Fix:Enable Windows Explorer thumbnails by removing MTP permanently GS3(screenshots) - Galaxy S III General

Hi guys.
I inadvertently found this out by mistake when I have been trying to get my damn phone to even connect in Windows 7 64bit. Man it's been giving me the sh!ts.
I will quote my post from another thread on the forum. And see the evidence in the screenshot below.
It turns out that we don't even need MTP drivers to do any sort of transfer in Windows. What a load of bollocks we have all been fed.
My device manager shows no trace of MTP anywhere now (thankfully) and my Phone appears as a portable device like it should.
Enjoy and Merry Christmas
Jarmezrocks said:
Ok guys,
just updated to 4.3 and have had no end of issues with this MTP problem. I have searched for weeks for an answer and nothing worked that was suggested. I think I have done like 10 - 20 factory resets on this F%#*ing thing, and it was never the phone's problem in the first place, definitely a Windows problem in my case.
I tried a combo of things for my last try right this very minute and I have success.
I searched for the MTP driver in the registry. Note: Make a backup....I didn't I f*%#ing hate this piece of sh!t so I went ahead and deleted it. You can do as you please though, I am mighty angry so I didn't care.
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Class\{EEC5AD98-8080-425F-922A-DABF3DE3F69A}
Instead of looking for upper filters I removed it totally
I had to change permissions on that object to do so, then inside permissions take ownership and tick child keys and subkeys
Uncheck inherit from parent
If it pops up a dialog pops up choose add from the options
You will have to do this for several tabs in this permissions of the registry. Once you delete this, unplug your phone and plug it back in again. You will get the warning of failed MTP drivers as I did.
Now go to Device Manager and instead of uninstalling the failed MTP driver yellow Icon, this time scroll down a little further to another section that says ADB Device. (See attached picture Fix_MTP_Error1.png)Now click uninstall on that driver, check the box that says "Would you like to delete this driver" click yes. Let it remove.
When it is removed a Windows pop up Warning appears telling you you need to reboot. Don't reboot. ignore it. Look down at the system Tray and you will see your little installing driver swirly thing doing it's business for once.
When it finishes, Open explorer and you will notice another thing different. Your device will be sitting in My Computer, however it will have a new Icon and it will now say Portable Device and NOT the device name like GT-I9305 in my case (See attached picture Fix_MTP_Error2.png)
At this point I clicked on it anyway cause it obviously registered something, right?
Yoooou beauty!!!!!!!!! Hoooraaaaaaah Merry Christmas too me! Merry Christmas too me!!!!
What you will notice however is that the name that you thought disappeared is still there as the device label when you check in the address bar See attached picture Fix_MTP_Error3.png
Edit: By the way, the device name I just noticed now corresponds to the name that is put in as the name of the device when you are in the setup wizard when you first boot up; unlike before it retained the same device name as 4.1.2 just plain GT-I9305 and no full device name, I called mine James' GT-I9305
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Jarmezrocks said:
Guys..... you are not going to believe this!!!!
Check it out. I now have Explorer enabled thumbnails. Man MTP was pissing me off for months when I first got this thing. Do you know how debilitating this is when you don't know what image is what saved on your SDcard. Man it's frustrating.
Hope your guys like this solution it works well :victory::victory::victory:
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Some other benefits I am just noticing is that I can now transfer files with the screen completely locked. No need to have the device stay away for 10-20min. Transfer speeds are now super fast and no more pop up errors asking if I still want to transfer the file even if the device doesn't recognise this format. All that BS is gone.
You can now permanently organise your files like you would in Windows Explorer. No more track title, Track number and Rating [email protected] in the attributes section either.
All right click explorer context menus are standard menus.
I will take more screenshots later
I am a very happy camper now

