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Hello!
I just came here to say that I cannot get mount my A500 on ubuntu ! Is it the same for you? How can I fix the issue?
(by the way, congratulations for rooting the tablet !!)
Thanks!
Same here, I found the windows USB drivers on Acer's site but linux drivers were MIA...
The Iconia A500 uses MTP not mass storage (in fact I believe this is a function of honeycomb as the same applies for the Xoom). There are drivers for Windows and OSX to allow access but on Linux it is a lot harder.
I did find a site detailing how to get things working on a Xoom and used this information (modified for the A500) to get access once but since then I have not been able to get it to work at all (this is on Ubuntu 11.04 when the instructions detailed how to get it to work in 10.10).
Also Banshee is supposed to support MTP but again I have not been able to get the A500 to work with this (I have yet to really look into this though).
sux i also use linux. using ftp or actually putting a sd card in every time, its very annoying
They really should leave an option to enable "mass storage" as a method of exporting the internal flash memory. Not everyone wants what these companies think is best.
still no solution?
I tried to adapt the method for the Xoom but it didn't work either !! :'(
jibweb said:
still no solution?
I tried to adapt the method for the Xoom but it didn't work either !! :'(
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Apparently not. They stand on FOSS' shoulders, then crap on our with the added height.
I use adb to move stuff to my sdcard. Its quicker for me to use command line than a gui.
I already have adb installed and working for my phone so it just made sense for me.
doesn't you need driver to get the Acer A500 work properly?
I've already download the Android SDK but the only driver available is made for Windows
As folks have pointed out, the A500 does not have USB mounting support (yet) but does seem to have support for MTP. I found details on how to mount the Xoom onto Ubuntu Linux here. I have to assume these are the instructions that everyone is talking about above.
I am running 64 bit Ubuntu 10.10 (I unfortunately heard far too many dangerous things about 11.04 and it has become the only Ubuntu release I've not upgraded to). This instructions, modified for the Iconia A500, have worked for me. I've mounted and unmounted the device several times now.
I made some changes to the instructions. First my file is called /etc/udev/rules.d/51-honeycomb.rules. The entire file for me is:
ATTRS{idVendor}=="0502", ATTRS{idProduct}=="3341", ENV{ID_GPHOTO2}="1", ENV{GPHOTO2_DRIVER}="proprietary", ENV{ID_MEDIA_PLAYER}="1", ENV{ID_MTP_DEVICE}="1", MODE="0664", GROUP="audio"
I've made my mount point /media/iconia.
At this point I've not put the structure in fstab, but am mounting and unmounting manually with the commands:
mtpfs /media/xoom -o allow_other
and
fusermount -u /media/iconia
but, again, this is working for me.
My only question would be this: this gives me access to /mnt/sdcard on the Iconia tablet. How might I get access to /mnt/external_sd ?
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Somerville, MA
Well congratulations then !! I'il try with your config file, should be way better than mine
But i'm on 11.04 (and i have to say that i had problems at the beginning but i booted on a live cd and i was able to upgrade from 11.04 to 11.04 (wtf?!?) and it solves everything )
Hi all,
Thanks for the instructions. I followed them and now am able to see my A500 under Ubuntu 11.04 (64bit). However while I can see the directories on the tablet I can not see the files.
If I plug the tablet in and copy a file to the tablet from my PC the file is visible. If I then unmount and remove the tablet and reconnect it, the files do not show in Nautilus (Ubuntu default file manager).
However if I look at the files with a file manager on the A500 the files are there.
Any ideas?
I've tried playing around with the UDEV rules but no matter what I do I am unable to get past this.
I have also tried this on a 32bit 11.04 Ubuntu machine and obtained identical results.
In short, is anyone able to offer any suggestions that will allow me to view my files on the A500 in Ubuntu's Nautilus browser consistently?
Thanks for making this forum a great place to learn about the tablet!
jk
When i transfer mp3 file to /music, all album folders end up empty except for album-arts. All mp3 files is located in /music.
And if i transfer a *.avi file to /video all looks good, but when transfer is complete there is no file stored on the A500.
Why this, anyone?
A500 mounted as mtpfs.
Can you mount an external microsd as mass storage and have Ubuntu pick it up? If you can, theroretically couldn't you just symlink the internal memory to a "folder" on the microsd? That's what I've done on the Mytouch 4G to get internal storage access,
Nick
Thank you so much kinnerc! Now i can sync my music with Banshee. YAY!
