Mount storage to PC as MASS STORAGE? - Galaxy Tab 8.9 General

Hello.
is there any way to connect the tablet as mass storage?
now when i connect it connets as portable device, without a drive letter assigned to it
i need it to be with a drive letter. so some recovery programs would be able to see it (i did it once with other devices that whre before HC)
i tried a few applications that didn't work...
i also tried some recovery apps but wasnt that successfull..
anyway - my best option is mount as mass storage (not MTP or PTP)
would appriciate any help
thank

Android has not supported mass storage for awhile now. So no, you can't
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jd1639 said:
Android has not supported mass storage for awhile now. So no, you can't
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yeah... i figured it out...
anyway i found a few programs that can accessthe phone while its connected to the PC i guess through ADB, it found some stuff but wasnt that helpful..
i gave up on that..
i learned my lesson and setted the tab to backup everything to the cloud..
thanks anyway

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CM9 Galaxy Note Nightly - USB Mount

I have installed the latest nightly for my galaxy note and I can't mount properly my storage. The USB prompt doesnt come up on the notification drawer.. Any ideas?
When plugging in your phone into usb, just go to settings-->Applications-->Development and check the USB debugging .If you can't mount SD Card and your pc doesn't recognise it then Your USB is bricked .. There is a tutorial on the forums that will help you with that : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=691187
That's a known issue with CM, unfortunately. There are apps on the market that allow you to mount storage, although I use Airdroid.
Since using this I don't even care about the issue
eug3n91 said:
Since using this I don't even care about the issue
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Argh.. Are the devs aware of this? They need to fix it Also the phone randomly shuts off when the performance option is selected in the performance options..
Go to, setting> developer options and tick the usb debugging
Now go to settings> storage and press the menu key and choose the usb computer connection and tick the mass storage
Now you have the option of usb debugging in your notification when you connect your device to computer
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danteoo7 said:
Go to, setting> developer options and tick the usb debugging
Now go to settings> storage and press the menu key and choose the usb computer connection and tick the mass storage
Now you have the option of usb debugging in your notification when you connect your device to computer
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Thanks for your advise, but it does not work at all... :crying:
The funny thing is that is used to work after installation of the nightley build 2 days ago. But suddendly it stopped working...
Even a re-install of the the older (or newer build) does not bring it back... :-(
Any other ideas?
With kind regards
Joe
Use multi mount SD card app from Google play it working fine
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danteoo7 said:
Use multi mount SD card app from Google play it working fine
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Hmmm, the recent comments from users in Google Play (on the ad-version and the paid one) are very negative, and explicitly say that it does not work (anymore?) on CM9...
But I will give it a try today evening...
With kind regards
Joe
I am using Multi mount and its working fine
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[Q] ADB pull /sdcard not working?

