Huawei Hisuite automatically created a drive on my pc - dele

[RDBx]

Odd thing just happened. Fired up the PC and got a driver installation message, my P20 phone was plugged in to the usb. It mentioned some kind of Linux thing and then a new drive popped up in my explorer.

Looking at the icon, seems to be down to Hisuite but that program isn't installed. Not happy about it and want rid. Will just deleting the, I can assume partition, do it? I've run a search for anything else undesirable, but nothing cropped up. Anyone know of anything else from Huawei is likely to be lurking?

[stevensdrs]

You are just seeing your phone. Unplug it from the PC and restart your PC.

[TonyRPH]

Sounds like it's just your PC 'seeing' the phone as additional storage?

e.g. like a USB pen drive.

You usually have to enable options in Android for this to happen, but maybe your particular phone behaves differently.

If you copy anything to this drive - music for example - it'll probably appear on your phone once disconnected.

[RDBx]

Ah, although then I opened up the new drive there was nothing i it apart from a Hisuite file and readme. Is this just a transfer vehicle to move files?

[JimbobVFR]

I've had phones that expose a small USB drive to the PC with some transfer software contained in it. From memory my previous Sony Xperia s did it.

[ZesPak]

Common practice on a lot of USB devices tbh.

These days it seems a bit unnecessary as you could just download the latest version online, but it does add some convenience.

[JimbobVFR]

ZesPak said:

Common practice on a lot of USB devices tbh.

These days it seems a bit unnecessary as you could just download the latest version online, but it does add some convenience.

I seem to remember in the Xperia I had it was an executable standalone program you could just run directly, it didn't install anything on the PC so as such was quite handy and preferable to installing the bloated desktop version.

[Kitchski]

HiSuite actually works really well I find. Quicker than uploading the old fashioned way, and you can update the phone via the pc, or recover it if there is a problem etc.

[BuzzBravado]

Its the red army man! They're after your bitcoins.

[dudleybloke]

The pull down menu on the phone will allow you to switch between data mode and battery charging only when connected to a pc
In data mode it will act as an external hard drive, in battery mode it will open a small partition with the hisuite software on it but won't show your files.