“Unable to mount Android, Error initialising camera: -60: Could not lock the device” when connecting a Samsung Galaxy S2 via MTP

Question

Whenever I connect my Samsung Galaxy S2 phone (running Android 4.0) via USB using an MTP connection one of two messages always pops up, either:

Unable to mount Android: Error initialising camera: -60: Could not lock the device

or: Unable to mount Android: Error initialising camera: -53: Could not claim the USB device

The phone however does mount successfully and I can add and delete files etc. I would just like to understand what the error message means, googling only seems to bring up descriptions of people mounting digital cameras and this doesn't seem relevant for a mobile phone.

Answer 1

Try this : http://www.tuxtrix.com/2011/07/how-to-access-samsung-galaxy-s-ii-usb.html . It worked for me

Note : In Android 4.0 with TW launcher, you need to click on "more" to get the option.

Answer 2

I found that when I was plugged into a usb 3.0 port I got the following messages:

usbfs: USBDEVFS_CONTROL failed cmd gvfs-gphoto2-vo rqt 33 rq 102 len 0 ret -71

But when I plugged into a usb 2.0 port it worked.

Answer 3

I get this as well, but to be honest it's a bug and there's not much to question about it - but instead report it. Should not happen.