On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 07:47:26PM -0700, Keith Keller wrote:
On 2013-05-24, Rock Rocksockdoc@gmail.com wrote:
Unfortunately, [url=http://androidforums.com/computers/499522-looking- linux-file-transfer-tool-android-4-0-devices.html]Google has apparently disabled USB transfer in the Android OS 4.0[/url] and above and replaced it with MTP file transfer.
So Windows recognizes any ICS device plugged in, and Mac does too (via Android File Transfer); but Centos does not.
That's a bug in Android (or perhaps just your device, since on that thread other users report ICS does support USB mass storage), not CentOS. I understand that's not helpful to you, but it's good to be clear.
As someone who looked into this after getting the Galaxy SIII.
It does NOT support USB mass storage. I have forgotten the logic, but this is definitely the case.
Ah, here's one quick link explaining it. (Quote from an Android engineer about a quarter of the page down.
http://www.androidcentral.com/ics-feature-mtp-what-it-why-use-it-and-how-set...
On more current distributions, that is, just about everything but RHEL6 and clones, one can install a version of mtpfs, simple-mtpfs on Fedora, for example, jmtpfs on Arch, and get it to work.
I believe it also works with any Virtual Machine that supports USB, but as I have an easily accessible desktop with ArchLinux, I haven't tested that.