I have a 4.4.4 android phone (Vodafone Smart 4 Turbo), and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS installed on my laptop. If I try to connect my phone via usb cable to manage my files, I can't, the pc doesn't respond. But if I connect it as PTP I can manage my pictures. How do I solve this problem? Can somebody help me?
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The cause of your issue is the version of the MTP library available in Ubuntu 14.04LTS - v1.1.6 - does not recognise our phone (Vodafone Smart Turbo - model 890N).
The workaround I found was to recompile libmtp from the latest upstream sources which also includes all the latest bugfixes which resolves the your observed issues.
We do have a question and answer that covers this.
I took that answer and created my own PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:fossfreedom/libmtp
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
source is my blog
To revert this use ppa-purge to remove the PPA and downgrade the libmtp version back to the trusty version:
sudo ppa-purge ppa:fossfreedom/libmtp