I now no longer have ANY drivers what so ever try to load in the taskbar when i connect my phone. My phone is available instantly. I can also copy multiple files at the same time into different parts of my SDcard and not get the 'Device is busy' error.
More and more things to suggest that MTP is a crock of sh!t that Micro$oft and $am$ung want us to believe to support DRM. Thats what all this is about, it's got nothing to do with what ever BS they have fed us.
Man what a revelation.
I have figured out why this has all happened to each and everyone of us. When we pug in our devices, Windows detects that it is an MTP device, Remember all those Galaxy S2 users out there where we used to have UMS Mass storage and then a few updates came and we were forced to go MTP again. Well that is only programatically in the Android interface telling Windows we need to have an MTP driver.....BEFORE Googles ADB driver can be loaded. Once the MTP device is flagged, MTP drivers are loaded and different ADB driver is loaded instead of the Google one....the one that enables all the traditional Windows Explorer like functions on the device. Nothings changed is what I am saying, only our belief that we NEED to run MTP drivers.
Removing the registry entry for the whole MTP driver meant that it can no longer be called to load no matter what. At least it is failing for a reason I say. Now the second part where you are asked to reboot to unload the driver.....that part there is a complete lie told to our faces. What that is is a white lie. A lie we believe most of the time. What it means is that yes we need to reboot to unload and reload "their drivers" and we click yes, because the Google ADB driver never gets to finish installing. Clicking no allowed the original proper driver to load and register. Once registered, I now no longer am asked to install any sort of drivers. When ever I plug in my phone it works straight away. Ever waited impatiently for 10min for the MTP driver to load? Yeah well not anymore. Force unload it, get rid of it, seyonara forever MTP!!!

Don't you loose access to the system internal card?

jfrm said:
Don't you loose access to the system internal card?
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Good question.. James can you access both memory card and phone sd in windows explorer when mtp is gone ?

btemtd said:
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Good question.. James can you access both memory card and phone sd in windows explorer when mtp is gone ?
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Surely can. I can actually access both even faster than ever before.
Why would I loose connection to the device internal storage? Has this been an issue for other people before?

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How Do you put ringtones on your Mytouch 4g?

