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Android: Path to SD card hard to find on some devices #10199

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hrydgard opened this issue Nov 28, 2017 · 4 comments
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Android: Path to SD card hard to find on some devices #10199

hrydgard opened this issue Nov 28, 2017 · 4 comments
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We should try to detect the presence of an extra SD card (in addition to the built-in storage) and show a button to navigate to it.

For example, I got a report that on a Galaxy Note 8, it's mounted on /storage/6BF1-DDB6/, which is not very intuitive.
@hrydgard hrydgard added this to the v1.6.0 milestone Nov 28, 2017
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Yeah its not something nice one some phone brands in file explorer its random numbers/letters instead of like internal/sdcard

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Is it always /storage/? Or can we just read mtab?

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hrydgard commented Apr 25, 2020 •
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This one is really difficult to do well because there's no official API for managing multiple external storages, other than as "media folders" and nonsense like that. There are possibilities for device specific hacks, but it's just a lot of messing around. Additionally, this one will also get harder in the future with the new storage stuff. I'm gonna push this to future.

There are a few fun hacks in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/23123461/external-sdcard-file-path-for-android ...

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@hrydgard hrydgard modified the milestones: Future, v1.11.0 Jan 6, 2021
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Use hacky methods to retrieve SD card directory if available.
1c753e4 
This will disappear in future Android versions but can be useful for
older devices.

Fixes (or at least tries to) #10199, at least for some devices.

Might help #13827 ?

Tested on Pocophone F1.
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hrydgard commented Jan 8, 2021

Fixed by #13885, as far as it's possible...

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