Guys,
After a failure to get my phone to connect to odin-3 when it was in download mode, I took out the battery (since I did not know how to get it "out" of download mode) just to get it to boot up again.
No harm, as odin did not start to copy the firmware to the phone (since it could not communicate with it), the phone was working and all my apps were there, however, when I plugged my phone into my laptop the PC Kies application would start but my phone to attempt to load "MTP Appliation", however it would just flip back to the touchwiz screen and back to MTP Application then back to touchwiz again (non-stop).
Not sure why this is happening, or what I broke ?
I have since (using Odin) flashed my phone with the latest (European) firmware but the problem is still there, MTP mode just restarting all the time and kies never connecting (I also tried reinstalled the Desktop Kies app).
Anyone know how I can get this working again?
On a related note, i also installed doubletwist (before the steps above) and had to turn on usb debug mode.
I have since turned it off when not syncing with dkubletwist but noticed sometimes the music player saying mass storage device mode is on?
I wonder if some "state/lock" file is left behind somewhere on the phone?
Could the use of doubletwist be related to my problem?
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As per my post in the other thread, this method seemed to sort the problem when I had a similar issue. Not sure if you're using a different launcher, but that is what caused the problem for me. Changing to TW didn't help even after killing the other launcher (ADW or Pro). However, once set to default (TW), I could reboot the phone and it would connect fine (without flicking on and off). There's no real need to Keis though if all your contacts are with Google as USB storage mode is more convenient.
I had this problem too. It was caused because only in idle mode of the Samsung home launcher can keis connect. You may have installed a different launcher. Try the following:
Put usb to keis mode in settings
download home switcher from the market
run home switcher an set touchwiz as default home
Reboot phone (task killing other launchers don't work for me.)
make you phone is in the home screen - press home to get there
now connect the cable with keis running on pc
sync everything you need to
In future I suggest you move all contact to Google so they sync over the air and you'll no longer need keis. crappy software!
Thanks so much.
I got launcher switcher and it listed my launcher as unknown. I just switched it to touchwiz and set that as default.
Once i get home i will restart the phone and test connecting with kies.
Thanks for the QUICK reply.
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So your recommendation did not work for me.
What did work is actually unmounting the internal sd card and formatting it.
Unfortunately My camera is crashing when i open it.
Funny thing is that my phone sseems so fast now (no lag).
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No harm, as odin did not start to copy the firmware to the phone (since it could not communicate with it), the phone was working and all my apps were there, however, when I plugged my phone into my laptop the PC Kies application would start but my phone to attempt to load "MTP Appliation", however it would just flip back to the touchwiz screen and back to MTP Application then back to touchwiz again (non-stop).
Not sure why this is happening, or what I broke ?
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Same problem here and I never used Odin. Must be something different ... any ideas are welcome.
BTW: which latest firmware did you install?
Has anyone of you for whom formating the internal SD card solves the problem installed SoundHound? I spent the last hours with formating the SD card and then copying back my data piece by piece and by this I found out that the "soundhound" folder is the thing which leads to the problem. I have all my data back on the internal SD card except for the "soundhound" folder and the connection works! If I now copy this folder back the problem of the restarting "MTP Application" returns. If I now delete the folder again it is working again! So at least for me SoundHound or furthermore it's folder on the internal SD clearly is the problem! Also if I copy the folder to the external SD card instead of the internal one, the MTP connection does not work and if I delete it again it works!
Can anyone confirm/reproduce this?
//edit: After looking to the content of the folder I would assume that the problem is that the MTP Application has a problem with specific file extensions since the folder only includes files with no or extreme long file extensions.
Thanks! same here, soundhound is the problem.
I must say that Soundhound itself is not the problem. The long file extensions of the saved files are the problem. They're more apps which use such files like e.g. the skyfire browser. Just delete them and it will work again.
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I must say that Soundhound itself is not the problem. The long file extensions of the saved files are the problem. They're more apps which use such files like e.g. the skyfire browser. Just delete them and it will work again.
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Thanks a TON. I mounted my card in the data storage mode, opened the internal card in my computer and did a search for *.*, switched to detail view, sorted by file type. There were several files with long extensions in the folder "TunnyBrowser" which is created by DolphinBrowser HD. I uninstalled it, deleted the folder and now it connects fine again!
SoundHound + Kies issue fixed
Hi guys,
I am a developer at SoundHound and am responsible for our Android app. Sorry to hear about the problem you've been having with our app and the Samsung Kies software.
