Recognizing Galaxy S4

[Chris]

On Mon, 2014-09-15 at 19:54 -0400, scott wrote:
> 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
> 

I have it set as PTP device, using MTP I can't load photos from the SD
card where they are stored. For now I just have to mount it once it
comes up on Nautilus which works fine from there on out. 

Thanks Scott

-- 
Chris
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