On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:19:10 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote:

> > as you may know (i didn't until today...), ICS doesn't connect the
> > device as a good old USB mass storage device, but rather using this
> > MTP thing.

No, and there's a good reason for that. In order to mount the device as a
USB storage device on the computer, it has to be unmounted on the phone.
You can't have a single filesystem directly mounted by two operating
systems at once.

> I think you can use mtpfs and then browse it like any other disk. I
> don't have any MTP device to test it myself.

I found that to be rather fragile, jmtpfs works far better for me, with a
Galaxy S3 and a Nexus 7.


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Neil Bothwick

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