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Re: Deebian 7.0 needs to support MTP (for Android), else it will lose relevance



A Dimecres, 6 de febrer de 2013, Alexey Eromenko va escriure:
> History:
> USB MTP (universal serial bus - media transfer protocol) was developed
> to replace the USB Mass Storage.
> 
> Problem with mass storage is that it is not reliable - it is
> block-device-level protocol. And if PC goes power down (or blue
> screen, on certain O.S) the data on the smartphone will be damaged,
> and there is no "scandisk" on the smartphone, so it will become
> unreadable.
> MTP overcomes this problem by being filesystem level protocol (as
> opposed to block device), and is supported since Windows
> hasta-la-Vista. (since 2006)
> 
> The result:
> Google decided to remove USB Mass Storage from Android 4.x devices.
> Newer Android devices support MTP-only.

I have Android 4.x with MSC. However is not the default. Are you sure you 
didn't have it?

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