Hi, I recently posted this in bug 903422: Have you tried using jmtpfs?
http://research.jacquette.com/jmtpfs-exchanging-files-between-android- devices-and-linux/ It's working for me on my Galaxy Nexus (JB and ICS), and I've also had luck with it with a Galaxy S3 (ICS). (I'm using 12.04 with the latest libmtp) Unfortunately mtp is still really slow: keep in mind it was never really designed to scale, and mapping it on to a filesystem will always be imperfect. The long and the short of it, it seems the bug is NOT in libmtp (since jmtpfs also uses libmtp). gmtp and gvfsd uses a much older method to access mtp devices which involves downloading the entire directory structure beforehand. Turns out that this can take a looooong time (mtp is *SLOW*) which causes timeouts and very unhelpful error messages in the rest of the system. Google put everyone slightly between a rock and a hard place here. The options are: 1) Support old-style (Microsoft) devices and fail horribly on new-style (Android). (Do nothing) 2) Break backward compatibility (HEAVEN FORBID!) 3) Emulate what Windows does. Since they seemed to design it for Windows in the first place... I have a private bet with myself what the eventual solution is going to be. I hope I'm wrong. Jan -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/986722 Title: Can't browse MTP device (Galaxy Nexus) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/libmtp/+bug/986722/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