hey
I've a question I try to save the data of a friends phone whos screen is broken and dont respond.
Everytime I use
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adb pull /sdcard/ C:\Android
it responds with
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pull: building file list...
0 files pulled. 0 files skipped.
What do I wrong??
Thanks for your replies
Does really nobody know it?
Or does anybody have a solution the save data from a phone which screen is broken (black) and touch screen doesn't work either and last but not least usb debugging isn't enabled.
Without USB debugging enabled, you can't connect trough adb, try doing "adb devices", wich will probably show nothing, what means that you can't use adb.
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I've rooted the phone blind and in the recovery my pc shows the device in the list, status = recovery.
Oh okay, then try to mount sdcard and try again, if that doesn't work, try to unmount it again and try again.
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thank you very much for your replie, i tried it with my phone (i9000) and it worked
the problem is that my friend has a Galaxy S3 and i don't know the structure of CWM 5.5...
Well there isn't that much difference between the cwm versions, if you look at it it almost explaines itself
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there are some diffrentes between the versions and because i don't see what i do, it's very important to know in which order the things are coming
At the moment the situation is the following:
All the data on the sd got erased (i dont know when), but i have now access to the sd over the pc. The problem is that the S3 doesnt support usb mass storage which means that recuva etc to restore the files wont work.
Are there any other ways to restore the data or to activate usb mass storage?
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not unless you have a TitaniumBackup...if you have CWM 6.0.1.0 mounting USB storage option is in recovery itself
also i have no intention of high jacking this thread but off late i am facing certain weird issues with adb myself Error mounting SDcard
My dont have a TitaniumBackup but that is anyway useless cause he need his pictures etc. Do you have read the whole thread? Because at the moment the problem is that i cant restore the data from the erased sd card cause windows dont detect the Galaxy S3 as a Usb mass storage. And because the screen is broken I also cant try a solution from xda ^^
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Well, the data on your sdcard is gone, if adb won't recognize it. But what files do you want from your sdcard? 'cause when you only need the pictures, it might be auto-uploaded on dropbox or google drive etc
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I think you missunderstood ^^ first the pictures arent uploaded to dropbox etc. And the problem first was that i couldnt get access to the data cause he had a pin to unlock which i cant tip in without screen. After flashing a 3 file fw the pin was gone and i could access the data. Unfortunality it also formated the whole SD.
The same Problem happend to my phone and i could restore my data with the program called "Recuva".
The problem now is that the S3 don't have a USB Mass Storage like the S1 and the PC dont detect it as a hard drive so Recuva wont recognize it either
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Well you can always buy a USB stick with sdcard availability, or use another phone with that sdcard to wich does have mass storage enabled.
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The problem is, i need the data from this Phone. Accidently it formated the whole internal memory on which everything was (Music, Pictures etc.).
With a Tool called Recuva you can restore deleted files. But Recuva doesn't recognizes the Galaxy S3. Because Galaxy S3 don't have Mass Storage anymore, I thought Samsungs uses now MTP or something like this. And now i need a Tool or something to restore everything from the formated internal SD.
Try searching for that on google.
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I did for nearly 5 hours
you're my last hope
All wouldn't be a problem if the screen would work or if my friend enabled usb debugging
Is there any possibility to get into recovery mode and flash a Rom? If yes, you could use a Stockrom with a modified build.prop so USB debugging would be enabled.
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Usb debugging dont matter at the moment cause all files are deleted! I need a tool to restore a formated sd
KUN1 said:
Usb debugging dont matter at the moment cause all files are deleted! I need a tool to restore a formated sd
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I don't know if that's possible, sorry
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KUN1 said:
Usb debugging dont matter at the moment cause all files are deleted! I need a tool to restore a formated sd
