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On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:19:10 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> > as you may know (i didn't until today...), ICS doesn't connect the |
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> > device as a good old USB mass storage device, but rather using this |
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> > MTP thing. |
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No, and there's a good reason for that. In order to mount the device as a |
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USB storage device on the computer, it has to be unmounted on the phone. |
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You can't have a single filesystem directly mounted by two operating |
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systems at once. |
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> I think you can use mtpfs and then browse it like any other disk. I |
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> don't have any MTP device to test it myself. |
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I found that to be rather fragile, jmtpfs works far better for me, with a |
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Galaxy S3 and a Nexus 7. |
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