Mounting a Samsung S5 phone for reading

[Luya Tshimbalanga]

On 24/09/15 05:54 PM, Les Howell wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-09-24 at 14:59 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>> This isn't the right place to be asking this question.  The users
>> list 
>> or IRC would be better.
>>
>> On 09/24/2015 02:35 PM, Les Howell wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2015-09-24 at 14:07 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>>>> Check the logs when you plug in the phone.  Watch for lines from
>>>> "org.gtk.vfs.Daemon".
>>>>
>> Run "journalctl -f", then plug in the phone.
>>
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>> In /run/user/ there are only two directories, 1000 (my own account)
>>> and
>>> 42 which is a restricted account, even to the admin.
>>>
>> If it gets mounted, it will be in /run/user/1000/gvfs
>>
> And the reason I am asking here is that it appears that Ubuntu users
> have it working.  So it appears that fedora 22 is the issue, or the
> build of one or more parts of the gvfs stuff, or ???
>
> Nautilus is also buggy, and doesn't reflect the phone or any file
> systems because the sidebar which showed other file systems has
> disappeared for some reason.  I don't know if that is related or not.
>
> Regards,
> Les H

As noted on the other reply, I also have a Samsung Galaxy S5 updated to
Lolipop mounted on Nautilus and running Fedora 22. You will need an USB
3.0 Cable to mount your storage:
http://www.samsung.com/au/consumer/mobile-phone/mobile-phone/accessories/ET-DQ11Y1WEGWW?subsubtype=other-multimedia
Normal USB 2.0 Cable will only recharge the phone as I tested. Hope it
helps.

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