I'm not exactly sure this is a problem; maybe someone can help. No matter which setting I put my phone in "Charge only" or "Disk Drive" when I connect it to my Windows Vista machine it still mounts the SD card as removable storage. It also mounts the internal storage as well but I am not able to explore that (just says insert disk when I click on it).
I have rooted and flashed the custom recovery but I'm not sure that has anything to do with it. I don't remember how it acted before.
EDIT: Okay I figured something out. When I plug in the USB, no matter the setting in Settings > Connect to PC > Default Connection Type, it will always mount the SD card. However when I change the setting while its still plugged in it will mount / unmount normally. Weird.
Same issue here
I had the same problem, and traced it to doubletwist forcing a USB mount as default configuration. Start by checking that.
That's what it was! Thanks for the help.
That was my issue too. Glad you tracked it down.. was driving me nuts.
In the car dock I couldn't figure out why it kept trying to set my deck to USB Devices when I was trying to use Bluetooth streaming.
Heh. Doubletwist... I just uninstalled it.
tcpsyn said:
That was my issue too. Glad you tracked it down.. was driving me nuts.
In the car dock I couldn't figure out why it kept trying to set my deck to USB Devices when I was trying to use Bluetooth streaming.
Heh. Doubletwist... I just uninstalled it.
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You can still keep it if you want. There is a setting in Doubletwist that is checked by default called "Auto USB drive" that you can un-check to fix this problem.
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Hey peeps, My hero has been acting up for the last couple days and the weird thing about it is that I have not done anything new to it. I wanted to flash the new fresh rom and when I connected the phone via usb to my laptop it just charges. The phone does not get recognized by the laptop nor does it ask me if I want to mount the drive. I am running windows 7 and the phone would mount without a problem previously. Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks
Did you flash to the new 2.27 leak? I have and am having the same issue. I cant get it to mount. Charges fine but nothing else.
One option might be to install SD Share from the market. It only costs $1 and I've never had issues using it to mount. Whats nice about it is that it allows the sd card to stay mounted to the phone while dual mounting it to the pc.
Go to Settings > Connect to PC. Check your default connection type and put a check in "Ask me".
I'll try those ideas omce u get home. Thx guys
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Hey peeps, My hero has been acting up for the last couple days and the weird thing about it is that I have not done anything new to it. I wanted to flash the new fresh rom and when I connected the phone via usb to my laptop it just charges. The phone does not get recognized by the laptop nor does it ask me if I want to mount the drive. I am running windows 7 and the phone would mount without a problem previously. Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks
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I checked the connect to PC...........mine had changed to default mode was "charge" I changed it to USB mode so we shall see if that fixes it when I get home. Thx again!!!!
****UPDATE***** that fixed the issue. Dunno why it was set to charge only but issues fixed.
there are free alterntives to sd share like usn mount and others
all i did was read the thread title, and in my best Michael from the office impersonation said "That's what she said"
ok guys thanks for your prompt responses and i am sorry i started another thread about this in Q&A. for some reason i believed this was the wrong spot for it sorry. well i have tried everything you guys suggested before i posted just to make sure i wasnt going to waste anyones time. im running fresh rom and it was working fine till i wanted to update to the 2.1.1 rom flipz just released. it only charges when connected to my pc and i also tried different computers in my house to no avail. i will now try something from the market.
lol @ the office reference....
ok i tried usb switcher and auto mount your sd from the market...none of them worked
Did you check your connection type like I suggested? mizono said it worked for him.
yes i did. it didnt work it still has the same issue. i guess i just have to use my micro sd reader in the meantime. i think its the phone for some reason.
Same issue here.
Anyone have other suggestions? Basically, I plug the phone into a USB port on either of my computers and it acts just like if I'd plugged into a USB wall charger: no USB debug notification or that its connected to a PC for charging, with the option of SD mounting etc.
Running Fresh 2.1.1, I flashed Fresh Toast 2.1 but I rolled back due to a soft reboot issue.
irishman06 said:
Same issue here.
