Re: [gentoo-user] android and mtp

2012-12-23 Thread luis jure
on 2012-12-22 at 17:13 Alan McKinnon wrote: Now, imagine you are the guy at Samsung deciding what features the S2 will support. Which option you gonna pick? yeah, you're right, i guess. but for once i'd like the guys at the corporations to think like me, and not to be forced to think like

Re: [gentoo-user] android and mtp

2012-12-23 Thread luis jure
on 2012-12-22 at 22:57 Neil Bothwick wrote: I tried it and soon uninstalled it. Not only does it only allow access to the SD card (the internal storage can't be unmounted) but even that was unreliable. well, that's good to know. by now i already have my phone rooted :-) but things seem to be

Re: [gentoo-user] android and mtp

2012-12-22 Thread luis jure
on 2012-12-21 at 14:26 Mark Knecht wrote: I managed to mount it successfully using jmtpfs from the poly-c overlay. thank you mark, i got it working now. i created an entry in fstab, and i can mount/umount it with simple mount and umount commands (i still haven't managed to make it work using

Re: [gentoo-user] android and mtp

2012-12-22 Thread luis jure
on 2012-12-21 at 23:20 Neil Bothwick wrote: No, and there's a good reason for that. well, i'm glad to know that there's a good reason to use MTP, because what i've read so far about it made me wonder... from the link mark sent earlier: quote libmtp (and I assume the MTP protocol itself)

Re: [gentoo-user] android and mtp

2012-12-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 22 Dec 2012 10:01:37 -0200 luis jure l...@internet.com.uy wrote: on 2012-12-21 at 23:20 Neil Bothwick wrote: No, and there's a good reason for that. well, i'm glad to know that there's a good reason to use MTP, because what i've read so far about it made me wonder... It all

Re: [gentoo-user] android and mtp

2012-12-22 Thread luis jure
on 2012-12-22 at 14:15 Alan McKinnon wrote: It all becomes understandable when you figure out what MTP actually is. yes, of course, thanks for the pointers. but i learned of the existence of this MTP thing only yesterday, and frankly, at first i couldn't see what was the advantage over plain

Re: [gentoo-user] android and mtp

2012-12-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 22 Dec 2012 10:49:42 -0200 luis jure l...@internet.com.uy wrote: on 2012-12-22 at 14:15 Alan McKinnon wrote: It all becomes understandable when you figure out what MTP actually is. yes, of course, thanks for the pointers. but i learned of the existence of this MTP thing only

Re: [gentoo-user] android and mtp

2012-12-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 3:09 AM, luis jure l...@internet.com.uy wrote: on 2012-12-21 at 14:26 Mark Knecht wrote: I managed to mount it successfully using jmtpfs from the poly-c overlay. thank you mark, i got it working now. i created an entry in fstab, and i can mount/umount it with simple

Re: [gentoo-user] android and mtp

2012-12-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 22 Dec 2012 10:49:42 -0200, luis jure wrote: BTW, i found an application that makes the external sd card (not the phone card) available as USB mass storage device: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1711009 i tried it, but it only runs on rooted phones, apparently.

[gentoo-user] android and mtp

2012-12-21 Thread luis jure
hello list, i would appreciate suggestions and recommendations to manage a device (samsung galaxy note II) with android ICS. as you may know (i didn't until today...), ICS doesn't connect the device as a good old USB mass storage device, but rather using this MTP thing. i googled a bit and

Re: [gentoo-user] android and mtp

2012-12-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 3:56 PM, luis jure l...@internet.com.uy wrote: hello list, i would appreciate suggestions and recommendations to manage a device (samsung galaxy note II) with android ICS. as you may know (i didn't until today...), ICS doesn't connect the device as a good old USB

Re: [gentoo-user] android and mtp

2012-12-21 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Dec 21, 2012 at 1:56 PM, luis jure l...@internet.com.uy wrote: hello list, i would appreciate suggestions and recommendations to manage a device (samsung galaxy note II) with android ICS. as you may know (i didn't until today...), ICS doesn't connect the device as a good old USB

Re: [gentoo-user] android and mtp

2012-12-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:19:10 -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: as you may know (i didn't until today...), ICS doesn't connect the device as a good old USB mass storage device, but rather using this MTP thing. No, and there's a good reason for that. In order to mount the device as a USB storage