On 22 September 2012 15:04, Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, 2012-09-22 at 14:45 +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
I can't be the only person with this problem.
I have a Nexus 7. The Nexus runs Android Jellybean. Recent versions of Android (like Jellybean) have removed support for USB mass storage and the Nexus now connect to my Fedora 17 desktop using MTP.
This seems to be a problem as MTP support in Fedora (perhaps in Linux in general) appears to be appalling. I have libmtp installed and up to date. When I plug in the Nexus, both RhythmBox sees it and claim to display the music found on it. But it doesn't find the MP3s I've downloaded using the Amazon MP3 application. Banshee doesn't detect the Nexus at all.
I've seen talk of something called "mtpfs", but that doesn't seem to be available from the Fedora repos. Another app called gMTP sounds like it might be useful, but is also not available for Fedora.
Has anyone else found a way round this problem? Is anyone packaging mtpfs or gMTP for Fedora?
This has been asked a couple of times here. I haven't had much luck with mtpfs either (I just compiled it from source). Clearly a properly working libmtp is what is needed and unfortunately I don't see any mention of such a thing in the F18 Proposed Features list.
Yeah. I tried that and had no success either.
However a workaround for many use cases is to install an FTP or sftp server on the device - there are several in the Play store - and either use a basic FTP client from Linux or just mount the server from Nautilus and use drag-and-drop. Be careful though. Doing this with a large group of files at once seems to give random dropouts.
Very recently I started using Airdroid on my GNexus phone under Jelly Bean. It's basically a specialized website running on the phone and talking over Wifi, with file transfers plus some other features. We'll see how it works out.
Approaches like this sound good, but they're hampered by a recent router firmware upgrade which renders the devices on my home network completely unable to see each other.
I guess there's always Bluetooth :-/
Cheers,
Dave...