asked 2014-04-23 15:50:49 +0200
I'd like to see Android apps have access to my SD-card. I want to use Sygic (world) and save my maps to the external SD-card, because of >10GB size. Now it's not possible. Or (even better: tempt Sygic to make an app for Sailfish)
answered 2014-04-24 21:04:54 +0200
What I did to share the space of my uSD between nemo and android without getting duplicates with bind-mounts or any other hickup:
mount /dev/mmcblk1)/media/, you should see /dev/mmcblk1 being mounted to both /media/sdcard/#UUID and /data/sdcardI did not want to write a detailed guide as I do not want to be responsible for any wrong doings all steps are pretty basic for people knowing their way around the cmdline - you can find every step somewhere here @tjc [1] or in the man-pages of the required tools
Yes, I think this should be it. I'm copying my contents of SD to PC as backup, and try the code. Thanks in advance, I will let you know if it worked.
EDIT: I can't find the btrfs mount part... I've added "mount -o subvol=android,compress,$MOUNT_OPTS $(DEVNAME) /data/sdcard/" right after: "*) mount ${DEVNAME} $MNT/${UUID} -o $MOUNT_OPTS || /bin/rmdir $MNT/${UUID}"
Rebooted phone, nothing. No sd-card available, so this isn't working.
RobNas ( 2014-04-26 12:29:56 +0200 )edit@RobNas there is no specific btrfs case but *) is everything else... does it look like this?
*)
mount ${DEVNAME} $MNT/${UUID} -o $MOUNT_OPTS || /bin/rmdir $MNT/${UUID}
mount -o subvol=android,compress,$MOUNT_OPTS $(DEVNAME) /data/sdcard/
;;
if your /media/sdcard/$(UUID) does not get mounted after editing the mount-sd.sh you messed up the file - see with mount or df -h what is mounted where, please.
I've completely reinstalled the phone. I wanted to start fresh, so resetted it to factory and installed all updates (1.0.5.19). Because the card was already formatted btrfs (checked this with mount cmd), I've started again from: "cd /media/sdcard", etc. After editing the mount-sd.sh with wordpad (copied to home, edited on pc, copied back to usr/sbin/) and restarting the device, it is in a bootloop... Because there was space within wordpad before "mount ${DEVNAME}etc...", I've copied the line from the start to just behind "mount", to be sure this wouldn't cause any trouble. I hope I can save the phone...d#mned...
EDIT: saved the phone, I'm back @ 1.0.5.19 now. What's the best way to edit mount-sd.sh? I've tried wordpad now, but maybe that's causing problems...
RobNas ( 2014-04-27 01:54:13 +0200 )editAsked: 2014-04-23 15:50:49 +0200
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Same question as here mostly :) https://together.jolla.com/question/5755/how-to-let-android-apps-to-write-to-real-sdcard/
But i agree completely!
electristan ( 2014-04-23 16:28:57 +0200 )editduplicate of https://together.jolla.com/question/1888/add-optional-access-to-external-sd-card-from-android-app/
ortylp ( 2014-04-25 23:02:35 +0200 )editin my opinion Sygic MUST NOT get ANY support from Jolla community after the N900 total fiasco.
ortylp ( 2014-04-25 23:04:03 +0200 )edit@ortylp: That's not what I asked, I asked for Sygic supporting Sailfish, not the other way around. Which fiasco, by the way? Sygic still works on the N900, only maps can't be updated, unfortunately.
RobNas ( 2014-04-26 14:26:31 +0200 )edit@RobNas No map updates, no bugfixes to their software. No bugfix releases for bugs that have been internally fixed. Writing "no support" I meant no more money for this company!
Go the FOSS way and install OSMAND or pay a company that cares about OSM community and use products of Skobbler. I would be for porting of OSMAND to Jolla or convince Skobbler (now Telenav) to support Jolla natively.
ortylp ( 2014-04-27 12:20:50 +0200 )edit