Settings: Fix for http://b/issue?id=2538399 (ANR while formatting sd)

Change-Id: I94b84a45557cbce706c37d5088d398283a639c80
Signed-off-by: San Mehat <san@google.com>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/src/com/android/settings/MediaFormat.java b/src/com/android/settings/MediaFormat.java
index 71d2766..075534d 100644
--- a/src/com/android/settings/MediaFormat.java
+++ b/src/com/android/settings/MediaFormat.java
@@ -64,15 +64,19 @@ public class MediaFormat extends Activity {
                 if (Utils.isMonkeyRunning()) {
                     return;
                 }
-                IMountService service =
+                final IMountService service =
                         IMountService.Stub.asInterface(ServiceManager.getService("mount"));
                 if (service != null) {
-                    try {
-                        service.formatVolume(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().toString());
-                    } catch (android.os.RemoteException e) {
-                        // Intentionally blank - there's nothing we can do here
-                        Log.w("MediaFormat", "Unable to invoke IMountService.formatMedia()");
-                    }
+                    new Thread() {
+                        public void run() {
+                            try {
+                                service.formatVolume(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().toString());
+                            } catch (Exception e) {
+                                // Intentionally blank - there's nothing we can do here
+                                Log.w("MediaFormat", "Unable to invoke IMountService.formatMedia()");
+                            }
+                        }
+                    }.start();
                 } else {
                     Log.w("MediaFormat", "Unable to locate IMountService");
                 }