Re: Deebian 7.0 needs to support MTP (for Android), else it will lose relevance
Actually, it is still supported on OS-level, but the appropriate
options were removed from settings. One can enable MSC via terminal
(ofc root is required).
On Thu, 7 Feb 2013 01:08:40 +0600
Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@wrar.name> wrote:
> 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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