Hi,

Just got a new Samsung Galaxy S3 and would like to transfer files
between it and my fc15 box. When I insert the USB cable, it seems to
mount it with a file manager pop-up showing
"SAMSUNG_Android_SPH-L710", but it's otherwise not accessible on the
filesystem.

How was it mounted?

I've found several references to jmtpfs and MTP, but I was previously
able to mount my original Galaxy without any additional software, so
I'd appreciate a better explanation of what's happening.

It seems to show up as a USB device, but I can't access it:

[3791164.746674] scsi 104:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic- Multi-Card
1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
[3791164.747120] sd 104:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[3791164.749856] sd 104:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[root@sage ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
[root@sage ~]#

Ideas greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Alex
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On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 20:29 -0400, Alex wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just got a new Samsung Galaxy S3 and would like to transfer files
> between it and my fc15 box. When I insert the USB cable, it seems to
> mount it with a file manager pop-up showing
> "SAMSUNG_Android_SPH-L710", but it's otherwise not accessible on the
> filesystem.
>
> How was it mounted?
>
> I've found several references to jmtpfs and MTP, but I was previously
> able to mount my original Galaxy without any additional software, so
> I'd appreciate a better explanation of what's happening.

You don't say what model you had previously, but at least some later
ones (I have the Google Nexus model) use Android 4.x, which does not
support direct access as a mass storage device. According to Google,
this because the phone's "SD Card" is just a region of main memory and
it would be dangerous to allow unmediated access to it.

IOW you need to use MTP or similar. I've had success using Nautilus,
which detects the phone and can mount it via a userland library
(presumably libMTP but I haven't checked). I also installed an FTP
server on the phone; there are several available.

poc

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Hi,

>> Just got a new Samsung Galaxy S3 and would like to transfer files
>> between it and my fc15 box. When I insert the USB cable, it seems to
>> mount it with a file manager pop-up showing
>> "SAMSUNG_Android_SPH-L710", but it's otherwise not accessible on the
>> filesystem.
>>
>> How was it mounted?
>>
>> I've found several references to jmtpfs and MTP, but I was previously
>> able to mount my original Galaxy without any additional software, so
>> I'd appreciate a better explanation of what's happening.
>
> You don't say what model you had previously, but at least some later
> ones (I have the Google Nexus model) use Android 4.x, which does not
> support direct access as a mass storage device. According to Google,
> this because the phone's "SD Card" is just a region of main memory and
> it would be dangerous to allow unmediated access to it.
>
> IOW you need to use MTP or similar. I've had success using Nautilus,
> which detects the phone and can mount it via a userland library
> (presumably libMTP but I haven't checked). I also installed an FTP
> server on the phone; there are several available.

That's great information, thanks. The FTP server is a great idea.

I tried searching for a command-line app, but have been unable to find
one. How does Nautilus do it successfully? In other words, I assume
it's the case that libMTP is linked against Nautilus, but regular
mount doesn't support it?

My new phone is the Samsung Galaxy S3 SPH-L710, android version 4.0.4.
Sure would be nice to have regular cp and rsync support.

Thanks,
Alex
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On 07/28/2012 09:19 AM, Alex wrote:
> My new phone is the Samsung Galaxy S3 SPH-L710, android version 4.0.4.
> Sure would be nice to have regular cp and rsync support.

I use http://tinyurl.com/c3htdq6 on my Android tablet. Should work on a phone too....

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Mounting the phone filesystem:

a) run sshdroid on the tablet/phone (configured with some password like
mypassword)

b) run this on your pc:

$ echo mypassword|sshfs root@192.168.0.101:/ ~/mnt -p 22 -o
password_stdin

(notice I use port 22; if your phone is not rooted the port is 2022, I
believe)

My card appears mounted on ~/mnt/mnt/sdcard. Now you can use rsync or
cp. Sadly, cp by wifi is slow -specially with movies-.

Galaxy mini rooted with:
http://www.cypherpunk.at/2011/10/08/manual-rooting-android-on-linux-2/

Greets!

On Sat, 2012-07-28 at 10:27 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 07/28/2012 09:19 AM, Alex wrote:
> > My new phone is the Samsung Galaxy S3 SPH-L710, android version 4.0.4.
> > Sure would be nice to have regular cp and rsync support.
>
> I use http://tinyurl.com/c3htdq6 on my Android tablet. Should work on a phone too....
>
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