Questions tagged [mtp]
The Media Transfer Protocol (commonly referred to as MTP) is a devised set of custom extensions to support the transfer of music files on USB digital audio players and movie files on USB portable media players.
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Viewing Thumbnails Over USB (MTP)
When managing files on an Android device over USB (MTP), and in particular photos & videos, it's essential to be able to see thumbnails. They appear painlessly & automatically on Windows, but ...
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android phone not showing up when connected
I have a desktop and laptop both running ubuntu 16.04. My android phone is configured as 'MTP' mode when connecting. When connecting the phone to my laptop, ubuntu displays a nice icon on unity launch ...
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Making calibre work with Aquaris M10 phablet?
Sending books from calibre to the M10 phablet connected to a laptop through an USB cable does not work out of the box.
On the laptop, start calibre
Plug the tablet to the laptop using a USB cable
The ...
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Ubuntu doesnt see my Kindle (4th generation) as mtp device
My kindle 4th generation was working for a year just fine just plugging it in with a USB- microUSB cable and transferring the books with calibre.
Now since a couple of weeks it does charge but it ...
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How do I access files on an MTP device?
I can't play music or view photos from my phone on Ubuntu 14.04. I can browse the files with the Nautilus, but they won't open. Rhythmbox crashes when trying to play music and the photo viewer says "...
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Teensy 3.6 MTP connection Ubuntu 18.04
I have been trying for a week to access the built in SD card on a Teensy 3.6 directly through the USB port. I am using Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with libmtp and gvfs installed. I have also tried jmtpfs, go-...
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Ubuntu 17.10 Android MTP Issue
I tried few of solutions but nothing worked for me.
I am on Ubuntu 17.10, GNOME.
I get following in lsusb,
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0b05:5600 ASUSTek Computer, Inc.
But nautilus doesn't show ...
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Not able to see Galaxy A5 device as mounted - MTP fail?
My Galaxy A5 (2017) is not mounting automatically although it appears to be recognized properly (see dmesg) and it is set for MTP transfer:
[ 1799.793224] usb 3-1: USB disconnect, device number 3
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Android 6.0 mtp device not showing in Nautilus
My Android devices - Xioami Mi 5s, Google Nexus 4 running Android 6.0.1 and Google Nexus 7 LTE running Android 4.4.2 - are not accessible from Nautilus 3.20 in Ubuntu 16.10. At least two of them ...
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Can ADB recognize a device on bootloop (soft-brick)?
I own a Samsung tablet (GT-n5110) and it is in bootloop.
I don't have a data backup (yes, I'm an idiot). It isn't totally bricked, so I can access recovery mode (HOME+VOLUM UP+POWER), but before ...
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Cannot mount MTP Android device after rooting?
I managed to install TWRP Recovery image twrp-3.0.2-0-vegetahd.img on an Aquaris E5 phone with stock Android; thereby having a rooted device.
Out of the box, the stock Android allowed USB connection ...
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Nikon WiFi transfer protocol (MTP, Hacking, Ports)
This is a copy of a post I made to photo.stackexchange.com. I felt I should put it here due to the more technical side of the question, and it barely relating to photography.
I have a Nikon D5300 with ...
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USB Endoscope not recognised as a MTP Device. How to Correct?
I have a newly acquired USB Endoscope (aka 'snake camera') which works a treat on a friend's Apple Mac, but does not work on my Dell laptop running 14.04.
The Endoscope is recognised as a device:
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Where is my tablet memory hardware mounted on laptop?
I connected my Asus fonepad7 tablet to my laptop via usb. My laptop automatically detects it & opens. But I'm unable to find where the memory card of my tablet mounted on laptop.
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Sony NWZ-E363 doesn't go in MTP-Mode
i want my mp3-Player to work as MTP.
Therefore I added a .config containing
options usb-storage quirks=054c:059b:i
file to /etc/modprobe.d. To prevent the device from beeing auto-mounted.
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Access mtp devices in KDE plasma terminal
I can easily access my galaxy tab on kde plasma ubuntu 20.04 by restarting Dolphin with the address /Galaxy Tab A (mtp).
I wish to access my tab(mtp) with kde terminal also in order to perform rsync ...
