Thursday, 14 January 2016

MTP in Fedora23 for Android phone

I've recently installed fresh Fedora23 LXDE spin and when I connected my Android phone with 5.0.2 android version which supports MTP and PTP protocols for transferring files it appeared that it's not supported out of the box.

Luckily the solution is easy. You just need to install one utility.
sudo dnf install gvfs-mtp
After installation I had to restart my notebook (maybe starting some service would be enough, but I wanted to boot with new kernel anyway).

And when I connect the phone by USB cable now it automatically appears in the file manager as LGE Android Phone.

I want to add that at first I was afraid that it doesn't work properly, because when I clicked on the device in the file manager for the fist time, nothing appeared. But it just took some time till the device was scanned and its internal storage appeared.


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