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[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] yamaha83:
im having issues as well... transfering pics, music, and some Ti back ups liles for later... all is transfering but sometimes freezes and says "waiting:galaxy nexus is busy"

one of the transfers says 6 minutes till done, but a minute ago it said something like 192 days?!

edit: now says 720 days and 12 hours
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zephiK:
You can download SwiFTP (or any other apps that make your phone a FTP server).

Use a FTP client and connect to your phone.

Upload whatever you want on your phone via LAN FTP.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] AllGamer:
yeah, that's typical of windows based Apps MTP

this is an ok workaround, but it's still slow vs going to CWR and mount USB
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zephiK:
Agreed especially with large files. Hopefully, developers will work on removing MTP and bringing back USB mass storage.

I can see MTP being useful for phones with internal storage and external storage (kinda like how Honeycomb tablets were). It organizes things much better but definitely makes file processing a lot slower.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cornelious1212:
Same issue. AirDroid works, but shouldn't have to use it.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] jbharman45:
Load all the USB Drivers

I had the same unreliable transfers (I wanted to copy files from the 32GB microSD from the Rezound to the Nexus), and the slow/dropped transfers mostly went away once I downloaded the full USB driver set from Samsung and installed those. Don't have the link handy, but I found it here on XDA...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] AllGamer:
not really

because i was using the Dual Mount for gingerbread devices and that worked waaaaaaaaaay better than MTP

same exact thing as mount USB, but you don't need to unmount it

and both the phone apps and PC sees the same file content, and interaction without having to cut off the internal Apps from the phone
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] 2Planker31:
Can I ask a completely noob question that is most likely a step prior to the OP's issue?

Whenever I'm trying to copy .JPGs from my Win7 Machine to my GN, in any folder, I'm not even able to copy a single file and I receive the following message "Cannot Copy ***.JPG, You do not have permission to create this item."

I've tried a multitude of attempts, USB debugging On/Off, MTP vs PTP, opening Explorer as an administrator, and no joy with anything.

Any thoughts?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Caanon:
Just curious... is anyone that's having trouble connecting their phone to their computer using the Y cord that comes with the extra battery?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Trumps:
Same problem here. This is unfortunate that the traditional usb access was removed. Even more unfortunate is there's no removable memory.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] AllGamer:
Bingo!

if they left SD card support, then the annoying MTP problems, will not be an issue

as the work around would have been simply to copy the files to the SD card then put it in the phone and done

instead of what people are going through now
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] enomai:
Deleted Music folder in Root Explorer. Created new folder called "Music" in Root Explorer. Hooked up G-Nex to win 7 sp1 64 bit via samsung usb cable in mtp mode. Copied assload of music files from Atrix to G-Nex no problem.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Trumps:
Honestly, some days I feel like such a whiner in the Android community, and keep telling myself I shouldn't be pissed off about stupid stuff. I realize how it's easy to say more testing should have been done - but really, this issue was created by someone thinking that removing usb mass storage mode was a good idea. A complete lack of common sense must have led to the decision... and even worse, this is something anybody could discover within 5 minutes of unboxing the device.

USB mass storage mode had quirks, but removing it completely was flat out stupid.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Baguett:
Lol i've got the exact same problem.

I think it started after i rooted my device, have you guys also rooted it?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Trumps:
It was doing it before it was rooted. A friend of mine is having the same problem and he is completely stock.

I actually was able to copy a bunch of pictures over initially, then it puked.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Baguett:
hmm this is a wierd bug, if we can call it so.

To me this looks like a bug that is caused by something in the android settings or maybe a file explorer. Cant be the Samsung USB driver, nor the OS...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Trumps:
Just confirmed it does not work in OSX. Even tried xnjb (http://www.wentnet.com/projects/xnjb/) which is able to read, but writing files does not work.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] AllGamer:
it is so easy to copy file on the Nexus S

google included mount USB for the ICS 4.0.3 on the i9020

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1397766
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] RamAir02:
In CWR, when I go to "mounts and storage" and "mount usb storage" i get a "E:Unable to open ums lunfile (No such file or directory)" message

Any ideas?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] EmedE:
its later...great app, a little slower but a lot of other features. thx!!!! :D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] infernalman7:
Oh man I thought I was the only one having this problem after a thorough search I couldn't find anyone with the problem.

