Solved my Problem
i solved it. It was nothing related to Kies or Windows or Mac or Linux or libusb upgrade/downgrade or USB debugging mode or any ROM issue or anything.
I just replaced my SD card with a new SD card. And it worked. So the problem was with my SD card. I did master reset and format SD card several times from the phone but it did not work. When i inserted a "supposedly" new SD card, it worked. Read on to see what i meant by "supposedly".
I was able to reproduce the same problem and figured out what was the thing that went wrong. Whenever i connected my phone to a PC (whether Windows or MAC or Linux and whether with or without Kies), if i enabled "Connect Storage to PC" from the android phone's notification and then if i formatted the SD card from the PC (while the SD card is actually inside the phone), I observed that connecting phone with the pc again doesn't let the phone understand that its USB is now connected to a PC and that its SD card storage can now be mounted in the PC.
So, to solve that,
PHEW!!! Finally, enjoying my Galaxy Ace with the PC back again.
i solved it. It was nothing related to Kies or Windows or Mac or Linux or libusb upgrade/downgrade or USB debugging mode or any ROM issue or anything.
I just replaced my SD card with a new SD card. And it worked. So the problem was with my SD card. I did master reset and format SD card several times from the phone but it did not work. When i inserted a "supposedly" new SD card, it worked. Read on to see what i meant by "supposedly".
I was able to reproduce the same problem and figured out what was the thing that went wrong. Whenever i connected my phone to a PC (whether Windows or MAC or Linux and whether with or without Kies), if i enabled "Connect Storage to PC" from the android phone's notification and then if i formatted the SD card from the PC (while the SD card is actually inside the phone), I observed that connecting phone with the pc again doesn't let the phone understand that its USB is now connected to a PC and that its SD card storage can now be mounted in the PC.
So, to solve that,
- i took out the SD card from the phone
- mounted the SD card in my PC with a generic card reader
- copied all current contents of the SD card (if any) to a safe location
- and then formatted the SD card from the PC (remember that this time i did not format the SD card THROUGH the data cable while the SD card is in the phone)
PHEW!!! Finally, enjoying my Galaxy Ace with the PC back again.