if there was s simpler way other than installing a ton of apps. man i guess what i heard about some of the members of xda are right!
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w/e dude try this there is a link is not 2 far down the page

fixxxer2008 said:
you know what dude, why don't you bite your damn lip. i did google it and i said it's too much just to get mac to recognize the sd card. i asked if there was s simpler way other than installing a ton of apps. man i guess what i heard about some of the members of xda are right!
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Alright, enough of the bickering. I just installed everything on my Mac and it was tedious but once you get it you'll be glad you did.
1) Download the SDK for Mac (I believe you have already done this) and extract it anywhere. I just put mine in /Users/<my_user_name>/Downloads/
2) If you are lacking a .bash_profile file (like I was), open Terminal and type
Code:
touch .bash_profile
this will create the .bash_profile file for you. Then,
Code:
open -e .bash_profile
this will open the file you just created in TextEdit to allow you to edit and add your PATH so you don't have to type in where you extracted the files to every time.
3) Add this line to your .bash_profile file
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export PATH=${PATH}:*<your_sdk_dir>*/tools
Where <your_sdk_dir> is the full path to the android sdk folder (type carefully, remove < > brackets). For example, mine was /Users/<my_user_name>/Downloads/android-sdk-mac_x86-1.5_r3/
4) Save the file and quit TextEdit. Also, quit Terminal and open another window. It should give you no errors when you open Terminal.
Now you should be able to type
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adb devices
into Terminal and see your phone listed as device.
To see more about ADB, look on the Adroid developer site: http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/adb.html
If you have any questions, ask, that's what we are all here for.

Atrix Touch Screen way off after SPF flash

I used RSD lite to flash to 4.1.2.6 and when it boots up the touch screen is way off and i can even go back or click the buttons on the bottom row. Anyone else have this happen? I reflashed twice already to see if it would fix it.

I've been toiling day and night for the last few days with the exact problem!!!
Tenfar is trying to help me via PM.
Because I partitioned internal SD this happened. I figure we need to do following command:
adb shell mkfs.vfat /dev/block/mmc0p18
And then
#newfs_msdos -F 32 -S 512 -L MB860 -c 64 -u 16 /dev/block/mmcblk0p18
But I'm getting random daemon errors now because my PC is a piece of ****!! Trying to fix that problem to run the first command. Second command goes through okay but I'm still having touch screen issues.
Waiting for him to PM back. I'm in Canada with an AT&T Atrix and although the seller can send me proof of purchase, to send it to Motorola would take super long and would cost lots in shipping.
If you find anything, please post it here. I'll do the same!

lol
lol yup thats what i did. I realized it wouldnt let me install from internal sd and i didnt have a external sd at the time so is figured let me format it.. whats the harm. Well the harm is the whole bottom row of buttons doesnt work and the bottom of the screen is a half inch off lol. Been driving me crazy, let me know if u get anywhere with tenfar

Getting stupid daemon errors I can't fix. Going to try on another machine and will let you know if there's any progress. Seems simple enough in concept but I'm no Linux genius.
I'll keep you posted.

Have u tried booting into the recovery and partitioning the internal sd another way?

fallchild said:
Have u tried booting into the recovery and partitioning the internal sd another way?
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Yep. I've tried it all. Has to be manual now from what I gather... didn't get the chance to try on a new computer last night but will after work. I'll send you the commands if it works.
Dear lord, I hope it works!

Any Luck? I use my phone heavily for work and i had to use bluetooth all day with voice commands just to use the phone half way decently lol.

I had the same issue. I wasn't able to boot into my custom recovery and repartition. I ended up taking it back to AT&T and getting it exchanged. Can always pass it off as a bad device.

No luck. Same error. I tried mounting SD but I think I must be doing something wrong..
Still giving it another few tries. What a bummer. Gotta rip through the Atrix dump to see if I can find something else useful.

Can't unmount my SD card and successfully run the other command. Not sure what the heck I'm doing wrong. Now I'm uncertain what state my phone should be in when I run these commands.
I'm going to keep tinkering around but I'm waiting for the proof of purchase because I think I'll need to send it in. Damn. Wish I had someone in person that knew how to use shell commands properly. I'm not the greatest at this. Using an Xperia X10 in the meanwhile and dying to use my Atrix again. :'(
Hopefully someone will be kind enough to do a Nandroid backup of a fresh install and post it. I'm not sure but I think it could possibly help. It's worth a shot. Would pay someone $10 via Paypal if they could upload it to their Dropbox or something.

Hey OP, any luck?
If you have a new Atrix. Could you do a Nandroid backup and upload it to Dropbox by any chance???

