On 22 September 2012 15:04, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2012-09-22 at 14:45 +0100, Dave Cross wrote: >> I can't be the only person with this problem. >> >> 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. I have libmtp installed and up to >> date. When I plug in the Nexus, both RhythmBox sees it and claim to >> display the music found on it. But it doesn't find the MP3s I've >> downloaded using the Amazon MP3 application. Banshee doesn't detect >> the Nexus at all. >> >> I've seen talk of something called "mtpfs", but that doesn't seem to >> be available from the Fedora repos. Another app called gMTP sounds >> like it might be useful, but is also not available for Fedora. >> >> Has anyone else found a way round this problem? Is anyone packaging >> mtpfs or gMTP for Fedora? > > This has been asked a couple of times here. I haven't had much luck with > mtpfs either (I just compiled it from source). Clearly a properly > working libmtp is what is needed and unfortunately I don't see any > mention of such a thing in the F18 Proposed Features list. Yeah. I tried that and had no success either. > However a workaround for many use cases is to install an FTP or sftp > server on the device - there are several in the Play store - and either > use a basic FTP client from Linux or just mount the server from Nautilus > and use drag-and-drop. Be careful though. Doing this with a large group > of files at once seems to give random dropouts. > > Very recently I started using Airdroid on my GNexus phone under Jelly > Bean. It's basically a specialized website running on the phone and > talking over Wifi, with file transfers plus some other features. We'll > see how it works out. Approaches like this sound good, but they're hampered by a recent router firmware upgrade which renders the devices on my home network completely unable to see each other. I guess there's always Bluetooth :-/ Cheers, Dave... -- Dave Cross :: dave@xxxxxxxxxxx http://dave.org.uk/ @davorg -- 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
