I just recived my tab this morning and i dont know if its normal but when its plug the battery icon has a thunder and a red X also my tab on windows shows up as a music player instead of a removable device is it normal?
kuipou said:
I just recived my tab this morning and i dont know if its normal but when its plug the battery icon has a thunder and a red X also my tab on windows shows up as a music player instead of a removable device is it normal?
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It should show up as an MTP device that you can see in your Computer browser. You may need to install Kies to get the latest drivers.
The battery icon will show a red X if you're plugged in via USB port. It will only charge (at least on the stock ROM) when you're plugged in to an outlet.
kuipou said:
I just recived my tab this morning and i dont know if its normal but when its plug the battery icon has a thunder and a red X also my tab on windows shows up as a music player instead of a removable device is it normal?
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Samsung no longer makes devices which allow you to simply mount as an external storage device (stupidly, they use MTP instead). Having said that, there's nothing saying you can't simply copy what you want over to an external SD card or USB drive (via adapter) and move it all that way! It's an extra step I know, and it's a little more of a hassle, but whatever...
Jade Eyed Wolf said:
Samsung no longer makes devices which allow you to simply mount as an external storage device (stupidly, they use MTP instead). Having said that, there's nothing saying you can't simply copy what you want over to an external SD card or USB drive (via adapter) and move it all that way! It's an extra step I know, and it's a little more of a hassle, but whatever...
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Well, you can still drag and drop files using Windows Explorer. The internal and external storage should show up as drive letters.
How to find when my device got aactivated
Hello All
I am a newbee to galaxy 7.7 (puchased it online and it shipped to me yesterday only) but wt i found that the seal was broken at the time of delivery.
I just want to know if there is any way to find out when my device got activated so that i can find whether it is new or used ?
plz help
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Hi,
I have been charging my HD via cable (plug charger is broken) on my mac laptop with no problems. Now i have been trying to charge it from my computer at work and everytime I plug it in the whole phone just hangs and nothing works, I can't even switch it off!! I have to take the battery out of the back of the phone.
I have tried this on both a Windows XP Proffesional and Windows 2000 pc and on both they have crashed. I have had this happen when activesync is both active and when I have turned it off on the phone. Is this happening because I have not installed activesync from the disc onto this pc? If this is the case that sucks as I thought you could just plug this phone into any pc and charge it?
Is it worth doing a hard reset?
When you connect to your PC via USB cable, besides the charging, it also try to establish connection one of which is to make your storage card a disk drive. This process will always result in the hanging and crashing and it is normal.
To avoid this, use the normal AC charger for charging, and USB cable for making connection, during which time it is assumed that you will be controlling the coyping or sync process via the PC hence the device should not be working at the same time. Not sure if this makes sense to you.
It is a way to protect the storage card from being corrupted. Only one guy should do the writing of files at a time.
Yes... Steve above is quite correct.
When selecting the phone as a storage device this locks the device and allows the phones SD Mini card to act as a removable hard drive.
If it didn't lock it down the card would get screwed up if doing anything other than operating as a storage medium.
Beards
DOH!! Ok I feel stupid now Was worrying there for a bit. Problem solved, I had the default option of it using the phone as a disk drive when plugged in, I have now set it to Activesync and also I chose Activesync when I connected it and touch wood all is fine, no freezing!!
Many thanks guys its much appreciated.
No problem Mate.... We are all entitled to a bit of 'DOHH' every now and then.
Ok so I now can charge my phone using the pc and the phone doesn't freeze. But I have just linked up the phone in Disk Drive mode as I had something I needed to transfer. The transfer went well but when I unplug the phone (and I have done the safely remove hardware thing) the phone is frozen and I have to yank the battery?? Surely this isn't right?
No... that's not right.
Is this with Vista?
I have found when using my Vista laptop my phone 'occasionally' hangs and I have to switch it off and restart but using Win XP on my other laptop it's fine.
Beards
AFK_Matrix said:
Ok so I now can charge my phone using the pc and the phone doesn't freeze. But I have just linked up the phone in Disk Drive mode as I had something I needed to transfer. The transfer went well but when I unplug the phone (and I have done the safely remove hardware thing) the phone is frozen and I have to yank the battery?? Surely this isn't right?
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No, it's not right, it's a bug. I'm amazed to read what you've been told so far - I mean just analyze this:
eaglesteve said:
When you connect to your PC via USB cable, besides the charging, it also try to establish connection one of which is to make your storage card a disk drive. This process will always result in the hanging and crashing and it is normal.
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I mean honestly. How can that possibly be normal or correct behaviour?
I don't know if this is a Windows Mobile bug, or an HD bug, or a possibly a problem SD card you've got in the slot - but there is no way that any process should result in "hanging and crashing" without something being quite wrong somewhere.
You should be able to charge from any USB socket without having to worry about any of this, the advice about only using the AC adaptor etc is complete nonsense.
I am no computer jockey by any means - but I have noticed that my computer (running XP) tries to connect to my phone, as an external device and not as a phone using activesync, if I have windows media player running. With WMP (11) off, it uses activesync as normal - might this be causing this issue?
