On 07/06/18 19:47, Ian Malone wrote: > On 6 July 2018 at 08:02, Ed Greshko <ed.greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 07/06/18 14:21, Sudhir Khanger wrote: >>> I was indeed talking about connecting the phone via a USB cable which doesn't work. >>> I will be more precise next time :). >>> >>> KDE Connect has a bug on Android Oreo which makes it unreliable. Half of the time >>> it doesn't work. >>> >>> https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kdeconnect/2018-May/003850.html >> >> OK... >> >> FWIW, this problem you're having seems similar to my problem and Android 8. I have >> just connected those Android 8 devices to a Virtual Machine running GNOME and F28 and >> it works just fine. >> >> So, the problem seems to be KDE specific and not libmtp. >> >> I am using Android 8, I think that is Oreo, and KDE connect works just fine for me. >> But thanks for the link. >> > > FWIW: I've got a device with Oreo (XZ1 Compact), and had problems > transferring over USB using KDE, Dolphin and virtual filesystems. > Here's what I found works: > > Connect phone. > > Choose transfer files option on phone (it should present you the USB > mode menu as an overlay, if not, pick it from the notifications) > > Ignore the notification and option to open device there. (Basically, > KDE's communication seems to confuse things and cause the > charge/transfer files option to reset.) > > Open Dolphin and select the device, you should see device storage and > SD card if there is one. Check that transfer files is still selected > on the phone. > > To copy files, open the source/destination directory as another tab in > Dolphin (right click on the location in the left panel and open as new > tab, then navigate to the desired location). Copying between windows > fails for some reason, but between tabs seems to work for me. If > you've got the destination directory open in one tab, then from the > other tab drag your files/directories to copy to the other tab's name > at the top and drop onto that. > > Oh, I can get to the point where I see the "device storage" and "SD Card" and I can get a list of folders on them. But as soon as I go to open a folder the dolphin window goes blank and at the top of the window in red it says "mtp protocol died unexpectedly". -- Conjecture is just a conclusion based on incomplete information. It isn't a fact.
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