why is connecting with my android phone so hit and miss?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  currently running fedora rawhide but i suspect this is a more
general fedora issue -- i could be wrong. whenever i plug in my HTC
android phone to my laptop (via USB), it's totally hit and miss
whether i get the phone's content mounted under /run/user/1000/gvfs,
which allows me to copy pics out of the gallery and so on.

  sometimes it works fine, sometimes not. when i plug it in, the phone
typically displays "USB tethering [connected]" and "Media device [MTP]
connected", which is what i expect to see, but whether the mount
actually succeeds is unpredictable.

  what driver/kernel feature is responsible for this? it would be
easier to debug if it wasn't so arbitrary about whether it worked or
not.

rday

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