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Old 10-13-2015, 06:12 PM   #1
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Best distro for MTP support


Hi

I have been using Ubuntu derivatives for years, and astoundingly, in the latest versions, there is an ugly bug messing up Multimedia Transfer Protocol connectivity.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...s/+bug/1314556

Is there any other similar distro which does MTP smoothly? I'd be especially interested in a noob-friendly distro (such as Mint.)
 
Old 10-13-2015, 06:52 PM   #2
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seems like you are not using current?
 
Old 10-13-2015, 06:54 PM   #3
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I'm using 14.04 LTE.
 
Old 10-13-2015, 10:23 PM   #4
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You can downgrade your kernel and it will work.
 
Old 10-13-2015, 11:26 PM   #5
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You can downgrade your kernel and it will work.
Yes, when i boot into recovery mode with an older kernel, MTP works.

How can I downgrade the kernel easily?
 
Old 10-14-2015, 11:43 PM   #6
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There was just an official update from Canonical for my 14.04 LTE. MTP with my Android device now works flawlessly. It looks like they have downgraded the kernel. I ran "uname -r" and it seems the kernel is now "3.13.0-65-generic." I'm happy it works now.
 
Old 10-15-2015, 04:25 AM   #7
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Actually, as an experiment, I did a restore to a week old Clonezilla image, and now MTP even worked on that one for me. But I don't recall MTP ever working for me on 14.04. Weird. Anyway, it works now, so who cares.

Also, I was wrong about the kernel thing, they haven't downgraded anything.

Last edited by Fiksdal; 10-15-2015 at 04:30 AM.
 
Old 10-15-2015, 02:26 PM   #8
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WTF, it stopped working again.
 
Old 10-17-2015, 01:26 PM   #9
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mind your language, probably libmtp is unstable.
 
Old 10-17-2015, 01:30 PM   #10
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mind your language, probably libmtp is unstable.
That was an abbreviation for what the fudge... I would never curse in a public place, virtual or non-virtual.

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Also, thanks for the suggestion.
 
  


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