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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