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

[Mario Storti]

On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-02-16 at 12:12 +0000, Dariusz J. Garbowski wrote:
>> On 15/02/13 08:49 PM, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> > On 02/15/2013 06:40 AM, Mario Storti wrote:
>> >> 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.
>> >
>> > Try installing kio_mtp ?
>>
>> kio-mtp sort of works with Nexus 4 but it crashes more often than actually manages to complete any
>> copying task. Sometimes, just sometimes, it succeeds. I got the impression that maybe it's not
>> maintained or really, really buggy. So I used the method described on the web [1] and mount the
>> phone using simple-mtpfs. Not clicky nor automatic but works reliably.
>
> I do pretty much that (the stock mtpfs is very unreliable and doesn't
> seem to be maintained. Perhaps kio_mtp is using it underneath?). What I
> don't do is add any udev-rules stuff. It doesn't seem to be necessary as
> far as I can see. IOW I just run:
>
> simple-mtpfs <my-nexus-directory-point> &
>
> and later
>
> fusermount -u <my-nexus-directory-point>
>
> and it Just Works (tm). This is on F18 but F17 was the same.
>
> poc

Thanks guys for your tips. I don't think this will help me because as
I described before, my problem seems to be KDE specific. The device is
correctly detected in Gnome and even in Gimp (running on KDE!). So I'm
think that it is rather a bug in the KDE Device Notifier or either a
misconfiguration in my system.

Thanks anyway! Mario

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