Just wanted to let you know that we've updated our app to be compatible with the Samsung Kies MTP sync software. As has been mentioned in this post, the problem is caused by files on the SD card with long or missing file extensions.
So please upgrade to the latest version of SoundHound on the Android Market. If you uninstalled SoundHound because of this issue, I hope you'll give us another shot!
Naturally, we can't do anything about other apps that generate these offending filenames.
If you continue to have any problems, please feel free to respond to this post or PM me.
Thanks!
Rico
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Hi,
today i wanted to connect my Galaxy S to Kies to check for updates etc. After connecting usb cable i chose on Samsung Kies on phone and "MTP Application" appeared. But phone couldn't connect to Kies. MTP Application was closing every few seconds and launching again. I reinstalled Kies but that not helped. Mass storage and Modem connection works fine. Do i have to reflash? I'm on JM5.
Do you have "Soundhound" installed?
No, i've never installed it.
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Hello.I had that problem too with that firmware.The only solution i had was to format the internal sdcard and then mount it.So if u dont want to reflash just save your data and format it.And dont use launcher pro or adw launcher.They still mess up with mtp aplication as well.
Thx for suggestion. I'll try it in a minute.
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Long file extensions
The problem is not only Soundhound, it's file extensions that are over 16 characters long.
You should browse your card manually and search and delete all files with long extensions.
You can find more info by searching "gizmondo galaxy s mysterieux bug trouve" on google.
Radu
doartest said:
The problem is not only Soundhound, it's file extensions that are over 16 characters long.
You should browse your card manually and search and delete all files with long extensions.
You can find more info by searching "gizmondo galaxy s mysterieux bug trouve" on google.
Radu
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Wow, i think it really worked. I deleted 2 folders which contained many files with long extensions (.aptoid for example) and it's working now. Thanks a lot.
Hi,
First post so please be gentle. I've got a Lg GT540 running 1.6 and wanted to install a couple of apps onto the phone internal memory, so I got the apk files onto my desktop and connected the phone up via usb and could not and have not been able to copy these files onto the internal memory. In fact the phone does not come up as a drive or anything and copying the files onto the sd card leaves them stuck there and not being installed.( Mainly the astro file manger app.)
I then considered upgrading the phone to 2.1 via the LG site and downloaded LG suite etc and all was going well until the process stopped at 4% upgrade and requested I disconnect from pc, remove battery etc etc. I tried to follow that procedure 3 times and it still failed.
Not beaten I then found some stuff online to enable me to reflash to 2.2 (Modaco) and started that process. One of the first things it required me to do was start the phone in Fastboot mode by holding the camera button down whilst powering up. THe phone stubbornly refused to go into Fast boot.
Sooo, How do I get to copy Astro onto the internal memory so I can do what I want to and/or how can I upgrade to 2.2/
Firstly when you try to get into fastboot it wont work until you install a fastboot kdz.
This will allow you to flash roms onto ur phone.
I've made a video on a "how to" its in the general, look trought the pages or visit www.YouTube/user/tech2tuts
There's also a video on how to install android 2.3 swiftdroid. Its on the same channel in the favorites.
But beware u will lose all you apps unfortunately. Unless you get astro file manager or titanium back up which requires your phone to be rooted.
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Hi Chris, Thank you for the link to the demo and I will need to look at that with a view to implementing. No doubt I'll be asking for some assistance during the process.
However I'm still at a loss with not being able to install apps directly onto the phone memory and would appreciate some pointers on that. I have acess to a desktop running XP and a laptop running Windows 7.
Thanks in advance.
You probly cant install apps due to lack of internal memory. Bye install the Kdz it will enable over 230mb of internal , along with apps to sd, so no need for use of internal.
unable to install apps
Thanks again, but phone showing 3.6 gb avaiable on sd card and 120mb available on internal memory?
I really want to know why my pc connection only reads my sd card and not the internal memory. Is there an approved way of connection ie whether I need to use any LG software etc.
Hmm that's odd. When you connect to comp it should only show SD card, have u tried a factory reset?
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Hi again,
have made some progress and managed to update the os to 2.1 off the LG site.
When usb plugged into pc it does read the sd card and I am able to copy files inc apps to it but do not know how to run them!!! My belief is that I need to install apps to the phone memory???
Ohhh i think i see your problem now.
So uve downloaded apps from this website or other?
And you want to know how to install them?
