[APP] USB Mass Storage for Ice Cream Sandwich & Jelly Bean [v.1.2.0-pre - 02.02.2012]

Bexton · Dec 13, 2011

[APP] USB Mass Storage for Ice Cream Sandwich & Jelly Bean [v.1.2.0-pre - 02.02.2012]

Hey all!

Note: This App was developed in the early days of Ice Cream Sandwich Ports. At this time none of the Ports had native USB Mass Storage support and this App was meant as a temporary workaround to use UMS nevertheless. So this App won't be interesting for you, unless the ICS or JB Port you use still doesn't natively support UMS. If that is the case, here comes help:

Update for Jelly Bean: I successfully tested the App (v1.1.4!) with the first test release of a Jelly Bean Rom for Nexus One.

Update for MTP: I probably found a way to permanent support UMS for devices that originally use MTP, but I don't have a device to test this. So, if preferably a Galaxy Nexus owner would be so kind to test a few things for me, please pm me. Thanks![/url].

~~USB Mass Storage for ICS (that doesn't have native UMS support (yet))~~
USB Mass Storage for ICS and JB (that doesn't have native UMS support (yet))

Description

The app starts automatically after booting up the device and automatically detects when the device is being connected via USB to a computer. Then a notification pops up in the notification bar and by tapping on the notification you will open a GUI to enable/disable USB Mass Storage; just/almost like the original UMS feature.

Confirmed supported devices (JB)

HTC Nexus One

Samsung Galaxy Mini GT-S5570

Sony Ericsson Xperia X8

Confirmed supported devices (ICS)

HTC Desire

HTC Desire HD

HTC Droid Incredible

HTC Evo 3D

HTC Evo 4G

HTC HD2

HTC Nexus One

Huawei Sonic U8650

Kindle Fire

LG P350 Optimus Me

LG P500 Optimus One

Motorola Droid 3 (XT860)

Samsung Galaxy Ace (S5830)

Samsung Galaxy Mini GT (S5570)

Samsung Galaxy Note (N7000)

Samsung Galaxy S (I9000/I9000B)

Samsung Galaxy S 2 (I9100G)

Samsung Galaxy Gio (S5660)

Samsung Infuse 4G

Samsung Moment

Sony Ericsson Xperia X8

Sony Ericsson Xperia X10i

APK Download

For the devices listed above, the App works like a charm.

Latest stable version (1.1.4): Download APK (you'll probably want this one!)

Latest version (1.2.0-pre): Download APK

Older versions: see post attachemets.

A few Notes:

Sync- / Multiple Partition-Issue
If you have multiple partitions on your SD card, you might have a problem with file list syncing. When UMS is enabled and you alter files on your SD via Computer, you won't see the changes on your device (and vice-versa). The app will work nevertheless. All copied/deleted files are there/gone! It is just a sync problem. Resync and you'll see it.

Pre release version (Sync- / Multiple Partition-Fix)
Beside the stable version 1.1.4, there exists a pre-release version of 1.2.0 that fix the sync issue. Feel free use this version, but be aware of the fact that not all of the settings from the menu are working yet! At the moment, this is basically v1.1.4 with improved layout and sync fix. So please don't report bugs for the settings that doesn't work.

MTP
Another thing to note is that devices using MTP (such as the Galaxy Nexus) most probably won't be able to use UMS via the App at all. There have been reported a few suggestions to fix that, but atm those fixes doesn't work. I'm working on that, but i'm doing this in my sparetime and don't have a device that uses MTP myself, so it's hard to work on that. Anyway you can try.

APK Source

I uploaded the source files to my github account. You can check it out at:
Master: https://github.com/eyecatchup/net.bexton.android.UsbMassStorageToggle
Dev: https://github.com/eyecatchup/net.bexton.android.UsbMassStorageToggle/tree/dev

Changelog

1.2.0-pre

Cleaned Layout

Changed device map referrer from hard coded mmcblk0 to be dynamically recognized

Adjusted translation files.

Few minor other changes.

1.1.4

Layout changed from two buttons to one toggle button.

Changed device map referrer from vold/179:1 to mmcblk0

Adjusted translation files.

Few minor other changes.

v1.1.3

Added Multi-language support.

Added local language files for German, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish & Norwegian.

v1.1.2

Notification fixes & improvements.

v1.1.1

Notification fixes.

v1.1.0

Added auto-detection of USB connection.

Added notifications support.

Added auto-start after boot.

v1.0.3

Code clean up.

v1.0.2

Code clean up.

Added menu button to close the app properly.

If you have any issues, let me know.

Cheers!

vimitake · Dec 13, 2011

Thanks.

Sent from my Nexus One using XDA App

jamsh · Dec 13, 2011

Thanks

Brilliant!!! CLASS!!!

dang025 · Dec 14, 2011

can someone mirror these for me. K cant seem to successfully download it either on phone or computer.

Thanks

Sent from my Nexus One using XDA App

Bexton · Dec 14, 2011

dang025 said:
can someone mirror these for me.

http://icsmirror.mtsgrit.nl/

dk_zero-cool · Dec 14, 2011

Screw the original android UMS. One thing I have always hated about UMS was that all of my sd partitions (Have 3) promps on my computer when I activate it. Only using 179:1 (Fat partition) is quite nice.

