Mark;
You asked: "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.") "
Sorry. I could have been a little clearer here. Yes, when the SDcard
was inserted in the device, the downloaded file was saved on the
sdcard (on mnt/sdcard/download).
(When I said that the dirctory /mnt/sdcard did not work - and could
not be used for anything - that was when the sdcard was NOT inserted.)
When I insert the SDcard, the build in camera app also starts saving
pictures on the sdcard (on /mngt/sdcard/DCIM/100MEDIA.
Regards, Terry
On 17 Jun, 16:29, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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