Ive tried emailing myself ringtones but my phone tells me I do not have the right format. Can someone please tell me the correct format and how can I put my own ringtones I created, from my comp, to my My touch 4g??
Make a directory on your sdcard named "/media/audio/ringtones" and put all of your ringtones in there. Then go to sounds on your phone and look for them. It may take a second for the phone to update them so check again if they aren't there.
Also, when you plug your phone into your computer and it sets itself up as a disk drive the phone will revert to a stock ringtone until you unplug it. It can't read the sdcard to use the ringtone while it is plugged in and used as a disk drive.
Is it possible to copy the ringtone on the SD card and paste it in the system/media/ringtone to make it a default one?
So that way when you do plug the phone into the computer it won't default to stock ringtone?
nguyendqh said:
Is it possible to copy the ringtone on the SD card and paste it in the system/media/ringtone to make it a default one?
So that way when you do plug the phone into the computer it won't default to stock ringtone?
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You will have to be rooted in order to do that, and have something like Root Explorer to copy a file into /system.
Rooted, yes. It works fine after reboot. The plus side is media room won't discover those sounds. Any sound on the sd card no matter which folder you put it in (unless it's hidden), android system will show them in media app.
Swyped on my rooted MyTouch4G
I simply added a folder on my SD card and named it 'Ringtones'. I use an app called Rings Extended and use that as the default app to search and assign ringtones.
Root is NOT required to do it this way.
If you want to set your phone to default to 'Charge' when you plug it in and not 'Disk drive', just go to settings>connect to pc>default connection type>choose what default you want.
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Go to audiko.net on ur phone and download whatever u want. They all end up in your downloads folder, u can jus go move them later when Ur at home or stationary. I usually move them right after I download them to my ringtones folder(that I created of course), keeps things organized.
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grankin01 said:
Make a directory on your sdcard named "/media/audio/ringtones" and put all of your ringtones in there. Then go to sounds on your phone and look for them. It may take a second for the phone to update them so check again if they aren't there.
Also, when you plug your phone into your computer and it sets itself up as a disk drive the phone will revert to a stock ringtone until you unplug it. It can't read the sdcard to use the ringtone while it is plugged in and used as a disk drive.
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thanks alot. this fixed the problem for me.
ringtones for mytouch4g
Videotonez is really cool and works on the mytouch4g and its free
dweezy108 said:
thanks alot. this fixed the problem for me.
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no prob glad it worked
Alternatively, you can also make a folder in your sd card named media/audio/ringtones.. That works for me...
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Ok so you're screwed if ya wanna put a ringtone in the phone memory without rooting, right?
Just learning the android ropes now, coming from WinMo it's just so hard to believe that the phone storage is SO cut off from the user. I can see "locking" the system files/folders but since when you plug in to the pc you can't browse the card without cutting it off from the phone just seems silly. I do love my My Touch4G but I'm just spoiled on having access to ALL files.
amdlite2 said:
Ok so you're screwed if ya wanna put a ringtone in the phone memory without rooting, right?
Just learning the android ropes now, coming from WinMo it's just so hard to believe that the phone storage is SO cut off from the user. I can see "locking" the system files/folders but since when you plug in to the pc you can't browse the card without cutting it off from the phone just seems silly. I do love my My Touch4G but I'm just spoiled on having access to ALL files.
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All phones with an external sd card function this way. An sd can only be mounted to one device at a time; either your phone or to a computer. Unless you have a phone with two sd drives, ie. Galaxy S, you have to live with it.
Swyped on my rooted MyTouch4G
If you use handcent for messaging, you dont need to create folders to use the ringtones.
yaddamean said:
If you use handcent for messaging, you dont need to create folders to use the ringtones.
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Actually, you can assign any sound file on your sd card as a ringtone no matter where it is, with or without handcent. The folder directory is just to make sounds show up in the system's sounds settings. You can also assign ringtones through the music player.
Swyped on my rooted MyTouch4G
XfooYen said:
All phones with an external sd card function this way. An sd can only be mounted to one device at a time; either your phone or to a computer. Unless you have a phone with two sd drives, ie. Galaxy S, you have to live with it.
Swyped on my rooted MyTouch4G
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That's my point, I wish I had access to the default ringers folder like the HD2 did, so when the card is "in use" via usb to my pc I would always have the same tones as when it wasn't plugged in to the pc
I do love the MTG4 but DAMN the locking you out of the simple basics...

ALL my music keeps disappearing!

