On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 13:59 +0000, James Hogarth wrote:
Not sure it'll help, but in the case of you my Galaxy S2 smartphone, I simply switched the phone to mass-storage mode. (Settings->Applications->Development->USB debugging) Once enabled, you can simply access the file-system on your device like any other USB mass-storage device. (Disk-on-key, HDD, etc)
It is a problem we'll have to face soon however - even if the current Galaxy Tab can be switch to mass storage...
The Galaxy Nexus (and thus reference for the next generation of android phones/tablets) does not have a USB mass storage mode since it does not have an SD card to unmount to present to the system. Rather MTP is being used so that both the phone and the connected system can have simultaneous access to the internal filesystem.
---- actually, I think your declaration that there won't be a USB mass storage mode in the next gen android phones/tablets is incorrect...
http://www.engadget.com/2011/11/21/ice-cream-sandwich-supports-usb-mass-stor...
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Right now we cannot say if future Samsung/Motorola/HTC/etc phones based on ICS and the GN reference will follow a similar pattern or not....
---- It will be there as evidenced by the Asus Transformer Prime
Craig