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Ubuntu freezing during copying file to phone
Whenever I try to copy files between my phone and Ubuntu 22.04 Desktop LTS,system freezes after a while (during middle of the copying process). What might be the reason ? Is this a bug ? I can assure ...
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How to have access to MTP mounted devices?
I wanted to transfer photos from my smartphone to my computer. The file explorer is Dolphin. I can find the file to be copied on the path : mtp:/HUAWEI_NXT ... but when I try to cd to the folder, I ...
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Requesting help interpreting perf report output
I'm trying to troubleshoot a long delay between file transfers over usb from android phone mounted using jmtpfs on ubuntu server 18.04. This is an extension of question: "Stat system call takes a ...
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Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish not connecting to my Android phone. Showing ERROR: Unable to access & couldn't find matching udev device. What to do?
Ubuntu 18.10 Cosmic Cuttlefish is not connecting to my Android phone. It shows the error:
Unable to access "SDM636 MTP SN:E48333B7"
Couldn't find matching udev device.
What to do?
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VirtualBox - Allow access to phone data is disconnecting my phone from ADB
Guest OS is ubuntu 18.04
I am using android studio on a virtual machine. The adb is disconnecting the connected phone when allowing phone data.
The problem is as follow:
1 - Connect android phone ...
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Can't connect my Samsung Galaxy S8 phone (Android Orio) to Linux (16.04 64 bit)
I can't connect my Samsung Galaxy S8 phone (Android Orio) to Linux (16.04 64 bit).
I have selected Use USB To > Transfer Files mode.
I have tried enabling Developer Options, and USB Debugging. And MTP ...
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BASH copy files from MTP device - can't cd to SD card
Have successfully mounted an MTP device on the desktop in Ubuntu and have figured out where the mount point is.
If I cd to /run/user/999/gvfs/mtp:host=%5Busb%3A001%2C006%5D$
I see 'SD card'
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How do I transfer files to and from Nexus 7/Ubuntu 14.04?
I'm trying to connect a Nexus 7 tablet (Android 6.0.1) from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.
I started by following the instructions from this answer. When I execute the last command android-connect, it tells me:
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Unable to successfully mount Samsung phone
Running 15.10 Wily. Installed using the minimal ISO (network install) and selected Xubuntu core. After installing procinfo and running ls_usb, I can see the device when it's plugged in
Bus 001 Device ...
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MTP file transfer freezes/locks screen
As per subject, when I try to transfer files to my Android devices (Samsung tablet, HTC phone, ...) via MTP, the screen freezes/locks.
I have to resort using the network and the speeds there are just ~...
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Problems copying files with MTP from Samsung Galaxy S5 mini to Kubuntu 15.10
I'm having real problems copying files from my phone (Samsung S5 mini) to my laptop (Kubuntu 15.10). I've tried many of the suggestions on other sites, such as
udev rules and installing more mtp ...
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Android device mounted as gphoto2 rather than mtp
I have two computers running Ubuntu 14.04 fully updated (apt-get dist-upgrade). On one my android phone mounts in Nautilus automatically using an mtp:// location, which works fairly well. On the other ...
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Where is libmtp?
I'm trying to install playedit-0.1.6 (an editor for Android playlists) in Kubuntu 14.10. It's only available in source form, it seems. So I went through the configure ritual several times, each time ...
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Android device not recognized in 14.04
I was trying to connect my Android phone to my laptop as an MTP device. Two days ago I had tried it and it had worked fine.
This time it was recognized in PTP mode but not in MTP. I ran these ...
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Palm Treo 700p : not an MTP device
Palm Treo 700p : not an MTP device (syslog error) : Jpilot HotSync Timeout
The phone is ancient by today's standards, but it does what I need and I like it.
Two or three ubuntu os upgrades ago ...
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Preventing pop-up dialogs when connecting an MTP device
I'm using Lubuntu 14.04 with a Samsung Galaxy S3 running Android 4.3. Each time I connect my phone via USB, I get the following dialog:
Unable to open MTP device '[usb:002,023]'
A few moments ...
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How to connect Acer E330 Glow to Ubuntu 13.04 in MTP mode?
