On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 09:16:18AM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > On Mon, 2013-09-02 at 10:07 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 04:23:08AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 03:39:39PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > > > > > > > > > Can't you just treat it as a normal USB stick? > > > > > e.g. > > > > > Plug it in > > > > > select connect to PC on phone. > > > > > then > > > > > # mount /dev/sdb /mnt > > > > > (get some error msgs) > > > > > > > > It gives me this no medium found on /dev/sdb > > > > > > Did you select "connect storage to PC" on phone like I said? > > > (That has to be successful before trying anything else!) > > > You have to enable "USB debugging" on the phone, for Gingerbread it's > > > under settings ---> applications ---> Development before "connect > > > storage to PC" will be allowed. > > > > > > THEN > > > # mount /dev/sdb /mnt > > > > > > You should see something similar to: > > > [4247732.683920] sd 100:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present > > > [4247732.690689] sd 100:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through > > > [4247732.700447] sd 100:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present > > > [4247732.703418] sd 100:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through > > > [4247732.827436] FAT-fs (sdb): invalid media value (0x00) > > > mount: you must specify the filesystem type > > > > Erm... What's the point of mounting the whole disk when you seem to > > already know that it's going to fail? If you just need to get the kernel > > to read the partition table, then try "hdparm -z /dev/sdb" > > > > Teaching people to do something that you expect to result in an error > > seems a bad idea to me. > > > > > > > > > > then > > > > > # mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt > > > > > > Well, > The point is when I select MTP on my android phone when I connect it to > laptop, and debian mounts android. But all folders that are there in my > phone are not seen in the explorer. > > Whereas if I connect the android phone to windows it shows all my > files. > > Only 10 folders are seen on debian, whereas there are many others! This is probably intentional. MTP (Media Transfer Protocol) is designed for transferring digital media between systems. Looking at the wikipedia page, it seems perfectly reasonable that the android device is only showing you paths where it believes it has media files (as indexed by the "Media Storage" service, probably). As to why windows sees it differently to linux, I'm not sure.
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