USB DRIVE? - HD2 General

Ok so i bought a data cable when i first bought mew HD2, so i could plug it into my car and listen to my music on the radio and it worked for a month or so... Today it has stopped working, the radio says READING USB DRIVE, but nothing ever plays. It flashes to my radio and then says READING USB DRIVE again can anyone help me?

Did you tryed restart phone? You'r sure you select data transfer mode?

maybe u didnt activate USB drive mode, go to settings in manilla and configure that at the "other" settings (dont know exactly where, not using manilla anymore >.<)
sure it doesnt work if its in active sync mode..
it should work whenu switched to USB disk drive mode Oo

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PC wont detect my HD via USB

Hello,
I have got a real annoying problem with my HD. When i hook it up to a PC via the usb cable the phone is not detect, and i have tested it out on 3 different laptops. I tried a soft reset, turning the phone on and off and my last resort was a hard reset but it still dosent work.
When connected to my laptop the phone can charge via usb, and when the screen is turned off and i plug in the USB cable the screen turns on so it does know it connected. Is there anything else i can try to get it working? or would it possible be a hardware fault on the phone?
The rom version installed is 1.56.405.1(43972) wwe, radio version 1.13.25.4, protocol version 52.62.25.34u. I baught the phone from mobiles.co.uk, has anyone had ay experience with sending there phone backs under warranty to get problems fixwd?
thanks
samie
Do you have under 'Connections' settings tab (the three Windows Mobile settings tabs) a USB-PC Icon, if you do go into it and change the USB behaviour to/from advanced connection, if you have it !
That solved it for me, didn't like the advanced settting on mine.
Steeve24 said:
Do you have under 'Connections' settings tab (the three Windows Mobile settings tabs) a USB-PC Icon, if you do go into it and change the USB behaviour to/from advanced connection, if you have it !
That solved it for me, didn't like the advanced settting on mine.
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yea, i went to the USB-PC setting and i tried all the different options but no luck. Mine only has the options Active sync(with a tick box under it to make the sync process faster), second is disk drive and the third is internet sharing. It dosent have an option for advance connection.
sst said:
yea, i went to the USB-PC setting and i tried all the different options but no luck. Mine only has the options Active sync(with a tick box under it to make the sync process faster), second is disk drive and the third is internet sharing. It dosent have an option for advance connection.
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Are you trying with windows mobile device centre?
also did you you try it with the sync faster option unchecked?
Have you also tried another cable, if you have a ps3 its the same connection and some camera connectors are the same too
ozmoran said:
Are you trying with windows mobile device centre?
also did you you try it with the sync faster option unchecked?
Have you also tried another cable, if you have a ps3 its the same connection and some camera connectors are the same too
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i am changing the setting on my phone Start>setting>connections>usb-pc . Yea, i tried it with the box unticked for syncing faster byt no help there. i have tried some other cable i have which are mini usb, but that didnt help aswell.
sst said:
i am changing the setting on my phone Start>setting>connections>usb-pc . Yea, i tried it with the box unticked for syncing faster byt no help there. i have tried some other cable i have which are mini usb, but that didnt help aswell.
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It depends what OS you have on your PC is it XP or Vista
Sometimes the software isnt up to date so the phone charges but doesnt sync
Try downloading the latest drivers/software for your PC
This is active sync 4.5
By the way what are you trying to get done on active sync? are you trying to sync to outlook?
Or do you just want to look at your phone like a disk drive?
i have windows xp sp3. Active sync version is 4.5 as i did read previosly other version did casue problems with syncing.
I am trying to copy some music over to my memory card and some cabs so i can install some software. Only strange thing i last night the phone connected fine as a disk drive when i copied some music across, and since then i havent installed any new software or done any software changes on my laptop and my phone when i connected it today, firstly i tried to do it as a disk drive but it wasnt detected, so then tried active syn with the tick box selected but it didnt work so diabled it but it still wasnt working.
sst said:
i have windows xp sp3. Active sync version is 4.5 as i did read previosly other version did casue problems with syncing.
I am trying to copy some music over to my memory card and some cabs so i can install some software. Only strange thing i last night the phone connected fine as a disk drive when i copied some music across, and since then i havent installed any new software or done any software changes on my laptop and my phone when i connected it today, firstly i tried to do it as a disk drive but it wasnt detected, so then tried active syn with the tick box selected but it didnt work so diabled it but it still wasnt working.
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From what I have read the sync may have been messed up from the music or other files transferred sometimes it due to calender Im not sure what the prob is.
Have you tried deleting the connection in activesync? then reconnect
also your SD card may be causing it Try accessing your card on your PC, take the card out of your phone and use the adapter for the card
Have you also checked the options in Activsync on the phone are they all ok?
hi all, I also have the same problem with my HTC HD...
ROM version: 1.18.707.3 (23358) WWE
ROM Date: 12/10/08
Radio version: 1.09.25.14
Protocol version: 52.49a.25.26U
