606589 - No download possible when device connected in USB Mass Storage mode

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 613590

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Ioana Chiorean]

Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Linux armv7l; en-US; rv:2.0b8pre)
Gecko/20101022 Firefox/4.0b8pre Fennec/4.0b2pre 

Device Motorola Droid 2

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Fennec 
2. Connect the phone/device through the USB cable to the PC/Mac in USB Mass Storage Mode
3. Try to download something (es: ubuntu)

Actual Results:  
- No notification, no entry in control panel at downloads

Expected Results:  
- A notification appears in the status bar, which leads you to the entry in downloads

Comment 1

[Michael Wu [:mwu]]

When you use mass storage mode, the phone unmounts the sd card so the computer can mount it. Naturally, we can't download anything if the file system isn't there.

Comment 2

[Martijn Wargers (dead)]

On the Motorola Droid, the default browser there gives a prompt with the text:
"
SD card unavailable
The SD card is busy. To allow downloads, select "Turn off USB storage" in the notification.
[OK]
"

Comment 3

[Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?)]

Madhava, do you want to have an error message for this?

Comment 4

[Madhava Enros [:madhava]]

We should probably mimic the built in browser here

Comment 5

[Josh Matthews [:jdm]]

I'm presuming this should take care of the case where there is no SD card present, period, which I assume is the underlying cause of bug 610383.

Comment 6

[Naoki Hirata :nhirata (please use needinfo instead of cc)]

litmus test case 13880

Comment 7

[Anna (Waverley)]

I also can not get an update notification to the last nightly build if the device is connected  through the USB cable to the PC in USB Mass Storage Mode.

Build ID: Mozilla /5.0 (Android;Linux armv7l;rv:2.0b13pre) Gecko/20110315 Firefox/4.0b13pre Fennec /4.0b6pre 

Device: Motorola Droid 2 (Android 2.2)

Should we increase the severity of this bug to "major" taking into account that many users might actually charge their phones when they want to download something or to update an application?

Comment 8

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

I have a patch for this in bug 613590. Just need to do some investigating. Marking this a dup since there's some WIP there.