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Re: [LUG] Samsung Galaxy MTP

 

On Thu, 2014-08-28 at 13:24 +0100, Migel Wimtore wrote:
> KDE-Connect is brilliant for KDE users. It exposes the user file
> system of android devices in KDE file managers. It also allows you to
> control your computer pointer with your phone touchscreen, provides
> media playback controls and allows you to share clipboard history
> between phone and PC and, my favorite, allows you to view your phone
> notifications in KDE system tray. Apparently call answering is coming
> soon. Which seems awesome. 
Great .
I have a Centos test pc with KDE so ill try this with the Phone.

> Also Xplore file manager has a neat share-over-LAN feature that is
> completely painless to use.  
> 
> 
> 
> On 24 August 2014 10:16:11 BST, Kevin Lucas
> <kevin.lucas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>         HI All 
>         I have had to swop my HTC Desire for an underpowered Samsung Galaxy
>         Device 0 (VID=04e8 and PID=6860) as I am a very occasional user of the
>         Mob but like one for Music and podcasts. Wief got a new Tesco deal that
>         came with a Samsung TAb7" liked the Tab, but not the phone.
>         
>         So I plug it in my Fedora pc and can only connect as Camera. No good for
>         MTP?
>         
>         I find this article
>         http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/01/connecting-samsung-ics-to-ubuntu-using-mtp/
>         (its for Ubuntu but Fedora has the MTP in repros as well and Brilliant!
>         Running Transaction
>           Installing : mtpfs-1.1-0.3.svn20120510.fc18.x86_64
>         1/1 
>           Verifying  : mtpfs-1.1-0.3.svn20120510.fc18.x86_64
>         1/1 
>         
>         Installed:
>           mtpfs.x86_64 0:1.1-0.3.svn20120510.fc18
>         
>         gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules
>         systemctl restart systemd-udevd.service
>         mtpfs 
>         Listing raw device(s)
>         Device 0 (VID=04e8 and PID=6860) is a Samsung Galaxy models (MTP).
>            Found 1 device(s):
>            Samsung: Galaxy models (MTP) (04e8:6860) @ bus 2, dev 5
>         Attempting to connect device
>         Listing File Information on Device with name: GT-S6810P
>         fuse: missing mountpoint parameter
>         
>         Soooo...
>         
>         mkdir /media/GalaxyS
>         chmod a+rwx /media/GalaxyS
>         
>         gedit  /etc/fuse.conf
>         
>         echo "alias android-connect=\"mtpfs -o allow_other /media/GalaxyS\"" >>
>         ~/.bashrc
>         [kevin@kevin ~]$ echo "alias android-disconnect=\"fusermount
>         -u /media/GalaxyS\"" >> ~/.bashrc
>         [kevin@kevin ~]$ source ~/.bashrc
>         [kevin@kevin ~]$ android-connect 
>         Listing raw device(s)
>         Device 0 (VID=04e8 and PID=6860) is a Samsung Galaxy models (MTP).
>            Found 1 device(s):
>            Samsung: Galaxy models (MTP) (04e8:6860) @ bus 2, dev 6
>         Attempting to connect device
>         Listing File Information on Device with name: GT-S6810P
>         
>         The command line android-connedt disconneect are perhaps clunky, but a
>         good result!
>         
>         it just works...  Mounted in Nautilus. 
>         
>         

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