USB sync (file transfer) with Android

[Nathan Dorfman]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22 October 2014 16:53, Nathan Dorfman <na at rtfm.net> wrote:
>> I have multiple Android devices and I've never succeeded in getting
>> MTP to work even halfway decently with Linux...

> The Nexus 7 works fine for me in MTP mode with 14.04 desktop.  Plug it
> in, unlock it, and it automatically mounts and files can be accessed.

I have 14.04 as well and I'm pretty sure this isn't the case. It
automatically appears in the Gnome file manager, that's true, but it
doesn't actually mount them into the filesystem, so they're not
accessible from outside Gnome. For example, by any command line tool.

The various *mtpfs extensions that are supposed to actually mount it
(but don't work) aren't even a part of base Ubuntu, they had to be
installed separately.

-nd.