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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!
Just thought I would share my experience in case anyone else was having the same problem
My problems were related to Flashtool 0.6.9.1 on linux <ubuntu oneiric> and the androidsdk_r18-linux trying to flash an x10 mini
Flashtool always loaded with errors related to libusb-1.0 and always hung at the "INFO - Please connect your device into flashmode." line and never proceeded to flash
the android-sdk-linux problem was that I couldn't even start the android tool due to some java errors which included: "java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no swt-gtk-3550 or swt-gtk in swt.library.path, java.library.path or the jar file"
Having spent half a day trying to reinstall various java packages and change PATH variables both these problems were down to a very simple tmp as noexec mount issue. I found the answer over in an ubuntu forum.
I am currently kicking myself but I'm so happy that everything finally works I thought I'd share this here in case there is anyone else with these problems.
a simple temporary fix (instead of changing fstab) is:
sudo mount -o remount,exec /tmp
Posting here cos I couldn't seem to post it in the Flashtool X10 thread, something about 10 helpful posts?
With many devices not supporting mass storage anymore Android seemed to have moved from mass storage to PTP and MTP
With Windows supporting MTP by default and Mac OSX with an application there isn't any native support in Linux.
There are a few work arounds like gMTP but that didn't really work for me.
There also is another work around that requires you to edit some files.
To make it easier for others I wrote a little bash script, that does most for you.
Step 1 : sudo apt-get install mtp-tools mtpfs
Step 2 : Plugin your device
Step 3 : Open up a terminal
Step 4 : Type in : “mtp-detect”
Step 5 : Write the PID and VID down, you will need this later
Step 6 : disconnect your device
Step 7 : Download the script and execute it by sudo ./mtp (don't forget to make it an executable first)
Step 8: Follow the instructions on screen and after it's done reboot and plugin your device
Step 9: Use the command "android-connect" to mount your device and "android-disconnect" to dismount
It's not much, but I hope it helped someone.
Please let me know if it worked for your device/distro.
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Tested and working on the P3110 and P5110.
EDIT 1:
(First) time mount can take up to 1-2 minutes, have had where it would mount in a few seconds, others half a minute. Be patient.
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With many devices not supporting mass storage anymore Android seemed to have moved from mass storage to PTP and MTP
Tested and working on the P3110 and P5110.
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Thanks for this. I think I have tried all this before and it has not worked, but will try again. A few things come to mind though. First, I think you have to turn USB debugging off, right? There is another thread where several of us are able to see the tablet, but not really get any files. Also there is a way to get the tablet to share PTP or MTP and that changes things too (PTP lets me see the top level but no subdirectories).
Will report back if this works or not.
I think USB debugging has to be on, at least for my phone. Mine is always on on all my devices.
Yeah you can see it in the file manager (1 for each SD card) with MTP but you can't access the files.
I am not sure about the PTP.. However for the MTP I just made a new folder in on my other SD card named extSD since MTP shows all directories of both sdcards in one directory.
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I think USB debugging has to be on, at least for my phone. Mine is always on on all my devices.
Yeah you can see it in the file manager (1 for each SD card) with MTP but you can't access the files.
I am not sure about the PTP.. However for the MTP I just made a new folder in on my other SD card named extSD since MTP shows all directories of both sdcards in one directory.
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Nope doesn't work with or without USB debug. I think the issue may be due to some problem with mtp-tools on 64 bit Linux. Are you running 32?
The mtpfs mounts but any attempt to list the mounted directory just hangs.
I am using 64bit, did you do the reboot and android-connect? If you are using nautilus you wont see your device under "Devices". You will see it above your filesystem.
Can you tell me what isn't working?
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I am using 64bit, did you do the reboot and android-connect? If you are using nautilus you wont see your device under "Devices". You will see it above your filesystem.
Can you tell me what isn't working?
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Well I'm using Kubuntu so no Nautilus. And I'm just looking at the mount point. My udev rules already have an entry for the mtd device. I also grabbed the latest libmtd and built it from source.
The fuse mount seems to work but any ls on the mount point just hangs forever.
Very strange.
At times like this I miss ubuntu
On my Arch (+XFCE), I use gMTP (uses mtpfs ofcourse). Most of the times it works, and then there are times when it is a pain in the a##. Gets stuck, does not respond, fails to copy what not.
I find the only reliable way is using adb.
Gosh! I push and pull everytime! :silly:
yeah, after a couple of days I found it not very stable at all, so I too switched over to ADB, it's not the fastest method. But we gotta get around, don't we?
I am also waiting for a permanent fix... Just switched back to Ubuntu from Windows 8 Preview, and I love it!!!
