Hi Shaheen, ...snip... > > > The problem is that the Galaxy Nexus doesn't support UMS due to > > > the > > > way the partitions are laid out, and so it doesn't advertise any > > > volumes in the vold process. > > > > > > DeviceStorage currently uses the VolumeManager (which uses vold), > > > so currently DeviceStorage will only work on phones which have > > > UMS > > > support. > > > > > > I believe that we are planning to support MTP, but not in the v1 > > > timeframe. > > > > > > I can point you to the source files which need to be changed (all > > > C++) if you want to hack around the problem in the meantime. > > > > > > Dave Hylands > > > > Thanks Dave, > > Could you please share those source files so that I can > > have a try > > ok - I filed bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=818131 > > I think that you can get this to work by changing one line of code: > > https://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/dom/devicestorage/nsDeviceStorage.cpp#1197 > > 1194 #ifdef MOZ_WIDGET_GONK > 1195 nsresult rv = GetSDCardStatus(state); > 1196 if (NS_FAILED(rv)) { > 1197 state.Assign(NS_LITERAL_STRING("unavailable")); > 1198 } > 1199 #endif > > If we change this to look like: > > 1194 #ifdef MOZ_WIDGET_GONK > 1195 nsresult rv = GetSDCardStatus(state); > 1196 if (NS_FAILED(rv)) { > .... // The volume won't exist on phones like the Nexus S which > have no sdcard parition, > .... // so we just assume that it's there to make those devices > work. > 1197 state.Assign(NS_LITERAL_STRING("available")); > 1198 } > 1199 #endif > > then that should allow the Nexus S to see the sdcard. UMS can't work > on the Nexus S, so you'll need to adb push/pull your media files > until MTP support shows up, but that minor change should allow > gallery etc to at least show what files are present in the /sdcard > directory. > > If you'd like to code/test this, I'd be happy to help you get it > reviewed/landed.
So, I actually coded up a slightly different way of doing this that should also allow device storage to work for your scenario. You can find it in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=818131 Dave Hylands _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
