What package to have MTP?

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Wed Sep 26 02:25:37 UTC 2012


On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 11:21 -0400, Terry Polzin wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 17:55 +0300, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
> > Hi all
> > 
> > Running FC16 LXDE spin and having an Android 4.1 SGS2.
> > The telephone is configured to MTP when plugged to the PC.
> > The PC cannot browse the media in the telephone.
> > 
> > What package should I install in order to get it recognize the MTP?
> > 
> > I have alternate solutions such as FTP over WiFi, but it's slow and I 
> > would like to to it USB.
> > 
> > Thank you.
> > 
> > -- 
> > RMA.
> 
> Why not configure phone as disk device???

Discussed in a very recent thread on this list. Many current phones have
no removable storage, so Android prevents the device from being seen as
an external drive and forces the use of MTP or PTP.

I'm told this can be overcome by rooting the phone, but haven't tried it
yet. YMMV.

poc



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