Is the MTP wiki article up to date?

[danielittlewood]

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.
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[Fitzcarraldo]

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.
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[Shaorin]

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[wless123]

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).

[r7l]

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.

[Zucca]

[Princess Nell]

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.

[Fitzcarraldo]

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:

[saturnalia0]

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.

[nyyotam]

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?