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On 2012-12-24, Nilesh Govindrajan <me@××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Monday 24 December 2012 09:24:16 AM IST, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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>> On 2012-12-23, luis jure <ljc@××××××××××××.uy> wrote: |
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>>> on 2012-12-22 at 17:13 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>>>> Now, imagine you are the guy at Samsung deciding what features the S2 |
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>>>> will support. Which option you gonna pick? |
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>>> yeah, you're right, i guess. but for once i'd like the guys at the |
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>>> corporations to think like me, and not to be forced to think like |
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>>> them... |
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>> I'm glad they chose MTP: I want my phone to continue to work while I'm |
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>> transferring files. In order to mount the filesystem via USB, the |
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>> phone would have to unmount it (which means it's nothing but a flash |
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>> drive). In order to mount the filesystem via USB, it also means |
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>> they'd be forced to use VFAT for the Linux root filesystem, and that |
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>> sucks bad. |
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> They still use VFAT for the so called sdcard (my Xperia S has internal |
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> storage, not extensible). |
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That's understandable. But for phones with only a single flash device |
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(like my Nexus Galaxy), using MTP is the only sensical thing to do. |
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If you want to access only the SD card, then VFAT and USB mass storage |
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works (well, it works as well as VFAT allows). |
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Grant |
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