My problem is the same as what SST had described. All my PCs and laptops in my home and office are unable to detect my HD phone when I connect the USB cable on it. The HD screen only showed a battery charging icon while my PC/Laptop doesn't show any device connected. I am using Ms Win XP Pro SP3 on my laptop and Ms Vista Ultimate on my desktop. Active Sync 4.5 and Ms Mobile Center has been installed respectively on each computer. I have change to different type of mini USB cable as well.
Before this, everything was fine. This only happenend 2 days ago. I have tried to soft reset for few times and hard reset for twice. It can't solve my problem. I even tried to delete all the Windows-PC that is available on the HD, but still the same problem.
When I take out the mini SD card and try to read it using the SD adapter on my computer, it cannot detect anything on the media. This is very weird, but when I insert back into my HD, it works properly in the File Explorer and I can access all the files inside. I repeat a few times and the same thing happened.
Without ActiveSync, I can't even upgrade my ROM if there is a new update available.
I really have no idea what happened on my HD. Appreciate much if anyone can enlighten me on these 2 issues.
Thank you in advance!
dcspeed said:
hi all, I also have the same problem with my HTC HD...
ROM version: 1.18.707.3 (23358) WWE
ROM Date: 12/10/08
Radio version: 1.09.25.14
Protocol version: 52.49a.25.26U
My problem is the same as what SST had described. All my PCs and laptops in my home and office are unable to detect my HD phone when I connect the USB cable on it. The HD screen only showed a battery charging icon while my PC/Laptop doesn't show any device connected. I am using Ms Win XP Pro SP3 on my laptop and Ms Vista Ultimate on my desktop. Active Sync 4.5 and Ms Mobile Center has been installed respectively on each computer. I have change to different type of mini USB cable as well.
Before this, everything was fine. This only happenend 2 days ago. I have tried to soft reset for few times and hard reset for twice. It can't solve my problem. I even tried to delete all the Windows-PC that is available on the HD, but still the same problem.
When I take out the mini SD card and try to read it using the SD adapter on my computer, it cannot detect anything on the media. This is very weird, but when I insert back into my HD, it works properly in the File Explorer and I can access all the files inside. I repeat a few times and the same thing happened.
Without ActiveSync, I can't even upgrade my ROM if there is a new update available.
I really have no idea what happened on my HD. Appreciate much if anyone can enlighten me on these 2 issues.
Thank you in advance!
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Can you access USB when in Bootloader?
you probably know this but if you dont.........turn off phone, hold volume down button then turn phone on it should show tri colour screen
with serial written on bottom, plug your usb cable in hopefully it will say USB
atleast then you can flash
Try also deselecting faster connection on comm settings and you can also look here
hi ozmoran, the white portion screen only shown "serial" even I have already plugged in the USB cable... any idea?
thank you in advance.
ozmoran said:
Can you access USB when in Bootloader?
you probably know this but if you dont.........turn off phone, hold volume down button then turn phone on it should show tri colour screen
with serial written on bottom, plug your usb cable in hopefully it will say USB
atleast then you can flash
Try also deselecting faster connection on comm settings and you can also look here
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this may sound a bit basic but are you using the usb cable that came in the box ?
I've found certain cables won't connect my phone to PC/laptop, they'll charge fine but no connection.
For some reason the phone seems picky about which cable it uses.
dcspeed said:
hi ozmoran, the white portion screen only shown "serial" even I have already plugged in the USB cable... any idea?
thank you in advance.
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When in bootloader, disconnect usb and then re-connect it to phone. If bottom of bootloader doesn't change from 'Serial' to 'USB', you may find that your usb drivers need updating. Here is a guide to update drivers.
Also, before updating drivers, ensure that all correct settings in activesync have been selected i.e. 'allow usb connections' in connection settings.
Hi, Spartan. Thanks for your help.
I tried to update the USB device but the device manager doesn't show any USB-WinCE drivers at all. I guess my HTC HD USB port is faulty. Anyway how, my set is only few months old, I think I will sent it back to the dealer for a warranty claim.
Will update you guys again! Thanks!
quick update....in the end i gave up and took it to carphoneware house to get the problem sorted. They sent it off to their repair centres, who would have just flashed and updated the firmware. That didnt work so they sent it off to HTC who replaced the main board. so it looks like the mini usb connection was the source of the problem.
sst said:
quick update....in the end i gave up and took it to carphoneware house to get the problem sorted. They sent it off to their repair centres, who would have just flashed and updated the firmware. That didnt work so they sent it off to HTC who replaced the main board. so it looks like the mini usb connection was the source of the problem.
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Thanks for the update bro
Its good to get feedback so everyone has more answers in future
The problem solved : i had same problem, after read and searched I switch and use USB to miniUSB's cable of my camera which have a round filter it pop right up (Active Sync and Windows XP).
lol @ Tihuyh!
Im having a similar issue. USB connections were intermittent, i updated the windows drivers and everything was great. Now for some reason is stopped working, havnt been able to connect by USB at all. The device doesn't show up in device manager and the bootloader screen doesnt change to USB. it will charge tho and i can access the SD card from my card reader and it works fine in the device. Its quite frustrating tho, looks like my phones going back to orange
Just goes to show that similar problems don't necessarily have the same solution.
Thanks everyone for there input. Hopefully this will help others with 'similar' issues

