I'm a new (still new) linux user (Fedora, LXDE).
The phone I currently use is Samsung Avila, or Samsung Star (Samsung GT-S5230, http://www.samsung.com/pl/consumer/mobile-devices/other-phones/others/GT-S5230LKAPLS/, http://www.phonemore.com/samsung-star-gt-s5230/specs/503).
But it seems not to automounts, or I don't know where to look for it in the filesystem.
Is there a way to access the files on it (just photos), when connected by USB cable?
I was thinking about mount, but had some problems with e.g. finding the name of the device. Also, I would be glad if there is an application.
UPDATE 1:
My lsblk output:
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sda 8:0 0 55,9G 0 disk ├─sda4 8:4 0 1K 0 part ├─sda2 8:2 0 41,6G 0 part ├─sda5 8:5 0 3,5G 0 part ├─sda3 8:3 0 1G 0 part /boot ├─sda1 8:1 0 100M 0 part └─sda6 8:6 0 9,3G 0 part ├─fedora-swap 253:1 0 1G 0 lvm [SWAP] ├─fedora-home 253:4 0 768M 0 lvm /home ├─fedora-usr 253:2 0 4G 0 lvm /usr ├─fedora-root 253:0 0 1G 0 lvm / ├─fedora-home_michal_Dokumenty_Dyplom 253:5 0 512M 0 lvm /home/michal/Dokumenty/Dyplom └─fedora-var 253:3 0 2G 0 lvm /var
UPDATE 2:
The modes that my phone can use to connect to computer:
1) Media player mode;
2) PC studio mode;
3) Mass storage mode.
UPDATE 3:
simple-mtpfs outputs:
Firstly, I've checked whether ~/mnt exists.
Secondly, I've checked simple-mtpfs -l output: 1: SamsungGT-S5230.
The additional files that appeared in /dev after connecting the phone:
1) Media player mode: libmtp-1-1;
2) PC studio mode: ttyACM3;
3) Mass storage mode: --- (no additional files).
My outputs for simple-mtpfs /dev/[file name] ~/mnt:
1) Media player mode:
1.1) Running the command once: ERROR: Could not close session!,
1.2) Running the command twice and so on: LIBMTP PANIC: Trying to dump the error stack of a NULL device!;
2) PC studio mode: --- (no output appeared);
3) Mass storage mode: ---.
The same outputs appear for simple-mtpfs --device 1 ~/mnt.
UPDATE 4:
jmtpfs outputs:
My outputs for jmtpfs ~/mnt:
1) Media player mode:
Device 0 (VID=0438 and PID=e20c) is a Samsung GT-S5230. PTP_ERROR_IO: failed to open session, trying again after resetting USB interface LIBMTP libusb: Attemp to reset device LIBMTP PANIC: failed to open session on second attempt terminate called after throwing an instance of ‘MtpErrorCantOpenDevice’ what(): Can’t open device Przerwane (zrzut pamięci) [english literally: interrupted (memory dump)]
2) PC studio mode: No mtp devices found.;
3) Mass storage mode: No mtp devices found..
UPDATE 5:
When I run
simple-mtpfsas root in Media player mode, it shows the same results if running as user (that is, as above).jmtpfs -lshows the following output:
Device 0 (VID=0438 and PID=e20c) is a Samsung GT-S5230. Available devices (busLocation, devNum, productId, vendorId, product, vendor): 1, 10, 0xe20c, 0x04e8, GT-S5230, Samsung
- When I run
jmtpfsfor themntdirectory in my home directory (Media player mode), it shows onlyDevice 0 (VID=0438 and PID=e20c) is a Samsung GT-S5230.output and there appears anmntvolume (?) on the left side of my file manager window (PCManFM), as illustrated below:
But when I want to access, it displays (possible english version):Error - The specified directory is not valid. After clicking OK, it's empty.
What's interesting:
- when I cd ~/mnt, it displays (my free translation from Polish) No access;
- when I ls -ld ~/mnt, it displays No access to mnt;
- when I ls -l ~, it displays No access to mnt and the mnt row looks like that: d?????????? ? ? ? ? mnt.
UPDATE 6:
I've tried android-tools (it uses ADB), as @Stolous suggested in his answer. My adb devices output (in all the three modes):
List of devices attached * daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 * * daemon started successfully *
and then, after adb devices again, the output is just: List of devices attached and an empty line.
lsblkto your question please. – Hunter.S.Thompson Aug 10 '17 at 16:29MTP, and do not offer the usual "Mass Storage Device" interface. If this is the case, you may need to install additional software to support MTP. – njsg Aug 10 '17 at 17:22libmtp-...is created by audevrule installed bylibmtp. Just to make sure, can you check the permissions on thelibmtp-...file under/dev/? If it is assigned to a group withrwpermissions, is your user in that group? (You can use e.g. thegroupscommand to check your current groups.) – njsg Aug 11 '17 at 14:36dmesg) when you plug the phone in its "mass storage mode"? There should be some USB-related messages identifying the device and then, hopefully, some more information about the "storage device". – njsg Aug 11 '17 at 14:39libmtp-1-1file is assigned to isroot, and I am not assigned to this group. – Silv Aug 13 '17 at 12:42root, then that's the problem. You could try changing the user ownership oflibmtp-...to your user and runningjmtpfs mountpointagain as your user, to see if it works. (This is just a temporary hack — if it works, you'll have to find a persistent way of doing it, as the permissions will be reset next time.) [...] – njsg Aug 16 '17 at 10:23jmtpfs mountpointonly prints the identification of the device. Make sure you unlock your phone (i.e. go past the lock screen) after connecting it to the computer (even if you lock it again afterwards) — at least some Samsung devices don't allow MTP access before you unlock the phone.lsbefore unlocking gives mels: cannot access ...: Input/output error. – njsg Aug 16 '17 at 10:25LC_ALL=Cto your commands in order to get error messages in the default language (most likely some variant of English). – njsg Aug 16 '17 at 10:34udev(likely, as I believelibmtp-1-1is created by audevrule), you will have to add this as a rule inudev, as otherwise changes in permissions and ownership will disappear after a reboot. – njsg Aug 20 '17 at 20:37libmtp...assigned to a group (say,mtp-devices, or something more generic such asplugdev) and adding your user account to that group. I suggested changing the user ownership as a quick way to check if this would solve the problem. – njsg Aug 20 '17 at 20:40