On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 7:29 PM, Dave Stevens <geek@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
what about this:
https://www.howtogeek.com/192732/android-usb- connections-explained-mtp-ptp- and-usb-mass-storage/
Thanks for that. I probably should have guessed some of that myself, especially the part about needing exclusive access to all of the storage to prevent data corruption, given my own experiences with high availability clusters. I had always secretly believed MTP was invented and promoted by Microsoft to make it hard to access Android devices from Linux :-) Nice to see that's not really the case.
But it still begs the question of why I have so much trouble accessing my Android device files from my Fedora boxes (all running F26). What packages are needed for this to work? I already have libmtp installed, but I have one desktop that I still cannot access my Galaxy S6 phone from. I plug in the phone, I get the prompt where I click "Allow" to allow the computer to have access, but nothing ever happens on the Desktop side. (I am running standard GNOME on the desktop, I have tried it with both Wayland and Xorg, not that this should matter).
I noticed a package called jmtpfs that looked promising. I installed this on my Dell laptop, and now it works from there. However, installing jmtpfs on the problem desktop did not help.
Do others have as much trouble as I do accessing their Android phones from a Fedora desktop?
--Greg
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