Re: MTP Support in Fedora

2012-09-24 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 11:06 +0100, Dave Cross wrote: > Approaches like this sound good, but they're hampered by a recent > router firmware upgrade which renders the devices on my home network > completely unable to see each other. > > I guess there's always Bluetooth :-/ You could try https://gi

Re: MTP Support in Fedora

2012-09-24 Thread Dave Cross
On 22 September 2012 15:04, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Sat, 2012-09-22 at 14:45 +0100, Dave Cross wrote: >> I can't be the only person with this problem. >> >> I have a Nexus 7. The Nexus runs Android Jellybean. Recent versions of >> Android (like Jellybean) have removed support for USB mass

Re: MTP Support in Fedora

2012-09-23 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 09/22/2012 09:05 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: >> If I want to copy, say a few thousand files, I have to spend hours >> manually selecting batches of no more than a few hundred files at a >> time. I have NEVER got this to work well. > > Rsync to the rescue, as long as you can either mount th

Re: MTP Support in Fedora

2012-09-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2012-09-22 at 20:43 +0100, James Wilkinson wrote: > Incidentally, I understand that Android hasn’t removed support for USB > mass storage: it’s just that many recent devices come without support > for SD cards, so there’s nothing to export as USB mass storage. This > means the Android devic

Re: MTP Support in Fedora

2012-09-22 Thread James Wilkinson
Dave Cross wrote: > I can't be the only person with this problem. No, you aren’t. > I have a Nexus 7. The Nexus runs Android Jellybean. Recent versions of > Android (like Jellybean) have removed support for USB mass storage and > the Nexus now connect to my Fedora 17 desktop using MTP. > > This

Re: MTP Support in Fedora

2012-09-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sun, 2012-09-23 at 01:45 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2012-09-22 at 09:34 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > However a workaround for many use cases is to install an FTP or sftp > > server on the device - there are several in the Play store - and > > either use a basic FTP client from Linux or

Re: MTP Support in Fedora

2012-09-22 Thread Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.
On 09/22/2012 12:15 PM, Tim wrote: On Sat, 2012-09-22 at 09:34 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: However a workaround for many use cases is to install an FTP or sftp server on the device - there are several in the Play store - and either use a basic FTP client from Linux or just mount the server

Re: MTP Support in Fedora

2012-09-22 Thread Joe Zeff
On 09/22/2012 09:15 AM, Tim wrote: It's meant that I've given up on doing backups on/with large storage devices, because it*always* cocks up, and it's a big pain in the neck to try and sort out which files got skipped, aborted, partially transferred, or corrupted. So does this mean that you've

Re: MTP Support in Fedora

2012-09-22 Thread Tim
On Sat, 2012-09-22 at 09:34 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > However a workaround for many use cases is to install an FTP or sftp > server on the device - there are several in the Play store - and > either use a basic FTP client from Linux or just mount the server from > Nautilus and use drag-an

Re: MTP Support in Fedora

2012-09-22 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2012-09-22 at 14:45 +0100, Dave Cross wrote: > I can't be the only person with this problem. > > I have a Nexus 7. The Nexus runs Android Jellybean. Recent versions of > Android (like Jellybean) have removed support for USB mass storage and > the Nexus now connect to my Fedora 17 desktop u

Re: MTP Support in Fedora

2012-09-22 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 14:45:57 +0100 Dave Cross wrote: > Has anyone else found a way round this problem? Is anyone packaging > mtpfs or gMTP for Fedora? I don't bother with the USB cable at all. I just use File Expert on the Nexus to share files over the network with the web interface it provides.