[Solved] Galaxy S3 and MTP

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yellowhat · Post by **yellowhat** » Fri Jun 15, 2012 10:05 am

Hi all,
I have just bought a samsung galaxy S3 and I want to connect it to my gentoo box, so I googled a bit and I emerged mtpfs but it doesn't automount with nautilus any ideas?

Thanks

yellowhat · Post by **yellowhat** » Sat Jun 16, 2012 10:49 am

Any ideas?

yngwin · Post by **yngwin** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 7:10 am

Don't buy a device that doesn't allow normal USB Mass Storage...

I know, not very helpful... Try google, I believe there are some scripts out there.

yellowhat · Post by **yellowhat** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 7:44 am

I founded this http://shkspr.mobi/blog/index.php/2012/ ... using-mtp/ but I get this error:

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Listing raw device(s)
Device 0 (VID=04e8 and PID=6860) is a Samsung GT-P7310/P7510/N7000/I9100/Galaxy Tab 7.7/10.1/S2/Nexus/Note.
   Found 1 device(s):
   Samsung: GT-P7310/P7510/N7000/I9100/Galaxy Tab 7.7/10.1/S2/Nexus/Note (04e8:6860) @ bus 1, dev 5
Attempting to connect device
PTP_ERROR_IO: failed to open session, trying again after resetting USB interface
LIBMTP libusb: Attempt to reset device
LIBMTP PANIC: failed to open session on second attempt
Unable to open raw device 0

Using a CM9 or AOSP rom could help?

chrisyu · Post by **chrisyu** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 11:37 am

mtpfs is buggy.

I tried jmptfs and worked well, but I don't know how to auto mount either.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthr ... ?t=1643757

You could use this ebuild.

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# Copyright 1999-2012 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: $

EAPI=4

DESCRIPTION="a FUSE based MTP filesystem designed to make exchanging files between Android devices and Linux"
HOMEPAGE="http://research.jacquette.com/jmtpfs-exchanging-files-between-android-devices-and-linux/"
SRC_URI="http://research.jacquette.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/${P}.tar.gz"

LICENSE="GPL"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="~amd64"
IUSE=""

DEPEND="media-libs/libmtp
        sys-fs/fuse"
RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"

yellowhat · Post by **yellowhat** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 3:10 pm

Thanks for reply but I get this error in emerging:

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make -j3 
Making all in src
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/portage/sys-fs/jmtpfs-0.4/work/jmtpfs-0.4/src'
i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"jmtpfs\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"jmtpfs\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"1.0\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"jmtpfs\ 1.0\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DPACKAGE_URL=\"\" -DPACKAGE=\"jmtpfs\" -DVERSION=\"1.0\" -DHAVE_LIBMAGIC=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_MAGIC_H=1 -I.  -I/usr/include/libusb-1.0   -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/fuse     -march=native -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -std=c++0x -c -o jmtpfs-jmtpfs.o `test -f 'jmtpfs.cpp' || echo './'`jmtpfs.cpp
i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"jmtpfs\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"jmtpfs\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"1.0\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"jmtpfs\ 1.0\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DPACKAGE_URL=\"\" -DPACKAGE=\"jmtpfs\" -DVERSION=\"1.0\" -DHAVE_LIBMAGIC=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_MAGIC_H=1 -I.  -I/usr/include/libusb-1.0   -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/fuse     -march=native -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -std=c++0x -c -o jmtpfs-MtpDevice.o `test -f 'MtpDevice.cpp' || echo './'`MtpDevice.cpp
i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"jmtpfs\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"jmtpfs\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"1.0\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"jmtpfs\ 1.0\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DPACKAGE_URL=\"\" -DPACKAGE=\"jmtpfs\" -DVERSION=\"1.0\" -DHAVE_LIBMAGIC=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_MAGIC_H=1 -I.  -I/usr/include/libusb-1.0   -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/fuse     -march=native -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -std=c++0x -c -o jmtpfs-ConnectedMtpDevices.o `test -f 'ConnectedMtpDevices.cpp' || echo './'`ConnectedMtpDevices.cpp
i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"jmtpfs\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"jmtpfs\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"1.0\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"jmtpfs\ 1.0\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"\" -DPACKAGE_URL=\"\" -DPACKAGE=\"jmtpfs\" -DVERSION=\"1.0\" -DHAVE_LIBMAGIC=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_MAGIC_H=1 -I.  -I/usr/include/libusb-1.0   -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/fuse     -march=native -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -std=c++0x -c -o jmtpfs-Mutex.o `test -f 'Mutex.cpp' || echo './'`Mutex.cpp
jmtpfs.cpp: In function ‘int main(int, char**)’:
jmtpfs.cpp:454:90: error: ‘getuid’ was not declared in this scope
jmtpfs.cpp:454:100: error: ‘getgid’ was not declared in this scope
make[1]: *** [jmtpfs-jmtpfs.o] Errore 1
make[1]: *** Attesa dei processi non terminati....
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/portage/sys-fs/jmtpfs-0.4/work/jmtpfs-0.4/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Errore 1

jcTux · Post by **jcTux** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 6:37 pm

It's a shame that MTP protocole is not fully supported on Linux.

