Re: MTP and Android phones
On Tue, 07 Jan 2014, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote:
> 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.
Yeah, MTP is a pain. I wish there was at least a choice for a standard
USB generic mass storage mount option... oh well.
The best MTP software I've found is go-mtpfs. Unfortunately I don't
think it is packaged, but it is easy to build and put in $HOME/bin/
It uses FUSE like the other options, but is _much_ faster. You can find
it here:
https://github.com/hanwen/go-mtpfs
If you're going to build it yourself, you'll need to install these
packages first:
% apt-get install golang-go golang-src libusb-1.0-0 libusb-1.0-0-dev
There seem to be pre-compiled binaries you can download too (YMMV with
those). You'll probably need to install the libusb-1.0-0 library
anyway.
I just mount/unmount manually. One could write a udev/udisks2 rule to
automate this I suppose.
HTH,
-- Brad
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