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No, it's not right, it's a bug. I'm amazed to read what you've been told so far - I mean just analyze this:
I mean honestly. How can that possibly be normal or correct behaviour?
I don't know if this is a Windows Mobile bug, or an HD bug, or a possibly a problem SD card you've got in the slot - but there is no way that any process should result in "hanging and crashing" without something being quite wrong somewhere.
You should be able to charge from any USB socket without having to worry about any of this, the advice about only using the AC adaptor etc is complete nonsense.
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I don't think Steve meant it crashes the device and is normal.....
I think what he meant was when the device is connected as a disk drive it locks out the device (as if it's crashed).
It's normal for the phone not to be able to do anything other than transfer data when acting as a mass storage device.
Beards
I am using Windows 2000 on this PC so its not a Vista issue. And I did think it very weird, can understand it not wanting you to fiddle with the SD Card while you have it plugged in but it should release the phone when I safely remove hardware.
I am assuming no one else has this problem then? I might fish out an old 2gb mico sd card I have and see if it does the same thing, if it doesn't then its the SD card.
I will test this at home as well to see if its just the PC's here that are causing it. Mighty annoying as I have pulled the battery like 8 times now lol.
Yes... the only answer I can think of is it being the SD card that is not releasing itself.
Again it's normal for it to be locked out whilst it's connected but as soon as you 'pull the plug' you should be able to instantaneously use the phone again.
Beards
Tried this one?:
Start/Settings/System/Energy/
Disable charging when phone is ON and connected to PC.Works great for me!
Yeah I will try and find the 2GB card I have and see if that works.
And luckyuser I want my phone to be charged while it is connected though. Also my problem is that my phone crashes when I try and disconnect from the computer in disk mode, meaning I have to yank the battery.
Hello all, Dutman here. My g1 works flawlessly and it is rooted(JF 1.43) but I seem to have a problem. when I connect it via usb the LED lights up and it shows me it's charging,, but it doesn't ask me to mount files or the USB in general. This could be due to the fact that I am missing the little usb cover piece, the one that is like really bendable, it sort of fell off. I don't have that anymore, could that be the problem in why my G1 isn't syncing?
Try rebooting your phone, i found sometimes with JF firmware for one reason or another the mount does not work after long periods of use... probly nothing but worth a try. If you are using a Windows 2000, XP, or Vista computer, it should just work automatically so my advice would be to try it on another computer to determine if your computers the issue.
dutman said:
could that be the problem in why my G1 isn't syncing?
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Not likely. Power cycle your G1 as suggested by crackmunky and verify that your USB host controllers are functioning correctly within Device Manager.
If you are using a USB hub, try plugging directly into the PC. I've had no end of trouble syncing windows mobiles in the past when connecting through a hub.
Trouble syncing
Okay, My G-1 is connected through the USB 2.0 cable directly to my computer and it is not recognizing it at all. I open the My Computer link, and it says that there is a Mobile phone. And it has a removable hard drive thing. But I click on the removable HD link and it tells me to insert a disc. And I click on the phone, and it is telling me there is nothing there. Please help, I would really like to sync up with my PC at home so that I can add music and tones to my phone.
OS is Windows XP SP2
G-1 is Firmware 1.1
does the phone show that there is an SD card in it?
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Okay, My G-1 is connected through the USB 2.0 cable directly to my computer and it is not recognizing it at all. I open the My Computer link, and it says that there is a Mobile phone. And it has a removable hard drive thing. But I click on the removable HD link and it tells me to insert a disc. And I click on the phone, and it is telling me there is nothing there. Please help, I would really like to sync up with my PC at home so that I can add music and tones to my phone.
OS is Windows XP SP2
G-1 is Firmware 1.1
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If you look at the taskbar on the top of the G1 screen, you should see the USB icon up there on the left. Drag that taskbar down (same as you drag your Menu up) and you should see a bar that says "USB Connected". Click that bar and you will get an option to Mount your device.
I had the very same issue when I first got my G1. It took me forever to realize I could drag the top taskbar down.
When I open the SD Card cover on my phone the system unmounts the disk. I suspect that it has everything to do with your missing dust cover.
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When I open the SD Card cover on my phone the system unmounts the disk. I suspect that it has everything to do with your missing dust cover.
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WTF????....i was even dumb enough to believe that and i even went and tried it....lmfao at my self...
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WTF????....i was even dumb enough to believe that and i even went and tried it....lmfao at my self...
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I don't understand your reaction.
I just verified it again, went to he sd and phone storage option in settings from the home screen. opened the SD card slot cover, rotated it down (if the phone is flat face up, my cover was facing the floor) and the SD card section goes from
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Available space
299 MB
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Available space
Unavailable
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I don't understand your reaction.
I just verified it again, went to he sd and phone storage option in settings from the home screen. opened the SD card slot cover, rotated it down (if the phone is flat face up, my cover was facing the floor) and the SD card section goes from
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nope didnt happen for me... maybe my phone doesnt have that function....lol..
