Re: [gentoo-user] MTP auto-mount? (Kindle Fire HD)

[Daniel Frey]

On 09/18/2012 10:37 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi all,
>    Are there any known tricks for auto-mounting an MTP device? I think
> this stuff is used on some newer Android phone so I'm hoping someone
> has a nice solution.

MTP is used on a quite a few newer Android devices, including my Nexus
7. I haven't found an automount solution yet, but it is possible to
create an fstab entry, though

>
>    My wife decided to buy the new Kindle Fire HD based on our good
> experience with the original Kindle Fire. The new device is very nice
> - faster, nicer screen, better networking, etc. - but no longer
> presents itself as a USB Mass Storage device like my older Kindle
> Fire. Rather it uses Media Transfer Protocol. (MTP) I've managed to
> get it mounted using a package from the poly-c overlay called jmtpfs.
> Info is located here:
>
> http://research.jacquette.com/jmtpfs-exchanging-files-between-android-devices-and-linux/
>
>    I've copied some movies over and they play fine on the new device
> but it's all by-hand manual mounting, etc. When the device is plugged
> in I get this sort of info in dmesg:
>
> [15720.370654] usb 2-2: new high-speed USB device number 4 using ehci_hcd
> [15720.490935] usb 2-2: New USB device found, idVendor=1949, idProduct=0007
> [15720.490940] usb 2-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=4
> [15720.490944] usb 2-2: Product: Kindle
> [15720.490947] usb 2-2: Manufacturer: Amazon
> [15720.490949] usb 2-2: SerialNumber: REMOVED
>
> and based on one post I read for Ubuntu (or maybe Arch - I don't
> remember) I've created this udev rule:
>
> mark@c2stable ~ $ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules
> UBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{idVendor}=="1949", ATTR{idProduct}=="0007", MODE="0666"
> mark@c2stable ~ $

I documented what I had to do to mount my Nexus 7 on the forums, under
my own Nexus 7 thread, although now that I think about it, I don't think
I put an fstab entry in it. I do have one in my /etc/fstab, though:

mtpfs  /mnt/nexus7  fuse  user,noauto,allow_other  0 0

Make sure the mountpoint will be writeable.

>    Anyway, it's all usable but a bit clumsy. Is there a sensible way I
> can have the device recognized and mounted via rules in fstab? (Or any
> other fixed file?)

I haven't looked to see if there's a way to automount it yet though.

>
> Thanks,
> Mark