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pagdodd

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contrary to what the title says , every time I plug my phone into USB it keeps UNmounting the SD card. Despite me having it set to charge only.

Is there anyway to stop this?
 
Maybe I am missing something BUT why do you want it to stop?

When you select charge only then the SD card is mounted so that way you can continue using it whilst charging
 
sorry, what I meant was that it keeps unmounting as if I have chosen disk drive

Therefore any widgets/apps installed to SD stop working.

As it is well documented, the battery aint great on these phone so when at work I plug it into USB just to charge.
 
When you choose Disk Drive as the USB connection, Android unmounts the card so you can access it with your PC through USB. Widgets use the SD card so some widgets and apps won't be running properly while Disk Drive is selected.
 
My problem is that I am not selecting disk drive, I am selecting charge only but it keeps unmounting the SD
 
Are you using Winamp? This has a setting on it that automatically makes the sd card visible as a drive when connected via usb which seems to override the usual settings. You can disable the feature via Winamp's settings. If not using Winamp it may be another app that is doing something similar.
 
djl208 said:
Are you using Winamp? This has a setting on it that automatically makes the sd card visible as a drive when connected via usb which seems to override the usual settings. You can disable the feature via Winamp's settings. If not using Winamp it may be another app that is doing something similar.
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Yes, I thought of this, too.

WinAmp, Double Twist or iSincr can do this.

Harry
 
Mine's doing this too and I have Winamp installed so will try disabling/uninstalling Winamp as I don't really use it to be honest (still tend to wind up using the stock player).

Thanks for the heads up,

G
 
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Gisbourne said:
Mine's doing this too and I have Winamp installed so will try disabling/uninstalling Winamp as I don't really use it to be honest (still tend to wind up using the stock player).

Thanks for the heads up,

G
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Something is definitely not right about the pc link on my phone. I have read other threads and this seems to be a reoccurring problem. I have linked and unlinked my phone to the pc via usb and nothing comes up on the phone. I have ticked the "always ask" in the pc connections menu. I have just installed winamp and am aware of the preset, but the phone was playing up before i installed winamp
I just recently did a factory reset and the phone linked again, but now it gone back to its old habits; not even notifying me of what mode it is in. Even if it is on disk drive mode it is not recognised on the pc. I suspect an app causing this, but the prospect of going through each one is soul destroying. too much else i need to do without this. Please help
 
This has started doing this to me today :confused: plug in the pc USB connector and I don't get the disk drive ect. options come up anymore.
Any ideas guys :(
 
Ok, did a search, took out the battery, sim and sd card, rebooted but no change.
My phone usb cable is plugged into usb multi plug that is connected in the back of my pc, someone suggested plugging the phone directly into the pc usb port and it worked first time! :confused:
 
djl208 said:
Are you using Winamp? This has a setting on it that automatically makes the sd card visible as a drive when connected via usb which seems to override the usual settings. You can disable the feature via Winamp's settings. If not using Winamp it may be another app that is doing something similar.
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That's it!

Just removed Winamp and problem solved.
 
Well bugger me, it was Winamp causing me that grief...I had the original poster's issue, SD card stored stuff not being available no matter what "mode" I picked... checked and yep, that little default of "Enable Auto-Mount" was ticked. Have now disabled, and all of my functions have come back!!! Including tethering, which had stopped. Winamp still installed and working fine...

Thank you for the solution to my issue.
 
All the things I've fiddled with to try and get CoPilot working and it was Winamp. Thanks for the replies - you've saved me a major headache.

Andy.
 
Just a follow up, but this did solve it for me although I didn' uninstall Winamp in the end, I just disabled the auto-mount option.

For those that are interested, my reason for not uninstalling Winamp is that it now offers wireless music sync with your PC client which is bloody marvellous!

Cheers,

G
 
winamp is a bugger for doing that without warning
i noticed it straight away months ago when it was released as i always check settings of everything i install and i though "oooh cheeky"

at this point i removed it for its steve jobs like behaviour.
it has no reason to need to automount, its android not iphone
i know you can disable it but because the option is on by default it pissed me off to no end

bloody AOL (owners of winamp and why its now evil)
 
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