Dave Cross wrote: > I can't be the only person with this problem. No, you aren’t. > I have a Nexus 7. The Nexus runs Android Jellybean. Recent versions of > Android (like Jellybean) have removed support for USB mass storage and > the Nexus now connect to my Fedora 17 desktop using MTP. > > This seems to be a problem as MTP support in Fedora (perhaps in Linux > in general) appears to be appalling. This is a Known Problem. There was a post recently on the devel list (http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2012-September/171639.html) where the Fedora maintainer of mtpfs announced he was abandoning the package for various reasons (like “It’s buggy” and “Upstream is not responsive”), and suggested either go-mtpfs or jmptfs (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841260#c1). You might find the next comment behind that link relevant: not having a suitable device, I can’t comment. Incidentally, I understand that Android hasn’t removed support for USB mass storage: it’s just that many recent devices come without support for SD cards, so there’s nothing to export as USB mass storage. This means the Android device *and* the computer can both access the shared data at the same time, there aren’t any problems with jolts causing momentary disconnects of the SD card, and it gives the designers more freedom, especially with phones that have sealed-in batteries (so no battery cover to hide the SD card). More cynically, this gives phone manufacturers and networks a greater share of the price of a phone with 8 GB or 16 GB of storage, gives them a convenient way of providing a “premium” device with more capacity (at a premium, of course), and means they don’t have to worry about Microsoft’s FAT and exFAT patents. James. -- E-mail: james@ | Bond films are about seducing beautiful girls, gadgets, aprilcottage.co.uk | and defeating supervillains who never seem to learn that | the way to deal with James Bond is simply to shoot him. | -- Professor Steven Dutch -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
