How To Solve: External SD Card Not Detected By AirDroid

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AirDroid is my favorite way to connect my Samsung Galaxy S2 to my laptop running on Ubuntu Linux. AirDroid is a fantastic app that connects your computer with Android over wireless. Best thing, you can access it over any web browser. Lately, I bought an external memory card of 32 GB and when I connected my laptop to my Galaxy s2 using AirDroid, I was surprised to see that AirDroid could not recognize the external SD card.

To solve the problem and “force” AirDroid to recognize the external SD card, here is what you can do.

1. Click to “Files” icon on AirDroid desktop
2. Open the “System” folder (ignore the warning)
3. Search for “mnt” folder. This folder is used for mounting all the drives (read cards).
4. Open “mnt” folder. here you should see some folders like System, SD Card and a folder named after your external SD card. By default it is called External SD. Enter the folder and you can see all your files stored on the external SD card.

Next time on wards, you can access them under Files folder and it will directly show you the External SD Card:

Cheers :)

How to fix: Android Samsung Galaxy S2 not recognized on Linux

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Problem:

I was facing problems connecting my Samsung Galaxy S2 on Ubuntu, which is particularly annoying bearing in mind the total lack of support by Samsung for Linux (even Kies is of no use). Strange enough, it works flawlessly on Windows 7, where it recognises it instantly and I can transfer files between my phone and computer.
When I plug it into my Linux machine, it is recognised and I can see the contents of the root of /sdcard and the SD card but I cannot access the contents of any file or folder as all the folders are empty.
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