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Change your USB Icon

I found a nifty little program that will change the icon your device displays when connected as USB Mass storage.
You just have to find a corresponding .ico file
Heres the program: SevenDriveIconChanger
http://www.mediafire.com/?mmkzmmt5tug
And attached is a Nexus One Windows icon and the 7changer app in a zip

You need an *.ico-file to use the IconChanger, I converted it and attached it in the ZIP-archive for maximum enjoyment.

Iconchanger? I just have an autorun.inf on the root of my SD card pointing to an icon.

Rusty! said:
Iconchanger? I just have an autorun.ini on the root of my SD card pointing to an icon.
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Dammit, beat me to it!
Code:
[autorun]
icon=x.ico
Save as autorun.ini in /sdcard/ along with x.ico, job done.

The autorun.ini doesnt work for me.

lorin.bute said:
The autorun.ini doesnt work for me.
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You didn't save it as autorun.ini.txt did you?
Oh, and you have to have autorun enabled...
Edit: Also, try calling it "autorun.inf" (no quotes). Should do essentially the same thing.

b0dge said:
Edit: Also, try calling it "autorun.inf" (no quotes). Should do essentially the same thing.
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Nail. Head.
It should be called autorun.inf, I made a typo

I haven't renamed it with .txt. I don't like using autorun for any kind of storage i insert into my PC so i set it to be off.
Maybe that's why it doesn't work. A Nexus One icon is not worth turning it back on.

Another option (Windows only) is USBDLM. With it you can configure icon, pre-assigned drive letter, drive/device label (as shown in explorer), and a raft load of other choices. It can run as a service and has x64 support, but requires direct editing of the .ini file (and manual installation if I remember correctly).
For example: On my desktop and notebook - Nexus One is always [N:], G1 is always [G:], backup drive is always [B:] (all with custom icons), regardless of which USB port I plug in to or what else is plugged in (those letters are never assigned to other devices).
It takes a bit of time investment up front, but is well worth it if you either need or want more configuration options for your external storage.

HydrantHunter said:
backup drive is always [B:]
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Wow, I haven't had a drive B in a long time. But not nearly as long as a drive A. I'd probably be a little freaked out if I set up a system like yours

Clarkster said:
Wow, I haven't had a drive B in a long time. But not nearly as long as a drive A. I'd probably be a little freaked out if I set up a system like yours
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It took some getting used to, but now that it's habit I actually get kinda freaked if I'm backing up to (or restoring from) something other than B:
DVD-RW=X:, Daemon-Tools=Y:, DVD-ROM=Z:
Always have to double take on other people's Windows boxes when looking for optical media. My system is definitely mine.

