On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 9:25 PM, Vojtěch Zeisek
Hi, I have problems when connecting Android tablets using MTP. I connected to my notebook (openSUSE 12.1, KDE 4.7) several Android phones (Motorola, Samsung, HTC, original ROMs or CyanogenMod, Android 2.X). When connecting those phones, the phone ask in which mode it should be connected to the computer. I choose as an USB mass storage device and it works fine. No problem here. But when I connect Samsung tablet (Android 2.2), it asks nothing and tries connect using Samsung Kies. As I saw Samusng Kies on Windows, it is... IMHO very bad software. :-) And "of course" no Linux support. As far as I know, it uses MTP (media transfer protocol). I see it in Dolphin, I can access the storages, but I see only top-level folders and I see them as empty. I can not copy anything there or to computer. Dolphin does not complain at all, it is just loading folder contents and times out... So it does not work. There seems to by no possibility to connect is as "ordinary" USB flesh disk.
As far as I understand it, Samsung devices have particular problems because they don't use standard Android stack, but use proprietary MTP implementation with Microsoft DRM instead. I have a Samsung 10.1 tablet, and I have been unable to connect to it under Linux. From what I could find on the internet, neither could anyone else on any distribution for the recent Samsung tablets. Phone success varies depending on the phone model. You may want to look at these bug reports, and add your own report if your tablet is different from mine https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=809061&aid=3369429&group_id=158745 https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=809061&aid=3372454&group_id=158745 Myrosia -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org