USB sync (file transfer) with Android

[Colin Law]

On 22 October 2014 17:20, Nathan Dorfman <na at rtfm.net> wrote:
> 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.

I am using base Ubuntu rather than Ubuntu Gnome.  It took a little
finding but it is mounted at
/run/user/1000/gvfs/mtp\:host\=%5Busb%3A001%2C008%5D/ where 1000 is
the user id number.

>
> 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.

I have not installed anything special.  This is actually on 14.10 as
my 14.04 machine died of a lightening overdose a couple of weeks ago,
so I cannot guarantee that it is the same in 14.04.  It certainly
worked in nautilus then though.

Colin