Anyone have other suggestions? Basically, I plug the phone into a USB port on either of my computers and it acts just like if I'd plugged into a USB wall charger: no USB debug notification or that its connected to a PC for charging, with the option of SD mounting etc.
Running Fresh 2.1.1, I flashed Fresh Toast 2.1 but I rolled back due to a soft reboot issue.
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So I cleared the default charging action, and when i restarted my phone this morning (it died overnight since I didn't have a charger with me), it recognized the computer again this morning. So I guess I'm fixed for now. But I'm not sure why.
lucky you! i still have no fix
Not sure what fixed it, but the CM on G1 allowed me to mount my SD using my car stereo's USB (JVC KW-AVX820). Native G1 and none of the 3 USB modes on the Vibrant work. Any idea what file system feature did that?
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Same here. My Genesis Coupe keeps showing either 'Media Connection Error' or 'No Media Connected'. It even rebooted my nav/stereo this morning and then froze it on the FM screen with no audio. Had to turn the car off, then back on for it to be fine. Not sure why the Vibrant would have issues like that.
Actually, with my G1, I hadn't got USB Mount notifications for awhile. Other rom's however worked fine. My wife's MyTouch works no problem, so I know it shouldn't be the car.
I don't know anything about car computer usb, but I'll share one experience I had working with a copier at work: USB running in a mode that simulates a USB thumb drive works. USB running in a mode that shows a micro SD card READER (as opposed to a single solid-state unremoveable drive) does not. That discrepancy could be responsible for what you are experiencing.
Make sure after you select mass storage you then mount the usb (its a two step process)
But also, it still might fail as I've noticed when you do this the device is actually mounted as well (oh that glorious 16gb of onboard space!) so the stereo might not have any idea of where it should be looking.
You need to go into settings and enable USB debugging
I think it's under settings application development
that didn't do it
Try disabling USB tethering
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So I can't get my desktop OR laptop running XP Pro 32 to even recognize the phone. As in no audio plays and nothing appears in the system tray. Tried with/without debugging mode, installed the samsung drivers etc. The phone doesn't even show up in device manager at all- not even as something unrecognizable. Its as if the port is dead. The phone does 'ding' though and charge ok so it is receiving power... though nothing at all appears in the android notification tab when connected. Any ideas or anyone know of any apps on the pc or android side to take a closer look at whats happening on the bus?
The only way that I can get it to work is to put it in media mode. It shows up as a media device in Win7. If I put it on, "ask every time" or whatever it doesn't work and in mass storage mode it shows up as two unreadable drives, they are grayed out in Explorer... Basically...don't use the "ask every time" for USB function.
This function seems like such a simple thing, not sure why Samsung has so many issues with it considering they have been making media devices for a long time.
Anyway... do you have access to a newer OS to at least rule that out as a cause. Not saying it shouldn't work with XP 32 but just something to check out.
I was having similar issues at first. I take it adb doesn't work either? Well my fix was to delete my whole Android SDK folder, then I redownloaded it (though I just kept the "tools" folder this time). Then I downloaded "USBDeview" (google it) to delete every USB driver that had to do with android (basically just left the printers, HID, and my Sansa drivers), restarted, then I downloaded the samsung drivers from the thread on here, plugged my phone in and manually pointed the driver search to the drivers.
ADB and Mass Storage has been working fine since. All I can tell you is to keep checking cause there's something you're missing, I also thought to myself "what the heck else can I do?" since I had done each one of those steps previously, but maybe I just had to do them all together. Good luck.
another possible solution is to change cables if you're not using the samsung provided cable - some cables are charger only (no data) - some of the motorola cables are charger only and we've already had one poster that had that issue
I couldn't get it to work at first either. I more or less did this.
I plugged in my phone. I did not enable mass storage mode on my phone. Walked away and let my PC think for a while. I came back and I noticed I had two new drives. I then enabled mass storage mode and could connect.
Two of my machines I had to do this. I'm not sure why it wasn't instant, but it just took a bit of patience and walking away from the machine to let it think for a while before I guess it installed the drivers and made its peace with the fact it wasn't the G1 any more.
