On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 07:47:26PM -0700, Keith Keller wrote: > On 2013-05-24, Rock <Rocksockdoc at 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-it 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. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6