On Wednesday 06 February 2013 19:33:05 Alexey Eromenko wrote: > History: > USB MTP (universal serial bus - media transfer protocol) was developed > to replace the USB Mass Storage. > > Problem with mass storage is that it is not reliable - it is > block-device-level protocol. And if PC goes power down (or blue > screen, on certain O.S) the data on the smartphone will be damaged, > and there is no "scandisk" on the smartphone, so it will become > unreadable. > MTP overcomes this problem by being filesystem level protocol (as > opposed to block device), and is supported since Windows > hasta-la-Vista. (since 2006) > > The result: > Google decided to remove USB Mass Storage from Android 4.x devices. > Newer Android devices support MTP-only.
These are excerpted from ~$ locate mtp | grep usr /usr/bin/mtp-albumart /usr/bin/mtp-albums /usr/bin/mtp-connect /usr/bin/mtp-delfile /usr/bin/mtp-detect /usr/bin/mtp-emptyfolders /usr/bin/mtp-files /usr/bin/mtp-filetree /usr/bin/mtp-folders /usr/bin/mtp-format /usr/bin/mtp-getfile /usr/bin/mtp-getplaylist /usr/bin/mtp-hotplug /usr/bin/mtp-newfolder /usr/bin/mtp-newplaylist /usr/bin/mtp-playlists /usr/bin/mtp-reset /usr/bin/mtp-sendfile /usr/bin/mtp-sendtr /usr/bin/mtp-thumb /usr/bin/mtp-tracks /usr/bin/mtp-trexist /usr/bin/mtpfs * * * /usr/share/man/man1/mount.mtpfs.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mtp-albumart.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mtp-albums.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mtp-connect.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mtp-delfile.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mtp-detect.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mtp-emptyfolders.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mtp-files.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mtp-filetree.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mtp-folders.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mtp-format.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mtp-getfile.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mtp-getplaylist.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mtp-hotplug.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mtp-newfolder.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mtp-newplaylist.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mtp-playlists.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mtp-reset.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mtp-sendfile.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mtp-sendtr.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mtp-thumb.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mtp-tools.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mtp-tracks.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mtp-trexist.1.gz /usr/share/man/man1/mtpfs.1.gz * * * /usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-4-686-pae/include/config/bt/cmtp.h /usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-4-686-pae/include/config/snd/mtpav.h /usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-4-rt-686-pae/include/config/bt/cmtp.h /usr/src/linux-headers-3.2.0-4-rt-686-pae/include/config/snd/mtpav.h These might not all be relevant but I remember installing some mtp stuff a while back!
