Best distro for MTP support

Fiksdal · 10-13-2015, 06:12 PM

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.)

yooy · 10-13-2015, 06:52 PM

seems like you are not using current?

Fiksdal · 10-13-2015, 06:54 PM

I'm using 14.04 LTE.

Rinndalir · 10-13-2015, 10:23 PM

You can downgrade your kernel and it will work.

Fiksdal · 10-13-2015, 11:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rinndalir

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?

Fiksdal · 10-14-2015, 11:43 PM

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.

Fiksdal · 10-15-2015, 04:25 AM

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.

Fiksdal · 10-15-2015, 02:26 PM

WTF, it stopped working again.

yooy · 10-17-2015, 01:26 PM

mind your language, probably libmtp is unstable.

Fiksdal · 10-17-2015, 01:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by yooy

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.