Connect Android device

Question

I've a phone with Android and I use Ubuntu in my PC. The thing is that I can connect my phone through USB and Ubuntu can read it, I mean, I can see the files and stuff, but that's it.

I can't transfer files without broking them, can't view photos either, and all the things that I can do with Windows are gone when using Ubuntu or any Linux distro.

Maybe I'm missing drivers, the phone is Samsung.

Can anyone help me?

I've search a lot but couldn't find a solution.

Thanks.

Solution

Get mtpfs package : sudo apt-get install mtpfs

Make sure to unlock your phone when connecting to PC

Then use it as follows :

• Create a directory to mount Android fs
• as user type : mtpfs /path/to/mountpoint

to unmount use fusermount -u command to unmount

This is for device fs access only, if you're looking for android tools (adb and fastboot) :

• install android-tools-adb and android-tools-fastboot :

sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb android-tools-fastboot

Comments

[user2077474]

That seems to be an option. I still can't see photos directly from the phone, but at least I can move them to my PC now.

[abhishah901]

Didn’t help me :/