How do I transfer files from Android cellphone

[Volker Wysk]

Am Samstag, den 10.08.2019, 18:14 +0800 schrieb Bret Busby:
> Hello.
> 
> I have an Android cellphone that I connect to my UbuntuMATE 18.04
> computer via USB tethering, and, use that for accessing the WWW on
> that computer.
> 
> On my cellphone, I have a number of image files (screenshots) that I
> want to transfer to the computer.
> 
> Rather than attaching each file to a gmail email message composed on
> the cellphone, and, sending a copy of the file, for downloading to
> the
> computer, how do I direcly transfer the files?

I use the SSHDroid app (an SSH server) on the phone, and transfer files
with the sftp protocol. That is, over WLAN.

You only need to install and start SSHDroid. Then you can use the text-
mode "sftp" client. Or you use a file manager, which supports sftp,
such as the KDE program "konqueror" or the Gnome file manager.


> I have searched using google, and, the closest that I found to an
> answer, states that, upon connecting an Android cellphone to a
> computer, via USB, a window automatically pops up on the cellphone,
> with an option for MTP file transfer.  This does not happen with my
> cellphone.

MTP isn't supported by Linux. 

> 
> The cellphone does not show as a storage device in the caja file
> manager, for cut/copy and paste file transfers.
> 
> So, how do I transfer files from my cellphone to my computer, when
> the
> cellphone is connected to the computer via USB?

It works with WLAN.


Bye
Volker