Mounting takes place before a computer can use a storage device. The command to make a storage device accessible is under *nix "mount"
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How do I mount my phone?
I'm super puzzled because my phone used to just appear when I plugged it in. It doesn't anymore and The development options are definitely set to allow USB debugging. The phone is charging via USB but ...
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Can Android provide as USB storage a filesystem not from a physical disk?
I'm not sure how an Android device works when connected as USB storage to a PC. Perhaps, it's not a direct access to a physical disk, but rather the Android system "emulates" a FAT filesystem for the ...
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Nexus 7 32GB - Cannot mount as a drive in Windows but USB cable still charges
I have tried this on multiple machines - my Nexus 7 doesn't actually mount in Windows no matter what I try. The USB cable works as I can see that the device is still charging - I've tried this with ...
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How to mount two USB drives from same device on Android?
I'm wondering how I can mount two USB drives from a USB device on Android.
I have a Garmin Oregon GPS device with a USB port. When I connect it to a Windows PC, I get two drives: one for the internal ...
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How can I mount my google nexus4 on linuxmint(nadia) computer via usb?
Also is it any different than ubuntu?
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How to mount a remote FTP server as local folder/directory?
I would like to mount a remote FTP server as local directory (or drive) on Cyanogenmod and be able to access it like it was a regular folder and browse files on it.
Ideally, an app would mount FTP as ...
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How to Retrieve SD Card Files via fastboot or recovery?
I have a Nexus 4 (LG E960) running rooted stock 4.2.2/JDQ39. The phone fell from a foot high and the screen cracked. The touchscreen no longer works.
I have a full Nandroid (TWRP type) backup under ...
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mounting google nexus s on linux at fastboot mode screen
I have looked at similar questions but could find an answer.
Device: Samsung google nexus s i9020
OS: Android 4.1.2
The phone mounts when the OS has loaded and when there is an option to enable usb ...
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AutoMount ext2 SD-card on Huawei U8350 (Android 2.2.2)
On the Huawei U8350 (Android 2.2.2) the init scripts all appear to be in the root partition -- which actually is a ram disk (initramfs), so any changes to it aren't persistent across reboots.
Is ...
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How do I view/mount nandroid file on device?
From Android's terminal, I tried to mount a nandroid img:
losetup -f
gives "/dev/loop0".
However, when I try losetup /dev/loop0 /sdcard/nandroid/... data.img it says no such directory. Same thing ...
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Use Applications on post-boot mounted SD card?
In order to increase free space on /data , I moved some 15Mb of application files to an ext2 partition on external SD card that is mounted on /data/HWUserData/mnt
Specifically, I moved
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Change Mount Point for SD Card?
As this question Why is the SD-card mounted to "/sdcard/external_sd" instead of "/sdcard" (or "/mnt/sdcard")? points out, newer versions of Android often point the ...
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Mount entire internal sdcard (/mnt/sdcard2) as /data
Duplicate/extension to this question : Mount a folder from external sd as /data
The device is micromax a110 and it has an internal SD card which has it's own /data partition along with other ...
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Android ADB Shell Recovery Mounting
*Question:
I need assistance mounting an Android phone's internal data using the Android ADB Shell while the unit is connected via USB and in recovery mode. How do I form a proper mount command? See ...
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Micro SDHC card won't mount on Sylvania SYNET7LP-DS
My new Class 4 PNY 16GB Micro SDHC card won't mount on my Sylvania SYNET7LP-DS 32GB Extended storage Froyo (2.20) Tablet. This is the second new card I returned, and still won't mount. When I press ...
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adb shell mount command: documentation?
I'm creating a guide for noobs on editing the SystemUI.apk on the US Galaxy S3. But, before I post the guide, I want to make sure I know my stuff! I'm looking to learn about ADB (and ADB shell) and ...
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Can I mount external SD card read-only?
I have a SamsungGalaxy S3 (32GB Verizon version, not rooted) with a 64GB external SD card.
I use the external card only for music, which I load from my computer. Several times now I have lost files ...
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How do I mount a Kindle Fire 10.2.6 on my Linux computer?
