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On 11/30/2011 08:59 AM, James Hogarth wrote:
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Not sure it'll help, but in the case of you my Galaxy S2 smartphone, I
simply switched the phone to mass-storage mode.
(Settings->Applications->Development->USB debugging)
Once enabled, you can simply access the file-system on your device
like any other USB mass-storage device. (Disk-on-key, HDD, etc)
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It is a problem we'll have to face soon however - even if the current
Galaxy Tab can be switch to mass storage...
The Galaxy Nexus (and thus reference for the next generation of
android phones/tablets) does not have a USB mass storage mode since it
does not have an SD card to unmount to present to the system. Rather
MTP is being used so that both the phone and the connected system can
have simultaneous access to the internal filesystem.
Right now we cannot say if future Samsung/Motorola/HTC/etc phones
based on ICS and the GN reference will follow a similar pattern or
not....
The FUSE based mtpfs can be found here but with the caveat that it
doesn't appear to have progress very far... and was just the first
google result for it - not sure if there is a competing effort:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://code.google.com/p/mtpfs/">http://code.google.com/p/mtpfs/</a>
Relevant stuff about this situation can be found here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.pcsmax.com/samsung-galaxy-nexus-no-data-transfer-to-mac-and-linux-112776.html">http://www.pcsmax.com/samsung-galaxy-nexus-no-data-transfer-to-mac-and-linux-112776.html</a>
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More information about accessing the Galaxy Tab 10.1 using MTP. I
just bought a small MP3 player and connected it to my laptop via
USB. It was treated the same as the Galaxy Tab 10.1, it crashed
Rhythmbox. Before restarting Rhythmbox, I disconnected and
reconnected the MP3 player. To my surprise, I was able to access
its memory as a file system. Running mtp-detect or mtp-connect
caused the connection to fail. I was able to transfer files to the
MP3 player successfully so long as Rhythmbox was not running (and
probably other programs that use libmtp).<br>
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After some success with the MP3 player, I tried connecting the
Galaxy Tab 10.1 without Rhythmbox running. I was able to see some
sort of file system. It was not the file system that I expected or
see with apps like Astro. It was a flat file system with
directories named 00000001 to 00000028 (counting in hex). All these
directories are mostly empty though a few have files with the same
numeric naming scheme. Nautilus is stating that "These files are on
a digital audio player" and wants to open them with Rhythmbox.<br>
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It appears that while the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is using MTP, it is not
quite following the specification that the mtp tools are expecting.
The mtp tools can detect that it is a Galaxy Tab 10.1 connected but
when it attempts to connect the connection is refused.<br>
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-- <br>
Steven F. LeBrun<br>
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Quote: <em>"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside a dog, it's too dark to read."</em><br>
-- Groucho Marx
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