On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 07:28:06AM -0800, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
> Hi, i'm running Wheezy. I used to have an older Android phone that Just
> Worked with my system, but I upgraded it to one running Android 4.2, and
> now i can no longer figure out how get it to talk to my computer.
> Ive Googled and tried to read up about MTP, but im still not sure how to
> get things working--different sites have you download and compile things
> from scratch, which seems crazy that you can't just plug your phone in. I
> did install mtp-tools, but i can't find mtpfs that many of the sites say
> you need to have.
MTPFS is only available in Squeeze and Sid.
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=mtpfs
> All i want is to be able to plug my phone in via USB and have it visible
> in the filesystem, whether through Thunar or on the commandline. Being
> able to have it work with Banshee wuold be nice too, but i assume that if
> the phone is visible then it will work with any tools.
One alternative may be to use GVFS. Have a look to see if your
gvfs-backends package supports mtp ("apt-cache show gvfs-backends" will
say), then perhaps something like gvfs-fuse will do.
> Thank you.
> Jen
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