2014/1/7 Brad Sawatzky <brad+deb...@swatter.net> > On Tue, 07 Jan 2014, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > > > Ive Googled and tried to read up about MTP, but im still not sure how > > to get things working--different sites have you download and compile > > things from scratch, which seems crazy that you can't just plug your > > phone in. I did install mtp-tools, but i can't find mtpfs that many of > > the sites say you need to have. > > Yeah, MTP is a pain. I wish there was at least a choice for a standard > USB generic mass storage mount option... oh well. > > The best MTP software I've found is go-mtpfs. Unfortunately I don't > think it is packaged, but it is easy to build and put in $HOME/bin/ > It uses FUSE like the other options, but is _much_ faster. You can find > it here: > https://github.com/hanwen/go-mtpfs > > If you're going to build it yourself, you'll need to install these > packages first: > % apt-get install golang-go golang-src libusb-1.0-0 libusb-1.0-0-dev > > There seem to be pre-compiled binaries you can download too (YMMV with > those). You'll probably need to install the libusb-1.0-0 library > anyway. > > I just mount/unmount manually. One could write a udev/udisks2 rule to > automate this I suppose. > > HTH, > -- Brad
+1 works like a charm here, debian jessie. Android 4.1.2 on lg phone.
