Good morning,
I'm trying to use ODK Briefcase to pull data from phones used to administer
questionnaires using ODK Collect. However, I'm unable to do so because when
I try to choose a given SD card, none appear. I've tried refreshing many
times, and the empty list remains. I've tried with 4 different phones, in
the 3 USB ports of my computer. I've tried ODK Briefcase 1.4.3 and 1.4.5
with both Java7 and Java8. I'm running Ubuntu 14.04. The SD cards were
always mounted as I could access their content via Nautilus.
Hope you can help,
Regards,
carlos
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Welcome to the frustrations of the transition from the early Android 2.x
days to the newer Android 3.0 and higher versions.
Connecting via USB no longer exposes the SDCard in the same way it did
under Android 2.x, so you cannot use the "Mounted Android SD Card" choice
in ODK Briefcase unless your device is using Android 2.x.
Instead, for Android 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, you must copy the odk directory off of
your device onto your computer, and then use the "Custom Path to ODK
Directory" choice to choose the 'odk' directory that you copied off of the
device.
BUT: copying the directory off of the device is not easy -- Windows and
MacOSX each have different problems with recognizing devices connected via
USB.
The reliable way I have found to do this is to use a file manager
application on your device, e.g., OI File Manager, to create a ZIP file of
the /sdcard/odk directory, then send that zip file to your computer either
via a file copy or via an e-mail attachment, etc. Once you get the full
zip on your computer, you can then extract the contents, and use ODK
Briefcase to pull the data from the 'odk' directory.
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On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 10:11 PM, Carlos Rey-Moreno < carlos.reymoreno@gmail.com> wrote:
Good morning,
I'm trying to use ODK Briefcase to pull data from phones used to
administer questionnaires using ODK Collect. However, I'm unable to do so
because when I try to choose a given SD card, none appear. I've tried
refreshing many times, and the empty list remains. I've tried with 4
different phones, in the 3 USB ports of my computer. I've tried ODK
Briefcase 1.4.3 and 1.4.5 with both Java7 and Java8. I'm running Ubuntu
14.04. The SD cards were always mounted as I could access their content via
Nautilus.
Hope you can help,
Regards,
carlos
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Thanks for your answer, Mitch.
Before you mentioned the method "Custom Path to ODK directory" and for some
reason it did not give me the option to click on Pull. I finally accessed
the data by sending to Aggregate and pulling it from there.
A pity that mounting the SD card has become unusable, it was very handy
regards,
carlos
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El jueves, 29 de enero de 2015, 22:31:01 (UTC+2), Mitch Sundt escribió:
>
> Welcome to the frustrations of the transition from the early Android 2.x
> days to the newer Android 3.0 and higher versions.
>
> Connecting via USB no longer exposes the SDCard in the same way it did
> under Android 2.x, so you cannot use the "*Mounted Android SD Card*"
> choice in ODK Briefcase unless your device is using Android 2.x.
>
> Instead, for Android 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, you must copy the odk directory off of
> your device onto your computer, and then use the "*Custom Path to ODK
> Directory*" choice to choose the 'odk' directory that you copied off of
> the device.
>
> *BUT: copying the directory off of the device is not easy* -- Windows and
> MacOSX each have different problems with recognizing devices connected via
> USB.
>
> The reliable way I have found to do this is to use a file manager
> application on your device, e.g., OI File Manager, to create a ZIP file of
> the /sdcard/odk directory, then send that zip file to your computer either
> via a file copy or via an e-mail attachment, etc. Once you get the full
> zip on your computer, you can then extract the contents, and use ODK
> Briefcase to pull the data from the 'odk' directory.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 10:11 PM, Carlos Rey-Moreno <carlos.r...@gmail.com > wrote:
>
>> Good morning,
>>
>> I'm trying to use ODK Briefcase to pull data from phones used to
>> administer questionnaires using ODK Collect. However, I'm unable to do so
>> because when I try to choose a given SD card, none appear. I've tried
>> refreshing many times, and the empty list remains. I've tried with 4
>> different phones, in the 3 USB ports of my computer. I've tried ODK
>> Briefcase 1.4.3 and 1.4.5 with both Java7 and Java8. I'm running Ubuntu
>> 14.04. The SD cards were always mounted as I could access their content via
>> Nautilus.
>>
>> Hope you can help,
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> carlos
>>
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