[CAUTION] Windows VIRUS in sdcard

I really want to share my experience with other users here and warn everybody for this, because I wouldnt be able to locate any information after several searches in ggle. This may be a big security hole in the Android OS. Be patient and read till the end.
Yesterday I purchased my brand new SGT-P1000 (fmw:XXJK5, FROYO.XWJJ7). After playing around with the browser to check its Flash capabilities, I decided to play a little with the backround wallpapers as I wanted to design a custom one.
The way to upload images to SGT to test 'em, was through a USB mass storage connection, after having set the appropriate option in SGT's settings. After having done this 1 or 2 times, all of a sudden I saw IE windows starting to pop up in my WinXP desktop. This was strange cause I never use IE as my main browser. A quick view in task manager revealed 2 or 3 running processes with strange names and some files (executables) in file expl. windows dissappeared. I quickly understood that Im under a virus attack and under panic I shutted down windows and started thinking ways to overcome the situation.
I planned to turn on the PC once again to better understand the behaviour of the virus. So I did ... The strange processes had now different names and as I was able to issue a regedit command and navigate to CurrentVersion\Run keys (there are two of them, one in HKCM and one in HKCU key), I noticed a strange autorun entry pointing to some file in TEMP directory. Then I tried to open the services tab by issuing a 'services.msc' command. The result was an IE warning that the page could not be displayed due to ActX restrictions. So there was no way to figure out the registered processes in my machine. The fear to loose my data multiplied, so I decided to switch off, take the drive out and move it to an another machine in the office. So I did and after carefull examination of the folders and with little help of an antivirus program, I figured out the location of the malware files and got rid of them. Their location was in the TEMP folders of the machine, in my personal folder under 'Documents and Settings' and in the Windows folder (not system32). I dont remember what their names were, but as I told before, they were able to change 'em between reboots. My main observation was that the icon of two of the executables was the famous red Adobe Flash icon.
I took the disk out and put in the original machine, rebooted and the strange processes had gone, but I still couldnt see all my files in explorer windows, whereas in the other machine I was able to see em (and that was a great relief, cause I understood that nothing was deleted). Then I realized that the virus had changed security permissions for the local machine by inserting a key under HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings\Zones, which after deletion and rebooting brought the system back to normal again.Then with the help of the SYSINTERNALS utilities, I was able to locate the spots where the virus tried to regenerate himself. These were in 'Sheduled Tasks' (2-3 jobs there), in processes (1 registered process) and in autorun (as I told before).
So, my thought was, that browsing around through many sites trying to find a custom wallpaper for my SGT caused the attack. But I didnt want to believe that, cause I use FF for browsing loaded with many add ons for safety and security.
Anyway ... I was happy that I could overcome the situation, I turned off the office pc and I arrived home to continue playing with my SGT. Playing around with SGT's and AndExplorer file manager, I browsed to the sdcard folder, where to my surprise, I saw that it contained 2 exe files with strange names (I remember one of them: koubuu.exe) and the same Adobe Flash red icon I noticed in my infected disk. There were also up to 10 .lnk files (shortcuts in windows systems) and a autorun.inf file and a x.mpg file.
If you were able to read with caution up to here, you may begin understand what the cause of evil was. No browsing to strange sites in the PC, nothing to do with the PC at all ... The cause was the browsing in the SGT (to realize that flash was performing well). During that playing some f***ing script run and placed these files in the sdcard mount. Of course this could not harm the functioning of the SGT at all, but when plugging to a windows machine (under mass storage) the autorun.inf activated and run the exe files, which in turn place themselfs under different names of course to several places in my machine.
Im not a security expert, and Im not saying that the virus came up to my sdcard folder due to flash's capability of the SGT, but as an experienced user and a software engineer from 1996, Im writing this to warn users and developers here, to be VERY VERY carefull with SGT's browser cause it's for sure that it lacks security. Another thing to mention is that as an iPhone user (which I was), I would've never faced a situation like this.
Anyway ... it just screwed my first 'hand on' to SGT and waste almost a night without sleep ...
Beware of Android ... it was developed very very fast as a cheap Apple/iOS competitor.
So you can imagine what the last means !!! It still needs much more work and effort.
jpapg

Will run a full sophos scan on my tab. Which av do u use
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brilldoctor said:
Will run a full sophos scan on my tab. Which av do u use
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None !!!
I just have a server machine in my office with runs Norton Av.
I didn't know that there are antivirus programs for Android, if that's what you mean !

There are av for andeoid (i use lookout) what i meant was i was going to plug my tab into my mac and do a sophos scan on the internal sd but i have had mac issues (it wont boot)
You should really get some av (avast free works for me)
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brilldoctor said:
There are av for andeoid (i use lookout) what i meant was i was going to plug my tab into my mac and do a sophos scan on the internal sd but i have had mac issues (it wont boot)
You should really get some av (avast free works for me)
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Thanks for the advice !

jpapg said:
autorun.inf
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There is a reason if only Windows has autorun, and if Microsoft is disabling it.........
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What happened to you my friend is that a script got installed from browsing unsafe site. I am no engineer but i bet its one of those remote access scripts that microsoft patches on a daily basis which is prolly why your windows permissions got screwed (virus lesson number 1 deny user access). Anyway stock browser sux I never used it, and I think google and samsung are aware of browser issues. Hopefully we will see updates or next os.

DarkPal said:
What happened to you my friend is that a script got installed from browsing unsafe site. I am no engineer but i bet its one of those remote access scripts that microsoft patches on a daily basis which is prolly why your windows permissions got screwed (virus lesson number 1 deny user access). Anyway stock browser sux I never used it, and I think google and samsung are aware of browser issues. Hopefully we will see updates or next os.
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Right !
Which browser do U propose for the SGT ?

I personally use skyfire which is an amazing browser. Dolphin HD comes highly recomended as well.

First of all: I am not an IT-Pro but the issue seems to be different. My idea is that the files havw not been initially on the sdcard but came indeed from browsing unsafe websites with your computer. Often Viruses protect and spread themselfs in the way that they copy themselfes to any mass-storage and/or nas attached to the infected computer. Maybe that way the virus went onto the sdcard. So I guess that it was not the SGT's fault. Sorry for bad english...
send from my SGT with Overcome...

spike1985 said:
First of all: I am not an IT-Pro but the issue seems to be different. My idea is that the files havw not been initially on the sdcard but came indeed from browsing unsafe websites with your computer. Often Viruses protect and spread themselfs in the way that they copy themselfes to any mass-storage and/or nas attached to the infected computer. Maybe that way the virus went onto the sdcard. So I guess that it was not the SGT's fault. Sorry for bad english...
send from my SGT with Overcome...
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Definitely not ...
I had another USB hard drive attached to the machine at the same time. After the incident I checked it and was totally clear !

jpapg said:
Definitely not ...
I had another USB hard drive attached to the machine at the same time. After the incident I checked it and was totally clear !
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Maybe because Anti-Virus killed it properly?
send from my SGT with Overcome...

spike1985 said:
Maybe because Anti-Virus killed it properly?
send from my SGT with Overcome...
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Nope ...
I never plugged that disk to the machine with the AV !

