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[Q] Help, I cannot write to my external microsd [SOLVED]

I don't know why, I'm in mass storage mode and I expected to just be able to copy and paste files like in Samsung Wave (or any other phones) but I cannot do it in Galaxy S.

Never liked mass storage mode. Enable USB debugging mode instead. Go to menu ->settings ->Applications -> Development -> USB debugging. Once connected to the PC, pull down the notification menu and select connect.

Thank you. Tried it but it doesn't work too. The micro sd partitions do not appear even if usb mode (debugging) is connected already.
Am I the only one experiencing this?

did you pull the notification bar and choose to connect to ur comp? if ur on froyo, once you click " mass storage " you should then see a green android on the screen with the option to connect to the computer. if you dont see the notification, unplug the usb and try again.

SOLVED after updating my firmware to JPU. Thank you for the help guys! It was as I suspected. For some reason, my phone owned the external microsd's filesystem after formatting (I was using JP2 firmware). I formatted it again after flashing to JPU and voila, all problems fixed.

Can't mount internal sd-card; No usb connection!

Hi at all.
my sgs i9000 don't start anymore. After pressing the power button, the SamsungLogo appears and disappears after few seconds.
then again, and again. No bootanimation appears!
if i boot into recovery mode, this errormessage was printed:
update media, please wait
E:can't mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
(No such file or directory)
E:copy_dbdate_media:cant mount sdcard:
your storage not prepared yet, please use UI menu for format and reboot actions.
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if i try to format internal sd card or wipe data/factory reset, the same message appears.
Downloadmodus can be started!
The phone was not rooted before. the firmware was the last published by samsung for sgs i9000.
If i connect via usb to the computer, my computer can detect the usb device. just "Unknown Device".
I tryed many usb driver. but there is no problem with the drivers, because other sgs i9000 phones were recognized successfully.
I plugged in another sgs i9000 and the driver starts installation itself. On the defect phone, nothing happens except as Unknown device recognized.
I also try different usb cables and other Pc's.
On mac and linux, dmesg says: "unable to enumerate usb device".
Has anyone a solution for my problem?
best regards, michael

if it was not rooted then how did you got the recovery mode?

erpurohit said:
if it was not rooted then how did you got the recovery mode?
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Every Android phone has the recovery mode, its the stock recovery then,and its not neccessary to root the phone to get recovery mode.
E.g. I've rooted my phone through recovery mode

@markey97:
can you describe me, how to do that?

capgeti said:
@markey97:
can you describe me, how to do that?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdMhYYdMB08
this is the only solution you will need:
card sd 2-4gb
doawload rom
root the rom
instal ICS 4.0.4 like that in video
AND THE PHONE WILL WORK PERFECTLY
ypu will not be able to use no more the internal memory

But it doesn't work for me, because i cant connect the phone to my computer, i wroted in first post.
I've created a 2 parted sdcard like in the video, but the phone does nothing with it.
are there any solutions how to root the phone without computer that includes odin/heimdall? eg in use of an update.zip in recovery mode?

Has anyone any idea how to solve it?

Can't connect to pc

Hey, Sorry if this has been answered before but anyways;
I just rooted my streak 7 and put on the ICS Beta5.0.1 ROM. Now when I plug it into the PC nothing happens, it still charges fine, but nothing in the way of seeing the storage device in My Computer.
Is this a common problem with this build? (I didn't see anything about it in the build notes)
If not any ideas on how to fix?
If it is, what are some alternatives to accessing the internal memory? I want to put on Gapps via CWM, but as far as I can tell CWM only reads update zips from the internal memory... (If I'm wrong about this please correct me)
Any help would be great
Cheers!

Not sure if MTP is broken on that build or you may have to install drivers again. No, the only way to install Gapps is from CWM or TWRP. On the other hand a factory "Update.pkg" can only be installed from a factory recovery, CWM/TRWP can't do it.
Whoops! All must be done from an external SD card!

You need to possible reinstall drivers.

giveen said:
You need to possible reinstall drivers.
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So I went into device manager and uninstalled the device.
Unplugged and plugged back in and it comes up as an 'MTP USB Device' under 'Portable Devices'.
So from the ADB drivers zip I pointed it to install the MTP driver (tried the ADB fastboot driver too but it wouldnt allow it).
It starts installing the MTP driver but it fails. The reason it gives is: 'This device Cannot start. (Code 10)

What OS are you running even?

TheManii said:
What OS are you running even?
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Win7 64

I've only tested 5.0.1 for a couple hours, but MTP isnt particularly reliable on it.
Put gapps on an external sdcard and flash from there.

Yeah CWM (V6) doesn't recognise my external SD card for some reason. tried a couple of different cards too...
Anyways I just flashed back to stock 3.2, reinstalled PC drivers, put Gapps on the internal flashed back to ICS and loaded gapps through CWM. All is good.
Still won't connect to the PC on the ICS rom, but that's okay for now. Got everything I need.
Cheers.

