Hi.
I'm ashamed that I'm writing this. I thought I knew how to do stuff.
I've bought a new Galaxy Tab S8+ and I want to transfer my apps, app data and user files from my old tablet (Lenovo, Nougat) to my new S8 device
Samsung smart switch seems to be shockingly useless. Using either Wifi or cable, the tablets will not stay connected for the transfer to occur. Play Store doesn't offer to install the app data obviously. And Google backup doesn't have an option to restore. I'm flummoxed.
Does anyone have any ideas/recommendations for the best way to do this please.
Do you have a USB-C thumb drive or an expansion card that you could send the smart switch info to, and then plug or place that card or drive in the new device and restore from it? That would avoid any connection problem and is usually quicker.
Katmeat said:
Do you have a USB-C thumb drive or an expansion card that you could send the smart switch info to, and then plug or place that card or drive in the new device and restore from it? That would avoid any connection problem and is usually quicker.
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Thanks for the reply. Yes, I have a USB C thumb drive. Couldn't see an option to transfer to that type of storage though. Only Wifi or cable. I'll have another look when I've calmed down. This sort of thing should be straight forward!
When you open the app the first screen will ask if you want to send data or receive data, and at the top of the screen is a little sd card icon. select that and it will guide you to back up your data and apps to an sd card.
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HI, I was wondering if there is a way that I can find software that will install on my phone that I can connect to any computer. I would like to use the 8 gig sd micro for a portable hard drive storage. But there are some places that will not let me install actvsync. But it will let me charge the phone on the USB port. I travel a lot and would like to just transfer files without email
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HI, I was wondering if there is a way that I can find software that will install on my phone that I can connect to any computer. I would like to use the 8 gig sd micro for a portable hard drive storage. But there are some places that will not let me install actvsync. But it will let me charge the phone on the USB port. I travel a lot and would like to just transfer files without email
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Try Card Export II (you can demo it, before you pay).
There are free versions of other Mass Storage app's but seem to have problems with the Kaiser.
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Dave
hi why don't u use usb2pc? the pc will think your phone (micro sdcard) is an external harddisk.
How do I connect my phone to my computer? I prefer charging via my computer (not sure if recommend) and it would be nice to be able to put music and pictures on via my iMac (running newest version of Lion). I don't have an SD card, so maybe it's just not picking it up cause I don't have one?
But I downloaded the Android app, which says it requires Android 3.0 or higher, but I tried it and it just crashes whenever my phone is plugged in.
I don't understand the way the memory is done on this phone, why does it have "usb memory" and why does it have to load every time I turn the phone on?
Why isn't it all just phone memory? To me thats basically "you have 2GB for phone stuff, the rest is just for music and picture". Can you put apps on there? and phone stuff?
craiigman said:
How do I connect my phone to my computer? I prefer charging via my computer (not sure if recommend) and it would be nice to be able to put music and pictures on via my iMac (running newest version of Lion). I don't have an SD card, so maybe it's just not picking it up cause I don't have one?
But I downloaded the Android app, which says it requires Android 3.0 or higher, but I tried it and it just crashes whenever my phone is plugged in.
I don't understand the way the memory is done on this phone, why does it have "usb memory" and why does it have to load every time I turn the phone on?
Why isn't it all just phone memory? To me thats basically "you have 2GB for phone stuff, the rest is just for music and picture". Can you put apps on there? and phone stuff?
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To Connect iMac with android, I recommend you androidfiletransfer (you Can find it on the web)
Difficult to explain the storage system of android but "sd card" is for internal storage while the common sd card is indicated as "external_sd"
norge-xda said:
To Connect iMac with android, I recommend you androidfiletransfer (you Can find it on the web)
Difficult to explain the storage system of android but "sd card" is for internal storage while the common sd card is indicated as "external_sd"
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Like I said in my post. It says it requires 3.0 or higher. Note runs 2.6.3 so can't use it.
craiigman said:
Like I said in my post. It says it requires 3.0 or higher. Note runs 2.6.3 so can't use it.
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Sounds odd to me, given that I have Note too.
Other way could be to install kies for mac, even though I read somewhere that the last version doesn't recognize Note.
