Dave, Unfortunately, these newer Motorola devices appear as... wait for it... a CDROM drive.
The CD image contains the installer for some windows software that they want you to run, which will send a magic USB packet to the phone to switch it into MTP mode. That's really what's going on. I haven't found any useful information about this online, so it doesn't appear anyone's reverse engineered the magic packet. Sad sad sad. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/903422 Title: Ubuntu does not work with Samsung Galaxy phones ( Unable to open raw device 0) Status in GVFS: Fix Released Status in “gmtp” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “gvfs” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “udev” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “gmtp” source package in Precise: Invalid Status in “gvfs” source package in Precise: Confirmed Status in “udev” source package in Precise: Invalid Status in “gmtp” source package in Quantal: Invalid Status in “gvfs” source package in Quantal: Confirmed Status in “udev” source package in Quantal: Invalid Bug description: If your device is not supported please open a new bug specifying: * device in question (make / model / release) * output of `mtp-detect` when the device is attached * output of `lsusb` when the device is attached This bug will be a catch all for recent Samsung Nexus & Nexus 7, or please comment what other recent Andorid 4.x devices are affected. Yes there is a lag in providing support for the most recent devices. As soon as the fixes are available, SRUs will follow. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/903422/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