Well the title is quite clear I guess. How can I connect my ACER E330 LIQUID GLOW to Ubuntu 13.04 through the USB-cable? It works just fine PTP-mode(camera) but not in MTP-mode (media). My phone works ...
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How to browse the files on my Samsung Galaxy Discover?
I just bought a Samsung Galaxy Discover and eagerly connected it to my Kubuntu machine via the included USB cable. After selecting the option to "Open with file manager", I was redirected to the URI ...
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How to fix "LIBMTP PANIC: Unable to find interface & endpoints of device , Unable to open raw device 0"?
This is a question which seems to have been asked many times - mostly between 5 and ten years ago. I still have had this intermittently (as do others I see with a variety of phones, computers and ...
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How to get write access to Android device over USB and mtp?
If I connect my smartphone over USB to my system, I can access it over the built in functionality with mtp:
KDE mtp dialog:
The device is mounted:
but files are read-only.
PDF file in Dolphin:
Sure,...
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NIKON Z7 not recognized as MTP device
I am using kubuntu 22.04 on a laptop and am trying to connect to my NIKON Z7 via usb. I plug the device into my usb port, and it is recognized as a camera and I get the option to mount it. However, ...
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Cannot copy files to mtp device using Dolphin/KDE
I connected my Samsung smartphone and selected "Copy files" as usb mode on the smartphone.
I then open the smartphone using Dolphin and it shows all folders.
The Problem is I cannot copy ...
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Applications not seeing Android
I am running 20.04 with KDE desktop. Applications no longer see my phone when connected to the computer. I had Lollypop syncing with my phone now it no longer sees it. As well Calibre cant see it or ...
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Auto copy files to phone upon connecting though mtp
I want to create some setup that will auto copy files (specifically videos) to my phone from a specific workstation directory, upon establishing an mtp connection.
How can I achieve the above?
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Errors while copying stuff to android on Lubuntu
The android gets disconnected while moving files to my android device. It doesn't happens while copying files from windows partition, so it rules out the damaged USB port and I've tried many cables so ...
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Bidirectional Syncing with Android using Unison and MTP
I'm currently trying to sync bidirectionally some folders of my PC (Ubuntu 18.04) with my Smartphone (Fairphone 3, Android 9) via MTP using Unison. I thought that this should be pretty easy, but it ...
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How do `mtpfs` and `jmtpfs` differs?
For mounting an Android device, one may use mtpfs or jmtpfs and both seems to do the same.
How do both differs?
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Make Rhythmbox access a subfolder of MTP-drive
I am trying to sync my Rhythmbox library to an Android phone. Since the mass storage mode has been removed from Android, im fiddling around with MTP. Unlike others, it is no problem for me to access ...
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Connecting phone via usb is a mess Ubuntu 17.04
When I try connecting my Asus Zenfone 2 to my ubuntu 17.04 via usb, nothing seems to work properly. First, it gets detected and gets open. I can see internal and sd card of the phone, I can enter both....
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Ubuntu Disks cant detect my Android but MTP works and ADB detects it
I am running Ubuntu 17.04. With new update of Ubuntu, Disks stopped detecting my android phone. With Ubuntu 16.10 it worked fine.
I have installed gMTP and it works fine with android, I have run ADB ...
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Can't connect to Samsung Gear 360 from command line
I'm simply trying to access the videos on my Samsung Gear 360 from a Linux(Ubuntu) desktop.
I'm using the following mtp packages and have confirmed the Camera is recognized as an MTP device. The ...
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How to define removable devices as music player & e-book reader?
I would like to use the removable media settings to open Rhythmbox when I insert my music player, and Calibre when I insert an E-book reader. The player is a Sansa Clip+ in MTP mode. The reader is a ...
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MTP Device is connected and recognised but not displayed in file manager in ubuntu 14.04
My phone Lenovo Vibe P1 is no longer getting displayed in my File manager in my Ubuntu 14.04 machine.
It is getting displayed without error in my brothers pc which is also running Ubuntu 14.04.
It ...
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Ubuntu 14.04/15.10 - Android file access issue
I'm using Ubuntu 14.04/15.10 and having trouble connecting one of my android device.
I have tested access files from Samsung galaxy S3/ Moto G3 and Alcatel Idol3 with ubuntu.
http://forum.xda-...
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