ubuntu lucid will not mount android 2.1 phone storage
When I connect my Ubuntu Lucid laptop to my Android 2.1 phone (Samsung Galaxy-S "Captivate"), I see the following in the logs:
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mumbles kernel: [29882.768051] usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4 In spite of all of this, I cannot open the Nautilus "file systems" and mount does not show anything available. Also, I cannot use sudo mount /dev/sdb /media/something or sudo mount /dev/sdc /media/something even though the logs report that both are "attached SCSI removable disk". <soap_box> I am so very frustrated!!! This is yet another situation where most of the postings say that this just works. Then when ** I ** try that same something, I have all sorts of grief. I'm a 30+ year veteran bit-slinger and a 10+ year linux user. If I have this sort of confabulation, pity the poor newbie all the more. It is little wonder that linux gets such a bad rep in general. </soap_box> Can anyone help me? ~~~ 0;-Dan |
Ok maybe it's similar to my milestone.
when you connect to your notebook, you can adjust the usb settings on the phone. like only load battery, portal and? , but also just as simple usb device. |
When I mount my Droid, I have to plug in the phone and then I have to use the Android notification to make the phone available for mounting. Sorry for asking such a basic question, but are you doing that? If you simply plug the phone into USB, it isn't available for mounting since Android still has the SD card mounted. Once I make the SD card available, I can see in the dmesg output what node in /dev it is and can mount it.
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Yes when i plug in i have to assign how usb is / should be recognized.
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I guess that I'm missing something along the way. Merci d'avance, ~~~ 0;-Dan |
My phone is new and I don't want to foul the warranty ... yet (grin).
Is there some way that I can view the phone's log files and otherwise poke around without resorting to (1) "jailbreak", or (2) "rooting" the phone? ASIDE -- I'm still looking for understanding about "jailbreak" (enable the phone to load apps from anywhere not just the carrier) and "rooting" (enable full root-user and shell access to phone software). When I research this, it seems that everyone goes straight to rooting but the two hacks seem different to me. Merci d'avance, ~~~ 0;-Dan |
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I do not have Settings --> Applications --> Unknown Sources. My software is Android v2.1, Update1. Is there some way to replace my Settings app with one that will do the thing needed?
All I have is Settings --> Applications then
Under USB settings I see:
Under Development I see:
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Access to INTERNAL Storage
The description of Settings --> Applications --> Development --> USB Debugging says to use that option to access the internal storage.
For what its worth, ~~~ 0;-Dan |
Why all the tinkering?
Why is all of this tinkering to share files between Android and Linux?
For *nix-es, I would use NFS or similar, but SAMBA also includes the win-doze folks to play nice. Phone runs a samba server with configured shares for the storage -- internal and external. Phone connects. Device dance happens. "Connect to samba share" happens once the device is seen as connected. smbmount or similar causes the share to become visible to linux host as if it were a local drive. Phone configurables are (1a) enable shares, and (2a) what to call them. Linux configurables are (1b) udev rules, and (2b) where to mount shares if other than /phone or similar. Cheers, ~~~ 0;-Dan |
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Is this problem solved yet? I have a Captivate and also have discovered how to operate it.
It sounds like you have all the settings correct on your phone. I think what HangDog is saying is you have to use the notification pull down pane to allow usb to access internal/external sd storage. The same pull down where you can activate wifi, bluetooth, vibrate, and silent all in one place. |
Samsung Captivate Mass Storage Mounting STEPS!
Hello all,
I also had much trouble getting the USB Mass Storage to work on my new Captivate. I use FreeBSD primarily so of course I need the Mass Storage to work. MTP transfer mode worked fine in Windows, though it's slow, but Mass Storage worked on neither Windows nor BSD nor Linux. So, the trick is there is a very specific set of actions to make it work, and yes, it does!
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