Samsung Galaxy GT-S5830L cell phone not showing in KDE Device Notifier

[Mario Storti]

KDE Device Notifier stopped showing my cell phone after upgrade to
Fedora 17/18. (I don't know exactly if it was for F17 or for F18,
since I did the upgrade to F17 and immediately after I did the upgrade
to F18.)

I did some research and found many posts related to MTP, suggesting to
install mtpfs, jmtpfs. I followed the recipes with no success.

Strangely enough the cell phone is shown and mounts OK if I use
Gnome. Also if I browse the filesystem within Gimp (in KDE!) I can see
the cell phone sdcard. When I go to Device Notifier Settings ->
Removable Devices, the phone is listed, but I can do anything with
it. If I hover with the mouse on the sdcard then a popup shows
UDI:/orgfreedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdb

If I do $ lsusb, I get

Bus 002 Device 004: ID 04e8:689e Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd GT-S5670
[Galaxy Fit]

When I unmount the SDCARD on the phone I get the following in /var/log/messages

Feb 6 21:34:36 kinky kernel: [ 1352.998977] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] 7736320
512-byte logical blocks: (3.96 GB/3.68 GiB)
Feb 6 21:34:36 kinky kernel: [ 1353.000549] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Asking
for cache data failed
Feb 6 21:34:36 kinky kernel: [ 1353.000559] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming
drive cache: write through
Feb 6 21:34:36 kinky kernel: [ 1353.003137] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Asking
for cache data failed
Feb 6 21:34:36 kinky kernel: [ 1353.003147] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming
drive cache: write through
Feb 6 21:34:36 kinky kernel: [ 1353.003792] sdb:

I have Fedora 18 64 bit on an Asus G53SX laptop.

Any help is welcome.

Kind regards, Mario

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