On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 2:04 AM, Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote:
> I just purchased a new smartphone (samsung galaxy S III), which runs > android ice cream sandwitch 4.0.4). I would like to copy files > to and from the phone. The phone manual describes how to do this for > windows (nothing needed) and Mac (a program to download), but not for > gnu-linux. Apparently the phone supports MTP (media transfer protocol) > and PTP (picture transfer protocol) > > I did some googling and there are a number of comments but no clear > recommendations. Has anyone here performed file transfer > gentoo <--> samsung S3. > > I run amd64, but I don't think that is very relevant. > > Just mounting or ftp would be enough; I really just want to move some > files. > You should be able to mount it without any problems. I have ICS on my Nexus S and the only requirement to mounting the phone as a USB device is to toggle the USB Mass Storage option (it should show up in the notification bar). On my phone, the usb storage uses ext4 (IIRC), so drivers for this aren't an problem. Once the setting is toggled, it's automatically assigned a device mapping and it's usable as a normal USB drive from there.
