On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 1:51 PM, Andy Johnson <johnson...@gmail.com> 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 connect the galaxy mini smartphone to a Fedora 20 desktop I see > this messages in the kernel log: > usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage > scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access SAMSUNG GT-S5570 Card 0100 PQ: 0 ANSI: > 2 > sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 > sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk > > > but fdisk -l does not show /dev/sdb > > > and: > simple-mtpfs -l > shows: > No raw devices found > > Should I install some software on the smartphone to enable access from > Fedora > 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. You must use MTP to access them which is what simple-mtfs does. I've used it successfully on F19. poc
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