Android phone and FreeBSD 8.1

[Alejandro Imass]

2010/12/28 Fernando Apesteguía <fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com>:
> 2010/12/28 Justin V. <vic at yeaguy.com>:
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>> On Tue, 28 Dec 2010, Fernando Apestegu?a wrote:
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>>> 2010/12/28 Alejandro Imass <ait at p2ee.org>:
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>>>> 2010/12/28 Fernando Apestegu?a <fernando.apesteguia at gmail.com>:
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>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I bought a GeeksPhone One[1]. It uses Android 2.2.1. I'm trying to get
>>>>> FreeBDS recognize the phone.
>>>>> When I plug it to the USB port and activate the "Storage" option, this
>>>>> is what dmesg reports:
>>>>>
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>>>> It's a wild guess but if you have Gnome installed, try disabling HAL
>>>> (after you are in your Gnome desktop) before you plug-in the telephone
>>>> and before you press the activate usb mass storage option on the
>>>> droid.
>>>
>>> No luck :S
>>>
>>> I rebooted with HAL disabled without bringing Gnome up and I still get
>>> the same error
>>>
>>> Cheers.
>>>
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>> Did you try Disk Drive on the phone and mount_msdosfs as root?
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> Yes. After I plug the phone, I am asked whether I want to enable
> "Storage mode". I say yes, the system tries to recognize the phone and
> creates and immediately removes da4. I can't use mount_msdosfs if the
> node is not present.
>

That is very similar to the HAL problem I started having with my
external HDs, that's whay I suspected you could be having the same
issue. What I do is simply disable HAL by just running the rc.d
script, plugin the drive, mount and the start HAL again.


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