I'm using the OSX and it seems 50% of the time when I try to copy large files it pukes .. the Android File Transfer app will freeze at 16KB of the file copied then crashes. I was having a hard time trying to copy back TitaniumBackup backup files back to the SGN then it refused to do that as well. Batch copy seems to make the problem worse. I had to copy 5-10 files each time for it to work.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Mr. Steve:
From what I can tell,

1. Windows 7 64-bit (and possible 32-bit, and Windows Vista) really don't like using MTP or PTP.

2. Solution to #1, use some kind of wireless file transfer method. I prefer using an FTP Server ( SwiFtp is the best one in my opinion), and I also heard that AirDroid works well too.

I've had no issues so far using SwiFtp; I used it yesterday to transfer about 12 gigs of various music, photos, and some video files with no problem whatsoever.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] forgotteni:
I'm getting the same issue and can not figure out why.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ShinySideUp:
My experience exactly.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] emplox:
Try downloading Samsung Kies on the PC. Reboot and see if that helps.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Juicemane_:
And then we would be plagued with all the same issues as the DX2/D3/Any device with dual SD-EXT.

Trust me, having one storage area is much easier then having multiple... Most apps cant distinguish between the two, and the ones that can always choose the wrong one. I had horrible issues with my Droid 3 using Titanium Backup and other apps that would store on the SD... Titanium liked to backup to the internal, Rommanager would download to the SD, and Bootstrap would only read the SD.

It made things way more complicated.

The fix for this issue is simple, download the drivers and plug the phone into a USB 2.0 port, copy the directories. I transferred over 15gb of data to my phone last night in about 20 minutes (that was from SD Card to Internal)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Luinwethion:
MTP sucks.... I always have problems with my SGS2 or SGnote.... and now GN :|

With the Samsung phones, if i enable the usb debugging, then the phone will work as a normal "flash drive" (just see the internal memory and SD card on Explorer / Finder).

But with GN it won't work, so i have to use MTP... I'm hopping for some rom without that crap.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lurchie85:
nope.for me everything fine. i´m install the orginal samsung usb drivers from the homepage and can copy and past everything i want.largest thing was an .iso with 9 gb

all on windows 7 64 bit.

don´t understand that some people got issues with copying to or from the phone.i can copy anything on my phone.no restrictions, no hangups.like i have an sd-card inside my gn
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Hot_Hands:
Just thought I'd chime in. GSM Galaxy Nexus. I had the same issue copying multiple pictures directly into the Pictures folder. I was able to get around this by copying them first into a folder in the root directory and then moving them over into Pictures. Hope that helps someone else.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] AllGamer:
how about copying large file say 5 GB movie file or more?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] freezepop:
I was able to get large files in to my GN by using adb push command,

Here's what I did:

1. I installed the basic dev tools that needed to be installed if you needed to unlock the bootloader; here is the link http://www.droid-life.com/2011/12/05/how-to-unlock-the-galaxy-nexus-bootloader/ only need to follow till step 6 on that guide

2. the I copy/moved the file I wanted to transfer into the platform-tools folder in the android-sdk-windows folder

3. Shift+right click in platform-tools folder, and select Open command window here (skip this step if you already have it open from step 6 of the guide in the link above)

4. used the command adb push <filename> /sdcard/<folder on the phone> where filename is the file that was copied into the folder in step 2.

5. Then wait till you see another cmd prompt line.

I hope this helps, the transfer speed was pretty decent (I got around 3.6 MB/s) and I was able to transfer a 10Gig movie over w/o any hiccups, also I had debug enabled and stay awake enabled in dev settings on the phone.

