My device is not detected by calibre

[AU4U]

Acer Icona A100, my device is not detected by calibre.
Right click>Send to Device>,,,Main Memory, Card A, Card B, is all greyed out.
I can, however, send via Right click>Save to Disk>,,,,,,all this works fine.
I'm running Win 7, Calaber 8.31.......
The Acer USB debugging is ON.
I have Moon+Reader Pro,,,,,and the Acer bloatware.
I did the sticky at the top of this forum, here is the output of the debug device detection:

Version: 0.8.31
USB devices on system:
[u'usb\\root_hub&vid8086&pid2937&rev0003',
u'usb\\root_hub&vid8086&pid2938&rev0003',
u'usb\\root_hub&vid8086&pid2935&rev0003',
u'usb\\root_hub&vid8086&pid2934&rev0003',
u'usb\\root_hub&vid8086&pid2936&rev0003',
u'usb\\root_hub&vid8086&pid2939&rev0003',
u'usb\\root_hub20&vid8086&pid293a&rev0003',
u'usb\\root_hub20&vid8086&pid293c&rev0003',
u'usb\\vid_0408&pid_03ba&rev_0109',
u'usb\\vid_0408&pid_03ba&rev_0109&mi_00',
u'usb\\vid_045e&pid_074f&rev_0140',
u'usb\\vid_0502&pid_3348&rev_9999',
u'usb\\vid_0502&pid_3348&rev_9999&mi_00',
u'usb\\vid_0502&pid_3348&rev_9999&mi_01',
u'usb\\vid_138a&pid_0001&rev_0372']
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "site-packages\calibre\devices\scanner.py", line 84, in __call__
DriveError: No removable drives found
Drives detected:
Available plugins: ADAM ALEX ALURATEK_COLOR ANDROID ARCHOS7O AVANT AZBOOKA BAMBOOK
BLACKBERRY BOEYE_BDX BOEYE_BEX BOOQ BOOX COBY COOL_ER CYBOOK DBOOK E52
E71X EB511 EB600 EBK52 ECLICTO EDGE EEEREADER ELONEX ESLICK EX124G
FOLDER_DEVICE_FOR_CONFIG GEMEI GER2 HANLINV3 HANLINV5 ILIAD INVESBOOK
IPAPYRUS IREXDR1000 IREXDR800 IRIVER_STORY ITALICA ITUNES JETBOOK
JETBOOK_MINI KINDLE KINDLE2 KINDLE_DX KINDLE_FIRE KOBO LIBREAIR
LUMIREAD MENTOR MIBUK MOOVYBOOK N516 N770 N810 NEWSMY NEXTBOOK NOOK
NOOK_COLOR NUUT2 ODYSSEY ORIZON PALMPRE PDNOVEL PDNOVEL_KOBO PICO
PLAYBOOK POCKETBOOK301 POCKETBOOK360 POCKETBOOK360P POCKETBOOK602
POCKETBOOK701 PRS505 PRST1 README S60 SHINEBOOK SNE SOVOS SPECTRA
STASH SUNSTECH_EB700 SWEEX TECLAST_K3 THEBOOK TREKSTOR USER_DEFINED
VELOCITYMICRO WEBOS WEXLER

Looking for devices...
u'usb\\vid_0408&pid_03ba&rev_0109'
u'usb\\vid_0408&pid_03ba&rev_0109&mi_00'

Devices possibly connected: None

[itimpi]

Your device is not showing up as a removable drive, and that is required for Calibre to be able to recognise it.

[AU4U]

Wellllll,,that is not new news to me,,,I can read the debug report!

It does show up like this:



OK,,,,so it shows up as a Portable Media Player, not Removable Storage.
Is there any way to get Caliber to detect my device?

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by AU4U

OK,,,,so it shows up as a Portable Media Player, not Removable Storage. Is there any way to get Caliber to detect my device?

No, unless you can find the option within your device to mount it as a USB drive.

Alternatively you can use the Connect to folder feature (which treats a folder as a device) to send the books you want to read to a folder. Then manually send the contents of the folder to your device.

[stefp35]

My Kobo touch was not detected anymore by Calibre and I also had the log 'DriveError: No removable drives found'.

To fix it (on Windows 7 64 bits):
- connect the device to a USB port
- double click Control Panel/System and Security/Administrative tools/Computer/management/Device Manager/Disk drives/<device disk>
- change the removal policy from "quick removal" to "better performance"
- reboot ?

Now the device should be seen by Calibre (and you also need to eject it before disconnecting ).

[theducks]

Originally Posted by stefp35

My Kobo touch was not detected anymore by Calibre and I also had the log 'DriveError: No removable drives found'.

To fix it (on Windows 7 64 bits):
- connect the device to a USB port
- double click Control Panel/System and Security/Administrative tools/Computer/management/Device Manager/Disk drives/<device disk>
- change the removal policy from "quick removal" to "better performance"
- reboot ?