Get astro file manager or any other ones the same,connect your phone, put the Downloaded file into a folder , like downloads in your SD card then disconnect your phone , open astro the go into SD card and downloads folder and press on the app, it will ask you to install and Bam your done.
Or if its saying that ur not able to install it, go settings>applications>development>usb debugging tick it and also allow installation or 3rd party apps tick that to.
I think that what you mean?
Hi Chris, I think you are close to understanding my problem, I have a apk file of astro pro on my pc but am not sure where to copy it to. I have tried copying it onto my sd card but am then not able to run it?
Do I need to have the phone rooted etc?
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Hi Chris, I think you are close to understanding my problem, I have a apk file of astro pro on my pc but am not sure where to copy it to. I have tried copying it onto my sd card but am then not able to run it?
Do I need to have the phone rooted etc?
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The first thing to do would be to downlaod Astro Free from the market and then navigate to the sd (home on astro) and select the apk, open app manager and install, install. Now it will be installed.
Tap here and then tap download directly from market to download from market.
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The first thing to do would be to downlaod Astro Free from the market and then navigate to the sd (home on astro) and select the apk, open app manager and install, install. Now it will be installed.
Tap here and then tap download directly from market to download from market.
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Yeah i understand. Follow these instructions. Astro is free on the market anyway. The pro version is no different.
A very big thank you to Chris and Quinney I actually had the Astro apk on my laptop and sent it across via Bluetooth and I'm now up and running, Only had bluetooth working since the update to 2.1
Wouldn't mind getting it to run a little faster though, I see people reporting 800mhz being smooth.
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Hi, thanks Chris and Quinney, Finally managed to send the Astro apk from my laptop via bluetooth and all my problems are behind me.
Thanks once again.
No problem.
Okay so I've went ahead and flashed Darky's 10.2 Resurrection edition on my sgs i9000m. It's amazingly fast! Got a Quad score of 1975 and no more weird colours, and I can get into cwm recovery . However there are a few problems that I would really like to fix!
1- I can't get into the darky's launcher. It would constantly force close, so I went ahead and deleted it. Is there some way I can get it back and actually be able to go on it?
2- Speaking of force close, A LOT of my apps won't open and end up being force closed. What's up with that exactly?
3- Speaking again of apps, A LOT of my apps got uninstalled, most of which were very useful like Allshare and Swype. I'd like to get them back. I noticed in my files that most of them are sitting in the "uninstalled" folder in Darky, but everytime i try and reinstall them, they say "Application not installed." Please help
4- I cannot connect my phone to my computer, the computer will not recognize it for some reason and neither will kies (i need to sync my contacts).
For now these are the major problems I've encountered. Will someone please be kind enough to help me fix at least some of them?
Many thanks!
-Roma
you should flash Darky's 10.2 Extreme Edition over your 10.2 RE. Brings you back what you are missing right now.
k1ngbee said:
you should flash Darky's 10.2 Extreme Edition over your 10.2 RE. Brings you back what you are missing right now.
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okay if you're sure
k1ngbee said:
you should flash Darky's 10.2 Extreme Edition over your 10.2 RE. Brings you back what you are missing right now.
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question: Exactly how do I do that now that my computer won't recognize my phone (drivers) ?
you can try to reinstall kies to your pc which automatically installs the necessary drivers.
roma17 said:
Okay so I've went ahead and flashed Darky's 10.2 Resurrection edition on my sgs i9000m. It's amazingly fast! Got a Quad score of 1975 and no more weird colours, and I can get into cwm recovery . However there are a few problems that I would really like to fix!
1- I can't get into the darky's launcher. It would constantly force close, so I went ahead and deleted it. Is there some way I can get it back and actually be able to go on it?
2- Speaking of force close, A LOT of my apps won't open and end up being force closed. What's up with that exactly?
3- Speaking again of apps, A LOT of my apps got uninstalled, most of which were very useful like Allshare and Swype. I'd like to get them back. I noticed in my files that most of them are sitting in the "uninstalled" folder in Darky, but everytime i try and reinstall them, they say "Application not installed." Please help
4- I cannot connect my phone to my computer, the computer will not recognize it for some reason and neither will kies (i need to sync my contacts).
For now these are the major problems I've encountered. Will someone please be kind enough to help me fix at least some of them?
Many thanks!
-Roma
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1. Reflash usually helps, or you can flash Extreme Edition as pointed out by another user. If you are not really familiar with the Resurrection edition, I suggest you stick to the standard Extreme Editions which has everything.