This happened to me a lot with my MT3G, and I was very upset when it continued to happen on my G2. Since getting Winamp when it came out it hasn't done it to me for a while, but now it's doing it again. I can see the media on my SD card but when I goto music player or winamp nothing shows up.
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Then magically it all may or may not appear.
What is going on here?
*wow it took forever for it to let me post...*
You SD card has to be mounted in order for your music to be seen. I see you have your usb attached, setting to disk drive will unmount your SD, hence your music is gone, and will magically reappear when you go to charge only or disconnect your usb.
The USB was definitely not the issue, that was just so I could DDMS screencap it. The only thing that seems to get it is removing all the stuff from card to PC, then reformatting it and load it back. It used to do this to me like once a week.
reloading my entire SD card fixed it. I am quite upset this issue came back. I duno what even causes it. The gallery was messed up too but not as bad.
Now I have a gallery that has hundreds of the exact same picture, which is the last picture I took in my camera gallery. WTF is up with that?
This shows the 894 Gallery that didn't exist this morning, is the same picture that I took last *Fondue Pot lol*
And it scrolls through this for several finger swipes... And when ya scroll through fast and it shows the date it is dates from June 2008-Present. So I am nervous to delete it
I think your SD Card is bad -- can you put it in a card reader attached to a PC and run error checking (right click on its drive icon then Properties then Error checking)
ALso, is this by any chance the same card you had in your previous phone?
Doesn't give me any errors otherwise. It's the 8GB that came with my G2, I had a 2GB and a 4GB in my MT3G
This would happen to me too. What folder is your music in?
Media/Audio/Music I think it is. It got relocated there once while trying to fix this problem in the past
That is definately weird. When the problem happens again, open up the development settings app and do a media scanner search. It should pop up again. I can see you're using CM, I've never ever had a problem like that, but have you tried any other roms? Also, I keep my music in a forder titled "My Music" on the root of my SD card. Maybe you could try that?
Ah yes, I've read about that media search before but haven't done that in forever so I forgot all about that. I shall try that if this happens again *hopefully doesn't* lol
I've also been planning on cleaning up my SD card a lot, and while I'm at it I'll relocate music. It used to just be on Root:/Music
Hi,
One thing that made me replace my SD card and drove me CRAZY, is the fact that I wasn't aware I had a .nomedia file in my camera folder.
When such a file exist in a folder, ALL content will not be shown in ANY media browser...
It started when I used some crappy picture browser that had the option to show/hide certain folders in gallery. I played around with it a while, tossed the app but I didn't know the app simply adds or removes these .nomedia files to the folders.
Maybe you can check if you have such a .nomedia in the folders where your music seems to "dissapear" ?
Secondly, about the duplicate pictures etc, try deleting the thumbnail cache.
You can also download an app from market called SDRescan, that forces to scan the SD card for new content.
Good luck!
Ooo that app sounds useful *searching*
I've recently gotten around to messing with .nomedia files, they do come in handy when ya want them lol. I definitly don't have one in that folder though because fully cloning the whole thing and replacing it on the SD gets it working again.
Do you mean just delete all the thumbs.db off my SD?
I would clear the contents of the .thumbnails directory in your DCIM or whatever folder you have for your camera images.
Next run SDRescan, and open gallery again. It might take a while re-indexing the contents but it should regenerate the thumbnails.
Folks
I still have the problem mentioned above?
I do the SDrescan. But after a few hours my lovely ringtone from my SD isnt set as ringtone anymore.
When I do the rescan , it finds it again but after a few hours it's lost again :'(
Any one got a solution?
i also use SDrescan and i only had 2 times since a rough start that my ringtone is switched to default.
PS: its a great app never had any trouble anymore that DoubleTwist did'nt find my music
Aussi said:
Folks
I still have the problem mentioned above?
I do the SDrescan. But after a few hours my lovely ringtone from my SD isnt set as ringtone anymore.
When I do the rescan , it finds it again but after a few hours it's lost again :'(
Any one got a solution?
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Similar issue here with the music. Been going on for weeks. The worst part is I'll be listening to podcasts and once they disappear, it also loses where I had last paused. So gd annoying.
Aussi said:
Folks
I still have the problem mentioned above?
I do the SDrescan. But after a few hours my lovely ringtone from my SD isnt set as ringtone anymore.
When I do the rescan , it finds it again but after a few hours it's lost again :'(
Any one got a solution?
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forget the rescan.
1 mount the sdcard in a reader, or via your phone to your computer.
2 copy the entire card to a directory on your pc.
3 format the card, after you verify there is a good copy of your stuff on the pc/mac
this next part can kill your phone and or card's contents if you point it at the wrong mount point. careful !
4 in a terminal, do this: $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc1 bs=1M count=9000 (only do this to the exact hardware mount point of your sdcard, make sure by mounting and unmounting it once or twice)
if it finishes, or when you get tired of waiting, format the card again either in your mac or your phone. copy the contents THAT YOU KNOW ARE GOOD FILES back onto the card.
enjoy
(file corruption does things that just 'erasing' doesn't tend to fix.)

