Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED Re: error trying to mount Samsung: Galaxy android models (MTP)

[edward m]

On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 6:53 AM Dr Rainer Woitok <rainer.woitok@×××××.com>
wrote:

> Edward and Nuno,
>
> On Sunday, 2020-11-22 11:35:16 +0000, Nuno Silva wrote:
>
> > ...
> > I think with MTP there can be issues owing to implementation details -
> > some phones will have trouble with some MTP tools.
> >
> > If you can, please try sys-fs/jmtpfs.
>
> Hmm, according to
>
>    https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-fs/jmtpfs
>
> this package looks rather unmaintained,  last changed  in November 2013.
> There are also
>
>    https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-fs/mtpfs
>
> which doesn't look much better, maintenance-wise, and
>
>    https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-fs/simple-mtpfs
>
> which at least seems maintained.   There are quite a few  other packages
> listed at
>
>    https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/MTP
>
> where it's also mentioned  that Thunar can  connect to MTP  file systems
> using the "xfce-extra/thunar-volman" package.
>
> Personally I haven't yet used  any of these  because I'm quite satisfied
> using "adb" from package "dev-util/android-tools".
>
> Sincerely,
>   Rainer
>



simple-mtpfs worked instead of  mtpfs. Also the android phone screen needs
to  be unlocked and  answer 'allow' when a pop up
message appears. After doing that i was able to mount the android phone