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danielittlewood n00b
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Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2021 12:21 pm Post subject: Is the MTP wiki article up to date? |
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I have an android phone, and have had some bad experiences with the MTP article on the wiki https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/MTPfs.
In particular, sys-fs/mtpfs is very buggy for me, with many files not showing up and populated directories appearing blank. I submitted a bug report, but the project seems very inactive, and I am having much more luck with go-mtpfs. I wonder - is this a typical experience, and should the wiki be updated to reflect either that there are multiple implementations with varying support, or to remove mtpfs entirely (if it really is unreliable)?
Of course, it is possible that I'm the only person having difficulty. So I thought I'd ask here to see whether other users are struggling with MTP support in general. _________________ With man it is impossible, but with gcc all things are possible. |
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Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2021 1:15 pm Post subject: |
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I had sys-fs/mtpfs installed and gave up using it because it was unusable. I could transfer, at best, one photo from the phone to my laptop before MTP stopped working. The phone kept prompting me to Accept/Decline connection to the laptop. I unmerged sys-fs/mtpfs and merged sys-fs/simple-mtpfs instead. Much, much better. Not perfect, but I was able to transfer 400+ photos quickly from the phone to the laptop with only a few prompts on the phone to Accept/Decline connection to the laptop. _________________ Clevo W230SS: amd64, VIDEO_CARDS="intel modesetting nvidia".
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Shaorin n00b
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Posted: Sun Oct 24, 2021 6:15 pm Post subject: |
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i use to put files on my phone and remove files. seems work well for me sense i moved 10-30 GB in one go no problem. _________________ sorry if i makes some typos or missunderstand i have dyslexsia and asperger's syndrom thanks for the understanding. |
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wless123 n00b
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Posted: Mon Oct 25, 2021 5:10 pm Post subject: |
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imho mtp is the worst solution google came up with. It's pretty unreliable, p. e. i need to replug the cable if i create a new file or directory on the phone else i can't see it. On the other hand i had no issues with the file transfer itself.
To use it i had to
1) enable FUSE in kernel
2) emerge gnome-base/gvfs with mtp use flag.
Other solutions are adb or something like a file-(ssh-) server on your phone (with termux or any other app). |
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Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2021 9:46 am Post subject: |
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I've tried to get MTP to work properly multiple times with all sorts of tools. It works good sometimes and it might fail with something the day after. It's not a reliable way to transfer data from phone to PC and also varies from one Android version to the next.
What i am doing currently is using Filezilla FTP client on my PC and a simple FTP server app (primitive ftpd) on my phone. It's pretty straight forward, fast and reliable but requires both devices to be in the same network. |
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Posted: Sun Nov 28, 2021 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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wless123 wrote: | imho mtp is the worst solution google came up with. | The benefit of mtpfs is that, unlike mass storage mount, the same storage doesn't need to be unmounted from the phone(/what device have you). Also I though it was M$ who came up with mtp.
Anyways. I also tried mtpfs. I gave up. It's not even mounting. It just hangs up. wless123 wrote: | It's pretty unreliable, p. e. i need to replug the cable if i create a new file or directory on the phone else i can't see it. | Uh. I'll go and remove mtpfs right now.
wless123 wrote: | To use it i had to
1) enable FUSE in kernel
2) emerge gnome-base/gvfs with mtp use flag. | Unfortunately this isn't a choice for those who need this to be file manager agnostic. :|
wless123 wrote: | Other solutions are adb or something like a file-(ssh-) server on your phone (with termux or any other app). | adbfs was the best until it wasn't. I don't know what went wrong. But last time i tried it it dropped connections and hang up frequently.
I guess I go with termux+sshfs again... Although I will give jmtpfs a go first. _________________ ..: Zucca :..
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Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2022 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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Warming up an old thread ...
I've been using gmtp and it's terrible. It is extremely slow, it can take half a minute or more before it does anything, but the copy operations eventually go through.
I've been wondering, and will test that at some point, as I already have syncthing on the phone to sync photos and other data back to the network, would that also work the other way round - anything I put into folder A at this end ends up in folder B on the phone. |
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Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2023 12:06 am Post subject: |
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Warming up this old thread a bit more...
sys-fs/simple-mtpfs stopped working reliably for me so I uninstalled it. I use KDE, so I set the mtp USE flag for kde-apps/kio-extras and re-merged it, and MTP seems to be working OK for me now:
Code: | clevow230ss /home/fitzcarraldo # cat /etc/portage/package.use/kio-extras
kde-apps/kio-extras mtp samba
clevow230ss /home/fitzcarraldo # eix kio-extras
[I] kde-apps/kio-extras
Available versions: (5) 22.12.3^t ~23.04.2^t
{X activities debug +handbook ios +man mtp nfs openexr phonon samba +sftp taglib test}
Installed versions: 22.12.3(5)^t(08:31:34 05/05/23)(X activities handbook man mtp openexr phonon samba sftp -debug -nfs -taglib -test)
Homepage: https://invent.kde.org/network/kio-extras
Description: KIO plugins present a filesystem-like view of arbitrary data
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Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2024 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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For me mtpfs was also unusable while simple-mtpfs worked great, as suggested here.
I've updated the wiki page suggesting users who are facing issues try other packages from the list, referencing this thread. |
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nyyotam n00b
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Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2024 11:59 am Post subject: As of now, kde-apps/dolphin-24.05.2 doesn't work with MTP |
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This is not a major issue for me, as PCManFM works just fine, including with MTP. So for me this is only a minor annoyance.
However, in the previous version of dolphin it all worked. What's happened? |
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