Say into voice dialer "Open SD card" -> check "Enable USB mass storage". That works if port on PC is OK.
If it's a driver issue, open device manager and uninstall the usb ports. Unplug everything from usb and when you reboot the computer it will automatically reinstall the usb ports.
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I ran into the same issue. It was a problem with the USB cable I was using. As soon as I tried a different cable it worked fine.
larryccf said:
another possible solution is to change cables if you're not using the samsung provided cable - some cables are charger only (no data) - some of the motorola cables are charger only and we've already had one poster that had that issue
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I second this, I forgot my sammy cable at work on Friday and on way home stopped at T-Mo and picked up a charger w/cable and realized right away this was just a charging cable as soon as I connected it to my PC. I'm returning the cable back to T-Mo tonight. At least I was able to charge my phone over the weekend.
UPDATE: You guys are right, it is the goddamn cables! I bought an extra wall charger + cable at the t-mobile store and was using that at home. I had left the original in-box cable at work. Tried the cable at work today and now the drives pop up. Still don't appear writeable but I can look into that when I have time, probably the typical driver issue. As far as I can tell those separate cables are power only! $15 for a two wires + dc adapter. Thanks Samsung. Grr.
i suspect the mfgrs have gone to charge only cables to help keep folks from tethering - just a suspicion
if the "drives" are popping up, have you "mounted" the phone (pull down notification bar, clik on USB connected and it should give you a window asking to mount the cards or drive)
FYI....The Rocketfish cables you get from Best Buy do not work. They are only capable of charging.
@larryccf...I don't think certain manufacturers are implementing this on purpose so we can't tether. I think their just being cheap.
Where I got my cables on the cheap! and my problem.
I got my cable at monoprice.com. Check it out that is a 10 foot usb cable for $1.69 and it works for me. They have different lengths and even some colors. Now my Mass Storage issue . . .
My Mass Storage via USB works fine unless I enable "USB Debugging" which one of my apps needs to work. Once debugging is enabled I loss the ability to see my sd card and internal storage on my XP netbook. any ideas????
Same Problem
I have the exact issue, tried many things have'nt found a fix yet. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
Thanks,
crx
larryccf said:
if the "drives" are popping up, have you "mounted" the phone (pull down notification bar, clik on USB connected and it should give you a window asking to mount the cards or drive)
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this worked for me Thanks
Yes phone is mounted, and can be seen w/o usb debugging enabled. However with usb/debugging on it does not read the phone being connected. Meaning that I cannot connect to ADB which is my main concern.
thanks for response tho,
crx
crxforya said:
Yes phone is mounted, and can be seen w/o usb debugging enabled. However with usb/debugging on it does not read the phone being connected. Meaning that I cannot connect to ADB which is my main concern.
thanks for response tho,
crx
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This is my issue exactly, and I haven't found a fix either. Called T-Mobile and they thought turning off debugging was the only fix I needed.
Most of them, sorry to say are half retarded. They think a data reset is the cure-all
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Most of them, sorry to say are half retarded. They think a data reset is the cure-all
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Ain't that the truth!
If you are running windows (x86 or x64), it would be wise to install the samsung drivers. I was having this exact problem, but as soon as I installed the drivers from samsung, viola!
I had the latest drivers from google, and they did not work for me.
Here is a link to the thread containing the links to the drivers, thanks to TGA_Gunnman:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=728929
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....
Anyone else having this problem? When your MT4G is first started the device is seen on your PC as Disk Drive but once you disconnected and try to reconnected later time it does not work as it only gives charging option.
By mounting and unmounted the SDCard, selecting USB connection type manually from USB setting does not help also. Only way to resolve this is by restarting MT4G fully as SDCard works again under Disk Drive without any issue.
I have not experienced this. I also keep my MT4G set to default to "charge only" on PC connection since it usually sits on my desk charging while I am at my PC. Very rarely do I need to hook up to move things on the SD card, usually I just do it across my WiFi and LAN with EStrongs file manager.