Re: [android-developers] Re: Where to save data on devices without an sdcard?

On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 4:26 AM, Terry <terboel@gmail.com> wrote:
> I checked on a new HTC One V.
>
> There the Environment method getExternalStoragePublicDirectory()
> returns "/mnt/sdcard", which cannot be used for anything. Trying to
> write there fails.
> The external memory is also reported as unmounted.
>
> There IS about 1 GB memory however - at "/mnt/emmc", (which is
> writeable) but that directory is NOT returned by any of the
> Environment methods. This seems to be the required "external" memory
> that you are referring to, but HOW does an app get to know that?

It doesn't.

This sounds like a problem with this device. I will point HTC to this
thread; hopefully we will be able to get to the bottom of this.

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