What Android 3.1 DIDN'T Fix!

Still no sdcard slot!
Still no USB On-The-Go memory device support (we have USB joystick support but still no memory devices)
I haven't tried abusing the Camera Connection Kit yet to see if I can use a camera as a memory card reader.

scotty1024 said:
Still no sdcard slot!
Still no USB On-The-Go memory device support (we have USB joystick support but still no memory devices)
I haven't tried abusing the Camera Connection Kit yet to see if I can use a camera as a memory card reader.
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The SD card is a motorola issue, not a google issue. This has been pointed out in many, many forums.

what about Linux connection via usb. Can anyone confirm if this has been fixed?

vBulletin typing (like XDA) still sucks.

timrock said:
what about Linux connection via usb. Can anyone confirm if this has been fixed?
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It's never been a problem. 3.x and higher use MTP so they can stop using FAT32 for internal storage. Linux does MTP just fine. What are you talking about?

jdclucidly said:
It's never been a problem. 3.x and higher use MTP so they can stop using FAT32 for internal storage. Linux does MTP just fine. What are you talking about?
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why was this method needed? Xoom will not show up as a drive, unless you do this. Where as with the Droid X, once plugged in, it showed up as a drive. I hope this makes sense.

timrock said:
why was this method needed? Xoom will not show up as a drive, unless you do this. Where as with the Droid X, once plugged in, it showed up as a drive. I hope this makes sense.
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USB Mass Storage is the old method and it shows up as a drive. The Droid X is older than the Xoom therefore it is using USB Mass Storage.
MTP is Media Transfer Protocol and is the method used by 3.0 and higher.
How is it that you're using Linux and you don't understand this stuff?

jdclucidly said:
USB Mass Storage is the old method and it shows up as a drive. The Droid X is older than the Xoom therefore it is using USB Mass Storage.
MTP is Media Transfer Protocol and is the method used by 3.0 and higher.
How is it that you're using Linux and you don't understand this stuff?
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really? you cant just answer the question? maybe im new to linux. maybe im dual booting. If you dont want to answer, don't. No need to for the rude responses.

slack04 said:
The SD card is a motorola issue, not a google issue. This has been pointed out in many, many forums.
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Hmmm, from Android Honeycomb 3.1 Details ...
...Android 3.1 still isn’t intended, at the operating system level, for managing external storage devices. This detail, which came out in conversations I had with Google engineers today, explains why the Android file system organization is, well, a mess...
“We don’t want to expose the user to file locations,” explained Hiroshi Lockheimer, director of engineering at Google. “How do you manage that as a user? The not-good answer is with the file browser.” Lockheimer says that many of the experiences I’ve seen so far are what individual hardware manufacturers have enabled, as opposed to what Google has provided natively. The good thing is that Lockheimer says Google is looking at ways to do this; but the problem hasn’t been solved yet...
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I still dont understand why they havent added (or, in fact, have removed) the "clear all" button in notifications. If I download more than 2 files it really annoys me. (I'm OCD about unchecked notifications)

timrock said:
really? you cant just answer the question? maybe im new to linux. maybe im dual booting. If you dont want to answer, don't. No need to for the rude responses.
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He did answer you. The xoom uses mtp which will not show up as a drive in Linux unlike older android which used mass storage. Mtp allows you to add files with out having to unmount the file system on the xoom. There are many threads on how to set mtp up. If you're new to Linux it may seem hard to do but its simple. Do a Google search for mounting xoom Ubuntu and you should find them easy.

Just-in-time said:
He did answer you. The xoom uses mtp which will not show up as a drive in Linux unlike older android which used mass storage. Mtp allows you to add files with out having to unmount the file system on the xoom. There are many threads on how to set mtp up. If you're new to Linux it may seem hard to do but its simple. Do a Google search for mounting xoom Ubuntu and you should find them easy.
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Thank you. And i meant answer without the snide remark. Thanks again for explaining.
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i know just what you mean, however i quite enjoy having the (X)s to click to get rid of them. I would like to see a slide to delete in the notifications aswell

Dubar said:
I still dont understand why they havent added (or, in fact, have removed) the "clear all" button in notifications. If I download more than 2 files it really annoys me. (I'm OCD about unchecked notifications)
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totally agree. there are lots of things i understand why they're waiting, but this? come on. i could clear all on my phone.

