No mount of Android phone

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Fri Sep 5 22:24:56 UTC 2014


On Fri, 2014-09-05 at 22:41 +0200, Frank Elsner wrote:
> can somebody explain why my Android phone is not mounted?

Later versions of Android don't allow this unless the phone is rooted.
You are expected to communicate using a more restricted protocol called
MTP. It's actually very restricted, e.g. you can't overwrite blocks in
the middle of a file. You have to read the file, change it, then write
it back. A package called simple-mtpfs tries to make it look like a
filesystem but it's important to remember that it really isn't.

poc



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