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



On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 07:58:17PM +0100, Leopold Palomo Avellaneda wrote:
> > 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?
It is supported only by some devices.

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