Comments on Linux + GNU = Humans Enabled: How To: Fix Samsung Galaxy Nexus MTP File Transfer...

I used PTP instead of MTP and didn't have to i...

2012-02-06T13:47:52.109-08:00

I used PTP instead of MTP and didn't have to install or upgrade any software on my Linux-Mint 10.

http://gurjeet-tech.blogspot.com/2012/02/how-to-use-mtp-on-googles-galaxy-nexus.html

Thanks heaps, shall give that a go.

2012-01-16T23:06:13.562-08:00

Thanks heaps, shall give that a go.

@lochutus - Apparently there's another way to ...

2012-01-16T18:18:12.971-08:00

@lochutus - Apparently there's another way to try:
Use ddms from sdk tools (follow instructions at http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html to install sdk tools):
Then go to Device > File Explorer > navigate to mnt,sdcard, then select the folder or files you want to transfer to your device > then click the "pull from device" icon, select a local destination to copy files (e.g., Desktop) and click OK.

Thanks for the great article. I have a Samsung G...

2012-01-16T15:05:22.635-08:00

Thanks for the great article.

I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and had tried gmtp to no avail. I found your article and tried updating libmtp but still no luck.

Running gmtp from the commandline gives the following:

Device 0 (VID=04e8 and PID=6860) is a Samsung GT-P7510/Galaxy Tab 10.1.
PTP_ERROR_IO: failed to open session, trying again after resetting USB interface
LIBMTP libusb: Attempt to reset device
LIBMTP PANIC: failed to open session on second attempt
Detect: Unable to open raw device?
LIBMTP PANIC: Trying to dump the error stack of a NULL device!
LIBMTP PANIC: Trying to clear the error stack of a NULL device!

Any help you can give would be greatly appreciated.
cheers

>I think it would be nice if you had the choice...

2012-01-06T13:00:27.851-08:00

>I think it would be nice if you had the choice of using whichever one you want.

On my Galaxy Nexus I go to Settings>Storage>Menu>USB Computer Connection and choose Camera (PTP) and the device shows in Fedora without changing anything just as it shows in Windows.

This looks very cool but one problem... there is o...

2011-12-30T14:21:18.044-08:00

This looks very cool but one problem... there is only a 32-bit version of gMTP [does anyone really still use 32-bit computers? :-)]

Any chance of an x86_64 version?

Thanks!

Building libmptp 1.1.1 from source got me slightly...

2011-12-30T06:11:10.127-08:00

Building libmptp 1.1.1 from source got me slightly further than before (gmtp and qlix now see that there is a device, although they don't see it as a Nexus, but then both segfault trying to connect). This is with Ubuntu Natty.

Thankfully I can do file transfer with PTP/Camera Mode, and libmtp will only get better!

Actually, if I connect the cable; set it to Camera...

2011-12-28T11:33:06.191-08:00

Actually, if I connect the cable; set it to Camera (PTP) mode; unmount it from linux; and then enable Debugging mode (under Developer options), the drive pops up as a window (same as before), but this time I can write/drag files/drag folders/etc. It still doesn't show up under #df, but it seems to look like a normal folder at least...

+Bruno Thomsen - Good stuff. Thanks for the backgr...

2011-12-28T07:15:27.051-08:00

+Bruno Thomsen - Good stuff. Thanks for the background on that.

>I think it would be nice if you had the choice...

2011-12-28T02:52:16.260-08:00

>I think it would be nice if you had the choice of using whichever one you want.

It's up to the phone makers if they want to use the old way of partitioning the internal flash storage or the new.

Old: Where you need a "Move to SD" option to use all internal storage. When you plug-in the USB it unmount the SD-partition, there by allowing the PC to mount it. This also requires FAT32 to be included where Microsoft holds a long-filenames patent (most likely one of the 5 patents phone vendors pay to use).

New: All apps and media are stored on a single partition, no more "Move to SD" that isn't really a SD in most phones. Use of the more modern file system EXT4 (compared to FAT32) on all partitions, this will most like improve speed (App load) as well as lower the chance for data to be lost during power failure. The downside of this is that you can't unmount to when the USB is pluged-in, since all apps are stored on it.

Google solution was to use MTP to transfer files to/from the mounted partition. This will force a lot of Linux distributions to improve their MTP support.

Another solution could be to implement a virtual USB storage device that mirrors everything on the internal storage. But this would have taken more time to implement and test.

Will this work with the samsung galaxy prevail?

2011-12-24T23:19:28.942-08:00

Will this work with the samsung galaxy prevail?

>this is great for individual file copies, but ...

2011-12-22T13:34:20.229-08:00

>this is great for individual file copies, but fails for directory hierarchies containing .mp3 files, which are inexplicably placed in the root of the copy target rather than in their directories. other file types are properly placed in their target hierarchies.

Me: hmm, I didn't seem to have this same problem. Although, I still would prefer to use the block mode over MTP, because then I could just use the OS to access the data rather than having to use an additional program. Anways, thanks to libmtp/gmtp/etc. at least I can get access.

this is great for individual file copies, but fail...

2011-12-20T12:38:37.778-08:00

this is great for individual file copies, but fails for directory hierarchies containing .mp3 files, which are inexplicably placed in the root of the copy target rather than in their directories. other file types are properly placed in their target hierarchies. :/

Thank You!! Excellent directions for the CC's ...

2011-12-20T11:31:45.132-08:00

Thank You!!
Excellent directions for the CC's of the world (Command challenged)
Loven my Gnex

Shannon, I use Gentoo and had libmtp-1.1.1 instal...

2011-12-19T16:48:27.759-08:00

Shannon,

I use Gentoo and had libmtp-1.1.1 installed and could access the device fine but could not write to my Galaxy Nexus, I had to re-emerge libmtp and my problems went away but if I never read your post I would still be bashing my head of why this isn't working. Thanks for the howto!

Great write up. Thanks Shannon!

2011-12-19T08:54:40.493-08:00

Great write up. Thanks Shannon!

thanks, this helped :)

2011-12-18T04:42:31.116-08:00

thanks, this helped :)