I have a Galaxy S3 also, I use the old FTP solution for now.

kernelOfTruth · Post by **kernelOfTruth** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 9:21 pm

jcTux wrote:It's a shame that MTP protocole is not fully supported on Linux.

I have a Galaxy S3 also, I use the old FTP solution for now.

++

good to know that !

it already sucked to find that out with my Xoom

probably won't buy a Galaxy S3 then

alternatively:

use other ROMs provided over by XDA devs

for the file-sharing:

try File Expert that one works flawless for me (there might be others but FE was the first one that really worked - the others had issues for me)

concerning the issue with automount:

sorry - can't help

I only mounted it manually while I used mtpfs

yellowhat · Post by **yellowhat** » Sun Jun 17, 2012 10:21 pm

I have just switched to CyanogenMod 9: on a ubuntu box it gets automounted without any changes, on my gentoo box it is detected by "mtp-detect" but it's not automounted by nautilus.

jcTux · Post by **jcTux** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 12:01 pm

kernelOfTruth wrote: probably won't buy a Galaxy S3 then

I don't think that Galaxy S3 is the problem. This is the new recommendation by Google for new devices under ICS.
It makes sense, because virtually with MTP you don't have to use FAT32, the use of modern filesystem like ext4 is possible => no more limitation on filesize. Plus, when connecting the device on a computer, the filesystem is still avalalble on the phone unlike USB mass storage.

Unfortunately MTP is not well supported on Linux.

jcTux · Post by **jcTux** » Mon Jun 18, 2012 12:08 pm

Here are some explanations by a Google engineer on the reasons why they made this choice.

chrisyu · Post by **chrisyu** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 1:16 am

yellowhat wrote:Thanks for reply but I get this error in emerging:

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make -j3 
Making all in src
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/portage/sys-fs/jmtpfs-0.4/work/jmtpfs-0.4/src'
i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DPACKAGE_NAME="jmtpfs" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME="jmtpfs" -DPACKAGE_VERSION="1.0" -DPACKAGE_STRING="jmtpfs\ 1.0" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT="" -DPACKAGE_URL="" -DPACKAGE="jmtpfs" -DVERSION="1.0" -DHAVE_LIBMAGIC=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_MAGIC_H=1 -I.  -I/usr/include/libusb-1.0   -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/fuse     -march=native -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -std=c++0x -c -o jmtpfs-jmtpfs.o `test -f 'jmtpfs.cpp' || echo './'`jmtpfs.cpp
i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DPACKAGE_NAME="jmtpfs" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME="jmtpfs" -DPACKAGE_VERSION="1.0" -DPACKAGE_STRING="jmtpfs\ 1.0" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT="" -DPACKAGE_URL="" -DPACKAGE="jmtpfs" -DVERSION="1.0" -DHAVE_LIBMAGIC=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_MAGIC_H=1 -I.  -I/usr/include/libusb-1.0   -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/fuse     -march=native -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -std=c++0x -c -o jmtpfs-MtpDevice.o `test -f 'MtpDevice.cpp' || echo './'`MtpDevice.cpp
i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DPACKAGE_NAME="jmtpfs" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME="jmtpfs" -DPACKAGE_VERSION="1.0" -DPACKAGE_STRING="jmtpfs\ 1.0" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT="" -DPACKAGE_URL="" -DPACKAGE="jmtpfs" -DVERSION="1.0" -DHAVE_LIBMAGIC=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_MAGIC_H=1 -I.  -I/usr/include/libusb-1.0   -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/fuse     -march=native -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -std=c++0x -c -o jmtpfs-ConnectedMtpDevices.o `test -f 'ConnectedMtpDevices.cpp' || echo './'`ConnectedMtpDevices.cpp
i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -DPACKAGE_NAME="jmtpfs" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME="jmtpfs" -DPACKAGE_VERSION="1.0" -DPACKAGE_STRING="jmtpfs\ 1.0" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT="" -DPACKAGE_URL="" -DPACKAGE="jmtpfs" -DVERSION="1.0" -DHAVE_LIBMAGIC=1 -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_MAGIC_H=1 -I.  -I/usr/include/libusb-1.0   -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/fuse     -march=native -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -std=c++0x -c -o jmtpfs-Mutex.o `test -f 'Mutex.cpp' || echo './'`Mutex.cpp
jmtpfs.cpp: In function ‘int main(int, char**)’:
jmtpfs.cpp:454:90: error: ‘getuid’ was not declared in this scope
jmtpfs.cpp:454:100: error: ‘getgid’ was not declared in this scope
make[1]: *** [jmtpfs-jmtpfs.o] Errore 1
make[1]: *** Attesa dei processi non terminati....
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/portage/sys-fs/jmtpfs-0.4/work/jmtpfs-0.4/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Errore 1

Seems that's a gcc-4.7 related problem, try gcc-4.6 instead.

chrisyu · Post by **chrisyu** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 2:00 am

jcTux wrote:Here are some explanations by a Google engineer on the reasons why they made this choice.

