Making Android device visible as USB device

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What I done is that when I booted up the Virtual Machine, I opened up the Devices tab and from the dropdown menu I seen my phone and I checked it. Does that work for you?

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B. Butz

I'm currently running a dual-boot system with Kubuntu 20.04 and Windows 10 on an HP Pavilion laptop. I'm now 85 years old and I've been been in the computing field since I was 17. so I have lots of experience. But I'm now absent-minded and suffering from short-term memory loss, which occasionally causes me to ask silly questions. I actually did some programming on the ancient Whirlwind machine at MIT. In those days we used Flexowriters, which were glorified typewriters, for input and line printers for output.The front of the machine had a huge array of flashing lights to display the contents of the registers. When a program was malfunctioning, which was often, we'd take a picture of the front of the machine in order to debug the program. My greatest accomplishment was writing a compiler for PL/I on the IBM 709 in the mid-sixties. PL/I was a large and complicated language, primitive by today's standards, and I did it single-handedly. It was an exciting triumph when I got the compile to compile itself. I took on that project as a challenge because the language was so massive and complicated. (In the same spirit, I built a two-manual (two keyboards) harpsichord from a Zuckerman kit even though I had no prior woodworking experience.)

Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

B. Butz over 1 year

I have an Android smartphone connected to my Kubuntu box with a USB cable. I've figured out how to transfer files, but I need something more: making the Android device visible as a USB device. For instance, if I use VirtualBox and look at its list of USB devices, I want to see the Android,and I don't. I need this in order to use PC Suite for syncing the contacts and calendar. Is it possible to do this? (I have adb installed and MTP file transfer working.)
- B. Butz over 9 years
  
  There are four settings on the Android: charge only, Media Sync (MTP), USB tethering, and PC Software. I've tried all of them and none make the USB visible. I usually leave the setting at Media Sync.
B. Butz over 9 years

I can't specify the device in VirtualBox because it says there are no USB devices available, so I never get to the point where I can specify the IDs. I've tried running LG PC Suite under Wine, but it can't find any USB devices either. I've been running lsb all along,but the device code keeps changing
Barafu Albino over 9 years

There is a button "Create empty device" in VirtualBox. With it you can even add device that is not present at the moment.
Unfaithful Banana over 4 years

NVM Just realised this is five years old.