why is connecting with my android phone so hit and miss?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Tue, 14 Apr 2015, Paul Cartwright wrote:

> On 04/14/2015 07:48 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >   currently running fedora rawhide but i suspect this is a more
> > general fedora issue -- i could be wrong. whenever i plug in my HTC
> > android phone to my laptop (via USB), it's totally hit and miss
> > whether i get the phone's content mounted under /run/user/1000/gvfs,
> > which allows me to copy pics out of the gallery and so on.
> >
> >   sometimes it works fine, sometimes not. when i plug it in, the phone
> > typically displays "USB tethering [connected]" and "Media device [MTP]
> > connected", which is what i expect to see, but whether the mount
> > actually succeeds is unpredictable.
> >
> >   what driver/kernel feature is responsible for this? it would be
> > easier to debug if it wasn't so arbitrary about whether it worked or
> > not.
> >
>  my Galaxy S6 always shows up, as did my Galaxy S3.. try this:
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=286547
>
>
> $ sudo yum -y install fuse fuse-libs libmtp simple-mtpfs

  of the above libs, the first three are already installed, and the
last, simple-mtpfs, does not show up in a "yum search". remember, i'm
running rawhide so perhaps that package has been removed.

  the other package that looks relevant, gvfs-mtp, is already
installed, so i'll check out the thread you mention above a bit later
this morning to see what other choices i have.

rday

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