On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 07:58:17PM +0100, Leopold Palomo Avellaneda wrote: > > History: > > USB MTP (universal serial bus - media transfer protocol) was developed > > to replace the USB Mass Storage. > > > > Problem with mass storage is that it is not reliable - it is > > block-device-level protocol. And if PC goes power down (or blue > > screen, on certain O.S) the data on the smartphone will be damaged, > > and there is no "scandisk" on the smartphone, so it will become > > unreadable. > > MTP overcomes this problem by being filesystem level protocol (as > > opposed to block device), and is supported since Windows > > hasta-la-Vista. (since 2006) > > > > The result: > > Google decided to remove USB Mass Storage from Android 4.x devices. > > Newer Android devices support MTP-only. > > I have Android 4.x with MSC. However is not the default. Are you sure you > didn't have it? It is supported only by some devices. -- WBR, wRAR
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