[Q] Enter USB Debugging with broken screen

Some time ago I dropped and broke my Samsung Galaxy S, I've since gotten a replacement but there are still some files on the internal SD that I want to recover. I should be able to do this with ADB - but USB debugging doesn't seem to be enabled on device.
I thought entering recovery enables this - but I'm basing this on my cyanogenmod 10 install on my working device, whilst I should have stock 2.3.6 installed on the broken one (this rom specifically).
I believe I have the stock SGS recovery, but I can't say for sure.
Anyone have any clue on what I could do to get usb debugging working either in the OS or in recovery?

depending on what CWM you have installed you can go in mount and storage and there mount USB storage....then it connects the internal SDcard to your pc.
On my windows pc, sometimes the internal sd card mounts to pc only with connecting the phone to it. I am not sure anymore under what circumstances i got this working. Perhaps it was in download mode or in recovery mode....also could be that this was when i only short press the power button when phone is down but USB connected.....and if i remember right it depended also on which driver were installed and that sure kies is not running....but perhaps you give it a try?

[Q] Internal SD Card missing after unlocking bootloader

After having some problems with my Xperia T (random reboots, reboot loops, crashes) on stock Android 4.3 I decided to give it a go and try to install Omnirom 4.4
I tried to follow this procedure to install Omnirom
1. I unlocked the bootloader using Sony's guide
2. Got root through towelroot
3. I installed TWRP, which seems to be recommend for the Xperia T, TWRP installed BusyBox Free (no idea what this does, but TWRP recommended installing this.
This is as far as I got. The problem I have is that I don't have access to the internal SDcard (my phone does not have a removable sdcard) when connected via USB to my computer.
The internal SD Card does not appear as 'mass storage' in my windows explorer, nor does the phone give me the option to access the internal sdcard as a storage device.
Therefore I cannot copy the Omnirom zip and the GAPPS to the internal sdcard.
I'm stuck here. I tried searching the web, but got no solution.
Anybody who give me a little help here?

I think you can mount the SD-card from TWRP, then you can access it from your computer. Not a TWRP user myself, but that's how it works from CWM
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Going into -> TWRP -> Settings -> Storage Info
I have 2 options:
- External storage location
- USB-OTG location
What is what? And where should they point to?
Currently they are set to:
- External storage location: /storaga/sdcard0/media
- USB-OTG location: /storage/sdcard0
I can see the contents of the 'sdcard' but have no idea what to mount where.....

Seems right.
USB OTG is when you plug in a usb stick to your phone. So pretty unimportant.
Why cant you download the Omni zip with your phone?

WhiteNeo said:
Seems right.
USB OTG is when you plug in a usb stick to your phone. So pretty unimportant.
Why cant you download the Omni zip with your phone?
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Pluging the usb cable in the phone and pc doesn't seem to do anything. Windows Explorer doesn't show the internal memory card as a storage device, so I cannot transfer the Omni.zip
Pluging the usb cable in the phone also doesn't charge my phone ...
Even PC Companion doesn't find my phone. It keep searching and searching but doesn't find it.

Dinobe said:
Pluging the usb cable in the phone and pc doesn't seem to do anything. Windows Explorer doesn't show the internal memory card as a storage device, so I cannot transfer the Omni.zip
Pluging the usb cable in the phone also doesn't charge my phone ...
Even PC Companion doesn't find my phone. It keep searching and searching but doesn't find it.
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If you have ADB drivers installed (from the Flashtools folder, for instance), you can access your entire phone through ADB while in recovery. Mounting USB storage to transfer files between TWRP and my PC has never worked for me; it has worked on CWM though, although I haven't used that method in ages since I prefer ADB.

Antiga Prime said:
If you have ADB drivers installed (from the Flashtools folder, for instance), you can access your entire phone through ADB while in recovery. Mounting USB storage to transfer files between TWRP and my PC has never worked for me; it has worked on CWM though, although I haven't used that method in ages since I prefer ADB.
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Ok, I didn't manage to get ADB working on Win8, but got it running on Elementary OS
Let's investigate how to transfer files via ADB....

Dinobe said:
Ok, I didn't manage to get ADB working on Win8, but got it running on Elementary OS
Let's investigate how to transfer files via ADB....
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adb push computer/file/path device/file/path

WhiteNeo said:
adb push computer/file/path device/file/path
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Ok, I managed to get the omni rom .zip and gapps.zip to the sdcard using the adb push command.
I tried to install this via TWRP and select the zip file. Unfortunately when selecting 'reboot to recovery' in TWRP nothing seems to happen. The phone reboots, Sony and Xperia logo appear and the phone just starts as normal....
I can't get the phone into recovery. I tried to push the volume up, volume down, holding the volume up/down, push repeatingly .... etc nothing seems to work...

Some more info
- I verified that I'm root
- I reinstalled TWRP
- I downloaded and installed the recovery image in TWRP (for the xperia t this is 'mint')
- I tried other recovery tools such as Clockworkmod, but my device is no supported
- I tried 'Quickboot tool' to get into recovery, doesn't make any difference....
What am I missing?

I forgot to thank everybody who helped me out on this.
I managed to get access to the sd card, push customs roms (CM10 an CM11) and flash my phone. Unfortunately nothing helped fixing my Xperia T reboot problem. I flashed it back to the original Sony rom and returned it to the shop, up to 3 weeks without phone....