Difficulties to connect to access an Android phone from Kubuntu 16.04

Bas Roufs basroufs at gmail.com
Tue Jan 30 22:53:10 UTC 2018


Have installed KDE Connect on both devices, however, they do not
 see each other, even if they function in the same network.

Yours.

Bas.

2018-01-30 23:19 GMT+01:00 Richard S. Crawford <richard at underpope.com>:

>
>
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 1:41 PM, Bas Roufs <basroufs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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:
>>
>> *Internal Error*
>>
>> *Please send a full bug report at http://bugs.kde.org
>> <http://bugs.kde.org>*
>>
>> *No such object path '/modules/kdeconnect/devices/ed509789b5640fb9/sftp'*
>>
>> Also this one shows up from time to time....
>>
>> The only way out I have found so far is taking out the SD card of the
>> phone, putting it in a bigger SD card case or into some USB device, after
>> which I can access the card. However, this is a bit troublesome.
>>
>> Any clue how to solve these problems?
>>
>> Yours.
>>
>> Bas G. Roufs.
>>
>
> ​Hi Bas,
>
> You've probably already seen people recommending KDEConnect for this
> purpose. I use it, and have had no problems accessing files on my Android
> device.
>
> Richard​
>
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