I've exactly the same problem! (And when you are in some menu, you can't go back, so you have to reboot!!)
I did the same thing (Root, put recovery and so...)
I partitioned internal SD... And now, it's like touchscreen completly disturbed.
When you click on home - back or search, the screen select the bottom of the android interface!
I need to know if someone has a correct issue for that... I'm not at home, I will test the commands in adb from the second post later...
Also, I don't understand how a nandroid backup could resolve the problem... A backup will resize and fix the internal memory?
Thanks

My poor G2 - In 2 pieces. Advice..?

so my lovely G2 had a personality split.. sorta. as you can see from the attached image its done for. however, the bottom part (with the battery) still may work, even though its without the screen. when i plug it into my computer though, nothing happens. but nothing happened when i plugged it in when it was not broken either, its only when i set it to the USB storage device is when the PC recognized it.
i really would like to get a bunch of **** off this phone if possible. i had a lot of stuff on the SD card (including a bunch of apps that were installed/moved on the card), but all my texts and such are on the phone.
is there a way to get that stuff of the phone, through some debugging software maybe? also, the apps that are on the sd card, how would i put them on the whatever new phone i get? they're not with the .apk extension.
thanks guys for any help

Hey sell me it or something I want that front part so bad.
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Or My Sexy Nexus 7
Yes girls know about XDA
you can thank a girl on here

how did u do that? take a look at the instruction how to change the display maybe you get forward with it

xbleem said:
how did u do that? take a look at the instruction how to change the display maybe you get forward with it
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i was thinking of swapping the display, but don't want to risk buying one and then it not working anyway due to the damage elsewhere on the phone. i think i'll just buy another g2. love the ergonomics of it. got a galaxy s3 as a replacement and can't stand it. way too huge for me and the design is awful.

Anything on the sd card you can grab with a USB reader and a PC.
All your other goodies will be in your /data directory. If you have a recent CWM backup, you can grab the data off of there. It will be data.img and probably in a yaffs or ext3/4 format.
Otherwise, you could try booting into recovery or fastboot to see if you can get adb access, in which case, you can pull the data manually.
If it doesn't boot because there is no screen, you could try replacing/reattaching the ribbon cable to get it to boot long enough to pull data.
Lastly, I thought there was limited jtag info for the G2, so that might be a last ditch effort.

gee one said:
Anything on the sd card you can grab with a USB reader and a PC.
All your other goodies will be in your /data directory. If you have a recent CWM backup, you can grab the data off of there. It will be data.img and probably in a yaffs or ext3/4 format.
Otherwise, you could try booting into recovery or fastboot to see if you can get adb access, in which case, you can pull the data manually.
If it doesn't boot because there is no screen, you could try replacing/reattaching the ribbon cable to get it to boot long enough to pull data.
Lastly, I thought there was limited jtag info for the G2, so that might be a last ditch effort.
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thank you. i will fiddle with that this weekend.
what is the jtag info you're referring to?

It's a protocol from communicating wiht the chips directly- it's usually used to unbrick android devices, but I don't recall too much info for the g2, other than someone posted a pict of some of the jtag ports.
If you have a recent cwm backup, that will probably be the easiest way to recover. As a matter of fact, I did that just now. I upgraded to jellybean, but in a moment of noobness, I wiped data before backing up the two files that have to be backed up manually (mileage.db and wpa_supplicant.conf). A little command line hacking and everything is right in the world.

gee one said:
Anything on the sd card you can grab with a USB reader and a PC.
All your other goodies will be in your /data directory. If you have a recent CWM backup, you can grab the data off of there. It will be data.img and probably in a yaffs or ext3/4 format.
Otherwise, you could try booting into recovery or fastboot to see if you can get adb access, in which case, you can pull the data manually.
If it doesn't boot because there is no screen, you could try replacing/reattaching the ribbon cable to get it to boot long enough to pull data.
Lastly, I thought there was limited jtag info for the G2, so that might be a last ditch effort.
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If you have a friend with another G2, you could probably mimic button presses in order to do a nandroid backup (then extract the /data image).
Failing that, I'm sure someone on here could give you the exact button press count to do what you need to.

the thing is guys, i'm not very good with adb. i found a few videos online on how to do a screen portion swap along with the rails. and i'm going to bid on a G2 on ebay. i'll swap the screen and rails from the one i buy to my G2. see if that works, then probably just sell the unused portion of the other G2. i will hook up my G2 to adb though tomorrow. i have to install it when i get home. anyone know the link to the adb download?

what kind of OS do you have? It's much easier in linux, if you know linux.
There might be a link to a binary, but this will get you going with adb.
https://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
You don't need to update everything - just the SDK platform tools.
So how bad is it? What type of data are you trying to save? Most of it will probably be on the SD card. Do you have a clockwork mod backup?