2. Reflash usually solves this
3. Those apps are purposely taken out of the Resurrection Edition because Ficeto wants the ROM to be as light as possible, and he only keeps apps that he uses on them. You can, however, get them all back using Nitrality from the market.
4. KIES won't connect because you don't have MTP installed. Get this from the Nitrality app from the Market.
If you wanna flash EE over RE, you can simply download EE and transfer to your phone via usb mass storage mode, (first time run it''ll automatically install the drivers) or via KIES Air. After that, flash via CWM
Hope that helps!
I had the same #4 problem: MTP Application missing.
After using Nitrality, I check Mtp Application, select "apply changes".
It asks me to confirm installing MTP App
I push "yes continue"
It says performing operations...
After 3 seconds it says "Batch operation completed"
But nothing changes, since Kies doesn't find the phone and if I restart Nitrality, I find that MTP App is not checked as if it has been installed...
I found even the MTPApplication.apk but when I try to install it, it says "app not installed"
(my system comes from a darky 9.4 >> wipe all with a dark 10.2 resurrection)
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I found even the MTPApplication.apk but when I try to install it, it says "app not installed"
(my system comes from a darky 9.4 >> wipe all with a dark 10.2 resurrection)
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You are not supposed to install it but move it to /system/app folder.
sorry for the question, but where is that folder?
I don't have a system folder and don't have a App folder in /sdcard
where should I put the MTPApplication.apk?
Having the same problem.
I also moved MTP Application to sdcard/system/app and still doesn't work ..
Step 1: Download root explorer
Step 2: Open root explorer
Step 3: Copy the mtp apk
Step 4: Navigate to /system/app (not /sdcard/system/app, not /sdcard/app)
Step 5: Paste the mtp app
Step 6: profit
Worst case scenario:
Step 1: Get a $20 micro sd. Put it in your Pc's card reader and copy Darky's Extreme Edition file there
Step 2: Put the card in your phone
Step 3: using any file manager copy the Darky EE zip onto the root dir of you *internal sdcard*
Step 4: Flash
Step 5: profit
Easy enough you just need to read the instructions a bit more.
I did that. Still not working.
On the phone I see MTP application on screen and notification "Connected"
On Samsung Kies it's not connected. It keeps showing "Connecting..." for few minutes and after that I get error message "Cannot start service on the device. Please disconnect then reconnect the device."
I did that, but .. still not working.
Try putting the phone in USB debug mode. That will give you access to normal USB mass storage mode (meaning you don't need MTP, your computer will see the phone like a normal USB stick), and then you can copy over Darky EE Edition and flash it.
If nothing else works, start over from a stable stock GB ROM or Froyo ROM.
EDIT: oh and why don't you try syncing your contacts to gmail? Makes getting your phone up and running a breeze and they're always backed up to Google's Servers. You'd need a DOUBLE failure to ever lose your contacts (Google failing AND your phone failing at the same time, which is very very unprobable). If you got em on Kies, just export them to csv and then import them to gmail. Every time I flash, I just enter my google account and wham, 2 minutes later all my mail and contacts are already on the phone.
Hi, all.
If I use ES File Explorer to back up an app, the .apk is written to the /sdcard/backups/apps folder. If I plug the N7 into my Windows 7 64-bit laptop and browse to that folder, the .apk file is not listed. Other files in that folder (also .apks) are listed. I recently unlocked and rooted it using mskip's Toolkit. I can't recall having this problem prior to rooting. Prior to rooting, I definitely backed up a few apps and copied them to my laptop. They were instantly visible in Windows Explorer. I also have no problems copying files from Windows to the N7, and those are immediately viewable in ES File Explorer.
After a ton of searching and reading, I tried two sdcard rescan apps, but neither work to make the files visible. According to ES File Explorer, the .apks on the N7 are readable, writable and not hidden. Oddly, after backing up more apps today, then going out, leaving the N7 connected to my laptop, they were suddenly visible in Windows Explorer when I got back. This makes me wonder if the rescan process takes a long time to run. From reading about those rescan apps, it seems it shouldn't. Maybe these rescan apps don't work on all folders on the sdcard? Hard to tell.
Is it possible that the drivers installed by the Toolkit could cause this? I have tried disabling "Developer options" (of which only "USB debugging" was active) - no dice; rebooting using the Rebooter app - no change. The difference I see between the fully stock, out-of-the-box N7 and the unlocked and rooted N7 is that the latter now shows up in Windows as a removable device (MTP Device). Normally MTP devices don't show up as things that can be ejected (Kindle Fire HD is that way). That would seem to be driver-related.
