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SD Card Not Visible

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backroad

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Sorry is this is the most inane question but I've just come over from the dark (ifone) side and this is all a bit new.

Connecting my S3 to the PC I see it listed as SCH-1535 Portable Media Player. Connecting to that drive I see lots of directories -- but not the MNT/SD Card directory that I see when using something like Astro. How do I reach those directories from the PC?

Also, when I navigate up from mnt/sdcard to the root level I see both an mnt and and sdcard directory. Which is actually the sdcard?

thanks.
 
mnt/sdcard is the mountpoint of the /sdcard partition.

If you're talking about the internal sdcard, this is it. This is probably what shows up on your PC under PTP. mnt/extSdCard is the micro SD card, if you have one.

Not really sure I understand the question.
 
Thanks, yes I understand that the mnt/sd is the card. But when viewing the directories in Windows it does not show up in the directory listing.

My wife has an Incredible. That shows up as two drives: both the internal storage and the SD card. I guess I was expecting the same but for the S3 I can't see/find the sdcard (when connected via USB to the Windows machine).
 
backroad said:
Thanks, yes I understand that the mnt/sd is the card. But when viewing the directories in Windows it does not show up in the directory listing.

My wife has an Incredible. That shows up as two drives: both the internal storage and the SD card. I guess I was expecting the same but for the S3 I can't see/find the sdcard (when connected via USB to the Windows machine).
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It doesnt show up as sch i535 in explorer or even my computer? It's not going to show up as a drive like C:/ D:/ etc.
 
I am using the AT&T version. When i hook it up to my Windows 7 notebook, it lists itself as.............
>SAMSUNG-SGH-I747
...>CARD
...>PHONE

As it says, the phone is the "internal" memory and the card is the "SD Card".
 
darkestred said:
It doesnt show up as sch i535 in explorer or even my computer? It's not going to show up as a drive like C:/ D:/ etc.
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Yes, it shows up as SCH 1535 Portal Media Player in "My Computer." But when you open that "drive" it only shows one set of directories (not the expected two - Phone and SD Card -- and neither the MNT nor SDCard directory is among them.

Seems weird to me.
 
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