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Okay nevermind, it's possible, but to recover the files you need something to pare your sdcard to your PC, do you have any other phone or a USB stick with a sdcard slot?
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[ROM][CM10.1][JB][4.2.2][SGT7][P1000/N/L/CDMA][OpenPDroid][20130315]

Hi All,
I'm newbie to this area and I just flashing my P1000 into CM10.1 with JB 4.2.2. Everything is work fine for me and I love the PDroid Manager function very much too!
The only problem that I encountered now is the USB mass storage function. When i plug in the USB cable into desktop computer, it only shows external SD card drive but internal SD card drive shows nothing whereby lots of data were stored into internal SD card.
Does anyone help to enlightening me on how to get back to live for my internal SD card drive?
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
littlejohn799
littlejohn799 said:
Hi All,
I'm newbie to this area and I just flashing my P1000 into CM10.1 with JB 4.2.2. Everything is work fine for me and I love the PDroid Manager function very much too!
The only problem that I encountered now is the USB mass storage function. When i plug in the USB cable into desktop computer, it only shows external SD card drive but internal SD card drive shows nothing whereby lots of data were stored into internal SD card.
Does anyone help to enlightening me on how to get back to live for my internal SD card drive?
Thanks in advance!
Regards,
littlejohn799
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Try to disable and re-enable the mass storage.
The error should only occur after the boot.
Bye. Paolo.
alessandronip said:
Try to disable and re-enable the mass storage.
The error should only occur after the boot.
Bye. Paolo.
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Hi Paolo,
Thanks for your advice. However, I tried to disable & re-enable the mass storage under storage - USB computer connection still can't solve my problem as computer keep asking to "insert a disk" when I click the internal SD card drive.
Any idea?
Thanks.
hi all,
after reset all setting to default factory setting, the internal SD card mass storage issue had been settled. Thanks for your concern and advice.
regards,
littleJohn
hi there,
i installed the rom is its fine, but i cant connect it to my pc ..
I researched the problem already and a solution should be to dial *#7284# into the dialpad and enter some kind of menu... but it doesn´t happen for me :<
anyone an idea ?
appreciate it
Corey- said:
hi there,
i installed the rom is its fine, but i cant connect it to my pc ..
I researched the problem already and a solution should be to dial *#7284# into the dialpad and enter some kind of menu... but it doesn´t happen for me :<
anyone an idea ?
appreciate it
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Connect to your PC?
You are not being clear.
You connect it using the USB cable.
If you meant to say the PC can't detect it, you still have to tell in what way, as storage, in Odin, etc, etc?
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priyana said:
Connect to your PC?
You are not being clear.
You connect it using the USB cable.
If you meant to say the PC can't detect it, you still have to tell in what way, as storage, in Odin, etc, etc?
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yeah, im connecting it to my pc and it doesnt appear in windows as mass storage
hardware manager shows "7 CDC´s" as a missing driver ..
and i figured i have to enter some kind of menu, dialing *#7284# into dialpad to reset the usb settings of the tablet
but the menu doesnt appear if i dial the number ..
Corey- said:
yeah, im connecting it to my pc and it doesnt appear in windows as mass storage
hardware manager shows "7 CDC´s" as a missing driver ..
and i figured i have to enter some kind of menu, dialing *#7284# into dialpad to reset the usb settings of the tablet
but the menu doesnt appear if i dial the number ..
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Have you set Fast Charger?
If set can not use mass storage.
Bye. Paolo.
alessandronip said:
Have you set Fast Charger?
If set can not use mass storage.
Bye. Paolo.
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fast charge is off
Hi All,
Same problem comes back again after I've done factory reset to my GT-P1000. Besides this, I discover that the radio keeps telling me no service but I still can access my mail using mobile data network (not WiFi).
Other than these, my GT-P1000 will reboot itself automatically. Please be informed that I did flashing this from original GB to this ROM directly.
Is there any advice can be taken? I don't wish keep factory resetting my GT-P1000 in order to access the internal SD again.
Another issue need to find out is how to switch the picture storage location from internal SD to external SD after camera snapped?
Please help, thanks!
Regards,
littleJohn