[Q] Phone is Device Manager but not My Computer...

Hi,
I ran over my phone. The screen does not work anymore. When I connect the phone to my computer, I get a notification saying that the device can perform faster. So the computer obviously sees the phone. I also see the phone in the device manager, but I do not see it in my computer. The only reason I want to access it, is to download some pictures that were stupidly saved on the device instead of the sd card. Any ideas how to access my pictures?!
Thanks,
G
p.s. My phone backs up pictures to my google+ account, but I am not sure if it does that to ALL pictures, or only to the ones that were on the sd card?! No way for me to check as of right now, what pictures did in fact got backed up.

Anyone?!

How on earth did you manage to run over your phone?
Did you have USB debugging enabled before the screen broke?
Did you have a lockscreen security other than swipe or none?
Sent From My Samsung Galaxy Note 3 N9005 Using Tapatalk

ShadowLea said:
How on earth did you manage to run over your phone?
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It happened in the garage. I guess it must have fallen out earlier when I was unloading something?!
Did you have USB debugging enabled before the screen broke?
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I believe so...
Did you have a lockscreen security other than swipe or none?
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Just swipe...
Thanks for the reply...
G

If you did have USB debugging enabled, you can try copying the entire content through ADB.
Use 'adb pull /sdcard/ /sdcard/'. This will copy all internal files into your C:\SDcard directory. Be advised, this could take quite a while depending on how much data it is.

ShadowLea said:
If you did have USB debugging enabled, you can try copying the entire content through ADB.
Use 'adb pull /sdcard/ /sdcard/'. This will copy all internal files into your C:\SDcard directory. Be advised, this could take quite a while depending on how much data it is.
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I didn't even know what ADB is, but I just googled it... I am going to have to do some reading to figure out how to use it, but at least it is a start! I will give it a try and keep you posted.
thanks you,
G

ShadowLea said:
If you did have USB debugging enabled, you can try copying the entire content through ADB.
Use 'adb pull /sdcard/ /sdcard/'. This will copy all internal files into your C:\SDcard directory. Be advised, this could take quite a while depending on how much data it is.
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Hey,
I finally got a chance to try ADB. The problem is, I get "device unauthorized". I did a google search and pretty much every search result says the same, "... go into the settings and change...". As you know, I cannot do that since my screen is not working. I guess my only option is to get a new screen.
Thanks again,
G

Internal SD Card Paths

Hey guys,
Quick newbie question for you. I followed the procedure in this thread ([ROM][5.1.1][LMY47V] 21 May- Stock Flashable Rom/Factory Image) to a T and have 5.1.1 on the Nexus 4 but for some reason my internal SD card paths are all messed up. I couldn't use my camera to take a photo - it wouldn't save anywhere.
I used Terminal to run the restorecon -FR command for /data/media/0/* and then I restarted the phone and I could use my camera, so that was a good step.
Now I'm in WhatsApp and I can't see any media that people are sending me. The photos stay blurry. Is WhatsApp pointing to a directory that doesn't exist? How can I solve that? Or is my internal SD card ****ed?
I am using TWRP so if you have any solutions I can fully utilize that to fix the path errors or re-flash system img or whatever you think will work! My brother is trying to send me photos through WhatsApp and I can't see 'em!
Any help is appreciated!
--Mike

Did usie the script included with the stock ROMs to flash back to stock?

audit13 said:
Did usie the script included with the stock ROMs to flash back to stock?
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You mean the flash_all.bat? Nah - I manually flashed as per the forum thread I linked to. I installed through TWRP, not fastboot. My Nexus 4 only connects as an AC source so I can't even get it communicating with my PC to unroot and flash stock.

So the phone is not recognized in OS X, window, or Linux? Tried different USB cables and USB ports?

audit13 said:
So the phone is not recognized in OS X, window, or Linux? Tried different USB cables and USB ports?
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Yeah I've pretty much tried everything to get it communicating with the computer again. I think it's a hardware issue - I had my screen replaced and I think some part of the battery assembly wasn't re-installed properly and thus communication ceased. I thought flashing to 5.1.1 would fix what could have been a 4.4.4 issue, as I had USB fast charge enabled with various kernels, but alas this was not to be.
Any ideas about the internal paths?

A screen replacement does involve moving the USB charging port to the new screen and it is possible that this part was damaged and vertical seems to be the case. I assume you don't have access to another phone to test the port.

audit13 said:
A screen replacement does involve moving the USB charging port to the new screen and it is possible that this part was damaged and vertical seems to be the case. I assume you don't have access to another phone to test the port.
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Yeah no other phone to test the port. I just got an X Play and am using the same cable I was using with my Nexus 4 and communication is flawless - adb, fastboot, all the goodies. I thnk I'll need to take the Nexus to a shop or open it up myself.
Thanks for paying attention to this thread, audit.

