Package that will install in Fedora to view files on Android Phones.

[Jim]

On 10/29/2013 05:49 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com 
> <mailto:ibmalone at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On 28 October 2013 22:09, Jim <binarynut at comcast.net
>     <mailto:binarynut at comcast.net>> wrote:
>     > Isn't there a Package on Fedora repo that you can install so as
>     to view
>     > files on Android Phones by USB ??
>
>     Some will show up as USB mass storage (or at least let you access an
>     attached sd card by that method). I've got a samsung which is locked
>     down for that (and I don't want to have to root it), in which case you
>     have to use MTP. For access in KDE I've got kio_mtp installed.
>     simple-mtpfs works for me if I need command line access. The phone
>     needs to be unlocked while accessing it.
>
>
> +1
>
> Just be aware that MTP doesn't give you a "real" filesystem, e.g. IIRC 
> there's no seeking and files cannot be modified in place or even 
> directly overwritten, just read, written and deleted. simple_mtpfs 
> does some caching to try to disguise this but it's useful to know.
>
> poc
>
>
Patrick, where does one get simple-mtpfs.
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