access smartphone's disk from wheezy

atux_null · 09-22-2016, 03:38 PM

hi. i am running wheezy (7.11) in my netbook with mate as desktop environment. i would like to be able to see the smartphone's disk space when i connect it through usb. the smartphone is a Motorola Moto G 2014. Any ideas please?

jefro · 09-22-2016, 07:23 PM

If you have Android 6 then I think you have to allow the usb connection. Graphical file managers should either allow you to view disk and or show information/properties.

Do you have Android 6? Do you have a file manager that you like or can get one?

Guess I should test this myself.

IsaacKuo · 09-22-2016, 08:59 PM

I'm not sure how it works with Mate; I use XFCE4. If I recall correctly, the feature of being able to browse smart phones mostly didn't work in Wheezy, but it does work in Jessie (Debian 8, the current stable release). I have used Moto G for this.

atux_null · 09-23-2016, 02:06 AM

thanks for the replies. i will try to upgrade to jessie and see if it works. thanks a lot.

Emerson · 09-23-2016, 02:34 AM

jmtpfs and similar will work.

atux_null · 09-23-2016, 03:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Emerson

jmtpfs and similar will work.

thanks for the reply. i have installed jmtpfs and rebooted the system. still i cannot see the phone,

Emerson · 09-23-2016, 07:14 PM

Why did you reboot?

jmtpfs is command line program, what did you expect?

atux_null · 09-25-2016, 05:44 AM

i did mkdir ~/android and then sudo jmtpfs android.
atux@netbook:~$ sudo jmtpfs android/
Device 0 (VID=22b8 and PID=2e82) is UNKNOWN.
Please report this VID/PID and the device model to the libmtp development team
Android device detected, assigning default bug flags
atux@netbook:~$

i would like to automount it as user and see it in the mate-desktop file manager.

ondoho · 09-26-2016, 02:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by atux_null

Device 0 (VID=22b8 and PID=2e82) is UNKNOWN.

this is happening because wheezy is older than your phone.
there's a way to manually add the pid and vid to some database, i forget which one.

Emerson · 09-26-2016, 03:49 PM

If you just need a GUI methinks gmtp works with phones, too.

Keith Hedger · 09-26-2016, 06:00 PM

go to the appstore and install webdav server ( i use the pro versin as it is so good ) start it up on your phone and it will mount your phones storzge as a webdav you can set the root of the disk you will see, password etc.
I am not the developer of the webdav server.