I figure if you need to push more files just compress all those files into a zip and push into phone then just unzip using Astro filemanger or the like.

Please do let me know if this was able to help any of you out.

Have a great day :D

EDIT: I forgot to mention that if you want to check the status of your file transfer use Airdroid and go the folder that you are transfering the file to. Then click the file and observe the size of it on the bottom little bar of the airdroid "files" window it should show you the file size, refresh window to see changes.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] @work:
I had this problem. It turns out that if you use windows media player to transfer the files they shoot through very quickly. I have not tried with music, but other files types dont appear to be affected.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] freezepop:
The only issue with that is that it is unable to transfer an mkv files as per my experience, other than that it's pretty fast.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] evired:
had the same problems you guys might want to try installing drivers for the phone. either the samsung ones or pdanet worked for me. sorry i only remember the samsung link tho so hopefully it works for you guys. i havent had a problem transferring large files like flac or mkv since i installed drivers and the speed is fairly quick.

http://www.samsung.com/us/support/downloads/verizon-wireless/SCH-I515MSAVZW
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] AllGamer:
it has nothing to do with the drivers

it's the nature of MTP
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] droid.:
Thanks This worked for me, I had to copy to the root of the internal storage. Seems a little strange but it worked. Thanks again. I don't like that the share becomes unavailable during the transfer process. Lame!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] DC Daniel:
Got the same prob. Worked fine the first day. But now it just hangs. Oh and I haven't rooted.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cyberto:
I also have this problem...
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] daleandla:
Epic Fail

This is quite a let down for the ol Nexus.:mad: ... I'm slowly........ transferring through windows media player now.....13%.......14%...... Wow. I hope there will be a fix very soon for this! :confused:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bmckenna:
Another vote for SwiFTP from me. Tried downloading samsung drivers, no dice. Would copy 1-3 files over out of my pictures from my old phone and then crap out. SwiFTP over my wireless copied 110mb (the 60 picture files I really wanted to bring to the new phone) in about 2 minutes (computer was also connected via wireless, wired speeds I would imagine would be faster).
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] in2uition:
I use Android Commander, makes even copying to the root directory a breeze...

http://androidcommander.com/
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] courday:
One Solution

I had the same problem until I downloaded the Samsung USB drivers located at: samsung (dot) com /us/support/downloads/SCH-I515MSAVZW

And I still had to create folders off the root (aka sdcard) in which to copy files from my PC to the phone and then move them via Root Explorer (or some other android file manager) to there respective sub-directories.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zeke1988:
i use the cable that come with the phone and it works. i tested 3 other cable and it doesnt work.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] cybrvipr23:
I actually right click or Control+C and then paste into the G-nexus and I don't have a problem. I would before just drag and drop and it wouldn't copy and just hang.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] StormbladeX69:
I Unlocked/Rooted yesterday, and was unable to copy files. I searched this AM and found a suggestion to Disable USB Debugging. As soon as I did that I was able to copy my pictures back onto my GNex.

Disable USB Debugging if you aren't trying to modify things, and just want to copy pictures.

I am still having issues with android.process.media crashing, and I have cleared Cache/Data for Download Manager. Thoughts on that?

UPDATE: Looks like I am still having issues copying some files.

USB Debugging Disabled

Screen set to Always on while charging
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] StormbladeX69:
Saw a recommendation to:

-Create a folder on your desktop (I created Droid X Pics to move my old photos)

-Copy the pics into the folder

-Right-Click the folder and select Send-To Galaxy Nexus

-Move the folder to the location you want it once it is copied

My old pics are copying as we speak. Haven't tried moving the folder, or copying other file types with this method yet. Hope this helps.

