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Posted May 16, 2012 11:12 UTC (Wed) by asn (subscriber, #62311)
In reply to: Nautilus by corbet
Parent article: Tasting the Ice Cream Sandwich

CyanogenMod 9 still has the good old USB Mass Storage support. You need an overlay for it and define the lun0 file correctly and it will work as in gingerbread.


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Posted May 17, 2012 6:33 UTC (Thu) by AndreE (subscriber, #60148) [Link]

How does this work for the Galaxy Nexus? What file system is reported to the OS?

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Posted May 18, 2012 9:08 UTC (Fri) by jamesh (guest, #1159) [Link]

Presumably it would be a loopback FAT32 file system stored on the flash, which the phone would have to unmount when switching on mass storage mode.

While MTP might be a little more cumbersome to use, it does have the benefit that both the phone and your desktop can access the file system concurrently. That seems like reason enough to concentrate on making the MTP user experience as good as possible rather than trying to hack UMS support back in.

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