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[Nook Color Android Development] texanman:
Love the app!!!! but i got a issue now... There is no way for me to browse the media partition on the device... so I can not access my pictures that I placed on the internal storage...any insight?
[Nook Color Android Development] nfcrockett:
Working great for me, HC on eMMC. Appreciate it!
[Nook Color Android Development] samuelhalff:
Browse with an explorer app, like es or astro..

Or simply use gallery or gallery 3D.

Sam
[Nook Color Android Development] texanman:
cant... it is not mounted on my device anymore
[Nook Color Android Development] forsaken82:
any reason why i cant see anything i added to the sd card in honeycomb? can find it just fine in 2.1. i cant find the app to install it under honeycomb
[Nook Color Android Development] aklyz:
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, this application is amazing. I was sideloading apps with dropbox since market was giving errors due to lack of space then dropbox wouldn't let me log in due to some clock error so this has allowed me to continue sideloading without the need for ADB
[Nook Color Android Development] samuelhalff:
Try unmounting SD card in HC before mounting it to PC.

I'm going to have to implement that in the app.. when I find some time..
[Nook Color Android Development] forsaken82:
ok ill try to ask this better. im running deeper blue v4 of honeycomb off my sd. when i put the apk on the card and try to open and install it in honeycomb, i cant even see the file in the directory i just placed it.
[Nook Color Android Development] absskier:
any update on this???

will we be able to use files moved to the media partition?
[Nook Color Android Development] vista1984:
what a nice app,,thanks.
[Nook Color Android Development] Canadoc:
any news for us dual booters?
[Nook Color Android Development] samuelhalff:
Sorry. Haven't had time yet. How many more partitions? System2 and data2 on 9 and 10?
[Nook Color Android Development] Canadoc:
I believe so

not sure if data is before or after system though
[Nook Color Android Development] racks11479:
Just wanted to drop a line and say thank you! This app is awesome. I feel the GUI is great. Straight forward and simple.
[Nook Color Android Development] MK[PCTF]:
I also have HC on eMMC. When I mount the uSD card and then copy something on it from PC, than unmount it and close the app, I cant find those files in Astro manager.

I even tried unmounting the uSD card, ejecting it and then inserting it in the Nook again, but no success, Astro still don't see them.

What am I doing wrong?

edit: problem solved. When I unmounted the uSD in Honeycomb settings, the card was still mounted (either error on my side or HC). I was able to see contents of the card on the PC and copy on it, but I guess it didn't actually copy anything :)

Thank for the great app!
[Nook Color Android Development] edison:
Handy app, Samuel.

Suggestion: maybe change "CONFIRM MOUNTING" to just "CONFIRM" or maybe "APPLY", since you need to confirm the unmounting, too.

Any chance of sources being released?
[Nook Color Android Development] samuelhalff:
Updated to 0.3b.

Please make sure you properly unmount/eject drive from the PC even before unmounting from app. Ignore this step and changes made to the drive will not be saved.

Feel free to donate (my law school books are very expensive. I hate myself for adding this line..).

Thank you.

Sam
[Nook Color Android Development] Canadoc:
Having trouble installing

it wouldn't install over the previus version so deleted previous. When I try to install it fails. it stil says it will overwrite previous and not affect data but the file is no longer there and it wont install. Can u please help?
[Nook Color Android Development] edison:
Upgrade woes:

Got a "Failure [INSTALL_PARSE_FAILED_INCONSISTENT_CERTIFICATES]" on `adb install -r`. Uninstalled & reinstalled but didn't see the app.

Rebooted.

*Then* I saw the new cool icon! Dunno if it was there before the reboot or not.

More suggestions:

How about persisting the exports across reboots?

Also, from my NF-on-uSD, "Mount Media" properly exports eMMC partition 8, but "Mount SD Card" exports uSD partition 1 instead of partition 4. I have eMMC partition 8 mounted on /mnt/emmc & symlinked to /media. vold is automatically mounting uSD partition 4 on /sdcard.

Of course, I can manually select "Mount SD (4)", but I would expect "Mount SD Card" to export whatever is currently mounted on /sdcard (like it apparently does for /media).

