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EniGMistA

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Jun 3, 2012, 4:51:54 AM6/3/12
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How can i Read into /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/
databases and list files in it?

Simon MacDonald

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Jun 3, 2012, 5:20:00 PM6/3/12
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You can only do this if you root your phone. Normally you would not have the right permissions on your device.

Simon

On Jun 3, 2012 4:52 AM, "EniGMistA" <enigmi...@gmail.com> wrote:
How can i Read into /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/
databases and list files in it?

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EniGMistA

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Jun 4, 2012, 5:42:16 AM6/4/12
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Thanks Simon. But i need a solution to fix my problem into Android:
when i update my phonebook thougth CONTACT APIs with a loop, a
temporary file /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases/
contacts2.db-journal was created. I can access into my phonebook only
when this file disappear. How can i check this?
EniGMistA

Simon MacDonald

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Jun 4, 2012, 9:26:54 AM6/4/12
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That is the problem. On Android all the applications are given their own /data/data directory that is protected with a different user id for each application. If you are running application "com.foo" you will not have the right privileges to access the /data/data/com.android.providers.contacts/databases as they are owned by two different user id's. The only way you'd be able to get access to this directory is if your phone was rooted.

It is the sqlite DB creating the journal file. I guess the transaction is not completed until the file is completely processed and removed. I don't think we can do anything about this in PhoneGap. In the native implementation for editing/saving a contact I'm applying a batch edit to the DB. When it is done it returns the number of rows modified so it should be done at that point but it appears that it isn't.

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EniGMistA

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Jun 4, 2012, 11:22:15 AM6/4/12
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> It is the sqlite DB creating the journal file. I guess the transaction is
> not completed until the file is completely processed and removed. I don't
> think we can do anything about this in PhoneGap. In the native
> implementation for editing/saving a contact I'm applying a batch edit to
> the DB. When it is done it returns the number of rows modified so it should
> be done at that point but it appears that it isn't.

Will be a feature of next phonegap version?

Simon MacDonald

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Jun 4, 2012, 12:34:24 PM6/4/12
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I'm confused? 

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EniGMistA

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Jun 4, 2012, 2:13:58 PM6/4/12
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I am sorry. Google translate tells me that you are working on
phonegapp to implement numer of rows affected from a previous edit.
I am confused... how can I check when PhoneGap has finished to save
all the contacts?

Simon MacDonald

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Jun 6, 2012, 1:29:55 PM6/6/12
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No, the functionality I described is already implemented. I'm not sure why Android is falsely saying the save is done if the journal file is still being applied.
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