I was able to fix this on Ubuntu 18.04 (bionic), which comes with libmtp-common=1.1.13 by installing a newer version of libmtp 1.1.16. Now Ubuntu transfers huge numbers of songs between my phone and laptop by simply drag-and-drop in Nautilus.
sudo apt install build-essential pkg-config wget libusb-1.0-0-dev libusb-dev wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/libmtp/libmtp/1.1.16/libmtp-1.1.16.tar.gz tar xzf libmtp-1.1.16.tar.gz cd libmtp-1.1.16 ./configure make sudo make install I didn't even have to uninstall the old version, and also no need for android-file-transfer or jmtpfs. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1792085 Title: MTP not working/very slow on Bionic To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/libmtp/+bug/1792085/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs