Accessing WP8.1 Lumia 930 phone in 14.10

Question

Is it even theoretically possible to access music files in WP8.1 Lumia phone with Ubuntu (or any other distribution)?

I think I've installed all the essential mtp related tools and libraries, but I can't even access the photos on my phone. If I connect my phone to my computer with USB cable and run mtp-detect, i get:

$ mtp-detect 
libmtp version: 1.1.6

Listing raw device(s)
   No raw devices found.

My dmesg output (all of it) for the phone is:

[77805.920028] usb 1-3: new high-speed USB device number 13 using ehci-pci
[77807.724023] usb 1-3: new high-speed USB device number 14 using ehci-pci
[77807.857731] usb 1-3: New USB device found, idVendor=0421, idProduct=06fc
[77807.857735] usb 1-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[77807.857738] usb 1-3: Product: Lumia 930 (RM-1045)
[77807.857740] usb 1-3: Manufacturer: Microsoft
[77807.857743] usb 1-3: SerialNumber: 51000000EDA4D7B00000000000000000

However, I can't access my phone in MTP or USB-storage mode. Am I missing something or is this pretty much impossible?

Answer 1

I have the same problem. For my old Lumia 920 I could use gMTP or mtp-sendfile to transfer mp3 files to the phone. This does not work with the 930.

According to this thread it has to do with the device id not being recognized by the libmtp library. Until this is fixed, I use the "Music Drop" app to transfer music.