Depending on what you do with the above, you could also remove "Mount SD(1)", since it's already (currently) available via "Mount SD Card". Personally, I'd rather keep all 4 SD partition options and have "Mount SD" export whatever is mounted on /sdcard.

Keep up the fantastic work - this is awesome!
[Nook Color Android Development] samuelhalff:
I'll have to check my keystore certificate.

Vold will only accept partitions, not mount points. Media will always work, because it will never be anything else than p8.

Sorry. This works as it should. For people using partitioned sdcard, well they'll have to stick with the partitioned sd sub menu.

Note that a non-partitioned sdcard will be found at mmcblk1 and that the first partition of a partitioned card will be found at mmcblk1p1. That explains the two different menus. I'm really not prepared to spend time trying to create automatic detections of drives (partitioned or not), as this app isn't really that popular. Maybe, in time, if this app becomes more of a standard for the Nook, then things could be different.

Sam

EDIT:

Certificate should be fixed.

Sorry for the inconvenience.
[Nook Color Android Development] edison:
Understood about vold & partitions. I was suggesting looking at which partitions were mounted where.

But given your below comments about the popularity of this app, I can understand. Although I wouldn't be surprised if this became a *very* popular app, Sam.
[Nook Color Android Development] Canadoc:
The dual partitions mount on my mac but I can not copy anything to them via drag and drop despite seeing them in the finder window.

Any ideas?
[Nook Color Android Development] samuelhalff:
Sorry. I don't understand your problem. Be more specific.

Sam
[Nook Color Android Development] Canadoc:
The dual partitions are mountable on my Mac. However I can not copy anything to them. They are acting like they are read only.
[Nook Color Android Development] samuelhalff:
Do added files ever display in mounted "folder"? If you drag and drop files, do they show up? Is there an error dialog? Or do they display and disappear once device is unmounted?

Please be sure to explain each step. I'm not sure of what you're saying. Is anyone else having such an issue?

Sam
[Nook Color Android Development] Canadoc:
I try to add files but they won't drop in the folder.

I can drag the files but they don't drop I get the equivalent of the O with line through it sign and nothing happens. no error it just won't go. They never show as having copied or moved over.
[Nook Color Android Development] FishDoc:
A really confused NOOB

Man, I hate to ask this question with everyone else reporting great results----but I simply don't understand how to download and implement this app. Can someone have mercy and provide a brief cookbook approach? I'm even uncertain where and how to download. Thanks in advance

Edit: Finally the light dawned----I was trying to work it through the pc. Works great!!
[Nook Color Android Development] stinky634:
Works great, thanks. The best option out there for SD/internal mounting.

Hopefully this paves the way to an automated SD mount, like HTC Sense has, which is nice.
[Nook Color Android Development] Mecha2142:
Out of sheer curiosity, is the 'USB Connected' and 'USB Debugging connected' message supposed to be showing up again every five seconds while doing any sort of file transfer with this application? It really starts to get annoying after a while.
[Nook Color Android Development] edison:
Hey Sam,

Still loving this app!

Thought of a few other possible improvements with the aim of fitting everything on-screen in portrait w/out scrolling:

Change the one big CONFIRM button at the bottom to two buttons: MOUNT & UNMOUNT. This would free up one row of mount points.

Use 2 columns for the mount points. There's plenty of room and it should be a simple change to the layout.

In "Partitioned SD", remove "Mount ", since it's not in the other ones (and is obvious). Or maybe change it to "SD Card 1st Partition".

If you wanted to get really fancy, you could have a separate landscape layout, but that may be more work than it's worth.
[Nook Color Android Development] samuelhalff:
As I already stated, I'll get more involved if this app becomes really popular. Sorry to say that I won't bother with working on details for about 30 users..

But you do have interesting addins, thanks for sharing!
[Nook Color Android Development] jimmyz:
Thanks for great app- my only suggestion is to have it show up under a different name in /data/app; right now it is com.android-1.apk

thanks again. Also I bet there are more like 3K users!
[Nook Color Android Development] loupnook:
How can i see media from in HC?

This is a great utility. Related question.