can't upload files in dropbox

guys, does someone have problems with dropbox upload?
i can't make this work properly... it always starts to upload, but stops at 32kb (or 4kbs when using titanium media sync).
weird thing is i can download just fine.
Same issue here on stock 1.72. 32Kb gets sent and no more.
I don't know a fix but it's not just you, if that helps.
John
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Perhaps you could share a little more detail.
Are the transfers via WiFi/3G?
What network/carrier if 3G?
andyharney said:
Perhaps you could share a little more detail.
Are the transfers via WiFi/3G?
What network/carrier if 3G?
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it's that simple...
several apps has "share" button, and when you have dropbox installed it is a option in menu, if i choose that option it starts sending but stops in 32kb.... as a matter of fact, i need to uninstall the app to get it back normal, cause it staying sending "ad eternum" even after a reboot...
the app "titanium media sync" that supposed to sync with dropbox, can't work to, same problem but it stops at 4kb (basicaly, it creates a couple folders in dropbox and stops)...
i was thinking that it is cm7 releated, but now that japester36 said he get same problem with stock, i don't have a clue
i'm using cm7, last nightly, and with everything off, i tried via wi-fi (home and work) and 3g network too, my carrier is that above my name, it's a brazilian one, really big here, but unknown in the rest of the world! =oP
i have attached a img, it stays that way forever...
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Mine is just the same as thiagodark.
I get the problem on WiFi and have noticed it on 3G before. I am however trying it again now.
I'm with T-Mobile in the UK and my phone is unbranded and not rooted. My ISP is BT with Infinity.
Right, I have tried a file over WiFi, less than 32Kb, that doesn't upload either. Dropbox reports 0 of 1 Files Successfully Uploaded". When I turn off WiFi then the same Dropbox upload is now successful!
I've now tried a 293Kb file over 3G and it does upload. Switch back to WiFi and no go.
Guess I need to look into my router (Draytek) or try it at another WiFi access point.
Does Dropbox on Android need specific access through my firewall to the Internet? I'm not overly locked down.
John
japester36 said:
Mine is just the same as thiagodark.
I get the problem on WiFi and have noticed it on 3G before. I am however trying it again now.
I'm with T-Mobile in the UK and my phone is unbranded and not rooted. My ISP is BT with Infinity.
Right, I have tried a file over WiFi, less than 32Kb, that doesn't upload either. Dropbox reports 0 of 1 Files Successfully Uploaded". When I turn off WiFi then the same Dropbox upload is now successful!
I've now tried a 293Kb file over 3G and it does upload. Switch back to WiFi and no go.
Guess I need to look into my router (Draytek) or try it at another WiFi access point.
Does Dropbox on Android need specific access through my firewall to the Internet? I'm not overly locked down.
John
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Don't think it needs any specific firewall permissions, it's always just worked for me. However, while I don't have the "freeze at 32kb" issue I do seem to have acquired an occasional issue when uploading (over WiFi) where the progress bar fills completely but then reports "0 of 1 files successfully uploaded". Tried the same file again later (still on WiFi) and it worked fine. My failed upload has been retrying all day (on 3G) and the same thing happens, until I clear failed uploads in the Dropbox app.
I know that's no help to you at all, but it does seem like there are intermittent issues. I'm on CM7 RC4, never had any issues with it before reading this thread last night.
well, just notice that via 3g it is working.... weird!
I keep getting unkown errorin downloading... On my galaxy tab... does anyone know how to get it to work?
I'm thinking it's buggy on a lot of devices right now. On my Atrix, files disappear constantly, then [email protected] 1 gig of videos it kills me. Filed reports with DropBox, but haven't heard back a solution...just they are aware of the problem. I think it's a dropbox issue, not your firewall settings...
Can people please list what app they are using to send (share) to dropbox and what type of file. Also their isp.
So far every app and every file type has uploaded ok.
Also, are you having issues downloading? Again, no problems for me.
If you can provide these details we can look for any pattern.
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Well, the response from Dropbox was that the Android app isn't yet a fully usable version as is the desktop. You can't put files directly into folders, like with a file explorer. Having 3rd party applications save files directly to your dropbox folder also will not work. As of now the only way to use dropbox is through the app itself. You need to manually add the files to the dropbox app for it to recognize them. It will not recognize them if you just move them to the folder in any other fashion.
I know for me this sort of makes it pointless. It is quicker to just email whatever files I want on my computer, or just transfer them over wifi or USB. Compared to constantly opening up the app, checking the status of the files, uploading them, never being sure what's synced or not.
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Well, the response from Dropbox was that the Android app isn't yet a fully usable version as is the desktop. You can't put files directly into folders, like with a file explorer. Having 3rd party applications save files directly to your dropbox folder also will not work. As of now the only way to use dropbox is through the app itself. You need to manually add the files to the dropbox app for it to recognize them. It will not recognize them if you just move them to the folder in any other fashion.
I know for me this sort of makes it pointless. It is quicker to just email whatever files I want on my computer, or just transfer them over wifi or USB. Compared to constantly opening up the app, checking the status of the files, uploading them, never being sure what's synced or not.
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Thanks for that information. With the above I managed to figure out how to upload a simple 50K image!
Needless to say the app is totally unusable for me at the moment in time, which is a disappointment. I know loads of people who have upload issues, which begs the question as to why it has such a high rating in the Google Market

