On Sun, Nov 22, 2020 at 6:53 AM Dr Rainer Woitok <rainer.woi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Edward and Nuno, > > On Sunday, 2020-11-22 11:35:16 +0000, Nuno Silva wrote: > > > ... > > I think with MTP there can be issues owing to implementation details - > > some phones will have trouble with some MTP tools. > > > > If you can, please try sys-fs/jmtpfs. > > Hmm, according to > > https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-fs/jmtpfs > > this package looks rather unmaintained, last changed in November 2013. > There are also > > https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-fs/mtpfs > > which doesn't look much better, maintenance-wise, and > > https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-fs/simple-mtpfs > > which at least seems maintained. There are quite a few other packages > listed at > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/MTP > > where it's also mentioned that Thunar can connect to MTP file systems > using the "xfce-extra/thunar-volman" package. > > Personally I haven't yet used any of these because I'm quite satisfied > using "adb" from package "dev-util/android-tools". > > Sincerely, > Rainer > simple-mtpfs worked instead of mtpfs. Also the android phone screen needs to be unlocked and answer 'allow' when a pop up message appears. After doing that i was able to mount the android phone
