USB Storage Enabler

MCChang · Jul 15, 2012

Works as a charm for my Lumia 900.
My computer's Explorer can recognize the phone and its contents.
My question is, is there any way to force the PC to recognize the phone as a drive (with an assigned drive letter, and viewable on Computer Management)? I'm asking this, as I'm trying to retrieve photos from the phone which Nokia Service Center deleted when they reset the phone.

Thanks lots.

GoodDayToDie · Jul 16, 2012

No method known, sorry. Contrary to the thread title and assumptions of many, this tool does *NOT* enable USB Mass Storage on your phone. Instead, it merely un-hides the MTPZ (Media Transfer Protocol, Zune extension) device, which happens to be your phone, from Explorer. Although MTP[Z] devices expose what appears to be a hierarchical filesystem, they are not considered blok storage devices and as such can't be mapped as drives.

MCChang · Jul 16, 2012

GoodDayToDie said:
No method known, sorry. Contrary to the thread title and assumptions of many, this tool does *NOT* enable USB Mass Storage on your phone. Instead, it merely un-hides the MTPZ (Media Transfer Protocol, Zune extension) device, which happens to be your phone, from Explorer. Although MTP[Z] devices expose what appears to be a hierarchical filesystem, they are not considered blok storage devices and as such can't be mapped as drives.

Thanks 'GoodDayToDie'

BMXJeff · Nov 16, 2012

issues?.....

Thanks to the Dev, this is awesome!

Couple of issues/queries:

Cannot move large files 1GB+ onto the device without getting the error "the device has stopped responding or is disconnected" (see attachment ErrorCopy.jpg) at the end of the process, then I have to disconnect and reconnect to use again as all directories appear empty or not there at all. I am breaking files down with WinRAR to about 700MB to copy onto the device and can only move one at a time as batch copy results in the same error. Seems ok with small files.

Second issue is that when plugging my phone into another computer (e.g WIN XP) without .NET 2, Zune or having run the unlock tool on that computer, I cannot see my phone/SD. Do you have to follow the procedure in post 1 on every computer you want to have 'USB Flash' functionality? If this is the case then I can't plug my phone into a TV or any other USB device, making it nothing like a USB flash drive! Maybe I have misunderstood the job this tool is doing...

Please let me make clear I am not complaining just trying to get to the bottom of what the limitations of this tool/WP7 are and if what I'm experiencing is normal because there seem to be no mention of the above issues in this thread.

Thanks again to the dev and thanks in advance for any feedback/help

jojobanin · Nov 16, 2012

Every thing works fine for me. But i have some problem with music, i transfer the artist to a music file on my phone and it transfers but when i go on my phone it listed it like a unknown artist and album name.

GoodDayToDie · Nov 17, 2012

@BMXJeff: The first issue is weird; probably some limitation in MTPZ or possibly somewhing weird about the phone.
As for the second issue... um, why would you assume otherwise? This is a purely PC-side change, it has absolutely no effect on the phone. As I mentioned above, all that this tool does is tell Windows Explorer not to hide the phone (which it sees as a Media Transfer Protocol, Zune extension AKA MTPZ device, *NOT* a USB Mass Storage device like a flashdrive). Since every PC has their own copy of Windows Explorer, yeah, you have to tell each one separately...

@jojobanin: It's possible (probable, from your description) that adding music files to the phone through this method doesn't cause the phone's Zune database to get updated (or at least, not correctly). Thus, while the files are present can can be played, the tag info for them was never stored in the database so it isn't displayed in the Zune app.

dazza9075 · Nov 17, 2012

GoodDayToDie said:
@jojobanin: It's possible (probable, from your description) that adding music files to the phone through this method doesn't cause the phone's Zune database to get updated (or at least, not correctly). Thus, while the files are present can can be played, the tag info for them was never stored in the database so it isn't displayed in the Zune app.

There is some other database, not sure where it is stored but ive had instances where all my music vanished off the music lists on the phone, yet the files were still there until you sync it with the computer which promptly deletes those files off the device, presumably because zune believes you intended to delete them off your device.

BMXJeff · Nov 17, 2012

GoodDayToDie said:
@BMXJeff: The first issue is weird; probably some limitation in MTPZ or possibly somewhing weird about the phone.
As for the second issue... um, why would you assume otherwise? This is a purely PC-side change, it has absolutely no effect on the phone. As I mentioned above, all that this tool does is tell Windows Explorer not to hide the phone (which it sees as a Media Transfer Protocol, Zune extension AKA MTPZ device, *NOT* a USB Mass Storage device like a flashdrive). Since every PC has their own copy of Windows Explorer, yeah, you have to tell each one separately...