My goal for getting adb working was to get su, which i got here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=953110 with a bit of trouble but seems to work, so that i could drag items from my pc onto HC. I'm using this utility to mount the media directory. I now seem to have su installed and the USM app is working. i can see my BN media directory from my pc now (yay) when using NHC, i can't browse that directory from my nook HC (boo). So i can't share files between eggclair and HC. I'm a noob to nook and newbe to linux, so i'm assuming it is a permissions issue but don't have enough knowledge on how to change them yet.

Can anyone provide instructions for getting access to the media directory from Nook NC dual Boot?

I have astro and efile installed, but media directory shows up empty.

Thanks.
[Nook Color Android Development] tenderidol:
I must be doing something wrong, because when I choose SD card and Internal Data after connecting my NC to my PC and hit Confirm, I get only one drive show up under my computer and Windows asks me whether I want to format the drive (obviously, it's not accessible). What's the procedure to get this working? Am I supposed to initiate a connection via USB/debugging first?

Thanks!
[Nook Color Android Development] samuelhalff:
First poster: which version of HC are you using? Is it an sdcard version? I guess media isn't mounted if you're using v04 on sdcard. Getting media to mount automatically depends on init.rc in your uRamdisk. Thats not for total noobs, sorry.You'll have to ask on HC threads. To do it manually with adb, do:

busybox mount /dev/block/mmcblk0p8 /media.

Will get reset on reboot.

Second poster: are you aware of the two tabs at the top? only one partition can be mounted per tab.

Is your sdcard partitionned correctly? If you mount data only, are you still having that problem? Check your PC disk manager to see how the mounted partition is actually paritionned. My guess is your mounting a partition using the utility, which mounts mmcblk1, for instance, when the partition is further partitionned as mmcblk1p1. Thus the mounting issue. Check with gparted or easeus partition manager once mounted...

Sam

Sam
[Nook Color Android Development] lschroeder:
Your utility is working great from CM7 SD Bootable w/ experimental BT working.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=12107759&postcount=155

Thanks! It works for me on both pc and mac. I needed to eject drives from the mac and then unmount from android when using the mac. Reverse order on mac will not work.

When running CM7 from sd card this program is essential!
[Nook Color Android Development] tenderidol:
Thanks for the reply. It's all sorted out and working properly, now.
[Nook Color Android Development] samuelhalff:
Please share you experience, for others..
[Nook Color Android Development] samuelhalff:
Thank you lschroeder for your donation. Will enjoy my free beer.

Sam
[Nook Color Android Development] Canadoc:
My Mac wont mount the secondary partitions. Am on a dual boot setup with eclair on secondary partitions and cm7 on main ones

From 1.1 Nook Color with 1.1 ghz overclock
[Nook Color Android Development] samuelhalff:
What does "fdisk /dev/block/mmcblk0 -l" print?
[Nook Color Android Development] loupnook:
Thanks and more info

Thanks for the reply.

I have partitioned the emmc. ec runing on the first and hc on the second. I thought it was interesting that when i use the USM utility and mount the media drive I could see all of the BN default folders and items in the mounted drive on my pc. I figure it was the same one from the ec. thing is when i use efile or astro to look at the folder from HC it is empty. Thought it must be a permissions issue and could use a shell command to change permissions on it perm so i can browse it from the nc.

I guess i'll have to do more research. I thought there may be a quick easy fix.
[Nook Color Android Development] loupnook:
Confused

I did more research and I'm confused. I used adb shell to look at the contents on the nook drive. I ls -l and see a media file listed. I tried to chmod 0755 media from root and it told me it is a read only file. Likely because system owns it. i cd media and ls and nothing seems to be in media.

my confusion is what directory is USM showing when i pick media and mount it from the HC OS? When i do that and browse from windows it shows all of the BN default directories including the content i loaded from the BN eggclair.

My reason for atempting all this is to be able to access that media folder that mounts from HC. This utility would be most useful for me if i could drag files from my pc into that media/myfiles directory and access them from both eggclair and hc.

Thanks in advance.
[Nook Color Android Development] reverland:
I am unclear on how this is supposed to work. I unmounted the SD Card, turned off compatibility mode and chose to mount the 4th partition of my SD card but when I run the echo command all that I get is the internal memory of the nook. I am dual booting Honeycomb utilizing the default v4 image. I have chosen every moutning option in lun0 and lun1, but the same thing happens every time. What am I missing?
[Nook Color Android Development] samuelhalff:
Root..
[Nook Color Android Development] ADude:
Actually, the UI is even more daunting than ADB.

