09-27-2010, 06:57 AM | #31 |
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I'm really surprised at how much I love using Aldiko on the Droid X. Sometimes I'll use it over my 4 eink readers that are sitting right next to it.
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09-27-2010, 07:03 AM | #32 | |
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09-27-2010, 07:19 AM | #33 | |
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If I plug an SD card into my Windows PC there is no contention. I can read/write it from the computer it is on or from a networked computer etc. Not the case with the phone sd card. Guess Android/Linux just doesn't like to share. |
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09-27-2010, 12:16 PM | #34 | |
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To follow your example, when you plug an SD card into your Windows PC, only your windows PC has direct access to it. If you have a wireless network at home, you can get rid of the problem by installing SwiFTP from the Android Market, and using an FTP client on your PC: this makes the transfer of files to and from your Droid X as easy as dragging and dropping files, without the need to unmount anything (because by using FTP it's still your Droid X who has exclusive hold of its MicroSD, and your PC communicates with the Droid X, not the SD card). |
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Where he says "direct" access is the key factor. Only the machine it's mounted to can write to it. As most Android devices can't join your network and share the SD card as a network drive, you have to unmount it from the Android device and mount it to the PC first. The PC can share it as a network drive, so the other PCs on your network simply tell the one PC it's mounted to what to write. But, that doesn't change the fact that one and only one device has control over the SD card, and that's the one it's mounted to. Last edited by RoboRay; 09-27-2010 at 10:46 PM. |
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For a more on topic post, it appears that CoolReader 3 is just entering Alpha testing as an Android reading application, so there will be one more reader to consider soon. |
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Yeah, it has me a little confused as well, like, what's the difference btwn "PC Mode" "Windows Media Sync" and "USB Mass Storage" as options when you plug it in? I just got used to "Mount" or "Unmount" on the Droid 1.
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If you try to use the FTP protocol, as I suggested you above, you'll be in the exact same situation: your Android device has the SD card mounted (so, exclusive rights) but through the FTP explorer your PC will "talk" to your Android and make him read/write files. I know that from the user's point of view, all of this doesn't appear (the so-loved and so-called transparency), but it's how it actually happens |
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If you have a linux distro, chances are that you already have an FTP client installed, if you have Windows I can suggest you to use FileZilla (http://filezilla-project.org/), the client version of course: it's free, constantly updated and very easy to use. |
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09-28-2010, 05:55 AM | #43 | |
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If the windows situation were the same then the networked PCs couldn't see the windows "mounted" sd card. It's simply wrong. |
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You are comparing apples and oranges: you can't expect a physical direct serial connection, like the USB cable, to behave like a network. The difference between YOUR example of windows situation and what I wrote, is that you wrote about "Networked PCs", while you have never networked the Android phone and your PC. You connect them via USB cable, which is NOT networking at all. If you have a network, ONE device has control over the "SD drive", and all others communicate to the device through some sort of message-exchanging network; when you plug the USB cable from your android phone to your PC, unfortunately, there's no network involved: you have 2 computers (I include any smartphone under the name "computer"), both of which want direct, physical access to the SD card. You have to choose. If you want to reproduce the same situation using 2 windows PC, try to buy an external SD card reader, and connect it to both PCs at the same time (assuming that you can), and try to use the SD card from both. You can't, simply: one of the two will tell you that the device is held by another hardware. You want to access files from the SD card from both the Android phone and your PC? Network is the way to go, as in your windows example. And the FTP solution I wrote about is just that: a networking implementation that is compatible with both windows and Linux, and so it works. Under the sheets, what happens (in both FTP and windows networks) is that ONE computing device has control of the memory device, and the other PCs "ask" the first to perform operations on his SD card. |
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No, I'm saying how it should be. It's not.
(as I said above I don't want to hear excuses or explanations. I've been in this business long enough to have heard most of them already anyway. ) Last edited by kennyc; 09-28-2010 at 07:21 AM. |
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