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 using MTP. > > This seems to be a problem as MTP support in Fedora (perhaps in Linux > in general) appears to be appalling. I have libmtp installed and up to > date. When I plug in the Nexus, both RhythmBox sees it and claim to > display the music found on it. But it doesn't find the MP3s I've > downloaded using the Amazon MP3 application. Banshee doesn't detect > the Nexus at all. > > I've seen talk of something called "mtpfs", but that doesn't seem to > be available from the Fedora repos. Another app called gMTP sounds > like it might be useful, but is also not available for Fedora. > > Has anyone else found a way round this problem? Is anyone packaging > mtpfs or gMTP for Fedora?
This has been asked a couple of times here. I haven't had much luck with mtpfs either (I just compiled it from source). Clearly a properly working libmtp is what is needed and unfortunately I don't see any mention of such a thing in the F18 Proposed Features list. 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-and-drop. Be careful though. Doing this with a large group of files at once seems to give random dropouts. Very recently I started using Airdroid on my GNexus phone under Jelly Bean. It's basically a specialized website running on the phone and talking over Wifi, with file transfers plus some other features. We'll see how it works out. poc -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
