Help about finding files in the phone from my laptop

[reble]

My laptop is a Gateway MD2614U. OS Win7 Home 32bit. I am still using a Boost Mobile ZTE 4G N9510 for my cell phone. I am a firm believer of "if it's not broke, don't fix it". I have been fixing radios, tv's and vcr's for a long time.
Anyways this ZTE phone is rooted. Now ES File Explorer App reports that the phones root dir, and 2 sd cards installed which is true. From the phone side with the ES File Explorer App I can see and open the phones root dir and files (I also know enough to leave those files alone). I also can see and open the dir's and files on both the sdcard0 and sdcard1 without any problem. But when I go and connect the phone's USB cable to the laptop. The AutoPlay window opens with on the top N9510. So far so good. I click on "Open device to view files". All I see is Phone, 3.82 GB free of 4.07 GB and SD card 14.7 GB free of 14.8 GB. The 1 that says phone dir in the N9510 window on the laptop is the same as ES File Explorer says is SD card 0 in the phone. And the one in the N9510 window says is the SD card is the SD card 1 in the phone. So it means I can't see the phone's root dir from the laptop. Why? And why is the SD card0 labeled "Phone" on the laptop N9510 window?

Steve

 

[Hadron]

Android has never supported viewing the /system or /data areas, which you need root to see on the phone, over USB (which is actually an MTP connection rather than USB mass storage). If you want to access them from a computer you will need to install ADB (Android Debug Bridge - there is a thread about it in the faqs section of the forum) and enable USB debugging on the phone. If you think about it, the regular user isn't supposed to be able to directly access these areas from the phone so why would the phone software support accessing them over USB? ADB is intended for technical debugging and development, so ADB access to them is different from the regular USB connection.

In fact your phone only has one sd card (sdcard1). "sdcard0" is part of the phone's internal storage, which for legacy compatibility the phone pretends is an sd card. So when it appears on your computer as "phone" what you are seeing there is the truth.