tomtom and drive mode.

i have a car radio wich has an usb thingy ..
now when i connect my hd2 to it it asks like on a pc if i wanna go in sync mode or drive mode.
when i choose drive mode it starts looking for mp3's and is gonna play those.
thats good. '
but when i also use tom tom it says no maps found etc, because the drive mode is enabled and when drive mode is enabled you cant see storage card on the hd2.
is there a way that you stil can use storage card on your phone while beeing in drive mode ?
or is it just impossible ??
baam2k said:
i have a car radio wich has an usb thingy ..
now when i connect my hd2 to it it asks like on a pc if i wanna go in sync mode or drive mode.
when i choose drive mode it starts looking for mp3's and is gonna play those.
thats good. '
but when i also use tom tom it says no maps found etc, because the drive mode is enabled and when drive mode is enabled you cant see storage card on the hd2.
is there a way that you stil can use storage card on your phone while beeing in drive mode ?
or is it just impossible ??
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Not sure about your car, but mine has a USB and a 3.5mm socket for aux inputs, so I can charge it via the USB and play music through the 3.5mm socket (with Media Player).
You won't be able to use both TomTom and the phone in USB drive mode.
have an hyundai i20 so i also have a 3.5 socket.
when i put it trough usb its charged and i can select nrs through radio buttons on my steering wheel .
in aux i cant and i have to skips nrs on the phone .
its easier and saver to select nrs from steering wheel and see mp3 info on my radio display .
i use my 3.5 only to get calls on car speakers when i get one.
When the phone is in drive mode the SD card is no longer accessible to the phone and therefore TomTom cannot see the card. It's pretty much no longer in your phone.
So they can't both be used at the same time.

Cant connect hd2 to computer!!