Now the device should be seen by Calibre (and you also need to eject it before disconnecting ).

This is BAD advice for any removable drive.

'Quick removal' prevents Write behind caching, which means your computer will wait until things get written before giving control back to you.
'Performance' fakes (by spooling) the final write and lets you get back to work.
If you fail to use Safe Eject and WAIT for the OK message

[PeterT]

@TheDucks: +1

[dwig]

@TheDucks: +1 with an addenda:

If making this change works it is likely because the change forced Windows to refresh the driver for the device.

If simply rebooting your system doesn't work, you might try this method and see if the device remounts. If it does, promptly change it back to "quick removal" and reboot again without attempting to actually transferring files to/from the device while in the "better performance" mode.

[tiffanyjoy]

Version: 0.8.50
USB devices on system:
[u'usb\\root_hub&vid10de&pid03f1&rev00a3',
u'usb\\root_hub20&vid10de&pid03f2&rev00a3',
u'usb\\vid_03f0&pid_5511&rev_0100',
u'usb\\vid_03f0&pid_5511&rev_0100&mi_00',
u'usb\\vid_03f0&pid_5511&rev_0100&mi_01',
u'usb\\vid_03f0&pid_5511&rev_0100&mi_02',
u'usb\\vid_04ca&pid_0040&rev_0122',
u'usb\\vid_04ca&pid_0040&rev_0122&mi_00',
u'usb\\vid_04ca&pid_0040&rev_0122&mi_01',
u'usb\\vid_093a&pid_2510&rev_0100',
u'usb\\vid_0bb4&pid_0c02&rev_0222',
u'usb\\vid_13b1&pid_0020&rev_0001']
Drives detected:
(1) G:\ ~ \\?\STORAGE#VOLUME#_??_USBSTOR#DISK&VEN_&PROD_NEXT 2&REV_0000#11223344&1#{53F56307-B6BF-11D0-94F2-00A0C91EFB8B}#{53F5630D-B6BF-11D0-94F2-00A0C91EFB8B}
Available plugins: ADAM ALEX ALURATEK_COLOR ANDROID ARCHOS7O AVANT AZBOOKA BAMBOOK
BLACKBERRY BOEYE_BDX BOEYE_BEX BOOQ BOOX COBY COOL_ER CYBOOK DBOOK E52
E71X EB511 EB600 EBK52 ECLICTO EDGE EEEREADER ELONEX ESLICK EX124G
FOLDER_DEVICE_FOR_CONFIG GEMEI GER2 HANLINV3 HANLINV5 ILIAD INVESBOOK
IPAPYRUS IREXDR1000 IREXDR800 IRIVER_STORY ITALICA JETBOOK
JETBOOK_COLOR JETBOOK_MINI KINDLE KINDLE2 KINDLE_DX KINDLE_FIRE KOBO
LIBREAIR LUMIREAD MENTOR MIBUK MOOVYBOOK N516 N770 N810 NEWSMY
NEXTBOOK NUUT2 ODYSSEY ORIZON PALMPRE PDNOVEL PDNOVEL_KOBO PI2 PICO
PLAYBOOK POCKETBOOK301 POCKETBOOK360 POCKETBOOK360P POCKETBOOK602
POCKETBOOK701 PRS505 PRST1 README S60 SHINEBOOK SNE SOVOS SPECTRA
STASH SUNSTECH_EB700 SWEEX TECLAST_K3 THEBOOK TREKSTOR VELOCITYMICRO
WEBOS WEXLER

Looking for devices...
u'usb\\vid_0bb4&pid_0c02&rev_0222'
No match found in: \\?\STORAGE#VOLUME#_??_USBSTOR#DISK&VEN_&PROD_NEXT 2&REV_0000#11223344&1#{53F56307-B6BF-11D0-94F2-00A0C91EFB8B}#{53F5630D-B6BF-11D0-94F2-00A0C91EFB8B}

Devices possibly connected: None

not sure if this will help me get my device detected ?

[theducks]

Originally Posted by tiffanyjoy

not sure if this will help me get my device detected ?

Please be precise stating:
the brand and Model #
the formats supported:

If it has a SD Card slot (or 2)

[tiffanyjoy]

[QUOTE=theducks;2074402]Please be precise stating:
the brand and Model #
the formats supported:

If it has a SD Card slot (or 2)[/Quote

model:next2
brand: android 2.1
formats are PDF,e pub,txt,fb2
and a sd card slot

[kovidgoyal]

Your device does not report a vendor name to windows, see

VEN_&PROD_NEXT2

A properly working device would show something like

VEN_SONY&PROD_PRS300

IN this case calibre cannot detect your device. Use connect to folder to connect to it instead.

[tiffanyjoy]

ok so thank you and when I connect to folder even then it wont show the covers of the books is there nothing to be done? I just want to be able to see the cover of my books instead of seeing epub on a blue cover I cant generate a cover maybe and how do you do that? you need more tutorials thank you for your help!