When I try to copy large movie files onto the Fire, it crashes after a while. It becomes a black screen and when I manually reboot, it stays at a black screen. This happened on two different roms. Does anyone else have this? I found that transferring through TWRP is much faster and it does not cause crashes.
Are you using USB mass storage? It gets stuck with large files, it's better to use AirDroid or something similar to transfer everything via WiFi
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Ok, seems pretty straight forward. plug in USB, slide down notification select turn on USB mass storage. open folder on PC, click drag files to designated locations. Reboot to get the files to show up in astro.
Now here's my problem. Half the files i transfer over are fine the other half, transfer over with no data behind them. 0kb. i transferred over about 10 ringtones, 5 wallpapers and 2 .apks
About 4 ringtones work, the others show up in astro, but have no data, i finally got all the wallpapers to work, after file transferring several times. and 1 .apk worked and the other doesn't.
It seems to be sporadic, as in, i transferred over the set of wallpapers i'd say 10 times. Out of the 10 time, the first 9 it was a different wallpaper(or couple) that would have no data, the last time they finally all went over as they should have.
This is getting rather irritating, I've searched the forums and the only help I've found is about the reboot phone to get them to show up in Astro. Any advice/assistance?
TL;DR- Half the files i transfer from PC to SD card, have no data attached to them, it's just a filename. Seems sporadic.
Maybe DroidExplorer can help you, if your PC is under Windows.
Actually, there was one file in particular that kept showing up as 0bytes. and this time, i actually read what it said on the "Turn off USB storage" screen. It says: Before turning off USB storage, make sure you have unmounted ("ejected") your Android's SD card from your computer.
So i actually did that, and the file transferred. I'll test a few more things to see if that's the case.
Never in my life of owning a PC have i ever used the "Safe to remove hardware" taskbar thing. I've always just yanked the USB cord. Never had a problem :X
Edit: That seems to have helped immensely, but hasn't solved the problem fully. Just transferred over 20 wallpapers, and only 2 show up as 0 bytes. So, maybe i'm on the right tack, i'll try the DroidExplorer see if that helps.
Anyone with advice or a solution, I welcome your $0.02
Susasama said:
Actually, there was one file in particular that kept showing up as 0bytes. and this time, i actually read what it said on the "Turn off USB storage" screen. It says: Before turning off USB storage, make sure you have unmounted ("ejected") your Android's SD card from your computer.
So i actually did that, and the file transferred. I'll test a few more things to see if that's the case.
Never in my life of owning a PC have i ever used the "Safe to remove hardware" taskbar thing. I've always just yanked the USB cord. Never had a problem :X
Edit: That seems to have helped immensely, but hasn't solved the problem fully. Just transferred over 20 wallpapers, and only 2 show up as 0 bytes. So, maybe i'm on the right tack, i'll try the DroidExplorer see if that helps.
Anyone with advice or a solution, I welcome your $0.02
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Try dropbox till all the kinks get worked out. Its free and saves you atleast 2gig storage on your sdcard.
Ever since I installed froyo, I have noticed that when I plug my phone in via a usb cable, it appears instantly in the windows 7 device list, but takes at least 2 minutes to appear as a actual drive, sometimes never appearing at all.
The phone also instantly recognises that it is connected and the same thing happens on my work computer as well.
Has/is anyone having similar issues to this?
EDIT: Have tried with usb debugging turned on and off, also uninstalled htc sync in case that was interfering but didn't help.
Do you have a lots of apps on the SD? If so, mounting it on the PC requiers to unmount all these apps from the system.
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Do you have a lots of apps on the SD? If so, mounting it on the PC requiers to unmount all these apps from the system.
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Quite a few, that might be it then. Didn't realise the phone had to do that. Thanks
That'll be the reason. It's a pain, if you use an a2ext solution it will be faster
i have 2 problems with media go:
1) once i connect the phone, it gets stuck 'generating thumbnails'. i have 55 pics and it always gets stuck after a few files. anywhere at 12/55 to 40/55. I can never get it to finish generating.
2) i have some iphone videos that I want to transfer to the phone. i was able to add them easily to the library and when i ask it to transfer to phone, the step goes to 94% but never completes. the cpu usage of my PC indicates that it finished transcoding but never finishes copying.
I even tried copying in USB transfer mode, but that also never completes. Tried swaping out the USB cable as well but that did nothing.
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i have 2 problems with media go:
1) once i connect the phone, it gets stuck 'generating thumbnails'. i have 55 pics and it always gets stuck after a few files. anywhere at 12/55 to 40/55. I can never get it to finish generating.
2) i have some iphone videos that I want to transfer to the phone. i was able to add them easily to the library and when i ask it to transfer to phone, the step goes to 94% but never completes. the cpu usage of my PC indicates that it finished transcoding but never finishes copying.
I even tried copying in USB transfer mode, but that also never completes. Tried swaping out the USB cable as well but that did nothing.
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Connect it in the Mass Storage Mode, pull the status bar and mount the SD Card. Go to My Computer (or whatever it's called ); copy the video using right click or shortcut from original source and navigate to the whichever directory you want in your SD Card to copy the video and paste it. Done .
There is one more way if you want to use the media-go.
Before connecting it to the computer, go to settings and storage and unmount the sd card.
Click on the notification of safe to remove the card.
Now mount your card and after a few seconds connect it to your computer and open media-go
Wait for sometime till it finishes the generating of thumbnails else your transfers get stuck arround 90%.
I did it and it worked for me. Check if it does for you too
I have a really weird problem:
Everytime I try to transfer files to my G2, in the middle of the process it stops, then it gets stuck, and if I cancel it - I can't view My Computer, it keeps loading and loading and nothing shows up, until I unplug the device, then My Computer returns to usual. It happens EVERYTIME! I can't transfer music or photos.. please help.
Nevermind, it was a problem in the Paranoid rom.
Can't copy files via USB, just gets stuck on "Calculating the time required to copy"
I'm trying to back up my entire 20GB of data on my Note 4 before I wipe it and root it. I'd like to do that via USB because of how massive it is. But it's not letting me. I plug my phone into my PC, use the MTP connection method, and I can browse my phone just fine. I can even copy individual files just fine. But as soon as I try to copy a folder, or multiple folders, it gets stuck on "Calculating the time required to copy the files". Even if I only select two folders that only have a single text file each. A file copy that should happen near instantly, doesn't happen after hours.
I've googled the issue and it seems pretty rare - has anyone found a workaround for this? I've tried different USB cables, different USB ports, resetting the phone, resetting the PC, but nothing seems to work!
I ve got a similar problem while backing up my whole data. Often the transfer starts after letting em calculate for a while (>15 min).
Sometimes a phone restart fixes the issue for one try and in very rare cases i retry it the next day.
I dont know what is causing th problem. I also know that this is not a apprpriate workaround.
There's a pretty big size man. I think you should try to wait a little more longer.
If the problem perssist then you should try reinstalling your device driver or use a party software like MobileGO.
Give a try and reply back
No, it wasn't size. If I went into the Camera folder, selected 4GB worth of pictures, and hit ctrl-C, then hit ctrl-V on my harddrive, it copied just fine. Took a while to copy, but there was no "calculating the time required to copy these files" dialog at all.
But if I select two or more FOLDERS, even if the total file size of all folders is less than 1MB, it gets stuck on "calculating the time" dialog, and I waited about an hour and then gave up. I ended up just copying to a USB OTG thumb drive on my phone, and then copying off that thumb drive to my PC.