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[Q] Mass Storage showing 0bytes drive

Hello everyone, when i connect my phone to the computer and select mass storage device, my computer shows 2 new drives, but both have 0bytes capacity. One is for the microsd card (which i don't have installed) and the other should be the internal memory, but both show 0bytes, and i can't access neither of them. Any idea why this could be? I tried it on several computers, all of them running windows XP 32b professional. All the other connection methods work, i can even access internal memory using kies mode.

i am sure this has been covered a few times but:
1. plug in usb
2. select mass storage
3. on sgs pull down notification bar
4. click usb
it will now mount your sd cards for use
seems like a pointless step to me but hey i am sure there is a reason somwhere

I believe the reason is so that we won't have two separate device: pc and i9000 accessing (mounting) the sd at the same time. Might cause havoc to the file system.
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Cant get mass storage on my computer NS4G

Hey guys I just got the Nexux S 4G from Sprint yesterday and when I plug it into my computer it installed everything and said my device was ready to use but when I turn USB mass storage on and I dont get a folder on my computer. Anyone have the same problem of know a fix? Its windows 7 btw.

You need to install the usb drive from the sdk.
Go to the dev section and look for the rooting guides and you'll find links to it you don't need to be rooted but you need the drives for your computer to read your phone
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suprakarma said:
You need to install the usb drive from the sdk.
Go to the dev section and look for the rooting guides and you'll find links to it you don't need to be rooted but you need the drives for your computer to read your phone
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Awesome thank you very much.

Ok so now when I plug it in the folder shows up but when I click it it says no drive.

Mmm, it must be cause the phone does not have an external sd, did you also turned the debug mode and or mass storage on your phone? You'll find those on your settings
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A lot of people seem to be having this issue, particularly after installing or coming from a recovery.

I have the issue of not being able to mount the Mass Storage from recovery. I can mount from the OS just fine also fastboot has no problems.

Yep...USB Storage mode is borked. I wonder if GRJ22 has anything to do with this.

[Solved] Reformat KF sdcard?

Is it possible to reformat the usb storage/sdcard on the KF and what would be the best way to do it? Reason I ask is yesterday I repartitioned my KF using GNU parted so I can get more media/internal storage. After saving my handy work, I got the "msftres" flag and now when I plug the KF onto my Pc, it shows up empty like there are no files saved onto it, but when I navigate with root explorer, the sdcard/internal storage is populated. It doesn't even give me the prompt to mount usb storage when I plug in the usb cord. Thx in advance for the help.
Update: the issue was with automount, plugged into different usb port and reinstalled drivers and now it works. Thx for the help
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Yes it is. If you are on windows mount the usb drive then go my computer and right click over the KF hdd and choose format.
I recommend Fat32
Hope this helps
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roketteere said:
Yes it is. If you are on windows mount the usb drive then go my computer and right click over the KF hdd and choose format.
I recommend Fat32
Hope this helps
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Will this have adverse effects other than just wiping the info that's on the internal storage and then making the internal storgae reading as fat32?
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You can also just delete any folder or file that you don't want on there if you mount the storage.
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Linux Live Boot on SD as USB

My goal is to use my phone as a bootable drive, running some flavor of Linux, while having the SD card (or even a portion) accessible for the phone or as mass storage. -- I am NOT trying to run linux on the phone, I just want to boot and run linux from USB.
In the past 24 hrs I've installed raw image to my sd. I was able to get it to boot, however the entire partition was inaccessible to my phone, or windows. Also Gparted was unable to see my phone's SD partition the entire time. Any partitioning that happened happened in Clockwork Recovery 5.
Has anyone successfully pulled this off?

Probably it didn't see your phone? I'm not too linux savy but I know that there needs to be certain rules for the usb to pick up the phone? Is that the issue? It boots but won't pick up the sd card as useable storage because it doesn't see the phone?
What I'm thinking is the usb rules for the phone are not present so its not going to recognize the phone as potential storage.
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ÜBER™ said:
Probably it didn't see your phone? I'm not too linux savy but I know that there needs to be certain rules for the usb to pick up the phone? Is that the issue? It boots but won't pick up the sd card as useable storage because it doesn't see the phone?
What I'm thinking is the usb rules for the phone are not present so its not going to recognize the phone as potential storage.
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I was able to get the computer to recognize the phone and boot from the Linux OS on the SD. I did have a bit of a problem getting the phone to stay in mass storage mode for the computer to recognize it though. I'm not sure why Gparted didn't see it though.

themendoza said:
I was able to get the computer to recognize the phone and boot from the Linux OS on the SD. I did have a bit of a problem getting the phone to stay in mass storage mode for the computer to recognize it though. I'm not sure why Gparted didn't see it though.
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Like I said it may be missing the udev rules for android, Wait the pc recognizes is as storage like it will display your model number in the "places"?
Usually to get the OS to recognize the device you need to have a file for it.
I forget the exact location but it is a list that provides the os with info required to pick up the device.
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ÜBER™ said:
Like I said it may be missing the udev rules for android, Wait the pc recognizes is as storage like it will display your model number in the "places"?
Usually to get the OS to recognize the device you need to have a file for it.
I forget the exact location but it is a list that provides the os with info required to pick up the device.
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I have no udev rules and my phone works fine
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marcusant said:
I have no udev rules and my phone works fine
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Odd I had to use those other wise my LMDE wouldn't pick up my phone...
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Don't know if this helps, but Multi-Mount (in the Play Store) is able to mount your SD card and access it from both your phone and USB drive at the same time.

[Q] run OS on tab via bootable usb or micro sd card

thought it would be a cool idea and havnt seen anything actually happen
Is it possible while using a usb to galaxy tab 10.1 adapter to create a bootable usb so that when you start up your tablet you can choose to run either android 4.0 or windows 8 (tablet edition) or IOS. either via bootable usb or bootable micro sd card.
also would love this to end up in development... submit it to dev board

I would love to see that as well!
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noah93 said:
thought it would be a cool idea and havnt seen anything actually happen
Is it possible while using a usb to galaxy tab 10.1 adapter to create a bootable usb so that when you start up your tablet you can choose to run either android 4.0 or windows 8 (tablet edition) or IOS. either via bootable usb or bootable micro sd card.
also would love this to end up in development... submit it to dev board
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That would be nifty, right now I've only seen this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1585009
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