I was ripping my hair out with this one. All the suggestions above not working for me. Phone is Samsung S5.
ID 04e8:6860 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd Galaxy (MTP) So I tried (from terminal) "killall nautilus", then restarted it (by clicking on file icon). "Samsung ANDROID" now shows up in nautilus. Click it, and a dialog comes up on my phone with the title "Allow access to device data" and message "An MTP connection will be established to access the data on the connected device." Press "Allow" on the phone, it then works as expected. Under windows, there is no secondary step to allow MTP transfers on the phone, which makes using it in Ubuntu, non trivial and inconvenient. I realise this doesn't actually solve the problem, but this bug has considerable heat, and it may be of use to others. -- 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/1314556 Title: Unable to mount Android MTP device Status in gvfs package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I have the same problem on 3 computers with 14.04: So I tried, mtp-detect Unable to open ~/.mtpz-data for reading, MTPZ disabled.libmtp version: 1.1.6 Listing raw device(s) Device 0 (VID=04e8 and PID=6860) is a Samsung Galaxy models (MTP). Found 1 device(s): Samsung: Galaxy models (MTP) (04e8:6860) @ bus 1, dev 10 Attempting to connect device(s) ignoring libusb_claim_interface() = -6PTP_ERROR_IO: failed to open session, trying again after resetting USB interface LIBMTP libusb: Attempt to reset device inep: usb_get_endpoint_status(): Resource temporarily unavailable outep: usb_get_endpoint_status(): Device or resource busy ignoring libusb_claim_interface() = -6LIBMTP PANIC: failed to open session on second attempt Unable to open raw device 0 OK. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: gvfs-backends 1.20.1-1ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Wed Apr 30 11:18:12 2014 EcryptfsInUse: Yes ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-mtp-volume-monitor InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-02-12 (441 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5) ProcEnviron: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> SHELL=/bin/bash LANGUAGE=en_US PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SourcePackage: gvfs UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-02 (27 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gvfs/+bug/1314556/+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