[Q] Enable Mass Storage

Hello,
I'm wondering if there is a way for my Samsung Galaxy S III Mini to show as a mass storage device when I connect it to my computer? At the moment it displays as a "portable device" and it seems that a lot of synchronisation software and other tools aren't compatible with this method. Instead I've had to resort to removing the SD card each time I want to use any of these tools. I'll even be willing to change rom if it will resolve the problem.
Thanks,
Concrete Donkey said:
Hello,
I'm wondering if there is a way for my Samsung Galaxy S III Mini to show as a mass storage device when I connect it to my computer? At the moment it displays as a "portable device" and it seems that a lot of synchronisation software and other tools aren't compatible with this method. Instead I've had to resort to removing the SD card each time I want to use any of these tools. I'll even be willing to change rom if it will resolve the problem.
Thanks,
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Make sure you have installed Samsung drivers, get it from here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2038555
Samsung drivers doesn't change MTP to Mass Storage. Only CM10 has a Mass Storage system. You can try it.
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[Q] Z Lost my video files... need to assign drive letter??

Hi Guys,
Am pretty annoyed right now. At a wedding last night I recorded a number of videos on my XZ. First recording of the night numbered *003.MP4 and last one was *021.MP4.
Looked at my gallery earlier to discover that files 03 - 010.mp4 are missing, and I have older videos 001 and 002.MP4 followed by 011 to 021.MP4. Couldn't figure out why the other 8 videos are missing as they were recorded in exactly the same was at the later videos (stored on internal storage), so decided to try data recovery.
Minefield. I installed MyJad Data Recovery For Android which it turns out is shareware. Installed for free and it thankfully shows the missing files, along with their respective filesizes. Promising start, but unable to restore through the app without purchase. Since this didn't happen through user error and I already have [email protected] installed I'm reluctant to spend money on this...
In order to use [email protected] or any other free software I've found (Stellar Phoenix Recovery looks good) I need to have a drive letter assigned to perform the recovery. Unable to do so as I have trawled the internet for hours and it seems there is no way to assign a drive letter to the internal storage of the phone (Portable device only, does not show in disk management)
I decided to go down the route of imaging the internal storage in order to mount it as a drive using daemon tools and try to recover it from there but am also having no luck being able to make a full image.
My Z is rooted and running original firmware with locked bootloader. Does anyone know of any free software I can use to either mount the internal with a drive letter, image it, or of data recovery software (Windows 7 or android based) that can scan a portable media device?
I know I can switch from MTP to MSC but Sony have tied access to the external SD only so the internal storage cannot be accessed in this way. Also the filesystem is NTFS so Undelete for Root doesn't work as it supports FAT only
K
kao_u20i said:
Hi Guys,
Am pretty annoyed right now. At a wedding last night I recorded a number of videos on my XZ. First recording of the night numbered *003.MP4 and last one was *021.MP4.
Looked at my gallery earlier to discover that files 03 - 010.mp4 are missing, and I have older videos 001 and 002.MP4 followed by 011 to 021.MP4. Couldn't figure out why the other 8 videos are missing as they were recorded in exactly the same was at the later videos (stored on internal storage), so decided to try data recovery.
Minefield. I installed MyJad Data Recovery For Android which it turns out is shareware. Installed for free and it thankfully shows the missing files, along with their respective filesizes. Promising start, but unable to restore through the app without purchase. Since this didn't happen through user error and I already have [email protected] installed I'm reluctant to spend money on this...
In order to use [email protected] or any other free software I've found (Stellar Phoenix Recovery looks good) I need to have a drive letter assigned to perform the recovery. Unable to do so as I have trawled the internet for hours and it seems there is no way to assign a drive letter to the internal storage of the phone (Portable device only, does not show in disk management)
I decided to go down the route of imaging the internal storage in order to mount it as a drive using daemon tools and try to recover it from there but am also having no luck being able to make a full image.
My Z is rooted and running original firmware with locked bootloader. Does anyone know of any free software I can use to either mount the internal with a drive letter, image it, or of data recovery software (Windows 7 or android based) that can scan a portable media device?
I know I can switch from MTP to MSC but Sony have tied access to the external SD only so the internal storage cannot be accessed in this way. Also the filesystem is NTFS so Undelete for Root doesn't work as it supports FAT only
K
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Even if you do mount internal storage in MSC, it's still going to be an ext3 partition.
I would recommend you try hexamob recovery to recover the lost files.
This free version is capable of recovering files.
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Also if connected to pc can scan with recuva free tool.
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xchasa said:
Also if connected to pc can scan with recuva free tool.
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There is no recovery software that can work over MTP without direct access to the filesystem.
However, here is a method to extract the internal memory to a file and use data recovery software on that:
http://www.alliance-rom.com/community/wiki/recover-deleted-files/ (It's at the end)
Strange. I lost my whole Downloads folder on phone, plugged in to pc after changing file transfer setting in Xperia settings, and recovered 95% of my stuff using recuva.
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xchasa said:
Strange. I lost my whole Downloads folder on phone, plugged in to pc after changing file transfer setting in Xperia settings, and recovered 95% of my stuff using recuva.
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That's probably because it was your external memory card mounted in MSC mode and not the internal one.
kgs1992 said:
That's probably because it was your external memory card mounted in MSC mode and not the internal one.
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Thought Downloads was on internal mate? I remember it not working first time, then changed a setting and it restored.
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Thought Downloads was on internal mate? I remember it not working first time, then changed a setting and it restored.
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I've set my downloads to external
If you did do it, what would be more helpful is how you did it, not what you did.
kgs1992 said:
I've set my downloads to external
If you did do it, what would be more helpful is how you did it, not what you did.
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Used this.
http://www.piriform.com/recuva
Had Usb debugging on.
Played with the settings in Xperia/Usb connection.
Searched for lost file by name (Downloads)with recuva on internal sd and restored to c drive. Went through and deleted any corrupted files and copied back to phone.
Can't remember if I was rooted or exactly what setting I chose though.
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[Hi all, thank you for your suggestions. Tried Hexamob but not possible. Recuva seems to be the way forward for most but I had no luck with it. I'd already installed it and uninstalled it prior to posting about the problem, but reinstalled to give it another chance. I used the wizard (you have to specify a drive with an assigned letter in standard/advanced) and in the wizard I chose to search portable media but I get the following error;
"No drives were scanned, because none matches with the filter"
Couldn't 'search a specific location' as due to no drive letter it didn't show...
Found the following which has been invaluable so far.... I have created an image and assigned it a drive letter - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1994705
Initial recovery using Recuva has been patchy - the file sizes are small and there's not much content for each video.... but my quest continues. At the very least I now have a full internal memory dump, that's a huge leap in progress I can stop falling asleep on my laptop now and relax a bit!
kao_u20i said:
[Hi all, thank you for your suggestions. Tried Hexamob but not possible. Recuva seems to be the way forward for most but I had no luck with it. I'd already installed it and uninstalled it prior to posting about the problem, but reinstalled to give it another chance. I used the wizard (you have to specify a drive with an assigned letter in standard/advanced) and in the wizard I chose to search portable media but I get the following error;
"No drives were scanned, because none matches with the filter"
Couldn't 'search a specific location' as due to no drive letter it didn't show...
Found the following which has been invaluable so far.... I have created an image and assigned it a drive letter - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1994705
Initial recovery using Recuva has been patchy - the file sizes are small and there's not much content for each video.... but my quest continues. At the very least I now have a full internal memory dump, that's a huge leap in progress I can stop falling asleep on my laptop now and relax a bit!
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Good to hear. Thanks for the link. Hope you were able to recover most of your data.

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