You can't access files on the phone storage from Android when it is in Mass Storage mode. Doing that would involve accessing the same file system from two different locations simultaneously, and since vfat is not a clustered file system multiple access would corrupt your files *fast*. You're trying to access files right, not an Android shell, right? If you want to access the Android command line from your desktop you need to install ADB which is part of the android SDK for linux. By putting the phone in Mass Storage mode you should be able to transfer files from your phone to your PC (or visa versa) from a file manager on your PC. -Hal On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Michael Fischer <michael@visv.net> wrote:
On Mon, Aug 29, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
Quoting Michael Fischer <michael@visv.net>:
Just got an Atrix G4.
Google hasn't been very useful at telling me how to do CLI access to the files there via USB and CLI (cli on the attached desktop machine)
Any advice?
If it's like my HTC Incredible, plug a USB cable into the computer and the cellphone. A menu will appear on the cellphone. Select mount as a disk drive. Do whatever is needed to mount a USB drive on your computer. Then change directory (cd) to where ever it is mounted and copy to your heart's content.
Thanks for the tip.
Unfortunately, it does not do that. It says it is connecting for Phone Portal. Going to the Phone Portal app, it asks me to connect by USB or by WiFi, and fails to allow/recognize the USB connection which has already been made....
The Media Share app did allow me to change the USB storage mode to "Mass Storage" - which allows me to mount the /dev/sdh which is mentioned in /var/log/messages when I plug it in over USB. Amusingly enough, while it is plugged in, one cannot use the file browser on the phone (the message is "Internal phone storage is Unmounted. Mount Internal phone storage to read files")
Can't seem to write back to that /mnt/dcim/Camera directory though...
So, half the battle won....
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