can we use it as usb mass storage?

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Was wondering is there a way to use our galaxy as a universal usb mass storage device, using default windows drivers?

I've tried it but I can't seem to connect my phone to the pc unless I install either the usb drivers (extracted from Kies) or install kies itself.

In ubuntu can just hook this up no problem why in windows doesn't it work? or am I doing something wrong? Any help would be great.

thanks.

Wich part of Android Development Forum you dont understand?

why don't you can suggest me one or point me in the right direction or notify a mod instead of posting something that's not helpful and insulting?

and indicate why this would not go in development? yeah it can be in general but why can't it be in here explain the reason. This can be the initiation of someone developing a hack to allow to use our device in windows without INSTALLING the samsung drivers?

You don't need to install any samsung anything.

Settings -> About Phone -> USB Settings: Ensure "Ask on connection" is selected.

Plug in USB cable, connect to PC.

Select "Mass storage" on the menu. Your device is now connected and charging, but you don't have access to the data yet.

Now drag down the notification bar from the top of the screen. It says "Ongoing: USB connected. Select to copy files to/from your computer". Press that. Press "Mount".

Your Internal SD and external SD now mount on your PC and appear as drives.

gl

Edit: If that doesn't work for you then there's something wrong. I haven't installed Kies on any machine I've connected the SGS to. It may be that you require Admin rights to install the usb drivers that are sent over as the device attempts to mount (not sure).

hmm that's weird. My machine says it doesn't recognize it when I do that. And all the machines I use I have to install the drivers for it to work even though I always use "use as mass storage"

hmmm I better do more investigation then.....

just tried this on a winxp machine without any driver/kies installed and yeah can't get to the sd card. It has an exclaimation mark next to the Usb mass storage device in device manager and there an "unknown" device detected in the "other devices" section of device manager....

Try the always ask option. Sometimes the use mass storage as default choice is a tad cranky.

If not, try on another usb port with another microusb cable. I've tried on 3 pcs/laptops and all 3 times no drivers were needed.

You also have to pull down the notifcation menu of the phone (once connected) and click the usb symbol and then choose "mount" (yeah, kinda sucks)

Originally Posted by NeoXTC

hmm that's weird. My machine says it doesn't recognize it when I do that. And all the machines I use I have to install the drivers for it to work even though I always use "use as mass storage"

hmmm I better do more investigation then.....

the drive that it installs when you connect your device to your PC with selecting USB Mass Storage is a normal USB driver, like when you plug in a normal memory stick...

Check your usb port or cable and try other ones