The only issue I have at the moment is the fact that I cannot connect directly to the PC from the Tab, although transfer speeds are better by removing the memory card and inserting it into the computer directly. Would be nice to use Rhythmbox to manage my MP3s.
I've tried a few solutions and nothing seems to work fully. I'll give the ideas mentioned above a try.
I have found my peace finally with qtADB.
By far the fastest, and most efficient app for this job.
qtadb[dot]wordpress[dot]com
Worked on my Galaxy S2 (i9100G) with cm10 nightly TY!
Worked only once! i get this...
Hello, this worked greatly on my ubuntu machine. Would this work on an ArchLinux headless PC? I'm willing to try it out if this doesn't mess anything up.
I can confirm this does not work on virtual box not sure on vmware as i dont have it so idk.
[email protected]:~$ android-connect
fuse: bad mount point `/media/GT-P3100': Transport endpoint is not connected
[email protected]:~$
As you can see above, i tried this for P3100. Can someone tell me what am i doing wrong here? I really want to handle my device from Ubuntu 12.04.
hi there,
in newer kernel - at this thime for example debain testing jessie - is kio-mtp implemented. this compinent load your nexus 4 mtp device autmotically like in windows. can access device via filemenager without doing steps in console before. in long time support distribution - example debian stable wheezy - this is not implemented yet. you can compile own your own to get this working
kio-mtp is for kde
gnome-vfs with mtp is for gnome
Works on Kali Linux with 3.14 kernel - HTC One with 4.4.3. Thanks a lot
Hi everyone!
I don't know what else to do. Every time I had a problem, I always find the answer here. Regrettably, this time I couldn't find a solution for this.
My background:
I'm trying to make AWUS036NH (RT3070) to work with Nexus 7 grouper. More precisely, with a chroot of Kali (made with Linux Deploy). Currently I have CM11.0 Nightly, and recently I flashed the the kernel kangarooV2 from this post, which have the driver (rt2800) I need to make the external Wi-Fi adapter work.
Everything works fine, but when I connect the adapter, nothing happens.
So I searched and tried a lot of things, and finally got the adapter recognized as wlan1 (in Terminal Emulator) doing this:
Code:
$ su
$ insmod mac80211.ko
$ insmod rt2x00lib.ko
$ insmod rt2800lib.ko
$ insmod rt2x00usb.ko
$ insmod rt2800lib.ko
Have to load all those modules because of dependencies, it wouldn't load just the ones I needed.
Ok, with that, now in netcfg I see wlan1, which is the usb wifi adapter.
The thing is, now I can't get the interface up, i tried "ifconfig wlan1 up" but all I get is:
error: SIOCSIFFLAGS (No such file or directory)
How can I get the interface to work?
Thanks in advance.
You have a lovely community here. Cheers!
This may or may not help you: http://ac100.wikispaces.com/Android+rt3070+or+rt2x00
Erovia said:
This may or may not help you:
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Thanks, I'll have a look at it right now.
Hello! I just got an unlocked LG G2 few days ago. I've gotten as far as enabling Tether, to work, and paritally got to mount it on my PC.
But I keep reading that libMTP is pretty much unstable on Linux. And I've only gotten to see it on banshee last night, but the moment I closed it, I never got to see it again.
I read a topic post that allows a user to mount about any android device on any unix based OS (Or at least) via SSHFS, currently I'm trying to do so. (But it keeps failing for some reason).
So in short, I'm currently unable to connect my phone to my Linux (Mint Xfce 17) PC without any major errors (MTP keeps giving me Function Not Implemented or a Input/Output Error, while I need a wifi (specifically a wifi access point, tether didn't seem to work) to connect via SSHFS), and am currently looking for a way to do so.
Anyone had any success?
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Welp. I found a solution. After 3 days of searching (Days prior to the topic posting counted) I found out a way to do it.
Documentation (For anyone who might have the same issue)
You need a blank pendrive, and sshfs, a ssh server for android (I used SSHelper, if you're tethering, uncheck "Enable Wifi While Running", and the SSH IP address is the Device, though it'll say 0.0.0.0.)
1) Plug in your pendrive and if you want, mount it ( I did)
2) Go to terminal and write. You might need to allow allow_others in /etc/fuse.conf (Just remove the comment)
Code:
sshfs -o allow_other -o idmap=user [email protected]:/storage/emulated/0 -p PORT /media/$USER/PendriveName
3) Open Banshee, Ignore MTP Device (if it appears, in my case it did), and proceed to Sync Music To the new "Device"
IF The Pendrive/USB Stick doesn't appear you might need an .is_audio_player file.
Code:
name="LG G2 Drive"
audio_folders=Music/
audio_folder=Music/
Hope this helps