MEDIA_MOUNTED broadcast not being received

Question

I'm baffled. I'm trying to configure my app to respond to the SD card becoming available / going offline, but my broadcast receiver never gets called!

I can see the event being broadcasted, and other apps responding:

08-21 23:43:04.405: DEBUG/Ringer(275): -- intent.getAction() =android.intent.action.MEDIA_MOUNTED

And my manifest has the receiver declared:

    <receiver android:name=".Test" android:enabled="true">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MEDIA_MOUNTED" />
        </intent-filter>
    </receiver>

And my receiver has an onReceive method:

public class Test extends BroadcastReceiver {

    @Override
    public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
        Log.d("#########", "##############################################################");
        Log.d("#########", "Obligitory snarky and/or funny logging comment...");
        Log.d("#########", "##############################################################");
    }
}

Yet the &^%$'ing thing won't cause Test.onReceive() to fire. Any thoughts?

score 48 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 22 '11 at 04:51

48

You can't be serious. Apparently I needed to add an additional filter for the data type.

Leaving the answer up for "the next guy"...

<receiver android:name=".Test" android:enabled="true">
    <intent-filter>
        <action android:name="android.intent.action.MEDIA_MOUNTED" />
        <data android:scheme="file"/>
    </intent-filter>
</receiver>

answered Aug 22 '11 at 04:51

Skylar Sutton

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Looks like the official docs are missing the scheme, which is certainly annoying since their code won't actually work. http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Environment.html – smith324 Dec 29 '11 at 22:12
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For people linking receivers dynamically you can call addDataScheme("file") on your IntentFilter instance. – dhakim Apr 18 '14 at 14:57

score 7 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 22 '11 at 04:53

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You try adding the <data android:scheme="file" /> tag in the <intentfilter>, else do the registration at run time.
At run time, create an object of your broadcast receiver and pass it to registerReceiver(obj).

answered Aug 22 '11 at 04:53

Ron

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Thanks, I figured it out a few minutes before you posted. – Skylar Sutton Aug 22 '11 at 22:50
Then You should add this to the answered questions list. – Ron Aug 23 '11 at 05:28
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Umm, it is... and was, before you even submitted an answer. You added an answer about 15 minutes after I did. – Skylar Sutton Aug 23 '11 at 06:01
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I am not asking you to tick my answer. tick your answer, so that there is one less unanswered in the questions list. – Ron Aug 23 '11 at 06:31
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Pro Tip: You can't select your own answer on StackOverflow for several days after you submit it. – Skylar Sutton Sep 06 '11 at 04:10

MEDIA_MOUNTED broadcast not being received

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