The words "push" and "pull" are pretty intuitive and easily understood as "copy to" and "copy from".

Then the remaining is just simple copy command - filename and destination.

Whereas the whole concept of "mount" is foreign to Windows users.

The UI is so cryptic that the average XDA user is going to be unsure that he is not messing up the NC which it runs on.

Basically, this UI only helps one class of user - the Linux User who does not have a Linux System available.

That is why the app is not being used by very many people.

I can give you more details, but I am trying to avoid TL;DNR. ;)
[Nook Color Android Development] ADude:
PS The other pointless aspect of this app is that it runs on the NC.

Both this and ADB require you to connect up the USB wire.

What is really needed is a Windows app to mount a Linux partition on Windows.

I am not ungrateful, I am trying to give the best possible feedback.

I am grateful for the bottom row status bar CM7 that I am running right now!
[Nook Color Android Development] racks11479:
How much more straight forward does this app need to be? And user interface is so dumbed down, even for non-linux users. Mount, Unmount?

And regarding the usefulness of this app running off the nook is that. No matter where I go, I don't need to have a desktop with some special software to mount my partitions. This does it for me on the fly, no matter what computer I'm using.

And Adude, I totally understand that your just giving your feedback. As so am I. ;)

-Racks
[Nook Color Android Development] ADude:
Yes, I did mention that it has uses for Linux users who don't have any other Linux device handy.

I was just trying to explain comments like:

and

PS I did do a search and there does not seem to yet be any Windows driver that will write to an EXT4 partition, so this seems to be as good as it gets for now. Someone needs to write a procedure for this app, but I have run out of XDA time for now...
[Nook Color Android Development] anonim1:
I need some help with this. I'm attempting to transfer some files from my PC to the 4th partition of the SD card inserted in the NC. I downloaded, installed, and launched the UMS application. My understanding is that I need to connect the USB cable to the NC and my PC and then choose to mount the 4th partition; however, as soon as the NC is connected to the PC, I can no longer interact with the NC (it displays the USB Mode message) until I unplug the USB cable again.

It also seems like nothing changes when I choose to mount any of the SD card or internal partitions when the USB cable is unplugged. No matter which partition I choose and select CONFIRM, the status just goes back to Mounted (lun0): Unmounted.

What am I doing wrong? I'm using the stock 1.1.0 system with auto-nooter.
[Nook Color Android Development] samuelhalff:
This hasn't been tested on stock. Can't help you here. Maybe someone else can..

Sorry..

Sam
[Nook Color Android Development] anonim1:
So what version of Android do I need in order to run this utility? I didn't mean to say my device is stock.. it's been rooted using autonooter - I just haven't upgraded the Android version to Froyo, Gingerbread, or Honeycomb. I was hoping to use this utility to create a bootable SD with the latest nightly CM7 build (per http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=998861).
[Nook Color Android Development] anonim1:
Okay, no worries. I was able to use another method to create a bootable SD card with the latest CM7 nightly build. It uses an SD card with only one partition, so I was able to copy the files over to it using an SD card reader.
[Nook Color Android Development] 12paq:
I just wanted to thank you for this very handy app!

For my current set up it is fantastic. I am running Verrigreen's CM7 Sd card boot. I have a high capacity 8gig class 4 card and at my studio where I work, I do not have a HiCap card reader. With your app I can do nightly updates and kernel swaps all on my Nook and PC, without needing to pull my sd card.

To do updates I need access to my first boot partition on my sd card where my CM7 firmware runs. From within CM7 on my Nook I just run your app and mount the 1st partition. With my USB cable plugged into my PC I can use windows and just drop what need to the nook on the 1st partition, then Verigreen's "Penguin Recovery" finds it on boot and installs my Nightly. For Kernels I just use your utility to access the partition and replace the uImage file and boom new kernel on CM7 sd card.

Awesome and easy. Thanks!
[Nook Color Android Development] ADude:
Okay, the software provided here is actually pretty good and stable, it is only the interface that is cryptic. So here is my explanation for noobs and people without much Linux experience:

This app allows various different partitions to be seen in Windows Explorer as Drives. (If you don't understand partitions at all, then learn that first - perhaps in Wikipedia.)