Does anyone now how I can access the internal storage of my transformer through Ubuntu? I have the transformer connected via USB but it does not auto-mount or appear to be recognised as a storage disk
thanks for any help
I'm using SSHDroid and usb tethering when tablet is connected, find out the tablet ip, then you can use the ubuntu built-in "Connect To Server" via ssh.
readonlycn said:
I'm using SSHDroid and usb tethering when tablet is connected, find out the tablet ip, then you can use the ubuntu built-in "Connect To Server" via ssh.
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Would you be able to explain the method you use a bit more thoroughly? I too am having frustrating problems getting my transformer mounted under Linux, and am sick of transferring everything via SD card
I tried over SSH, but Android automatically refuses connection. And why do we need to have it tethered via usb to SSH?
The transformer acts as an MTP device. I had some issues with it appearing properly in Ubuntu 10.04, but I believe is because I did something wrong. I have it all working now and mounted as /media/transformer - but I am also running 11.04 now.
This has been asked on the forum before and this answer assisted me in solving it[Full thread].
You also have some links in a different thread here.
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I tried over SSH, but Android automatically refuses connection. And why do we need to have it tethered via usb to SSH?
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What's your SSHD application? I recommend sshdroid, you search it in the market.
You needn't tethering if pc and android are in one lan (connected to same wifi for example). Getting android ip is the only purpose of tethering, you can run 'route' command in ubuntu to find out the gateway of usb0, which is the ip of android.
I use a combination of swiftp and droidsshd to access device from ubuntu. Works well. You might need to get the programs from code.google.com, as they are not in the market.
People... they aren't looking for an SSH application, they are looking to MOUNT THE DEVICE OVER USB.
You need to install either libmtp or mtpfs. On Arch Linux, libmtp is in the repos, while mtpfs is in AUR. I use mtpfs.
After getting mtpfs, all you need to do is: sudo mkdir /media/tf && mtpfs -o allow_other /media/tf.
I do it with ADB. adb push and and pull does the job easily, unless you've a ton of different files you want to place in different places.
Using gnomad2 from repo @ Fedora 15 Gnome3
since there is no flashy mtpfs for my distro :/
(to lazy to compile)
I just recently installed Arch Linux with KDE as the GUI and I can't for the life of me figure out how to mount my Nexus S. It doesn't show up in /media so I don't know how on earth I can mount it. I've tried in CWM with mount USB and still nothing shows up anywhere on my system. Prior to Arch I was running OS X (10.7) and it was mounting fine. Obviously very different OS and Arch is a lot more complicated to use. I've spent several hours trying to figure out how to mount it but I can't find anything that solves it. Maybe anybody out there using linux could give me a hand?
Arch is best Good choice.
Easiest way is to mount it manually. First you'll have to find out which device it is. Plenty of ways to do this, using "fdisk -l" in terminal, gparted, etc. It will be something like "/dev/sdc1". Once you know this, you need to create a folder to mount it. Something like:
mkdir /media/nexus
Now, you need to mount it (after you've chosen to mount on the phone). To do this:
mount -t auto /dev/sdc1 /media/nexus
auto is the file system, you can type fat32 also but it can figure it out. Then the disk location, then where to mount.
You may need root permissions or changes to the sudoers file to do these. Type "man mount" or "man command" for just about every commands manual. I'm on the phone so I can't write up anything much better than that.
Also, the arch Linux wiki is an invaluable resource, make the most of it.
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Arch is best Good choice.
Easiest way is to mount it manually. First you'll have to find out which device it is. Plenty of ways to do this, using "fdisk -l" in terminal, gparted, etc. It will be something like "/dev/sdc1". Once you know this, you need to create a folder to mount it. Something like:
mkdir /media/nexus
Now, you need to mount it (after you've chosen to mount on the phone). To do this:
mount -t auto /dev/sdc1 /media/nexus
auto is the file system, you can type fat32 also but it can figure it out. Then the disk location, then where to mount.
You may need root permissions or changes to the sudoers file to do these. Type "man mount" or "man command" for just about every commands manual. I'm on the phone so I can't write up anything much better than that.
Also, the arch Linux wiki is an invaluable resource, make the most of it.
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Thanks very much for your help. I'll work on this later tonight since I have a lot of school work I need to get done now. Oh yeah you say to mount the device on the computer after pressing mount on the phone but that dialog never actually shows up when I plug the phone in. The phone doesn't recognize it's being plugged into a computer it just shows that it's charging. The arch wiki is definitely a great place for all things arch. Best documentation for any operating system I think I've ever seen.
