Just great! NOT!

I'll start another thread on this forum asking if
Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory() still works on the
Incredible or not... It looks like it doesn't.

I hope some Google engineers can chime in.


On Apr 27, 12:49 pm, webmonkey <[email protected]> wrote:
> It appears to be a serious issue for developers, see:
>
> http://www.androidauthority.com/index.php/2010/04/23/nice-htc-droid-i...
>
> It mentions:
>
> "For those of you interested, the internal 8GB of storage on the phone
> is mounted at /emmc (r/w mode, of course) and microSD cards still
> shows up normally at /sdcard as expected."
>
> I can't believe they did this. Samsung's solution was not perfect but
> at least it was compatible. To get to this you have to hardcode the
> path.
>
> And developers are probably going to be blamed for the issue. I can
> already see the emails and comments from users "Why does this app need
> an SD card, I have 8GB internal storage. Why don't you do it like the
> apps that came with the phone".
>
> On Apr 26, 9:18 pm, Mark Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > webmonkey wrote:
> > > Does anyone gave any update on this issue?
>
> > > Apparently Verizon is now adding a 2GB micro SD card:
>
> > >http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/25/droid-incredible-comes-with-limite...
>
> > I've heard squadoosh from my HTC contacts, much to my chagrin. Clearly,
> > I need more powerful connections.
>
> > It would not shock me in the least, though, if the micro SD card is the
> > workaround for this issue -- cheaper to slap those in than it is to make
> > firmware changes at this stage.
>
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