MTP doesn't work all that well on Linux even when it works.
The real easy and best solution is 'Wifi File Explorer' which runs a web server on your phone which you can access from the desktop computer and transfer files & folders between them. I use Fedora for desktop system and I definitely still use Wifi File Explorer.
I think most people are using cloud storage with the smart phones these days and that makes for tepid enthusiasm for attempting to maintain any type of synchronization between a single desktop system and the smart phone. The cloud or running Wifi File Explorer on your smart phone becomes a solution that allows you to add other computers and devices into the equation at any time.
Craig
On May 24, 2013, at 7:33 AM, Rock wrote:
On Thu, 23 May 2013 23:40:17 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote:
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.
Just my luck that Centos is one of those linuxes that are problematic.
Anyway, here's the summary: a) Connecting the Samsung Galaxy S3 by USB (fails) b) Connecting that phone by Kies Air (fails for multiple files, no error message!) c) Connecting that phone by AirDroid (works! Even for multiple files!)
Slow. Cumbersome. But all that matters is that files can be transferred from the Samsung Galaxy SIII to the Centos 6 PC.
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