I delved into this a little deeper since my post and I now completely understand what this tool does. It makes a simple registry change on the host pc to allow it to see the MTPZ device/phone and definitely NOT a flash drive! I had seen the reg mod before but I got excited when I read 'flash drive tool' and thought it would be a phone hack letting me use my WP7 as exactly that! It's a habit of mine, dive in without reading properly

Thanks for the info. I guess you could create a separate FAT32 partition accessible via MAGLDR and the 'USB MASS STORAGE' option. I refuse to carry a USB stick when I have a 32GB SD sat in my pocket. What do you think, have you seen this done?

dazza9075 · Nov 18, 2012

BMXJeff said:
I delved into this a little deeper since my post and I now completely understand what this tool does. It makes a simple registry change on the host pc to allow it to see the MTPZ device/phone and definitely NOT a flash drive! I had seen the reg mod before but I got excited when I read 'flash drive tool' and thought it would be a phone hack letting me use my WP7 as exactly that! It's a habit of mine, dive in without reading properly

Thanks for the info. I guess you could create a separate FAT32 partition accessible via MAGLDR and the 'USB MASS STORAGE' option. I refuse to carry a USB stick when I have a 32GB SD sat in my pocket. What do you think, have you seen this done?

isn't there an xbmod CAB that partitions the Leo for android, that would probably work, my leo is dead so cant help im afraid, because most Things LEO are very specific to that device despite it technically being a WP7 device, you will get more support over on that forum, but perhaps you can get it to work. use the cabs to partition for android, then using a a desktop based partitioning tool change those new partitions to a usable FAT partition, then use USB storage in MAGLDR to access it.

cant promise that you wont wipe your devices but its a starting point for you

GoodDayToDie · Nov 18, 2012

Honestly, the owner of this thread (or possibly even a mod) should rename the thread. It's a lie. What this hack does has nothing to do with "USB [Mass] Storage" and the distinction is confusing to people who aren't familiar with the details of how WP7 communicates with PCs.

I propose "WP7 in Explorer" instead of "USB Storage".

BMXJeff · Nov 18, 2012

GoodDayToDie said:
Honestly, the owner of this thread (or possibly even a mod) should rename the thread. It's a lie. What this hack does has nothing to do with "USB [Mass] Storage" and the distinction is confusing to people who aren't familiar with the details of how WP7 communicates with PCs.

I propose "WP7 in Explorer" instead of "USB Storage".

+1

BMXJeff · Nov 19, 2012

TRUE USB mass storage - solved!

dazza9075 said:
isn't there an xbmod CAB that partitions the Leo for android, that would probably work, my leo is dead so cant help im afraid, because most Things LEO are very specific to that device despite it technically being a WP7 device, you will get more support over on that forum, but perhaps you can get it to work. use the cabs to partition for android, then using a a desktop based partitioning tool change those new partitions to a usable FAT partition, then use USB storage in MAGLDR to access it.

cant promise that you wont wipe your devices but its a starting point for you

I couldn't find the xbmod CAB you mentioned or anything similar but I have managed to manually set up a FAT32 partition on my SD card without affecting the WP7 rom to use as a REAL usb flash drive! This runs alongside the WP7 installation. In other words you cannot access the WP7 directories but the separate partition acts as true USB mass storage compatible with any device that would normally accept USB mass storage.

Quite simply I have WP7 and true USB mass storage on my HD2!

I don't have time now but I'll do a write up and guide tomorrow night.

Peace

EDIT 19/11/2012: Having further USB issues not specific to the USB storage solution. Will be back with guide when I have sorted my USB file transfer problem and am sure it is 100%...

kingars · Jan 3, 2013

Guys, the link to download is offline!

soulburnerms · Jan 18, 2013

yup.... still working like a charm in a Lumia 800 WP 7.8 using the second method to work =)

thanks very much! =)

mazelost · Jan 20, 2013

Great app!!!Finally,i got rid off the stupid zune:good:

poulman · Feb 8, 2013

Not working for Lumia 610

Vuelta91 · Feb 23, 2013

Works great with my unlocked HTC Titan with Dynamics v2.0 rom and PC Windows 8 pro x64. :good:
Thanks.

Zigzaczek · May 11, 2016

Hello
cell is seen as a disk storage OK
But how to recover from his pictures.
Recovery programs do not see the device.
I think that there is a program that will see the windows phone.

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