IGC logs are no longer accessible

[krzysztof-lopacki]

After an upgrade to a new file system introduced in Android 11 the LK8000 saves IGC files in this location:
/storage/emulated/0/Android/data/org.lk8000.beta/files
(which points to the same resource as /sdcard/Android/data/org.lk8000.beta/files).

The problem is that this directory is NOT accessible to:

• any files manager installed on the phone
• IGC Viewer
• Windows file explorer when a device is connected to PC.

The only way to access the logs is through ADB or Android Studio (which uses ADB under the hood).
This is a real pain on the airfield that after the flight I cannot review it, check the start/landing time etc. I need to connect the phone to my dev machine to do this.

Possible solution:
Add "Copy IGC Logs to Download" button which copies all the stored logs to sdcard/Download/lk8000/_Logger directory (or any other that is publicly accessible).

[amagnolo]

Some file managers (i.e. X-plore) can access that directory, no root required

[brunotl]

files are available from android file manager and any app allowing to select files using android UI :

[bambukouk]

Using IGC viewer I can open old logger files but not recent?
Is this IGC viewer problem? or is there something still not working as expected, please?
or is it me being stupid again 👍 ?

[brunotl]

IGC Viewer is dead app, not updated since 2018 and no more available on GPlay probably for lack of recent android version compatibility ...

[bambukouk]

@brunotl thanks - you are probably right about IGC viewer, which is the shame because it is a nice app 👍
and I don't know of similar one... for use with my Android phone.
What I particularly liked about it was that you could view directly LK8000 logs.
Now I have to download them to view elsewhere 👎

[brunotl]

take look to this : https://xcanalytics.fr

[bambukouk]

@brunotl
thank you for suggesting an alternative 👍
annoying thing is that IGCviewer still works fine with XCSoar 😛

[brunotl]

@brunotl thank you for suggesting an alternative +1 annoying thing is that IGCviewer still works fine with XCSoar stuck_out_tongue

that depends of android version and where is the prf file you have select at startup...

[krzysztof-lopacki]

I confirm that X-plore can access the files in the /sdcard/Android/data/org.lk8000.beta/files directory. It is enough then to copy the files from _Logger to publicly accessible folder (e.g. Downloads) so the IGC Viewer can access them.

Unfortunately a few files managers I've tested were not able to do the trick (they can't utilize ACTION_OPEN_DOCUMENT_TREE intent). Even the build in file manager provided by Oppo cannot open LK8000's directory.

Anyway, problem solved. Thank you @amagnolo and @brunotl for the tips!

[brunotl]

some manufacturer remove the stock android file mananger shortcut ...

to restore this shortcut you can install this : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.aospstudio.files&hl=fr&gl=US