this is my problem,
when i connect my hd2 it charges but the computer doesn't recognize it. on the phone settings it is set to active sync. i also have 2 computers; xp and vista, both do the same thing.
i could careless about active sync, i just want to plug my phone into my pc and transfer files in and out. ive also tried the disk drive option but still no go?
if i enter bootloader and plug it in it recognizes the usb setting but when the phone is normal, it doesn't??
it did this with the stock rom and its also doing this with nrg titanium rom.
any help would be appreciated
Same thing here.
It charges through USB but it doesnt connect.
If i choose the storage option it works fine.
I want to sync my outlook and i cant...
What the heck...?
i know this may seem a bit "it helpdesk-ish" but try re-booting your PC
Come on... give something drastic!
Already done that, rebooted the pc and the hd2...
still nothing
djchubbs said:
i know this may seem a bit "it helpdesk-ish" but try re-booting your PC
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believe it or not i have done that mannyy times and did alot of device manager things to try and let both computers recognize the hd2 but still nothing haha..
ive had previous hd2's and they've all connected fine untill this one, maybe its this specific one thats giving me trouble. but regardless, it charges via usb then it should be able to recognize it
Check the active sync settings to ensure that usb connections are enabled. You can tell be looking at the system tray icon - there's a read circle with a white X in it if USB is disabled.
Saying that though, if it doesn't even recognise it when the device is in USB mode, I'd try a different cable. It's perfectly reasonable that the cable could power the device but not fully facilitate a USB connection.
johncmolyneux said:
Check the active sync settings to ensure that usb connections are enabled. You can tell be looking at the system tray icon - there's a read circle with a white X in it if USB is disabled.
Saying that though, if it doesn't even recognise it when the device is in USB mode, I'd try a different cable. It's perfectly reasonable that the cable could power the device but not fully facilitate a USB connection.
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but the thing is when i go into bootloader it recognizes it as usb and i can add customs roms and such. just not when the phone is normal weird ?
k20a1 said:
but the thing is when i go into bootloader it recognizes it as usb and i can add customs roms and such. just not when the phone is normal weird ?
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That is very weird. Sorry mate - never heard of it doing that for anyone before.
Make sure you have the mobility center/active sync program installed on your computer. Without it it won't work.
On Vista or Seven, with the HD2 plugged in, you can find the program/drivers by launching and refreshing manually Windows Update. On XP you have to do that manually.
Good luck.
This happens to me often. In my case I have found it to be a weird driver issue. Go to device manager and look for the yellow triangle. Right click and update driver software. This worked for me I hope it helps.
bit late but just flashed maxsence and i love the look, but have allready had to restart by phone 10 times in 10 minutes. I'll wait for the next release. back to GTX for now.
Good work NRG. keep it up.
this is one of the many WM6.5 errors!
need Android soon!
Ok here we go.
The phone did not connect through activesync to my pc. When i selected to connect as mass storage it connected.
I checked for driver issues in device manager but nothing came up.
I checked the hd2's activesync. Bingo! the activesync was crashing when i was running it. I had to hard reset the phone.
Now it works fine.
My guess is that maybe a program that i installed recently was buggy and created this particular problem. Unfortunately i have about 50+ programs installed (including themes etc) and i m not sure which one it was.
I was installing all the programs again today one by one and after the install process was completed i connected the hd2 to usb to find which app was the problematic one.
After installing almost(some were found useless) all of the apps (here is the crazy part) the hd2 still was connecting through activesync....
HTC will drive me nuts...
Anyway the phone now connects correctly.
I cant understand which was the problem....
as odd as it may sound i think i figured it out.
i think its the usb cable that im using, i have to wiggle it around for it to connect to active sync but once it connects its not a stable connection as it cuts in and out.
but charging capabilities work though!
pos wire, i ordered a new wire and if that one fails also, i will have to get my hd2 replaced for faulty usb port
thanks for all the replies much appreciated
@k20a1
Try to hard reset the phone.
It worked for me.
If not again, then use your warranty!
angelossssss said:
@k20a1
Try to hard reset the phone.
It worked for me.
If not again, then use your warranty!
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i did whenever i custom rom'd it, it still does the same thing. yes it will connect via usb while in bootloader but will not during regular phone operations lol
"Disk drive" mode not working with XP laptop
HD2 is working fine with my desktop, but wit laptop I can only use ActiveSync to browse files.
When I connect the USB cable I get:
"Found new hardware wizard"
but it tells me that it Cannot Install This Harware - Disk Drive
"An error occurred during the installation of the devie The system cannot find the file specified"
And I only have "Finish" to click - if I click it the wizard lunces again immediately and goes on and on with no end.
HD"/Leo does not appare in Disk Manager (I know ablut the drive lettering issue)
I'm sure its my XP issue, but I havent found drivers to fix that, and I'm not about to reinstall XP on my lappy in near future.
Transfer files - Solved
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k20a1 said:
this is my problem,
when i connect my hd2 it charges but the computer doesn't recognize it. on the phone settings it is set to active sync. i also have 2 computers; xp and vista, both do the same thing.
i could careless about active sync, i just want to plug my phone into my pc and transfer files in and out. ive also tried the disk drive option but still no go?
if i enter bootloader and plug it in it recognizes the usb setting but when the phone is normal, it doesn't??
it did this with the stock rom and its also doing this with nrg titanium rom.
any help would be appreciated
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I share the same here and I was despaired of trying to solve it with any logical, as well with illogical, measures. Such as: rebooting, changing usb cables, reinstalling activesync 4.5, etc.....etc...blla..blla...blla...
However, I solved the "Transfer files issue" by taking out the sd card from the HD2 and connect it with an external cards reader to my pc.
The card reader connected and works with the same usb cable that does not work with the HD2.
That way I load it with all files and in the same occasion I reload into my computer the daily spb backup files.
However, I have the feeling that the reason for that problem is a missing file/driver named: "Setup1.SPL" in the pc windows operating system.
In order to solve that it seems that only reinstalling windows on my pc will be the solution which defiantly do not like.

