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

[Paul Cartwright]

On 04/14/2015 08:26 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 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.
[root at pauls-server log]# yum list|grep mtpfs
simple-mtpfs.x86_64                        0.2-3.fc21             

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