Samsung Galaxy GT-S5830L cell phone not showing in KDE Device Notifier

[Mario Storti]

On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-02-16 at 13:45 -0300, Mario Storti wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
>> <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Sat, 2013-02-16 at 12:12 +0000, Dariusz J. Garbowski wrote:
>> >> On 15/02/13 08:49 PM, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> >> > On 02/15/2013 06:40 AM, Mario Storti wrote:
>> >> >> KDE Device Notifier stopped showing my cell phone after upgrade to
>> >> >> Fedora 17/18. (I don't know exactly if it was for F17 or for F18,
>> >> >> since I did the upgrade to F17 and immediately after I did the upgrade
>> >> >> to F18.)
>> >> >>
>> >> >> I did some research and found many posts related to MTP, suggesting to
>> >> >> install mtpfs, jmtpfs. I followed the recipes with no success.
>> >> >
>> >> > Try installing kio_mtp ?
>> >>
>> >> kio-mtp sort of works with Nexus 4 but it crashes more often than actually manages to complete any
>> >> copying task. Sometimes, just sometimes, it succeeds. I got the impression that maybe it's not
>> >> maintained or really, really buggy. So I used the method described on the web [1] and mount the
>> >> phone using simple-mtpfs. Not clicky nor automatic but works reliably.
>> >
>> > I do pretty much that (the stock mtpfs is very unreliable and doesn't
>> > seem to be maintained. Perhaps kio_mtp is using it underneath?). What I
>> > don't do is add any udev-rules stuff. It doesn't seem to be necessary as
>> > far as I can see. IOW I just run:
>> >
>> > simple-mtpfs <my-nexus-directory-point> &
>> >
>> > and later
>> >
>> > fusermount -u <my-nexus-directory-point>
>> >
>> > and it Just Works (tm). This is on F18 but F17 was the same.
>> >
>> > poc
>>
>> Thanks guys for your tips. I don't think this will help me because as
>> I described before, my problem seems to be KDE specific. The device is
>> correctly detected in Gnome and even in Gimp (running on KDE!). So I'm
>> think that it is rather a bug in the KDE Device Notifier or either a
>> misconfiguration in my system.
>
> I should have mentioned that I'm also using KDE. On device insertion, I
> see an entry in the device notifier (labelled "Portable Media Player")
> with several possible actions including downloading photos with Gwenview
> or Digikam, and opening with the File Manager. After installing kio_mtp
> I have an additional action for the File Manager. Unfortunately the
> pop-up doesn't distinguish between the two FM entries but testing shows
> that one opens with the camera: protocol and the other with mtp:.
> Presumably I could fix the labelling by editing the notifier settings,
> but as I said I don't use this as simple-mtpfs works fine.

I don't see the "Portable Media Player" entry in device notifier.

> You might try "simple-mtpfs -l" to see if it detects your phone. Also,
> unlock the phone before inserting it (this seems to matter more or less
> randomly as far as I can tell).

[mstorti at kinky mstorti]$ simple-mtpfs -l
No raw devices found.
[mstorti at kinky mstorti]$

I think now that the phone perhaps is not connecting through MTP at
all! This reinforces my idea that it is rather a misconfiguration in
my KDE settings or a bug in device notifier.

Thanks! Mario

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