Problems mounting a cell phone

[Karl Auer]

On Sun, 2014-11-09 at 09:15 -0800, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> I have a Casio C811 G-zone cell phone
> [...]
> When I plug it in to the USB port, it shows up in lsusb as an NEC
> device, but the file system never mounts and I can't seem to access it
> as a /dev device.
> The phone has version 4.12 of Android, if that's any help.

If it's an Android phone:

- get your phone ready for action (i.e., swipe to unlock or whatever)

- connect your phone to your PC via a suitable USB cable

- a USB icon should appear on the top icon bar (along with things like
signal strength, battery level, time of day etc.

- drag the icon bar down, like closing a roller door :-)

- on the pulled down panel, there should be a USB control to tell the
phone to make its memory available as a USB mass storage device. On mine
it says "USB connected: Select to copy files to from your computer"

- tap the option and confirm (tap "Mount")

- on Ubuntu, what happens next depends on how you have configured things
in Nautilus. It may open a new file manager window, It may ask what you
want to do, it may do something else entirely :-) or it may do nothing
at all. In the latter case, open a file manager window yourself - the
phone should be there as a mountable device in the left-hand panel under
"Devices".
 
The USB icon and the USB select option won't appear unless the phone is
actually connected.

Alternatively in "Settings" under "Phone storage" there may be similar
options.

If none of the above works, you may not have an Android phone :-)

Regards, K.

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