Mounting a Samsung S5 phone for reading

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2015-09-24 at 13:06 -0700, Les Howell wrote:
> Hi, everyone...
> I have been trying for three days now to mount a galaxy phone to my
> F22
> system.  
> 	Problems:  Phone does not mount.
> 	Things checked:
> 		1.  Nautilus does not have the side pane any longer.  I
> really
> miss that because my file structure is very diverse.
> 		2.  /run/users/1000 never reflects my phone.
> 		3.  Added simple-gvfs to no effect.
> 		4.  searched for and added libfuse-gvfs
> 		5.  searched for and added 2 other gvfs bits (sorry I
> no longer
> remember which ones.)
> 		6.  Googled lots with no more success.
> 		7.  Nautilus crashes sporadically, and specifically if
> I click
> on the menu button to change from list view to icon view or vice
> versa,
> depending on which view is open.
> 		8.  .config/nautilus files are writable.
> 		9.  Now I'm asking here.  HELP!!!
> 
> BASE PROBLEM... Mount cellphone as a disk to retrieve files not
> working
> and I cannot find a solution.

Some newer cellphones aren't actually capable of acting as USB mass
storage devices, they only support sync in a couple of other modes. MTP
should work in Nautilus, but will not be visible in a terminal. Try
setting the phone to MTP mode, then looking for it in Nautilus'
sidebar.
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