Mounting a Samsung S5 phone for reading

[Luya Tshimbalanga]

On 24/09/15 01:06 PM, 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.
>
> Regards,
> Les H
Hello Les,
I also have a Samsung Galaxy S5 mounted on Fedora 22 without issue
plugged on either both USB 2.0 and 3.0.
Few question to ask:
- Is your cable broken?
- Do you use the stock cable from your Galaxy S5?
- It sounds like you have a borked session so a clean reset may help.

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