On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Matthew Marlowe <m...@professionalsysadmin.com> wrote: >> I did some googling and there are a number of comments but no clear >> recommendations. Has anyone here performed file transfer >> gentoo <--> samsung S3. >> > > You have two choices: > a) if you just need to transfer video/pictures, there is a > compatibility mode you can toggle inside android settings to enable > ptp mode that apps like digikam understand. > b) if you really want to mount the android fs in gentoo, and transfer > all types of files, than you'll need to use a tool like mtpfs (eix > mtpfs for more info). > > I tried the mtpfs approach first, but found that was not that reliable > and switched to the digikam method which has met all my needs. >
I have found go-mtpfs to work much better with my Galaxy Nexus. https://github.com/hanwen/go-mtpfs/ There is no ebuild for it, mostly because I haven't figured out how to package go programs.
