Im working on "mount ntfs sdcard"
That is problem:
- If i mount sdcard to another folder than /mtn/sdcard then my sdcard working find
- If i mount it to /mnt/sdcard then android not except it : " The SDcard is not currently mounted"
In adb shell i type mount command and see that my SDcard is mounted to /mnt/sdcard
But infact SDcard folder cannot accessable.
I think android doesnt except mount ntfs sdcard on /mnt/sdcard because it programed to mount vfat sdcard on /mnt/sdcard.
Now the question: where i can find mounting code or mounting procedure of android when we insert SDcard? i want to modify it to accept ntfs sdcard.
P/S: im on GB 2.3.6
This is a very specific question, I doubt you will get an answer here. You might want to try to locate it yourself from the source code which could be found here:
https://sites.google.com/a/android.com/opensource/download
I did some googling and found this:
http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/NTFS_FS.html, you might need to modify it.
On Android, the mounting of the sdcard is managed by the vold daemon.
If you want a stable system, you likely need to either get vold to manage your custom mount, remove vold from the system and do it's entire job yourself, or somehow get it and your custom solution to stay out of each other's way.
Lots of custom ROMs have used vold in different ways - to partition an sdcard and add a unix-style filesystem for storing apps, to put an entire alternate android installation on an sdcard or tablet internal storage area, etc. You might get some ideas by looking at those, reading their development discussion history, etc.
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I connected USB storage to my phone and I used
getExternalFilesDirs("");
to find all directories including sdcard and USB.
The path of sdcard comes out correctly, but USB path does not come out by the function.
Is there anyway to find relative path of USB instead of absolute path?
I've been stuck at this problem for few weeks, but got nothing.
Due to Android permissions you may not be able to do this, but here's the recommendation anyways. Try to read the contents of /proc/mounts and grep "sda1". It'll show you the mount point of your USB drive.
I’m new to android´s app development; so far I was able to create text files on my device. The problem is when I try move the file to my PC I cannot find it. After research I now know that files saved in the internal memory are only available to the app and the external storage can be use to share files, but my device (moto G 1° gen) only have internal memory.
So the question is, is there a way to share files on my smartphone with my pc.?
Typically, devices with internal memory still have a partition set aside that emulates external storage. On any Android device I've had, the internal memory is mounted to /sdcard/ and if you insert an actual sdcard, it gets mounted to /sdcard2/. Anything you save in /sdcard/ should appear in Windows explorer when plugging the device in over USB.
Alternatively, you can also use adb to retrieve files outside of the /sdcard/ partition by using the command "adb.exe pull [source file] [destination directory(optional)]"
Is it possible to find out volume label of SD card inserted into Android device?
I understand that Android is designed to have just one "external storage" (as returned by Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory()), but there are quite a few devices in the wild that have internal flash as "external storage" and an SD card mounted under that or even wilder combinations (see this other question). It is possible to enumerate these additional devices by reading /proc/mounts, but we need something to identify them to the user. Is there any chance to get to their volume labels?
I checked that Linux vfat driver ignores the volume label dentry altogether and that blkid from util-linux reads the vfat itself. I also checked that, at least on device I have, the block device of the SD card has mode 660 and owner root.root, so I can't do that. So basically it boils down to whether there is any utility that could read it available.
I have found a solution.
The easiest solution is to build busybox and use it like this:
busybox blkid
Complicated solution is to find blkid for Android and find what you need in its source code (blkid_dev_devname function).
i don't know how it works exactly in android, but in linux i have kernel message about mounting sd-card, where volume name specified. You can try dmesg and cat /sys/devices/mmc... (or somethong like that)
Try to parse output of blkid command. It works for me, but I'm not sure if it is a firmware depended feature or not. I got permission denied with this command on AVD.
I don't know if this can help you: if you use the DDMS you can see the folders of the system. In my case, I found the sd card in: /mnt/media_rw.
You can get more information here and here
I hope it helps.
I have an application that writes important data to the SDCard and encrypts it using AES, which later will be used by a desktop application. I have noticed that if I do not unmount the SDCard from the Settings menu sometimes the files don't get written at all, or are corrupted.
Is there anyway in Android 2.1 that I can unmount the SDCard programmatically? Because I'm pretty sure that from time to time the users will forget to do this, and I'll be the one fixing the problems and I really don't want this.
If this is not possible,what Linux command should I use to unmount the SDCard? Since the application will run on some tablets that have a rooted OS.
You should unmount what's using the sdcard in the proper order, for example
umount /mnt/sdcard/.android_secure
umount /mnt/sdcard
or, probably synchronizing the buffers with the filesystem would be enough
sync; sync
I want to have access to an ext4 partition, without using Data2SD yet, on the SD card of my HTC Vision running the Virtuous Unity 1.3.0 ROM. I modded my /system/etc/vold.fstab file from this:
dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard auto /devices/platform/goldfish_mmc.0
/devices/platform/msm_sdcc.4/mmc_host/mmc2
To this:
#dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard auto /devices/platform/goldfish_mmc.0
/devices/platform/msm_sdcc.4/mmc_host/mmc2
dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard 1 /devices/platform/goldfish_mmc.0 /devices/platform/msm_sdcc.4/mmc_host/mmc2
dev_mount e4vol /mnt/sdcard2 2 /devices/platform/goldfish_mmc.0
/devices/platform/msm_sdcc.4/mmc_host/mmc2
So I can get my second partition, with label e4vol, mount and usable on my Android device. Two issues, and I think one obviously has to do with the other.
I have tried remounting the root read-write and creating the mount point /mnt/sdcard2, but it is gone on reboot. Seems like Android might have in the past created such mounts with mount.conf. Now it does not exist on Gingerbread ROMS. Thoughts?
Is this all I would have to do to get my second partition mounted in Android, or do I also need to create /sdcard2 like /sdcard? I presume both are created as symlinks by vold as specified in this conf file, but I have not had time to check yet.
I would ask forums, but this seems like a developer question and this is the most recent release of the OS. It seems to change a lot from version to version of the OS. Thanks in advance for your patience and help.
UPDATE: So, moved the test mount to sdcard, and it did not work, even with a persistent mount point. So, not sure where I am going wrong.
Maybe you'll have to have a look into /init.rc.
There are some "mkdir /mnt/..."-statements. You only have to add your "mkdir /mnt/sdcard2" and "ln -s /mnt/sdcard2 /sdcard2" to this file.
But be careful when editing this file!!!
I looked at the vold source up to including Icecream-Sandwich: it’s final mount() system call is hardcoded to the “vfat” file system type. – Even if you get it to try the mount, it would fail.
I myself actually want to mount my ext4 SD card to /sdcard, because I regularly suffer from SD card FAT file system corruptions (and I’m not the only one having those with Android).
The alternative is: modify the init/boot process to just mount the partition where you want, bypassing vold.