SD card? Im a Dunce

Okay first post and sure this is off to a great start, because its probably like the lamest question ever....
I see the SD card partition on the Nexus S and for the LIFE of me can't actually figure out what its for.
If USB storage is for holding media and info then what is the SD for?
At one point i was getting memory errors from apps and it said SD memory at capacity or something like that and the limit seemed VERY small. I ran a cache cleaner and removed some clashing apps (i believe) and it seemed fine after that.
Is the SD the internal RAM?
feel free to call me any derogatory name you like as long as you give me a wiki or explanation. I tried searching the forum and google but it just brings up posts where people already talk about SD with knowledge.
thanks
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Okay first post and sure this is off to a great start, because its probably like the lamest question ever....
I see the SD card partition on the Nexus S and for the LIFE of me can't actually figure out what its for.
If USB storage is for holding media and info then what is the SD for?
At one point i was getting memory errors from apps and it said SD memory at capacity or something like that and the limit seemed VERY small. I ran a cache cleaner and removed some clashing apps (i believe) and it seemed fine after that.
Is the SD the internal RAM?
feel free to call me any derogatory name you like as long as you give me a wiki or explanation. I tried searching the forum and google but it just brings up posts where people already talk about SD with knowledge.
thanks
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The SD card is a non removable flash storage device. It's the storage you see when you mount USB storage.
Apps will cache data to the SD card, this is where any downloads go, any picture s or movies you take, etc. It is 16 GB of general storage (separate from the 1GB of internal storage).
Think of it as 'built-in'. For all practical purposes, there is a sdcard, which behaves just as it would on any other android, but you can't remove it. I'm not sure if it is physically part of the internal memory or not. I suspect there is one 16GB chip that is partitioned for internal and /sdcard.
tevil said:
Okay first post and sure this is off to a great start, because its probably like the lamest question ever....
I see the SD card partition on the Nexus S and for the LIFE of me can't actually figure out what its for.
If USB storage is for holding media and info then what is the SD for?
At one point i was getting memory errors from apps and it said SD memory at capacity or something like that and the limit seemed VERY small. I ran a cache cleaner and removed some clashing apps (i believe) and it seemed fine after that.
Is the SD the internal RAM?
feel free to call me any derogatory name you like as long as you give me a wiki or explanation. I tried searching the forum and google but it just brings up posts where people already talk about SD with knowledge.
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i am a bit stumped then. when it gave me the sd capacity it was NO WHERE near 16g's. it was like 800mbs or something. this is why my slacker kept crashing out and giving me a memory error.
is there a way in the OS to see the SD capacity? I had an app that told me but got rid of it cause i think it was also part of the crashing issues i had.
so is what your saying the SD is what you see when you USB your phone to the computer? its that root DIR. In clockwork i can see a USB and SD dir separately i believe but ill have to check again
thanks
on a side note does anyone else have slacker issues. this is how the entire subject came up to me anyway
tevil said:
i am a bit stumped then. when it gave me the sd capacity it was NO WHERE near 16g's. it was like 800mbs or something. this is why my slacker kept crashing out and giving me a memory error.
is there a way in the OS to see the SD capacity? I had an app that told me but got rid of it cause i think it was also part of the crashing issues i had.
so is what your saying the SD is what you see when you USB your phone to the computer? its that root DIR. In clockwork i can see a USB and SD dir separately i believe but ill have to check again
thanks
on a side note does anyone else have slacker issues. this is how the entire subject came up to me anyway
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Slacker works fine for me, always has (outside of it's poor ability to precache the next song).
For Storage go to Settings -> Storage. USB storage is the SD card.
What space you see when you plug in the NS to your computer's USB is the SD card.
It is not the root folder of the whole phone.
Under the "Settings -> Storage" window on your phone, the "USB Storage" is we are calling the SD card.
The Internal Storage is what the phone needs itself.
Here is mine:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Because of all the music on my NS & the fact almost all my apps are there too, I am sucking up approx 3 gigs of SD or USb storage space.
The NS is sucking up approx 800megs of space, of the 1 gig available to it.
As for your Slacker issues, Although I am not familiar with this application, have you tried just reinstalling it.
Heeter
cool thanks guys.
just couldnt figure whyd they name something twice.
As for slacker i beleive it was a mix of
juice defender (which i may try again solo to see if its really that good)
ad blocker (which was jsut something i tried but never really needed, good riddance)
and like these two cleaners which i dont remember the names of.
Now i have NG cache cleaner which is nice and my slcaker seems to be normal again
wasnt sure if the adblocker was seeing the commercials in slacker as ads and trying to block them out causing problems so i got rid of that first.
as the other guy said the pre chaching was HORRIBLE at times making me think the app locked. but after those removals it worked fine with occassional lag betweensongs

