Re: Transferring files between Samsung tablet and a Debian box

[Mark Neidorff <mark@neidorff.com>]

On Thursday 12 July 2012 1:47:14 pm Miles Fidelman wrote:
> > 
> > I hear newer versions of android no longer support the usb mass storage
> > protocol. They use something called Media Transfer Protocol. The libmtp
> > package (and associated utility packages) should help, but I think they
> > are still in debian unstable only.
> 
> amazing what one can find with a little googling:
> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/12/how-to-connect-your-android-ice-cream-sa
> ndwich-phone-to-ubuntu-for-file-access

It doesn't work for me.  Here is the error output that I get:

mark@Mark:~$ mtp-detect
libmtp version: 1.0.3

Listing raw device(s)
Device 0 (VID=04e8 and PID=6860) is UNKNOWN.
Please report this VID/PID and the device model to the libmtp development team
   Found 1 device(s):
   04e8:6860 @ bus 1, dev 8
Attempting to connect device(s)
PTP_ERROR_IO: Trying again after re-initializing USB interface
LIBMTP PANIC: Could not open session! (Return code 767)
  Try to reset the device.
Unable to open raw device 0
OK.


Thanks,
Mark