Linux with Android MTP

[Nadav Har'El]

On Mon, Oct 07, 2013, Shlomo Solomon wrote about "Re: Linux with Android MTP":
> I have the same problem on Mageia3 with a new Galaxy phone. I've read
> that MTP is not reliably supported.

When I got my Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini, I was "warned" that MTP doesn't
work well with Linux, that I'll need root my phone to get back USB
storage. But actually, MTP works very well with Linux - I just installed
simple-mtpfs (the "simple-mptfs" package in fedora) and run

	simple-mtpfs /mnt/android

And that's it - the Android is mounted in /mnt/android, and it actually
works much better than the old USB stuff (it is a filesystem mount, not
a block devices, so you can actually continue to use your phone normally
while it is mounted!).

To unmount the above mount use
	fusermount -u /mnt/android


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