Galaxy s8 importing wrong picture

When I am importing pictures from my galaxy s8 to PC, windows 10 explorer's "import pictures and videos" are importing pictures of another photo instead. Therefore, it has the same filename, but the actual photo is of another picture. I have tried several times to import and the 2nd, 3rd, 4th try imports a different photo.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
I have tried using samsung galaxy s8's original OEM cable, I have tried using a different laptop, desktop, different USB ports but the same problem persists.
When viewing pictures in This PC\Galaxy S8\Phone\WhatsApp\Media\WhatsApp Documents\ or This PC\Galaxy S8\Phone\WhatsApp\Media\WhatsApp Images, the pictures open in windows photo’s and show another picture instead of the correct picture when viewed within android. Therefore, when importing, all the pictures are another picture with the wrong size, dimensions and date and timestamps. How do I fix this ? It is very very infuriating.
Here is a quick rundown of my android specs and PC:
Galaxy s8
Model sm-g950w
Android 9.0
Baseband G950WVLU8CUF3
Kernel version 4.4.153-18799827 #2 Thu Jun 17 18:38:43 KST 2021
Build Number PPR1.180610.011.G950WVLU8CUF3
PC
CPU Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4570 CPU @ 3.20GHz
RAM 16 GB
Windows 10 Enterprise 21H1 19043.1949
Windows Feature Experience Pack 120.2212.4180.0
Use Disk Management to access and download from the phone.
There may be another file on the PC with the same name...
blackhawk said:
Use Disk Management to access and download from the phone.
There may be another file on the PC with the same name...
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nothing shows up in disk management... I have also used disk clean up within windows and changed USB cables
[email protected] said:
nothing shows up in disk management...
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Scan for new devices... it's there otherwise you couldn't download anything.
As you can see there is nothing being detected even my galaxy s8 is it supposed to show up here like it does in windows explorer?
When plugging phone in and Widows ask you what to do, take no action, then go to Disk Management
Actions>rescan... play with it
blackhawk said:
When plugging phone in and Widows ask you what to do, take no action, then go to Disk Management
Actions>rescan... play with it
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My dude, i have tried 20 times already on windows 11/10 Why dont you reprouce and show me proof
[email protected] said:
My dude, i have tried 20 times already on windows 11/10 Why dont you reprouce and show me proof
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I run W7... wonder why?
Regardless the problem, it's right in front of you. Play with it.
Find the problem or a work around.
blackhawk said:
I run W7... wonder why?
Regardless the problem, it's right in front of you. Play with it.
Find the problem or a work around.
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Can you show me on windows 7 ? send me a picture or something
[email protected] said:
Can you show me on windows 7 ? send me a picture or something
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It looks about the same.
Action>Scan for new devices
Open the drive in that window...
blackhawk said:
It looks about the same.
Action>Scan for new devices
Open the drive in that window...
