[Q] Some Misc Help

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I have two things I need to be able to do: mount as mass storage and use ad hoc WiFi. Does anyone have an idea how to do either of these things?

Pretty sure the first one isn't going to happen since this device uses media transfer protocol.

I know that, but it is a standard Android feature, I believe, and there is a hidden setting for it (albeit that does nothing), so it seems there should be some way, root or hack or whatever, to make it work.

You'll probably have to wait and see what developers are able to do with the tab. I'd also like move to SD to be enabled somehow/.

In the meantime, I've been using FTPDroid instead of connecting MTP. So, I have another question: does anyone know how to mount (on Win7) an FTP folder as a local disk drive? That would serve my purposes for now.

Originally Posted by Macadamia Daze

In the meantime, I've been using FTPDroid instead of connecting MTP. So, I have another question: does anyone know how to mount (on Win7) an FTP folder as a local disk drive? That would serve my purposes for now.

Off the top of my head best thing I can think of is a shortcut to your ftp folder?

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Better than MTP, but not fully functional. I can't always freely open/save files in all applications, and I can't run portable apps.

Does anyone know if this is available on any other ROM's out there or is this just something that's not going to happen because if so I'm just going to return it.

This is just absolutely ridiculous. Why would they take this basic functionality away? What the heck? The only tablet i've been happy with on battery life and now I can't sync crap how I used to. Now I have to install the clunky unorganized CRAP software Kies? NOT going to happen.

/rant



Inferiorates me how they built such a nice piece of hardware with such a stupid limitation.

/rant #2

Originally Posted by joesee

Does anyone know if this is available on any other ROM's out there or is this just something that's not going to happen because if so I'm just going to return it.

This is just absolutely ridiculous. Why would they take this basic functionality away? What the heck? The only tablet i've been happy with on battery life and now I can't sync crap how I used to. Now I have to install the clunky unorganized CRAP software Kies? NOT going to happen.

/rant



Inferiorates me how they built such a nice piece of hardware with such a stupid limitation.

/rant #2

USB mass storage is impossible with the newest version of android. Previously, Android devices would partition it's flash memory (or have separate memory altogether) to organize its file system. This allowed one partition to be unmounted so it could be controlled by another device. The downside to this was that some andriod devices would indicate they were full before actually reaching the storage limit. To remedy this problem 4.0 treats the entire memory as a unified partition and under the control of the andriod OS. As long as the system is running the storage cannot be unmounted.

Since the memory cannot be unmounted the USB mass storage protocol will not work. MTP was introduced as the new file transfer protocol.

So the short answer is no; it will never be "fixed" because MTP is an improvement on the old andriod file system.