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how to get cellphone storage to show as drive on PC

  1. 2019-06-04 at 6:32 AM UTC
    #1
    A College Professor victim of incest [your moreover breastless limestone]
    google is really pissing me off lately.

    i plug my lg android phone into the pc and it doesn't have any menu option that comes up on the computer or the phone asking if i want to mount a drive like they used to do. in the phone's 'settings' there is nothing under storage or usb to do what i want. i feel my heartbeat pounding in my ears im going to break this thing
  2. 2019-06-04 at 6:35 AM UTC
    #2
    A College Professor victim of incest [your moreover breastless limestone]
    i guess its some fucking secret option now they want me to upload everything to THE EPIC CLOUD and download it right back motherfuckers
  3. 2019-06-04 at 6:46 AM UTC
    #3
    gadzooks Dark Matter [keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]
    Yeah, for whatever reason they've changed this shit around recently.

    This particular thing got me too at first.

    There should be a notification that pops up on your phone right when you plug it in, listing a bunch of options for how you want the connection to be treated (i.e. is it strictly for charging? is it for tethering? etc). One of the options should say something like "File Transfer."

    If you select that mode, then the computer should recognize it as "external storage", and you can access what's on it.
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  4. 2019-06-04 at 6:52 AM UTC
    #4
    gadzooks Dark Matter [keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]
    In my case, at least, it was a bit hidden... Like not a normal kind of notification.

    Or maybe there's something else entirely going on here, I dunno.
  5. 2019-06-04 at 6:53 AM UTC
    #5
    gadzooks Dark Matter [keratinize my mild-tasting blossoming]


    It looks like that.
  6. 2019-06-04 at 7:15 AM UTC
    #6
    aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition
    make sure the cable you're using doesn't have its data lines cut; some cables are 'charge only' because not connecting the data lines speeds up charging a little. maybe try a different USB port on your computer

    if the connection's being detected you should get a pop-up on the phone like in dadzook's screencap
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  7. 2019-06-04 at 7:38 AM UTC
    #7
    Sophie Pedophile Tech Support
    Get an EPIC hacker ROM for your phone like Kali Nethunter



    And you'll have DriveDroid, the whole purpose of that app is to be able to mount your phone's SD storage as external USB/ISO/HDD basically if you have a couple of small distros you like you can carry your lab in your pocket. Since with DriveDroid i can boot into Debian for instance as long as i have an ISO file of the distro on my phone.

    I think it should work without a special ROM, as long as your phone is rooted.
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  8. 2019-06-04 at 8:15 AM UTC
    #8
    aldra JIDF Controlled Opposition
    that looks so fucking gay


    but yeah later versions of android no longer mount as a USB filesystem host, they use MTP
  9. 2019-06-04 at 8:37 AM UTC
    #9
    Sophie Pedophile Tech Support
    Originally posted by aldra that looks so fucking gay


    but yeah later versions of android no longer mount as a USB filesystem host, they use MTP

    Tell it to Rapid7 it's their official Kali ROM, lol. And all things considered if you have a Nexus, you get a wireless chip that supports packet injection, it's just how the Nexus chips are made. And in that case, there's definitely some utility to it in terms of NetSec.
  10. 2019-06-04 at 7:38 PM UTC
    #10
    Admin African Astronaut
    Originally posted by Sophie Get an EPIC hacker ROM for your phone like Kali Nethunter



    And you'll have DriveDroid, the whole purpose of that app is to be able to mount your phone's SD storage as external USB/ISO/HDD basically if you have a couple of small distros you like you can carry your lab in your pocket. Since with DriveDroid i can boot into Debian for instance as long as i have an ISO file of the distro on my phone.

    I think it should work without a special ROM, as long as your phone is rooted.

    Do you actually have this on your phone?
  11. 2019-06-10 at 4:39 PM UTC
    #11
    Sophie Pedophile Tech Support
    Originally posted by Admin Do you actually have this on your phone?

    On one of my phones. For the Debian utilities and DriveDroid mostly.
  12. 2019-06-16 at 3:38 AM UTC
    #12
    Shrooms Houston
    Originally posted by aldra make sure the cable you're using doesn't have its data lines cut; some cables are 'charge only' because not connecting the data lines speeds up charging a little. maybe try a different USB port on your computer

    if the connection's being detected you should get a pop-up on the phone like in dadzook's screencap

    Its the port or usb connection at fault. Or phone. Some want the original charger cable that originally came with the phone.
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