Comments on: Cell phone storage

Question: Cell phone storage

PWA_BadBoy — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:28:48 -0800

Help me get my files off of my cell phone!

From my home computer, I copied a number of files onto a microSD / transflash card. I've put it into my Samsung D900 phone but now I can't retrieve it from my other computer as I don't have a flash card reader on this one and only have the phone directly connected to the computer via USB. I've installed Samsung PC Studio 3 but there's no option to read from the flash card.

Any solutions?

By: inigo2

inigo2 — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:34:04 -0800

Longshot, but when you connect the USB it doesn't create the flash card as a new drive, does it?

By: Solomon

Solomon — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:58:20 -0800

Can you not copy the files from the card onto the phone memory, and then use PC Studio to copy them from the phone?

/me sympathises with the crapness of PC Studio.

By: PWA_BadBoy

PWA_BadBoy — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:02:19 -0800

700 megs of mp3's won't move over so nicely :(

By: gaiamark

gaiamark — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:13:54 -0800

Wait? I have the D600 phone, and I can copy files directly from the inserted flash card to the computer via USB without moving the files to the phone's memory first. I'm not sure how the D900 works, but all I have to do is go to (by memory, because I'm at work) the phone settings section, then USB settings, then select the USB Storage option. After that, the computer sees the flash card as a hard disk.

I'm not sure if you have something similar on yours.

By: gaiamark

gaiamark — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 09:15:17 -0800

Then again, I know there is no such option on the Samsung A707 Cingular Sync phone, which uses a different OS.

By: PWA_BadBoy

PWA_BadBoy — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:10:37 -0800

Gaiamark - thank you! I dug through the phone settings (on the phone) and there is a USB connection setting to switch it from "modem" to "mass storage"