The intention was good, but implementation (mtp) is bad.

Slow when copy many small files; no real move/rename function, it's copy and delete; buggy, even in windows 7.

yngwin · Post by **yngwin** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 8:52 am

If you find a decent solution to make MTP (more or less) work on Gentoo, please document it in our wiki!

chrisyu · Post by **chrisyu** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 3:45 pm

OK, made a new version of jmtpfs, tested with gcc 4.7.1 ~amd64.

/usr/local/portage/sys-fs/jmtpfs/jmtpfs-0.4.ebuild

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# Copyright 1999-2012 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: $

EAPI=4

inherit eutils

DESCRIPTION="a FUSE based MTP filesystem designed to make exchanging files between Android devices and Linux"
HOMEPAGE="http://research.jacquette.com/jmtpfs-exchanging-files-between-android-devices-and-linux/"
SRC_URI="http://research.jacquette.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/${P}.tar.gz"

LICENSE="GPL"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="~x86 ~amd64"
IUSE=""

DEPEND="media-libs/libmtp
        sys-fs/fuse"
RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"

src_unpack() {

    unpack ${A}
    cd "${S}"

    epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-gcc-4.7.patch
}

/usr/local/portage/sys-fs/jmtpfs/files/jmtpfs-gcc-4.7.patch

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--- src/jmtpfs.cpp.orig 2012-06-19 23:17:11.954301180 +0800
+++ src/jmtpfs.cpp      2012-06-19 23:17:41.745302509 +0800
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 #include <sstream>
 #include <iomanip>
 #include <assert.h>
+#include <unistd.h>

 #define JMTPFS_VERSION "0.4"

Plug my galaxy nexus, then run "jmtpfs ~/nexus" as normal user, it will mount the phone, there is a drive in nautilus too.

mount says

jmtpfs on /home/test/nexus type fuse.jmtpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=test)

Don't know how to auto mount yet.

kernelOfTruth · Post by **kernelOfTruth** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 6:05 pm

automount probably could be realized via udev rules:

http://www.monperrus.net/martin/automou ... and+pmount

or some other shiny stuff:

http://code.google.com/p/yad/wiki/USBFlash

yellowhat · Post by **yellowhat** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 8:35 pm

Ok the patch worked, and running "jmtpfs /folder" worked too.

Thanks you very much

yellowhat · Post by **yellowhat** » Tue Jun 19, 2012 10:30 pm

A question for you how to unmount?

chrisyu · Post by **chrisyu** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 6:04 am

kernelOfTruth wrote:automount probably could be realized via udev rules:

http://www.monperrus.net/martin/automou ... and+pmount

or some other shiny stuff:

http://code.google.com/p/yad/wiki/USBFlash

Thanks, will check that later.

yellowhat wrote: A question for you how to unmount?

umount /path/to/folder should do the job.

yngwin wrote:If you find a decent solution to make MTP (more or less) work on Gentoo, please document it in our wiki!

Will file a bug report or add a wiki when I dig something more.

tonyp · Post by **tonyp** » Sat Jun 23, 2012 5:17 pm

I was able to get MTP to work by emerging mtpfs and then creating a /media/android_mtp folder which you could put anywhere and then mounting like this (as normal user):
mtpfs /media/android_mtp

I could then access it with Dolphin as a normal folder. As mentioned in other posts, speed is not the best.

Unmount like this:
fusermount -u /media/android_mtp

yellowhat · Post by **yellowhat** » Sat Jun 23, 2012 11:05 pm

Ok, this workaround can go but a question is: why ubuntu automounts internal and external sd without typing any command?
This would be great with nautilus.

yellowhat · Post by **yellowhat** » Tue Jun 26, 2012 4:33 pm

Seems that ubuntu uses gphoto2 to mount it. Any ideas for gentoo?
The ideas using ssh over usb is too slow (1-2 MB/s)

robert7k · Post by **robert7k** » Tue Jun 26, 2012 4:50 pm

yellowhat wrote:Seems that ubuntu uses gphoto2 to mount it. Any ideas for gentoo?
The ideas using ssh over usb is too slow (1-2 MB/s)

There's

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media-sound/gmtp

, which woks with my Samsung Galaxy Nexus.

yellowhat · Post by **yellowhat** » Tue Jun 26, 2012 6:38 pm

Enabling "gphoto2" use flag for gnome-base/gvfs I get automounting.
I will test the transfer speed.

yellowhat · Post by **yellowhat** » Tue Jun 26, 2012 8:56 pm

Transfer speed is much better ~5 MB/s