I bought mine retail the week of valentines day, maybe it is a different version. I'm running the stock ROM 1.1, I didn't get it OTA in a timely fashion so I forced it. Three days is fine for a spread, but "by the end of the month maybe" is stupid.
Searched for "Ringtone" and "Permission", but found nothing related to this issue.
when I put my EVO in the charging stand, which is connected to my computer's USB port, the SD card becomes un-available to the phone.
This means my added ringtones are un-available until I remove the phone. This is an issue to me because I keep the phone there as long as I'm home.
I tried using File Manager to copy a ring tone to the System/Media/Ringtones (I think) folder, but got a "You don't have permission" error.
Is there any way to copy files to the phone's built in memory without rooting it?
Thank you.
if you select, charge only when you connect to the dock you should not have that problem, while it is connected to the dock swipe down the notification area if it says disk drive select it then select charge only and done and the phone should recognize the sd card again.
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Is there any way to copy files to the phone's built in memory without rooting it?
Thank you.
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I assume you mean /system/ and no there isn't.
Thanks for the replys.
ifly4vamerica, nope. I tried "Charge only" and cannot access the SD card unless I remove the phone from the stand.
MrDSL, not what I wanted to hear, but thanks.
Guess I'll have to disconnect the stand from the computer and use a wall plug.
Unless you wanted to be super nerdy about it...I tried and got tired of trying to push stuff I just put the phone in Disk Mode and put my ringtones in a folder called Ringtones on the SD card, and for notifications sounds I put them in the media folder where the facebook pop m4a file is
i know this might sound like a stupid question but how to i move my movie which work on my itouch to my sgs i tries using kies and ofc it doesn't pick up my phone conents and i also tried draging and droping the movie on my new brand new formatted 16gb sd card with nothing on it expect a note pad document called "devicefriendlyname" on but a message keeps poping up or it keeps frezzing and (im connect the phone i use mass storeage) and it doesn't WORK GRRRRRR does anyone know what i should do!? thanks in advance cause i just got the phone last week and loving eveything abit it except the lag and this! but what makes it worst is that when i put the sd card into my old g1 and reformat it on the it and put the same movie on it WORKS!!! is there something w rong with my sgs?
USB cable is the fastest way
mount the External SD card when you plug in the SGS to the PC
select Mount
then drag and drop files as you please
Well pretty much as the title says. I have never had a issue with it before, but as of today it will not for the life of me mount. I sometimes (after many tries) get the windows 7 pc to the mass storage device but when I click on it it just loads forever before freezing up and failing to load any files from the phone. Then after being disconnected and reconnected I cant even get it to let me mount the device.. When I click mass storage it goes to the confirm mount page, but when i try to mount it again it just clicks but nothing happens.
I have no idea what is up. I have ordered a new usb cable but im not sure thats the problem.
Has anyone else had this issue? What was the sollution you came across that fixed it for you. Any help is appreciated.
Plug it in and go to device manager. Delete it from device mgr if it shows up. Reboot.... plug it back in after reboot and see if it recognizes it. Should reinstall itself and recognize.
Let me know......
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Had the same issue about the time I first moved to GB, turned out to be the cable but the timing of when it happened had me pretty twisted.
gregory15 said:
Plug it in and go to device manager. Delete it from device mgr if it shows up. Reboot.... plug it back in after reboot and see if it recognizes it. Should reinstall itself and recognize.
Let me know......
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I can once again see the device (drive H but when i click to view or explore it completely locks up the window. So its unable to access the device but it does however know its there. I can access my device with adb as i tried it to see if I can atleast get it to communicate.. but have no way of accessing the sdcard via mass storage :-(
*update* Well I really wanted to get some files (audiobooks) sent over.. so I gave the kies air a go... That seems to be a decent temp fix.. and over a gigabit connection to my wireless N phone the transfer speeds are probably on par if not faster than usb... atleast it seems so.
prolly the cable
happened to me before
the sdcard can be read through an sdcard reader, just not through the phone.
The usb cable would charge the phone but it wouldnt connect for NOTHING. I would tap connect, it would press but then unpress as if nothing happened. just following the motion of my finger.
Found a BB cable a couple weeks later after i lost my stock one, and my phone was picked up by odin,adb, sd card, blah blah blah
it was so funny cuz i was blaming my pc for it instead of the cable cuz it worked so well for me before until i plugged my phone in on a friends comp and it didnt pick it up, but when i used his HD2 cable, it went through without a hitch.
TL;DR
Kies air will do till your new cable comes in.
Are they any issues or quirks with the phone reading the sd card? We've had a rash of epics come in lately where the sd card port has gone bad. Just making sure it's not that (but it's a very easy fix, the port is actually removable and we get them shipped to us as a new part.)
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I get this on froyo, can't connect, every once in a blue moon it does, when it dosnt I use dropbox, kies air works good also. But on GB it works everytime, same cable, go figure