ok so I went ahead and connected my Samsung galaxy s3 to my computer via usb to transfer pictures and I was uber-disappointed to see that my computer did not detect the phone as a usb mass storage device.
so I've searched the web and had the misfortune to discover that apparently it's not possible to connect the galaxy usb mass storage device like a usb stick which most people have these days and which most if not all phones are capable of.
so how do you enable the usb mass storage transfer mode on the galaxy s3??????
cheers!
OK Lets get a few things straight. The S3 uses MTP which is part of the USB protocol. MTP was added to the USB protocol back in 2005 or 2006 and has been adopted by almost everyone in the industry. All cameras now use it as well as every OS on the market except for Apple (Of course). Apple uses PTP which is similar to MTP.
So if you have a USB device and you stick a MTP device into it and the USB device was written correctly then it should work. Only cases where it wouldn't is if they didn't do it right or the USB device was made prior to 2005-2006.
Windows has had MTP support since Vista and Microsoft released drivers for the previous OSs as well. MTP support is built into Android, Amiga, Windows, AROS, Linux, and MorphOS and Symbian OS. Supposedly you may have to add drivers for some of these.
Now if you own a computer your USB device may not be made by one of these companies (Might be made by Intel or Dell or whomever). So you just plug in the S3 to your computer and if it works, great, and if it doesn't go hunt for a driver from whomever made your USB device or buy a USB device that was made correctly. If it doesn't work when you plug your S3 into your computer, don't blame Samsung or Google, blame whomever made your hardware of your USB device inside of your computer.
More information here:
Media Transfer Protocol - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
USB.org - Approved Device Class Document Download
http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs/MTPv1_1.zip
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