The fact is that I used to have kies for mac on my macbook but I uninstalled it and the note is still recognized as usb storage (when I connect Note to usb, I need to connect the Note by clicking on "connect" on the notification window).
Does usb icon appear on your notification bar?
Other possible problem could be Lion, I use snowleopard so I can't say if the problem is due to the new iOSX.
Bytheway, just to answer your other question: no, it's preferrable to charge Note via domestic plug. The charger is 1A, specifically for Note
norge-xda said:
Sounds odd to me, given that I have Note too.
Other way could be to install kies for mac, even though I read somewhere that the last version doesn't recognize Note.
The fact is that I used to have kies for mac on my macbook but I uninstalled it and the note is still recognized as usb storage (when I connect Note to usb, I need to connect the Note by clicking on "connect" on the notification window).
Does usb icon appear on your notification bar?
Other possible problem could be Lion, I use snowleopard so I can't say if the problem is due to the new iOSX.
Bytheway, just to answer your other question: no, it's preferrable to charge Note via domestic plug. The charger is 1A, specifically for Note
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There is a USB logo on the notification on my phone. And when I go into setting on my iMac it says connected android, but can't click on it from them. and it doesn't show anywhere else.
On my sisters android whenever I would connect it it would pop up with something on her phone choosing what mode to put the phone in. Not doing that on my one.
edit: I've downloaded Kies.. but isn't picking up my phone.
edit 2: Says it only works with certain phones
Try Airdroid if you're on the same network, it's a pretty awesome app.
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Why dont you just use the mass storage mode? Plug it in and the internal memory will show up like a usb drive on your desktop.
are you using mtp mode or have you selected usb debugging?
Hi all,
Got the s3 mini, no root, just plain stock. Running windows 7 on my pc, when I plug the s3 mini into pc via usb cable, the s3 mini shows up as a device rather than a drive, anyway to change this please ?
Reason is, I want to try and recover pictures I lost.
Try selecting the "camera" option.
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Tried that, just the same, thanks though
Somewhere I read that holding the home key while connecting with computer will solve this. . . .
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pitchblack5691 said:
Somewhere I read that holding the home key while connecting with computer will solve this. . . .
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Makes no difference, tried it on camera and media while holding home and connecting.
Thanks for trying
This is what I get when I hook the phone up to my computer while holding down Home while booted into Ubuntu:
Unable to mount Android
Error initializing camera: -60: Could not lock the device
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AFAIK you can't make the internal storage appear as a drive to the computer so that you can use programs to do recovery that needs low level access on the drive. That applies to most (all?) phones. The difference is that S3 mini doesn't even connect the external miniSD card as a drive to the computer, so you'll need to take it out, buy a card reader for 5 euros and connect it that way to the computer.
Ok, thanks. Its photos on the phone that are missing, done the sd card already. Looks like there gone now.
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AFAIK you can't make the internal storage appear as a drive to the computer so that you can use programs to do recovery that needs low level access on the drive. That applies to most (all?) phones. The difference is that S3 mini doesn't even connect the external miniSD card as a drive to the computer, so you'll need to take it out, buy a card reader for 5 euros and connect it that way to the computer.
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You are wrong.
Connect the phone with pc via usb and enable MTP way.
You can see internal AND external SD card
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Options - Additional settings (4 point from top) -USB settings - connect as drive
Or like what - my dev on russian interface - sorry for mistakes)
I have access to a 3D printer, and I was thinking of designing a case with a bare flash drive built in. If I cut one of the USB OTG cables down that allows usb and charging simultaneously and fit it in the case design would I be able to have the USB connected and still be able to charge? If that is a possibility, is there a way to trick Android into thinking that the USB drive is instead an SD card? If we could trick Android into thinking it was an SD card wouldn't we be able to merge the flash drive with the internal storage and increase the storage capacity of the phone? My other thought for this idea was using multirom, and just sticking a 256gb flash drive in the case and just booting off of that. Do either of these ideas sound like they would work well at all? I just have the 32gb model and it just isn't enough.
No. The phone will not charge while in USB host mode, if you try to just throw in voltage you'll burn out the flash drive and or damage your phones micro USB port.