However a nice feture (If you have the time) would be a partition list to choose which to mount?

Bexton · Dec 14, 2011

dk_zero-cool said:
Screw the original android UMS. One thing I have always hated about UMS was that all of my sd partitions (Have 3) promps on my computer when I activate it. Only using 179:1 (Fat partition) is quite nice.

However a nice feture (If you have the time) would be a partition list to choose which to mount?

Thanks. Yep, partition list is already on my to-do list.

But first i want to get Tethering working before going on with the options. Anyway, source is online at github, so if you like; i'm still taking pull requests.

dk_zero-cool · Dec 14, 2011

Bexton said:
Thanks. Yep, partition list is already on my to-do list. But first i want to get Tethering working before going on with the options.

Well Tethering would be nice

Bexton said:
Anyway, source is online at github, so if you like; i'm still taking pull requests.

Yes well my strong side is PHP, JavaScript and Linux Shell Scripting. Have played some with Java, but not near enough for this (Have looked at it already).

Bexton · Dec 14, 2011

dk_zero-cool said:
Yes well my strong side is PHP, JavaScript [...]

Hehe, mine as well. Just reading the Android documentaion carefully brought me with no Java experience to that result. And a Java developer would probably laugh about the app's code. But in the end it works, so what.

dk_zero-cool · Dec 14, 2011

Bexton said:
Hehe, mine as well. Just reading the Android documentaion carefully brought me with no Java experience to that result. And a Java developer would probably laugh about the app's code. But in the end it works, so what.

Impressive, well perhaps I should read some android documentation.

joshuar9476 · Dec 15, 2011

i clicked on the thanks button but wanted to actually thank you in type. i was getting very tired of taking out my card every time i needed to flash or add something to my card. thanks!

rapmv78 · Dec 15, 2011

This is nice.

erwinpiero · Dec 16, 2011

Big thanks Sir, great app

mori90 · Dec 16, 2011

It's not working on http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=20355877
Any help please ?!

Takashuri · Dec 16, 2011

Working great on HD2 with ICS beta6 from tytung.

Dutch translation is a bit off though

Want me to translate better? Sent me a email or pm!

Bexton · Dec 16, 2011

mori90 said:
It's not working on http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=20355877
Any help please ?!

It is working with that rom. the problem is not the apk, but a permission problem with either the superuser.apk or the su binary itself. i fixed it by removing the superuser.apk via shell rm and flashing the signed superuser zip from chains website (http://downloads.androidsu.com/superuser/Superuser-3.0.7-efgh-signed.zip) via recovery. after that root permissions were fixed and the ums app, as well as any other root app (like titanium) worked again.

itsy · Dec 16, 2011

Hey, nice app, thanks for that

Just a question, can you implement a checkbox (or whatever :-D) to disable the notification while the App is still running?

I know, it isn't the end of the world but I don't like my notification bar "spammed" :-D

Bexton · Dec 16, 2011

itsy said:
Hey, nice app, thanks for that

Just a question, can you implement a checkbox (or whatever :-D) to disable the notification while the App is still running?

I know, it isn't the end of the world but I don't like my notification bar "spammed" :-D

GER: Tschuldige, dass muss leider warten. Ich hab die App ohne jegliche Java Kenntnisse geschrieben und jede Änderung bedarf längeren Nachlesens in den Referenzen und dann geht's mit Trial & Error weiter.

Zur Zeit will ich erst mal schauen, dass ich Tethering zum laufen bekomme, bevor ich mich den Optionen zuwende.
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ENG: Sorry, but it will take some time. I wrote the App without any Java experience and every change requires reading the Android references carefully and then trial and error.

At the moment my main focus is more on getting tethering working before i'm gonna implement some extra options.

Bexton · Dec 16, 2011

It's funny that i am the one who asks as i wrote this App. But actually i just did a bit of Java coding and i am far away from being a linux fs/udev/mmc/vold expert. So my question to the experts out there: Could somebody please explain me in detail what is the difference between

echo /dev/block/mmcblk0 > /sys/devices/platform/usb_mass_storage/lun0/file
and
echo /dev/block/vold/179:1 > /sys/devices/platform/usb_mass_storage/lun0/file

Because all i see is that both commands to the lunfile mount the sdcard as mass storage..!?

Thanks in advanced!

dk_zero-cool · Dec 17, 2011

Bexton said:
It's funny that i am the one who asks as i wrote this App. But actually i just did a bit of Java coding and i am far away from being a linux fs/udev/mmc/vold expert. So my question to the experts out there: Could somebody please explain me in detail what is the difference between

echo /dev/block/mmcblk0 > /sys/devices/platform/usb_mass_storage/lun0/file
and
echo /dev/block/vold/179:1 > /sys/devices/platform/usb_mass_storage/lun0/file

Because all i see is that both commands to the lunfile mount the sdcard as mass storage..!?

Thanks in advanced!

There are no difference as both device maps referrers to the same minor and major numbers (Same device). Take a look at this

If you CD to /dev/block and type "ls -la" and then CD to "/dev/block/vold" and type "ls -la" you will in both cases see the numbers "179, 1" right before the date index.

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