I just acquired a newish Kindle Fire, software version 10.2.6. Normally when I plug a Kindle or any USB device into my laptop (running Ubuntu 12.04) I get a popup screen asking me what I'd like to do ...
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Mount a folder from external sd as /data
How do I mount /mnt/sdcard/data as /data. Right now the /data has its own partition but it's too small (~500mb) and I would much rather give it more space than move apps and other things to my SD ...
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Read External SD card
I have a Xoom 2 media edition MZ608-32 3G, immediately after receiving it I upgraded it to ICS 4.0.4 and rooted it.
However the beast won't mount any SD card that is put in its external storage.
I ...
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How can I make it so that any user can chmod in my fuse-mounted ext4-formatted /sdcard?
I have an ASUS Transformer Pad TF101. I finally got round to rooting it just now.
Important: /sdcard is not FAT32. It's a fuse filesystem based in ext4. So it is capable of using chmod.
So that I ...
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How to mount my Galaxy Nexus storage under Debian?
I can't copy anything to my Galaxy Nexus right now. I've installed mtpfs 0.9-3 and tried to mount the storage of my Galaxy Nexus with mtpfs -o allow_other /media/phone. When I try to change to the ...
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Use android 2.3 as a wireless Mass Storage middle man
Context: I would like to use an old phone as a USB Mass storage device/slave, but read/writes to a Network share. So I can attach it to the Kitchen TV and direct it to a windows/linux directory.
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Non-root methods to mount USB storage devices
From my understanding, one can use StickMount to mount USB Sticks / Thumbdrive. However, StickMount require one to root phone.
So, are there ways that I can mount a USB Sticks / Thumbdrive to a ...
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Can't mount internal storage on RAZR MAXX HD
I recently upgraded to a RAZR MAXX HD. On my old phone, I could just plug it into my computer (Debian Linux) and I'd get two automounted drives (internal storage and external SD card). On the MAXX HD, ...
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Internal hard disk partitions (sda2) not showing in android system
I have a x86 system (Asus Eee Pc)having hard disk of 232 GB, in which 4 GB allocated for Android and rest I don't know where it is gone. If I open super user and running this command in android ...
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Specifying SD card mount options upon boot
I have an Archos 101IT with a 16G external SD card. The SD card contains one partition that is formatted as an ext3 file system. The Archos runs UrukDroid 1.6.4 (Froyo 2.2).
The Problem: When booted, ...
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SD card won't mount when Xperia Neo V is connected to Ubuntu 12.10
I upgraded my Ubuntu set up to 12.10 and realized that the SD card can't mount like it used to every time I connected my Neo V (running android 2.3.4). It can't be a hardware issue as it mounts ...
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How can I mount or unmount the SD Card using ADB?
The sdcard can be umounted by using the umount command.
unmount /mtn/sdcard/.android_secure
how can it be remounted again . I tried using the mount command
mount /mnt/sdcard/.android_secure
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Can't mount my sdcard rw
I really messed up my HTC Desire today. I need to copy some files to the sdcard, but my Android phone won't let me mount the SD card with write access.
Here's what I've done in short:
(boot to ...
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SD can't mount and mmc0: error -110 whilst initialising MMC card dmesg error
My android device (Samsung Galaxy S with cwm) stop mounting properly the internal SD card to /sdcard/ mountpoint: normal boot fails and cwm recovery says "Can't mount sdcard" while trying.
Through ...
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1answer
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cannot mount sdext for link2sd?
I have a huawei u8160 running Cyanogenmod 7.2.
when I restart my phone I have to remount the sdext myself using terminal emulator.
su
mount -t ext2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /data/sdext2
but now it ...
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Why Android can't be just mounted?
I read a lot about rooting android, that it is risky, that I can mess all and get my device completely dead and nothing can be done about it. So my question -- why all these phones can't be just ...
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Galaxy S2 - Accessing Internal phone memory in Recovery Mode
How can i access to Internal Storage in Recovery mode using Android Debug Bridge (ADB.exe) ?
C:\Users\MohammadReza\Desktop\platform-tools>adb devices
List of devices attached
4F58000600000001 ...
