On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Terry <terb...@gmail.com> wrote: > WIth an SDcard inserted, I tried to download a free ebook. That went > well.
And the file wound up where? /mnt/sdcard? You said that did not work ("which cannot be used for anything. Trying to write there fails.") > However, if I use the built in camera (without an SDcard), it saves > pictures at /mnt/emmc/DCIM/100MEDIA. Alternative storage points are available to firmware apps from the device manufacturer that wrote the firmware apps and built the device. This appears to generally be used for stuff like the camera, where the images are then surfaced through MediaStore, and you access them that way. > I.e. It seems that the camera app knowns about the piculiarities re > the internal/external storage of this device. Of course. HTC wrote the camera app, and HTC built the device. Device manufacturers always have access to things that are beyond the SDK. -- Mark Murphy (a Commons Guy) http://commonsware.com | http://github.com/commonsguy http://commonsware.com/blog | http://twitter.com/commonsguy Android Training in DC: http://marakana.com/training/android/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en