No permission on my mobile phone

**loopinaloop** · October 29th, 2012

Hi there!
I have a mobile phone and I've never experienced any major issues with it. Now, it's a disaster for me. After making a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.10 I cannot make any changes on my mobile device. I get an error message that I've no permission. What I've changed is that I've made something around 7 partitions - maybe that's the cause? I've tried to install fresh Ubuntu 12.04 but that didn't helped so I revered back to 12.10.

As always, all problems began with an update...

**Ms. Daisy** · October 30th, 2012

What method did you use to install Ubuntu on the phone? What kind of phone?

How did you manage to create 7 partitions? I'm assuming some of those are logical partitions? Can you show us the output from gparted?

**wildmanne39** · October 30th, 2012

Thread moved to Mobile Technology Discussions.

**Mark Phelps** · October 30th, 2012

Are you saying:
1) You installed 12.10 to your mobile phone -- which has seven partitions on it -- and now you can't do anything on the phone?
2) You installed 12.10 to your desktop -- which has seven partitions on it -- and now you can't access the phone from your desktop?

Very different questions -- very different problems.

**loopinaloop** · October 31st, 2012

Originally Posted by Mark Phelps

2) You installed 12.10 to your desktop -- which has seven partitions on it -- and now you can't access the phone from your desktop?

I've installed Ubuntu on my desktop computer and I have read-only permission on my mobile.

**Rexilion** · October 31st, 2012

What phone is it? How do you access it? (USB, bluetooth). Does it show up as a 'mass storage' device or is it an MTP device?

Connect the phone, access it's data and post the output of:

sudo dmesg | tail -n20