USB Debugging Off, MTP Enabled

Stock Unlocked/Rooted ICS 4.0.2
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Maliacrete:
THIS IS IT.... right click and send to phone... as easy as that.. thank you my friand
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] gaming09:
ive had this problem from the get-go if your on a windows pc, right click the file(s) your looking to transfer go to send to and select galaxy nexus, and it will sort them for you, if u need to change how they are sorted in the phone use astro file manager
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] adrynalyne:
I just move them to "on top" of the destination folder without opening it. Works every time.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] synaesthetic:
Copying anything over MTP is an unpleasant task, but I've found that using MediaMonkey to transfer music over MTP is vastly more reliable than using the Windows Explorer MTP interface. I can use any cable, the screen doesn't have to be on, and the transfers are fast and never fail. I moved 10GB of music from my PC to my Nexus without any trouble and it only took about 25 minutes total to transfer everything, which is even faster than putting the same amount of music on my old Nexus S via mass storage.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] toroidal_loop:
For OS X, there seems to be some sort of problem with the ROM that's causing the 16kb hiccup. I couldn't get a file transfer to happen at all on a custom rom, but when I restored to a stock backup that I had from a month ago, it worked fine. I really don't understand why it's happening. Maybe a usb interaction file got left out or something.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] blackbanjo:
I had this issue for a short while while USB Debugging was enabled. If it's on, try toggling it off and see if it helps.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Dreamweaver:
lol wtf! I thought the Nexus is a good phone... i cannot copy .jpg and bigger files... I tried to disable "enable usb debugging" and I also installed the latest samsung device drivers (25 Nov 2011) on my Win 7 x64 Ultimate... doesnt work at all.

I am transferring right now via FTP... its so 2000! :mad:
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] wish777:
I had this issue until I updated the correct drivers....I installed drivers I was on 4.0.3 and had to use Odin to restore it to 4.0.2 factory setting to take the phone back...the drivers wouldn't allow me to transfer files...then once I went back to 4.0.3 the phone worked flawlessly transferring files
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] force1stiptopped:
I was having this problem until I realized it only froze up when I drug the files over to an already unopened file. If I double click on the file I want to transfer to and then drag the files over it works flawlessly.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] k20igor:
The same thing actuallly happens to me everytime i wanna transfer pics or videos to my nexus it has the transfering window but never transfers anything. tried both ptp mtp modes and same thing, just keeps telling me the device has disconnected. driving me nuts, but it did work once becuase i transfered a ton of pictures and vids before
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lowgoz:
i had the same problem. Flashing a totally different rom helped solve.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ivoniko:
I was trying to download a file from my Android to my Computer, it didn't work out and the file completely disappeared. Never had problems with uploading, this is the first time I tried to download something.

Is there any way to find this file on my Android, it's a Pcm Recorder file, is it possible to just completely disappear.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] fwin72:
same problem over here... it is frustrating!!

Do you think that it can be fixed in the next firmware update?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] white2003:
I had this issue till my phone was wiped by the bootloader being unlocked. After the wipe I haven't had a problem. It was really frustrating. I tried everything I could think of.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] fwin72:
It may be a solution, but it should be solved with a fw update
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] leonironchef:
Why's that a bad thing? I'm using FTP Droid works a treat, its wireless, works if your phone is charging in the next room, speed's just as quick, even minimises damage to USB socket on phone
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] s2d4:
Ppl just can't get used to new way of doing things, so they whine whine whine rather than learning how to do it..
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] Luxferro:
The new way of doing things just happens to really suck. That MTP protocol, or whatever it is called rarely works right... but we (or at least me) don't know if it is the host side (windows) or the device side (the phone) that has the issues.

Sometimes it shows all the files, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it craps out copying, sometimes it doesn't. At least the USB mass storage method usually always worked (at least for me).

If I need to copy something off my phone now I do it wirelessly - since it is the only dependable method for the galaxy nexus. Air Droid FTW.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] leonironchef:
Not to mention all the USB driver issues... took me a whole night to find the right ones when flashing from yakjuwx
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] purekillforce:
I found that audio files etc copied across fine. However, MUSIC FILES would crash explorer on my PC and wouldnt copy when trying to put them in the images folder.

I found a simple workaround that ACTUALLY worked.

Drop the pictures (i dropped and entire folder of pictures) into your download folder on your phone.

