Hi Volker,
Thank you for recent lines. Yes I've reached out to Carl and Nick via
Linked-In. Looking forward to continued catch-ups on 7 March.
And, some similar experience to share here..
I have an Android 7 phone and Ubuntu-Mate 20.04 desktop (still) for
archiving photos.
Although it isn't as technical an approach as you asked for, what gets best
performance for me is:
1. Leave phone panel "Use USB to" setting on "Charge this device" option by
default. Then plug in cable.
2. Change to "Transfer photos (PTP)"* option on the phone. This automounts
phone storage to desktop, to then be navigated. *("Transfer files if MTP is
not supported")
3. Take it slowly, select and drag/copy photos individually, as the buffer
limitations on the phone seem to lock up transfers otherwise.
I hope this may help.
Cheers, Rik
On 2024-02-17 14:02, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
A box running Ubuntu 22 has a weird way of handling smartphones and
mounting them as multimedia device (they're not USB storage any more).
Graphically things work but that's not a suitable way to go about things
as it prevents the use of rsync.
How can I prevent the GUI desktop from touching the smartphone with some
kind of automagic mechanism?
Mounting the phone with mtpfs works but only with great difficulties and
requires a ninimum of 2 atttempts. Something in the system opens the
device and blocks it, the desktop shows it as mounted but the mount
command shows nothing (i.e. it's not a block device or FUSE file system).
The trick is to unmount the phone on the desktop, mount it as mtpfs, and
do this at least twice in the race against the desktop while answering
Android 13 questions about whether letting the phone be mounted is
acceptable to the phone's owner. Arrghhhh.
So question, how to make the desktop automagic shut up? Does someone
with Ubuntu internal knowledge have an idea?
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