Difficulties to connect to access an Android phone from Kubuntu 16.04

[Volker Wysk]

Hi!

Am Dienstag, 30. Januar 2018, 22:41:50 CET schrieb Bas Roufs:
> Hello Everbody.
> 
> At earlier versions of Kubuntu, I could quite easily access the SD card and
> internal memory in my Android phones. I connected a USB cable in between
> the phone and laptop and the phone showed up as a "mass storage" device,
> after which I could easily transfer files between either devices.
> 
> However, ever since let's say Kubuntu 14.04 it's getting more and more
> complicated. Kubuntu 16.04 is even worse in this context.
> One error message that often comes back sounds something like "mtp protocol
> died unexpectedly.  Today, I got this error message:

As far as I heard, the Linux MTP implementation never was ready for production, and always more or less broken. I couldn't get it to work reliably, just like you, This is from kubuntu-users (2017-05-19): "MTP support in Kubuntu is almost entirely broken and has been for a decade and a half. I have no hope of it ever getting fixed.".

But you can connect to your phone via WLAN, rather than cable. I'm using SSHDroid for this. That's a SSH server, and cou can connect to it via SFTP. 

I've also heard of Airdroid, which appears to do a lot more, but I haven't tried it yet.

Cheers
Volker