Try opening the phone yourself as it is pretty easy but that choice is yours. Good luck!.

Hi Mike, just a hint... did you check the partition status on your device ? To check if it's a logical or hardware issue, here's a reference: http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x-play/general/partition-layout-t3196367
You can analyze yours with something like: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cls.partition
and eventually mount manually the missing mounts.

dev>null;5160773 said:
Hi Mike, just a hint... did you check the partition status on your device ? To check if it's a logical or hardware issue, here's a reference: http://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-x-play/general/partition-layout-t3196367
You can analyze yours with something like: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cls.partition
and eventually mount manually the missing mounts.
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Great idea, dev. How do I go about manually mounting? Do I need to use Terminal or something similar?
Thanks for your reply.

mounts & partitions
@XxMikeMasterxX Yes! In terminal emulator.
Code:
su
cat /proc/mounts
- or -
mount
- or -
df
- or -
cat /proc/partitions
to list all partitions/devices/... a bit messy output
The mount command is also what you'll need after you find the problem.
It can mount a partition, remount read-write...in case it's a permission problem, or bind a folder to another, in case it's looking for a specific folder, but your system named it in a different way.
Not sure if this applies to your case...just an idea Did your partitions check return any anomaly ?

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@XxMikeMasterxX Yes! In terminal emulator.
to list all partitions/devices/... a bit messy output
The mount command is also what you'll need after you find the problem.
It can mount a partition, remount read-write...in case it's a permission problem, or bind a folder to another, in case it's looking for a specific folder, but your system named it in a different way.
Not sure if this applies to your case...just an idea Did your partitions check return any anomaly ?
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Not that I can see. I'm a bit of a noob with Terminal so I'll even have difficulty identifying the erroneous file paths. It's too bad my adb and fastboot don't work. Or else I'd just revert to stock and re-flash everything.

@XxMikeMasterxX If you don't want to mess with terminal, try using the app linked in my first message then (or others that show mount points and partition details), and please use this as a reference. I posted the MXP one by mistake !!!

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@XxMikeMasterxX If you don't want to mess with terminal, try using the app linked in my first message then (or others that show mount points and partition details), and please use this as a reference. I posted the MXP one by mistake !!!
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@dev>null Eeeek! Scared! I'll try the app and see what I can see. I guess from there it's a simple remount.
So hypothetically let's say that sdcard is mounted somewhere else by mistake and some app folders end up on the wrong partition/location, do I use a remount to remount that particular folder/location to the proper sdcard path?
Whoa I think I just got it.

@XxMikeMasterxX Exactly! There used to be a bug in CM with wrong sdcard mount point. Take a look at this, I'm sure it will address you to the right direction
And also give you examples for command syntax...

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@XxMikeMasterxX Exactly! There used to be a bug in CM with wrong sdcard mount point. Take a look at this, I'm sure it will address you to the right direction
And also give you examples for command syntax...
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You're the man. I'll try it soon. My brother has the phone now so it could be a bit.

XxMikeMasterxX said:
You're the man. I'll try it soon. My brother has the phone now so it could be a bit.
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@dev>null
My brother tried the Terminal commands but after he entered su and tried the other 4 commands Term returned "nothing found" each time. What does that mean?
Also, it appears that he needs to remlunt his entire SD card somewhere. What's the folder? Root/sfcard

@XxMikeMasterxX Nexus 4 does not have a physical sdcard, so I guess it's just a missing symbolic link.
Try:
Code:
su
mount -o bind /data/media /sdcard
and see if Whatsapp can save the images now.

Also you may want to check this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/howto-repairing-corrupted-data-partition-t2577447

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Also you may want to check this guide: http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/general/howto-repairing-corrupted-data-partition-t2577447
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@dev>null
Thanks for your recommendations. Yet again, though, the command you provided didn't work. I tried to get him to bind different locations to sdcard but that didn't help either.
A funny thing he told me is that under Settings>Storage he can't open the Internal storage section. He said it just doesn't open.
It's almost like Android installed to a really weird location and isn't recognizing anything. I am really baffled.
I checked out the guide - the o ly problem.is that the phone doesn't connect as a USB device (broken link...battery maybe?) and as such he can't run the adb commands.
I wish it did connect USB though - I'd just have him return to stock and then this would all be erased. Any other ideas, dev? I really don't know what to do next... Thanks for your ideas so far - you've been a great help.