Try in recovery first if it doesn't show up in Android. If it still doesn't show up I'll try to break my arch and fix it, whether its in android or cwm.
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Thanks very much for your help. I'll work on this later tonight since I have a lot of school work I need to get done now. Oh yeah you say to mount the device on the computer after pressing mount on the phone but that dialog never actually shows up when I plug the phone in. The phone doesn't recognize it's being plugged into a computer it just shows that it's charging. The arch wiki is definitely a great place for all things arch. Best documentation for any operating system I think I've ever seen.
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I've experienced this before as well. It turned out that I had a dodgy cable that's just not compatible with my NS for some reason.
If you want a pop on your KDE desktop when you enable UMS mode on your phone, make sure you udev is added to the daemon list in /etc/rc.conf. Then, you can either reboot or do /etc/rc.d/udev start and restart KDE again.
I've tried everything that you guys have said and still no luck. Its not showing up anywhere. Not in fdisk -l, I tried lsusb, looked in /dev/disk and it wasn't there. Nothing was pointing to a device being connected. I checked the everything.log file as well. Last photo is the everything.log and of course these were all taken with my phone connected to my computer. I tried multiple different USB cables too.
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Just curious, with the phone on, and screen unlocked, what do you get with:
adb devices
?
Sorry but try to check it with other OS to be sure that your USB host is good .
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Unplug the USB. Then plug it back in then immediately run lsusb. If you dont see the device should be /dev/sdb1 should be the device according to your current fstab.
If it does not show in /dev/ or lsusb you have a bad cable.
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Well this morning it decided to work. I had turned my computer off last night and I tried it this morning with the same cable and it decided to work. I hope it's not going to be intermittent but seems to be working for now. Thanks everybody for all the help!
Hello I have a T-mobile Galaxy S III. My question is how can I get it to show up as a drive in Ubuntu? In Windows 7 it has no issues. Shows both the SD card and phone as two separate disk drives. In Ubuntu nada. Are there Ubuntu drivers to work with a GS3 as a media drive?
Thanks
tauntt said:
Hello I have a T-mobile Galaxy S III. My question is how can I get it to show up as a drive in Ubuntu? In Windows 7 it has no issues. Shows both the SD card and phone as two separate disk drives. In Ubuntu nada. Are there Ubuntu drivers to work with a GS3 as a media drive?
Thanks
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Sorry, but support for MTP still sucks under linux. While there is a hack to get regular USB Mass Storage mode working temporarily, it'll eventually be easy-baked into ROMs.
You'll need to install mtpfs and mtp-tools. Mine mounts as a media device via gphoto2/fuse/gvfs. It's not as reliable as mass storage mode but it works. Google is your friend....
I don't have the device yet, but can you check whether you can switch from MTP to MSC?
Go to Settings → Storage. Hit the Menu key, then USB computer connection. There you can select what kind of device the phone will expose itself as.
Otherwise… yeah, MTP is sort of a headache under Linux. I'm a CLI junkie, and via the command line you want to do something like…
Code:
sudo aptitude install mtpfs
mkdir -p ~/Phone
mtpfs ~/Phone
This will mount your phone in a directory called "Phone" in your home directory.
No MTP so no more USB settings in storage. Just has my phone and SD card info.
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I don't have the device yet, but can you check whether you can switch from MTP to MSC?
Go to Settings → Storage. Hit the Menu key, then USB computer connection. There you can select what kind of device the phone will expose itself as.
Otherwise… yeah, MTP is sort of a headache under Linux. I'm a CLI junkie, and via the command line you want to do something like…
Code:
sudo aptitude install mtpfs
mkdir -p ~/Phone
mtpfs ~/Phone
This will mount your phone in a directory called "Phone" in your home directory.
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OK got it going, but no sd card. Is iy because it's locked? If so is there an app to unlock it?
Thanks
So I found a guide on how to mount my n7 under linux.
the only proble is that I have to enter the command "sudo mtpfs -o allow_other /media/Nexus7" everytime I plug it in.
Is there a way to automate this?
The guide can be found here.
http://www.nexus7tablethelp.com/2012/07/connect-nexus-7-to-linux-via-mtp-using.html
What linux disto are you running? If you're using Ubuntu w/ Unity, this is much easier: ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1895820.
For what it's worth, I manage my Nexus 7 through gMTP (available in software center) on Ubuntu 12.04. It's not the fastest thing in the world, and sometimes it acts like it's locked up when it's still thinking, but it's never let me down.
Thanks guys!