What you will learn: You will learn how to create an SDCard Image for your emulator.

Problems/Questions: Write it right below...

Difficulty: 1.5 of 5

Part I: Creating an SDCard Image:


The parameters of the command:

mksdcard [-l label] <size>[K|M] <file>

explained:

• "-l <label>":
  A volume label for the disk image to create.
• "<size>"
  An integer that specifies the size (in bytes) of disk image to create. You can also specify size in kilobytes or megabytes, by appending a "K" or "M" to <size>. For example, 1048576K, 1024M.
• "<file>"
  The path/filename of the disk image to create.

Part II:
Once you have created the sdcard image file, you can load it in the emulator at startup using the emulator's -sdcard option.

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// Format:
-sdcard <file>

// Example
-sdcard C:UsersplusminusAppDataLocalAndroidsdcard.img

In Eclipse you have to change the Run-Configuration like in the following picture:



Having done that, we can see the SDCard even with our Android-File-Browser:


Finally pushing files to the SD-Card using the adb.exe on the commandLine:

adb push <source path> /sdcard/<filename>

Regards,
plusminus

Hi,
That part is ok. How about pushing files to the SDCard the problem starts there for me. Any suggestions regarding this will be useful.

Katharnavas wrote:Hi,
That part is ok. How about pushing files to the SDCard the problem starts there for me. Any suggestions regarding this will be useful.

adb push <source path> /sdcard/<filename>

Hello living_sword,

thx for mentioning it added it above.

Regards,
plusminus

thanks +-
great tutorial with flash

Hi everyone,

I tried to following the steps to add sdcard into emulator but got an error "Emulator quit with an error!". If I remove that options, the emulator running fine but cannot see the sdcard. Any idea how to fix this problem?

Thanks in advance

Hello puyopuy,

perhaps you have a blank/space in your path

Regards,
plusminus

Hello plusminus,

Thank you for you quickly response. I'm using "-sdcard c:temp2sdcard.img" in the command line options and I cannot see any blank/space in my path. I attached the img this time, could you please test it in your environment?

I used the following command to create the image file.

mksdcard 512K c:temp2sdcard.img

Thanks
puyopuy

Hello puyopuy,

our creation only differs in one thing you are using no label (according to the mksdcard call-syntax it is optional...)

I created and attached a 128MB sdcard-image (zipped to 128kB ) for you having used the following command:

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F:Programming...tools>mksdcard -l mySDCard 128M C:UsersplusminusDesktopsdcard.img

(I used the latest SDK "m3-rc37a")

Perhaps it works with this image.

Regards,
plusminus[b]

Hi plusminus,

Your image file working for me now. I don’t know what is wrong with my environment, I create the image file again today without the label it’s working now.

Thanks alot
puyopuy

Hi PlusMinus,
I have created sdcard and push images into sdcard. i can see images using DDMS tool . when i restart eclips all the images will be gone. i have to push images again and than i am testing my application.
Can you tell me what is the problem?

Thansk

Hello venkat,

maybe you accidentially left a "-wipe-data"

Regards,
plusminus

What i suppose to do now?

Remove the -wipe-data from the command line options in the run dialog, push your images again if needed, and run your app.

Good luck !

can you ne1 tell me , how to remove "-wipe-data"
Thanks ,