Accessing phone storage (advice needed)

[gillesg]

Hello all,

First, I wish you a happy new year.

I am building with autoit a substitution tool to sync my iTunes playlist with my android phone.

I have managed reading the itunes lib, but now I am stuck at reading / writing on my android device.

From all the searches I made, it is using MTP protocol. 

The Windows Explorer can read and write on the device.

The device appears as a "portable device".

 

Does anyone of you can direct me in some direction to keep investigate.

 

Thanks in advance

 

Gilles

Edited January 2, 2018 by gillesg

[Decibel]

If you're not committed to doing it through Windows Explorer, I'd use Android Debug Bridge (ADB) with a push command with Autoit's ShellExecuteWait.

adb push <source-path> <target-path>

 

[gillesg]

Thanks,, I will try this way.

[Danyfirex]

Hello. If you want to do it using Windows API you need to implement WPD.

Saludos 

[gillesg]

4 hours ago, Danyfirex said:

Hello. If you want to do it using Windows API you need to implement WPD.

Saludos 

Hello,

Thanks for the pointer. I start trying, but not being famiiar with objcreateinterface syntax makes it very difficult.

I found your previous post. Have you been further down the road on implementing some WPD functions ?

 

It seems promising, but complex. Any help or advices will be appreciated

 

Gilles

 

 

[Danyfirex]

It's a little complex. I think the better alternative for you is use adb commandline tool.

 

But if you want to implement it using Raw AutoIt code. You would need maybe check MSDN's C++ examples and convert them to AutoIt. I really have not time to do it.

 

Saludos

[gillesg]

Thank for the info. I will try on my own.

All I need is 3 basic functions :
   1 - to be able to list the content of a device starting at a particular point
   2 - to be able to copy a file fom the PC to the device
   3 - to be able to delete form the device

I understood the DeviceManager script. But I am still stuck at getting the device.content. I have practice C++ long ago, and MS examples are still complex.

Regards

[gillesg]

7 hours ago, Danyfirex said:

It's a little complex. I think the better alternative for you is use adb commandline tool.

unfortanately for me adb seems not to work on my Android device.

[gillesg]

Hello,

After a little research on the side of the MTP protocol support, I realized that the windows explorer was accessing the device supporting MTP.
So I decided to use the Shell.Application COM object.

I propose you this little tool whose objective is to allow you to synchronize your iTunes playlists with an android phone.

I used teh work for the previous iTunes UDF published

I wrote a not complete version of file.au3 UDF mainly for _FileListToArrayRec, _PathSplit, FileExists, FileDelete, FileCopy, DirCreate, DirRemove, FileFindFirstFile, FileFindNextFile, 

I still have 2 points of potential improvement.
I did not find how to create a directory on an MTP device. I get around by copying an existing directory and using it as a template.
And yes, the creation does not work, but the copy yes.
On deletion, I can not avoid the delete confirmation request. The MTP device is not sensitive to the setting of the noconfirmdelete parameter ($SSF_NOCONFIRMRECYCLE)

I will now take care of the special elements: audio books, podcast, courses (iTunesU).

If you have ideas to solve my 2 improvement points, I'm interested.

 

Hope the apps will help some of you

 

Gilles

GUI - itunes Sync.7z

[AZJIO]

DLL

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Local $ErrorOutput = DllStructCreate("wchar[128]")
Local $Output = DllStructCreate("wchar[1024]")
Local $DeviceName
; Local Dim $aResult[5]

Local $hDLL = DllOpen("PB.Ex_MTP_x64.dll")
; Local $hDLL = DllOpen("PB.Ex_MTP_x86.dll")
If @error Then
    MsgBox(0, "", "@error")
EndIf
DllCall($hDLL, "int", "ExamineMTP", "ptr", DllStructGetPtr($ErrorOutput))
If @error Then
    MsgBox(0, "ExamineMTP", "@error")
EndIf

; While 1
    $aResult = DllCall($hDLL, "int", "NextMTPEntry", "ptr", DllStructGetPtr($ErrorOutput))
    If @error Then
        MsgBox(0, "NextMTPEntry", "@error")
    EndIf
    ; If $aResult[0] Then
        DllCall($hDLL, "int", "MTPEntryName", "ptr", DllStructGetPtr($Output), "ptr", DllStructGetPtr($ErrorOutput))
        $DeviceName = DllStructGetData($Output, 1)
        MsgBox(0, "", $DeviceName)
    ; EndIf
; Wend

DllCall($hDLL, "int", "OpenMTP", "int", "1", "WSTR", $DeviceName, "ptr", DllStructGetPtr($ErrorOutput))
If @error Then
    MsgBox(0, "OpenMTP", "@error")
EndIf

DllCall($hDLL, "int", "GetMTPManufacturer", "int", "1", "ptr", DllStructGetPtr($Output), "ptr", DllStructGetPtr($ErrorOutput))
If @error Then
    MsgBox(0, "GetMTPManufacturer", "@error")
EndIf

MsgBox(0, "GetMTPManufacturer", DllStructGetData($Output, 1))
DllCall($hDLL, "int", "CloseMTP", "int", "1", "ptr", DllStructGetPtr($ErrorOutput))

DllClose($hDLL)

$ErrorOutput = 0
$Output = 0

There are examples in PureBasic, but I'm too lazy to redo it.