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0 pointsgdulli7y ago0 comments

> allowing a computer to mount a filesystem directly requires that the phone unmount it

I don't think that's true. My S8 storage is mounted and accessible from my computer right now while at the same time playing music from the same storage. I can still take pictures/write to the storage.

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dTal7y ago

As mass storage, or MTP? The distinction is why I qualified with "mount a filesystem directly". MTP doesn't do that.

TulliusCicero7y ago

You said "Android phones don't do that anymore", "that" referring to "have it show up as a removable storage device".

Pointing out that the protocol used is leaky or bad in some technical way doesn't change that Android phones do in fact show up as removable storage devices when connected to (at least Windows) PC's. Your original assertion was incorrect.

samcday even said they just wanted to copy some files around. You don't need to be able to modify files in-place from the PC to accomplish this.

ernesth7y ago

UMS (USB Mass Storage) is a protocol. MTP is a different protocol.

Android devices don't support UMS anymore.

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