You're multirom idea wasnt bad. But all multirom does is allow a system partition to be installed with an image to a flash drive, and then boot it from the flash drive. It still reads data cache and such off your devices partition.
How are you using your storage? I got use to the "no expandable storage" with my lg and Galaxy Nexus.
Are you encrypted? Unencrypt your phone, you'll save 1.5-2gbs of storage capacity. Use Google photos to backup your photos and videos in HD quality and have it delete files after backup. Do you flash roms? Go through your android/data and Android/obb folders and delete everything related to apps you don't use.
It's not a bad idea to backup music/photos/videos to a PC, then wipe internal storage and restore all the photos and such. You would be amazed at how much storage our phones will use that you can't find and delete without digging around.
Deleted as apparently useless...
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No. The phone will not charge while in USB host mode, if you try to just throw in voltage you'll burn out the flash drive and or damage your phones micro USB port.
You're multirom idea wasnt bad. But all multirom does is allow a system partition to be installed with an image to a flash drive, and then boot it from the flash drive. It still reads data cache and such off your devices partition.
How are you using your storage? I got use to the "no expandable storage" with my lg and Galaxy Nexus.
Are you encrypted? Unencrypt your phone, you'll save 1.5-2gbs of storage capacity. Use Google photos to backup your photos and videos in HD quality and have it delete files after backup. Do you flash roms? Go through your android/data and Android/obb folders and delete everything related to apps you don't use.
It's not a bad idea to backup music/photos/videos to a PC, then wipe internal storage and restore all the photos and such. You would be amazed at how much storage our phones will use that you can't find and delete without digging around.
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I am un-encrypted so I do have that little bit of extra space. I have a lot of music on my phone for listening in the car. LTE is spotty where I live, so streaming isn't a great option. I was under the impression that with a modified kernel it is possible to charge and access a device at the same time. Doesn't the nexus 7 have a kernel that allows that? If that is in fact possible is there a way to trick android into thinking that it's an sd card instead of a flash drive?
This is one such kernel for the nexus 7
https://mehrvarz.github.io/usb-host-mode-power-management-nexus7/
I think my solution my work great if there is a kernel that works with charging and we could get the USB to integrate.
Encryption takes up more space?
Code:
adb shell sm set-force-adoptable true
lets you use any external storage device as adoptable storage letting you use a OTG drive as internal storage. Could've just been my drive but it stalled at 20% for a couple minutes, mighta finished but my OTG adapter is kinda flaky and lost connection. After a bit of reading I've learned it might be since my phone isn't encrypted and adoptable storage is encrypted by default.
Also from what I understand about OTG things is that you CANNOT charge the phone while it's connection with OTG even wirelessly.
Though with the N6 having USB 2.0 it'll likely be very very slow.
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StykerB said:
Code:
adb shell sm set-force-adoptable true
lets you use any external storage device as adoptable storage letting you use a OTG drive as internal storage. Could've just been my drive but it stalled at 20% for a couple minutes, mighta finished but my OTG adapter is kinda flaky and lost connection. After a bit of reading I've learned it might be since my phone isn't encrypted and adoptable storage is encrypted by default.
Also from what I understand about OTG things is that you CANNOT charge the phone while it's connection with OTG even wirelessly.
Though with the N6 having USB 2.0 it'll likely be very very slow.
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Awesome!! Thank you. I'll do some tinkering maybe this weekend to see what I can come up with. That was exactly what I was looking for as far as adoptable storage!
EDIT: I ran the adb command you gave me through terminal emulator on the phone itself after giving it root access. All 3 flash drives I tried integrated with my internal storage just phone. All 3 were 32gb usb 3.0, but each was a different brand. I built a custom "y" cable, but you can buy them on Amazon. I'm talking with a kernel developer and it seems it is possible to charge the phone at the same time. Both the nexus 4 and 2013 nexus 7 have custom kernels that allow what's called USB OTG Host mode that allows the device to charge and use a USB device at the same time. From what I can tell it's a kernel module that needs to be added. For the nexus 4 it was just a zip file that patched whatever kernel you were currently using. I don't have a lot of experience with compiling kernels, but I'll try and find out what needs to be done and fire my Ubuntu box up.
