USB Mass storage mode in Lumia 800 How To Tutorial!

Posted by on 11/12/2011 in Mango, News, Nokia, Windows Mobile, Windows Phone 29 comments


USB Mass storage mode in Lumia 800

We Symbian users just love the USB Mass Storage mode in our devices. When I got the Lumia 800 I just hate the way of syncing everything via Zune. I was searching for a hack to enable USB Mass storage mode in Lumia 800. I found it in Nokiabuff.com and XDA  that it can be enabled on other WP phones via registry hack. So I just tried it in Lumia 800. It just works.  Here are the steps to enable USB Mass storage mode in Lumia 800.

 

USB Mass storage mode in Lumia 800

Step 1 :

USB Mass storage mode in Lumia 800

Open Registry Editor by typing “ regedit ” in start bar or in Run tool.

Step 2:

USB Mass storage mode in Lumia 800

In the Left Pane click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and find a folder tree called SYSTEM -> CurrentControlSet -> Enum and then USB.

Step 3:

USB Mass storage mode in Lumia 800

Press Ctrl + F or click Find in Edit Menu at the Menu Bar and search for “ZuneDriver” make sure USB folder is selected before searching.

Step 4:

USB Mass storage mode in Lumia 800

It will find Zune Driver inside a folder tree called as VID_045E&PID_04EC&MI_00 . Just ignore all the stuffs and click Device Parametres folder tree.

P.S : Before we proceed rightclick Device Parameters and click Export in case if something goes wrong this will restore the registry to old state :) .

Step 5 :

When you click Device Parameters in the right pane it will display the registry values under it.

Step 6:

Registry editing begins now

In the right pane double-click the registry value called

  • ShowInShell and change its value from 0 to 1 .
  • PortableDeviceNameSpaceExcludeFromShell and change its value from 1 to 0 .
  • EnableLegacySupport from 0 to 1 .

 

Make sure these three values are changed. Just close the registry editor and it will save those values.

 

Step 7:

 

 

Remove the Lumia 800 and re-insert it again. You will see two portable devices in My Computer with a Storage capacity of  13.3GB. Now you can transfer your songs, pictures and videos to the Lumia without using Zune.

 

 

This trick consists of some drawbacks such as music added via this hack will show as unknown album in Music app.

But in our test the picture and video transfers to the device worked without any problem. Just make sure you copy the compatible formats to play in Lumia 800. This hack is faster that Zune as you can see the files pop up in gallery or video player as you begin to transfer.

 

 

After using USB Mass storage mode in Lumia 800 dont forget to eject device before removing the usb cable ;) .

 

Note :

 

We are still not sure whether this hack works without Zune. We have removed the Zune but still the Lumia 800 managed to get drivers from Internet and we had to reapply this registry hack to enable it to show in My Computer. And the file transfers worked fine too. We are conducting further tests in different systems whether we can use Lumia 800 as USB stick without Zune. We will let you know soon. Till then read and share USB Mass storage mode in Lumia 800 post .

Update : You can use this USB Mass storage mode in Lumia 800 hack in any Windows Phone seven smartphones

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  • Karthik372

    hi i have some problem with this, i did this hack on my windows phone, samsung omnia 7 but i am seeing only as portable device in mycomputer i cant copy the files to it , help me pls

  • Karthik372

    thanks dude now i got it

    • http://lovemynokia.com/ Siraj Soft

      What was the problem before ? Zune missing ? 

  • Karthik372

    i have big problem now. i cant install apps frm zune. when i click on install apps its showing all the steps as before but i cant see the app in the mob. pls help me 

  • Guest

    I did everything but then when I try and paste anything, it says it doesn’t have permission to paste. Help please? Thanks in advance :)

    • http://lovemynokia.com/ Siraj Soft

      Hope you changed with Admin rights in regedit.

  • http://geekworldnews.blogspot.com/ Geekworldnews

    nice tutorial.

    • http://lovemynokia.com/ Siraj Soft

      Thanks :)

  • Guest

    i did everything step by step but it says it doesn’t have permission to paste. and i changed in admin rights…… so what went wrong

    • http://lovemynokia.com/ Siraj Soft

      The registry is saved already just reboot and try. Hope you edited the registry with admin rights

      • Guest

        i edited it with admin rights and even after reboot still no permission to paste ….. can the problem be that i use windows xp or shouldnt that be a problem?

        • http://lovemynokia.com/ Siraj Soft

          Sorry I tried it in windows 7 not much idea about XP :-(

  • Hari Om Swarnkar

    not able to paste anything in the two portable devicdes showing with my mobile name….
    it says “can not copy, the device has either stopped responding or disconnected.”
    please help.

    • Karthikhunk

      first close ur zune to get the drive inside ur portable devices. 

  • http://www.tech-buzz.in/ santhosh

    This trick is awesome, soon i am going to try it…..

  • K2berg

    Super!
    Just what I’m looking for
    Thanks!
    Huub

    • http://lovemynokia.com/ Siraj Soft

      Yeah

      Regards,
      Siraj.

  • Yousuf Kamal

    what kind of backward  vendor did nokia turn itslf into?
    PLAIN STUUUUUUPIIIDDHH!!

    • http://lovemynokia.com/ Siraj Soft

      Hey YKBKS,

      Not Nokia blame Microsoft :P

      • Ykbks

        nah, i blame Nokia. If they would only use their head and the yellow stuff in it, they COULD overwhelm the mobility world. You have GOT TO admit that Apple makes some pretty MEAN devices. compared to them, almost a 98% of Nokia’s devices are PLAIN DUMB!!!
        But if we compare the vendors on basis of solutions and flexibility, the result just reverses.
        Which simply enforces my WISE saying- “There’s always something wrong with Nokia and always something FISHY with Apple.”

        but still, for all to come down to that!! even a combined effort of Microsoft and Nokia seems to be lame…

  • Jvimalsoft

    it works… thanks
     

  • Ashley

    absolutly amazing
    i could’nt even install zune because of “windows portable device updater” and windows update being absolutly pants
    so this is a relif and i dont have to formate my computer for the time being

    thanks mate

  • Kaa

    Wow. On my Nokia N9 (original phone, Lumia 800 is 
    p, li { white-space: pre-wrap;plagiarism in the N9 shell) that works by default. Without the need some of spells.
    MS: Congratulation .. :-D

    • Kaa

       Something is wrong, edit:
      Lumia 800 is plagiarism in the N9 shell
      .. :-)

  • Firecelln80

    Thanks dude you are awesome 
    please post new tricks for free apps and games like cydia in Iphone or elase 
    please 
    god bless you

  • Sjaakiw

    Works great! THNX

  • Ab87

     Thanks, it really helps. I love the basic way of transfer mechanism

  • http://www.thednetworks.com Dhawal D

    How to I enable it for Mac?

  • SANGHVI

    Can we recover data after mounting as mass storage? If so which tool should I use