The app has chosen to do the same thing twice in the same app, so that if you want to copy from one partition to the other, you don't need to use two instances, which would be a lot clunkier.

So, there are two different tabs, just like two tabs in a browser. If you only need to access one partition, ignore the other one.

Okay, at this point, I should mention that the UI was written with a hard physical display size, which seems to be the size of a smaller phone display. So, you have to scroll down in the usual touch screen fashion. I mention this, because it is not obvious, due to the whole UI being a little rectangle in the middle of the screen.

So, most of the rest of the screen is various choices of partitions. The usual use for this app is to mount the second, third or fourth SDCARD partition in Windows, which otherwise cannot access it. All four partitions can be selected. You can also choose partitions on the eMMC on the Nook itself, which you should only do if you know exactly what you are doing (or it is part of a procedure written by a Dev), because the Nook is accessing those partitions while you are doing this, and you can mess things up slightly or hugely. :D

So, when you have made one choice in the long list, scroll down more and press the CONFIRM button (necessary in case you accidentally tap the wrong choice and need to change, which you can do before CONFIRM).

Now you can switch to the second tab and do the same thing for another partition if you want.

Now go to Windows, and bring up Windows Explorer, and you will see the new drives, and you can then drag-and-drop files or whole folders.

BTW, all this assume that your Nook Color and your PC are connected with a USB Cable. (Someone should check if it works over the various wireless connections.)
[Nook Color Android Development] 12paq:
@ADude, You sniffin' glue?

lol
[Nook Color Android Development] quinxy:
Great app, thank you @samuelhalff! This thing is fantastic!

And I do see what others mean about the confusing interface, I can see how a novice might be a little confused about the lack of a button, the main contents which do show seem complete enough and not cut off that people may not think to scroll. It's always a bit of a tragedy when you have something as great as this and because of a relatively minor interface issue it doesn't get the attention and usage it deserves. This should be on everyone's modified Nook Color!

^ Quinxy
[Nook Color Android Development] samuelhalff:
Hi,

To be honest, as CM7 becomes more and more stable, this app becomes less and less attractive. CM7 handles UMS perfectly and mounts uSD and Media on the fly..

Although this app will still be handy for those partitioning their uSD, and maybe even for some who like to navigate through internal eMMC. But I'm not sure how many people fit the latter description..

I don't know what you mean by "scrolling". Maybe you didn't read the OP which states that "compatibility mode" must be disabled in spare parts.

Take care.

Sam
[Nook Color Android Development] RegLinUsr:
* Wrong Forum *
[Nook Color Android Development] Thirtybird:
Actually, I just finally got back around to putting this on my Nook now that I'm running CM7 instad of HC preview... I think I thanked you already, but in case I didn't, thanks!

I'm actually in the category of people who will use this because I run from SDCard (the wife likes the stock nook!), and it worked great under HC, but under CM7, it's got micro-screen going on. Do you know of any way around that other than updating the app?
[Nook Color Android Development] samuelhalff:
Haven't tested. Have you unchecked compatibility in spare parts?
[Nook Color Android Development] quinxy:
Maybe something is wrong with my setup, but with my verygreen SD install of CM 7 I don't see the SD partition mounted, nor is media. So, this app solves my problem perfectly. Maybe there's some setting I'm not aware of in CM 7, but the ability to mount the non-standard partitions is great, regardless.

As for the scrolling, yes, I promise I read the OP carefully and understood turning off compatibility mode would fix it, but not knowing what else compatibility mode makes compatible (and figuring other apps might break) I figured I'd leave it on and just scroll.

Thanks again!

^ Quinxy
[Nook Color Android Development] Thirtybird:
Thanks for the tip, I thought it was specific to Froyo and skipped that step much to my detriment:o
[Nook Color Android Development] samuelhalff:
You might have to reboot. Not sure..

Ill change the code later this week if people are still using this..
[Nook Color Android Development] rgallius:
I still use it! I run CM7 off my SD card (my wife also likes the stock nook) and would like to be able to easily mount the Sdcard storage partition. When I connect my nook currently CM7 mounts the internal emmc storage.