problems connecting to PC

hello everyone !
i was looking for thread about my problem, i saw some similar problems, solved but not working for me..
i was connected to my PC through USB cable, transfering data few times, about 5 times, than i tried to connect to transfer some more data and nothing, on my tattoo there is just sign of charging and nothing else, no asking for type of connection, there is sound on my PC (connected something through USB ) and nothing else.. i tried to manually set for storage device, put to ask me each time when i connect via USB and still nothing.. also, tried USB DEBUGGING, it says that htc is connected to PC but PC is like dead..
i'm on windows 7 if that means something, thank you for you help
pls anything ?? i have pics to transfer to PC and mp3 for tattoo but i just can't solve this out :S
I had the same problem when I just got my first android. My first guess is - you accidentally killed PC Synchronization process on your phone. Reboot should help (at least it did for me).
I had the same problem and solved it!
put pc sync into taskiller ignore list...
how can you explain me please?
goran95 said:
how can you explain me please?
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hi
also still have this problem the sync does not happen automatically so what i do is after connecting my phone via USB i go to the USB to pc on my Phone and click on the HTC sync and then the sync happens and i can do any kinda data sync needed try doing it it work for me
USB Debugging also has to be cheked OK
i also have a Wmo Jade this does not happen it sync imm but on the tattoo it always happens and i need to do the above to get the sync working

[Q] Phone connects like a drive, but says "charge only".

Hi, I hope someone can help me with this. It's probably a setting, but I can not seem to find it.
Here is my problem:
When I put my phone to charge, using USB connected to a computer, the phone will state "Charge Only", but the PC will show the drive pop-up, and connects as a drive. This means I can not per default use the SD card AND have the phone charging, unless I change the phone menu to "Disk Drive" and then back to "Charge only".
I never had this problem with my HTC Hero.
Does anyone know how I can get this to just connect as it's supposed to?
Thanks in advance,
Kingkeld.
Have you tried a different computer? I used to have this problem with my K800i on one of my computers. Other computer worked fine.
You using any flavour of Linux? I notice this on linux, but not on my windows system.
I run Win7 at home and I believe a flavor of WinNT at work, and I have the problem both places.
I wonder if I choose the "don't ask again" option and select charge only - will that fix it? If it doesn't, how do I reverse to always ask again?
Any help is greatly appreciated.
I also have this issue...
Well, maybe I don't call it an issue, cause sometimes is usefull...
Dont' know why, but a few days now, my DHD has also having this behavior...
I have it on all my pcs, home work laptop.... , all of them are running Win7 x64
And no matter what I choose, Charge only or HTC Sync, it always mount the sdcard on PCs...
someone said winamp automounts when connected. Have any of you got winamp installed on your DHD?
I think it was that. I disabled the option on winamp. Have test more times if it happens again...
i too had alot of problems accessing my sd card in win7 x64.. it used to show the disk drive but the icon for it was a bit transparent (like a hidden file).. i could not access the drive at all!!.. i played around a bit with the setting and solved my problem.. its not exactly the same problem your having but you could give it a try and see how it goes.
i have "usb debugging" enabled
default connection type ( in conect to pc option) "Disk drive"
then disable " fast boot" option and restart the phone.. it will take about a minute or so to start up now instead of the 5 second reboot.. im not sure if the fast boot skips a few non essential apps.. but as soon as i restarted my phone and plugged it in everything has been perfect.. put hundreds of pics and mp3 files on and off and it works everytime.. hope this helps.. let us know how you get on
it is one of the media players you have installed... winamp, poweramp, cube, doubletwist.... I had the same issue and it was the media players....

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