USB storage mode

[Alleyoop11]

I use HanDBase for a whole range of databases and lists and I synch it to my desktop computer. It's easier to create the documents on the computer and transfer them to the device.
I haven't been able to synch my GN3 yet. I connect it to my computer via usb 3, I can transfer files etc. ok, but when I try to synch HanDBase the computer version doesn't recognise a HanDBase file on the GN3. It says 'make sure you allow USB Storage Mode to occur'. How do I do that? That option doesn't show like it used to on my old Galaxy S.
I can see settings for tethering etc. but I don't want to do that.

 

[jwither]

I use HanDBase for a whole range of databases and lists and I synch it to my desktop computer. It's easier to create the documents on the computer and transfer them to the device.
I haven't been able to synch my GN3 yet. I connect it to my computer via usb 3, I can transfer files etc. ok, but when I try to synch HanDBase the computer version doesn't recognise a HanDBase file on the GN3. It says 'make sure you allow USB Storage Mode to occur'. How do I do that? That option doesn't show like it used to on my old Galaxy S.
I can see settings for tethering etc. but I don't want to do that.

The following is from HanDBase's web site. It is dated 2/16/12. Hard to imagine they haven't worked it out in a year and a half, but it's still up:

Prior to Android v3.0 (Honeycomb) all Android devices came with support for USB drive (mass storage) mounting. Our conduits were developed based on this specification and worked fine before the change in Android v3.0 (and later revisions such as Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0)). In these newer versions of Android a different protocol called MTP was used that does not support drive mapping in the OS. Because of this change, our conduits no longer worked as designed- as an out of the box sync solution for Android. We've been working on a completely new implementation of a sync conduit based on a server based sync and hope to offer a solution in the coming months. Rather than have our customers wait for this solution to be designed, developed, tested, and released, we spent some time looking for alternative workarounds. The workarounds we found require the use of third party software to map the SDCard drive as a mountable drive over the wifi connection. Some of these involve free tools, and some require purchasing a commercial software package. We tried to find free solutions to use but unfortunately that was not always a reliable solution.


So please consider this as a possible workaround for syncing via our conduit if your device is running a version of Android that uses MTP only. If you'd rather not purchase a third party tool, you can still continue to sync a database manually using this method:

Email the database from Android to your PC.
Use the File|Merge feature to merge this with your desktop database.
Email the resulting merged database back to your Android device.
Opening the attachment in HanDBase and it will merge/sync the changes back to the device.

 

[Alleyoop11]

Great, thanks for that. Seems to work ok, but you're right, seems surprising they haven't got it sorted. Workarounds are more commonly used for legacy issues.