First big S3 annoyance

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With my old Desire you could hook the device up to a PC and use it as a Mass Storage Device. Now they've gone all high-tech with MTP & PTP and taken the Mass Storage option away.

Saying that, there is a way around it but it involves installing the device driver and enabling USB Debugging. Not as straight forward or easy as just plugging the device in and choosing Storage mode.

That being said, I am hopefully going to find myself in less situations where this is an issue.
 
Fudzy said:
With my old Desire you could hook the device up to a PC and use it as a Mass Storage Device. Now they've gone all high-tech with MTP & PTP and taken the Mass Storage option away.

Saying that, there is a way around it but it involves installing the device driver and enabling USB Debugging. Not as straight forward or easy as just plugging the device in and choosing Storage mode.

That being said, I am hopefully going to find myself in less situations where this is an issue.
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Airdroid
 
Does the HTC one X have the same issue? Anyone know?
 
Go to Wireless and network settings, click more and click on USB utilities. Connect the phone to the pc and click connect.
 
possibly your own wi-fi access point or usb wifi dongle?
 
Did some reading.

Fraid you have not got to many options.
 
Umm... why not install a samba app? Makes sharing/accessing the phone MUCH easier and it's done over the wifi, not the cable.
 
Fudzy said:
With my old Desire you could hook the device up to a PC and use it as a Mass Storage Device. Now they've gone all high-tech with MTP & PTP and taken the Mass Storage option away.

Saying that, there is a way around it but it involves installing the device driver and enabling USB Debugging. Not as straight forward or easy as just plugging the device in and choosing Storage mode.

That being said, I am hopefully going to find myself in less situations where this is an issue.
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Should have got a one X :D
 
Why would they remove that? Silly Samsung, guess you'll just have to wait for a custom rom.
 
It seems they've done the same thing on ICS for the S2
 
xumwun said:
It seems they've done the same thing on ICS for the S2
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Not a big deal on the S2 with ICS.

You plug it in, it shows up in Explorer as GT9100, double-click on it and your SD card and internal storage shows up as two drives.

But I understand the gripe....if your work firewall blocks the installation of the driver and you can't see the phone in Explorer.
 
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