I just want to clear up a misconception about MTP. It is not a cross platform solution for transferring files.
My post from another thread on the subject:
I can mount my Xoom in linux using libmtp and mtpfs, however, it's slow, kludgy, and generally feels like it will flake out at any moment. Additionally, even when it's mounted, I can't seem to copy music across properly; it doesn't keep the folder structure. In fact, the directories are created and any non audio files are copied across fine, but every mp3/audio file is flatly dropped into the Music directory.
I tried to copy some music onto it from my fiancee's windows xp laptop and it worked ok (though the album art didn't appear).
The move away from mass storage to MTP is a massive disappointment for me. Mass storage has always been a big selling point for me when purchasing a device and for Google to switch to using a Windows specific protocol and consider it cross platform is a big letdown. MTP on mac requires a special app and on linux, support is dire, certainly for anything more complex than simply pulling images from a camera.
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I can just about get files onto the xoom, but I can't load music onto it; all of my mp3s just land up in the top level of the Music directory, regardless of how I attempt to transfer the files. I think transferring a zip file of the music and unzipping from within a file manager on the xoom might do the trick, but this isn't a good, workable solution. I understand the reasoning behind MTP, but it most certainly isn't cross platform and shouldn't be mentioned as a working solution by Google.
Hopefully people will soon realise not to keep insisting that the xoom has linux support when using MTP.

New update for drag racing is really choppy, lile playing angry birds on a g1.... but samauri II and the other thd games run smooth...dont kmow if its 3.1 kernel cuz it plays fine on my mytouch4g
XOOM

slack04 said:
The SD card is a motorola issue, not a google issue. This has been pointed out in many, many forums.
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If that is a motorola problem and xoom is a barebone system. Who's gonna fix it, how?

stevebakh said:
I just want to clear up a misconception about MTP. It is not a cross platform solution for transferring files.
My post from another thread on the subject:
I can just about get files onto the xoom, but I can't load music onto it; all of my mp3s just land up in the top level of the Music directory, regardless of how I attempt to transfer the files. I think transferring a zip file of the music and unzipping from within a file manager on the xoom might do the trick, but this isn't a good, workable solution. I understand the reasoning behind MTP, but it most certainly isn't cross platform and shouldn't be mentioned as a working solution by Google.
Hopefully people will soon realise not to keep insisting that the xoom has linux support when using MTP.
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Change all the extension names in the song file name to .mp and it will allow the transfer
Then use something of your liking, I use astro file manager, and just add the 3 on the a tail end of the extension.
Its a b, but you can at least get a couple good songs on there.

stevebakh said:
I just want to clear up a misconception about MTP. It is not a cross platform solution for transferring files.
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You're right, it's a cross-platform solution for transferring MEDIA, being the Media Transfer Protocol.
It's smart enough to detect the media files that it supports and put them in the right place. I prefer it over the old way, I hated having to unmount the sdcard every single time.
A poorly made Linux MTP library doesn't make it not cross-platform. It's an open standard for transferring media to USB devices.
It's not perfect, but it's great for a device like the Xoom where unmounting the internal memory is not desirable.
Honestly users get really confused by all of the extra directories when mounting an android sd-card anyways.

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The SD card is a motorola issue, not a google issue. This has been pointed out in many, many forums.
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Actually, it has been a big debate on rather it is Google's or Moto's issue, but I am sure that we all can agree that it needs to be fixed no mater whos issue it is.

USB Mounting as External Drive on Mac

So I've fine some searching and it seems nearly impossible to make these later androids Mount as a external hard drive like we used to.
Is there any easy to make it pure plug and play or do I need a third part apps to make it happen? If so--- I guess, what is the easiest way to make it happen (seems kind of lame imo).
Any help would be great. Thanks!

