Accessing a Samsung galaxy mini from Fedora 20 via USB.

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Andy Johnson <johnsonzjo at gmail.com> wrote:

> I want to access a Samsung galaxy mini smartphone from Fedora 20 via USB.
>
> I am able to do it from windows with Kies (when I plug the USB phone it
> asks for
> USB storage confirmation, and when I press OK everything is fine).
>
> When I connect the galaxy mini smartphone to a Fedora 20 desktop I see
> this messages in the kernel log:
> usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
> scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access     SAMSUNG  GT-S5570 Card    0100 PQ: 0 ANSI:
> 2
> sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
> sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
>
>
> but fdisk -l does not show /dev/sdb
>
>
> and:
> simple-mtpfs -l
> shows:
> No raw devices found
>
> Should I install some software on the smartphone to enable access from
> Fedora
>

Haven't used F20 so far, but note that Android 4 devices don't export a
storage interface, i.e. they can't be treated as external disks. You must
use MTP to access them which is what simple-mtfs does. I've used it
successfully on F19.

poc
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