Re: Okay, I give up… how to connect my (Android) phone properly (MTP)?

Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knugum at gmail.com
Tue Aug 4 13:08:22 UTC 2015


2015-08-04 14:58 GMT+02:00 Petter Adsen <petter at synth.no>:

> On Tue, 4 Aug 2015 14:33:09 +0200
> Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 2015-08-04 13:30 GMT+02:00 Petter Adsen <petter at synth.no>:
> > > I take this to mean that you replace DEVICE with the device node and
> > > LOCATION with where you want to mount it, but I might be wrong.
> > >
> >
> > Yes, that should be what it means, but it didn't work. The line I tried
> was:
> > gvfs-mount -d /dev/bus/usb/001/013 ${HOME}/Desktop/MyPhone
> > but it mounted it at the usual place without any kind of error message
> (the
> > few times it mounted it at all).
>
> OK, that is surprising. Bug, maybe? I really don't know, and the man
> page is exceptionally unhelpful. It doesn't seem possible to interact
> with gvfs file systems in a sane way, you are instructed to use
> gvfs-copy, gvfs-rm etc, so you might be out of luck here. Try to file a
> bug against gvfs-bin and see what the developers have to say. Either
> things do not work as expected, or the man page is at best misleading.
>
> Petter
>

Or maybe the mtp thing makes things a bit crazy?

You don't happen to know where I file such a bug report, do you?


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