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Mount the mass storage on the computer

Added by Stefan Begerad almost 9 years ago

Dear Replicant comunity,
I am working on the guide "Galaxy S 3 (I9300) Installation". I am wondering how to solve the bulletpoint "4. Mount the mass storage on the computer" from the section "Using the internal storage".

Has someone an idea?


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RE: Mount the mass storage on the computer - Added by Paul Kocialkowski almost 9 years ago

I suppose you should start explaining what the problem is before we can have any hope of attempting to help you solve it!

And no, bulletpoints are not enigmas or problems to solve, they should be steps that are achievable! All jokes aside, I suppose that your system is simply not recognizing the internal storage of the device when connected by USB.
That is likely because it is using MTP, which is a protocol only correctly handled by fairly recent versions of desktop software (Trisquel 7 has it right, I think Debian Jessie does too). Anything considerably older than that will require some tweaking on your system to get it working reasonably well.

In the meantime, you can always use an external micro SD card, adb sideload or simply adb push the files to the internal storage.

RE: Mount the mass storage on the computer - Added by Stefan Begerad almost 9 years ago

The problem was, that no storage was mounted after I connected the mobile with the computer using USB.

The computer executed an 64 bit Ubuntu with a 3.16.0 kernel.

Today I introduced myself to adb. After some exercise, I pushed the zip file using the following command line instruction.

adb push replicant-4.2-i9300.zip /sdcard/

The remaining part was fool-proof. Now my Samsung Galaxy S3 is free.

Anyhow, how are the odds of getting free driver for WiFi, Bluetooth or GPS? Whats the news?

RE: Mount the mass storage on the computer - Added by Paul Kocialkowski almost 9 years ago

Anyhow, how are the odds of getting free driver for WiFi, Bluetooth or GPS? Whats the news?

The drivers for Wi-Fi and bluetooth are free software, but the firmwares that are executed on the chips are not. There is no effort to replace those with free software currently.

As for GPS, there is no free software implementation to decode the data that comes out of the chip (see BCM4751), so it's unusable in the free world. A few people (including myself) attempted to figure it out but gave up eventually.

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