Recognizing Galaxy S4

[scott]

On 09/15/2014 08:50 AM, Chris wrote:
> Up until yesterday morning when I plugged my Galaxy S4 into my 14.04 LTS
> box the popup would come up asking if I wanted to open in Shotwell or
> Eject. I of course would just click the large X in the upper right
> corner as I'd open it with Nautilus and select certain photos to open.
> Sometime during the afternoon yesterday this stopped and when opening
> Nautilus it was not shown as a device. After much fiddling around I did
> get it to show up on Nautilus however it appeared to be unmounted. From
> my syslog just now:
> 
> 
> Sep 15 07:45:08 localhost kernel: [53279.340031] usb 2-2: new high-speed
> USB device number 15 using ehci-pci
> 
> Sep 15 07:45:09 localhost kernel: [53279.860014] usb 2-2: device not
> accepting address 15, error -71
> 
> Sep 15 07:45:26 localhost kernel: [53297.240031] usb 2-2: new high-speed
> USB device number 17 using ehci-pci
> 
> Sep 15 07:45:26 localhost kernel: [53297.373243] usb 2-2: New USB device
> found, idVendor=04e8, idProduct=6865
> 
> Sep 15 07:45:26 localhost kernel: [53297.373248] usb 2-2: New USB device
> strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
> 
> Sep 15 07:45:26 localhost kernel: [53297.373251] usb 2-2: Product:
> SAMSUNG_Android
> 
> Sep 15 07:45:26 localhost kernel: [53297.373254] usb 2-2: Manufacturer:
> SAMSUNG
> 
> Sep 15 07:45:26 localhost kernel: [53297.373256] usb 2-2: SerialNumber:
> 0b492907
> 
> Sep 15 07:45:26 localhost mtp-probe: checking bus 2, device 17:
> "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-2"
> 
> Sep 15 07:45:26 localhost mtp-probe: bus: 2, device: 17 was not an MTP
> device
> 
> Sep 15 07:45:26 localhost colord: Device added:
> sysfs-SAMSUNG-SAMSUNG_Android
> 
> Sep 15 07:45:26 localhost colord: Device added: sysfs-(null)
> 
> Now if I manually right click on the 'Android' device listed under
> devices on Nautilus it will mount. 
> 
> Any thoughts on why the sudden change from auto-mounting to having to
> manually mount it?
> 

Have you checked that MTP is on on your phone? Go to Settings > Storage
and in the upper right corner is three dots. Click on those and open it.
See if Media device(MTP) is checked.

Scott