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03-15-2014, 09:01 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Apr 2006
Location: Iowa
Distribution: Debian distro family
Posts: 2,413
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how do I share files with my phone?
What software do I need to transfer files to or from my phone? I'm afraid my expectations were naive: after switching the phone to USB mode, I thought it would appear in the file manager for me to open. I run antiX, and my phone is a Samsung T404G.
I suppose this topic has been discussed many times, so if you'll just post the links.
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03-15-2014, 09:23 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Virginia, USA
Distribution: Slackware, Ubuntu MATE, Mageia, and whatever VMs I happen to be playing with
Posts: 19,773
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The ES File Explorer app can browse your local network from your Android phone/tablet. It works quite nicely.
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03-15-2014, 09:26 PM
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Registered: Apr 2006
Location: Iowa
Distribution: Debian distro family
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Thanks, but I have seen no indication that my phone runs Android. Of course, I wouldn't recognize anything less obvious than the word "Android" somewhere on the screen or in the instructions.
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03-15-2014, 09:53 PM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Mar 2008
Location: Waaaaay out West Texas
Distribution: antiX 23, MX 23
Posts: 7,281
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Being a cheapo Tracphone from Walmart. I can't speak for what OS it uses. Your phone I mean.
Have you looked in SpaceFM for your phone when you plug it in and ran
in root terminal? In fact. Run fdisk -l first and then open spacefm.
My Blackberry Storm which I have a permanent 8 gig soldered sd and a 16 gig micro sd card mounts just fine in spacefm
in my AntiX installs and one knows Blackberry is a non Android proprietary phone operating system. Spacefm sees both
the 8 and 16 gig drives just fine.
If your phone is later Android than 4.0. You are gonna have to jump through a few hoops because Android went from Mass Storage Device
to MTP. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Transfer_Protocol
http://roger.steneteg.org/299/mount-...bian-7-wheezy/
http://antix.freeforums.org/how-to-c...mobile=desktop
http://sourceforge.net/p/gammu/mailm...ail.gmail.com/
Edit: My Blackberry cost me 20 bucks. The 16 gig SD card was another 8 bucks.
My phone service through H20 wireless does sms,internet,phone service at 10 bucks
for 90 days at 200 minutes and rolls over when I recharge it as I pay as I go.
I watch movies, old timey cartoons. All saved as mpg4. It is also my glorified mp3 player.
I don't game at all on computers though though I could on it if I wanted to.
Surfs the net in Opera Mini in a pinch also.
I know. Irrelevant in your case but just thought I'd let ya know.
Last edited by rokytnji; 03-15-2014 at 10:08 PM.
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03-15-2014, 11:15 PM
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Registered: Apr 2006
Location: Iowa
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Fdisk doesn't list my phone. Spacefm shows it as sdb1 (which I have listed in fstab for another device) but says there's no media on it. (I know it thinks the phone is sdb1 because sdb1 appears and disappears when I plug in or unplug the phone.) I have no idea why it says no media, because there's a flat metal object in the back with the remains of a label that says SIM, and I assume that's the sim card.
Last edited by newbiesforever; 03-15-2014 at 11:18 PM.
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03-15-2014, 11:45 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Virginia, USA
Distribution: Slackware, Ubuntu MATE, Mageia, and whatever VMs I happen to be playing with
Posts: 19,773
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Whoops. I assumed it was an Android smartphone, as it wasn't iJunk.
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03-16-2014, 12:44 AM
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LQ Addict
Registered: Dec 2011
Location: UK
Distribution: Debian Sid AMD64, Raspbian Wheezy, various VMs
Posts: 7,680
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If your phone has an option for "USB Mass Storage" then choose that, if not them I think it may well use MTP in which case this may or may not help:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/MTP
To prove the idiocy of the world I think your phone may well be running Bada or Tizen:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bada
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tizen
Still, Google decided to stick a finger up to Linux desktop users so why not Samsung also?
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03-16-2014, 12:59 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2003
Distribution: debian
Posts: 4,137
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A lot of phones will take microSD cards and copy/move files in the phone interface to the MicroSD card. Which you can take out and plug into a card reader. The simple generic solution. Otherwise there's a few apps for several phone brand/types that may or may not work. And some phones and carriers lock you into having to forward your data to other devices at the costs of minutes and other things. Not so common in the past five years, but still around for some phones.
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2 members found this post helpful.
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03-16-2014, 11:05 AM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Mar 2008
Location: Waaaaay out West Texas
Distribution: antiX 23, MX 23
Posts: 7,281
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+1 on Pulling the card out and using a card reader. I do that regular like on a XD card camera I have that has not died yet.
AntiX mounts and reads through the usb adapter just fine.
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