On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 07:47:26PM -0700, Keith Keller wrote:
> On 2013-05-24, Rock <Rocksockdoc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Unfortunately, [url=http://androidforums.com/computers/499522-looking-
> > linux-file-transfer-tool-android-4-0-devices.html]Google has apparently
> > disabled USB transfer in the Android OS 4.0[/url] and above and replaced
> > it with MTP file transfer.
> >
> > So Windows recognizes any ICS device plugged in, and Mac does too (via
> > Android File Transfer); but Centos does not.
>
> That's a bug in Android (or perhaps just your device, since on that
> thread other users report ICS does support USB mass storage), not
> CentOS. I understand that's not helpful to you, but it's good to be
> clear.
As someone who looked into this after getting the Galaxy SIII.
It does NOT support USB mass storage. I have forgotten the logic, but this
is definitely the case.
Ah, here's one quick link explaining it. (Quote from an Android engineer
about a quarter of the page down.
http://www.androidcentral.com/ics-feature-mtp-what-it-why-use-it-and-how-set-it
On more current distributions, that is, just about everything but RHEL6 and
clones, one can install a version of mtpfs, simple-mtpfs on Fedora, for
example, jmtpfs on Arch, and get it to work.
I believe it also works with any Virtual Machine that supports USB, but as
I have an easily accessible desktop with ArchLinux, I haven't tested that.
--
Scott Robbins
PGP keyID EB3467D6
( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 )
gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6
_______________________________________________
CentOS mailing list
CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
