Uploading forms without wireless

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not running android 4.x - alternatively you could just copy the data from
the device then using briefcase on a laptop push it to your aggregator..

··· from my understanding you can use briefcase for this just so long as your

On Monday, January 7, 2013 11:14:44 AM UTC, John Breusch wrote:

Hi, I have what I think is a simple question about uploading completed
survey forms. We're conducting a survey using Samsung Galaxy 7 tablets. Our
numerators won't always have access to a wireless connection to upload
completed forms to ODK. But they would be able to connect their tablets to
a computer that has internet connection. I know how to download a blank
form from a computer to a tablet via a cord. But how do you upload
completed forms to ODK in this way - ie. through a computer, rather than
over wireless by hitting "send" on ODK Collect? Simple question, but I
can't find the answer anywhere.

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For ODK on Android 2.x devices you can stop reading.

For Android 3.x & 4.x devices it is temporarily correct that you can't
use Briefcase to directly get files off an Android device. Instead you
will need to use the tools to copy the ODK folder to a temporary
directory on the computer and then point Briefcase at the directory.
Note this problem only affects Briefcase no other ODK tool. Previous
posts about it.
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/opendatakit/briefcase$20android$204/opendatakit/1dXyguV0NE0/sXwqaqHxh9IJ

Briefcase was designed to work with Android using the 'sdcard' mounted
to a PC; however, Google dropped the 'sdcard' mount interface in favor
of an MTP interface. Here is someone's blog post explaining:

The small ODK core team is unfortunately handling more features and
requests that it can handle right now. While the MTP switch is high
priority on our list we still haven't gotten time to do it yet. If
somebody in the community could write a simple java program that can
read or copy files from an MTP to a computer the ODK core team would
be able to more rapidly improve Briefcase to work with MTP. Basically
we do not know how to use Java to access an MTP device. If someone in
the community provide code examples how to interface with files on the
sdcard via the MTP interface the ODK core team could rapidly make the
necessary changes as the stumbling block is MTP access in java.

Regards,
Waylon

··· On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Daniel Probert wrote: > from my understanding you can use briefcase for this just so long as your > not running android 4.x - alternatively you could just copy the data from > the device then using briefcase on a laptop push it to your aggregator.. > > > On Monday, January 7, 2013 11:14:44 AM UTC, John Breusch wrote: >> >> Hi, I have what I think is a simple question about uploading completed >> survey forms. We're conducting a survey using Samsung Galaxy 7 tablets. Our >> numerators won't always have access to a wireless connection to upload >> completed forms to ODK. But they would be able to connect their tablets to a >> computer that has internet connection. I know how to download a blank form >> from a computer to a tablet via a cord. But how do you upload completed >> forms to ODK in this way - ie. through a computer, rather than over wireless >> by hitting "send" on ODK Collect? Simple question, but I can't find the >> answer anywhere. > > -- > Post: opendatakit@googlegroups.com > Unsubscribe: opendatakit+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com > Options: http://groups.google.com/group/opendatakit?hl=en