USB Mass storage or "drive mode" or other way I can attach my Centro to my PC

[hesynergy]

Originally Posted by stuartrayner

I use Card Reader and find it to be invaluable at times. Since I'm a 755p user it enables me to copy music and videos to the card much faster. It also has helped me to find "lost" applications and files that were misfiled. Furthermore, with using Vista, there has been a couple times where the Vista system automatically corrected some corruption in the files or startup application for the card, all while using Card Reader.

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"Card reader" vs Physical Card reader?

btw Ptunes allows storage transfer TO it..haven't been able to get Ptunes data connection to work both ways, Mvoice 5.5.6 allows data to and from the Treo/Cento via it's data connection menu choice.

I've used all three, and I find that reading/writing data to the palm is still(USB 1.0?) lots slower to and from a palm's SD card than it is pulling it out(pain on the Centro) and plopping it in a USB 2.0 card reader...anyone else found this?

Chas

[brandon]

you can copy them to a card and then move them using one of the above apps or a card reader.

[jsilve1]

Thanks again, all.

I don't have amicrosd card. I want to be able to do this without having to buy a card. I mean, I find it actually pretty irritating when devices that SHOULD have this functionality don't. (This isn't the first device like this that I've had this problem with)

Anyway, thanks. I'll figure something out. If I do, I'll post it here.

later...

[Treo Musketeers]

I understand your frustration, but I can honestly tell you owning a card on your phone adds so much more functionality and flexibility. You won't be sorry you bought it.

[skoenig]

I hear you too... it's silly you can't see it as a drive, my guess is that Palm didn't want people messing about within the inbuilt storage.

Did a bit of searching and, like you, couldn't find a decent how-to's just a bunch of questions.

It's s shame really that palm didn't include something in the Palm Desktop that lets you browse/manipulate 'safe' directories like the camera pics...

If you can get a micro-sd, it would be worth it. Honestly. I did a search to find some cheap prices including shipping and think I did pretty well.

Meritline has a 1GB microSD card for $8.95 including shipping. Or there's a Kingston one include a card reader for $10.99 including shipping. I'd quote our store but frankly the prices are a bit high.

So for the price of a beer or two you can solve your problem even though it really shouldn't be a problem in the first place.

An other route you could go, if you have a data plan is to FTP them off you phone using the free vfs ftp (fully functional demo):

ninelocks

~ Steph

[Shorin]

Originally Posted by jsilve1

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I want something -- and I think the built in "Drive Mode" on the LifeDrive does it -- that turns my phone into attached USB storage without a removable card.

Thanks!

Those palm devices are bit different... I believe they have an internal RAM volume. You can store files and folders in that volume. I believe the LifeDrive or something had about 4GB internal storage. It was a feature to have USB Mass Storage Mode.

The internal Palm memory only allows for prc and pdb files. All others are not allowed (i think). It makes sense that these programs only export the card.
Maybe though, just maybe, if you got one of those ram drive programs for your centro (thus creating a RAM volume ... but you couldn't access system files this way), then maybe one of those programs is smart enough to detect multiple cards...

Anywho I'm researching USB Mass storage so that I can figure out just how to implement it on the Palm. Maybe I'll throw in that feature if I can ever figure it out. I hope I don't have to pay to find out how to implement that standard....

[deibelsan]

Originally Posted by jsilve1

Well, maybe I should be more general in my question.

I really just want to get all my pictures off.

How do I get my pictures off the Centro?

Thanks!

If you are hotsyncing, the pics should be backed up on your PC in a media directory somewhere under your user name.

Palm File Browser is a freeware program for PC that some people use so they can see the card AND internal memory of the device. It is limited in what it can do with internal memory (I believe the big one is it won't delete files) but it is supposed to upload and download (although slowly)

don't know if any of that helps or not

[dwkerux]

deibelsan is correct if you hotsync your pictures will be under MY Pictures/Palm One Photos. But I believe it was said that you are using Linux if so you should talk to Gravel Bay he also uses Linux and is looking for others who are. He has a thread started for Linux users.

[CentroSue]

Originally Posted by dwkerux

deibelsan is correct if you hotsync your pictures will be under MY Pictures/Palm One Photos. But I believe it was said that you are using Linux if so you should talk to Gravel Bay he also uses Linux and is looking for others who are. He has a thread started for Linux users.

Not quite correct. PalmOne hasn't existed for awhile now. Your pics can be found under PalmOSDesktop/yourusername/Photos/

You'll find subfolders there..pics on RAM in one and pics on your SD card (if you have one) in another.

Oops, just noticed you have Linux. I have no idea if the directory structure is the same or even if PalmDesktop works on Linux. Sorry. Get an SD card..you won't regret it! In the meantime you can always simply email your pics to yourself.

[dwkerux]

My mistake. I was apparently looking at the old one. Thanks Sue for catching that.