Then use a file browser (i use Astro) to move that folder from downloads in to the images folder.

Worked fine for me. Hope it works for you too!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] white2003:
I agree. My coworker's Nexus didn't have an issue. I dealt with it for a week and a half until i unlocked it. Then realized it resolved it when I was copying data back.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] bwcorvus:
Just zip the files up or if its one big file rename it .zip

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] fade_:
This was happening to me after I unlocked mine but only seemed to happen with pictures. After updating to 4.04 it seemed to have stopped.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] tolick:
GREAT!!! THANKS!!! The best solution for this issue far away!!!
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] :
I can't even create a folder inside of my pictures folder. This is pretty disappointing. It freezes, then the folder on my PC goes into "Not Responding."
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] TheTinRam:
This fixed it for me! I was having problems coppying music over. Deleting the folder in Windows did not help, but when did this in Root Explorer it solved it.

Thanks!

---------- Post added at 09:39 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:54 PM ----------

Spoke to soon. It improved it, but I still get the "Cannot copy" message after while
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] TheTinRam:
Wow, nothing has worked for me. I am trying to copy about 20 GB of music over.

I tried re-creating the music folder in both Windows and Root explorer, Different ways to drag and drop or copy and paste the files, copping them to a different folder, "send to nexus"... nothing has worked.

Air Droid looks ok, but it can only copy files, not folders. I guess I could use WMP or Android Commander, but the whole thing about owning Android is that you don't need to use special software to copy media over. If I wanted to have a bunch of restrictions on how to do things I would have bought that other type of phone.

Stuck and bummed. I guess this means I am going to try some ROMs.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] GermanGuy:
Might be worth trying. I had the same problem, nothing worked. Could not see all folders. For some reason Google Currents was wreaking havoc on my Nexus. After deleting the files on the internal sdcard and uninstalling Google Currents everything went back to normal.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lupipe:
i had the same problem with my macbook pro - freeze at 16kb..try to disable USB debugging in developer options, that worked for me
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] TjPhysicist:
ADB

IDK if someone mentioned this already, but regarding the OP's post; I had the exact same issue. And in fact i dont like MTP cuz it seems to be "judgemental" (by which i mean it will sometimes tell me that it wont transfer a file cuz it thinks it copy protected or something etc).

I finally ended up just adb push. like open up command window, and do <path to adb.exe> push <path of stuff on your PC> /mnt/sdcard/<path on the phone relative to sdcard>

so something like... adb.exe push C:\Music /mnt/sdcard/Music will push all contents of C:\Music into /mnt/sdcard/Music (or the "Music" folder in your "sdcard").

But yea..all in all, as nice as it is to not have to worry about mounting and unmounting...i hate mtp.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] lchiu7:
I just bumped into this problem. When I first got my GN I was able to copy tons of files across as I moved them from a previous phone.

Then today I wanted to copy over a ringtone and it just hung. And I rebooted, tried 3 PC's and nothing.

In the end I tried the sending the folder tip. There were two options - one to send the files as it and one to send them so they could be used in the right place (or words to that effect). I chose send as is and an error popped up saying the phone was no longer connected or stopped responding.

I then tried send so they could be used and the transfer went across pretty fast. The folder had a mixture of Nikon RAW images in NEF format and jpg. When the copy finished there was a folder in the root with the name of the Windows folder containing only the NEF files and another folder created /sdcard/pictures with the JPG's. So that seems to work but it's a bit fiddly.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] arkhantos:
solved the problem by usin gnex toolkit and seting to unlock bootloader again( it will fail) then used it to root my phone again after the root the phone was working ok!!:D
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] TAWoody:
I haven't had any problems with mine.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zakkain:
I had the same issue, and that's how I found this thread... on a whim I tried turning OFF usb debug mode and then my files started copying. Anyone having this issue, give that a try!

(OSX with the Android File Transfer program from google)
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] zeke1988:
my phone only transfer with the cable that came with it.... weird...