[Bug 972311] Re: Accessing a MTP device like the Galaxy Nexus fails

2012-05-09 Thread Jan Gutter
Asking again: is anyone from Ubuntu looking at this issue at all? Unfortunately there's rather a complex interplay of subsystems here: It seems the top end is Nautilus, and the bottom end might be libmtp. In the middle GVFS, GIO, FUSE and all sorts of stuff might lurk. If only some expert that kn

[Bug 972311] Re: Accessing a MTP device like the Galaxy Nexus fails

2012-05-09 Thread Jan Gutter
mtpfs, go-mtpfs, gmtp, mtp-detect and nautilus (gvfs, or gio, or whatever) all use the same libmtp library. It seems that the common way to query MTP devices used to be "pull a list of all objects", "push and pull individual objects". A lot of old, legacy devices actually seem to *expect* that kind

[Bug 972311] Re: Accessing a MTP device like the Galaxy Nexus fails

2012-05-09 Thread Jan Gutter
Sorry, I meant Canonical people. I forgot that Ubuntu is supposedly a "community distribution", except when it's not :-p Where's "upstream"? Is there a bug tracker for the gvfs people anywhere? Please understand, the reason this is a confusing issue is that it's not immediately apparent from any s

[Bug 972311] Re: Accessing a MTP device like the Galaxy Nexus fails

2012-05-01 Thread Jan Gutter
*sigh* It's what I've come to expect from Ubuntu: remember, Shuttleworth says it's better to have users than a stable product! As a workaround, you can set the Galaxy Nexus to use PTP. (Drag down on the notifications bar, and click the "Connected as media device/Touch for other USB options" notifi

[Bug 972311] Re: Accessing a MTP device like the Galaxy Nexus fails

2012-05-03 Thread Jan Gutter
Which update was that? I'm up to date and it's still broken. The only updates I got that might be relevant was for glib (and libtasn1), and neither fixed the issue. I've tried using Cinnamon, GNOME fallback and Unity, and now it seems like hit-or-miss that MTP even gets recognized. If that happens

[Bug 972311] Re: Accessing a MTP device like the Galaxy Nexus fails

2012-05-03 Thread Jan Gutter
I've tried something different: http://ohheyitslou.blogspot.com/2011/12/galaxy-nexus-enable-mtp-file- transfer.html Precise is up-to-date with the latest stable libmtp. BUT, it seems that mtpfs pulls down the entire tree from the phone before allowing access to the FS. If this is because libmtp o