One last test I tried was plugging it into my wife's laptop (no Toolkit installed) to see what I can, or cannot, see. I'd never attached the Nexus 7 to her laptop. Two of three drivers installed successfully (the one called "Nexus" did not install, but "Nexus 7" did). The Auto-Play dialog popped up, and I opened Windows Explorer from there. Still only the same six files listed under /sdcard/backups/apps.
Clearly others are experiencing this problem, but I've yet to read a explanation. I thought I had solved it when new backups showed up, but after that five new ones are not visible, while the ones that eventually appeared were still listed (11 total files, of which six appear in Windows Explorer).
This is similar to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1785408
If it should be merged, please do.
Cheers.
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I'm having the same issue. This is nonsense. We shouldn't have to jump through hoops just to view files we recently put on out devices. If ANYONE out there knows of a fix, please chime in...
im having the same issue. issues that were not there on 4.1, i have a feeling its jelly bean 4.2 related but not sure. i see some files but not all. i know theyre there because i can see them on the nexus7 itself but some files are not visible on windows.
gotcha13 said:
im having the same issue. issues that were not there on 4.1, i have a feeling its jelly bean 4.2 related but not sure. i see some files but not all. i know theyre there because i can see them on the nexus7 itself but some files are not visible on windows.
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Are the "some files" that are not visible via MTP newly created? For instance you used a root-priv file browser to copy the .apks to someplace in /sdcard, and then went looking for them immediately afterwards from the PC?
"Newly" meaning... since the last time the N7 was rebooted?
It's unfortunate and horrid but I'd be willing to bet the files will show up just as soon as the N7 is rebooted. Disconnecting (safely) from the PC and reconnecting doesn't seem to do the trick, but rebooting the N7 will. Ugh.
You need to reboot and wait for those files to be scanned, they will appear eventually. Or use AirDroid.
I hate MTP.
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downloaded filed from utorrent app are not visible in Windows Explorer
Hello,
I am useing Sony Xperia SL recently installed the Jelly bean update that rolled out, its not rooted. The issue is, the files that is download from utorrent app are not visible when i connect my phone to PC, however when i browse to the same location on my phone using ASTRO file mananger the files downloaded are visible and works fine.
Usually any video file that is copied or downloaded will automatically appear on the Movie gallery, even this is not happening.
please help me out guys.
So i bought a new Galaxy S4 19505 and i like everything about this phone till i found a major problem. Any picture or video on the phone doesn't show up in the stock gallery, only the pictures or videos taken by the camera application would show up. I told myself that this isn't a big issue and i installed quickpic which is somehow better than the stock gallery and works perfectly. However today i discovered that my phone doesn't detect any ringtones installed or any alarm tones! the same goes for the notification sounds, the three lists are just empty!
I tried installing several media scan applications from the playstore, i understand that such applications manually trigger the Android Media Scanner to run so it would detect new media files but unfortunately all of those applications fail on startup.
Now i suppose that my media scanner file is corrupted, so is there anyway i could replace it?
Thanks in advance.
DArkSm4sh said:
So i bought a new Galaxy S4 19505 and i like everything about this phone till i found a major problem. Any picture or video on the phone doesn't show up in the stock gallery, only the pictures or videos taken by the camera application would show up. I told myself that this isn't a big issue and i installed quickpic which is somehow better than the stock gallery and works perfectly. However today i discovered that my phone doesn't detect any ringtones installed or any alarm tones! the same goes for the notification sounds, the three lists are just empty!
I tried installing several media scan applications from the playstore, i understand that such applications manually trigger the Android Media Scanner to run so it would detect new media files but unfortunately all of those applications fail on startup.
Now i suppose that my media scanner file is corrupted, so is there anyway i could replace it?
Thanks in advance.
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Assuming you have correctly diagnosed the problem (which I have no idea) then what you are describing is a corrupted system file.
As long as it's only a system file that is corrupted and not the storage card itself, you should be able to fix this by using Odin to reflash your stock firmware. This will wipe your phone clean and restore everything fresh. And I mean everything. So if you have photos or music on their you want to keep, put it on an external SD card or move it to a PC or something.
This will wipe out the corrupted system file and replace it with a good one.
You can also root the device and install custom software, which will basically do the same thing but give you a completely different operating system. (Well...somewhat different. It'll still be Android. Just a different flavor.)
If the internal storage is physically damaged, then there is nothing you can do.