Hi, but is it possible that our phone can not yet add an external card with otg and make it internal memory to increase the phone memory?
I always have full memory, and I can not take pictures or download apps that I must first delete something, all this is nonsense!
The moto x2 is still a very good and performing phone, but is limited by memory, can SD format as internal memory with a workaround? I do not believe that nobody has yet succeeded, let me know !
Most likely not. I'm assuming you have the 16gb one like me. Transfer videos to a computer, those take up a ridiculous amount of space. Also download SDMaid. That'll clean up some space as well. Go into storage and see what's taking up the space and report back.
Make all of your pictures automatically back up to Google Drive/Photos, that relieves a lot of space.
My personal experience and a guide for using a USB otg as internal storage
Dear tanohack,
I ran into the same storage issue a while back and now I have a small micro usb stick configured as adoptable storage. My phone is not rooted (and you need Android 6.0 to perform this). This guide specifically covers how to transfer apps to an USB stick and how to use the stick is internal storage. If you only intend to store music or media on the stick this is not necessary.
tldr: It is indeed possible to have a USB configured as internal storage with a simple ADB command, possibly a great solution to your problem. This can, however, reduce the performance of intensive games on the stick, and it could be cumbersome to carry the stick around.
How to enable the adoption of an usb stick
It is possible to adopt an usb without root, but this is not enabled by default. This is primarily meant for developers to test their apps, but we can use it as well.
To enable it, you only have to perform the following ADB command once:
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adb shell sm set-force-adoptable true
This is officially mentioned here, but I found it either on Pockednow or Android Central.
If you don't already have ADB you can follow this guide to set it up
The two storage modes and their tradeoffs
When you adopt your external storage medium (the USB in our case) you can choose to ether, only store specific apps (Use as portable storage), or to move your whole storage over to the stick (Use as internal storage). Both options have their pros and cons.
First off, the apps only version. When you use this, only apps could be moved over to the USB. System apps and apps that have disabled it can't be moved over. For all other apps, go to their storage info in the settings to manage their location. If you were to remove the USB stick the apps will disappear from your app drawer and the icons on your home screen will get grayed out.
The downside of this mode is that large games have stored a lot of their data in obb files that stay on your device, even if you move the game itself over to the USB. Your pictures, videos and music files will also stay on your device.
So, how about the second mode? In the second mode, the complete filesystem will be transferred over to the USB, even those obb files. Individual apps can still be moved between the USB and the phone (system apps etc. still stay on your phone).
Great no storage problems anymore, but what are the cons?
First of, I noticed some reduced performance mainly when loading a large game, and while playing an intensive game the frame rate could be a bit more inconsistent.
The biggest con of this mode, however, is that you don't have a file system if the USB is removed. Most apps will still work as natural but the main drawback is that you can't take pictures or videos without the USB. So if you see a cool shot, and you don't have your USB attached, you have to reattach the stick and wait for it to check and recognise it. This could take anywhere from 3 to 15 seconds.
Battery life
For some reason the phone doesn't enter deep sleep and stays awake when the screen is off while the USB is attached. This means that you can't keep the USB connected all the time or you won't be able to reach the end of the day.[/HIDE]
The USB I personally used
I use a 32GB Transcend Jetflash USB stick. It is a fairly small USB stick that can plug directly into my phone. It does however get warm while using it. As I described earlier, the performance could be better but an USB connection simply can't compete with onboard storage, so it's probably not their fault. I assume every USB storage will be this fast.
How I use it at the moment
At first I went all in and and used the USB as internal storage. When I went on holiday I converted to the Portable storage mode to regain the ability to take pictures at a moment's notice. Since then, I haven't moved back. Because only not frequently used apps are located on the USB and I use them even less often because they're on the stick, I haven't used the USB much lately.
miscellaneous
I use Storage Shortcut in combination with Custom Quick Settings to get a handy shortcut to the storage settings in the quick settings.
I use Memory Map application to manually clean my memory few times a year. A lot of apps leave some trash in folders and this app visualizes very well sizes and structure of folders. For example, I found out that Telegram stores all old media files and I needed to turn on auto-clean in Telegram to avoid it. Some apps just keep this garbage on your disk and you just need to delete it manually.