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On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 2:04 AM, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu> wrote: |
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> I just purchased a new smartphone (samsung galaxy S III), which runs |
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> android ice cream sandwitch 4.0.4). I would like to copy files |
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> to and from the phone. The phone manual describes how to do this for |
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> windows (nothing needed) and Mac (a program to download), but not for |
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> gnu-linux. Apparently the phone supports MTP (media transfer protocol) |
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> and PTP (picture transfer protocol) |
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> I did some googling and there are a number of comments but no clear |
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> recommendations. Has anyone here performed file transfer |
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> gentoo <--> samsung S3. |
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> I run amd64, but I don't think that is very relevant. |
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> Just mounting or ftp would be enough; I really just want to move some |
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> files. |
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You should be able to mount it without any problems. I have ICS on my Nexus |
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S and the only requirement to mounting the phone as a USB device is to |
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toggle the USB Mass Storage option (it should show up in the notification |
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bar). On my phone, the usb storage uses ext4 (IIRC), so drivers for this |
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aren't an problem. Once the setting is toggled, it's automatically assigned |
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a device mapping and it's usable as a normal USB drive from there. |
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