On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Matthew Finkel <matthew.fin...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 2:04 AM, Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: > >> I just purchased a new smartphone (samsung galaxy S III), which runs >> android ice cream sandwitch 4.0.4). I would like to copy files >> to and from the phone. The phone manual describes how to do this for >> windows (nothing needed) and Mac (a program to download), but not for >> gnu-linux. Apparently the phone supports MTP (media transfer protocol) >> and PTP (picture transfer protocol) >> >> I did some googling and there are a number of comments but no clear >> recommendations. Has anyone here performed file transfer >> gentoo <--> samsung S3. >> >> I run amd64, but I don't think that is very relevant. >> >> Just mounting or ftp would be enough; I really just want to move some >> files. >> > > You should be able to mount it without any problems. I have ICS on my > Nexus S and the only requirement to mounting the phone as a USB device is > to toggle the USB Mass Storage option (it should show up in the > notification bar). On my phone, the usb storage uses ext4 (IIRC), so > drivers for this aren't an problem. Once the setting is toggled, it's > automatically assigned a device mapping and it's usable as a normal USB > drive from there. > That does not work on the S3 because i believe it is basically one partition unlike the Nexus S which has a separate partition for internal storage. I have used mtpfs in Android 3.0 on my gentoo system and found it slow and unreliable. A lot might of changed in the last 6 months with mtpfs though so try it and see how it works. You could use a program for android called "adb" but its slow at pushing files so if they are gonna be videos i would stay away. And the way i do it on my Galaxy nexus is use dropbox. Move to dropbox folder than download form the dropbox app on the phone. Not the best but its easiest for me.