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Mounting and Unmounting of Memory Card just by touch?
I am using a Samsung Galaxy Y mobile phone. In my mobile's settings, I see an option to "Unmount the Memory Card for Safe Removal", so it is possible to unmount the memory card without actually ...
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adb push and mount problems
I'm using Android 2.3.3 and I want to copy the iwconfig file to /system/xbin.
First I tried doing it with adb push using this:
adb push iwconfig /system/xbin
But in return I had: failed to copy ...
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Swap partition not working on Huawei U8160 running CyanogenMod 7.2
I have a Huawei U8160 (also known as : Vodafone 858 Smart) which is running CyanogenMod 7.2 (which was released by MADTeam in 2/7/2012).
After updating to the 2/7/2012 update, I found an option to ...
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How to find out if my Device's Kernel has Loop Device Support
I would assume most all of you know why I am asking this, but for those who don't, Loop Device Support of a Kernel on an Android device is utilized to mount a Linux Distro IMG file (Ubuntu or Debian, ...
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Remount writable by all users?
I want to remount a read-only partition in read-write mode, but I want it to be writable for all users.
So far I've got this:
mount -o bind /someplace /someplace_else
mount -o remount rw ...
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0answers
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How to mount the internal storage of the Droid 3?
My father just got a Droid 3, and it has something like 12 or 16 gigs of internal storage. I'm trying to mount that storage to his laptop so he can transfer over music, but I'm not getting the USB ...
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Unable to mount from a Mac OS X using sshfs
I have SSHDroid running on the Android. I'm trying to mount it from a Mac using Fuse for OS X. I can SSH, but I am unable to SSHFS.
When I try to sshfs, I get the following error
"mount_osxfusefs: ...
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1answer
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adb su permission denied, no rom, rooted, need to fix internal sd card
can someone please help. im pulling my hair out lol
im trying to fix a friends phone GT-I9000.
basically i get error in mounting sdcard.
after searching endlessly and installing 100s of stock rom. ...
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why is my file system suddenly read only?
Some background:
My HTC Desire HD has several issues.
The first issue being that I can not connect to it using a USB cable.
So I found that I can tell ADB to work over wifi and I was using this ...
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2answers
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Cannot get Android 4.0 NFS client to connect to my NFSv4 Ubuntu server: “no such device”
I'm using GLaDOS kernel which includes the NFS modules (and I'm using the Codename Android ICS 4.0.3 ROM) on a GSM Galaxy Nexus. I'm trying to connect to my NFSv4 server (Ubuntu 11.10). My other ...
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2answers
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How to mount SMB/CIFS Network Shares on android device?
I have a rooted android device running on gingerbread. I was wondering if there is a way to mount my windows CIFS(Common Internet File System) Shares on my android device over WiFi.
Is it required to ...
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1answer
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Where has the option to mount as hard drive gone …?
I have an HTC Desire HD (on Vodafone UK). I noticed this week that when I now connect it to either pc or mac the option to mount as a hard drive is no longer present. Why? What do I need to do to get ...
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2answers
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Is it possible to modify files on sd from PC without unmounting?
Motivation:
As I currently got started to put some media (music,ebook,etc..) I need to organize (add,modify,move,rename) files often but also see if the android apps are still recognizing my files ...
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1answer
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Can't install custom rom: “Can't mount SD card”
I've some trouble with my HTC Desire and I'd like to ask for help.
I've recently rooted it with unrevoked and turned in S-off mode. All went well, or so it seemed, until I decided to flash a custom ...
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Link2sd gives “Mount script error”
Im using a rooted Samsung Galaxy ACE with 2.3.4.
I installed link2sd and I have a 1Gb ext2 (I tried with fat32 also with the same result) partition. After starting the app and selecting the partition ...
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Unable to mount Galaxy S2 on Debian Squeeze laptop as storage device
I am trying to mount my Galaxy S2 on Debian Squeeze laptop. I turned off USB debugging and then in:
"Wireless & Networks" → "USB Utilities" → "Connect storage to PC"
it asks me to connect a USB ...
