On 1/17/24 20:28, Philip Webb wrote:
I want to be able to download photos from my new cellphone to Gentoo.
The phone is a Samsung A14 5G ; its pet name is Athene.
I use KDE to manage my desktops on my desktop machine ANB6.
I've tried doing it with Manjaro & it works. It is vital
to have Athene awake when the USB connection is plugged into ANB6 :
a notice pops up asking to 'Allow', which I did.
Manjaro puts up its own notice, announcing a new device & asking what to do ;
I opened it in Dolphin, which shows Athene's Gallery
under GalaxyA145G -> Internal storage -> DCIM -> Camera ,
which lists the photo images ;
Dolphin can then copy them to its own file system readily
& Gwenview shows them correctly.
Normally on Gentoo, I mount devices -- eg USB sticks -- by hand,
ie 'mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb' or 'musb' for short (via .bashrc ).
I've looked at KDE device settings under Hardware -> Removable Storage ,
checked the box 'on attach' & tried with each of the 3 offerings,
ie 'All known / Attached / Disconnected Devices', but no joy.
Athene shows a recharging message, but nothing else happens, incl in ANB6
(Athene does indeed recharge while this is going on).
There is no change in output from 'ls /dev' or in Dolphin
(my usual file manager is Krusader, but Dolphin works for Manjaro).
Manjaro suggests soomething called 'MTP' is involved,
perhaps 'Media Transfer Protocol' (?).
Does anyone have any suggestions how to get this to work on Gentoo ?
I am not on Gentoo anymore but Ubuntu and did have trouble connecting
dolphin to my android phone. I had to install the packages kio-mtp and
mtp-tools. I see in the package list on Ubuntu those package names are
no longer used and it appears that kio-mtp was moved to kio-extras. The
link below talks about MTP on Gentoo and mentions kio-extras and the
need to have the mtp USE flag.
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/MTP
As a side note, with dolphin and Ubuntu something prevents dolphin from
accessing the phone when I first plug into a USB port until I close out
dolphin, disconnect the USB port, plug it back in and restart dolphin.
Then I can access the phone and the SDcard it has. It is annoying and I
think it has something to do with the gvfs interfering but have not
tracked down the cause yet.
Hope this helps you.
