[CentOS] CentOS 6 and android connectivity (Nook)

Wed Jul 30 01:36:22 UTC 2014
samuel machua <samnjugu at gmail.com>

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Ali Corbin <ali.corbin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 6:38 AM,  <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
> > So, I got my wife a Nook for her b'day. I just plugged it into my system,
> > CentOS 6.5, and what I see is /media/NOOK, and it shows 257k or so - yes,
> > k, not m or g. It's *not* seeing any directories, etc, and the small
> thing
> > I'm guessing is firmware, since even when I try mount -o remount -rw, it
> > is still r/o.
> >
> > Googling, I see mentions of fsmtp, I think it was, and yum shows some mtp
> > libs, but I don't see anything that looks like a driver. Any suggestions
> > (otherwise, I need to zip up the ebooks we want on her Nook, and take
> them
> > downstairs to her's and the kid's system, Lose 8, er, Win8.
> >
> > I really need to solve this today - we're leaving shortly on vacation....
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> >          mark
>
> I've had this working in the past, with some combination of libmtp and
> fuse.
>
> There are two gotchas.  One, it's a user-space driver, and is slow as
> molasses.
> Two, if you normally lock your device you have to unlock it before the
> transfer and then remember to lock it back up afterwards.
>
> I gave up on mtp after a while and now just adb push the files over.
> It's not as user friendly, but it's a whole lot quicker.
>
> Ali
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I use foldersync to back up on android. It supports syncing to most common
formats a few cloud ones too.

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Regards
Sam