iPhone misidentified as Sony camcorder

[JD]

  On 10/13/2010 06:05 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> [F13 fully updated.]
>
> When I plug in my iPhone 3GS, the KDE Device Manager tells me it's a
> Sony DCR-75 camera, and offers to fire up Digikam.
>
> However this doesn't seem to be KDE-specific. The bug appears to be
> in /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/10-usb-music-players-libmtp.fdi, which is part of libmtp. The Vendor ID and Product ID correspond to the phone, but the product string is for the camcorder. I don't even know if the iPhone uses the MTP protocol.
>
> I've reported this as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=642487
> but if anyone has a quick hack I'd appreciate it.
>
> Note that lshal shows *both* the phone and the camcorder as being
> present, so it's matching in more than one place. Go figure ...
>
> poc
>
That's strange. I have a 3G, and it is correctly recognized.