Re: Accessing a Samsung galaxy mini from Fedora 20 via USB.

2014-01-08 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 7:11 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > What you mean is that Android devices don't present themselves as a block > device, i.e. we don't have access to either logical or physical sectors, > therefore we can't load a partition table or even find file system > superblocks. It's kinda

Re: Accessing a Samsung galaxy mini from Fedora 20 via USB.

2014-01-07 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jan 7, 2014, at 12:11 PM, Chris Murphy wrote: > mount shows: > > fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime) > gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse > (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000) > > So to access storage from command line you'd n

Re: Accessing a Samsung galaxy mini from Fedora 20 via USB.

2014-01-07 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jan 7, 2014, at 9:38 AM, Andy Johnson wrote: > Hi, > Thanks for your answer. > >> Android 4 devices don't export a storage interface, > I know, but this is a veteran mini galaxy, and I am sure that it *does* export > a storage interface; when I am accessing it from windows with Kies, it > pr

Re: Accessing a Samsung galaxy mini from Fedora 20 via USB.

2014-01-07 Thread Chris Murphy
On Jan 7, 2014, at 7:01 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Haven't used F20 so far, but note that Android 4 devices don't export a > storage interface, i.e. they can't be treated as external disks. Technically they do export a storage interface, by default via MTP, optionally as PTP. Or neither

Re: Accessing a Samsung galaxy mini from Fedora 20 via USB.

2014-01-07 Thread Andy Johnson
Hi, Thanks for your answer. >Android 4 devices don't export a storage interface, I know, but this is a veteran mini galaxy, and I am sure that it *does* export a storage interface; when I am accessing it from windows with Kies, it prompts me to accept it as a storage device, as I mentioned in my p

Re: Accessing a Samsung galaxy mini from Fedora 20 via USB.

2014-01-07 Thread Allann Jones
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Andy Johnson wrote: > Hi, > I want to access a Samsung galaxy mini smartphone from Fedora 20 via USB. > > I am able to do it from windows with Kies (when I plug the USB phone it > asks for > USB storage confirmation, and when I press OK everything is fine). > > Whe

Re: Accessing a Samsung galaxy mini from Fedora 20 via USB.

2014-01-07 Thread Mark Haney
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 1/7/2014 8:51 AM, Andy Johnson wrote: > Hi, I want to access a Samsung galaxy mini smartphone from Fedora > 20 via USB. > > and: simple-mtpfs -l shows: No raw devices found > > Should I install some software on the smartphone to enable access > f

Re: Accessing a Samsung galaxy mini from Fedora 20 via USB.

2014-01-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Andy Johnson wrote: > I want to access a Samsung galaxy mini smartphone from Fedora 20 via USB. > > I am able to do it from windows with Kies (when I plug the USB phone it > asks for > USB storage confirmation, and when I press OK everything is fine). > > When I co

Accessing a Samsung galaxy mini from Fedora 20 via USB.

2014-01-07 Thread Andy Johnson
Hi, I want to access a Samsung galaxy mini smartphone from Fedora 20 via USB. I am able to do it from windows with Kies (when I plug the USB phone it asks for USB storage confirmation, and when I press OK everything is fine). When I connect the galaxy mini smartphone to a Fedora 20 desktop I see