Package that will install in Fedora to view files on Android Phones.

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 10:31 PM, Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 28 October 2013 22:09, Jim <binarynut at comcast.net> wrote:
> > Isn't there a Package on Fedora repo that you can install so as to view
> > files on Android Phones by USB ??
>
> Some will show up as USB mass storage (or at least let you access an
> attached sd card by that method). I've got a samsung which is locked
> down for that (and I don't want to have to root it), in which case you
> have to use MTP. For access in KDE I've got kio_mtp installed.
> simple-mtpfs works for me if I need command line access. The phone
> needs to be unlocked while accessing it.
>

+1

Just be aware that MTP doesn't give you a "real" filesystem, e.g. IIRC
there's no seeking and files cannot be modified in place or even directly
overwritten, just read, written and deleted. simple_mtpfs does some caching
to try to disguise this but it's useful to know.

poc
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