Device claims external storage, yet I have no SD card

Question

Samsung galaxy S3 with no SD card, I\'m using this code to check storage states.

Using this code:

boolean mExternalStorageAvailable = false;
boolean          


        

Answer 1

Android will always report one mounted hardware memory (if any available) as External Storage.

That memory can be:

1. fitted inside the device by manufacturer (internal memory)
2. can be an sd card (external memory)

A device can even have both, but Android will report only one of them (mostly internal one).

A simple way to get what is mounted where is adb shell mount.

rootfs on / type rootfs (ro)
tmpfs on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=600)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
tmpfs on /mnt/asec type tmpfs (rw,mode=755,gid=1000)
tmpfs on /mnt/obb type tmpfs (rw,mode=755,gid=1000)
/dev/block/mtdblock2 on /system type yaffs2 (ro)
/dev/block/mtdblock3 on /data type yaffs2 (rw,nosuid,nodev)
/dev/block/mtdblock1 on /cache type yaffs2 (rw,nosuid,nodev)
/dev/block/vold/179:1 on /mnt/sdcard type vfat (rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,uid=1000,gid=1015,fmask=0702,dmask=0702,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/block/vold/179:1 on /mnt/secure/asec type vfat (rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,uid=1000,gid=1015,fmask=0702,dmask=0702,allow_utime=0020,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro)