Connect Android Phone to Linux (Ubuntu)
 

I have a Sony Xperia S phone, running Android 2.3,
it has only internal memory 32GB.
When I plug the usb cable between the phone and my PC (ubuntu),
the file manager does not detect its memory.

In Windows, MTP driver is needed,
how about Linux?
What can I do?

Hi future_computer, Welcome to LQ. When you plug the phone into the pc it should ask you which mode, charge only, disk mode, or Sync. If it isn't asking you, goe into settings, Connect to PC, and change the default connection type there.

Good luck. ;-)

In the phone setting, I set it as "storage" under the option USB connection mode.
But it does not work.

In my Android (HTC T-Mobile MyTouch 3G), it connects by default as "charge only" and that message is reflected in the message in the notification panel.

I can touch the notification message and get options to mount it as a disk drive, to tether, and something else I forget. If I select, disk drive, it unmounts the SD card from the phone, making it available to the computer. When I'm done with it, I unmount the drive from my computer, then change the connection type on the phone.

My previous phone (HTC T-Mobile G-1) acted in a slightly different, but similar fashion.

I did look at the manual (http://www-support-downloads.sonymob...261-9418.1.pdf) and there is no mention of Linux.

If you continue to have trouble connecting via usb you can set up a samba share on your pc, install astro with the smb module or some similar file manager on the device and just manage it over the network. You can copy data from the device to the share that way.

Good luck. ;-)

In Windows, it does not work also,
I do not know why?
First time I installed Sony PC Companion in Windows,
connected the phone and it worked.
But later on, the windows trying to install MTP driver, prompted me that it failed,
and device not mounted.

Advise from somebody.

I'm not sure what you're trying to do here. Are you trying to connect to Linux or Windows or both?

Good luck. ;-)

I want to connect to Windows as well as Linux.
Usually Linux can auto detect the phone's internal memory, but this time it does not!

My problem is still unsolved.

I can't help with the Windows aspect; Sony might be your best source of assistance on that.

I do have an idea about the Linux side.

Connect up the phone, the run the dmesg command in a terminal. (you might have to run it as root to get adequate results). Then inspect the output for the part regarding the phone; there will be quite a bit of output, so it will take some looking, but it should be towards the end.

Post the relevant output here. It might help clarify the situation.

I would not suggest the lsusb command because it won't return enough information about whether and, if so, how the computer is seeing the phone's file system.

ok, will try to do it.

Some phones do not allow mounting of the phones storage as a USB mass storage device. You may need to root the phone and install a work around.

An alternative would be to use something like airdroid which allows access via a mini web server on your phone.

I do recall that the Sony website said that there was special Sony software for connecting to Windows.

Sony does not have the best record for openness in the software world. I would not be surprised to find that they have locked this phone down.

An Android phone that cannot mount to a Linux computer would be quite the crime against nature.

Looks like you'll need libmtp to get this working. There is more information here.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...t=mount+ubuntu

Good luck. ;-)