Syncing with MTP devices

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2012-04-27 at 20:17 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Tom Horsley wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:07:41 -0430 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> >
> >> Ironically, one of my reasons for moving from iPhone to Android was 
> >> the hope of better Linux support ...
> >
> > Personally, I use wi-fi and rsync with my android. There is an rsyn 
> > app available for android.
> 
> Indeed.  The MTP support in linux pretty much sucks.  If it was the 
> only option, I'm sure more of us would try to work on improving it.  
> But, like Tom, I just use other methods of transfering files.  I 
> installed QuickSSHd on my Galaxy Nexus and use sshfs and rsync for 
> most of my syncing.

Thanks Todd (and Tom). Looks like MTP is not worth the effort for now. I
guess I'll try one of the WiFi options.

> The thread I'd point at for various options is:
> 
>      http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2012-March/415247.html
> 
> but I see that Patrick commented in that thread, so I wouldn't be 
> telling him anything new. :)

I did comment, but at the time it seemed that MTP was working for me
(the music already on my phone proves it), and now it really isn't.

> It would be nice if the default tools worked better out of the box.  
> But I'm not sure that MTP is better than the various wireless options 
> available, even if it worked perfectly.  At least not for me.

I guess if it worked it would be better integrated with the Linux music
players, e.g. more automatic syncing etc. Maybe some future version will
work better.

Thanks again.

poc