Mounting a Samsung S5 phone for reading

[Samuel Sieb]

On 09/24/2015 01:39 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 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.
>
I think almost all recent (Android) phones don't do mass storage now. 
My LG phone offers, MTP, PTP, and just charge.

Make sure you have the necessary mtp packages installed:
# rpm -qa | grep mtp
gvfs-mtp-1.24.2-1.fc22.x86_64
libmtp-1.1.9-1.fc22.x86_64

Check the logs when you plug in the phone.  Watch for lines from 
"org.gtk.vfs.Daemon".

If you see the following lines, your phone probably isn't set correctly:
Sep 21 11:15:18 laptop mtp-probe: checking bus 2, device 60: 
"/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.0/usb2/2-1/2-1.2"
Sep 21 11:15:18 laptop mtp-probe: bus: 2, device: 60 was not an MTP device