CentOS - Apr 2019 - Accessing Android phones on CentOS 7

Hi,

My standard Linux desktop is based on a personal blend of CentOS 7 with
KDE 4.14 and various add-ons from third-party repositories like EPEL and
Nux-Dextop. After a brief stint on OpenSUSE Leap 15.0, this is what I
use on my workstation and on my laptop. And this is also what I install
on my client's machines, just like I did in our local school's computer
room.

I'm currently busy sanding down a few remaining edges, and one thing
that's left is accessing Android phones. On less conservative distros
based on KDE Plasma 5, this is a no-brainer, since all you have to do is
plug in the phone and then browse its content using Dolphin or some
other file manager. Unfortunately this is not possible with the version
of KDE shipping with CentOS 7.

Any ideas for that?

Cheers from the rainy South of France,

Niki
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Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
>
> My standard Linux desktop is based on a personal blend of CentOS 7 with
> KDE 4.14 and various add-ons from third-party repositories like EPEL and
> Nux-Dextop. After a brief stint on OpenSUSE Leap 15.0, this is what I
> use on my workstation and on my laptop. And this is also what I install on
> my client's machines, just like I did in our local school's
computer room.
>
> I'm currently busy sanding down a few remaining edges, and one thing
> that's left is accessing Android phones. On less conservative distros
based
> on KDE Plasma 5, this is a no-brainer, since all you have to do is plug in
> the phone and then browse its content using Dolphin or some other file
> manager. Unfortunately this is not possible with the version of KDE
> shipping with CentOS 7.
>
> Any ideas for that?
>
Interesting. At home, I'm still on C 6 (hate systemd), and it's not a
big
deal to plug in my Nook ereader, which I believe is Android based. System
sees it, I mount it, not an issue.
>
> Cheers from the rainy South of France,
We're expecting a lot of rain here in the DC area today.

      mark

On Fri, 26 Apr 2019 17:48:14 +0200
Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
> accessing Android phones.
I just use a standard ssh login on my computers and (usually) the Total
Commander app on Android, which has a pretty good scp capability built in.  If
I'm doing a large transfer I'll use scp or rsync through the Termux app.

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On 26/04/2019 17:48, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My standard Linux desktop is based on a personal blend of CentOS 7 with
> KDE 4.14 and various add-ons from third-party repositories like EPEL and
> Nux-Dextop. After a brief stint on OpenSUSE Leap 15.0, this is what I
> use on my workstation and on my laptop. And this is also what I install
> on my client's machines, just like I did in our local school's
computer
> room.
> 
> I'm currently busy sanding down a few remaining edges, and one thing
> that's left is accessing Android phones. On less conservative distros
> based on KDE Plasma 5, this is a no-brainer, since all you have to do is
> plug in the phone and then browse its content using Dolphin or some
> other file manager. Unfortunately this is not possible with the version
> of KDE shipping with CentOS 7.
> 
> Any ideas for that?
> 
> Cheers from the rainy South of France,
> 
> Niki
> 
Can't say for KDE, but on Gnome (and also because kernel auto-detects it
as mtp device) it's mounted and show both internal phone memory and SD
card content

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On Fri, Apr 26, 2019 at 05:48:14PM +0200, Nicolas Kovacs
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I'm currently busy sanding down a few remaining edges, and one thing
> that's left is accessing Android phones. On less conservative distros
> based on KDE Plasma 5, this is a no-brainer, since all you have to do is
> plug in the phone and then browse its content using Dolphin or some
> other file manager. Unfortunately this is not possible with the version
> of KDE shipping with CentOS 7.
I'm not sure about a GUI file browser, but using simple-mtpfs works fine
for me.  With sudo, plug the phone in, and then simple-mtpfs /mnt (assuming
nothing else is under /mnt), causes a message to appear on the phone, do I
wish to allow it, I tap allow, then run the command again, and the phone's
files appear under mount.  It's not something I do too often, so I don't
bother with a directory special directory to mount the phone or worry about
getting it done as normal user, but simple-mtpfs works well for my limited
needs.


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On 27/04/19 3:48 AM, Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My standard Linux desktop is based on a personal blend of CentOS 7 with
> KDE 4.14 and various add-ons from third-party repositories like EPEL and
> Nux-Dextop. After a brief stint on OpenSUSE Leap 15.0, this is what I
> use on my workstation and on my laptop. And this is also what I install
> on my client's machines, just like I did in our local school's
computer
> room.
Thunar (in epel, package name with a capital "T") automatically
detects
and accesses MTP devices.  It's designed for the XFCE desktop but I 
don't see a reason why it shouldn't work in KDE as well, it will just 
pull a few of the XFCE libraries when you install it.


Peter