importing photos from Galaxy Nexus Android phone?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2012-03-12 at 21:57 +0100, Swapnil Bhartiya wrote:
> On 03/12/2012 07:12 PM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> > On 03/12/2012 10:22 AM, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
> >>
> >> I find that F16 does not do anything with the phone when it is plugged
> >> into the USB port. The kernel recognizes it, and gphoto2 can access it,
> >> but nothing happens automatically.
> >
> > Under XFCE there's a control panel for Removable Drives And Media. The
> > name might be different under Gnome, but there's probably something
> > similar. Check in there, under Cameras and see what, if anything, it's
> > set to do.
> 
> Galaxy Nexus uses MTP instead of mass storage and support for MTP under 
> Linux is very bad. It won't work under openSUSE or Ubuntu as well. The 
> only way is to use AirDroid over wifi.

Actually if you run Rhythmbox or Amarok, you can see the Nexus as a
device and move music via drag-and-drop. I presume something similar
would work with the photo apps (Digikam etc.) though I haven't tried it.

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