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I know what disk management looks like I am telling you i dont see ANDROID PHONE in disk management. I dont understand what you are trying to say
[email protected] said:
I know what disk management looks like I am telling you i dont see ANDROID PHONE in disk management. I dont understand what you are trying to say
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Did you scan for it?
Reboot and try again.
If you still can't get it to work check Event Viewer for error messages.
Try a different port/cable.
What's the usb settings on the phone?
Try updating or rolling back the driver on the PC.
blackhawk said:
Did you scan for it?
Reboot and try again.
If you still can't get it to work check Event Viewer for error messages.
Try a different port/cable.
What's the usb settings on the phone?
Try updating or rolling back the driver on the PC.
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yes I scanned for it, did a "rescan disk" and "refresh" . I've tried 4 different USB 2.0 ports and 2 USB 3.0 ports no changes. The USB settings for the phone is configured to transfer files. I have re-installed samsung USB driver 3 times
[email protected] said:
yes I scanned for it, did a "rescan disk" and "refresh" . I've tried 4 different USB 2.0 ports and 2 USB 3.0 ports no changes. The USB settings for the phone is configured to transfer files. I have re-installed samsung USB driver 3 times
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Error messages?
Turn off phone Developer options, try again.
Enable it again and reset usb options, try again.
Try on a different PC.
Meh you are doing something wrong, if explorer can access the phone, it has to show up as a drive in disk management. When Windows ask you what to do, hit do nothing. Reset this option if you set it to open with Explorer.
blackhawk said:
Error messages?
Turn off phone Developer options, try again.
Enable it again and reset usb options, try again.
Try on a different PC.
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there is literally no error messages..nothing this is why I am so confused. Already tried that right now...nothing. I've tried on my brother's laptop yesterday
[email protected] said:
there is literally no error messages..nothing this is why I am so confused. Already tried that right now...nothing. I've tried on my brother's laptop yesterday
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See my previous post, edited.
Windows is connected, right?
The drive has to show up in disk management...
You could try command line. Don't remember any of that, look it up.
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blackhawk said:
Error messages?
Turn off phone Developer options, try again.
Enable it again and reset usb options, try again.
Try on a different PC.
Meh you are doing something wrong, if explorer can access the phone, it has to show up as a drive in disk management. When Windows ask you what to do, hit do nothing. Reset this option if you set it to open with Explorer.
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How do i reset this option ?
[email protected] said:
How do i reset this option ?
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Don't recall off the top of my head. Google it.
blackhawk said:
Don't recall off the top of my head. Google it.
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the problem still happens. This is really getting on my nerves.

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