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I have a weird problem. I can connect my android phone to my laptop, it keeps connecting/disconnecting (about twice per second). I tried on another laptop with Ubuntu installed, and it worked fine.

Big problem is that, aside of no file transfer, I can't charge my phone. I keep getting the message "unable to open MTP device '[usb:003,]'", where num keeps increasing (I assume it is communication attempts).

What may be causing this problem? I have no idea where to start. It's the only USB device that does that (my ipod charges fine, and I can even access the music no problem).

Is there a way I can "deaden" one of the usb ports, such that only power is provided, but no data transfer attempts?

P.S.: My phone is a Samsung Galaxy S2.

P.P.S: It does that on all USB ports.

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  • Do you have go-mtpfs installed? If yes, have you tried mounting trough this?
    – Michael
    Jan 23, 2014 at 18:26

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For me it was the usb cable which was bad, with a good quality USB cable it corrected the problem

And as a workaround, using Samba on your phone as mentioned in [this tread][1] worked for me as the best solution (take a look @ the sdcard share adding in the settings of the application)

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  • Bang on, I had the exact same problem. Trying a different cable fixed it.
    – kutuzof
    Oct 18, 2020 at 9:37
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Use the PTP connection instead of MTP - for some reason I always have this problem in Ubuntu, but never in Fedora...

You should get a Notification on connection, touch it and select PTP:

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I think on older versions of Android there was 'Mass Storage Mode'

Works on Android 4.1

Also, make sure libmtp is installed.


Also note, there is a revolutionary concept - turning the phone off...

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    I had tried both PTP & MTP, same behaviour. I had libmtp installed already (under libmtp-common)
    – morphheus
    Jan 23, 2014 at 21:32
  • This could be of help...
    – Wilf
    Jan 24, 2014 at 10:50
  • Thanks; I was never able to transfer files from ubuntu to Android. Still, my problem persists: Ubuntu tries to connect to the device, but gives a DBus error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus) .
    – morphheus
    Jan 25, 2014 at 3:16
  • As I pointed in the OP, I cannot even charge my phone (but I can do so on other ubuntu computers). This seem to be an install-specific problem, not a ubuntu-specific problem.
    – morphheus
    Jan 25, 2014 at 3:17

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