[APP][v1.8 (+US)] SGS3 Easy UMS - Mount external microSD card as USB mass storage

[last-home]

Any news for an update to support 4.3?

v1.8 works great on cm10.2 (4.3.1) ...

 

[skingg]

v1.8 works great on cm10.2 (4.3.1) ...

Thanks, but I'm hoping it works on Sammy's stock 4.3 roms too.

 

[last-home]

Thanks, but I'm hoping it works on Sammy's stock 4.3 roms too.

It works great on Sammy's 4.3 roms too!

But no idea about 4.4 !

 

[alojo]

the problem is that sometimes it doesn't work. I would like to have a way to force it to work.

I am currently working on a Tasker-based replacement for this app. It does the same thing, but only automatically when you plug in the phone into a PC. It's under testing right now. I will post it in a new thread and let you guys know about it for further testing when I'm done. It will allow you to customzie the mount point and will be more easily adapted to other ROMs.

Let's see that!

 

[mad_ady]

As promised, here is the Tasker version that automatically enables and disables UMS mode when you plug the phone into a PC/USB data port (not charger):

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=48636861#post48636861

For errors and feedback, please follow the discussion on that thread.
Thanks!

 

[9andar]

Hi, any news for a new version to make it work with CM11 rom (Android 4.4.2), because this app is really awesome and i miss it

 

[mad_ady]

See the post above yours (but you'll need to have tasker)

 

[PIRATA!]

It works great on Sammy's 4.3 roms too!

But no idea about 4.4 !

How do you act in app to let it to work??
I just can't find the correct procedure for making my sdcard come up in Windows...

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-i9300 using TapaTalk2

 

[mad_ady]

After you plug your phone in, you would start the app and click on the UMS Mode button. It would then switch to UMS mode by running some internal commands and you would see two drives in WIndows (only one drive is accessible).
After you unmount the card in windows you would unplug and press the "Mount card" button to mount it locally. Optionally you could press the MTP mode to return to MTP mode for future connections.

 

[dheeraj_sgs3]

cm11 kitkat

is there any update to this app wrt to kitkat android 4.4.

 

[mad_ady]

I haven't seen any recent updates, but if you are a tasker user try the link a couple of posts above and see if it works on kk.

 

[jackleung]

For 4.3 Note 2, the free gscript command works for me: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27282116&postcount=58

I use the following for Mass Storage mode:

umount /mnt/extSdCard 
echo /dev/block/vold/179:17 > /sys/devices/platform/s3c-usbgadget/gadget/lun0/file

 

[xxkelvynxx]

But it work on note 3 ?

Enviado desde mi SM-N9005 mediante Tapatalk

 

[bestfil]

Since I moved to KITKAT CM11 official with agni PureCM kernel I've got this error:

extSdCard/external_sd/sdcard1 not mounted
Could not get path of the external sd card...

Of course the card is mounted.

 

[mad_ady]

Post the output of the mount command here and if possible try the tasker variant (you can edit the path to sd)

 

[becca_2810]

Help Please

Im new on here and im not to tech savvy i just really need some help. I deleted my pictures of my samsung galaxy s3 4.1.2 yesterday and i just want to get them back. ive looked all over online and nothing seems to work. i didnt have an sd card in my phone when the pics were deleted. so im not too sure where they are. the only thing i can do is the usb debugging. when i go to wireless and networks theres nothing there for me to do anything with usb..just tethering....someone please help me.

 

[Old faithful]

Unfortunately, if the files were located on internal memory, there is nothing much you can do to because this application only accesses External SD Cards.

Of course, if they had been located there it would have been a simple matter of mounting the SD Card on a PC using this app and using an undeleter from there such as Test Disk or Photo Rec to retrieve them there.

You should ask in the main forum whether there are any Android undelete apps, I'm not aware of any but I could be wrong.

There is an app called MyMobiler that allows access to internal storage from the PC but I doubt you could undelete files since that would be on an active partition and there is a high risk of seriously crashing the phone and I doubt it the Android OS would allow it anyway.

It comes without saying that for the future, you could install an SD Card, it's your best protection, but you have to manually set your phone to save there by default, or you could use online storage services, if you can trust them (I don't).

Sent from my Note 2 - Text mostly by Google Voice, May Contain Weirdness

 

[mad_ady]

Here's an idea - but it requires an external sd greater than internal storage and root. You'll have to do the following:
1. Create an image of your internal sdcard, most likely with the dd command. For this you'll need to figure out what partition is your sd card, and output the image to your external sd card (which most likely needs to be formatted with exfat to hold files over 4gb) (it's also a possibility that odin might be able to copy the flash to your pc)
2. Use testdisk (from the photorec suite) to scan the image file for jpg files. With some luck you might get your images back, but without their names.

In theory my plan should work, but I've never tried it on a phone's internal storage. It probally depends on filesystem type, but it should support ext4.
In the worst case you might get nothing, or you might get truncated photos.
Oh, and this might work only if your firmware/kernel doesn't have trim support (otherwise it will zero the free space).
So, it might not be impossible, but it sure won't be easy. Also this app won't help you because you need to access internal storage.
Good luck!

 

[Old faithful]

Here's an idea - but it requires an external sd greater than internal storage and root. You'll have to do the following:
1. Create an image of your internal sdcard, most likely with the dd command. For this you'll need to figure out what partition is your sd card, and output the image to your external sd card (which most likely needs to be formatted with exfat to hold files over 4gb) (it's also a possibility that odin might be able to copy the flash to your pc)
2. Use testdisk (from the photorec suite) to scan the image file for jpg files. With some luck you might get your images back, but without their names.

In theory my plan should work, but I've never tried it on a phone's internal storage. It probally depends on filesystem type, but it should support ext4.
In the worst case you might get nothing, or you might get truncated photos.
Oh, and this might work only if your firmware/kernel doesn't have trim support (otherwise it will zero the free space).
So, it might not be impossible, but it sure won't be easy. Also this app won't help you because you need to access internal storage.
Good luck!

Great idea but you could only do that if the process could make a low level sector by sector full internal memory image. Does the dd command work that way?

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[mad_ady]

Yes, it should copy written and free space from the whole partition. The only problem could be that the flash controller might have reallocated/trimmed the free space.