Well-- let me answer my own question through a weblink i just found on stock exchange. haha but, what's so good about MTP/Media Transfer Protocol?
Anyhow, this is what I got:
Go to Settings→About Phone/Tablet.
Go to “Build Number” at the end of the Scroll list.
Tap on “Build Number” repeatedly (7 times). On your third tap you should see message indicating that you only have 4 more taps to go to ‘become a developer’. Keep tapping until you are a developer. (a toast message will tell you so)
Now Developer Option will be included in setting list of yours now. Go to “Develop Options” to check USB debugging > OK. Done.
In combination with this, I had to download Android File Transfer--- But it's okay with the combined tabs of the internal and external SD card:
http://www.android.com/filetransfer/
Yep, so thats the story.. At least now if other people come over with there android's, I can connect them to my computer no problem. Still though am interested to know about this MTP stuff.. [would be good for knowledge within this thread]
Cheers

Lol I thought you were joking about the developer thing but I tried it anyways.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mohammadag.samsungusbmassstorageenabler
This works if you have root. It only works on the micro SD card though. Airdroid https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sand.airdroid works over Wi-Fi for both storage places but it's slower than USB. Better than nothing I suppose. I don't store anything on the internal ram. I move everything over to the card.

w7excursion said:
Lol I thought you were joking about the developer thing but I tried it anyways.
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Haha, nope
Glad to know in still helping out around here beyond myself in the process. Hah. It's good to be home.
Yes to you up top, the airdroid method works as well... But i prefer to be directly plugged in with USB.. It could be a helpful tool in the future though.. Thanks!
I guess there is no way around the software part though. The idea behind this thread and question is whether or not this droid can be plug and play wherever I go vs. Needing software to run it. Perhaps airdroid is where it's at.
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USB Mass Storage Mode?

OK, what Kit Kat ROMs have USB mass storage mode?
If a ROM does have it, exactly how/where is it enabled?
Either a ROM doesn't have it or if it does the dev hides it some place and requires digging through 100's of stupid pointless posts to maybe if you are lucky, find the answer.
I'm at the point with this USB mass storage B.S. that I'm ready to leave Android completely and get a flip phone. Whomever thought it was a good idea to remove it was an idiot and whomever signed off on it was even a bigger idiot.

Lokifish Marz said:
OK, what Kit Kat ROMs have USB mass storage mode?
If a ROM does have it, exactly how/where is it enabled?
Either a ROM doesn't have it or if it does the dev hides it some place and requires digging through 100's of stupid pointless posts to maybe if you are lucky, find the answer.
I'm at the point with this USB mass storage B.S. that I'm ready to leave Android completely and get a flip phone. Whomever thought it was a good idea to remove it was an idiot and whomever signed off on it was even a bigger idiot.
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MTP is absolutely terrible, completely half baked and totally unreliable.
Right now I just discovered that ChromeOS doesn't even support MTP... Google's OWN PRODUCT...
I'd like to know the answer as well.

I understand the frustrations but the problem with mass storage is that it surrenders all control of the internal storage to a PC not a problem when that's a different chip but on the n7 and most new smartphones its an emulated partition and giving over total control would mean that android cannot function at the same time. This was brought in to stop manufacturers using two separate chips giving you loads of "storage space" but very little application space. Its a work in progress and has many issues but its here to stay I don't think any ROMs will support USBMS as it not possible on a single chip without shutting down android.
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LOL. In camera mode you have access to the "Pictures" folder and is readable by Windows and other OSes. All that needs to be done is duplicate the same process and direct it to a folder called "Storage" with full permissions for the folders contents. This essentially simulates USBMS. You can even redirect mounts to that folder so that apps see it as a storage area as well so things like map data and so on are put in the "Storage" folder.
I don't have the time to mess with this but it can be done and something almost exactly like this has been done before on almost every OS.

Lokifish Marz said:
LOL. In camera mode you have access to the "Pictures" folder and is readable by Windows and other OSes. All that needs to be done is duplicate the same process and direct it to a folder called "Storage" with full permissions for the folders contents. This essentially simulates USBMS. You can even redirect mounts to that folder so that apps see it as a storage area as well so things like map data and so on are put in the "Storage" folder.
I don't have the time to mess with this but it can be done and something almost exactly like this has been done before on almost every OS.
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I imagine it can be done but it wouldn't be mass storage and would require apps to be compatible it may have been done on other systems but how much space should this storage folder be allocated because it would no longer be avalible to install apps. In camera mode android still retains control of the folder other os can read that folder but files must be copied off the device to be edited. It would be good if android could mount the SD card as mass storage.
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No it would not technically be mass storage, thus the "simulated" comment. As far as other OSes, it's already been done to a point on android already via the simulated partition that's already in use. This has also bee done using third party apps to mount folders as virtual drives.
App compatibility, if the folder is used as mount point then it is transparent to the OS and the apps. This has been done for some time now using third party apps.
The folder size could have the same limitations that the storage area has already been limited to. If coded so that it is part of the boot process then everything outside of system apps would only see the virtual area. Kind of like what's being done right now.
Dual mount. This has been used with much success and allows for PC and Android access to the same storage area at the same time.